1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,915 --> 00:00:28,275 Speaker 1: is Hitler through endless blinding fogs of denial and self delusion. 3 00:00:28,355 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: Those of us who have refused to see have made 4 00:00:30,475 --> 00:00:34,955 Speaker 1: sure that they and others could not see through years 5 00:00:35,155 --> 00:00:39,835 Speaker 1: of rationalizations that the worst cannot happen here, even as 6 00:00:39,955 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: every lesser step on the path to the worst has 7 00:00:43,875 --> 00:00:48,275 Speaker 1: already happened here through a million both sides, Its dismissals 8 00:00:48,355 --> 00:00:51,875 Speaker 1: that America is different, that there are checks, that there 9 00:00:51,915 --> 00:00:56,275 Speaker 1: are balances, that there are guide rails through the most 10 00:00:56,355 --> 00:01:00,955 Speaker 1: fundamental of desires. If we believe it cannot be, then 11 00:01:00,995 --> 00:01:05,595 Speaker 1: it will not be. Through all of that, most of 12 00:01:05,675 --> 00:01:13,875 Speaker 1: us have refused to believe it. Trump is Hitler, not 13 00:01:14,395 --> 00:01:19,195 Speaker 1: nineteen forty Hitler, not nineteen thirty eight Hitler, but nineteen 14 00:01:19,235 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: thirty three Hitler, the one who, had he been stopped, 15 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:28,395 Speaker 1: would not have destroyed Europe and committed the Holocaust. Our 16 00:01:28,595 --> 00:01:33,715 Speaker 1: last chance to stop Hitler. Hitler. That's who Trump is 17 00:01:34,475 --> 00:01:38,915 Speaker 1: right now, and that's who American journalism has to some 18 00:01:39,035 --> 00:01:49,395 Speaker 1: degree just discovered. Hey, Trump, he's Hitler. Now, Finally, with 19 00:01:49,435 --> 00:01:52,835 Speaker 1: the events of the last five days, finally, perhaps too late, 20 00:01:53,315 --> 00:01:59,115 Speaker 1: perhaps still too little. Something has broken. Some line that 21 00:01:59,235 --> 00:02:02,635 Speaker 1: was actually crossed a year ago, or ten years ago 22 00:02:04,155 --> 00:02:07,355 Speaker 1: or forty years ago when I met him, is being 23 00:02:07,435 --> 00:02:11,075 Speaker 1: treated today as if that line had just been broken 24 00:02:11,195 --> 00:02:14,395 Speaker 1: last week. The line is fictional. It is internal to 25 00:02:14,795 --> 00:02:18,715 Speaker 1: the media. It's being a rased not because it's time, 26 00:02:18,955 --> 00:02:23,395 Speaker 1: but because some guy in another newspaper wrote something, so 27 00:02:23,435 --> 00:02:26,235 Speaker 1: we have to as well. It's being a race because 28 00:02:26,275 --> 00:02:30,915 Speaker 1: the guy on the other station said something. Did you 29 00:02:30,955 --> 00:02:37,635 Speaker 1: see the graphic on CNN? Conventional wisdom, Times, groupthink, Times, 30 00:02:37,715 --> 00:02:44,755 Speaker 1: a run on the bank, only for good for once. Finally, 31 00:02:45,395 --> 00:02:51,035 Speaker 1: some in position to sound the alarm have quote. Trump 32 00:02:51,195 --> 00:02:58,035 Speaker 1: calls political enemies Vermin, echoing dictators, Hitler, Comma Mussolini. The 33 00:02:58,075 --> 00:03:04,355 Speaker 1: headline in the Washington Post quote Trump compares political foes 34 00:03:04,395 --> 00:03:09,515 Speaker 1: to Vermin on Veteran's Day, echoing Nazi propaganda. The headline 35 00:03:09,595 --> 00:03:16,235 Speaker 1: in Forbes magazine quote, it's official with Vermin. Trump is 36 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:19,955 Speaker 1: now using straight up Nazi talk. The headline in The 37 00:03:19,955 --> 00:03:26,235 Speaker 1: New Republic Trump is Hitler. Quote. Those who try to 38 00:03:26,235 --> 00:03:31,315 Speaker 1: make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes, and their entire 39 00:03:31,635 --> 00:03:35,115 Speaker 1: existence will be crushed. When Trump returns to the White 40 00:03:35,155 --> 00:03:41,235 Speaker 1: House unquote, that was the spokesman Stephen Chung. Later yesterday 41 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:46,795 Speaker 1: Stephen Chung realized, or somebody smarter than Stephen Chung realized 42 00:03:47,115 --> 00:03:51,115 Speaker 1: what he said. And Chung then insisted he had intended 43 00:03:51,155 --> 00:03:55,195 Speaker 1: to say, and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed 44 00:03:55,195 --> 00:03:59,075 Speaker 1: when Trump returns to the White House, and that Chung 45 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:02,715 Speaker 1: or somebody thought the horrifying part of his threat was 46 00:04:02,715 --> 00:04:06,635 Speaker 1: the word entire rather than in the phrase existence will 47 00:04:06,675 --> 00:04:09,955 Speaker 1: be crushed, tells you all you really need to know 48 00:04:10,315 --> 00:04:13,035 Speaker 1: that Trump and Stephen Chung and Stephen Miller and all 49 00:04:13,075 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: the others in their gang know exactly what they are 50 00:04:15,275 --> 00:04:19,155 Speaker 1: saying and exactly what it means, and exactly who they 51 00:04:19,195 --> 00:04:26,195 Speaker 1: plan to kill. Moments after Chung's correction, Trump raised the 52 00:04:26,235 --> 00:04:31,475 Speaker 1: stakes yet again, sampling from another dictatorship quote Jack Smith, 53 00:04:31,675 --> 00:04:36,595 Speaker 1: Andrew Weissman, Lisa Monaco, the team of losers and misfits 54 00:04:36,635 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: from crewe and all the rest of the radical left 55 00:04:40,235 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: zelots and thugs who have been working illegally for years 56 00:04:44,515 --> 00:04:48,155 Speaker 1: to take me down will end up in a mental 57 00:04:48,235 --> 00:04:51,555 Speaker 1: institution by the time my next term as president is 58 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:58,435 Speaker 1: successfully completed. Unquote. Forced psychiatric institutionalization was less the Nazis 59 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:03,955 Speaker 1: than it was the Soviets. He's branching out. I guess 60 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:10,115 Speaker 1: I'm on that list. You see it inside. For a time, 61 00:05:10,275 --> 00:05:14,275 Speaker 1: Trump seemed to understand that to keep spaces between his 62 00:05:14,475 --> 00:05:19,635 Speaker 1: overt quotations of, and imitations of, and emulations of Hitler 63 00:05:20,555 --> 00:05:23,635 Speaker 1: was his way to slip them past those who were 64 00:05:23,675 --> 00:05:27,635 Speaker 1: looking for excuses to not believe and looking for excuses 65 00:05:27,755 --> 00:05:32,515 Speaker 1: to not report, or perhaps with his deteriorating mind, those 66 00:05:32,555 --> 00:05:37,395 Speaker 1: spaces were inadvertent and simply accidentally protected him. But now 67 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:44,795 Speaker 1: something has happened, deliberate or accidental within him. The Hitler phrases, 68 00:05:45,355 --> 00:05:49,635 Speaker 1: the Nazi obsessions with blood and purity and poisoning and vermin. 69 00:05:50,115 --> 00:05:52,835 Speaker 1: They are beginning to be the only things that come 70 00:05:52,955 --> 00:05:59,075 Speaker 1: into his mind anymore. His rage is growing, whatever is 71 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:03,755 Speaker 1: physically wrong with him, feeding his fury and his insanity 72 00:06:03,835 --> 00:06:09,835 Speaker 1: that is growing two like a cancer. September twentieth, Dubuque, 73 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:14,275 Speaker 1: Iowa on immigrants, it's the blood of our country. What 74 00:06:14,315 --> 00:06:20,155 Speaker 1: they're doing is destroying our country. September twenty fourth, an 75 00:06:20,195 --> 00:06:23,635 Speaker 1: interview with something called the National Pulse. 76 00:06:24,115 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 2: Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. 77 00:06:27,155 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 2: It is a very sad thing for our country. It's 78 00:06:30,715 --> 00:06:34,315 Speaker 2: poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and 79 00:06:34,355 --> 00:06:35,995 Speaker 2: people are coming in with disease. 80 00:06:36,515 --> 00:06:43,475 Speaker 1: That's Hitler talking. That's what Hitler said last Thursday, November ninth, 81 00:06:43,515 --> 00:06:46,035 Speaker 1: at one o three in the morning, we are one movement, 82 00:06:46,235 --> 00:06:51,755 Speaker 1: one people, one family, and one glorious nation. And last Saturday, 83 00:06:51,795 --> 00:06:55,755 Speaker 1: November eleventh, Veterans Day, at one twenty five in the afternoon, 84 00:06:55,795 --> 00:06:59,675 Speaker 1: he wrote, in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, 85 00:06:59,715 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, 86 00:07:03,435 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: Marxist fascists, and radical left thugs that live like vermin 87 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:14,435 Speaker 1: within the confines of our country. The threat from outside 88 00:07:14,475 --> 00:07:18,355 Speaker 1: forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the 89 00:07:18,395 --> 00:07:19,755 Speaker 1: threat from within. 90 00:07:21,995 --> 00:07:26,515 Speaker 2: That's Hitler today, especially in honor of our great veterans, 91 00:07:26,555 --> 00:07:27,795 Speaker 2: on Veterans'. 92 00:07:27,355 --> 00:07:31,875 Speaker 3: Day, we pledge to you that we will root out 93 00:07:32,475 --> 00:07:37,035 Speaker 3: the communists, Marxist fascist and the radical left thugs that 94 00:07:37,155 --> 00:07:40,675 Speaker 3: live like vermin within the confines of our country. 95 00:07:41,235 --> 00:07:42,355 Speaker 1: The threat from. 96 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:47,475 Speaker 2: Outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave. 97 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:48,475 Speaker 1: Than the threat from within. 98 00:07:49,115 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 2: Our threat is from within. 99 00:07:50,875 --> 00:07:55,675 Speaker 1: Trump isn't just playing at being Hitler. He is enjoying 100 00:07:56,075 --> 00:08:00,555 Speaker 1: playing at being Hitler. Trump talks about the communist vermin 101 00:08:00,595 --> 00:08:03,515 Speaker 1: and how he would root them out. Hitler talked about 102 00:08:03,515 --> 00:08:05,795 Speaker 1: the communist vermin and how he would root them out. 103 00:08:06,955 --> 00:08:11,195 Speaker 1: Trump talks about the threat from within. Hitler was more explicit, 104 00:08:11,275 --> 00:08:15,675 Speaker 1: but not much the enemy from within. Trump advocates for 105 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:19,475 Speaker 1: conformity and suppression of descent. One people, one family, one 106 00:08:19,515 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: glorious nation. For Hitler, it was more lyrical. One people, 107 00:08:23,475 --> 00:08:28,915 Speaker 1: one realm, one leader. Trump always sounds like Reagi's Philbin 108 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:34,035 Speaker 1: reading Hitler, Trump has now moved to the sanguine imagery 109 00:08:34,195 --> 00:08:38,395 Speaker 1: migrants poisoning the blood of our country. Hitler began with 110 00:08:38,555 --> 00:08:42,635 Speaker 1: his nonsense of pure Aryan blood, and he ended by 111 00:08:42,715 --> 00:08:46,635 Speaker 1: killing those who he could get who did not have 112 00:08:47,075 --> 00:08:52,475 Speaker 1: pure Aryan blood. Trump's puppeteer, Stephen Miller, has revealed plans 113 00:08:52,475 --> 00:08:57,515 Speaker 1: for quote vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers, 114 00:08:58,235 --> 00:09:02,395 Speaker 1: built by the military and operated by homeland Security. There's 115 00:09:02,435 --> 00:09:08,875 Speaker 1: a suggestive word homeland enabling quote Trump to unleash the 116 00:09:08,955 --> 00:09:13,435 Speaker 1: vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular 117 00:09:13,555 --> 00:09:19,595 Speaker 1: migration crackdown. Hitler's view was identical his terminology was simpler. 118 00:09:19,635 --> 00:09:25,675 Speaker 1: He just called them concentration camps. Stephen Miller's rapture at 119 00:09:25,715 --> 00:09:29,355 Speaker 1: this underscores that we are not merely witnessing Trump using 120 00:09:29,395 --> 00:09:33,435 Speaker 1: the latest in a decade's long list of bad advertising 121 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:38,075 Speaker 1: slogans for products that he will never deliver anyway. He 122 00:09:38,235 --> 00:09:43,475 Speaker 1: means this, they mean this, and they do not mean 123 00:09:43,515 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 1: it just rhetorically. Any activists, Miller said, who doubt Trump's 124 00:09:50,555 --> 00:09:54,355 Speaker 1: resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error. The 125 00:09:54,395 --> 00:10:00,715 Speaker 1: immigration legal activists won't know what's happening. Miller has just 126 00:10:00,795 --> 00:10:06,675 Speaker 1: told you that Trump is hitler. Each day brings two 127 00:10:06,755 --> 00:10:09,115 Speaker 1: or three more stories like this, underscoring that the Trump 128 00:10:09,115 --> 00:10:13,035 Speaker 1: we saw in office was nothing, nothing compared to what 129 00:10:13,115 --> 00:10:16,675 Speaker 1: he has planned for twenty twenty five. Often these stories 130 00:10:16,715 --> 00:10:19,035 Speaker 1: are about the past, like with the release of the 131 00:10:19,115 --> 00:10:22,955 Speaker 1: Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell Proffer videos, which I'll get 132 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:25,675 Speaker 1: to in a moment, But often, like the Miller's story, 133 00:10:25,675 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: they are about Trump measuring the windows for the proverbial 134 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:35,795 Speaker 1: new drapes, the windows at the vast holding facilities or 135 00:10:35,835 --> 00:10:40,795 Speaker 1: the Force psychiatric centers. Hundreds of people are spending tens 136 00:10:40,795 --> 00:10:44,235 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars they write in Axios, they being 137 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: the co founders of Axios, the Trump leaks are going 138 00:10:47,835 --> 00:10:51,355 Speaker 1: to only the most receptive. Hundreds of people are spending 139 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:54,315 Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars to install a pre vetted 140 00:10:54,355 --> 00:10:57,515 Speaker 1: pro Trump army of up to fifty four thousand loyalists 141 00:10:57,875 --> 00:11:01,555 Speaker 1: across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the 142 00:11:01,555 --> 00:11:05,715 Speaker 1: previous forty six presidents. That's got our are me and 143 00:11:05,835 --> 00:11:12,675 Speaker 1: restraints in it. Well, this is Agenda forty seven plus 144 00:11:12,835 --> 00:11:16,035 Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five to make sure that there are 145 00:11:16,115 --> 00:11:19,595 Speaker 1: no mere Republicans in the White House. That there would 146 00:11:19,595 --> 00:11:24,155 Speaker 1: be only those who had figuratively perhaps literally sworn an 147 00:11:24,195 --> 00:11:30,715 Speaker 1: oath to obey Trump. AI is being used to screen them, 148 00:11:30,715 --> 00:11:35,835 Speaker 1: powered by Oracle no less social media accounts are being scoured. 149 00:11:37,515 --> 00:11:39,955 Speaker 1: How serious they all are is measured in what is 150 00:11:39,995 --> 00:11:42,035 Speaker 1: a sad reference, even for those of us who hate 151 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:45,715 Speaker 1: the man quote. The people leading these efforts aren't figures 152 00:11:45,875 --> 00:11:51,995 Speaker 1: like Rudy Giuliani. They're experienced people, many with very unconventional 153 00:11:52,035 --> 00:11:58,355 Speaker 1: and elastic views of presidential power and traditional rule of law. Unquote. 154 00:11:58,595 --> 00:12:06,275 Speaker 1: You know Nazis. Eighty different partners, eighty different organizations Axios 155 00:12:06,315 --> 00:12:09,675 Speaker 1: reports make up Project twenty twenty five. One of them 156 00:12:09,675 --> 00:12:13,075 Speaker 1: belongs to Charlie Kirk, the fascist and lunatic who in 157 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:16,115 Speaker 1: July said President Biden should be quote put in prison 158 00:12:16,195 --> 00:12:20,315 Speaker 1: and were given the death penalty for crimes against America unquote. 159 00:12:20,595 --> 00:12:23,435 Speaker 1: Another one is run by Russ Vote, who just last 160 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:26,595 Speaker 1: week mapped out how to turn the Department of Justice 161 00:12:27,155 --> 00:12:31,115 Speaker 1: into a real life or well in Department of revenge. 162 00:12:31,755 --> 00:12:34,075 Speaker 1: You don't need a statutory change at all. You need 163 00:12:34,115 --> 00:12:36,315 Speaker 1: a mindset change. You need an Attorney general in a 164 00:12:36,315 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: White House Counsel's office that don't view themselves as trying 165 00:12:39,235 --> 00:12:44,595 Speaker 1: to protect the department from the president. Russ Vote is 166 00:12:44,635 --> 00:12:46,875 Speaker 1: now referenced by Axios as being behind a plan to 167 00:12:46,915 --> 00:12:52,075 Speaker 1: quote rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to 168 00:12:52,235 --> 00:12:57,155 Speaker 1: make sure the senior military officials line up with Trump's philosophies. 169 00:12:58,355 --> 00:13:02,835 Speaker 1: They're bringing an army with them. Jeff Clark or somebody 170 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:06,515 Speaker 1: or a lot of somebody's right now are planning out 171 00:13:06,555 --> 00:13:09,075 Speaker 1: the prosecutions of William Barr and John Kelly and General 172 00:13:09,115 --> 00:13:12,035 Speaker 1: Milly and Jack Smith. And no, I'm sorry, no, no, 173 00:13:12,115 --> 00:13:13,715 Speaker 1: I got it wrong. Jack Smith is going to be 174 00:13:13,755 --> 00:13:17,715 Speaker 1: forced into a psychiatric institution. Sorry, he's not going to 175 00:13:17,795 --> 00:13:21,115 Speaker 1: be prosecuted. But they are all, quoting the Washington Post, 176 00:13:21,555 --> 00:13:24,955 Speaker 1: drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on Trump's 177 00:13:24,995 --> 00:13:27,915 Speaker 1: first day in office, to allow him to deploy the 178 00:13:27,955 --> 00:13:32,435 Speaker 1: military against civil demonstrations, in other words, to allow Trump 179 00:13:32,555 --> 00:13:38,555 Speaker 1: to kill civilians with the army. And of course Trump 180 00:13:38,555 --> 00:13:42,595 Speaker 1: and Steven Miller waiting for the bell to ring, quoting 181 00:13:42,595 --> 00:13:45,315 Speaker 1: the New York Times, because Trump plans to scour the 182 00:13:45,355 --> 00:13:49,075 Speaker 1: country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions 183 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:53,715 Speaker 1: per year. Scour again, and as I first pointed out 184 00:13:53,715 --> 00:13:56,515 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, we really do need to remember two 185 00:13:56,635 --> 00:14:01,035 Speaker 1: condicils to that number. One. Surprisingly enough, all the immigrants 186 00:14:01,075 --> 00:14:02,955 Speaker 1: are not just going to say okay, you got me 187 00:14:03,315 --> 00:14:06,795 Speaker 1: and leave for the nearest border. Many of them will 188 00:14:06,835 --> 00:14:09,915 Speaker 1: try to get away and then Trump will shoot them. 189 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:13,475 Speaker 1: And it's not as if non immigrants would not try 190 00:14:13,475 --> 00:14:15,635 Speaker 1: to stop this. And of course when they did that, 191 00:14:15,675 --> 00:14:18,995 Speaker 1: they would go to those vast holding facilities that would 192 00:14:19,035 --> 00:14:24,715 Speaker 1: function as staging centers along with the immigrants, just like 193 00:14:24,755 --> 00:14:28,675 Speaker 1: in Nazi Germany, the vast centers that are just camps 194 00:14:29,315 --> 00:14:34,955 Speaker 1: camps with concentration concentration camps It must also be caveated 195 00:14:34,955 --> 00:14:37,715 Speaker 1: that Trump tried to do this in twenty seventeen and failed, 196 00:14:38,275 --> 00:14:40,835 Speaker 1: but as with January sixth, we must see it from 197 00:14:41,155 --> 00:14:46,795 Speaker 1: his diseased point of view. These were not failures. They 198 00:14:46,795 --> 00:14:51,275 Speaker 1: were practice for every once in a while there is 199 00:14:51,315 --> 00:14:54,755 Speaker 1: a second story revealing something else that he tried last time, 200 00:14:54,955 --> 00:14:57,595 Speaker 1: that he will try harder at next time, but it 201 00:14:57,635 --> 00:15:01,195 Speaker 1: gets buried behind something bigger, like Agenda forty seven or 202 00:15:01,235 --> 00:15:05,555 Speaker 1: the Army of fifty four thousand Trump Nazis. We come 203 00:15:05,595 --> 00:15:07,715 Speaker 1: back always to the idea that as Trump believed the 204 00:15:07,715 --> 00:15:11,115 Speaker 1: Department of Justice was his, he believed the military was 205 00:15:11,155 --> 00:15:15,475 Speaker 1: also his. Jonathan Carl of ABC has written a book 206 00:15:15,515 --> 00:15:17,675 Speaker 1: about all this, and there's a lot in it about 207 00:15:17,715 --> 00:15:20,955 Speaker 1: the well covered meeting between Jack Smith and Trump's lawyers 208 00:15:20,955 --> 00:15:24,355 Speaker 1: on July twenty seventh that we knew nothing about, and 209 00:15:24,475 --> 00:15:28,275 Speaker 1: that got most of the headlines yesterday because it turned 210 00:15:28,315 --> 00:15:32,275 Speaker 1: out that for an hour, per John Carl, Trump's ambulance 211 00:15:32,355 --> 00:15:35,635 Speaker 1: chasing lawyers talked and talked and talked to Jack Smith 212 00:15:35,675 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: about why he should not indict Trump for January sixth, 213 00:15:38,675 --> 00:15:41,955 Speaker 1: and the Special Council literally said nothing and just stared 214 00:15:41,995 --> 00:15:44,835 Speaker 1: at them with that stare. The only thing he said 215 00:15:44,995 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 1: was would you like a glass of water? Cool story, 216 00:15:49,635 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 1: John Carl. But Politico got the wrong John Carl excerpt, 217 00:15:54,675 --> 00:15:57,595 Speaker 1: and thus they buried the lead, or more correctly than 218 00:15:57,635 --> 00:16:01,075 Speaker 1: many leads, because John Carl had just a few other 219 00:16:01,155 --> 00:16:04,915 Speaker 1: nuggets in that book, like Trump calling Moe Brooks last 220 00:16:04,995 --> 00:16:09,075 Speaker 1: year the former congressman last year twenty twenty two, while 221 00:16:09,115 --> 00:16:13,515 Speaker 1: Mobrooks was running for Senate, Trump had already endorsed him. Mobrooks, 222 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:17,115 Speaker 1: who might have been from Congress, his wildest fascist ally 223 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:21,195 Speaker 1: in the coup attempt, spoke right before Trump on January sixth. 224 00:16:21,515 --> 00:16:26,475 Speaker 1: But when Trump called, he needed from Mobrooks a favor, 225 00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:32,675 Speaker 1: three favors. Actually, he wanted Mobrooks to publicly call for 226 00:16:32,795 --> 00:16:36,195 Speaker 1: Joe Biden to be removed from the White House. This 227 00:16:36,275 --> 00:16:39,275 Speaker 1: is in twenty twenty two. He wanted Mobrooks to publicly 228 00:16:39,315 --> 00:16:42,115 Speaker 1: then call for an immediate rerunning of the election in 229 00:16:42,155 --> 00:16:45,115 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and he wanted Mobrooks in twenty twenty 230 00:16:45,115 --> 00:16:48,995 Speaker 1: two to publicly insist that Trump be reinstated. In short, 231 00:16:49,795 --> 00:16:53,715 Speaker 1: Trump wanted Brooks to make demands that could have easily 232 00:16:53,875 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: actually touched off a military overthrow of the government of 233 00:16:58,355 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: the United States of America or a full scale civil war, 234 00:17:02,875 --> 00:17:11,115 Speaker 1: or both. Maybe the real headline here is mow Brooks declined, 235 00:17:12,435 --> 00:17:15,835 Speaker 1: whereupon Trump withdrew his endorsement and Mobrooks lost the primary 236 00:17:15,875 --> 00:17:20,555 Speaker 1: and his political career ended. And speaking of that, Carl 237 00:17:20,675 --> 00:17:23,195 Speaker 1: also writes that the reason the same Republicans who attacked 238 00:17:23,235 --> 00:17:25,595 Speaker 1: Trump after the coup did a one point eighty within 239 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:29,315 Speaker 1: weeks and began making excuses for him was that Trump 240 00:17:29,475 --> 00:17:33,635 Speaker 1: called the RNC chairwoman, Ronald McDaniel, on the morning of 241 00:17:33,675 --> 00:17:37,475 Speaker 1: his last day in office on January twentieth, twenty twenty one, 242 00:17:37,515 --> 00:17:40,355 Speaker 1: and he told her that if they did not get 243 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:44,155 Speaker 1: in line behind him, he would be leaving the Republican 244 00:17:44,195 --> 00:17:47,435 Speaker 1: Party to form his own party. And God, how I 245 00:17:47,475 --> 00:17:51,635 Speaker 1: wish he had done that. What that means is, since 246 00:17:51,755 --> 00:17:54,755 Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty twenty one, Trump has been holding the 247 00:17:54,755 --> 00:17:59,955 Speaker 1: Republican Party hostage, which also means they have each and 248 00:18:00,035 --> 00:18:06,715 Speaker 1: collectively missed the opportunity to bury Trump alive politically by refusing. 249 00:18:07,675 --> 00:18:12,235 Speaker 1: As recently as two thousand and eight, the presidential campaign 250 00:18:12,355 --> 00:18:18,395 Speaker 1: slogan of the Republican Party was Country First. May they 251 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:23,715 Speaker 1: all burn in hell? John Carl has also written of 252 00:18:23,755 --> 00:18:26,555 Speaker 1: what the House January sixth Committee found about Trump's final days, 253 00:18:26,955 --> 00:18:29,555 Speaker 1: but did not put them entirely before the public. The 254 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:33,955 Speaker 1: Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and its chief of Staff James McConville, 255 00:18:34,195 --> 00:18:36,915 Speaker 1: had announced that the military would play no role in 256 00:18:36,995 --> 00:18:39,755 Speaker 1: determining the outcome of the twenty twenty election nor in 257 00:18:39,835 --> 00:18:44,395 Speaker 1: the transition of power, and this infuriated Trump. Trump was 258 00:18:44,435 --> 00:18:47,475 Speaker 1: busy at that time huddling with Jeff Clark and such 259 00:18:47,635 --> 00:18:51,395 Speaker 1: experts as Sidney the Plea Deal Powell and the guy 260 00:18:51,475 --> 00:18:55,835 Speaker 1: from overstock dot Com, and Mike Lindell about having the 261 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:59,755 Speaker 1: military seize the voting machines and declaring martial law as 262 00:18:59,795 --> 00:19:05,155 Speaker 1: one does. Trump quoting John Carl, sent top aid Johnny 263 00:19:05,235 --> 00:19:10,115 Speaker 1: mcintee to warn Pentagon leaders that Trump was irate. Mcintee 264 00:19:10,155 --> 00:19:13,395 Speaker 1: relayed Trump's concerns to Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, and 265 00:19:13,435 --> 00:19:15,715 Speaker 1: took some notes on the conversation to pass back to 266 00:19:15,755 --> 00:19:19,115 Speaker 1: the West Wing. And there is a photo of the 267 00:19:19,195 --> 00:19:23,555 Speaker 1: note torn in pieces in one of the five hourly 268 00:19:23,675 --> 00:19:28,795 Speaker 1: Trumpian pre pubescent rages, and taped back together by aids 269 00:19:29,355 --> 00:19:34,555 Speaker 1: more loyal to your National Archives than to Trump. Quote 270 00:19:34,835 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: this is what the note said. Quote Chris Miller spoke 271 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:40,635 Speaker 1: to both of them and anticipates no more statements coming out. 272 00:19:40,835 --> 00:19:46,195 Speaker 1: If another happens, he will fire them unquote. There it 273 00:19:46,275 --> 00:19:49,635 Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty Trumpian warm up that we just 274 00:19:49,715 --> 00:19:53,355 Speaker 1: talked about for twenty twenty five, when all the generals 275 00:19:53,395 --> 00:19:56,635 Speaker 1: who are disloyal to Trump will be fired at all 276 00:19:56,675 --> 00:19:59,395 Speaker 1: the generals who are loyal to Trump will be firing 277 00:20:00,075 --> 00:20:06,995 Speaker 1: at us, although he might yet be stopped by scared weasels. 278 00:20:07,675 --> 00:20:12,355 Speaker 1: Scared weasels rushing to save their own sorry asses like 279 00:20:12,435 --> 00:20:17,675 Speaker 1: Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis. Turns out those proffers. This 280 00:20:17,795 --> 00:20:19,595 Speaker 1: is what I know. This is what I'll testify to. 281 00:20:19,795 --> 00:20:22,795 Speaker 1: This is who you'll be able to convict. The proffers 282 00:20:22,795 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: in the plea deals that Ellis and Powell made with 283 00:20:25,115 --> 00:20:29,995 Speaker 1: Fannie Willis and Georgia. They're on video and really good 284 00:20:30,115 --> 00:20:35,715 Speaker 1: video too, and somebody leaked highlights to ABC News. There 285 00:20:35,715 --> 00:20:39,675 Speaker 1: are sixteen suspects. There would have been a seventeenth, but 286 00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:42,515 Speaker 1: I'm doubting Trump did this as to who leaked them, 287 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:45,395 Speaker 1: because the other defendants in the case and their lawyers 288 00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: would each get copies of the proffers and the proffer videos. 289 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:55,155 Speaker 1: Somebody among them wants to make sure Trump goes down 290 00:20:55,715 --> 00:21:00,515 Speaker 1: and goes down hod from one of the excerpts from 291 00:21:00,515 --> 00:21:03,035 Speaker 1: ABC News. They asked jen Ellis about the twenty twenty 292 00:21:03,035 --> 00:21:06,915 Speaker 1: White House Christmas Party and the SKEEVIEE. Trump social media 293 00:21:06,995 --> 00:21:08,235 Speaker 1: guide Dan Scubino. 294 00:21:08,435 --> 00:21:09,675 Speaker 4: The conversation was. 295 00:21:09,675 --> 00:21:12,475 Speaker 5: Are in December nineteenth of twenty twenty at the White 296 00:21:12,475 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 5: House Christmas Party, and I emphasized him I thought that 297 00:21:16,235 --> 00:21:22,515 Speaker 5: the claims and the ability to challenge the election results 298 00:21:22,595 --> 00:21:25,155 Speaker 5: was essentially over because he said to me, in a 299 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:27,875 Speaker 5: kind of excited to him, well, we don't care and 300 00:21:28,155 --> 00:21:29,635 Speaker 5: we're not going to leave. And I said, what do 301 00:21:29,715 --> 00:21:33,035 Speaker 5: you mean? And he said, well, the Boss meaning President 302 00:21:33,115 --> 00:21:36,675 Speaker 5: Trump and everyone understood the Boss, that's what we all 303 00:21:36,715 --> 00:21:40,235 Speaker 5: called him. He said, the Boss is not going to 304 00:21:40,275 --> 00:21:42,635 Speaker 5: leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay 305 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:45,235 Speaker 5: in power. And I said, Tim, well it doesn't quite 306 00:21:45,395 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 5: work that way, you realize, and he said, we don't care. 307 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:52,395 Speaker 1: The Boss is not going to leave. Ah, the Boss 308 00:21:52,475 --> 00:21:56,595 Speaker 1: is not going to leave, then go in with guns 309 00:21:56,675 --> 00:22:03,035 Speaker 1: and get him AnyWho kind of suggests he won't leave 310 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:08,075 Speaker 1: next time. Huh. I don't know if legally the Biden 311 00:22:08,155 --> 00:22:11,755 Speaker 1: campaign can actually use that video in a campaign commercial, 312 00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:16,715 Speaker 1: but I'm damned sure Democratic allies can bone appetite boys. 313 00:22:18,235 --> 00:22:22,395 Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. Not only did Sidney Powell throw 314 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:26,315 Speaker 1: Gjuliani under the bus, but she confirmed what has only 315 00:22:26,355 --> 00:22:31,155 Speaker 1: been reported previously. Remember this will be sworn witness testimony now, 316 00:22:31,555 --> 00:22:35,115 Speaker 1: not somebody like John Carl reporting it, or even something 317 00:22:35,195 --> 00:22:38,195 Speaker 1: like the January sixth Committee reporting it. This is sworn 318 00:22:38,355 --> 00:22:43,035 Speaker 1: witness testimony by the person most directly affected that Trump 319 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:48,915 Speaker 1: was ready to name her, Sidney crazy ass Powell, who 320 00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:51,995 Speaker 1: admits on the tape she knows nothing of election law. 321 00:22:52,835 --> 00:22:56,795 Speaker 1: Name her special counsel in charge of investigating the election, 322 00:22:57,115 --> 00:23:00,915 Speaker 1: and her orders were to seize the voting machines. And 323 00:23:01,515 --> 00:23:05,515 Speaker 1: she was there when Trump was told you lost. 324 00:23:05,755 --> 00:23:09,475 Speaker 6: What was President Trump's sense of what you would do 325 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:10,515 Speaker 6: as special counsel? 326 00:23:13,835 --> 00:23:16,595 Speaker 4: I guess he assumed, And I would have thought that 327 00:23:16,715 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 4: I would have looked at putting into effect a provision 328 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:23,915 Speaker 4: of one three eight four eight that would have allowed 329 00:23:23,955 --> 00:23:27,875 Speaker 4: the machines to be secured in four or five states. 330 00:23:28,595 --> 00:23:32,555 Speaker 1: How did you choose which states that you would pard? 331 00:23:33,115 --> 00:23:36,315 Speaker 4: How would I have chosen that by the ones where 332 00:23:36,315 --> 00:23:40,915 Speaker 4: there were the most statistical anomalies miss power. 333 00:23:40,915 --> 00:23:47,715 Speaker 1: Were you ever around when someone, anyone told Donald Trump 334 00:23:47,795 --> 00:23:48,835 Speaker 1: that he had lost the election? 335 00:23:49,115 --> 00:23:54,715 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, who? Pat Sibaloni, Eric Kirshman, Derek Lyons all 336 00:23:54,755 --> 00:23:56,755 Speaker 4: thought he had lost? 337 00:23:57,315 --> 00:23:58,755 Speaker 1: Was that in the seventy eighteenth comuty. 338 00:23:58,875 --> 00:23:59,155 Speaker 4: Yes. 339 00:23:59,715 --> 00:24:06,075 Speaker 6: What was President Trump's reaction when this cadre of advisors 340 00:24:06,075 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 6: would say you lost? 341 00:24:08,835 --> 00:24:12,355 Speaker 4: It was like, well, they would say that, and then 342 00:24:12,395 --> 00:24:15,235 Speaker 4: they'd walk out, and He'd go, See, this is what 343 00:24:15,315 --> 00:24:16,355 Speaker 4: I deal with all the time. 344 00:24:16,595 --> 00:24:20,715 Speaker 1: These are not smoking guns, but they are useful tools. 345 00:24:21,355 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: Because even with the absolute terror of the last week, 346 00:24:25,755 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 1: as Trump morphed fully into Hitler, our cliched toolbox is 347 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:36,115 Speaker 1: suddenly overflowing, and even reporters are beginning to listen, and 348 00:24:36,195 --> 00:24:38,795 Speaker 1: more importantly, to worry that they are about to be scooped. 349 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:45,595 Speaker 1: Because Washington's hottest new beat is Trump is Hitler. Well, 350 00:24:45,675 --> 00:24:49,755 Speaker 1: what to do about it? As James Earl Jones says 351 00:24:49,755 --> 00:24:52,835 Speaker 1: in Field of Dreams, reaching for a tire iron after 352 00:24:52,955 --> 00:24:54,955 Speaker 1: Kevin Costner has tried to kidnap him with a non 353 00:24:54,955 --> 00:24:58,955 Speaker 1: existent gun, there are rules here, Oh no, there are 354 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:04,795 Speaker 1: no rules here. Unfortunately, we are still sticking to the rules. 355 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:08,755 Speaker 1: The most efficient next step would be for Homeland Security 356 00:25:08,995 --> 00:25:12,675 Speaker 1: to declare the Federalist Society a terrorist organization and arrest 357 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:16,355 Speaker 1: all of its leaders. That would turn Agenda forty seven 358 00:25:16,435 --> 00:25:22,515 Speaker 1: into Agenda make a plea deal. But we are not them, 359 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:28,995 Speaker 1: so we will not do that. Unfortunately, I will suggest that, 360 00:25:29,115 --> 00:25:33,995 Speaker 1: however slowly, they work. Words do work. We've just seen 361 00:25:34,035 --> 00:25:36,195 Speaker 1: that in the last few days. They are not the solution, 362 00:25:36,355 --> 00:25:39,955 Speaker 1: but they open doors to the solution, and they can 363 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:44,595 Speaker 1: create a tidal wave. It was last September nineteenth, not 364 00:25:44,755 --> 00:25:48,675 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, but twenty twenty two, when Trump was 365 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:53,395 Speaker 1: telling Moe Brooks to demand an immediate new election. It 366 00:25:53,475 --> 00:25:56,795 Speaker 1: was September nineteenth, twenty twenty two, on this podcast that 367 00:25:56,875 --> 00:25:59,915 Speaker 1: I began by saying, we must face the reality that 368 00:25:59,955 --> 00:26:02,955 Speaker 1: Trump is America's Hitler. We must use the real words. 369 00:26:03,275 --> 00:26:05,995 Speaker 1: There are no more dog whistles as of now, as 370 00:26:06,075 --> 00:26:08,035 Speaker 1: of this weekend, as of this morning, they have begun 371 00:26:08,115 --> 00:26:10,795 Speaker 1: to salute him as others saluted Hitler. They've begun to 372 00:26:10,795 --> 00:26:13,035 Speaker 1: play the music and chant the slogans of Q and on. 373 00:26:13,435 --> 00:26:15,795 Speaker 1: They have begun to weave in the sing song melodies 374 00:26:15,795 --> 00:26:20,155 Speaker 1: of the televangelists and the Christo fascists. They have stopped pretending, 375 00:26:20,555 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: so too must we stop pretending. America's Hitler is here. 376 00:26:26,915 --> 00:26:30,235 Speaker 1: Took a while four one hundred and twenty nine days 377 00:26:30,275 --> 00:26:33,995 Speaker 1: to be precise, but now even the Washington Post has 378 00:26:34,035 --> 00:26:37,795 Speaker 1: begun to sit up and take notice. Maybe the New 379 00:26:37,875 --> 00:26:41,755 Speaker 1: York Times, which first covered Trump's complete morphing into Hitler 380 00:26:41,755 --> 00:26:44,875 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire with the headline Trump takes Veterans Day 381 00:26:44,955 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: speech in a very different direction and then changed it 382 00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:53,275 Speaker 1: to the more accurate about three percent more accurate. In 383 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:57,555 Speaker 1: Veterans Day speech, Trump promises to quote root out the left. 384 00:26:58,035 --> 00:27:02,395 Speaker 1: Maybe the New York Times may be stirring out of 385 00:27:02,435 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: its coma. But the thing is all the stuff the 386 00:27:08,555 --> 00:27:11,795 Speaker 1: Times dismissed over the weekend it dismissed fourteen months ago. 387 00:27:12,955 --> 00:27:18,795 Speaker 1: The evocations of hitlarian cadence are nothing new. This right now, 388 00:27:18,835 --> 00:27:24,795 Speaker 1: this is literally from September seventeenth, twenty twenty two. Does 389 00:27:24,875 --> 00:27:26,915 Speaker 1: this sound familiar to you? 390 00:27:27,155 --> 00:27:30,475 Speaker 3: We are one movement, one people, one family, and one 391 00:27:30,475 --> 00:27:32,075 Speaker 3: glorious American nation. 392 00:27:32,555 --> 00:27:35,955 Speaker 1: So he said that again Saturday, and some folks new 393 00:27:36,195 --> 00:27:41,155 Speaker 1: to you know hearing murderers threatened to murder you, they said, 394 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: Did you hear what he said? All right, we can 395 00:27:44,035 --> 00:27:49,835 Speaker 1: criticize them later. Right now, just say welcome aboard, and 396 00:27:49,955 --> 00:27:52,555 Speaker 1: let's all slowly break it to them. Just how late 397 00:27:52,715 --> 00:27:56,795 Speaker 1: it really is, just how long they have let it go, 398 00:27:58,875 --> 00:28:04,435 Speaker 1: Just how starkly it is midnight in America. The White 399 00:28:04,475 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: House put out a statement yesterday about Trump and vermin 400 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:12,235 Speaker 1: and rooting out. The White House said something, It's not 401 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:14,715 Speaker 1: a bad statement, but it has been stuffed through the 402 00:28:14,795 --> 00:28:20,675 Speaker 1: proverbial deflavorizing machine. Trump's language quote would be unrecognizable to 403 00:28:20,715 --> 00:28:24,915 Speaker 1: our founders, but horrifyingly recognizable to American veterans who put 404 00:28:24,955 --> 00:28:29,595 Speaker 1: on their country's uniform in the nineteen forties. The quote 405 00:28:29,595 --> 00:28:33,115 Speaker 1: isn't bad, although it will require a lot of people 406 00:28:33,155 --> 00:28:38,715 Speaker 1: to think, wait, what happened in nineteen forties big band music? 407 00:28:38,995 --> 00:28:45,595 Speaker 1: He's talking about Glenn Miller, Pearl Harbor, Nazis, oh Nazis. 408 00:28:47,075 --> 00:28:51,555 Speaker 1: Also the quote was from spokesperson Andrew Bates. The speaker 409 00:28:51,635 --> 00:28:55,035 Speaker 1: next time needs to be the President of the United States. 410 00:28:55,675 --> 00:28:59,995 Speaker 1: Joe Biden needs to call Trump hitler, or at least 411 00:28:59,995 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: call him a Nazi. Mister Bates should not be opaque 412 00:29:05,675 --> 00:29:07,995 Speaker 1: about this as he was in that quote. Mister Biden 413 00:29:08,075 --> 00:29:11,995 Speaker 1: can be the President can say Trump has I don't 414 00:29:12,035 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: know every right to be a Nazi. There's not much 415 00:29:16,115 --> 00:29:17,635 Speaker 1: you and I can do to stop him from being 416 00:29:17,635 --> 00:29:20,555 Speaker 1: a Nazi. If he wants to be a Nazi, if 417 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:23,435 Speaker 1: his supporters want to be Nazis, that's their choice. All 418 00:29:23,515 --> 00:29:26,595 Speaker 1: we can do, President Biden can say is do the 419 00:29:26,675 --> 00:29:30,555 Speaker 1: people's business and vote blue, you know, vote for the 420 00:29:30,595 --> 00:29:37,395 Speaker 1: side that's fighting Nazis. Something like that workshopping. You have 421 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:40,195 Speaker 1: my number, mister President. As to the rest of us, 422 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:42,035 Speaker 1: I really think the time has arrived when perhaps we 423 00:29:42,035 --> 00:29:45,275 Speaker 1: should use these terms openly. Hell. Hillary Clinton made the 424 00:29:45,315 --> 00:29:51,355 Speaker 1: comp last week on the View, making the comparison without 425 00:29:51,355 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: that nagging suspicion that we are violating Godwin's law, that 426 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:58,635 Speaker 1: whoever invokes Hitler and the Nazis first loses the argument, 427 00:29:59,675 --> 00:30:03,315 Speaker 1: and that nagging suspicion that we are more importantly violating 428 00:30:03,355 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: the survivor's law. There is only one Hitler, and that 429 00:30:07,595 --> 00:30:15,555 Speaker 1: was Hitler. But the point of that is to make 430 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:23,435 Speaker 1: sure that that statement remains valid, that there was only 431 00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:29,435 Speaker 1: one Hitler, because there is one warming up in our Bullpen. 432 00:30:32,675 --> 00:30:35,835 Speaker 1: Once the comparison between Trump and Hitler could be misinterpreted 433 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:39,275 Speaker 1: as hyperbole and alarmism and political science fiction. It was 434 00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:43,435 Speaker 1: Godwin's Law wearing orange makeup. And while some of us 435 00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:47,515 Speaker 1: who actually knew Trump said, as those of us who 436 00:30:47,555 --> 00:30:49,475 Speaker 1: knew that in nineteen ninety his first wife and the 437 00:30:49,475 --> 00:30:51,675 Speaker 1: guy who gave it to him confirmed Trump kept a 438 00:30:51,715 --> 00:30:55,195 Speaker 1: book of Hitler's speeches in a nightstand in his bedroom. 439 00:30:55,755 --> 00:30:58,955 Speaker 1: We knew that in him there were all the elements 440 00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:02,755 Speaker 1: of mass murder and dictatorship. So many others thought those 441 00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: guard rails that have saved us since Aaron Frickin' Burr 442 00:31:07,555 --> 00:31:09,995 Speaker 1: made it so that no man, no matter how insane, 443 00:31:10,355 --> 00:31:13,915 Speaker 1: no matter how power mad, no matter how diseased, no 444 00:31:13,915 --> 00:31:18,635 Speaker 1: matter how devoid of the slightest concern or understanding of 445 00:31:18,675 --> 00:31:23,675 Speaker 1: anyone but himself, anything but himself, that no man could 446 00:31:23,675 --> 00:31:30,995 Speaker 1: ever erase democracy in America. We who saw horror hoped 447 00:31:31,075 --> 00:31:35,155 Speaker 1: those who saw aberration that they were right and we 448 00:31:35,155 --> 00:31:40,235 Speaker 1: were wrong. But we were not wrong. We must use 449 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:43,675 Speaker 1: the real words. We have to face the reality that 450 00:31:43,715 --> 00:31:50,115 Speaker 1: Trump is America's Hitler. Our Hitler is here. Now call 451 00:31:50,315 --> 00:31:55,835 Speaker 1: him Hitler, Call them Nazis, if you squirm with unease, 452 00:31:55,995 --> 00:32:00,195 Speaker 1: I get it. I did once I squirmed with unease. 453 00:32:00,915 --> 00:32:09,235 Speaker 1: I knew Trump. He wrote me a fan letter. I 454 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:15,555 Speaker 1: can't believe I shook this guy's frickin hand. If it's easier, 455 00:32:16,795 --> 00:32:22,595 Speaker 1: call him baby hitler. We have to use the word. 456 00:32:23,315 --> 00:32:26,515 Speaker 1: Make it easier for President Biden to use the word too, 457 00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:34,075 Speaker 1: because we are there. He is our hitler. We have 458 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:38,275 Speaker 1: to stop him because he's got all he needs in 459 00:32:38,355 --> 00:32:43,795 Speaker 1: place ready to go, except for two things, re election 460 00:32:45,355 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: and the uniforms. So we leave our discussion of our 461 00:32:54,315 --> 00:32:57,515 Speaker 1: hitler for a moment because also of interest here, the 462 00:32:57,555 --> 00:33:01,395 Speaker 1: Supreme Court just established a code of ethics, only it's 463 00:33:01,435 --> 00:33:04,595 Speaker 1: not really a code, and there's nobody but the Justice 464 00:33:04,835 --> 00:33:08,595 Speaker 1: reviewing the Justice's conduct. And there's basically no way to 465 00:33:08,595 --> 00:33:11,675 Speaker 1: break the code anyway, because the ethics code is almost 466 00:33:11,755 --> 00:33:16,595 Speaker 1: completely devoid of ethics. I'll use the James Earl Jones 467 00:33:16,675 --> 00:33:19,395 Speaker 1: quote once again. There are rules here. Oh no, there 468 00:33:19,435 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: are no rules here. That's next. This is countdown. 469 00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:25,675 Speaker 4: This is countdown. 470 00:33:26,035 --> 00:33:51,755 Speaker 1: With Keith Olberman still ahead of us on countdown, there 471 00:33:51,875 --> 00:33:54,155 Speaker 1: is not going to be a rush to buy the 472 00:33:54,195 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four calendars from American Maltese Association Rescue. But 473 00:33:59,355 --> 00:34:03,515 Speaker 1: maybe there should be two years now since he's gone, 474 00:34:03,955 --> 00:34:06,155 Speaker 1: and there are actually new developments in the story of 475 00:34:06,155 --> 00:34:10,275 Speaker 1: my late hospice pup Meshu and how in death he 476 00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:14,995 Speaker 1: may have helped other dogs to live. And he is 477 00:34:15,075 --> 00:34:18,395 Speaker 1: on the cover of the twenty twenty four calendar first 478 00:34:18,435 --> 00:34:20,955 Speaker 1: time for the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons, 479 00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:25,275 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 480 00:34:25,275 --> 00:34:31,675 Speaker 1: in the world Worst. Fox News old familiar favorite Jason 481 00:34:31,835 --> 00:34:35,635 Speaker 1: Donner was a Capitol Hill reporter and producer there for 482 00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:40,115 Speaker 1: twelve years. First, after the twenty twenty election, Donner fact 483 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:45,035 Speaker 1: checked the Rudy Giuliani Four Seasons landscaping press conference embarrassment 484 00:34:45,115 --> 00:34:48,955 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Then on January sixth, twenty twenty one, Donner 485 00:34:48,995 --> 00:34:52,475 Speaker 1: happened to be in the Capitol at his job as 486 00:34:52,635 --> 00:34:54,995 Speaker 1: hell broke loose, and by a talk back to the 487 00:34:55,035 --> 00:34:58,515 Speaker 1: control room, he listened in astonishment as Fox anchors and 488 00:34:58,595 --> 00:35:02,395 Speaker 1: guests explained that the protests were peaceful. Man wished to 489 00:35:02,555 --> 00:35:07,555 Speaker 1: understandable that they were disappointed, and you know, the bear 490 00:35:07,635 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: spray was just in case there was suddenly an influx 491 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:14,075 Speaker 1: of bears, He said, he told the execs quote, I'm 492 00:35:14,115 --> 00:35:17,315 Speaker 1: your Capitol Hill producer inside the Capitol, where tear gas 493 00:35:17,435 --> 00:35:20,835 Speaker 1: is going off on the second floor, Rioters are storming 494 00:35:20,875 --> 00:35:24,435 Speaker 1: the building, reports of shots fired outside the house chamber. 495 00:35:24,755 --> 00:35:27,515 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear any of this effing spit 496 00:35:27,755 --> 00:35:31,555 Speaker 1: on our air ever again, because you're going to get 497 00:35:31,635 --> 00:35:35,755 Speaker 1: us all killed. Later in the year, he confined about 498 00:35:35,795 --> 00:35:39,075 Speaker 1: much of the Tucker Carlson fantasy stories about January sixth 499 00:35:39,475 --> 00:35:44,955 Speaker 1: shock of shocks, Donner says, last year Fox News fired him. Well, 500 00:35:44,995 --> 00:35:48,355 Speaker 1: of course they fired Tucker Carlson too. But Donner is suing, 501 00:35:48,395 --> 00:35:51,555 Speaker 1: claiming he was fired because he attempted to report the 502 00:35:51,675 --> 00:35:55,435 Speaker 1: truth like his contract said he was supposed to, and 503 00:35:55,555 --> 00:35:59,275 Speaker 1: his rights were violated. As if to provide fresh evidence, 504 00:35:59,315 --> 00:36:02,715 Speaker 1: the same day Donner sues, a Fox commentator brought up 505 00:36:02,755 --> 00:36:06,235 Speaker 1: our hitler referring to his opponents as vermin and John 506 00:36:06,315 --> 00:36:09,515 Speaker 1: Roberts supposedly an anchor there but ever increasingly just as 507 00:36:09,515 --> 00:36:13,075 Speaker 1: shrill and crazy as the rest of them, replied, as 508 00:36:13,115 --> 00:36:18,515 Speaker 1: if reading from the official both sides handbook, John Roberts said, 509 00:36:18,635 --> 00:36:22,635 Speaker 1: quote Hillary Clinton called her opponents deplorable. At one point, 510 00:36:22,995 --> 00:36:30,195 Speaker 1: so there's language on both sides. Deplorable vermin to be 511 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:31,035 Speaker 1: rooted out. 512 00:36:31,315 --> 00:36:32,995 Speaker 4: Deplorable, Well, it's deplorable. 513 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:37,955 Speaker 1: John Roberts is an idiot. It goes with the name 514 00:36:38,155 --> 00:36:41,395 Speaker 1: worser Brandon Herrera. He's one of those guys who thinks 515 00:36:41,395 --> 00:36:45,715 Speaker 1: your standard Republican congressman is too liberal. Brandon Herrera is 516 00:36:45,795 --> 00:36:49,195 Speaker 1: primary ing Tony Gonzalez from the Texas twenty third and 517 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:51,675 Speaker 1: he decided the best way to do this was to 518 00:36:51,875 --> 00:36:59,235 Speaker 1: recreate the assassination of Martin Luther King on video. He's 519 00:36:59,235 --> 00:37:01,995 Speaker 1: a trumpist. He posted a selfie with our hitler and 520 00:37:02,035 --> 00:37:05,315 Speaker 1: in the video he does recreate the assassination to see 521 00:37:05,315 --> 00:37:08,035 Speaker 1: if he can make the same wounds via the same 522 00:37:08,075 --> 00:37:10,595 Speaker 1: shot angles. And when he was done with that, he 523 00:37:10,675 --> 00:37:13,235 Speaker 1: walks up to the lifel like Martin Luther King dummy 524 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:16,475 Speaker 1: and shoots it in the head several times and laughs. 525 00:37:18,795 --> 00:37:22,875 Speaker 1: Herrera is also an idiot. During his isis level cringeworthy video, 526 00:37:22,955 --> 00:37:25,995 Speaker 1: Herrara explained that Martin Luther King was the reason kids 527 00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:29,475 Speaker 1: get out of school in February. The King Holiday is 528 00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:32,715 Speaker 1: the third Monday in January. On the other hand, if 529 00:37:32,715 --> 00:37:36,835 Speaker 1: you are sexually aroused by guns like this guy Herrera 530 00:37:36,955 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 1: clearly is I guess a month off is actually surprisingly 531 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:47,075 Speaker 1: close to reality. But our winners the worst the Supreme 532 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:50,835 Speaker 1: Court of the United States of America, John Roberts, the 533 00:37:50,915 --> 00:37:53,955 Speaker 1: other John Roberts, not the Fox guy, although they have 534 00:37:54,115 --> 00:37:58,955 Speaker 1: equal sway over the Court justices, don't they none John Roberts, 535 00:37:59,035 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 1: Chief Justice Harlan Crow, owner and operator. After two years 536 00:38:04,075 --> 00:38:07,715 Speaker 1: of unres obmitting scandals involving these conservative nut jobs on 537 00:38:07,795 --> 00:38:10,675 Speaker 1: the Court whose main concern in life is keeping men 538 00:38:10,715 --> 00:38:15,915 Speaker 1: from wearing dresses while they themselves wear flowing robes, the 539 00:38:15,955 --> 00:38:19,795 Speaker 1: Court has now issued a voluntary code of ethics. A 540 00:38:19,955 --> 00:38:25,435 Speaker 1: code of ethics, among other things, it's not just voluntary, 541 00:38:25,475 --> 00:38:28,475 Speaker 1: as in, we are volunteering to do this, even though 542 00:38:28,635 --> 00:38:31,275 Speaker 1: nowhere does it say we have to, and Congress did 543 00:38:31,315 --> 00:38:35,235 Speaker 1: not ask us to. It is also voluntary among the 544 00:38:35,315 --> 00:38:40,595 Speaker 1: nine justices, meaning these are not actually rules. The current 545 00:38:40,715 --> 00:38:43,515 Speaker 1: nine justices have simply said, Okay, we're going to do this, 546 00:38:44,075 --> 00:38:47,875 Speaker 1: and we won't do this. New justices could come onto 547 00:38:47,875 --> 00:38:51,155 Speaker 1: the Court and just ignore the damn thing. By the way, 548 00:38:51,155 --> 00:38:54,595 Speaker 1: there is also almost no we won't do this in 549 00:38:54,635 --> 00:38:59,835 Speaker 1: the whole damn thing. Item four C, specifically permits justices 550 00:38:59,915 --> 00:39:06,155 Speaker 1: to participate in fundraising for law related nonprofit. In other words, 551 00:39:06,475 --> 00:39:09,795 Speaker 1: it will now be written down that Sam the sham 552 00:39:09,835 --> 00:39:15,555 Speaker 1: Alito can do galas for the Federalist Society. It's not 553 00:39:15,795 --> 00:39:20,115 Speaker 1: wrong with dala luncheons and Clarence Thomas can raffle off, 554 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:23,715 Speaker 1: you know, rulings on cases, just as long as the 555 00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:27,875 Speaker 1: criminal or terrorist organization that Sam and Clarence give the 556 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:32,315 Speaker 1: money to is nonprofit. And oh, by the way, there 557 00:39:32,315 --> 00:39:35,435 Speaker 1: is no enforcement you break the rules of the New 558 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:40,955 Speaker 1: Code of Ethics, and there is no outside group monitoring 559 00:39:40,995 --> 00:39:44,235 Speaker 1: your behavior or punishing you in any way. You can 560 00:39:44,275 --> 00:39:46,835 Speaker 1: do whatever you want. They can't even make you wear 561 00:39:46,835 --> 00:39:49,035 Speaker 1: your gown over your head for an hour or something 562 00:39:49,035 --> 00:39:54,115 Speaker 1: as punishment. The Supreme Court and its ethics rules, codifying 563 00:39:54,155 --> 00:39:56,795 Speaker 1: for all time the rules that will protect its tradition 564 00:39:57,195 --> 00:40:03,995 Speaker 1: of having no ethics. Two days worse persons and the world. 565 00:40:04,675 --> 00:40:15,155 Speaker 1: Oh to the number one story on the countdown and 566 00:40:15,235 --> 00:40:18,235 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 567 00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:23,835 Speaker 1: Not an egotistical reminiscence of my career this time, but 568 00:40:23,915 --> 00:40:27,075 Speaker 1: a story that I first told you about a year ago. 569 00:40:27,235 --> 00:40:32,235 Speaker 1: The anniversary was Sunday. I could not honor him again. 570 00:40:32,595 --> 00:40:35,755 Speaker 1: He is with me every day and there are actually 571 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:38,715 Speaker 1: some important developments in the aftermath of his time with me, 572 00:40:39,315 --> 00:40:42,555 Speaker 1: so I want to tell you about him again. His 573 00:40:42,675 --> 00:40:46,795 Speaker 1: name was Mishu. I have mentioned I never had a 574 00:40:46,795 --> 00:40:50,515 Speaker 1: dog until the year twenty and twelve. I was allergic 575 00:40:50,595 --> 00:40:53,035 Speaker 1: as a kid. I still am allergic to the big 576 00:40:53,115 --> 00:40:56,795 Speaker 1: fur dogs, and I was repeatedly warned by my allergists 577 00:40:57,195 --> 00:41:00,315 Speaker 1: as a kid, as an adult, as a soon to 578 00:41:00,355 --> 00:41:05,835 Speaker 1: be really old man, that hypoallergenic dogs were not necessarily 579 00:41:05,875 --> 00:41:08,315 Speaker 1: a thing, and if you had a minor reaction to 580 00:41:08,355 --> 00:41:10,555 Speaker 1: the hair of a Poodle or a Westie or a 581 00:41:10,595 --> 00:41:16,115 Speaker 1: Maltese or another hypoallergenic dog, you were lucky if you 582 00:41:16,195 --> 00:41:18,355 Speaker 1: did not have a minor reaction. If you had a 583 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:21,675 Speaker 1: major reaction, what you would have with that would be heartbreak. 584 00:41:22,555 --> 00:41:26,075 Speaker 1: Well I did not. I did not have heartbreak. I 585 00:41:26,235 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: was blessed by the opposite of heartbreak related to dogs, 586 00:41:30,995 --> 00:41:36,115 Speaker 1: and rapidly I realized, no dogs, I had wasted the 587 00:41:36,155 --> 00:41:39,755 Speaker 1: first fifty three years of my life. So I have 588 00:41:39,875 --> 00:41:43,035 Speaker 1: tried to make up for that ever since. My gal 589 00:41:43,115 --> 00:41:46,395 Speaker 1: Stevie and I just celebrated the eleventh anniversary of having 590 00:41:46,395 --> 00:41:50,715 Speaker 1: adopted one another. Rose's birthday is next month, her tenth 591 00:41:50,955 --> 00:41:51,515 Speaker 1: the Big one. 592 00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:51,715 Speaker 4: Oh. 593 00:41:53,155 --> 00:41:56,435 Speaker 1: I had often looked into getting a third dog, and 594 00:41:56,515 --> 00:41:59,075 Speaker 1: I had gotten heavily involved in rescue work, and then 595 00:41:59,115 --> 00:42:03,275 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, those two paths crossed. I got a 596 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:06,355 Speaker 1: call from my friend Sue Levitt, who runs the rescue 597 00:42:06,395 --> 00:42:10,955 Speaker 1: part of American Maltese Association for the entire company. Now 598 00:42:11,515 --> 00:42:14,475 Speaker 1: she is the president of the operation. And she said, 599 00:42:14,515 --> 00:42:17,235 Speaker 1: we have something special and challenging, and if you don't 600 00:42:17,275 --> 00:42:19,395 Speaker 1: want to do it, understood, but we really think you 601 00:42:19,475 --> 00:42:23,235 Speaker 1: might be the best. Well, flattery will get you everywhere. 602 00:42:23,955 --> 00:42:26,875 Speaker 1: And she said, he's a three month old Maltese Popenny 603 00:42:26,915 --> 00:42:29,955 Speaker 1: has a terrible, terrible heart condition and they are not 604 00:42:29,995 --> 00:42:34,235 Speaker 1: sure if he will make it past ten months. I 605 00:42:34,275 --> 00:42:37,515 Speaker 1: thought about it for about five seconds. I said yes, 606 00:42:38,315 --> 00:42:42,715 Speaker 1: and soon there he was in my apartment. Spaghetti was 607 00:42:42,715 --> 00:42:44,835 Speaker 1: his name, and he was trying to boss Stevie and 608 00:42:44,915 --> 00:42:48,315 Speaker 1: Rose around, and I knew he needed to stay, and 609 00:42:48,355 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: I knew he needed a real good new name. And 610 00:42:52,515 --> 00:42:55,035 Speaker 1: if you rename a dog, you're supposed to try to 611 00:42:55,075 --> 00:42:57,395 Speaker 1: make it something that sounds like the other name, so 612 00:42:57,435 --> 00:43:05,075 Speaker 1: you don't overly confuse them. Spaghetti, Getty, Teddy Ted my 613 00:43:05,155 --> 00:43:10,035 Speaker 1: dad's name perfect. I was so prepared for the worst 614 00:43:10,115 --> 00:43:13,515 Speaker 1: with Ted that it was July and I did not 615 00:43:13,635 --> 00:43:16,195 Speaker 1: buy him any stuff for winter because there was no 616 00:43:16,275 --> 00:43:19,115 Speaker 1: reason to assume he was going to see winter. Then 617 00:43:19,155 --> 00:43:21,075 Speaker 1: I took him to the Animal Medical Center here in 618 00:43:21,075 --> 00:43:24,875 Speaker 1: New York, and the cardiologist Dennis Trafney said, well, he's 619 00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:26,915 Speaker 1: got a heavy valve in there, and if we don't 620 00:43:26,915 --> 00:43:32,195 Speaker 1: do anything, he's got five to seven years. But he said, 621 00:43:32,235 --> 00:43:35,115 Speaker 1: with medication that'd be like seven to ten years. But 622 00:43:35,235 --> 00:43:37,475 Speaker 1: I can operate on him and probably give him a 623 00:43:37,555 --> 00:43:40,835 Speaker 1: normal lifespan. And I can thread this filament I'm holding 624 00:43:40,875 --> 00:43:43,875 Speaker 1: in through his jugular vein and into his heart, and 625 00:43:43,915 --> 00:43:47,235 Speaker 1: then we stop his heart electricically for three seconds, and 626 00:43:47,275 --> 00:43:49,395 Speaker 1: I push this button on this filament, and on the 627 00:43:49,435 --> 00:43:51,675 Speaker 1: other end of the filament is a tiny balloon and 628 00:43:51,675 --> 00:43:53,715 Speaker 1: it pushes the valve open, and you just keep doing 629 00:43:53,795 --> 00:43:55,435 Speaker 1: it as long as he can stand it. And it's 630 00:43:55,475 --> 00:43:58,955 Speaker 1: like knocking the rust off a hinge, just by opening 631 00:43:58,995 --> 00:44:02,115 Speaker 1: the door again and again. And I said, wait, go 632 00:44:02,235 --> 00:44:04,475 Speaker 1: back to the filament part. I don't see any filament, 633 00:44:05,275 --> 00:44:07,755 Speaker 1: and he said sorry, and he moved it in front 634 00:44:07,755 --> 00:44:11,715 Speaker 1: of a black background card and there it was, and 635 00:44:11,755 --> 00:44:14,875 Speaker 1: I said great. And then I said, well, why did 636 00:44:14,915 --> 00:44:19,635 Speaker 1: the vet who got the exam and the electro cardiogram 637 00:44:20,195 --> 00:44:23,475 Speaker 1: and all the visuals, why did he think that Ted 638 00:44:23,555 --> 00:44:27,155 Speaker 1: here would not make it past ten months? And doctor 639 00:44:27,195 --> 00:44:29,795 Speaker 1: Trafney said, well, if you are a vet, you might 640 00:44:29,835 --> 00:44:33,475 Speaker 1: see this condition once in your career. I operate on 641 00:44:33,555 --> 00:44:37,235 Speaker 1: it three times a month. Ted is now five and 642 00:44:37,235 --> 00:44:40,275 Speaker 1: a half years old. He is sitting at my feet 643 00:44:40,355 --> 00:44:42,915 Speaker 1: as I speak. He is a five and a half 644 00:44:42,995 --> 00:44:46,355 Speaker 1: year old boy in a dog's body, and every once 645 00:44:46,395 --> 00:44:47,755 Speaker 1: in a while he likes to come in here and 646 00:44:47,835 --> 00:44:52,155 Speaker 1: record the show with me. On walks, Ted flirts with 647 00:44:52,435 --> 00:44:56,675 Speaker 1: every human girl he can find. He hunts them. He 648 00:44:56,715 --> 00:44:59,155 Speaker 1: looks for them, preferably in groups are three or four 649 00:44:59,435 --> 00:45:03,155 Speaker 1: sitting on blankets in Central Park. I tell people this 650 00:45:03,235 --> 00:45:05,675 Speaker 1: story and they don't believe it. And when I leave 651 00:45:05,715 --> 00:45:08,235 Speaker 1: a group of girls who are sitting on a blanket 652 00:45:08,275 --> 00:45:12,235 Speaker 1: whom Ted has visited, I say, just watch what happens next. 653 00:45:12,955 --> 00:45:16,795 Speaker 1: Sure enough, he knows the difference. He is a little boy. 654 00:45:17,755 --> 00:45:21,115 Speaker 1: Ted barks at all dogs who are bigger than he is, 655 00:45:21,555 --> 00:45:23,995 Speaker 1: and then he goes up and says hi to them. 656 00:45:24,355 --> 00:45:28,795 Speaker 1: He has enemies. Though the printer oh the scripts for 657 00:45:28,835 --> 00:45:32,155 Speaker 1: this show, none has ever been printed out that Ted 658 00:45:32,315 --> 00:45:35,755 Speaker 1: was not furious about. He hates the plunger. If I 659 00:45:35,795 --> 00:45:38,915 Speaker 1: open the door that the plunger used to be behind, 660 00:45:39,075 --> 00:45:43,595 Speaker 1: he goes crazy. He hates thunder, he hates fireworks, and 661 00:45:43,635 --> 00:45:47,995 Speaker 1: he hates at least a dozen television commercials. Now. He 662 00:45:48,035 --> 00:45:50,475 Speaker 1: does not react as many dogs due to scary things. 663 00:45:50,515 --> 00:45:55,675 Speaker 1: By being scared, he confronts them. Ted is a piece 664 00:45:55,795 --> 00:45:59,675 Speaker 1: of work. One other note, he also hates the theme 665 00:45:59,795 --> 00:46:03,475 Speaker 1: music from the NHL Network, possibly because they have animation 666 00:46:03,915 --> 00:46:06,475 Speaker 1: of the various animals for whom the NHL teams are 667 00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:10,995 Speaker 1: named coming towards him. Anyway, as you can probably guess 668 00:46:11,075 --> 00:46:14,595 Speaker 1: that operation went so well that they were an hour 669 00:46:14,755 --> 00:46:17,835 Speaker 1: late giving Ted back to me, because, as the surgical 670 00:46:17,915 --> 00:46:21,235 Speaker 1: resident with the bemused look on his face said, he 671 00:46:21,315 --> 00:46:23,715 Speaker 1: had had to do all the tests a second time 672 00:46:25,035 --> 00:46:27,715 Speaker 1: because he was worried he'd screwed up the first set 673 00:46:27,755 --> 00:46:33,515 Speaker 1: of results because the results were too good. If I 674 00:46:33,675 --> 00:46:37,395 Speaker 1: could have gotten luckier given the prognosis with which Ted arrived, 675 00:46:37,835 --> 00:46:42,875 Speaker 1: I don't know how I did right. Ted Teddy, Well, 676 00:46:42,915 --> 00:46:46,355 Speaker 1: I've already put him to sleep, not an uncommon reaction 677 00:46:46,435 --> 00:46:50,115 Speaker 1: to listeners to this program. Since then, ted has twice 678 00:46:50,195 --> 00:46:53,515 Speaker 1: been joined by a fourth dog in our family. As 679 00:46:53,555 --> 00:46:55,715 Speaker 1: I said, I'm trying to make up for lost time. 680 00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:59,555 Speaker 1: I really do think four is the limit, although there 681 00:46:59,555 --> 00:47:01,675 Speaker 1: have been several days when I've been convinced I was 682 00:47:01,715 --> 00:47:03,635 Speaker 1: about to bring in a fifth and give it a shot. 683 00:47:04,755 --> 00:47:07,595 Speaker 1: Current fourth slot on my roster is occupied by a 684 00:47:07,635 --> 00:47:13,355 Speaker 1: wonderful geriatric rescue named Minee. That's French for kitty. Lord 685 00:47:13,555 --> 00:47:16,075 Speaker 1: knows the confusion of the first fifteen years of his 686 00:47:16,155 --> 00:47:19,315 Speaker 1: life as the dog of a French teacher in Hell's 687 00:47:19,395 --> 00:47:24,515 Speaker 1: Kitchen in New York. He's named Kitty. Minee is the 688 00:47:24,515 --> 00:47:27,355 Speaker 1: one who came to me supposedly with dementia. I've told 689 00:47:27,395 --> 00:47:30,395 Speaker 1: you his story before, and he's a little confused. He's 690 00:47:30,435 --> 00:47:34,675 Speaker 1: sixteen now, Hell, I'm a little confused, and I'm not 691 00:47:34,715 --> 00:47:37,915 Speaker 1: even sixty five. Mine is the one who did not 692 00:47:38,075 --> 00:47:42,115 Speaker 1: have dementia. He had bad teeth. We took them all out, 693 00:47:42,155 --> 00:47:44,275 Speaker 1: and literally from the time he woke up from the 694 00:47:44,315 --> 00:47:47,795 Speaker 1: anesthesia and every day since, in the sixteen months he's 695 00:47:47,795 --> 00:47:51,555 Speaker 1: been here, he's gotten a little younger, like every three 696 00:47:51,635 --> 00:47:54,835 Speaker 1: or four hours. Best dog on a walk I have 697 00:47:54,955 --> 00:47:58,555 Speaker 1: ever met, let alone lived with. He knows you are 698 00:47:58,555 --> 00:48:01,475 Speaker 1: going to slow down before you do. If he's walking 699 00:48:01,515 --> 00:48:04,235 Speaker 1: with another dog, he matches them stride for stride. When 700 00:48:04,235 --> 00:48:08,235 Speaker 1: they stopped, he stops. I've never heard him issue a 701 00:48:08,355 --> 00:48:13,235 Speaker 1: cross sound to another dog. He is serene and content 702 00:48:13,475 --> 00:48:19,595 Speaker 1: at home under any circumstances. Outdoors, now he has begun 703 00:48:19,635 --> 00:48:23,755 Speaker 1: to leap over all curbs and often over the stripes 704 00:48:24,195 --> 00:48:29,795 Speaker 1: on the crosswalks or even narrow drains or lines on sidewalks. 705 00:48:30,275 --> 00:48:32,675 Speaker 1: For the longest time, I thought that was a sign 706 00:48:32,715 --> 00:48:34,715 Speaker 1: of dementia, that he was doing it out of confusion. 707 00:48:35,595 --> 00:48:39,355 Speaker 1: But he now flies over twenty or thirty of them 708 00:48:39,635 --> 00:48:43,995 Speaker 1: every single walk. And I bought a selfie stick and 709 00:48:44,075 --> 00:48:46,795 Speaker 1: humiliated myself with a selfie stick to take pictures of 710 00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:49,835 Speaker 1: him in slow motion to see exactly what was going on. 711 00:48:50,035 --> 00:48:53,275 Speaker 1: And it's clear there are two different leaps. He has 712 00:48:53,355 --> 00:48:55,715 Speaker 1: one leap for when he is going over a curb, 713 00:48:56,195 --> 00:48:58,515 Speaker 1: and there's a different one with a different sort of 714 00:48:58,595 --> 00:49:01,235 Speaker 1: stance for when he's just going over a flat surface 715 00:49:01,275 --> 00:49:03,075 Speaker 1: that he wants to leap over it because there's a 716 00:49:03,115 --> 00:49:07,675 Speaker 1: line there. It's pretty clear he does this because he 717 00:49:07,795 --> 00:49:12,595 Speaker 1: still can. I don't know who sent him to me. 718 00:49:13,435 --> 00:49:17,915 Speaker 1: I have suspicions it was Mishu, but Minee clearly is 719 00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:21,235 Speaker 1: here to teach me that lesson every day, do it 720 00:49:21,875 --> 00:49:26,275 Speaker 1: because you still can. Mine has a little kidney issue, 721 00:49:26,715 --> 00:49:30,795 Speaker 1: and he's good with the pad. He tries all the time, 722 00:49:30,955 --> 00:49:34,315 Speaker 1: and sometimes he gets on the pad and he's off 723 00:49:34,395 --> 00:49:38,595 Speaker 1: the pad. He has a little kidney issue. He also 724 00:49:38,675 --> 00:49:40,955 Speaker 1: has one eye that isn't very much good anymore. But 725 00:49:40,995 --> 00:49:44,075 Speaker 1: otherwise he is in startlingly good health. He eats like 726 00:49:44,155 --> 00:49:47,035 Speaker 1: a horse. He eats more than the young dogs. He 727 00:49:47,075 --> 00:49:50,035 Speaker 1: eats twice as much as the young dogs. He's gained 728 00:49:50,355 --> 00:49:52,675 Speaker 1: four pounds since he's with me, And if you know 729 00:49:52,755 --> 00:49:55,875 Speaker 1: your Maltese is that's about half a Maltese. He is 730 00:49:55,995 --> 00:50:01,275 Speaker 1: the happiest dog outdoors I have ever seen. But that 731 00:50:01,395 --> 00:50:07,115 Speaker 1: fourth roster spot before me, Nay, that was Mishu. When 732 00:50:07,155 --> 00:50:11,235 Speaker 1: my friend Sue from Malty's Rescue called again in August 733 00:50:11,315 --> 00:50:13,515 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, she said, I have a really, 734 00:50:14,075 --> 00:50:16,155 Speaker 1: really tough case this time, and I do not think 735 00:50:16,195 --> 00:50:19,115 Speaker 1: there is a chance that there could be an unexpectedly 736 00:50:19,155 --> 00:50:22,795 Speaker 1: positive outcome, like the one you've had with Ted. She said, 737 00:50:22,795 --> 00:50:26,075 Speaker 1: this is a puppy. He's barely three months old. The 738 00:50:26,155 --> 00:50:28,795 Speaker 1: family loves him, they adore him. But there are two 739 00:50:28,955 --> 00:50:32,955 Speaker 1: young kids, and frankly, the mother believes accurately that they 740 00:50:32,955 --> 00:50:36,275 Speaker 1: are just too young to watch this little dog die. 741 00:50:36,795 --> 00:50:40,475 Speaker 1: His name was Mishu. They were a Polish family. Polish 742 00:50:40,515 --> 00:50:44,315 Speaker 1: for little bear is Mishu. And the disease he had 743 00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:49,115 Speaker 1: was tetrology of fallow. That sounds at all familiar to you. 744 00:50:49,395 --> 00:50:52,715 Speaker 1: In a human child, it can be repaired now. It 745 00:50:52,795 --> 00:50:54,835 Speaker 1: used to kill children by the time they were ten, 746 00:50:55,395 --> 00:50:58,275 Speaker 1: but in a human child they can now do surgery. 747 00:50:58,315 --> 00:51:03,795 Speaker 1: But the surgery lasts about twelve hours. Jimmy Kimmel's son 748 00:51:03,915 --> 00:51:05,915 Speaker 1: had it, talked about it a lot when he was 749 00:51:05,955 --> 00:51:09,555 Speaker 1: talking about the healthcare system in this country. In dogs, 750 00:51:09,955 --> 00:51:14,195 Speaker 1: there have been some early experiments in surgery, almost exclusively 751 00:51:14,235 --> 00:51:17,915 Speaker 1: for bigger dogs. As of Mishu's time, they really had 752 00:51:17,955 --> 00:51:20,875 Speaker 1: not succeeded on any dog less than say, twenty or 753 00:51:20,875 --> 00:51:24,275 Speaker 1: twenty five pounds. If you've ever seen the drawings of 754 00:51:24,675 --> 00:51:29,635 Speaker 1: mc escher, the famous illustrator, where the same staircase goes 755 00:51:29,755 --> 00:51:33,835 Speaker 1: up and down at the same time. That's what a 756 00:51:33,915 --> 00:51:36,915 Speaker 1: heart afflicted with tetrology of fallow looks like. There are 757 00:51:37,075 --> 00:51:40,235 Speaker 1: arteries going over the heart and under it, and others 758 00:51:40,235 --> 00:51:45,715 Speaker 1: that take the oxygenated blood in the wrong direction. The 759 00:51:46,115 --> 00:51:52,675 Speaker 1: sufferer of tetrology of fellow never gets enough oxygen. In 760 00:51:52,755 --> 00:51:57,355 Speaker 1: August twenty twenty one, Mishu arrived. It's easy to romanticize 761 00:51:57,355 --> 00:52:00,315 Speaker 1: things like this, especially in retrospect. There was something magical 762 00:52:00,355 --> 00:52:04,635 Speaker 1: about him. Though he was very, very sick. His tongue 763 00:52:04,875 --> 00:52:09,235 Speaker 1: and gums were purple from the lack of oxygen. He 764 00:52:09,315 --> 00:52:13,075 Speaker 1: was tiny, dwarfed by my other three dogs, and because 765 00:52:13,075 --> 00:52:15,755 Speaker 1: he was three months old, and yet he would start 766 00:52:15,915 --> 00:52:19,955 Speaker 1: trouble with them, silently charging ted or going up and 767 00:52:20,075 --> 00:52:23,395 Speaker 1: yapping at Stevie, and soon getting all three of them 768 00:52:23,435 --> 00:52:26,395 Speaker 1: playing and fighting with each other. And that's all the 769 00:52:26,395 --> 00:52:29,475 Speaker 1: strength he had. A minute of this tops and he 770 00:52:30,315 --> 00:52:33,635 Speaker 1: had to sit down and simply watch the chaos he 771 00:52:33,675 --> 00:52:38,795 Speaker 1: had created and clearly loved to create, and he also 772 00:52:38,835 --> 00:52:42,315 Speaker 1: clearly loved them. If two of the dogs were lying 773 00:52:42,355 --> 00:52:46,235 Speaker 1: near each other but not together, he would lie in 774 00:52:46,275 --> 00:52:50,195 Speaker 1: the empty space between them, deliberately so that his head 775 00:52:50,235 --> 00:52:54,235 Speaker 1: rested on one and his pack paws on or against 776 00:52:54,235 --> 00:52:57,475 Speaker 1: the other, and soon they would respond to his presence 777 00:52:57,475 --> 00:53:01,715 Speaker 1: by arranging themselves and cuddling together with a space for him. 778 00:53:02,395 --> 00:53:06,235 Speaker 1: They had not done that before Michu came. Once I 779 00:53:06,315 --> 00:53:09,555 Speaker 1: was stretched out, legs up on my couch, and the 780 00:53:09,595 --> 00:53:12,035 Speaker 1: four of them climbed in two by my feet, two 781 00:53:12,035 --> 00:53:15,675 Speaker 1: by my knees. I called Mishu's name, and he turned, 782 00:53:15,715 --> 00:53:17,115 Speaker 1: and he looked at me, and then the four of 783 00:53:17,155 --> 00:53:22,155 Speaker 1: them almost simultaneously fell asleep. It was such a simple thing, 784 00:53:23,395 --> 00:53:26,315 Speaker 1: yet easily it remains one of the most extraordinary and 785 00:53:26,435 --> 00:53:30,835 Speaker 1: wonderful moments of my life. And I prayed that night, 786 00:53:31,155 --> 00:53:33,475 Speaker 1: and not for the last time, that if there was 787 00:53:33,515 --> 00:53:35,875 Speaker 1: no miracle meant for Mishu, that at least when he 788 00:53:35,955 --> 00:53:38,795 Speaker 1: left us, he would be in my arms when he went. 789 00:53:40,035 --> 00:53:43,155 Speaker 1: Bishu was an athlete. He just was an athlete who 790 00:53:43,195 --> 00:53:46,395 Speaker 1: had no stamina. In the pen, I'd keep him in 791 00:53:46,475 --> 00:53:48,315 Speaker 1: for his own safety. When I had to go out, 792 00:53:48,755 --> 00:53:51,155 Speaker 1: he would get up on his hind legs and stand. 793 00:53:51,355 --> 00:53:53,835 Speaker 1: I would come back and see him standing in his pen, 794 00:53:55,515 --> 00:53:57,715 Speaker 1: or try to get out of his pen. Once he 795 00:53:57,795 --> 00:54:01,075 Speaker 1: did get out of his pen, I came home and 796 00:54:01,075 --> 00:54:05,075 Speaker 1: he was marching around the house. And he did that 797 00:54:05,275 --> 00:54:08,395 Speaker 1: confidently around the place, and he loved to move and 798 00:54:08,475 --> 00:54:10,995 Speaker 1: to run and to play, and then he would have 799 00:54:11,035 --> 00:54:15,875 Speaker 1: to stop. Mishu also enjoyed food as much as any 800 00:54:15,955 --> 00:54:20,675 Speaker 1: dog I have ever known, more even than mine. He 801 00:54:20,755 --> 00:54:23,235 Speaker 1: gained almost a pound a month while he was with me. 802 00:54:23,875 --> 00:54:26,715 Speaker 1: If you approached him with a treat, he would literally 803 00:54:27,035 --> 00:54:29,475 Speaker 1: punch the air with one of his front legs, like 804 00:54:29,515 --> 00:54:32,955 Speaker 1: an athlete celebrating a success, often with one and then 805 00:54:33,035 --> 00:54:35,755 Speaker 1: the other, a little one two punch like a boxer. 806 00:54:36,195 --> 00:54:39,115 Speaker 1: And the sheer joy of that never failed to make 807 00:54:39,155 --> 00:54:41,835 Speaker 1: me smile and laugh, and I often go back to 808 00:54:41,875 --> 00:54:43,995 Speaker 1: look at the video when I need to smile or laugh. 809 00:54:44,915 --> 00:54:47,035 Speaker 1: Put him on his back next to you, jab a 810 00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:49,595 Speaker 1: finger at his paws, and you'd be in a boxing 811 00:54:49,635 --> 00:54:52,755 Speaker 1: match with a four pound puppy who exulted in douking 812 00:54:52,795 --> 00:54:55,475 Speaker 1: it out with you, and you always knew when the 813 00:54:55,475 --> 00:54:59,475 Speaker 1: fight was over. Misch would stop throwing hands or throwing pause, 814 00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:02,075 Speaker 1: and he would simply take his front paws and grab 815 00:55:02,115 --> 00:55:05,075 Speaker 1: onto your finger and hold he wants to this for 816 00:55:05,115 --> 00:55:09,195 Speaker 1: a solid minute. I have never felt more as if 817 00:55:09,195 --> 00:55:12,875 Speaker 1: I were truly communicating with a dog than when Mishu 818 00:55:12,875 --> 00:55:17,955 Speaker 1: would hold my finger. Knowing his attitude, I really am 819 00:55:17,995 --> 00:55:23,595 Speaker 1: surprised he didn't pull my finger. He was an extraordinary 820 00:55:23,875 --> 00:55:29,675 Speaker 1: happy puppy, even when he felt bad physically. Those were 821 00:55:29,955 --> 00:55:34,995 Speaker 1: harrowing times. Mishu would be sitting on my lap, or 822 00:55:35,035 --> 00:55:37,275 Speaker 1: walking on the floor, or just chilling with the other 823 00:55:37,315 --> 00:55:40,475 Speaker 1: pups when he would suddenly tense up, sometimes letting out 824 00:55:40,475 --> 00:55:44,315 Speaker 1: a cry. Twice. That cry was exactly like that of 825 00:55:44,355 --> 00:55:47,955 Speaker 1: a young human boy. It was such a startling sound, 826 00:55:49,035 --> 00:55:54,515 Speaker 1: so clear, so unmistakable, so unbelievable, that the other dogs 827 00:55:54,555 --> 00:55:58,275 Speaker 1: would stop and stare with what could genuinely be described 828 00:55:58,315 --> 00:56:01,795 Speaker 1: as a look of alarm. Most times, the tensing was 829 00:56:01,835 --> 00:56:04,235 Speaker 1: my cue to grab him and hold him as tight 830 00:56:04,235 --> 00:56:07,195 Speaker 1: as I could, because that inability to get oxygen to 831 00:56:07,315 --> 00:56:09,995 Speaker 1: all the parts of his body, particularly the brain, of course, 832 00:56:10,355 --> 00:56:14,235 Speaker 1: would cause his body to contract and writhe and if 833 00:56:14,275 --> 00:56:16,995 Speaker 1: he was on any surface other than the ground or 834 00:56:17,035 --> 00:56:21,275 Speaker 1: the floor, it could literally throw him off a couch 835 00:56:21,595 --> 00:56:25,955 Speaker 1: to the floor it was rigid, and then he would snap, 836 00:56:26,435 --> 00:56:29,315 Speaker 1: and then he would fall. The first time he did that, 837 00:56:29,355 --> 00:56:32,115 Speaker 1: my veterinarian was here, and she said, you may now 838 00:56:32,155 --> 00:56:34,155 Speaker 1: have to take him to the emergency room. She said, 839 00:56:34,195 --> 00:56:36,955 Speaker 1: that's essentially what a dog does just before he faints, 840 00:56:38,035 --> 00:56:40,755 Speaker 1: but then within seconds it would stop. His body would 841 00:56:40,755 --> 00:56:44,395 Speaker 1: relax more or less. By accident, I discovered that after 842 00:56:44,435 --> 00:56:47,075 Speaker 1: one of these seizures he seemed to be soothed if 843 00:56:47,075 --> 00:56:50,715 Speaker 1: I would carry him and walk him around, gently rocking 844 00:56:50,795 --> 00:56:52,755 Speaker 1: him in my arms and talking to him. As I 845 00:56:52,795 --> 00:56:56,635 Speaker 1: did so, Mishu and I solved a lot of the 846 00:56:56,635 --> 00:56:59,955 Speaker 1: world's problems in those little walks out in the fresh air, 847 00:57:00,355 --> 00:57:03,595 Speaker 1: on the balcony or just around the house. He would 848 00:57:03,595 --> 00:57:06,955 Speaker 1: often doze off, but just as often he would within 849 00:57:07,035 --> 00:57:11,995 Speaker 1: minutes be ready to start playing again. And so I 850 00:57:12,075 --> 00:57:17,195 Speaker 1: had in my little flock of four lovely dogs, a sweet, wise, serene, 851 00:57:17,435 --> 00:57:20,475 Speaker 1: playful puppy who liked to grasp my finger with his 852 00:57:20,595 --> 00:57:25,115 Speaker 1: paws and loved everything about life, who was wise beyond 853 00:57:25,155 --> 00:57:31,635 Speaker 1: his years, and he was dying well. I could not 854 00:57:31,635 --> 00:57:34,395 Speaker 1: not try to find out if there was something to 855 00:57:34,475 --> 00:57:38,075 Speaker 1: be done to make his life longer or happier. What 856 00:57:38,195 --> 00:57:51,435 Speaker 1: we tried to do. When I resume the story of Mishu. Next, 857 00:57:59,515 --> 00:58:03,195 Speaker 1: resuming the story of my Maltese puppy, Mishu, his heart 858 00:58:03,355 --> 00:58:06,315 Speaker 1: so bad it pumped oxen genated blood the wrong way 859 00:58:06,795 --> 00:58:09,755 Speaker 1: and limited him to brief bursts of energy. And he 860 00:58:09,795 --> 00:58:12,395 Speaker 1: never really knew how sick he was, or that he 861 00:58:12,435 --> 00:58:15,195 Speaker 1: had been dealt a bad hand. He just took the 862 00:58:15,235 --> 00:58:21,315 Speaker 1: life he was given and loved and was loved. Of course, 863 00:58:21,355 --> 00:58:26,875 Speaker 1: I knew what sadness this was, this extraordinary soul trapped 864 00:58:26,875 --> 00:58:29,595 Speaker 1: in a body that would betray him at any time, 865 00:58:29,635 --> 00:58:32,315 Speaker 1: but certainly, no matter when that happened, it would be 866 00:58:32,315 --> 00:58:35,475 Speaker 1: before his time. So I had to at least try 867 00:58:35,515 --> 00:58:38,315 Speaker 1: to see if something could keep him here longer, or 868 00:58:38,315 --> 00:58:40,835 Speaker 1: at least make him feel better. While he was with us, 869 00:58:41,595 --> 00:58:45,075 Speaker 1: we went to see the city's top cardiologist for dogs, 870 00:58:45,195 --> 00:58:49,115 Speaker 1: and there was not. Although he thought keeping those cans 871 00:58:49,115 --> 00:58:51,915 Speaker 1: of a minute's worth of oxygen you sometimes see football 872 00:58:51,915 --> 00:58:54,755 Speaker 1: players breathing from on the sidelines, he thought that might 873 00:58:54,835 --> 00:58:58,635 Speaker 1: help a little relieve the pain. Soon, I had dozens 874 00:58:58,635 --> 00:59:01,795 Speaker 1: of those cans of oxygen in a hall closet, and 875 00:59:01,915 --> 00:59:05,035 Speaker 1: I was discussing building him an oxygen tent. But the 876 00:59:05,075 --> 00:59:08,515 Speaker 1: problem wasn't his breathing. He got all the oxygen he 877 00:59:08,555 --> 00:59:12,435 Speaker 1: would normally need. It was finding some way to get 878 00:59:12,475 --> 00:59:17,995 Speaker 1: the oxygen pumped by his fatally flawed heart to carry 879 00:59:18,035 --> 00:59:23,035 Speaker 1: the oxygen around his body. It's fine if you have 880 00:59:23,115 --> 00:59:28,915 Speaker 1: all the cabs in the world and there are no roads. Well, 881 00:59:28,955 --> 00:59:31,875 Speaker 1: there was no way to fix this the median age 882 00:59:31,955 --> 00:59:35,755 Speaker 1: of survival with dogs with tetrology. A fellow was just 883 00:59:35,795 --> 00:59:39,875 Speaker 1: about two years. His cardiologist brought up his case on 884 00:59:39,915 --> 00:59:43,195 Speaker 1: a board of international experts in canine cardiac care, and 885 00:59:43,235 --> 00:59:47,155 Speaker 1: they agreed there was no chance he would survive any operation, 886 00:59:47,395 --> 00:59:54,475 Speaker 1: let alone the experimental surgery for this devastating malformation. Thus, 887 00:59:54,795 --> 00:59:56,995 Speaker 1: the visits to the hospital turned out to be more 888 00:59:56,995 --> 01:00:00,675 Speaker 1: about letting people meet him and hold him. There was 889 01:00:02,915 --> 01:00:08,235 Speaker 1: an extraordinary soothing quality too holding Mishu. I heard it 890 01:00:08,275 --> 01:00:12,275 Speaker 1: again and again from people at an animal hospital, what 891 01:00:12,395 --> 01:00:17,595 Speaker 1: a special little soul, and he loved to be held. 892 01:00:18,795 --> 01:00:20,675 Speaker 1: I took him everywhere they would let me take him. 893 01:00:21,035 --> 01:00:23,275 Speaker 1: He was a regular at my weekly physical therapy for 894 01:00:23,395 --> 01:00:27,275 Speaker 1: my arthritic joints. My therapist adored him. She'd just hold 895 01:00:27,355 --> 01:00:30,155 Speaker 1: him and tell him stories. That took him to the 896 01:00:30,195 --> 01:00:33,555 Speaker 1: apple store once. I am happy to say he did 897 01:00:33,595 --> 01:00:37,435 Speaker 1: not like that at all. He went with me and 898 01:00:37,475 --> 01:00:40,355 Speaker 1: the other dogs for walks. He didn't walk. He was 899 01:00:40,355 --> 01:00:42,755 Speaker 1: always in a bag draped over my shoulder. He did 900 01:00:42,755 --> 01:00:44,955 Speaker 1: not have the stamina to walk for very long. I 901 01:00:44,955 --> 01:00:47,595 Speaker 1: never saw him fall asleep on a walk, though the 902 01:00:47,635 --> 01:00:53,395 Speaker 1: world fascinated him. The inevitable finally came at this time 903 01:00:53,435 --> 01:00:56,435 Speaker 1: of year in twenty twenty one. Throughout the last week, 904 01:00:56,475 --> 01:01:01,595 Speaker 1: the little pre feints increased. Mishu's happiness did not decrease. 905 01:01:02,395 --> 01:01:04,315 Speaker 1: Two days before the end, I approached him with a 906 01:01:04,355 --> 01:01:07,995 Speaker 1: treat with my camera phone rolling he punched with the 907 01:01:08,075 --> 01:01:09,995 Speaker 1: left and then he punched with the right, and he 908 01:01:10,155 --> 01:01:12,235 Speaker 1: ate the treat, and he licked his purple lips, and 909 01:01:12,275 --> 01:01:14,195 Speaker 1: when I surprised him with a second treat, he did 910 01:01:14,195 --> 01:01:18,955 Speaker 1: it all over again. On the afternoon of the twelfth 911 01:01:18,995 --> 01:01:21,635 Speaker 1: of November twenty twenty one, I was holding Mishu in 912 01:01:21,675 --> 01:01:23,755 Speaker 1: my lap as I sat and looked at the peak 913 01:01:23,795 --> 01:01:28,435 Speaker 1: foliage in Central Park, and with no warning, he suddenly 914 01:01:28,515 --> 01:01:32,475 Speaker 1: let out that near human cry, and I held him 915 01:01:33,075 --> 01:01:35,075 Speaker 1: and I stood up, and I walked him around the 916 01:01:35,075 --> 01:01:38,475 Speaker 1: balcony again, and then I had to sit him down 917 01:01:38,475 --> 01:01:39,955 Speaker 1: in his pen for a second, and I was just 918 01:01:39,995 --> 01:01:42,075 Speaker 1: picking him back up when he tensed up just like 919 01:01:42,115 --> 01:01:48,835 Speaker 1: all the other times, and died. Died as I picked 920 01:01:48,875 --> 01:01:53,595 Speaker 1: him back up. The special little soul was gone. His 921 01:01:53,675 --> 01:01:58,915 Speaker 1: body was getting cold with stunning rapidity, and something inside 922 01:01:58,955 --> 01:02:04,355 Speaker 1: me calmly said, hmm, not yet. I just don't think 923 01:02:04,395 --> 01:02:08,475 Speaker 1: he's ready. And with no training and absolutely no clue 924 01:02:08,475 --> 01:02:12,635 Speaker 1: what I was doing, I tried CPR on him. You 925 01:02:12,755 --> 01:02:16,795 Speaker 1: have to try, you have to try. I had so 926 01:02:17,155 --> 01:02:20,555 Speaker 1: little idea what on earth I was doing that. After 927 01:02:20,675 --> 01:02:23,915 Speaker 1: breathing air in and out of his lifeless body, I 928 01:02:24,075 --> 01:02:26,395 Speaker 1: moved my face away as if I were going to 929 01:02:26,475 --> 01:02:29,435 Speaker 1: spit out water, before reminding myself, no, dummy, that would 930 01:02:29,475 --> 01:02:32,995 Speaker 1: be for drowning. He didn't drown. He had a stroke 931 01:02:33,155 --> 01:02:37,395 Speaker 1: or a heart attack. I must have done five or 932 01:02:37,435 --> 01:02:39,515 Speaker 1: six breaths, and was thinking, how long do I do 933 01:02:39,555 --> 01:02:46,915 Speaker 1: this before I say goodbye? When I heard him exhale, 934 01:02:47,155 --> 01:02:49,755 Speaker 1: I waited for it to stop, or to be a 935 01:02:49,795 --> 01:02:53,035 Speaker 1: false alarm or some I don't know, some sort of 936 01:02:53,075 --> 01:02:56,555 Speaker 1: physical oddity caused by all the air I had pushed 937 01:02:56,555 --> 01:03:00,315 Speaker 1: into his lungs. But it wasn't any of that. Damned, 938 01:03:00,315 --> 01:03:02,555 Speaker 1: if this little dog had not somehow taught me how 939 01:03:02,595 --> 01:03:07,555 Speaker 1: to resuscitate him, he was alive. Then he was dead 940 01:03:07,595 --> 01:03:10,995 Speaker 1: and getting cold. Now he was alive again with a 941 01:03:11,115 --> 01:03:16,795 Speaker 1: regular breath and for him a regular heartbeat. It was 942 01:03:16,995 --> 01:03:20,675 Speaker 1: rush hour on Friday afternoon, and there was a bottleneck 943 01:03:20,795 --> 01:03:25,115 Speaker 1: and a bridge approach between Mishu and I and the hospital, 944 01:03:25,155 --> 01:03:28,115 Speaker 1: and I had visions of being stuck in traffic for 945 01:03:28,235 --> 01:03:31,155 Speaker 1: half an hour or an hour or lord knows how long, 946 01:03:31,195 --> 01:03:34,435 Speaker 1: and almost nothing they could do for him. Then if 947 01:03:34,435 --> 01:03:38,755 Speaker 1: we somehow got there in time, but you have to try. 948 01:03:39,955 --> 01:03:42,835 Speaker 1: If he didn't teach me that lesson, then mine told 949 01:03:42,875 --> 01:03:46,195 Speaker 1: me that lesson, you have to try. I loaded a 950 01:03:46,235 --> 01:03:48,515 Speaker 1: bag full of those cans of oxygen, and I got 951 01:03:48,515 --> 01:03:51,155 Speaker 1: in the car, and the driver realized my distress, and 952 01:03:51,195 --> 01:03:53,195 Speaker 1: he asked what he could do to help, and I said, listen, 953 01:03:53,435 --> 01:03:56,675 Speaker 1: don't run any lights, but if somebody wants to duck 954 01:03:56,715 --> 01:03:58,555 Speaker 1: in in front of you in traffic, don't let them. 955 01:03:58,795 --> 01:04:01,475 Speaker 1: Don't stop unless you have to. And when you do stop, 956 01:04:01,515 --> 01:04:05,315 Speaker 1: help me unwrap the plastic from these oxygen cans are 957 01:04:05,435 --> 01:04:10,115 Speaker 1: keeping him alive. And very calmly, he did that, and 958 01:04:10,235 --> 01:04:14,195 Speaker 1: I kept blowing the oxygen into Mishu's mouth and nose, 959 01:04:14,995 --> 01:04:19,715 Speaker 1: and we made it there in eleven minutes, faster than 960 01:04:20,675 --> 01:04:22,915 Speaker 1: the record time I'd ever made it to the hospital. 961 01:04:23,715 --> 01:04:30,395 Speaker 1: The streets literally parted for Mishu. At the hospital, somehow 962 01:04:30,435 --> 01:04:32,955 Speaker 1: I handed him off to the emergency room doctor, saying 963 01:04:32,995 --> 01:04:35,115 Speaker 1: with an evenness, I could not believe I could muster. 964 01:04:35,315 --> 01:04:39,435 Speaker 1: My dog is dying. He has tetrology of fallow. And 965 01:04:39,475 --> 01:04:42,435 Speaker 1: then they rushed him off. And then I briefed a 966 01:04:42,475 --> 01:04:47,195 Speaker 1: second doctor on everything, including the human like cry from 967 01:04:47,195 --> 01:04:49,955 Speaker 1: Mishu and his resuscitation. And I told her he had 968 01:04:49,995 --> 01:04:53,035 Speaker 1: been seen by a cardiologist there and told her which one, 969 01:04:53,075 --> 01:04:55,235 Speaker 1: and she said, he's still here. I just saw him. 970 01:04:55,395 --> 01:04:58,715 Speaker 1: I'll get him. So now Mishu was being worked on 971 01:04:59,195 --> 01:05:02,795 Speaker 1: by one of the leading experts in canine cardiology in 972 01:05:02,875 --> 01:05:10,955 Speaker 1: the world, and yet so I knew there was no hope. 973 01:05:11,235 --> 01:05:14,115 Speaker 1: As they examined him. I managed to text Sue from 974 01:05:14,195 --> 01:05:16,635 Speaker 1: the Maltese Rescue and she came to the hospital too, 975 01:05:17,475 --> 01:05:19,715 Speaker 1: and three of the people from other departments in the 976 01:05:19,755 --> 01:05:26,035 Speaker 1: hospital who had met me Shu came down to the 977 01:05:26,075 --> 01:05:31,675 Speaker 1: emergency room, not for my sake but for his. It 978 01:05:31,715 --> 01:05:36,075 Speaker 1: was heartbreaking and yet uplifting at the same time. One 979 01:05:36,075 --> 01:05:39,035 Speaker 1: of the er doctors said, I think we should let 980 01:05:39,115 --> 01:05:43,475 Speaker 1: him go, and I said, not in anger, not in competition, 981 01:05:43,595 --> 01:05:47,355 Speaker 1: and certainly not boasting. I said, look, I understand that. 982 01:05:48,035 --> 01:05:51,475 Speaker 1: I'd just like to note, with no training, I just 983 01:05:51,635 --> 01:05:54,555 Speaker 1: brought him back from the dead. I suspect you guys 984 01:05:54,595 --> 01:05:56,435 Speaker 1: are way better at this than I am. And I 985 01:05:56,595 --> 01:05:59,475 Speaker 1: brought him somehow back from he was getting called just 986 01:05:59,515 --> 01:06:02,595 Speaker 1: give him half an hour, and they all looked at 987 01:06:02,595 --> 01:06:07,555 Speaker 1: me and said yes. About half an hour later, his doctor, 988 01:06:07,795 --> 01:06:10,995 Speaker 1: the cardiologist, came out to me and he said, he's alive, 989 01:06:11,835 --> 01:06:14,315 Speaker 1: but if you took him out of this hospital, you'd 990 01:06:14,395 --> 01:06:17,435 Speaker 1: get as far as the parking garage and then you'd 991 01:06:17,475 --> 01:06:20,355 Speaker 1: have to bring him back. What you heard when he 992 01:06:20,435 --> 01:06:24,435 Speaker 1: cried out that was him having a stroke. The oxygen 993 01:06:24,515 --> 01:06:29,115 Speaker 1: deprivation was finally too much, and the doctor began to 994 01:06:29,115 --> 01:06:30,955 Speaker 1: prepare me for the question about letting him go, and 995 01:06:30,995 --> 01:06:34,315 Speaker 1: I stopped him and I said, I know we've all 996 01:06:34,355 --> 01:06:40,835 Speaker 1: done everything we can, especially him, specially Miishu. I'm ready 997 01:06:40,835 --> 01:06:44,555 Speaker 1: when you are. And they brought him back to me, 998 01:06:44,995 --> 01:06:47,875 Speaker 1: and there was a drip attached to his arm, and 999 01:06:47,955 --> 01:06:51,555 Speaker 1: when that toggle on the drip was be thrown, the 1000 01:06:51,595 --> 01:06:56,635 Speaker 1: medication in the container would end his life. He was 1001 01:06:56,675 --> 01:06:59,355 Speaker 1: as warm and as soft as ever in my arms. 1002 01:06:59,355 --> 01:07:02,235 Speaker 1: And yet I knew he was no longer in there. 1003 01:07:03,635 --> 01:07:06,115 Speaker 1: Sue held him for a while well, and then she 1004 01:07:06,235 --> 01:07:08,715 Speaker 1: left me alone with him. I said, what you would 1005 01:07:08,755 --> 01:07:11,355 Speaker 1: expect somebody to say in such a circumstance about love 1006 01:07:11,435 --> 01:07:17,315 Speaker 1: and happiness, And then I heard myself saying things about gratitude, 1007 01:07:17,515 --> 01:07:22,355 Speaker 1: gratitude to him for teaching me. Then in the face 1008 01:07:22,395 --> 01:07:25,875 Speaker 1: of death, the point is to know when to try 1009 01:07:26,635 --> 01:07:30,595 Speaker 1: and when to say enough. And then he had taught 1010 01:07:30,595 --> 01:07:37,195 Speaker 1: me how to confront death and crisis and urgency, but 1011 01:07:37,275 --> 01:07:40,995 Speaker 1: with evenness and practicality, and to be able to say, 1012 01:07:42,795 --> 01:07:46,275 Speaker 1: I know you had a happy life. Then it seems 1013 01:07:46,355 --> 01:07:49,075 Speaker 1: like that, and not the fact that you had a 1014 01:07:49,075 --> 01:07:52,875 Speaker 1: happy life but tragically not a long one. It seemed 1015 01:07:52,915 --> 01:07:55,115 Speaker 1: like the happy life was all that mattered to you. 1016 01:07:58,795 --> 01:08:01,115 Speaker 1: This cardiologist and the nurse came back into the room, 1017 01:08:01,155 --> 01:08:02,915 Speaker 1: and I said I was ready, And as the toggle 1018 01:08:02,995 --> 01:08:04,315 Speaker 1: was turned, I said, I knew that if there was 1019 01:08:04,355 --> 01:08:09,275 Speaker 1: a place for him to go now, I was confident 1020 01:08:09,715 --> 01:08:14,115 Speaker 1: he would be the first one they let in. And 1021 01:08:14,195 --> 01:08:18,835 Speaker 1: I just hoped they'd let me visit him there someday, 1022 01:08:22,635 --> 01:08:26,995 Speaker 1: and that I hoped he would remember us. I said, 1023 01:08:26,995 --> 01:08:29,915 Speaker 1: good night, sweet prints and flights of angels sing thee 1024 01:08:29,955 --> 01:08:35,635 Speaker 1: to thy rest, and he was gone again. And as 1025 01:08:35,675 --> 01:08:39,635 Speaker 1: I had prayed when he died, he died in my arms. 1026 01:08:41,755 --> 01:08:52,075 Speaker 1: He died in my arms twice. There are some postscripts 1027 01:08:52,515 --> 01:08:54,995 Speaker 1: new since the first time I told you his story. 1028 01:08:55,795 --> 01:08:59,195 Speaker 1: His cardiologists very solemnly and respectfully said that of those 1029 01:08:59,275 --> 01:09:02,635 Speaker 1: other international experts who had reviewed me Shu's case, only 1030 01:09:02,755 --> 01:09:05,115 Speaker 1: two out of a couple of dozens of them had 1031 01:09:05,155 --> 01:09:08,475 Speaker 1: actually ever seen and been able to study a small 1032 01:09:08,555 --> 01:09:12,115 Speaker 1: dog with tetrology. A fellow and Mishu might have one 1033 01:09:12,235 --> 01:09:15,395 Speaker 1: final blessing yet to bestow upon the rest of us, 1034 01:09:15,715 --> 01:09:18,755 Speaker 1: if they could keep and study his poor little heart. 1035 01:09:19,675 --> 01:09:23,395 Speaker 1: And without hesitation, I said yes, because in that instant 1036 01:09:24,115 --> 01:09:28,035 Speaker 1: I saw him positioning his head on Stevie's head, and 1037 01:09:28,115 --> 01:09:31,515 Speaker 1: his back paws on Rose's back legs, so that the 1038 01:09:31,555 --> 01:09:33,755 Speaker 1: three of them were cuddling together, whether they liked it 1039 01:09:33,875 --> 01:09:37,155 Speaker 1: or not, and I knew, as I had always known, 1040 01:09:37,555 --> 01:09:40,315 Speaker 1: that this truly was a dog who cared about and 1041 01:09:40,475 --> 01:09:46,755 Speaker 1: loved other dogs. The hospital wound up recalibrating some of 1042 01:09:46,795 --> 01:09:49,595 Speaker 1: the cameras they had in the hospital to photograph the 1043 01:09:49,595 --> 01:09:52,435 Speaker 1: smallest teeth in the smallest dogs, so they could get 1044 01:09:52,475 --> 01:09:57,515 Speaker 1: every imaginable image of Mishu's heart and maybe someday use 1045 01:09:57,635 --> 01:10:01,675 Speaker 1: them to fix this nightmare in some other dog. And 1046 01:10:01,755 --> 01:10:05,195 Speaker 1: since sometime I think in twenty twenty two, Mishu has 1047 01:10:05,235 --> 01:10:11,195 Speaker 1: been in the veterinary textbooks. Moreover, in a casual conversation 1048 01:10:11,515 --> 01:10:14,475 Speaker 1: with someone from that cardiology department at the animal hospital 1049 01:10:14,515 --> 01:10:19,595 Speaker 1: over the summer, he mentioned Mishu. He recognized my name 1050 01:10:19,635 --> 01:10:22,995 Speaker 1: because of Mishu, and we talked about this awful disease 1051 01:10:23,075 --> 01:10:26,155 Speaker 1: tetrology of fellow, and he said they had just months 1052 01:10:26,195 --> 01:10:30,155 Speaker 1: earlier in that hospital finally been able to successfully complete 1053 01:10:30,155 --> 01:10:32,875 Speaker 1: a surgery on a small dog who had that same 1054 01:10:32,955 --> 01:10:36,955 Speaker 1: fateful construction that took Meshu so young. If I remember 1055 01:10:36,955 --> 01:10:39,915 Speaker 1: what he told me correctly, they built this little dog 1056 01:10:40,435 --> 01:10:45,435 Speaker 1: a new aorta. Now, I'm not crazy or arrogant enough 1057 01:10:45,475 --> 01:10:48,475 Speaker 1: to draw a straight line from letting them keep Mishu's 1058 01:10:48,515 --> 01:10:51,715 Speaker 1: heart to that successful surgery, but I have no doubt 1059 01:10:52,275 --> 01:10:55,075 Speaker 1: that his heart continued the advance of knowledge of what 1060 01:10:55,195 --> 01:11:00,475 Speaker 1: science can do for cardiac patients and not just canine 1061 01:11:00,515 --> 01:11:05,675 Speaker 1: cardiac patients. When I first got Stevie, the fellow who 1062 01:11:05,715 --> 01:11:08,315 Speaker 1: literally handed her to me at the pet shop was 1063 01:11:08,435 --> 01:11:12,275 Speaker 1: named Jeffrey. About seven years later, I saw Jeffrey again, 1064 01:11:12,355 --> 01:11:14,355 Speaker 1: same shop, and he said he'd just gone back to 1065 01:11:14,395 --> 01:11:20,515 Speaker 1: work after months off out sick after heart surgery. And 1066 01:11:20,555 --> 01:11:23,235 Speaker 1: he said they did some experimental stuff on me, and 1067 01:11:23,275 --> 01:11:28,195 Speaker 1: then he laughed. Stuff they had tried out first on dogs. 1068 01:11:28,795 --> 01:11:38,435 Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? Well, that's always the case. You don't 1069 01:11:38,515 --> 01:11:40,875 Speaker 1: wait to see if the drugs work on dogs because 1070 01:11:40,875 --> 01:11:43,075 Speaker 1: their lives are so short anyway, and you don't wait 1071 01:11:43,115 --> 01:11:46,635 Speaker 1: to do the surgery because their lives are so short anyway, 1072 01:11:46,715 --> 01:11:52,395 Speaker 1: And so you find new ways for dogs and for humans. 1073 01:11:53,675 --> 01:11:56,795 Speaker 1: I like to think Mishu will save other dogs, help 1074 01:11:56,915 --> 01:12:00,235 Speaker 1: save that one that the cardiologist mentioned, and save other 1075 01:12:00,315 --> 01:12:05,635 Speaker 1: kids too. Secondly, Mishu's parents had another litter late in 1076 01:12:05,675 --> 01:12:08,555 Speaker 1: the same year he died, and their human was kind 1077 01:12:08,675 --> 01:12:10,995 Speaker 1: enough to offer me either of the brothers Mishu would 1078 01:12:11,035 --> 01:12:15,275 Speaker 1: never know. Each was eerily reminiscent of him, but healthy, 1079 01:12:15,995 --> 01:12:21,115 Speaker 1: so healthy that they were little devils. There's no other 1080 01:12:21,155 --> 01:12:25,435 Speaker 1: way to describe them. Sweet innocent. Little Mishu was in 1081 01:12:25,475 --> 01:12:28,115 Speaker 1: some way sweet and innocent because he didn't have the 1082 01:12:28,115 --> 01:12:30,355 Speaker 1: strength to be a little devil like his brothers were. 1083 01:12:30,795 --> 01:12:33,835 Speaker 1: They were menaces to my other three dogs. I had 1084 01:12:33,875 --> 01:12:36,715 Speaker 1: each of them live a week with us, and I 1085 01:12:36,715 --> 01:12:40,075 Speaker 1: would have been fine with each They were great just 1086 01:12:40,195 --> 01:12:44,715 Speaker 1: with me. But each of them bit ted in the genitals, 1087 01:12:45,155 --> 01:12:48,315 Speaker 1: and then Stevie in the genitals, and Rose in the genitals, 1088 01:12:48,475 --> 01:12:50,755 Speaker 1: and one of them bit me in the genitals. You 1089 01:12:50,835 --> 01:12:54,835 Speaker 1: got to draw a line somewhere. They were crazy. And 1090 01:12:54,875 --> 01:12:58,435 Speaker 1: the second one, remember I mentioned how Mishu used to 1091 01:12:58,515 --> 01:13:03,875 Speaker 1: stand in his pen. The second one, Snowy, got into 1092 01:13:03,875 --> 01:13:06,795 Speaker 1: that same pen and managed to climb up the side 1093 01:13:06,835 --> 01:13:09,555 Speaker 1: of it and down the outside of it like an 1094 01:13:09,555 --> 01:13:17,155 Speaker 1: Olympic gymnast. They are now living happy lives as only 1095 01:13:17,275 --> 01:13:24,035 Speaker 1: dogs in other homes. So when Sue from Malty's Rescue 1096 01:13:24,075 --> 01:13:28,075 Speaker 1: reached out again in June of twenty twenty two and said, 1097 01:13:28,075 --> 01:13:30,435 Speaker 1: I've got another special case, fifteen year old, perfect health, 1098 01:13:30,435 --> 01:13:34,195 Speaker 1: but he's got rotting teeth and dementia. His human got 1099 01:13:34,235 --> 01:13:36,315 Speaker 1: sick and she died. Who's going to adopt a fifteen 1100 01:13:36,355 --> 01:13:39,475 Speaker 1: year old? I was able to raise my hand, and 1101 01:13:39,515 --> 01:13:42,555 Speaker 1: that was when mine joined us. He's in the other 1102 01:13:42,635 --> 01:13:45,715 Speaker 1: room now, he's curled up in a bed he adores. 1103 01:13:46,155 --> 01:13:49,475 Speaker 1: He sleeps in it like he's in the womb. He 1104 01:13:49,515 --> 01:13:52,555 Speaker 1: sleeps in it sometimes with his back legs up in 1105 01:13:52,595 --> 01:13:55,715 Speaker 1: the air and his head on the floor and his 1106 01:13:55,835 --> 01:14:01,555 Speaker 1: tongue hanging out because he doesn't have any teeth. Mine 1107 01:14:01,595 --> 01:14:03,955 Speaker 1: is resting because tomorrow we will be out leaping over 1108 01:14:04,035 --> 01:14:06,235 Speaker 1: the sidewalk again, and he needs to build up his 1109 01:14:06,355 --> 01:14:08,395 Speaker 1: reserves for that or he might be awake. If so, 1110 01:14:08,435 --> 01:14:10,075 Speaker 1: I'm going to have to go out now and get 1111 01:14:10,155 --> 01:14:16,715 Speaker 1: him some more food, because he'll eat all day. Bless him. 1112 01:14:16,995 --> 01:14:20,955 Speaker 1: There's a third PostScript. I got Mishu's tattoo a month 1113 01:14:21,035 --> 01:14:25,515 Speaker 1: after he died, and his pensive, half smiling little face 1114 01:14:26,515 --> 01:14:28,355 Speaker 1: looks up at me from near the crook of my 1115 01:14:28,475 --> 01:14:32,755 Speaker 1: elbow where he used to sit when I would carry 1116 01:14:32,795 --> 01:14:36,035 Speaker 1: him around after one of those pre feints, and it 1117 01:14:36,195 --> 01:14:40,755 Speaker 1: is a remarkable likeness. There's one guy in the village 1118 01:14:40,755 --> 01:14:44,915 Speaker 1: who can absolutely do a portrait of your dog on 1119 01:14:44,955 --> 01:14:48,755 Speaker 1: your arm. To me, the tattoo means exactly what you 1120 01:14:48,795 --> 01:14:52,155 Speaker 1: would think it would mean. It comforts me greatly. It 1121 01:14:52,235 --> 01:14:56,075 Speaker 1: means Mishu is always with me and always will be. 1122 01:14:58,155 --> 01:15:01,435 Speaker 1: And now, with this being the week of this unwonted 1123 01:15:03,115 --> 01:15:12,155 Speaker 1: but no not tragic anniversary, Meshu, I hope will also 1124 01:15:13,235 --> 01:15:22,435 Speaker 1: always be with you. I'll be back tomorrow. Countdown with 1125 01:15:22,555 --> 01:15:26,875 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 1126 01:15:26,875 --> 01:15:31,635 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 1127 01:15:31,675 --> 01:15:33,035 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.