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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. In retrospect.

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Speaker 1: Our mistake was to leave the prosecution of Trump and

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Speaker 1: his insurrectionist traders to civilian authorities. We didn't do that

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Speaker 1: when Pierre Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in eighteen

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Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty four, And we didn't do it when

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Speaker 1: John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in eighteen sixty five, and

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Speaker 1: for that matter, we didn't do it when John Brown

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Speaker 1: QAnon fever dreams of military tribunals and summary executions and

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Speaker 1: body doubles, it is unavoidably clear that President Biden should

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Speaker 1: have sworn his public oath of office at noon on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty twenty one, said thank you, made his speech,

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Speaker 1: and invoked the Insurrection Act, and detained Trump before he

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Speaker 1: could leave Washington, and rounded up maybe a dozen leaders

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Speaker 1: of the plot to overthrow the election and the government,

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Speaker 1: and given the actual cowardice of the people like Trump

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Speaker 1: and how easily they would have been subdued and placed

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Speaker 1: in a stockade or a brig The President would have

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Speaker 1: then been able to have terminated the Insurrection Act within

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours. Tops. I mean, this is what

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Speaker 1: Trump is planning for January twentieth, twenty twenty five. It is.

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Speaker 1: It may not involve detaining President Biden or other prominent

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Speaker 1: but the use of the Insurrection Act to quell not

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Speaker 1: you know, insurrections, but peaceful protest, the use of the

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Speaker 1: again seizes power. This is one of Trump's most well

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Speaker 1: behind the coup attempt. But on June first, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: could get to a photo op. That was the Insurrection

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Speaker 1: Act in action, in fact, in everything but name, Trump's

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Speaker 1: lackeys were evoking, if not invoking, the Act after they

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Speaker 1: lost the election. We know that Trump's lackeys are still

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Speaker 1: dreaming of using it against civilians. This is not some

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Speaker 1: last choice. Swallow hard, prepare for years of atonement, await

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Speaker 1: the judgment of history use of this weapon that we

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Speaker 1: as a nation have just left there for the day

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Speaker 1: when true crisis springs. Internally, the Insurrection Act is Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's wet dream, and God knows if he can do it,

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Speaker 1: he will do it. So certainly, detaining Trump on January twentieth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one would have been messy. It would have

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Speaker 1: have the almost three years since January sixth been messy,

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Speaker 1: assumed that if you ever suddenly became insane and disloyal

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Speaker 1: all nations. Poignant, sad, heartbreaking, eternal, and naive. Forty one

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Speaker 1: something like invoke the Insurrection Act. They already blame him

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Speaker 1: as if he already done it. On Saturday, the Pizzagate

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Speaker 1: genocide you and everyone you love. This was then reposted

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Speaker 1: free speech and feed the system the most accurate version

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Speaker 1: Her reposting was replied to early Monday by Musk, who

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Speaker 1: it is good news that Biden's argument that Trump is

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Speaker 1: Trump say, quote, Joe Biden is not the defender of

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Speaker 1: This campaign is a righteous crusade to liberate our republic

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Speaker 1: Trump is turning the tables a Trump advisor told the

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Speaker 1: brought this whole matter of Biden invoking the Insurrection Act

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Speaker 1: since two thousand and fifteen, more realistically, since nineteen eighty nine,

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Speaker 2: want Chris Christy to drop out and back Nikki Haley instead,

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Speaker 1: To permanent power. Anyway, apparently this Trump guy has been

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Speaker 1: using violent and authoritarian rhetoric, Buffy, and there's growing alarm

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Speaker 1: you want to take the world back into caves, better

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00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:30,835
Speaker 1: caves than all of us are dead, Sultan, this idiot

429
00:31:30,875 --> 00:31:34,595
Speaker 1: Algebra's response to the ensuing controversy. He denied he said it.

430
00:31:34,875 --> 00:31:37,035
Speaker 1: They played him the video of him saying it. He

431
00:31:37,075 --> 00:31:39,395
Speaker 1: then said he'd always followed the science, and he accused

432
00:31:39,435 --> 00:31:42,275
Speaker 1: the media of just taking one statement out of context. Yeah,

433
00:31:42,315 --> 00:31:45,835
Speaker 1: I hear you out of context. Pal, You imply just

434
00:31:46,035 --> 00:31:49,795
Speaker 1: once that we have to keep using fossil fuels so

435
00:31:49,915 --> 00:31:53,275
Speaker 1: you personally can make more money and then all of

436
00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:57,075
Speaker 1: us die. You say that once and people think you

437
00:31:57,155 --> 00:32:00,035
Speaker 1: might mean it? What kind of world are we living in?

438
00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:06,755
Speaker 1: Runners up worser Public Square, the online shopping site backed

439
00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:10,955
Speaker 1: by Moron Junior and Kimberly Gilfoyle and Kelly Loffler and

440
00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:16,195
Speaker 1: Blake Masters Remember Kelly Loffler. Politico reports they are selling

441
00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:20,235
Speaker 1: the usual family items to the Maga crowd. Christmas present

442
00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:24,555
Speaker 1: wrapping paper boxes to keep your guns in and of course,

443
00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:33,755
Speaker 1: every Life brand diapers a Trump Maga website selling conservative diapers.

444
00:32:34,475 --> 00:32:37,675
Speaker 1: Sometimes the jokes are so obvious you don't even have

445
00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:42,835
Speaker 1: to say them aloud. Telepathy man, but the winner the worst.

446
00:32:43,035 --> 00:32:46,715
Speaker 1: Christian Ziegler still not charged, still insisting he will not

447
00:32:46,795 --> 00:32:50,115
Speaker 1: resign as chairman of the Florida Republican Party, even as

448
00:32:50,195 --> 00:32:54,995
Speaker 1: details from the police report come out. He and the Missus,

449
00:32:55,115 --> 00:32:58,395
Speaker 1: co founder of Moms for Liberty, chairwoman of the Sarazona

450
00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:04,435
Speaker 1: County school Board, arch conservative Bridget Ziegler, Bible Thumper, they

451
00:33:04,475 --> 00:33:07,355
Speaker 1: were seeing a woman on the side and they were

452
00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:10,115
Speaker 1: setting up the October three way over at her house

453
00:33:10,475 --> 00:33:14,555
Speaker 1: as one does, when Bridget decided she wasn't into it

454
00:33:14,635 --> 00:33:18,435
Speaker 1: that day, so the other woman canceled too, and she

455
00:33:18,595 --> 00:33:23,075
Speaker 1: says Christian Ziegler went over to her house anyway and

456
00:33:23,275 --> 00:33:26,315
Speaker 1: raped her and confirmed the police that he videotaped it,

457
00:33:26,355 --> 00:33:29,595
Speaker 1: although he says, everybody say it with me now, the

458
00:33:29,715 --> 00:33:33,915
Speaker 1: sex was consensual. Texts among the parties came out, and

459
00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:36,315
Speaker 1: the alleged victim turns out to have canceled on Christian

460
00:33:36,395 --> 00:33:40,795
Speaker 1: Ziegler by writing to him quote, sorry, I was mostly

461
00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:46,475
Speaker 1: in for her. Well, Bridget Ziegler is a member of

462
00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:50,995
Speaker 1: the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. She's supposed to make

463
00:33:51,035 --> 00:33:56,315
Speaker 1: people feel welcomed in Florida. Christian Ziggler. I wonder if

464
00:33:56,315 --> 00:33:58,555
Speaker 1: they're going to kick him out of that Bible class

465
00:33:58,555 --> 00:34:06,355
Speaker 1: he teaches two days. Worse person in the world got

466
00:34:06,475 --> 00:34:22,995
Speaker 1: at She's the number one story on the countdown and

467
00:34:23,075 --> 00:34:25,755
Speaker 1: my favorite subject me and things I promised not to

468
00:34:25,835 --> 00:34:29,835
Speaker 1: tell as a preface. Let me just be clear about this.

469
00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:33,795
Speaker 1: I was never a bully as a kid. I mentioned

470
00:34:33,795 --> 00:34:36,275
Speaker 1: this in the context of this question. Have you ever

471
00:34:36,315 --> 00:34:38,955
Speaker 1: watched a movie and there's a scene in it and

472
00:34:38,995 --> 00:34:42,635
Speaker 1: you go all pale because it really happened to you.

473
00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:46,715
Speaker 1: Have you seen a Christmas story? The movie TBS runs

474
00:34:46,715 --> 00:34:49,915
Speaker 1: all day every Christmas. Little Ralphie and the Red Writer

475
00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:53,035
Speaker 1: bb gun and you'll shoot your eye out. The scene

476
00:34:53,035 --> 00:34:55,915
Speaker 1: where Ralphie completely loses it and takes down the bully

477
00:34:55,915 --> 00:34:59,435
Speaker 1: and bloodies him, swearing a blue streak. Yeah, that was me.

478
00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:03,275
Speaker 1: When I was a kid in Hastings on Hudson, New York,

479
00:35:03,915 --> 00:35:08,475
Speaker 1: I was considered above average in intelligence. Clearly I have

480
00:35:08,635 --> 00:35:12,635
Speaker 1: disproved this nearly every day of my adult life. But

481
00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:16,435
Speaker 1: they didn't know that then. The main results of this

482
00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:19,315
Speaker 1: assessment were I was moved into a class with kids

483
00:35:19,355 --> 00:35:21,995
Speaker 1: a year older than me, sometimes two years, and I

484
00:35:22,115 --> 00:35:25,435
Speaker 1: was still bigger than they were, and I had no patience.

485
00:35:25,955 --> 00:35:28,675
Speaker 1: If I was talking and they were not paying attention,

486
00:35:28,795 --> 00:35:33,235
Speaker 1: I got shovy, you know like today. Like I said,

487
00:35:33,235 --> 00:35:35,435
Speaker 1: I was never a bully. I just had a bugs

488
00:35:35,475 --> 00:35:38,675
Speaker 1: bunny concept of violence. So my folks had me talk

489
00:35:38,715 --> 00:35:41,235
Speaker 1: to a psychologist, and I quickly caught on and I

490
00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:43,995
Speaker 1: stopped shoving or hitting or pushing or anything. In fact,

491
00:35:44,035 --> 00:35:47,235
Speaker 1: the advice was too good. The doctor turned me into

492
00:35:47,275 --> 00:35:50,955
Speaker 1: a little New Yorker Gandhi. When the day came in

493
00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:53,435
Speaker 1: the fourth grade, as it does for all kids, at

494
00:35:53,435 --> 00:35:58,715
Speaker 1: some point that somebody else shoved me, I did nothing.

495
00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:01,475
Speaker 1: I had been taught by the doctor, no shoving, Keith.

496
00:36:02,275 --> 00:36:05,715
Speaker 1: This quickly deteriorated into the inevitable situation in which I

497
00:36:05,875 --> 00:36:09,915
Speaker 1: got bullied. This went on for most of a school year,

498
00:36:10,475 --> 00:36:12,475
Speaker 1: and no matter what my folks said, no matter how

499
00:36:12,555 --> 00:36:16,035
Speaker 1: frustrated I got, I would not hit back. But this

500
00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:18,715
Speaker 1: was also the same year that I became a baseball

501
00:36:18,795 --> 00:36:21,995
Speaker 1: fan and a baseball card collector, and as the fourth

502
00:36:21,995 --> 00:36:25,315
Speaker 1: grade ended. Literally the next to last day of class,

503
00:36:25,355 --> 00:36:29,995
Speaker 1: some kid sold me his entire baseball card collection, maybe

504
00:36:29,995 --> 00:36:33,715
Speaker 1: a thousand cards. Maybe it cost me two dollars. They

505
00:36:33,715 --> 00:36:36,435
Speaker 1: were in a big paper shopping bag, and after a

506
00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:38,795
Speaker 1: trip to the bathroom, I returned to my desk to

507
00:36:38,875 --> 00:36:43,675
Speaker 1: discover that the bag had been stolen. As this penultimate

508
00:36:43,715 --> 00:36:45,555
Speaker 1: school day ended, and we all filed out of the

509
00:36:45,555 --> 00:36:48,275
Speaker 1: classroom down several flights of stairs to the building exit,

510
00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:52,315
Speaker 1: which opened onto the flat, beautiful Tar Macadam playground, my

511
00:36:52,515 --> 00:36:57,715
Speaker 1: main antagonist, the lead bully, the scut Farcas of my

512
00:36:57,955 --> 00:37:02,875
Speaker 1: fourth grade, shouted up from maybe six or seven steps

513
00:37:02,955 --> 00:37:05,915
Speaker 1: below me on the stairs. Hey, Keith, what do you

514
00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:09,795
Speaker 1: think of my baseball card collection? He then held the

515
00:37:09,835 --> 00:37:17,155
Speaker 1: bag of my cards aloft. Suddenly, my own rage and

516
00:37:17,315 --> 00:37:23,555
Speaker 1: my opportunity merged into one shining moment. The bully was

517
00:37:23,635 --> 00:37:26,515
Speaker 1: now on the ground floor landing of the school, moving

518
00:37:26,555 --> 00:37:30,435
Speaker 1: towards the door that opened onto the playground. But I

519
00:37:30,595 --> 00:37:33,675
Speaker 1: was still on the stairs, six or seven steps up,

520
00:37:33,715 --> 00:37:36,395
Speaker 1: and it dawned upon me that now those stairs made

521
00:37:36,475 --> 00:37:39,395
Speaker 1: me at least two feet taller than this guy was,

522
00:37:39,795 --> 00:37:44,395
Speaker 1: and that gravity had become my accomplice. I literally threw

523
00:37:44,475 --> 00:37:48,115
Speaker 1: myself forward off the stairs. I landed on him, my

524
00:37:48,195 --> 00:37:51,435
Speaker 1: knees connecting with his chest. The force of my leap

525
00:37:51,515 --> 00:37:54,155
Speaker 1: pushed us both through the open door. We hit the

526
00:37:54,195 --> 00:37:57,715
Speaker 1: playground with a thud. Him on his back, me on

527
00:37:57,835 --> 00:38:00,715
Speaker 1: his chest, with my knees and the full weight of

528
00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:04,795
Speaker 1: my body pinning down his elbows and upper arms. The

529
00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:07,955
Speaker 1: most he could do was slap at me, without aim

530
00:38:08,195 --> 00:38:12,675
Speaker 1: or force. This is basically the visual of the Ralphie

531
00:38:12,675 --> 00:38:15,235
Speaker 1: beats up the bully scene in a Christmas story. Only

532
00:38:15,275 --> 00:38:18,635
Speaker 1: there was no snow because it was June and I

533
00:38:19,195 --> 00:38:24,155
Speaker 1: went to town. All that nice pacifist d programming went

534
00:38:24,155 --> 00:38:29,315
Speaker 1: out the window. The bully had stolen my baseball cards.

535
00:38:29,995 --> 00:38:34,675
Speaker 1: I punched him repeatedly, even as a serene clarity overtook me.

536
00:38:34,955 --> 00:38:38,715
Speaker 1: I was displeased, but I was not blind with anger.

537
00:38:39,475 --> 00:38:42,315
Speaker 1: As I was contemplating this, suddenly I felt the large

538
00:38:42,355 --> 00:38:45,995
Speaker 1: hands under my arms of the gym teacher, mister Hood.

539
00:38:46,515 --> 00:38:49,355
Speaker 1: Mister Hood lifted me off the bully and said something,

540
00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:52,875
Speaker 1: and I said, matter of factly, why did you do that?

541
00:38:53,475 --> 00:38:56,755
Speaker 1: I'm not finished yet. I shook him off, and to

542
00:38:56,835 --> 00:39:01,475
Speaker 1: my surprise, he fell into some low hedges. I turned

543
00:39:01,475 --> 00:39:03,995
Speaker 1: back to the bully, who was still soupine on the beautiful,

544
00:39:03,995 --> 00:39:08,475
Speaker 1: freshly recent playground. I assumed the same posture I had before,

545
00:39:08,555 --> 00:39:11,355
Speaker 1: but instead of hitting him now, I simply grabbed his

546
00:39:11,435 --> 00:39:13,475
Speaker 1: head and began to lift it up and then pound

547
00:39:13,515 --> 00:39:15,915
Speaker 1: it down. Lift it up, and then pound it down,

548
00:39:16,235 --> 00:39:19,235
Speaker 1: lift it up, and then pound it down. I became

549
00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:21,635
Speaker 1: aware at this point that the entire fourth grade had

550
00:39:21,675 --> 00:39:25,915
Speaker 1: formed a gasping semi circle around us, and now I thought,

551
00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:31,995
Speaker 1: of them, I'm a giver. He bullied them too, boys

552
00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:36,035
Speaker 1: and girls alike, and we had, as I figured out

553
00:39:36,115 --> 00:39:40,275
Speaker 1: at that moment, eight years and one day left of school,

554
00:39:40,955 --> 00:39:45,195
Speaker 1: to deal with this bully. It would be easiest. I

555
00:39:45,275 --> 00:39:48,555
Speaker 1: concluded that if I ended his bullying right there, so

556
00:39:48,675 --> 00:39:51,995
Speaker 1: I kept pounding his head into the Tarmacadam's surface, so

557
00:39:52,075 --> 00:39:56,755
Speaker 1: he'd never forget, or maybe forget a lot. And then

558
00:39:56,795 --> 00:39:59,915
Speaker 1: I felt four large hands under my arms. Mister Hood

559
00:39:59,915 --> 00:40:04,035
Speaker 1: had finally disentangled himself from the shrubbery, and my mother

560
00:40:04,195 --> 00:40:07,355
Speaker 1: had appeared somehow, just as in the movie, they were

561
00:40:07,395 --> 00:40:11,995
Speaker 1: finally able to overpower me. Since my folks had spent

562
00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:13,435
Speaker 1: the year trying to get me to do what I

563
00:40:13,475 --> 00:40:15,795
Speaker 1: had just done. They were cool with all this, I believe.

564
00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:18,755
Speaker 1: We went to get some ice cream. Somehow, I didn't

565
00:40:18,755 --> 00:40:21,755
Speaker 1: even get punished for pushing the gym teacher, mister Hood,

566
00:40:22,355 --> 00:40:24,635
Speaker 1: so now that I think about it, from that day on,

567
00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:27,635
Speaker 1: mister Hood always looked wearily at me, and then he

568
00:40:27,715 --> 00:40:33,235
Speaker 1: transferred to another school. The next day, the last day

569
00:40:33,235 --> 00:40:36,395
Speaker 1: of fourth grade, I walked into my classroom, Missus Wolfe's class,

570
00:40:36,795 --> 00:40:40,715
Speaker 1: really not thinking about the previous day's dry run for

571
00:40:40,795 --> 00:40:44,355
Speaker 1: a movie scene. All the boys in the class were

572
00:40:44,435 --> 00:40:47,635
Speaker 1: huddled in a far corner of the room whispering. After

573
00:40:47,795 --> 00:40:50,275
Speaker 1: I sat at my desk, the one who had collaborated

574
00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:53,355
Speaker 1: the least with the bully and his toadies, Tom Scharlap,

575
00:40:53,915 --> 00:40:56,755
Speaker 1: came over and said, huh, Keith, I thought you might

576
00:40:56,835 --> 00:41:00,115
Speaker 1: like these, and he handed me a stack of baseball cards.

577
00:41:00,795 --> 00:41:04,995
Speaker 1: I was very moved. I said thank you, Tom, and Zune.

578
00:41:05,035 --> 00:41:09,515
Speaker 1: To my bewilderment, every one of the other boys brought

579
00:41:09,555 --> 00:41:15,355
Speaker 1: me tribute baseball card Tribute. Some of the cards were

580
00:41:15,395 --> 00:41:18,595
Speaker 1: still unopened in the packs and had clearly been obtained

581
00:41:18,595 --> 00:41:23,235
Speaker 1: that morning at a local candy store. Of course, I

582
00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:26,195
Speaker 1: had now been removed from some kind of cosmic precursor

583
00:41:26,235 --> 00:41:29,155
Speaker 1: to the film A Christmas Story, and I had instead

584
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:31,355
Speaker 1: been placed in some kind of cosmic precursor to the

585
00:41:31,435 --> 00:41:37,075
Speaker 1: film The Godfather the scene of his daughter's wedding. Needless

586
00:41:37,075 --> 00:41:40,755
Speaker 1: to say, there was no more bullying, although as always

587
00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:46,355
Speaker 1: there's a PostScript. I left that school after the seventh grade.

588
00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:49,435
Speaker 1: But twenty years after that class of kids graduated, a

589
00:41:49,475 --> 00:41:51,795
Speaker 1: girl I had stayed friendly with, she was with me

590
00:41:51,875 --> 00:41:55,515
Speaker 1: in college, invited me to what was there and kind

591
00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:59,515
Speaker 1: of my reunion, and it was transcended. I also made

592
00:41:59,515 --> 00:42:04,075
Speaker 1: the thirtieth anniversary, and in twenty ten, Saturday, October twenty third,

593
00:42:05,875 --> 00:42:10,155
Speaker 1: twelve years ago yesterday, I went to the thirty fifth anniversary.

594
00:42:10,235 --> 00:42:13,035
Speaker 1: It was held in, of all places, a restaurant in

595
00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:16,635
Speaker 1: my hometown, across the street from a two story building

596
00:42:16,675 --> 00:42:21,315
Speaker 1: once owned by my dad, where my grandmother and grandfather

597
00:42:21,475 --> 00:42:24,475
Speaker 1: once lived. It was a Saturday night in October. It

598
00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:28,355
Speaker 1: was frosty, misty, the first night that truly hinted at

599
00:42:28,395 --> 00:42:31,515
Speaker 1: the inevitability of winter. And I was half an hour early,

600
00:42:31,955 --> 00:42:34,195
Speaker 1: and I sat there on a bench between the restaurant

601
00:42:34,235 --> 00:42:38,235
Speaker 1: and the municipal parking lot, and my whole youth replayed

602
00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:42,475
Speaker 1: itself in front of my eyes, some sadness, mostly happiness,

603
00:42:42,675 --> 00:42:46,515
Speaker 1: mostly eager anticipation of seeing these friends of my youngest

604
00:42:46,515 --> 00:42:51,635
Speaker 1: youth once more. And then, out of the distance, his

605
00:42:51,755 --> 00:42:57,875
Speaker 1: familiar skinny form, irregularly illuminated by the street lights, walking

606
00:42:57,915 --> 00:43:05,915
Speaker 1: towards me out of the fog, was the bully, big hug.

607
00:43:05,995 --> 00:43:09,115
Speaker 1: You really made it. Some small talk, all of it warm,

608
00:43:09,155 --> 00:43:12,035
Speaker 1: completely in keeping with the oh henry quality of the

609
00:43:12,075 --> 00:43:14,235
Speaker 1: fog and the chill in the air and the reunion.

610
00:43:14,435 --> 00:43:17,115
Speaker 1: And then he said, hey, you know what. I told

611
00:43:17,155 --> 00:43:19,955
Speaker 1: my mother that you were gonna be here supposedly tonight.

612
00:43:19,995 --> 00:43:23,115
Speaker 1: And she said, son, maybe you shouldn't go. And I said,

613
00:43:23,155 --> 00:43:26,435
Speaker 1: why not? Ma? And she said, well, you and Keith

614
00:43:26,475 --> 00:43:32,475
Speaker 1: had some problems when you were kids, fourth or fifth grade.

615
00:43:32,995 --> 00:43:34,675
Speaker 1: And I said, I had no idea what she was

616
00:43:34,715 --> 00:43:36,875
Speaker 1: talking about. Did we have problems, do we have a

617
00:43:36,915 --> 00:43:45,035
Speaker 1: fight or something? Time stood still. What do you say

618
00:43:45,115 --> 00:43:49,395
Speaker 1: to him? It felt like I considered the options for

619
00:43:49,435 --> 00:43:51,475
Speaker 1: several minutes. In reality, it was just a few seconds

620
00:43:51,475 --> 00:43:55,395
Speaker 1: of hesitation. At that long, it dawned on me. I

621
00:43:55,475 --> 00:43:59,635
Speaker 1: won that battle in nineteen sixty seven. This was now

622
00:43:59,715 --> 00:44:02,915
Speaker 1: twenty ten. There was no reason to real litigate this.

623
00:44:03,555 --> 00:44:06,355
Speaker 1: If he was faking not remembering it, I should go

624
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:09,675
Speaker 1: along with him and also fake not remembering it. If

625
00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:13,315
Speaker 1: he really didn't remember, it was possible that this was

626
00:44:13,355 --> 00:44:16,995
Speaker 1: because I kept pounding his head against the playground surface

627
00:44:17,035 --> 00:44:22,675
Speaker 1: in June nineteen sixty seven. I'm sure we had a fight,

628
00:44:23,235 --> 00:44:25,915
Speaker 1: I said, finally. I mean every kid in that class

629
00:44:25,955 --> 00:44:27,515
Speaker 1: had a fight. I mean in the fourth grade. I

630
00:44:27,635 --> 00:44:30,475
Speaker 1: fought Brian Rubin one day, and then I fought with

631
00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:33,195
Speaker 1: him against Gordon Craig and Ricky Wester the next day.

632
00:44:33,235 --> 00:44:38,515
Speaker 1: So what he smiled? I smiled. Another figure emerged from

633
00:44:38,515 --> 00:44:43,115
Speaker 1: a newly parked car. Hey, look, it's Katzenstein. Let's go inside.

634
00:44:43,715 --> 00:44:46,835
Speaker 1: I'll buy both of you guys a drink. We had

635
00:44:46,835 --> 00:44:49,795
Speaker 1: a great time, and I never brought up the fight.

636
00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:53,155
Speaker 1: But truth be told, it did take all of my

637
00:44:53,275 --> 00:44:58,515
Speaker 1: self control to not ask one question of everybody I saw,

638
00:44:59,915 --> 00:45:03,435
Speaker 1: and that one question won't have been Hey, anybody know

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Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Tell the others countdown has come to you from the

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Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips. Shanelle Arrange produced

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Speaker 1: it was the last fight I ever started. Other music,

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Speaker 1: by No Horns Allowed. The sports music courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis and we

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Speaker 1: call it the old Wrin theme from ESPN two. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of this new way of closing the

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Speaker 1: we've already talked about. I mean, there must be a

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Speaker 1: reason we decided not to alter the insurrection Act. And

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Speaker 1: if there's any man who means insurrection, it's Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: And if you're going to see it used on offense

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Speaker 1: there's any choice here. Our satirical and fifthy musical comments

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Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis. Everything else

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Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this, the

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Speaker 1: one thy and sixty fourth day since demand should jay

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Speaker 1: Trump's first attempt at coup against the democratically elected government

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Speaker 1: of the United States, Convict him now or use the

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Speaker 1: Insurrection Act against him now while we still can. The

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Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bolton says, the news warrants

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Speaker 1: till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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Speaker 1: good Insurrection Act, and good luck? Can again a witness?

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Speaker 1: Can witness? Can I devindate a witness? Cannatris a winness?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Nancy Faust. Countdown with Keith Oulderman is a

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