1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Jesus H. Christ. 2 00:00:23,435 --> 00:00:29,035 Speaker 1: Will somebody finally bring this man to justice? Trump stalled 3 00:00:29,115 --> 00:00:32,635 Speaker 1: a document dump about Michael Cohen for a year. New 4 00:00:32,715 --> 00:00:35,275 Speaker 1: York DA Bragg just got one hundred and four thousand 5 00:00:35,275 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: pages from the US Attorney's office this month, thirty one 6 00:00:38,155 --> 00:00:41,955 Speaker 1: thousand of them yesterday. And what does Bragg do to 7 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:45,755 Speaker 1: ensure Trump has enough time to review the documents he 8 00:00:45,835 --> 00:00:50,515 Speaker 1: himself stalled? Bragg is willing to delay the start of 9 00:00:50,555 --> 00:00:54,915 Speaker 1: the Stormy Daniel's hush money trial for another thirty days 10 00:00:55,235 --> 00:01:01,755 Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution. For Trump's sake, we 11 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:09,555 Speaker 1: do not have another thirty days. Trump's concierge, Judge Eileen 12 00:01:09,675 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: Cannon in Florida, did not have the gall to dismiss 13 00:01:13,275 --> 00:01:17,475 Speaker 1: the thirty two espionage charges against him in Florida yesterday, 14 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:19,875 Speaker 1: as he wanted. But she also didn't say a word 15 00:01:19,915 --> 00:01:23,795 Speaker 1: about getting that goddamn trial started on time, or two 16 00:01:23,835 --> 00:01:27,235 Speaker 1: months within being on time, or four months within being 17 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:30,555 Speaker 1: on time, or before the election or before Trump dies 18 00:01:30,675 --> 00:01:34,115 Speaker 1: of his dementia. Not saying you are going to delay 19 00:01:34,115 --> 00:01:37,875 Speaker 1: it is in fact just another way of delaying it. 20 00:01:38,875 --> 00:01:42,995 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has managed to stall until a month 21 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:47,195 Speaker 1: and ten days from now, just the hearing, never mind 22 00:01:47,555 --> 00:01:52,515 Speaker 1: the ruling on this fantasy of presidential immunity, which has 23 00:01:52,715 --> 00:01:57,875 Speaker 1: as its president absolutely nothing in American law or American history, 24 00:01:58,075 --> 00:02:02,315 Speaker 1: and is about as valid as Sister Catherine's debates from 25 00:02:02,315 --> 00:02:05,915 Speaker 1: the thirteenth century about how many souls can stand on 26 00:02:05,955 --> 00:02:09,715 Speaker 1: the head of a pin. And thus, in turn, Trump 27 00:02:09,715 --> 00:02:12,555 Speaker 1: has been able to introduce this high octane, hot and 28 00:02:12,635 --> 00:02:16,555 Speaker 1: cold running presidential immunity bullshit into the Canon trial in 29 00:02:16,595 --> 00:02:19,195 Speaker 1: Florida and into the brag trial in New York. And 30 00:02:19,315 --> 00:02:22,875 Speaker 1: what is Alvin brad doing because Trump managed to stall 31 00:02:22,915 --> 00:02:26,435 Speaker 1: in a different ways, offering Trump another thirty day stall. 32 00:02:27,875 --> 00:02:31,915 Speaker 1: This is the greatest criminal in the history of this country, 33 00:02:31,955 --> 00:02:37,275 Speaker 1: and his incarceration is perhaps our only chance to rebuild 34 00:02:37,435 --> 00:02:43,795 Speaker 1: this nation before it splits into two universes occupying the 35 00:02:43,835 --> 00:02:47,875 Speaker 1: same spot at the top of the same pin, between 36 00:02:47,915 --> 00:02:51,155 Speaker 1: the same people and the people who believe in QAnon 37 00:02:51,595 --> 00:02:55,435 Speaker 1: and support racism and think Trump is being persecuted and 38 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:58,915 Speaker 1: he is running for dictator, and he has given up 39 00:02:58,955 --> 00:03:01,555 Speaker 1: pretending that he is not running for dictator, and he 40 00:03:01,635 --> 00:03:04,675 Speaker 1: is running out the judicial clock so he can regain 41 00:03:04,955 --> 00:03:09,795 Speaker 1: power and effectively immunize himself so he can commit more crimes. 42 00:03:09,955 --> 00:03:14,835 Speaker 1: And we are giving him an extra thirty days out 43 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:18,755 Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution, because we wouldn't want to 44 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:23,955 Speaker 1: rush this thing. We didn't arrest him the minute his 45 00:03:24,115 --> 00:03:28,555 Speaker 1: term expired. We didn't appoint a special counsel the day 46 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:31,755 Speaker 1: he left Washington. We didn't prosecute him the week we 47 00:03:31,835 --> 00:03:35,955 Speaker 1: realized he had stolen nuclear secrets and was reading them 48 00:03:35,995 --> 00:03:39,235 Speaker 1: to passers by. We didn't get an attorney general who 49 00:03:39,235 --> 00:03:43,555 Speaker 1: didn't just assume everything would go back to normal. We 50 00:03:43,635 --> 00:03:46,515 Speaker 1: didn't just com and deer him and stuff him into 51 00:03:46,515 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: the Naval Consolidated brig at Chesapeake for attempting to overthrow 52 00:03:50,875 --> 00:03:55,155 Speaker 1: the goddamned government and now apparently on the theory that 53 00:03:55,195 --> 00:03:59,115 Speaker 1: if we just treat him nicely this year, maybe he'll 54 00:03:59,235 --> 00:04:06,315 Speaker 1: suddenly become uninsane and maybe a little less world destroying 55 00:04:06,555 --> 00:04:10,235 Speaker 1: level evil, and he'll ask one of the prosecutors for 56 00:04:10,315 --> 00:04:16,115 Speaker 1: a nice plea deal. And it's not like the new 57 00:04:16,235 --> 00:04:21,875 Speaker 1: crimes aren't still piling up six hundred thousand dollars from 58 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:25,115 Speaker 1: a Trump linked company, And the next thing you knew 59 00:04:25,155 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 1: it Alexander Smirnoff was lying to the FBI and to 60 00:04:29,395 --> 00:04:33,235 Speaker 1: unscrupulous idiots like James Comer and Jim Jordan about Hunter 61 00:04:33,315 --> 00:04:36,875 Speaker 1: Biden and President Biden and Barisma and Ukraine, and the 62 00:04:36,875 --> 00:04:40,915 Speaker 1: Biden accuser arrested by the FBI got an unexplained six 63 00:04:40,995 --> 00:04:43,955 Speaker 1: hundred grand from a company about two steps removed from 64 00:04:43,955 --> 00:04:47,035 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. But sure give him another thirty days to 65 00:04:47,115 --> 00:04:49,195 Speaker 1: gain the system a little longer, because I don't know, 66 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: maybe he can get hold of some nukes and hold 67 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:58,355 Speaker 1: a Blue state hostage. As Jacqueline's Sweet explains in the 68 00:04:58,355 --> 00:05:03,195 Speaker 1: Guardian quote, Alexander Smirnoff was paid six hundred thousand dollars 69 00:05:03,475 --> 00:05:08,115 Speaker 1: by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies e t T. 70 00:05:08,555 --> 00:05:15,075 Speaker 1: Prosecutors said Ett's CEO is the American Christopher Condon, who 71 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:18,795 Speaker 1: is also one of three shareholders in ETT Investment Holding 72 00:05:18,835 --> 00:05:23,635 Speaker 1: Limited in London. Other shareholders in the UK include the 73 00:05:23,675 --> 00:05:28,635 Speaker 1: Pakistani American investor Shahal Khan and faruk Ar Jomond, a 74 00:05:28,675 --> 00:05:32,715 Speaker 1: former chairman and current board member of Damak Properties in Dubai, 75 00:05:32,955 --> 00:05:36,675 Speaker 1: who is also listed as an advisor on Ett's American website. 76 00:05:36,995 --> 00:05:41,915 Speaker 1: Khan this Shahal Khan an investor who wait for it, 77 00:05:42,635 --> 00:05:47,515 Speaker 1: purchased the Plaza Hotel in twenty eighteen, the Plaza Hotel 78 00:05:47,555 --> 00:05:52,035 Speaker 1: Trump used to own. Khan and ar Jomond have ties 79 00:05:52,075 --> 00:05:55,635 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump through Trump associates, and Demak, a major 80 00:05:55,715 --> 00:05:59,835 Speaker 1: Middle East developer that has partnered with Trump for a decade. 81 00:06:00,115 --> 00:06:05,835 Speaker 1: For years, top American intelligence officials and ex officials have 82 00:06:05,955 --> 00:06:12,475 Speaker 1: insisted that the Hunter Biden Barisma and President Biden story 83 00:06:12,755 --> 00:06:17,235 Speaker 1: and the Hunter Biden laptop smear had all the hallmarks 84 00:06:17,355 --> 00:06:22,995 Speaker 1: of Russian election interference, and now the same stories have 85 00:06:23,435 --> 00:06:29,595 Speaker 1: a cash component going directly to the lead witness, and 86 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:35,915 Speaker 1: the cash is tied two steps removed to Trump, and 87 00:06:35,955 --> 00:06:38,675 Speaker 1: Trump wanted to ban TikTok. Then Jeff Yas said, hey, 88 00:06:38,715 --> 00:06:41,035 Speaker 1: you know, I own thirty three percent of TikTok, and 89 00:06:41,075 --> 00:06:44,115 Speaker 1: suddenly Trump didn't want to ban TikTok. And then Bloomberg 90 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:46,755 Speaker 1: reported Yas As being considered for Secretary of the Treasury, 91 00:06:46,915 --> 00:06:50,115 Speaker 1: and yesterday Trump's previous corrupt secretary of the Treasury that 92 00:06:50,315 --> 00:06:54,035 Speaker 1: frog faced idiot with the horror movie trophy wife Mnusian 93 00:06:54,435 --> 00:06:59,675 Speaker 1: said he has put together a consortium to buy TikTok. 94 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:05,675 Speaker 1: Caught on tape again and again week at week, sentence 95 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:09,915 Speaker 1: after sentence, his language dissolving further and further into unintelligibility 96 00:07:10,195 --> 00:07:13,515 Speaker 1: and inanity. Trump is now pointing at a collection of 97 00:07:13,555 --> 00:07:17,595 Speaker 1: the evidence of his mental illness and his brain diseases 98 00:07:17,875 --> 00:07:22,715 Speaker 1: and is now shouting, that's AI, that's artificial intelligence. I 99 00:07:22,795 --> 00:07:26,715 Speaker 1: didn't say any of that. Trump has just made some 100 00:07:26,795 --> 00:07:30,315 Speaker 1: sort of pitch to Elon Musk, or Musk has made 101 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:32,195 Speaker 1: one to Trump, and who knows which one of them 102 00:07:32,235 --> 00:07:36,235 Speaker 1: is crazier. But Musk just elevated his fascist hate speech 103 00:07:36,275 --> 00:07:41,355 Speaker 1: on Twitter from mere replacement theory from Mexico to unverified 104 00:07:41,435 --> 00:07:46,235 Speaker 1: videos he claims shows cannibals from Haiti who are headed here. 105 00:07:47,555 --> 00:07:53,035 Speaker 1: And Trump's campaign just started running ads on Rumble right 106 00:07:53,075 --> 00:07:57,395 Speaker 1: before segments of the Stu Peters show where that psycho 107 00:07:57,635 --> 00:08:03,995 Speaker 1: is overtly praising Nazis, not Trump, Nazis, not Neo Nazis, Hitler, 108 00:08:04,155 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: Nazis claiming they unleash the Holocaust and World War two 109 00:08:08,155 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: just quote to protect themselves and the generations to come. 110 00:08:13,995 --> 00:08:17,515 Speaker 1: And he says that right after Trump says, I'm Donald 111 00:08:17,555 --> 00:08:21,555 Speaker 1: Trump and I approved this message. But yes, mister district attorney, 112 00:08:22,195 --> 00:08:26,435 Speaker 1: give Trump thirty more days before you start your goddamned trial, 113 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:30,315 Speaker 1: and ask him if he'd like a few cheeseburgers too, 114 00:08:31,035 --> 00:08:35,275 Speaker 1: and maybe he could use some more ketchup, because we 115 00:08:35,395 --> 00:08:40,595 Speaker 1: have all the time in the world here. I mean, 116 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:44,315 Speaker 1: exactly what do you think Trump could do in that time? 117 00:08:44,435 --> 00:08:58,715 Speaker 1: I mean, it's only thirty days. Meanwhile, the front runner 118 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:02,435 Speaker 1: for vice president on Robert F. Kennedy Junior's Trump stalking 119 00:09:02,515 --> 00:09:07,715 Speaker 1: horse campaign, Aaron rodd has issued a carefully crafted non 120 00:09:07,835 --> 00:09:11,875 Speaker 1: denial denial of CNN's report that at the twenty thirteen 121 00:09:11,955 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby Post party, he told their investigative reporter Pamela 122 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:19,355 Speaker 1: Brown that the murder of toddlers at Sandy Hook School 123 00:09:19,795 --> 00:09:23,195 Speaker 1: never happened, that the children never existed, that the government 124 00:09:23,275 --> 00:09:25,395 Speaker 1: made it up and the media lied about it. And 125 00:09:25,475 --> 00:09:29,235 Speaker 1: then he repeated that delusional conspiracy theory to at least 126 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:34,475 Speaker 1: one other person more recently and far more graphically. Unfortunately 127 00:09:34,595 --> 00:09:38,715 Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, and presumably for Robert F. Kennedy Junior, 128 00:09:38,995 --> 00:09:41,275 Speaker 1: who has said nothing since the story broke, and who, 129 00:09:41,315 --> 00:09:44,635 Speaker 1: again I can't be certain, would find that this disqualifies 130 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:48,755 Speaker 1: Rogers or makes Kennedy like him more Unfortunately, it all 131 00:09:48,795 --> 00:09:53,155 Speaker 1: comes as a sports broadcasting website digs up literally dozens 132 00:09:53,155 --> 00:09:58,435 Speaker 1: of other conspiracy theories Rogers has endorsed, and in the 133 00:09:58,515 --> 00:10:03,235 Speaker 1: last few weeks, First what Rogers wrote on Twitter x 134 00:10:03,235 --> 00:10:07,115 Speaker 1: and I'll do the annotations and translations. Quote as I'm 135 00:10:07,155 --> 00:10:09,715 Speaker 1: on the record saying in the past, what happened in 136 00:10:09,875 --> 00:10:15,475 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy unquote. Well, the problem 137 00:10:15,555 --> 00:10:17,835 Speaker 1: with that phrase is he doesn't say what happened in 138 00:10:17,955 --> 00:10:21,675 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook. This proves to be a running theme for 139 00:10:21,795 --> 00:10:24,915 Speaker 1: this Aaron Rodgers' statement. Quote I am not and have 140 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:27,395 Speaker 1: never been, of the opinion that the events did not 141 00:10:27,635 --> 00:10:33,875 Speaker 1: take place. Quote again the events. That sentence could mean 142 00:10:33,915 --> 00:10:36,755 Speaker 1: he's never believed Sandy Hook was a false flag with 143 00:10:36,835 --> 00:10:39,915 Speaker 1: crisis actors, like he said, or it could mean he's 144 00:10:39,955 --> 00:10:43,435 Speaker 1: always believed Sandy Hook was a false flag with crisis actors. 145 00:10:44,595 --> 00:10:47,355 Speaker 1: Quoting again, I hope that we will learn from this 146 00:10:47,515 --> 00:10:51,795 Speaker 1: and other tragedies to identify the signs that will allow 147 00:10:51,875 --> 00:10:56,555 Speaker 1: us to prevent unnecessary loss of life. Quote another generic 148 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:59,955 Speaker 1: sentence that might have something to do with Sandy Hook, 149 00:11:01,195 --> 00:11:06,515 Speaker 1: or with Sandy Hook denialism, or with the dangers of 150 00:11:06,835 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: explosions at your local Goiter clinic quote. My thoughts and 151 00:11:13,515 --> 00:11:17,475 Speaker 1: prayers continued to remain with the families affected, along with 152 00:11:17,635 --> 00:11:23,315 Speaker 1: the entire Sandy Hook community. That's nice, you talk like 153 00:11:23,355 --> 00:11:29,035 Speaker 1: a politician. Nowhere in here is there anything resembling a 154 00:11:29,155 --> 00:11:32,235 Speaker 1: denial that he said. What CNN quoted him as saying, 155 00:11:33,155 --> 00:11:35,955 Speaker 1: there's no denial in here in which he says he 156 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:39,275 Speaker 1: believes Sandy Hook was other than the most of our 157 00:11:39,355 --> 00:11:43,955 Speaker 1: many brutal turning points in this nation's descent into callousness 158 00:11:43,955 --> 00:11:48,915 Speaker 1: and in humanity and gun worship. There's no anything in 159 00:11:48,955 --> 00:11:52,235 Speaker 1: that statement. If you took out the words Sandy Hook, 160 00:11:53,035 --> 00:11:56,115 Speaker 1: Rogers could be talking about the questions about the quality 161 00:11:56,115 --> 00:11:58,715 Speaker 1: of the turf beneath his feet when he suffered his 162 00:11:58,795 --> 00:12:01,075 Speaker 1: season ending injury in his first game of the New 163 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:04,675 Speaker 1: York Jets twenty twenty three season. It's a non denial denial, 164 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:08,595 Speaker 1: and the way things are going, it ain't gonna be 165 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:12,955 Speaker 1: his last. I am indebted to Sean Keeley, writes at 166 00:12:12,995 --> 00:12:18,435 Speaker 1: the website Awful Announcing, who ponied up fifteen dollars American 167 00:12:18,795 --> 00:12:21,595 Speaker 1: to get past the paywall in order to listen to 168 00:12:21,715 --> 00:12:25,875 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers' appearance last month on a podcast called Look 169 00:12:25,955 --> 00:12:30,955 Speaker 1: Into It with Eddie Bravo. This interview was news briefly 170 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:34,515 Speaker 1: a week ago, largely because of Rogers' assertion that since 171 00:12:34,555 --> 00:12:39,555 Speaker 1: nobody is still alive who actually saw buildings being built 172 00:12:39,595 --> 00:12:43,195 Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century, and since they didn't have power 173 00:12:43,355 --> 00:12:47,035 Speaker 1: tools in the nineteenth century, that means those buildings were 174 00:12:47,075 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: actually built by aliens from outer space called the Tartarians, 175 00:12:53,675 --> 00:12:57,875 Speaker 1: and all them old cathedrals and world fair buildings and 176 00:12:57,915 --> 00:13:03,675 Speaker 1: stuff actually said Worldfair. All those were actually Tartarian capitals 177 00:13:03,715 --> 00:13:06,035 Speaker 1: here on Earth. And he knows this because when he 178 00:13:06,155 --> 00:13:11,435 Speaker 1: was nine he studied Egypt. But Aaron Rodgers was on 179 00:13:11,475 --> 00:13:14,915 Speaker 1: this show for three hours and he hit at least 180 00:13:14,995 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: eighteen other conspiracy theories. Rogers believes Chinese and Latin Americans 181 00:13:20,515 --> 00:13:23,115 Speaker 1: are coming here in hopes of taking advantage of a 182 00:13:23,195 --> 00:13:26,515 Speaker 1: deal by which they joined the military and then they 183 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:30,595 Speaker 1: can become citizens, and that way the government could use 184 00:13:30,715 --> 00:13:34,115 Speaker 1: them the Chinese born or Latin born New American soldiers 185 00:13:34,475 --> 00:13:39,035 Speaker 1: to turn on and fire on American born Americans, since 186 00:13:39,115 --> 00:13:42,355 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers knows that obviously American born Americans would never 187 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:49,235 Speaker 1: do that because he's never met a policeman. Rogers buys 188 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:53,475 Speaker 1: the theory that antibiotics keep your body from pushing out 189 00:13:53,635 --> 00:13:58,155 Speaker 1: toxins and parasites, and that COVID wasn't real, and that 190 00:13:58,195 --> 00:14:01,635 Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine wasn't real, and it was quote experimental 191 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:04,515 Speaker 1: gene therapy that changes your DNA, and it was done 192 00:14:04,515 --> 00:14:07,715 Speaker 1: to allow the largest transfer of wealth ever. And what 193 00:14:07,835 --> 00:14:10,435 Speaker 1: about all those athletes quote plenty of young people and 194 00:14:10,475 --> 00:14:13,395 Speaker 1: not just who've died, but have had episodes on the field, 195 00:14:13,595 --> 00:14:17,195 Speaker 1: had to retire, had to stop playing, even though all 196 00:14:17,235 --> 00:14:19,475 Speaker 1: those things on the field would have been you know, 197 00:14:20,595 --> 00:14:23,075 Speaker 1: seen by all the fans in the stands at the 198 00:14:23,155 --> 00:14:27,315 Speaker 1: games and watching on television, and it might have been 199 00:14:27,315 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: in the papers because the players would be retiring. Except 200 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:32,355 Speaker 1: it didn't happen except the one guy, and it had 201 00:14:32,355 --> 00:14:37,315 Speaker 1: nothing to do with COVID. Aaron Rodgers thinks Tucker Carlson's 202 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:40,875 Speaker 1: interview with Vladimir Putin got two hundred million viewers. Also 203 00:14:41,195 --> 00:14:43,915 Speaker 1: he thinks it was an interview and he's big on 204 00:14:43,995 --> 00:14:46,475 Speaker 1: election fraud. And of course we already know about Jimmy 205 00:14:46,515 --> 00:14:50,275 Speaker 1: Kimmel and the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the real identity 206 00:14:50,315 --> 00:14:53,555 Speaker 1: of Anthony Fauci and germ Theory, and the Great Awakening, 207 00:14:53,595 --> 00:14:56,875 Speaker 1: and Operation paper Cliff and Operation north Woods and the 208 00:14:56,955 --> 00:15:00,875 Speaker 1: JFK Conspiracy and the RFK Conspiracy and the Rockefeller Conspiracy 209 00:15:00,955 --> 00:15:03,955 Speaker 1: and the George Sorows Conspiracy and the moon Landing Conspiracy 210 00:15:04,075 --> 00:15:07,115 Speaker 1: and the Live of Alexandria Conspiracy in the Library in 211 00:15:07,155 --> 00:15:11,475 Speaker 1: the Vatican Conspiracy and Ancient Giant Trees and the Great 212 00:15:11,515 --> 00:15:14,435 Speaker 1: Awakening and the time he met his new backup quarterback 213 00:15:14,635 --> 00:15:16,675 Speaker 1: with the Green Bay Packers, and the first thing he 214 00:15:16,715 --> 00:15:18,995 Speaker 1: asked the guy was you believe in nine to eleven? 215 00:15:19,275 --> 00:15:22,275 Speaker 1: And when he said, well, why wouldn't I, Rogers said, 216 00:15:22,315 --> 00:15:28,235 Speaker 1: the guy should really read up on it. We have 217 00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: always had people like Aaron Rodgers in every century, in 218 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:39,075 Speaker 1: every country. It is sadly and simply mental illness. The 219 00:15:39,155 --> 00:15:42,515 Speaker 1: problem occurred, and it may be a problem we can 220 00:15:42,555 --> 00:15:45,955 Speaker 1: no longer fix. When we stopped accepting the idea that 221 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:49,395 Speaker 1: perhaps there are people we cannot fix and who must 222 00:15:49,435 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 1: simply be kept somewhere, not punished, not mistreated, not shut 223 00:15:54,675 --> 00:15:58,715 Speaker 1: off from all of life, just recognized as incapable of 224 00:15:58,795 --> 00:16:02,435 Speaker 1: separating reality from their imaginations or the imaginations of others, 225 00:16:02,475 --> 00:16:06,715 Speaker 1: and thus posing an actual dangerous threat to other people 226 00:16:06,835 --> 00:16:10,395 Speaker 1: and the society as a whole, and Aaron Rodgers is 227 00:16:10,435 --> 00:16:14,795 Speaker 1: clearly one of those people. And even if this latest 228 00:16:14,835 --> 00:16:19,235 Speaker 1: ghastly inhuman Sandy Hook story actually does end his political 229 00:16:19,275 --> 00:16:22,475 Speaker 1: career before it begins, and if it's somehow too much 230 00:16:22,555 --> 00:16:26,635 Speaker 1: even for Robert F. Kennedy Junior, there is the startling 231 00:16:26,675 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 1: reality that because of a contractual feature, he is to 232 00:16:31,115 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: be paid one hundred and seven million dollars this year 233 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:36,875 Speaker 1: as the quarterback as the face of the New York 234 00:16:36,955 --> 00:16:40,355 Speaker 1: Jets football franchise, and that as late as last year 235 00:16:40,675 --> 00:16:43,235 Speaker 1: he was still under contract to do commercials for State 236 00:16:43,275 --> 00:16:45,835 Speaker 1: Farm Insurance, that as late as three years ago he 237 00:16:45,875 --> 00:16:47,555 Speaker 1: was a finalist to become the new host of the 238 00:16:47,555 --> 00:16:50,715 Speaker 1: TV game show Jeopardy, that he is still under contract 239 00:16:51,195 --> 00:16:56,275 Speaker 1: apparently to contribute to a really bad show on ESPN, 240 00:16:56,755 --> 00:16:59,915 Speaker 1: during which last football season he repeatedly went on long, 241 00:17:00,115 --> 00:17:04,155 Speaker 1: unhinged rants about many of the conspiracy theories I've already enumerated, 242 00:17:04,315 --> 00:17:07,395 Speaker 1: and so somehow did not get his sorry ass sued 243 00:17:07,475 --> 00:17:12,675 Speaker 1: into the ground by Jimmy Kimmel. And what can be 244 00:17:12,715 --> 00:17:16,555 Speaker 1: done to stop him, or just to inhibit him from 245 00:17:16,595 --> 00:17:21,035 Speaker 1: poisoning this country? As Trump does, as Joe Rogan does, 246 00:17:21,795 --> 00:17:25,355 Speaker 1: as any of one hundred prominent Republican politicians do, or 247 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:29,835 Speaker 1: one thousand podcasters or influencers, because the weirder they get, 248 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:33,475 Speaker 1: the more money they take in what can be done 249 00:17:33,475 --> 00:17:36,915 Speaker 1: to stop them, or the people who listen to them 250 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:40,715 Speaker 1: and do not realize that the people they are trusting 251 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:46,115 Speaker 1: are baldly and proudly irrational. What happens when we let 252 00:17:46,155 --> 00:17:48,155 Speaker 1: the genie out of the bottle and the genie devotes 253 00:17:48,155 --> 00:17:52,475 Speaker 1: his life to telling everybody there's no bottle, Reality isn't real. 254 00:17:52,995 --> 00:17:55,075 Speaker 1: You don't have to do anything you don't want to ever, 255 00:17:55,315 --> 00:17:57,835 Speaker 1: because all the rules are just designed to cover up 256 00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:00,315 Speaker 1: what's in the library at the Vatican. And you say, 257 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:03,235 Speaker 1: what do you mean, what's in the library at the Vatican? 258 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:09,635 Speaker 1: And the genie then says, that's exactly my point, you, pastored, Well, 259 00:18:09,675 --> 00:18:12,275 Speaker 1: there is one thing you do. You do not let 260 00:18:12,355 --> 00:18:15,555 Speaker 1: such a person run for vice president of the United States, 261 00:18:15,675 --> 00:18:20,675 Speaker 1: no matter the odds against his election. Because we didn't 262 00:18:20,755 --> 00:18:24,475 Speaker 1: intervene when Trump ran because of the odds against his election, 263 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:28,995 Speaker 1: and we all see how well that has turned out. 264 00:18:29,915 --> 00:18:34,595 Speaker 1: We'll give it another thirty days. I don't know the 265 00:18:34,675 --> 00:18:40,115 Speaker 1: process to fix this, mandatory psychological evaluations for all candidates 266 00:18:40,555 --> 00:18:45,395 Speaker 1: for all offices, and I mean a minimum of ten questions, 267 00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:50,475 Speaker 1: the resumption of involuntary institutionalizations of people like Aaron Rodgers. 268 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:55,675 Speaker 1: Would it be better now to perhaps repeat the mistakes 269 00:18:55,675 --> 00:18:59,955 Speaker 1: of the past and get those institutionalizations wrong on occasion, 270 00:19:01,235 --> 00:19:03,475 Speaker 1: I'm afraid it would be. I'm afraid it would be better, 271 00:19:04,115 --> 00:19:06,635 Speaker 1: because there are decisions about you know, the climate and 272 00:19:06,675 --> 00:19:08,515 Speaker 1: the atmosphere and the planet that will be made in 273 00:19:08,555 --> 00:19:11,155 Speaker 1: the next ten years that will decide whether or not 274 00:19:11,235 --> 00:19:14,235 Speaker 1: anything is still living anywhere here a century from now, 275 00:19:14,315 --> 00:19:17,315 Speaker 1: and we cannot have those decisions being made by people 276 00:19:17,315 --> 00:19:20,395 Speaker 1: who insist that because there are no living witnesses to 277 00:19:20,435 --> 00:19:22,715 Speaker 1: the building of City Hall in New York, it must 278 00:19:22,715 --> 00:19:28,675 Speaker 1: have been put there by extraterrestrials, extraterrestrials who came here 279 00:19:28,715 --> 00:19:40,675 Speaker 1: from somewhere else and brought their own power tools. In passing, 280 00:19:40,715 --> 00:19:44,235 Speaker 1: mister Rogers, I have one question if the aliens used 281 00:19:44,395 --> 00:19:50,875 Speaker 1: their power tools to build, you know, the nineteenth century 282 00:19:50,915 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: buildings and everything before then that we couldn't have built 283 00:19:55,475 --> 00:19:59,955 Speaker 1: if they used their power tools, where did they charge 284 00:20:00,755 --> 00:20:07,675 Speaker 1: their power tools? Also of interest, here there is some 285 00:20:07,715 --> 00:20:11,955 Speaker 1: sort of purge going on inside Magaland, and two of 286 00:20:11,995 --> 00:20:15,035 Speaker 1: the leading inmates there are clearly very worried about being 287 00:20:15,115 --> 00:20:22,075 Speaker 1: judged not trumpy enough. Their names are Marjorie CrossFit don't 288 00:20:22,115 --> 00:20:25,795 Speaker 1: mean mentally fit, Taylor Green, and Lauren What a pair 289 00:20:25,835 --> 00:20:31,875 Speaker 1: of hands? Bobert. That's next. This is countdown. This is 290 00:20:31,955 --> 00:20:56,235 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead of us on this 291 00:20:56,395 --> 00:21:01,995 Speaker 1: edition to countdown Fridays with Thurber. February thirteenth, nineteen thirty one, 292 00:21:03,075 --> 00:21:12,315 Speaker 1: exactly thirty four thousand days ago, thirty four thousand days ago, 293 00:21:13,675 --> 00:21:17,715 Speaker 1: sixteen presidents ago, thirty four thousand days ago. Two day, 294 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:22,755 Speaker 1: February thirteenth, nineteen thirty one, the day James Thurber's story 295 00:21:23,155 --> 00:21:27,115 Speaker 1: The Greatest Man in the World hit newsstands in the 296 00:21:27,195 --> 00:21:30,955 Speaker 1: latest edition of The New Yorker magazine, and all he 297 00:21:30,995 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: did in it thirty four thousand days ago was to 298 00:21:34,755 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: foretell the political cataclysm that would befall this nation, the 299 00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:42,435 Speaker 1: day we finally met someone who could pretty much fool 300 00:21:42,595 --> 00:21:46,235 Speaker 1: all the people all the time. Thurber, of course, had 301 00:21:46,235 --> 00:21:49,075 Speaker 1: a better solution than real life could provide. He took 302 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: the Greatest Man in the World, and he pushed him out, 303 00:21:53,635 --> 00:21:58,035 Speaker 1: but I'm spoiling the outcome to the story, aren't I Next? First, 304 00:21:58,075 --> 00:22:00,435 Speaker 1: still more idiots to talk about the daily roundup of 305 00:22:00,435 --> 00:22:04,115 Speaker 1: the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruegriffect specimens who constitute 306 00:22:04,115 --> 00:22:08,395 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world. And there is an 307 00:22:08,515 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: editor's note here. You may have noticed, since I debuted 308 00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:17,635 Speaker 1: this feature on Countdown in two thousand and five, the 309 00:22:17,715 --> 00:22:21,795 Speaker 1: first episode was designed to be in defense of criticism 310 00:22:21,835 --> 00:22:25,675 Speaker 1: of Tucker Carlson on MSNBC. That's how long ago it was. 311 00:22:26,675 --> 00:22:31,395 Speaker 1: It pretty much has been designed to illuminate and hopefully 312 00:22:31,755 --> 00:22:35,035 Speaker 1: embarrass the people who are worthy of being on the list. 313 00:22:35,595 --> 00:22:38,235 Speaker 1: There's no practical outcome to this, and they're not usually 314 00:22:38,275 --> 00:22:41,235 Speaker 1: literally the worst persons in the world. It's just done 315 00:22:41,835 --> 00:22:44,875 Speaker 1: to give them a little of the Muhammad Ali theory 316 00:22:44,915 --> 00:22:47,275 Speaker 1: of fighting. Yes, you may come in and punch us, 317 00:22:47,595 --> 00:22:49,115 Speaker 1: but I'm going to give you a little something to 318 00:22:49,155 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: take with you and leave a mark as you go back. 319 00:22:52,235 --> 00:22:55,675 Speaker 1: That's all it's been about, just embarrassing the people who 320 00:22:55,715 --> 00:23:00,075 Speaker 1: deserve to be on this list for doing detrimental things 321 00:23:00,115 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: to you know, mankind in general. So I'm leaving Katie 322 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:09,395 Speaker 1: turn off the list after yesterday's comment, because there's nothing 323 00:23:09,435 --> 00:23:12,675 Speaker 1: I can do to embarrass her more than she's doing 324 00:23:12,715 --> 00:23:18,195 Speaker 1: to embarrass herself every day. The brons worst speaker, Mike Johnson. 325 00:23:18,675 --> 00:23:21,475 Speaker 1: Sure he has this creepy vibe of no, there's no 326 00:23:21,715 --> 00:23:24,715 Speaker 1: particular reason you can't look in my basement, but no, 327 00:23:25,835 --> 00:23:29,315 Speaker 1: you can't look in my basement. Sure every other day 328 00:23:29,315 --> 00:23:31,995 Speaker 1: he says something that makes you think, this guy has 329 00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:34,075 Speaker 1: only been out of his own home like three or 330 00:23:34,115 --> 00:23:37,315 Speaker 1: four times in his life. And sure he's been an 331 00:23:37,435 --> 00:23:40,315 Speaker 1: utterly ineffective Speaker of the House, and he has many 332 00:23:40,355 --> 00:23:44,075 Speaker 1: of them thinking, jeez, maybe Kevin McCarthy's IQ was in 333 00:23:44,155 --> 00:23:49,875 Speaker 1: double digits. But then there's the real problem. He's an idiot. Senator. 334 00:23:49,955 --> 00:23:53,675 Speaker 1: Katie Britt, the crisis actress who ended her career by 335 00:23:53,755 --> 00:23:56,035 Speaker 1: lying about a sex trafficking victim in the State of 336 00:23:56,075 --> 00:23:59,315 Speaker 1: the Union Rebuttal, says that before she gave that speech, 337 00:23:59,595 --> 00:24:02,755 Speaker 1: speaker Mike Johnson called her and told her, quote, don't worry. 338 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,675 Speaker 1: People are going to tell you horror stories about all 339 00:24:05,715 --> 00:24:09,075 Speaker 1: of those things that happened and people's careers being blown 340 00:24:09,155 --> 00:24:13,515 Speaker 1: up over it. It'll be fine. She added, he was 341 00:24:13,635 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: so kind. She does not mention whether or not. Johnson 342 00:24:17,275 --> 00:24:20,115 Speaker 1: then added, no, there's no particular reason you can't look 343 00:24:20,115 --> 00:24:22,195 Speaker 1: in my basement, but you can't. You can't look at 344 00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:27,755 Speaker 1: my basement. She said something about no, I can't even 345 00:24:27,755 --> 00:24:31,635 Speaker 1: repeat it. The runner up worser Marjorie Taylor Barney Rubble. 346 00:24:31,795 --> 00:24:35,715 Speaker 1: I'm also not good at math either. Green. A social 347 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:41,315 Speaker 1: media account called end Wokeness tweeted the monthly inflation statistics 348 00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:44,675 Speaker 1: from Argentina, where, under the new president there who can't 349 00:24:44,675 --> 00:24:50,035 Speaker 1: afford a haircut or bifocal glasses, Javier Milay, the nation 350 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:52,275 Speaker 1: went from inflation that was just in the month of 351 00:24:52,275 --> 00:24:55,475 Speaker 1: December just the monthly inflation in December was twenty five 352 00:24:55,475 --> 00:24:58,995 Speaker 1: and a half percent, to only another twenty point six 353 00:24:59,075 --> 00:25:02,755 Speaker 1: percent in January, to just another thirteen point two percent 354 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: in February. The kitchens have run out of soup in Argentina. 355 00:25:07,995 --> 00:25:12,675 Speaker 1: The Neanderthal congresswoman's addition to these terrifying facts, quote Lake 356 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:16,635 Speaker 1: and save America if we did the same thing the 357 00:25:16,675 --> 00:25:19,155 Speaker 1: monthly inflation in this country in February, when it was 358 00:25:19,315 --> 00:25:22,515 Speaker 1: thirteen percent in Argentina. The monthly inflation in this country 359 00:25:22,595 --> 00:25:27,075 Speaker 1: last month was zero point four percent, but Marge wants 360 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:32,115 Speaker 1: it to be thirteen percent monthly inflation instead, because Marge 361 00:25:32,275 --> 00:25:36,675 Speaker 1: clearly drops barbells on her own head once a month. 362 00:25:37,315 --> 00:25:39,555 Speaker 1: By the way, Marge is in other kinds of trouble. 363 00:25:39,795 --> 00:25:41,915 Speaker 1: The far right does not know what to do about 364 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:45,195 Speaker 1: this whole TikTok business. Trump says it's bad. Oh, Trump 365 00:25:45,235 --> 00:25:47,355 Speaker 1: says it's good. No, Trump says it's bad. No, Trump 366 00:25:47,355 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: says it's good. Please please stop make up my mind 367 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:53,755 Speaker 1: for me. Marge voted against the band and was then 368 00:25:53,795 --> 00:25:57,515 Speaker 1: asked if Trump's el Fodo influenced her, and she answered, 369 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: he has hands opinion on the bion and he can 370 00:26:00,355 --> 00:26:03,435 Speaker 1: invin it, So it doesn't mean that we're all robot. 371 00:26:05,475 --> 00:26:08,355 Speaker 1: I don't know. Marge. Claiming that you are a robot 372 00:26:08,955 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: was like your most rational defense for all of your 373 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:17,475 Speaker 1: actions in this life, but our winner the worst. Margie's 374 00:26:17,515 --> 00:26:27,195 Speaker 1: twin in stupidity. Lauren Bobert speaking of fascists and fascists 375 00:26:27,275 --> 00:26:31,475 Speaker 1: in disarray, Something really is going on in magaland there's 376 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:34,595 Speaker 1: been some sort of purity purge recently. I mean libs 377 00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:39,395 Speaker 1: of TikTok got attacked by Ron DeSantis. Remember Ron DeSantis 378 00:26:40,235 --> 00:26:43,355 Speaker 1: As to Bobert. She live streamed on the Home of 379 00:26:43,395 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: the Future Gestapo Rumble and was criticized by some viewer 380 00:26:47,595 --> 00:26:52,435 Speaker 1: there because she's not been posting enough on Trump's social 381 00:26:52,515 --> 00:26:56,275 Speaker 1: media site. Quote bud Meyer says that I should be 382 00:26:56,315 --> 00:26:59,075 Speaker 1: on truth Social. Bobo said, you're right. So I had 383 00:26:59,115 --> 00:27:01,835 Speaker 1: a truth Social account, but I still have it, having 384 00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:05,035 Speaker 1: trouble getting access to it right now. But where working 385 00:27:05,035 --> 00:27:08,075 Speaker 1: on fixing that glitch and I will absolutely be back 386 00:27:08,115 --> 00:27:10,955 Speaker 1: on there. The folks it might have touched at a 387 00:27:11,035 --> 00:27:14,835 Speaker 1: quick dig and found out Bobert has two verified accounts 388 00:27:14,835 --> 00:27:18,515 Speaker 1: on the Trump site. On her campaign account. She's never posted, 389 00:27:18,635 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: not once on her personal account. This little glitch she 390 00:27:22,155 --> 00:27:25,035 Speaker 1: referred to. Apparently it's been a problem she's been working 391 00:27:25,075 --> 00:27:30,435 Speaker 1: on forms eighteen months. She has not posted on truth 392 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:34,075 Speaker 1: Social in eighteen months. But no, of course, it's not 393 00:27:34,195 --> 00:27:38,395 Speaker 1: her being passive aggressively critical of Trump's insane, drugged up 394 00:27:38,435 --> 00:27:42,875 Speaker 1: fascist crap shack site. It's been a glitch for for 395 00:27:42,955 --> 00:27:45,435 Speaker 1: eighteen months, and eighteen month on glitch, it's just a 396 00:27:45,475 --> 00:27:48,715 Speaker 1: small technical problem. She swears. She is loyal to the 397 00:27:48,715 --> 00:27:52,355 Speaker 1: furor she's not choosing to post on Twitter instead. It's 398 00:27:52,355 --> 00:27:55,195 Speaker 1: a glitch. I swear, God, don't send me back. Make 399 00:27:55,235 --> 00:27:58,795 Speaker 1: me manage that McDonald's in Rifle, Colorado again. I'll post, 400 00:27:58,835 --> 00:28:01,915 Speaker 1: I'll post. I swear. I'm just a simple god fearing 401 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: Christian woman. Well indictement fearing go rist woman. I'm a 402 00:28:05,915 --> 00:28:09,115 Speaker 1: thirty seven year old grandmother, just like you. I'll be good. 403 00:28:09,155 --> 00:28:11,875 Speaker 1: I'll be good. Don't make me go back to food management. 404 00:28:12,115 --> 00:28:15,235 Speaker 1: I can't take giving food poisoning to another eighty of 405 00:28:15,315 --> 00:28:19,995 Speaker 1: my customers. Please, please, please, It's just a glitch. Don't 406 00:28:20,035 --> 00:28:26,275 Speaker 1: send me back, Lauren, a glitch while posting so what 407 00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:31,155 Speaker 1: you're having a hard time getting a handle on just 408 00:28:31,195 --> 00:28:37,355 Speaker 1: how to grip your device? Bobert two days, Worst Person 409 00:28:38,315 --> 00:29:03,395 Speaker 1: and No Way Fridays with Thurber exactly thirty four thousand 410 00:29:03,555 --> 00:29:10,515 Speaker 1: days ago. So today this came out. Sit back and relax, 411 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:15,675 Speaker 1: if relax is the right word for it. For the 412 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:22,675 Speaker 1: Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber. Looking back 413 00:29:22,715 --> 00:29:25,635 Speaker 1: on it now from the vantage point of nineteen forty one, 414 00:29:25,675 --> 00:29:28,195 Speaker 1: can only marvel that it had not happened long before 415 00:29:28,235 --> 00:29:31,755 Speaker 1: it did. The United States of America had been ever 416 00:29:31,835 --> 00:29:36,875 Speaker 1: since Kitty Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate petard by which 417 00:29:36,955 --> 00:29:42,555 Speaker 1: sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable 418 00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:44,795 Speaker 1: that someday there would come roaring out of the skies 419 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:49,915 Speaker 1: a national hero of insufficient intelligence, background, and character, successfully 420 00:29:49,995 --> 00:29:53,355 Speaker 1: to endure the mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators 421 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:56,875 Speaker 1: who stayed up for a long time or flew a 422 00:29:56,915 --> 00:30:02,395 Speaker 1: great distance. Both Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum 423 00:30:02,435 --> 00:30:07,675 Speaker 1: and international amity, had been so had our other famous aviators. 424 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:12,195 Speaker 1: They wore their laurels gracefully, withstood the awful weather of publicity, 425 00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:16,755 Speaker 1: married excellent women, usually fine family, and quietly retired to 426 00:30:16,835 --> 00:30:20,555 Speaker 1: private life and the enjoyment of their varying fortunes. No 427 00:30:21,035 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred the perfection of 428 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:29,795 Speaker 1: their conduct on the perilous heights of fame. The exception 429 00:30:29,995 --> 00:30:35,275 Speaker 1: to the rule was, however, bound to occur, and it 430 00:30:35,355 --> 00:30:40,795 Speaker 1: did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack pal smirch 431 00:30:41,435 --> 00:30:45,675 Speaker 1: erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa, 432 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:51,635 Speaker 1: flew a second hand, single motored Breastaan Dragonfly three monoplane 433 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:59,075 Speaker 1: all the way around the world without stopping. Never before 434 00:30:59,115 --> 00:31:01,195 Speaker 1: in the history of aviation had such a flight as 435 00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:04,595 Speaker 1: Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even taken 436 00:31:04,955 --> 00:31:09,075 Speaker 1: seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention of the 437 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:12,995 Speaker 1: mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles Lewis Gresham, 438 00:31:13,315 --> 00:31:17,715 Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker, 439 00:31:18,035 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young men of twenty two, 440 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:26,155 Speaker 1: appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven, 441 00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:31,355 Speaker 1: slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced 442 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:36,475 Speaker 1: nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly 443 00:31:36,555 --> 00:31:41,035 Speaker 1: and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight. 444 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:46,275 Speaker 1: Aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly, implying that 445 00:31:46,315 --> 00:31:50,315 Speaker 1: it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered 446 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:57,955 Speaker 1: second hand plane wouldn't go, the Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work. 447 00:31:58,915 --> 00:32:05,595 Speaker 1: It was simply a cheap joke. Smirch, however, after calling 448 00:32:05,635 --> 00:32:08,115 Speaker 1: on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in the flap 449 00:32:08,195 --> 00:32:11,475 Speaker 1: folding department of a large paper box factory, a girl 450 00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:16,795 Speaker 1: whom he later described as his sweet Petuti climbed nonchalantly 451 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:20,675 Speaker 1: into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable seventh of 452 00:32:20,755 --> 00:32:24,915 Speaker 1: July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of tobacco juice 453 00:32:24,915 --> 00:32:27,955 Speaker 1: into the still air, and took off, carrying with him 454 00:32:28,235 --> 00:32:32,795 Speaker 1: only a gallon of bootleg gin and six pounds of salami. 455 00:32:35,075 --> 00:32:37,715 Speaker 1: When the garage boy thundered out over the ocean, the 456 00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:40,995 Speaker 1: papers were forced to record in all seriousness that a mad, 457 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:46,115 Speaker 1: unknown young man his name was variously misspelled, had actually 458 00:32:46,275 --> 00:32:49,555 Speaker 1: set out upon a preposterous attempt to span the world 459 00:32:49,555 --> 00:32:53,195 Speaker 1: in a rickety one engine contraption, trusting to the long 460 00:32:53,235 --> 00:32:58,595 Speaker 1: distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster. When nine days later, 461 00:32:58,755 --> 00:33:02,275 Speaker 1: without having stopped once, the tiny plane appeared above San 462 00:33:02,315 --> 00:33:05,795 Speaker 1: Francisco Bay, headed for New York's, fluttering and choking, to 463 00:33:05,835 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: be sure, but still magnificently and miraculously aloft the headlines, 464 00:33:10,235 --> 00:33:13,795 Speaker 1: which long since had crowded everything else off the front page. 465 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: Even the shooting of the Governor of Illinois by the 466 00:33:16,435 --> 00:33:21,555 Speaker 1: Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size, and the news stories 467 00:33:21,555 --> 00:33:26,675 Speaker 1: began to run to twenty five and thirty columns. It 468 00:33:26,915 --> 00:33:32,035 Speaker 1: was noticeable, however, that the accounts of the epoch making 469 00:33:32,155 --> 00:33:38,035 Speaker 1: flight touched rather lightly upon the aviator himself. This was 470 00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:40,595 Speaker 1: not because the facts about the hero as a man 471 00:33:40,635 --> 00:33:46,915 Speaker 1: were too meager, but because they were too complete. Reporters 472 00:33:46,955 --> 00:33:49,595 Speaker 1: who had been rushed out to Iowa when Smirch's plane 473 00:33:49,635 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: was first sighted over the ledge little French coast town 474 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:54,875 Speaker 1: of ser Lee Lemaire to dig up the story of 475 00:33:54,915 --> 00:33:58,635 Speaker 1: the great man's life, had promptly discovered that the story 476 00:33:58,635 --> 00:34:02,115 Speaker 1: of his life could not be printed. His mother, a 477 00:34:02,155 --> 00:34:04,915 Speaker 1: sullen short order cook in a shack restaurant on the 478 00:34:04,995 --> 00:34:08,235 Speaker 1: edge of a tourists camping ground near Westfield, met all 479 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: inquiries as to her son with an angry and the 480 00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:15,155 Speaker 1: hell with him a hoppy drowns. His father appeared to 481 00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:19,515 Speaker 1: be in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and lap robes 482 00:34:19,555 --> 00:34:23,955 Speaker 1: from tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak minded lad, 483 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,555 Speaker 1: had but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory and 484 00:34:27,635 --> 00:34:30,475 Speaker 1: was already wanted in several western towns for the theft 485 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:35,395 Speaker 1: of money order blanks from post offices. These alarming discoveries 486 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: were still piling up at the very time that Pal Smirch, 487 00:34:38,835 --> 00:34:42,955 Speaker 1: the greatest hero of the twentieth century, blear eyed, dead 488 00:34:42,995 --> 00:34:47,035 Speaker 1: for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk heap 489 00:34:47,115 --> 00:34:49,515 Speaker 1: high above the region in which the lamentable story of 490 00:34:49,555 --> 00:34:52,595 Speaker 1: his private life was being unearthed, headed for New York 491 00:34:52,755 --> 00:34:55,595 Speaker 1: and a greater glory than any man of his time 492 00:34:55,715 --> 00:35:02,915 Speaker 1: had ever known. The necessity for printing some account in 493 00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:05,995 Speaker 1: the papers of the young man's career and personality had 494 00:35:06,075 --> 00:35:09,595 Speaker 1: led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course impossible 495 00:35:09,635 --> 00:35:13,595 Speaker 1: to reveal the facts, for a tremendous popular feeling in 496 00:35:13,715 --> 00:35:16,075 Speaker 1: favor of the young hero had sprung up like a 497 00:35:16,115 --> 00:35:19,035 Speaker 1: grass fire when he was halfway across Europe on his 498 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:22,835 Speaker 1: flight around the globe. He was therefore described as a modest, 499 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:28,875 Speaker 1: chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular with girls. 500 00:35:29,595 --> 00:35:33,075 Speaker 1: The only available snapshot of smirch, taken at the wheel 501 00:35:33,115 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: of a phony automobile in a cheap photo studio at 502 00:35:35,915 --> 00:35:38,795 Speaker 1: an amusement park, was touched up so that the little 503 00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was smoothed into 504 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:48,475 Speaker 1: a pleasant smile. The truth was in this way kept 505 00:35:48,475 --> 00:35:52,235 Speaker 1: from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. They did not dream that 506 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:56,395 Speaker 1: the Smirch family was despised and feared by its neighbors 507 00:35:56,435 --> 00:35:59,515 Speaker 1: in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself, 508 00:36:00,035 --> 00:36:03,755 Speaker 1: because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded 509 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:09,435 Speaker 1: in Westfield as an nuisance and a menace. Pal Smirch had, 510 00:36:09,475 --> 00:36:13,275 Speaker 1: the reporters discovered, once knife the principle of his high school, 511 00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:16,835 Speaker 1: not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him, 512 00:36:16,915 --> 00:36:20,715 Speaker 1: and on another occasion, surprised in the act of an 513 00:36:20,795 --> 00:36:24,115 Speaker 1: stealing altar cloth from a church, he had bashed the 514 00:36:24,155 --> 00:36:27,075 Speaker 1: sexton over the head with a pot of Easter lilies. 515 00:36:28,075 --> 00:36:31,315 Speaker 1: For each of these offenses he had served a sentence 516 00:36:31,315 --> 00:36:36,355 Speaker 1: in the reformatory. Inwardly, the authorities, both in New York 517 00:36:36,395 --> 00:36:41,235 Speaker 1: and in Washington, prayed that an understanding providence might, however awful, 518 00:36:41,435 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: such a thing seemed, bring disaster to the rusty, battered 519 00:36:45,915 --> 00:36:49,235 Speaker 1: plane and its illustrious pilot, whose unheard of flight had 520 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:54,355 Speaker 1: aroused the civilized world to hosannas of hysterical praise. The 521 00:36:54,395 --> 00:36:57,915 Speaker 1: authorities were convinced that the character of the renowned aviator 522 00:36:58,035 --> 00:37:00,995 Speaker 1: was such that the limelight of adulation was bound to 523 00:37:01,115 --> 00:37:05,675 Speaker 1: reveal him to all the world as a congenitate hooligan, 524 00:37:06,115 --> 00:37:10,635 Speaker 1: mentally and morally unequipped to cope with his own prodigious fame. 525 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 1: I trust, said the Secretary of State at one of 526 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:18,635 Speaker 1: the many secret cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma. 527 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:24,795 Speaker 1: I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered, by 528 00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:27,795 Speaker 1: which he referred to missus Emma's Smirch's wish that her 529 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:32,315 Speaker 1: son might be drowned. It was, however, too late for that. 530 00:37:32,755 --> 00:37:35,315 Speaker 1: Smirch had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific as 531 00:37:35,315 --> 00:37:38,315 Speaker 1: if they were mill ponds. At three minutes after two 532 00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: o'clock on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven, 533 00:37:41,675 --> 00:37:45,515 Speaker 1: the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field 534 00:37:45,515 --> 00:37:50,555 Speaker 1: for a perfect three point landing. It had, of course 535 00:37:50,995 --> 00:37:53,595 Speaker 1: been out of the question to arrange a modest little 536 00:37:53,635 --> 00:37:56,635 Speaker 1: reception for the greatest flier in the history of the world. 537 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:59,795 Speaker 1: He was received at Roosevelt Field with such elaborate and 538 00:37:59,835 --> 00:38:05,595 Speaker 1: pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however, the warren 539 00:38:05,635 --> 00:38:09,755 Speaker 1: and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be removed bodily 540 00:38:09,795 --> 00:38:12,235 Speaker 1: from his plane, and was spirited from the Field without 541 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:15,995 Speaker 1: having opened his mouth once. Thus he did not jeopardize 542 00:38:16,035 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: the dignity of his first reception, a reception illumined by 543 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:23,155 Speaker 1: the presence of the Secretaries of War and the Navy, 544 00:38:23,355 --> 00:38:26,715 Speaker 1: Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the Premier of Canada, 545 00:38:26,955 --> 00:38:30,435 Speaker 1: Governors Fanamine Groves, mcpheey and Critchfield, and a brilliant array 546 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:35,275 Speaker 1: of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in fact come too 547 00:38:35,395 --> 00:38:38,155 Speaker 1: in time to take part in the gigantic hullabaloo arranged 548 00:38:38,195 --> 00:38:40,795 Speaker 1: at City Hall for the next day. He was rushed 549 00:38:40,835 --> 00:38:45,195 Speaker 1: to a secluded nursing home and confined in bed. It 550 00:38:45,315 --> 00:38:47,835 Speaker 1: was nine days before he was able to get up, or, 551 00:38:47,875 --> 00:38:53,875 Speaker 1: to be more exact, before he was permitted to get up. Meanwhile, 552 00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:56,595 Speaker 1: the greatest minds in the country, in solemn assembly, had 553 00:38:56,675 --> 00:39:00,915 Speaker 1: arranged a secret conference of city, state and government officials, 554 00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:04,155 Speaker 1: which Smirch was to attend for the purpose of being 555 00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:10,955 Speaker 1: instruc did in the ethics and behavior of heroism. On 556 00:39:11,035 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: the day that the little mechanic was finally allowed to 557 00:39:13,315 --> 00:39:15,155 Speaker 1: get up in dress and for the first time in 558 00:39:15,155 --> 00:39:17,595 Speaker 1: two weeks, took a great chew of tomacco, he was 559 00:39:17,635 --> 00:39:21,075 Speaker 1: permitted to receive the newspaper men this by way of 560 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:26,395 Speaker 1: testing him out. Smirch did not wait for questions. Use guys, 561 00:39:26,915 --> 00:39:31,395 Speaker 1: he said, and the Times Man winced. Use guys can 562 00:39:31,435 --> 00:39:33,995 Speaker 1: tell a cock eyed world that I put it over 563 00:39:34,035 --> 00:39:38,035 Speaker 1: on Lindbergh. See yeah, man, an assaid, I'm two frogs. 564 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:43,195 Speaker 1: The two frogs. It was a reference to a pair 565 00:39:43,195 --> 00:39:46,835 Speaker 1: of gallant French flyers who, in attempting to flight only 566 00:39:47,155 --> 00:39:49,675 Speaker 1: halfway round the world, had two weeks before unhappily been 567 00:39:49,715 --> 00:39:53,595 Speaker 1: lost at sea. The Times Man was bold enough at 568 00:39:53,595 --> 00:39:56,715 Speaker 1: this point to sketch out for Smirch. He accepted formula 569 00:39:56,835 --> 00:39:59,875 Speaker 1: for interviews in cases of this kind. He explained that 570 00:39:59,915 --> 00:40:04,115 Speaker 1: there should be no arrogant statements belittling the achievements of 571 00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:08,435 Speaker 1: other heroes, particularly heroes of foreign nations. Ah the hell 572 00:40:08,475 --> 00:40:12,635 Speaker 1: with that, said Smurch. I did it. See I did it, 573 00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:17,035 Speaker 1: and I'm talking about it. And he did talk about it. 574 00:40:18,315 --> 00:40:22,435 Speaker 1: None of this extraordinary interview was, of course printed. On 575 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:25,875 Speaker 1: the contrary, the newspapers, already under the disciplined direction of 576 00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:29,115 Speaker 1: a secret directorate created for the occasion and composed of 577 00:40:29,195 --> 00:40:32,395 Speaker 1: statesmen and editors, gave out to a panting and restless 578 00:40:32,395 --> 00:40:37,115 Speaker 1: world that Jackie, as he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would 579 00:40:37,155 --> 00:40:40,435 Speaker 1: consent to say only that he was very happy and 580 00:40:40,475 --> 00:40:43,835 Speaker 1: that anyone could have done what he did. My achievement 581 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:48,195 Speaker 1: has been I fear slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article 582 00:40:48,275 --> 00:40:52,475 Speaker 1: had him protest with a modest smile. These newspaper stories 583 00:40:52,515 --> 00:40:55,675 Speaker 1: were kept from the hero, a restriction which did not 584 00:40:55,755 --> 00:41:00,155 Speaker 1: serve to abate the rising malevolence of his temper. The 585 00:41:00,235 --> 00:41:05,115 Speaker 1: situation was indeed extremely grave for Palell's Smurge, which was, 586 00:41:05,995 --> 00:41:10,315 Speaker 1: as he kept insisting, raring to go. He could not 587 00:41:10,475 --> 00:41:13,475 Speaker 1: much longer be kept from a nation clamorous to lionize him. 588 00:41:13,755 --> 00:41:16,595 Speaker 1: It was the most desperate crisis the United States of 589 00:41:16,635 --> 00:41:22,595 Speaker 1: America had faced since the sinking of the Lusitania. On 590 00:41:22,675 --> 00:41:25,835 Speaker 1: the afternoon of the twenty seventh of July, Smirch was 591 00:41:25,915 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: spirited away to a conference room in which were gathered mayors, governors, 592 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:34,275 Speaker 1: government officials, behaviorist, psychologists, and editors. He gave them each 593 00:41:34,275 --> 00:41:39,915 Speaker 1: a limp moist paw and a brief, unlovely grin, hi, 594 00:41:40,715 --> 00:41:44,035 Speaker 1: he said. When Smirch was seated, the Mayor of New 595 00:41:44,115 --> 00:41:47,555 Speaker 1: York arose and with obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what 596 00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:50,755 Speaker 1: he must say and how he must act when presented 597 00:41:50,795 --> 00:41:53,915 Speaker 1: to the world, ending his talk with a high tribute 598 00:41:53,955 --> 00:41:57,275 Speaker 1: to the hero's courage and integrity. The mayor was followed 599 00:41:57,275 --> 00:42:00,075 Speaker 1: by Governor Fannomen of New York, who, after a touching 600 00:42:00,155 --> 00:42:04,995 Speaker 1: declaration of faith, introduced Cameron Spottiswood, second secret Cherry of 601 00:42:04,995 --> 00:42:08,155 Speaker 1: the American Embassy in Paris, the gentleman selected to coach 602 00:42:08,515 --> 00:42:13,435 Speaker 1: Smirch in the amenities of public ceremonies. Sitting in a 603 00:42:13,555 --> 00:42:16,555 Speaker 1: chair with a soiled yellow tie in his hand and 604 00:42:16,635 --> 00:42:21,275 Speaker 1: his shirt open at the throat, unshaved, smoking a rolled cigarette, 605 00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:25,035 Speaker 1: Jack Smirch listened with a leer on his lips. I 606 00:42:25,395 --> 00:42:29,515 Speaker 1: get you, I get you. He cut in nastily. You 607 00:42:29,595 --> 00:42:32,355 Speaker 1: want me to act like a softie. Huh. You want 608 00:42:32,355 --> 00:42:36,275 Speaker 1: me to act like that many mumany baby face Linden 609 00:42:36,315 --> 00:42:40,715 Speaker 1: big huh, well nuts to not see. Everyone took in 610 00:42:40,795 --> 00:42:44,795 Speaker 1: his breath sharply. It was a sigh and a hiss. 611 00:42:45,675 --> 00:42:50,235 Speaker 1: Mister Lindbergh began a United States Senator purple with rage, 612 00:42:50,435 --> 00:42:54,635 Speaker 1: and mister bird Smirch, who was paring his nails with 613 00:42:54,715 --> 00:42:58,435 Speaker 1: a jackknife, cut in again boyd, he exclaimed, Oh, for 614 00:42:58,555 --> 00:43:02,315 Speaker 1: God's sake, that big somebody shut off the blasphemies with 615 00:43:02,395 --> 00:43:05,675 Speaker 1: a sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word the room. 616 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:08,675 Speaker 1: Everyone stood up except Smirch, who was still busy with 617 00:43:08,755 --> 00:43:12,435 Speaker 1: his nails, and he did not even glance up. Mister Smirch, 618 00:43:12,635 --> 00:43:16,795 Speaker 1: said someone sternly. The President of the United States. It 619 00:43:16,835 --> 00:43:19,035 Speaker 1: had been thought that the presence of the Chief Executive 620 00:43:19,235 --> 00:43:22,075 Speaker 1: might have a chastening effect on the young hero, and 621 00:43:22,195 --> 00:43:25,035 Speaker 1: the former had been, thanks to the remarkable cooperation of 622 00:43:25,075 --> 00:43:30,795 Speaker 1: the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room. A great, 623 00:43:31,195 --> 00:43:39,635 Speaker 1: painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a hand at 624 00:43:39,675 --> 00:43:46,195 Speaker 1: the President. How you coming, he asked, and began rolling 625 00:43:46,435 --> 00:43:54,115 Speaker 1: a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone coughed in a 626 00:43:54,155 --> 00:44:01,315 Speaker 1: strained way. Jesus hot, ain't it, said Smirch. He loosened 627 00:44:01,355 --> 00:44:04,515 Speaker 1: two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest and the 628 00:44:04,555 --> 00:44:10,835 Speaker 1: tattooed word sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart. The great 629 00:44:11,035 --> 00:44:13,955 Speaker 1: and important men in the room, faced by the most 630 00:44:13,955 --> 00:44:19,835 Speaker 1: serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns. Nobody seemed 631 00:44:19,875 --> 00:44:24,075 Speaker 1: to know how to proceed. Come on, come on, said Smirch. 632 00:44:24,395 --> 00:44:26,635 Speaker 1: Let's get the hell out of here. When do I 633 00:44:26,635 --> 00:44:30,635 Speaker 1: start cutting in on the podies? Eh? And when is 634 00:44:30,675 --> 00:44:34,515 Speaker 1: there gonna be this in it? He rubbed a thumb 635 00:44:34,515 --> 00:44:42,555 Speaker 1: and forefinger together meaningly. Money, exclaimed a state senator shocked. Pale, Yeah, money, 636 00:44:42,915 --> 00:44:45,875 Speaker 1: said pal, flipping his cigarette out of the window. And 637 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:51,115 Speaker 1: big money. He began rolling a fresh cigarette. Big money, 638 00:44:51,795 --> 00:44:55,835 Speaker 1: he repeated, Frowning over the rice paper. He tilted back 639 00:44:55,875 --> 00:44:59,435 Speaker 1: in his chair and leered at each gentleman separately, the 640 00:44:59,595 --> 00:45:03,275 Speaker 1: leer of an animal that knows its power, the leer 641 00:45:03,475 --> 00:45:07,915 Speaker 1: of a leopard loose in a bird and dog shop. Ah, 642 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:11,635 Speaker 1: for God's sake, let's get someplace where it's cool, he said. 643 00:45:12,155 --> 00:45:16,555 Speaker 1: I've been cooped up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood 644 00:45:16,595 --> 00:45:19,275 Speaker 1: up and walked over to an open window, where he 645 00:45:19,275 --> 00:45:23,955 Speaker 1: stood staring down into the street nine floors below. The 646 00:45:23,995 --> 00:45:27,635 Speaker 1: faint shouting of newsboys floated up to him. He made 647 00:45:27,635 --> 00:45:32,355 Speaker 1: out his name, Hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He 648 00:45:32,555 --> 00:45:37,355 Speaker 1: leaned out over the sill. You tell um babies, he 649 00:45:37,435 --> 00:45:42,355 Speaker 1: shouted down, Hot Diggity Dog in the tense little knot 650 00:45:42,395 --> 00:45:46,435 Speaker 1: of men standing behind him. A quick, mad impulse flared up. 651 00:45:46,715 --> 00:45:50,835 Speaker 1: An unspoken word of appeal of command seemed to ring 652 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:55,315 Speaker 1: through the room, yet it was deadly silent. Charles K. L. Brand, 653 00:45:55,395 --> 00:45:57,715 Speaker 1: secretary to the Mayor of New York City, happened to 654 00:45:57,715 --> 00:46:01,435 Speaker 1: be standing nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President 655 00:46:01,515 --> 00:46:07,355 Speaker 1: of the United States. The President, pale grim nodded shortly. Brand, 656 00:46:07,595 --> 00:46:11,235 Speaker 1: a tall, powerfully built man wants to tackle at Rutgers University, 657 00:46:11,555 --> 00:46:14,875 Speaker 1: stepped forward, seized the greatest man in the world by 658 00:46:14,915 --> 00:46:16,955 Speaker 1: his left shoulder and the seat of his pants, and 659 00:46:17,035 --> 00:46:20,675 Speaker 1: pushed him out the window. My god, he's fallen out 660 00:46:20,675 --> 00:46:23,555 Speaker 1: the window, cried a quick witted editor. Get me out 661 00:46:23,555 --> 00:46:26,155 Speaker 1: of here, cried the President. Several men sprang to his side, 662 00:46:26,155 --> 00:46:28,115 Speaker 1: and he was hurriedly escorted out of a door toward 663 00:46:28,115 --> 00:46:30,195 Speaker 1: a side entrance of the building. The editor of the 664 00:46:30,235 --> 00:46:33,435 Speaker 1: Associated Press took charge, Being used to such things crisply, 665 00:46:33,475 --> 00:46:36,515 Speaker 1: he ordered certain men to leave, others to stay Quickly. 666 00:46:36,555 --> 00:46:38,795 Speaker 1: He outlined a story which all the papers were to 667 00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:41,235 Speaker 1: agree on, sent two men to the street to handle 668 00:46:41,275 --> 00:46:43,955 Speaker 1: that end of the tragedy. Commanded a senator to sob 669 00:46:44,195 --> 00:46:48,555 Speaker 1: and two congressmen to go to pieces nervously. In a word, 670 00:46:48,875 --> 00:46:52,275 Speaker 1: he skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that 671 00:46:52,515 --> 00:46:55,635 Speaker 1: was to follow, the task of breaking to a grief 672 00:46:55,675 --> 00:47:01,195 Speaker 1: stricken world the sad story of the untimely accidental death 673 00:47:01,315 --> 00:47:07,595 Speaker 1: of its most illustrious and spectacular figure. The funeral was, 674 00:47:07,635 --> 00:47:12,715 Speaker 1: as you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnist, 675 00:47:13,515 --> 00:47:16,115 Speaker 1: and the saddest ever held in the United States of America. 676 00:47:17,035 --> 00:47:21,155 Speaker 1: The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft 677 00:47:21,195 --> 00:47:25,275 Speaker 1: of marble and the simple device of a tiny plane 678 00:47:25,315 --> 00:47:30,675 Speaker 1: carved on its base, is a place for pilgrims in 679 00:47:30,835 --> 00:47:35,395 Speaker 1: deep reverence to visit. The nations of the world paid 680 00:47:35,475 --> 00:47:41,795 Speaker 1: lofty tributes to Little Jackie Smirch, America's greatest hero. At 681 00:47:41,795 --> 00:47:44,835 Speaker 1: a given hour, there were two minutes of silence throughout 682 00:47:44,835 --> 00:47:48,755 Speaker 1: the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town 683 00:47:48,835 --> 00:47:53,755 Speaker 1: of Westfield, Iowa, observed this touching ceremony. Agents of the 684 00:47:53,795 --> 00:47:58,315 Speaker 1: Department of Justice sought that one of them was especially 685 00:47:58,355 --> 00:48:01,075 Speaker 1: assigned to stand grimly in the doorway of a little 686 00:48:01,115 --> 00:48:05,435 Speaker 1: shack restaurant on the edge of the tourists camping just 687 00:48:05,515 --> 00:48:11,355 Speaker 1: outside the town. There under his stern scrutiny. Missus Emma 688 00:48:11,475 --> 00:48:15,035 Speaker 1: Smirch bowed her head over to Hamburger steaks sizzling on 689 00:48:15,115 --> 00:48:19,595 Speaker 1: her grill. Bowed her head and turned away so that 690 00:48:19,675 --> 00:48:24,795 Speaker 1: the secret serviceman could not see the twisted, strangely familiar 691 00:48:25,675 --> 00:48:32,035 Speaker 1: leer on her lips. The Greatest Man in the World 692 00:48:32,915 --> 00:48:48,955 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. Okay, I've done all the damage I 693 00:48:48,955 --> 00:48:51,755 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors 694 00:48:51,755 --> 00:48:55,115 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel have arranged, produced, and 695 00:48:55,195 --> 00:48:58,355 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, 696 00:48:58,355 --> 00:49:02,555 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards produced 697 00:49:02,555 --> 00:49:06,635 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 698 00:49:06,835 --> 00:49:10,075 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports 699 00:49:10,155 --> 00:49:13,275 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by 700 00:49:13,315 --> 00:49:17,355 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis and courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical 701 00:49:17,355 --> 00:49:20,315 Speaker 1: and fifty musical comments are from Nancy Faust. The best 702 00:49:20,355 --> 00:49:23,435 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever and our announcer today is my 703 00:49:23,475 --> 00:49:27,635 Speaker 1: friend Howard Feynman. Everything else was pretty much my fault 704 00:49:28,075 --> 00:49:31,595 Speaker 1: as always. That's countdown for this the two hundred and 705 00:49:31,595 --> 00:49:35,395 Speaker 1: thirty sixth day until the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, 706 00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:39,315 Speaker 1: the one one hundred and sixty fifth day since dementia 707 00:49:39,395 --> 00:49:42,875 Speaker 1: Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 708 00:49:42,875 --> 00:49:45,795 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the fourteenth Amendment and the 709 00:49:45,915 --> 00:49:50,355 Speaker 1: not regularly given elector objection option, Use the Insurrection Act, 710 00:49:50,595 --> 00:49:53,755 Speaker 1: use the justice system, use the mental health system to 711 00:49:53,955 --> 00:49:57,395 Speaker 1: stop him from doing it again while we can still 712 00:49:57,435 --> 00:50:01,315 Speaker 1: stop him. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletins as 713 00:50:01,355 --> 00:50:03,595 Speaker 1: the news warrants till then, I'm Keith ol Riman, Good morning, 714 00:50:03,795 --> 00:50:24,115 Speaker 1: good afternoon, night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 715 00:50:24,275 --> 00:50:28,755 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 716 00:50:28,915 --> 00:50:32,955 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 717 00:50:32,995 --> 00:50:33,875 Speaker 1: your podcasts.