1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,555 --> 00:00:28,075 Speaker 1: You will be relieved to here that Marjorie Taylor Green 3 00:00:28,315 --> 00:00:32,955 Speaker 1: quote was being facetious about how she would have won 4 00:00:33,035 --> 00:00:37,795 Speaker 1: the coup on January six, or at least Speaker presumptive 5 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:41,475 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy now says he thinks so wow, he doesn't 6 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: actually go that far. McCarthy doesn't think so he quote 7 00:00:45,875 --> 00:00:52,155 Speaker 1: thinks she said she was being facetious. And Congressman Ralph 8 00:00:52,275 --> 00:00:55,475 Speaker 1: Norman of North Carolina, when he texted Mark Meadows on 9 00:00:55,595 --> 00:00:59,115 Speaker 1: January one, quote, we are at a point of no 10 00:00:59,195 --> 00:01:02,555 Speaker 1: return in saving our republic. Our last hope is invoking 11 00:01:02,675 --> 00:01:07,755 Speaker 1: martial law. Please President to do so well at now 12 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:12,595 Speaker 1: that that text is out, that was just frustration. I 13 00:01:12,635 --> 00:01:17,235 Speaker 1: guess McCarthy thought Norman was being metaphorical. And when Green 14 00:01:17,355 --> 00:01:19,515 Speaker 1: texted Meadows the same day that the only way to 15 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:22,115 Speaker 1: save our republic is for Trump to call for martial law, 16 00:01:22,835 --> 00:01:28,555 Speaker 1: I guess McCarthy thought Green was being sardonic. And then 17 00:01:28,595 --> 00:01:31,715 Speaker 1: Congressman Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania when he texted Meadows that 18 00:01:31,755 --> 00:01:34,435 Speaker 1: he was ready to do anything I can do to 19 00:01:34,515 --> 00:01:38,035 Speaker 1: fight these m efforts. I guess McCarthy thought Kelly was 20 00:01:38,115 --> 00:01:45,875 Speaker 1: just describing Democrats euphemistically. And when Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole 21 00:01:46,035 --> 00:01:49,075 Speaker 1: issued a press release insisting Nancy Pelosi was running the 22 00:01:49,075 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: House by martial law, and he used the phrase martial 23 00:01:52,635 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: laws six times in the press release, I guess Kevin 24 00:01:55,795 --> 00:02:02,315 Speaker 1: McCarthy thought Cole was just being hyperbolock. Oh, and when 25 00:02:02,355 --> 00:02:05,995 Speaker 1: Trump wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution and people 26 00:02:06,035 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: noticed he wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution, I 27 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:11,235 Speaker 1: guess McCarthy agreed with Trump that the thing was just 28 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:15,635 Speaker 1: a hoax. And when Congressman Paul goes Are said he 29 00:02:15,675 --> 00:02:19,595 Speaker 1: supported Trump on terminating the Constitution but that only low 30 00:02:19,715 --> 00:02:22,955 Speaker 1: i Q people could possibly have interpreted that as meaning 31 00:02:22,995 --> 00:02:27,475 Speaker 1: he supported terminating the constitutional, I guess McCarthy thought Gozar 32 00:02:27,675 --> 00:02:33,275 Speaker 1: was being witty. And when Lauren Boberd tweeted in July, 33 00:02:33,475 --> 00:02:36,915 Speaker 1: we must terminate this presidency, I guess McCarthy thought Bobert 34 00:02:36,915 --> 00:02:42,795 Speaker 1: was just being whimsical. And when Boberd tweeted while inside 35 00:02:42,835 --> 00:02:45,915 Speaker 1: the Capitol during the coup, today is seventeen seventy six, 36 00:02:45,955 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: I guess McCarthy just thought she got her dates mixed up. 37 00:02:49,195 --> 00:02:52,515 Speaker 1: And then when she tweeted, Nancy Pelosi has left the chamber. 38 00:02:52,635 --> 00:02:57,035 Speaker 1: I guess McCarthy thought Bobert was just being oh a paradist. 39 00:02:57,275 --> 00:03:00,195 Speaker 1: You know, Elvis has left the building. Nancy Pelosi has 40 00:03:00,235 --> 00:03:04,875 Speaker 1: left the chamber. And when Sigal Chatta, the Republican any 41 00:03:04,955 --> 00:03:08,915 Speaker 1: to replace him, said the Democratic Attorney General Nevada should 42 00:03:08,995 --> 00:03:12,395 Speaker 1: be hanging from an effing crane, I guess McCarthy agreed 43 00:03:12,435 --> 00:03:15,875 Speaker 1: with her that chat I was just being tongue in cheek. 44 00:03:17,355 --> 00:03:20,675 Speaker 1: And when Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett said we 45 00:03:20,715 --> 00:03:23,235 Speaker 1: should try Anthony Fauci and put him in front of 46 00:03:23,235 --> 00:03:26,275 Speaker 1: a firing squad, I guess McCarthy thought Bennett was just 47 00:03:26,355 --> 00:03:32,475 Speaker 1: being colorful. And when Carl Palladino said Merrick Garland should 48 00:03:32,475 --> 00:03:35,115 Speaker 1: be executed after the search of Marilago, I guess McCarthy 49 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:40,995 Speaker 1: thought Palladino was just joking. And that same month, the 50 00:03:41,035 --> 00:03:44,115 Speaker 1: majority leader of the New Hampshire House, Jason Osborne, when 51 00:03:44,115 --> 00:03:46,355 Speaker 1: he said that instead of buying Independence Day hot dogs, 52 00:03:46,395 --> 00:03:49,035 Speaker 1: you should grab a few more rounds for your a 53 00:03:49,155 --> 00:03:53,315 Speaker 1: K forty seven, I guess McCarthy thought Osborne was just 54 00:03:53,555 --> 00:03:59,955 Speaker 1: offering money saving advice and being prudential. And when Colorado 55 00:03:59,995 --> 00:04:03,755 Speaker 1: Conservative Joe Oltman called for hanging the governor there two 56 00:04:03,795 --> 00:04:07,155 Speaker 1: inches off the ground, so they choked to death. And 57 00:04:07,235 --> 00:04:10,795 Speaker 1: Colorado Assemblyman Patrick nebl been nominated Oltman for governor and 58 00:04:10,795 --> 00:04:12,595 Speaker 1: said that was a joke. It was said in jess 59 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:15,275 Speaker 1: he's been mischaracterized. We need more humor. And Oltman came 60 00:04:15,275 --> 00:04:17,795 Speaker 1: back and said I did call for the hanging. I 61 00:04:17,835 --> 00:04:25,235 Speaker 1: guess McCarthy thought Altman and nevill were just engaging in repartee. 62 00:04:26,315 --> 00:04:30,075 Speaker 1: And when Ohio Republican Tom Zawistowski took a full page 63 00:04:30,115 --> 00:04:33,235 Speaker 1: ad in the Washington Times threatening that if Trump didn't 64 00:04:33,235 --> 00:04:36,315 Speaker 1: declare martial law, we will have no other choice but 65 00:04:36,395 --> 00:04:39,235 Speaker 1: to take matters into our own hands, I guess McCarthy 66 00:04:39,315 --> 00:04:44,955 Speaker 1: thought Zawastowski was being satirical. But I have to admit, 67 00:04:45,875 --> 00:04:48,915 Speaker 1: even after all of this evidence, I am stumped about 68 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:52,475 Speaker 1: what word Kevin McCarthy, a man who's only evident gift 69 00:04:52,555 --> 00:05:00,355 Speaker 1: is making up excuses for the violent, insane, anti democratic, murderous, treacherous, traitorous, 70 00:05:00,755 --> 00:05:04,355 Speaker 1: seditious mob otherwise known as the Republican Party. I am 71 00:05:04,755 --> 00:05:08,955 Speaker 1: dumped about which word Kevin McCarthy would pull out of 72 00:05:09,035 --> 00:05:22,155 Speaker 1: his bottomless pit of rationalizations. Which word jesting, flippant, drool, jocular, irreverent, wise, cracking, dutching, 73 00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:29,635 Speaker 1: leg pulling, rye salty? If he used facetious for what 74 00:05:29,675 --> 00:05:33,275 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green said about winning January six, which word 75 00:05:33,555 --> 00:05:37,315 Speaker 1: of all of those would Kevin McCarthy use for what 76 00:05:37,435 --> 00:05:42,755 Speaker 1: Laura Loomer quoted Taylor Green four days ago as asking 77 00:05:42,795 --> 00:05:47,075 Speaker 1: her about Kevin McCarthy. I have text messages with Marjorie 78 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:50,675 Speaker 1: Taylor Green on my cell phone where she talks about 79 00:05:50,715 --> 00:05:53,595 Speaker 1: how she thinks Kevin McCarthy is so stupid and how 80 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:56,115 Speaker 1: she wants me to dig up all the dirt eye 81 00:05:56,155 --> 00:06:00,435 Speaker 1: canon on him and his extra marital affairs so that 82 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:04,115 Speaker 1: we can prevent Kevin McCarthy from being speaker. What do 83 00:06:04,155 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: you think, Evan, Is Marjorie Taylor Green also being facetious there? 84 00:06:09,155 --> 00:06:12,595 Speaker 1: Or is she sardonic? Or what do you think of 85 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:15,995 Speaker 1: this option? Could it be that Marjorie Taylor Green is 86 00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: just being psychopathic and unsuitable to serve in the House 87 00:06:23,235 --> 00:06:27,275 Speaker 1: of Representatives? And if you, Kevin had any balls on 88 00:06:27,355 --> 00:06:29,835 Speaker 1: you whatsoever, you would take every ounce of your power 89 00:06:30,235 --> 00:06:33,875 Speaker 1: and get her expelled from Congress Now by invoking the 90 00:06:33,875 --> 00:06:37,155 Speaker 1: rebellion clause of the fourteenth Amendment and expel her fellow 91 00:06:37,315 --> 00:06:39,755 Speaker 1: vermin with her. And you would do it even if 92 00:06:39,795 --> 00:06:43,515 Speaker 1: it's not for the sake of the nation. You remember 93 00:06:43,555 --> 00:06:46,435 Speaker 1: the nation, right, Kevin? You could do it just to 94 00:06:46,555 --> 00:06:51,875 Speaker 1: secure your own speakership and only inadvertently help the country. 95 00:06:52,075 --> 00:06:56,915 Speaker 1: What word would describe that, Kevin, besides a typical? Would 96 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: that make you facetious or shrewd? Would it make you perspicacious? 97 00:07:03,595 --> 00:07:06,115 Speaker 1: Or might it even make you Dare I use a 98 00:07:06,115 --> 00:07:08,555 Speaker 1: word that you, Kevin would probably have to look up 99 00:07:08,555 --> 00:07:13,275 Speaker 1: in the dictionary? Might actually standing up to this dangerous 100 00:07:13,915 --> 00:07:35,595 Speaker 1: cave woman make you patriotic? Still ahead? Elon Musk's tips 101 00:07:35,595 --> 00:07:40,195 Speaker 1: on how to become a billionaire like him. First, stop 102 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:47,355 Speaker 1: paying Rent oh Man. The National Basketball Association assigns names 103 00:07:47,355 --> 00:07:51,195 Speaker 1: of famous players to its annual awards. Some of them 104 00:07:51,235 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: don't make any sense at all, but they do trigger 105 00:07:53,355 --> 00:07:57,475 Speaker 1: a debate in hockey should those awards be renamed, especially 106 00:07:57,555 --> 00:08:00,435 Speaker 1: the one for the playoff m v P, which is 107 00:08:00,515 --> 00:08:03,475 Speaker 1: named in honor of a noted racist who stopped integration 108 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:07,675 Speaker 1: in his own sport. Worst Person's Rudy Giuliani goes to 109 00:08:07,715 --> 00:08:13,955 Speaker 1: war against Sean Hannity. Popcorn, get you popcorn? Here? Popcorn? 110 00:08:14,475 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: Stipend hot And have you ever been an apartment building 111 00:08:19,195 --> 00:08:23,555 Speaker 1: when the lobby catches on fire? I have I walked 112 00:08:23,555 --> 00:08:26,555 Speaker 1: past that apartment building the other day. The story of 113 00:08:26,635 --> 00:08:30,915 Speaker 1: the Night of the Molotov Cocktail of East fifty Street, 114 00:08:31,475 --> 00:08:34,035 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. That's next. This 115 00:08:34,195 --> 00:08:47,755 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 116 00:08:47,795 --> 00:08:51,115 Speaker 1: on countdown, Elon Musk reveals the key to becoming the 117 00:08:51,155 --> 00:08:58,875 Speaker 1: world's ex richest man. Stop paying the rent on your office. 118 00:08:59,875 --> 00:09:02,635 Speaker 1: Anybody wondering if he's just Elizabeth Holmes with a higher 119 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:05,995 Speaker 1: voice coming up first. Each traditional countdown, we feature a 120 00:09:06,035 --> 00:09:08,115 Speaker 1: dog in need you can help. Every dog has its 121 00:09:08,195 --> 00:09:12,475 Speaker 1: day once again. A pound can turn a good dog 122 00:09:12,555 --> 00:09:15,675 Speaker 1: bad in amount of hours, and it can then become 123 00:09:15,675 --> 00:09:18,435 Speaker 1: a self fulfilling prophecy that ends in the dog's death. 124 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:21,995 Speaker 1: Like Zenith at the New York Pound. Upon arrival just 125 00:09:22,075 --> 00:09:25,875 Speaker 1: eleven days ago, she was wiggly and social. Today her 126 00:09:25,955 --> 00:09:29,755 Speaker 1: paws are raw and bloodied from pacing and jumping and 127 00:09:29,755 --> 00:09:33,795 Speaker 1: trying to get out of her jail. So naturally they 128 00:09:33,835 --> 00:09:36,955 Speaker 1: planned to kill her. Thursday, She's a big, light tan 129 00:09:37,075 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: and brindle dog with an eager, friendly look, and she 130 00:09:39,835 --> 00:09:42,635 Speaker 1: needs either somebody to adopt her or all of us 131 00:09:42,675 --> 00:09:44,755 Speaker 1: to pledge to help a rescue group pull her out 132 00:09:44,795 --> 00:09:48,035 Speaker 1: of there. And don't forget Elaine Boozer's offer to cover 133 00:09:48,235 --> 00:09:51,315 Speaker 1: ordinary expenses for an adopter for a year. You can 134 00:09:51,355 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: find Zenith on my Twitter feeds. Please retweet her and 135 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:58,275 Speaker 1: pledge if you can. I thank you, and Zenith thanks you. 136 00:10:07,715 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 137 00:10:11,355 --> 00:10:14,315 Speaker 1: some prediction. State line, Washington, what do you mean we 138 00:10:14,435 --> 00:10:18,275 Speaker 1: might actually do something to prevent the next coup? I 139 00:10:18,515 --> 00:10:22,875 Speaker 1: expect an omnibus bill will contain priorities both sides want 140 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:27,395 Speaker 1: to see passed into law, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, 141 00:10:27,475 --> 00:10:29,755 Speaker 1: and he says he thinks the omnibus bill will pass. 142 00:10:30,315 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 1: Included among those more funding for Ukraine and the Electoral 143 00:10:35,875 --> 00:10:40,475 Speaker 1: count Act. Dateline Salem. Governor Kate Brown of Oregon last 144 00:10:40,515 --> 00:10:44,395 Speaker 1: night commuted the sentences of the seventeen prisoners remaining on 145 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:47,715 Speaker 1: death row in that state. They will now serve life 146 00:10:47,715 --> 00:10:50,755 Speaker 1: without the chance of parole. She says the death penalty 147 00:10:50,795 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: is immoral as Clarence Darrow once put it at the 148 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:56,515 Speaker 1: state in which I live is not kinder, more humane, 149 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:59,715 Speaker 1: and more considerate than the mad act of these two boys, 150 00:11:00,115 --> 00:11:02,995 Speaker 1: the murderers, Leopold and Loebe. I am sorry, I have 151 00:11:03,115 --> 00:11:07,275 Speaker 1: lived so long and dateline San Antonio. A drag Queen 152 00:11:07,395 --> 00:11:10,875 Speaker 1: Christmas went on as scheduled at the Aztec Theater last night. 153 00:11:11,235 --> 00:11:15,555 Speaker 1: Are members of the This Is Texas Freedom Force group 154 00:11:15,595 --> 00:11:18,475 Speaker 1: of fascists showed up, So did two members of the 155 00:11:18,515 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 1: Patriot Front militia, and so did armed groups defending the 156 00:11:23,195 --> 00:11:26,915 Speaker 1: l g B t Q community. First drag performance ever, 157 00:11:26,955 --> 00:11:37,795 Speaker 1: where the real dressing up was on the street outside 158 00:11:44,075 --> 00:11:50,395 Speaker 1: This Is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 159 00:11:51,355 --> 00:11:57,955 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith in sports. The National Basketball Association, 160 00:11:57,995 --> 00:12:00,475 Speaker 1: which has lived in a hybrid world in which some 161 00:12:00,755 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: of its awards, like the Bill Russell All Star Game 162 00:12:03,835 --> 00:12:06,795 Speaker 1: m v P, were named for its most famous players 163 00:12:06,835 --> 00:12:08,995 Speaker 1: of all time but most of them were not named 164 00:12:08,995 --> 00:12:12,915 Speaker 1: for players, has now changed that, but with some problems. 165 00:12:12,955 --> 00:12:15,755 Speaker 1: The m v P will now be the Michael Jordan Trophy, 166 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: Naturally Defensive Player of the Year, achiem La Juan Trophy, 167 00:12:19,795 --> 00:12:23,755 Speaker 1: Okay Clutch Player of the Year, the Jerry West Trophy, 168 00:12:23,795 --> 00:12:27,475 Speaker 1: which is odd given that West's clutch record in the 169 00:12:27,595 --> 00:12:32,715 Speaker 1: NBA Finals was one win and eight losses. Sixth Man 170 00:12:32,755 --> 00:12:36,675 Speaker 1: of the Year the John Habltcheck Trophy also strange because 171 00:12:36,675 --> 00:12:39,115 Speaker 1: not once in his career was John hablet Check less 172 00:12:39,115 --> 00:12:43,075 Speaker 1: than fifth on his team in minutes played. The sixth 173 00:12:43,075 --> 00:12:46,275 Speaker 1: man is supposed to be, you know, like six Rookie 174 00:12:46,275 --> 00:12:48,515 Speaker 1: of the Year the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy, And he did 175 00:12:48,555 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: have a great rookie year. But maybe the Scoring Championship 176 00:12:52,475 --> 00:12:54,475 Speaker 1: Awards should have been named after him. He did win 177 00:12:54,555 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: it seven times, and he once scored a hundred points 178 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: in one game. But the weirdest of them the George 179 00:13:01,115 --> 00:13:05,755 Speaker 1: Mike and Most Improved Trophy. George Mike in was such 180 00:13:05,835 --> 00:13:09,995 Speaker 1: an immediate star, the first truly big man at center. 181 00:13:10,475 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: After just twenty five games as a professional basketball player, 182 00:13:14,235 --> 00:13:17,275 Speaker 1: the owner of his team pulled the franchise out of 183 00:13:17,315 --> 00:13:20,075 Speaker 1: the league in which it played, and he created an 184 00:13:20,235 --> 00:13:24,475 Speaker 1: entire new twenty four team league marketed on the premise 185 00:13:24,675 --> 00:13:27,435 Speaker 1: that only its fans would be able to see Mike 186 00:13:27,555 --> 00:13:32,755 Speaker 1: and play. When exactly did George Mike and Improve? The 187 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:36,515 Speaker 1: NBA awards namings brought back to the four a discussion 188 00:13:36,515 --> 00:13:39,755 Speaker 1: of naming or renaming hockey's awards, which have long and 189 00:13:39,835 --> 00:13:43,875 Speaker 1: famously been named for players or executives. This discussion principally 190 00:13:43,915 --> 00:13:48,155 Speaker 1: centers on the Con Smythe Trophy, given since to the 191 00:13:48,155 --> 00:13:50,915 Speaker 1: most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs and named 192 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:53,355 Speaker 1: for the former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. But 193 00:13:53,515 --> 00:13:57,155 Speaker 1: Smith was a racist who famously kept an African Canadian 194 00:13:57,195 --> 00:14:00,435 Speaker 1: prospect named Herb Carnegie out of the NHL in the 195 00:14:00,475 --> 00:14:04,595 Speaker 1: thirties and forties and infamously mocked him by offering ten 196 00:14:04,795 --> 00:14:10,315 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to anybody who could quote turned Carnegie white unquote. Obviously, 197 00:14:10,355 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: the Smythe Trophy needs to be renamed and before next 198 00:14:14,035 --> 00:14:17,755 Speaker 1: year's playoffs. But once you talk about renaming hockey awards, 199 00:14:18,075 --> 00:14:22,915 Speaker 1: people wanna change all the other awards. Somebody proposed making 200 00:14:22,955 --> 00:14:26,195 Speaker 1: the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals scored in a 201 00:14:26,235 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: season into the Wayne Gretzky Trophy, even though the Rocket 202 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:34,315 Speaker 1: Rochard Trophy was only established in and my friend Jeff Merrick, 203 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:36,795 Speaker 1: one of the boys and girls at Hockey Night in Canada, 204 00:14:37,115 --> 00:14:40,315 Speaker 1: wondered if the Art Ross Trophy for top scorer should 205 00:14:40,395 --> 00:14:44,515 Speaker 1: be renamed given that, well, Art Ross was a defenseman 206 00:14:44,715 --> 00:14:47,995 Speaker 1: who only played in three NHL games in his life 207 00:14:47,995 --> 00:14:52,235 Speaker 1: and only had one goal and no assists. Of course, 208 00:14:52,235 --> 00:14:55,555 Speaker 1: it's the Art Ross Trophy because it was donated by 209 00:14:55,795 --> 00:14:57,755 Speaker 1: Art Ross when he was the general manager of the 210 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:01,675 Speaker 1: Boston Bruins. If that's no longer good enough, donating the 211 00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:04,515 Speaker 1: trophy and naming it after yourself, what do you do with? 212 00:15:05,155 --> 00:15:08,235 Speaker 1: You know that other trophy they give out in hockey, 213 00:15:08,595 --> 00:15:11,875 Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. It is named for Lord Stanley of 214 00:15:11,955 --> 00:15:17,355 Speaker 1: Preston because he bought it and donated it and named it. Plus, 215 00:15:17,395 --> 00:15:20,755 Speaker 1: there is the increasingly difficult reality that Lord Stanley was 216 00:15:20,835 --> 00:15:24,035 Speaker 1: Governor General of Canada when Canada was still a British 217 00:15:24,115 --> 00:15:28,235 Speaker 1: possession and when the government's avowed policy was to dispossess 218 00:15:28,275 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 1: the native populations the First Nations and either put them 219 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:35,915 Speaker 1: on reservations or assimilate them into European culture and generally 220 00:15:35,995 --> 00:15:41,235 Speaker 1: mistreat them. So you want to rename all the hockey trophies, 221 00:15:41,755 --> 00:15:52,235 Speaker 1: don't We kind of have to start with the Stanley Cup. Ahead. 222 00:15:53,315 --> 00:15:56,115 Speaker 1: For an apartment that costs four and eight three dollars 223 00:15:56,155 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: a month, it was pretty nice, especially the view until 224 00:16:00,795 --> 00:16:03,875 Speaker 1: that one night when somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into 225 00:16:03,915 --> 00:16:08,595 Speaker 1: our lobby. Tales of fires at my place coming up 226 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:12,075 Speaker 1: in Fuego. First, the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons 227 00:16:12,115 --> 00:16:17,035 Speaker 1: and Donning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons 228 00:16:17,075 --> 00:16:20,955 Speaker 1: in the world. The Bronze The Wall Street Journal with 229 00:16:21,035 --> 00:16:24,395 Speaker 1: a curious piece about Brittney Griner. Doesn't have anything to 230 00:16:24,515 --> 00:16:26,675 Speaker 1: do with her, really, but it writes that she has 231 00:16:26,675 --> 00:16:30,955 Speaker 1: a quote unprecedented choice how or whether to return to 232 00:16:31,075 --> 00:16:34,515 Speaker 1: basketball after being a prisoner in a Russian jail for 233 00:16:34,595 --> 00:16:39,595 Speaker 1: ten months. Phil Marshall Don was a start, top starting 234 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: pitcher for the Philadelphia A's in ninety one and nineteen 235 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:45,835 Speaker 1: forty two, and then went into the Royal Canadian Air Force, 236 00:16:46,195 --> 00:16:49,155 Speaker 1: served in World War Two, was shot down captured by 237 00:16:49,195 --> 00:16:52,555 Speaker 1: the Germans. It was a pow. He got back to 238 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:55,275 Speaker 1: Canada and the US in late nineteen forty five, and 239 00:16:55,315 --> 00:16:57,675 Speaker 1: he went out and won nineteen games for the Philadelphia 240 00:16:57,715 --> 00:17:00,795 Speaker 1: Is in nineteen forty seven. That's kind of a comeback. 241 00:17:01,555 --> 00:17:04,235 Speaker 1: If that's not quite enough of a tough choice for you, 242 00:17:04,675 --> 00:17:08,475 Speaker 1: it was baronhard Bert Troutman, who was a top amateur 243 00:17:08,515 --> 00:17:11,675 Speaker 1: soccer goalie in Germany. In the late nineteen thirties, he 244 00:17:11,755 --> 00:17:16,235 Speaker 1: became a Nazi paratrooper. He was captured by the Soviets, escaped, 245 00:17:16,675 --> 00:17:20,035 Speaker 1: then the French escaped, then finally the English in nineteen 246 00:17:20,075 --> 00:17:22,315 Speaker 1: forty five. And when the war ended, they offered to 247 00:17:22,355 --> 00:17:25,955 Speaker 1: send him home and he said, uh, no thanks, and 248 00:17:26,035 --> 00:17:30,715 Speaker 1: instead he joined a small professional English soccer team. And 249 00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 1: he was so good as a goalie that in ninety 250 00:17:33,155 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: nine was signed by Manchester City, for whom he was 251 00:17:36,075 --> 00:17:40,595 Speaker 1: the star goaltender until nineteen sixty four. In the country 252 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:45,435 Speaker 1: that captured him during the war. Now that's an unprecedented choice. 253 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 1: The bronze Rudy Giuliani. Rudy has changed the Hunter Biden 254 00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:54,835 Speaker 1: laptop story again. Now he says he had the story, 255 00:17:54,915 --> 00:17:57,915 Speaker 1: or at least most of it, in two thousand nineteen 256 00:17:58,475 --> 00:18:02,715 Speaker 1: and gave the story to Sean Hannity and Mike Pompeo 257 00:18:02,875 --> 00:18:06,155 Speaker 1: and the then Attorney General William Are, but they all 258 00:18:06,395 --> 00:18:10,035 Speaker 1: buried it. Now, apart from the hilarity here this is 259 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:16,595 Speaker 1: would he Woody jiuli Anni versus Sean Hannity. Apart from that, 260 00:18:16,675 --> 00:18:18,875 Speaker 1: if Rudy had the story in two thousand nineteen, and 261 00:18:18,915 --> 00:18:21,355 Speaker 1: The New York Post did not publish it until October. 262 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:24,635 Speaker 1: Why did the Post and the right wing echo chamber 263 00:18:24,715 --> 00:18:28,395 Speaker 1: do such a lousy job of making it look like 264 00:18:28,435 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: it was a story even though it wasn't had all 265 00:18:32,315 --> 00:18:35,155 Speaker 1: that time? Somebody asked the other day, what would happen 266 00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:38,235 Speaker 1: if the story had been about Donald Trump Junior's laptop 267 00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:40,635 Speaker 1: and there was evidence in it that he used crack 268 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: cocaine and might have been guilty of influence peddling. And 269 00:18:43,195 --> 00:18:45,355 Speaker 1: the answer to the cur to me was, I mean, 270 00:18:45,435 --> 00:18:49,315 Speaker 1: just like Junior's Twitter feed and he given Wednesday. But 271 00:18:49,355 --> 00:18:52,795 Speaker 1: our winner is Elon Musk. Do you ever see Steve 272 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:55,475 Speaker 1: Martin when he was still a stand up comic in 273 00:18:55,475 --> 00:18:57,955 Speaker 1: a white suit with an arrow through his head, playing 274 00:18:57,995 --> 00:19:02,315 Speaker 1: a banjo in front of arena crowds. I did Binghamton, 275 00:19:02,355 --> 00:19:06,195 Speaker 1: New York, the Broom County Arena. He was outstanding. I 276 00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:09,595 Speaker 1: surreptitiously recorded it to I'm sorry Steve. He did one 277 00:19:09,635 --> 00:19:12,955 Speaker 1: bit in which he said, you can be a millionaire 278 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:18,435 Speaker 1: and never pay taxes. You can be a millionaire and 279 00:19:18,555 --> 00:19:22,435 Speaker 1: never pay taxes. First get a million dollars, then don't 280 00:19:22,475 --> 00:19:24,955 Speaker 1: pay taxes. And when the I R s comes to 281 00:19:24,995 --> 00:19:27,515 Speaker 1: your house and says you made a million dollars and 282 00:19:27,555 --> 00:19:32,675 Speaker 1: didn't pay taxes. You say two simple words I forgot 283 00:19:34,075 --> 00:19:38,955 Speaker 1: from the New York Times quote to cut costs. Twitter 284 00:19:39,155 --> 00:19:42,715 Speaker 1: has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or 285 00:19:42,795 --> 00:19:46,435 Speaker 1: any of its global offices for weeks, three people close 286 00:19:46,475 --> 00:19:50,635 Speaker 1: to the company said, to which David Corn asks con 287 00:19:50,675 --> 00:19:56,675 Speaker 1: Tesla owners cut costs by refusing to make their car payments. Ellen, first, 288 00:19:56,875 --> 00:20:02,355 Speaker 1: Kanye West, then Sam Bankman freed, then me, you can't 289 00:20:02,355 --> 00:20:07,955 Speaker 1: be a millionaire and never pay Texas musque two days 290 00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:28,995 Speaker 1: worst person in the world to the number one story 291 00:20:29,035 --> 00:20:31,795 Speaker 1: on the Countdown in my favorite topic, me and Things 292 00:20:31,835 --> 00:20:35,155 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell and circumstances the other day 293 00:20:35,195 --> 00:20:38,795 Speaker 1: took me past my first New York City apartment, and 294 00:20:38,915 --> 00:20:42,315 Speaker 1: as always I stood and stared and shook my head, 295 00:20:42,355 --> 00:20:44,995 Speaker 1: and I saw the flames and the glow and the 296 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:50,235 Speaker 1: blackened lobby because one night somebody threw a Molotov cocktail 297 00:20:50,315 --> 00:20:52,835 Speaker 1: into the building in which I had my first New 298 00:20:52,955 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: York City apartment. You can't make memories like that. The 299 00:20:58,595 --> 00:21:02,875 Speaker 1: address was and is two forty East fifty Street, Apartment 300 00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:06,355 Speaker 1: ten f It was two to wars west of Second Avenue, 301 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:09,315 Speaker 1: south side of the street. It was the center apartment 302 00:21:09,315 --> 00:21:10,915 Speaker 1: on the street side of the building, and I was 303 00:21:10,955 --> 00:21:14,675 Speaker 1: directly above the front entrance, and the only thing of 304 00:21:14,755 --> 00:21:18,515 Speaker 1: note in the entire place a full fledged New York 305 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: City apartment canopy. You don't know how valuable this is 306 00:21:23,435 --> 00:21:26,795 Speaker 1: until you have lived somewhere without one. You could get 307 00:21:26,835 --> 00:21:29,435 Speaker 1: out of a cab in a rainstorm and under the 308 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:34,395 Speaker 1: canopy in two seconds and not get drenched. No doorman, 309 00:21:34,995 --> 00:21:38,635 Speaker 1: no amenities, or rather dubious live in super but it 310 00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:44,955 Speaker 1: had that blessed canopy. It figures in this story. I 311 00:21:45,075 --> 00:21:49,075 Speaker 1: moved in June. It was a big studio apartment. The 312 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,195 Speaker 1: view was of a big video warehouse across the street, 313 00:21:52,395 --> 00:21:55,395 Speaker 1: though if you leaned out the westernmost window you could 314 00:21:55,395 --> 00:21:57,715 Speaker 1: see the City Corps Center, which was always an impressive 315 00:21:57,755 --> 00:22:00,675 Speaker 1: site on a foggy night. The neighborhood and the building 316 00:22:00,675 --> 00:22:03,795 Speaker 1: were quiet. A fifteen minute walk from my first job 317 00:22:03,835 --> 00:22:06,515 Speaker 1: and then a five minute walk from my second job. 318 00:22:06,995 --> 00:22:09,795 Speaker 1: When I first rented there, it was are you ready 319 00:22:10,355 --> 00:22:15,755 Speaker 1: four three dollars a month, which sounds unbelievable, but that 320 00:22:15,795 --> 00:22:18,955 Speaker 1: was about a third of my salary at United Press. International, 321 00:22:19,515 --> 00:22:21,835 Speaker 1: and I think when I moved out in it had 322 00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:24,915 Speaker 1: gone up to five dollars a month, and the price 323 00:22:25,035 --> 00:22:27,155 Speaker 1: might have had something to do with the fact that 324 00:22:27,275 --> 00:22:31,675 Speaker 1: one night somebody threw the moltop cocktail into the building. 325 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:35,035 Speaker 1: You know how, once you've been in any place for 326 00:22:35,075 --> 00:22:37,555 Speaker 1: any length of time, you get used to the physics 327 00:22:37,555 --> 00:22:41,555 Speaker 1: of it, not just someplace you live, any place you 328 00:22:41,835 --> 00:22:44,955 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in an office, classroom, a theater, 329 00:22:45,595 --> 00:22:48,835 Speaker 1: or an apartment, you know what it sounds like. You 330 00:22:48,835 --> 00:22:51,075 Speaker 1: know what it feels like in the summer or in 331 00:22:51,075 --> 00:22:54,395 Speaker 1: the winter. You know what it looks like, the building, noise, 332 00:22:54,475 --> 00:22:58,355 Speaker 1: the smells, if it's too hot, too cold, and especially 333 00:22:58,395 --> 00:23:01,235 Speaker 1: and think about this for a section, especially what it 334 00:23:01,275 --> 00:23:04,595 Speaker 1: looks like, just based on the light, what the light 335 00:23:04,835 --> 00:23:08,515 Speaker 1: itself looks like in your apartment. You would know the 336 00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:11,355 Speaker 1: difference in the light if while you were asleep somebody 337 00:23:11,395 --> 00:23:13,715 Speaker 1: knocked you out, kidnapped you and put you in an 338 00:23:13,755 --> 00:23:18,635 Speaker 1: identical apartment but didn't get the light quite right. I 339 00:23:18,675 --> 00:23:20,755 Speaker 1: don't know if there was a day when I could 340 00:23:20,755 --> 00:23:22,715 Speaker 1: have said, this is what the light looks like in 341 00:23:22,795 --> 00:23:25,635 Speaker 1: apartment ten f to forty East fifty fifth Street during 342 00:23:25,635 --> 00:23:28,595 Speaker 1: the snowstorm, or what the light looks like coming in 343 00:23:28,635 --> 00:23:30,635 Speaker 1: through the shades at eight in the morning or eight 344 00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: at night. But it probably didn't take long. June was 345 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:36,675 Speaker 1: when I moved in. I bet I knew the various 346 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:39,995 Speaker 1: lights of the place. By September it was a good price. 347 00:23:40,115 --> 00:23:43,475 Speaker 1: It wasn't that bigger place, So by New Year's nineteen 348 00:23:43,555 --> 00:23:48,675 Speaker 1: eighty three, I knew it instinctively, exactly reflexively. I would 349 00:23:48,715 --> 00:23:51,435 Speaker 1: go to bed in the southeast corner of my apartment, 350 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:55,035 Speaker 1: get in sleeping north south, but with my head at 351 00:23:55,035 --> 00:23:57,395 Speaker 1: the south end, and as I lay on my back, 352 00:23:57,435 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: I could look out the windows and see the faint 353 00:23:59,635 --> 00:24:02,995 Speaker 1: orange glow from a couple of street lights that shone 354 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:06,315 Speaker 1: through the four windows that and two on either side 355 00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:08,995 Speaker 1: of a kind of small picture window in the middle 356 00:24:09,035 --> 00:24:11,875 Speaker 1: that did not open. The light would be brightest from 357 00:24:11,875 --> 00:24:14,155 Speaker 1: the window on the far right, the one closest to 358 00:24:14,235 --> 00:24:20,315 Speaker 1: Second Avenue. So as Sunday, January nine three turned into Monday, 359 00:24:20,395 --> 00:24:24,315 Speaker 1: January Tree, I hit the sack around midnight. Because I 360 00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:26,835 Speaker 1: actually had one of those rare nine to five jobs 361 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:30,195 Speaker 1: in television. I was a field reporter for CNN. I 362 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:32,315 Speaker 1: shut off the light on the night stand. I laid 363 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:34,915 Speaker 1: down on my back, stared out my right hand window, 364 00:24:35,235 --> 00:24:39,955 Speaker 1: and immediately thought, by the light is slightly more orange 365 00:24:40,035 --> 00:24:42,395 Speaker 1: than it should be, isn't it? What the hells are 366 00:24:42,475 --> 00:24:45,355 Speaker 1: on out there? I'm guessing it was no more than 367 00:24:45,635 --> 00:24:49,235 Speaker 1: five or ten percent different from usual. But as I've 368 00:24:49,235 --> 00:24:51,195 Speaker 1: gone to such lengths to point out, if you see 369 00:24:51,235 --> 00:24:55,075 Speaker 1: the same light through the same window in all conceivable 370 00:24:55,075 --> 00:24:59,155 Speaker 1: conditions almost every night for more than two years, five 371 00:24:59,235 --> 00:25:03,035 Speaker 1: or ten percent different is a lot of different. I think. 372 00:25:03,075 --> 00:25:04,835 Speaker 1: I lay there trying to figure it out for a 373 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: minute or so when I realized, say, it's now ten 374 00:25:08,915 --> 00:25:15,075 Speaker 1: or fifteen percent different, it's getting more different. I got 375 00:25:15,115 --> 00:25:16,835 Speaker 1: up and went to the window and rolled up the 376 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:19,715 Speaker 1: shade and looked down to the canopy ten flows floors below, 377 00:25:19,955 --> 00:25:22,715 Speaker 1: and I must say, to my credit, I quickly discerned 378 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:27,875 Speaker 1: that the canopy was on fire. I reacted as almost 379 00:25:27,995 --> 00:25:31,835 Speaker 1: everybody does, matter of fact. We're thinking, maybe even saying 380 00:25:31,835 --> 00:25:36,235 Speaker 1: out loud, hey, the canopy is on fire, and then 381 00:25:36,275 --> 00:25:39,155 Speaker 1: registering that the fire had already burned through the building 382 00:25:39,235 --> 00:25:42,395 Speaker 1: end of the canopy and was moving quickly towards the street, 383 00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:46,075 Speaker 1: suggesting again, I must say, I figured this out for myself, 384 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:50,635 Speaker 1: suggesting that there was probably a fire in the lobby 385 00:25:50,675 --> 00:25:56,075 Speaker 1: of the building. It was burning out towards the street. Well. 386 00:25:56,115 --> 00:26:00,235 Speaker 1: I felt clever, Then I felt something else. I put 387 00:26:00,235 --> 00:26:02,995 Speaker 1: a robe on over my pajamas, I put on some shoes, 388 00:26:03,035 --> 00:26:06,195 Speaker 1: I grabbed my wallet and keys, and ventured into the hallway. 389 00:26:06,235 --> 00:26:09,875 Speaker 1: No smell of smoke good sign. The two elevators were 390 00:26:09,875 --> 00:26:12,315 Speaker 1: staring me in the face. I knew better than to 391 00:26:12,435 --> 00:26:15,955 Speaker 1: try them. I opened the stairwell, and that's when I 392 00:26:15,995 --> 00:26:20,995 Speaker 1: smelled the smoke. Faint, but it was there. I went 393 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:24,435 Speaker 1: down two floors, and the smell became stronger and stronger. 394 00:26:24,475 --> 00:26:26,995 Speaker 1: So I went back up. I went back into my apartment. 395 00:26:27,195 --> 00:26:29,235 Speaker 1: I did not really know what I was going to 396 00:26:29,275 --> 00:26:35,195 Speaker 1: do next. Ten floors. Need was to say was not jumpable. 397 00:26:35,715 --> 00:26:38,955 Speaker 1: Even when I was less than twenty four years old, 398 00:26:38,995 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: I would not have made that jump. There was no 399 00:26:41,955 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: fire escape. That's what the stairwells were for. And even 400 00:26:45,275 --> 00:26:48,235 Speaker 1: if I went down the elevator or the stairwell or 401 00:26:48,235 --> 00:26:50,795 Speaker 1: the side of the damn building, I would wind up, 402 00:26:51,435 --> 00:26:53,595 Speaker 1: you know, right in the middle of the fire in 403 00:26:53,635 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: the lobby. For a few seconds, I really did not 404 00:26:57,235 --> 00:26:59,675 Speaker 1: know what to do next, Me, the grandson of a 405 00:26:59,715 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: man who was not only a firefighter, but who was 406 00:27:02,395 --> 00:27:04,755 Speaker 1: the guy who drove the hook and ladder for a 407 00:27:04,795 --> 00:27:10,915 Speaker 1: fire company irony. That is, when a blessed sound appeared 408 00:27:10,955 --> 00:27:14,875 Speaker 1: around the corner fire engines that broke me out of 409 00:27:14,915 --> 00:27:19,995 Speaker 1: self absorption and cheered me considerably. They parked right near 410 00:27:19,995 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: where that convenient canopy used to be, but was now 411 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:26,755 Speaker 1: pretty much a charred hunk of the metal framing and 412 00:27:26,795 --> 00:27:30,795 Speaker 1: a little burned fabric left over. I'm sure you've seen 413 00:27:30,955 --> 00:27:34,435 Speaker 1: a fire. Maybe you've seen firefighters arrive at one and 414 00:27:34,475 --> 00:27:37,635 Speaker 1: get going with amazing speed. But there is something different 415 00:27:38,075 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 1: in seeing all that from the vantage point of being 416 00:27:40,715 --> 00:27:45,715 Speaker 1: above the fire. First there is an extraordinary amount of water, 417 00:27:46,315 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: and then a lot of smoke, and then an almost 418 00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:52,995 Speaker 1: unstoppable instinct to say cool. And then you go and 419 00:27:53,115 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: check the stairwell again and joyfully inhale the smell of 420 00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:58,555 Speaker 1: stuff that had been on fire but was now just 421 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:04,675 Speaker 1: inundated with water. I waited until after they left before 422 00:28:04,555 --> 00:28:06,995 Speaker 1: I decided to go back to my bed. I did 423 00:28:07,035 --> 00:28:10,315 Speaker 1: not feel the need to add to whatever loud chaos 424 00:28:10,435 --> 00:28:14,155 Speaker 1: was unfolding in our lobby, nor to get any details 425 00:28:14,235 --> 00:28:18,075 Speaker 1: about the fire, other than the most important one. It's out. 426 00:28:19,435 --> 00:28:22,955 Speaker 1: But in the morning I had to go to work anyway, 427 00:28:23,075 --> 00:28:26,035 Speaker 1: and so I saw the elevator door open onto the 428 00:28:26,075 --> 00:28:29,035 Speaker 1: little linoleum covered landing in the lobby, and I saw 429 00:28:29,115 --> 00:28:32,395 Speaker 1: that everything else in the lobby except that linoleum landing 430 00:28:32,675 --> 00:28:36,715 Speaker 1: was jet black. They were still hosing some of it down. 431 00:28:37,715 --> 00:28:41,235 Speaker 1: They were pulling up burned carpet. They were already installing 432 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:44,275 Speaker 1: new windows and doors and carting away what was left 433 00:28:44,315 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: of the canopy. And it was evident that nothing else 434 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:52,235 Speaker 1: in the building had burned, nothing but the canopy and 435 00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:58,035 Speaker 1: about the lobby. In the days and weeks to come, 436 00:28:58,635 --> 00:29:01,995 Speaker 1: the other residents, knowing I worked in news, clued me 437 00:29:02,075 --> 00:29:04,115 Speaker 1: in on the rumors and asked me to check them out. 438 00:29:04,755 --> 00:29:08,035 Speaker 1: There was a dispute involving the owner. There was something 439 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:10,435 Speaker 1: about a woman. No, there was nothing about a woman. 440 00:29:10,955 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: But all of them, every story included the obvious somebody 441 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:20,995 Speaker 1: had thrown a Molotov cocktail into or against our front door. 442 00:29:22,035 --> 00:29:26,555 Speaker 1: That was not spontaneous combustion. Canopies just don't suddenly have, 443 00:29:27,075 --> 00:29:31,155 Speaker 1: you know, electrical fires. And then there was the best 444 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:34,635 Speaker 1: of the stories borne out or at least lent plausibility 445 00:29:34,675 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: by the rapidity with which the firefighters arrived, which thinking 446 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: back on it was no more than three or four 447 00:29:41,355 --> 00:29:45,875 Speaker 1: minutes tops after I first saw the extra rang glow. 448 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:49,915 Speaker 1: The best of all the stories was that the fire 449 00:29:49,995 --> 00:29:54,835 Speaker 1: department had been called by somebody before anybody in the 450 00:29:54,915 --> 00:29:59,515 Speaker 1: building had called. The implication was somebody called in a 451 00:29:59,635 --> 00:30:04,795 Speaker 1: fire at two Street and then went over there and 452 00:30:04,915 --> 00:30:11,115 Speaker 1: started a fire to For forty years I have been 453 00:30:11,195 --> 00:30:15,355 Speaker 1: unable to find the truth. The fire, doing superficial but 454 00:30:15,435 --> 00:30:18,595 Speaker 1: ultimately not serious damage, did not make any of the 455 00:30:18,595 --> 00:30:22,155 Speaker 1: New York newspapers. Hell that year, I took a subway 456 00:30:22,155 --> 00:30:23,555 Speaker 1: to work in the morning and there was a guy 457 00:30:23,595 --> 00:30:26,435 Speaker 1: sprawled over three seats. And when I went home that night, 458 00:30:26,475 --> 00:30:28,795 Speaker 1: I happen to get on the exact same train car 459 00:30:29,155 --> 00:30:31,955 Speaker 1: and there was the exact same guy sprawled over the 460 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:36,075 Speaker 1: exact same three seats because he was dead. And that 461 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:38,595 Speaker 1: didn't make any of the New York newspapers either. We 462 00:30:38,835 --> 00:30:42,275 Speaker 1: old time New Yorkers, we lived on the edge, baby 463 00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:49,835 Speaker 1: headless body in topless bar era folks. All I know 464 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:52,955 Speaker 1: is that within weeks a doorman was hired. His name 465 00:30:52,995 --> 00:30:55,795 Speaker 1: was Gene and He was still there as of two 466 00:30:55,795 --> 00:30:59,875 Speaker 1: thousand two, and then the building suddenly went co op. 467 00:31:00,555 --> 00:31:03,035 Speaker 1: All of us renters were offered the chance to buy 468 00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:07,635 Speaker 1: our apartments. I wondered if that had something to do 469 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:10,955 Speaker 1: with the Molotov cocktail. In any event, I did not 470 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:13,235 Speaker 1: want to take out a loan. I expected to be 471 00:31:13,275 --> 00:31:15,595 Speaker 1: moving to Boston within the year, and I kept thinking 472 00:31:15,635 --> 00:31:18,915 Speaker 1: about that Molotov cocktail. So I turned down my little 473 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:22,475 Speaker 1: apartment at the price of once again, I asked, are 474 00:31:22,515 --> 00:31:29,275 Speaker 1: you ready thirty six thousand five dollars, because yeah, there 475 00:31:29,395 --> 00:31:35,035 Speaker 1: was a fire and loan and Boston. But ultimately I 476 00:31:35,075 --> 00:31:38,475 Speaker 1: turned it down even just to have kept it as 477 00:31:38,515 --> 00:31:42,435 Speaker 1: a storage unit, because when it comes to investments, as 478 00:31:42,475 --> 00:32:01,835 Speaker 1: previously annotated here, I'm a moron. I've done all the 479 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,155 Speaker 1: damage I can do here, including to my investment portfolio. 480 00:32:06,195 --> 00:32:08,435 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. If you're not following or subscribed 481 00:32:08,555 --> 00:32:10,595 Speaker 1: or whatever, please do so and stop a passer by 482 00:32:10,635 --> 00:32:12,875 Speaker 1: on the street and get them to subscribe or whatever too. 483 00:32:14,955 --> 00:32:17,115 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 484 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: theme here from Beethoven's Ninth Arrange, produced and performed by 485 00:32:20,275 --> 00:32:22,235 Speaker 1: John Philip s Chanelle and Brian Ray. They are the 486 00:32:22,235 --> 00:32:26,675 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, 487 00:32:26,915 --> 00:32:29,715 Speaker 1: guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, produced by T 488 00:32:29,835 --> 00:32:33,475 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 489 00:32:33,515 --> 00:32:37,155 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns allowed. The sports music is the 490 00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:40,435 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two. It was written by Mitch 491 00:32:40,475 --> 00:32:44,475 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments from Nancy 492 00:32:44,515 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: Fauch's the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today 493 00:32:48,155 --> 00:32:52,035 Speaker 1: from our vast roster of celebrity announcers was Kenny Maine. 494 00:32:52,475 --> 00:32:56,035 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. So let's countdown 495 00:32:56,035 --> 00:32:58,795 Speaker 1: for this, the seven and eighth day since Donald Trump's 496 00:32:58,795 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 497 00:33:02,195 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: United States. Arrest him now while we still can more, 498 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: countdown tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith all Reman. 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