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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump wants,

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Speaker 1: and his Republican Whorehouse of Representatives could give him as

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Speaker 1: early as today, more likely tomorrow, a law letting him

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Speaker 1: not only ignore the courts and their injunctions and their

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Speaker 1: even being subject to contempt of court citations. The law

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Speaker 1: at Trump's sole discretion. Any court issuing a tro against

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Speaker 1: Any court issuing an injunction against Trump kidnapping and renditioning

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Speaker 1: people off our streets. Any court doing anything Trump doesn't like,

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Speaker 1: could rule whatever it likes, But when it came to

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Speaker 1: the only teeth, such rulings have the threat of actually

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Speaker 1: that threat would be gone. The gist of this is

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Speaker 1: He probably thinks he has found a loophole around his

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Speaker 1: own death. This loophole is based on a provision that's

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Speaker 1: as if you are suing and trying to get a

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Speaker 1: or like this, economic blackmail. And it doesn't really matter

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Speaker 1: if a court says it's unconstitutional, even if the Supreme

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Speaker 1: of our defense against a dictatorship had just been erased.

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Speaker 1: And the other one percent would applaud because you know

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Speaker 1: what Trump would do. He would point in his mindless, manipulative,

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Speaker 1: and insists that is all the approval he needs. The Senate.

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Speaker 1: Trump would say, who cares? The judges? Trump would say,

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Speaker 1: it is over. They have escalated the contempt and the

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Speaker 1: Judge Brian Murphy said he would not order the flights

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Speaker 1: Senator Maggie Hassen what habeas corpus is, and Gnome not

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Speaker 2: Up the secretary, No, what is habeas corpus? Well, habeas

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Speaker 2: corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to

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Speaker 2: their right. Let me let me stop, and corpus excuse me.

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Speaker 2: That's that's incorrect, Presidents, corpus excuse Habeas corpus is the

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Speaker 1: And as I said, that was the smarter of her responses,

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Speaker 1: indicated that not only does she not know what habeas

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Speaker 1: it is used in the sentence suspend habeas corpus. Listen

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Speaker 1: it means yes, habeas corpus.

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Speaker 3: Can you confirm to us that you understand that any

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Speaker 2: President Lincoln executed habeas corpus in the past with retroactive

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Speaker 3: How many times has habeas corpus been suspended in our cost.

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Speaker 1: Once that I know of, four times. I'm not certain if.

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Speaker 3: Those the instance that you were referring to was one

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Speaker 3: Do you know which article it is in?

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Speaker 1: lifting up the best of our country at the Kennedy Center.

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Speaker 1: And according to Trump, the best way to do that

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Speaker 1: is to tell the audience at the Kennedy Center that

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Speaker 1: his goal, the sitting president's goal, has been to shove

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Speaker 1: something up somebody's ass. Parenthetically lost behind Trump's new ass

435
00:30:36,275 --> 00:30:43,475
Speaker 1: obsession is this kind of laugh out loud funny new

436
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Speaker 1: MAGA approved dehydrated pro American lineup of events at the

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Center, which includes a stage play version of Missus Doubtfire, which,

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Speaker 1: unless it's undergone extensive rewriting since the last time I

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00:31:00,515 --> 00:31:03,275
Speaker 1: saw the movie, Missus Doubtfire, is I believe still a

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Speaker 1: story about a guy who dresses up in drag so

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00:31:06,795 --> 00:31:10,755
Speaker 1: he can get close to children. Wasn't this the exact

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00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:13,155
Speaker 1: thing Trump ran on last year, claiming if it was

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Speaker 1: not stopped, it would destroy the world before January first,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, And of course, what is nominally this

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00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:31,275
Speaker 1: country's last surviving news channel continues to ignore almost all

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Speaker 1: of this so that it can instead on a twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven basis, hawk this Jake Thompson. No, it's

448
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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper, It's Tapper Thompson. I know it's Jake Tapper

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00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:52,715
Speaker 1: and Alex Thompson. It's actually it's a piece of shit

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory and gossip book supposedly about Biden's acuity. His

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Speaker 1: granddaughter was nice enough to call it silly. They have

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00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:06,475
Speaker 1: this book and they are trying to sell a copy

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Speaker 1: of it to every person in America, to the point

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Speaker 1: where I fully expect Jake Tapper to ring my doorbell

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00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:17,355
Speaker 1: at some point and offer me a discount. They are

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00:32:17,395 --> 00:32:19,915
Speaker 1: doing this while Trump is on the verge of complex

457
00:32:20,035 --> 00:32:24,555
Speaker 1: visual hallucinations. They are working on the last president. You

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Speaker 1: are one president behind Jake. Jake, you should get yourself

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Speaker 1: checked for brain tumors. You have managed to top yourself

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Speaker 1: or bottom yourself by not merely going on Megan Kelly's

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Speaker 1: ilsa she Wolf of the SS podcast. But while you

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Speaker 1: were there, you apologize to Lara Trump for scolding her

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Speaker 1: for once addressing the Biden acuity topic. You apologize to

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Speaker 1: Lara Trump should apologize to Hitler while you're at it.

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Speaker 1: And as to how CNN has prostituted itself for this

466
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Speaker 1: cynical book about last years presidential clarity of mind news

467
00:33:07,515 --> 00:33:10,555
Speaker 1: when this year's presidential clarity of mind news is that

468
00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:15,235
Speaker 1: Trump's brain appears to be missing. As John Stewart appletely

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Speaker 1: put it, it's not just Tapper whom they found video

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Speaker 1: of him holding his book up to camera at least

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Speaker 1: six times on his CNN program, which is now his

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Speaker 1: CNN Shopping Channel show, exactly the way Bill O'Reilly used

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Speaker 1: to hold up his stupid books up to camera on

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Speaker 1: his Fox Shopping Channel show. They didn't just find six

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Speaker 1: editions of Jake literally telling you to buy the book,

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Speaker 1: but all the CNN anchors and shows vying to see

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Speaker 1: who can filate Jake Tapper most frequently and effectively. I

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00:33:53,195 --> 00:33:55,395
Speaker 1: have all kinds of problems with John Stewart, but his

479
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Speaker 1: writer's room is still the best we have for manufacturing

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Speaker 1: perfect analogies. It's Denizen's saw what CNN is doing, what

481
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Speaker 1: everybody from Brian Stelter to Andy the k File Guy,

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Speaker 1: to Aaron Burnett to Pamela Brown are doing to destroy

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Speaker 1: their own credibility. As Stuart said, it's at the point

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Speaker 1: where it looked like a girl Scout cookie contest. You know,

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Speaker 1: whoever sells the most Jake Tapper books gets a free

486
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Speaker 1: Shwin bike. This is a good time to mention that

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Speaker 1: CNN will air George Clooney's stage version of good Night

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Speaker 1: and good Luck Live from Broadway with Clooney as Edward R.

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Speaker 1: Murrow CNN will air it on its network on June seventh,

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Speaker 1: and this will be the first time anyone will attempt

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Speaker 1: to portray actual journalism on CNN in years. What they

492
00:34:55,915 --> 00:34:59,515
Speaker 1: should do is just leave the live feed on from

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Speaker 1: the Winter Garden Theater after George is done, and just

494
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Speaker 1: never come back with anything that's on at the moment.

495
00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:09,875
Speaker 1: Just show what's ever live, including the guy cleaning it

496
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Speaker 1: up with a broom. Higher ratings. Also of interest here,

497
00:35:16,235 --> 00:35:19,555
Speaker 1: good Golly, Bill Maher is back on the Worst Person's list.

498
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Speaker 1: Karma is that process by which you do something evil

499
00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:25,835
Speaker 1: and stupid, and you do not try to correct it,

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00:35:26,155 --> 00:35:29,275
Speaker 1: and soon enough, out of nowhere, the universe punishes you

501
00:35:29,915 --> 00:35:35,395
Speaker 1: for something else you did. Bill Chump was charming. I

502
00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:37,475
Speaker 1: didn't get to meet Eva Brown when I was there.

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Speaker 1: Mar just got himself some big mf ing karma. That's next.

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Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Openman still

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Speaker 1: ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. This sounds

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Speaker 1: like a really long, convoluted stretch. How a piece from

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Speaker 1: the fabric roof at the baseball domed Stadium in Saint

508
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Speaker 1: Petersburg destroyed by last October's hurricane arriving in the mail

509
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Speaker 1: from a friend of mine made me understand why I

510
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Speaker 1: do this podcast when it is so much work, and

511
00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:44,915
Speaker 1: so much of that work is so painful. Talking about

512
00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:52,035
Speaker 1: Trump is like gargling flaming chainsaws. Why do I do this?

513
00:36:52,275 --> 00:36:56,675
Speaker 1: It's because my dad once correctly warned me that another

514
00:36:57,235 --> 00:37:01,355
Speaker 1: sports arena fabric roof would vanish due to bad weather,

515
00:37:01,595 --> 00:37:05,235
Speaker 1: and it was all math and physics, and for him,

516
00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:09,715
Speaker 1: all that work was so hard and so painful. A metaphor,

517
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Speaker 1: we are all living under a roof that will collapse

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Speaker 1: and will kill many of us. So somebody has to

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00:37:18,835 --> 00:37:21,755
Speaker 1: sit here and keep pointing and screaming.

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Speaker 6: That roof is going to collapse. Does anybody hear no

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Speaker 6: physics or evacuations. We're getting a new roof next.

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Speaker 1: In things I promised not to tell first of believe

523
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Speaker 1: it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.

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00:37:39,875 --> 00:37:43,195
Speaker 1: The roundup of the miscreants, morons and dunning Krueger effects

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Speaker 1: specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons in the world,

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Speaker 1: the Bronze worse Grock. I'm just not convinced we should

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Speaker 1: call AI artificial intelligence yet. This is of course Musk's

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Speaker 1: AI bot and asked about that clip I played earlier

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Speaker 1: of Christy Nome now with eight new action adventure dress

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Speaker 1: up outfits. Not knowing what Habeas corpus is, or what

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Speaker 1: part of the Constitution it's in, or what the word

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Speaker 1: suspend means. Groc was so confused it thought Christy Nome

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Speaker 1: was talking about the WNBA. The question to Groc from

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Speaker 1: OGP two three ninety six, does what Christy Nomes does

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Speaker 1: say in this video make sense? You need artificial intelligence

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00:38:44,235 --> 00:38:49,475
Speaker 1: to answer that question, Groc answers. Without seeing the specific video,

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Speaker 1: I can't directly assess Christy Nomes's statements. However, if this

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Speaker 1: relates to the reason Caitlin Clark Angel Reese WNBA incident

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00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:02,795
Speaker 1: on May seventeenth, twenty twenty five, both players and officials

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Speaker 1: called the foul standard basketball play. Clark said it was

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Speaker 1: a good take Fowl and Reese agreed it was just

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Speaker 1: part of the game. The flagrant one ruling suggests unnecessary

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Speaker 1: but not malicious contact. Some fans see it as an

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Speaker 1: excessive due to the rivalry, but there's no clear evidence

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Speaker 1: of intent beyond competition. If nomes comments align with this,

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Speaker 1: they make sense in context. Can you clarify the videos content.

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Speaker 1: Number one, it makes more sense than what Christy Nomes says.

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00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:38,395
Speaker 1: Number two. Maybe Trump's idiot Secretary of Education Linda McMahon

549
00:39:38,435 --> 00:39:41,795
Speaker 1: is actually right after all. Maybe we should call this

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00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:48,355
Speaker 1: a one. The runner up worser Mike Richards, not Michael Richards,

551
00:39:49,035 --> 00:39:54,955
Speaker 1: not Keith Richards. Mike. One of the reasons MAGA disease

552
00:39:55,155 --> 00:40:00,315
Speaker 1: spreads and thrives and claims new victims who were at

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00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:04,275
Speaker 1: one point intelligent, reliable, responsible human beings, or at least

554
00:40:04,315 --> 00:40:08,115
Speaker 1: pre to be that. One of the reasons that's true

555
00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:11,915
Speaker 1: is that it allows the justifiably canceled, awful, hateful people

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Speaker 1: to resume their careers after they were banished. I mean,

557
00:40:16,635 --> 00:40:21,315
Speaker 1: look at the political scumbag Mark no pants Halpron. Jeff

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00:40:21,315 --> 00:40:26,755
Speaker 1: Scarborough just went on Mark Halprin's podcast, meaning we are

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Speaker 1: this close to Halpron getting his job back on scarborough show,

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Speaker 1: which is called Morning Vshi anyway, Mike Richards not Jack Scarborough.

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Speaker 1: Mike Richards is the new president and chief content officer

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Speaker 1: of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's sinking ship. Shapiro had

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Speaker 1: been showing signs of rare humanity. Recently fired Candace Owens

564
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Speaker 1: for anti semitism, wants to fire Peter Navarro into the

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Speaker 1: ocean via a catapult unquote over tariffs. Way, he finds

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Speaker 1: out who he hired in Mike Richards. Here come the catapults.

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Speaker 1: Mike Richards is a former executive producer and host of Jeopardy.

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Speaker 1: This is the guy who was running the search to

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Speaker 1: succeed Trebec and was then run out of the Jeopardy

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Speaker 1: Shop after the office filled with stories that he was

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Speaker 1: fixing the search so that the search would wind up

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Speaker 1: choosing Mike Richards himself. Also, there was that small problem

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Speaker 1: of all the crap he talked on his podcast, like

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Speaker 1: five years earlier, fat shaming women and calling one model

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Speaker 1: a quote booth slut and drawing the ire of the

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Speaker 1: ADL before the ADL itself went sour when somebody said

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Speaker 1: something about big noses, Mike Richards reportedly said, ixnay on

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Speaker 1: the o's nay, She's not an ooja unquote. Richards hosted

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Speaker 1: Jeopardy for about a week then well then cut to

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Speaker 1: five years later where he's running the daily wire for

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Speaker 1: a guy who fired somebody for anti semitism. Have a

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Speaker 1: nice month, and just as we're hitting a new round

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Speaker 1: of media collapses, like the Daily Wire needing a new

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00:42:15,955 --> 00:42:19,435
Speaker 1: buyer or money because it's running out. What other new

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00:42:19,515 --> 00:42:24,275
Speaker 1: media collapses like The Winner the Worst, Bill.

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Speaker 6: Maher, Oh, he's back.

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00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:33,355
Speaker 1: Sometimes you commit a sin or two, like dining with

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00:42:33,395 --> 00:42:36,875
Speaker 1: Trump and falling for his Ted Bundy psychopath charm bullshit

589
00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:39,795
Speaker 1: for the second time. And then when your friend Larry

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Speaker 1: David cuts you into confetti in the New York Times,

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00:42:44,715 --> 00:42:49,115
Speaker 1: railing at Larry rather than just saying three simple words,

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Speaker 1: I deserved that I deserved. That is the quickest way

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Speaker 1: out of any controversy. That's not what Bill did. Man.

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Speaker 4: Now he's in made these six million Jews.

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00:43:01,995 --> 00:43:03,155
Speaker 1: Larry offended them.

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Speaker 4: I didn't defend them by heavy dinner with trem just

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Speaker 4: because I'm too stupid to know that. I fell for

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Speaker 4: this crab in twenty fourteen. The last time he suffed

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00:43:12,235 --> 00:43:14,955
Speaker 4: sod me. Now he soffed something again. I think he

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00:43:15,115 --> 00:43:18,275
Speaker 4: was really very polite and anything. We should sit down

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Speaker 4: with me.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked in such Neville Chamberlain went to

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Speaker 1: hell because of this Bill. All right, enough of that

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00:43:26,555 --> 00:43:31,235
Speaker 1: last year. In any event, as I'm pointing out here,

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00:43:31,995 --> 00:43:34,755
Speaker 1: when you do things like this, often you are punished,

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00:43:35,155 --> 00:43:37,275
Speaker 1: not for what you have just done, but for something else.

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Speaker 1: This is the way the universe works. Last year, Mar

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Speaker 1: launched a podcast company based on his podcast I'll point

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Speaker 1: out here's here's my experience with podcasts, and this is

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Speaker 1: a very successful one. It's still kind of boutique, but

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Speaker 1: it makes a surprisingly large amount of money. And we're

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Speaker 1: it's somewhere near seventy five million total verified views and

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Speaker 1: listens between here and Youtubeube. It's pretty good. We're not

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Speaker 1: even three years old yet. And I do this in

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Speaker 1: my suit closet. My producers are my dogs. Anyway. Last year,

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Speaker 1: he launched a podcast company, the point being don't launch

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Speaker 1: a podcast company. Do your fing podcast, count your money,

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00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:27,435
Speaker 1: and go home. Leave the podcast companies to the people

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Speaker 1: that can afford what happens when it doesn't work, or

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00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:34,715
Speaker 1: when you can't find other good podcasters, worry about your

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Speaker 1: own damn podcast. Anyway, he launched a podcast company based

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Speaker 1: on his podcast, and he declared, we talk like no

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Speaker 1: one can cancel us, Bill, and you got that wrong too.

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Speaker 1: Your company has now been canceled ceased operations last week,

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00:44:55,755 --> 00:45:01,635
Speaker 1: apparently per Semaphore News. Damn shame. After he'd hired poor

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Speaker 1: old sage Steele to do a podcast and buy away

627
00:45:05,515 --> 00:45:09,515
Speaker 1: what the f ever happened to Sage Steal having so

628
00:45:09,635 --> 00:45:14,275
Speaker 1: much fun with the self definestration, the weekly self defenestration

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Speaker 1: of Sage the worst broadcast partner I've ever had in

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Speaker 1: my life, worse than Chris Myers Steele. And then she's

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Speaker 1: not on the air. She's just like on YouTube. It's

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00:45:25,795 --> 00:45:31,515
Speaker 1: like everybody's on YouTube. She's not in the Trump administration. Wait,

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Speaker 1: why am I complaining about this? She's not on the

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Speaker 1: air and she's not on the Trump administration. All right,

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Speaker 1: don't tell me. I'm cool with it the way it is. Oh,

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Speaker 1: she's getting married again. Can you send someone for their wedding?

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00:45:44,355 --> 00:45:50,755
Speaker 1: Just a box of condolences to the groom? I'm so sorry,

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Speaker 1: you have no idea. I did like six television shows

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Speaker 1: whe her and I can already predict your life for you. Flee,

640
00:45:58,635 --> 00:46:03,435
Speaker 1: please flee. Anyway, she's getting married again, and she's making

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00:46:03,515 --> 00:46:06,275
Speaker 1: the rounds again, reminiscent about the day that she got

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Speaker 1: hit by a drive at a golf tournament. Good times, anyway,

643
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Speaker 1: Podcasting experts say mar Belief briefly, the employer of Sage

644
00:46:15,795 --> 00:46:21,075
Speaker 1: Seal probably just ran out of money, so Bango's Club

645
00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:26,075
Speaker 1: Random Studios, though apparently Mars podcast will continue somewhere, and

646
00:46:26,115 --> 00:46:29,555
Speaker 1: that will allow Bill to humiliate himself to dozens of

647
00:46:29,595 --> 00:46:33,395
Speaker 1: people simultaneously, rather than having to do it one at

648
00:46:33,395 --> 00:46:39,155
Speaker 1: a time. Bill, there's a lesson here. One never say

649
00:46:39,675 --> 00:46:45,115
Speaker 1: your ship Titanic is unsinkable, and two never say your

650
00:46:45,155 --> 00:46:53,675
Speaker 1: podcast company is uncancellable. Mar canceled two days, Other Worst

651
00:46:54,235 --> 00:46:54,715
Speaker 1: Worst and.

652
00:46:56,555 --> 00:46:56,995
Speaker 4: The world.

653
00:47:20,115 --> 00:47:22,395
Speaker 1: Finally to the number one story on this all new

654
00:47:22,515 --> 00:47:24,995
Speaker 1: edition of Countdown and Things I promised not to tell.

655
00:47:25,515 --> 00:47:28,035
Speaker 1: This doesn't really qualify for the title, but what the hell,

656
00:47:28,515 --> 00:47:33,075
Speaker 1: it's my podcast. I hold in my hand a piece

657
00:47:33,915 --> 00:47:38,595
Speaker 1: of what was, until last September October, a piece of

658
00:47:38,635 --> 00:47:42,875
Speaker 1: the roof at Trumpicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, the

659
00:47:42,915 --> 00:47:46,315
Speaker 1: home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, not the

660
00:47:46,355 --> 00:47:52,755
Speaker 1: most inviting of indoor sports stadiums, but no longer in use.

661
00:47:54,315 --> 00:47:57,115
Speaker 1: A friend of mine, a devoted listener to this podcast,

662
00:47:57,155 --> 00:48:00,395
Speaker 1: and I'll keep his name quiet so as not to

663
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:05,915
Speaker 1: mark him with the scarlet letter among those he deals

664
00:48:05,955 --> 00:48:09,315
Speaker 1: with in life, was kind enough to purchase for me

665
00:48:09,435 --> 00:48:12,635
Speaker 1: during a recent trip there, a piece of what was

666
00:48:12,675 --> 00:48:16,875
Speaker 1: the roof. The Tampa Bay Rays, owned by friends of mine,

667
00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:21,795
Speaker 1: are very intelligently selling eight x ten pieces of the

668
00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:26,235
Speaker 1: roof for fifteen dollars if you would like to have

669
00:48:26,315 --> 00:48:29,115
Speaker 1: the chance to hold and keep in your home. What

670
00:48:29,475 --> 00:48:33,035
Speaker 1: was a piece of a Major League baseball stadium. I'm

671
00:48:33,035 --> 00:48:36,435
Speaker 1: sure the Rays make these available on their website. I

672
00:48:36,475 --> 00:48:38,115
Speaker 1: hope they do. But I have to tell you my

673
00:48:38,235 --> 00:48:41,035
Speaker 1: surprise when I opened up the package. There was a

674
00:48:41,075 --> 00:48:44,235
Speaker 1: clear plastic bag from the place at which this was purchased,

675
00:48:44,235 --> 00:48:47,675
Speaker 1: inside the stadium that they're now using. The spring training

676
00:48:47,675 --> 00:48:49,995
Speaker 1: home of the New York Yankees is now the regular

677
00:48:50,035 --> 00:48:54,955
Speaker 1: season home of the Tampa Bay Rays. And I thought, well,

678
00:48:54,995 --> 00:48:58,595
Speaker 1: that's an odd way to package it. That thing there

679
00:48:58,595 --> 00:49:00,835
Speaker 1: in the back, that must be the cardboard backing to

680
00:49:00,835 --> 00:49:03,755
Speaker 1: make sure the thing isn't get folded in transit. No,

681
00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:08,475
Speaker 1: that's the roof. The roof looks like a piece of cardboard.

682
00:49:08,635 --> 00:49:11,435
Speaker 1: Looks like a shirt cardboard if you've ever gotten your

683
00:49:11,475 --> 00:49:14,195
Speaker 1: shirts back from the dry cleaners. That way. It has

684
00:49:14,235 --> 00:49:17,675
Speaker 1: about the thickness and the approximate look of a linen

685
00:49:17,795 --> 00:49:20,555
Speaker 1: duster coat that I own and I use as a raincoat.

686
00:49:21,155 --> 00:49:23,395
Speaker 1: I thought it was a piece of my duster. That

687
00:49:23,635 --> 00:49:27,835
Speaker 1: was the roof at that field, Tropicana Field, until Hurricane

688
00:49:27,835 --> 00:49:32,195
Speaker 1: Milton hit on October ninth of last year, and I

689
00:49:32,315 --> 00:49:36,115
Speaker 1: was reminded instantly in thinking of that disaster, as I

690
00:49:36,275 --> 00:49:39,235
Speaker 1: was when it happened, of my dad. My dad was

691
00:49:39,275 --> 00:49:42,835
Speaker 1: an architect who loved the design element and was a

692
00:49:42,875 --> 00:49:46,035
Speaker 1: born artist and used to be able to draw, not

693
00:49:46,395 --> 00:49:50,475
Speaker 1: just well, but he could produce what looked like the

694
00:49:50,595 --> 00:49:53,515
Speaker 1: kind of work that an entire architectural firm would take

695
00:49:53,635 --> 00:49:57,755
Speaker 1: months to produce, including if you've ever seen drawings before

696
00:49:57,915 --> 00:50:02,155
Speaker 1: the computer era of a new park or a new mall,

697
00:50:02,395 --> 00:50:05,475
Speaker 1: and the little stick figures in front of representing the

698
00:50:05,515 --> 00:50:09,395
Speaker 1: people anxiously and delightedly going into the mall or the park,

699
00:50:09,435 --> 00:50:12,355
Speaker 1: the little tiny hundreds of people. He could draw those

700
00:50:12,435 --> 00:50:15,995
Speaker 1: freehand and you'd never know that some team had not

701
00:50:16,155 --> 00:50:19,275
Speaker 1: slaved over them. So he was a born artist. I

702
00:50:19,355 --> 00:50:22,755
Speaker 1: inherited his ability to block letter so that people are

703
00:50:22,835 --> 00:50:26,395
Speaker 1: still surprised by how clean my lettering is. That's all

704
00:50:26,435 --> 00:50:31,435
Speaker 1: I got. My architectural career ended lettering. But Dad, because

705
00:50:31,475 --> 00:50:35,435
Speaker 1: he was so good at the art, really worked at

706
00:50:35,475 --> 00:50:38,915
Speaker 1: the math. He hated the math. He hated the physics

707
00:50:38,915 --> 00:50:43,395
Speaker 1: of it. He hated the construction part of architectural construction, which,

708
00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:45,755
Speaker 1: by the way, they don't let you just draw the

709
00:50:45,795 --> 00:50:47,995
Speaker 1: stick figures and the buildings. You have to go and

710
00:50:48,035 --> 00:50:50,715
Speaker 1: do the math calculating whether or not the damn thing

711
00:50:50,755 --> 00:50:55,035
Speaker 1: will fall down. So Dad became an expert who hated

712
00:50:55,275 --> 00:50:59,355
Speaker 1: doing it, kind of like me with politics. Okay, I

713
00:50:59,435 --> 00:51:02,875
Speaker 1: hate this, I better triple check everything, and he did,

714
00:51:03,595 --> 00:51:06,395
Speaker 1: and soon his ability to judge whether or not that

715
00:51:06,475 --> 00:51:11,995
Speaker 1: building would hold up probably exceeded his artistic capabilities. I

716
00:51:12,035 --> 00:51:13,755
Speaker 1: don't think he would like to hear me say that,

717
00:51:14,235 --> 00:51:18,715
Speaker 1: but it's true. One day, sometime in the winter of

718
00:51:18,795 --> 00:51:21,515
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven seventy eight, when I was a junior

719
00:51:21,555 --> 00:51:25,355
Speaker 1: in college, my phone rang at my dorm room fourteen

720
00:51:25,395 --> 00:51:27,875
Speaker 1: men In Hall at Cornell University, and it was my

721
00:51:27,995 --> 00:51:32,555
Speaker 1: dad calling me from Hartford, Connecticut. I can't remember if

722
00:51:32,635 --> 00:51:36,315
Speaker 1: this was December or perhaps the beginning of January of

723
00:51:36,395 --> 00:51:39,555
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, but it was early in the year,

724
00:51:39,675 --> 00:51:43,715
Speaker 1: and Dad said he was staying at a hotel overlooking

725
00:51:43,755 --> 00:51:47,235
Speaker 1: the Hartford Civic Center. Hertford Civic Center, the home of

726
00:51:47,555 --> 00:51:52,795
Speaker 1: University of Connecticut basketball games and the then New England

727
00:51:52,835 --> 00:51:55,755
Speaker 1: Whalers of the World Hockey Association and a couple of

728
00:51:55,795 --> 00:51:58,635
Speaker 1: other teams as well, a kind of brand new facility

729
00:51:58,995 --> 00:52:03,355
Speaker 1: in which the greatest concepts of American architectural design of

730
00:52:03,395 --> 00:52:08,755
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies were merged. Ugly sports stadiums and malls.

731
00:52:09,595 --> 00:52:11,835
Speaker 1: The Hertford Civic Center was in the middle of a mall,

732
00:52:12,315 --> 00:52:15,475
Speaker 1: and the center, the actual arena, looked like just another

733
00:52:15,595 --> 00:52:18,675
Speaker 1: store in the mall. In any event, we'll leave the

734
00:52:18,755 --> 00:52:21,315
Speaker 1: esthetics out of it. Dad was saying he was staying

735
00:52:21,435 --> 00:52:24,275
Speaker 1: high up in this hotel and had an overlooking view

736
00:52:24,595 --> 00:52:28,875
Speaker 1: on a very very heavy snow winter that year nineteen

737
00:52:28,915 --> 00:52:32,595
Speaker 1: seventy seven seventy eight, and was looking just i'dly before

738
00:52:32,595 --> 00:52:35,515
Speaker 1: a meeting he had somewhere at some store location that

739
00:52:35,555 --> 00:52:38,275
Speaker 1: he was designing in that area. Was looking at the

740
00:52:38,355 --> 00:52:40,835
Speaker 1: roof of the Hartford Civic Center and there was a

741
00:52:40,835 --> 00:52:42,995
Speaker 1: lot of snow on top of it, because there was

742
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:46,195
Speaker 1: a lot of snow everywhere that winter. In Ithaca, we

743
00:52:46,275 --> 00:52:50,075
Speaker 1: had three eleven inch snowstorms in five days, and the

744
00:52:50,115 --> 00:52:54,875
Speaker 1: only thing passable by foot was a small divot in

745
00:52:54,955 --> 00:52:58,115
Speaker 1: the snow drifts down the center of the main drags

746
00:52:58,155 --> 00:53:01,115
Speaker 1: at Cornell University, and if you encountered somebody walking in

747
00:53:01,115 --> 00:53:03,155
Speaker 1: the opposite direction, one of you had to go and

748
00:53:03,195 --> 00:53:07,075
Speaker 1: stand in the thirty inch snowbank for a moment. In

749
00:53:07,155 --> 00:53:09,475
Speaker 1: any event, Dad said, listen, do you ever go to

750
00:53:09,515 --> 00:53:12,515
Speaker 1: the Hertford Civic Center? And I said no, I actually

751
00:53:12,715 --> 00:53:15,555
Speaker 1: avoided that completely. Do any of the Cornell teams play there?

752
00:53:16,075 --> 00:53:17,915
Speaker 1: I said, well, it's possible, but I don't think we're

753
00:53:17,915 --> 00:53:21,275
Speaker 1: playing Yukon basketball this year. Good, don't go in there.

754
00:53:21,395 --> 00:53:23,955
Speaker 1: The damn thing's going to collapse sooner or later. And

755
00:53:23,995 --> 00:53:25,395
Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean, the damn thing's going

756
00:53:25,435 --> 00:53:27,755
Speaker 1: to collapse sooner or later. I knew nothing of the

757
00:53:27,875 --> 00:53:30,395
Speaker 1: nature of the roof, but the nature of the roof

758
00:53:30,395 --> 00:53:35,555
Speaker 1: at the Hertford Civic Center was not unlike this thing there,

759
00:53:35,915 --> 00:53:41,155
Speaker 1: this piece of duster thickness. I mean, you couldn't use

760
00:53:41,195 --> 00:53:44,035
Speaker 1: it as a as a computer pad, as a mouse pad.

761
00:53:44,155 --> 00:53:47,355
Speaker 1: It's not that thick That is the essence of the roof,

762
00:53:47,395 --> 00:53:50,475
Speaker 1: along with the superstructure, the metal, the grid work. But

763
00:53:50,675 --> 00:53:53,315
Speaker 1: the essence of it, the thing that the wind could

764
00:53:53,315 --> 00:53:55,875
Speaker 1: get under or the snow could get on top of,

765
00:53:56,475 --> 00:53:59,995
Speaker 1: was one I don't know sixty fourth of an inch

766
00:54:00,075 --> 00:54:04,075
Speaker 1: thick and kind of flexible. And Dad said, I don't

767
00:54:04,075 --> 00:54:06,515
Speaker 1: think they desire this, right, I had a quick look.

768
00:54:06,555 --> 00:54:09,315
Speaker 1: They let me, let me look inside, and I went, boy,

769
00:54:09,395 --> 00:54:11,035
Speaker 1: oh boy, I wouldn't come in here again for a

770
00:54:11,075 --> 00:54:13,915
Speaker 1: million dollars. And the guy then threw me out of

771
00:54:13,915 --> 00:54:18,915
Speaker 1: the building. That was my dad, that's me. Dad said,

772
00:54:18,955 --> 00:54:21,155
Speaker 1: there was so much snow on the roof, and it

773
00:54:21,235 --> 00:54:24,835
Speaker 1: was probably sufficiently designed to handle a great deal of snow.

774
00:54:24,915 --> 00:54:27,875
Speaker 1: He said, thirty six inches forty eight inches of snow.

775
00:54:27,995 --> 00:54:31,515
Speaker 1: It could withstand a couple of more serious snowstorms before

776
00:54:31,555 --> 00:54:34,355
Speaker 1: it and every other roof in Hartford, Connecticut would collapse.

777
00:54:34,435 --> 00:54:37,595
Speaker 1: He said. The problem was they had not done enough

778
00:54:37,635 --> 00:54:40,155
Speaker 1: with the grid work. This thing had been poorly designed,

779
00:54:40,475 --> 00:54:44,155
Speaker 1: especially if it got really warm and there was rain,

780
00:54:44,355 --> 00:54:46,275
Speaker 1: and then it got really cold and the whole thing

781
00:54:46,355 --> 00:54:48,835
Speaker 1: turned into a block of ice, which would double or

782
00:54:48,915 --> 00:54:53,595
Speaker 1: treble the weight on top of this roof. Sure enough,

783
00:54:53,715 --> 00:54:57,155
Speaker 1: I go into my college radio station on January eighteenth,

784
00:54:57,235 --> 00:54:59,835
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, and the news is on the wire

785
00:55:00,275 --> 00:55:04,515
Speaker 1: that about five six hours after the University of Kinnetic

786
00:55:04,675 --> 00:55:08,395
Speaker 1: basketball team beat the University of Massachusetts basketball team in

787
00:55:08,435 --> 00:55:12,915
Speaker 1: front of counting staff and employees about forty eight hundred

788
00:55:12,915 --> 00:55:17,795
Speaker 1: people inside the Hertford Civic Center. About five hours afterwards,

789
00:55:17,835 --> 00:55:21,995
Speaker 1: about four in the morning, the Hartford Civic Center cloth

790
00:55:22,395 --> 00:55:26,275
Speaker 1: roof caved in under the weight of the ice that

791
00:55:26,355 --> 00:55:29,315
Speaker 1: had built up atop it. And it wasn't just the ice.

792
00:55:29,515 --> 00:55:31,995
Speaker 1: It was a design flaw. It was exactly as my

793
00:55:32,075 --> 00:55:35,355
Speaker 1: dad had forecast, maybe a month earlier, certainly at least

794
00:55:35,395 --> 00:55:38,395
Speaker 1: a week earlier. Whatever you do, don't let any of

795
00:55:38,435 --> 00:55:41,955
Speaker 1: Cornell teams go into the Hartford Civic Center. Boy, he

796
00:55:42,035 --> 00:55:45,955
Speaker 1: got that right. That was the good one. Because, of course,

797
00:55:46,155 --> 00:55:49,475
Speaker 1: the night watchman, the night manager of the Hartford Civic Center,

798
00:55:49,795 --> 00:55:53,075
Speaker 1: had cleaned the place out, after the employees there had

799
00:55:53,275 --> 00:55:57,035
Speaker 1: cleaned everything up, had locked the door, maybe at two

800
00:55:57,195 --> 00:55:59,715
Speaker 1: or three o'clock. And I don't know if I added

801
00:55:59,755 --> 00:56:03,515
Speaker 1: this in the years of remembering my dad forecasting this

802
00:56:03,675 --> 00:56:07,435
Speaker 1: disaster or not, or if it actually happened, but there

803
00:56:07,475 --> 00:56:09,995
Speaker 1: was some story about the last guy out locking the

804
00:56:10,035 --> 00:56:12,795
Speaker 1: place at three or four in the morning, driving a

805
00:56:12,835 --> 00:56:15,555
Speaker 1: couple of blocks away, stopped at a stoplight, and he

806
00:56:15,555 --> 00:56:18,595
Speaker 1: hears a roar, looks in his rear view mirror and

807
00:56:18,635 --> 00:56:21,035
Speaker 1: there's the roof of the Hartford Civic Center that he

808
00:56:21,075 --> 00:56:24,955
Speaker 1: has just left empty, caving in on itself. That may

809
00:56:24,995 --> 00:56:28,755
Speaker 1: be apocryphal, but it could have happened. That's how good

810
00:56:28,795 --> 00:56:31,555
Speaker 1: dad's prediction was. If he'd put a time stamp on

811
00:56:31,635 --> 00:56:33,675
Speaker 1: it, it was the only way he could have gotten it better.

812
00:56:34,675 --> 00:56:36,995
Speaker 1: The other thing, of course, that reminded me of was

813
00:56:36,995 --> 00:56:39,195
Speaker 1: the other time my dad made a prediction like that,

814
00:56:39,275 --> 00:56:42,555
Speaker 1: which was a true tragedy, and I regret not doing

815
00:56:42,555 --> 00:56:45,195
Speaker 1: more about it, and he regretted not doing more about it.

816
00:56:45,395 --> 00:56:47,755
Speaker 1: But there was a point at which you can't do

817
00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:50,195
Speaker 1: more about it because the people are telling you you're

818
00:56:50,235 --> 00:56:52,915
Speaker 1: insane and they're going to arrest you, and you should

819
00:56:52,955 --> 00:56:56,995
Speaker 1: stop fear mongering, etc. My dad used to travel all

820
00:56:57,035 --> 00:56:58,995
Speaker 1: the time. It was one of the great joys of

821
00:56:58,995 --> 00:57:01,835
Speaker 1: his becoming an architect. And as I've told the story before,

822
00:57:01,875 --> 00:57:05,115
Speaker 1: he became an architect without going to college. He was

823
00:57:05,155 --> 00:57:08,715
Speaker 1: offered a full ride as a high school valedictorian at

824
00:57:08,715 --> 00:57:11,155
Speaker 1: the School of Industrial Arts in New York, a full

825
00:57:11,235 --> 00:57:14,675
Speaker 1: ride to Cornell five years in the Architecture college, a

826
00:57:14,715 --> 00:57:18,235
Speaker 1: full scholarship. Had to turn it down because his father

827
00:57:18,315 --> 00:57:20,115
Speaker 1: said to him, well, yeah, you can go do your

828
00:57:20,195 --> 00:57:22,475
Speaker 1: drawing crap, but then your younger brother is going to

829
00:57:22,555 --> 00:57:24,475
Speaker 1: have to drop out of high school and support us

830
00:57:24,755 --> 00:57:28,595
Speaker 1: because my grandfather couldn't support the family, and not because

831
00:57:28,675 --> 00:57:32,795
Speaker 1: he had the victimization of the Great Depression. And my

832
00:57:32,835 --> 00:57:37,915
Speaker 1: grandfather just did not cooperate with anybody under any circumstances.

833
00:57:38,075 --> 00:57:40,875
Speaker 1: I am Saint Francis of the CSI compared to my grandfather,

834
00:57:41,515 --> 00:57:46,515
Speaker 1: I digress. My father's joy in architecture was he did

835
00:57:46,515 --> 00:57:49,995
Speaker 1: not turn out to design nine hundred story buildings that

836
00:57:50,035 --> 00:57:54,835
Speaker 1: were sweeping architectural monuments that would last like the pyramids did.

837
00:57:55,035 --> 00:57:57,835
Speaker 1: And they'd say, who was the designer of this palace?

838
00:57:58,395 --> 00:58:01,875
Speaker 1: Theodore Sea Olderman designed it. That's his statue over there.

839
00:58:01,915 --> 00:58:04,075
Speaker 1: It didn't happen that way, but at one point all

840
00:58:04,075 --> 00:58:06,795
Speaker 1: the basking Robs, like four hundred Baskin Robbins in this

841
00:58:06,875 --> 00:58:09,795
Speaker 1: country were all his design because he didn't know it

842
00:58:09,915 --> 00:58:12,075
Speaker 1: when he went into architecture. But he had a natural

843
00:58:12,115 --> 00:58:17,315
Speaker 1: ability to fit your stock architectural design for your chain

844
00:58:17,395 --> 00:58:20,555
Speaker 1: store into this oddly shaped place you were able to

845
00:58:20,595 --> 00:58:27,195
Speaker 1: rent in the mall in Nacadochis, Texas. So traveling around

846
00:58:27,275 --> 00:58:32,235
Speaker 1: to places like Nacadoches, Texas, and to the beach communities

847
00:58:32,235 --> 00:58:35,635
Speaker 1: of la which he loved, and to everywhere on earth,

848
00:58:35,675 --> 00:58:39,235
Speaker 1: and to Hartford, Connecticut, and to Kansas City, Missouri. Put

849
00:58:39,275 --> 00:58:42,995
Speaker 1: him in places like Kansas City, Missouri. And sometime late

850
00:58:43,035 --> 00:58:45,635
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty he would always call. In those pre

851
00:58:45,755 --> 00:58:48,755
Speaker 1: internet days and those pre cell phone days, he'd call

852
00:58:48,835 --> 00:58:51,075
Speaker 1: to say he'd gotten to the hotel. He'd leave an

853
00:58:51,115 --> 00:58:53,475
Speaker 1: itinerary in case we needed to get him. And he

854
00:58:53,555 --> 00:58:56,755
Speaker 1: was calling me late in nineteen eighty or early in

855
00:58:56,835 --> 00:59:01,275
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one to tell me that he was changing hotels. Yeah,

856
00:59:01,315 --> 00:59:03,155
Speaker 1: I checked into the Higatt Regency and here it's a

857
00:59:03,155 --> 00:59:06,195
Speaker 1: death trap. And I said, oh, what's wrong with it? Now?

858
00:59:06,235 --> 00:59:09,315
Speaker 1: Does it have a fabric roof? Hahaha? Was I right

859
00:59:09,355 --> 00:59:12,075
Speaker 1: about that? Yes? You were. I'm sorry. I don't mean

860
00:59:12,075 --> 00:59:14,195
Speaker 1: to mock you. We could have done something more now.

861
00:59:14,195 --> 00:59:16,595
Speaker 1: That worked out pretty well all things considered, given that

862
00:59:16,635 --> 00:59:19,835
Speaker 1: they wouldn't listen to me, the idiots. Do you see

863
00:59:19,835 --> 00:59:22,235
Speaker 1: where I come from? Do you see where my attitude

864
00:59:22,235 --> 00:59:25,755
Speaker 1: comes from? Well? He was right, as I am right.

865
00:59:27,235 --> 00:59:29,715
Speaker 1: It gets frustrating sometimes to be the only one who's

866
00:59:29,755 --> 00:59:33,635
Speaker 1: right in the room, especially when people's lives are endangered.

867
00:59:33,635 --> 00:59:35,355
Speaker 1: And that's the whole point. My dad didn't give a

868
00:59:35,435 --> 00:59:37,275
Speaker 1: damn whether or not he was right. It was a

869
00:59:37,275 --> 00:59:39,675
Speaker 1: certain source of pride to him that a subject that

870
00:59:39,715 --> 00:59:43,875
Speaker 1: he hated, he had mastered the arithmetic, the science, the

871
00:59:43,915 --> 00:59:46,715
Speaker 1: weightload management in the real meaning of it, not the

872
00:59:46,715 --> 00:59:50,555
Speaker 1: sports meaning of it. But he didn't get any joy

873
00:59:50,595 --> 00:59:52,115
Speaker 1: over the fact that he was right that the roof

874
00:59:52,155 --> 00:59:54,515
Speaker 1: had collapsed. He just said, maybe that's more evidence that

875
00:59:54,555 --> 00:59:56,915
Speaker 1: you should listen to me again. Where do you think

876
00:59:56,955 --> 01:00:00,355
Speaker 1: that comes from in this podcast? In any event, back

877
01:00:00,395 --> 01:00:02,355
Speaker 1: to the phone call from Kansas City. I've checked out.

878
01:00:02,355 --> 01:00:05,395
Speaker 1: I'm in the such and such hotel. Now here's the number,

879
01:00:05,635 --> 01:00:07,395
Speaker 1: and I wrote it down and I called my mother

880
01:00:07,435 --> 01:00:09,715
Speaker 1: and I said, change this on the itinerary. And whether

881
01:00:09,755 --> 01:00:14,235
Speaker 1: or not she did, who knows. In any event, he said,

882
01:00:14,755 --> 01:00:17,355
Speaker 1: you won't believe what they've done here. They've hung a

883
01:00:17,435 --> 01:00:25,755
Speaker 1: walkway from another walkway on top of another walkway. And

884
01:00:25,795 --> 01:00:28,635
Speaker 1: I was like, you can't be you can't be serious,

885
01:00:28,715 --> 01:00:30,395
Speaker 1: and he went, no, I'm serious. I went, no, no, you

886
01:00:30,435 --> 01:00:33,355
Speaker 1: can't be serious. In assuming I know what that means,

887
01:00:34,035 --> 01:00:36,035
Speaker 1: he said, all right, let me explain it. To you simply,

888
01:00:36,635 --> 01:00:39,315
Speaker 1: if you hang a walkway from a ceiling at like

889
01:00:39,355 --> 01:00:42,635
Speaker 1: this highatt regency, If you hang it from the ceiling,

890
01:00:42,915 --> 01:00:47,675
Speaker 1: let's say that requires a support for that hanging walkway

891
01:00:48,235 --> 01:00:53,675
Speaker 1: worth one point. If you hang another walkway from the

892
01:00:53,755 --> 01:00:57,395
Speaker 1: walkway from the ceiling, so that you have walkway number one,

893
01:00:57,595 --> 01:00:59,755
Speaker 1: and then below it hanging from walkway number one is

894
01:00:59,795 --> 01:01:02,475
Speaker 1: walkway number two. How many points worth of support do

895
01:01:02,555 --> 01:01:06,355
Speaker 1: you need? And I said two, No, you need three.

896
01:01:06,955 --> 01:01:09,835
Speaker 1: You need one for the original walkway, one for the

897
01:01:09,835 --> 01:01:12,995
Speaker 1: new walkway, and another point a third point for the

898
01:01:13,035 --> 01:01:16,235
Speaker 1: additional stress that the lower walkway has put on the

899
01:01:16,275 --> 01:01:19,595
Speaker 1: top one. You have doubled the stress. You need a three.

900
01:01:20,515 --> 01:01:24,995
Speaker 1: He said, they barely have one. It's a disaster waiting

901
01:01:24,995 --> 01:01:27,835
Speaker 1: to happen, as God is my witness. And he was

902
01:01:27,875 --> 01:01:30,115
Speaker 1: an atheist. It's an odd phrase, but he used it

903
01:01:30,155 --> 01:01:33,955
Speaker 1: all the time, as God is my witness, that thing

904
01:01:34,235 --> 01:01:36,275
Speaker 1: will collapse. And I went to the manager and I

905
01:01:36,315 --> 01:01:38,955
Speaker 1: asked to see the structural engineer, and I told him this,

906
01:01:39,035 --> 01:01:40,795
Speaker 1: and I gave him my credentials, and I mentioned the

907
01:01:40,835 --> 01:01:44,595
Speaker 1: Hertford Civic Center, and nobody listened to me. In fact,

908
01:01:44,675 --> 01:01:46,675
Speaker 1: they said, maybe you should leave, or maybe we're going

909
01:01:46,715 --> 01:01:48,715
Speaker 1: to have to call the authorities. You're beginning to make

910
01:01:48,715 --> 01:01:51,475
Speaker 1: a scene and frighten the other guests here, and he

911
01:01:51,515 --> 01:01:54,315
Speaker 1: said they should be frightened. The damn and he swore

912
01:01:54,715 --> 01:01:57,915
Speaker 1: roof is going to come down someday. The damn walkway

913
01:01:58,035 --> 01:02:00,035
Speaker 1: is going to drag the ceiling down. And if it

914
01:02:00,075 --> 01:02:04,235
Speaker 1: could be worse, these two ceilings, these two walkways hanging

915
01:02:04,275 --> 01:02:06,475
Speaker 1: from the sea. One is hanging from the other, and

916
01:02:06,515 --> 01:02:09,875
Speaker 1: they're on top of another walkway, So there's another walkway

917
01:02:09,875 --> 01:02:12,595
Speaker 1: that is not supported separately. He is supported separately, but

918
01:02:12,715 --> 01:02:16,195
Speaker 1: it's sitting below. So when walkway number two pulls down

919
01:02:16,235 --> 01:02:19,075
Speaker 1: Walkway number one on the way down to the floor

920
01:02:19,115 --> 01:02:21,035
Speaker 1: where they hold all sorts of events and have a

921
01:02:21,035 --> 01:02:24,355
Speaker 1: couple of nice lobby bars, it will go through walkway

922
01:02:24,435 --> 01:02:26,715
Speaker 1: number three. I don't know how many people are going

923
01:02:26,795 --> 01:02:30,555
Speaker 1: to get killed. They're going to get killed. So he

924
01:02:30,675 --> 01:02:33,235
Speaker 1: sounded like everybody you've ever seen in every science fiction

925
01:02:33,355 --> 01:02:35,795
Speaker 1: picture who then claims they came in from the future

926
01:02:35,995 --> 01:02:38,315
Speaker 1: and they asked him to leave, and he said, don't worry,

927
01:02:38,475 --> 01:02:41,195
Speaker 1: I'm not staying here, and don't send me the bill,

928
01:02:41,195 --> 01:02:43,155
Speaker 1: because by the time you send me the bill. You

929
01:02:43,235 --> 01:02:49,235
Speaker 1: guys won't be in business anymore. Once again, time elapses.

930
01:02:49,475 --> 01:02:51,515
Speaker 1: I didn't make any phone calls. Who am I going

931
01:02:51,555 --> 01:02:53,755
Speaker 1: to call? I'm a twenty two year old sportscaster in

932
01:02:53,755 --> 01:02:56,355
Speaker 1: New York City. I'm not exactly carrying any weight on

933
01:02:56,475 --> 01:02:59,955
Speaker 1: subjects like this. My dad has correctly predicted the fabric

934
01:03:00,035 --> 01:03:02,835
Speaker 1: roof collapse at the Hartford Civic Center. He now says

935
01:03:02,995 --> 01:03:06,395
Speaker 1: that there's a walkway hanging from another walkway, and there

936
01:03:06,395 --> 01:03:08,115
Speaker 1: should be a force of three and is only a

937
01:03:08,115 --> 01:03:10,595
Speaker 1: force of one. And I don't know what I'm talking about,

938
01:03:10,595 --> 01:03:12,755
Speaker 1: but maybe you should call him. Here's his phone number.

939
01:03:12,875 --> 01:03:15,675
Speaker 1: What am I going to do about this? My great

940
01:03:15,675 --> 01:03:18,435
Speaker 1: regret that I didn't make those calls anyway. I walked

941
01:03:18,435 --> 01:03:21,115
Speaker 1: into my office at the RKO Radio Network on Saturday,

942
01:03:21,195 --> 01:03:24,315
Speaker 1: July eighteenth, nineteen eighty one, and the wires were full

943
01:03:24,355 --> 01:03:28,915
Speaker 1: of stories about the disaster in Kansas City. The baseball

944
01:03:29,075 --> 01:03:31,555
Speaker 1: strike was in full flower in the middle of July

945
01:03:31,675 --> 01:03:33,755
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, and most of the members of the

946
01:03:33,835 --> 01:03:35,915
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals, or a lot of them at least,

947
01:03:35,915 --> 01:03:39,435
Speaker 1: including the pitcher Rich Gale, were serving as celebrity bartenders

948
01:03:39,475 --> 01:03:42,835
Speaker 1: at a charity event in the lobby of a Hyatt

949
01:03:42,835 --> 01:03:46,835
Speaker 1: Regency in Kansas City on the night of July seventeenth Friday,

950
01:03:46,915 --> 01:03:50,875
Speaker 1: July seventeenth, nineteen eighty one, when one of the walkways

951
01:03:50,955 --> 01:03:53,795
Speaker 1: began to collapse. It began to pull down the walkway

952
01:03:53,835 --> 01:03:55,995
Speaker 1: from which it was hung, and then part of the ceiling,

953
01:03:56,035 --> 01:03:58,595
Speaker 1: and on the way down it knocked down parts of

954
01:03:58,755 --> 01:04:03,715
Speaker 1: other pieces of the superstructure above the lobby. One one

955
01:04:03,795 --> 01:04:07,075
Speaker 1: hundred and four teen people were killed. And I remember

956
01:04:07,115 --> 01:04:11,755
Speaker 1: to this day the agonized interview with rich Gail, the

957
01:04:11,835 --> 01:04:14,955
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals pitcher, a big guy for the time,

958
01:04:14,995 --> 01:04:18,355
Speaker 1: about six', six who said that the first thing he

959
01:04:18,395 --> 01:04:21,995
Speaker 1: did was try to move these, giant multi ton blocks

960
01:04:22,475 --> 01:04:27,595
Speaker 1: of concrete off still living, victims and being an, athlete

961
01:04:27,595 --> 01:04:29,275
Speaker 1: figuring that he and a few of his friends could

962
01:04:29,275 --> 01:04:31,395
Speaker 1: do it and they could not even budge the. THING

963
01:04:32,515 --> 01:04:34,875
Speaker 1: i think it changed his life. UTTERLY i think it

964
01:04:34,995 --> 01:04:38,755
Speaker 1: basically ended his career as a viable baseball. Pitcher it

965
01:04:38,795 --> 01:04:41,955
Speaker 1: certainly caused him, struggles AND i know he succeeded in

966
01:04:42,035 --> 01:04:44,075
Speaker 1: staying in the game and becoming a, coach but he

967
01:04:44,155 --> 01:04:46,955
Speaker 1: was affected in a. Way you could hear instantaneously in the,

968
01:04:46,995 --> 01:04:49,235
Speaker 1: interviews and we covered the story AND i left my

969
01:04:49,315 --> 01:04:52,515
Speaker 1: father out of. It but my father had predicted it

970
01:04:52,675 --> 01:04:56,475
Speaker 1: down to the fact that there would be people, killed

971
01:04:56,595 --> 01:04:59,755
Speaker 1: that there would be such large pieces of debris coming

972
01:04:59,755 --> 01:05:01,755
Speaker 1: from the ceiling because they had not hung the thing.

973
01:05:01,835 --> 01:05:05,995
Speaker 1: Successfully the, designer AS i found out of this, disaster

974
01:05:06,395 --> 01:05:11,395
Speaker 1: then became a lecturer on disasters in bad, architecture of

975
01:05:11,435 --> 01:05:15,355
Speaker 1: which he was responsible, for instead of going to. Prison

976
01:05:17,355 --> 01:05:20,715
Speaker 1: so this all came back to mind that my father Was.

977
01:05:22,595 --> 01:05:27,115
Speaker 1: Cassandra my father was the guy who arrived, saying the

978
01:05:27,155 --> 01:05:29,715
Speaker 1: next person you hear from will be the angel of.

979
01:05:29,795 --> 01:05:32,075
Speaker 1: Death maybe you want to get out of, here maybe

980
01:05:32,155 --> 01:05:33,675
Speaker 1: you want to fix, this maybe you want to have

981
01:05:33,715 --> 01:05:37,675
Speaker 1: another look at your. MATH i, mean there were lots

982
01:05:37,675 --> 01:05:39,995
Speaker 1: of disasters that my dad did not, predict like the

983
01:05:40,035 --> 01:05:42,595
Speaker 1: time that The City Corps center In New york almost

984
01:05:42,635 --> 01:05:45,035
Speaker 1: blew over in a wind because they realized at the

985
01:05:45,115 --> 01:05:48,235
Speaker 1: last minute that the slanted ten story roof they'd put

986
01:05:48,235 --> 01:05:51,435
Speaker 1: on the thing it hit directly by hurricane, forces would

987
01:05:51,515 --> 01:05:54,715
Speaker 1: topple the entire top half of the building Onto Midtown,

988
01:05:54,755 --> 01:05:57,355
Speaker 1: manhattan and they were just lucky that it hit. Differently

989
01:05:58,115 --> 01:06:00,155
Speaker 1: he didn't see that. Coming but of course he wasn't

990
01:06:00,155 --> 01:06:02,955
Speaker 1: in the civic The. Hartford he was only in The hartford.

991
01:06:02,995 --> 01:06:04,875
Speaker 1: Place he was only in The Kansas city. Place he

992
01:06:04,955 --> 01:06:07,955
Speaker 1: was not in The City Corps. Center but that was

993
01:06:07,955 --> 01:06:10,515
Speaker 1: WHAT i was reminded of AS i looked at this.

994
01:06:10,635 --> 01:06:17,475
Speaker 1: Piece this was the roof under which for thirty four,

995
01:06:17,555 --> 01:06:21,275
Speaker 1: years thirty five, years people. Assembled many TIMES i went

996
01:06:21,315 --> 01:06:24,355
Speaker 1: there myself and did ball games from and did coverage,

997
01:06:24,355 --> 01:06:26,755
Speaker 1: from and my friends who owned The Tampa Bay, rays

998
01:06:26,955 --> 01:06:28,755
Speaker 1: and all the players THAT i, knew and all the

999
01:06:28,835 --> 01:06:30,835
Speaker 1: announcers THAT i knew who worked, there and all the

1000
01:06:30,915 --> 01:06:33,955
Speaker 1: visiting announcers all went in under this. Roof and thank

1001
01:06:34,035 --> 01:06:38,115
Speaker 1: god that when what my father would have, said do

1002
01:06:38,115 --> 01:06:42,075
Speaker 1: you have any GAMES i planned At Tropicana, field whatever you,

1003
01:06:42,115 --> 01:06:44,475
Speaker 1: do don't go. There that main a hurricane going to

1004
01:06:44,515 --> 01:06:46,675
Speaker 1: take that effing roof right. Off and then you know,

1005
01:06:46,795 --> 01:06:50,035
Speaker 1: WHAT i bet it winds up as a souvenir somewhere

1006
01:06:50,155 --> 01:06:52,875
Speaker 1: in your. Collection that'll probably cut up the. Roof knowing

1007
01:06:52,875 --> 01:06:54,875
Speaker 1: your friends who owned the, team they'll be smart enough

1008
01:06:54,995 --> 01:06:57,155
Speaker 1: to take what's left of this fabric roof and sell.

1009
01:06:57,195 --> 01:06:59,755
Speaker 1: IT i would put the price at like ten. Dollars

1010
01:07:00,115 --> 01:07:17,235
Speaker 1: knowing your, friends they'll probably charge. Fifteen i've done all

1011
01:07:17,275 --> 01:07:22,275
Speaker 1: the DAMAGE i can do. Here nature and physics do the.

1012
01:07:22,315 --> 01:07:26,115
Speaker 1: Rest thank you for. Listening and, yes there are, people

1013
01:07:26,235 --> 01:07:30,275
Speaker 1: particularly from my college, days who remember my dad's prediction

1014
01:07:30,395 --> 01:07:33,155
Speaker 1: because the one about The Hartford Civic CENTER i had

1015
01:07:33,155 --> 01:07:35,755
Speaker 1: to share BECAUSE i, asked AND i asked At Cornell Sports,

1016
01:07:35,795 --> 01:07:38,475
Speaker 1: information do we have any games In hartford this? Year?

1017
01:07:38,795 --> 01:07:41,315
Speaker 1: NO i, said, okay, good because my, dad the, architect

1018
01:07:41,395 --> 01:07:42,795
Speaker 1: just said the roof's going to come down one.

1019
01:07:42,875 --> 01:07:43,035
Speaker 2: Night.

1020
01:07:45,435 --> 01:07:50,155
Speaker 1: Unbelievable my dad was not, Psychic he was not the

1021
01:07:50,195 --> 01:07:53,515
Speaker 1: harbinger of the angel of. Death he just paid real

1022
01:07:53,555 --> 01:07:55,915
Speaker 1: attention to the things that he hated most and the

1023
01:07:55,955 --> 01:07:57,875
Speaker 1: work he hated doing the. Most as he used to

1024
01:07:57,875 --> 01:08:00,475
Speaker 1: say to, me you're good at this. Work hardist on

1025
01:08:00,595 --> 01:08:03,035
Speaker 1: the things you're not good, at and that's why we

1026
01:08:03,155 --> 01:08:08,155
Speaker 1: have this. Podcast do you Think i'm happy doing this every? Week?

1027
01:08:08,675 --> 01:08:10,835
Speaker 1: Then do you Think i'm happy doing? This there are

1028
01:08:10,915 --> 01:08:15,515
Speaker 1: many glories to getting this, done and there are many, positive,

1029
01:08:15,835 --> 01:08:21,275
Speaker 1: warming life validating and affirming moments in knowing that you appreciate,

1030
01:08:21,355 --> 01:08:24,195
Speaker 1: This but do you think it's? Enjoyable which do you

1031
01:08:24,195 --> 01:08:27,235
Speaker 1: think is more enjoyable this podcast or writing up the

1032
01:08:27,275 --> 01:08:30,955
Speaker 1: histories of The Detroit tigers and The Saint Louis cardinals

1033
01:08:30,955 --> 01:08:35,875
Speaker 1: for their pregame. SHOW i think that question answers itself

1034
01:08:36,875 --> 01:08:41,235
Speaker 1: enough do the. Math Brian ray And John Phillip, shanelle

1035
01:08:41,275 --> 01:08:44,355
Speaker 1: the musical, directors Have Countdown arrange produced and performed most

1036
01:08:44,355 --> 01:08:48,075
Speaker 1: of our. Music Mister chanelle handled orchestration and. Keyboards Mister

1037
01:08:48,195 --> 01:08:50,595
Speaker 1: ray was on the, guitars bass and. Drums it was

1038
01:08:50,595 --> 01:08:53,835
Speaker 1: produced BY Tko. Brothers my dad did once say to,

1039
01:08:53,875 --> 01:08:56,635
Speaker 1: me at sort of the height of THE msnbc, experience

1040
01:08:56,995 --> 01:08:58,995
Speaker 1: WHEN i said that much of the stuff THAT i

1041
01:08:59,075 --> 01:09:02,635
Speaker 1: STUDIED i hated studying and really was dedicated to, it

1042
01:09:02,675 --> 01:09:06,155
Speaker 1: only because he told me this year before to pay

1043
01:09:06,315 --> 01:09:10,275
Speaker 1: special attention to the STUFF i, hated paying special attention

1044
01:09:10,395 --> 01:09:12,435
Speaker 1: to to do the hard work on the stuff that

1045
01:09:12,515 --> 01:09:15,755
Speaker 1: was really hard and. Work he teared up and he,

1046
01:09:15,835 --> 01:09:20,075
Speaker 1: SAID i taught you. SOMETHING i, said, YEAH i also

1047
01:09:20,195 --> 01:09:23,475
Speaker 1: always check the hanging walkways WHENEVER i go into a.

1048
01:09:23,475 --> 01:09:28,475
Speaker 1: Hotel god help. Us our satirical and pithy musical comments

1049
01:09:28,475 --> 01:09:31,635
Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organists. Ever Nancy faust

1050
01:09:31,715 --> 01:09:34,435
Speaker 1: now back doing cameos with The White, sox or as

1051
01:09:34,475 --> 01:09:38,075
Speaker 1: they are now, known saluting both The pope And chicago's crime.

1052
01:09:38,195 --> 01:09:44,995
Speaker 1: History The leo polls and. Lobes all, right that's a tasteless,

1053
01:09:45,035 --> 01:09:48,155
Speaker 1: joke but a good. One the sports music is The

1054
01:09:48,195 --> 01:09:51,635
Speaker 1: ulberman theme FROM espn, two written By Mitch Warren davis

1055
01:09:51,675 --> 01:09:55,235
Speaker 1: courtesy OF, Espn. Inc other music arranged and performed By

1056
01:09:55,275 --> 01:09:58,315
Speaker 1: No Horns. Allowed my announcer today was my Friend Larry.

1057
01:09:58,395 --> 01:10:03,195
Speaker 1: David everything was as ever other than. That my fault

1058
01:10:04,795 --> 01:10:07,515
Speaker 1: not the roof collapse. HERE i, MEAN i swear you

1059
01:10:07,555 --> 01:10:09,795
Speaker 1: could roll this thing, up AND i don't. THINK i,

1060
01:10:09,875 --> 01:10:13,755
Speaker 1: mean of all the, things this looks. Like this piece

1061
01:10:13,795 --> 01:10:15,755
Speaker 1: of the, roof a piece of a, roof is not

1062
01:10:15,875 --> 01:10:16,435
Speaker 1: what it looks?

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Speaker 1: That for a? Tautology that's countdown for, today day one

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Speaker 1: to twenty three Of america sitting under the roof at

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Speaker 1: The Higatt regency or The Hartford Civic. Center just forty

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Speaker 1: days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and

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Speaker 1: actuarial tables, do or we. Do the next scheduled countdown Is,

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Speaker 1: monday as always bulletins as the news. Warrants remember he

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Speaker 1: is laying the groundwork now to not leave office. Later

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Speaker 1: he must be. Stopped we must get out from under

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Speaker 1: this roof until next. Time I'm keith oulteran good, morning good,

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