1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Dementia. 2 00:00:21,435 --> 00:00:25,355 Speaker 1: J Trump is, as noted by the ineccable Scott McFarlane 3 00:00:25,395 --> 00:00:31,915 Speaker 1: of CBS News, now the oldest presidential nominee in American history. 4 00:00:32,595 --> 00:00:36,155 Speaker 1: The flag bearer of the Republican Party. By the way, 5 00:00:36,155 --> 00:00:39,395 Speaker 1: the flag now depicts the late Great Hannibal Elector failing 6 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:41,835 Speaker 1: to get away from a shark, one of them shark 7 00:00:41,955 --> 00:00:46,675 Speaker 1: NATO type flying sharks, because it's cloudy, so Hannibal Lecter's 8 00:00:46,715 --> 00:00:51,075 Speaker 1: electric tank doesn't work. The flag bearer of the Republican 9 00:00:51,075 --> 00:00:55,675 Speaker 1: Party is now older than was Ronald Reagan the day 10 00:00:56,075 --> 00:01:01,435 Speaker 1: he left the presidency with dementia. On the other hand, 11 00:01:02,235 --> 00:01:05,835 Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States crossed one thousand 12 00:01:05,995 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: pledged delegates early yesterday afternoon and should have the requisite 13 00:01:09,835 --> 00:01:11,955 Speaker 1: one thousand, nine hundred and eighty six of them by 14 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:17,915 Speaker 1: tonight tomorrow. Sure. As to fundraising, Vice President Harris raised 15 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:21,035 Speaker 1: eighty one million dollars in the first twenty four hours 16 00:01:21,155 --> 00:01:26,675 Speaker 1: of her presidential campaign, an all time record. Act Blue, 17 00:01:26,875 --> 00:01:31,515 Speaker 1: the grassroots fundraising organization for all Democratic candidates, raised ninety 18 00:01:31,835 --> 00:01:35,795 Speaker 1: million dollars in the same twenty four hours. Future forward, 19 00:01:36,115 --> 00:01:40,955 Speaker 1: the flagship super pack with a good relationship with President 20 00:01:40,995 --> 00:01:43,635 Speaker 1: Biden got one hundred and fifty million dollars in new 21 00:01:43,635 --> 00:01:47,955 Speaker 1: commitments from major Democratic donors in the same twenty four hours. 22 00:01:48,235 --> 00:01:51,195 Speaker 1: There had already been a quarter of a billion in 23 00:01:51,235 --> 00:01:55,675 Speaker 1: the Democratic kitty. That was at four pm yesterday. There 24 00:01:55,755 --> 00:02:00,675 Speaker 1: is a six hundred million dollar anti Trump war chest. 25 00:02:02,315 --> 00:02:05,435 Speaker 1: Was a six hundred million dollar anti Trump war chess 26 00:02:05,475 --> 00:02:12,555 Speaker 1: probably higher by now, and also by now it's eleventy billion. 27 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:16,595 Speaker 1: We are beginning to get the first real time post 28 00:02:16,675 --> 00:02:21,915 Speaker 1: Biden withdrawal polling Morning consult showing most Democratic voters think 29 00:02:22,035 --> 00:02:25,555 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has the best chance in victory in November 30 00:02:25,915 --> 00:02:30,075 Speaker 1: and are rallying behind her. They conducted a survey entirely 31 00:02:30,235 --> 00:02:33,555 Speaker 1: after the announcement on Sunday, showing the President's decision to 32 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:37,115 Speaker 1: end his campaign and endorse the vice president is popular 33 00:02:37,155 --> 00:02:41,075 Speaker 1: with voters, could lead to an enthusiasm boost among Democrats. 34 00:02:41,475 --> 00:02:45,155 Speaker 1: You think as the majority of the electorate, as they 35 00:02:45,195 --> 00:02:49,315 Speaker 1: phrase it, appears comfortable with him completing his term. Among 36 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:54,515 Speaker 1: ten potential replacements for Biden, Harris performs best against Trump. 37 00:02:55,995 --> 00:03:00,475 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris starts her race down forty seven forty five 38 00:03:00,515 --> 00:03:02,515 Speaker 1: to Trump. And oh, by the way, Joe Manchin, who's 39 00:03:02,555 --> 00:03:05,395 Speaker 1: on this list, suddenly said, ah, oh no, I'm not 40 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:08,475 Speaker 1: going to run for the Democratic nomination after all, when 41 00:03:08,555 --> 00:03:12,795 Speaker 1: somebody reminded him that he had made a big deal 42 00:03:12,955 --> 00:03:17,555 Speaker 1: of no longer being a registered Democrat. Sorry, senator, we're 43 00:03:17,595 --> 00:03:20,275 Speaker 1: out of the blanks. We don't have anymore. You'll just 44 00:03:20,315 --> 00:03:25,395 Speaker 1: have to stay whatever. It is a horror of the 45 00:03:25,395 --> 00:03:29,355 Speaker 1: coal mining industry. I suppose that's your title. The numbers 46 00:03:29,355 --> 00:03:32,315 Speaker 1: for morning consults, and some of these poll numbers are 47 00:03:32,435 --> 00:03:37,195 Speaker 1: literally from yesterday. The generic Democrat would be trailing Trump 48 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:40,875 Speaker 1: forty six forty five. Kamala Harris, as I said, starts 49 00:03:41,275 --> 00:03:43,995 Speaker 1: down forty seven to forty five. Poodha Jeedge would be 50 00:03:43,995 --> 00:03:46,875 Speaker 1: down forty six thirty nine, Newsom down forty seven to 51 00:03:46,915 --> 00:03:51,035 Speaker 1: thirty nine, Whitner forty seven thirty nine. We can forget mansion, 52 00:03:51,475 --> 00:03:55,275 Speaker 1: Andy Basher forty six thirty seven, forty six thirty seven. 53 00:03:55,315 --> 00:03:58,875 Speaker 1: Also for Josh Shapiro forty six thirty six, for Pritzker, 54 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:02,555 Speaker 1: and Cooper wes Moore down forty seven to thirty five. 55 00:04:03,755 --> 00:04:05,795 Speaker 1: They don't list Mark Kelly, who was getting a lot 56 00:04:05,835 --> 00:04:11,515 Speaker 1: of buzz for vice president because astronaut? Why not moderate? 57 00:04:11,875 --> 00:04:17,715 Speaker 1: Why not? Bald white guy? Why not? And and this 58 00:04:17,795 --> 00:04:21,435 Speaker 1: cannot be discounted in terms of importance, the husband of 59 00:04:21,515 --> 00:04:26,115 Speaker 1: Gabby Gifferts, who is still an extraordinary figure within the 60 00:04:26,155 --> 00:04:32,035 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. As to endorsements, No, the Obamas haven't endorsed 61 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:34,835 Speaker 1: anybody because they don't want this to be seen as 62 00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:39,755 Speaker 1: a coordinated attempt to crown Kamala Harris, even though let's 63 00:04:39,755 --> 00:04:41,955 Speaker 1: see what time is it now, she could be crowned 64 00:04:41,955 --> 00:04:46,755 Speaker 1: as early as tonight. Whitmer, who already said she would 65 00:04:46,835 --> 00:04:50,395 Speaker 1: not stand for Biden's role in the ticket if he 66 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:54,395 Speaker 1: gave it back, is co chairing the Harris campaign. Shapiro 67 00:04:54,475 --> 00:04:56,875 Speaker 1: has endorsed her, Wes Moore has endorsed her. The President 68 00:04:56,915 --> 00:05:00,275 Speaker 1: has endorsed her. John Fetterman endorsed her. Wait, wasn't John 69 00:05:00,315 --> 00:05:02,995 Speaker 1: Fetterman mocking everybody who's trying to talk to president into 70 00:05:02,995 --> 00:05:06,395 Speaker 1: standing aside? Of course he was. He knew what was 71 00:05:06,475 --> 00:05:10,595 Speaker 1: going on. We've all known what was going on, except 72 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:14,275 Speaker 1: for everybody who demanded that Biden recues in February or March, 73 00:05:15,715 --> 00:05:18,715 Speaker 1: when all it could have done by demanding that was 74 00:05:19,115 --> 00:05:21,315 Speaker 1: and all that it did do by demanding that was 75 00:05:21,555 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: make him and those around him more stubborn and dig 76 00:05:25,395 --> 00:05:30,195 Speaker 1: in deeper, which is exactly what happened. You do, what 77 00:05:30,235 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: Fetterman did. You support the candidate, You let behind the scenes, 78 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:37,755 Speaker 1: stay behind the scenes until the last possible minute, and 79 00:05:37,795 --> 00:05:42,835 Speaker 1: when it changes, you support the new candidate. And we 80 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:46,235 Speaker 1: all knew that if the President did not wrap this 81 00:05:46,395 --> 00:05:49,435 Speaker 1: up by the end of this past weekend, the figure 82 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: leading the charge to get him to leave on his own, 83 00:05:52,635 --> 00:05:55,475 Speaker 1: and he left on his own, would go public. And 84 00:05:55,515 --> 00:05:59,715 Speaker 1: the figure was Nancy Pelosi. So what pops up in 85 00:05:59,755 --> 00:06:03,275 Speaker 1: the media now from Politico? Senior Biden aids were bracing 86 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:07,435 Speaker 1: for former House Speaker Nancy, who'd worked behind the scenes 87 00:06:07,475 --> 00:06:09,875 Speaker 1: to encourage others in the party towards the kind of 88 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:12,195 Speaker 1: collective action that might finally push the president to end 89 00:06:12,195 --> 00:06:17,875 Speaker 1: his campaign, to go public this week and possibly even 90 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:24,475 Speaker 1: disclosed Democratic polling, clarifying Biden's dire political straits. No kidding, 91 00:06:24,515 --> 00:06:28,515 Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of that quote. Nancy made clear that 92 00:06:28,555 --> 00:06:31,915 Speaker 1: they could do this the easy way. You're the hard way, 93 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,995 Speaker 1: said one Democrat familiar with private conversations who was granted 94 00:06:36,035 --> 00:06:39,115 Speaker 1: anonymity to speak candidly, because we here at Politico have 95 00:06:39,275 --> 00:06:42,395 Speaker 1: no idea what we're doing. She gave them three weeks 96 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:46,155 Speaker 1: of the easy way. It was about to be the 97 00:06:46,235 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: hard way. Again. I don't claim prescients on these things. 98 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:55,355 Speaker 1: I called for him at the last possible moment to 99 00:06:55,555 --> 00:07:00,115 Speaker 1: leave the presidential slot on the ticket last Friday, because 100 00:07:00,155 --> 00:07:03,635 Speaker 1: if he didn't, they'd go public this week. And here 101 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:07,515 Speaker 1: it is. Oh, by the way, polling, you say. When 102 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:10,875 Speaker 1: the campaign commissioned new battleground polling over the last week, 103 00:07:10,915 --> 00:07:13,355 Speaker 1: it was the first time they had done surveys in 104 00:07:13,435 --> 00:07:16,155 Speaker 1: some key states in more than two months. According to 105 00:07:16,155 --> 00:07:19,195 Speaker 1: people familiar with the surveys, that's the old what is 106 00:07:19,235 --> 00:07:21,395 Speaker 1: that thing growing on my arm? Whatever you do, don't 107 00:07:21,395 --> 00:07:26,355 Speaker 1: get it checked out. And the numbers were grim, showing 108 00:07:26,395 --> 00:07:29,275 Speaker 1: Biden not just trailing in all six critical swing states, 109 00:07:29,275 --> 00:07:32,795 Speaker 1: but collapsing in places like Virginia and New Mexico where 110 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: Democrats had not planned on needing to spend massive resources 111 00:07:36,795 --> 00:07:41,875 Speaker 1: to win. Well, that's now over with, and the big winners, 112 00:07:41,955 --> 00:07:44,955 Speaker 1: of course are the pollsters, because now we're going to 113 00:07:44,995 --> 00:07:47,955 Speaker 1: need a whole new set of polls, particularly in the 114 00:07:47,995 --> 00:07:52,315 Speaker 1: swing states, where as I pointed out, last week one 115 00:07:52,395 --> 00:07:56,115 Speaker 1: of the groups pushing to get Joe Biden to stand down, 116 00:07:56,195 --> 00:07:58,715 Speaker 1: as he did, and we will build statues to him 117 00:07:58,915 --> 00:08:00,835 Speaker 1: for doing this, and I will talk about this later 118 00:08:00,915 --> 00:08:04,235 Speaker 1: in the week, in particular about the future of Joe 119 00:08:04,235 --> 00:08:08,475 Speaker 1: Biden as the elder statesman of the Democratic Party in 120 00:08:08,515 --> 00:08:11,515 Speaker 1: a way that might have been achieved by Franklin Delano 121 00:08:11,635 --> 00:08:18,835 Speaker 1: Roosevelt if he had lived. One of those surveys suggested 122 00:08:18,875 --> 00:08:22,155 Speaker 1: that the swing in the Swing States to the generic 123 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:25,635 Speaker 1: younger qualified Democrat could be from down five and a 124 00:08:25,715 --> 00:08:32,195 Speaker 1: half to plus seven and change, almost a thirteen point swing. 125 00:08:32,555 --> 00:08:34,915 Speaker 1: It will not be that much, because, as we pointed 126 00:08:34,915 --> 00:08:39,515 Speaker 1: out before, the generic invisible Democrat or the generic invisible 127 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:43,515 Speaker 1: Republican always does better than the real life ones. Still, 128 00:08:43,955 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: how much do you need it to swing in the 129 00:08:46,035 --> 00:08:49,915 Speaker 1: Swing States? Half a point victory in the Swing States 130 00:08:50,075 --> 00:08:55,955 Speaker 1: would be a blowout. Also, after all this, you know 131 00:08:55,995 --> 00:08:58,795 Speaker 1: who else has endorsed the Vice president from her candidacy 132 00:08:58,915 --> 00:09:01,715 Speaker 1: for the first getting the Democratic nomination and then for 133 00:09:01,755 --> 00:09:05,675 Speaker 1: President the United States. Oh, look at this, Nancy Pelosi. 134 00:09:06,075 --> 00:09:33,755 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi endorsed here too. What a shot. The best part, 135 00:09:34,715 --> 00:09:37,995 Speaker 1: the best part of all of this, the third best 136 00:09:37,995 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: part of this a part of the whole. Oh, now 137 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:43,955 Speaker 1: we have a chance of saving democracy. And hey, guess what, 138 00:09:44,795 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is the other candidate. That means Trump is 139 00:09:47,315 --> 00:09:53,315 Speaker 1: now old, owns all the old and the too old 140 00:09:53,435 --> 00:09:55,915 Speaker 1: and the too crazy. And Trump now owns all the 141 00:09:55,955 --> 00:10:00,795 Speaker 1: parsing of his words. And suddenly all of these experts 142 00:10:00,835 --> 00:10:05,115 Speaker 1: on unintelligible presidential candidates will have to cover Trump and 143 00:10:05,155 --> 00:10:14,075 Speaker 1: he's old, old, old and crazy. But besides that, the 144 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: Republicans have fulfilled the old joke about the dog catching 145 00:10:17,275 --> 00:10:22,995 Speaker 1: the car. What are you gonna do now? Well, Trump 146 00:10:23,035 --> 00:10:27,195 Speaker 1: has his standard answer already. He wants to talk to 147 00:10:27,235 --> 00:10:30,875 Speaker 1: the Manager of Elections and he's going to sue him. 148 00:10:31,555 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: You're not allowed to do this because he says so, 149 00:10:34,795 --> 00:10:39,955 Speaker 1: because he's a psychopath and he's a hitler. So we 150 00:10:40,035 --> 00:10:42,795 Speaker 1: are forced to spend time and money on fighting Joe Biden. 151 00:10:42,835 --> 00:10:45,435 Speaker 1: He pulls badly after having a terrible debate and quits 152 00:10:45,475 --> 00:10:47,755 Speaker 1: the race. Now we have to start all over again. 153 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:51,515 Speaker 1: Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud? And that 154 00:10:51,595 --> 00:10:54,835 Speaker 1: everybody around Joe, including his doctors in the fake news media, 155 00:10:55,035 --> 00:10:58,155 Speaker 1: knew he was not capable of running for or being president. 156 00:10:58,595 --> 00:11:03,075 Speaker 1: Just asking question mark number one. If you're saying, just 157 00:11:03,235 --> 00:11:08,275 Speaker 1: asking the question mark renders it meaningless. Secondly, I have 158 00:11:08,395 --> 00:11:15,675 Speaker 1: some change here somewhere. Wait here we go. There's fifty 159 00:11:15,715 --> 00:11:18,675 Speaker 1: cents that reimburses you for all the money you spent 160 00:11:19,675 --> 00:11:23,515 Speaker 1: on your clothes. He wants reimbursement. Who do you want 161 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:28,235 Speaker 1: the reimbursement from? Shit haes? Who is it you're expecting 162 00:11:28,235 --> 00:11:35,635 Speaker 1: the reimbursement from. Oh wait, you're gonna sue. You're gonna 163 00:11:35,635 --> 00:11:39,635 Speaker 1: sue the Republicans. You're gonna sue Jesus. You're gonna sue Biden. 164 00:11:39,755 --> 00:11:44,595 Speaker 1: You're gonna sue each state. You're gonna sue, sue studio? 165 00:11:44,995 --> 00:11:48,435 Speaker 1: What are you going too? Who are you going to sue? 166 00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:53,755 Speaker 1: The best part of this is Trump had moments of lucidity. 167 00:11:53,795 --> 00:12:00,715 Speaker 1: They're gone now. Somehow he really didn't think Biden would 168 00:12:00,715 --> 00:12:05,475 Speaker 1: step aside, and certainly he had no plan in the 169 00:12:05,515 --> 00:12:08,315 Speaker 1: event this actually happened. Now you can argue that he's 170 00:12:08,355 --> 00:12:11,395 Speaker 1: had no plan since about nineteen ninety and he's just 171 00:12:11,435 --> 00:12:14,115 Speaker 1: been making this crap up as he goes along, And 172 00:12:14,355 --> 00:12:16,395 Speaker 1: unlike most of us who try to live that way, 173 00:12:16,715 --> 00:12:20,115 Speaker 1: he's just hit it correctly by accident. And then one 174 00:12:20,235 --> 00:12:23,875 Speaker 1: day you run out of good accidents, and that day 175 00:12:24,995 --> 00:12:29,595 Speaker 1: was Sunday. My debate with Crooked Joe Biden, the worst 176 00:12:29,635 --> 00:12:31,715 Speaker 1: President in the history of the United States, was slated 177 00:12:31,715 --> 00:12:34,755 Speaker 1: to be broadcast on fake news ABC, the Home of 178 00:12:34,835 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: George and he's misspelled Stephanopolis sometime in September. Now that 179 00:12:39,315 --> 00:12:42,595 Speaker 1: Joe has not surprisingly quit the race, but you're suing 180 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:44,875 Speaker 1: to stop him from quitting the brace. You want money 181 00:12:44,875 --> 00:12:47,955 Speaker 1: for this. I think the debate with whomever the radical 182 00:12:48,035 --> 00:12:50,835 Speaker 1: left Democrats choose should be held on Fox News rather 183 00:12:50,875 --> 00:12:55,635 Speaker 1: than very biased ABC. Thank you, Sure, we'll move it. 184 00:12:55,635 --> 00:12:59,355 Speaker 1: It's his way at bargaining out of the debate. He 185 00:12:59,395 --> 00:13:02,515 Speaker 1: will not take the stage against Kamala Harris because if 186 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:05,275 Speaker 1: he took the stage against Kamala Harris, they would, at 187 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:06,995 Speaker 1: the end of the debate have to go out and 188 00:13:07,035 --> 00:13:15,155 Speaker 1: collect Trump with spoons and a terreen fellon Republican Party 189 00:13:15,755 --> 00:13:20,555 Speaker 1: prosecutor Democratic Party. Joe just got knocked out, So now 190 00:13:20,595 --> 00:13:24,795 Speaker 1: I'll have to do it a fourth time. That the 191 00:13:25,675 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 1: fourth time is that Egene Carroll Biden is the worse 192 00:13:33,675 --> 00:13:35,395 Speaker 1: president by far in the history of our nation. He's 193 00:13:35,395 --> 00:13:37,355 Speaker 1: done everything possible to destroy our country. A little bit 194 00:13:37,355 --> 00:13:40,915 Speaker 1: of a national security with sharks, Hannibal elector annihilated an 195 00:13:40,915 --> 00:13:44,075 Speaker 1: earth shattering debate. Now the corrupt radical throwing him overboard, 196 00:13:44,275 --> 00:13:47,315 Speaker 1: not fit to serve. Whatever the left picks up now 197 00:13:47,355 --> 00:13:50,115 Speaker 1: will be just moorake America great again. Yeah, that was 198 00:13:50,155 --> 00:13:52,155 Speaker 1: before it became obvious that it's going to be Harris. 199 00:13:52,355 --> 00:13:55,315 Speaker 1: The Democrats pick a candidate, he loses the debate badly, 200 00:13:55,355 --> 00:13:58,115 Speaker 1: then panics makes mistake after mistake, is told he can't win, 201 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:01,075 Speaker 1: and decide they'll pick another candidate, probably Harris. They stole 202 00:14:01,115 --> 00:14:03,435 Speaker 1: the race from Biden after he wanted in the primaries 203 00:14:03,435 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: of first These people are the real threat to democracy. 204 00:14:11,795 --> 00:14:15,395 Speaker 1: The logical failures in this statement are so many that 205 00:14:15,955 --> 00:14:17,955 Speaker 1: even though we're on the Internet, I literally do not 206 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: have enough infinity to explain this to him. Plus he 207 00:14:22,755 --> 00:14:25,195 Speaker 1: had already moved on. Who is running our country right now? 208 00:14:25,195 --> 00:14:27,675 Speaker 1: It's not crooked Joe has no idea where he is. 209 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:30,915 Speaker 1: If he can't run for office, he can't run our country. Okay, 210 00:14:30,955 --> 00:14:32,395 Speaker 1: So let me put it to you this way. Would 211 00:14:32,435 --> 00:14:36,875 Speaker 1: you like to run against President Kamala Harris? I didn't 212 00:14:36,915 --> 00:14:40,035 Speaker 1: think so. Genius. Biden never had COVID. He's a threat 213 00:14:40,075 --> 00:14:43,275 Speaker 1: to democracy. Ooh, he caught threat to democracy disease? Did 214 00:14:43,315 --> 00:14:46,315 Speaker 1: he tested positive for that? You know how you get 215 00:14:46,355 --> 00:14:49,315 Speaker 1: rid of that? You shove bleach up your ass and 216 00:14:49,395 --> 00:14:54,835 Speaker 1: a light. Trump tries it weekly. It's not over tomorrow. 217 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:56,835 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's going to wake up and forget that. He 218 00:14:56,875 --> 00:15:00,315 Speaker 1: dropped out of the race today. Ha ha. Don made 219 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:03,475 Speaker 1: a funny. The Democrats guess what it is over? The 220 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:06,755 Speaker 1: Democrats pick a cand he loses the debate. Oh, I 221 00:15:06,835 --> 00:15:11,635 Speaker 1: read that twice. I'm turning into Trump now, just watching 222 00:15:11,635 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: the fake news and they're doing their very best to 223 00:15:13,555 --> 00:15:15,395 Speaker 1: turn the worst president the history of our country into 224 00:15:15,395 --> 00:15:19,155 Speaker 1: a brilliant and heroic leader. He was heroic because he quit. Yes, 225 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:23,475 Speaker 1: he was heroic because he quit. You might learn something 226 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,035 Speaker 1: from that if you had been capable of learning at 227 00:15:26,075 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 1: any date later than say June first, nineteen fifty seven, 228 00:15:30,515 --> 00:15:35,355 Speaker 1: mister dementia. And to turn dumb as Iraq Kamala Harris 229 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:37,555 Speaker 1: once again. If she's dumb as I rock, you should 230 00:15:37,595 --> 00:15:40,115 Speaker 1: be able to debate her on I don't know Kamala 231 00:15:40,155 --> 00:15:42,155 Speaker 1: Harris TV and beat the hell out of her shouldn't 232 00:15:42,155 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: you from a totally failed and insignificant vice president. Okay, 233 00:15:48,315 --> 00:15:51,875 Speaker 1: you tried to kill your vice president. Any vice president 234 00:15:51,875 --> 00:15:55,075 Speaker 1: who survived their term without the president trying to kill 235 00:15:55,115 --> 00:16:01,235 Speaker 1: them is automatically not insignificant and not totally failed. Dondie. No, 236 00:16:01,355 --> 00:16:04,075 Speaker 1: it just doesn't work that way. Yes it does. You're 237 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:07,715 Speaker 1: about to fight. Here's my advice. You have plenty of time. 238 00:16:07,795 --> 00:16:11,715 Speaker 1: Now you're going to lose the election. Now, flee because 239 00:16:11,755 --> 00:16:16,075 Speaker 1: if you don't flee, you're gonna die in prison. And 240 00:16:16,155 --> 00:16:21,355 Speaker 1: here's a prediction. He's going to use a racial epithet 241 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:28,475 Speaker 1: about the future president of the United States before the 242 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:31,195 Speaker 1: end of the month, maybe the end of the week. 243 00:16:31,835 --> 00:16:35,075 Speaker 1: Isn't he isn't the crazy old man yelling at the 244 00:16:35,115 --> 00:16:41,515 Speaker 1: cloud and they are talking about suing. I swear to Jesus. 245 00:16:42,475 --> 00:16:46,355 Speaker 1: Listen to Mike Johnson speaking of swearing at Jesus. Trump 246 00:16:46,635 --> 00:16:50,235 Speaker 1: fobbed this. You can't change nominees even though the nomination 247 00:16:50,355 --> 00:16:54,155 Speaker 1: isn't legal for another month. Nuisance suit. He's put this 248 00:16:54,275 --> 00:16:59,515 Speaker 1: all on poor dumb speaker Mike Johnson, who also insists 249 00:16:59,515 --> 00:17:01,355 Speaker 1: that if Joe Biden is going to leave the ticket, 250 00:17:02,075 --> 00:17:04,075 Speaker 1: which they're not going to let him do by the 251 00:17:04,155 --> 00:17:06,555 Speaker 1: lawsuits that he mentions at the beginning of this, he 252 00:17:06,635 --> 00:17:09,435 Speaker 1: must resign the presidency, which they will force him to 253 00:17:09,475 --> 00:17:18,435 Speaker 1: do because because because something about Hannibal elector Sharks. You said, 254 00:17:18,475 --> 00:17:20,915 Speaker 1: you mean Seuer in all fifty states? What are you 255 00:17:20,955 --> 00:17:22,475 Speaker 1: alleging at the breaking. 256 00:17:22,395 --> 00:17:24,635 Speaker 2: I never said I was going to sueer. I said 257 00:17:24,635 --> 00:17:27,795 Speaker 2: that we have fifty different systems in each of the 258 00:17:27,835 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 2: states when it comes to presidential elections and choosing electors. 259 00:17:31,155 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 1: And all the rest. 260 00:17:31,875 --> 00:17:33,995 Speaker 2: And in some of the states there are impediments to 261 00:17:34,075 --> 00:17:37,155 Speaker 2: just switching someone out like that, and I have suggested 262 00:17:37,155 --> 00:17:40,355 Speaker 2: that the president should resign. The reason is if everyone 263 00:17:40,355 --> 00:17:44,275 Speaker 2: acknowledges that he is incapable of running a campaign, then 264 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:46,875 Speaker 2: he's clearly incapable of running the country. 265 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:49,195 Speaker 1: I'd like to point out that if inability to run 266 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:53,795 Speaker 1: a campaign disqualifies you from being president, well, look, Trump 267 00:17:53,875 --> 00:17:57,235 Speaker 1: became the first incumbent president to lose his campaign to 268 00:17:57,315 --> 00:18:01,635 Speaker 1: keep the White House in twenty eight years, and he lost. 269 00:18:01,955 --> 00:18:04,595 Speaker 1: We tend to forget this. He lost both of his 270 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:08,235 Speaker 1: at least two coups, and he lost the midterms in 271 00:18:08,235 --> 00:18:11,355 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and they underperformed in the mid terms in 272 00:18:11,355 --> 00:18:15,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Trump is like one for six in campaigns. 273 00:18:15,915 --> 00:18:19,595 Speaker 1: That makes him ineligible to be president, doesn't it Ah, 274 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:23,915 Speaker 1: But in terms of eligibility, Mike Johnson is an idiot. 275 00:18:24,675 --> 00:18:28,555 Speaker 1: If Biden were to resign, retire, and Harris were to 276 00:18:28,595 --> 00:18:32,475 Speaker 1: become president, well we know House Republicans will never approve 277 00:18:32,515 --> 00:18:35,275 Speaker 1: a new vice president nominated via the twenty fifth Amendment. 278 00:18:35,555 --> 00:18:42,155 Speaker 1: Less Trump Junior, So golly speaker Mike Johnson, who would 279 00:18:42,195 --> 00:18:45,355 Speaker 1: be next in line to the presidency under President Harris 280 00:18:45,355 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: if there's no VP. Wait, speaker Mike Johnson. That's Speaker 281 00:18:52,475 --> 00:18:55,355 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson's name. Speaker Mike Johnson would be next in 282 00:18:55,395 --> 00:18:59,475 Speaker 1: line under President Harris if there's no vice president. I mean, 283 00:18:59,515 --> 00:19:02,435 Speaker 1: what a coincidence that is. And he's arguing for Biden 284 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:11,235 Speaker 1: to resign. What a shock. I know. I thought this 285 00:19:11,475 --> 00:19:17,755 Speaker 1: was going to be Taylor Swift sue somebody, Mike sue 286 00:19:18,315 --> 00:19:30,875 Speaker 1: sue studio. We're a little ragged today. I don't know 287 00:19:30,915 --> 00:19:32,795 Speaker 1: if the show will end up being too long or 288 00:19:32,835 --> 00:19:35,915 Speaker 1: too short, as I will explain in depth much later, 289 00:19:36,035 --> 00:19:38,795 Speaker 1: and as you may have seen in social media, my 290 00:19:38,915 --> 00:19:42,675 Speaker 1: beloved rescue dog Mine who turned seventeen, a week ago. 291 00:19:42,755 --> 00:19:49,035 Speaker 1: Yesterday died on Sunday. It's never a happy story. This 292 00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:51,395 Speaker 1: was happier than most. I'll tell it to you later, 293 00:19:51,435 --> 00:19:53,835 Speaker 1: but forgive me for being a little all over the 294 00:19:53,835 --> 00:19:59,355 Speaker 1: place and a couple of bloopers and mistakes. I called 295 00:19:59,395 --> 00:20:01,275 Speaker 1: Trump something earlier in the show, and I don't even 296 00:20:01,275 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: know what I said. Warren Bobert. I demand proof of 297 00:20:04,515 --> 00:20:07,235 Speaker 1: low from Joe Biden today by five pm. He needs 298 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:08,995 Speaker 1: to get in front of some camera and discuss if 299 00:20:08,995 --> 00:20:12,635 Speaker 1: he's aware that he's dropped out. Hiding is completely unacceptable. Listen, lady, 300 00:20:13,675 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: don't get near the subject of videos of proof of life. 301 00:20:21,035 --> 00:20:25,275 Speaker 1: Because the last video we saw of you in a 302 00:20:25,315 --> 00:20:29,475 Speaker 1: theater in the dark, sitting next to some guy on 303 00:20:29,515 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: the first date giving him the old five finger discount. 304 00:20:34,435 --> 00:20:39,675 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I understand you have the IQ of the 305 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:43,035 Speaker 1: printer that prints out my script. Maybe a little less, 306 00:20:45,355 --> 00:20:51,595 Speaker 1: but certainly you should never mention videos or proof of 307 00:20:51,635 --> 00:20:57,235 Speaker 1: life videos, or I demand ever again. Joe Biden is 308 00:20:57,315 --> 00:21:00,035 Speaker 1: unfit to stand trial. Joe Biden is unfit to debate. 309 00:21:00,195 --> 00:21:02,875 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is unfit to run for reelection. But Joe 310 00:21:02,915 --> 00:21:04,915 Speaker 1: Biden is fit to serve out the remainder of his ter. 311 00:21:05,235 --> 00:21:08,435 Speaker 1: Make it make sense. I tried to Lauren Bobert, but 312 00:21:08,515 --> 00:21:12,915 Speaker 1: you have the IQ of my printer on a good day. 313 00:21:13,595 --> 00:21:16,995 Speaker 1: A few other notes. Sean Hannity also didn't see this coming. 314 00:21:17,275 --> 00:21:19,355 Speaker 1: I mean, honest to god, these are the people who 315 00:21:19,395 --> 00:21:21,995 Speaker 1: are running that half of the country, and they did 316 00:21:22,035 --> 00:21:25,875 Speaker 1: not foresee the actual prospect after calling for Joe Biden 317 00:21:26,115 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: to leave the campaign, of Joe Biden actually leaving the campaign. 318 00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:33,675 Speaker 1: It's all so performative that they have built into their 319 00:21:33,715 --> 00:21:36,475 Speaker 1: own minds the idea that none of it will ever happen, 320 00:21:36,475 --> 00:21:39,555 Speaker 1: and therefore they can say anything because they know well. 321 00:21:39,635 --> 00:21:41,915 Speaker 1: I know it was irresponsible and it started a war, 322 00:21:42,155 --> 00:21:44,835 Speaker 1: but I didn't think anybody would actually do it. We're 323 00:21:44,875 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: just entertainment here. Now it happens. Sean Hannity's Scotch squirted 324 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:53,915 Speaker 1: out his nose. Here's just one reason vote ashamed to 325 00:21:53,955 --> 00:21:58,035 Speaker 1: detest Kamala Harris. Plays a bunch of clips of Kamala 326 00:21:58,075 --> 00:22:03,195 Speaker 1: Harris laughing. Number one, it's a great laugh. Number two. 327 00:22:03,355 --> 00:22:06,755 Speaker 1: It only dawned on me when I saw this. Trump 328 00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:15,155 Speaker 1: doesn't laugh at all. He tries to get you to 329 00:22:15,315 --> 00:22:20,875 Speaker 1: laugh at disabled people at foreigners, at people of color, 330 00:22:21,355 --> 00:22:24,515 Speaker 1: at the people who harvest your food and cook it 331 00:22:24,555 --> 00:22:29,475 Speaker 1: for you, the people who serve you at the West 332 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:36,395 Speaker 1: Moron Cowboy Bootstore in West Moron, Oklahoma. He likes to 333 00:22:36,435 --> 00:22:39,715 Speaker 1: make fun of all of them. He likes you to laugh. 334 00:22:40,595 --> 00:22:42,515 Speaker 1: Have you ever heard him laugh? And by the way, 335 00:22:43,035 --> 00:22:46,835 Speaker 1: name me another human who has not lost the ability 336 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:52,835 Speaker 1: to vocalize who does not laugh at all. Here's josh 337 00:22:52,875 --> 00:22:57,715 Speaker 1: one reason voters seemed to detach Kamala Harrish. By the way, yes, 338 00:22:57,795 --> 00:22:59,795 Speaker 1: my Sean had any impression for those of you who 339 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:03,195 Speaker 1: remember SportsCenter, is the same as my old Phil Rizuto impression. 340 00:23:03,435 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: Fail razudo for the straw. And I'll defend the late 341 00:23:08,475 --> 00:23:11,035 Speaker 1: Phil Risuto. The last time I saw him before he 342 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:14,355 Speaker 1: passed away, obviously, he was giving me points on how 343 00:23:14,355 --> 00:23:15,835 Speaker 1: to crumple up the piece of paper at the end 344 00:23:15,875 --> 00:23:18,035 Speaker 1: of the show and get a better grip, because Phil 345 00:23:18,115 --> 00:23:21,435 Speaker 1: Risuto watched Countdown every night. And I had known Phil 346 00:23:21,475 --> 00:23:26,555 Speaker 1: Rizzuto since nineteen sixty eight. And I said, Phil, you're 347 00:23:26,595 --> 00:23:33,475 Speaker 1: a liberal, and he went, sh don't tell anybody. Also 348 00:23:33,515 --> 00:23:37,795 Speaker 1: from Hannity, she wants to ban plastic straws. I love 349 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:41,435 Speaker 1: my plastic straws. I hate paper straws. You use straws 350 00:23:41,475 --> 00:23:47,635 Speaker 1: with your whiskey. He's literally grasping at straws. The entire 351 00:23:47,635 --> 00:23:53,395 Speaker 1: Republican Party is so destroyed by this. Everything was built 352 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:55,595 Speaker 1: on the idea they're running against Joe Biden. Joe Biden 353 00:23:55,635 --> 00:23:57,875 Speaker 1: is old. Joe Biden is the only person in America 354 00:23:57,955 --> 00:24:00,355 Speaker 1: older than Donald Trump. He may be the only person 355 00:24:00,435 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: who's less capable in a public setting of guaranteeing that 356 00:24:04,515 --> 00:24:06,355 Speaker 1: he's going to say what he intends to say. Then 357 00:24:06,395 --> 00:24:08,675 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, And now all of a sudden, the field 358 00:24:08,795 --> 00:24:13,995 Speaker 1: is cleared. There's nothing else standing out there propping Trump up. 359 00:24:14,515 --> 00:24:19,515 Speaker 1: His crazy is on stage by itself. It's the hamlet 360 00:24:19,595 --> 00:24:24,555 Speaker 1: of crazy in the soliloquy to be or Hannibal elector 361 00:24:27,275 --> 00:24:31,715 Speaker 1: a couple of other items. Washington Post. Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 362 00:24:32,435 --> 00:24:35,595 Speaker 1: I'm saying this, not them, solicited a bribe in the 363 00:24:35,595 --> 00:24:40,035 Speaker 1: form of a job from Trump. Independent presidential candidate Robert 364 00:24:40,075 --> 00:24:43,395 Speaker 1: Woo Whoo. F. Kennedy Junior held talks this month with 365 00:24:43,435 --> 00:24:49,355 Speaker 1: former President DONALDO. Trump about endorsing his campaign. Kennedy endorsing 366 00:24:49,515 --> 00:24:53,355 Speaker 1: Trump's campaign, bad sentence Tructure Post and taking a job 367 00:24:53,395 --> 00:24:56,755 Speaker 1: in a second Trump administration, that'll be the one in 368 00:24:56,795 --> 00:25:01,195 Speaker 1: hell overseeing a portfolio of health and medical issues. Well, 369 00:25:01,235 --> 00:25:03,875 Speaker 1: if there's anybody who's going to bring health and medical 370 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:08,995 Speaker 1: issues to this team, it's Trump and Kennedy. The discussions 371 00:25:09,035 --> 00:25:11,835 Speaker 1: which began hours after the attempted assassination of Trump at 372 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:16,355 Speaker 1: a rally on July thirteenth. Hey, my running mate whose 373 00:25:16,435 --> 00:25:20,435 Speaker 1: name I've forgotten, has disappeared. Uh, Trump's not dead. Call him. 374 00:25:21,155 --> 00:25:23,675 Speaker 1: This did not result in an agreement, amid concerns in 375 00:25:23,715 --> 00:25:26,555 Speaker 1: Trump's orbit about the complications of promising a job in 376 00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:30,395 Speaker 1: exchange for a political endorsement when usually they just operate 377 00:25:30,435 --> 00:25:32,955 Speaker 1: with money. Oh no, that's not in the post. I 378 00:25:33,035 --> 00:25:35,915 Speaker 1: said that. All I will say to you is, I'm 379 00:25:35,955 --> 00:25:38,155 Speaker 1: willing to talk to anybody from either political party who 380 00:25:38,195 --> 00:25:40,515 Speaker 1: wants to talk about children's health and how to end 381 00:25:40,515 --> 00:25:44,675 Speaker 1: the chronic disease epidemic, Kennedy said Monday in a bullshit statement. 382 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: Oh no, I said that, to adding, the Trump has 383 00:25:48,315 --> 00:25:50,835 Speaker 1: been more open to him than the Democratic National Committee. 384 00:25:50,835 --> 00:25:55,875 Speaker 1: That's because the DNC recognizes you're crazy. You're committable, Bob, 385 00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:00,675 Speaker 1: as an old friend of yours, honest to god, go 386 00:26:00,795 --> 00:26:06,555 Speaker 1: into a voluntarily induced coma. You'll do the least damage 387 00:26:06,595 --> 00:26:09,475 Speaker 1: that way, pop back up around November sixth. The rest 388 00:26:09,515 --> 00:26:14,555 Speaker 1: will do you good. They've dellocated millions to try to 389 00:26:14,555 --> 00:26:16,955 Speaker 1: disrupt my campaign. Yeah, and they just raised another three 390 00:26:17,035 --> 00:26:19,955 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars since Sunday, So your campaign is going 391 00:26:20,035 --> 00:26:26,395 Speaker 1: to get disrupted. Guess what has gotten buried by all 392 00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:30,835 Speaker 1: of this stuff. Did you see the statement by ex 393 00:26:30,995 --> 00:26:35,915 Speaker 1: doctor Ronnie Jackson about the bullet. We still do not 394 00:26:36,235 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: have anything resembling confirmation that what hit Trump's ear and 395 00:26:43,235 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: caused the loss of well over a tenth of an 396 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:55,395 Speaker 1: ounce of blood, that that was a bullet that grazed 397 00:26:55,475 --> 00:26:59,195 Speaker 1: him miraculously instead of, you know, at least taking the 398 00:26:59,275 --> 00:27:06,075 Speaker 1: ear off, possibly leaving some sort of trace, or if 399 00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:08,675 Speaker 1: it really was a bullet even though there were no 400 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:11,635 Speaker 1: bullets around him and the four cops from Pittsburgh who 401 00:27:11,675 --> 00:27:15,035 Speaker 1: were standing nearby just got hit by pieces of plastic. 402 00:27:20,435 --> 00:27:23,475 Speaker 1: Josh Marshall noted something of importance which I think is 403 00:27:23,515 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: as relevant as the fact that Trump is still lying 404 00:27:26,475 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: about the bullet. Whatever the truth is he's not telling 405 00:27:29,835 --> 00:27:32,635 Speaker 1: it could be there's a bullet, as I suggested, who 406 00:27:32,715 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: knows maybe the bullet had a picture of Trump on it, 407 00:27:35,995 --> 00:27:39,155 Speaker 1: Literally the bullet with your name on it, Josh Marshall noted, 408 00:27:39,195 --> 00:27:42,155 Speaker 1: as I alluded to earlier, it was learned today that 409 00:27:42,235 --> 00:27:46,115 Speaker 1: top decision makers at major news organizations seem to assume 410 00:27:46,155 --> 00:27:50,155 Speaker 1: that Trump's bullet story is just his personal opinion, and 411 00:27:50,235 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: they've been unwilling to ask for more information because they 412 00:27:53,475 --> 00:27:57,035 Speaker 1: don't think it matters that much, and they fear that 413 00:27:57,115 --> 00:27:59,755 Speaker 1: if they press for any details or some official word 414 00:27:59,835 --> 00:28:04,395 Speaker 1: beyond what a Trump decided on his own, there'd be retribution. 415 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:10,875 Speaker 1: That's journalism. Well, we can't ask them about a basic 416 00:28:10,955 --> 00:28:13,515 Speaker 1: element of human history. I mean, this is going to 417 00:28:13,555 --> 00:28:15,675 Speaker 1: go in the books as an assassination attempt. It turns 418 00:28:15,715 --> 00:28:18,475 Speaker 1: out he got hit in the ear with a really 419 00:28:18,595 --> 00:28:28,235 Speaker 1: old piece of roll up bubble gum. Couple more. It's 420 00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:33,835 Speaker 1: not over on election day, said Chris Losovita, who is 421 00:28:33,915 --> 00:28:37,635 Speaker 1: essentially running or co running the Trump campaign, in an 422 00:28:37,635 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: event at the convention. Remember the Republicans at the convention. 423 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:45,395 Speaker 1: Do you know they nominated the jd vance? Jd vance 424 00:28:45,795 --> 00:28:48,235 Speaker 1: You ever seen the original version of the movie Be Dazzled? 425 00:28:48,555 --> 00:28:53,795 Speaker 1: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Peter cook sings a song 426 00:28:53,835 --> 00:28:58,915 Speaker 1: with the priceless line you fill me with inertia jd Vance. 427 00:29:00,075 --> 00:29:04,075 Speaker 1: Of all of these Republicans who are willing to say 428 00:29:04,195 --> 00:29:09,035 Speaker 1: and do anything to get elected, they found somebody who 429 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:13,915 Speaker 1: was the dullest and least convincing of the apocalyptic preachers. 430 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:19,515 Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Johnson is an enthusiastic lunatic compared to this. 431 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:24,555 Speaker 1: I mean, check him for a pulse. He makes Mike 432 00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:30,075 Speaker 1: Pence look like a male stripper. It's not over on 433 00:29:30,155 --> 00:29:35,675 Speaker 1: election day, it's over on inauguration day, says Chris Lasovito. 434 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:39,915 Speaker 1: We're in conversation with politicost Jonathan Martin. Two things about this. 435 00:29:40,555 --> 00:29:43,275 Speaker 1: It's not over on election day, it's over on inauguration day, 436 00:29:43,475 --> 00:29:48,195 Speaker 1: COO twenty twenty five. Yes, we'll see about that one. 437 00:29:48,755 --> 00:29:51,355 Speaker 1: Because there is one thing that is unavoidably clear at 438 00:29:51,355 --> 00:29:55,995 Speaker 1: this point. The official in charge of certifying the electoral 439 00:29:56,035 --> 00:30:00,955 Speaker 1: College results will be the Democratic president for camp president, 440 00:30:01,395 --> 00:30:04,235 Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee for president, and the vice president of 441 00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:07,995 Speaker 1: the United State States, and the President of the United States, 442 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: and who might be the president elect. They would be 443 00:30:12,155 --> 00:30:17,715 Speaker 1: the ones in charge of the what's the word military. 444 00:30:19,675 --> 00:30:21,795 Speaker 1: By the way, the interview with Chris los Avito of 445 00:30:21,795 --> 00:30:24,555 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign by Jonathan Martin Politico. This was conducted 446 00:30:24,795 --> 00:30:28,715 Speaker 1: before Jonathan Martin went on BBC World News and each 447 00:30:28,795 --> 00:30:34,995 Speaker 1: of his two earbuds popped out, one or another. First, 448 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: I believe the left one just fell out in a 449 00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:40,915 Speaker 1: close up, and then the right one. I tweeted it. 450 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:43,955 Speaker 1: It was like his brain farted twice and out popped 451 00:30:43,995 --> 00:30:47,515 Speaker 1: his earbuds. I think they were earbuds that could have 452 00:30:47,555 --> 00:30:52,235 Speaker 1: been brains. This question was raised, and it does explain 453 00:30:52,275 --> 00:30:55,635 Speaker 1: an awful lot about the entirety of the Trump campaign 454 00:30:55,755 --> 00:30:59,355 Speaker 1: since the day he came down that goddamned escalator. Is 455 00:30:59,395 --> 00:31:03,875 Speaker 1: it possible someone asked that Trump just doesn't know that 456 00:31:03,915 --> 00:31:07,835 Speaker 1: the word is si has two different meanings. Does this 457 00:31:07,955 --> 00:31:13,435 Speaker 1: explain why he thinks political prisoners claiming asylum coming here 458 00:31:13,435 --> 00:31:20,675 Speaker 1: from Venezuela are in fact from insane asylums. Well, it 459 00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:24,675 Speaker 1: is the word asylum. It means just one thing. There's 460 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:28,715 Speaker 1: a law that says words can only mean one thing, right, 461 00:31:29,835 --> 00:31:35,675 Speaker 1: That's why wind power only works when there's wind. So 462 00:31:36,955 --> 00:31:39,235 Speaker 1: things are better than they were last week. I'm claiming 463 00:31:39,275 --> 00:31:42,595 Speaker 1: no credit whatsoever for what happened, except for maybe knowing 464 00:31:42,595 --> 00:31:44,435 Speaker 1: a little bit more of the timing than other people did. 465 00:31:44,475 --> 00:31:46,035 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry I couldn't say anything else, but the 466 00:31:46,075 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: point of it was to wait till Biden was ready, 467 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:51,475 Speaker 1: and we did. And now everybody can go to work 468 00:31:52,195 --> 00:31:54,995 Speaker 1: with a few hundred million dollars that we did not 469 00:31:55,115 --> 00:32:00,235 Speaker 1: have on Sunday morning. And the last thing that I've 470 00:32:00,235 --> 00:32:04,315 Speaker 1: heard repeatedly from friends of mine who are terrified not 471 00:32:04,475 --> 00:32:07,195 Speaker 1: that Kamala Harris would make a great president, not that 472 00:32:07,275 --> 00:32:10,435 Speaker 1: she is not completely qualified for the job, and for 473 00:32:10,515 --> 00:32:15,315 Speaker 1: the race against Trump, for the electoral strains, for everything 474 00:32:15,315 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: else involved in the process, but simply they're worried about America. 475 00:32:19,115 --> 00:32:23,475 Speaker 1: We are misogynistic and we are racist, period. And I 476 00:32:23,555 --> 00:32:27,195 Speaker 1: pointed out that the last four elections were president in 477 00:32:27,235 --> 00:32:31,555 Speaker 1: this country twenty eight, twelve, sixteen, and twenty the following 478 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:34,595 Speaker 1: things happened. In the first one, we elected a president 479 00:32:34,675 --> 00:32:38,915 Speaker 1: who was a man of color. In twenty twelve, we 480 00:32:38,995 --> 00:32:46,275 Speaker 1: re elected him. Twenty sixteen, we did not win anything, 481 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:50,715 Speaker 1: and by we, I mean, you know, democracy and representative government. 482 00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:53,875 Speaker 1: But what happened even in the worst of these and 483 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:57,235 Speaker 1: the most calamitous of them of all time, the woman 484 00:32:57,475 --> 00:33:03,115 Speaker 1: candidate won the popular vote in this society of misogyny 485 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:06,395 Speaker 1: and racism. In the fourth of them, in twenty twenty, 486 00:33:06,915 --> 00:33:09,315 Speaker 1: the very same woman of color we're talking about was 487 00:33:09,355 --> 00:33:12,635 Speaker 1: elected Vice President of the United States, defeating the ticket 488 00:33:12,795 --> 00:33:18,355 Speaker 1: led by a racist incumbent and his vice president, the 489 00:33:18,395 --> 00:33:25,275 Speaker 1: guy he wanted to hang. Now, assume nothing going forward. 490 00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:28,675 Speaker 1: Lots of things could go wrong, lots of people who 491 00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,355 Speaker 1: did not know which was left on their bodies and 492 00:33:31,395 --> 00:33:34,915 Speaker 1: which was right. They have the vote, they found out 493 00:33:34,955 --> 00:33:42,195 Speaker 1: how to vote. Assume nothing, but just rejoice. In terms 494 00:33:42,315 --> 00:33:45,435 Speaker 1: of getting her into the White House, the last four 495 00:33:45,595 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: elections suggest it can be done. Rejoice, excelsior. Also of 496 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:01,115 Speaker 1: interest here, we've only scratched the surface of the stupid 497 00:34:01,155 --> 00:34:06,155 Speaker 1: things that people said about Biden withdrawing Trump. Sure, Mike Johnson, 498 00:34:06,395 --> 00:34:11,875 Speaker 1: you betcha Hannity, of course, But there's also the worst 499 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:14,915 Speaker 1: persons in the world, and they are Brian Stelter, Olivia Newsy, 500 00:34:15,035 --> 00:34:21,475 Speaker 1: Katie Turr, and Aaron Sorkin. Keith Olberman. This is your life, 501 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:26,315 Speaker 1: and I will tell you, as I've mentioned once already, 502 00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:30,395 Speaker 1: the story of the passing of the wonderful pup Mene 503 00:34:31,955 --> 00:34:38,715 Speaker 1: bless him. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown, 504 00:34:38,995 --> 00:35:02,715 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman still ahead of us on this editiontive 505 00:35:02,795 --> 00:35:08,555 Speaker 1: Countdown The Life and of Mine German Olberman, two thousand 506 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:11,995 Speaker 1: and seven, twenty twenty four. Who would, if there were 507 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:16,275 Speaker 1: such a thing, hold world records for all forms of 508 00:35:16,475 --> 00:35:21,515 Speaker 1: precision leaping over crosswalks stripes by any dog over the 509 00:35:21,515 --> 00:35:26,035 Speaker 1: age of fifteen and under ten pounds in weight. Mine 510 00:35:26,315 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: in Memoriam coming up first. There are still more idiots 511 00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:33,315 Speaker 1: to talk about. They never stop, they never take a 512 00:35:33,395 --> 00:35:37,555 Speaker 1: day off. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and 513 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:42,155 Speaker 1: dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 514 00:35:42,195 --> 00:35:48,155 Speaker 1: the world. So many to choose from. Unprecedented events bring 515 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:56,115 Speaker 1: out unprecedented stupidity, the bronze worse. Good old Aaron Sorkin. 516 00:35:57,635 --> 00:36:01,315 Speaker 1: You may ask yourself, what's his newest TV series going 517 00:36:01,355 --> 00:36:03,475 Speaker 1: to be about? Is it going to be about a 518 00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:07,435 Speaker 1: former top sports camp and former top TV political commentator 519 00:36:07,715 --> 00:36:09,875 Speaker 1: doing a podcast? 520 00:36:10,715 --> 00:36:10,915 Speaker 2: No? 521 00:36:13,715 --> 00:36:15,675 Speaker 1: Is it going to be something else for my life? 522 00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:18,875 Speaker 1: Because you know, using two aspects of my career might 523 00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:22,315 Speaker 1: not be sufficient for one lifetime for Aaron and not 524 00:36:22,435 --> 00:36:24,155 Speaker 1: paying me for the second one. When he said he 525 00:36:24,195 --> 00:36:28,755 Speaker 1: was going to no, no, no. This is unrelated to me, 526 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:34,115 Speaker 1: though not unrelated to him. Saturday night Sunday morning, a 527 00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:39,235 Speaker 1: Times op ed appears literally hours before President Biden with 528 00:36:39,355 --> 00:36:43,995 Speaker 1: draws from the race. Aaron Sorkin, how I would script 529 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:48,275 Speaker 1: this moment for Biden and the Democrats. The first nine 530 00:36:48,355 --> 00:36:52,275 Speaker 1: paragraphs are not about Joe Biden, nor about the Democrats. 531 00:36:52,355 --> 00:36:55,155 Speaker 1: They are about well, I'll read you the opening paragraph. 532 00:36:55,155 --> 00:36:58,155 Speaker 1: The Paley Center for Media just opened an exhibition celebrating 533 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:01,515 Speaker 1: the twenty fifth anniversary of The West Wing, the NBC 534 00:37:01,635 --> 00:37:05,395 Speaker 1: series I wrote from nineteen nine sinety nine to two 535 00:37:05,435 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: thousand and three. Some of the show's story points have 536 00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:11,755 Speaker 1: become outdated in the last quarter century. The first five 537 00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:14,635 Speaker 1: minutes of the first episode depended entirely on the audience 538 00:37:14,675 --> 00:37:19,315 Speaker 1: being unfamiliar with the acronym potus, while others turned out 539 00:37:19,315 --> 00:37:25,995 Speaker 1: to be well, not prescient, but sadly coincidental. In paragraph ten, 540 00:37:27,555 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: at their convention next month, the Democrats should nominate met Romney, 541 00:37:35,075 --> 00:37:41,555 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. Hello, nominating mister Romney, continues mister Sorkin, if 542 00:37:41,555 --> 00:37:44,075 Speaker 1: he did write, this would be putting our money where 543 00:37:44,075 --> 00:37:46,995 Speaker 1: our mouth is, a clear and powerful demonstration that This 544 00:37:47,075 --> 00:37:50,915 Speaker 1: election isn't about what our elections are usually about, but 545 00:37:51,035 --> 00:37:55,915 Speaker 1: about stopping a deranged man from taking power. Surely mister Romney, 546 00:37:56,195 --> 00:37:58,475 Speaker 1: who doesn't have to be introduced to voters, would peel 547 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:01,915 Speaker 1: off enough Republican voters to win, probably by a lot. 548 00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:08,395 Speaker 1: It's the shelf life of mushrooms. I don't know this 549 00:38:08,515 --> 00:38:11,115 Speaker 1: off the top of my head, and the day being 550 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:13,715 Speaker 1: what it's been, I haven't had a chance to research this. 551 00:38:13,795 --> 00:38:16,595 Speaker 1: It's two thousand and one that they picked Aaron up 552 00:38:16,635 --> 00:38:19,235 Speaker 1: with the mushrooms and his carry on bag on the flight. 553 00:38:19,675 --> 00:38:22,675 Speaker 1: Was it to Vegas? Was it from Vegas? Did he 554 00:38:22,795 --> 00:38:27,555 Speaker 1: know which? I don't know what to say about this 555 00:38:27,675 --> 00:38:30,635 Speaker 1: idea of nominating Mitt Romney as the Democratic nominee when 556 00:38:30,635 --> 00:38:32,915 Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States is sitting there. 557 00:38:34,835 --> 00:38:36,915 Speaker 1: And it's been clear all along that all of the 558 00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:39,915 Speaker 1: double haters who Sorkin does refer to in his op ed, 559 00:38:40,315 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: all of them were leaning towards Biden anyway, and that 560 00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:48,595 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and we now understand the extent of the 561 00:38:48,635 --> 00:38:53,435 Speaker 1: worries and the angst and the clenched teeth and turned 562 00:38:53,515 --> 00:38:56,515 Speaker 1: stomachs with which even his most ardent supporters have been 563 00:38:56,555 --> 00:39:01,635 Speaker 1: operating the last few months. Even under those circumstances, there 564 00:39:01,675 --> 00:39:06,635 Speaker 1: were paths for Joe Biden to win election. So clearly 565 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:09,915 Speaker 1: the solution is not to take the vice president of 566 00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:13,395 Speaker 1: the United States, who's been vice president of the United States, 567 00:39:13,475 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: just in case something were to happen to the President 568 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:19,595 Speaker 1: of the United States. And here something has happened to 569 00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:21,715 Speaker 1: the President of the United States. He's decided not to 570 00:39:21,795 --> 00:39:26,915 Speaker 1: run for reelection. Who replaces him. It's too bad that 571 00:39:26,955 --> 00:39:30,315 Speaker 1: the Constitution gives us no guidance on how a political 572 00:39:30,355 --> 00:39:33,395 Speaker 1: party should do that, especially why it hasn't officially nominated 573 00:39:33,435 --> 00:39:38,835 Speaker 1: anybody yet. He didn't steal this from Aaron Sorkin, did 574 00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:42,755 Speaker 1: not steal this from me. He stole it from Mike Johnson, 575 00:39:42,795 --> 00:39:44,715 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the latest 576 00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:51,515 Speaker 1: Republican stooge wearing those no I'm straight glasses. All right, 577 00:39:51,635 --> 00:39:53,795 Speaker 1: enough of this. I'd just like to point out once 578 00:39:53,835 --> 00:39:56,235 Speaker 1: again that if you've ever seen The Newsroom, the pilot 579 00:39:56,235 --> 00:39:59,835 Speaker 1: episode is play by play and in some cases word 580 00:39:59,915 --> 00:40:02,715 Speaker 1: for word. What happened to me when Lawrence O'Donnell tried 581 00:40:02,715 --> 00:40:05,675 Speaker 1: to take Countdown away from me while my dad was 582 00:40:05,795 --> 00:40:10,555 Speaker 1: dying in early twenty ten, and if you think that 583 00:40:10,755 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: was a problem, I had a friend who was a 584 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:15,435 Speaker 1: gossip columnist for The New York Post, and she showed 585 00:40:15,475 --> 00:40:18,795 Speaker 1: me where emails that she had sent to Aaron Sorkin 586 00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: while they were dating wound up word for word in 587 00:40:22,435 --> 00:40:27,515 Speaker 1: the script in the mouth of the gossip columnists in 588 00:40:28,155 --> 00:40:31,995 Speaker 1: the Newsroom series. I just want to point one thing 589 00:40:31,995 --> 00:40:36,155 Speaker 1: out about this. Unlike The Newsroom, unlike the previous series 590 00:40:36,195 --> 00:40:39,195 Speaker 1: Sports Night, in which two characters based on me but 591 00:40:39,515 --> 00:40:43,075 Speaker 1: both looked like Craig Kilbourne, he did not borrow this 592 00:40:43,275 --> 00:40:48,075 Speaker 1: idea for me, thank god. I'd also like to emphasize, 593 00:40:48,115 --> 00:40:51,435 Speaker 1: after reading this particular idea that it's ever more clear 594 00:40:52,075 --> 00:40:57,275 Speaker 1: that the West Wings succeeded because of Marty Sheen and 595 00:40:57,475 --> 00:41:00,195 Speaker 1: Brad Whitford and John Spencer, the late John Spencer and 596 00:41:00,315 --> 00:41:05,355 Speaker 1: Janelle Maloney and Alison Janney and Richard Shift and all 597 00:41:05,395 --> 00:41:14,595 Speaker 1: the rest in spite of Aaron Sorkin written entirely by 598 00:41:14,595 --> 00:41:16,675 Speaker 1: Aaron Zorkin, except those parts written by somebody else. The 599 00:41:16,755 --> 00:41:20,635 Speaker 1: runner's up a tie worser. Olivia Newsey of New York 600 00:41:20,675 --> 00:41:25,315 Speaker 1: Magazine and Katie Terror of MSNBC start with Newsy first, 601 00:41:25,515 --> 00:41:27,795 Speaker 1: although I believe she may be now pronouncing her name 602 00:41:27,875 --> 00:41:32,395 Speaker 1: NUTSI or who knows, it's a Tuesday. It could be anything. 603 00:41:32,435 --> 00:41:36,915 Speaker 1: By now. A decade ago, Olivia was the most promising 604 00:41:37,435 --> 00:41:42,675 Speaker 1: young writer in political media, the most promising barely got 605 00:41:42,715 --> 00:41:46,995 Speaker 1: out of high school, thrown out of two colleges, and 606 00:41:47,235 --> 00:41:50,835 Speaker 1: ascended quickly through the ranks to New York Magazine, where 607 00:41:50,835 --> 00:41:54,595 Speaker 1: she has been ever since and is now the world's 608 00:41:54,875 --> 00:42:01,075 Speaker 1: youngest seventy five year old access journalist. For the first time, 609 00:42:02,235 --> 00:42:05,875 Speaker 1: she has actually thought about what it is she is covering. 610 00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:09,595 Speaker 1: This is a person who has gone into the White 611 00:42:09,635 --> 00:42:12,835 Speaker 1: House and asked if Trump was there, and then sat 612 00:42:12,875 --> 00:42:14,955 Speaker 1: down and interviewed him, and never asked him any of 613 00:42:14,955 --> 00:42:17,315 Speaker 1: the questions of the day, but just reported on what 614 00:42:17,475 --> 00:42:23,115 Speaker 1: his desk looked like, the definition of access journalism. But finally, 615 00:42:23,835 --> 00:42:28,315 Speaker 1: with this issue of Biden leaving the ticket and the 616 00:42:28,395 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: election that is upcoming, that is an existential struggle for survival, 617 00:42:32,995 --> 00:42:35,475 Speaker 1: and the reality that I don't know, perhaps has dawned 618 00:42:35,475 --> 00:42:38,235 Speaker 1: on her that they will put her in the camps 619 00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:40,755 Speaker 1: with the rest of us too. No matter how glowingly 620 00:42:41,075 --> 00:42:44,875 Speaker 1: she portrayed Trump's desk, she has for the first time 621 00:42:44,995 --> 00:42:49,235 Speaker 1: thought beyond what a good sentence would look like here 622 00:42:50,515 --> 00:42:53,555 Speaker 1: into the meaning of what she's covered, and she got 623 00:42:53,635 --> 00:42:57,555 Speaker 1: it wrong. The Democratic Party told its voters that they 624 00:42:57,555 --> 00:42:59,795 Speaker 1: could not be trusted to select the nominee when they 625 00:42:59,795 --> 00:43:03,595 Speaker 1: effectively shut down their primary process. Now they're installing the 626 00:43:03,595 --> 00:43:13,435 Speaker 1: new nominee. American voters happened to like Democracy Ivred Dixon backlash. 627 00:43:13,515 --> 00:43:17,155 Speaker 1: Another tweet from the moments right after the big event, 628 00:43:17,995 --> 00:43:21,355 Speaker 1: and if you really have let your idea of what 629 00:43:21,475 --> 00:43:26,635 Speaker 1: reality looks like outside of Washington, d C. If your 630 00:43:26,675 --> 00:43:28,755 Speaker 1: big goal in life is to get mentioned in the 631 00:43:28,955 --> 00:43:34,435 Speaker 1: spotted at portions of the Politico playbook, if your goal 632 00:43:34,475 --> 00:43:37,635 Speaker 1: in life is to get a six part video interview 633 00:43:37,675 --> 00:43:41,035 Speaker 1: series for Bloomberg Online, and one of the guests is 634 00:43:41,195 --> 00:43:45,155 Speaker 1: Eric Adams, who could walk into any station in this 635 00:43:45,315 --> 00:43:49,635 Speaker 1: city and offer himself live to anchor the six o'clock news, 636 00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:52,795 Speaker 1: and all the news directors would go, no, dude, we 637 00:43:52,955 --> 00:43:56,675 Speaker 1: want viewers. We don't want them to go away. If 638 00:43:56,675 --> 00:43:59,875 Speaker 1: that's your goal, the idea should be that if there 639 00:43:59,915 --> 00:44:03,515 Speaker 1: is a big event, shut up, wait twenty four hours 640 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:05,755 Speaker 1: before you write anything, because you're going to write something 641 00:44:05,795 --> 00:44:08,275 Speaker 1: as stupid as the Democratic Party told its voters that 642 00:44:08,275 --> 00:44:10,315 Speaker 1: they couldnot be trusted to select a nominee when they 643 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:14,515 Speaker 1: effectively shut down their primary process. They didn't, that didn't happen. 644 00:44:15,435 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: That didn't happen, And there were other candidates and they 645 00:44:19,035 --> 00:44:21,155 Speaker 1: got the crap kicked out of them. And in one 646 00:44:21,235 --> 00:44:23,675 Speaker 1: case where Biden wasn't on the ballot, he still won 647 00:44:23,715 --> 00:44:27,435 Speaker 1: by right. INDs Now they are installing a new nominee. 648 00:44:27,435 --> 00:44:31,555 Speaker 1: Well they aren't, because the current one stepped away from 649 00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:35,075 Speaker 1: the nomination before he was nominated. American voters happen to 650 00:44:35,115 --> 00:44:37,315 Speaker 1: like democracy. Well, you work in Washington. How on the 651 00:44:37,355 --> 00:44:39,955 Speaker 1: hell would you know that? How would anything you've written 652 00:44:39,955 --> 00:44:42,875 Speaker 1: in the last ten years suggest you know anything about that? 653 00:44:43,435 --> 00:44:50,915 Speaker 1: I predict some backlash. The other tweet read the big 654 00:44:50,995 --> 00:44:54,995 Speaker 1: lesson here bullying works. Oh good god. It's the president 655 00:44:55,035 --> 00:44:57,635 Speaker 1: of the United States. For months and months, people have 656 00:44:57,675 --> 00:45:03,355 Speaker 1: been asking him nicely if he perhaps is not calibrated 657 00:45:03,395 --> 00:45:06,315 Speaker 1: correctly to assess where or not he is healthy enough 658 00:45:06,355 --> 00:45:08,915 Speaker 1: to run for president, or more importantly, to get re 659 00:45:08,955 --> 00:45:12,595 Speaker 1: elected president under these circumstances. And finally, over the weekend, 660 00:45:12,635 --> 00:45:15,955 Speaker 1: he decided, you know what, all of these people are 661 00:45:15,995 --> 00:45:19,715 Speaker 1: probably right. If it's a billion to one. They're probably 662 00:45:19,795 --> 00:45:22,835 Speaker 1: right and I'm wrong. That's not bullying, that's common sense. 663 00:45:22,955 --> 00:45:27,035 Speaker 1: They're going to build a statue to Joe Biden. If 664 00:45:27,035 --> 00:45:29,995 Speaker 1: there's a statue to Olivia Newsy, it will be the 665 00:45:30,035 --> 00:45:37,955 Speaker 1: Scales of Injustice or giant what Aboutism statue. She still 666 00:45:37,995 --> 00:45:41,035 Speaker 1: writes an okay sentence. She has no clue where she is. 667 00:45:42,195 --> 00:45:46,875 Speaker 1: She is on her way to becoming the Chris Solisza 668 00:45:48,115 --> 00:45:52,515 Speaker 1: of Ryan Lizza's of Olivia Newzy's. Oh and by the way, 669 00:45:52,515 --> 00:45:54,075 Speaker 1: that reminds me she has a book coming up with 670 00:45:54,115 --> 00:45:56,555 Speaker 1: her fiance Ryan Liza on Trump. It'll be coming out 671 00:45:56,595 --> 00:46:00,795 Speaker 1: soon in the year twenty twenty. She's tied with Katie Turr. 672 00:46:01,115 --> 00:46:06,675 Speaker 1: That's a coincidence. Someone wrote on Twitter yesterday that actor 673 00:46:06,715 --> 00:46:09,235 Speaker 1: Katie Turr asked this would have been yesterday whether Kamala 674 00:46:09,235 --> 00:46:12,115 Speaker 1: Harris was the kind of person voters would want to 675 00:46:12,115 --> 00:46:15,835 Speaker 1: have a beer with. I'm never watching MSNBC again. I 676 00:46:15,955 --> 00:46:18,275 Speaker 1: want a president who weren't turning our country into a 677 00:46:18,315 --> 00:46:23,515 Speaker 1: fascist Healscape. I'm not looking for a barstool partner. Apart 678 00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:26,915 Speaker 1: from the fact that that question by Urr is right 679 00:46:27,035 --> 00:46:30,315 Speaker 1: out of the two thousand and two thousand and four 680 00:46:30,395 --> 00:46:33,475 Speaker 1: presidential elections, and she hasn't figured it out since then. 681 00:46:33,835 --> 00:46:37,395 Speaker 1: Apart from the stupidity of the question, let's see, the 682 00:46:37,555 --> 00:46:39,875 Speaker 1: entire world is on fire, But would you want to 683 00:46:39,955 --> 00:46:43,675 Speaker 1: have a beer with Kamala Harris? You know what, Kamala 684 00:46:43,715 --> 00:46:46,915 Speaker 1: Harris is a wicked sense of humor and does impersonations 685 00:46:46,955 --> 00:46:49,475 Speaker 1: of senators. I would like to have a beer with 686 00:46:49,555 --> 00:46:54,355 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. How's that for an answer, Katie. Apart from that, though, 687 00:46:54,955 --> 00:46:57,995 Speaker 1: as a political barometer, whether or not you'd like to 688 00:46:58,035 --> 00:47:00,635 Speaker 1: have a beer with that candidate or the candidate would 689 00:47:00,675 --> 00:47:03,555 Speaker 1: like to have a beer with you is particularly irrelevant 690 00:47:03,555 --> 00:47:06,555 Speaker 1: and stupid because Donald Trump, for all the other things 691 00:47:06,595 --> 00:47:10,915 Speaker 1: he does, does not drink. I mean, we're beginning to 692 00:47:10,915 --> 00:47:14,555 Speaker 1: get reason to believe, with the constant references to Hannibal Lecter, 693 00:47:14,795 --> 00:47:18,235 Speaker 1: that there's a small chance that Donald Trump has eaten 694 00:47:18,315 --> 00:47:21,515 Speaker 1: human flash at some point in his life. He keeps 695 00:47:21,555 --> 00:47:24,595 Speaker 1: talking about it, and yet even knowing that is a 696 00:47:24,635 --> 00:47:27,515 Speaker 1: small possibility, and I'm saying one one millionth of one 697 00:47:27,635 --> 00:47:31,395 Speaker 1: percent chance that he's been a cannibal. That he calls 698 00:47:31,475 --> 00:47:34,435 Speaker 1: him good Old or the late great Hannibal Lecter, that 699 00:47:34,515 --> 00:47:37,435 Speaker 1: there's a reason for that, somewhere in that mice or 700 00:47:37,515 --> 00:47:39,835 Speaker 1: loose they got out of the wheel inside his brain. 701 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:43,515 Speaker 1: Brain of his just accepting that as a one to 702 00:47:43,515 --> 00:47:48,675 Speaker 1: one millionth of a percent possibility, Donald Trump cannibalism. Even then, 703 00:47:49,115 --> 00:47:51,915 Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not drink. He cannot have a beer 704 00:47:51,995 --> 00:47:58,435 Speaker 1: with you. I will again ask, plead that Katie Turr 705 00:47:58,835 --> 00:48:06,035 Speaker 1: withdraw from the twenty twenty four presidential campaign. Wherever there's 706 00:48:06,075 --> 00:48:09,995 Speaker 1: still somebody who has top these three nominees, our winner, 707 00:48:10,315 --> 00:48:17,995 Speaker 1: the gold medalist, Brian Stelter network whereabouts unknown, no one, 708 00:48:18,595 --> 00:48:22,955 Speaker 1: not Terr, not Solissa, not Liza. Without this, not Newsy, 709 00:48:23,395 --> 00:48:28,755 Speaker 1: not Nutsy, not Nuzzy could have written this literally, I 710 00:48:28,875 --> 00:48:33,915 Speaker 1: believe twelve minutes after Biden with Drew. I expected that 711 00:48:33,995 --> 00:48:37,075 Speaker 1: Biden with pathide, but I never imagined that he would 712 00:48:37,075 --> 00:48:39,915 Speaker 1: do it by a paper statement on a Sunday afternoon. 713 00:48:40,675 --> 00:48:45,315 Speaker 1: Does this timing and format make anyfense. Brian kind of 714 00:48:45,355 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 1: got ratioed on this. And here's the issue, President of 715 00:48:50,395 --> 00:48:56,595 Speaker 1: the United States becoming an eternal hero with one decision. Yes, 716 00:48:57,075 --> 00:48:58,955 Speaker 1: it took him months to do it. He had to 717 00:48:58,995 --> 00:49:02,875 Speaker 1: listen to a lot of arguments. He was stubborn, He 718 00:49:03,035 --> 00:49:05,675 Speaker 1: was the stubborn Joe Biden. Many of us have, oh 719 00:49:05,755 --> 00:49:09,115 Speaker 1: had a beer with just a coincidence. He was all 720 00:49:09,235 --> 00:49:11,475 Speaker 1: that and yet finally he did the right thing, didn't he? 721 00:49:12,715 --> 00:49:16,595 Speaker 1: But not for Brian Stelter, because he didn't do it correctly. 722 00:49:17,075 --> 00:49:19,555 Speaker 1: He didn't fill out the right forms. He didn't hold 723 00:49:19,555 --> 00:49:25,035 Speaker 1: the news conference, he didn't say, Hey, Kamala, would you 724 00:49:25,075 --> 00:49:26,795 Speaker 1: get be Brian Stelter on the phone. I'd like to 725 00:49:26,835 --> 00:49:29,755 Speaker 1: give him an exclusive. Well, I'll tell you after I'd 726 00:49:29,795 --> 00:49:32,435 Speaker 1: tell him, no, no, just get Stelter on the phone. 727 00:49:33,235 --> 00:49:36,875 Speaker 1: He'll know what it's about. Oh my good god. What 728 00:49:37,275 --> 00:49:43,275 Speaker 1: sense of this timing and format could there be for 729 00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:46,555 Speaker 1: an eighty one year old president who was just decided 730 00:49:46,715 --> 00:49:49,675 Speaker 1: to make himself a lame duck and retire when all 731 00:49:49,715 --> 00:49:51,915 Speaker 1: he ever wanted to be was president and he believes 732 00:49:51,955 --> 00:49:54,355 Speaker 1: in his heart he could be re elected president. What 733 00:49:54,555 --> 00:49:56,995 Speaker 1: sense could there be an eighty one year old president 734 00:49:57,155 --> 00:50:03,275 Speaker 1: with COVID choosing not to fulfill Brian's fantasies and hold 735 00:50:03,315 --> 00:50:05,835 Speaker 1: a news conference or to do a live interviewer, do a video, 736 00:50:06,275 --> 00:50:09,355 Speaker 1: but to continue to rest and in the notes say 737 00:50:09,635 --> 00:50:13,075 Speaker 1: I will address the nation later in the week. Oh 738 00:50:13,115 --> 00:50:14,675 Speaker 1: and by the way, doing it the way he did 739 00:50:14,715 --> 00:50:17,635 Speaker 1: it protected the story from leaks. Was there one leak 740 00:50:17,715 --> 00:50:20,675 Speaker 1: that he was going to announce it today five minutes 741 00:50:20,675 --> 00:50:24,315 Speaker 1: from now Biden is composing the tweet as we speak. No, 742 00:50:25,435 --> 00:50:28,795 Speaker 1: it was the most given the degree of difficulty and 743 00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:31,155 Speaker 1: the number of people certain was going to happen, it 744 00:50:31,275 --> 00:50:35,635 Speaker 1: was the most protected story in the world. Who said 745 00:50:35,755 --> 00:50:39,035 Speaker 1: Sunday morning, He's going to announce he's leaving the ticket 746 00:50:39,075 --> 00:50:43,555 Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. Who said it? NOONSA nobody said it. There 747 00:50:43,595 --> 00:50:45,355 Speaker 1: is a chance that when I asked him to do 748 00:50:45,395 --> 00:50:47,835 Speaker 1: it on Friday, and I was waiting till the last 749 00:50:47,875 --> 00:50:51,195 Speaker 1: possible minute, I can tell you that I might have 750 00:50:51,275 --> 00:50:54,435 Speaker 1: come closest and I didn't come close at all. I 751 00:50:54,555 --> 00:50:59,515 Speaker 1: was off by two days. Joe Biden not only did this, 752 00:50:59,675 --> 00:51:01,715 Speaker 1: not only did this for his party, not only did 753 00:51:01,715 --> 00:51:03,755 Speaker 1: this for democracy, not only did this for the nation, 754 00:51:03,995 --> 00:51:05,755 Speaker 1: not only did this for the future of the planet, 755 00:51:05,795 --> 00:51:09,035 Speaker 1: but he kept the story under seal all this time. 756 00:51:11,395 --> 00:51:13,875 Speaker 1: Does this timing and format make any sense? The most 757 00:51:14,675 --> 00:51:17,755 Speaker 1: sense of anything that's happened in Washington in like eight years, 758 00:51:17,835 --> 00:51:23,795 Speaker 1: and you're complaining about it. Brian Stelter bs the initial 759 00:51:23,955 --> 00:51:26,675 Speaker 1: say it all who peeked in the year two thousand 760 00:51:26,715 --> 00:51:33,675 Speaker 1: and five two days ah, worse person done the word. 761 00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:01,115 Speaker 1: I told you at the start of this episode that 762 00:52:01,275 --> 00:52:04,355 Speaker 1: this one would be particularly ragged, more so than usual. 763 00:52:04,515 --> 00:52:06,755 Speaker 1: More or so then is the selling point of the series. 764 00:52:07,715 --> 00:52:10,435 Speaker 1: And I told you why my pack of dogs is 765 00:52:10,475 --> 00:52:15,715 Speaker 1: down to three again. Menee died on Sunday afternoon at 766 00:52:15,755 --> 00:52:20,515 Speaker 1: about five fifteen pm natural causes. He was seventeen years old, 767 00:52:21,035 --> 00:52:25,755 Speaker 1: and his story is extraordinary, and I wanted to tell 768 00:52:25,755 --> 00:52:29,595 Speaker 1: it to you because I only know the last two years, 769 00:52:29,675 --> 00:52:33,475 Speaker 1: at about two months of it. I have joked previously, 770 00:52:33,555 --> 00:52:37,155 Speaker 1: but contained within that joke is a very sincere thought. 771 00:52:37,835 --> 00:52:42,155 Speaker 1: I would pay sometimes, I say, five thousand dollars, ten 772 00:52:42,235 --> 00:52:45,995 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars to see a full 773 00:52:46,115 --> 00:52:52,275 Speaker 1: length documentary program about the first fifteen years of Mene 774 00:52:52,515 --> 00:52:58,435 Speaker 1: Germain Olderman's life. I know he was born in New 775 00:52:58,515 --> 00:53:02,075 Speaker 1: York on July fifteenth, two thousand and seven, and that 776 00:53:02,155 --> 00:53:06,395 Speaker 1: you help me celebrate his seven teenth birthday just a 777 00:53:06,435 --> 00:53:11,235 Speaker 1: week and a day ago. And until I encountered him 778 00:53:11,235 --> 00:53:14,195 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, I knew nothing of him, and 779 00:53:14,475 --> 00:53:19,155 Speaker 1: all the records, all the anecdotes, almost all of the 780 00:53:19,315 --> 00:53:26,155 Speaker 1: verbal stories are gone because his human got sick and 781 00:53:26,275 --> 00:53:30,435 Speaker 1: sicker and began to lose much of her cognitive function 782 00:53:30,955 --> 00:53:33,555 Speaker 1: and declined, and one day went to the hospital and 783 00:53:33,595 --> 00:53:36,635 Speaker 1: did not come back, and had made no arrangements for 784 00:53:36,755 --> 00:53:39,995 Speaker 1: what was to happen to Mene and other dogs. She 785 00:53:40,155 --> 00:53:43,475 Speaker 1: had at least two Malteses. We don't know what happened 786 00:53:43,475 --> 00:53:47,755 Speaker 1: to them. I've heard stories that suggested they were left 787 00:53:47,795 --> 00:53:51,555 Speaker 1: to fend for their own in an apartment for a while. Happily, 788 00:53:51,955 --> 00:53:55,115 Speaker 1: I know that the neighbor and a former student of 789 00:53:55,195 --> 00:53:58,955 Speaker 1: messer Man who taught French, a man named Keith Peterson, 790 00:53:59,555 --> 00:54:02,835 Speaker 1: came across Menee and knew of Mine from the neighborhood 791 00:54:02,875 --> 00:54:06,155 Speaker 1: and from his teacher, and knew she had gone away, 792 00:54:06,155 --> 00:54:08,195 Speaker 1: and wondered what happened to the dogs, and he began 793 00:54:08,275 --> 00:54:11,315 Speaker 1: to feed them, and he was prepared in the summer 794 00:54:11,435 --> 00:54:14,955 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two to adopt me Nee, and then 795 00:54:14,995 --> 00:54:17,235 Speaker 1: something changed in his life and he was going to 796 00:54:17,275 --> 00:54:21,155 Speaker 1: be traveling once a month or so, perhaps more often, 797 00:54:21,555 --> 00:54:24,435 Speaker 1: and the whole premise fell through. In addition to the 798 00:54:24,475 --> 00:54:27,915 Speaker 1: fact that he recognized that Mine was not well. Something 799 00:54:27,915 --> 00:54:30,195 Speaker 1: had happened to him. He kept bumping into things, he 800 00:54:30,235 --> 00:54:33,115 Speaker 1: didn't walk correctly, His back looked a little crooked. It 801 00:54:33,155 --> 00:54:36,555 Speaker 1: looked like something bad had happened to him neurologically, and 802 00:54:36,635 --> 00:54:38,995 Speaker 1: he did not know what would be next or if 803 00:54:38,995 --> 00:54:42,315 Speaker 1: he could care for Menee. So he went looking for 804 00:54:42,395 --> 00:54:45,875 Speaker 1: an organization that might take care of malteses. There must 805 00:54:45,875 --> 00:54:48,955 Speaker 1: be some sort of Maltese rescue association. Well there are 806 00:54:48,995 --> 00:54:52,075 Speaker 1: two of them. One, the one I would recommend to 807 00:54:52,115 --> 00:54:56,635 Speaker 1: you is American Maltese Association Rescue. It is run by 808 00:54:56,675 --> 00:55:00,955 Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine named Sue Levitt, and we 809 00:55:01,035 --> 00:55:04,675 Speaker 1: take care of Maltese's. That's where I got my little 810 00:55:04,835 --> 00:55:07,635 Speaker 1: boy Ted, who had a very bad heart and was 811 00:55:07,675 --> 00:55:10,435 Speaker 1: not really believed to be a likely candidate to last 812 00:55:10,515 --> 00:55:13,595 Speaker 1: ten months. And Ted just turned six years old. And 813 00:55:13,635 --> 00:55:16,675 Speaker 1: where we got Mishu, whose story I've told you before, 814 00:55:16,715 --> 00:55:21,195 Speaker 1: who had tetrology of fullow, a disease barely treatable in 815 00:55:21,315 --> 00:55:24,355 Speaker 1: large dogs, let alone four or five pound malteses. And 816 00:55:24,435 --> 00:55:28,875 Speaker 1: he had a brilliant, happy brief life. And he died 817 00:55:28,915 --> 00:55:30,755 Speaker 1: in my arms at five and a half months old. 818 00:55:31,075 --> 00:55:34,035 Speaker 1: And that happened in November of twenty twenty one, which 819 00:55:34,075 --> 00:55:37,675 Speaker 1: is when I discovered I could handle four dogs at 820 00:55:37,715 --> 00:55:39,395 Speaker 1: the same time. And again I didn't have a dog 821 00:55:39,475 --> 00:55:43,875 Speaker 1: in my life until twenty twelve. I didn't know when 822 00:55:44,115 --> 00:55:46,715 Speaker 1: I broke up with my girlfriend in twenty fifteen if 823 00:55:46,715 --> 00:55:48,995 Speaker 1: I could take care of two dogs by myself, And 824 00:55:49,035 --> 00:55:53,075 Speaker 1: suddenly I had four, including one who was a hospice puppy. 825 00:55:53,355 --> 00:55:56,515 Speaker 1: So after that, I was offered by the people who 826 00:55:56,675 --> 00:56:04,475 Speaker 1: had bred Mishu one of his brothers from a later litter, 827 00:56:05,435 --> 00:56:09,195 Speaker 1: and they came in here and they were monsters. Mishu 828 00:56:09,515 --> 00:56:12,155 Speaker 1: was a wonderful dog who liked to start fights, had 829 00:56:12,195 --> 00:56:15,155 Speaker 1: no energy, couldn't really oxygen eight He couldn't. He could 830 00:56:15,195 --> 00:56:17,715 Speaker 1: breathe fine, he just could not. Once the oxygen got 831 00:56:17,755 --> 00:56:21,435 Speaker 1: into his bloodstream, he could not pass it anywhere around 832 00:56:21,475 --> 00:56:24,235 Speaker 1: his body or insufficiently. So he would start fights and 833 00:56:24,235 --> 00:56:26,595 Speaker 1: then sit back and watch the other dogs fight. On 834 00:56:26,635 --> 00:56:29,435 Speaker 1: the other hand, he also was communal. He brought the 835 00:56:29,435 --> 00:56:32,835 Speaker 1: dogs together literally and figuratively. He was a lovely boy, 836 00:56:32,955 --> 00:56:37,795 Speaker 1: and he just didn't live very long. But I was 837 00:56:37,835 --> 00:56:39,795 Speaker 1: offered his brothers, and his brothers had all the strength 838 00:56:39,795 --> 00:56:42,395 Speaker 1: in the world, and they were like something out of 839 00:56:42,435 --> 00:56:46,315 Speaker 1: a horror film. They could climb up walls. The first 840 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:50,595 Speaker 1: one bit me, bit each of the other dogs, then 841 00:56:50,675 --> 00:56:53,195 Speaker 1: came back and bit us all in the genitals. The 842 00:56:53,235 --> 00:56:56,075 Speaker 1: next one was trouble. He was able to climb up 843 00:56:56,115 --> 00:56:59,315 Speaker 1: out of his cage. He had the most beautiful marbles, 844 00:57:00,035 --> 00:57:03,915 Speaker 1: like blue eyes I've ever seen on a dog, and 845 00:57:03,995 --> 00:57:08,035 Speaker 1: he was a sign killer. These two dogs later found 846 00:57:08,075 --> 00:57:11,515 Speaker 1: homes in which they were either the only male or 847 00:57:11,515 --> 00:57:14,115 Speaker 1: the only dog, and they have had happy lives ever since. 848 00:57:15,235 --> 00:57:18,275 Speaker 1: They did not have the same heart disease that felled 849 00:57:18,315 --> 00:57:22,035 Speaker 1: poor Michho. In any event, After Mishu's passing, and after 850 00:57:22,075 --> 00:57:28,835 Speaker 1: the failed two weeks with Kubush and Snowy, Mishu's brothers, 851 00:57:29,635 --> 00:57:31,915 Speaker 1: there were three of us again here in the household, 852 00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:36,835 Speaker 1: three dogs and me. They're human. And one day my 853 00:57:36,915 --> 00:57:38,955 Speaker 1: friend Sue Levitt texted me and said, we've got a 854 00:57:39,035 --> 00:57:41,715 Speaker 1: terrible case. We had a woman in Hell's kitchen and 855 00:57:41,755 --> 00:57:43,875 Speaker 1: she died in her eighties and she didn't take care 856 00:57:43,875 --> 00:57:46,915 Speaker 1: of the dogs. And there's one dog left, and I mean, 857 00:57:46,955 --> 00:57:50,035 Speaker 1: he's fourteen, and he has dementia and he has bad teeth, 858 00:57:50,075 --> 00:57:52,075 Speaker 1: and who's going to adopt that, and I sent back 859 00:57:52,115 --> 00:57:56,715 Speaker 1: the raised hand emoji. Because you know, as I've said previously, 860 00:57:57,195 --> 00:57:59,275 Speaker 1: you don't know till you have a dog. That the 861 00:57:59,395 --> 00:58:01,715 Speaker 1: answer to the question what is the meaning of life? 862 00:58:02,275 --> 00:58:05,515 Speaker 1: Is not fully answered by the word dogs, but it's 863 00:58:05,555 --> 00:58:11,315 Speaker 1: partially answered by that word. One of the reasons of life, 864 00:58:12,035 --> 00:58:14,355 Speaker 1: one of the reasons for life, one of the reasons 865 00:58:14,355 --> 00:58:16,595 Speaker 1: for putting up with life, one of the reasons for 866 00:58:16,675 --> 00:58:20,115 Speaker 1: putting up with other humans is dogs. And honestly, the 867 00:58:20,155 --> 00:58:23,835 Speaker 1: only thing I can think of in the column of 868 00:58:23,875 --> 00:58:26,995 Speaker 1: what's good about mankind is we've lots of us taken 869 00:58:27,035 --> 00:58:30,475 Speaker 1: care of dogs and other pets too. Other than that, 870 00:58:30,915 --> 00:58:33,515 Speaker 1: I don't know what purpose we have. Other than that, 871 00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:35,875 Speaker 1: I don't know what good, what net good, we have 872 00:58:35,955 --> 00:58:38,995 Speaker 1: done this planet, or where we would fit into some 873 00:58:39,035 --> 00:58:43,315 Speaker 1: sort of scheme, whether it is intentional, created or accidental. 874 00:58:43,675 --> 00:58:46,555 Speaker 1: The through line to all the theories about why we 875 00:58:46,595 --> 00:58:51,875 Speaker 1: are on Earth, from atheism to the most pure religious 876 00:58:52,075 --> 00:58:58,075 Speaker 1: doctrinaire theories, all have this one through line. As the 877 00:58:58,075 --> 00:59:00,475 Speaker 1: Great Bill Hicks said, people suck. I can prove it 878 00:59:00,475 --> 00:59:05,195 Speaker 1: on an etche sketch. In any event, I'm andering on 879 00:59:05,275 --> 00:59:08,115 Speaker 1: this to try to avoid the topic of poor Mine. 880 00:59:08,955 --> 00:59:13,235 Speaker 1: So I raised my hand and the warning was mine 881 00:59:13,275 --> 00:59:16,795 Speaker 1: is not going to interact with you. Something happened to him. 882 00:59:16,835 --> 00:59:19,875 Speaker 1: He has dementia. He really doesn't know where he is. 883 00:59:20,355 --> 00:59:25,195 Speaker 1: He's okay outside, but he's really confused. His human went 884 00:59:25,235 --> 00:59:28,795 Speaker 1: away after fourteen nearly fifteen years, and he doesn't know 885 00:59:28,835 --> 00:59:32,675 Speaker 1: what happened to her. And Maltese is particularly attached to 886 00:59:32,795 --> 00:59:36,875 Speaker 1: one human for life, and if something happens to that human, 887 00:59:37,915 --> 00:59:41,715 Speaker 1: something will happen to the Maltese. So came a day 888 00:59:41,875 --> 00:59:49,275 Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty two when Keith Peterson brought Mine. 889 00:59:49,475 --> 00:59:52,715 Speaker 1: And it's a French name, m I n et. It 890 00:59:52,835 --> 00:59:57,355 Speaker 1: means kitty in French colloquial French, Mine is kitty. And 891 00:59:57,435 --> 01:00:00,115 Speaker 1: as I said, right then, this must have led to 892 01:00:00,155 --> 01:00:03,475 Speaker 1: extraordinary confusion in his first fifteen years. Something else to 893 01:00:03,515 --> 01:00:08,035 Speaker 1: put in the documentary. Me Nay and Keith Peterson and 894 01:00:08,075 --> 01:00:12,315 Speaker 1: I met up outside one of the entryways into Central 895 01:00:12,315 --> 01:00:14,875 Speaker 1: Park and I picked me May up and sat him 896 01:00:14,875 --> 01:00:17,915 Speaker 1: on my lap and noticed two things. One was his 897 01:00:18,075 --> 01:00:22,275 Speaker 1: teeth smelled from a distance from feet they were so 898 01:00:22,395 --> 01:00:27,875 Speaker 1: bad away from feet away, his teeth smelled. He was 899 01:00:27,915 --> 01:00:32,075 Speaker 1: a thin dog but not scary thin. He just was very, 900 01:00:32,195 --> 01:00:35,515 Speaker 1: very wiry, and he was standing there on my lap, 901 01:00:35,915 --> 01:00:38,075 Speaker 1: and he decided he didn't want to do that anymore, 902 01:00:38,115 --> 01:00:42,195 Speaker 1: so he leaped to the pavement. And I thought to myself, 903 01:00:42,315 --> 01:00:44,755 Speaker 1: let's not leave him up in places where he can leap, 904 01:00:44,795 --> 01:00:47,035 Speaker 1: because he doesn't have any idea when not to leap, 905 01:00:47,275 --> 01:00:50,395 Speaker 1: which proved to be another through line in his existence. 906 01:00:51,155 --> 01:00:55,595 Speaker 1: So fingers crossed and hoping to improve his lot. For 907 01:00:55,675 --> 01:00:59,555 Speaker 1: however many months or years he had left in came 908 01:00:59,635 --> 01:01:02,595 Speaker 1: me nay to join the rest of my pupps. They 909 01:01:02,635 --> 01:01:04,995 Speaker 1: really didn't know what to make of him. They didn't 910 01:01:05,035 --> 01:01:08,355 Speaker 1: interact much. Mine did a lot of sleeping. He was, 911 01:01:08,475 --> 01:01:11,595 Speaker 1: after all, a month shy of his fifteenth birthday and 912 01:01:11,715 --> 01:01:13,995 Speaker 1: not in good health, and the rest of the time 913 01:01:14,475 --> 01:01:21,115 Speaker 1: was heartbreaking. Minee walked around the house always, this could 914 01:01:21,115 --> 01:01:23,475 Speaker 1: be said of him. He did his steps, and he 915 01:01:23,595 --> 01:01:27,515 Speaker 1: hydrated a lot. He must have walked every day a 916 01:01:27,595 --> 01:01:31,795 Speaker 1: mile or two miles indoors, and sadly, when he got here, 917 01:01:32,395 --> 01:01:35,555 Speaker 1: you could have traced the pattern, having watched him do 918 01:01:35,595 --> 01:01:38,475 Speaker 1: it once or twice, exactly where he would walk in 919 01:01:38,515 --> 01:01:41,155 Speaker 1: my apartment, where he would bump into walls, and it 920 01:01:41,195 --> 01:01:43,995 Speaker 1: became pretty evident to me that he was retracing the 921 01:01:44,035 --> 01:01:49,355 Speaker 1: steps at Madame Germain's house, that he could not adjust 922 01:01:49,435 --> 01:01:52,395 Speaker 1: to a new apartment. He could not adjust to new walls. 923 01:01:52,915 --> 01:01:55,875 Speaker 1: The other dogs, well, there were other dogs, but they 924 01:01:55,875 --> 01:02:00,115 Speaker 1: weren't the right dogs. And then there was the smell 925 01:02:00,155 --> 01:02:03,835 Speaker 1: of his teeth. My vett came to look at him, 926 01:02:03,835 --> 01:02:06,555 Speaker 1: and Minee slept a lot and didn't really interact. He 927 01:02:06,755 --> 01:02:12,915 Speaker 1: ate pretty well, He ate okay, And then my vet 928 01:02:12,955 --> 01:02:15,475 Speaker 1: came in and said, I'm looking at his teeth and 929 01:02:15,555 --> 01:02:18,235 Speaker 1: some of these teeth are in such bad shape that 930 01:02:18,315 --> 01:02:22,755 Speaker 1: I'm afraid they will begin to infect his airways. There's 931 01:02:22,795 --> 01:02:25,755 Speaker 1: no sign of this spreading. His heart is great. His 932 01:02:25,795 --> 01:02:29,275 Speaker 1: heart is extraordinary for a fourteen fifteen year old dog. 933 01:02:29,995 --> 01:02:31,955 Speaker 1: It would be a good heart for a six year 934 01:02:31,955 --> 01:02:34,635 Speaker 1: old dog or a six month old dog. He's got 935 01:02:34,675 --> 01:02:38,955 Speaker 1: a strong ticker. He's going to live a while, but 936 01:02:39,035 --> 01:02:41,115 Speaker 1: these teeth will kill him if you don't do something 937 01:02:41,155 --> 01:02:43,555 Speaker 1: about it. I think you need to get a hold 938 01:02:43,595 --> 01:02:49,155 Speaker 1: to day of the veterinary dentists, the dental experts at 939 01:02:49,155 --> 01:02:52,235 Speaker 1: the Animal Medical Center. In the interim, I think I 940 01:02:52,235 --> 01:02:54,595 Speaker 1: can take a few of these teeth out right now 941 01:02:54,795 --> 01:02:59,995 Speaker 1: with a little topical and maybe just my fingers. I've 942 01:03:00,035 --> 01:03:01,795 Speaker 1: been through a lot with my dogs, and I've been 943 01:03:01,835 --> 01:03:03,635 Speaker 1: surprised at how much I have been willing to be 944 01:03:03,835 --> 01:03:06,715 Speaker 1: there for them, and they have been in excruciating pain 945 01:03:06,875 --> 01:03:10,475 Speaker 1: or fear. This is the only time in twelve years 946 01:03:10,475 --> 01:03:12,795 Speaker 1: with dogs that I had to leave the room. The 947 01:03:12,875 --> 01:03:16,395 Speaker 1: noises Minee made when he had barely spoken before, when 948 01:03:16,395 --> 01:03:22,115 Speaker 1: he never barked, howls of incredible pain and fear. And 949 01:03:22,155 --> 01:03:24,115 Speaker 1: she only took out three or four of the teeth 950 01:03:24,195 --> 01:03:28,715 Speaker 1: that were literally loose to the touch. So she stopped 951 01:03:28,755 --> 01:03:30,835 Speaker 1: after I think six, and then we went into the 952 01:03:30,915 --> 01:03:37,555 Speaker 1: animal medical center and all his teeth were removed. I 953 01:03:37,635 --> 01:03:42,075 Speaker 1: had my other dogs checked. Some of them lost half 954 01:03:42,115 --> 01:03:45,835 Speaker 1: of their teeth. My little girl Rose had no symptoms 955 01:03:45,875 --> 01:03:49,115 Speaker 1: of it, but she had advanced periodontal disease. She was 956 01:03:49,235 --> 01:03:50,915 Speaker 1: very sick. She was about to have be in the 957 01:03:50,995 --> 01:03:54,475 Speaker 1: same situation mine was. Without symptoms, it would have happened overnight. 958 01:03:54,835 --> 01:03:56,915 Speaker 1: We took out half of her teeth, she woke up 959 01:03:56,915 --> 01:04:01,395 Speaker 1: from the anesthesia, all of her allergies disappeared. Within weeks, 960 01:04:01,755 --> 01:04:05,115 Speaker 1: her curvy puppy figure was back and she was eight 961 01:04:05,235 --> 01:04:09,195 Speaker 1: years old. I went into my dentist and I said, hey, 962 01:04:09,835 --> 01:04:11,955 Speaker 1: I need to be about twenty percent smarter. Can you 963 01:04:11,995 --> 01:04:13,715 Speaker 1: pull some of my teeth out? And the guy goes, 964 01:04:13,795 --> 01:04:15,955 Speaker 1: I've got very bad news for you. You have an 965 01:04:15,995 --> 01:04:18,595 Speaker 1: absolutely clean checkup, and I said, this is the first 966 01:04:18,595 --> 01:04:24,595 Speaker 1: one since nineteen sixty eight. Sorry. Menay, having had all 967 01:04:24,635 --> 01:04:29,675 Speaker 1: of his teeth removed, woke up from the anesthesia, came 968 01:04:29,755 --> 01:04:34,395 Speaker 1: home to my house, fell asleep, woke up again. Now 969 01:04:34,435 --> 01:04:37,075 Speaker 1: it's about eight ten, twelve hours after we got him 970 01:04:37,115 --> 01:04:40,555 Speaker 1: back from the hospital, and he got up, left the 971 01:04:40,595 --> 01:04:43,075 Speaker 1: little bed in my bedroom next to my bed, and 972 01:04:43,155 --> 01:04:46,835 Speaker 1: wandered out and came over and started to stare at 973 01:04:46,875 --> 01:04:51,075 Speaker 1: me like who the hell are you? Or, since I 974 01:04:51,075 --> 01:04:53,875 Speaker 1: always envisioned him speaking in a French accent, who the 975 01:04:53,915 --> 01:04:56,955 Speaker 1: hell are you? And he looked at the other dogs, 976 01:04:57,035 --> 01:05:00,715 Speaker 1: like who the hell are you? Where am I? And 977 01:05:00,755 --> 01:05:03,995 Speaker 1: where did these other dogs come from? It was instantaneous. 978 01:05:05,755 --> 01:05:09,515 Speaker 1: Did not have dementia. He might have had a little 979 01:05:09,635 --> 01:05:11,795 Speaker 1: He was the equivalent then of a ninety five year 980 01:05:11,795 --> 01:05:14,355 Speaker 1: old man. He might have been a little slow. I 981 01:05:14,395 --> 01:05:16,875 Speaker 1: know this hasn't been a topic anywhere in public discourse, 982 01:05:16,955 --> 01:05:20,235 Speaker 1: lately he might have been a little slow, but the 983 01:05:20,315 --> 01:05:22,875 Speaker 1: problem he had was he had these terrible teeth, and 984 01:05:22,995 --> 01:05:25,475 Speaker 1: the moment they were out and the blood stopped, which 985 01:05:25,515 --> 01:05:28,195 Speaker 1: was pretty quick, he started to get younger. And I 986 01:05:28,235 --> 01:05:30,835 Speaker 1: mean he started to get younger every day. He was 987 01:05:30,875 --> 01:05:34,075 Speaker 1: a little sharper, a little bit more interactive, still on 988 01:05:34,115 --> 01:05:38,235 Speaker 1: his own, still sleeping sixteen eighteen hours a day in 989 01:05:38,315 --> 01:05:40,315 Speaker 1: a bed that I found for him by accident, that 990 01:05:40,355 --> 01:05:43,755 Speaker 1: he treated like the womb. He would curl up in 991 01:05:43,795 --> 01:05:49,075 Speaker 1: there and the blissfulness of his sleeping experience made me jealous. 992 01:05:49,755 --> 01:05:51,675 Speaker 1: And then I took him out for the first time 993 01:05:51,715 --> 01:05:55,035 Speaker 1: because my last experience with him was he jumped off 994 01:05:55,075 --> 01:05:57,795 Speaker 1: onto the hard pavement outside Central Park. I don't know 995 01:05:57,835 --> 01:06:03,395 Speaker 1: if he's a good walker. His serenity upon hearing the 996 01:06:03,475 --> 01:06:08,515 Speaker 1: sounds of New York City is indescribable. A look would 997 01:06:08,555 --> 01:06:12,555 Speaker 1: come across his face. And whereas indoors, he didn't really 998 01:06:12,595 --> 01:06:15,275 Speaker 1: particularly like you picking him up or holding him, and 999 01:06:15,315 --> 01:06:18,235 Speaker 1: he certainly didn't like a vet prying at his teeth 1000 01:06:18,315 --> 01:06:20,715 Speaker 1: or anything like that. If you wanted to pick him 1001 01:06:20,755 --> 01:06:22,275 Speaker 1: up and sit him on your lap, as long as 1002 01:06:22,275 --> 01:06:26,595 Speaker 1: you were on a park bench, he was the happiest 1003 01:06:26,595 --> 01:06:30,155 Speaker 1: creature on this earth. He'd walk with you for two hours, 1004 01:06:30,755 --> 01:06:32,915 Speaker 1: he'd sit with you for two hours. If you were 1005 01:06:32,955 --> 01:06:36,075 Speaker 1: walking him with another dog, he would immediately sink up 1006 01:06:36,355 --> 01:06:40,635 Speaker 1: with that dog's pace. If it was just you and him, 1007 01:06:40,875 --> 01:06:43,595 Speaker 1: he would sync up with your pace. I swear there 1008 01:06:43,595 --> 01:06:47,035 Speaker 1: were times when I had not stopped or slowed down, 1009 01:06:47,315 --> 01:06:49,555 Speaker 1: and he was slowing down because he knew I was 1010 01:06:49,595 --> 01:06:55,835 Speaker 1: going to And gradually through that winter and into the 1011 01:06:55,875 --> 01:06:59,435 Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty three, he got more and more interactive, 1012 01:06:59,955 --> 01:07:03,755 Speaker 1: one tenth of one percent every day, and finally came 1013 01:07:03,795 --> 01:07:05,915 Speaker 1: the day when we went for a walk, and he 1014 01:07:05,955 --> 01:07:10,435 Speaker 1: would sometimes walk with me and my number one girl, Stevie, 1015 01:07:10,435 --> 01:07:12,715 Speaker 1: when we would walk over to the Animal Medical Center 1016 01:07:12,715 --> 01:07:15,475 Speaker 1: about forty forty five minutes. He'd walk just for the walk. 1017 01:07:16,555 --> 01:07:21,235 Speaker 1: Perfect companion dog. Other dogs walk to pee or to poop. 1018 01:07:22,155 --> 01:07:25,315 Speaker 1: Mine walked to walk and to walk with you or 1019 01:07:25,355 --> 01:07:33,075 Speaker 1: walk with another dog. An extraordinary creature. And finally, not 1020 01:07:33,195 --> 01:07:37,835 Speaker 1: long after his sixteenth birthday last year, the most extraordinary 1021 01:07:37,835 --> 01:07:41,835 Speaker 1: thing I have ever experienced with my dogs, and the 1022 01:07:41,875 --> 01:07:47,075 Speaker 1: first time Stevie ever relieved herself on a walk. It 1023 01:07:47,115 --> 01:07:51,315 Speaker 1: was under a marquee that read Fox News, and I 1024 01:07:51,355 --> 01:07:53,275 Speaker 1: picked her up and said, I will always love you. 1025 01:07:53,755 --> 01:07:56,475 Speaker 1: So I've seen some extraordinary things, even though I only 1026 01:07:56,475 --> 01:08:01,035 Speaker 1: have twelve years in the world of dog. The most 1027 01:08:01,035 --> 01:08:04,595 Speaker 1: extraordinary thing I ever saw began sometime in the late 1028 01:08:04,715 --> 01:08:07,555 Speaker 1: summer last year, maybe about this time, right after mine 1029 01:08:07,555 --> 01:08:11,355 Speaker 1: turned sixteen. I saw it briefly out of the corner 1030 01:08:11,395 --> 01:08:13,755 Speaker 1: of my eye and didn't believe what I'd seen. The 1031 01:08:13,875 --> 01:08:18,155 Speaker 1: stripes on the New York City streets are crosswalks. They're 1032 01:08:18,195 --> 01:08:21,235 Speaker 1: almost a barber pole effect, usually white on the black 1033 01:08:21,275 --> 01:08:26,635 Speaker 1: tarmac surface, and sometimes the stripes are two three inches thick. 1034 01:08:27,395 --> 01:08:31,395 Speaker 1: And Menae was seeing them with his one really good 1035 01:08:31,435 --> 01:08:36,515 Speaker 1: eye and leaping over them. Consider this for a second. 1036 01:08:37,235 --> 01:08:42,435 Speaker 1: Mine had been a year before unable to negotiate his 1037 01:08:42,515 --> 01:08:46,035 Speaker 1: way around a new apartment, half because of vision problems, 1038 01:08:46,195 --> 01:08:50,035 Speaker 1: half because of neurological problems that were in fact dental problems, 1039 01:08:50,075 --> 01:08:54,435 Speaker 1: almost one hundred percent, and now he was, for some reason, 1040 01:08:54,515 --> 01:08:56,515 Speaker 1: leaping in the air. I thought he was sick. I 1041 01:08:56,555 --> 01:09:00,235 Speaker 1: thought there was some new neurological problem. And then he 1042 01:09:00,275 --> 01:09:03,395 Speaker 1: did it again on a different stripe, and then he 1043 01:09:03,435 --> 01:09:07,355 Speaker 1: did it again up onto a curb, and then we 1044 01:09:07,395 --> 01:09:10,075 Speaker 1: went out on a walk, and he did it ten times, 1045 01:09:10,075 --> 01:09:12,915 Speaker 1: and I began to hear people laughing behind me, and 1046 01:09:12,955 --> 01:09:16,715 Speaker 1: getting over my natural paranoia, thinking what's on the back 1047 01:09:16,755 --> 01:09:21,195 Speaker 1: of my pants? I realized people who were not expecting 1048 01:09:21,195 --> 01:09:24,835 Speaker 1: this were seeing this tiny, skinny, eight pound dog who 1049 01:09:24,875 --> 01:09:29,035 Speaker 1: sometimes had to wear a sweater in the summer, jumping 1050 01:09:29,115 --> 01:09:32,355 Speaker 1: up in the air, sometimes reaching I would say, ten 1051 01:09:32,435 --> 01:09:37,915 Speaker 1: inches off the ground. Last October, I ordered God help 1052 01:09:37,995 --> 01:09:41,355 Speaker 1: me a selfie stick. I wanted to see from his 1053 01:09:41,555 --> 01:09:44,035 Speaker 1: level what in the hell he was doing, and try 1054 01:09:44,035 --> 01:09:47,715 Speaker 1: to figure out why. I put the selfie stick and 1055 01:09:47,755 --> 01:09:50,475 Speaker 1: put the phone on it, hung it down at his level, 1056 01:09:50,555 --> 01:09:53,675 Speaker 1: and sometimes I shot in slow motion and sometimes in 1057 01:09:53,715 --> 01:09:58,035 Speaker 1: full speed, and I recorded me nay, and I saw 1058 01:09:58,275 --> 01:10:02,635 Speaker 1: something even more startling. There was no question that this 1059 01:10:02,835 --> 01:10:06,675 Speaker 1: was premeditated and intention and he was enjoying it because 1060 01:10:07,115 --> 01:10:12,515 Speaker 1: after each jump, he would locate the camera and look 1061 01:10:12,555 --> 01:10:17,795 Speaker 1: at it and stare it down like James Hardened the 1062 01:10:17,835 --> 01:10:23,155 Speaker 1: basketball player backing away after a successful shot. What do 1063 01:10:23,195 --> 01:10:27,675 Speaker 1: you think of that? Pal Mena, of course, without any teeth, 1064 01:10:28,115 --> 01:10:31,755 Speaker 1: had a tongue that hung out of his mouth, adding 1065 01:10:31,795 --> 01:10:38,035 Speaker 1: to his extraordinary cuteness, and this leaping ability, which got 1066 01:10:38,075 --> 01:10:39,795 Speaker 1: better and better the more he tried it, and it 1067 01:10:39,835 --> 01:10:41,635 Speaker 1: was clear he must have done it before. You don't 1068 01:10:41,635 --> 01:10:46,275 Speaker 1: suddenly after years of neurological problems decide to start becoming 1069 01:10:46,315 --> 01:10:52,155 Speaker 1: an Olympic jumper at sixteen, at the equivalent of ninety 1070 01:10:52,155 --> 01:10:56,595 Speaker 1: five now as a dog as a human years he 1071 01:10:56,635 --> 01:10:59,075 Speaker 1: would do this forty or fifty times on a trip, 1072 01:11:00,275 --> 01:11:03,355 Speaker 1: sometimes when there were no white stripes, when we weren't 1073 01:11:03,395 --> 01:11:05,395 Speaker 1: crossing anything, When we were in the park, he to 1074 01:11:05,435 --> 01:11:09,515 Speaker 1: jump over the grooves in the pavement. And I discovered 1075 01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:12,235 Speaker 1: from the videos and from careful analysis that he had 1076 01:11:12,275 --> 01:11:15,995 Speaker 1: three different jumps. He had your standard I'm running and 1077 01:11:16,035 --> 01:11:18,595 Speaker 1: moving fast, and I'm using my own propulsion to just 1078 01:11:18,715 --> 01:11:22,155 Speaker 1: spring upwards and then down and stick the landing by 1079 01:11:22,195 --> 01:11:26,635 Speaker 1: the way each time. And he had another one where 1080 01:11:26,675 --> 01:11:30,595 Speaker 1: he knew he was going up onto a curb and 1081 01:11:30,635 --> 01:11:34,795 Speaker 1: he angled himself. His launch angle, baseball fans was about 1082 01:11:34,835 --> 01:11:38,875 Speaker 1: five percent higher. And then he introduced the third one, 1083 01:11:39,035 --> 01:11:42,475 Speaker 1: the standing jump. He'd be walking across the street and 1084 01:11:42,635 --> 01:11:47,955 Speaker 1: stop and see how far he could go without any momentum. 1085 01:11:48,955 --> 01:11:54,355 Speaker 1: He did this all of last winter. As spring approached, 1086 01:11:54,475 --> 01:11:57,035 Speaker 1: it became evident he was beginning to slow down a 1087 01:11:57,075 --> 01:12:00,275 Speaker 1: little bit of his own accord as his seventeenth birthday neared, 1088 01:12:01,235 --> 01:12:04,395 Speaker 1: and he didn't do as many jumps at first. His 1089 01:12:05,555 --> 01:12:10,515 Speaker 1: extraordinary longevity and his extraordinary stamina on walks continued. If 1090 01:12:10,515 --> 01:12:13,995 Speaker 1: we wanted to go to two hours in the park, sure, 1091 01:12:14,875 --> 01:12:16,755 Speaker 1: maybe you could give me a left gone up the hill. 1092 01:12:18,675 --> 01:12:22,315 Speaker 1: That was his only problem. And the leaps became fewer 1093 01:12:22,355 --> 01:12:25,955 Speaker 1: and farther between, and sometimes a little shorter, And sometimes 1094 01:12:25,995 --> 01:12:28,595 Speaker 1: when he wasn't quite in the mood, he'd just do 1095 01:12:28,635 --> 01:12:31,515 Speaker 1: a little hop. He'd just clear it, basically to say, yeh, 1096 01:12:31,555 --> 01:12:33,355 Speaker 1: I can still do this, and then on he'd go. 1097 01:12:35,315 --> 01:12:37,875 Speaker 1: The most extraordinary thing I have ever seen with a dog, 1098 01:12:39,235 --> 01:12:41,675 Speaker 1: and I saw Stevie poop under the Fox News sign 1099 01:12:45,115 --> 01:12:50,835 Speaker 1: me nay. We had him examined neurologically in March, just 1100 01:12:50,875 --> 01:12:52,915 Speaker 1: to see if there was something to make whatever time 1101 01:12:52,955 --> 01:12:57,835 Speaker 1: he had left more enjoyable easier to get through. Because 1102 01:12:57,835 --> 01:13:01,075 Speaker 1: he bumped into things. He was beginning to lose control, 1103 01:13:01,075 --> 01:13:03,075 Speaker 1: and he'd never had full control of his limbs, which 1104 01:13:03,075 --> 01:13:06,315 Speaker 1: made these jumps even more extraordinary. It's not quite he 1105 01:13:06,355 --> 01:13:08,355 Speaker 1: got up out of a wheelchair and did these leaps, 1106 01:13:08,355 --> 01:13:13,155 Speaker 1: but neurologically speaking, it was almost like that the neurologist 1107 01:13:13,235 --> 01:13:15,915 Speaker 1: had no explanation for this other than he liked it, 1108 01:13:16,835 --> 01:13:19,555 Speaker 1: a very good reason to keep doing it. But he 1109 01:13:19,555 --> 01:13:21,675 Speaker 1: would bump into things, and we thought, well, maybe there's 1110 01:13:21,675 --> 01:13:24,035 Speaker 1: something that would help him, and there wasn't. But they 1111 01:13:24,035 --> 01:13:26,115 Speaker 1: did determine. They were confident that at some point in 1112 01:13:26,155 --> 01:13:28,715 Speaker 1: the past he'd actually had a stroke. So he had 1113 01:13:28,715 --> 01:13:32,235 Speaker 1: a little dementia and a stroke, and he was an 1114 01:13:32,235 --> 01:13:40,195 Speaker 1: Olympic level hurdler and leaper. He began to bump into 1115 01:13:40,235 --> 01:13:43,315 Speaker 1: things a lot more in the last few months, and 1116 01:13:43,395 --> 01:13:46,515 Speaker 1: I thought, what do I do about this? Well, I'm 1117 01:13:46,555 --> 01:13:48,315 Speaker 1: the only person, I think, in the city of New 1118 01:13:48,355 --> 01:13:51,435 Speaker 1: York whose walls are baby proofed at a height of 1119 01:13:51,515 --> 01:13:56,515 Speaker 1: about four inches or so. They worked wonderfully. Now when 1120 01:13:56,555 --> 01:13:59,715 Speaker 1: he would bump into a wall, instead of maybe getting 1121 01:13:59,715 --> 01:14:04,555 Speaker 1: a concussion, he would just bounce into some rubber far 1122 01:14:05,835 --> 01:14:07,755 Speaker 1: In fact, he learned how too, when he didn't have 1123 01:14:07,795 --> 01:14:10,915 Speaker 1: full control of his legs, guide himself along by putting 1124 01:14:10,955 --> 01:14:13,795 Speaker 1: his head intentionally against the rubber foam and just kind 1125 01:14:13,835 --> 01:14:21,275 Speaker 1: of pushing. He ate like a horse without teeth. He 1126 01:14:21,315 --> 01:14:24,435 Speaker 1: loved the soft meals that I got for him, and 1127 01:14:24,475 --> 01:14:28,035 Speaker 1: he thrived on them. And he would still eat the 1128 01:14:28,035 --> 01:14:31,235 Speaker 1: hard treats that he liked. The kibble, and often he 1129 01:14:31,275 --> 01:14:32,835 Speaker 1: would take a piece of kibble and put it in 1130 01:14:32,875 --> 01:14:35,795 Speaker 1: the water bowl, let it soak for a while, and 1131 01:14:35,875 --> 01:14:37,795 Speaker 1: come back for it later and suck on it like 1132 01:14:37,835 --> 01:14:42,275 Speaker 1: a cough drop. Dementia, my ass, it's one of the 1133 01:14:42,275 --> 01:14:47,395 Speaker 1: smartest beings I have ever met in my life. I 1134 01:14:47,435 --> 01:14:50,075 Speaker 1: don't think I was honest with myself about how mine 1135 01:14:50,075 --> 01:14:52,715 Speaker 1: began to slow down. Early in the summer. We didn't 1136 01:14:52,755 --> 01:14:54,995 Speaker 1: get to walk that much because we went directly from 1137 01:14:54,995 --> 01:14:57,715 Speaker 1: spring into hell. This year in New York. As I'm 1138 01:14:57,715 --> 01:15:01,115 Speaker 1: sure you've experienced too, it got really warm, really fast. 1139 01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,515 Speaker 1: He didn't like really warm, and he didn't like really cold. Well. Hell, 1140 01:15:04,675 --> 01:15:07,555 Speaker 1: he was basically one hundred years old now, and as 1141 01:15:07,635 --> 01:15:11,595 Speaker 1: his seventeenth birthday approached, it began to be evident that 1142 01:15:11,635 --> 01:15:13,595 Speaker 1: he was slowing down a little bit. I had to 1143 01:15:13,635 --> 01:15:16,635 Speaker 1: carry him a little bit more. There were occasionally hops, 1144 01:15:17,155 --> 01:15:19,755 Speaker 1: but mostly it was just a good forty minute walk. 1145 01:15:19,835 --> 01:15:23,515 Speaker 1: Was a delight for him. We had one last Thursday. 1146 01:15:24,035 --> 01:15:26,755 Speaker 1: It didn't end that well. He seemed to be having 1147 01:15:26,835 --> 01:15:31,195 Speaker 1: real trouble controlling his back legs. Of course, when I 1148 01:15:31,235 --> 01:15:34,195 Speaker 1: got him home, the back legs had gotten stiff and 1149 01:15:34,235 --> 01:15:38,715 Speaker 1: he was kind of folding over them. I got him home, 1150 01:15:39,195 --> 01:15:42,835 Speaker 1: he was fine. He walked around the house for two hours, 1151 01:15:43,475 --> 01:15:47,195 Speaker 1: but he didn't eat that night, and he didn't eat Friday, 1152 01:15:48,635 --> 01:15:53,355 Speaker 1: and he was listless. I will say this for him. 1153 01:15:53,355 --> 01:15:56,395 Speaker 1: In the last four or five months, he had suddenly 1154 01:15:56,555 --> 01:16:00,635 Speaker 1: uniformly accepted all of us. Where he was always hanging 1155 01:16:00,675 --> 01:16:05,715 Speaker 1: back in my bedroom in his little womblike bed, now 1156 01:16:06,755 --> 01:16:09,195 Speaker 1: he would greet me with the other dogs at the 1157 01:16:09,195 --> 01:16:11,315 Speaker 1: front door when I came home. He would often give 1158 01:16:11,355 --> 01:16:13,515 Speaker 1: me a kiss with that big hanging out tongue of his. 1159 01:16:15,035 --> 01:16:17,995 Speaker 1: And in the last few months particularly, he stopped living 1160 01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:22,835 Speaker 1: in the bedroom and would often just stagger out into 1161 01:16:22,875 --> 01:16:25,555 Speaker 1: the living room where the dogs and I were working. 1162 01:16:26,835 --> 01:16:28,955 Speaker 1: I was working the dogs, really weren't I have to 1163 01:16:28,995 --> 01:16:32,635 Speaker 1: confess that he would come out, come over and give 1164 01:16:32,635 --> 01:16:35,395 Speaker 1: me a kiss on the ankle. If I wanted to 1165 01:16:35,395 --> 01:16:36,835 Speaker 1: pick him up and he wanted to be picked up, 1166 01:16:36,875 --> 01:16:38,555 Speaker 1: he'd come and sit with us for a while, and 1167 01:16:38,555 --> 01:16:40,355 Speaker 1: then he'd sort of motion like he wanted to get 1168 01:16:40,395 --> 01:16:41,875 Speaker 1: down back on the floor and he'd go over to 1169 01:16:41,955 --> 01:16:43,955 Speaker 1: his bed in the living room and sleep out here 1170 01:16:44,035 --> 01:16:47,275 Speaker 1: with us for eight hours, just out of a sense 1171 01:16:47,275 --> 01:16:52,635 Speaker 1: of community. So he was still doing that and then 1172 01:16:53,355 --> 01:16:56,275 Speaker 1: wandering back in to sleep on the floor next to 1173 01:16:56,315 --> 01:16:58,235 Speaker 1: the bed because obviously I couldn't keep him in the 1174 01:16:58,235 --> 01:17:01,475 Speaker 1: bed with the other dogs and me. He tended to 1175 01:17:01,515 --> 01:17:03,355 Speaker 1: fall off things like that, no matter how good a 1176 01:17:03,435 --> 01:17:05,035 Speaker 1: jumper you are, you're not a good job, or if 1177 01:17:05,035 --> 01:17:10,035 Speaker 1: you don't know you're about to jump. And then last 1178 01:17:10,075 --> 01:17:12,875 Speaker 1: Thursday he wasn't really eating, and last Friday he was 1179 01:17:12,995 --> 01:17:15,235 Speaker 1: very listless, and I took him in my arms and 1180 01:17:15,275 --> 01:17:17,155 Speaker 1: I went outside and sat on the balcony and had 1181 01:17:17,155 --> 01:17:19,715 Speaker 1: a long conversation with him, and I said, you're just 1182 01:17:19,755 --> 01:17:24,195 Speaker 1: wearing out. And the feeling I got back was yeah, 1183 01:17:24,195 --> 01:17:29,595 Speaker 1: but I have some time. He didn't urinate at all, 1184 01:17:30,475 --> 01:17:33,355 Speaker 1: and this was one of his major hobbies. He tried 1185 01:17:33,435 --> 01:17:35,555 Speaker 1: so hard. He had been so good at the pad, 1186 01:17:35,675 --> 01:17:38,075 Speaker 1: and he tried so hard, and I think he thought 1187 01:17:38,115 --> 01:17:40,795 Speaker 1: he was doing real well. Unfortunately, his definition of what 1188 01:17:40,835 --> 01:17:43,595 Speaker 1: the pad was became a little broader than it should 1189 01:17:43,595 --> 01:17:48,195 Speaker 1: have been. Any soft surface became the pad. But he 1190 01:17:48,235 --> 01:17:52,635 Speaker 1: wasn't peeing. He didn't pee Friday, and he didn't eat. 1191 01:17:52,875 --> 01:17:54,715 Speaker 1: And you don't have to be a twelve year dog 1192 01:17:54,755 --> 01:17:57,795 Speaker 1: owner or a one year dog owner to know if 1193 01:17:57,795 --> 01:18:03,235 Speaker 1: your dog stops eating and he's old, he's checking out. 1194 01:18:04,235 --> 01:18:08,275 Speaker 1: And so I envisioned this Friday night, having just celebrated 1195 01:18:08,275 --> 01:18:12,555 Speaker 1: his seventeenth birthday, an extraordinary accomplishment for any dog, but 1196 01:18:12,675 --> 01:18:16,955 Speaker 1: particularly wanted out a stroke and neurological problems, and was 1197 01:18:16,995 --> 01:18:22,875 Speaker 1: nearly starved to death. At some point, I think he's 1198 01:18:22,915 --> 01:18:27,435 Speaker 1: done a great job. We'll let him go. We don't 1199 01:18:27,475 --> 01:18:29,675 Speaker 1: have to do anything about it. He'll go on his own, 1200 01:18:30,195 --> 01:18:34,795 Speaker 1: particularly if he's not eating. And then Saturday morning he 1201 01:18:34,915 --> 01:18:37,755 Speaker 1: had getting up out of bed because he was still sleeping. 1202 01:18:38,195 --> 01:18:40,075 Speaker 1: He called to me a couple of times to come 1203 01:18:40,075 --> 01:18:41,915 Speaker 1: out and just hold him for a little bit, and 1204 01:18:41,955 --> 01:18:46,595 Speaker 1: he had a surprisingly high little bark. His I'm hungry 1205 01:18:46,635 --> 01:18:56,275 Speaker 1: bark was very French. His hello was a puppy, a 1206 01:18:56,355 --> 01:19:03,515 Speaker 1: high pitched puppy bar. He barked and got up to 1207 01:19:03,555 --> 01:19:07,475 Speaker 1: greet me, and he fell over and wriggled like a 1208 01:19:07,515 --> 01:19:09,395 Speaker 1: dead bug on the floor for about a minute. It 1209 01:19:09,435 --> 01:19:12,715 Speaker 1: was a miniature seizure, and given his neurological history, I 1210 01:19:12,835 --> 01:19:16,635 Speaker 1: actually thought it was good news. Because it suggested maybe 1211 01:19:16,635 --> 01:19:19,595 Speaker 1: there was something to fix here. Maybe it wasn't just 1212 01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:24,955 Speaker 1: placidly saying okay, time you know it. I know it. 1213 01:19:26,395 --> 01:19:28,835 Speaker 1: Took him into the Animal medical center, took him, at 1214 01:19:28,875 --> 01:19:30,555 Speaker 1: the advice of all the people I know over there, 1215 01:19:30,595 --> 01:19:35,555 Speaker 1: into the emergency room. Treated wonderfully. They said, he's low 1216 01:19:35,595 --> 01:19:38,315 Speaker 1: on fluids. We can do this much for him. Leave 1217 01:19:38,395 --> 01:19:42,515 Speaker 1: him here overnight, we'll assess in the morning, we'll get 1218 01:19:42,555 --> 01:19:45,995 Speaker 1: him fluids. We'll get him a little shunt here and 1219 01:19:46,035 --> 01:19:48,635 Speaker 1: get in take his blood work and see how his 1220 01:19:48,715 --> 01:19:53,195 Speaker 1: kidneys are doing. Because he had kidney problems his whole life, 1221 01:19:53,435 --> 01:19:57,715 Speaker 1: apparently anecdotally, that's in the documentary. They won't let me 1222 01:19:57,755 --> 01:20:05,395 Speaker 1: see about him kidding. Sunday morning, I got a phone 1223 01:20:05,395 --> 01:20:07,635 Speaker 1: call saying he'd had a good night. Nothing had changed. 1224 01:20:07,635 --> 01:20:10,955 Speaker 1: He wasn't any better, he wasn't any worse. He was alert. 1225 01:20:11,915 --> 01:20:13,675 Speaker 1: An hour later I got a call from the internal 1226 01:20:13,675 --> 01:20:15,515 Speaker 1: medicine people who had taken over his case from the 1227 01:20:15,515 --> 01:20:18,995 Speaker 1: emergency room. They said, no, he's not. Things have not 1228 01:20:19,075 --> 01:20:23,075 Speaker 1: gone well. His kidney values are down to zero, his 1229 01:20:23,155 --> 01:20:25,635 Speaker 1: temperature is down, he's developed a heart murmur, and his 1230 01:20:25,635 --> 01:20:28,955 Speaker 1: heart was his strongest organ. He's not really responding, he's 1231 01:20:28,995 --> 01:20:32,635 Speaker 1: not standing on his own. You ought to consider this 1232 01:20:32,675 --> 01:20:35,155 Speaker 1: is the end, and you may want to hasten the end, 1233 01:20:35,195 --> 01:20:38,595 Speaker 1: because there's no evidence it hurts. But if your organs 1234 01:20:38,595 --> 01:20:41,515 Speaker 1: are going to start shutting down, it may begin to 1235 01:20:41,595 --> 01:20:44,715 Speaker 1: hurt fairly soon and in very very unpleasant ways, in 1236 01:20:44,755 --> 01:20:46,955 Speaker 1: addition to the fear and the shock and the confusion. 1237 01:20:48,435 --> 01:20:56,755 Speaker 1: And so I made the decision to do that. Sunday afternoon, 1238 01:20:56,755 --> 01:21:02,115 Speaker 1: I went over, picked him up and thought, well, it's 1239 01:21:02,155 --> 01:21:05,075 Speaker 1: not like there's a rush here or anything. What is 1240 01:21:05,115 --> 01:21:09,475 Speaker 1: it he likes most in the world outdoors in the 1241 01:21:09,515 --> 01:21:13,075 Speaker 1: city near the Animal Medical Center is the fifty ninth 1242 01:21:13,075 --> 01:21:16,595 Speaker 1: Street Bridge, or for you out of towners, the Edward 1243 01:21:16,595 --> 01:21:20,035 Speaker 1: and Kotch Bridge Queensboro. We don't even like to call 1244 01:21:20,035 --> 01:21:25,395 Speaker 1: it the Queensboro Bridge. That's for people in Queens US manhattanites, 1245 01:21:25,635 --> 01:21:28,595 Speaker 1: we call it the fifty ninth Street Bridge. There's a song, 1246 01:21:29,035 --> 01:21:33,195 Speaker 1: the fifty ninth Street song, fifty ninth Bridge strong song. 1247 01:21:36,155 --> 01:21:37,755 Speaker 1: So we went and sat in the new park that 1248 01:21:37,795 --> 01:21:41,035 Speaker 1: they built in some I don't know, I think abandoned 1249 01:21:41,075 --> 01:21:44,435 Speaker 1: exit from the FDR drive, and the breeze was perfect. 1250 01:21:44,475 --> 01:21:46,395 Speaker 1: It was a little warm, but the breeze was perfect 1251 01:21:46,435 --> 01:21:49,675 Speaker 1: in me nay, barely able to raise his head, sat 1252 01:21:49,715 --> 01:21:53,915 Speaker 1: there and took little SIPs of water from water that 1253 01:21:53,995 --> 01:21:57,155 Speaker 1: I put on his tongue with my finger, and he 1254 01:21:57,155 --> 01:22:01,315 Speaker 1: would stretch, stretching like he was asleep and just stretching, 1255 01:22:02,195 --> 01:22:08,235 Speaker 1: getting comfortable and sitting there with me and communing. Supposed 1256 01:22:08,275 --> 01:22:10,315 Speaker 1: to be there. I think my plan was, I guess 1257 01:22:10,435 --> 01:22:12,035 Speaker 1: half an hour or an hour and then take him 1258 01:22:12,035 --> 01:22:16,195 Speaker 1: inside and give him the medication that would end his life. Well, 1259 01:22:16,235 --> 01:22:20,315 Speaker 1: we were there three and a half hours. Again, what's 1260 01:22:20,355 --> 01:22:27,235 Speaker 1: the rush there is? I will say this for any 1261 01:22:27,275 --> 01:22:30,155 Speaker 1: dog owner who worries about their dog, and I shouldn't 1262 01:22:30,155 --> 01:22:32,835 Speaker 1: say owner, anybody owned by a dog who worries about 1263 01:22:32,835 --> 01:22:35,835 Speaker 1: their dog. There is an extraordinary liberation to a time 1264 01:22:35,915 --> 01:22:38,715 Speaker 1: like that. Make it three and a half hours. Take 1265 01:22:38,795 --> 01:22:42,075 Speaker 1: him out of the hospital. What's the difference. Give him 1266 01:22:42,075 --> 01:22:45,435 Speaker 1: a cigarette. You're not going to hurt him, That's what 1267 01:22:45,555 --> 01:22:47,755 Speaker 1: I said. They said, Well, if he begins to have it, 1268 01:22:47,875 --> 01:22:51,315 Speaker 1: he has another seizure, bring him back. I was like, why, 1269 01:22:53,595 --> 01:22:57,075 Speaker 1: what's gonna harm him? We want him to die painlessly. 1270 01:22:57,595 --> 01:23:00,075 Speaker 1: That's all I'm concerned about. Is he in pain? Doesn't 1271 01:23:00,075 --> 01:23:04,155 Speaker 1: look like it. So we sat out there for three 1272 01:23:04,155 --> 01:23:05,835 Speaker 1: and a half hour and it was a period of 1273 01:23:05,835 --> 01:23:12,755 Speaker 1: time with no fear or anxiety or stress or how 1274 01:23:12,795 --> 01:23:16,195 Speaker 1: can I screw this up? And he seemed to enjoy 1275 01:23:16,235 --> 01:23:20,595 Speaker 1: it too. The breeze was wonderful. He always loved the 1276 01:23:20,595 --> 01:23:23,075 Speaker 1: breeze in New York City. And the sounds of the 1277 01:23:23,155 --> 01:23:26,595 Speaker 1: FDR drive and the river and the bridge and the 1278 01:23:26,675 --> 01:23:32,315 Speaker 1: tram going overhead. My god. And then I reached put 1279 01:23:32,395 --> 01:23:34,875 Speaker 1: some water on his tongue and he didn't really respond 1280 01:23:34,875 --> 01:23:37,875 Speaker 1: to it. And he hadn't stretched in probably twenty twenty 1281 01:23:37,875 --> 01:23:43,675 Speaker 1: five minutes. A couple of birds flew by, and I thought, 1282 01:23:44,075 --> 01:23:51,835 Speaker 1: it's time the rest of it. If you've ever been 1283 01:23:51,835 --> 01:23:56,635 Speaker 1: through it fairly routine, me nay, good to the last drop, 1284 01:23:57,875 --> 01:24:06,315 Speaker 1: gets the injection and one last convinced moment. But he 1285 01:24:06,355 --> 01:24:13,515 Speaker 1: was at the peapad. He peed on my pants. I 1286 01:24:13,555 --> 01:24:27,395 Speaker 1: actually smiled. He broke the tension. A wax philosophical at 1287 01:24:27,435 --> 01:24:32,795 Speaker 1: a later time about the value of adopting for being 1288 01:24:32,795 --> 01:24:36,595 Speaker 1: adopted by a geriatric dog not just a senior dog, 1289 01:24:36,595 --> 01:24:38,995 Speaker 1: but a senior dog is okay too, But a dog 1290 01:24:39,035 --> 01:24:45,995 Speaker 1: that needs a home nothing like it. A wax philosophical 1291 01:24:46,035 --> 01:24:48,995 Speaker 1: and poetic about that at some future time, spare me 1292 01:24:50,115 --> 01:24:57,955 Speaker 1: doing it now. I will give him credit for extraordinary timing. 1293 01:24:58,955 --> 01:25:03,995 Speaker 1: I got to seventeen. Anything else you need, all right, 1294 01:25:05,115 --> 01:25:13,395 Speaker 1: check please mine. Jermaine Oberman, July fifteenth, two thousand and 1295 01:25:13,515 --> 01:25:26,555 Speaker 1: seven to July twenty first, twenty twenty four. Thank you, 1296 01:25:28,635 --> 01:25:45,355 Speaker 1: thank you. I've done all the damage I can do here. 1297 01:25:45,435 --> 01:25:48,355 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and 1298 01:25:48,395 --> 01:25:51,555 Speaker 1: John Phillip Shaneil arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 1299 01:25:51,955 --> 01:25:54,755 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanelle 1300 01:25:54,795 --> 01:25:58,035 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. 1301 01:25:58,435 --> 01:26:01,835 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged 1302 01:26:01,875 --> 01:26:05,155 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed to music 1303 01:26:05,195 --> 01:26:07,475 Speaker 1: is the Old Woman theme from ESPN two, written by 1304 01:26:07,475 --> 01:26:10,355 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN, Inc. If we ever 1305 01:26:10,435 --> 01:26:13,675 Speaker 1: run sports again, talk to me about it in November. 1306 01:26:14,315 --> 01:26:17,395 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, 1307 01:26:17,475 --> 01:26:20,715 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. My announcer today is 1308 01:26:20,715 --> 01:26:23,675 Speaker 1: my friend Dennis Leary. Everything else was pretty much my 1309 01:26:23,795 --> 01:26:28,795 Speaker 1: fault and everything else was dedicated to me. Nay, that's 1310 01:26:28,835 --> 01:26:30,875 Speaker 1: countdown with this the one hundred and sixth day until 1311 01:26:30,875 --> 01:26:33,995 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, the two hundred and 1312 01:26:34,035 --> 01:26:37,635 Speaker 1: ninety third day since convicted Feldon Donald Trump's first attempted 1313 01:26:37,715 --> 01:26:40,435 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 1314 01:26:40,955 --> 01:26:45,035 Speaker 1: Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the mental health system. 1315 01:26:45,395 --> 01:26:48,995 Speaker 1: You've got it, mister president. Use presidential immunity to stop 1316 01:26:49,075 --> 01:26:53,195 Speaker 1: the crazy old man from doing it again while we 1317 01:26:53,235 --> 01:26:59,155 Speaker 1: still can, while you still can. And Republicans, please stop 1318 01:26:59,275 --> 01:27:03,715 Speaker 1: shooting at Trump. By the way, I will never be 1319 01:27:03,875 --> 01:27:08,715 Speaker 1: not convinced that mine stuck around to hear that President 1320 01:27:08,755 --> 01:27:11,675 Speaker 1: Biden had made the courageous decision that he'd made. For 1321 01:27:11,755 --> 01:27:15,475 Speaker 1: all I know, mine caused it. Look, come over here, 1322 01:27:15,555 --> 01:27:18,795 Speaker 1: you can jump with me. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow. 1323 01:27:18,875 --> 01:27:22,155 Speaker 1: Bulletins as the news requires. Until then, I'm Keith Aldreraman. 1324 01:27:22,235 --> 01:27:40,075 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 1325 01:27:40,195 --> 01:27:44,515 Speaker 1: Keith Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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