1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Is 2 00:00:24,915 --> 00:00:29,315 Speaker 1: there a way we can get Trump involuntarily committed to 3 00:00:29,435 --> 00:00:36,555 Speaker 1: a psychiatric institution. No, Seriously, I don't know the answer. 4 00:00:36,835 --> 00:00:41,195 Speaker 1: I suspect the answer is no. Not even after the 5 00:00:41,315 --> 00:00:44,875 Speaker 1: video he put out in which he proudly covers America 6 00:00:44,995 --> 00:00:49,315 Speaker 1: in shit from the air, which he thought was some 7 00:00:49,435 --> 00:00:52,835 Speaker 1: kind of flex as opposed to being the confirmation of 8 00:00:52,875 --> 00:00:59,955 Speaker 1: everything that was being protested at No Kings. This AI 9 00:01:00,195 --> 00:01:03,155 Speaker 1: video of him and the jet which defines Trump as president, 10 00:01:03,515 --> 00:01:11,995 Speaker 1: as leader, as father, as human being, sort of a 11 00:01:12,115 --> 00:01:15,395 Speaker 1: shit show with a crown, and he has to wear 12 00:01:15,435 --> 00:01:19,955 Speaker 1: an oxygen mask, and the magas are standing below as 13 00:01:19,955 --> 00:01:22,915 Speaker 1: it rains down upon them, just hoping to catch some 14 00:01:23,115 --> 00:01:30,635 Speaker 1: of it, maybe with their mouths. Trump shitting on America 15 00:01:32,035 --> 00:01:37,795 Speaker 1: the only thing he is good at. And in the 16 00:01:37,835 --> 00:01:41,395 Speaker 1: limited coverage it gets in the media, they have sanitized 17 00:01:41,435 --> 00:01:46,875 Speaker 1: it for your protection, literally in the New York Times, 18 00:01:46,915 --> 00:01:52,435 Speaker 1: not referencing what it was flying out of the airplane. 19 00:01:52,555 --> 00:01:57,555 Speaker 1: In Trump's Freudian video, in his confession in the climax 20 00:01:58,035 --> 00:02:06,195 Speaker 1: of his life on this earth. After that, let me 21 00:02:06,235 --> 00:02:10,955 Speaker 1: say it all again. Trump is insane and unchecked. He 22 00:02:11,075 --> 00:02:14,275 Speaker 1: is going to kill us all because nothing matters to 23 00:02:14,395 --> 00:02:19,515 Speaker 1: him but him, and nothing about him matters to him. Besides, 24 00:02:19,555 --> 00:02:24,995 Speaker 1: what is happening right this moment. He's insane, he's psychopathic, 25 00:02:25,435 --> 00:02:29,875 Speaker 1: he's murderous, he's mass murderous. He's a terrorist, he's vile, 26 00:02:30,035 --> 00:02:35,075 Speaker 1: he's deranged, he's damaged, he's dysfunctional. He's on top of 27 00:02:35,115 --> 00:02:41,915 Speaker 1: everything else. There he is discharging his inner self all 28 00:02:42,035 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: over New York and all the No Kings protesters and 29 00:02:46,475 --> 00:02:51,155 Speaker 1: all over all of America. And my final thought was, 30 00:02:52,475 --> 00:02:56,715 Speaker 1: if that AI video were real and he really got 31 00:02:56,795 --> 00:03:03,115 Speaker 1: rid of all that shit, what what would he be 32 00:03:03,355 --> 00:03:15,035 Speaker 1: left to think with? So is there a way we 33 00:03:15,075 --> 00:03:20,995 Speaker 1: can get Trump involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution. I 34 00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:28,115 Speaker 1: appreciate it's probably a slippery slope anyway, certainly is after 35 00:03:28,195 --> 00:03:33,795 Speaker 1: that video. But in a scenario in which Trump does 36 00:03:33,915 --> 00:03:42,235 Speaker 1: that promulgates that thinks that is the response after America 37 00:03:42,235 --> 00:03:46,875 Speaker 1: holds its largest political protest since Earth Day in nineteen seventy, 38 00:03:47,555 --> 00:03:52,275 Speaker 1: when the best estimate now seven million of US took 39 00:03:52,315 --> 00:03:57,035 Speaker 1: to the streets at No Kings, with no violence, no terrorists, 40 00:03:57,355 --> 00:04:01,755 Speaker 1: no anti americanism, no arrests in New York, no arrests 41 00:04:01,755 --> 00:04:07,075 Speaker 1: in Chicago, one arrest in Los Angeles, a handful in Denver. 42 00:04:07,875 --> 00:04:11,675 Speaker 1: Complementary posts from the heads of the police department in 43 00:04:11,715 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 1: the key cities. After that call and response No Kings 44 00:04:21,035 --> 00:04:26,915 Speaker 1: followed by no shit, we have to explore all options. Now, 45 00:04:28,395 --> 00:04:30,875 Speaker 1: is there a way we can get Trump involuntarily committed 46 00:04:30,915 --> 00:04:37,555 Speaker 1: to a psychiatric institution, because frankly, if we bid him out, 47 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:45,515 Speaker 1: we could make billions. The man is insane. If he 48 00:04:45,555 --> 00:04:48,755 Speaker 1: had not been insane before putting out that video, if 49 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:55,075 Speaker 1: he had been healed at Lord's Saturday morning and then 50 00:04:55,115 --> 00:04:57,835 Speaker 1: he put that video out, it would be clear he 51 00:04:57,915 --> 00:05:03,435 Speaker 1: had gone insane a second time. No, no, no, no, 52 00:05:03,595 --> 00:05:12,475 Speaker 1: he was better this morning. Say now he's re insane. Meanwhile, 53 00:05:12,515 --> 00:05:16,835 Speaker 1: No Kings gets no coverage from the political cognizanti. By 54 00:05:16,915 --> 00:05:20,115 Speaker 1: midday yesterday, the entirety of the protest was just hanging 55 00:05:20,155 --> 00:05:23,635 Speaker 1: on to a tiny spot on the front page of 56 00:05:23,715 --> 00:05:27,155 Speaker 1: The New York Times and other publications and other websites, 57 00:05:27,235 --> 00:05:31,235 Speaker 1: saved in most cases by being most shared on most sites, 58 00:05:31,435 --> 00:05:38,435 Speaker 1: which still is not a clue. Even Trump responded to 59 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:43,835 Speaker 1: No Kings and the majority of newspapers and news organizations 60 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:47,315 Speaker 1: failed to do so sufficiently. It was not just the 61 00:05:47,435 --> 00:05:51,035 Speaker 1: lead story yesterday and should be today. It should be 62 00:05:51,155 --> 00:05:58,195 Speaker 1: the only story. It is America grabbing all of that 63 00:05:58,275 --> 00:06:01,715 Speaker 1: from the AI video and shoving it back up Trump's ass. 64 00:06:05,555 --> 00:06:09,715 Speaker 1: In the New York Times, No Kings was just barely 65 00:06:09,755 --> 00:06:17,275 Speaker 1: ahead of police break up Lego theft ring recovering hundreds 66 00:06:17,315 --> 00:06:25,595 Speaker 1: of beheaded figurines. The story was dwarfed by Times analysis 67 00:06:25,595 --> 00:06:28,835 Speaker 1: of how the Democrats are flailing. It's twenty twenty five 68 00:06:28,835 --> 00:06:31,795 Speaker 1: and Democrats are still running against Trump. Then there's a 69 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: story about Trump commuting the sentence of George Santos, because 70 00:06:36,755 --> 00:06:41,155 Speaker 1: that's entirely a normal thing. Then a Democratic mayor who 71 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:44,315 Speaker 1: thinks cities are handling Trump wrought not one piece about 72 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:47,195 Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty five and the New York Times ownership 73 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:50,555 Speaker 1: is still terrified of Trump and carrying water for him 74 00:06:51,075 --> 00:06:54,235 Speaker 1: or something else of a liquid nature for him, and 75 00:06:54,275 --> 00:07:01,275 Speaker 1: not realizing we live on a precipice because of him. Democrats. 76 00:07:01,995 --> 00:07:07,235 Speaker 1: I don't know strike that Americans organized and conducted the 77 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:12,835 Speaker 1: largest political protest in this country in fifty five years 78 00:07:12,875 --> 00:07:20,755 Speaker 1: without one significant negative moment, but the anti Trump message 79 00:07:21,235 --> 00:07:26,915 Speaker 1: bores American news media. It bores the New York Times 80 00:07:26,955 --> 00:07:30,635 Speaker 1: because there are the times Trump isn't dropping ai shit 81 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:34,355 Speaker 1: storms on them. They live in the Hamptons. The case 82 00:07:34,475 --> 00:07:40,995 Speaker 1: was dismissed. The Washington Post underplayed it. They even took 83 00:07:40,995 --> 00:07:43,915 Speaker 1: Trump almost entirely out of the story of Marco Rubio's 84 00:07:43,955 --> 00:07:48,235 Speaker 1: promise quote to betray informants to get Trump's prison deal 85 00:07:48,275 --> 00:07:52,315 Speaker 1: with l Salvador to secure US access to President Nayabucl's 86 00:07:52,395 --> 00:07:56,355 Speaker 1: notorious Seacot prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several ms 87 00:07:56,475 --> 00:08:00,715 Speaker 1: thirteen leaders central to a long running Justice Department investigation. 88 00:08:01,035 --> 00:08:04,955 Speaker 1: You know, they did the moral equivalent of shoe ing 89 00:08:04,995 --> 00:08:09,235 Speaker 1: prisoners who had just surrendered. And it was all Rubio, 90 00:08:10,075 --> 00:08:13,195 Speaker 1: not Trump. That was Rubio's idea. That's why he's in 91 00:08:13,235 --> 00:08:17,195 Speaker 1: the headline Trump's prison deal all. But it's all Rubio. 92 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:22,315 Speaker 1: I'm not defending Marco Rubio here. Marco Rubio is the 93 00:08:22,355 --> 00:08:30,835 Speaker 1: stuff that came out of Trump's plane. But it's Trump's plane. Politico, 94 00:08:31,115 --> 00:08:33,435 Speaker 1: which is also the stuff that comes out of Trump's plane, 95 00:08:34,075 --> 00:08:38,475 Speaker 1: didn't even mention no Kings in its daily newsletter headline 96 00:08:38,555 --> 00:08:45,115 Speaker 1: round Up yesterday, never mind not mentioning Trump's shit jet. 97 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:52,795 Speaker 1: Confess you thought I had been finished using the four 98 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:56,515 Speaker 1: letter version of this, hadn't you As disgusting as that 99 00:08:56,675 --> 00:08:59,955 Speaker 1: video was, It is, in fact, the greatest thing Trump 100 00:08:59,955 --> 00:09:03,675 Speaker 1: has ever done in a way I am sitting here 101 00:09:03,915 --> 00:09:09,075 Speaker 1: applauding him. It is greater than all the other accomplishments 102 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:12,795 Speaker 1: of his life. His thorough corruption of the government, his 103 00:09:12,915 --> 00:09:16,075 Speaker 1: opening of a Pandora's box, which turned out to be 104 00:09:16,195 --> 00:09:21,915 Speaker 1: full of millions of other Pandora's boxes, His greasy, chintzy, 105 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: falling apart apartment buildings, his ludicrous personal appearance, his eternal 106 00:09:27,835 --> 00:09:30,115 Speaker 1: peace in the Middle East that has already fallen apart. 107 00:09:30,355 --> 00:09:34,275 Speaker 1: His crimes, his craft, his grift, his Espionage Act violations, 108 00:09:34,435 --> 00:09:37,915 Speaker 1: his liability for assaults, his convictions, his makeup, his hot 109 00:09:37,955 --> 00:09:42,275 Speaker 1: and cold running lying. Of all the things Trump has 110 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:45,275 Speaker 1: ever done, nothing has ever been greater than that video. 111 00:09:46,595 --> 00:09:52,675 Speaker 1: It is the embodiment of the last decade in America. 112 00:09:53,115 --> 00:10:04,275 Speaker 1: It is Donald Trump's America. It is Donald Trump. And 113 00:10:04,395 --> 00:10:08,595 Speaker 1: he is so crazy. He posted that video himself, thinking 114 00:10:09,475 --> 00:10:18,075 Speaker 1: the video expressed some kind of triumph. He's not just crazy, 115 00:10:18,875 --> 00:10:24,715 Speaker 1: He's he's that shit crazy. He in fact is something 116 00:10:24,795 --> 00:10:28,435 Speaker 1: new to this earth. He is, as the video showed, 117 00:10:29,195 --> 00:11:00,435 Speaker 1: he is Trump shit crazy. You may have noticed the 118 00:11:00,475 --> 00:11:04,195 Speaker 1: scratch in my voice and a little cough earlier. I'm sick, 119 00:11:05,715 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: So what you're hearing now is the last of what 120 00:11:08,715 --> 00:11:11,595 Speaker 1: I've been able to concentrate long enough on to write. 121 00:11:11,955 --> 00:11:14,635 Speaker 1: I can talk with some discomfort, but that's my problem, 122 00:11:14,675 --> 00:11:20,275 Speaker 1: not yours. The writing not so much. So let's enjoy 123 00:11:20,315 --> 00:11:24,675 Speaker 1: instead the adventure of me ad libbing my way through 124 00:11:24,755 --> 00:11:29,315 Speaker 1: the other headlines and through an entire second segment devoted 125 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:34,435 Speaker 1: to one story rather than worse persons, but going through 126 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:40,315 Speaker 1: all this with slightly less than a clear head. Fasten 127 00:11:40,355 --> 00:11:43,475 Speaker 1: your seat belts, and if you look out the left 128 00:11:43,515 --> 00:11:50,075 Speaker 1: window of the Trump shit jet, you'll see why it's JD. 129 00:11:50,275 --> 00:11:55,595 Speaker 1: Vance in the vice presidential mini shit copter. The other 130 00:11:55,675 --> 00:11:58,995 Speaker 1: thing about that video is that it represents in its 131 00:11:59,035 --> 00:12:05,155 Speaker 1: own way Trump's policy on the quote narco terrorists quote 132 00:12:05,195 --> 00:12:09,195 Speaker 1: and the kinetic strikes unquote by the Secretary of brill 133 00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:15,595 Speaker 1: Cream taking place off Venezuela in the Caribbean. As the 134 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:18,635 Speaker 1: news story reads, the US released the two survivors of 135 00:12:18,715 --> 00:12:22,355 Speaker 1: Thursday's military strike on a suspected drug vessel. Thank you 136 00:12:22,395 --> 00:12:24,755 Speaker 1: for putting in suspected. Half of the media in the 137 00:12:24,755 --> 00:12:26,835 Speaker 1: world just says, oh, yes, that has to have been 138 00:12:27,155 --> 00:12:29,755 Speaker 1: narco terrorist because there's no evidence one way or the other. 139 00:12:29,835 --> 00:12:32,355 Speaker 1: And why would the President of the United States lie 140 00:12:32,395 --> 00:12:37,155 Speaker 1: about that. It's a minute that ends in a number. 141 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:42,235 Speaker 1: That's why the two survivors were released to their home countries, 142 00:12:42,275 --> 00:12:48,795 Speaker 1: Ecuador and Colombia. President of Colombia says US government officials, 143 00:12:48,875 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 1: this is a separate strike. Have committed a murder and 144 00:12:51,995 --> 00:12:57,315 Speaker 1: violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Caranza had 145 00:12:57,315 --> 00:12:59,955 Speaker 1: no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity 146 00:13:00,075 --> 00:13:03,555 Speaker 1: was fishing. The Colombian boat was a drift and had 147 00:13:03,595 --> 00:13:07,195 Speaker 1: its distress signal up due to an engine failure. The 148 00:13:07,235 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 1: president of Columbia, who we of course threw out of 149 00:13:09,795 --> 00:13:12,835 Speaker 1: the country because he dared to criticize Trump at the 150 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:17,915 Speaker 1: UN even though we don't own the UN. Sorry we 151 00:13:17,955 --> 00:13:21,995 Speaker 1: threw him out, He now says Trump murdered Alejandro Caranza. 152 00:13:21,995 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: The US government murdered Alejandro Caranza, and that in fact 153 00:13:25,635 --> 00:13:29,235 Speaker 1: the boat was sitting there having had engine failure. It 154 00:13:29,395 --> 00:13:32,795 Speaker 1: was literally a sitting duck. It was even a more 155 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:39,595 Speaker 1: innocent target than we have previously presumed. I mentioned earlier 156 00:13:39,675 --> 00:13:42,955 Speaker 1: the idea of shooting prisoners who have just surrendered on 157 00:13:42,995 --> 00:13:49,635 Speaker 1: the battlefield. This is the next step beyond that sitting 158 00:13:49,715 --> 00:13:55,515 Speaker 1: there engine failure kill them. The New Republic added this. 159 00:13:55,555 --> 00:13:57,715 Speaker 1: The other day. President Trump announced that he had bombed 160 00:13:57,755 --> 00:14:00,395 Speaker 1: yet another boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea. 161 00:14:00,635 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: He's now struck six twenty seven dead bombings widely denounced 162 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: as illegal, probably because they are. New York Times reports 163 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:11,795 Speaker 1: the head of the military Southern Command, Alvin Holsey, is 164 00:14:11,835 --> 00:14:19,115 Speaker 1: stepping down amid unclear circumstances. Not Admiral Halsey, but Alvin Holsey. 165 00:14:19,435 --> 00:14:21,435 Speaker 1: You would think we would want to retain somebody whose 166 00:14:21,515 --> 00:14:27,595 Speaker 1: name was that close to Halsey's. Meanwhile, much of this 167 00:14:27,675 --> 00:14:31,355 Speaker 1: country continues to believe that Trump almost saved Ukraine. Oh, 168 00:14:31,395 --> 00:14:34,395 Speaker 1: he came so close, We almost saved Ukraine. And then 169 00:14:34,435 --> 00:14:37,075 Speaker 1: he changed his mind almost Maybe next time. 170 00:14:38,075 --> 00:14:39,275 Speaker 2: It's a. 171 00:14:40,915 --> 00:14:45,435 Speaker 1: Stall. It has been nothing but a stall. The whole 172 00:14:45,475 --> 00:14:49,155 Speaker 1: thing has been a performance, dating back to the session 173 00:14:49,395 --> 00:14:52,355 Speaker 1: in the Oval office, with the media there and JD. 174 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:55,995 Speaker 1: Vance trying to act tough as they browbeat Zelenski and 175 00:14:56,115 --> 00:14:59,475 Speaker 1: Zelensky to his credit did not kick Trump in the balls. 176 00:15:00,875 --> 00:15:04,915 Speaker 1: It's a stall. He has tried every different angle to 177 00:15:05,035 --> 00:15:09,515 Speaker 1: buy Putin another couple of weeks because Trump is Putin's whore. 178 00:15:09,795 --> 00:15:12,715 Speaker 1: I'll repeat that for those in the back. Trump is 179 00:15:12,795 --> 00:15:22,315 Speaker 1: Putin's whore. And apparently somehow Putin waded through Trump's brown liquid, 180 00:15:22,435 --> 00:15:26,195 Speaker 1: as the New York Times would call it, and got 181 00:15:26,235 --> 00:15:29,515 Speaker 1: through to him with this message. Just keep doing different 182 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:32,435 Speaker 1: things that make it look like you're about to force 183 00:15:32,475 --> 00:15:35,235 Speaker 1: me to do something else. This time it was Tomahawk missiles. 184 00:15:38,395 --> 00:15:41,275 Speaker 1: In a phone call last week with Trump, Russian President 185 00:15:41,315 --> 00:15:45,115 Speaker 1: Putin demanded Kiev surrender control of the Dunetsk region as 186 00:15:45,155 --> 00:15:47,915 Speaker 1: a condition to ending the war in Ukraine. This is 187 00:15:47,915 --> 00:15:51,755 Speaker 1: according to the Washington Post. During the Friday meeting with Zelensky, 188 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:57,795 Speaker 1: Steve Whitkoff, the forty two IQ guy that Trump has 189 00:15:57,835 --> 00:16:01,355 Speaker 1: decided is the Middle East envoy reportedly pressed the Ukraine 190 00:16:01,435 --> 00:16:04,915 Speaker 1: delegation about seeding Donetsk, and Trump is to meet with 191 00:16:05,075 --> 00:16:09,875 Speaker 1: Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks. I will have 192 00:16:09,875 --> 00:16:13,795 Speaker 1: a nightly prayer vigil that they all stay in Hungary forever. 193 00:16:14,835 --> 00:16:20,395 Speaker 1: So the theory here is Trump was going to give 194 00:16:20,995 --> 00:16:27,675 Speaker 1: Zelensky tomahawks instead, he's going to give Putin Dunnetsk. But 195 00:16:27,755 --> 00:16:30,835 Speaker 1: he almost did it. Let's give him a Nobel Peace 196 00:16:30,875 --> 00:16:34,075 Speaker 1: Prize for almost doing the right thing as opposed to 197 00:16:34,115 --> 00:16:39,595 Speaker 1: the completely wrong thing. Because it's Trump. And if the 198 00:16:39,635 --> 00:16:43,995 Speaker 1: world does not end because of something he's done and 199 00:16:44,035 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: the sun rises in the morning, well that was restraint. 200 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:52,115 Speaker 1: The fellow on CNN Van Jones is about to say 201 00:16:52,155 --> 00:16:59,435 Speaker 1: that this is the day Trump became president. Another report 202 00:16:59,475 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: from the Washington Post, Putin got his relationship with Trump 203 00:17:02,275 --> 00:17:04,595 Speaker 1: back on tracking one phone call. I'll bet he did, 204 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:08,275 Speaker 1: dashing the prospect of the US imminently granting long range messing. 205 00:17:08,475 --> 00:17:12,395 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. It was the latest swing, writes Robin 206 00:17:12,515 --> 00:17:15,555 Speaker 1: Dixon of the Washington Post in Trump's back and forth 207 00:17:15,555 --> 00:17:19,235 Speaker 1: positions on the Russian Ukraine War that often changed following 208 00:17:19,315 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: contact with Putin. No, it wasn't, Robin Dixon. It's an act. 209 00:17:23,995 --> 00:17:27,635 Speaker 1: It's a stall for Putin. My god, I am a 210 00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:32,955 Speaker 1: semi retired former SportsCenter anchor and the one time field 211 00:17:33,315 --> 00:17:39,155 Speaker 1: reporter for the Nicket Night nineteen eighty six celebrity retired 212 00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:46,475 Speaker 1: TV star Golf Open, and even I can figure this out, 213 00:17:47,595 --> 00:17:50,595 Speaker 1: and it seems as if not one political or governmental 214 00:17:50,795 --> 00:17:55,395 Speaker 1: writer in this country can figure it out. Just me 215 00:17:56,475 --> 00:18:01,115 Speaker 1: so to the media experts, to the expert experts who 216 00:18:01,195 --> 00:18:04,875 Speaker 1: believed Trump was coming around this time on Ukraine, even 217 00:18:04,915 --> 00:18:08,515 Speaker 1: though each previous time you thought that now he was 218 00:18:08,635 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: just stalling as Putin's horror, Oh, it turned out this time, 219 00:18:13,035 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: Oh he was just stalling. What was he doing last time? 220 00:18:16,915 --> 00:18:19,755 Speaker 1: Just stalling? What will he be doing next time? Oh, 221 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:22,315 Speaker 1: he might be seriously negotiating. He's going to put pressure 222 00:18:22,355 --> 00:18:26,195 Speaker 1: in Putin this time, one hundred and forty seventh time. 223 00:18:26,275 --> 00:18:29,195 Speaker 1: Is the charm to all of you who still think 224 00:18:30,275 --> 00:18:33,475 Speaker 1: that this is not a stall, He is not Putin's whore, 225 00:18:34,035 --> 00:18:36,875 Speaker 1: and you did not just fall for it again, go 226 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:45,035 Speaker 1: f yourselves and quit your jobs. I don't feel well, 227 00:18:45,075 --> 00:18:47,155 Speaker 1: and I'd like to end with the funnies at least 228 00:18:47,195 --> 00:18:51,115 Speaker 1: this segment before we move on to one long telling 229 00:18:51,315 --> 00:18:56,475 Speaker 1: of one really really weird story involving somebody trying to 230 00:18:56,515 --> 00:19:00,795 Speaker 1: go from the sports world to the political world, who 231 00:19:00,875 --> 00:19:07,475 Speaker 1: I've discussed before, talking about a phony, talking about fooling people. 232 00:19:08,395 --> 00:19:11,115 Speaker 1: I do want to end this segment with a couple 233 00:19:11,195 --> 00:19:14,795 Speaker 1: of laughs. I have a delightful audio clip to play 234 00:19:14,835 --> 00:19:17,875 Speaker 1: for you. And you might not have seen this because 235 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:21,395 Speaker 1: it's from the mayor's debate here in Fun City, the 236 00:19:21,435 --> 00:19:26,395 Speaker 1: New York mayoralty debate Zoran mom Donnie who is leading 237 00:19:27,155 --> 00:19:31,835 Speaker 1: in double figures in the worst of his polls over Cuomo, 238 00:19:32,715 --> 00:19:36,035 Speaker 1: and Curtis Sliwa, who took off his hat. And apparently 239 00:19:36,115 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: all this time Curtis's problem was his little red beret 240 00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:43,675 Speaker 1: was on too tight because once the circulation started going 241 00:19:44,155 --> 00:19:52,115 Speaker 1: in his brain again, Curtis bless him dunked on Andrew 242 00:19:52,155 --> 00:19:59,835 Speaker 1: Cuomo owned him dunked. The subject is standing up to 243 00:19:59,875 --> 00:20:05,435 Speaker 1: Trump demanding money or allowing ice in, or any of 244 00:20:05,435 --> 00:20:08,875 Speaker 1: the other demands that Trump will make of the Mayor 245 00:20:08,915 --> 00:20:12,915 Speaker 1: of New York, including Cuomo, who he has in his 246 00:20:13,035 --> 00:20:16,315 Speaker 1: back pocket. Trump this is has a prosecution of Cuomo 247 00:20:16,435 --> 00:20:19,195 Speaker 1: in his back pocket, but he would never ever pressure 248 00:20:19,315 --> 00:20:21,915 Speaker 1: Cuomo into doing what he wanted rather than what's good 249 00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:24,475 Speaker 1: for the city of New York. And Curtis Sliwa, on 250 00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:30,275 Speaker 1: this topic, picked up what Mario Cuomo's son said and 251 00:20:30,675 --> 00:20:33,955 Speaker 1: stuffed it down his throat. This is one of the 252 00:20:33,995 --> 00:20:38,355 Speaker 1: great political sound bites of all time. Listen carefully and 253 00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:42,275 Speaker 1: listen carefully for one guy in the back, adding the 254 00:20:42,355 --> 00:20:46,395 Speaker 1: bond mo at the very end, I give you Curtis 255 00:20:46,395 --> 00:20:49,635 Speaker 1: Sliwa when he's not wearing the hat that's cutting down 256 00:20:49,675 --> 00:20:52,475 Speaker 1: his circulation in his brain. I said to him, don't 257 00:20:52,515 --> 00:20:54,275 Speaker 1: you dare, We don't need it. 258 00:20:54,475 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 3: And he backed down and he will again, so that 259 00:20:57,115 --> 00:20:59,675 Speaker 3: proves a good religit. Wait, the president is going to 260 00:20:59,755 --> 00:21:00,355 Speaker 3: back down. 261 00:21:00,195 --> 00:21:01,355 Speaker 1: To you, angew Cuomo. 262 00:21:01,795 --> 00:21:05,155 Speaker 3: I know, yeah, you think you're the toughest guy. 263 00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:06,795 Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. 264 00:21:07,315 --> 00:21:10,715 Speaker 3: You lost your own primary, right, you were rejected by 265 00:21:10,755 --> 00:21:16,115 Speaker 3: your Democrat. You have a difficult understanding what the term 266 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:19,675 Speaker 3: don't is. You're not gonna stand up to John Can. 267 00:21:19,715 --> 00:21:23,355 Speaker 1: I agree with Curtis Here, Cuomo is thinking, to paraphrase 268 00:21:23,395 --> 00:21:26,875 Speaker 1: Bart Simpson. Now Slee was scoring off me. Oh that 269 00:21:27,115 --> 00:21:35,835 Speaker 1: is it. My god, you lost your own primary. You 270 00:21:35,915 --> 00:21:40,075 Speaker 1: don't know the meaning of the word no, Oh, my god. 271 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:47,475 Speaker 1: Curtis Slee was authenticity cartoon character to politician in a suit. 272 00:21:48,755 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: Absolutely validated by that one remark. He's now just an 273 00:21:53,275 --> 00:21:58,435 Speaker 1: unsuccessful candidate for mayor. He's not a clown. There can 274 00:21:58,475 --> 00:22:01,995 Speaker 1: be growth in old age, I'm hopeful. And what makes 275 00:22:02,035 --> 00:22:07,315 Speaker 1: mom Danny a great and intuitive politician who will rise 276 00:22:07,355 --> 00:22:10,155 Speaker 1: as far as his place of birth will permit him, 277 00:22:10,155 --> 00:22:12,795 Speaker 1: because he was not technically born in this country and 278 00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:15,195 Speaker 1: kind not run for higher office. Although I haven't checked 279 00:22:15,235 --> 00:22:17,475 Speaker 1: the Constitution since I came in here to record this, 280 00:22:17,835 --> 00:22:21,995 Speaker 1: maybe that's changed so Milania can be the Trump successor. 281 00:22:22,075 --> 00:22:25,755 Speaker 1: I had forgotten about somebody trying that. What makes mom 282 00:22:25,795 --> 00:22:31,275 Speaker 1: Donnie a great intuitive politician is if you heard his 283 00:22:31,435 --> 00:22:36,195 Speaker 1: voice in there, he said only I agree with Curtis. 284 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:40,595 Speaker 1: He got out of the way. If mom Donnie had 285 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:45,795 Speaker 1: said that about Sliwa something similar, Cuomo would have tried 286 00:22:45,835 --> 00:22:47,795 Speaker 1: to come in and bigfooted and claim the moment for 287 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:51,235 Speaker 1: his own. I think Sliwa would have done the same 288 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: if mom Donni had said that, or Cuomo had said 289 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:59,195 Speaker 1: that about Mam Donni. But Mam Donnie's political skill, the 290 00:22:59,315 --> 00:23:01,955 Speaker 1: unteachable political skill that has put him in this position 291 00:23:02,235 --> 00:23:05,395 Speaker 1: at this age, with this level of experience, and with 292 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:09,635 Speaker 1: the gigantic baggage that he's carrying. Even in New York. 293 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:12,835 Speaker 1: Some of the stuff he's carrying to the Mayor's office 294 00:23:13,275 --> 00:23:17,115 Speaker 1: to Gracie mansion is a little heavy, and people are going, yeah, 295 00:23:17,155 --> 00:23:20,795 Speaker 1: I know about that, but listen to him, he's actually 296 00:23:20,795 --> 00:23:24,035 Speaker 1: gonna do the job. The sense that he's going to 297 00:23:24,075 --> 00:23:27,555 Speaker 1: do the job is an intuitive political skill that is 298 00:23:27,555 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: summed up by the fact that as this car wreck 299 00:23:30,555 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: is happening to Cuomo courtesy of Sliwa, he stands in 300 00:23:34,235 --> 00:23:36,675 Speaker 1: the back and simply says, with a big smile on 301 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:40,875 Speaker 1: his face, I agree with Curtis, and then you can 302 00:23:40,915 --> 00:23:44,195 Speaker 1: see him buttoning his lip or putting the zipper across 303 00:23:44,195 --> 00:23:51,275 Speaker 1: his lips. He is an intuitive political genius. Lastly, it 304 00:23:51,355 --> 00:23:53,475 Speaker 1: let me circle back to no Kings because I should 305 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:58,915 Speaker 1: cover it twice since everybody else covered it. Nuns my 306 00:23:58,995 --> 00:24:02,355 Speaker 1: favorite two signs, well, probably about twenty signs, all of 307 00:24:02,355 --> 00:24:05,115 Speaker 1: them the same way, the same phrase, one of them 308 00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:10,835 Speaker 1: in a street sign somebody was carrying no Foe king 309 00:24:11,835 --> 00:24:17,195 Speaker 1: way once again, words to live by. And then the 310 00:24:17,275 --> 00:24:20,075 Speaker 1: last one. And I think this should be printed up 311 00:24:20,115 --> 00:24:23,795 Speaker 1: on a T shirt given to every Democratic congressman and senator. 312 00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:29,515 Speaker 1: I'm beginning to see little glimmers of hope in Jeffreys. 313 00:24:29,635 --> 00:24:32,195 Speaker 1: Maybe he will take this advice and print this up 314 00:24:32,235 --> 00:24:36,595 Speaker 1: and give it to every member of the Democratic House Caucus, 315 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:38,835 Speaker 1: because there's nothing much else for him to do at 316 00:24:38,835 --> 00:24:42,355 Speaker 1: the moment, maybe even once in a while. I think 317 00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:46,915 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer would do this. Chuck Schumer wouldn't do this. 318 00:24:47,435 --> 00:24:51,075 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer would do this. Somebody in Chuck Schumer's office 319 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:55,395 Speaker 1: might do this. Somebody in Chuck Schumer's Office's grandson might 320 00:24:55,435 --> 00:25:02,515 Speaker 1: do this. There is a new expansion of the acronym 321 00:25:02,595 --> 00:25:07,075 Speaker 1: GOP that showed up on a sign at one of 322 00:25:07,075 --> 00:25:18,675 Speaker 1: the No Kings protests GOP Guardians of the Pedophiles. Oh, oh, 323 00:25:18,715 --> 00:25:22,915 Speaker 1: I want every Democrat in the House wearing that on 324 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:33,715 Speaker 1: a T shirt by Thursday. I shouldn't have tried that, Okay, 325 00:25:33,995 --> 00:25:35,955 Speaker 1: As I said off the cuff here, I do want 326 00:25:35,995 --> 00:25:39,555 Speaker 1: to talk about something very curious that happened with one 327 00:25:39,635 --> 00:25:45,475 Speaker 1: of these how should we call him? Clown celebrities? Who's 328 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: doing the Oh? I don't want to run for president. 329 00:25:48,315 --> 00:25:50,755 Speaker 1: I'll never run for president, but if there's nobody else, 330 00:25:53,555 --> 00:25:56,195 Speaker 1: he's hoping that people will draft him to run for president. 331 00:25:56,235 --> 00:25:59,275 Speaker 1: And he decided to make headlines by walking off a 332 00:25:59,275 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: public television stage in protest of some average American guy 333 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:09,635 Speaker 1: pleading for help from the TV audience. And the story 334 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:13,235 Speaker 1: don't add up, and not everybody noticed. In fact, very 335 00:26:13,235 --> 00:26:17,155 Speaker 1: few people notice the story just don't add up. I'm 336 00:26:17,195 --> 00:26:20,755 Speaker 1: not going to say who this clown celebrity who wants 337 00:26:20,795 --> 00:26:24,515 Speaker 1: to be talked into running for president is, but his 338 00:26:24,635 --> 00:26:29,715 Speaker 1: name rhymes with sneeze and k stith. That's next. 339 00:26:30,315 --> 00:26:40,675 Speaker 2: This is goddam as promised in lieu of the worst 340 00:26:40,675 --> 00:26:41,875 Speaker 2: persons in the world. 341 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:44,795 Speaker 1: Let me tell you a story about which I have 342 00:26:45,955 --> 00:26:49,195 Speaker 1: some doubts. I don't know what the truth is here, 343 00:26:49,235 --> 00:26:52,795 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to claim to even offer percentage 344 00:26:52,955 --> 00:26:56,475 Speaker 1: chances as to what is true and what may be 345 00:26:56,915 --> 00:27:01,835 Speaker 1: a stunt, however, or to say it correctly as the 346 00:27:01,835 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: person I'm talking about would say it. However, last Wednesday 347 00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:11,875 Speaker 1: night the News Nation Network, which is by itself a fraud. 348 00:27:12,035 --> 00:27:17,915 Speaker 1: It is a right wing operative of the Sinclair Broadcasting family. 349 00:27:18,835 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: It is posing as a neutral it is posing as 350 00:27:22,235 --> 00:27:25,635 Speaker 1: a news operation. It is, as I've mentioned many times, 351 00:27:25,955 --> 00:27:30,515 Speaker 1: the nick at night for newscasters. Chris Cromo has a 352 00:27:30,555 --> 00:27:33,195 Speaker 1: show there. A guy who got fired from Fox named 353 00:27:33,315 --> 00:27:36,435 Speaker 1: Vittert had a show there. Dan Abrams had a show there. 354 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: Ashley Banfield has a show there. One of the ABC 355 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:43,355 Speaker 1: World news anchors who ran into trouble, she had a 356 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:46,075 Speaker 1: show there. I don't know who has shows there, because 357 00:27:46,835 --> 00:27:50,595 Speaker 1: fortunately this is not a very widely watched network, but 358 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:54,475 Speaker 1: it is premised on the idea that it is telling 359 00:27:54,515 --> 00:27:57,635 Speaker 1: you that these people are telling you just the news, 360 00:27:58,115 --> 00:28:02,715 Speaker 1: that it's neutral and fair and no, we can't say 361 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: balance because that would make you think it's about like 362 00:28:05,515 --> 00:28:11,155 Speaker 1: a Fox, which it is. It's right wing, only they 363 00:28:11,155 --> 00:28:13,915 Speaker 1: are not honest enough to say we're a right wing network, 364 00:28:13,955 --> 00:28:18,915 Speaker 1: so they are in the last ring of hell. Last Wednesday, 365 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:23,235 Speaker 1: they held a town hall about the shutdown. And during 366 00:28:23,315 --> 00:28:25,795 Speaker 1: this town hall, which was conducted at the Kennedy Center 367 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: in DC, itself a suspicious locale right now, the Kennedy 368 00:28:31,915 --> 00:28:34,555 Speaker 1: Center in the District of Columbia. The panel over the 369 00:28:34,555 --> 00:28:38,675 Speaker 1: air two hour special included from Congress Madeline Dean and 370 00:28:38,835 --> 00:28:47,595 Speaker 1: Roe Conna, Jim Jordan, Senator John Fetterman, Bill O'Reilly, that's right, 371 00:28:47,755 --> 00:28:52,875 Speaker 1: he's still alive, Chris Cuomo, that's right, he's still on television, 372 00:28:53,435 --> 00:28:58,115 Speaker 1: and Stephen A. Smith from ESPN. I have talked about 373 00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: Stephen a lot because it doesn't surprise me that he 374 00:29:01,915 --> 00:29:04,875 Speaker 1: is as News Nation is pretending not to be a 375 00:29:04,955 --> 00:29:08,955 Speaker 1: right wing network, he is running for president while pretending 376 00:29:09,035 --> 00:29:11,355 Speaker 1: not to be running for president because he doesn't want 377 00:29:11,395 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: to face the embarrassment when people go, are you kidding me? 378 00:29:15,195 --> 00:29:18,275 Speaker 1: He thinks there will be a draft Stephen A. Smith 379 00:29:19,515 --> 00:29:23,155 Speaker 1: motion and movement, and he believes he needs to be 380 00:29:23,275 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: ready for it and exposed. And so as he continues 381 00:29:26,875 --> 00:29:30,675 Speaker 1: to go on ESPN and fill hour upon hour about 382 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:34,595 Speaker 1: sports and saying nothing in the process, a remarkable skill 383 00:29:34,635 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: for which he is extraordinarily well paid and deserves every 384 00:29:38,475 --> 00:29:43,715 Speaker 1: penny of it. As he does that, he sidelines in politics, 385 00:29:44,235 --> 00:29:49,035 Speaker 1: offering perhaps so far anyway, the shallowest point of view 386 00:29:49,275 --> 00:29:53,475 Speaker 1: on politics that I have heard absolutely anywhere. I mean, 387 00:29:54,315 --> 00:30:00,355 Speaker 1: it's it's it's amazing. Let me interrupt with two ancillary 388 00:30:00,435 --> 00:30:04,995 Speaker 1: facts about Jack Chris Junior before we go back to 389 00:30:04,995 --> 00:30:09,555 Speaker 1: the narrative. The two ancillary facts are there is a 390 00:30:09,595 --> 00:30:11,795 Speaker 1: social media profile for this guy, as there is for 391 00:30:11,795 --> 00:30:13,875 Speaker 1: almost all of us these days, whether we like it 392 00:30:13,955 --> 00:30:17,435 Speaker 1: or not, and it lists him as air traffic controller 393 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:21,195 Speaker 1: and pilot. And then there's the second thing, which is 394 00:30:21,235 --> 00:30:25,315 Speaker 1: that at ESPN dot com there is a profile, usually 395 00:30:25,515 --> 00:30:29,235 Speaker 1: in the kind of profile that is reserved for players, 396 00:30:29,315 --> 00:30:34,275 Speaker 1: former players, college players of all sports. You may have 397 00:30:34,315 --> 00:30:38,275 Speaker 1: one if you ever played. Normally, statistics would be there, 398 00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:42,395 Speaker 1: data trades, teams played for in this case, it's just blank, 399 00:30:42,475 --> 00:30:45,515 Speaker 1: but there is one four at ESPN dot com, a 400 00:30:45,675 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: profile of Jack Chris Junior. Just two little hints to 401 00:30:50,795 --> 00:30:52,795 Speaker 1: keep in the back of your mind as I resume 402 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:57,635 Speaker 1: the narrative, which I will right now. Well, all of 403 00:30:57,675 --> 00:31:02,595 Speaker 1: these elements about which I had doubts came together last 404 00:31:02,635 --> 00:31:06,475 Speaker 1: week when News Nation held it it's town hall for 405 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:11,155 Speaker 1: two hours in Washington. And I keep emphasizing in Washington 406 00:31:11,155 --> 00:31:13,635 Speaker 1: to see if you can get ahead of the storyteller here. 407 00:31:14,075 --> 00:31:17,675 Speaker 1: A good detective story or good mystery always allows the 408 00:31:17,755 --> 00:31:21,715 Speaker 1: possibility of the reader or listener to get out ahead 409 00:31:21,755 --> 00:31:24,755 Speaker 1: of the narrator and the characters. You may solve it 410 00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:27,595 Speaker 1: before they do. I'm going to give you that chance here. 411 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:31,475 Speaker 1: Listen carefully to this story. At this event about the 412 00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:35,955 Speaker 1: shutdown and how it's hurting ordinary people. There were only 413 00:31:36,275 --> 00:31:40,795 Speaker 1: vague and veiled accusations that it's all the Democrats fault. 414 00:31:41,035 --> 00:31:44,235 Speaker 1: That's the News Nation trick to make it seem as 415 00:31:44,275 --> 00:31:46,755 Speaker 1: if it's not a right wing network. They don't scream 416 00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: about how the Democrats are to use recent descriptions communists terrorists, 417 00:31:53,035 --> 00:31:58,315 Speaker 1: the devil. I mean. Several people call Democrats demonic and 418 00:31:58,435 --> 00:32:03,115 Speaker 1: their main evidence was, well, democrats and demonic each start 419 00:32:03,155 --> 00:32:07,395 Speaker 1: with the same first three less Unfortunately this works with 420 00:32:07,435 --> 00:32:09,275 Speaker 1: a lot of the people who believe in this crap 421 00:32:09,795 --> 00:32:12,635 Speaker 1: in any event. To get back to the point, at 422 00:32:12,675 --> 00:32:16,835 Speaker 1: one point in this town hall in Washington, d C. 423 00:32:17,915 --> 00:32:21,475 Speaker 1: A man stood up and asked a question and told 424 00:32:21,915 --> 00:32:26,395 Speaker 1: a story. His name was Jack Chris Junior, and he 425 00:32:26,515 --> 00:32:29,275 Speaker 1: said that when he gets off work from his sixteen 426 00:32:29,435 --> 00:32:33,835 Speaker 1: year long job at air traffic Control in Dallas, Texas, 427 00:32:33,955 --> 00:32:37,475 Speaker 1: he now has to drive for door Dash because because 428 00:32:37,675 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: of the slightly democratic cause shutdown, he's not getting paid 429 00:32:43,155 --> 00:32:46,355 Speaker 1: as an air traffic controller. Just to pay for his 430 00:32:46,475 --> 00:32:50,235 Speaker 1: daughter's tuition, he has to deliver food. A man with 431 00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:57,555 Speaker 1: a tense, intense, important, highly skilled life and death job 432 00:32:57,635 --> 00:33:02,635 Speaker 1: of air traffic controller has to then deliver food to 433 00:33:02,675 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: make ends meet. Which point Stephen A. Smith freaked out. 434 00:33:07,755 --> 00:33:11,315 Speaker 1: This is why he said, you have so many Americans 435 00:33:11,635 --> 00:33:16,515 Speaker 1: excuse my language, so pissed off at Washington, because somehow, 436 00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:20,195 Speaker 1: some way you get to have these conversations, engage in 437 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:22,915 Speaker 1: specific elements of it to talk about what we need 438 00:33:22,915 --> 00:33:27,395 Speaker 1: to do to get things better. Well, that's the problem 439 00:33:27,435 --> 00:33:29,675 Speaker 1: with Stephen A. Smith. If you ever wrote down what 440 00:33:29,755 --> 00:33:32,835 Speaker 1: he said about sports, it would make no sense whatsoever, 441 00:33:33,195 --> 00:33:36,635 Speaker 1: just as that did. Why they're so pissed off, because 442 00:33:36,635 --> 00:33:40,395 Speaker 1: we can have specific anyway. Our debt is thirty seven 443 00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:44,795 Speaker 1: point eight trillion. Somehow, some way, the taxpayer has been 444 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:48,635 Speaker 1: paying this, this throwing money. Because we all look at 445 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:50,715 Speaker 1: our check and it's been going to the government, and 446 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:53,715 Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing something constructive and productive enough 447 00:33:53,795 --> 00:33:56,115 Speaker 1: to make sure that we don't have that kind of deficit. 448 00:33:56,355 --> 00:34:00,995 Speaker 1: It isn't happening. As a translation, I'll point out Stephen 449 00:34:01,075 --> 00:34:04,395 Speaker 1: does not know what the deficit is. Nearly everything that 450 00:34:04,395 --> 00:34:07,395 Speaker 1: he's addressed thus far in politics is, as I said before, 451 00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:11,355 Speaker 1: as shallow analysis as anything possibly could be. But the 452 00:34:11,435 --> 00:34:14,835 Speaker 1: deficit is more shallow than all the other things are 453 00:34:14,875 --> 00:34:20,515 Speaker 1: shallow combined. He's not understanding that the issues cannot simply 454 00:34:20,635 --> 00:34:26,235 Speaker 1: be sort of fiddlebustered the way he would who's the 455 00:34:26,635 --> 00:34:31,555 Speaker 1: number two guard on the Oklahoma City thunder on which 456 00:34:31,595 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: he could spend three hours saying things like, somehow, some way, however, 457 00:34:36,915 --> 00:34:39,875 Speaker 1: the taxpayer has been paying this, been throwing money because 458 00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:41,915 Speaker 1: we all look at our check, and it's been going 459 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,755 Speaker 1: to the second string guard on the Oklahoma City Thunder. 460 00:34:47,795 --> 00:34:50,355 Speaker 1: He went on to say, I don't think Washington understands 461 00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:53,115 Speaker 1: how ticked off we truly are. A young man walked 462 00:34:53,155 --> 00:34:54,715 Speaker 1: up to the microphone and said that he had to 463 00:34:54,795 --> 00:34:56,795 Speaker 1: leave here to go and work on door dash to 464 00:34:56,835 --> 00:35:00,795 Speaker 1: help pay for his daughter's tuition. Meanwhile, everybody up here 465 00:35:00,835 --> 00:35:05,035 Speaker 1: getting paid, but he ain't. A government shut down is 466 00:35:05,075 --> 00:35:07,315 Speaker 1: going on right now. A man has to work on 467 00:35:07,395 --> 00:35:09,875 Speaker 1: door dash when he's really an air traffic controller that 468 00:35:09,915 --> 00:35:13,075 Speaker 1: we applauded. And we're up here talking about how much 469 00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:15,835 Speaker 1: some money is going to cost, and the only person 470 00:35:15,875 --> 00:35:18,075 Speaker 1: that don't have a check coming is him. You know 471 00:35:18,115 --> 00:35:20,395 Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. I'm going to take a break, 472 00:35:21,435 --> 00:35:25,355 Speaker 1: At which point Steven Smith got up from his chair 473 00:35:25,675 --> 00:35:29,555 Speaker 1: at the Kennedy Center in Washington and walked off, or, 474 00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:32,875 Speaker 1: as the News Nation account of The News Nation town 475 00:35:32,915 --> 00:35:37,355 Speaker 1: Hall put it, the scenario prompted panelist Steven A. Smith 476 00:35:37,595 --> 00:35:44,235 Speaker 1: to walk off the stage in disgust, or perhaps according 477 00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: to script, Okay, did you catch it? I didn't put 478 00:35:50,155 --> 00:35:52,955 Speaker 1: too many of one clue in here, but I put 479 00:35:52,955 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: about sixteen of the other clue in this. First off, 480 00:35:57,915 --> 00:36:01,835 Speaker 1: it's News Nation, so you should doubt that Bill O'Reilly 481 00:36:01,915 --> 00:36:05,595 Speaker 1: was there. Therefore, you should doubt that Chris Cuomo was there. 482 00:36:06,275 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: And it's Bill O'Reilly, Cris Cuomo, Times News Nation plus 483 00:36:10,155 --> 00:36:14,075 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. If you're not doubting, you're not breathing. 484 00:36:14,835 --> 00:36:18,115 Speaker 1: But my biggest concern is about this air traffic controller. 485 00:36:18,235 --> 00:36:22,395 Speaker 1: I imagine that there is some other explanation for this. I 486 00:36:22,475 --> 00:36:25,355 Speaker 1: looked again and again to make sure that the details 487 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:31,675 Speaker 1: are correct. I don't understand what the other possible explanations are, 488 00:36:31,755 --> 00:36:34,675 Speaker 1: but maybe there is one. And if so, I apologize 489 00:36:34,715 --> 00:36:38,075 Speaker 1: to him, and to Stephen and to News Nation, to 490 00:36:38,155 --> 00:36:42,355 Speaker 1: everybody in this equation except O'Reilly. But here's the thing. 491 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,595 Speaker 1: The air traffic controller Jack Chris Junior says he has 492 00:36:49,595 --> 00:36:53,635 Speaker 1: been working for sixteen years at Air Traffic Control in Dallas, Texas, 493 00:36:53,635 --> 00:36:56,515 Speaker 1: and now has to deliver door dash just to pay 494 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:59,075 Speaker 1: for his daughter's tuition. And Steven A. Smith made a 495 00:36:59,115 --> 00:37:03,235 Speaker 1: big studied I'm so pissed off, I'm walking off the 496 00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:08,675 Speaker 1: set here. Apart from the audience benefiting from that, who 497 00:37:08,715 --> 00:37:13,035 Speaker 1: would know the difference? First of all, But secondly, wait, 498 00:37:13,075 --> 00:37:19,315 Speaker 1: a minute. Anybody noticed something inconsistent about this story? Where 499 00:37:19,355 --> 00:37:22,755 Speaker 1: have I said now sixteen times? This town hall took 500 00:37:22,795 --> 00:37:27,715 Speaker 1: place the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Where does Jack 501 00:37:27,795 --> 00:37:33,915 Speaker 1: Chris say? He works as an air traffic control Dallas, 502 00:37:34,715 --> 00:37:37,515 Speaker 1: but he has to work because you can't not work, 503 00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:40,075 Speaker 1: but he's not getting paid, so he has to drive 504 00:37:40,115 --> 00:37:46,915 Speaker 1: for door Dash in Washington. I mean, Stephen A. Smith said, 505 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: a young man walked up to the microphone and said 506 00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:51,315 Speaker 1: that he had to leave here to go to work 507 00:37:51,315 --> 00:37:55,515 Speaker 1: on DoorDash to help pay for his daughter's tuition. So 508 00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:59,675 Speaker 1: he's working in Dallas, and then at the end of 509 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:03,875 Speaker 1: the workday in Dallas he what flies to Washington to 510 00:38:03,915 --> 00:38:07,755 Speaker 1: deliver door day or even if there's some muddle here 511 00:38:07,755 --> 00:38:11,155 Speaker 1: in Steven A. Smith's mind, Oh fat chance of that. 512 00:38:11,435 --> 00:38:14,275 Speaker 1: But even if there's some muddle in Steven A. Smith's mind, 513 00:38:15,435 --> 00:38:19,515 Speaker 1: he's in Dallas, and he's driving in Dallas, and he's 514 00:38:19,515 --> 00:38:22,435 Speaker 1: an air traffic controller in Dallas, and yet somehow he 515 00:38:22,555 --> 00:38:27,955 Speaker 1: is at the Kennedy Senator in Washington. Either he found 516 00:38:28,035 --> 00:38:31,475 Speaker 1: his own way to Washington paid for that with money 517 00:38:31,475 --> 00:38:33,835 Speaker 1: that he doesn't have because of the shutdown. That is 518 00:38:33,955 --> 00:38:41,795 Speaker 1: kind of the Democrats ball or or what. They flew 519 00:38:41,875 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: him there to tell this story, so they knew in 520 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:48,195 Speaker 1: advanced the story he was going to tell. This man's 521 00:38:48,235 --> 00:38:51,435 Speaker 1: story was not a surprise to the people at News Nation, 522 00:38:51,515 --> 00:38:54,675 Speaker 1: which immediately raises the possibility that his story was not 523 00:38:54,755 --> 00:38:58,395 Speaker 1: a surprise to the people who were on stage, like 524 00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:04,835 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly and Steven A. Smith, who and 525 00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:08,835 Speaker 1: walked off to show how much a man of the 526 00:39:08,875 --> 00:39:14,635 Speaker 1: people he is. I am suggesting that perhaps this was 527 00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:20,115 Speaker 1: not as ad libbed an ad lib as it seemed 528 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:27,035 Speaker 1: a gesture of frustration. Oh, Stephen A. Smith cares about you? 529 00:39:28,795 --> 00:39:32,475 Speaker 1: Scenario prompted panelist Stephen A. Smith to walk off the 530 00:39:32,515 --> 00:39:36,395 Speaker 1: stage and discust. I do notice in all of the 531 00:39:36,515 --> 00:39:39,155 Speaker 1: News Nation commentary on this, and it was covered in 532 00:39:39,235 --> 00:39:43,555 Speaker 1: other publications like The Hill, there was an element of 533 00:39:43,955 --> 00:39:46,515 Speaker 1: he responded to this and was so thrown by that 534 00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:51,315 Speaker 1: he was responding in some way to the surprise of this, 535 00:39:51,475 --> 00:39:54,555 Speaker 1: And that's not what News Nation says. It just prompted 536 00:39:54,635 --> 00:39:57,235 Speaker 1: him to walk off the stage the way a prompter, 537 00:39:57,835 --> 00:39:59,995 Speaker 1: like something written on the prompter would prompt you to 538 00:40:00,075 --> 00:40:06,635 Speaker 1: walk off the stage. I'm just saying, I like Steven 539 00:40:07,995 --> 00:40:13,355 Speaker 1: I worked with him at ESPN before they fired him, 540 00:40:14,355 --> 00:40:17,435 Speaker 1: and as somebody who came back to ESPN after quitting 541 00:40:18,395 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: and after having a contract run out and worked three 542 00:40:22,155 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: separate times there. I admire anybody who goes back to 543 00:40:24,955 --> 00:40:29,235 Speaker 1: work there. It means that there was a connection and 544 00:40:29,315 --> 00:40:31,995 Speaker 1: the audience wanted you, and the employers were happy to 545 00:40:31,995 --> 00:40:35,235 Speaker 1: have you back one way or the other. I admire him. 546 00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:38,955 Speaker 1: I used to know him in the local New York 547 00:40:38,995 --> 00:40:41,995 Speaker 1: news media when he was working at the ESPN New 548 00:40:42,075 --> 00:40:45,395 Speaker 1: York station, and we once were at a New York 549 00:40:45,435 --> 00:40:48,475 Speaker 1: Knicks game together along with the president of ESPN, and 550 00:40:48,475 --> 00:40:51,715 Speaker 1: had had a very good conversation and he didn't play 551 00:40:51,755 --> 00:40:53,235 Speaker 1: me at all, and he didn't try any of the 552 00:40:53,275 --> 00:40:56,915 Speaker 1: big steven A. Smith stuff. And I like him, but 553 00:40:57,195 --> 00:41:00,435 Speaker 1: I do think this ends. And first off, it's a 554 00:41:00,515 --> 00:41:03,515 Speaker 1: violation of every tenant ESPN has had since it went 555 00:41:03,515 --> 00:41:05,675 Speaker 1: on the air in nineteen seventy nine, to which I 556 00:41:05,795 --> 00:41:09,955 Speaker 1: subscribed at all times, which was not not to mix 557 00:41:10,035 --> 00:41:15,315 Speaker 1: politics and sports on the air in a high profile way. 558 00:41:16,275 --> 00:41:19,195 Speaker 1: In other words, I was when I was a television 559 00:41:19,235 --> 00:41:22,835 Speaker 1: political commentator. My ESPN work was radio only. I didn't 560 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:25,395 Speaker 1: go on TV and when I was on ESPN doing TV, 561 00:41:25,475 --> 00:41:30,035 Speaker 1: I did not do any politics at all anywhere else, 562 00:41:30,115 --> 00:41:34,595 Speaker 1: I just did sports. This is something else. And I 563 00:41:34,635 --> 00:41:37,955 Speaker 1: think this ends up with Stephen not getting the presidential 564 00:41:37,995 --> 00:41:40,875 Speaker 1: nomination of whichever party he's seeking it from, because I 565 00:41:40,955 --> 00:41:45,155 Speaker 1: can't tell. And it does not get with him becoming 566 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:49,235 Speaker 1: a prominent political commentator, because even this lack of depth 567 00:41:49,435 --> 00:41:53,195 Speaker 1: will not resonate with the dumber audiences that cover or 568 00:41:53,235 --> 00:41:58,075 Speaker 1: are interested in the coverage of politics. And I wonder 569 00:41:58,195 --> 00:42:01,155 Speaker 1: if it ends up with him losing his job at ESPN, 570 00:42:01,555 --> 00:42:03,835 Speaker 1: or at least his influence at ESPN, or at least 571 00:42:03,835 --> 00:42:07,275 Speaker 1: his prominen city ESPN, because if he's now involved in 572 00:42:07,355 --> 00:42:10,555 Speaker 1: things like a fake oh, hold me back, I don't. 573 00:42:11,075 --> 00:42:14,235 Speaker 1: I don't really want to ever run for president, but 574 00:42:14,275 --> 00:42:16,795 Speaker 1: if there's no other choice, I guess I'll be forced 575 00:42:16,835 --> 00:42:19,275 Speaker 1: to do it. Well, then maybe I'll consent to it. 576 00:42:19,315 --> 00:42:24,555 Speaker 1: Maybe if he's doing that, that's bad enough. Many men, though, 577 00:42:24,555 --> 00:42:30,595 Speaker 1: have done that before, and some women. But the panelist 578 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:36,275 Speaker 1: walks off after it turns out that the audience member 579 00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:40,955 Speaker 1: is a sixteen year veteran of air traffic control in Dallas. 580 00:42:40,995 --> 00:42:43,715 Speaker 1: But he's got to go do his door dash job 581 00:42:43,835 --> 00:42:46,195 Speaker 1: now just to pay for his daughter's tuition because of 582 00:42:46,235 --> 00:42:50,435 Speaker 1: this damn democratic shutdown of the government. Except the guy 583 00:42:51,395 --> 00:42:54,235 Speaker 1: is in Washington, d C. At the moment, but he's 584 00:42:54,235 --> 00:43:01,395 Speaker 1: from Dallas. If Stephen had knowledge a forethought of this, 585 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:09,235 Speaker 1: Good night, Stephen A Smith, a little Thurber when we 586 00:43:09,275 --> 00:43:18,155 Speaker 1: come back. I believe the first time I ever heard 587 00:43:18,275 --> 00:43:22,275 Speaker 1: James Thurber read aloud, it was by William Windham, the 588 00:43:22,315 --> 00:43:26,955 Speaker 1: great actor who did so much serious stuff, drama, comedy. 589 00:43:27,715 --> 00:43:32,715 Speaker 1: He's a Star Trek Original series key figure. He did 590 00:43:32,795 --> 00:43:35,635 Speaker 1: a lot of great acting in so many different roles. 591 00:43:35,955 --> 00:43:38,875 Speaker 1: And he did a special on PBS when I was 592 00:43:38,875 --> 00:43:43,195 Speaker 1: in college in which he performed as James Thurber, narrated 593 00:43:43,235 --> 00:43:46,195 Speaker 1: some of the drawings, recited from memory, many of the 594 00:43:46,195 --> 00:43:48,835 Speaker 1: short stories and many of the longer ones too, And 595 00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:51,035 Speaker 1: I later had the pleasure of telling him that he 596 00:43:51,235 --> 00:43:54,795 Speaker 1: was my inspiration for reading James Thurber aloud, and we 597 00:43:54,955 --> 00:44:00,515 Speaker 1: corresponded about how to possibly improve some of the diceier 598 00:44:00,595 --> 00:44:02,915 Speaker 1: parts of some of the Thurber stories and make them 599 00:44:03,435 --> 00:44:07,475 Speaker 1: useful for twenty first cent for America. Mister Wyndham died 600 00:44:07,715 --> 00:44:11,035 Speaker 1: about ten years ago, and I lament him still. I 601 00:44:11,155 --> 00:44:15,355 Speaker 1: recorded on tape His Thurber Special on PBS, and I 602 00:44:15,395 --> 00:44:20,075 Speaker 1: still have it, not videotape, audiotape, a cassette. We didn't 603 00:44:20,075 --> 00:44:22,755 Speaker 1: have home videotape, although I'm proud to say he sent 604 00:44:22,835 --> 00:44:26,635 Speaker 1: me a copy of a DVD of the performance, and 605 00:44:26,755 --> 00:44:29,555 Speaker 1: one of the stories he reads, or in fact recites, 606 00:44:29,755 --> 00:44:32,155 Speaker 1: I will now read for you it is. I like 607 00:44:32,195 --> 00:44:35,195 Speaker 1: it very much. It's not considered part of the great 608 00:44:36,155 --> 00:44:39,155 Speaker 1: canon of James Thurber, but I think it's terrific. And 609 00:44:39,235 --> 00:44:44,715 Speaker 1: it's called Shake Hands with Bertie Dogget by James Thurber. 610 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:51,515 Speaker 1: John Bertie Dogget, known as Bertie to the few people 611 00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:55,075 Speaker 1: who speak to him, must be fifty three now, but 612 00:44:55,155 --> 00:44:57,635 Speaker 1: he wears his years with a smirk, and he has 613 00:44:57,675 --> 00:45:01,915 Speaker 1: as bad a practical joker as ever. Other American cutups 614 00:45:01,955 --> 00:45:04,515 Speaker 1: in the Grand Tradition began to disappear in October Night 615 00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:07,675 Speaker 1: twenty nine, and they are as hard to find now 616 00:45:07,715 --> 00:45:13,995 Speaker 1: as Bison. But Dogget's waggishness has no calendar. You must 617 00:45:14,035 --> 00:45:16,275 Speaker 1: have run into him at some party or other. He's 618 00:45:16,315 --> 00:45:18,595 Speaker 1: the man whose right hand comes off when you try 619 00:45:18,635 --> 00:45:21,635 Speaker 1: to shake it. The late George Bancroft once pulled that 620 00:45:21,715 --> 00:45:23,675 Speaker 1: gag in a movie but that was so long ago. 621 00:45:23,675 --> 00:45:26,315 Speaker 1: The picture must be a cherished item in the Museum 622 00:45:26,395 --> 00:45:31,635 Speaker 1: of Modern Arts Film Library even now, when everybody else 623 00:45:31,715 --> 00:45:35,635 Speaker 1: was running the gamut of bomb fear from A to H. 624 00:45:36,035 --> 00:45:39,995 Speaker 1: Birdie Dogget was at Grand Central with one roller skate, 625 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:42,675 Speaker 1: which he managed to attach to the shoe of a 626 00:45:42,715 --> 00:45:46,075 Speaker 1: man sleeping on a bench. When the fellow woke and 627 00:45:46,115 --> 00:45:50,835 Speaker 1: stood up, he described a brief, desperate semi circle clutched 628 00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:53,475 Speaker 1: a woman shopper about the knees, dragged her and her 629 00:45:53,515 --> 00:45:56,115 Speaker 1: bundles to the cold floor, and was attacked by her 630 00:45:56,195 --> 00:46:00,755 Speaker 1: muzzled Scottie Dogget, as always, was the first to lend 631 00:46:00,755 --> 00:46:02,995 Speaker 1: a hand, helping the woman to her feet, and then 632 00:46:03,035 --> 00:46:05,995 Speaker 1: turning to the man, where the hell's your other skate? 633 00:46:06,515 --> 00:46:10,555 Speaker 1: He demanded, sharply, that's what caused all this trouble. He 634 00:46:10,635 --> 00:46:13,915 Speaker 1: took his skate off the victim's foot and disappeared into 635 00:46:13,955 --> 00:46:17,035 Speaker 1: the crowd that had begun to gather. What's the matter 636 00:46:17,115 --> 00:46:21,595 Speaker 1: over there, a small man asked him apprehensively. Dogget shrugged, Uh. 637 00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:24,155 Speaker 1: They found a woman with a ticking package, he said. 638 00:46:25,235 --> 00:46:28,395 Speaker 1: The other man turned and left the station, missing the train. 639 00:46:28,475 --> 00:46:32,595 Speaker 1: He had told his wife he would take. Doggett's pranks 640 00:46:32,795 --> 00:46:35,915 Speaker 1: usually have the effect of involving people on their far edges, 641 00:46:36,475 --> 00:46:40,115 Speaker 1: one or two of whom have been divorced as a result. 642 00:46:41,515 --> 00:46:44,315 Speaker 1: A publisher I know thinks dogget would make a good story. 643 00:46:44,995 --> 00:46:47,475 Speaker 1: I disagree, because I don't think there's anything good about 644 00:46:47,515 --> 00:46:50,115 Speaker 1: the fellow, but I have done some checking up on 645 00:46:50,235 --> 00:46:53,555 Speaker 1: him out of force of habit. His father, the late 646 00:46:53,755 --> 00:46:57,075 Speaker 1: Carol Lamb Dogget, was a Methodist minister, and his mother 647 00:46:57,155 --> 00:47:01,635 Speaker 1: was a witch, born Ata June Birdie. When her son 648 00:47:01,715 --> 00:47:03,955 Speaker 1: was only ten, she taught him how to set stranger's 649 00:47:04,075 --> 00:47:08,235 Speaker 1: umbrellas on fire. After an April shower, she would sally 650 00:47:08,355 --> 00:47:11,955 Speaker 1: forth with the little Hellion. They lived in Dayton in 651 00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:15,315 Speaker 1: search of a citizen with a floppy umbrella. After an 652 00:47:15,355 --> 00:47:19,075 Speaker 1: April shower, Dayton men lower their umbrellas without bothering to 653 00:47:19,155 --> 00:47:22,795 Speaker 1: roll them. Missus Dogget would hunt until she found a 654 00:47:22,795 --> 00:47:26,235 Speaker 1: man waiting for a street car, his umbrella sagging open 655 00:47:26,275 --> 00:47:29,955 Speaker 1: at his side. She would then surreptitiously fill the umbrella 656 00:47:30,035 --> 00:47:33,595 Speaker 1: with paper, several dozen kitchen matches, and perhaps one or 657 00:47:33,635 --> 00:47:38,355 Speaker 1: two ping pong balls. As the street car approached, she 658 00:47:38,395 --> 00:47:43,635 Speaker 1: would drop a lighted match into the umbrella. Now, hell 659 00:47:43,875 --> 00:47:48,235 Speaker 1: hath no dismay like that of a gentleman whose wet 660 00:47:48,355 --> 00:47:53,875 Speaker 1: umbrella suddenly bursts into flame. Instead of rolling the thing 661 00:47:53,955 --> 00:47:57,515 Speaker 1: to smother the blaze or simply throwing it away, nine 662 00:47:57,635 --> 00:48:01,515 Speaker 1: out of ten men, according to Dogget's statistics, will flail 663 00:48:01,555 --> 00:48:06,515 Speaker 1: it around in the air, thus increasing the conflict. Many 664 00:48:06,555 --> 00:48:09,435 Speaker 1: of Missus Doggett's victims were arrested for disturbing the peace 665 00:48:09,915 --> 00:48:15,475 Speaker 1: or for arson. Bertie Doggett has never been much interested 666 00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:19,555 Speaker 1: in the exasperating paraphernalia of the trick and puzzle shops. 667 00:48:20,315 --> 00:48:22,995 Speaker 1: He still uses the wax hand, and he has tried 668 00:48:23,035 --> 00:48:27,315 Speaker 1: out dribble glasses, whoopee cushions, the foul smelling stuff you 669 00:48:27,355 --> 00:48:29,475 Speaker 1: put on chair bottoms to make people think they've just 670 00:48:29,515 --> 00:48:32,995 Speaker 1: sat on a lighted cigarette, and other such juvenile props, 671 00:48:33,915 --> 00:48:36,635 Speaker 1: but they never got a real hold on his fancy. 672 00:48:36,755 --> 00:48:41,075 Speaker 1: He likes the elaborate rib involving a lot of people, 673 00:48:41,595 --> 00:48:45,035 Speaker 1: the more the better. He will take a sack full 674 00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:48,395 Speaker 1: of cold poached eggs to some crowded Fifth Avenue store 675 00:48:48,395 --> 00:48:51,155 Speaker 1: at Christmas time and slip them one at a time 676 00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:56,515 Speaker 1: into the pockets of shoppers husbands, and he dreams of 677 00:48:56,595 --> 00:48:59,235 Speaker 1: bumping into a woman visitor in the ancient glass and 678 00:48:59,315 --> 00:49:03,275 Speaker 1: crystal room of some museum, dropping an ordinary table tumbler 679 00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:08,115 Speaker 1: on the tile floor, and sweet God, lady, you have 680 00:49:08,235 --> 00:49:13,515 Speaker 1: broken the sacred chalice of King Alexander and making her 681 00:49:13,555 --> 00:49:17,755 Speaker 1: believe it. He has pulled this gag over and over 682 00:49:17,835 --> 00:49:22,275 Speaker 1: since nineteen twenty four, but never successfully, with the result 683 00:49:22,275 --> 00:49:25,075 Speaker 1: that he has appeared sixteen times in Jefferson Market Court 684 00:49:25,115 --> 00:49:30,115 Speaker 1: alone on charges of disturbing the peace, jostling, and molestation. 685 00:49:31,795 --> 00:49:34,955 Speaker 1: What dogget probably enjoys more than anything else is following 686 00:49:34,955 --> 00:49:38,155 Speaker 1: a couple of women along Fifth Avenue or Madison, keeping 687 00:49:38,195 --> 00:49:42,675 Speaker 1: discreetly out of sight but well within earshot, until he 688 00:49:42,675 --> 00:49:46,035 Speaker 1: hears one of the two ladies call the other by name. 689 00:49:47,235 --> 00:49:50,075 Speaker 1: He says that women are fond of using each other's 690 00:49:50,155 --> 00:49:53,275 Speaker 1: full name, as in Marriam Shirtle. I never heard of 691 00:49:53,275 --> 00:49:56,995 Speaker 1: such a thing in all my born days. As soon 692 00:49:57,075 --> 00:50:01,035 Speaker 1: as miss Shirtle let us say has thus been fully identified, 693 00:50:01,075 --> 00:50:04,595 Speaker 1: Doggett will walk briskly ahead for several blocks and then 694 00:50:04,835 --> 00:50:08,835 Speaker 1: retrace his steps. This soon brings him face to face 695 00:50:08,915 --> 00:50:11,195 Speaker 1: with his quarry, upon whom he will pounce with a 696 00:50:11,235 --> 00:50:15,555 Speaker 1: delighted why Miriam Shirtle, fancy meeting you here uncross those 697 00:50:15,635 --> 00:50:19,195 Speaker 1: lovely eyes and tell me I have been a young 698 00:50:19,235 --> 00:50:22,515 Speaker 1: woman he wants accosted like this in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, asked 699 00:50:22,595 --> 00:50:24,995 Speaker 1: him to her house for cocktails in the hope that 700 00:50:25,075 --> 00:50:27,635 Speaker 1: some member of her family would know who he was, 701 00:50:28,955 --> 00:50:32,835 Speaker 1: but nobody was home. His hostess turned out to be 702 00:50:32,875 --> 00:50:36,915 Speaker 1: a bore, so Bertie put knockout drops in her second martini, 703 00:50:37,115 --> 00:50:40,195 Speaker 1: and after she had passed out, he stole a marble 704 00:50:40,315 --> 00:50:44,075 Speaker 1: plaque of kitchener from her mother's room and he went away. 705 00:50:45,235 --> 00:50:48,515 Speaker 1: The next day it arrived at the Shirtles, beautifully wrapped 706 00:50:48,795 --> 00:50:52,875 Speaker 1: and bearing a card with the simple legend Married Christmas 707 00:50:53,315 --> 00:51:00,155 Speaker 1: from the President of the United States. John Bertie Doggett 708 00:51:00,315 --> 00:51:04,675 Speaker 1: married a tapioca brain one afternoon twenty years ago, possible 709 00:51:04,835 --> 00:51:08,435 Speaker 1: because he had lost a bet nobody knows. He took 710 00:51:08,475 --> 00:51:10,275 Speaker 1: her to his house and told her to wait in 711 00:51:10,315 --> 00:51:13,155 Speaker 1: the living room while he went upstairs and quieted his 712 00:51:13,235 --> 00:51:16,835 Speaker 1: two great danes. He put a record of a dog 713 00:51:16,875 --> 00:51:19,115 Speaker 1: fight on a phonograph he kept in his bedroom and 714 00:51:19,155 --> 00:51:23,115 Speaker 1: slipped quietly out the back door. At three in the morning, 715 00:51:23,635 --> 00:51:25,955 Speaker 1: he showed up in the living room with two match players, 716 00:51:26,035 --> 00:51:31,915 Speaker 1: lou Gettling and Vic Talbot. Who's this disconsolate female? Talbot 717 00:51:31,955 --> 00:51:38,235 Speaker 1: demanded fairly, using an incurable antipathy to games of chance 718 00:51:38,275 --> 00:51:43,515 Speaker 1: and cunning, The bride drew herself up stiffly. I am 719 00:51:43,595 --> 00:51:49,355 Speaker 1: Missus John Berdie Doggett, she said, striving for a outeur. 720 00:51:49,635 --> 00:51:54,955 Speaker 1: The name will not sustain. I forgot about her wind Doggett. 721 00:51:55,075 --> 00:51:57,315 Speaker 1: After all, we haven't been married twenty or thirty years. 722 00:51:57,555 --> 00:52:02,315 Speaker 1: I've only been married eleven hours, Missus Doggett, the former 723 00:52:02,355 --> 00:52:05,315 Speaker 1: ann Queeley, went home to her mother, Missus Paul Coueleie, 724 00:52:05,315 --> 00:52:09,675 Speaker 1: and never saw Bertie again. I join her in the 725 00:52:09,795 --> 00:52:12,555 Speaker 1: fervent hope that he may someday choke on his candied 726 00:52:12,715 --> 00:52:17,235 Speaker 1: dice and pass forever out of our consciousness. He is 727 00:52:17,515 --> 00:52:20,795 Speaker 1: a hard man to forget, though. I never start to 728 00:52:20,795 --> 00:52:22,915 Speaker 1: get out of a chair no matter where I am, 729 00:52:22,955 --> 00:52:26,475 Speaker 1: without glancing at my shoes to see if I am 730 00:52:26,515 --> 00:52:30,675 Speaker 1: wearing one roller skate and feeling in my pockets for 731 00:52:30,955 --> 00:52:49,515 Speaker 1: old cold eggs. I've done all the damage I can 732 00:52:49,555 --> 00:52:53,355 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening to this unfocused edition 733 00:52:53,435 --> 00:52:57,115 Speaker 1: of the program. Due to illness and other issues, most 734 00:52:57,155 --> 00:52:59,835 Speaker 1: of our Countdown music was arranged, produced and performed by 735 00:52:59,835 --> 00:53:02,555 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip shaneil. Our musical directories of 736 00:53:02,635 --> 00:53:06,835 Speaker 1: Countdown produced by TKO Others Mister Ray on guitars, bass 737 00:53:06,875 --> 00:53:10,275 Speaker 1: and drums, Mister Chanelle handling, orchestration and keyboards. Now our 738 00:53:10,315 --> 00:53:13,275 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball 739 00:53:13,315 --> 00:53:17,435 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The Oldraman theme from ESPN two, 740 00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:21,115 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is 741 00:53:21,155 --> 00:53:24,115 Speaker 1: the sports music. Other music ranged and performed by the 742 00:53:24,155 --> 00:53:28,515 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. Everything else was as always my fault, 743 00:53:28,875 --> 00:53:31,515 Speaker 1: including what happens when I just sit here and ramble. 744 00:53:32,715 --> 00:53:35,755 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll walk off the stage now and protest. That's 745 00:53:35,795 --> 00:53:38,515 Speaker 1: countdown for today. Day two hundred and seventy four of 746 00:53:38,555 --> 00:53:42,555 Speaker 1: America held hostage, just one and eighty nine days until 747 00:53:42,595 --> 00:53:45,035 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck and lame brained 748 00:53:45,115 --> 00:53:48,875 Speaker 1: term unless he is removed sooner by MAGA or the 749 00:53:49,155 --> 00:53:53,555 Speaker 1: Psychopathy Test or Tile and All or No Kings or 750 00:53:54,355 --> 00:53:58,755 Speaker 1: who knows. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. I expect 751 00:53:58,835 --> 00:54:01,675 Speaker 1: to have written that one in advance till then. I'm 752 00:54:01,715 --> 00:54:05,755 Speaker 1: Keith Oldraman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck, 753 00:54:22,915 --> 00:54:25,995 Speaker 1: and I agree with Cardiff's Countdown with Keith Olderman is 754 00:54:26,035 --> 00:54:30,835 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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