1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Republicans 2 00:00:23,075 --> 00:00:27,555 Speaker 1: are back on the air. Christ's boss said yesterday, twenty 3 00:00:27,555 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: four hours after Christian I'm on Poor had politely vivisected 4 00:00:31,195 --> 00:00:33,915 Speaker 1: Chris Lick in front of all those new Columbia J 5 00:00:34,075 --> 00:00:38,595 Speaker 1: School grads. Republicans weren't on the air during the McCarthy hearings. 6 00:00:38,595 --> 00:00:41,875 Speaker 1: For those four days. We had seventy five Republicans on 7 00:00:41,915 --> 00:00:45,035 Speaker 1: the air. Forty one went on us before they went 8 00:00:45,075 --> 00:00:48,595 Speaker 1: on Fox. And the reason is they are not going 9 00:00:48,635 --> 00:00:52,715 Speaker 1: to get one more vote on Fox. And Trump is 10 00:00:52,795 --> 00:00:55,915 Speaker 1: quote the front runner, he has to be on our network. 11 00:00:55,955 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: We're happy he's coming on our network. Thus did David Zaslav, 12 00:01:01,915 --> 00:01:06,435 Speaker 1: chairman of Warner Bros. Discovery and the man who inflicted 13 00:01:06,475 --> 00:01:09,395 Speaker 1: the challenged Chris lickt upon the network that used to 14 00:01:09,475 --> 00:01:13,835 Speaker 1: be CNN. Thus did he double down on his metaphorical 15 00:01:14,315 --> 00:01:19,355 Speaker 1: suicide packed with Chris lickt. Zaslav was speaking at a 16 00:01:19,355 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: media conference in New York. Blissfull announcing, quote, advertisers are 17 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:25,475 Speaker 1: interested in CNN again. They don't want to be part 18 00:01:25,515 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 1: of an advocacy network. Unquote. While in the same breath 19 00:01:30,275 --> 00:01:34,795 Speaker 1: as you heard he was promoting CNN as an advocacy 20 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:38,995 Speaker 1: network for Republicans for their hopes of getting re elected. 21 00:01:40,675 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: But of course this plan tout the fact that a 22 00:01:43,635 --> 00:01:45,995 Speaker 1: poll shows overall trust in your network is up by 23 00:01:45,995 --> 00:01:49,195 Speaker 1: eleven points, but omit the fact that that's last place 24 00:01:49,235 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: that overall trusted MSNBC is up by sixteen points in Fox, 25 00:01:52,595 --> 00:01:56,635 Speaker 1: by seventeen, in NBC by twenty three. Destroy your primetime 26 00:01:56,675 --> 00:01:59,035 Speaker 1: to build up your mornings, and then destroy your mornings 27 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:01,715 Speaker 1: to build up your primetime. End the career of your 28 00:02:01,755 --> 00:02:05,195 Speaker 1: signature anchor Anderson Cooper and ended so quickly he's being 29 00:02:05,235 --> 00:02:08,355 Speaker 1: beaten in the ratings two nights running by Eric freaking 30 00:02:08,635 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: Bowling on Newsmax. Proclaim the rebirth of the old CNN 31 00:02:13,875 --> 00:02:16,675 Speaker 1: and then get called out in public by the symbol 32 00:02:16,755 --> 00:02:22,395 Speaker 1: of the old CNN in a'manport and especially increase advertising 33 00:02:22,995 --> 00:02:30,155 Speaker 1: by decreasing viewership. This plan has to work, and Chris 34 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:33,755 Speaker 1: licked has to be right, because if Chris Lickt isn't 35 00:02:33,835 --> 00:02:39,395 Speaker 1: right and this plan doesn't work, then David Zaslav isn't right. 36 00:02:41,075 --> 00:02:45,475 Speaker 1: And if David Zaslav isn't right, he's up that creek. 37 00:02:46,115 --> 00:02:50,915 Speaker 1: Because last week half of the shareholders of Warner Bros' 38 00:02:51,235 --> 00:02:55,435 Speaker 1: Discovery voted that they are paying him too much as 39 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:59,155 Speaker 1: it is, and a stock market expert quoted by Deadline 40 00:02:59,195 --> 00:03:02,275 Speaker 1: dot Com says that when firms hold those votes about 41 00:03:02,315 --> 00:03:05,835 Speaker 1: compensation for CEOs and the sea, the EO's compensation is 42 00:03:05,835 --> 00:03:09,195 Speaker 1: approved by anything less than seventy percent, that is quote 43 00:03:09,235 --> 00:03:14,795 Speaker 1: pretty dismal. So right now, even before everybody in the 44 00:03:14,795 --> 00:03:18,915 Speaker 1: world except David Zaslab and Chris Licht thought David Zaslab 45 00:03:18,955 --> 00:03:22,275 Speaker 1: and Chris Lickt had destroyed an expensive asset called CNN, 46 00:03:22,515 --> 00:03:25,395 Speaker 1: David zaz last chances of lasting that much longer at 47 00:03:25,435 --> 00:03:28,795 Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Discovery would have had to have been described 48 00:03:28,835 --> 00:03:35,355 Speaker 1: as quote pretty dismal. So the zaz Lav Lickt plan 49 00:03:35,955 --> 00:03:40,795 Speaker 1: has to work. The zaz Lab lick plan thus is working. 50 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:44,595 Speaker 1: The Zaslav lickd plan is working very well. And if 51 00:03:44,595 --> 00:03:49,115 Speaker 1: it's not just Anderson Cooper falling to fourth place behind Newsmax, 52 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:53,995 Speaker 1: it's also Aaron Burnett. And if that happens, you just say, well, no, 53 00:03:54,115 --> 00:03:58,595 Speaker 1: the advertisers are with us. And if your chief international 54 00:03:58,595 --> 00:04:03,235 Speaker 1: correspondent now disembowels Chris Lickt and your chief international investigative 55 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:06,755 Speaker 1: correspondent and your Hong Kong anchor echo her and say 56 00:04:06,795 --> 00:04:10,035 Speaker 1: she's given a masterclass in journalism and about the danger 57 00:04:10,075 --> 00:04:13,075 Speaker 1: of both sides ism. You can just go on CNBC 58 00:04:13,235 --> 00:04:16,555 Speaker 1: and shout, we need to show both sides of every issue, 59 00:04:17,075 --> 00:04:20,715 Speaker 1: and you point at Caitlin Collins and never, never, never, 60 00:04:21,275 --> 00:04:28,875 Speaker 1: never admit the zaslav licked plan is a suicide pact. 61 00:04:31,995 --> 00:04:35,275 Speaker 1: When I was seven, my parents did something I had 62 00:04:35,315 --> 00:04:41,835 Speaker 1: never seen them do before. They bought new furniture. At 63 00:04:41,875 --> 00:04:44,235 Speaker 1: the age of thirty seven. My dad finally felt sure 64 00:04:44,355 --> 00:04:48,315 Speaker 1: enough about his toe hold at the corner of the 65 00:04:48,315 --> 00:04:52,795 Speaker 1: middle class, so he bought a dining room set. And 66 00:04:52,995 --> 00:04:59,915 Speaker 1: inside this unspeakable extravagance, there was something magical, something that 67 00:05:00,035 --> 00:05:05,955 Speaker 1: left the neighbors speechless. The new dining room chairs swiveled, 68 00:05:08,035 --> 00:05:11,155 Speaker 1: and one of our neighbors, I'll call her Gene, who 69 00:05:11,315 --> 00:05:15,115 Speaker 1: was the expert on dining room sets and drapes and 70 00:05:15,195 --> 00:05:20,115 Speaker 1: clothes and chairs that swiveled. She wasn't even jealous. Jean 71 00:05:20,395 --> 00:05:25,395 Speaker 1: just congratulated my parents and unashamedly admitted her envy of 72 00:05:25,435 --> 00:05:29,195 Speaker 1: the swivel chairs. And then came the day the dining 73 00:05:29,275 --> 00:05:32,275 Speaker 1: room set was delivered, and the manufacturer called and apologized 74 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:35,475 Speaker 1: and said the chairs that swiveled, they had been delayed 75 00:05:35,515 --> 00:05:37,715 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, so in the interim they were 76 00:05:37,755 --> 00:05:40,275 Speaker 1: loaning us the version of the same chairs, but they 77 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:45,155 Speaker 1: didn't swivel. And Jeane heard about the delivery somehow and 78 00:05:45,235 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: came right over and looked at the brand new dining 79 00:05:47,675 --> 00:05:50,475 Speaker 1: room set and gushed. And she looked at the swivel 80 00:05:50,555 --> 00:05:53,795 Speaker 1: chairs that didn't swivel, and she said, may I like 81 00:05:53,875 --> 00:05:57,115 Speaker 1: they were Porsches. And she sat down and she said, 82 00:05:57,275 --> 00:06:00,475 Speaker 1: my God, swivel chairs. And even though they did not swivel, 83 00:06:00,515 --> 00:06:03,515 Speaker 1: she made them swivel. She picked them up and pretended 84 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:07,035 Speaker 1: they were swivel, and she moved them. And she promised 85 00:06:07,035 --> 00:06:10,915 Speaker 1: herself out loud, someday soon she'd get swivel chairs that swiveled. 86 00:06:10,915 --> 00:06:13,915 Speaker 1: This wonderfully. And if she said, as God is my witness, 87 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:17,315 Speaker 1: I'll never have chairs that don't swivel again, I wouldn't 88 00:06:17,315 --> 00:06:20,635 Speaker 1: have been a bit surprised. And my parents and I 89 00:06:20,715 --> 00:06:23,915 Speaker 1: held in our laughter until Jean left. And my parents 90 00:06:24,035 --> 00:06:27,355 Speaker 1: live the rest of their lives without ever telling her. 91 00:06:27,635 --> 00:06:33,715 Speaker 1: And David Zaslov is Gene, and so is christ Chris 92 00:06:33,755 --> 00:06:39,475 Speaker 1: Licked is also gene the chairs swivel. The chairs must swivel. Look, 93 00:06:39,635 --> 00:06:43,315 Speaker 1: let me swivel them for you. I will never admit 94 00:06:43,355 --> 00:06:46,315 Speaker 1: these chairs don't swivel. The plan is working. Having one 95 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: programming decision be the lead media story in the country 96 00:06:49,155 --> 00:06:50,955 Speaker 1: for ten days with no end in sight for the 97 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:54,675 Speaker 1: ridicule means it's working. Falling behind newsbacks which looks like 98 00:06:54,715 --> 00:06:58,275 Speaker 1: it's filmed in somebody's damn basement means it's working. Pretending 99 00:06:58,275 --> 00:07:01,715 Speaker 1: to be restoring even handed journalism and then being humiliated 100 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:04,795 Speaker 1: at Columbia Journalism School by our leading even hand and 101 00:07:04,835 --> 00:07:06,275 Speaker 1: the journalist means it's working. 102 00:07:06,595 --> 00:07:09,995 Speaker 2: As God is my witness, It'll never not be working again. 103 00:07:12,875 --> 00:07:18,035 Speaker 1: Bottom line. If it's not working, and it's not, we 104 00:07:18,115 --> 00:07:23,275 Speaker 1: all know how this ends. When CNN falls to fifth 105 00:07:23,315 --> 00:07:28,395 Speaker 1: place or sixth behind I don't know the international news 106 00:07:28,635 --> 00:07:32,435 Speaker 1: in Welsh Channel, the people who decide whether or not 107 00:07:32,555 --> 00:07:35,955 Speaker 1: Zaslab is still CEO will tell him to fix this, 108 00:07:36,595 --> 00:07:39,835 Speaker 1: and he will fire Licked or shuttle him off somewhere 109 00:07:39,835 --> 00:07:42,955 Speaker 1: else in the company. And when that doesn't save CNN, 110 00:07:43,275 --> 00:07:47,435 Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Will Sell CNN off and somebody else will 111 00:07:47,435 --> 00:07:49,595 Speaker 1: have to try to rebuild it. And if Warner Bros. 112 00:07:50,035 --> 00:07:53,195 Speaker 1: Has lost too much money, or they realize Zaslav has 113 00:07:53,235 --> 00:07:58,035 Speaker 1: really screwed up that CNN thing, they will fire him. 114 00:07:58,755 --> 00:08:01,035 Speaker 1: By the way, if you have seen this guy Zaslab 115 00:08:01,155 --> 00:08:06,315 Speaker 1: on television where he's boasting about how fewer viewers means 116 00:08:06,635 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: more advertising money, or you've seen his picture online somewhere, 117 00:08:10,555 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: and you've said, I know this man. Where do I 118 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:16,315 Speaker 1: know this man from? I know this man. He is 119 00:08:16,355 --> 00:08:20,995 Speaker 1: a dead ringer for Biff Tannin from Back to the Future, 120 00:08:21,075 --> 00:08:26,875 Speaker 1: Biff Tannin, Biff Tannin with glasses, David Zaslov evidently Biff 121 00:08:26,955 --> 00:08:30,035 Speaker 1: Tannon with glasses, but without any knowledge of the future. 122 00:08:32,555 --> 00:08:37,035 Speaker 1: So CNN in Crisis the Latest the day after Amen 123 00:08:37,115 --> 00:08:43,515 Speaker 1: For's speech at Columbia Jay School detached reasonable respectable defenestration 124 00:08:43,595 --> 00:08:47,595 Speaker 1: of Licht and by implication Zaslav. There was no great 125 00:08:47,675 --> 00:08:50,395 Speaker 1: rush to the podiums by CNN's lead figures, and why 126 00:08:50,435 --> 00:08:53,475 Speaker 1: would there be. Anderson Cooper has never been a journalist. 127 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:56,555 Speaker 1: They hired him away from The Mole. He was the 128 00:08:56,555 --> 00:08:59,755 Speaker 1: host of The Mole, and last week he showed he 129 00:08:59,755 --> 00:09:02,715 Speaker 1: has never understood what his journalistic audience was watching for 130 00:09:02,915 --> 00:09:05,515 Speaker 1: when he got angry at them and yelled at them 131 00:09:05,755 --> 00:09:08,075 Speaker 1: for having had the audacity to question the people who 132 00:09:08,155 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: give him all that money. Aaron Burnett is not a journalist. 133 00:09:12,675 --> 00:09:15,515 Speaker 1: She was a Goldman Sachs and then she was a 134 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:19,275 Speaker 1: business reporter, and on her first day anchoring at CNN, 135 00:09:19,475 --> 00:09:22,395 Speaker 1: she went to the Occupy Wall Street protest and she 136 00:09:22,715 --> 00:09:25,635 Speaker 1: sat down on the sidewalk and mocked something that she 137 00:09:25,755 --> 00:09:28,875 Speaker 1: didn't understand and was surprised when there was blowback, And honestly, 138 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:31,435 Speaker 1: I think the CNN folks are just happy she did 139 00:09:31,475 --> 00:09:35,315 Speaker 1: not mock Christiane Amanpour on her show last night. Caitlin 140 00:09:35,395 --> 00:09:37,915 Speaker 1: Collins has never been a journalist. She was a Fox 141 00:09:38,035 --> 00:09:41,955 Speaker 1: News guest pushing the anti Semitic George Soros trope one 142 00:09:42,035 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: day for The Daily Caller and then standing in front 143 00:09:44,435 --> 00:09:47,115 Speaker 1: of the White House for CNN the next. And I'd 144 00:09:47,115 --> 00:09:49,195 Speaker 1: mentioned a few of the other non journalists for whom 145 00:09:49,315 --> 00:09:54,275 Speaker 1: Amanpours dignified and scornful evisceration of her new insect overlords 146 00:09:54,275 --> 00:09:56,755 Speaker 1: went right over their heads. But honestly, I don't know 147 00:09:56,795 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: who any of them are. In the wake of the 148 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:05,715 Speaker 1: Zaslab stuff, I did hear too newsy things from inside 149 00:10:05,755 --> 00:10:09,315 Speaker 1: CNN yesterday, which as an organization sounds about as happy 150 00:10:09,355 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: a place right now as RMS Titanic. Only if the 151 00:10:14,235 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: crew of RMS Titanic knew in advance that they were 152 00:10:17,235 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: going to hit the iceberg, and they were so depressed 153 00:10:20,515 --> 00:10:23,355 Speaker 1: and disheartened that they knew about it in advance, but 154 00:10:23,435 --> 00:10:27,515 Speaker 1: they had given up trying to prevent it. I heard 155 00:10:27,675 --> 00:10:30,235 Speaker 1: that the evidence is vague, but it looks like Licked 156 00:10:30,355 --> 00:10:32,715 Speaker 1: or one of his henchmen continue to stay in touch 157 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:36,275 Speaker 1: with the Trump people about another appearance of some kind 158 00:10:36,595 --> 00:10:42,035 Speaker 1: on CNN, maybe even another town hall, because the plan 159 00:10:42,155 --> 00:10:46,995 Speaker 1: is working. Secondly, I heard that while Lickty is furious 160 00:10:47,075 --> 00:10:49,915 Speaker 1: that Amman for his Columbia speech, he has actually had 161 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:52,755 Speaker 1: the presence of mind not to do anything to her, 162 00:10:53,035 --> 00:10:55,475 Speaker 1: because he may never admit this even to himself, but 163 00:10:55,555 --> 00:10:57,875 Speaker 1: that is a battle that he would not only lose, 164 00:10:58,315 --> 00:11:00,955 Speaker 1: but would first end up in a walkout of huge 165 00:11:01,035 --> 00:11:05,115 Speaker 1: numbers of staff. Lick may try to avenge himself if later, 166 00:11:05,195 --> 00:11:08,235 Speaker 1: I am told, but only much much later, and as 167 00:11:08,315 --> 00:11:12,835 Speaker 1: mentioned before, he may not have much much later. And 168 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:16,355 Speaker 1: I was thinking about parallels in TV history to what 169 00:11:16,475 --> 00:11:19,315 Speaker 1: Christian Amanpour did on Wednesday at Columbia, and I can 170 00:11:19,355 --> 00:11:22,475 Speaker 1: think of only two, one of great importance that went 171 00:11:23,395 --> 00:11:25,475 Speaker 1: I think the right word is tragically, and one that 172 00:11:25,675 --> 00:11:29,155 Speaker 1: was fairly trivial and not at all tragic. The fairly 173 00:11:29,235 --> 00:11:32,595 Speaker 1: trivial one. I gave the equivalent of the commencement speech 174 00:11:32,635 --> 00:11:35,435 Speaker 1: at Cornell in nineteen ninety one, and I dedicated it 175 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:40,355 Speaker 1: to attacking television news, specifically my own program, and its 176 00:11:40,395 --> 00:11:43,715 Speaker 1: obsession with covering the Clinton Lewinsky story, especially even when 177 00:11:43,715 --> 00:11:47,155 Speaker 1: there were days and weeks that passed without any actual 178 00:11:47,275 --> 00:11:52,435 Speaker 1: news to cover. MSNBC did not retaliate against me in 179 00:11:52,515 --> 00:11:57,115 Speaker 1: any way, which was their way of retaliating against me, 180 00:11:57,195 --> 00:11:59,675 Speaker 1: because I was, in point of fact, trying to get 181 00:11:59,675 --> 00:12:02,515 Speaker 1: onto a different show, or get released from my contract, 182 00:12:02,595 --> 00:12:05,475 Speaker 1: or just get fired or something. And of course they 183 00:12:05,475 --> 00:12:07,315 Speaker 1: didn't do any of that, and my ratings went up 184 00:12:07,355 --> 00:12:09,635 Speaker 1: after my speech telling people not to watch the show, 185 00:12:09,715 --> 00:12:16,035 Speaker 1: so they made me stay another six months. However, Christian's 186 00:12:16,075 --> 00:12:21,275 Speaker 1: speech reminded me more in tone, if not in relative specificity, 187 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:25,355 Speaker 1: to the one given on October fifteenth, nineteen fifty eight. 188 00:12:26,475 --> 00:12:29,995 Speaker 1: Edward R. Murrow stood up on that day before the 189 00:12:30,115 --> 00:12:34,035 Speaker 1: radio and television news Directors Association in Chicago and began 190 00:12:34,155 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: a speech with this just might do nobody any good. 191 00:12:40,515 --> 00:12:45,555 Speaker 1: He proceeded for nearly an hour to take the television 192 00:12:45,635 --> 00:12:49,555 Speaker 1: industry apart because it was so dedicated to spending money 193 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:54,235 Speaker 1: on entertainment and not on news. And little did he 194 00:12:54,315 --> 00:12:56,515 Speaker 1: know he was living in the golden age of dedication 195 00:12:56,675 --> 00:13:01,115 Speaker 1: to news. Quote. Our history will be what we make it. 196 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:04,875 Speaker 1: And if there are any historians about fifty or one 197 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:07,715 Speaker 1: hundred years from now, he said, and there should be 198 00:13:07,755 --> 00:13:11,155 Speaker 1: preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, 199 00:13:11,475 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 1: they will there find recorded in black and white, or 200 00:13:14,315 --> 00:13:19,555 Speaker 1: perhaps in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from 201 00:13:19,555 --> 00:13:22,875 Speaker 1: the realities of the world in which we live. I 202 00:13:22,955 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks 203 00:13:26,835 --> 00:13:29,715 Speaker 1: between the hours of eight and eleven PM Eastern time. 204 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:34,355 Speaker 1: Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to 205 00:13:34,395 --> 00:13:38,835 Speaker 1: the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. There are, 206 00:13:39,115 --> 00:13:43,795 Speaker 1: it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual 207 00:13:43,835 --> 00:13:49,035 Speaker 1: ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, 208 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:53,475 Speaker 1: television in the main insulates us from the realities of 209 00:13:53,515 --> 00:13:56,435 Speaker 1: the world in which we live. If this state of 210 00:13:56,475 --> 00:14:00,395 Speaker 1: affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read 211 00:14:01,035 --> 00:14:08,315 Speaker 1: look now and pay later. I would send that to 212 00:14:08,395 --> 00:14:11,275 Speaker 1: Chris Lick, but I suspect his response would be Edward R. 213 00:14:11,355 --> 00:14:16,515 Speaker 1: Murrow was he named after the Murrow Award. Murrow ended 214 00:14:16,515 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 1: his nineteen fifty eight Chicago speech with this instrument television. 215 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:27,555 Speaker 1: This instrument can teach, It can illuminate, yes, and it 216 00:14:27,635 --> 00:14:31,035 Speaker 1: even can inspire. But it can do so only to 217 00:14:31,075 --> 00:14:34,635 Speaker 1: the extent that humans are determined to use it to 218 00:14:34,755 --> 00:14:41,555 Speaker 1: those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in 219 00:14:41,635 --> 00:14:47,075 Speaker 1: a box. October fifteenth, nineteen fifty eight. Edward R. Murrow 220 00:14:47,115 --> 00:14:50,635 Speaker 1: would be gone from CBS less than twenty seven months later, 221 00:14:51,275 --> 00:14:54,315 Speaker 1: but then again, that had been foretold. Within weeks after 222 00:14:54,355 --> 00:14:57,595 Speaker 1: he directed his see It Now program and directed it 223 00:14:57,635 --> 00:15:02,115 Speaker 1: against Senator Joe McCarthy, whom Christian Amanport invoked at Columbia, 224 00:15:02,315 --> 00:15:05,995 Speaker 1: not incidentally comparing the original coverage of McCarthy to the 225 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:09,595 Speaker 1: coverage of Trump. After the end of that nineteen fifty 226 00:15:09,635 --> 00:15:14,355 Speaker 1: four TV season, Edward Armuro never again had a regularly 227 00:15:14,395 --> 00:15:23,275 Speaker 1: scheduled program on CBS, so Lastly, what's next here? Let 228 00:15:23,275 --> 00:15:26,275 Speaker 1: me circle back to where I started. David Zaslov is 229 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:28,835 Speaker 1: delighted that Republicans are back on the air at CNN. 230 00:15:28,915 --> 00:15:31,275 Speaker 1: During the McCarthy hearings, for those four days, we had 231 00:15:31,315 --> 00:15:34,355 Speaker 1: seventy five Republicans on the air. Forty one went on 232 00:15:34,435 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: US before they went on Fox. It does not seem 233 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:41,035 Speaker 1: to have occurred to him that his premise requires that 234 00:15:41,075 --> 00:15:44,395 Speaker 1: the old, moderate and skeptical CNN audience, which was not 235 00:15:44,515 --> 00:15:47,595 Speaker 1: very large to begin with, would keep watching this crap, 236 00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:51,235 Speaker 1: and that somehow the conservatives who have spent the last 237 00:15:51,315 --> 00:15:56,635 Speaker 1: ten days celebrating Trump's victory over CNN would suddenly respond 238 00:15:56,675 --> 00:16:00,075 Speaker 1: to that by watching CNN when he is not on it, 239 00:16:00,635 --> 00:16:05,475 Speaker 1: which they won't. But to return to my other point, 240 00:16:05,515 --> 00:16:08,515 Speaker 1: what's actually happening does not matter to zaslab Or licked. 241 00:16:09,035 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: That chair is gonna swivel goddamn it until the chair breaks, 242 00:16:13,435 --> 00:16:17,155 Speaker 1: of course, and the chair will only break when there 243 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:21,835 Speaker 1: is a boycott, not an audience boycott that already started 244 00:16:21,875 --> 00:16:24,755 Speaker 1: and nobody even had to ask. CNN's ratings are already 245 00:16:24,795 --> 00:16:28,315 Speaker 1: down about ten percent from pre Trump town hall levels. 246 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:32,875 Speaker 1: What is needed now is a boycott, But a boycott 247 00:16:32,915 --> 00:16:38,235 Speaker 1: buy Democratic politicians and office holders, if anything, could possibly 248 00:16:38,355 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: snap zaslab and licked out of their delusions that they 249 00:16:41,835 --> 00:16:46,195 Speaker 1: are presenting all voices and killing off the advocacy network, 250 00:16:46,235 --> 00:16:49,275 Speaker 1: when they are in fact emphasizing advocacy at the cost 251 00:16:49,315 --> 00:16:52,715 Speaker 1: of everything else. It would be if Democrats started to 252 00:16:52,795 --> 00:16:55,995 Speaker 1: view CNN for what it is now, not what it 253 00:16:56,155 --> 00:16:59,475 Speaker 1: might have been a year or more ago. The man 254 00:16:59,515 --> 00:17:02,995 Speaker 1: has just told you he is offering his television channel 255 00:17:03,235 --> 00:17:07,635 Speaker 1: two Republicans so they can convince non Fox viewers to 256 00:17:07,875 --> 00:17:13,035 Speaker 1: vote for them. You, the Democratic politician, are now being 257 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:17,635 Speaker 1: invited to appear on an advertising channel for conservatives so 258 00:17:17,675 --> 00:17:21,835 Speaker 1: that conservatives can dunk on you. There is already one 259 00:17:21,835 --> 00:17:25,195 Speaker 1: of those called Fox. You would not go on that network. 260 00:17:25,435 --> 00:17:34,675 Speaker 1: Do not go on this one. Boycott CNN. Also of 261 00:17:34,755 --> 00:17:37,915 Speaker 1: note here you heard the audio yesterday. I played some 262 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:42,275 Speaker 1: of it, Representatives Jamal Bowman and Marjorie Taylor, Barnie Rubble 263 00:17:42,435 --> 00:17:47,315 Speaker 1: White supremacist Karen Green verbally jousting on the steps of 264 00:17:47,315 --> 00:17:51,155 Speaker 1: the Capitol. It seemed to be mostly political theater. Green 265 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:55,835 Speaker 1: was laughing shouting her talking points, smiling as Bowman was 266 00:17:56,235 --> 00:18:01,715 Speaker 1: laughing shouting his talking points. Smiling, she dare I say, 267 00:18:01,715 --> 00:18:08,995 Speaker 1: this looked almost huge. And then yesterday she revealed she 268 00:18:09,195 --> 00:18:15,315 Speaker 1: felt threatened by Congressman Bowman, and she felt when he 269 00:18:15,395 --> 00:18:18,555 Speaker 1: referred to her as a white supremacist, she felt as 270 00:18:18,595 --> 00:18:23,955 Speaker 1: if he had called her the N word, threatened by him. 271 00:18:24,275 --> 00:18:27,595 Speaker 1: If that sounds familiar, remember the woman in Central Park 272 00:18:27,635 --> 00:18:30,795 Speaker 1: who tried to make the cops believe that the African 273 00:18:30,795 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: American bird watcher was threatening her, with the unstated part 274 00:18:35,995 --> 00:18:39,035 Speaker 1: being gee, maybe the police will come here and shoot him. 275 00:18:39,715 --> 00:18:43,595 Speaker 1: And that's what Marjorie Taylor Barney rubble white supremacist Karen 276 00:18:43,635 --> 00:18:48,515 Speaker 1: Green is trying to do here. That's next. This is countdown. 277 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:58,235 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, 278 00:18:58,315 --> 00:19:02,555 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Date line, Washington. 279 00:19:02,955 --> 00:19:04,955 Speaker 1: Just when you thought we had reached the bottom of 280 00:19:04,995 --> 00:19:08,715 Speaker 1: the congressional barrel in terms of stupidity, Oh look, there's 281 00:19:08,795 --> 00:19:12,755 Speaker 1: another barrel beneath this barrel. The Texas Rep. Chip Roy 282 00:19:12,915 --> 00:19:16,755 Speaker 1: is upset about Pride declarations by the Air Force and 283 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:20,515 Speaker 1: Pride Game night scheduled for June first, So he wants 284 00:19:20,595 --> 00:19:24,675 Speaker 1: to defund the air Force. Who's going to tell him 285 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:26,915 Speaker 1: about how difficult it's going to be to fly without 286 00:19:26,915 --> 00:19:57,555 Speaker 1: the Air Force. Thank you, Nancy Faust, Dateline Washington. I 287 00:19:57,635 --> 00:20:00,475 Speaker 1: presume this stuff is being leaked to the newspapers to 288 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:03,835 Speaker 1: increase empathy for Senator Dianne Feinstein, but I'm not sure 289 00:20:04,195 --> 00:20:07,755 Speaker 1: that's what it is actually increasing a series of news 290 00:20:07,755 --> 00:20:10,835 Speaker 1: outlets reporting that she didn't just have shingles these last 291 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:13,275 Speaker 1: three months. It was on her face and it led 292 00:20:13,315 --> 00:20:17,675 Speaker 1: to paralysis and encephalitis. And as somebody who had simple shingles, again, 293 00:20:17,795 --> 00:20:22,235 Speaker 1: I get it, but encephalitis can cause serious confusion, and 294 00:20:22,315 --> 00:20:25,195 Speaker 1: maybe she should just retire now rather than further risk 295 00:20:25,235 --> 00:20:29,075 Speaker 1: her health and the ruination of her previously flawless reputation. 296 00:20:29,555 --> 00:20:33,515 Speaker 1: Also earlier yesterday, Senator Feinstein was asked about the encephalitis 297 00:20:33,555 --> 00:20:36,155 Speaker 1: and she said, no, she'd never had encephalitis. It was 298 00:20:36,395 --> 00:20:42,155 Speaker 1: just bad flu. Dayline, Washington. As I said before the break, 299 00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:46,395 Speaker 1: you heard this yesterday, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green and Jamal 300 00:20:46,475 --> 00:20:50,875 Speaker 1: Bowman verbally jousting outside the Capitol and seeming to have 301 00:20:50,915 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: a little fun doing so. 302 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:54,995 Speaker 2: Are you hanging by your friend? 303 00:20:56,595 --> 00:21:00,675 Speaker 3: Nobody's hanging by a thread. You're a save the party? 304 00:21:01,515 --> 00:21:06,875 Speaker 3: Listen no more doing on, no more, no more test 305 00:21:06,955 --> 00:21:13,075 Speaker 3: sailing nonsense. Come on, now, save the party, We save America, save. 306 00:21:12,955 --> 00:21:15,995 Speaker 1: The children, do something about guns. 307 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:17,155 Speaker 3: Come on. 308 00:21:17,475 --> 00:21:20,995 Speaker 1: That was captured on at least a dozen phone cameras, 309 00:21:21,155 --> 00:21:24,955 Speaker 1: and it seemed to be almost jovial if you assume 310 00:21:25,035 --> 00:21:29,435 Speaker 1: Green can feel human emotions. Today she presented an utterly 311 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:32,955 Speaker 1: different story. Marjorie Taylor Green apparently realized that she had 312 00:21:32,955 --> 00:21:36,955 Speaker 1: missed an opportunity to point fingers at the big, scary 313 00:21:37,075 --> 00:21:41,435 Speaker 1: black man, so she went into full white supremacist Karen. 314 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:45,955 Speaker 4: Jamal Bowman, shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing, 315 00:21:46,395 --> 00:21:49,315 Speaker 4: calling me a horrible not calling me a white supremacist, 316 00:21:49,355 --> 00:21:52,435 Speaker 4: which I take great offense to. That is like calling 317 00:21:52,475 --> 00:21:55,195 Speaker 4: a person of color the N word, which should never happen. 318 00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:58,195 Speaker 4: Calling me a white supremacist is equal to that, and 319 00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:01,675 Speaker 4: that is wrong. Jamal Bowman was down there cursing at me, 320 00:22:01,995 --> 00:22:04,075 Speaker 4: telling me to get the f out of there, and 321 00:22:04,195 --> 00:22:06,875 Speaker 4: he was leading the mob right outside the vehicle I 322 00:22:06,955 --> 00:22:09,475 Speaker 4: was sitting in. We have this all on video, and 323 00:22:09,515 --> 00:22:13,475 Speaker 4: then on the Capitol steps yesterday, he was the one 324 00:22:13,515 --> 00:22:17,955 Speaker 4: that approached me. Even CNN reported that yelling, shouting, raising 325 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:22,595 Speaker 4: his voice. He has aggressive his physical mannerisms are aggressive, 326 00:22:22,915 --> 00:22:28,275 Speaker 4: and he just recently shoved Thomas Massey just outside the 327 00:22:28,275 --> 00:22:31,035 Speaker 4: House chamber. I think there's a lot of concern about 328 00:22:31,155 --> 00:22:34,315 Speaker 4: Jamal Bowman, and I am concerned about it. I feel 329 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:38,155 Speaker 4: threatened by him. He not only let a bob mob. 330 00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:43,115 Speaker 1: There out of her mind, manipulative, lying, hallucinating, endangering Bowmen 331 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:46,355 Speaker 1: and men of color everywhere in this country. She has 332 00:22:46,395 --> 00:22:49,475 Speaker 1: no business in our government on March. The only reason 333 00:22:49,515 --> 00:22:52,955 Speaker 1: anybody would hesitate to call you a white supremacist is 334 00:22:53,315 --> 00:22:57,835 Speaker 1: you are the leading argument against there being anything supreme 335 00:22:58,275 --> 00:23:15,075 Speaker 1: about white people. Coming up sometimes on Fridays with Thurber, 336 00:23:15,155 --> 00:23:17,715 Speaker 1: I'm reading it just for your sake, but on some 337 00:23:17,795 --> 00:23:20,635 Speaker 1: of them, like this time, I would be reading this 338 00:23:20,675 --> 00:23:24,035 Speaker 1: one out loud, just for the catharsis a box to 339 00:23:24,115 --> 00:23:26,715 Speaker 1: hide in. Ahead first to daily round up with the 340 00:23:26,715 --> 00:23:29,675 Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute 341 00:23:29,675 --> 00:23:34,835 Speaker 1: today's first persons in the world. The Bronze I'm gonna 342 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:36,915 Speaker 1: leave her name out of this because she helped me 343 00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:40,435 Speaker 1: get my second job in broadcasting, and she really backed 344 00:23:40,475 --> 00:23:43,355 Speaker 1: me up there, and she wasn't a newscaster she was 345 00:23:43,435 --> 00:23:47,155 Speaker 1: just a music and radio executive. So but forty three 346 00:23:47,195 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: years ago yesterday, the Mount Saint Helen's volcano erupted in 347 00:23:50,515 --> 00:23:54,195 Speaker 1: Washington State, and the RKO Radio network was just getting 348 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:57,915 Speaker 1: on its feet, and for whatever reason, RKO's program director 349 00:23:58,355 --> 00:24:02,515 Speaker 1: had to fill in as a newscaster that day. For months, 350 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:05,515 Speaker 1: as the mountain in Washington State rumboled and gave warnings 351 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:08,995 Speaker 1: of the impending disaster, an eighty three year old bootlegger 352 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:13,275 Speaker 1: and prospector named Harry Truman became a media celebrity because 353 00:24:13,275 --> 00:24:16,595 Speaker 1: he would not leave the small motel he ran at 354 00:24:16,595 --> 00:24:19,995 Speaker 1: the foot of the mountain, Mount Saint Helen's Lodge, even 355 00:24:20,035 --> 00:24:22,515 Speaker 1: though all the guests had left. He said the threat 356 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: of eruption had been exaggerated. And then like the top 357 00:24:26,235 --> 00:24:28,995 Speaker 1: thirteen hundred feet of the mountain blew off forty three 358 00:24:29,075 --> 00:24:31,675 Speaker 1: years ago yesterday, and the whole place was covered with 359 00:24:31,875 --> 00:24:37,755 Speaker 1: volcano and lava and volcanic ash, and everything was destroyed. 360 00:24:37,795 --> 00:24:40,115 Speaker 1: And so our program director, filling in is the newscaster 361 00:24:40,155 --> 00:24:43,115 Speaker 1: announced that, in addition to the destruction, that resident Harry 362 00:24:43,155 --> 00:24:46,915 Speaker 1: Truman had stayed and quote it is assumed the former 363 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:52,635 Speaker 1: president died when the Volcano erupted runner up Elon Musk 364 00:24:52,755 --> 00:24:55,795 Speaker 1: lawsuit against him by six former Twitter employees, and one 365 00:24:55,835 --> 00:24:58,235 Speaker 1: of the plaintiffs, Joseph Killian, who had been in charge 366 00:24:58,235 --> 00:25:01,155 Speaker 1: of office design for Twitter, said that he tried to 367 00:25:01,195 --> 00:25:07,515 Speaker 1: convince Musk's venture capitalist pal Pablo that Musk really could 368 00:25:07,515 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: not get away with, you know, not paying the lease 369 00:25:10,115 --> 00:25:14,875 Speaker 1: on the company's San Francisco headquarters. Killian says, Mendoza told him. 370 00:25:14,915 --> 00:25:17,715 Speaker 1: This is in the lawsuit quote Elon told me he 371 00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:22,515 Speaker 1: would only pay rent over his dead body unquote deal. 372 00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:27,555 Speaker 1: But our winner Ron DeSantis, who supposedly told Donald owners 373 00:25:27,595 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: yesterday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination, 374 00:25:30,875 --> 00:25:35,715 Speaker 1: running in those heels if you had not heard. Disney, 375 00:25:35,755 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: from which I am officially a retiree, if you can 376 00:25:38,235 --> 00:25:41,115 Speaker 1: believe that, and CEO Bob Iger, who I have known 377 00:25:41,155 --> 00:25:44,555 Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy nine, chose yesterday to reveal a slight 378 00:25:44,675 --> 00:25:48,395 Speaker 1: change in Disney plans relative to Florida. The one billion 379 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,555 Speaker 1: dollar Disney office complex they were going to build in 380 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:55,635 Speaker 1: Orlando and move the entire imagineering department there from California 381 00:25:55,675 --> 00:25:58,475 Speaker 1: and have two thousand new Florida jobs at an average 382 00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:02,555 Speaker 1: salary of a one hundred and twenty thousand dollars per canceled. 383 00:26:03,315 --> 00:26:08,555 Speaker 1: Everybody stays in, So sorry, Ronda, Florida. 384 00:26:08,155 --> 00:26:11,635 Speaker 2: Governor Ron did you also notice the Disney guy saying 385 00:26:11,675 --> 00:26:14,315 Speaker 2: they still have seventeen billion dollars they plan to spend 386 00:26:14,315 --> 00:26:17,355 Speaker 2: on Florida construction at Disney World in thirteen thousand new 387 00:26:17,355 --> 00:26:18,235 Speaker 2: Florida jobs. 388 00:26:18,275 --> 00:26:20,595 Speaker 1: And now he says, I hope we're able to do that. 389 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:26,675 Speaker 1: Dissentus today's worst person in. 390 00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 3: The world, including Lada. 391 00:26:44,355 --> 00:26:48,595 Speaker 1: It's been a long week. And every time I find 392 00:26:48,595 --> 00:26:52,835 Speaker 1: myself thinking it's been a long week, I like to 393 00:26:52,875 --> 00:26:55,755 Speaker 1: turn to my book of James Thurber, and it's Fridays 394 00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:57,795 Speaker 1: with Thurber. And it's been a few fridays since I've 395 00:26:57,795 --> 00:27:00,955 Speaker 1: done any James Thurber. And so let's start at the beginning. 396 00:27:01,435 --> 00:27:04,195 Speaker 1: As I've mentioned many times, I read this story first 397 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:07,475 Speaker 1: aloud in a class in college in nineteen seventy nine, 398 00:27:07,515 --> 00:27:09,115 Speaker 1: and a friend of mine came up to me and said, 399 00:27:09,155 --> 00:27:12,275 Speaker 1: you should forget that sportscasting thing. You should read Thurber 400 00:27:12,355 --> 00:27:15,355 Speaker 1: for a living, And I said, yeah, that'll ever happen. 401 00:27:16,555 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: This is, for some reason salvation for me. Catharsis and 402 00:27:21,555 --> 00:27:24,315 Speaker 1: every other emotion that is appropriate after it has been 403 00:27:24,955 --> 00:27:31,955 Speaker 1: a long week. A Box to Hide In by James Thurber. 404 00:27:34,515 --> 00:27:38,955 Speaker 1: I waited till the large woman with the awful hat 405 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: took up her sack of groceries and went out, peering 406 00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:47,955 Speaker 1: at the tomatoes and the lettuce on her way. The 407 00:27:48,035 --> 00:27:52,315 Speaker 1: clerk asked me what mine was. Have you got a box, 408 00:27:52,755 --> 00:27:56,995 Speaker 1: I asked, A large box. I want a box to 409 00:27:57,075 --> 00:28:02,435 Speaker 1: hide in. You want a box, he asked. I want 410 00:28:02,435 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: a box to hide in, I said. He said, you 411 00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:09,675 Speaker 1: mean a big box. I said, I meant a big box, 412 00:28:09,835 --> 00:28:12,555 Speaker 1: big enough to hold me. I haven't got any boxes, 413 00:28:12,835 --> 00:28:17,675 Speaker 1: he said, only cottons that cans come in. I tried 414 00:28:17,715 --> 00:28:20,195 Speaker 1: several other groceries and none of them had a box 415 00:28:20,235 --> 00:28:23,315 Speaker 1: big enough for me to hide in. There was nothing 416 00:28:23,395 --> 00:28:28,635 Speaker 1: for it but to face life out. I didn't feel strong, 417 00:28:28,835 --> 00:28:31,995 Speaker 1: and I'd had this overpowering desire to hide in a 418 00:28:32,035 --> 00:28:37,715 Speaker 1: box for a long time. Well, what do you mean 419 00:28:37,755 --> 00:28:40,435 Speaker 1: you want to hide in this box? One grocer asked me. 420 00:28:41,635 --> 00:28:45,555 Speaker 1: It's a form of escape. I told him, hiding in 421 00:28:45,595 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: a box. It circumscribes your worries in the range of 422 00:28:50,355 --> 00:28:55,075 Speaker 1: your anguish. You don't see people either, how the hell 423 00:28:55,075 --> 00:28:57,715 Speaker 1: do you eat when you're in this box? Asked the grocer. 424 00:28:57,755 --> 00:29:00,235 Speaker 1: I don't the hell do you get anything to eat? 425 00:29:00,555 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: I said, I had never been in a box and 426 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,835 Speaker 1: didn't know, but that that would take care of itself. Well, 427 00:29:06,155 --> 00:29:09,555 Speaker 1: he said, finally, I haven't got any boxes, only some 428 00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:14,475 Speaker 1: pasteboard curtains that cans come in. It was the same 429 00:29:14,915 --> 00:29:18,275 Speaker 1: every place. I gave up when it got dark and 430 00:29:18,315 --> 00:29:22,675 Speaker 1: the groceries closed, and hid in my room again. I 431 00:29:22,755 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: turned out the light and lay on the bed. You 432 00:29:25,315 --> 00:29:29,195 Speaker 1: feel better when it gets dark. I could have hit 433 00:29:29,275 --> 00:29:33,915 Speaker 1: in a closet, I suppose, but people are always opening doors. 434 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:38,875 Speaker 1: Somebody would find you in a closet. They would be startled, 435 00:29:38,955 --> 00:29:41,395 Speaker 1: and you'd have to tell them why you're in the closet. 436 00:29:41,795 --> 00:29:45,235 Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention to a big box lying on the floor. 437 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:49,755 Speaker 1: You could stay in it for days and nobody'd think 438 00:29:49,915 --> 00:29:56,555 Speaker 1: to look in it, not even the cleaning woman. My 439 00:29:56,835 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: cleaning woman came the next morning and woke me up, 440 00:29:59,635 --> 00:30:02,555 Speaker 1: and I was still feeling bad. I asked her if 441 00:30:02,595 --> 00:30:05,595 Speaker 1: she knew where I could get a large box. How 442 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:09,395 Speaker 1: big a box you want, she asked, I want a 443 00:30:09,435 --> 00:30:11,955 Speaker 1: box big enough for me to get inside of I said. 444 00:30:13,075 --> 00:30:17,475 Speaker 1: She looked at me with big dim eyes. There's something 445 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:21,355 Speaker 1: wrong with her glands. She's awful, but she has a 446 00:30:21,395 --> 00:30:26,075 Speaker 1: big heart, which makes it worse. She's unbearable. Her husband 447 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:28,515 Speaker 1: is sick, and her children are sick, and she is 448 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:30,995 Speaker 1: sick too. I got to thinking how pleasant it would 449 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,955 Speaker 1: be if I were in a box now and didn't 450 00:30:32,955 --> 00:30:35,075 Speaker 1: have to see her. I'd be in a box right 451 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:37,275 Speaker 1: there in the room, and she wouldn't know. I wondered 452 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: if you had a desire to bark or laugh when 453 00:30:40,995 --> 00:30:44,595 Speaker 1: someone who doesn't know walks by the box you're in, 454 00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:48,875 Speaker 1: maybe she would have a spell with her heart. If 455 00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:53,315 Speaker 1: I did that would die right there. The officers and 456 00:30:53,355 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: the elevator man and mister Grammage would find us funny. 457 00:30:57,035 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: Dog gone thing happened at the building last night. The 458 00:30:59,835 --> 00:31:01,955 Speaker 1: doorman would say to his wife, HI led in this 459 00:31:01,995 --> 00:31:04,035 Speaker 1: woman to clean up ten f and she never come out. 460 00:31:04,075 --> 00:31:06,435 Speaker 1: See she's never in there more in an hour, but 461 00:31:06,515 --> 00:31:09,115 Speaker 1: she never come out. See. So when it got time 462 00:31:09,155 --> 00:31:11,035 Speaker 1: for me to go off duty, whis says to credit 463 00:31:11,075 --> 00:31:12,875 Speaker 1: who was on the elevator, I says, what the hell 464 00:31:12,915 --> 00:31:16,235 Speaker 1: you suppose happened to that woman? Cleans tenf. He says 465 00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:18,555 Speaker 1: he didn't know. He says he never seen her after 466 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:21,275 Speaker 1: he took her up. So I spoke to mister Grammage 467 00:31:21,275 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: about it. I'm sorry to bother you, mister Grammage, I says, 468 00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:28,755 Speaker 1: but there's something funny about that woman cleans tenf. So 469 00:31:28,875 --> 00:31:31,235 Speaker 1: I told him. So he said we better have a look, 470 00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:33,075 Speaker 1: and we all three goes up and knots on the 471 00:31:33,115 --> 00:31:36,155 Speaker 1: door and rings the bells, seeing nobody answers, so he 472 00:31:36,235 --> 00:31:38,355 Speaker 1: said we'd have to walk in. So Credic opened the 473 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:40,755 Speaker 1: door and we walked in and here was this woman 474 00:31:41,075 --> 00:31:45,755 Speaker 1: cleans the apartment, dead as a herring on the floor, 475 00:31:46,755 --> 00:31:50,755 Speaker 1: and the gentleman that lives there was in a box. 476 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,075 Speaker 1: The cleaning woman kept looking at me. It was hard 477 00:31:57,155 --> 00:32:02,995 Speaker 1: to realize she wasn't dead. It's a form of escape, 478 00:32:03,435 --> 00:32:09,795 Speaker 1: I murmured, what say? She asked, Dully, you don't know 479 00:32:09,835 --> 00:32:13,875 Speaker 1: of any large packing boxes, do you? I asked, now, 480 00:32:13,995 --> 00:32:19,195 Speaker 1: I don't. She said, I haven't found one yet. But 481 00:32:19,315 --> 00:32:23,475 Speaker 1: I still have this overpowering urge to hide in a box. 482 00:32:24,995 --> 00:32:27,995 Speaker 1: Maybe it will go away, maybe I'll be all right, 483 00:32:29,555 --> 00:32:36,315 Speaker 1: maybe it will get worse. It's hard to say a 484 00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: box to hide in by James Thurber. I've done all 485 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:55,835 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Here are the credits. 486 00:32:55,875 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: Most of the music was arranged, produced and performed by 487 00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:01,235 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, who are the Countdown 488 00:33:01,315 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by Phillip Schhaneil, guitars, 489 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:10,075 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. 490 00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the 491 00:33:13,115 --> 00:33:16,395 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olberman 492 00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:18,755 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two and it was written by Mitch 493 00:33:18,795 --> 00:33:23,195 Speaker 1: Warren Davis and appears courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments 494 00:33:23,195 --> 00:33:26,475 Speaker 1: from Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 495 00:33:26,475 --> 00:33:29,195 Speaker 1: announcer was John Dean, and everything else is pretty much 496 00:33:29,195 --> 00:33:31,835 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this the eight hundred 497 00:33:31,835 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: and sixty fourth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 498 00:33:35,235 --> 00:33:38,395 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Don't 499 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: forget to keep arresting him while we still can. The 500 00:33:42,835 --> 00:33:45,875 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Monday, and until then, I'm Keith Oldrimman. 501 00:33:45,955 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 502 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:01,395 Speaker 1: with keith Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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