1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio two 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:32,355 Speaker 1: fifteen celsius six foot three, two fifteen blonde or strawberry 3 00:00:32,395 --> 00:00:35,475 Speaker 1: hair per the booking office at the Rice Street Jail 4 00:00:35,515 --> 00:00:40,755 Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So if Trump actually does flee, the police 5 00:00:40,795 --> 00:00:44,635 Speaker 1: of the world will be busy looking for carrot top 6 00:00:45,515 --> 00:00:50,315 Speaker 1: while Trump himself escapes. The never Surrender graphic with the 7 00:00:50,395 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: mugshot was posted at nine twenty four Eastern Time last night, 8 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:57,275 Speaker 1: and the never Surrender t shirt, priced at forty seven 9 00:00:57,355 --> 00:01:00,635 Speaker 1: dollars with the mugshot, went live minutes later. And the 10 00:01:00,715 --> 00:01:03,635 Speaker 1: never Surrender photo is a photo of him right after 11 00:01:04,435 --> 00:01:12,555 Speaker 1: he he's surrendered. So talking about a mugshot on a podcast, 12 00:01:13,435 --> 00:01:16,035 Speaker 1: I'm suddenly reminded of the hundreds of listeners in the 13 00:01:16,035 --> 00:01:19,035 Speaker 1: thirties and forties and the joke in the more recent 14 00:01:19,155 --> 00:01:23,995 Speaker 1: movie Radio Days, all asking the same question every time 15 00:01:24,115 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy appeared on 16 00:01:28,355 --> 00:01:32,915 Speaker 1: network radio. He's a ventriloquist on the radio. How do 17 00:01:32,955 --> 00:01:37,555 Speaker 1: you know he's not moving his lips? As I assume 18 00:01:37,715 --> 00:01:40,675 Speaker 1: you have figured out for yourself, they do not actually 19 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:43,955 Speaker 1: weigh the defendants who are booked in Atlanta, and as 20 00:01:43,955 --> 00:01:46,835 Speaker 1: it turns out, it does not seem like they even 21 00:01:46,995 --> 00:01:51,035 Speaker 1: ask them. The likeliest explanation is that they employ one 22 00:01:51,075 --> 00:01:53,995 Speaker 1: of those guests your weight guys from the carnival or 23 00:01:54,075 --> 00:01:58,875 Speaker 1: the county fair, only not one of the good ones. Quote. 24 00:01:59,155 --> 00:02:03,755 Speaker 1: In the case of former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, explained, 25 00:02:03,795 --> 00:02:07,675 Speaker 1: the Washington Post jail records initially listed him at five 26 00:02:07,755 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: foot nine and one hundred and eighty pounds, but later 27 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:14,035 Speaker 1: in the same day, the numbers had changed without explanation, 28 00:02:14,515 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 1: to five foot eleven and two hundred and thirty pounds. 29 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:22,755 Speaker 1: An individual who accompanied Giuliani to his booking said they 30 00:02:22,795 --> 00:02:26,075 Speaker 1: did not recall anyone asking the former New York mayor 31 00:02:26,115 --> 00:02:29,515 Speaker 1: for his weight, nor do they recall him being asked 32 00:02:29,915 --> 00:02:35,075 Speaker 1: to step on a scale. End result, according to the 33 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:42,515 Speaker 1: Atlanta offices, Giuliani outweighs Trump by fifteen pounds. Though the 34 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:45,635 Speaker 1: idea of the mugshot is new for most of us, 35 00:02:45,675 --> 00:02:48,755 Speaker 1: the booking of Donald Trump is by now a ritual 36 00:02:49,035 --> 00:02:53,155 Speaker 1: as old as the nation itself, passed from one generation 37 00:02:53,235 --> 00:02:57,915 Speaker 1: of Americans to the next. To his supporters, this is 38 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:01,115 Speaker 1: something they seemed to have convinced themselves until last night 39 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: was never actually going to happen, at about which they 40 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:11,635 Speaker 1: take dire umbradge ned Ryan Ryan with a you, the 41 00:03:11,675 --> 00:03:14,755 Speaker 1: one time George W. Bush speech writer and now head 42 00:03:14,795 --> 00:03:18,195 Speaker 1: of one of the three million different organizations out there 43 00:03:18,235 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: to fight against the lack of conservative representation. Ned Ryan 44 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:25,075 Speaker 1: with a you went on Fox and said we were 45 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:29,515 Speaker 1: in a cold civil war, and Sarah Palin, who is 46 00:03:29,555 --> 00:03:32,715 Speaker 1: a dope, went on Newsmax and said, do you want 47 00:03:32,795 --> 00:03:34,915 Speaker 1: us to be in a civil war? Because that's what's 48 00:03:34,955 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: going to happen. We do need to rise up and 49 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:40,555 Speaker 1: take our country back. And one is inclined to remind 50 00:03:40,675 --> 00:03:45,715 Speaker 1: the witch from Wasilla who has all the tanks, and 51 00:03:45,835 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: which side is enraged to the point of insurrection another 52 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:54,155 Speaker 1: insurrection enraged to the point of insurrection by a photo 53 00:03:54,915 --> 00:03:57,875 Speaker 1: of an insane old man who would sell them all 54 00:03:57,955 --> 00:04:00,715 Speaker 1: for three dollars a piece, and who has spent the 55 00:04:00,755 --> 00:04:04,875 Speaker 1: last eight years conning them out of their money. They're 56 00:04:04,915 --> 00:04:07,835 Speaker 1: ready to go and fight over his momentous decision to 57 00:04:07,955 --> 00:04:11,995 Speaker 1: return to the dying social media site formerly known as 58 00:04:12,075 --> 00:04:17,835 Speaker 1: Twitter to post this photo he so hates. Well, if 59 00:04:17,835 --> 00:04:23,715 Speaker 1: it's civil war at least it's about something important. There 60 00:04:23,795 --> 00:04:27,875 Speaker 1: is a lot of amateur psychoanalysis of the pose and 61 00:04:27,955 --> 00:04:31,435 Speaker 1: a lot of projection on both sides. And oh, by 62 00:04:31,475 --> 00:04:34,635 Speaker 1: the way, the fake turned out to be pretty close, 63 00:04:34,675 --> 00:04:38,035 Speaker 1: didn't it. But as a now middle aged man, I 64 00:04:38,075 --> 00:04:42,555 Speaker 1: can offer you insight that others cannot. I can tell 65 00:04:42,595 --> 00:04:48,155 Speaker 1: you that whatever Trump wants his cultists to believe, he 66 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:53,755 Speaker 1: positioned himself like that, not to look stern, nor resolute, 67 00:04:54,155 --> 00:04:59,355 Speaker 1: nor civil warish, nor incapable of surrender at an event 68 00:04:59,475 --> 00:05:05,315 Speaker 1: literally called a surrender. He positioned himself like that for 69 00:05:05,395 --> 00:05:16,115 Speaker 1: one reason, and one reason alone, to hide his chins. 70 00:05:16,675 --> 00:05:20,035 Speaker 1: The irony here is that the real action in Atlanta 71 00:05:20,515 --> 00:05:22,795 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Trump, not directly anyway. But, 72 00:05:22,835 --> 00:05:25,595 Speaker 1: as I suggested yesterday, if Trump actually winds up in 73 00:05:25,715 --> 00:05:29,995 Speaker 1: prison before the election, we may have to thank an 74 00:05:30,035 --> 00:05:33,955 Speaker 1: ex Democrat from Harvard Law who devised a scheme he 75 00:05:34,035 --> 00:05:37,595 Speaker 1: knew would be eviscerated by the courts, but proposed anyway 76 00:05:37,595 --> 00:05:40,395 Speaker 1: because he thought it would buy Trump time to tie 77 00:05:40,515 --> 00:05:43,835 Speaker 1: Biden up in the courts and throw American democracy into 78 00:05:43,835 --> 00:05:47,315 Speaker 1: a confused mess in which the dominant political structure would 79 00:05:47,315 --> 00:05:51,795 Speaker 1: be provided by roving gangs of attorneys. Of all of 80 00:05:51,835 --> 00:05:57,595 Speaker 1: the Trump nineteen only Kenneth Cheesebro invoked the Georgia law 81 00:05:57,675 --> 00:06:01,515 Speaker 1: guaranteeing a defendant a speedy trial, a law which guaranteed 82 00:06:01,595 --> 00:06:05,035 Speaker 1: him at least a scheduled first day in corps no 83 00:06:05,195 --> 00:06:10,075 Speaker 1: later than Friday, November three. DA Fannie Willis came back 84 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:13,435 Speaker 1: yesterday and said, I'll see your November third and raise 85 00:06:13,555 --> 00:06:16,635 Speaker 1: you one speedy trial date. And she proposed that it 86 00:06:16,675 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: all starts on Monday, October twenty third. And she was 87 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:24,595 Speaker 1: specific not just Cheeseboro's trial, but all of them. That's 88 00:06:24,595 --> 00:06:28,315 Speaker 1: sixty days from now. Shakespeare may have had Hamlet ask 89 00:06:28,635 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: who would bear the law's delay, but the law's delay 90 00:06:32,835 --> 00:06:36,915 Speaker 1: is the primary feature of the legal game. Sixty days 91 00:06:37,955 --> 00:06:42,595 Speaker 1: is lightning fast. Whether Willis is seizing the unexpected door 92 00:06:42,715 --> 00:06:46,315 Speaker 1: Cheesebro has opened for her, or she's playing chicken against him, 93 00:06:46,355 --> 00:06:49,635 Speaker 1: I could only guess either way. She and Cheesebro's team 94 00:06:49,715 --> 00:06:53,035 Speaker 1: are in essence drag racing, And if the DA's motives 95 00:06:53,075 --> 00:06:58,195 Speaker 1: are uncertain, Cheesebros are unfathomable unless he's avenging himself against 96 00:06:58,195 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: Trump for getting him into this fine mess. Also, if 97 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:04,915 Speaker 1: note Jim Jordan Is threatening a congressional investigation up fivey 98 00:07:04,915 --> 00:07:08,475 Speaker 1: Willis because I guess her name came up in the 99 00:07:08,835 --> 00:07:13,595 Speaker 1: investigation a day popomatic device that Jordan and Jamie Comer 100 00:07:13,875 --> 00:07:19,675 Speaker 1: and Marge Green co own Nitwitz. The other actual news 101 00:07:19,715 --> 00:07:24,275 Speaker 1: story from Atlanta buried under Mugshot Watch twenty three was 102 00:07:24,355 --> 00:07:28,435 Speaker 1: the sudden punt by Mark Meadows. Yesterday morning, Meadows was 103 00:07:28,475 --> 00:07:30,555 Speaker 1: still trying to get out from under the onus of 104 00:07:30,595 --> 00:07:35,675 Speaker 1: the same booking process. Trump boneheadedly trumpeted he got his 105 00:07:35,835 --> 00:07:39,115 Speaker 1: hearing on his motion to move his trial into federal court, 106 00:07:39,355 --> 00:07:41,795 Speaker 1: and he argued that should relieve him of the burden 107 00:07:42,075 --> 00:07:44,675 Speaker 1: of having to be processed at the Rice Street jail, 108 00:07:45,195 --> 00:07:48,115 Speaker 1: and then the judge said, nah, sorry, smile and watch 109 00:07:48,155 --> 00:07:51,835 Speaker 1: the birdie. Not that Meadows had another legal play at 110 00:07:51,835 --> 00:07:54,595 Speaker 1: that point, but the alacrity with which he raced to 111 00:07:54,755 --> 00:08:00,275 Speaker 1: get fingerprinted was amazing. By three seventeen yesterday afternoon, meadows 112 00:08:00,395 --> 00:08:05,475 Speaker 1: mugshot was available online and suitable for framing the hearing 113 00:08:05,715 --> 00:08:08,915 Speaker 1: on the Meadows motion that what they've indicted him for 114 00:08:09,035 --> 00:08:11,955 Speaker 1: he did while an official in the presidential administration, and 115 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:15,315 Speaker 1: thus it is suitable only for a federal court. Will 116 00:08:15,355 --> 00:08:19,635 Speaker 1: be Monday. D A. Willis replied yesterday and said that's 117 00:08:19,715 --> 00:08:22,675 Speaker 1: part of the reason they indicted him, that while a 118 00:08:22,715 --> 00:08:28,275 Speaker 1: federal official, he violated the Hatch Act, which precludes simultaneous 119 00:08:28,315 --> 00:08:32,075 Speaker 1: political activities, like when he joined Trump in a meeting 120 00:08:32,075 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: with Michigan legislators at the White House on November twenty 121 00:08:35,075 --> 00:08:38,035 Speaker 1: at twenty twenty, and when he tried to connect Trump 122 00:08:38,035 --> 00:08:41,555 Speaker 1: with Pennsylvania legislators the next day to talk about the 123 00:08:41,555 --> 00:08:46,395 Speaker 1: election results, clearly political activity, wrote the district attorney. The 124 00:08:46,595 --> 00:08:50,155 Speaker 1: judge now has an even more complicated decision than at 125 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:53,435 Speaker 1: first looked to be. Meadows was arguing to move his 126 00:08:53,555 --> 00:08:56,635 Speaker 1: case to federal court because he was a federal officer 127 00:08:56,915 --> 00:09:01,275 Speaker 1: during the alleged crimes. The district attorney is now conceding that, 128 00:09:01,715 --> 00:09:05,595 Speaker 1: but saying he can't hide behind it because he was 129 00:09:05,635 --> 00:09:09,555 Speaker 1: specifically doing something that was illegal for a federal officer 130 00:09:10,195 --> 00:09:14,995 Speaker 1: while he was a federal officer. So does criming while 131 00:09:15,035 --> 00:09:18,315 Speaker 1: in the White House void the protections of being in 132 00:09:18,395 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: the White House. But of course all of that is 133 00:09:22,035 --> 00:09:27,275 Speaker 1: really complicated, especially for American television viewers, at least in 134 00:09:27,315 --> 00:09:30,715 Speaker 1: the opinion of news executives. So instead, let's just point 135 00:09:30,715 --> 00:09:35,875 Speaker 1: at the mugshot and count the chins. I'm not criticizing 136 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:41,195 Speaker 1: the spectacle. It also matters. I'm also doing it right now. 137 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:43,915 Speaker 1: I'd just like to see a little of the steak 138 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:47,155 Speaker 1: along with the sizzle from the reporters who had the 139 00:09:47,195 --> 00:09:51,555 Speaker 1: steak at the Milwaukee Chophouse Monday night before the debate, 140 00:09:52,195 --> 00:09:57,315 Speaker 1: presumably on the Trump campaign on their dime. I'd love 141 00:09:57,355 --> 00:09:59,395 Speaker 1: to see those expense reports, by the way, it wouldn't 142 00:09:59,435 --> 00:10:04,115 Speaker 1: be like reporters to double dip on dinner receipts. And 143 00:10:04,195 --> 00:10:08,075 Speaker 1: speaking of that debate, a little PostScript, I would like 144 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:13,235 Speaker 1: to apologize to you for having missed the unfathomable lack 145 00:10:13,355 --> 00:10:16,235 Speaker 1: of logic that this provided. 146 00:10:16,435 --> 00:10:19,195 Speaker 2: President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 147 00:10:19,235 --> 00:10:20,195 Speaker 2: twenty first century. 148 00:10:20,595 --> 00:10:25,035 Speaker 1: It's a fact. Trump at two twenty Thursday morning, by 149 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:29,035 Speaker 1: the way, declared Ramaswami the winner of the debate because 150 00:10:29,275 --> 00:10:33,955 Speaker 1: he said that because he praised him, Trump never noticed, 151 00:10:34,315 --> 00:10:39,195 Speaker 1: wouldn't care, wouldn't understand. The moderators didn't notice in real time. 152 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:42,075 Speaker 1: I didn't notice watching it, most of us didn't notice 153 00:10:42,075 --> 00:10:46,355 Speaker 1: the blank, unanswerable stupidity of that statement. If Trump is 154 00:10:46,395 --> 00:10:51,355 Speaker 1: the best president of the twenty first century. Why would 155 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:56,195 Speaker 1: you run against him? Fella? Vivek was supposedly the most 156 00:10:56,395 --> 00:10:58,955 Speaker 1: searched name during the debate. And this is one of 157 00:10:58,995 --> 00:11:02,355 Speaker 1: those vague statements of fact that everybody can impose their 158 00:11:02,395 --> 00:11:06,395 Speaker 1: own assumptions on. It's like the percentage of Americans who 159 00:11:06,395 --> 00:11:09,755 Speaker 1: think the country's going in the wrong direction. That includes 160 00:11:09,795 --> 00:11:12,595 Speaker 1: people who think the Democrats are destroying it and the 161 00:11:12,635 --> 00:11:16,995 Speaker 1: people who think the Republicans are destroying it. Search data 162 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:20,275 Speaker 1: doesn't mean like or hate. It just means who the 163 00:11:20,315 --> 00:11:23,515 Speaker 1: hell is this guy? It can also mean that the 164 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:28,075 Speaker 1: audience in real time caught the best president nonsense or 165 00:11:28,115 --> 00:11:31,595 Speaker 1: the other gaff made by this male version of Elizabeth Holmes. 166 00:11:32,555 --> 00:11:34,955 Speaker 1: I miss this one too, possibly because I find the 167 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:38,115 Speaker 1: guy so amazingly off putting, so wreeking of the three 168 00:11:38,195 --> 00:11:42,355 Speaker 1: card Monte Dealers of Broadway, that I found myself instinctively 169 00:11:42,475 --> 00:11:45,035 Speaker 1: checking to make sure my wallet had not been stolen. 170 00:11:45,755 --> 00:11:50,595 Speaker 1: Quote the US Constitution. It is the strongest guaranteur of 171 00:11:50,675 --> 00:11:54,555 Speaker 1: freedom of human history. That is what won us the 172 00:11:54,595 --> 00:12:00,515 Speaker 1: American Revolution. Now that's not quite as hallucinatory as Trump's 173 00:12:00,555 --> 00:12:04,075 Speaker 1: great moment in revolutionary war history, the day he claimed 174 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:08,795 Speaker 1: that George Washington's army took over the airports from the British, 175 00:12:09,195 --> 00:12:12,395 Speaker 1: but it's still pretty bad, especially considering it came as 176 00:12:12,475 --> 00:12:15,955 Speaker 1: Rameswami was talking about immigrants like his mother knowing more 177 00:12:15,995 --> 00:12:19,155 Speaker 1: about American civics than voters do, and how some of 178 00:12:19,195 --> 00:12:22,075 Speaker 1: the voters should have to pass a civics test before 179 00:12:22,115 --> 00:12:25,195 Speaker 1: getting to vote, in which case Ramswami himself would be 180 00:12:25,275 --> 00:12:29,515 Speaker 1: sitting the next cycle out. The timeline is not difficult. 181 00:12:29,675 --> 00:12:31,675 Speaker 1: You don't have to have it in as much detail 182 00:12:31,715 --> 00:12:34,195 Speaker 1: as I will give it to you now. Last true 183 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:38,795 Speaker 1: battle of the Revolutionary War Yorktown, ended October nineteenth, seventeen 184 00:12:38,835 --> 00:12:43,515 Speaker 1: eighty one, well before lunch. Treaty of Paris ending the hostilities. 185 00:12:43,555 --> 00:12:47,795 Speaker 1: September three, seventeen eighty three. Annapolis Convention, which we kind 186 00:12:47,795 --> 00:12:49,835 Speaker 1: of owned up to the fact that the Articles of 187 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: Confederation just were not enough and we needed a constitution. 188 00:12:54,235 --> 00:12:58,555 Speaker 1: September fourteenth, seventeen eighty six. Final draft of the Constitution 189 00:12:58,635 --> 00:13:02,675 Speaker 1: presented September twenty eight, seventeen eighty seven. Constitution comes into 190 00:13:02,755 --> 00:13:06,715 Speaker 1: force March fourth, seventeen eighty nine. Oops, we forgot the 191 00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:11,355 Speaker 1: Bill of Rights. It's adopted December seventeen ninety one. So 192 00:13:11,595 --> 00:13:15,435 Speaker 1: saying the US Constitution is what won us the American 193 00:13:15,475 --> 00:13:20,475 Speaker 1: Revolution is like saying Abraham Lincoln rode to his inauguration 194 00:13:21,035 --> 00:13:29,435 Speaker 1: in an automobile. Either way, I wonder if Ramaswami has 195 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:32,555 Speaker 1: any idea of what my old college professor, Ted Loewe 196 00:13:32,755 --> 00:13:35,635 Speaker 1: used to say about the adoption of the Constitution, that 197 00:13:35,635 --> 00:13:40,235 Speaker 1: that was the beginning of the end of personal freedom 198 00:13:40,275 --> 00:13:45,235 Speaker 1: in this country. Still we're talking about the guy also 199 00:13:45,275 --> 00:13:49,595 Speaker 1: of interest here. It is utterly amazing how much the franchise, 200 00:13:49,915 --> 00:13:54,195 Speaker 1: the experts, the sport itself are all playing down the 201 00:13:54,235 --> 00:13:58,635 Speaker 1: fact that Baseball's unicorn, the sudden centerpiece of its entire 202 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:02,875 Speaker 1: marketing strategy, its potential one hundred million dollar a year 203 00:14:03,035 --> 00:14:08,955 Speaker 1: free agent, has torn the critical ligament in his pitching 204 00:14:08,995 --> 00:14:13,395 Speaker 1: elbow and may need Tommy John surgery again. And no 205 00:14:13,515 --> 00:14:16,515 Speaker 1: picture has ever come back full strength from a second 206 00:14:16,595 --> 00:14:20,595 Speaker 1: such surgery. It's almost as if nobody wants to believe 207 00:14:21,115 --> 00:14:29,235 Speaker 1: that unicorns are called unicorns because they don't exist. That's next. 208 00:14:29,315 --> 00:14:30,235 Speaker 1: This is countdown. 209 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Alberman. This is Sports Senate. Wait, 210 00:14:50,275 --> 00:14:57,835 Speaker 2: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Alberman 211 00:14:58,075 --> 00:15:04,035 Speaker 2: in sports juxtaposition is everything. Early yesterday morning, the Los 212 00:15:04,075 --> 00:15:09,755 Speaker 2: Angeles Angels announced show Hey Otani, the unprecedented combination pitcher 213 00:15:09,875 --> 00:15:14,635 Speaker 2: and designated hitter, had torn the ulner collateral ligament in 214 00:15:14,715 --> 00:15:18,315 Speaker 2: his elbow. The UCL Thus he will not pitch again 215 00:15:18,355 --> 00:15:20,715 Speaker 2: this year. He may need surgery. They call that surgery 216 00:15:20,755 --> 00:15:23,395 Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery, and if he needs it, he will 217 00:15:23,435 --> 00:15:25,955 Speaker 2: not pitch for at least a calendar year, and at 218 00:15:26,075 --> 00:15:27,875 Speaker 2: least some of that time he would not be able 219 00:15:27,875 --> 00:15:32,595 Speaker 2: to hit either. Last month, the Angels chose not to 220 00:15:32,675 --> 00:15:35,395 Speaker 2: trade show Hey Otani, even though he was approaching free 221 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:39,995 Speaker 2: agency UNSIGNED. What happens to him now, what happens to 222 00:15:40,035 --> 00:15:45,955 Speaker 2: them now is anybody's guests. Otani was leading in home runs, 223 00:15:46,115 --> 00:15:52,395 Speaker 2: slugging and pitcher's er plus he was practically speaking, baseball's 224 00:15:52,475 --> 00:15:56,395 Speaker 2: first two way player since Win Mercer served as the 225 00:15:56,395 --> 00:15:58,715 Speaker 2: regular third baseman and one of the starting pitchers of 226 00:15:58,755 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 2: the eighteen ninety nine Washington Senators. And he didn't do 227 00:16:03,435 --> 00:16:07,795 Speaker 2: it that well. About twelve hours after the Otani announcement, 228 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:12,515 Speaker 2: Stephen Strasbourg of the Washington Nationals, not the Senators anymore, 229 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 2: but the Nationals, announced he is retiring from baseball. At 230 00:16:15,755 --> 00:16:18,435 Speaker 2: the age of thirty five, entering the majors as one 231 00:16:18,435 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 2: of the best pitching prospects of the century. Strasbourg struck 232 00:16:22,235 --> 00:16:24,875 Speaker 2: out fourteen men in his first big league game, and 233 00:16:24,915 --> 00:16:27,835 Speaker 2: while he was often brilliant, he was also often hindered 234 00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:31,515 Speaker 2: by injuries. Strasburg was the most valuable player in the 235 00:16:31,555 --> 00:16:35,435 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen World Series won by Washington. Since then, he 236 00:16:35,515 --> 00:16:40,755 Speaker 2: had appeared in thirty one innings over eight games. Due 237 00:16:40,795 --> 00:16:45,995 Speaker 2: to thoracic outlet syndrome, where everything nerves, blood vessels, everything 238 00:16:46,075 --> 00:16:49,755 Speaker 2: going from your lower neck to your armpit gets compressed 239 00:16:50,355 --> 00:16:55,675 Speaker 2: Otani hurt, Strasburg retired. This underscores the great truth about 240 00:16:55,675 --> 00:17:00,635 Speaker 2: baseball pitching. Ever since throwing overhand was made legal for 241 00:17:00,755 --> 00:17:05,435 Speaker 2: the eighteen eighty five season, every pitcher has ultimately been 242 00:17:05,475 --> 00:17:09,835 Speaker 2: the architect of his own demise. The motion, the throwing motion, 243 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:14,155 Speaker 2: just cannot be sustained indefinitely, and in many of the 244 00:17:14,235 --> 00:17:18,275 Speaker 2: game's greatest pitchers, it can't be sustained for very long 245 00:17:18,315 --> 00:17:22,315 Speaker 2: at all. And it is absolutely possible that the greatest 246 00:17:22,355 --> 00:17:26,915 Speaker 2: stretches of pitching in baseball history were accomplished by guys 247 00:17:28,035 --> 00:17:32,275 Speaker 2: you have never heard of. You heard of Harry Krause. 248 00:17:33,195 --> 00:17:35,595 Speaker 2: Harry Kraus was a rookie with the nineteen hundred and 249 00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:39,275 Speaker 2: nine Philadelphia A's. He was not even in the starting 250 00:17:39,355 --> 00:17:42,035 Speaker 2: rotation of that team when the season began, but in 251 00:17:42,115 --> 00:17:45,715 Speaker 2: his first fifteen starts of the nineteen oh nine season, 252 00:17:46,115 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 2: Kraus had an earned run average of one point zero zero, 253 00:17:50,955 --> 00:17:54,035 Speaker 2: probably less because they didn't keep track of the difference 254 00:17:54,075 --> 00:17:57,955 Speaker 2: between earned runs and unearned runs in nineteen oh nine, 255 00:17:58,555 --> 00:18:01,755 Speaker 2: one point zero zero was the highest it would have been. 256 00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:06,675 Speaker 2: Kraus won fourteen of those fifteen games. He threw seven 257 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:09,635 Speaker 2: shutouts in those fifteen games, and he won four of 258 00:18:09,675 --> 00:18:14,795 Speaker 2: those games one to nothing. And sometime in game thirteen 259 00:18:14,915 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 2: or Game fourteen, he hurt something in his arm or 260 00:18:17,835 --> 00:18:20,995 Speaker 2: his shoulder, and he would pitch in only fifty one 261 00:18:21,115 --> 00:18:24,035 Speaker 2: more games and would be back in the minor leagues 262 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:33,035 Speaker 2: three years after his extraordinary run pitching fleeting. As in aside, 263 00:18:33,115 --> 00:18:35,515 Speaker 2: I must note that in tweeting about this yesterday, I 264 00:18:35,595 --> 00:18:39,755 Speaker 2: pulled off a Lulu, an all time great blooper. In writing, 265 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:44,915 Speaker 2: I said that Otani's ucl Tare quote could at minimum 266 00:18:45,275 --> 00:18:51,355 Speaker 2: keep him off the mound indefinitely. Well, if indefinitely is 267 00:18:51,395 --> 00:18:54,115 Speaker 2: the minimum. I'd hate to know what the maximum is. 268 00:18:55,475 --> 00:18:59,075 Speaker 2: Also in Sports, London's Daily Mail claims in an exclusive 269 00:18:59,075 --> 00:19:01,315 Speaker 2: that the Super Bowl organizers are going to have to 270 00:19:01,315 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 2: look elsewhere for a halftime show next February in Las Vegas. 271 00:19:05,075 --> 00:19:08,275 Speaker 2: They have been turned down by Taylor Swift. 272 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: Ms. Swift says she's flattered, but she'd rather wait until 273 00:19:12,155 --> 00:19:14,395 Speaker 1: the game is played in a city closer to her heart, 274 00:19:14,955 --> 00:19:18,755 Speaker 1: like Nashville. She did not say this, but bluntly she 275 00:19:18,835 --> 00:19:22,915 Speaker 1: could have. At this point in their respective popularities, the 276 00:19:23,075 --> 00:19:25,715 Speaker 1: NFL should have the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia 277 00:19:25,755 --> 00:19:30,555 Speaker 1: Eagles play a game at halftime of a Taylor Swift concert. 278 00:19:43,995 --> 00:19:47,155 Speaker 1: Stell ahead on countdown. Since literally nineteen seventy nine, I 279 00:19:47,195 --> 00:19:51,795 Speaker 1: have been reading this one, James Thurber's story allowed to classmates, 280 00:19:51,835 --> 00:19:57,675 Speaker 1: to girlfriends, to TV audiences, to the dogs, to you guys, 281 00:19:57,755 --> 00:20:01,875 Speaker 1: to passers by on the street. Whenever it is that 282 00:20:02,035 --> 00:20:06,275 Speaker 1: dark November in my soul, is not Herman Melville put it. 283 00:20:06,595 --> 00:20:09,395 Speaker 1: I get this one Thurber story down, and I read 284 00:20:09,435 --> 00:20:13,155 Speaker 1: it out loud, and so I will again today box 285 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:15,875 Speaker 1: to hide in first time for the daily roundup of 286 00:20:15,875 --> 00:20:18,555 Speaker 1: the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger Effect specimens who 287 00:20:18,595 --> 00:20:25,715 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst persons in the world. Lebrons, Warner Bros. 288 00:20:25,955 --> 00:20:30,835 Speaker 1: Discovery It has announced a new streaming service called CNN 289 00:20:31,035 --> 00:20:35,515 Speaker 1: on Max. If you don't know what Max is, it 290 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:38,195 Speaker 1: used to be HBO, but they're smarter than that, so 291 00:20:38,235 --> 00:20:42,675 Speaker 1: they renamed it Max, as in Max Power, PEPSI Max 292 00:20:42,795 --> 00:20:48,195 Speaker 1: or Max Zaslovsky. So they'll start streaming CNN shows, Jake 293 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: Tapper and the Anderson Cooper Silo Report, and it'll be 294 00:20:52,035 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: part of the Max streaming service, CNN on Max. And wait, 295 00:20:58,035 --> 00:21:02,395 Speaker 1: didn't CNN have a streaming service like last year? And 296 00:21:02,435 --> 00:21:05,715 Speaker 1: then they killed it after they spent millions on it 297 00:21:06,355 --> 00:21:08,835 Speaker 1: and they fired everybody and they fired the boss. And 298 00:21:09,315 --> 00:21:15,075 Speaker 1: what was that called again, CNN Murray or something CNN 299 00:21:15,235 --> 00:21:19,035 Speaker 1: plus Max. So when are they going to kill this one? 300 00:21:19,075 --> 00:21:21,075 Speaker 1: Is this an annual thing they do over there or 301 00:21:21,075 --> 00:21:25,795 Speaker 1: what The runner up? Riley Gaines, the immortal collegiate swimmer 302 00:21:25,835 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: who starred at while she was second team All Southeastern Conference, 303 00:21:31,275 --> 00:21:34,395 Speaker 1: angered because she was defeated in the pool by a 304 00:21:34,435 --> 00:21:38,755 Speaker 1: transgender competitor. Gaines has been working out her personal demons 305 00:21:39,035 --> 00:21:44,315 Speaker 1: by endangering members of that community. Ever since, sadly, unlike swimming, 306 00:21:44,435 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: she's good at it. A right wing organization posted a 307 00:21:47,675 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: video of a California library asking anti transgender protesters to 308 00:21:52,315 --> 00:21:57,435 Speaker 1: leave after they violated library rules. Gaines retweeted that video 309 00:21:57,475 --> 00:22:00,155 Speaker 1: and added quote, do we know the librarian's name and 310 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:03,675 Speaker 1: our phone number? We need silent majority to do its thing. 311 00:22:04,555 --> 00:22:08,955 Speaker 1: And silent majority did its thing aided when Gaines did 312 00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:11,915 Speaker 1: a follow up with all of the contact info anonymous 313 00:22:11,955 --> 00:22:17,235 Speaker 1: people who are scumbags. Scumbags like Riley Gaines swamped the 314 00:22:17,315 --> 00:22:19,835 Speaker 1: library with phone calls, and one of the phone calls 315 00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:23,995 Speaker 1: included the inevitable bomb threat, which forced the evacuation of 316 00:22:24,035 --> 00:22:26,275 Speaker 1: the library. And then Fox did a story about how 317 00:22:26,515 --> 00:22:31,435 Speaker 1: Riley Gaines was slamming men trying to silence, et cetera, 318 00:22:31,515 --> 00:22:34,075 Speaker 1: rather than pointing out that Riley Gains is a troubled 319 00:22:34,115 --> 00:22:37,515 Speaker 1: young woman with a Messiah complex and not very much 320 00:22:37,635 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: skill at you know, swimming. The winner Another one from Fox, 321 00:22:44,995 --> 00:22:50,155 Speaker 1: Shannon Bream Fox quote news unquote, and another reminder that 322 00:22:50,195 --> 00:22:53,715 Speaker 1: the so called non opinion anchors there just as full 323 00:22:53,755 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: of crap as Jatsy Waters is, and that's pretty full. 324 00:22:58,675 --> 00:23:02,515 Speaker 1: I live in the Washington DC area, she said pertly 325 00:23:02,955 --> 00:23:05,515 Speaker 1: during an appearance on one of the Fox Days Time programs. 326 00:23:05,555 --> 00:23:08,755 Speaker 1: I think it was the Guesswork and Rumors report with 327 00:23:08,795 --> 00:23:12,235 Speaker 1: Harris Faulkner. I have a lot of Northern Virginia moms 328 00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:15,515 Speaker 1: who have kids in school, she continued, Who've told me 329 00:23:15,675 --> 00:23:17,835 Speaker 1: that there are schools who are now having to put 330 00:23:17,955 --> 00:23:22,555 Speaker 1: litter boxes in for kids who identify as cats. This 331 00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:26,475 Speaker 1: has not only been debunked four or five thousand times, 332 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: but it was debunked most recently, like last year. You 333 00:23:31,955 --> 00:23:33,875 Speaker 1: know the origin of this, right, It makes the fact 334 00:23:33,915 --> 00:23:38,555 Speaker 1: that morons like Shannon Bream are on TV anywhere even 335 00:23:38,635 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: worse kind of tragic. In fact, there are schools that 336 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:46,595 Speaker 1: have litter boxes for their kids. The litter boxes are 337 00:23:46,755 --> 00:23:49,875 Speaker 1: kept in classrooms in case the schools are locked down 338 00:23:50,275 --> 00:23:53,235 Speaker 1: because there is a shooter, where there is another assault 339 00:23:53,555 --> 00:23:57,395 Speaker 1: and the kids have to go. Shannon Bream a Fox 340 00:23:57,475 --> 00:24:02,275 Speaker 1: quote news unquote, one of the real journalists bringing you unconfirmed, debunked, 341 00:24:02,395 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: third hand rumors from Latin. She's now an assignment finding 342 00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:09,795 Speaker 1: the guy who was killed by that role of mentos 343 00:24:09,875 --> 00:24:16,195 Speaker 1: inside the bottle of coke two days. Worse person in 344 00:24:16,395 --> 00:24:34,155 Speaker 1: the world. It's been a long week. And every time 345 00:24:34,195 --> 00:24:38,475 Speaker 1: I find myself thinking it's been a long week, I 346 00:24:38,595 --> 00:24:41,075 Speaker 1: like to turn to my book of James Thurber, and 347 00:24:41,115 --> 00:24:43,395 Speaker 1: it's Fridays with Thurber. And it's been a few fridays 348 00:24:43,395 --> 00:24:46,355 Speaker 1: since I've done any James Thurber. And so let's start 349 00:24:46,355 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: at the beginning. As I've mentioned many times, I read 350 00:24:49,275 --> 00:24:52,275 Speaker 1: this story first aloud in a class in college in 351 00:24:52,355 --> 00:24:54,635 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, and a friend of mine came up 352 00:24:54,675 --> 00:24:56,955 Speaker 1: to me and said, you should forget that sportscasting thing. 353 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,515 Speaker 1: You should read Thurber for a living, and I said, yeah, 354 00:25:00,515 --> 00:25:07,155 Speaker 1: that'll ever happen. This is, for some reason, salvation for me, Catharsis, 355 00:25:07,195 --> 00:25:10,075 Speaker 1: and every other emotion that is appropriate after it has 356 00:25:10,155 --> 00:25:17,235 Speaker 1: been a long week. A Box to Hide In by 357 00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:23,835 Speaker 1: James Thurber. I waited till the large woman with the 358 00:25:23,955 --> 00:25:29,035 Speaker 1: awful hat took up her sack of groceries and went out, 359 00:25:29,435 --> 00:25:32,835 Speaker 1: peering at the tomatoes and the lettuce on her way. 360 00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:37,875 Speaker 1: The clerk asked me what mine was. Have you got 361 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:41,635 Speaker 1: a box, I asked, A large box. I want a 362 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:47,155 Speaker 1: box to hide in. You want a box, he asked, 363 00:25:48,115 --> 00:25:50,555 Speaker 1: I want a box to hide in? I said, what 364 00:25:50,595 --> 00:25:52,755 Speaker 1: do you mean, He said, you mean a big box. 365 00:25:53,955 --> 00:25:56,395 Speaker 1: I said, I meant a big box big enough to 366 00:25:56,395 --> 00:25:59,675 Speaker 1: hold me. I haven't got any boxes, he said, only 367 00:25:59,715 --> 00:26:04,675 Speaker 1: cottons that cans come in. I tried several other grocery 368 00:26:04,995 --> 00:26:06,795 Speaker 1: and none of them had a box big enough for 369 00:26:06,835 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: me to hide in. And there was nothing for it 370 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:14,955 Speaker 1: but to face life out. I didn't feel strong, and 371 00:26:14,995 --> 00:26:18,435 Speaker 1: I'd had this overpowering desire to hide in a box 372 00:26:18,755 --> 00:26:23,835 Speaker 1: for a long time. Well, what do you mean you 373 00:26:23,835 --> 00:26:26,435 Speaker 1: want to hide in this box, one grocer asked me. 374 00:26:27,635 --> 00:26:31,555 Speaker 1: It's a form of escape. I told him, hiding in 375 00:26:31,595 --> 00:26:36,355 Speaker 1: a box. It circumscribes your worries and the range of 376 00:26:36,395 --> 00:26:41,075 Speaker 1: your anguish. You don't see people either. How the hell 377 00:26:41,115 --> 00:26:43,715 Speaker 1: do you eat when you're in this box? Asked the grocer, 378 00:26:43,795 --> 00:26:46,635 Speaker 1: How the hell do you get anything to eat? I 379 00:26:46,675 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: said I had never been in a box and didn't know, 380 00:26:49,035 --> 00:26:52,875 Speaker 1: but that that would take care of itself. Well, he said, finally, 381 00:26:53,555 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: I haven't got any boxes, only some pasteboard cartons that 382 00:26:57,115 --> 00:27:02,915 Speaker 1: cans come in. It was the same every place. I 383 00:27:02,955 --> 00:27:05,475 Speaker 1: gave up when it got dark and the grocery closed 384 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:09,235 Speaker 1: and hid in my room again. I turned out the 385 00:27:09,315 --> 00:27:12,395 Speaker 1: light and lay on the bed. You feel better when 386 00:27:12,395 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: it gets dark. I could have hit in a closet, 387 00:27:16,035 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: I suppose, but people are always opening doors. Somebody would 388 00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:25,035 Speaker 1: find you in a closet. They would be startled, and 389 00:27:25,075 --> 00:27:27,435 Speaker 1: you'd have to tell them why you're in the closet. 390 00:27:27,835 --> 00:27:31,235 Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention to a big box lying on the floor. 391 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:35,755 Speaker 1: You could stay in it for days and nobody'd think 392 00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:42,555 Speaker 1: to look in it, not even the cleaning woman. My 393 00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:45,315 Speaker 1: cleaning woman came the next morning and woke me up, 394 00:27:45,675 --> 00:27:48,595 Speaker 1: and I was still feeling bad. I asked her if 395 00:27:48,595 --> 00:27:51,635 Speaker 1: she knew where I could get a large box. How 396 00:27:51,675 --> 00:27:55,395 Speaker 1: big a box you want? She asked, I want a 397 00:27:55,435 --> 00:27:57,995 Speaker 1: box big enough for me to get inside of, I said. 398 00:27:59,075 --> 00:28:03,475 Speaker 1: She looked at me with big, dim eyes. There's something 399 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: wrong with her glass. She's awful, but she has a 400 00:28:07,395 --> 00:28:12,075 Speaker 1: big heart, which makes it worse. She's unbearable. Her husband 401 00:28:12,195 --> 00:28:14,515 Speaker 1: is sick, and her children are sick, and she is 402 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:16,995 Speaker 1: sick too. I got to thinking how pleasant it would 403 00:28:17,035 --> 00:28:18,955 Speaker 1: be if I were in a box now and didn't 404 00:28:18,995 --> 00:28:21,275 Speaker 1: have to see her. I'd bet a box right there 405 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:23,475 Speaker 1: in the room and she wouldn't know. I wondered, if 406 00:28:23,475 --> 00:28:27,355 Speaker 1: you had a desire to bark or laugh when someone 407 00:28:27,355 --> 00:28:30,595 Speaker 1: who doesn't know walks by the box you were in. 408 00:28:32,475 --> 00:28:34,875 Speaker 1: Maybe she would have a spell with her heart. If 409 00:28:34,915 --> 00:28:39,355 Speaker 1: I did that would die right there. The officers and 410 00:28:39,395 --> 00:28:42,995 Speaker 1: the elevator man and mister Grammage would find us funny. 411 00:28:43,035 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: Doggone thing happened at the building last night. The doorman 412 00:28:46,235 --> 00:28:48,275 Speaker 1: would say to his wife, HI led in this woman 413 00:28:48,315 --> 00:28:50,755 Speaker 1: to clean up tenf and she never come out. See 414 00:28:50,835 --> 00:28:52,595 Speaker 1: she's never in there more in an hour, but she 415 00:28:52,635 --> 00:28:55,235 Speaker 1: never come out. See. So when it got time for 416 00:28:55,315 --> 00:28:57,075 Speaker 1: me to go off duty, why, I says to Krenic, 417 00:28:57,115 --> 00:28:58,875 Speaker 1: who was on the elevator, I says, what the hell 418 00:28:58,955 --> 00:29:01,995 Speaker 1: you suppose has happened to that woman cleans tenf? He 419 00:29:01,995 --> 00:29:04,275 Speaker 1: says he didn't know. He says he never seen her 420 00:29:04,315 --> 00:29:06,755 Speaker 1: after he took her up. So I spoke to mister 421 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:10,235 Speaker 1: Drammage about it. I'm sorry to bother you, mister Grammage, 422 00:29:10,315 --> 00:29:13,435 Speaker 1: I says, but there's something funny about that woman cleans 423 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:16,475 Speaker 1: ten f. So I told him so he said we 424 00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:18,395 Speaker 1: better have a look, and we all three goes up 425 00:29:18,435 --> 00:29:20,595 Speaker 1: and knuts on the door and rings the bells, seeing 426 00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 1: nobody answers, So he said we'd have to walk in. 427 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:25,795 Speaker 1: So credit opened the door and we walked in and 428 00:29:25,875 --> 00:29:30,075 Speaker 1: here was this woman cleans the apartment, dead as a 429 00:29:30,155 --> 00:29:34,515 Speaker 1: herring on the floor, and the gentleman that lives there 430 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:41,715 Speaker 1: was in a box. The cleaning woman kept looking at me. 431 00:29:42,475 --> 00:29:47,715 Speaker 1: It was hard to realize she wasn't dead. It's a 432 00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:53,995 Speaker 1: form of escape, I murmured, wat say. She asked, Dully, 433 00:29:55,315 --> 00:29:57,835 Speaker 1: you don't know of any large packing boxes, do you? 434 00:29:58,395 --> 00:30:04,075 Speaker 1: I asked, now, I don't. She said, I haven't found 435 00:30:04,115 --> 00:30:07,755 Speaker 1: one yet. But I still have this overpowering urge to 436 00:30:07,915 --> 00:30:13,275 Speaker 1: hide in a box. Maybe it will go away, maybe 437 00:30:13,275 --> 00:30:18,555 Speaker 1: I'll be all right, Maybe it will get worse. It's 438 00:30:18,675 --> 00:30:25,155 Speaker 1: hard to say A box to hide in by James 439 00:30:25,155 --> 00:30:40,835 Speaker 1: thurber So let me see seventies. I read it aloud. 440 00:30:40,835 --> 00:30:44,275 Speaker 1: In the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, the aughts, the 441 00:30:44,355 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: scenes in the twenties. Six decades. I've been reading that story. 442 00:30:49,835 --> 00:30:51,555 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 443 00:30:51,595 --> 00:30:53,475 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from our 444 00:30:53,595 --> 00:30:56,435 Speaker 1: studios high atop the Sports Capsule Building in New York. 445 00:30:57,075 --> 00:30:59,395 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arrange produced 446 00:30:59,395 --> 00:31:02,195 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip, Chanel, who 447 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:05,915 Speaker 1: are the countdown musical directors. All orches and keyboards by 448 00:31:05,995 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: John Phillips, Cheneil guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 449 00:31:09,795 --> 00:31:13,515 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 450 00:31:13,555 --> 00:31:16,955 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music 451 00:31:17,035 --> 00:31:19,795 Speaker 1: is the Ulderman theme from ESPN two and it was 452 00:31:19,835 --> 00:31:23,395 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 453 00:31:23,435 --> 00:31:26,515 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 454 00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:29,795 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis, and everything 455 00:31:29,835 --> 00:31:34,275 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 456 00:31:34,315 --> 00:31:37,315 Speaker 1: the nine hundred and sixty first day since Donald Trump's 457 00:31:37,355 --> 00:31:40,715 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 458 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:46,235 Speaker 1: United States. Convict him now while we still can. My 459 00:31:46,355 --> 00:31:49,555 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Monday bulletins. As the news warrants. 460 00:31:49,915 --> 00:31:53,195 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olrimman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 461 00:31:53,915 --> 00:32:05,755 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith olm is a production 462 00:32:05,955 --> 00:32:11,235 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 463 00:32:11,355 --> 00:32:14,715 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.