1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,235 --> 00:00:27,635 Speaker 1: It is the greatest political sound bite of the last 3 00:00:27,675 --> 00:00:30,715 Speaker 1: seven years. It is what at least half of this 4 00:00:30,795 --> 00:00:34,035 Speaker 1: country has been thinking. It is what at least half 5 00:00:34,035 --> 00:00:36,355 Speaker 1: of this country has been afraid to say out loud. 6 00:00:36,955 --> 00:00:39,435 Speaker 1: It is what at least half of this country would 7 00:00:39,475 --> 00:00:43,675 Speaker 1: like to see adapted into our new national anthem. The 8 00:00:43,795 --> 00:00:48,675 Speaker 1: sound bite is from January six, and it is of 9 00:00:48,755 --> 00:00:51,955 Speaker 1: the Chief of Staff for Nancy Pelosi telling the Speaker 10 00:00:52,395 --> 00:00:55,755 Speaker 1: that the Secret Service has dissuaded Trump from marching to 11 00:00:55,795 --> 00:01:14,835 Speaker 1: the Capitol alongside the insurrectionists tomorrow. I'm gonna punch him out, 12 00:01:14,955 --> 00:01:17,675 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go to jail, and I'm gonna be happy. 13 00:01:18,075 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: A nation sings in unison, I'm gonna punch him out, 14 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:26,475 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go to jail, and I'm gonna be happy. 15 00:01:27,195 --> 00:01:29,795 Speaker 1: The tape is from CNN and it is part of 16 00:01:29,835 --> 00:01:33,755 Speaker 1: Speaker polos He's filmmaker Daughters recordings of that day. It 17 00:01:33,955 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: was not used in the January six committee hearing yesterday. 18 00:01:37,395 --> 00:01:40,355 Speaker 1: I guess out of a sense of decorum or out 19 00:01:40,395 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 1: of respect for the seriousness of the subject, but to 20 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: be blunt after seven years of hearing Trump and his 21 00:01:47,155 --> 00:01:49,875 Speaker 1: gangsters and his thugs and his brown shirts and his 22 00:01:49,915 --> 00:01:54,595 Speaker 1: psychopaths make every possible threat veiled and unveiled. It is 23 00:01:54,715 --> 00:01:58,275 Speaker 1: cathartic to the point of being life affirming to hear 24 00:01:58,315 --> 00:02:05,435 Speaker 1: it finally thrown back in Trump's face. Wait for this. 25 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: I want to punch him out, and I'm gonna go 26 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:17,115 Speaker 1: to jail, and I'm gonna be happy. Have kids say 27 00:02:17,155 --> 00:02:20,315 Speaker 1: that instead of the pledge of allegiance, build a statue 28 00:02:20,355 --> 00:02:23,835 Speaker 1: of Trump somewhere with his hair standing straight up and 29 00:02:23,875 --> 00:02:26,555 Speaker 1: his gut sticking straight out, just so that can be 30 00:02:26,595 --> 00:02:33,275 Speaker 1: inscribed on the base. Our reluctance to say something like 31 00:02:33,355 --> 00:02:36,715 Speaker 1: that is at the core of the ever simmering, ever 32 00:02:36,795 --> 00:02:41,675 Speaker 1: growing willingness of the fascists to threaten violence, to use violence, 33 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:46,075 Speaker 1: to believe they have the right to violence. It is simple. 34 00:02:46,515 --> 00:02:50,115 Speaker 1: They did not expect anybody to fight back, figuratively or literally, 35 00:02:50,155 --> 00:02:53,555 Speaker 1: and to date they have been absolutely correct. It is 36 00:02:53,595 --> 00:02:58,315 Speaker 1: the essence of January six, apart from the growing clarity 37 00:02:58,315 --> 00:03:01,315 Speaker 1: that Trump must have known, must have arranged it so 38 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:05,235 Speaker 1: those defending the capital would be reluctant to usually full force. 39 00:03:05,635 --> 00:03:07,635 Speaker 1: They knew that the response would not be that of 40 00:03:07,995 --> 00:03:12,115 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, whom d C cop Mankael Phenone quoted as 41 00:03:12,115 --> 00:03:15,675 Speaker 1: saying of the insurrectionists, quote, you guys should have shot 42 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:19,475 Speaker 1: them all in the head. It is what that same 43 00:03:19,555 --> 00:03:22,875 Speaker 1: Trump government would have done if that crowd really had 44 00:03:22,915 --> 00:03:28,155 Speaker 1: been Antifa or leftist or in any way slightly anti Trump. 45 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:31,795 Speaker 1: And before you shrink from the prospect of political violence 46 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:35,195 Speaker 1: in this nation, what was Charlottesville? What was the MAGA 47 00:03:35,275 --> 00:03:38,675 Speaker 1: pipe bomber? What was the magapipe bombers? List of second 48 00:03:38,675 --> 00:03:41,675 Speaker 1: wave targets so extensive that the FBI told me even 49 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:44,115 Speaker 1: I was on it. What was the attack at the 50 00:03:44,115 --> 00:03:47,275 Speaker 1: Cincinnati FBI office? What were the phone calls the other 51 00:03:47,395 --> 00:03:50,155 Speaker 1: night to Katie Hobbs office in Arizona after the press 52 00:03:50,155 --> 00:03:53,715 Speaker 1: conference by that fascist carry Lake. What was Greg g 53 00:03:53,835 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: and forties attack on Ben Jacobs? What was the Pittsburgh 54 00:03:56,675 --> 00:04:00,955 Speaker 1: synagogue mass shooting. You're worried about political violence, We're already there, baby. 55 00:04:01,875 --> 00:04:04,235 Speaker 1: I think if we were honest about it, I'm gonna 56 00:04:04,275 --> 00:04:06,035 Speaker 1: punch him out. I'm gonna go to jail, and I'm 57 00:04:06,075 --> 00:04:08,715 Speaker 1: gonna be happy. Would not have resonated the way it 58 00:04:08,795 --> 00:04:12,995 Speaker 1: has and will continue to it is a microcosm of 59 00:04:12,995 --> 00:04:15,275 Speaker 1: everything that has happened in the twenty one months since 60 00:04:15,315 --> 00:04:19,995 Speaker 1: Trump stochastically led his mob to try to violently overthrow 61 00:04:20,075 --> 00:04:23,235 Speaker 1: our government, which we have wasted trying to prove to 62 00:04:23,235 --> 00:04:25,635 Speaker 1: people who are pretending not to believe it, that Trump 63 00:04:25,675 --> 00:04:29,075 Speaker 1: really did stocastically lead his mob to try to violently 64 00:04:29,115 --> 00:04:33,275 Speaker 1: overthrow our government, just as it is a microcosm of 65 00:04:33,355 --> 00:04:35,515 Speaker 1: everything that has happened in the last twenty one months 66 00:04:35,515 --> 00:04:38,075 Speaker 1: since the FBI and the Secret Service looked the other 67 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:42,155 Speaker 1: way and then destroyed the evidence that they did look 68 00:04:42,235 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: the other way, which we have wasted trying to prove 69 00:04:44,875 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: it to people who are pretending not to believe it, 70 00:04:47,035 --> 00:04:50,355 Speaker 1: even as the evidence poured off the screen during that 71 00:04:50,395 --> 00:04:53,395 Speaker 1: committee hearing yesterday, and everything I said here months ago 72 00:04:53,435 --> 00:04:56,475 Speaker 1: about the need to dissolve the Secret Service and start 73 00:04:56,555 --> 00:04:59,635 Speaker 1: a new one from scratch because this one is not 74 00:04:59,835 --> 00:05:02,675 Speaker 1: loyal in the slightest to the President of the United 75 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:06,555 Speaker 1: States was confirmed. And it turns out to have gone 76 00:05:06,595 --> 00:05:09,515 Speaker 1: double for the FBI. And if there is Trump's FBI 77 00:05:09,595 --> 00:05:14,475 Speaker 1: director still in office rather than in jail, overseeing dozens 78 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:18,075 Speaker 1: or hundreds or thousands of FBI employees who cannot wait 79 00:05:18,115 --> 00:05:22,195 Speaker 1: to try to help Trump regain power legally or otherwise. 80 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: It has been pointed out by several political scientists last 81 00:05:28,715 --> 00:05:31,515 Speaker 1: night and earlier than that, that this is the only 82 00:05:31,555 --> 00:05:34,995 Speaker 1: country in modern history in which a violent coup was 83 00:05:35,035 --> 00:05:38,755 Speaker 1: attempted in broad daylight, and the government that fended it 84 00:05:38,795 --> 00:05:42,315 Speaker 1: off has had to go beg courts and beg committees 85 00:05:42,355 --> 00:05:46,275 Speaker 1: and beg congressmen to please please let us investigate it, 86 00:05:46,595 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: and let us prosecute it, and let us try to 87 00:05:49,035 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: prevent it from ever happening again. It was a coup 88 00:05:53,115 --> 00:05:56,595 Speaker 1: deta as real and as threatening as anything in Latin 89 00:05:56,675 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 1: America has anything in Russia, has anything in Mean Mars, 90 00:05:59,595 --> 00:06:02,635 Speaker 1: anything in Cuba, has anything in France, where they've tried 91 00:06:02,755 --> 00:06:07,195 Speaker 1: three of these since eight and in all those countries 92 00:06:07,595 --> 00:06:12,515 Speaker 1: nobody has flinched at the rule. You try to overthrow 93 00:06:12,595 --> 00:06:16,915 Speaker 1: the government violently, the government does not need to subpoena 94 00:06:17,035 --> 00:06:21,995 Speaker 1: you to make you show up and testify. I don't 95 00:06:22,035 --> 00:06:26,315 Speaker 1: think Lindsey Graham was right. Ultimately, it may prove to 96 00:06:26,355 --> 00:06:30,515 Speaker 1: have been important and even democracy saving that those defending 97 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:33,195 Speaker 1: the capital that day did not respond in that way. 98 00:06:33,315 --> 00:06:38,355 Speaker 1: But bluntly again the January six Committee subpoenas Trump, he 99 00:06:38,435 --> 00:06:42,315 Speaker 1: should not get the option to just leak to Maggie 100 00:06:42,795 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: freaking Haberman. But oh he'll do it if he can 101 00:06:46,435 --> 00:06:50,475 Speaker 1: testify live. He should not get any god damned options 102 00:06:50,555 --> 00:06:55,355 Speaker 1: at all. And that is especially true since Philip Bump 103 00:06:55,355 --> 00:06:59,555 Speaker 1: of The Washington Post crystallized the feeling that really isn't true. 104 00:07:00,875 --> 00:07:04,635 Speaker 1: There's no real beginning point, he writes, for Trump's unending 105 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:09,955 Speaker 1: claims that American elections are riddled with fraud. Well today, 106 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:13,555 Speaker 1: the otherwise impeccable Mr Bump, he's wrong. He sites the 107 00:07:13,595 --> 00:07:18,035 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen Iowa caucuses, which Trump lost, but in fact, 108 00:07:18,115 --> 00:07:20,155 Speaker 1: by then it had been three and a half years 109 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:24,875 Speaker 1: since Trump first lit the fuse that exploded on January six. 110 00:07:25,795 --> 00:07:30,195 Speaker 1: He lit in on November six, two thousand twelve, on Twitter, 111 00:07:30,675 --> 00:07:34,195 Speaker 1: when Obama beat Romney and Trump concluded Romney had gotten 112 00:07:34,235 --> 00:07:39,955 Speaker 1: more votes at the ballot box. Quote Trump, he lost 113 00:07:39,995 --> 00:07:42,235 Speaker 1: the popular vote by a lot. And on the election, 114 00:07:42,515 --> 00:07:46,115 Speaker 1: we should have a revolution in this country. Quote Trump. 115 00:07:46,435 --> 00:07:49,275 Speaker 1: The phony Electoral College made a laughing stock out of 116 00:07:49,275 --> 00:07:54,395 Speaker 1: our nation. The loser one quote Trump, more votes equals 117 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: a loss revolution quote Trump. The election is a total sham. 118 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:03,115 Speaker 1: And a travesty. We are not a democracy quote Trump. 119 00:08:03,435 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble like 120 00:08:06,955 --> 00:08:11,755 Speaker 1: never before Quote Trump. The electoral college is a disaster 121 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:18,195 Speaker 1: for democracy. And most relevantly quote Trump, we can't let 122 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:23,955 Speaker 1: this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. 123 00:08:23,955 --> 00:08:30,475 Speaker 1: Our nation is totally divided, and quote Trump, Let's fight 124 00:08:31,035 --> 00:08:35,915 Speaker 1: like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice. The 125 00:08:35,995 --> 00:08:42,995 Speaker 1: world is laughing at us. Twenty two days from now, 126 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:46,515 Speaker 1: Trump will have been trying to overthrow the government of 127 00:08:46,555 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: the United States for a decade. Enough, he won't comply 128 00:08:53,715 --> 00:08:56,715 Speaker 1: with the subpoena, or he tries to stunt the stolen 129 00:08:56,755 --> 00:09:01,155 Speaker 1: documents case somehow he threatens the source deep storage. Frog 130 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:03,675 Speaker 1: march him to court or to the capital. Mind you 131 00:09:04,115 --> 00:09:07,875 Speaker 1: don't hurt him, just frog march him. Let the government 132 00:09:07,955 --> 00:09:25,195 Speaker 1: take care of him. Oh Government, I want a jacket 133 00:09:25,275 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: that says that on the front and on the back. 134 00:09:30,315 --> 00:09:33,555 Speaker 1: Sell ahead on countdown. Elon Musk being investigated by the 135 00:09:33,595 --> 00:09:37,795 Speaker 1: government over the Twitter deal. Dan Patrick and I together again, 136 00:09:37,835 --> 00:09:42,915 Speaker 1: only now in podcast forum and worse persons is whole 137 00:09:43,275 --> 00:09:45,635 Speaker 1: once more. I won't tell you the name of the 138 00:09:45,715 --> 00:09:48,715 Speaker 1: latest winner. But right you are, Mr Medla Hoffer. We'll 139 00:09:48,715 --> 00:10:02,995 Speaker 1: do it live. That's next this Discountdown. This is Countdown 140 00:10:03,195 --> 00:10:10,635 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman. Thank you, Kenny. Kenny mains presence in 141 00:10:10,635 --> 00:10:13,115 Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown will be explained in a moment 142 00:10:13,595 --> 00:10:16,515 Speaker 1: still ahead. Oh no, what a shock. The government thinks 143 00:10:16,515 --> 00:10:19,155 Speaker 1: Elon Musk might have broken some rules during this year 144 00:10:19,195 --> 00:10:22,315 Speaker 1: long drama. He's made us suffer through about buying Twitter 145 00:10:22,915 --> 00:10:25,835 Speaker 1: Plus Dan Patrick and meet together again for the first time. 146 00:10:26,275 --> 00:10:29,155 Speaker 1: And in Worse Persons, we welcome home the moron who 147 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:33,195 Speaker 1: made Worse Persons famous. First. In each edition of Countdown, 148 00:10:33,195 --> 00:10:35,075 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 149 00:10:35,115 --> 00:10:38,395 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. Let's return to the New 150 00:10:38,475 --> 00:10:42,515 Speaker 1: York Pound where the big smiley sixty three pound puppy 151 00:10:42,635 --> 00:10:45,715 Speaker 1: Smokey is on the kill list. A year old. He's 152 00:10:45,755 --> 00:10:49,875 Speaker 1: playful but pushy. He's confident but very energetic, so he 153 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:52,555 Speaker 1: needs an experienced foster or a doctor who can get 154 00:10:52,595 --> 00:10:56,515 Speaker 1: him focused. He should not die because his previous human 155 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:59,115 Speaker 1: did not know what to do with him. Your pledges 156 00:10:59,195 --> 00:11:02,195 Speaker 1: to defray the costs for a rescue to save him 157 00:11:02,395 --> 00:11:06,035 Speaker 1: might literally save his life. Smokey will be in the 158 00:11:06,195 --> 00:11:09,195 Speaker 1: pinned tweet at my account for dogs in Need at 159 00:11:09,315 --> 00:11:12,435 Speaker 1: Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. If you can't pledge, just 160 00:11:12,555 --> 00:11:15,395 Speaker 1: retweeting his story will help, and thank you very much 161 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:31,675 Speaker 1: for doing so. Pos Scripts to the news, some headlines, 162 00:11:31,755 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: some inside, some snark. Dayline Willmington, Delaware. This is the 163 00:11:34,915 --> 00:11:38,435 Speaker 1: most shocking headlines in months. It's a news story about 164 00:11:38,475 --> 00:11:41,875 Speaker 1: Elon Musk that actually has something to do with his business, 165 00:11:42,275 --> 00:11:46,235 Speaker 1: not him being Putin's whore or welcoming back Kanye West 166 00:11:46,595 --> 00:11:49,555 Speaker 1: or taking a bus to Neptune or whatever it was. 167 00:11:49,955 --> 00:11:52,875 Speaker 1: Twitter has asked the judge in the suspended court case 168 00:11:52,955 --> 00:11:55,715 Speaker 1: over his purchase of the website for documents that it 169 00:11:55,795 --> 00:12:00,915 Speaker 1: says Musk has, because those documents indicate, quote Elon Musk 170 00:12:01,075 --> 00:12:05,555 Speaker 1: is presently under investigation by federal authorities for his conduct 171 00:12:05,755 --> 00:12:09,355 Speaker 1: in connection with the acquisition of Twitter unquote this guy 172 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:14,475 Speaker 1: gonna turn Tesla into BlackBerry, isn't he? Dateline Bristol, Connecticut authorities. 173 00:12:14,515 --> 00:12:17,515 Speaker 1: They're now operating under the thesis that a phone call 174 00:12:17,555 --> 00:12:21,635 Speaker 1: about a domestic dispute was made to lure police officers 175 00:12:21,635 --> 00:12:24,675 Speaker 1: to a home on red Stone Hill Road in that city, 176 00:12:24,795 --> 00:12:27,675 Speaker 1: where a man shot three of them. Killing two. The 177 00:12:27,755 --> 00:12:30,595 Speaker 1: crime is unconnected to this next fact, but it's a 178 00:12:30,675 --> 00:12:35,115 Speaker 1: disturbing fact. Nonetheless, when the address was broadcast, hundreds of 179 00:12:35,195 --> 00:12:39,635 Speaker 1: US jumped. Red Stone Hill Road in Bristol is essentially 180 00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:44,595 Speaker 1: the back door to the headquarters of ESPN. It's literally 181 00:12:44,635 --> 00:12:48,635 Speaker 1: about a block away and dateline Broward County, Florida. Three 182 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:51,075 Speaker 1: jurors held out against the others, and so the park 183 00:12:51,155 --> 00:12:54,995 Speaker 1: Lands School shooter Nicolas Cruz will not get the death 184 00:12:54,995 --> 00:12:58,995 Speaker 1: penalty after murdering seventeen in his life in prison. For him, 185 00:12:59,035 --> 00:13:17,235 Speaker 1: the judge cannot overrule the jury. This is Sports Center. Wait, 186 00:13:17,435 --> 00:13:25,595 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in 187 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:29,115 Speaker 1: sports Only. One baseball playoff game yesterday, Astros over the 188 00:13:29,235 --> 00:13:31,995 Speaker 1: ownersported too. They lead that series to zip. Congrats you 189 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 1: again to TBS Television. After Houston's Ryan Pressley struck out 190 00:13:36,435 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: Seattle's Cal Rawley in the top of the ninth to 191 00:13:39,195 --> 00:13:42,555 Speaker 1: end the game, the TBS score bug changed from top 192 00:13:42,595 --> 00:13:47,195 Speaker 1: of ninth to no. Not final, but two middle of ninth. 193 00:13:47,955 --> 00:13:50,955 Speaker 1: I hosted the postseason for TBS nine years ago, and 194 00:13:50,995 --> 00:13:53,195 Speaker 1: it's the only job I ever quit because I was 195 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:56,435 Speaker 1: afraid that if the same people who produced our studio 196 00:13:56,515 --> 00:14:00,035 Speaker 1: shows had installed the overhead lights in the studio, we 197 00:14:00,035 --> 00:14:02,355 Speaker 1: would all either be crushed to death when they fell, 198 00:14:02,835 --> 00:14:04,955 Speaker 1: or we would all get caught in a five air. 199 00:14:05,595 --> 00:14:07,915 Speaker 1: The Yankees and Guardians were reigned out in New York, 200 00:14:07,955 --> 00:14:10,155 Speaker 1: so we don't know yet if the Dolan family is 201 00:14:10,155 --> 00:14:13,235 Speaker 1: going to hit the century mark. James Dolan has owned 202 00:14:13,275 --> 00:14:15,875 Speaker 1: the New York Knicks for twenty eight seasons without winning 203 00:14:15,875 --> 00:14:18,555 Speaker 1: a championship. He has owned the New York Rangers for 204 00:14:18,635 --> 00:14:21,715 Speaker 1: twenty seven seasons without winning a championship. He owned the 205 00:14:21,755 --> 00:14:24,755 Speaker 1: basketball New York Liberty for twenty two seasons without winning 206 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:30,075 Speaker 1: a championship. Jimmy's uncle Larry and cousin Paul bought the Guardians, 207 00:14:30,075 --> 00:14:32,475 Speaker 1: then the Cleveland Indians in two thousand and last Paul, 208 00:14:32,595 --> 00:14:36,555 Speaker 1: they hit twenty two seasons without winning a championship. That's 209 00:14:37,075 --> 00:14:40,035 Speaker 1: plus twenty seven plus twenty two plus another twenty two 210 00:14:40,035 --> 00:14:44,395 Speaker 1: equals ninety nine seasons without a championship. So if the 211 00:14:44,435 --> 00:14:47,435 Speaker 1: Guardians do not win the World Series this year, the 212 00:14:47,595 --> 00:14:53,035 Speaker 1: Dolan family will be oh for a hundred years. Nice work, boys, 213 00:14:53,995 --> 00:14:56,715 Speaker 1: and you may know that From ninety two through nineteen 214 00:14:56,795 --> 00:14:59,315 Speaker 1: ninety seven, Dan Patrick and I were on Sports Center, 215 00:14:59,395 --> 00:15:01,755 Speaker 1: co hosting it every night, and then again from two 216 00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:04,635 Speaker 1: thousand five through two thousand seven. Dan and I were 217 00:15:04,715 --> 00:15:08,355 Speaker 1: on his ESPN radio show every afternoon. In two thousand 218 00:15:08,435 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: eight and two thousand nine, we co anchored Football Night 219 00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: in America on NBC. We co anchored this whole Super 220 00:15:14,235 --> 00:15:17,395 Speaker 1: Bowl pregame show one year. That's a lot of time together. 221 00:15:17,795 --> 00:15:22,195 Speaker 1: But other than that, nah, almost no time together whatsoever. 222 00:15:22,395 --> 00:15:24,955 Speaker 1: We went to the last regular season game at Boston 223 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:29,635 Speaker 1: Garden before it closed. We had dinner in California. We 224 00:15:29,715 --> 00:15:31,835 Speaker 1: did an event at the Pailee Center in two thousand 225 00:15:31,915 --> 00:15:33,715 Speaker 1: twelve in New York. We did a kind of a 226 00:15:33,755 --> 00:15:38,075 Speaker 1: mini Sports Center to celebrate ESPN anniversary in two thousand nineteen. 227 00:15:38,715 --> 00:15:41,555 Speaker 1: But when we get together now, it's a rarity. And 228 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:44,035 Speaker 1: we got together for the first time in three years 229 00:15:44,155 --> 00:15:49,355 Speaker 1: for our pal Kenny Maine's new podcast, Hey Maine, The 230 00:15:49,475 --> 00:15:53,515 Speaker 1: Kenny Maine Talks to Famous People podcast, which is now 231 00:15:53,515 --> 00:15:57,595 Speaker 1: available without a prescription wherever you get your podcasts and 232 00:15:57,715 --> 00:16:00,395 Speaker 1: is an Odyssey product and if you listen to it. 233 00:16:00,755 --> 00:16:02,955 Speaker 1: They promised they're going to reduce the ads that they 234 00:16:02,995 --> 00:16:05,835 Speaker 1: put an all online sports for programming from eight hundred 235 00:16:05,875 --> 00:16:09,675 Speaker 1: and fifteen per game to eight fourteen. Well, the addition 236 00:16:09,675 --> 00:16:12,315 Speaker 1: anyway with Dan and me is up and out and 237 00:16:12,635 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 1: published and it's dropped and live and it's in the ether. 238 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:19,155 Speaker 1: And here's a clip of Dan explaining how insecure he 239 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 1: was at the beginning of our Sports Center tenure together 240 00:16:22,395 --> 00:16:26,995 Speaker 1: and how insecure I wasn't. Well, there was so much 241 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:32,475 Speaker 1: competition there behind the scenes and the shows, and I 242 00:16:32,515 --> 00:16:34,875 Speaker 1: mean it was there was a lot going on, Kenny. 243 00:16:35,075 --> 00:16:38,315 Speaker 1: Now it's revisionist history where people look back and going, 244 00:16:38,675 --> 00:16:41,475 Speaker 1: you guys must have been treated like kings, and you 245 00:16:41,515 --> 00:16:44,195 Speaker 1: know it's like like all the ones who were guillotined 246 00:16:44,235 --> 00:16:49,515 Speaker 1: and but we but we weren't. And you know, I 247 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:53,315 Speaker 1: think that fed into the insecurity, whereas Keith just plowed through, 248 00:16:53,715 --> 00:16:59,475 Speaker 1: you know, is motto was sleep and I just kept going, no, no, 249 00:16:59,635 --> 00:17:02,355 Speaker 1: we gotta come on. What's plain ice? And and then 250 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:06,555 Speaker 1: I just realized that it was Keith, myself, Mike McQuaid, 251 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:10,515 Speaker 1: you know, ed Schimmel and that was it. And then 252 00:17:10,515 --> 00:17:14,435 Speaker 1: you're like, it's us against management there because it really 253 00:17:14,475 --> 00:17:18,595 Speaker 1: felt like they were so nervous in their words, we 254 00:17:18,635 --> 00:17:21,195 Speaker 1: don't want another Chris Berman. That's the last thing you'd 255 00:17:21,235 --> 00:17:26,035 Speaker 1: want somebody completely successful, exactly your network on the map. 256 00:17:26,115 --> 00:17:28,195 Speaker 1: You don't want a room full of Chris Burman's and 257 00:17:28,315 --> 00:17:31,035 Speaker 1: the I don't know seventy five million dollars to make 258 00:17:31,115 --> 00:17:32,795 Speaker 1: you in problem. You don't know. You don't want that 259 00:17:32,835 --> 00:17:36,715 Speaker 1: at all. Dan wins by making the Shimmel drop their 260 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:39,875 Speaker 1: beautiful Hey Maine is the podcast name. It's on for 261 00:17:39,915 --> 00:17:43,195 Speaker 1: like an hour or it's twelve hours. I don't know. 262 00:17:44,115 --> 00:17:46,795 Speaker 1: I didn't listen to it. I've talked enough to Kenny 263 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:50,475 Speaker 1: and to Dan, but you might enjoy it. Hell, Dan 264 00:17:50,555 --> 00:18:07,515 Speaker 1: and I both swear in it. Coming up Fridays with Thurber. 265 00:18:07,715 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: Mr Prebble gets rid of his wife when a couple 266 00:18:10,875 --> 00:18:13,355 Speaker 1: pickers over how one of them is going to kill 267 00:18:13,395 --> 00:18:17,835 Speaker 1: the other one. Next, first, the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, 268 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:21,835 Speaker 1: and Dunning Krueger Effects bestiments who constitute today's worst persons 269 00:18:21,875 --> 00:18:26,995 Speaker 1: in the world. The Bronze NBC News chairman Caesar Conde 270 00:18:27,195 --> 00:18:29,435 Speaker 1: took over last year, and the credibility of the news 271 00:18:29,435 --> 00:18:32,835 Speaker 1: operation is already in shambles. If it isn't Chuck Todd 272 00:18:32,915 --> 00:18:37,515 Speaker 1: both sides ing Insurrection, it's Andrew Mitchell mumbling incoherently about 273 00:18:37,515 --> 00:18:40,235 Speaker 1: how John Fetterman is unfit to serve because he was 274 00:18:40,315 --> 00:18:43,675 Speaker 1: using a text dictation device like you have on your iPhone. 275 00:18:44,075 --> 00:18:48,355 Speaker 1: Andrea should borrow Fetterman's device. And now that topic and 276 00:18:48,395 --> 00:18:51,115 Speaker 1: the mess that they let an inexperienced correspondent named Dash 277 00:18:51,115 --> 00:18:54,715 Speaker 1: of Burns create by her editorializing about what John Fetterman 278 00:18:54,795 --> 00:18:59,435 Speaker 1: could and could not quote understand, has permitted Tucker Carlson 279 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:03,035 Speaker 1: of Fox News to quote Dash of Burns and NBC 280 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:06,835 Speaker 1: News and to say that what Dasha Burns quote just 281 00:19:06,995 --> 00:19:09,915 Speaker 1: told you is that before the machine was turned on, 282 00:19:09,995 --> 00:19:14,835 Speaker 1: John Fetterman could not understand human language. Chairman Conde still 283 00:19:14,835 --> 00:19:17,915 Speaker 1: hasn't cleaned up that mess, nor the mess his veteran 284 00:19:17,955 --> 00:19:22,195 Speaker 1: correspondent Peter Alexander made after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the 285 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:26,195 Speaker 1: January six committee about the Secret Service and Trump. He 286 00:19:26,355 --> 00:19:29,915 Speaker 1: quoted Alexander that is unnamed sources saying the testimony was 287 00:19:29,955 --> 00:19:32,675 Speaker 1: not true and that the Secret Service agents in question 288 00:19:32,675 --> 00:19:36,235 Speaker 1: would happily testify to that effect. Well, the agents never testified. 289 00:19:36,435 --> 00:19:39,035 Speaker 1: It is quite clear that Hutchinson told the truth and 290 00:19:39,195 --> 00:19:43,355 Speaker 1: NBC sources and the agents lied, and NBC News has 291 00:19:43,395 --> 00:19:46,795 Speaker 1: never corrected it. But as somebody inside NBC News told me, 292 00:19:46,795 --> 00:19:48,915 Speaker 1: don't bother to go ask says, are condy to do 293 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:51,355 Speaker 1: something about it. He's too busy out of the office 294 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:54,995 Speaker 1: auditioning to become the CEO of Rotor Router or something. 295 00:19:55,875 --> 00:19:59,315 Speaker 1: The runners up Penn State University, while acknowledging that the 296 00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:03,075 Speaker 1: man in question is guilty of quote hateful and discriminatory rhetoric, 297 00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:06,515 Speaker 1: the school has rejected at a student appeal to cancel 298 00:20:07,035 --> 00:20:09,715 Speaker 1: an appearance on the Penn State campus ten days from 299 00:20:09,755 --> 00:20:13,395 Speaker 1: now by Gavin mckinnis, the founder of the fascist hate 300 00:20:13,435 --> 00:20:17,715 Speaker 1: group the ironically named Proud Boys. Thousands of dollars in 301 00:20:17,835 --> 00:20:21,155 Speaker 1: student fees will be spent to permit mckinnis to spew 302 00:20:21,395 --> 00:20:25,995 Speaker 1: his bile. While calling it Get this a comedy show. 303 00:20:26,915 --> 00:20:30,235 Speaker 1: Mckinnis claims to be a comedian. He compares himself to 304 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:33,755 Speaker 1: George Carlin. The only thing comical about Proud Boy Gavin 305 00:20:33,795 --> 00:20:39,075 Speaker 1: mckinnis is his face. But our winner, Oh, welcome back, 306 00:20:39,675 --> 00:20:45,275 Speaker 1: it's Billow bill O'Reilly. No, he's not dead, but you 307 00:20:45,275 --> 00:20:47,315 Speaker 1: know how old he is. He's two hundred and six. 308 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:51,475 Speaker 1: The U S Attorney's Office in New Jersey has now 309 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:56,595 Speaker 1: announced an eighteen count indictment against National Realty Investment Advisors, 310 00:20:56,915 --> 00:21:01,235 Speaker 1: complete with charges such as securities and wire fraud, tax evasion, 311 00:21:01,315 --> 00:21:05,275 Speaker 1: not rebated, identity theft, subscribing to false actor turns running 312 00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:10,515 Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme. Right you are, Mr Mayo Hoffer and 313 00:21:10,595 --> 00:21:14,955 Speaker 1: guess who did radio commercials for the Ponzi scheme? Right 314 00:21:15,035 --> 00:21:19,235 Speaker 1: you are a gun Mr Mayo Hoffer. Bellow. National Realty 315 00:21:19,275 --> 00:21:22,555 Speaker 1: Investment Advisers can get your twelve person returns because they're 316 00:21:22,595 --> 00:21:26,075 Speaker 1: buying high and real estate and generfying neighborhoods. Your money 317 00:21:26,155 --> 00:21:28,355 Speaker 1: is as safe as if you invested it in Lufa's 318 00:21:28,915 --> 00:21:32,555 Speaker 1: or a full Leffel stand or Sylvia's restaurant where no 319 00:21:32,555 --> 00:21:35,835 Speaker 1: one says, hey, m f forer I want some more 320 00:21:36,075 --> 00:21:40,395 Speaker 1: iced tea. Okay, that was not the actual commercial script. 321 00:21:40,435 --> 00:21:44,795 Speaker 1: That's writer embellishment. And Bill O'Reilly and the other spokesman 322 00:21:44,795 --> 00:21:49,115 Speaker 1: for this Ponzi scheme have not been charged. However I 323 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,995 Speaker 1: can charge him. Bill, don't charge me. How could you 324 00:21:53,075 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: possibly make my life worse or make me suffer more 325 00:21:55,635 --> 00:22:03,195 Speaker 1: than I already have? O'Reilly Today's worse Parson and the world. 326 00:22:06,155 --> 00:22:09,075 Speaker 1: Have you got the loof a ready, where's my loof? 327 00:22:19,235 --> 00:22:21,755 Speaker 1: To the top of the countdown and Fridays with Theber 328 00:22:22,035 --> 00:22:24,515 Speaker 1: And I am not gonna dare suggest to you that 329 00:22:24,555 --> 00:22:28,515 Speaker 1: there isn't at least something misogynistic about Mr Prebble Gets 330 00:22:28,635 --> 00:22:31,715 Speaker 1: rid of his Wife. But the ultimate point of this 331 00:22:31,835 --> 00:22:36,235 Speaker 1: short story, so masterfully crafted by James Thurber, this matter 332 00:22:36,275 --> 00:22:38,995 Speaker 1: of fact style that almost makes you forget you are 333 00:22:39,035 --> 00:22:42,435 Speaker 1: hearing about a man trying to murder his wife, is 334 00:22:42,515 --> 00:22:45,555 Speaker 1: in a larger sense, about the fact that women are 335 00:22:45,635 --> 00:22:50,075 Speaker 1: more successful than men. This story does not compliment men, 336 00:22:50,195 --> 00:22:53,195 Speaker 1: it does not compliment women, It does not compliment human beings. 337 00:22:53,795 --> 00:22:57,915 Speaker 1: But it is still marvelous. Mr Prebble Gets rid of 338 00:22:57,955 --> 00:23:04,515 Speaker 1: his Wife by James Thurber. Mr Prebble was a plump, 339 00:23:04,835 --> 00:23:08,395 Speaker 1: middle aged lawyer in Scarsdale. He used to kid with 340 00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:12,875 Speaker 1: his stenographer about running away with him. Let's run away together, 341 00:23:13,155 --> 00:23:17,475 Speaker 1: he would say, during a pause in dictation, alrighty, she 342 00:23:17,515 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: would say, one rainy Monday afternoon. Mr Prebble was more 343 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:26,675 Speaker 1: serious about it than usual. Let's run away together, said 344 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:32,035 Speaker 1: Mr Prebble. Alrighty, said his stenographer. Mr Prebble jingled the 345 00:23:32,115 --> 00:23:35,235 Speaker 1: keys in his pocket and looked out the window. My 346 00:23:35,275 --> 00:23:37,435 Speaker 1: wife would be glad to get rid of me, he said. 347 00:23:38,035 --> 00:23:42,995 Speaker 1: Would you give you a divorce, asked the stenographer. I 348 00:23:42,995 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: don't suppose so, he said. The stenographer laughed, you'd have 349 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:52,035 Speaker 1: to get rid of your wife, she said. Mr Prebble 350 00:23:52,115 --> 00:23:55,195 Speaker 1: was unusually silent at dinner that night. About half an 351 00:23:55,235 --> 00:23:58,275 Speaker 1: hour after coffee, he spoke, without looking up from his paper, 352 00:23:59,475 --> 00:24:03,475 Speaker 1: let's uh go down in the cellar. Mr Prebble said 353 00:24:03,475 --> 00:24:07,075 Speaker 1: to his wife. Not far, she said, not looking up 354 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: from her book. Oh, I don't know, he said. We 355 00:24:12,995 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 1: uh never go down in the cellar anymore the way 356 00:24:15,875 --> 00:24:18,675 Speaker 1: we used to. We never did go down in the 357 00:24:18,715 --> 00:24:22,115 Speaker 1: cellar that I remember, said Mrs Prebble. I could rest 358 00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:24,355 Speaker 1: easy the balance of my life if I never went 359 00:24:24,395 --> 00:24:28,635 Speaker 1: down in the cellar. Mr Prebble was silent for several minutes. 360 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:32,915 Speaker 1: Supposing I said at midt a whole lot to me, 361 00:24:33,315 --> 00:24:37,315 Speaker 1: began Mr Prebble. What's come over you? His wife demanded, 362 00:24:37,355 --> 00:24:40,315 Speaker 1: it's called down there, and there's absolutely nothing to do. 363 00:24:42,115 --> 00:24:46,595 Speaker 1: We could uh pick up pieces of coal, said Mr Prebble. 364 00:24:46,795 --> 00:24:49,635 Speaker 1: We might get up some sort of game with pieces 365 00:24:49,635 --> 00:24:53,755 Speaker 1: of coal. I don't want to, said his wife, anyway, 366 00:24:53,795 --> 00:24:58,995 Speaker 1: I'm reading, listen, said Mr Prebble, rising and walking up 367 00:24:58,995 --> 00:25:01,675 Speaker 1: and down. Why won't you come down in the cellar? 368 00:25:01,795 --> 00:25:03,635 Speaker 1: You can read down there as far as that goes. 369 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: There isn't a good enough light down there, she said. 370 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:10,875 Speaker 1: And anyway, I'm not going to go down in the cellar. 371 00:25:10,955 --> 00:25:14,915 Speaker 1: You may as well make up your mind that gee whiz, 372 00:25:15,435 --> 00:25:18,075 Speaker 1: said Mr Prebble, kicking at the edge of a rug. 373 00:25:18,355 --> 00:25:20,915 Speaker 1: Other people's wives go down in the cellar. Why isn't 374 00:25:20,955 --> 00:25:24,035 Speaker 1: you never want to do anything? I come home worn 375 00:25:24,035 --> 00:25:26,195 Speaker 1: out from the office, and you will even go down 376 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:29,195 Speaker 1: in the cellar with me. God knows, it isn't very far. 377 00:25:29,635 --> 00:25:31,275 Speaker 1: It isn't as if I was asking you to go 378 00:25:31,315 --> 00:25:35,875 Speaker 1: to the movies or someplace I don't want to go, 379 00:25:36,795 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: shouted Mrs Prebble. Mr Prebble sat down on the edge 380 00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:46,715 Speaker 1: of a davenport. All right, all right, he said. He 381 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:50,035 Speaker 1: picked up the newspaper again. I wish you'd let me 382 00:25:50,075 --> 00:25:52,955 Speaker 1: tell you more about it. It's it's kind of a surprise. 383 00:25:54,595 --> 00:25:59,955 Speaker 1: Well you quit harping on that subject, asked Mrs Prebble. Listen, 384 00:26:00,195 --> 00:26:02,755 Speaker 1: said Mr Prebble, leaping to his feet. I might as 385 00:26:02,795 --> 00:26:04,635 Speaker 1: well tell you the truth instead of beating around the bush. 386 00:26:04,835 --> 00:26:06,395 Speaker 1: I want to get rid of you so I can 387 00:26:06,435 --> 00:26:09,195 Speaker 1: marry my stenographer. Is there anything especially wrong about that? 388 00:26:09,475 --> 00:26:12,115 Speaker 1: People do it every day. Love is something you can't control. 389 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:16,355 Speaker 1: We've been all over that, said Mrs Prebble. I'm not 390 00:26:16,675 --> 00:26:22,555 Speaker 1: going to go all over that again. I just wanted 391 00:26:22,555 --> 00:26:25,475 Speaker 1: you to know how things are, said Mr Prebble. But 392 00:26:25,555 --> 00:26:29,475 Speaker 1: you have to take everything so literally. Good lord, do 393 00:26:29,555 --> 00:26:31,995 Speaker 1: you suppose I really wanted to go down in the 394 00:26:32,035 --> 00:26:35,875 Speaker 1: cellar and make up some silly game with pieces of coal. 395 00:26:36,915 --> 00:26:40,435 Speaker 1: I never believe that for a minute, said Mrs Prebble. 396 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:42,275 Speaker 1: I knew all along you wanted to get me down 397 00:26:42,355 --> 00:26:46,795 Speaker 1: there and bury me. You can say that now after 398 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:50,275 Speaker 1: I told you, said Mr Prebble. But it would never 399 00:26:50,355 --> 00:26:53,915 Speaker 1: have occurred to you if I hadn't. You didn't tell me. 400 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: I got it out of you, said Mrs Prebble. Anyway, 401 00:26:57,875 --> 00:27:01,275 Speaker 1: I'm always two steps ahead of what you're thinking. You're 402 00:27:01,355 --> 00:27:04,035 Speaker 1: never within a mile what I'm thinking, said Mr Prebble. 403 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:06,595 Speaker 1: Is that so I knew you wanted to bury me 404 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:08,955 Speaker 1: the minute you got some foot in this house tonight? 405 00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:13,115 Speaker 1: Mrs Prebble held him with a glare. Now, that's just 406 00:27:13,595 --> 00:27:18,075 Speaker 1: plain damn exaggeration, said Mr Prebble, considerably annoyed. You knew 407 00:27:18,235 --> 00:27:19,675 Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, I 408 00:27:19,755 --> 00:27:21,395 Speaker 1: never thought of it until just a few minutes ago. 409 00:27:22,635 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: It was in the back of your mind, said Mrs Prebble. 410 00:27:25,995 --> 00:27:28,835 Speaker 1: I suppose this filing woman put you up to it. 411 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:34,435 Speaker 1: You needn't get sarcastic, said Mr Prebble. I have plenty 412 00:27:34,475 --> 00:27:37,755 Speaker 1: of people to file without having her file. She doesn't 413 00:27:37,795 --> 00:27:40,515 Speaker 1: know anything about this, She isn't in on it. I 414 00:27:40,595 --> 00:27:42,835 Speaker 1: was gonna tell her you've gone to visit some friends 415 00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:45,875 Speaker 1: and fell over a cliff. She wants me to get 416 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:50,795 Speaker 1: a divorce. That's a laugh, said Mrs Prebble. That's a laugh. 417 00:27:51,435 --> 00:27:54,515 Speaker 1: You may bury me, but you'll never get a divorce. 418 00:27:55,355 --> 00:27:57,875 Speaker 1: She knows that I told her that, said Mr Prebble. 419 00:27:57,915 --> 00:28:01,795 Speaker 1: I mean I told her I'd never get a divorce. Oh, 420 00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:05,755 Speaker 1: you've probably told her about burying me too, said Mrs Prebble. 421 00:28:06,275 --> 00:28:11,555 Speaker 1: That's not true, said Mr Prebble, with dignity. That's between 422 00:28:11,595 --> 00:28:14,155 Speaker 1: you and me. I was never going to tell a soul. 423 00:28:15,035 --> 00:28:17,755 Speaker 1: You'd blab it to the whole world. Don't tell me, 424 00:28:18,515 --> 00:28:22,515 Speaker 1: said Mrs Prebble. I know you. Mr Prebble puffed at 425 00:28:22,515 --> 00:28:25,635 Speaker 1: his cigar. I wish you were buried now it was 426 00:28:25,675 --> 00:28:29,075 Speaker 1: all over with, he said. Don't you suppose you would 427 00:28:29,075 --> 00:28:33,355 Speaker 1: get caught, you crazy thing? She said, they always get caught. 428 00:28:34,195 --> 00:28:35,955 Speaker 1: Why don't you go to bed. You're just getting yourself 429 00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:38,715 Speaker 1: all worked up over nothing. I'm not going to bed, 430 00:28:39,115 --> 00:28:41,355 Speaker 1: said Mr Prebble. I'm gonna bury you in the cellar. 431 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:43,555 Speaker 1: I got my mind made up to it. I don't 432 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:47,555 Speaker 1: know how I could make it any planer listen, cried 433 00:28:47,755 --> 00:28:50,995 Speaker 1: Mrs Prebble, throwing her book down. Will you be satisfied 434 00:28:51,035 --> 00:28:52,995 Speaker 1: and shut up? If I go down in the cellar. 435 00:28:53,155 --> 00:28:55,155 Speaker 1: Can I have a little piece if I go down 436 00:28:55,195 --> 00:29:00,355 Speaker 1: in the cellar we let me alone, then, yes, said 437 00:29:00,475 --> 00:29:05,035 Speaker 1: Mr Prebble. But you spoil it by taking that attitude. Sure, sure, 438 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,115 Speaker 1: I always spoil everything. I stopped reading right in the 439 00:29:08,115 --> 00:29:10,315 Speaker 1: middle of a chapter. I'll never know how the story 440 00:29:10,355 --> 00:29:13,595 Speaker 1: comes out. But that's nothing to you. Did I make 441 00:29:13,675 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: you start reading that book? Asked Mr Prebble. He opened 442 00:29:16,595 --> 00:29:20,435 Speaker 1: the cellar door. Here you go first, said Mrs Prebble, 443 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:23,675 Speaker 1: starting down the steps. It's cold down here. You would 444 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:26,395 Speaker 1: think of this at this time of the year. Any 445 00:29:26,395 --> 00:29:28,795 Speaker 1: other husband would have buried his wife in the summer. 446 00:29:29,715 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: You can't arrange those things just whenever you want to, 447 00:29:32,395 --> 00:29:34,355 Speaker 1: said Mr Prebble. That didn't fall in love with this 448 00:29:34,395 --> 00:29:37,315 Speaker 1: girl to late fall. Anybody else would have fallen in 449 00:29:37,315 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: love with her long before that. She's been around for years. 450 00:29:41,035 --> 00:29:42,715 Speaker 1: Why is it you always let other men get in 451 00:29:42,755 --> 00:29:45,235 Speaker 1: ahead of you, Mercy? But it's dirty down here. What 452 00:29:45,315 --> 00:29:48,075 Speaker 1: have you got down there? I was gonna hit you 453 00:29:48,115 --> 00:29:50,515 Speaker 1: over the head with a shovel, said Mr Prebble. You 454 00:29:50,595 --> 00:29:53,515 Speaker 1: were huh, said Mrs Prebble. We'll get that out of 455 00:29:53,555 --> 00:29:55,835 Speaker 1: your mind. You want to leave a great, big clue 456 00:29:56,155 --> 00:29:58,435 Speaker 1: right here in the middle of everything. We're the first 457 00:29:58,475 --> 00:30:01,915 Speaker 1: detective that comes snooping around. We'll find it. Go out 458 00:30:01,915 --> 00:30:04,355 Speaker 1: in the street and find some piece of iron or something. 459 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:09,755 Speaker 1: Something doesn't belong to you, all right, said Mr Prebble. 460 00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:12,755 Speaker 1: But there won't be any piece of iron in the street. 461 00:30:12,915 --> 00:30:15,715 Speaker 1: Women always expect to pick up a piece of iron anywhere. 462 00:30:16,795 --> 00:30:18,995 Speaker 1: If you look in the right place, you'll find it, 463 00:30:19,315 --> 00:30:22,475 Speaker 1: said Mrs Prebble. And don't be gone long, don't you 464 00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:24,955 Speaker 1: dare stopping at the cigar store. I'm not gonna stand 465 00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: down here in this cold cellar all night and freeze 466 00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:31,915 Speaker 1: all right, said Mr Prebble. I'll hurry and shut that 467 00:30:32,075 --> 00:30:35,315 Speaker 1: door behind you. She screamed after him. Where were you 468 00:30:35,475 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: born in a barn? Mr Prebble gets rid of his 469 00:30:42,275 --> 00:31:00,795 Speaker 1: wife By James Thurber, I've done all the damage I 470 00:31:00,835 --> 00:31:03,355 Speaker 1: can do here. Help me out. Subscribe to this podcast 471 00:31:03,475 --> 00:31:06,435 Speaker 1: or accost or random asser by or give it five stars, 472 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:09,875 Speaker 1: or give it five I clapped like a seal or something. 473 00:31:10,555 --> 00:31:13,435 Speaker 1: Most of our music, including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, 474 00:31:13,795 --> 00:31:16,395 Speaker 1: was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 475 00:31:16,395 --> 00:31:19,595 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle, who are the Countdown musical directors. All the 476 00:31:19,675 --> 00:31:23,515 Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. 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Everything else is pretty much my fault. Let's 487 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:02,155 Speaker 1: countdown for this the sixty seventh day since Donald Trump's 488 00:32:02,195 --> 00:32:05,315 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically all good government in 489 00:32:05,355 --> 00:32:08,235 Speaker 1: the United States. Arrest him now while we still can 490 00:32:09,115 --> 00:32:11,515 Speaker 1: w a new episode Monday. Till then, I'm Keith Alderman. 491 00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 492 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:24,235 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman is a production of I Heart Radio. For 493 00:32:24,395 --> 00:32:27,395 Speaker 1: more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the I heart 494 00:32:27,475 --> 00:32:31,555 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.