1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Rarely 2 00:00:22,875 --> 00:00:27,395 Speaker 1: do we get to see the future. But make no mistake, 3 00:00:27,555 --> 00:00:31,675 Speaker 1: ludacrous as it looks insane, as Elon Musk seems corrupt, 4 00:00:31,715 --> 00:00:36,355 Speaker 1: as the Texas Attorney General is this indict media matters. 5 00:00:36,395 --> 00:00:42,675 Speaker 1: Story is the future. It is practice. Musk, in fact, 6 00:00:42,755 --> 00:00:45,995 Speaker 1: is the stand in for the role ultimately to be 7 00:00:46,035 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: played by dementia Jay Trump, not merely politicizing, but fully 8 00:00:52,195 --> 00:00:56,235 Speaker 1: privatizing criminal prosecution in this country. This is what the 9 00:00:56,275 --> 00:01:00,875 Speaker 1: Republicans want. This is why they have embraced fascism. This 10 00:01:01,115 --> 00:01:04,835 Speaker 1: is why they have sold the fragments of souls they 11 00:01:04,835 --> 00:01:08,395 Speaker 1: have to Trump. This is why they spent millions to 12 00:01:08,475 --> 00:01:11,795 Speaker 1: buy Attorney General Paxton's acquittal when he was impeached by 13 00:01:11,795 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: his own party in Texas. This is the future, a 14 00:01:16,835 --> 00:01:22,955 Speaker 1: theocracy with theocratic courts, or a corporate state with corporate courts, 15 00:01:23,275 --> 00:01:27,115 Speaker 1: or whatever brand of authoritarianism they want, with any brand 16 00:01:27,115 --> 00:01:32,995 Speaker 1: of authoritarian courts they want. Happy Thanksgiving could be worse, 17 00:01:33,115 --> 00:01:35,835 Speaker 1: could be next year. We could all already be packing 18 00:01:35,875 --> 00:01:41,275 Speaker 1: to move if the borders are still open. I know 19 00:01:41,595 --> 00:01:45,315 Speaker 1: you regret that I was ever taught the word stochastic. 20 00:01:46,155 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: But here it is again Elon Musk, a large and 21 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:52,955 Speaker 1: not very well adjusted child with some developmental problems that 22 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:56,675 Speaker 1: have lately been exacerbated by something. Somebody suggested it was 23 00:01:56,715 --> 00:02:01,795 Speaker 1: Ozempic buys and almost non denominational social media site, lets 24 00:02:01,835 --> 00:02:05,795 Speaker 1: his inner fascist out, swings the site wildly to the right, 25 00:02:05,835 --> 00:02:10,275 Speaker 1: and then swings it past mere conservatism or repression into 26 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:15,315 Speaker 1: outright religious and racial hatred and incitement, and he gets caught. 27 00:02:16,315 --> 00:02:21,835 Speaker 1: His business genius has been exposed as exploitative luck. He 28 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,835 Speaker 1: has broken a successful business model. He has let his 29 00:02:24,955 --> 00:02:30,275 Speaker 1: hatreds and prejudices leak out. Just yesterday, somebody tweeted a 30 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:32,835 Speaker 1: photo of Musk standing in front of an American flag 31 00:02:33,115 --> 00:02:36,635 Speaker 1: swinging a sword. He replied to it, there is a 32 00:02:36,755 --> 00:02:40,115 Speaker 1: large graveyard filled with my enemies. I do not wish 33 00:02:40,115 --> 00:02:44,315 Speaker 1: to add to it, but will if given no choice. 34 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: I can't imagine how Twitter lost half its value in 35 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:50,715 Speaker 1: his year owning it with public relations like that, and 36 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:57,395 Speaker 1: now he is caught caught endorsing anti semitism, platforming anti semitism, 37 00:02:57,635 --> 00:03:03,675 Speaker 1: mainstreaming anti semitism, and caught by investigative journalists getting major 38 00:03:03,715 --> 00:03:07,915 Speaker 1: corporations large sure than his to pay him to be 39 00:03:08,115 --> 00:03:14,835 Speaker 1: juxtaposed alongside the Nazis. The corporations read that investigation, the 40 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:18,435 Speaker 1: corporations did their own investigations. The corporations bailed out, and 41 00:03:18,555 --> 00:03:24,115 Speaker 1: Musk must blame someone. Musk blamed the journalists Media Matters, 42 00:03:24,275 --> 00:03:27,635 Speaker 1: claimed they were guilty of fraud, even though while making 43 00:03:27,635 --> 00:03:30,755 Speaker 1: the claim, he in fact confessed that Twitter x did 44 00:03:30,875 --> 00:03:35,915 Speaker 1: place mainstream ads next to anti Semitic content. Then the 45 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:40,115 Speaker 1: leader of the Trump Undead, Stephen Miller, replied, fraud is 46 00:03:40,155 --> 00:03:43,475 Speaker 1: both the civil and criminal violation. There are two dozen 47 00:03:43,555 --> 00:03:49,235 Speaker 1: plus conservative attorneys general and that here's the word again. 48 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:53,995 Speaker 1: That was the stochastic call. It echoed, and within two 49 00:03:54,035 --> 00:03:56,995 Speaker 1: and a half hours, the conservative Attorney general of Missouri wrote, 50 00:03:57,075 --> 00:04:01,595 Speaker 1: my team is looking into this matter. Interestingly, his team 51 00:04:01,635 --> 00:04:04,835 Speaker 1: evidently noticed there was no crime, no fraud, nothing but 52 00:04:04,915 --> 00:04:09,315 Speaker 1: a whiny, blubbering man boy needing a scapegoat, because the 53 00:04:09,355 --> 00:04:13,915 Speaker 1: next day that attorney general and his team stop looking 54 00:04:13,955 --> 00:04:17,355 Speaker 1: into this matter, but the one from Texas. Ken Paxton, 55 00:04:17,675 --> 00:04:20,795 Speaker 1: now wholly owned by the forces that run the state's 56 00:04:20,835 --> 00:04:24,155 Speaker 1: lieutenant governor, must do whatever those forces want, and what 57 00:04:24,195 --> 00:04:26,715 Speaker 1: they want is anything that puts a finger on the 58 00:04:26,715 --> 00:04:31,035 Speaker 1: political scale, anything that favors the Republicans, even though their 59 00:04:31,035 --> 00:04:34,675 Speaker 1: demographic is dying out. And this man Paxton is backed 60 00:04:34,715 --> 00:04:37,995 Speaker 1: by oil billionaires named Tim Dunn and Ferris Wilkes, and 61 00:04:38,075 --> 00:04:41,235 Speaker 1: Tim Dunn is linked to Brad Parscale, and Brad Parscale 62 00:04:41,315 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: is back working on Trump's twenty twenty four campaign. It's 63 00:04:45,315 --> 00:04:51,795 Speaker 1: stochastic prosecution. Musk, new right wing hero and owner of 64 00:04:51,835 --> 00:04:55,835 Speaker 1: a useful platform for spreading the violist filth, most quickly 65 00:04:56,035 --> 00:04:59,395 Speaker 1: complaints Steven Miller, truly one of the worst human beings 66 00:04:59,395 --> 00:05:02,635 Speaker 1: on the planet, lights the bat signal. Ken Paxton, who 67 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:05,235 Speaker 1: has to do stuff like this or the billionllionaires will 68 00:05:05,235 --> 00:05:09,995 Speaker 1: stop protecting him, promises to jail reporters for telling the truth. 69 00:05:11,515 --> 00:05:15,475 Speaker 1: It isn't Musk prosecuting Media Matters. It isn't Stephen Miller, 70 00:05:15,955 --> 00:05:20,195 Speaker 1: It's Paxton. If Paxton gets anywhere right now, the leading 71 00:05:20,195 --> 00:05:23,235 Speaker 1: evidence of a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices 72 00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:27,675 Speaker 1: Act is Musk's allegation that because when Media Matters tested 73 00:05:27,675 --> 00:05:33,035 Speaker 1: the advertising algorithm, it followed only thirty accounts and managed 74 00:05:33,035 --> 00:05:36,035 Speaker 1: to generate fourteen times more ads per hour than an 75 00:05:36,075 --> 00:05:39,595 Speaker 1: average user would see If Paxton gets anywhere with that, 76 00:05:40,595 --> 00:05:44,115 Speaker 1: other attorneys general will follow, and even if all of 77 00:05:44,155 --> 00:05:46,675 Speaker 1: them get laughed out of court, Media Matters is now 78 00:05:46,715 --> 00:05:50,715 Speaker 1: spending millions to defend itself in how many different states? 79 00:05:52,475 --> 00:05:58,355 Speaker 1: The template is being sanded down and polished as we watch. 80 00:05:58,835 --> 00:06:03,355 Speaker 1: This is the future. This is practice for the bastards, 81 00:06:04,235 --> 00:06:07,635 Speaker 1: like January sixth was practice for the bastards, just like 82 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:09,995 Speaker 1: the entirety of Trump's time in the White House was 83 00:06:10,035 --> 00:06:13,915 Speaker 1: practice for the bastards. Trump doesn't have to repeal the 84 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:17,795 Speaker 1: First Amendment to put Kristen Welker in jail, or in 85 00:06:17,875 --> 00:06:21,515 Speaker 1: theory to put you in jail if you've ever tweeted 86 00:06:22,115 --> 00:06:25,875 Speaker 1: or written anything online that he doesn't like, or in 87 00:06:25,955 --> 00:06:30,075 Speaker 1: theory me in jail. Hell I could easily be first. 88 00:06:30,595 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't have to get Congress to make a law 89 00:06:33,195 --> 00:06:35,515 Speaker 1: abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. He 90 00:06:35,755 --> 00:06:39,395 Speaker 1: just drops the prosecution down to a state and the 91 00:06:39,435 --> 00:06:41,835 Speaker 1: next thing you know, Texas or Florida or Missouri or 92 00:06:41,875 --> 00:06:48,155 Speaker 1: Mississippi becomes a veritable journalistic speed trap. Is the Washington 93 00:06:48,315 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: Post based in Mississippi? Now? Can you buy it there? 94 00:06:52,635 --> 00:06:54,475 Speaker 1: Hell I don't know where to buy it anymore? In 95 00:06:54,475 --> 00:06:57,715 Speaker 1: New York City. Can you read it online or it's 96 00:06:57,795 --> 00:07:03,195 Speaker 1: posts on Twitter while you are physically in Mississippi ballgame. 97 00:07:04,915 --> 00:07:07,435 Speaker 1: Trump may or may not understand any of this. He 98 00:07:07,595 --> 00:07:09,555 Speaker 1: is the definition of the old joke about how nobody 99 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:11,475 Speaker 1: wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want 100 00:07:11,475 --> 00:07:14,355 Speaker 1: to see the baby. How many times though, has he 101 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:17,315 Speaker 1: called the press the enemy of the people. He hands 102 00:07:17,315 --> 00:07:19,355 Speaker 1: Steven Miller an article in the New York Times or 103 00:07:19,475 --> 00:07:24,195 Speaker 1: something from the Gateway pundit shaming Jim Acosta or MSNBC 104 00:07:25,315 --> 00:07:28,875 Speaker 1: or worshyet, somebody who can help him calls up and says, 105 00:07:29,635 --> 00:07:33,355 Speaker 1: mister President, the Bucks County Beacon here in Pennsylvania just 106 00:07:33,595 --> 00:07:39,715 Speaker 1: incommoded me. And Trump says, tel Paxton, jail, costa jail, 107 00:07:39,755 --> 00:07:44,115 Speaker 1: the Bucks County Beacon. And Miller says yes, Master and 108 00:07:44,195 --> 00:07:46,755 Speaker 1: crawls back to his cave. And if Paxton won't prosecute, 109 00:07:46,795 --> 00:07:49,515 Speaker 1: maybe Bailey and Missouri will. And ninety nine percent of 110 00:07:49,555 --> 00:07:52,395 Speaker 1: the public won't even see Trump's grubby fingerprints on any 111 00:07:52,435 --> 00:07:57,435 Speaker 1: of it, or Miller's if he has fingerprints. And even 112 00:07:57,435 --> 00:08:00,675 Speaker 1: if it doesn't get that far, even if this thing 113 00:08:00,755 --> 00:08:04,235 Speaker 1: right now does not become a Trump dictatorship, and we 114 00:08:04,315 --> 00:08:08,915 Speaker 1: don't privatize and politicized prosecution, and state attorneys general don't 115 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:14,115 Speaker 1: constantly refresh social media waiting for their opportunity to spring 116 00:08:14,275 --> 00:08:18,315 Speaker 1: into action for Trump like so many flying monkeys, waiting 117 00:08:18,355 --> 00:08:22,115 Speaker 1: for the wicked witch to point out which direction the 118 00:08:22,195 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: chilling effect is already there. I have said this again 119 00:08:26,755 --> 00:08:31,035 Speaker 1: and again. Every media corporation in this country has already 120 00:08:31,315 --> 00:08:36,155 Speaker 1: had this meeting. What do we do if Trump regains power? 121 00:08:37,035 --> 00:08:39,555 Speaker 1: Not what do we do to protect our ability to 122 00:08:39,595 --> 00:08:42,075 Speaker 1: cover the news, but what do we do to protect 123 00:08:42,075 --> 00:08:45,955 Speaker 1: our ability to make profits for our stockholders and salaries 124 00:08:45,955 --> 00:08:51,475 Speaker 1: for ourselves. We have our phony, blooney jobs to worry about, Gentlemen. 125 00:08:53,395 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: We never did find out what that internal NBC investigation 126 00:08:56,475 --> 00:08:59,835 Speaker 1: of the Meet the Press Trump interview found out about 127 00:08:59,875 --> 00:09:03,155 Speaker 1: a rumored deal to keep virtually all fact checking to 128 00:09:03,195 --> 00:09:05,755 Speaker 1: an obscure corner of the website. But even if it's 129 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:10,395 Speaker 1: just all coincidence there, you think people aren't scared. And 130 00:09:10,475 --> 00:09:12,595 Speaker 1: even if somehow they aren't scared, you think they aren't 131 00:09:12,675 --> 00:09:15,835 Speaker 1: blanching at the thought of all the work involved in 132 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:21,955 Speaker 1: fending off another four years. We're twelve of Trump. These 133 00:09:22,035 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: are people with mortgages and jobs in an industry already 134 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:31,315 Speaker 1: being shrunk by market forces. The head of the news 135 00:09:31,355 --> 00:09:35,595 Speaker 1: division in the movie Network, played by William Holden, tells 136 00:09:35,635 --> 00:09:38,515 Speaker 1: the acting president of the network, you want me out 137 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:40,675 Speaker 1: of here, You're gonna have to drag me out, kicking 138 00:09:40,715 --> 00:09:43,395 Speaker 1: and screaming, and the whole news division kicking and screaming 139 00:09:43,435 --> 00:09:47,715 Speaker 1: with me, and the acting president played by Robert Duval answers, calmly, 140 00:09:48,235 --> 00:09:50,195 Speaker 1: you think they're going to quit their jobs for you? 141 00:09:50,835 --> 00:09:55,155 Speaker 1: Not in this recession, buddy. It's like everybody asking why 142 00:09:55,275 --> 00:09:59,395 Speaker 1: Musk's stooge Linda Yakarino hasn't yet quit her job as 143 00:10:00,075 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: as Musk's stooge, or why her family hasn't staged an intervention. Well, 144 00:10:06,515 --> 00:10:10,715 Speaker 1: he's paying Linda Yakarino six million a year. Who is 145 00:10:10,795 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: the last media person to walk out on a job 146 00:10:14,195 --> 00:10:17,275 Speaker 1: paying that much or more? On principle? I mean, besides me, 147 00:10:17,675 --> 00:10:23,635 Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. And one more self referential thing. 148 00:10:23,675 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: The future reminds us of the turnover in political coverage newspapers, online, television, whatever. 149 00:10:30,955 --> 00:10:35,355 Speaker 1: It's always been about five years. And I don't just 150 00:10:35,435 --> 00:10:37,435 Speaker 1: mean the fact that the White House correspondents get out 151 00:10:37,435 --> 00:10:40,235 Speaker 1: as fast as they can. I mean that about seventy 152 00:10:40,275 --> 00:10:43,035 Speaker 1: five percent of the people in political journalism in this 153 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:47,835 Speaker 1: country five years ago no longer are in political journalism. 154 00:10:49,155 --> 00:10:53,035 Speaker 1: I started on MSNBC on October first, nineteen ninety seven. 155 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:57,475 Speaker 1: In March nineteen ninety eight, April, I can't remember, I 156 00:10:57,635 --> 00:11:00,675 Speaker 1: was the featured guest of the Washington Post at the 157 00:11:00,675 --> 00:11:04,915 Speaker 1: front table at the White House Correspondence dinner, and I 158 00:11:04,995 --> 00:11:08,515 Speaker 1: ran screaming back into sports. In December nineteen ninety eight, 159 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:10,675 Speaker 1: and a year after that, I was in the gift 160 00:11:10,675 --> 00:11:13,155 Speaker 1: shop at a hotel in Saint Louis and the former 161 00:11:13,195 --> 00:11:17,035 Speaker 1: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson walks in and sees me and 162 00:11:17,115 --> 00:11:20,755 Speaker 1: gives me a big hug and says, congratulations on escaping. 163 00:11:20,915 --> 00:11:24,355 Speaker 1: Wait wait here a minute. And then he leaves, goes 164 00:11:24,395 --> 00:11:26,715 Speaker 1: back into the lobby, and he returns to the gift shop, 165 00:11:26,955 --> 00:11:29,115 Speaker 1: and he's got his wife with him now, and he 166 00:11:29,155 --> 00:11:31,315 Speaker 1: says to her, you see this guy, honey, This is Keith. 167 00:11:31,755 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 1: This is the one I was telling you about. He 168 00:11:33,715 --> 00:11:36,475 Speaker 1: got out of politics after just one year. It's taken 169 00:11:36,515 --> 00:11:41,075 Speaker 1: me forty two years later. I went back into politics 170 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:45,435 Speaker 1: at MSNBC and nobody, literally nobody who was at that 171 00:11:45,635 --> 00:11:49,355 Speaker 1: Washington Post table with me just four years earlier was 172 00:11:49,395 --> 00:11:52,955 Speaker 1: still at the Washington Post. And no, I don't think 173 00:11:52,955 --> 00:11:57,795 Speaker 1: it was me. Think of the TV people and even 174 00:11:57,835 --> 00:12:00,715 Speaker 1: most of the print people who were on Trump's campaign 175 00:12:00,715 --> 00:12:04,955 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, or who were White House correspondents, how 176 00:12:04,995 --> 00:12:07,915 Speaker 1: many of them still have that job. How many of 177 00:12:07,955 --> 00:12:11,795 Speaker 1: them will see getting that job in the future as 178 00:12:12,315 --> 00:12:15,955 Speaker 1: a great assignment and a great stepping stone to something 179 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:21,755 Speaker 1: bigger and less consuming. If you can get prosecuted, prosecuted 180 00:12:21,835 --> 00:12:26,555 Speaker 1: by proxy, prosecuted for doing your job well, prosecuted by 181 00:12:26,555 --> 00:12:30,835 Speaker 1: Trump for telling the truth, even something as stupidly open 182 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 1: and shut as truth about Musk's platforming of anti Semitism, 183 00:12:35,675 --> 00:12:40,795 Speaker 1: why are you going to aspire to do that job? 184 00:12:43,835 --> 00:12:46,995 Speaker 1: If somehow I need to emphasize to you that we 185 00:12:47,155 --> 00:12:50,075 Speaker 1: cannot let Trump back into the White House, you are 186 00:12:50,315 --> 00:12:54,955 Speaker 1: probably listening to the wrong podcast, or you are taking 187 00:12:55,035 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: notes for Ken Paxton. But it is increasingly obvious to 188 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:03,795 Speaker 1: me that they are so confident they will get there that, 189 00:13:03,875 --> 00:13:05,995 Speaker 1: as they used to say the football coaches, they have 190 00:13:06,075 --> 00:13:09,435 Speaker 1: already scripted all the plays for the entire first half, 191 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:15,475 Speaker 1: because they are letting us see the future from Project 192 00:13:15,555 --> 00:13:19,115 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and the consortium of right wing nut 193 00:13:19,195 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: jobs Trump will call upon to punish anybody they want 194 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:26,675 Speaker 1: to punish, to Agenda forty seven, to make up crimes, 195 00:13:26,715 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: to prosecute everybody from Bill Barr to Barack Obama, to 196 00:13:30,035 --> 00:13:34,355 Speaker 1: Schedule f to purge the civil service of anybody not 197 00:13:34,475 --> 00:13:39,435 Speaker 1: personally loyal to Trump. And now this the privatized prosecution 198 00:13:39,595 --> 00:13:45,155 Speaker 1: double play. Musk to Miller to Paxton, and we got 199 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:48,475 Speaker 1: another glimpse of the twenty twenty five that you might 200 00:13:48,475 --> 00:13:50,435 Speaker 1: have seen in the bad portions of Back to the 201 00:13:50,475 --> 00:13:54,715 Speaker 1: Future Part two, or It's a Wonderful Life. The reference 202 00:13:54,795 --> 00:13:58,675 Speaker 1: earlier to Trump wanting somebody to prosecute the Bucks County 203 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:03,155 Speaker 1: Beacon was not gratuitous. It is the small investigative operation 204 00:14:03,235 --> 00:14:06,795 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania doing great, end dangerous work, and you can't 205 00:14:06,835 --> 00:14:09,115 Speaker 1: convince me that their work did not at least contribute 206 00:14:09,155 --> 00:14:12,515 Speaker 1: to a small but meaningful victory. Earlier this month, a 207 00:14:12,595 --> 00:14:18,395 Speaker 1: MAGA millionaire named Paul Martino poured untold money into the 208 00:14:18,635 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: Central Bucks School District school board race. They ran five 209 00:14:24,755 --> 00:14:30,435 Speaker 1: humanoid book banners and librarian prosecutors, and they lost all 210 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:36,875 Speaker 1: five seats to Democrats, swept out roughly sixteen thousand total 211 00:14:36,955 --> 00:14:41,515 Speaker 1: votes to twelve thousand. So what happens next? The Bucks 212 00:14:41,555 --> 00:14:44,635 Speaker 1: County Beacon reports that the Pennsylvania Court of Common Please 213 00:14:45,075 --> 00:14:49,315 Speaker 1: has now received no fewer than thirteen different petitions claiming 214 00:14:49,355 --> 00:14:52,955 Speaker 1: Title twenty five of the State Elections Code Statute three 215 00:14:52,995 --> 00:14:56,035 Speaker 1: two sixty one was violated and the ballot boxes were 216 00:14:56,075 --> 00:15:00,675 Speaker 1: improperly opened, and thus the election has to be thrown out. 217 00:15:00,955 --> 00:15:06,475 Speaker 1: The thirteen different petitions are identical. The Trumpists are so 218 00:15:06,675 --> 00:15:10,475 Speaker 1: confident that they are tipping their hands and they are 219 00:15:10,555 --> 00:15:14,635 Speaker 1: running the stop the Steal playbook again in a county 220 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:18,075 Speaker 1: that is exactly six hundred and twenty two square miles, 221 00:15:18,995 --> 00:15:21,955 Speaker 1: and whose largest community has fifty three thousand residents and 222 00:15:21,995 --> 00:15:25,595 Speaker 1: the second largest has ten thousand. And this is about 223 00:15:25,595 --> 00:15:28,555 Speaker 1: a school board. And if you see the QAnon shaman 224 00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:32,435 Speaker 1: walking around one of those communities, please alert the authorities. 225 00:15:34,995 --> 00:15:37,875 Speaker 1: So ultimately, how do we stop this? Oh? By the way, 226 00:15:38,155 --> 00:15:44,155 Speaker 1: CNBC reports that the mercers are reconsidering. The mercers are 227 00:15:44,195 --> 00:15:48,995 Speaker 1: the Maga Hedge fund millionaire family who apparently got nauseated 228 00:15:49,035 --> 00:15:52,035 Speaker 1: by Trump in twenty eighteen and have not given money 229 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:54,475 Speaker 1: to him since, and sources close to them think they 230 00:15:54,555 --> 00:15:59,115 Speaker 1: may have changed their minds such as they are and 231 00:15:59,275 --> 00:16:04,755 Speaker 1: sworn new fealty to Trump and their family nonprofit foundation 232 00:16:05,035 --> 00:16:08,115 Speaker 1: that is the polite euphemism for a post citizens United 233 00:16:08,275 --> 00:16:14,075 Speaker 1: political slush fund. Their little Mercer and family nonprofit has 234 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:19,755 Speaker 1: eighty eight million dollars just sitting in it, waiting to 235 00:16:19,795 --> 00:16:26,595 Speaker 1: be spent in politics. How do you defeat this, Well, 236 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:29,995 Speaker 1: there is one way, and it starts by recognizing the 237 00:16:30,075 --> 00:16:35,315 Speaker 1: through line that connects Musk and Trump and Paxton and 238 00:16:35,355 --> 00:16:40,275 Speaker 1: the mercers and faint hearted media executives and Yakarino and 239 00:16:40,395 --> 00:16:43,835 Speaker 1: Bucks freaking County and our little preview of the future 240 00:16:44,075 --> 00:16:49,235 Speaker 1: these last two days. Some of them are doing it 241 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:52,795 Speaker 1: for wackadoodle religious reasons. Some of them are doing it 242 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:55,955 Speaker 1: to stop the pounding in their adult brains, like Musk 243 00:16:56,035 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: and Trump. Some of them are doing it for the 244 00:16:58,395 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: power trip. But all of them are at least also 245 00:17:02,035 --> 00:17:07,715 Speaker 1: doing it for one other reason. There's money in it 246 00:17:07,795 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: for them. Now we can't boycott all of them. The 247 00:17:14,515 --> 00:17:17,515 Speaker 1: United States of America cannot even drop Elon Musk as 248 00:17:17,515 --> 00:17:21,555 Speaker 1: a contractor. His communications devices he sells us are more 249 00:17:21,595 --> 00:17:25,955 Speaker 1: secure than the ones we make. We can't legislate our 250 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,195 Speaker 1: way out of government by highest bidder. We cannot appeal 251 00:17:29,235 --> 00:17:32,235 Speaker 1: to people's knowledge of the nation's history of freedom, nor 252 00:17:32,275 --> 00:17:34,635 Speaker 1: their knowledge that it all could be at risk because 253 00:17:34,635 --> 00:17:39,475 Speaker 1: we stop teaching these things thirty years ago. Nope, we 254 00:17:39,595 --> 00:17:42,915 Speaker 1: are going to have to outbribe them. We have to 255 00:17:42,955 --> 00:17:47,315 Speaker 1: find the democratic mercers. We have to find the democratic billionaires, 256 00:17:47,355 --> 00:17:50,555 Speaker 1: and they have to flood the market and support not 257 00:17:50,675 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: just media matters, but create one hundred media matters. And 258 00:17:55,035 --> 00:17:59,035 Speaker 1: they have to literally underwrite liberal media the way conservative 259 00:17:59,035 --> 00:18:02,995 Speaker 1: billionaires keep fascist media from going bankrupt. And they have 260 00:18:03,075 --> 00:18:06,235 Speaker 1: to play the dirtier game, and they have to buy legislatures, 261 00:18:06,235 --> 00:18:07,955 Speaker 1: and they have to buy judges. And if the other 262 00:18:08,035 --> 00:18:12,635 Speaker 1: side is stretching democracy to destroy democracy, they and we 263 00:18:13,035 --> 00:18:18,755 Speaker 1: had to stretch democracy to save democracy. Hit them with 264 00:18:18,795 --> 00:18:25,355 Speaker 1: your wallets, boys, or this nightmare Trump and the Trumpists 265 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:29,275 Speaker 1: are showing us is not the future, it's the present. 266 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:38,435 Speaker 1: Also of interest here sixty years since the assassination of 267 00:18:38,475 --> 00:18:41,755 Speaker 1: President Kennedy. And not only is that day etched in 268 00:18:41,795 --> 00:18:43,835 Speaker 1: the memories of those of us who were alive then, 269 00:18:44,155 --> 00:18:46,315 Speaker 1: even those of us like me who were little kids 270 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:49,915 Speaker 1: but this day in nineteen sixty three was ground zero 271 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:54,795 Speaker 1: for the world we live in now, conspiracy theory America. 272 00:18:55,955 --> 00:19:00,075 Speaker 1: But mostly it was just the day so many of 273 00:19:00,155 --> 00:19:05,715 Speaker 1: us realized something was terribly terribly wrong because the grown 274 00:19:05,755 --> 00:19:12,035 Speaker 1: ups were crying. That's next. This is countdown. This is 275 00:19:12,155 --> 00:19:25,475 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Overman. Post scripts to the news, some headline, 276 00:19:25,515 --> 00:19:31,795 Speaker 1: some updates, some snark, some predictions. Dateline New York City. 277 00:19:31,835 --> 00:19:34,195 Speaker 1: This is just a hunch based on the last couple 278 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:38,955 Speaker 1: weeks and about fifty seven years of knowing who the 279 00:19:38,955 --> 00:19:41,515 Speaker 1: mayor of New York is. I go all the way 280 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:44,835 Speaker 1: back to John Lindsay. I don't think the current mayor 281 00:19:44,915 --> 00:19:48,195 Speaker 1: is going to finish his term. The New York independent 282 00:19:48,235 --> 00:19:51,995 Speaker 1: news site The City reports there is now another new 283 00:19:52,035 --> 00:19:56,155 Speaker 1: business that got fast tracked by the mayor's office, and 284 00:19:56,395 --> 00:20:01,275 Speaker 1: it's part of the federal investigation into his fundraising. And 285 00:20:01,515 --> 00:20:04,355 Speaker 1: the problem here is the business is a sushi restaurant 286 00:20:04,355 --> 00:20:06,515 Speaker 1: next to Grand Central, and it got clear to opening 287 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,755 Speaker 1: a record three months. And it's co owned by S. L. Green, 288 00:20:10,235 --> 00:20:12,795 Speaker 1: the developers who just happened to have been one of 289 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:18,555 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams's top campaign contributors. Bad enough, Yes, but 290 00:20:19,195 --> 00:20:21,875 Speaker 1: match it up with this. The mayor has launched a 291 00:20:21,955 --> 00:20:25,195 Speaker 1: legal defense fund and was asked about it by the 292 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:28,235 Speaker 1: local New York TV news outlet, New York Won, which 293 00:20:28,275 --> 00:20:33,675 Speaker 1: then got him saying and swaying this on tape away, 294 00:20:34,835 --> 00:20:38,315 Speaker 1: did you see did you see? Do you see all 295 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:42,075 Speaker 1: these people? You sell? These people? Do you sell? These people? 296 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:44,835 Speaker 1: Love me? So people love me as man, So they 297 00:20:44,835 --> 00:20:47,955 Speaker 1: have the right to do they love they may there 298 00:20:47,995 --> 00:20:50,755 Speaker 1: you go. I don't know how does expect people who 299 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,995 Speaker 1: love me they love the broad them doing. They have 300 00:20:53,035 --> 00:20:54,355 Speaker 1: a right to do whatever they want. That's what the 301 00:20:54,395 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: mountains about you, the right to do what they want. Yeah, 302 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:07,875 Speaker 1: Mayor Adams sounds fine. No, yoh, problems at all. He's 303 00:21:08,115 --> 00:21:15,675 Speaker 1: just what's the right word sailing? Huh? Dateline, Trenton, New Jersey. No, 304 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:19,595 Speaker 1: everything's also fine. With Senator Bob Menendez is legal defense. 305 00:21:20,395 --> 00:21:23,995 Speaker 1: You will recall that the senator was accused of, among 306 00:21:24,035 --> 00:21:27,755 Speaker 1: other things, accepting quote gifts un quote from people connected 307 00:21:27,795 --> 00:21:34,075 Speaker 1: to the government of Turkey in the form of gold bars. Now, 308 00:21:34,115 --> 00:21:37,555 Speaker 1: I've never actually been a criminal defendant, but I was 309 00:21:37,635 --> 00:21:39,875 Speaker 1: in a lawsuit once with a lot of money on 310 00:21:39,955 --> 00:21:42,395 Speaker 1: the table and the advice that my lawyers gave me 311 00:21:42,515 --> 00:21:46,475 Speaker 1: then was lay low. Don't draw attention to the case. 312 00:21:46,955 --> 00:21:49,515 Speaker 1: Don't draw attention to yourself. Just you know, when you 313 00:21:49,595 --> 00:21:55,435 Speaker 1: have the option, keep it small rather than big. Be circumspect. 314 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:59,435 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast reports that Senator Menendez has hired a 315 00:21:59,515 --> 00:22:03,475 Speaker 1: new lawyer, Robert Luskin, to defend him in the gold 316 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:07,355 Speaker 1: Bars case. That mister Luscin's nickname is This is not 317 00:22:07,395 --> 00:22:13,035 Speaker 1: a joke. Mister Luscin's nickname is gold Bars Luskin because 318 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:20,795 Speaker 1: he once got paid with gold bars by a client. Senator, 319 00:22:21,195 --> 00:22:47,035 Speaker 1: there wasn't some lawyer from Turkey you could have hired instead, 320 00:22:55,635 --> 00:23:20,555 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust still ahead of his uncountdown. Do 321 00:23:20,595 --> 00:23:24,075 Speaker 1: you remember the assassination of President Kennedy? I mean, do 322 00:23:24,115 --> 00:23:27,795 Speaker 1: you remember where you were when it happened? Not if 323 00:23:27,835 --> 00:23:31,955 Speaker 1: you ain't sixty meat, or more realistically, if you ain't 324 00:23:32,275 --> 00:23:35,435 Speaker 1: sixty four or sixty five. Well, I'm sixty four or 325 00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:40,195 Speaker 1: sixty five, and I sure remember it, and now I 326 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,315 Speaker 1: also recognize it as ground zero of the nightmare we 327 00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:48,195 Speaker 1: live today, in which the more insane a conspiracy theory is, 328 00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 1: the easier it is to sell it to the rubes 329 00:23:51,115 --> 00:23:53,755 Speaker 1: and the goobers. I mean, think about this. One of 330 00:23:53,795 --> 00:23:57,075 Speaker 1: the biggest conspiracy theories of twenty twenty one and twenty 331 00:23:57,115 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: twenty two, though it's calmed down a little since, was 332 00:23:59,595 --> 00:24:05,315 Speaker 1: that President Kennedy was not actually dead. The things I 333 00:24:05,395 --> 00:24:08,395 Speaker 1: promised not to tell first time for the daily roundup 334 00:24:08,395 --> 00:24:10,955 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens 335 00:24:10,955 --> 00:24:17,315 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Worse coincidental 336 00:24:17,715 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. He went on Fox Business 337 00:24:22,475 --> 00:24:27,275 Speaker 1: News and he did a racism and a sexism, says 338 00:24:27,315 --> 00:24:30,515 Speaker 1: the Democrats have decided to dump Vice President Harris and 339 00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: adds quote, when her IQ gets to seventy five, she 340 00:24:34,715 --> 00:24:38,435 Speaker 1: should sell. I will note that, even though he looks 341 00:24:38,475 --> 00:24:40,955 Speaker 1: like a twenty first century version of mister Heaney from 342 00:24:41,275 --> 00:24:45,555 Speaker 1: Green Acres, only after his face had melted, Senator Kennedy 343 00:24:45,595 --> 00:24:49,075 Speaker 1: went to Oxford. I will also note that when he 344 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:52,235 Speaker 1: tried to say, when her IQ gets to seventy five, 345 00:24:52,675 --> 00:24:57,795 Speaker 1: she should sell, he was unable to successfully pronounce the 346 00:24:57,835 --> 00:25:04,875 Speaker 1: word should a mirror sir by a mirror worser, whoever 347 00:25:04,915 --> 00:25:08,595 Speaker 1: he is on Twitter, he or it is one bad dude. 348 00:25:09,195 --> 00:25:13,475 Speaker 1: Dwarf seven three two five six, five two seven. He's boasting. 349 00:25:13,515 --> 00:25:16,635 Speaker 1: He got reposted by Trump on Trump's social media site. 350 00:25:16,675 --> 00:25:19,555 Speaker 1: So I guess that means he's not a robod, He's 351 00:25:19,555 --> 00:25:22,355 Speaker 1: a mammal of some sort. To me, this is the 352 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:27,035 Speaker 1: Trump cult mentality. In one meme, this was a response 353 00:25:27,155 --> 00:25:30,315 Speaker 1: on Twitter to Trump's website suing twenty media outlets for 354 00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:33,955 Speaker 1: bad coverage. Hey, why does that sound so familiar? Paging 355 00:25:34,075 --> 00:25:37,115 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton? And there is a meme with the picture 356 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:41,115 Speaker 1: of the dejected Trump walking back in the darkness with 357 00:25:41,155 --> 00:25:43,115 Speaker 1: one of them stupid hats in his hand, with his 358 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:46,355 Speaker 1: tie untied and strung around his neck. It's like forty 359 00:25:46,395 --> 00:25:48,875 Speaker 1: three feet long and he looks like a piece of crap. 360 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:52,755 Speaker 1: I mean more than usual. And the tweeter writes above 361 00:25:52,795 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: this picture, this man will not give up ever. But 362 00:25:56,075 --> 00:25:59,755 Speaker 1: the meme reads, this man gave it all up and 363 00:25:59,835 --> 00:26:03,635 Speaker 1: one bad dude never noticed. This man will not give 364 00:26:03,715 --> 00:26:07,035 Speaker 1: up ever. This man gave it all up. The Trump 365 00:26:07,115 --> 00:26:10,675 Speaker 1: fan in a nutshell. But our winner the worst. I 366 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:13,315 Speaker 1: often describe Nicki Haley as one of the dumbest people 367 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:17,315 Speaker 1: I have ever encountered. I realize she might be the 368 00:26:17,355 --> 00:26:19,915 Speaker 1: last hope of those who still think Trump will somehow 369 00:26:19,955 --> 00:26:23,755 Speaker 1: be derailed by the GOP. I'm sorry to say. If 370 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:28,555 Speaker 1: she's the last hope, there is no hope. She's in 371 00:26:28,595 --> 00:26:32,995 Speaker 1: hooksit in Hampshire. God help her, and she spies at 372 00:26:33,035 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 1: a little rally, a nine year old girl named Hannah 373 00:26:35,995 --> 00:26:40,915 Speaker 1: in the crowd wearing a Nicky Haley campaign hat, and 374 00:26:41,075 --> 00:26:44,955 Speaker 1: NICKI Haley looks at this and she can't leave well 375 00:26:45,075 --> 00:26:53,235 Speaker 1: enough alone. She just can't take the win. I love 376 00:26:53,275 --> 00:27:04,595 Speaker 1: your hand, thank you for your nine year old hat. 377 00:27:05,275 --> 00:27:10,195 Speaker 1: Has a better chance of derailing Trump than Nicky. Never 378 00:27:10,355 --> 00:27:16,035 Speaker 1: work with animals or children, Haley. Two days worse, Parson 379 00:27:16,795 --> 00:27:34,155 Speaker 1: annoy say to the number one story on the countdown, 380 00:27:34,155 --> 00:27:36,115 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And it is 381 00:27:36,155 --> 00:27:40,715 Speaker 1: now sixty years since the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 382 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:44,995 Speaker 1: And there are a thousand consequences we could not have 383 00:27:45,115 --> 00:27:48,595 Speaker 1: foreseen that day that have all come true, and maybe 384 00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:53,875 Speaker 1: of most relevance right now, that horror was the starting 385 00:27:53,915 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: point of the modern American society obsessed with conspiracy theories. 386 00:27:59,675 --> 00:28:04,155 Speaker 1: We have always had conspiracy theories. Ask the Masons, or 387 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:10,835 Speaker 1: Jewish people or circus performers, but the Bungling of the 388 00:28:10,915 --> 00:28:15,635 Speaker 1: Kennedy investigation, the privatizing of the film evidence, the failure 389 00:28:15,675 --> 00:28:19,915 Speaker 1: to ever address the obvious questions fostered a collective doubt 390 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:23,875 Speaker 1: in this country. It seems like it doubled every year 391 00:28:23,915 --> 00:28:28,155 Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty three into the nineties, I guess. And 392 00:28:28,195 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: then as people who really remembered President Kennedy began to 393 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:37,075 Speaker 1: die off, the conspiracy cloud did not die off. It lingered, 394 00:28:37,475 --> 00:28:41,235 Speaker 1: and it split up and fragmented, and it attached itself 395 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:47,555 Speaker 1: to almost anything, almost everything that somebody did not want 396 00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:53,115 Speaker 1: to believe was true. Nine to eleven climate change elections, 397 00:28:54,235 --> 00:28:56,635 Speaker 1: and we know where it has gone since then. It 398 00:28:56,675 --> 00:29:00,355 Speaker 1: has overtaken this country and destroyed our collective ability to 399 00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:02,955 Speaker 1: have a nation in which we have one set of 400 00:29:03,115 --> 00:29:07,755 Speaker 1: just basic facts and on climate change. It will kill 401 00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:12,555 Speaker 1: us parts of the globe, parts of America will become uninhabitable, 402 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:17,555 Speaker 1: and there will be politicians and influencers telling us no, 403 00:29:17,915 --> 00:29:22,435 Speaker 1: that hasn't happened, And most people will realize that climate 404 00:29:22,515 --> 00:29:26,635 Speaker 1: change is true only in the last year of their life, 405 00:29:26,835 --> 00:29:32,115 Speaker 1: maybe the last minute. In any event, the Kennedy assassination 406 00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:34,715 Speaker 1: has become so much more than as if anybody could 407 00:29:34,755 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: have foreseen this statement ever being uttered. More than just 408 00:29:38,435 --> 00:29:43,675 Speaker 1: a presidential assassination. It was, in many ways an assassination 409 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:48,315 Speaker 1: of a culture. We really did used to have a 410 00:29:48,355 --> 00:29:52,635 Speaker 1: shared set of facts. And I speak on this as 411 00:29:52,675 --> 00:29:55,875 Speaker 1: one of the youngest people you know who has a 412 00:29:55,955 --> 00:30:02,155 Speaker 1: distinct memory of the day JFK was killed. Understand how 413 00:30:02,195 --> 00:30:06,275 Speaker 1: old this memory actually is. Telling it to you now 414 00:30:07,275 --> 00:30:11,035 Speaker 1: is the equivalent of somebody on that day on November 415 00:30:11,035 --> 00:30:14,875 Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen sixty three telling me about his own 416 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:20,275 Speaker 1: childhood memories of the election of nineteen oh four, or 417 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: somebody in say, nineteen twenty four, nineteen twenty five, going 418 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:28,555 Speaker 1: on about the personal memories of the Civil War, or 419 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:31,595 Speaker 1: more appropriately for this, their memories of the day Lincoln 420 00:30:31,675 --> 00:30:36,035 Speaker 1: was shot. On November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, I 421 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:38,795 Speaker 1: was two months and five days shy of my fifth birthday. 422 00:30:39,075 --> 00:30:42,635 Speaker 1: I was in kindergarten, and we finished every Friday around noon, 423 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:44,275 Speaker 1: and I was already home and in my room. And 424 00:30:44,315 --> 00:30:47,355 Speaker 1: the reason I can see it so distinctly is that 425 00:30:47,555 --> 00:30:50,955 Speaker 1: just weeks before, my folks had bought a new television 426 00:30:51,395 --> 00:30:54,075 Speaker 1: black and white of course, crystal clear picture, or so 427 00:30:54,235 --> 00:30:56,515 Speaker 1: we thought, and it was the first new one they 428 00:30:56,555 --> 00:31:01,555 Speaker 1: had bought in eight years, and they took the old television, 429 00:31:01,635 --> 00:31:04,795 Speaker 1: a gigantic thing that required its own rolling stem, and 430 00:31:05,275 --> 00:31:07,715 Speaker 1: had a speaker the size and the tan color of 431 00:31:07,755 --> 00:31:10,235 Speaker 1: a high five record player, and had the giant rabbit 432 00:31:10,275 --> 00:31:14,555 Speaker 1: ear antennas that you hear about in satires these days. 433 00:31:14,995 --> 00:31:17,275 Speaker 1: And they rolled that thing into my room and set 434 00:31:17,315 --> 00:31:20,355 Speaker 1: it up speaking of rabbits under my giant bugs bunny 435 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: wall clock, with the ears pointing to all the characters 436 00:31:22,835 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: in the cartoons. I was in my room watching cartoons, 437 00:31:27,075 --> 00:31:31,555 Speaker 1: luxuriating in my newfound television ownership. No other kid I 438 00:31:31,675 --> 00:31:35,755 Speaker 1: knew had their own TV. And my mother was out 439 00:31:35,795 --> 00:31:38,115 Speaker 1: in our tiny living room in our tiny house in 440 00:31:38,155 --> 00:31:40,715 Speaker 1: Hastings on Hudson, New York, when I heard her shout, 441 00:31:41,355 --> 00:31:43,315 Speaker 1: and not long after I heard the phone ring. It 442 00:31:43,355 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: was in the kitchen, the phone, and it had a 443 00:31:45,435 --> 00:31:48,435 Speaker 1: chord so long that it could stretch into the living room. 444 00:31:48,675 --> 00:31:50,595 Speaker 1: And it was quickly apparent that if my mother was 445 00:31:50,635 --> 00:31:54,075 Speaker 1: not crying, she seemed about to. I came out and 446 00:31:54,075 --> 00:31:56,075 Speaker 1: stood next to her, and she said, your father wants 447 00:31:56,075 --> 00:31:58,035 Speaker 1: you to go in the room and close the door 448 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:02,635 Speaker 1: and watch the cartoons. He will be home soon. This 449 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:07,155 Speaker 1: made no sense. I was not an idiot. I was 450 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:10,595 Speaker 1: still aware of time. It was the middle of the afternoon, 451 00:32:10,635 --> 00:32:12,355 Speaker 1: and Dad would not be home on the train from 452 00:32:12,355 --> 00:32:15,555 Speaker 1: New York before six, at least he wasn't supposed to be. 453 00:32:16,395 --> 00:32:18,475 Speaker 1: But I went back into my room. I did not 454 00:32:18,595 --> 00:32:21,955 Speaker 1: fully close the door because I was something of a sneak, 455 00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,395 Speaker 1: and soon I heard my mother tell my father to 456 00:32:24,435 --> 00:32:26,835 Speaker 1: be careful and hurry back home. The next thing I 457 00:32:26,835 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: heard was her back in the kitchen dialing the phone. 458 00:32:28,995 --> 00:32:32,195 Speaker 1: And these were the days of the rotary phones, where 459 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:34,355 Speaker 1: if you had to dial the number nine, it took 460 00:32:34,435 --> 00:32:38,235 Speaker 1: several seconds to move the rotary dial clockwise and even 461 00:32:38,315 --> 00:32:42,075 Speaker 1: longer for it to rebound to the starting point counterclockwise. 462 00:32:42,835 --> 00:32:45,395 Speaker 1: And each time you did this it made so much noise. 463 00:32:45,395 --> 00:32:47,915 Speaker 1: It sounded like somebody trying to start the electric lawnmower 464 00:32:48,515 --> 00:32:52,955 Speaker 1: or maybe a prop plane. Given enough quiet on the street, 465 00:32:52,955 --> 00:32:56,395 Speaker 1: you could hear from outside. Well, that noise gave me 466 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:58,955 Speaker 1: cover to sneak back into the hallway about halfway between 467 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:00,995 Speaker 1: my room and the living room, and I heard my 468 00:33:01,035 --> 00:33:04,355 Speaker 1: mother say, my god, Barbara, did you see Kennedy's been shot? 469 00:33:04,395 --> 00:33:07,555 Speaker 1: What's going to happen? Next, it was her sister in law, 470 00:33:07,595 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: my uncle Bill's wife, Barbara. Barbara and Bill lived in 471 00:33:10,515 --> 00:33:14,035 Speaker 1: Connecticut at that time. This was a long distance call. 472 00:33:14,835 --> 00:33:16,755 Speaker 1: I am not sure if they got off the phone 473 00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:20,115 Speaker 1: before my dad got home more than an hour later. 474 00:33:20,635 --> 00:33:23,355 Speaker 1: I am confident my mother told Aunt Barbara that she 475 00:33:23,515 --> 00:33:27,115 Speaker 1: heard Walter Cronkite say three men shot Kennedy, and she 476 00:33:27,235 --> 00:33:31,915 Speaker 1: would insist that for the rest of her life. Now, 477 00:33:31,915 --> 00:33:33,755 Speaker 1: I went back to my room and started changing the 478 00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: channel another feet of strength. In nineteen sixty three, you 479 00:33:36,995 --> 00:33:41,875 Speaker 1: had to literally change the dial. I settled on Channel two, 480 00:33:41,995 --> 00:33:44,595 Speaker 1: and yes, at age four, I occasionally watched the news. 481 00:33:44,915 --> 00:33:47,075 Speaker 1: I certainly had an idea who the President was and 482 00:33:47,115 --> 00:33:49,635 Speaker 1: who John F. Kennedy was, And although it is lodged 483 00:33:49,675 --> 00:33:51,715 Speaker 1: in my memory that fifty nine years ago today, I 484 00:33:51,795 --> 00:33:54,875 Speaker 1: was not sure that they were one and the same person. 485 00:33:55,835 --> 00:33:59,155 Speaker 1: But what I could tell was that either Kennedy or 486 00:33:59,155 --> 00:34:01,835 Speaker 1: the President, or both of them, or they were the 487 00:34:01,835 --> 00:34:05,475 Speaker 1: same person had been shot in some place called Dallas. 488 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:09,555 Speaker 1: I didn't know what the president did per se, but 489 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:11,675 Speaker 1: I had figured out a lot earlier, mostly because of 490 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,355 Speaker 1: the coverage of John Glenn and the other early astronauts 491 00:34:14,395 --> 00:34:17,515 Speaker 1: that anything on television that wasn't a cartoon or a 492 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:21,075 Speaker 1: comedy or a western, or a ballgame or a thing 493 00:34:21,115 --> 00:34:23,555 Speaker 1: with doctors, or something designed to scare the crap out 494 00:34:23,555 --> 00:34:25,715 Speaker 1: of me, like the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits. 495 00:34:25,755 --> 00:34:32,555 Speaker 1: Anything but that was necessarily important, often very important. The 496 00:34:32,595 --> 00:34:35,315 Speaker 1: rest of that day is largely a blank, except for dinner. 497 00:34:35,915 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: I ate my parents did not. I have some memory 498 00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:42,315 Speaker 1: of them putting me to bed impossibly early for a 499 00:34:42,315 --> 00:34:44,675 Speaker 1: Friday night, with the excuse being that we were going 500 00:34:44,715 --> 00:34:47,115 Speaker 1: to see the Carls the next day in New Jersey. 501 00:34:47,435 --> 00:34:50,155 Speaker 1: The Carls were friends of my folks. I think my 502 00:34:50,235 --> 00:34:52,715 Speaker 1: mother knew her from a bank she had worked at. 503 00:34:53,155 --> 00:34:55,875 Speaker 1: They lived in Westfield, New Jersey, an hour away across 504 00:34:55,915 --> 00:34:59,195 Speaker 1: the George Washington Bridge and everything, and maybe every three 505 00:34:59,275 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: or four weeks or so, either we would go see 506 00:35:01,755 --> 00:35:03,395 Speaker 1: them or they would come see us, and our trip 507 00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:07,075 Speaker 1: had long since been played. The Carls had two boys, 508 00:35:07,115 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: one a couple of years older than me, one just 509 00:35:09,035 --> 00:35:12,355 Speaker 1: slightly younger. I can remember the trip only because one 510 00:35:12,355 --> 00:35:15,395 Speaker 1: of my joys at the age of four and five 511 00:35:15,595 --> 00:35:19,075 Speaker 1: was looking for all the different kinds of cars, and 512 00:35:19,195 --> 00:35:23,395 Speaker 1: on that Saturday I was sorely disappointed. There weren't any cars. 513 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:28,795 Speaker 1: The roads were deserted. First, my folks didn't eat today, 514 00:35:28,795 --> 00:35:30,995 Speaker 1: they didn't talk. And now there was nobody on the 515 00:35:31,035 --> 00:35:36,235 Speaker 1: streets or the parkways or the bridge. Something was really wrong. 516 00:35:37,595 --> 00:35:39,835 Speaker 1: We got to the Carls faster than I could recall 517 00:35:39,875 --> 00:35:43,155 Speaker 1: ever having done so. Ordinarily, mister Carl loved to quiz 518 00:35:43,155 --> 00:35:45,235 Speaker 1: me about the cars I'd seen, But on that Saturday 519 00:35:45,235 --> 00:35:47,595 Speaker 1: in the twenty third, he and his wife simply said 520 00:35:47,595 --> 00:35:50,035 Speaker 1: a quick hello to me, and then their boys and 521 00:35:50,075 --> 00:35:52,355 Speaker 1: I were rushed into their room, and for all I know, 522 00:35:52,435 --> 00:35:55,635 Speaker 1: they locked us in. I last saw these two guys 523 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:58,755 Speaker 1: around nineteen sixty nine. Their dad was in the petroleum industry, 524 00:35:58,795 --> 00:36:01,155 Speaker 1: and they had lived in Venezuela, and I think they 525 00:36:01,155 --> 00:36:03,875 Speaker 1: went back there, so forgive me, I don't remember their names. 526 00:36:05,555 --> 00:36:08,235 Speaker 1: But as soon as missus Carl slammed their door shut, 527 00:36:08,275 --> 00:36:10,275 Speaker 1: the older one said to me, all right, what's wrong 528 00:36:10,315 --> 00:36:13,515 Speaker 1: with the grownups? Why are they all crying? I remember 529 00:36:13,555 --> 00:36:15,715 Speaker 1: telling them that Kennedy had been shot, and I thought 530 00:36:15,915 --> 00:36:19,715 Speaker 1: Kennedy was the president, and the older one gulped and asked, 531 00:36:19,955 --> 00:36:23,715 Speaker 1: shot with a gun? We put on their ancient black 532 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:25,795 Speaker 1: and white TV and went looking for something to watch, 533 00:36:25,915 --> 00:36:29,155 Speaker 1: and there was nothing on except men sitting at desks 534 00:36:29,235 --> 00:36:31,835 Speaker 1: looking ashen, even on the black and white TVs of 535 00:36:31,915 --> 00:36:35,515 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. But I'm confident we did not realize 536 00:36:35,515 --> 00:36:38,475 Speaker 1: that they were talking about Kennedy and the assassination. We 537 00:36:38,675 --> 00:36:41,195 Speaker 1: just knew they were not supposed to be there on 538 00:36:41,395 --> 00:36:47,435 Speaker 1: our TVs. Saturday morning belonged to kids. On a Saturday morning, 539 00:36:47,475 --> 00:36:50,315 Speaker 1: the only two of the seven New York television stations 540 00:36:51,115 --> 00:36:54,395 Speaker 1: would not ordinarily be wall to wall with cartoons until 541 00:36:54,435 --> 00:36:57,715 Speaker 1: eleven AM or noon or later. One was the educational station, 542 00:36:57,835 --> 00:37:00,635 Speaker 1: Channel thirteen. The other was Channel five, and they had 543 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,875 Speaker 1: a kid's show with a live studio audience full of 544 00:37:03,915 --> 00:37:07,035 Speaker 1: kids and games and clowns and whatever. On the others, 545 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:10,995 Speaker 1: we could rely on quick Draw McGraw and bugs and 546 00:37:11,035 --> 00:37:13,355 Speaker 1: the like. But on this Saturday morning, they were playing 547 00:37:13,395 --> 00:37:16,035 Speaker 1: what sounded like church music, and the only thing they 548 00:37:16,035 --> 00:37:18,435 Speaker 1: displayed was their channel number and the call letters at 549 00:37:18,435 --> 00:37:22,955 Speaker 1: the station. Maybe they ran out of cartoons, said the 550 00:37:22,995 --> 00:37:26,475 Speaker 1: younger of the Carl brothers. Even at age four, I 551 00:37:26,555 --> 00:37:30,395 Speaker 1: understood television better than I did. Assassinations. They don't run out, 552 00:37:30,715 --> 00:37:32,915 Speaker 1: I said, They just play the same ones over and 553 00:37:32,995 --> 00:37:36,915 Speaker 1: over again, haven't you noticed? It amazed me that he 554 00:37:36,955 --> 00:37:39,435 Speaker 1: hadn't noticed, And it was at this point that I 555 00:37:39,475 --> 00:37:42,915 Speaker 1: began to really worry about what was happening. Anytime one 556 00:37:42,915 --> 00:37:45,195 Speaker 1: of us left the brother's room to use the bathroom, 557 00:37:45,235 --> 00:37:48,355 Speaker 1: the adults would stop talking. They were stopping in mid word. 558 00:37:49,595 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, the three of us kids had played every 559 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:54,115 Speaker 1: board game the brothers had, and the older of them 560 00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:56,195 Speaker 1: asked their parents to let us go outside and play, 561 00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:58,435 Speaker 1: and he came back shaken because they had said no, 562 00:37:59,795 --> 00:38:02,155 Speaker 1: they always want us out of the house. What's wrong? 563 00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,075 Speaker 1: On the way home to Hastings and I think we 564 00:38:07,155 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: had been there long enough that it was getting dark already, 565 00:38:09,315 --> 00:38:12,595 Speaker 1: my parents finally filled me in at some point later 566 00:38:12,635 --> 00:38:14,915 Speaker 1: before I went to college. I remember asking my mother 567 00:38:14,955 --> 00:38:18,035 Speaker 1: what she told me and when, and she said they 568 00:38:18,035 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: had waited until the second day because they believed there 569 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:22,715 Speaker 1: was a chance Kennedy had been killed by the Russians 570 00:38:23,315 --> 00:38:26,155 Speaker 1: and that there would be a war. And remember we 571 00:38:26,235 --> 00:38:30,515 Speaker 1: had almost had a war, almost a nuclear war, thirteen 572 00:38:30,595 --> 00:38:34,315 Speaker 1: months earlier that I have no memory of. I guessed 573 00:38:35,035 --> 00:38:36,835 Speaker 1: that it was easier to tell me in the car 574 00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:38,795 Speaker 1: because they didn't have to hide their faces from me, 575 00:38:38,875 --> 00:38:43,275 Speaker 1: so I would not see if they were crying. My 576 00:38:43,355 --> 00:38:45,515 Speaker 1: mother did say she was amazed that I had figured 577 00:38:45,515 --> 00:38:47,595 Speaker 1: out what had happened, and that it had shocked all 578 00:38:47,595 --> 00:38:49,955 Speaker 1: the adults without really understanding what any of it meant. 579 00:38:50,635 --> 00:38:52,595 Speaker 1: She thought, by Saturday evening, it was pretty clear that 580 00:38:52,595 --> 00:38:55,435 Speaker 1: the Russians had not killed President Kennedy, and as bad 581 00:38:55,475 --> 00:38:57,355 Speaker 1: as it was, it was not going to get worse. 582 00:38:57,395 --> 00:39:00,075 Speaker 1: So they might as well tell me what I could understand, 583 00:39:00,075 --> 00:39:01,675 Speaker 1: and they decided it was safe enough to let me 584 00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:05,515 Speaker 1: go outside and play again. This, my mom was pretty confident, 585 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: meant that I was sitting there with them on Sunday 586 00:39:07,715 --> 00:39:10,835 Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, probably over lunch, when Lee Harvey Oswald 587 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:14,675 Speaker 1: was himself assassinated on live television. I think she's right. 588 00:39:15,515 --> 00:39:18,835 Speaker 1: I recall them changing the channel away from CBS, which 589 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:22,675 Speaker 1: they rarely did, for once because they had just started 590 00:39:22,675 --> 00:39:26,155 Speaker 1: to run some sort of report from Roger Mudd. My 591 00:39:26,235 --> 00:39:30,235 Speaker 1: folks could not abide Roger Mudd no offense, they just couldn't. 592 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:34,755 Speaker 1: Only ABC and NBC showed the murder of Oswald live. 593 00:39:35,635 --> 00:39:37,995 Speaker 1: I'd love to recount my reaction or my folks. I 594 00:39:38,035 --> 00:39:42,235 Speaker 1: can't remember it. I also have no idea what happened 595 00:39:42,235 --> 00:39:45,555 Speaker 1: in school that following short week. It was Thanksgiving coming up, 596 00:39:45,555 --> 00:39:47,435 Speaker 1: and for all I know, they canceled the three days 597 00:39:47,475 --> 00:39:50,435 Speaker 1: worth of classes. I do remember that as the shock 598 00:39:50,475 --> 00:39:54,235 Speaker 1: of the assassination wore off, my father was angry about 599 00:39:54,235 --> 00:39:57,755 Speaker 1: something comparatively trivial. He had, for the first time in 600 00:39:57,795 --> 00:40:01,395 Speaker 1: his life as a native New Yorker, got an actual 601 00:40:01,755 --> 00:40:08,355 Speaker 1: reserved bleacher seats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Thirty 602 00:40:08,355 --> 00:40:11,315 Speaker 1: four years He had waited for this, but now it 603 00:40:11,395 --> 00:40:14,275 Speaker 1: was obvious that there were only two choices. Either they 604 00:40:14,315 --> 00:40:16,515 Speaker 1: would cancel the parade outright, or they would make it 605 00:40:16,555 --> 00:40:19,355 Speaker 1: the briefest, grimmest parade in New York City history. They 606 00:40:19,435 --> 00:40:22,555 Speaker 1: chose the latter. My memory is that my dad took me, 607 00:40:23,035 --> 00:40:26,635 Speaker 1: but my mom stayed home. Our location was at Broadway 608 00:40:26,675 --> 00:40:28,715 Speaker 1: and around fiftieth Straight, and I asked my dad what 609 00:40:28,835 --> 00:40:31,195 Speaker 1: all the black stuff was on a couple of the buildings. 610 00:40:31,555 --> 00:40:34,955 Speaker 1: It was mourning crape. Some of the buildings were adorned 611 00:40:34,955 --> 00:40:37,875 Speaker 1: with black mourning crape, as if we were there for 612 00:40:37,955 --> 00:40:42,475 Speaker 1: Kennedy's funeral procession, not the ceremonial. First seasonal appearance of 613 00:40:42,515 --> 00:40:46,435 Speaker 1: Santa Claus. At one point, a group marched by with 614 00:40:46,475 --> 00:40:50,915 Speaker 1: a huge American flag wrapped in mourning crape, bigger than 615 00:40:50,955 --> 00:40:55,275 Speaker 1: the flags themselves. A year ago I found the box 616 00:40:55,315 --> 00:40:58,675 Speaker 1: of slides that my dad and inveterate photographer took of 617 00:40:58,675 --> 00:41:01,595 Speaker 1: that parade. It is amazing that the sense of shock 618 00:41:01,955 --> 00:41:04,435 Speaker 1: out of people pretending to be happy to be at 619 00:41:04,475 --> 00:41:07,875 Speaker 1: a parade is either retained by the images from that 620 00:41:07,995 --> 00:41:11,675 Speaker 1: November twenty eighth or it sparks my own emotional memories 621 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:16,995 Speaker 1: of the weird, disturbing experience. There were the traditional Thanksgiving balloons. 622 00:41:18,075 --> 00:41:20,195 Speaker 1: By the time Donald Duck got to us, he was 623 00:41:20,235 --> 00:41:23,795 Speaker 1: losing air rapidly gotten punctured somehow. If you want a 624 00:41:23,835 --> 00:41:28,355 Speaker 1: metaphor for November nineteen sixty three, there were bands, there 625 00:41:28,435 --> 00:41:30,795 Speaker 1: was Santa and it was warm. It was sixty degrees. 626 00:41:30,875 --> 00:41:33,595 Speaker 1: Coats were open, hats were off. But more than anything else, 627 00:41:33,635 --> 00:41:39,595 Speaker 1: it was almost silent. You could hear kids throughout, the younger, 628 00:41:39,635 --> 00:41:42,595 Speaker 1: the louder, but you could hear them from the other 629 00:41:42,675 --> 00:41:45,075 Speaker 1: side of the parade. It was as if you went 630 00:41:45,115 --> 00:41:48,555 Speaker 1: to a ballgame and the public address system didn't work. 631 00:41:49,915 --> 00:41:53,075 Speaker 1: It's actually quite a relief for the first few minutes, 632 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:56,395 Speaker 1: I am convinced I could hear the shoes of the 633 00:41:56,435 --> 00:41:59,635 Speaker 1: band members hit the pavement as they walked past me. 634 00:42:02,115 --> 00:42:04,955 Speaker 1: There is only one other thing from my childhood about 635 00:42:04,955 --> 00:42:07,315 Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination that I remember carrying the kind of 636 00:42:07,435 --> 00:42:10,475 Speaker 1: shock like those first few days of observing all the 637 00:42:10,515 --> 00:42:14,875 Speaker 1: disoriented and as my friend in Jersey noted, crying adults 638 00:42:15,835 --> 00:42:19,955 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy might have been nineteen seventy one, but 639 00:42:19,995 --> 00:42:22,035 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was nineteen seventy. When I was 640 00:42:22,075 --> 00:42:25,515 Speaker 1: in the eighth grade, all of our classes were canceled 641 00:42:25,555 --> 00:42:28,155 Speaker 1: late one morning and we were gathered in the school 642 00:42:28,235 --> 00:42:31,195 Speaker 1: chapel for a special assembly. We had a lot of 643 00:42:31,235 --> 00:42:35,955 Speaker 1: assemblies there, but never as late as eleven am. Some 644 00:42:36,115 --> 00:42:38,315 Speaker 1: guy came in, and I have thought and asked and 645 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:40,955 Speaker 1: researched and have figured out nothing about who he was. 646 00:42:41,875 --> 00:42:44,635 Speaker 1: But he had a copy of something almost none of us, 647 00:42:45,075 --> 00:42:48,475 Speaker 1: and by us, I mean Americans of nineteen seventy had 648 00:42:48,515 --> 00:42:53,275 Speaker 1: ever seen before. It had been on television local television 649 00:42:53,355 --> 00:42:55,675 Speaker 1: a couple of times, but it would not be shown 650 00:42:55,755 --> 00:43:00,755 Speaker 1: on national television in whole for another five years. The 651 00:43:00,795 --> 00:43:06,875 Speaker 1: speaker called it the Zepruder film and as much other 652 00:43:07,075 --> 00:43:10,475 Speaker 1: assorted film from that day as any JFK documentary I 653 00:43:10,555 --> 00:43:17,115 Speaker 1: saw before I was an adult. He showed that too, 654 00:43:17,515 --> 00:43:19,715 Speaker 1: And while I do not remember him espousing any of 655 00:43:19,715 --> 00:43:22,275 Speaker 1: the conspiracy theories that by then had become a constant 656 00:43:22,315 --> 00:43:25,915 Speaker 1: in our country, that might be because he showed us 657 00:43:25,915 --> 00:43:28,635 Speaker 1: the Zuppruder film the way Kevin Costner showed it in 658 00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,875 Speaker 1: the Oliver Stone film. JFK. We must have seen the 659 00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:37,115 Speaker 1: fatal shots twenty times, at every speed slower than real time. 660 00:43:38,515 --> 00:43:41,675 Speaker 1: I think we were all ordered back into our respective 661 00:43:41,795 --> 00:43:47,275 Speaker 1: history classes, where shocked students listened to even more shocked teachers, 662 00:43:47,955 --> 00:43:50,675 Speaker 1: and we asked the same questions the Carls and I 663 00:43:50,755 --> 00:43:56,395 Speaker 1: did on November twenty third, nineteen sixty three, what's wrong 664 00:43:56,435 --> 00:44:12,035 Speaker 1: with the grown ups? I've done all the damage I 665 00:44:12,035 --> 00:44:14,195 Speaker 1: can do here? Thank you for listening. Countdown has come 666 00:44:14,235 --> 00:44:16,475 Speaker 1: to you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Old 667 00:44:16,515 --> 00:44:22,355 Speaker 1: Women Broadcasting Empire World Headquarters in New York. Countdown musical 668 00:44:22,355 --> 00:44:25,315 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and 669 00:44:25,395 --> 00:44:29,515 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 670 00:44:29,755 --> 00:44:33,115 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, produced by 671 00:44:33,115 --> 00:44:38,475 Speaker 1: tk O Brothers. Other music, including other Beethoven tunage, arranged 672 00:44:38,515 --> 00:44:42,235 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 673 00:44:42,275 --> 00:44:45,195 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN, Inc. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis. 674 00:44:45,195 --> 00:44:48,195 Speaker 1: We called the Old Woman theme from ESPN two. Our 675 00:44:48,275 --> 00:44:51,515 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the 676 00:44:51,515 --> 00:44:54,475 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my 677 00:44:54,515 --> 00:44:57,995 Speaker 1: friend Howard Feinneman, and everything else was pretty much my fault. 678 00:44:58,475 --> 00:45:00,795 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this the one thousand and fiftieth 679 00:45:00,875 --> 00:45:04,555 Speaker 1: day since dementia Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the 680 00:45:04,715 --> 00:45:09,275 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Convict him now, well, 681 00:45:09,315 --> 00:45:13,555 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletin 682 00:45:13,595 --> 00:45:16,635 Speaker 1: says the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Oulremman. Good morning, 683 00:45:16,675 --> 00:45:35,555 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, good luck, and Happy Thanksgiving. Countdown 684 00:45:35,635 --> 00:45:39,395 Speaker 1: with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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