1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. As 2 00:00:22,195 --> 00:00:26,755 Speaker 1: a Democratic congressman asked the trillion dollar question whether James 3 00:00:26,795 --> 00:00:30,155 Speaker 1: Comer and the House Overside Committee and their indicted fugitive 4 00:00:30,275 --> 00:00:35,835 Speaker 1: Chinese agent witness have quote jeopardized homeland security in their 5 00:00:35,915 --> 00:00:40,115 Speaker 1: search to help Donald Trump. Comer and Nancy Mace and 6 00:00:40,195 --> 00:00:43,155 Speaker 1: Speaker McCarthy and all the others attached at the hip 7 00:00:43,395 --> 00:00:48,035 Speaker 1: to Gallloft have Thelma and Louise the thing and they 8 00:00:48,035 --> 00:00:50,155 Speaker 1: are headed right for the edge of the Grand Canyon 9 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: at one hundred and fifty miles an hour because the 10 00:00:53,355 --> 00:00:58,035 Speaker 1: guy they let take the wheel is well. Congressman Jared 11 00:00:58,075 --> 00:01:02,155 Speaker 1: Moskowitz specified all this in some letters Wednesday, but he 12 00:01:02,315 --> 00:01:06,355 Speaker 1: really let loose on Comber's oversight commit yesterday at a 13 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:09,275 Speaker 1: meeting of Comer's oversight committee. 14 00:01:09,275 --> 00:01:11,435 Speaker 2: They want to talk about national security. That's why you 15 00:01:11,435 --> 00:01:13,715 Speaker 2: guys are here. It's about national security. But the main 16 00:01:13,715 --> 00:01:17,675 Speaker 2: committee is working with an indicted Chinese agent who does 17 00:01:17,715 --> 00:01:21,355 Speaker 2: business with the Iranian regime and is an illegal arms 18 00:01:21,355 --> 00:01:24,075 Speaker 2: dealer to Libya. All of this in order to own 19 00:01:24,155 --> 00:01:27,635 Speaker 2: Hunter Biden. That's how far they've stooped. Because I'm deeply 20 00:01:27,675 --> 00:01:32,515 Speaker 2: worried about whether the CCP has manipulated the information that's 21 00:01:32,555 --> 00:01:34,675 Speaker 2: been provided this committee through their foreign agent that they're 22 00:01:34,715 --> 00:01:37,315 Speaker 2: working with, and the information that they're then providing to 23 00:01:37,315 --> 00:01:39,035 Speaker 2: the American people. It's also a wife's in a letter 24 00:01:39,035 --> 00:01:40,835 Speaker 2: to the Chairman of Foreign Affairs and the Chairman of 25 00:01:40,835 --> 00:01:43,715 Speaker 2: Homeland Security, because I need to know, and the American 26 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:45,275 Speaker 2: people need to know. They have a right to know 27 00:01:45,755 --> 00:01:49,835 Speaker 2: whether the indicted foreign agent, the illegal arms salesman who 28 00:01:49,875 --> 00:01:53,115 Speaker 2: is working within the Iranian regime, who is a supporter 29 00:01:53,235 --> 00:01:55,475 Speaker 2: of terrorism around the world, that's who they're working with. 30 00:01:56,315 --> 00:02:00,235 Speaker 2: We need to know whether they have jeopardized homeland security 31 00:02:00,555 --> 00:02:03,475 Speaker 2: in their search to help Donald Trump in his re election. 32 00:02:03,715 --> 00:02:09,235 Speaker 1: Yeah. Fugitive gun running, embargo breaking, unregistered Chinese agent, bribing 33 00:02:09,355 --> 00:02:13,555 Speaker 1: Trump advisor. Well, when you put it that way, it's 34 00:02:14,115 --> 00:02:18,115 Speaker 1: a lot. Congressman Moscowitz is not yet trying to put 35 00:02:18,115 --> 00:02:21,395 Speaker 1: this directly under noses at Homeland Security, but that is 36 00:02:21,475 --> 00:02:26,035 Speaker 1: the inevitable outcome. Gall Looft is indicted as a Chinese 37 00:02:26,075 --> 00:02:29,435 Speaker 1: agent and the Republicans are trying to use him to 38 00:02:29,595 --> 00:02:33,915 Speaker 1: help Trump seize power. People go to prison for things 39 00:02:34,035 --> 00:02:38,555 Speaker 1: like this. It's a lot. In fact, it is enough 40 00:02:38,915 --> 00:02:42,755 Speaker 1: that even Lindsey Graham says, if the charge is accurate, 41 00:02:42,995 --> 00:02:48,115 Speaker 1: gall loofts quote activities as an unregistered foreign agent go 42 00:02:48,235 --> 00:02:53,435 Speaker 1: to his credibility. Now, look, even Lindsey Graham sees this. 43 00:02:53,875 --> 00:02:57,875 Speaker 1: But instead of fleeing from Galllooft and his puppet or 44 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: puppeteer James Comer and the Hunter Biden's scandal fairy tale 45 00:03:02,555 --> 00:03:06,395 Speaker 1: and fleeing from them faster than God himself fled from 46 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:10,275 Speaker 1: the authorities after they arrested him in Cyprus, Kevin McCarthy 47 00:03:10,395 --> 00:03:15,915 Speaker 1: has hugged gall Loofed tighter than ever before to his bosom. 48 00:03:16,595 --> 00:03:20,915 Speaker 1: We have all seen that while McCarthy is clever, clever 49 00:03:21,195 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: like a rodent who has learned the quickest route through 50 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: the maze to get to the cheese that is the speakership, 51 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:31,235 Speaker 1: McCarthy is really not a bright guy. He has concluded 52 00:03:31,275 --> 00:03:34,635 Speaker 1: that the revelation that his star witness in the supposed 53 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:38,475 Speaker 1: case against Hunter Biden was indicted long before any of 54 00:03:38,515 --> 00:03:43,435 Speaker 1: this started last November, for bribing a Trump transition team official, 55 00:03:43,595 --> 00:03:46,875 Speaker 1: for illegally running guns, for acting as an agent for China, 56 00:03:47,195 --> 00:03:50,115 Speaker 1: for violating the embargo on Iranian oil, and the other 57 00:03:50,195 --> 00:03:54,195 Speaker 1: embargo on deals with Libya, that none of that undermines 58 00:03:55,155 --> 00:04:00,275 Speaker 1: the supposed case against Hunter Biden. This debacle, a debacle 59 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:02,915 Speaker 1: that has now collapsed on top of Kevin McCarthy twice 60 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: this week alone, and for which Comer is now scheduled 61 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:09,995 Speaker 1: another hearing next week so it can get undermined anew 62 00:04:10,395 --> 00:04:14,995 Speaker 1: and collapse on McCarthy yet again. Undermine what do you mean? 63 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:16,595 Speaker 1: Undermine no? 64 00:04:16,875 --> 00:04:17,835 Speaker 3: What about of mind case? 65 00:04:17,835 --> 00:04:24,235 Speaker 1: Because I he strapulated that even further the Justice Department 66 00:04:24,275 --> 00:04:27,715 Speaker 1: went after him. Well, Hunter Biden received. 67 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:30,355 Speaker 3: More money from the same forum. 68 00:04:29,955 --> 00:04:35,235 Speaker 1: CEFC company that this informat did, much more, so it 69 00:04:35,435 --> 00:04:36,355 Speaker 1: only made. 70 00:04:36,155 --> 00:04:39,755 Speaker 3: The case stronger that the government really didn't look into. 71 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:40,355 Speaker 4: A Hunter Biden. 72 00:04:40,675 --> 00:04:44,595 Speaker 1: Now would be the right time to explain this whole 73 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:50,355 Speaker 1: thing with the Chinese energy company CEFC, that Galllooft and 74 00:04:50,435 --> 00:04:55,115 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden did, indeed do work for both of them, 75 00:04:55,435 --> 00:05:00,395 Speaker 1: and why the similarity ends there, and why it is 76 00:05:00,595 --> 00:05:03,515 Speaker 1: a dangerous thing to let a man as dumb as 77 00:05:03,595 --> 00:05:09,275 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy try to to quote extrapolate anything when it 78 00:05:09,395 --> 00:05:11,915 Speaker 1: is a remarkable development that in that SoundBite that you 79 00:05:12,155 --> 00:05:19,275 Speaker 1: just heard, Kevin McCarthy managed to spell CEFC correctly. Here 80 00:05:19,355 --> 00:05:24,675 Speaker 1: is the Kevin McCarthy, Jamie Comer. Extrapolation. You ready, Hunter 81 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:29,995 Speaker 1: Biden consulted for the Chinese energy company CEFC. Thus, to 82 00:05:30,075 --> 00:05:35,395 Speaker 1: the Republicans, that means Hunter Biden worked for CEFC. Thus 83 00:05:35,715 --> 00:05:40,915 Speaker 1: to the Republicans, that means Hunter Biden took money from CEFC. Thus, 84 00:05:40,955 --> 00:05:44,755 Speaker 1: to the Republicans, that means the entire Biden family was 85 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:50,915 Speaker 1: bankrolled by CEFC. Thus, to the Republicans, that means the 86 00:05:51,155 --> 00:05:58,875 Speaker 1: entire Biden family was bribed by CEFC. This is known 87 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:05,035 Speaker 1: not just as extrapolation, but also as sophistry. Let's use 88 00:06:05,315 --> 00:06:09,955 Speaker 1: exactly the same extrapolation process here, but let's use it 89 00:06:10,115 --> 00:06:14,915 Speaker 1: about somebody else and one of their employers. Somebody else 90 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:19,795 Speaker 1: is me. I used to be the lead sportscaster for 91 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:24,635 Speaker 1: Fox Sports News, owned by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Thus, 92 00:06:24,915 --> 00:06:28,635 Speaker 1: to the Republicans, that means I worked for Rupert Murdoch 93 00:06:28,715 --> 00:06:32,155 Speaker 1: and News Corp. Thus, to the Republicans, that means I 94 00:06:32,235 --> 00:06:35,355 Speaker 1: took money from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Thus, to 95 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:39,275 Speaker 1: the Republicans, that means the entire Olberman family was bankrolled 96 00:06:39,515 --> 00:06:42,635 Speaker 1: by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Thus, to the Republicans, 97 00:06:42,635 --> 00:06:46,035 Speaker 1: that means that the entire Olverman family was bribed by 98 00:06:46,115 --> 00:06:52,355 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. I think I am spotting 99 00:06:52,675 --> 00:07:00,115 Speaker 1: a subtle failure in the chain of logic there. In reality, 100 00:07:00,755 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden consulted for this Chinese energy company SEC. There 101 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:10,835 Speaker 1: is no evidence of any crimes, no evidence that he 102 00:07:10,955 --> 00:07:14,355 Speaker 1: had anything to do with the crimes that didn't happen. 103 00:07:14,955 --> 00:07:18,315 Speaker 1: There's no evidence that the projects CEFC paid him to 104 00:07:18,435 --> 00:07:22,435 Speaker 1: consult on even came to pass. There is no accusation 105 00:07:22,555 --> 00:07:27,035 Speaker 1: against him of crimes involving CEFC. If he did not 106 00:07:27,235 --> 00:07:31,395 Speaker 1: pay his taxes here on those consulting fees, well maybe 107 00:07:31,395 --> 00:07:33,995 Speaker 1: that's why he agreed to plead guilty to a charge 108 00:07:33,995 --> 00:07:39,875 Speaker 1: of not paying his taxes. This is the difference between 109 00:07:39,955 --> 00:07:45,275 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and CEFC and gall Looft and CEFC. On 110 00:07:45,355 --> 00:07:50,275 Speaker 1: November first of last year, Galllooft was indicted for Paragraph 111 00:07:50,355 --> 00:07:53,755 Speaker 1: twelve of the Looft indictment spells it out. Gall looofed 112 00:07:53,995 --> 00:08:00,155 Speaker 1: brokered illegal arms deals on behalf of CEFC with Libya, 113 00:08:00,235 --> 00:08:05,035 Speaker 1: also with Kenya, also with the United Arab Emirates. Biden 114 00:08:05,755 --> 00:08:10,155 Speaker 1: no illegal arms deals on behalf of CEFC. And here's 115 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:14,155 Speaker 1: another difference between Hunter Biden and CEFC and gall Looft 116 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:18,915 Speaker 1: and CEFC. As paragraph thirteen of the Looft indictment spells 117 00:08:18,955 --> 00:08:23,315 Speaker 1: it out. Gall Loofed broke the embargo on Iran by 118 00:08:23,355 --> 00:08:27,435 Speaker 1: selling Iranian oil and claiming it was Brazilian oil on 119 00:08:27,675 --> 00:08:34,235 Speaker 1: behalf of CEFC. Hunter Biden No Iranian oil on behalf 120 00:08:34,275 --> 00:08:38,955 Speaker 1: of CEFC. No oil at all, all right, maybe in 121 00:08:38,995 --> 00:08:42,995 Speaker 1: some of those videos. And here's another difference between Hunter 122 00:08:43,035 --> 00:08:47,035 Speaker 1: Biden and CEFC and gall Loofed and CEFC. As paragraph 123 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:50,635 Speaker 1: nineteen of the Looft indictment spells it out. Gall Looft 124 00:08:50,755 --> 00:08:54,955 Speaker 1: bribed a member of then President elect Trump's transition team 125 00:08:55,275 --> 00:09:00,115 Speaker 1: on behalf of CEFC. It is widely reported that the 126 00:09:00,155 --> 00:09:05,475 Speaker 1: member was former CIA director James Woolsey. Hunter Biden, no 127 00:09:06,595 --> 00:09:13,235 Speaker 1: Trump transition team. No Jim Wolsey. And here's one last 128 00:09:13,435 --> 00:09:17,715 Speaker 1: difference between Hunter Biden and CEFC and gall Loooft and CEFC. 129 00:09:17,995 --> 00:09:21,235 Speaker 1: As paragraph nineteen of the Loofed indictment also spells it out. 130 00:09:21,715 --> 00:09:25,195 Speaker 1: Gall loof not only bribed the guy, but he left 131 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:28,515 Speaker 1: an email trail about it, quote advising that he had 132 00:09:28,555 --> 00:09:35,555 Speaker 1: successfully recruited individual one for a fee. Hunter Biden, no 133 00:09:35,635 --> 00:09:44,195 Speaker 1: email trail, No recruiting no individual, one no fee. So 134 00:09:44,395 --> 00:09:48,475 Speaker 1: Galllooft and Hunter Biden are exactly the same, and I 135 00:09:48,635 --> 00:09:54,315 Speaker 1: am currently being bribed by Fox News. This is correct 136 00:09:54,715 --> 00:09:58,075 Speaker 1: if you are Kevin McCarthy, or if you are a moron, 137 00:09:59,035 --> 00:10:04,795 Speaker 1: which is the same thing. McCarthy's lone defense here is 138 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:09,475 Speaker 1: is Chairman Comber is even dumber than he is. Comber 139 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:13,875 Speaker 1: has not just scheduled more hearings next week about this crap. 140 00:10:14,435 --> 00:10:17,835 Speaker 1: He has scheduled more hearings starring the other con man 141 00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:22,115 Speaker 1: in the case, the discredited so called whistleblower, Gary Shapley 142 00:10:22,395 --> 00:10:28,595 Speaker 1: and the unnamed second whistleblower, whom the Republicans have variously 143 00:10:28,755 --> 00:10:31,835 Speaker 1: described as and named. And I'm serious about this. I 144 00:10:31,835 --> 00:10:35,435 Speaker 1: am not making this part up. The second whistleblower the 145 00:10:35,435 --> 00:10:41,955 Speaker 1: Republicans have variously described as quote whistleblower X and quote 146 00:10:42,715 --> 00:10:45,035 Speaker 1: the gay Democrat. 147 00:10:44,915 --> 00:10:48,115 Speaker 3: America is going to get to see who witness X is. 148 00:10:48,715 --> 00:10:51,875 Speaker 3: And I think that both witnesses are going to have 149 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:54,515 Speaker 3: a wealth of information that they're going to be able 150 00:10:54,555 --> 00:10:55,955 Speaker 3: to share with the House Oversight. 151 00:10:55,955 --> 00:10:58,235 Speaker 1: Comedie, you got to hand it to Comber. The old 152 00:10:58,355 --> 00:11:00,875 Speaker 1: joke is so and so is not the kind of 153 00:11:00,915 --> 00:11:03,515 Speaker 1: man who sits around and acts rationally when the situation 154 00:11:03,675 --> 00:11:08,075 Speaker 1: calls for panic. But this situation, if you're Jamie Comer, 155 00:11:08,235 --> 00:11:12,915 Speaker 1: it calls for panic, and Jamie Comer is not panicking. 156 00:11:14,035 --> 00:11:17,355 Speaker 1: I suspect there are two explanations for this. Again, seven 157 00:11:17,395 --> 00:11:21,595 Speaker 1: and a half years ago, James Comer was Kentucky's Commissioner 158 00:11:21,755 --> 00:11:28,515 Speaker 1: of Agriculture and chairman of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission 159 00:11:29,395 --> 00:11:33,075 Speaker 1: and failed candidate just to get the nomination for governor. 160 00:11:33,915 --> 00:11:37,155 Speaker 1: This is not an experienced nor a smart guy. This 161 00:11:37,315 --> 00:11:39,955 Speaker 1: is not a guy experienced nor smart enough to know 162 00:11:40,555 --> 00:11:44,155 Speaker 1: that he indeed might just have fallen off the turnip truck. 163 00:11:45,915 --> 00:11:50,475 Speaker 1: Part two. I think Comer watches Fox News and Newsmax 164 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:54,115 Speaker 1: and reads the New York Post, and rather than recognizing 165 00:11:54,155 --> 00:12:00,315 Speaker 1: all that as propaganda that he could utilize, he actually 166 00:12:01,595 --> 00:12:08,755 Speaker 1: he actually believes all of it. The primary creative writer 167 00:12:08,955 --> 00:12:13,435 Speaker 1: pushing the gallloof nonsense is a woman named Miranda Divine, 168 00:12:13,915 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: who only returned to this country to work for the 169 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:18,915 Speaker 1: New York Post about three years ago. And it seems 170 00:12:18,995 --> 00:12:22,835 Speaker 1: as if the principal rationalization for her getting that jump 171 00:12:23,115 --> 00:12:29,675 Speaker 1: was Trump retweeted her. I swear she's washed out of 172 00:12:29,755 --> 00:12:37,755 Speaker 1: journalism on three continents, worked briefly in architecture and in textiles. Textiles. Wait, 173 00:12:38,075 --> 00:12:41,835 Speaker 1: Jamie Kmer was commissioner of HEMP. It's a scandal. No, 174 00:12:42,275 --> 00:12:45,755 Speaker 1: it's a coincidence, divine writes, as I said for The 175 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:48,715 Speaker 1: New York Post, and thus forty years of experience tells 176 00:12:48,795 --> 00:12:51,235 Speaker 1: us what appears in that paper under her bioline must 177 00:12:51,315 --> 00:12:55,075 Speaker 1: be presumed to be false. As she once pushed the 178 00:12:55,115 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: claim that white genocide was underway in Australia, she now 179 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:03,315 Speaker 1: pushes the claim that Hunter Biden quote had an FBI 180 00:13:03,475 --> 00:13:09,675 Speaker 1: mole named one Eye. And she breathlessly wrote that the 181 00:13:09,715 --> 00:13:14,435 Speaker 1: mystery Biden witness had quote gone missing in Cyprus. A 182 00:13:14,475 --> 00:13:17,595 Speaker 1: lot of the comber House gang. Then implied that the 183 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:20,995 Speaker 1: witness had met with foul play, when, as we now know, no, 184 00:13:21,315 --> 00:13:25,755 Speaker 1: he jumped bail and ran away in Cyprus and became 185 00:13:25,755 --> 00:13:30,515 Speaker 1: a fugitive from international justice, as one does when one 186 00:13:30,555 --> 00:13:35,035 Speaker 1: is a whistleblower and truth teller. By the way, yesterday's 187 00:13:35,035 --> 00:13:38,835 Speaker 1: starlink announced its satellite access is now online in Cyprus, 188 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:40,835 Speaker 1: and hey, maybe they could use it to find goll 189 00:13:40,955 --> 00:13:45,395 Speaker 1: Looft nine days ago. Just a coincidence. Here a video 190 00:13:45,515 --> 00:13:49,035 Speaker 1: made by Loofed inexplicably turned up in the hands of 191 00:13:50,195 --> 00:13:55,795 Speaker 1: Rando Divine. There are two other primary salespeople here. One 192 00:13:55,915 --> 00:14:00,515 Speaker 1: is actually a surprise, one is not. Maria Bartiromo responded 193 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: to the unseiling of the Loofed indictment Wednesday by interviewing 194 00:14:03,955 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: McCarthy and doing nearly all the talking. This guy who 195 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:11,195 Speaker 1: tried to tell the FBI and the DOJ what he 196 00:14:11,235 --> 00:14:14,355 Speaker 1: knew about the transactions business deals in the Biden family, 197 00:14:14,675 --> 00:14:16,355 Speaker 1: now he had to go on the run, and it's 198 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:20,395 Speaker 1: getting indicted. In point of fact, he had already been 199 00:14:20,635 --> 00:14:25,435 Speaker 1: indicted two one hundred and fifty four days earlier, which 200 00:14:25,555 --> 00:14:29,355 Speaker 1: Maria Bartiromo was either too stupid or too dishonest to 201 00:14:29,515 --> 00:14:36,915 Speaker 1: mention or both. But so far, the dumbest conclusion sold 202 00:14:37,115 --> 00:14:40,795 Speaker 1: to James Comer and other viewers and believers in this 203 00:14:40,915 --> 00:14:48,195 Speaker 1: crapola was made by Fox's John Roberts. Though he has 204 00:14:48,275 --> 00:14:52,755 Speaker 1: long since been assimilated into the Foxborg, little moments of 205 00:14:52,795 --> 00:14:55,515 Speaker 1: his days as an anchor on the CBS Evening News 206 00:14:55,515 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: occasionally escape, though not in this case. Here he sounded 207 00:15:00,675 --> 00:15:04,635 Speaker 1: much more like his even earlier incarnation, Hard Charging mid seven. 208 00:15:04,835 --> 00:15:08,435 Speaker 1: These top forty disc jockey JD. Roberts of Toronto Powerhouse 209 00:15:09,115 --> 00:15:15,035 Speaker 1: chul Chum Radio quoting JD quoting John. The fact that 210 00:15:15,075 --> 00:15:17,795 Speaker 1: he's been arrested now and is accused of being an 211 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:20,915 Speaker 1: agent of China has got the left just having a 212 00:15:20,955 --> 00:15:24,555 Speaker 1: field day with this, saying it shreds his credibility. But 213 00:15:25,315 --> 00:15:28,715 Speaker 1: the flip side of that coin is, if you're accused 214 00:15:28,755 --> 00:15:33,275 Speaker 1: of being a foreign agent for China, you probably know 215 00:15:33,555 --> 00:15:38,715 Speaker 1: who else is working with them unquote, Because yes, John, 216 00:15:39,635 --> 00:15:44,395 Speaker 1: the first rule of international spycraft is that you make 217 00:15:44,475 --> 00:15:50,355 Speaker 1: sure that all of your international covert agents operating in 218 00:15:50,435 --> 00:15:55,555 Speaker 1: other countries know the names and addresses of all of 219 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:59,195 Speaker 1: your other covert agents. And now number one on the 220 00:15:59,275 --> 00:16:22,675 Speaker 1: chumb top forty magic by Pilot, Thank you Pilot, Thank 221 00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:28,075 Speaker 1: you Nancy Host one PostScript to one of the themes here, 222 00:16:28,115 --> 00:16:33,235 Speaker 1: the helpful deterioration in the shall we say mental acuity 223 00:16:33,395 --> 00:16:38,955 Speaker 1: of the Republicans in Congress. Eli Crane is a freshman 224 00:16:38,995 --> 00:16:43,035 Speaker 1: Republican from the Arizona Second, and more importantly, he is 225 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:47,115 Speaker 1: the co founder of bottle Breacher, That is a company 226 00:16:47,155 --> 00:16:52,195 Speaker 1: that manufactures bottle openers made out of the leftover casings 227 00:16:52,235 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: from fifty caliber shells and Congressman bottle Breacher yesterday he 228 00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:02,155 Speaker 1: made a little oopsy, He made a little oopsy on 229 00:17:02,195 --> 00:17:06,955 Speaker 1: the floor, his own fifty alibershell kind of went off prematurely. 230 00:17:07,075 --> 00:17:12,835 Speaker 5: Well, mister Chairman, though that was unbelievably inspiring. My amendment 231 00:17:12,875 --> 00:17:15,275 Speaker 5: has nothing to do with whether or not colored people 232 00:17:15,515 --> 00:17:17,395 Speaker 5: or black people or anybody can serve. 233 00:17:17,875 --> 00:17:20,075 Speaker 1: Okay, It has nothing to do. 234 00:17:20,035 --> 00:17:23,755 Speaker 5: With cost and any of that stuff. 235 00:17:23,955 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: What we want to what we want. 236 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:28,275 Speaker 5: To preserve and maintain is the fact that our military 237 00:17:28,315 --> 00:17:32,555 Speaker 5: does not become a social experiment. We want the best 238 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:35,755 Speaker 5: of the best. We want to have standards, the guide 239 00:17:36,275 --> 00:17:37,395 Speaker 5: who who's. 240 00:17:37,075 --> 00:17:38,915 Speaker 1: In what unit, what they do. 241 00:17:39,275 --> 00:17:41,275 Speaker 5: And I'm going to tell you guys right right now, 242 00:17:41,515 --> 00:17:45,515 Speaker 5: the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, they 243 00:17:45,515 --> 00:17:48,195 Speaker 5: are not They are not doing this because they want 244 00:17:48,195 --> 00:17:51,795 Speaker 5: the strongest military possible. I hope my colleagues on the 245 00:17:51,835 --> 00:17:54,155 Speaker 5: other side can understand what we're doing. 246 00:17:54,275 --> 00:17:55,115 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. 247 00:17:56,315 --> 00:18:01,035 Speaker 4: Being to be recognized, to have the words with colored 248 00:18:01,235 --> 00:18:04,595 Speaker 4: people for what purposes generally seek recognition. I'd like to 249 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:07,755 Speaker 4: be recognized to have the words colored people. 250 00:18:07,995 --> 00:18:10,515 Speaker 1: Stricken from the record. 251 00:18:10,595 --> 00:18:15,275 Speaker 4: I find it offensive and very inappropriate. 252 00:18:14,795 --> 00:18:17,915 Speaker 1: Congressman Eli, think of all the things I could have 253 00:18:17,995 --> 00:18:21,275 Speaker 1: called them. Crane, co founder of the company that makes 254 00:18:21,355 --> 00:18:25,115 Speaker 1: bottle openers out of leftover casings from fifty caliber shells. 255 00:18:25,475 --> 00:18:28,715 Speaker 1: In case you want to mix the thrill of Canada 256 00:18:28,835 --> 00:18:33,715 Speaker 1: dry ginger ale and the risk of blowing your own 257 00:18:33,875 --> 00:18:44,795 Speaker 1: limbs off, where do we find these idiots? Also of 258 00:18:44,795 --> 00:18:49,995 Speaker 1: interest here, you've heard the lead traditional news story. But 259 00:18:50,555 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: let me tell you this lead traditional news story from 260 00:18:53,595 --> 00:18:57,115 Speaker 1: a perspective you may not have heard before nor even considered. 261 00:18:58,075 --> 00:19:01,915 Speaker 1: What is probably the biggest factory town in this country 262 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:06,955 Speaker 1: has ground to a halt now because two of the 263 00:19:07,075 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: three critical unions that represent virtually everybody in the factories 264 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:14,995 Speaker 1: in the factory town have gone on strike. The factories 265 00:19:15,755 --> 00:19:21,035 Speaker 1: are film and television studios. The town is Los Angeles, 266 00:19:21,715 --> 00:19:25,875 Speaker 1: and eighteen out of every one thousand employees in Los 267 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:30,555 Speaker 1: Angeles works in entertainment and the other nine hundred and 268 00:19:30,595 --> 00:19:37,595 Speaker 1: eighty two would like to la factory town on strike. 269 00:19:38,275 --> 00:19:45,715 Speaker 1: That's next, this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith over 270 00:19:52,835 --> 00:19:56,395 Speaker 1: postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 271 00:19:56,395 --> 00:20:00,915 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Washington snark of the year. The first 272 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:04,555 Speaker 1: voice you will hear is, of course, congress Woman Barney Rubble. 273 00:20:05,195 --> 00:20:09,595 Speaker 1: The second voice you will hear is Congresswoman Sidney Kamlegger 274 00:20:09,755 --> 00:20:15,155 Speaker 1: Dove from South la and she is our winner. We 275 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:19,075 Speaker 1: should be defending our border and not proclaiming our righteousness 276 00:20:19,315 --> 00:20:20,075 Speaker 1: talking about a. 277 00:20:19,995 --> 00:20:20,835 Speaker 5: War in Ukraine. 278 00:20:21,075 --> 00:20:22,675 Speaker 1: With that, mister speaker, I yield. 279 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:27,475 Speaker 3: Gentlewoman's time has expired for the gentlewoman from California is recognized. 280 00:20:27,955 --> 00:20:28,875 Speaker 1: Thank you, mister speaker. 281 00:20:28,915 --> 00:20:32,475 Speaker 4: I request an advill and yield one minute to Representative 282 00:20:32,515 --> 00:20:34,155 Speaker 4: Joe Wilson from South Carolina. 283 00:20:34,315 --> 00:20:39,995 Speaker 1: Thank you, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlicker Dove. By the way of late, 284 00:20:40,475 --> 00:20:45,155 Speaker 1: every time I have seen or heard Marjorie Taylor, Barney Rubbell, 285 00:20:45,435 --> 00:20:48,275 Speaker 1: white supremacist Karen Green, I have thought one thing, and 286 00:20:48,355 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: one thing alone. A future headline appears in my mind 287 00:20:52,315 --> 00:21:26,435 Speaker 1: that reads, woman arrested for shoplifting steroids. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 288 00:21:26,875 --> 00:21:30,915 Speaker 1: Dateline Hollywood sag Aftra has gone out, the actors now 289 00:21:30,995 --> 00:21:33,995 Speaker 1: joining the writers on strike. There are very few regional 290 00:21:34,075 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: secrets in this country anymore, but this story includes one 291 00:21:38,835 --> 00:21:41,275 Speaker 1: of the ones I have discovered that people do not 292 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:45,435 Speaker 1: know still exist, especially people who have never lived in 293 00:21:45,475 --> 00:21:49,795 Speaker 1: Los Angeles or Southern California. The secret is this, Los Angeles, 294 00:21:49,835 --> 00:21:51,875 Speaker 1: all of SoCal from the desert to the seat, to 295 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:57,115 Speaker 1: all of southern California is a factory town and a 296 00:21:57,275 --> 00:22:02,435 Speaker 1: sag after strike following upon the heels of a WGA strike, 297 00:22:02,475 --> 00:22:05,915 Speaker 1: a Writer's guild strike, and in six on, Southern California 298 00:22:05,995 --> 00:22:11,795 Speaker 1: will sink into something akin to the Great Depression. Los 299 00:22:11,835 --> 00:22:16,075 Speaker 1: Angeles may be America's last factory town. The Bureau of 300 00:22:16,195 --> 00:22:21,035 Speaker 1: Labor Statistics says eighteen out of every one thousand employees 301 00:22:21,555 --> 00:22:25,035 Speaker 1: just in the stretch from LA to Long Beach, eighteen 302 00:22:25,075 --> 00:22:28,195 Speaker 1: out of a one thousand work in entertainment. But that 303 00:22:28,435 --> 00:22:31,235 Speaker 1: just scratches the surface. Those are the people with full 304 00:22:31,315 --> 00:22:35,635 Speaker 1: time jobs in entertainment. I lived for two and a 305 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:39,275 Speaker 1: half glorious years at a great hotel in Santa Monica 306 00:22:39,635 --> 00:22:42,795 Speaker 1: called Shutters, and I knew all the staff, and I 307 00:22:42,835 --> 00:22:45,435 Speaker 1: knew all the waiters at both the great restaurants. And 308 00:22:45,555 --> 00:22:47,595 Speaker 1: a couple of years later, when I was back in town, 309 00:22:47,635 --> 00:22:50,155 Speaker 1: I went in there for breakfast, and my old pal, Steve, 310 00:22:50,635 --> 00:22:53,955 Speaker 1: the waiter, brought me my granola and said, I got it. 311 00:22:54,235 --> 00:22:57,395 Speaker 1: I got it. So the granola is on me. What 312 00:22:57,515 --> 00:23:01,555 Speaker 1: Steve had gotten was the role of the fake husband 313 00:23:01,675 --> 00:23:05,915 Speaker 1: to be in the reality show My Big, Fat, Obnoxious Fiance, 314 00:23:06,675 --> 00:23:10,075 Speaker 1: And for six weeks, Steve Bailey was the talk of 315 00:23:10,115 --> 00:23:13,955 Speaker 1: American television. And the next year I came back into 316 00:23:13,955 --> 00:23:16,715 Speaker 1: town and I went in for breakfast, and you know 317 00:23:16,755 --> 00:23:21,875 Speaker 1: who brought me my granola? Steve. I think Steve counts 318 00:23:21,915 --> 00:23:24,275 Speaker 1: as one of those full time entertainment people because he 319 00:23:24,355 --> 00:23:26,875 Speaker 1: banked that money and built on that to a full 320 00:23:26,875 --> 00:23:30,075 Speaker 1: time career as an actor. Other than the money he 321 00:23:30,115 --> 00:23:32,915 Speaker 1: spent on my granola that one time. Ninety eight percent 322 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:36,115 Speaker 1: of the members of the Combined Screen Actors Guild at 323 00:23:36,115 --> 00:23:39,835 Speaker 1: American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ninety eight percent 324 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:45,875 Speaker 1: do not make their living acting. For every Steve, there 325 00:23:45,915 --> 00:23:49,435 Speaker 1: are one thousand people who want just to be Steve. 326 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: All the other waiters envied Steve, and they were and 327 00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:58,875 Speaker 1: are vastly outnumbered by the people who want to write 328 00:23:59,115 --> 00:24:03,555 Speaker 1: for Steve. If the population of the La Megalopolis is 329 00:24:03,635 --> 00:24:07,835 Speaker 1: eighteen million, four hid two and forty two people, my guests, 330 00:24:08,555 --> 00:24:10,475 Speaker 1: of the number of residents who have never worked in 331 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:14,315 Speaker 1: entertainment or business that serves entertainment or have never tried 332 00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:17,035 Speaker 1: to work in entertainment. Out of that eighteen million, four 333 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:19,915 Speaker 1: hundred nine two hundred and forty two people, my guess 334 00:24:20,035 --> 00:24:22,955 Speaker 1: is the people who've never tried to be in entertainment, 335 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 1: those last two hundred and forty two. The first of 336 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:32,755 Speaker 1: the two times I lived in LA, the CBS station 337 00:24:33,315 --> 00:24:36,635 Speaker 1: used to put the news on at four o'clock. They 338 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:38,915 Speaker 1: went through till six point thirty, then they cut out 339 00:24:38,955 --> 00:24:41,395 Speaker 1: to Dan Rather's CBS Evening News, and they came back 340 00:24:41,435 --> 00:24:44,515 Speaker 1: at seven with another half hour of entertainment news, not 341 00:24:44,795 --> 00:24:49,835 Speaker 1: entertainment tonight, with reviews and celebrity features and goofy anchors. 342 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:54,395 Speaker 1: Stock reports only about the stocks of Disney and Viacom 343 00:24:54,435 --> 00:24:57,795 Speaker 1: and CBS and all the rest, the news of the 344 00:24:57,835 --> 00:25:01,955 Speaker 1: newest vice president hired at Warner Brothers, which movies were 345 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:04,435 Speaker 1: going into production, which were going into the theaters. No, 346 00:25:04,755 --> 00:25:09,275 Speaker 1: it's no glam, just the money. I find a New 347 00:25:09,355 --> 00:25:12,915 Speaker 1: York Times article from September nineteen ninety which is perfect 348 00:25:12,915 --> 00:25:15,155 Speaker 1: for my point because it was right in the middle 349 00:25:15,195 --> 00:25:19,435 Speaker 1: of my tenure at that CBSTV station in LA. And 350 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:22,715 Speaker 1: the article is mind boggling because it can't have gotten 351 00:25:22,755 --> 00:25:26,675 Speaker 1: any better in the ensuing time. It's mind boggling unless 352 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:29,875 Speaker 1: you ever lived in LA to which you would go, yeah, 353 00:25:29,915 --> 00:25:33,875 Speaker 1: I know. Thirty three years ago, the Writer's Guild, which 354 00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:36,995 Speaker 1: would register your screenplay or TV script so nobody could 355 00:25:36,995 --> 00:25:41,035 Speaker 1: steal it from you, was getting twenty five thousand new 356 00:25:41,315 --> 00:25:46,715 Speaker 1: unsolicited scripts per month. To keep from literally getting its 357 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:50,995 Speaker 1: members buried under the avalanche of bad writing, it offered 358 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:53,715 Speaker 1: a service to all writers and would be writers. Send 359 00:25:53,795 --> 00:25:56,595 Speaker 1: us a one page synopsis of your script, and we 360 00:25:56,635 --> 00:25:58,835 Speaker 1: will print it in a book which we will send 361 00:25:58,875 --> 00:26:03,115 Speaker 1: free to all the studios. It will be thousands of 362 00:26:03,155 --> 00:26:05,795 Speaker 1: pages long, and you have to pay us one hundred 363 00:26:05,835 --> 00:26:08,995 Speaker 1: dollars for that one page. They were swamped with more 364 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:14,675 Speaker 1: one page synopsies than they could print. The stories and again, 365 00:26:14,715 --> 00:26:17,915 Speaker 1: these are the stories from nineteen ninety are not only timeless, 366 00:26:17,915 --> 00:26:20,995 Speaker 1: but they underscore that every genius idea you may ever 367 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:26,235 Speaker 1: have had to get Tom Cruise or Benedict Cumberback to 368 00:26:26,315 --> 00:26:31,115 Speaker 1: look at your script was, to quote James Thurber, done 369 00:26:31,195 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: faster and Better by Robert Benchley in nineteen nineteen. In 370 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:40,435 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety New York Times piece quoted a movie publicity 371 00:26:40,475 --> 00:26:44,995 Speaker 1: agent quote she had recently attended traffic school in Beverly Hills, 372 00:26:45,315 --> 00:26:49,275 Speaker 1: and the instructor, a police officer, had opened the session 373 00:26:49,355 --> 00:26:53,315 Speaker 1: by holding up several scripts he had written and asking 374 00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:56,835 Speaker 1: if there were any agents in the class. A prominent 375 00:26:56,955 --> 00:27:02,195 Speaker 1: psychologist used to spend her nights typing other people's movie 376 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: script because she would pick up some pointers as she 377 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:09,355 Speaker 1: did this, and she got to meet the real writers 378 00:27:09,355 --> 00:27:13,835 Speaker 1: and pitch them her ideas. No script reader can ever 379 00:27:13,875 --> 00:27:16,635 Speaker 1: say how many, but they do all agree that not 380 00:27:16,715 --> 00:27:18,475 Speaker 1: a day goes by when they do not receive at 381 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:22,155 Speaker 1: least one script from a prison inmate who includes his 382 00:27:22,315 --> 00:27:27,155 Speaker 1: number and it a'ate for his phone. At KCBS, my 383 00:27:27,275 --> 00:27:30,035 Speaker 1: lead sports producer used to write sitcom episodes in his 384 00:27:30,075 --> 00:27:32,475 Speaker 1: spare time, and his wife, who was the videotape editor, 385 00:27:32,595 --> 00:27:34,955 Speaker 1: she used to write drama episodes in her spare time. 386 00:27:34,995 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: It's easy, she told me, you got five minutes, I'll 387 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:40,115 Speaker 1: show you how, and she was right. I then wrote 388 00:27:40,155 --> 00:27:42,795 Speaker 1: a movie script for a baseball book that I had enjoyed, 389 00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:44,995 Speaker 1: and I thought Jeff Daniels would have been perfect in 390 00:27:45,155 --> 00:27:47,195 Speaker 1: and I tried to buy the film rights to the book, 391 00:27:47,195 --> 00:27:48,795 Speaker 1: and then I said, what the hell am I doing. 392 00:27:48,955 --> 00:27:51,195 Speaker 1: I have a full time job here that pays half 393 00:27:51,235 --> 00:27:54,555 Speaker 1: a million a year. Let somebody else make a dollar. 394 00:27:56,795 --> 00:28:00,915 Speaker 1: Maybe the would be writer who said that or got 395 00:28:00,955 --> 00:28:05,155 Speaker 1: that dollar was the one I was thinking of. Upon 396 00:28:05,235 --> 00:28:07,715 Speaker 1: his arrival in LA he took a job as a 397 00:28:07,795 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: waiter in the commissary at Fox so he could hand 398 00:28:12,195 --> 00:28:17,395 Speaker 1: his scripts to the executives as they ate. Sounds stupid, right, 399 00:28:17,755 --> 00:28:19,995 Speaker 1: He's the guy who wound up editing that directory with 400 00:28:20,035 --> 00:28:24,115 Speaker 1: the one page synopsis of everybody else's script. He's full 401 00:28:24,155 --> 00:28:28,555 Speaker 1: time in entertainment. I'm making a point here that while 402 00:28:28,595 --> 00:28:31,995 Speaker 1: you may understandably see the joint WGA and SAG after 403 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: strikes as an annoyance, as a harshing of your binging 404 00:28:35,675 --> 00:28:40,475 Speaker 1: buzz in the months to come, understand it not only 405 00:28:40,555 --> 00:28:44,315 Speaker 1: shuts down eighteen out of every thousand people in LA 406 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:47,955 Speaker 1: they don't have an income now, but eighteen more who 407 00:28:48,035 --> 00:28:51,915 Speaker 1: press their suits and dresses, and eighteen more who sell 408 00:28:51,955 --> 00:28:54,915 Speaker 1: them the computers they write their scripts on, and eighteen 409 00:28:55,035 --> 00:28:58,395 Speaker 1: more who service the cars or who run the subways 410 00:28:58,435 --> 00:29:02,835 Speaker 1: they take to work. It is a cataclysm. Los Angeles 411 00:29:02,915 --> 00:29:07,595 Speaker 1: is a factory town, and I mean the writers can 412 00:29:07,755 --> 00:29:10,835 Speaker 1: usually do other things to make some money. They can write. 413 00:29:11,155 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: But the actors. How many actors do you know? I 414 00:29:15,115 --> 00:29:19,755 Speaker 1: know a lot without a script. It often surprised me 415 00:29:19,835 --> 00:29:22,115 Speaker 1: that they could find their way to the restaurant we 416 00:29:22,115 --> 00:29:27,595 Speaker 1: were supposed to have dinner at. I won't mention any names. 417 00:29:30,075 --> 00:29:33,795 Speaker 1: I don't have an hour one last anecdote, and I 418 00:29:33,835 --> 00:29:36,755 Speaker 1: looked hard for the facts of this online. I can't 419 00:29:36,755 --> 00:29:39,835 Speaker 1: find it. Let me know if this rings a bell. 420 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: But at some point in the last thirty years, a 421 00:29:42,755 --> 00:29:47,795 Speaker 1: truly genius idea hit a small time filmmaker. He went 422 00:29:47,835 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: to one of LA's ubiquitous giant twenty four hour supermarkets. 423 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:54,395 Speaker 1: Might have been a Ralph's, might have been a Hughes, 424 00:29:55,075 --> 00:29:57,035 Speaker 1: might have been the Hughes I used to live in 425 00:29:57,515 --> 00:30:02,795 Speaker 1: at Beverly and Dohaney might have been an alpha beta. There. 426 00:30:02,915 --> 00:30:04,955 Speaker 1: He set up his camera and his microphone, and he 427 00:30:04,995 --> 00:30:07,555 Speaker 1: simply stopped everybody who went in or came out, and 428 00:30:07,555 --> 00:30:10,995 Speaker 1: who would give him thirty seconds to answer his one 429 00:30:11,195 --> 00:30:16,235 Speaker 1: and only three word question. He asked young men and 430 00:30:16,395 --> 00:30:20,275 Speaker 1: old women with walkers. He asked mothers with babes in scrollers, 431 00:30:20,315 --> 00:30:24,315 Speaker 1: and punkers with purple hair, and gay couples and cops 432 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:27,955 Speaker 1: and gay cops and everybody, and how I wish I 433 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:31,195 Speaker 1: had this video or just the stats from it in 434 00:30:31,195 --> 00:30:33,315 Speaker 1: front of me. But the bottom line was more or 435 00:30:33,475 --> 00:30:37,795 Speaker 1: less this. His three word question that he asked hundreds 436 00:30:37,835 --> 00:30:40,875 Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds of Angelino's in front of the 437 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:50,635 Speaker 1: supermarket was simply, this, how's your screenplay? If I remember 438 00:30:50,635 --> 00:30:54,555 Speaker 1: it correctly, I believe that only one third of them 439 00:30:54,675 --> 00:31:01,755 Speaker 1: answered what screenplay? The other sixty six percent said, Oh, 440 00:31:01,795 --> 00:31:05,955 Speaker 1: it's in development at Warners, or just finishing the rewrite 441 00:31:05,955 --> 00:31:09,675 Speaker 1: tonight in fact, or yeah, it's here in my bag. 442 00:31:09,755 --> 00:31:15,275 Speaker 1: Do you know anybody? The lesson was, the lesson is, 443 00:31:16,155 --> 00:31:19,355 Speaker 1: the lesson to remember as a consumer during this strike, 444 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:23,675 Speaker 1: is that these people he interviewed were from all the 445 00:31:23,795 --> 00:31:28,955 Speaker 1: different walks of life, except in southern California, for all 446 00:31:29,035 --> 00:31:33,635 Speaker 1: intents and purposes, all the different walks of life are 447 00:31:34,755 --> 00:31:54,995 Speaker 1: acting or writing or producing. Still ahead on Countdown Fridays 448 00:31:54,995 --> 00:31:58,395 Speaker 1: with Thurber and a story that is simultaneously misogynistic and 449 00:31:58,435 --> 00:32:01,635 Speaker 1: a confirmation of Thurber's belief repeated again and again in 450 00:32:01,755 --> 00:32:06,395 Speaker 1: story after story for sixty years that women were far 451 00:32:06,715 --> 00:32:11,955 Speaker 1: superior to men. Mister Prebble gets rid of his wife 452 00:32:12,275 --> 00:32:14,195 Speaker 1: first time for the Daily round up of the miss Grants, 453 00:32:14,195 --> 00:32:19,155 Speaker 1: morons and Dunnan Kruger Effect specimens who constitute today's worst 454 00:32:19,195 --> 00:32:23,115 Speaker 1: persons in the world. The Bronze New York State Congressman 455 00:32:23,195 --> 00:32:25,715 Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, who I am ashamed to say, reps my 456 00:32:25,835 --> 00:32:29,275 Speaker 1: high school haunts of Tarrytown, New York. The Daily Beast 457 00:32:29,315 --> 00:32:33,475 Speaker 1: reported this exclusively. They ever looked at a Wikipedia page, 458 00:32:33,515 --> 00:32:36,555 Speaker 1: like your Wikipedia page or some Wikipedia page that you 459 00:32:36,675 --> 00:32:39,675 Speaker 1: know something about, and wondered, what would happen if you 460 00:32:39,755 --> 00:32:44,075 Speaker 1: decided to correct some of the calumnies and the inaccuracies 461 00:32:44,355 --> 00:32:49,795 Speaker 1: and outright fictions that maybe are about you. Well, Mike 462 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:55,235 Speaker 1: Lawler did twenty six times, and he made the edits. 463 00:32:56,275 --> 00:32:58,355 Speaker 1: One of them done by an account using the same 464 00:32:58,435 --> 00:33:02,755 Speaker 1: handle as Lawler's personal Facebook and YouTube accounts, was to 465 00:33:02,835 --> 00:33:07,275 Speaker 1: the notable alumni list on the Manhattan College Wikipedia page, 466 00:33:07,595 --> 00:33:13,395 Speaker 1: which suddenly listed Congressman Mike Lawler. Wikipedia warned Lawler in May, 467 00:33:13,475 --> 00:33:16,995 Speaker 1: you can't edit stuff about yourself surreptitiously. If you want 468 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: to put in a quote from yourself, that's one thing, 469 00:33:19,835 --> 00:33:22,195 Speaker 1: And then when he kept doing it, they apparently banned 470 00:33:22,275 --> 00:33:24,195 Speaker 1: him from making any more edits. At least that's what 471 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:27,635 Speaker 1: the Daily Beast reports, So the congressman can't now add 472 00:33:27,635 --> 00:33:29,715 Speaker 1: in the fact that he's just made worse persons in 473 00:33:29,715 --> 00:33:31,515 Speaker 1: the world. So if some friend of his could do 474 00:33:31,555 --> 00:33:35,435 Speaker 1: it for him, I'm sure he'd appreciated. The runners up 475 00:33:35,475 --> 00:33:39,195 Speaker 1: the Fresh and Fit podcast, hosted by Likely closeted in 476 00:33:39,355 --> 00:33:44,595 Speaker 1: cells Myron Gains and Walter Weeks, which proclaims itself as 477 00:33:44,715 --> 00:33:48,435 Speaker 1: the voice of the man o sphere, covering quote, females 478 00:33:48,475 --> 00:33:52,875 Speaker 1: fitness in finances, well, make that females fitness and finances, 479 00:33:53,075 --> 00:33:58,075 Speaker 1: and Fuentes the Holocaust denier. Two episodes this month served 480 00:33:58,115 --> 00:34:04,275 Speaker 1: from why women deserve less to quote the JQ, that's 481 00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:10,435 Speaker 1: the Jewish question unquote, and the questions then became should 482 00:34:10,475 --> 00:34:12,035 Speaker 1: you try to cop a feel on a first date 483 00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:15,075 Speaker 1: or simply sit around with her and listen to their guest, 484 00:34:15,115 --> 00:34:18,475 Speaker 1: the anti Semiti scumbag Nick Fuentes, rant on about white 485 00:34:18,475 --> 00:34:22,555 Speaker 1: supremacy and how the Holocaust never happened and we'll never 486 00:34:22,755 --> 00:34:26,315 Speaker 1: once realized that most white supremacists don't consider Nick Fuentes 487 00:34:26,315 --> 00:34:30,595 Speaker 1: to be white. Surprised Nick, they'll get you yet anyway. 488 00:34:31,555 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: But our winner's state Representative Bob Young a beautiful downtown 489 00:34:35,355 --> 00:34:40,195 Speaker 1: Green Ohio, and Bob is a very active Republican. How 490 00:34:40,315 --> 00:34:44,315 Speaker 1: active you say, Summit County sheriffs say, Republican Bob was 491 00:34:44,395 --> 00:34:46,675 Speaker 1: arguing with a friend at his own home at one 492 00:34:46,715 --> 00:34:51,715 Speaker 1: am Friday, as one does. When Republican Bob's wife, Tina 493 00:34:51,835 --> 00:34:54,155 Speaker 1: stuck her hand up in front of his face to 494 00:34:54,355 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: quote stop him from yelling, well, Republican Bob grabbed her arm, 495 00:34:59,635 --> 00:35:01,795 Speaker 1: then hit her in the face with his open hand. 496 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:04,435 Speaker 1: When she started to phone the police, he threw her 497 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: phone into the swimming pool. She then put the kids 498 00:35:07,195 --> 00:35:08,515 Speaker 1: in the car to get them out of there, and 499 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:10,755 Speaker 1: she drove to her brother in law's house. That would 500 00:35:10,795 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: be Republican Bob's own brother. The brother in law protected 501 00:35:14,635 --> 00:35:17,115 Speaker 1: her and the kids, and when Republican Bob drove up, 502 00:35:17,315 --> 00:35:19,155 Speaker 1: his brother went outside to tell him he was not 503 00:35:19,275 --> 00:35:23,675 Speaker 1: welcome there, whereupon Republican Bob, quoting the police report, lowered 504 00:35:23,715 --> 00:35:28,395 Speaker 1: his shoulder and charged, and he went through the glass 505 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:33,475 Speaker 1: storm door at about three am his brother's glass storm door. 506 00:35:34,755 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: Republican Bob has been charged on counts including domestic violence, 507 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:41,235 Speaker 1: but no, he will not resign, even though the Republican 508 00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:47,595 Speaker 1: speaker wants him to because he's Republican Bob. Punchline. Republican 509 00:35:47,595 --> 00:35:50,875 Speaker 1: Bob is also being sued for one million dollars by 510 00:35:50,915 --> 00:35:53,715 Speaker 1: his Democratic opponent in the last election, a man named 511 00:35:53,715 --> 00:35:59,075 Speaker 1: Matt Shawnesty. Because Republican Bob ran ads falsely accusing Matt 512 00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:02,635 Speaker 1: Shawnesty of domestic violence. 513 00:36:04,715 --> 00:36:10,995 Speaker 6: State Republican Bob Storm doors a specialty young to days 514 00:36:12,035 --> 00:36:15,115 Speaker 6: worst Person and. 515 00:36:27,195 --> 00:36:29,675 Speaker 1: To the top of the Countdown and Fridays with Thurber, 516 00:36:29,955 --> 00:36:32,235 Speaker 1: and I am not going to dare suggest to you 517 00:36:32,355 --> 00:36:36,035 Speaker 1: that there isn't at least something misogynistic about mister Prebble 518 00:36:36,155 --> 00:36:39,515 Speaker 1: gets rid of his wife. But the ultimate point of 519 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:43,555 Speaker 1: this short story, so masterfully crafted by James Thurber, this 520 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:46,755 Speaker 1: matter of fact style that almost makes you forget you 521 00:36:46,795 --> 00:36:50,035 Speaker 1: are hearing about a man trying to murder his wife, 522 00:36:50,235 --> 00:36:52,515 Speaker 1: is in a larger sense, about the fact that women 523 00:36:53,315 --> 00:36:57,995 Speaker 1: are more successful than men. This story does not compliment men, 524 00:36:58,115 --> 00:37:01,115 Speaker 1: it does not compliment women, It does not compliment human beings, 525 00:37:01,715 --> 00:37:05,995 Speaker 1: but it is still marvelous. Preble Gets rid of his 526 00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:13,035 Speaker 1: Wife by James Thurber. Mister Prebble was a plump, middle 527 00:37:13,075 --> 00:37:16,435 Speaker 1: aged lawyer in Scarsdale, He used to kid with his 528 00:37:16,515 --> 00:37:20,795 Speaker 1: stenographer about running away with him. Let's run away together, 529 00:37:21,075 --> 00:37:25,355 Speaker 1: he would say, during a pause in dictation, alrighty, she 530 00:37:25,395 --> 00:37:29,475 Speaker 1: would say. One rainy Monday afternoon, mister Prebble was more 531 00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:34,595 Speaker 1: serious about it than usual. Let's run away together, said 532 00:37:34,635 --> 00:37:39,915 Speaker 1: mister Preble. Alrighty, said his stenographer. Mister Prebble jingled the 533 00:37:39,995 --> 00:37:43,075 Speaker 1: keys in his pocket and looked out the window. My 534 00:37:43,195 --> 00:37:45,395 Speaker 1: wife would be glad to get rid of me, he said. 535 00:37:45,955 --> 00:37:50,915 Speaker 1: Would you give you a divorce, asked the stenographer. I 536 00:37:50,915 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: don't suppose so, he said. The stenographer laughed, you'd have 537 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:59,915 Speaker 1: to get rid of your wife, she said. Mister Preble 538 00:38:00,035 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: was unusually silent at dinner that night. About half an 539 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:06,195 Speaker 1: hour after coffee, he spoke, without looking up from his paper, 540 00:38:07,395 --> 00:38:11,435 Speaker 1: Let's go down in the cellar. Mister Prebble said to 541 00:38:11,475 --> 00:38:15,155 Speaker 1: his wife, what far? She said, not looking up from 542 00:38:15,155 --> 00:38:21,275 Speaker 1: her book. Oh, I don't know, he said. We uh 543 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:23,875 Speaker 1: never go down in the cellar anymore the way we 544 00:38:23,955 --> 00:38:26,955 Speaker 1: used to. We never did go down in the cellar 545 00:38:26,955 --> 00:38:30,355 Speaker 1: that I remember, said missus Preble. I could rest easy 546 00:38:30,395 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: the balance of my life if I never went down 547 00:38:32,555 --> 00:38:36,555 Speaker 1: in the cellar. Mister Preble was silent for several minutes. 548 00:38:38,155 --> 00:38:40,755 Speaker 1: Supposing I said, it meant a whole lot to me, 549 00:38:41,195 --> 00:38:45,235 Speaker 1: began mister Prebble, what's come over you? His wife demanded. 550 00:38:45,275 --> 00:38:48,035 Speaker 1: It's coal down there, and there's absolutely nothing to do. 551 00:38:50,035 --> 00:38:54,475 Speaker 1: We could pick up pieces of coal, said mister Prebble. 552 00:38:54,715 --> 00:38:57,555 Speaker 1: We might get up some sort of game with pieces 553 00:38:57,555 --> 00:39:01,635 Speaker 1: of coal. I don't want to, said his wife. Anyway, 554 00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:06,875 Speaker 1: I'm reading, listen, said mister Prebble, rising and walking up 555 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:09,635 Speaker 1: and down. Why won't you come down in the cellar. 556 00:39:09,675 --> 00:39:11,635 Speaker 1: You can read down there as far as that goes. 557 00:39:12,715 --> 00:39:15,675 Speaker 1: There isn't a good enough light down there, she said. 558 00:39:15,755 --> 00:39:18,795 Speaker 1: And anyway, I'm not going to go down in the cellar. 559 00:39:18,835 --> 00:39:22,755 Speaker 1: You may as well make up your mind. That gee whiz, 560 00:39:23,315 --> 00:39:25,915 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble, kicking into the edge of a rug. 561 00:39:26,275 --> 00:39:28,675 Speaker 1: Other people's wives go down in the cellar. Why is 562 00:39:28,675 --> 00:39:31,315 Speaker 1: it you never want to do anything? I come home 563 00:39:31,675 --> 00:39:33,835 Speaker 1: worn out from the office, and you won't even go 564 00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:36,595 Speaker 1: down in the cellar with me. God knows, it isn't 565 00:39:36,675 --> 00:39:38,955 Speaker 1: very far. It isn't as if I was asking you 566 00:39:38,995 --> 00:39:43,275 Speaker 1: to go to the movies or someplace. I don't want 567 00:39:43,315 --> 00:39:48,555 Speaker 1: to go, shouted missus Prebble. Mister Prebble sat down on 568 00:39:48,595 --> 00:39:53,515 Speaker 1: the edge of a davenport. All right, all right, he said, 569 00:39:54,555 --> 00:39:57,875 Speaker 1: He picked up the newspaper again. I wish you'd let 570 00:39:57,875 --> 00:40:00,075 Speaker 1: me tell you more about it. It's it's kind of 571 00:40:00,115 --> 00:40:05,635 Speaker 1: a surprise. Well you quit harping on that subject, asked 572 00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:10,075 Speaker 1: missus Prebble. Listen, said mister Prebble, leaping to his feet, 573 00:40:10,275 --> 00:40:11,715 Speaker 1: I might as well tell you the truth instead of 574 00:40:11,715 --> 00:40:13,555 Speaker 1: beating around the bush. I want to get rid of 575 00:40:13,555 --> 00:40:15,955 Speaker 1: you so I can marry my stenographer. Is there anything 576 00:40:16,035 --> 00:40:18,755 Speaker 1: especially wrong about that? People do it every day. Love 577 00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:21,715 Speaker 1: is something you can't control. We've been all over that, 578 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:26,315 Speaker 1: said missus Prebble. I'm not going to go all over 579 00:40:26,355 --> 00:40:31,995 Speaker 1: that again. I just wanted you to know how things are, 580 00:40:32,315 --> 00:40:35,315 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble. But you have to take everything so literally. 581 00:40:35,555 --> 00:40:39,275 Speaker 1: Good Lord, do you suppose I really wanted to go 582 00:40:39,355 --> 00:40:42,435 Speaker 1: down in the cellar and make up some silly game 583 00:40:42,515 --> 00:40:46,755 Speaker 1: with pieces of coal. I never believe that for a minute, 584 00:40:47,315 --> 00:40:49,755 Speaker 1: said missus Prebble. I knew all along you wanted to 585 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:53,115 Speaker 1: get me down there and bury me. You can say 586 00:40:53,155 --> 00:40:57,555 Speaker 1: that now after I told you, said mister Prebble. But 587 00:40:57,635 --> 00:41:00,115 Speaker 1: it would never have occurred to you. If I hadn't, 588 00:41:00,715 --> 00:41:03,635 Speaker 1: you didn't tell me. I got it out of you, 589 00:41:04,075 --> 00:41:07,395 Speaker 1: said missus Anyway, I'm always two steps ahead of what 590 00:41:07,435 --> 00:41:11,035 Speaker 1: you're thinking. You're never within a mile of what I'm thinking, 591 00:41:11,075 --> 00:41:13,995 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble. Is that so I knew you wanted 592 00:41:14,035 --> 00:41:15,995 Speaker 1: to bury me the minute you got some foot in 593 00:41:16,035 --> 00:41:19,555 Speaker 1: this house tonight? Missus Prebble held him with a glare. 594 00:41:20,435 --> 00:41:25,395 Speaker 1: Now that's just plain damn exaggeration, said mister Prebble, considerably annoyed. 595 00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:27,555 Speaker 1: You knew nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, 596 00:41:27,555 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: I never thought of it till just a few minutes ago. 597 00:41:30,555 --> 00:41:33,595 Speaker 1: It was in the back of your mind, said missus Prebble. 598 00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:36,755 Speaker 1: I suppose this filing woman puts you up to it. 599 00:41:38,195 --> 00:41:42,355 Speaker 1: You needn't get sarcastic, said mister Prebble. I have plenty 600 00:41:42,395 --> 00:41:45,675 Speaker 1: of people to file without having her file. She doesn't 601 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:48,475 Speaker 1: know anything about this, She isn't in on it. I 602 00:41:48,515 --> 00:41:50,275 Speaker 1: was going to tell her you'd gone to visit some 603 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:53,595 Speaker 1: friends and fell over a cliff. She wants me to 604 00:41:53,635 --> 00:41:57,835 Speaker 1: get a divorce. That's a laugh, said missus Prebble. That's 605 00:41:58,075 --> 00:42:01,755 Speaker 1: a laugh. You may bury me, but you'll never get 606 00:42:01,755 --> 00:42:05,155 Speaker 1: a divorce. She knows that I told her that, said 607 00:42:05,155 --> 00:42:07,675 Speaker 1: mister Prebble. I mean I told her I'd never get 608 00:42:07,715 --> 00:42:12,395 Speaker 1: a divorce. Oh, you probably told her about burying me, too, 609 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:18,515 Speaker 1: said missus Prebble. That's not true, said mister Prebble. With dignity, 610 00:42:18,835 --> 00:42:21,355 Speaker 1: that's between you and me. I was never going to 611 00:42:21,395 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: tell a soul. You'd blab it to the whole world. 612 00:42:24,915 --> 00:42:29,395 Speaker 1: Don't tell me, said missus Prebble. I know you. Mister 613 00:42:29,435 --> 00:42:33,075 Speaker 1: Prebble puffed at his cigar. I wish you were buried 614 00:42:33,115 --> 00:42:36,115 Speaker 1: now it was all over with, he said. Don't you 615 00:42:36,235 --> 00:42:39,315 Speaker 1: suppose you would get caught, you crazy thing? She said, 616 00:42:39,915 --> 00:42:42,995 Speaker 1: they always get caught. Why don't you go to bed. 617 00:42:43,035 --> 00:42:45,795 Speaker 1: You're just getting yourself all worked up over nothing. I'm 618 00:42:45,795 --> 00:42:48,275 Speaker 1: not going to bed, said mister Prebble. I'm going to 619 00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:50,395 Speaker 1: bury you in the cellar. I got my mind made 620 00:42:50,475 --> 00:42:52,035 Speaker 1: up to it. I don't know how I could make 621 00:42:52,075 --> 00:42:57,355 Speaker 1: any plainer listen, cried missus Prebble, throwing her book down. 622 00:42:57,635 --> 00:42:59,835 Speaker 1: Will you be satisfied and shut up? If I go 623 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:02,155 Speaker 1: down in the cellar. Can I have a little peace 624 00:43:02,355 --> 00:43:04,275 Speaker 1: if I go down in the cellar, Will you let 625 00:43:04,355 --> 00:43:09,955 Speaker 1: me alone? Men? Yes, said mister Prebble. But you spoil 626 00:43:09,995 --> 00:43:14,635 Speaker 1: it by taking that attitude. Sure, sure, I always spoil everything. 627 00:43:14,915 --> 00:43:16,795 Speaker 1: I stop reading right in the middle of a chapter. 628 00:43:17,075 --> 00:43:18,995 Speaker 1: I'll never know how the story comes out. But that's 629 00:43:19,035 --> 00:43:22,755 Speaker 1: nothing to you. Did I make you start reading that book, 630 00:43:23,115 --> 00:43:25,395 Speaker 1: asked mister Prebble. He opened the cellar door. Here you 631 00:43:25,435 --> 00:43:29,675 Speaker 1: go first, said missus Prebble, starting down the steps. It's 632 00:43:29,795 --> 00:43:32,435 Speaker 1: cold down here. You would think of this at this 633 00:43:32,595 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: time of the year. Any other husband would have buried 634 00:43:35,675 --> 00:43:39,235 Speaker 1: his wife in the summer. You can't arrange those things 635 00:43:39,315 --> 00:43:41,635 Speaker 1: just whenever you want to, said mister Prebble. That didn't 636 00:43:41,635 --> 00:43:44,435 Speaker 1: fall in love with this girl till late fall. Anybody 637 00:43:44,435 --> 00:43:46,995 Speaker 1: else would have fallen in love with her long before that. 638 00:43:47,235 --> 00:43:49,795 Speaker 1: She's been around for years. Why is it you always 639 00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:51,995 Speaker 1: let other men get in ahead of you, Mercy? But 640 00:43:52,035 --> 00:43:54,155 Speaker 1: it's dirty down here. What have you got down there? 641 00:43:55,235 --> 00:43:56,515 Speaker 1: I was going to hit you over the head with 642 00:43:56,555 --> 00:44:00,435 Speaker 1: a shovel, said mister Prebble. You were huh, said missus Prebble. 643 00:44:00,475 --> 00:44:02,315 Speaker 1: We'll get that out of your mind. You want to 644 00:44:02,395 --> 00:44:04,675 Speaker 1: leave a great, big clue right here in the middle 645 00:44:04,835 --> 00:44:07,835 Speaker 1: of everything. We're the first detective to come snooping around. 646 00:44:07,915 --> 00:44:10,715 Speaker 1: We'll find it. Come out in the street and find 647 00:44:10,755 --> 00:44:13,755 Speaker 1: some piece of iron or something. Something doesn't belong to you, 648 00:44:15,875 --> 00:44:18,635 Speaker 1: all right, said mister Prebble. But there won't be any 649 00:44:18,755 --> 00:44:21,875 Speaker 1: piece of iron in the street. Women always expect to 650 00:44:21,875 --> 00:44:25,315 Speaker 1: pick up a piece of iron anywhere. If you look 651 00:44:25,315 --> 00:44:28,235 Speaker 1: in the right place, you'll find it, said missus Prebble. 652 00:44:28,475 --> 00:44:31,235 Speaker 1: And don't be gone long, don't you dare stopping at 653 00:44:31,235 --> 00:44:33,195 Speaker 1: the cigar store. I'm not going to stand down here 654 00:44:33,235 --> 00:44:36,515 Speaker 1: in this cold cellar all night and freeze, all right, 655 00:44:36,955 --> 00:44:40,995 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble. I'll hurry and shut that door behind you. 656 00:44:41,435 --> 00:44:45,195 Speaker 1: She screamed after him. Where were you born in a barn? 657 00:44:48,195 --> 00:44:52,715 Speaker 1: Mister Preble gets rid of his wife by James Thurber. 658 00:45:06,315 --> 00:45:08,075 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 659 00:45:08,075 --> 00:45:10,075 Speaker 1: you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the 660 00:45:10,155 --> 00:45:12,995 Speaker 1: music arrange produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 661 00:45:13,035 --> 00:45:16,715 Speaker 1: Phillips Shanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars based 662 00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:20,195 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, all orchestration and keyboards by 663 00:45:20,235 --> 00:45:24,675 Speaker 1: John Phillip Shanelle, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections 664 00:45:24,675 --> 00:45:27,555 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 665 00:45:28,115 --> 00:45:31,715 Speaker 1: Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written 666 00:45:31,715 --> 00:45:35,715 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments 667 00:45:35,715 --> 00:45:38,955 Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 668 00:45:38,995 --> 00:45:42,555 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything else 669 00:45:42,635 --> 00:45:45,675 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. Don't forget Countdown now also 670 00:45:45,675 --> 00:45:48,915 Speaker 1: available on YouTube. Subscribe there as well as here, give 671 00:45:48,995 --> 00:45:53,155 Speaker 1: your self options. Let's countdown for this the nine hundred 672 00:45:53,155 --> 00:45:56,315 Speaker 1: and twentieth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against 673 00:45:56,355 --> 00:45:59,315 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest him 674 00:45:59,315 --> 00:46:03,715 Speaker 1: again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Monday, 675 00:46:03,755 --> 00:46:06,595 Speaker 1: though I'm going to warn you if the news continues 676 00:46:06,635 --> 00:46:10,515 Speaker 1: this light, I might give myself a two and a 677 00:46:10,555 --> 00:46:13,355 Speaker 1: half day weekend and just do headlines on Monday and 678 00:46:13,395 --> 00:46:16,555 Speaker 1: a bunch of things I promised not to tell. We'll see. 679 00:46:16,675 --> 00:46:19,875 Speaker 1: There'll be something on Monday. Bulletins is the news warrants 680 00:46:19,915 --> 00:46:22,555 Speaker 1: till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, 681 00:46:23,235 --> 00:46:33,075 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 682 00:46:33,275 --> 00:46:38,595 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, Visit the iHeartRadio app, 683 00:46:38,675 --> 00:46:42,035 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.