WEBVTT - AFTER THAT VIDEO, CAN WE GET TRUMP COMMITTED TO A PSYCH WARD - 10.20.25

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Is

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<v Speaker 1>there a way we can get Trump involuntarily committed to

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<v Speaker 1>a psychiatric institution. No, Seriously, I don't know the answer.

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<v Speaker 1>I suspect the answer is no. Not even after the

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<v Speaker 1>video he put out in which he proudly covers America

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<v Speaker 1>in shit from the air, which he thought was some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of flex as opposed to being the confirmation of

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<v Speaker 1>everything that was being protested at No Kings. This AI

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<v Speaker 1>video of him and the jet which defines Trump as president,

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<v Speaker 1>as leader, as father, as human being, sort of a

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<v Speaker 1>shit show with a crown, and he has to wear

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<v Speaker 1>an oxygen mask, and the magas are standing below as

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<v Speaker 1>it rains down upon them, just hoping to catch some

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<v Speaker 1>of it, maybe with their mouths. Trump shitting on America

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<v Speaker 1>the only thing he is good at. And in the

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<v Speaker 1>limited coverage it gets in the media, they have sanitized

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<v Speaker 1>it for your protection, literally in the New York Times,

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<v Speaker 1>not referencing what it was flying out of the airplane.

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<v Speaker 1>In Trump's Freudian video, in his confession in the climax

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<v Speaker 1>of his life on this earth. After that, let me

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<v Speaker 1>say it all again. Trump is insane and unchecked. He

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<v Speaker 1>is going to kill us all because nothing matters to

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<v Speaker 1>him but him, and nothing about him matters to him. Besides,

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<v Speaker 1>what is happening right this moment. He's insane, he's psychopathic,

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<v Speaker 1>he's murderous, he's mass murderous. He's a terrorist, he's vile,

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<v Speaker 1>he's deranged, he's damaged, he's dysfunctional. He's on top of

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<v Speaker 1>everything else. There he is discharging his inner self all

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<v Speaker 1>over New York and all the No Kings protesters and

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<v Speaker 1>all over all of America. And my final thought was,

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<v Speaker 1>if that AI video were real and he really got

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<v Speaker 1>rid of all that shit, what what would he be

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<v Speaker 1>left to think with? So is there a way we

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<v Speaker 1>can get Trump involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution. I

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<v Speaker 1>appreciate it's probably a slippery slope anyway, certainly is after

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<v Speaker 1>that video. But in a scenario in which Trump does

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<v Speaker 1>that promulgates that thinks that is the response after America

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<v Speaker 1>holds its largest political protest since Earth Day in nineteen seventy,

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<v Speaker 1>when the best estimate now seven million of US took

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<v Speaker 1>to the streets at No Kings, with no violence, no terrorists,

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<v Speaker 1>no anti americanism, no arrests in New York, no arrests

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<v Speaker 1>in Chicago, one arrest in Los Angeles, a handful in Denver.

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<v Speaker 1>Complementary posts from the heads of the police department in

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<v Speaker 1>the key cities. After that call and response No Kings

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<v Speaker 1>followed by no shit, we have to explore all options. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>is there a way we can get Trump involuntarily committed

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<v Speaker 1>to a psychiatric institution, because frankly, if we bid him out,

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<v Speaker 1>we could make billions. The man is insane. If he

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<v Speaker 1>had not been insane before putting out that video, if

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<v Speaker 1>he had been healed at Lord's Saturday morning and then

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<v Speaker 1>he put that video out, it would be clear he

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<v Speaker 1>had gone insane a second time. No, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>he was better this morning. Say now he's re insane. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>No Kings gets no coverage from the political cognizanti. By

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<v Speaker 1>midday yesterday, the entirety of the protest was just hanging

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<v Speaker 1>on to a tiny spot on the front page of

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<v Speaker 1>The New York Times and other publications and other websites,

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<v Speaker 1>saved in most cases by being most shared on most sites,

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<v Speaker 1>which still is not a clue. Even Trump responded to

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<v Speaker 1>No Kings and the majority of newspapers and news organizations

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<v Speaker 1>failed to do so sufficiently. It was not just the

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<v Speaker 1>lead story yesterday and should be today. It should be

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<v Speaker 1>the only story. It is America grabbing all of that

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<v Speaker 1>from the AI video and shoving it back up Trump's ass.

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<v Speaker 1>In the New York Times, No Kings was just barely

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<v Speaker 1>ahead of police break up Lego theft ring recovering hundreds

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<v Speaker 1>of beheaded figurines. The story was dwarfed by Times analysis

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<v Speaker 1>of how the Democrats are flailing. It's twenty twenty five

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<v Speaker 1>and Democrats are still running against Trump. Then there's a

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<v Speaker 1>story about Trump commuting the sentence of George Santos, because

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<v Speaker 1>that's entirely a normal thing. Then a Democratic mayor who

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<v Speaker 1>thinks cities are handling Trump wrought not one piece about

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<v Speaker 1>It's twenty twenty five and the New York Times ownership

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<v Speaker 1>is still terrified of Trump and carrying water for him

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<v Speaker 1>or something else of a liquid nature for him, and

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<v Speaker 1>not realizing we live on a precipice because of him. Democrats.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know strike that Americans organized and conducted the

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<v Speaker 1>largest political protest in this country in fifty five years

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<v Speaker 1>without one significant negative moment, but the anti Trump message

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<v Speaker 1>bores American news media. It bores the New York Times

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<v Speaker 1>because there are the times Trump isn't dropping ai shit

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<v Speaker 1>storms on them. They live in the Hamptons. The case

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<v Speaker 1>was dismissed. The Washington Post underplayed it. They even took

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<v Speaker 1>Trump almost entirely out of the story of Marco Rubio's

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<v Speaker 1>promise quote to betray informants to get Trump's prison deal

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<v Speaker 1>with l Salvador to secure US access to President Nayabucl's

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<v Speaker 1>notorious Seacot prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several ms

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<v Speaker 1>thirteen leaders central to a long running Justice Department investigation.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they did the moral equivalent of shoe ing

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<v Speaker 1>prisoners who had just surrendered. And it was all Rubio,

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<v Speaker 1>not Trump. That was Rubio's idea. That's why he's in

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<v Speaker 1>the headline Trump's prison deal all. But it's all Rubio.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not defending Marco Rubio here. Marco Rubio is the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff that came out of Trump's plane. But it's Trump's plane. Politico,

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<v Speaker 1>which is also the stuff that comes out of Trump's plane,

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<v Speaker 1>didn't even mention no Kings in its daily newsletter headline

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<v Speaker 1>round Up yesterday, never mind not mentioning Trump's shit jet.

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<v Speaker 1>Confess you thought I had been finished using the four

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<v Speaker 1>letter version of this, hadn't you As disgusting as that

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<v Speaker 1>video was, It is, in fact, the greatest thing Trump

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<v Speaker 1>has ever done in a way I am sitting here

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<v Speaker 1>applauding him. It is greater than all the other accomplishments

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<v Speaker 1>of his life. His thorough corruption of the government, his

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<v Speaker 1>opening of a Pandora's box, which turned out to be

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<v Speaker 1>full of millions of other Pandora's boxes, His greasy, chintzy,

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<v Speaker 1>falling apart apartment buildings, his ludicrous personal appearance, his eternal

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<v Speaker 1>peace in the Middle East that has already fallen apart.

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<v Speaker 1>His crimes, his craft, his grift, his Espionage Act violations,

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<v Speaker 1>his liability for assaults, his convictions, his makeup, his hot

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<v Speaker 1>and cold running lying. Of all the things Trump has

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<v Speaker 1>ever done, nothing has ever been greater than that video.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the embodiment of the last decade in America.

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<v Speaker 1>It is Donald Trump's America. It is Donald Trump. And

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<v Speaker 1>he is so crazy. He posted that video himself, thinking

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<v Speaker 1>the video expressed some kind of triumph. He's not just crazy,

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<v Speaker 1>He's he's that shit crazy. He in fact is something

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<v Speaker 1>new to this earth. He is, as the video showed,

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<v Speaker 1>he is Trump shit crazy. You may have noticed the

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<v Speaker 1>scratch in my voice and a little cough earlier. I'm sick,

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<v Speaker 1>So what you're hearing now is the last of what

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<v Speaker 1>I've been able to concentrate long enough on to write.

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<v Speaker 1>I can talk with some discomfort, but that's my problem,

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<v Speaker 1>not yours. The writing not so much. So let's enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>instead the adventure of me ad libbing my way through

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<v Speaker 1>the other headlines and through an entire second segment devoted

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<v Speaker 1>to one story rather than worse persons, but going through

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<v Speaker 1>all this with slightly less than a clear head. Fasten

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<v Speaker 1>your seat belts, and if you look out the left

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<v Speaker 1>window of the Trump shit jet, you'll see why it's JD.

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<v Speaker 1>Vance in the vice presidential mini shit copter. The other

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<v Speaker 1>thing about that video is that it represents in its

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<v Speaker 1>own way Trump's policy on the quote narco terrorists quote

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<v Speaker 1>and the kinetic strikes unquote by the Secretary of brill

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<v Speaker 1>Cream taking place off Venezuela in the Caribbean. As the

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<v Speaker 1>news story reads, the US released the two survivors of

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<v Speaker 1>Thursday's military strike on a suspected drug vessel. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>for putting in suspected. Half of the media in the

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<v Speaker 1>world just says, oh, yes, that has to have been

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<v Speaker 1>narco terrorist because there's no evidence one way or the other.

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<v Speaker 1>And why would the President of the United States lie

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<v Speaker 1>about that. It's a minute that ends in a number.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why the two survivors were released to their home countries,

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<v Speaker 1>Ecuador and Colombia. President of Colombia says US government officials,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a separate strike. Have committed a murder and

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<v Speaker 1>violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Caranza had

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<v Speaker 1>no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity

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<v Speaker 1>was fishing. The Colombian boat was a drift and had

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<v Speaker 1>its distress signal up due to an engine failure. The

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<v Speaker 1>president of Columbia, who we of course threw out of

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<v Speaker 1>the country because he dared to criticize Trump at the

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<v Speaker 1>UN even though we don't own the UN. Sorry we

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<v Speaker 1>threw him out, He now says Trump murdered Alejandro Caranza.

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<v Speaker 1>The US government murdered Alejandro Caranza, and that in fact

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<v Speaker 1>the boat was sitting there having had engine failure. It

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<v Speaker 1>was literally a sitting duck. It was even a more

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<v Speaker 1>innocent target than we have previously presumed. I mentioned earlier

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<v Speaker 1>the idea of shooting prisoners who have just surrendered on

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<v Speaker 1>the battlefield. This is the next step beyond that sitting

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<v Speaker 1>there engine failure kill them. The New Republic added this.

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<v Speaker 1>The other day. President Trump announced that he had bombed

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<v Speaker 1>yet another boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

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<v Speaker 1>He's now struck six twenty seven dead bombings widely denounced

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<v Speaker 1>as illegal, probably because they are. New York Times reports

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<v Speaker 1>the head of the military Southern Command, Alvin Holsey, is

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<v Speaker 1>stepping down amid unclear circumstances. Not Admiral Halsey, but Alvin Holsey.

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<v Speaker 1>You would think we would want to retain somebody whose

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<v Speaker 1>name was that close to Halsey's. Meanwhile, much of this

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<v Speaker 1>country continues to believe that Trump almost saved Ukraine. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>he came so close, We almost saved Ukraine. And then

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<v Speaker 1>he changed his mind almost Maybe next time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a.

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<v Speaker 1>Stall. It has been nothing but a stall. The whole

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<v Speaker 1>thing has been a performance, dating back to the session

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<v Speaker 1>in the Oval office, with the media there and JD.

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<v Speaker 1>Vance trying to act tough as they browbeat Zelenski and

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<v Speaker 1>Zelensky to his credit did not kick Trump in the balls.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a stall. He has tried every different angle to

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<v Speaker 1>buy Putin another couple of weeks because Trump is Putin's whore.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll repeat that for those in the back. Trump is

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<v Speaker 1>Putin's whore. And apparently somehow Putin waded through Trump's brown liquid,

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<v Speaker 1>as the New York Times would call it, and got

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<v Speaker 1>through to him with this message. Just keep doing different

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<v Speaker 1>things that make it look like you're about to force

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<v Speaker 1>me to do something else. This time it was Tomahawk missiles.

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<v Speaker 1>In a phone call last week with Trump, Russian President

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<v Speaker 1>Putin demanded Kiev surrender control of the Dunetsk region as

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<v Speaker 1>a condition to ending the war in Ukraine. This is

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<v Speaker 1>according to the Washington Post. During the Friday meeting with Zelensky,

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Whitkoff, the forty two IQ guy that Trump has

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<v Speaker 1>decided is the Middle East envoy reportedly pressed the Ukraine

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<v Speaker 1>delegation about seeding Donetsk, and Trump is to meet with

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<v Speaker 1>Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks. I will have

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<v Speaker 1>a nightly prayer vigil that they all stay in Hungary forever.

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<v Speaker 1>So the theory here is Trump was going to give

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<v Speaker 1>Zelensky tomahawks instead, he's going to give Putin Dunnetsk. But

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<v Speaker 1>he almost did it. Let's give him a Nobel Peace

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<v Speaker 1>Prize for almost doing the right thing as opposed to

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<v Speaker 1>the completely wrong thing. Because it's Trump. And if the

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<v Speaker 1>world does not end because of something he's done and

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<v Speaker 1>the sun rises in the morning, well that was restraint.

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<v Speaker 1>The fellow on CNN Van Jones is about to say

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<v Speaker 1>that this is the day Trump became president. Another report

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<v Speaker 1>from the Washington Post, Putin got his relationship with Trump

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<v Speaker 1>back on tracking one phone call. I'll bet he did,

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<v Speaker 1>dashing the prospect of the US imminently granting long range messing.

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<v Speaker 1>Blah blah blah. It was the latest swing, writes Robin

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<v Speaker 1>Dixon of the Washington Post in Trump's back and forth

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<v Speaker 1>positions on the Russian Ukraine War that often changed following

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<v Speaker 1>contact with Putin. No, it wasn't, Robin Dixon. It's an act.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a stall for Putin. My god, I am a

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<v Speaker 1>semi retired former SportsCenter anchor and the one time field

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<v Speaker 1>reporter for the Nicket Night nineteen eighty six celebrity retired

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<v Speaker 1>TV star Golf Open, and even I can figure this out,

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<v Speaker 1>and it seems as if not one political or governmental

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<v Speaker 1>writer in this country can figure it out. Just me

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<v Speaker 1>so to the media experts, to the expert experts who

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<v Speaker 1>believed Trump was coming around this time on Ukraine, even

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<v Speaker 1>though each previous time you thought that now he was

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<v Speaker 1>just stalling as Putin's horror, Oh, it turned out this time,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh he was just stalling. What was he doing last time?

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<v Speaker 1>Just stalling? What will he be doing next time? Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>he might be seriously negotiating. He's going to put pressure

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<v Speaker 1>in Putin this time, one hundred and forty seventh time.

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<v Speaker 1>Is the charm to all of you who still think

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<v Speaker 1>that this is not a stall, He is not Putin's whore,

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<v Speaker 1>and you did not just fall for it again, go

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<v Speaker 1>f yourselves and quit your jobs. I don't feel well,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'd like to end with the funnies at least

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<v Speaker 1>this segment before we move on to one long telling

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<v Speaker 1>of one really really weird story involving somebody trying to

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<v Speaker 1>go from the sports world to the political world, who

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<v Speaker 1>I've discussed before, talking about a phony, talking about fooling people.

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<v Speaker 1>I do want to end this segment with a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of laughs. I have a delightful audio clip to play

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<v Speaker 1>for you. And you might not have seen this because

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<v Speaker 1>it's from the mayor's debate here in Fun City, the

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<v Speaker 1>New York mayoralty debate Zoran mom Donnie who is leading

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<v Speaker 1>in double figures in the worst of his polls over Cuomo,

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<v Speaker 1>and Curtis Sliwa, who took off his hat. And apparently

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<v Speaker 1>all this time Curtis's problem was his little red beret

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<v Speaker 1>was on too tight because once the circulation started going

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<v Speaker 1>in his brain again, Curtis bless him dunked on Andrew

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<v Speaker 1>Cuomo owned him dunked. The subject is standing up to

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<v Speaker 1>Trump demanding money or allowing ice in, or any of

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<v Speaker 1>the other demands that Trump will make of the Mayor

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<v Speaker 1>of New York, including Cuomo, who he has in his

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<v Speaker 1>back pocket. Trump this is has a prosecution of Cuomo

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<v Speaker 1>in his back pocket, but he would never ever pressure

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<v Speaker 1>Cuomo into doing what he wanted rather than what's good

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<v Speaker 1>for the city of New York. And Curtis Sliwa, on

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<v Speaker 1>this topic, picked up what Mario Cuomo's son said and

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<v Speaker 1>stuffed it down his throat. This is one of the

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<v Speaker 1>great political sound bites of all time. Listen carefully and

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<v Speaker 1>listen carefully for one guy in the back, adding the

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<v Speaker 1>bond mo at the very end, I give you Curtis

0:20:46.395 --> 0:20:49.635
<v Speaker 1>Sliwa when he's not wearing the hat that's cutting down

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<v Speaker 1>his circulation in his brain. I said to him, don't

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<v Speaker 1>you dare, We don't need it.

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<v Speaker 3>And he backed down and he will again, so that

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<v Speaker 3>proves a good religit. Wait, the president is going to

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<v Speaker 3>back down.

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<v Speaker 1>To you, angew Cuomo.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, yeah, you think you're the toughest guy.

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<v Speaker 1>But let me tell you something.

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<v Speaker 3>You lost your own primary, right, you were rejected by

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<v Speaker 3>your Democrat. You have a difficult understanding what the term

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<v Speaker 3>don't is. You're not gonna stand up to John Can.

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<v Speaker 1>I agree with Curtis Here, Cuomo is thinking, to paraphrase

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<v Speaker 1>Bart Simpson. Now Slee was scoring off me. Oh that

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<v Speaker 1>is it. My god, you lost your own primary. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't know the meaning of the word no, Oh, my god.

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<v Speaker 1>Curtis Slee was authenticity cartoon character to politician in a suit.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely validated by that one remark. He's now just an

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<v Speaker 1>unsuccessful candidate for mayor. He's not a clown. There can

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<v Speaker 1>be growth in old age, I'm hopeful. And what makes

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<v Speaker 1>mom Danny a great and intuitive politician who will rise

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<v Speaker 1>as far as his place of birth will permit him,

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<v Speaker 1>because he was not technically born in this country and

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<v Speaker 1>kind not run for higher office. Although I haven't checked

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<v Speaker 1>the Constitution since I came in here to record this,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe that's changed so Milania can be the Trump successor.

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<v Speaker 1>I had forgotten about somebody trying that. What makes mom

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<v Speaker 1>Donnie a great intuitive politician is if you heard his

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<v Speaker 1>voice in there, he said only I agree with Curtis.

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<v Speaker 1>He got out of the way. If mom Donnie had

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<v Speaker 1>said that about Sliwa something similar, Cuomo would have tried

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<v Speaker 1>to come in and bigfooted and claim the moment for

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<v Speaker 1>his own. I think Sliwa would have done the same

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<v Speaker 1>if mom Donni had said that, or Cuomo had said

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<v Speaker 1>that about Mam Donni. But Mam Donnie's political skill, the

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<v Speaker 1>unteachable political skill that has put him in this position

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<v Speaker 1>at this age, with this level of experience, and with

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<v Speaker 1>the gigantic baggage that he's carrying. Even in New York.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of the stuff he's carrying to the Mayor's office

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<v Speaker 1>to Gracie mansion is a little heavy, and people are going, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I know about that, but listen to him, he's actually

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<v Speaker 1>gonna do the job. The sense that he's going to

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<v Speaker 1>do the job is an intuitive political skill that is

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<v Speaker 1>summed up by the fact that as this car wreck

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<v Speaker 1>is happening to Cuomo courtesy of Sliwa, he stands in

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<v Speaker 1>the back and simply says, with a big smile on

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<v Speaker 1>his face, I agree with Curtis, and then you can

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<v Speaker 1>see him buttoning his lip or putting the zipper across

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<v Speaker 1>his lips. He is an intuitive political genius. Lastly, it

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<v Speaker 1>let me circle back to no Kings because I should

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<v Speaker 1>cover it twice since everybody else covered it. Nuns my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite two signs, well, probably about twenty signs, all of

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<v Speaker 1>them the same way, the same phrase, one of them

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<v Speaker 1>in a street sign somebody was carrying no Foe king

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<v Speaker 1>way once again, words to live by. And then the

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<v Speaker 1>last one. And I think this should be printed up

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<v Speaker 1>on a T shirt given to every Democratic congressman and senator.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm beginning to see little glimmers of hope in Jeffreys.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe he will take this advice and print this up

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<v Speaker 1>and give it to every member of the Democratic House Caucus,

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<v Speaker 1>because there's nothing much else for him to do at

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<v Speaker 1>the moment, maybe even once in a while. I think

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<v Speaker 1>Chuck Schumer would do this. Chuck Schumer wouldn't do this.

0:24:47.435 --> 0:24:51.075
<v Speaker 1>Chuck Schumer would do this. Somebody in Chuck Schumer's office

0:24:51.115 --> 0:24:55.395
<v Speaker 1>might do this. Somebody in Chuck Schumer's Office's grandson might

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<v Speaker 1>do this. There is a new expansion of the acronym

0:25:02.595 --> 0:25:07.075
<v Speaker 1>GOP that showed up on a sign at one of

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<v Speaker 1>the No Kings protests GOP Guardians of the Pedophiles. Oh, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I want every Democrat in the House wearing that on

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<v Speaker 1>a T shirt by Thursday. I shouldn't have tried that, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>As I said off the cuff here, I do want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about something very curious that happened with one

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<v Speaker 1>of these how should we call him? Clown celebrities? Who's

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<v Speaker 1>doing the Oh? I don't want to run for president.

0:25:48.315 --> 0:25:50.755
<v Speaker 1>I'll never run for president, but if there's nobody else,

0:25:53.555 --> 0:25:56.195
<v Speaker 1>he's hoping that people will draft him to run for president.

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<v Speaker 1>And he decided to make headlines by walking off a

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<v Speaker 1>public television stage in protest of some average American guy

0:26:04.875 --> 0:26:09.635
<v Speaker 1>pleading for help from the TV audience. And the story

0:26:09.755 --> 0:26:13.235
<v Speaker 1>don't add up, and not everybody noticed. In fact, very

0:26:13.235 --> 0:26:17.155
<v Speaker 1>few people notice the story just don't add up. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to say who this clown celebrity who wants

0:26:20.795 --> 0:26:24.515
<v Speaker 1>to be talked into running for president is, but his

0:26:24.635 --> 0:26:29.715
<v Speaker 1>name rhymes with sneeze and k stith. That's next.

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<v Speaker 2>This is goddam as promised in lieu of the worst

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<v Speaker 2>persons in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you a story about which I have

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<v Speaker 1>some doubts. I don't know what the truth is here,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm not going to claim to even offer percentage

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<v Speaker 1>chances as to what is true and what may be

0:26:56.915 --> 0:27:01.835
<v Speaker 1>a stunt, however, or to say it correctly as the

0:27:01.835 --> 0:27:07.275
<v Speaker 1>person I'm talking about would say it. However, last Wednesday

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<v Speaker 1>night the News Nation Network, which is by itself a fraud.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a right wing operative of the Sinclair Broadcasting family.

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<v Speaker 1>It is posing as a neutral it is posing as

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<v Speaker 1>a news operation. It is, as I've mentioned many times,

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<v Speaker 1>the nick at night for newscasters. Chris Cromo has a

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<v Speaker 1>show there. A guy who got fired from Fox named

0:27:33.315 --> 0:27:36.435
<v Speaker 1>Vittert had a show there. Dan Abrams had a show there.

0:27:36.715 --> 0:27:40.395
<v Speaker 1>Ashley Banfield has a show there. One of the ABC

0:27:40.435 --> 0:27:43.355
<v Speaker 1>World news anchors who ran into trouble, she had a

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<v Speaker 1>show there. I don't know who has shows there, because

0:27:46.835 --> 0:27:50.595
<v Speaker 1>fortunately this is not a very widely watched network, but

0:27:50.755 --> 0:27:54.475
<v Speaker 1>it is premised on the idea that it is telling

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<v Speaker 1>you that these people are telling you just the news,

0:27:58.115 --> 0:28:02.715
<v Speaker 1>that it's neutral and fair and no, we can't say

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<v Speaker 1>balance because that would make you think it's about like

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<v Speaker 1>a Fox, which it is. It's right wing, only they

0:28:11.155 --> 0:28:13.915
<v Speaker 1>are not honest enough to say we're a right wing network,

0:28:13.955 --> 0:28:18.915
<v Speaker 1>so they are in the last ring of hell. Last Wednesday,

0:28:19.115 --> 0:28:23.235
<v Speaker 1>they held a town hall about the shutdown. And during

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<v Speaker 1>this town hall, which was conducted at the Kennedy Center

0:28:25.875 --> 0:28:31.875
<v Speaker 1>in DC, itself a suspicious locale right now, the Kennedy

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<v Speaker 1>Center in the District of Columbia. The panel over the

0:28:34.555 --> 0:28:38.675
<v Speaker 1>air two hour special included from Congress Madeline Dean and

0:28:38.835 --> 0:28:47.595
<v Speaker 1>Roe Conna, Jim Jordan, Senator John Fetterman, Bill O'Reilly, that's right,

0:28:47.755 --> 0:28:52.875
<v Speaker 1>he's still alive, Chris Cuomo, that's right, he's still on television,

0:28:53.435 --> 0:28:58.115
<v Speaker 1>and Stephen A. Smith from ESPN. I have talked about

0:28:58.155 --> 0:29:01.715
<v Speaker 1>Stephen a lot because it doesn't surprise me that he

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<v Speaker 1>is as News Nation is pretending not to be a

0:29:04.955 --> 0:29:08.955
<v Speaker 1>right wing network, he is running for president while pretending

0:29:09.035 --> 0:29:11.355
<v Speaker 1>not to be running for president because he doesn't want

0:29:11.395 --> 0:29:14.555
<v Speaker 1>to face the embarrassment when people go, are you kidding me?

0:29:15.195 --> 0:29:18.275
<v Speaker 1>He thinks there will be a draft Stephen A. Smith

0:29:19.515 --> 0:29:23.155
<v Speaker 1>motion and movement, and he believes he needs to be

0:29:23.275 --> 0:29:26.835
<v Speaker 1>ready for it and exposed. And so as he continues

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<v Speaker 1>to go on ESPN and fill hour upon hour about

0:29:30.675 --> 0:29:34.595
<v Speaker 1>sports and saying nothing in the process, a remarkable skill

0:29:34.635 --> 0:29:38.315
<v Speaker 1>for which he is extraordinarily well paid and deserves every

0:29:38.475 --> 0:29:43.715
<v Speaker 1>penny of it. As he does that, he sidelines in politics,

0:29:44.235 --> 0:29:49.035
<v Speaker 1>offering perhaps so far anyway, the shallowest point of view

0:29:49.275 --> 0:29:53.475
<v Speaker 1>on politics that I have heard absolutely anywhere. I mean,

0:29:54.315 --> 0:30:00.355
<v Speaker 1>it's it's it's amazing. Let me interrupt with two ancillary

0:30:00.435 --> 0:30:04.995
<v Speaker 1>facts about Jack Chris Junior before we go back to

0:30:04.995 --> 0:30:09.555
<v Speaker 1>the narrative. The two ancillary facts are there is a

0:30:09.595 --> 0:30:11.795
<v Speaker 1>social media profile for this guy, as there is for

0:30:11.795 --> 0:30:13.875
<v Speaker 1>almost all of us these days, whether we like it

0:30:13.955 --> 0:30:17.435
<v Speaker 1>or not, and it lists him as air traffic controller

0:30:17.515 --> 0:30:21.195
<v Speaker 1>and pilot. And then there's the second thing, which is

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<v Speaker 1>that at ESPN dot com there is a profile, usually

0:30:25.515 --> 0:30:29.235
<v Speaker 1>in the kind of profile that is reserved for players,

0:30:29.315 --> 0:30:34.275
<v Speaker 1>former players, college players of all sports. You may have

0:30:34.315 --> 0:30:38.275
<v Speaker 1>one if you ever played. Normally, statistics would be there,

0:30:38.515 --> 0:30:42.395
<v Speaker 1>data trades, teams played for in this case, it's just blank,

0:30:42.475 --> 0:30:45.515
<v Speaker 1>but there is one four at ESPN dot com, a

0:30:45.675 --> 0:30:50.675
<v Speaker 1>profile of Jack Chris Junior. Just two little hints to

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<v Speaker 1>keep in the back of your mind as I resume

0:30:52.875 --> 0:30:57.635
<v Speaker 1>the narrative, which I will right now. Well, all of

0:30:57.675 --> 0:31:02.595
<v Speaker 1>these elements about which I had doubts came together last

0:31:02.635 --> 0:31:06.475
<v Speaker 1>week when News Nation held it it's town hall for

0:31:06.595 --> 0:31:11.155
<v Speaker 1>two hours in Washington. And I keep emphasizing in Washington

0:31:11.155 --> 0:31:13.635
<v Speaker 1>to see if you can get ahead of the storyteller here.

0:31:14.075 --> 0:31:17.675
<v Speaker 1>A good detective story or good mystery always allows the

0:31:17.755 --> 0:31:21.715
<v Speaker 1>possibility of the reader or listener to get out ahead

0:31:21.755 --> 0:31:24.755
<v Speaker 1>of the narrator and the characters. You may solve it

0:31:24.795 --> 0:31:27.595
<v Speaker 1>before they do. I'm going to give you that chance here.

0:31:27.875 --> 0:31:31.475
<v Speaker 1>Listen carefully to this story. At this event about the

0:31:31.475 --> 0:31:35.955
<v Speaker 1>shutdown and how it's hurting ordinary people. There were only

0:31:36.275 --> 0:31:40.795
<v Speaker 1>vague and veiled accusations that it's all the Democrats fault.

0:31:41.035 --> 0:31:44.235
<v Speaker 1>That's the News Nation trick to make it seem as

0:31:44.275 --> 0:31:46.755
<v Speaker 1>if it's not a right wing network. They don't scream

0:31:46.875 --> 0:31:52.275
<v Speaker 1>about how the Democrats are to use recent descriptions communists terrorists,

0:31:53.035 --> 0:31:58.315
<v Speaker 1>the devil. I mean. Several people call Democrats demonic and

0:31:58.435 --> 0:32:03.115
<v Speaker 1>their main evidence was, well, democrats and demonic each start

0:32:03.155 --> 0:32:07.395
<v Speaker 1>with the same first three less Unfortunately this works with

0:32:07.435 --> 0:32:09.275
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the people who believe in this crap

0:32:09.795 --> 0:32:12.635
<v Speaker 1>in any event. To get back to the point, at

0:32:12.675 --> 0:32:16.835
<v Speaker 1>one point in this town hall in Washington, d C.

0:32:17.915 --> 0:32:21.475
<v Speaker 1>A man stood up and asked a question and told

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<v Speaker 1>a story. His name was Jack Chris Junior, and he

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<v Speaker 1>said that when he gets off work from his sixteen

0:32:29.435 --> 0:32:33.835
<v Speaker 1>year long job at air traffic Control in Dallas, Texas,

0:32:33.955 --> 0:32:37.475
<v Speaker 1>he now has to drive for door Dash because because

0:32:37.675 --> 0:32:43.155
<v Speaker 1>of the slightly democratic cause shutdown, he's not getting paid

0:32:43.155 --> 0:32:46.355
<v Speaker 1>as an air traffic controller. Just to pay for his

0:32:46.475 --> 0:32:50.235
<v Speaker 1>daughter's tuition, he has to deliver food. A man with

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<v Speaker 1>a tense, intense, important, highly skilled life and death job

0:32:57.635 --> 0:33:02.635
<v Speaker 1>of air traffic controller has to then deliver food to

0:33:02.675 --> 0:33:07.515
<v Speaker 1>make ends meet. Which point Stephen A. Smith freaked out.

0:33:07.755 --> 0:33:11.315
<v Speaker 1>This is why he said, you have so many Americans

0:33:11.635 --> 0:33:16.515
<v Speaker 1>excuse my language, so pissed off at Washington, because somehow,

0:33:16.755 --> 0:33:20.195
<v Speaker 1>some way you get to have these conversations, engage in

0:33:20.275 --> 0:33:22.915
<v Speaker 1>specific elements of it to talk about what we need

0:33:22.915 --> 0:33:27.395
<v Speaker 1>to do to get things better. Well, that's the problem

0:33:27.435 --> 0:33:29.675
<v Speaker 1>with Stephen A. Smith. If you ever wrote down what

0:33:29.755 --> 0:33:32.835
<v Speaker 1>he said about sports, it would make no sense whatsoever,

0:33:33.195 --> 0:33:36.635
<v Speaker 1>just as that did. Why they're so pissed off, because

0:33:36.635 --> 0:33:40.395
<v Speaker 1>we can have specific anyway. Our debt is thirty seven

0:33:40.395 --> 0:33:44.795
<v Speaker 1>point eight trillion. Somehow, some way, the taxpayer has been

0:33:44.795 --> 0:33:48.635
<v Speaker 1>paying this, this throwing money. Because we all look at

0:33:48.635 --> 0:33:50.715
<v Speaker 1>our check and it's been going to the government, and

0:33:50.755 --> 0:33:53.715
<v Speaker 1>you're supposed to be doing something constructive and productive enough

0:33:53.795 --> 0:33:56.115
<v Speaker 1>to make sure that we don't have that kind of deficit.

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<v Speaker 1>It isn't happening. As a translation, I'll point out Stephen

0:34:01.075 --> 0:34:04.395
<v Speaker 1>does not know what the deficit is. Nearly everything that

0:34:04.395 --> 0:34:07.395
<v Speaker 1>he's addressed thus far in politics is, as I said before,

0:34:07.515 --> 0:34:11.355
<v Speaker 1>as shallow analysis as anything possibly could be. But the

0:34:11.435 --> 0:34:14.835
<v Speaker 1>deficit is more shallow than all the other things are

0:34:14.875 --> 0:34:20.515
<v Speaker 1>shallow combined. He's not understanding that the issues cannot simply

0:34:20.635 --> 0:34:26.235
<v Speaker 1>be sort of fiddlebustered the way he would who's the

0:34:26.635 --> 0:34:31.555
<v Speaker 1>number two guard on the Oklahoma City thunder on which

0:34:31.595 --> 0:34:36.515
<v Speaker 1>he could spend three hours saying things like, somehow, some way, however,

0:34:36.915 --> 0:34:39.875
<v Speaker 1>the taxpayer has been paying this, been throwing money because

0:34:39.875 --> 0:34:41.915
<v Speaker 1>we all look at our check, and it's been going

0:34:41.955 --> 0:34:45.755
<v Speaker 1>to the second string guard on the Oklahoma City Thunder.

0:34:47.795 --> 0:34:50.355
<v Speaker 1>He went on to say, I don't think Washington understands

0:34:50.355 --> 0:34:53.115
<v Speaker 1>how ticked off we truly are. A young man walked

0:34:53.155 --> 0:34:54.715
<v Speaker 1>up to the microphone and said that he had to

0:34:54.795 --> 0:34:56.795
<v Speaker 1>leave here to go and work on door dash to

0:34:56.835 --> 0:35:00.795
<v Speaker 1>help pay for his daughter's tuition. Meanwhile, everybody up here

0:35:00.835 --> 0:35:05.035
<v Speaker 1>getting paid, but he ain't. A government shut down is

0:35:05.075 --> 0:35:07.315
<v Speaker 1>going on right now. A man has to work on

0:35:07.395 --> 0:35:09.875
<v Speaker 1>door dash when he's really an air traffic controller that

0:35:09.915 --> 0:35:13.075
<v Speaker 1>we applauded. And we're up here talking about how much

0:35:13.195 --> 0:35:15.835
<v Speaker 1>some money is going to cost, and the only person

0:35:15.875 --> 0:35:18.075
<v Speaker 1>that don't have a check coming is him. You know

0:35:18.115 --> 0:35:20.395
<v Speaker 1>what I'm going to do. I'm going to take a break,

0:35:21.435 --> 0:35:25.355
<v Speaker 1>At which point Steven Smith got up from his chair

0:35:25.675 --> 0:35:29.555
<v Speaker 1>at the Kennedy Center in Washington and walked off, or,

0:35:29.675 --> 0:35:32.875
<v Speaker 1>as the News Nation account of The News Nation town

0:35:32.915 --> 0:35:37.355
<v Speaker 1>Hall put it, the scenario prompted panelist Steven A. Smith

0:35:37.595 --> 0:35:44.235
<v Speaker 1>to walk off the stage in disgust, or perhaps according

0:35:44.275 --> 0:35:50.075
<v Speaker 1>to script, Okay, did you catch it? I didn't put

0:35:50.155 --> 0:35:52.955
<v Speaker 1>too many of one clue in here, but I put

0:35:52.955 --> 0:35:57.875
<v Speaker 1>about sixteen of the other clue in this. First off,

0:35:57.915 --> 0:36:01.835
<v Speaker 1>it's News Nation, so you should doubt that Bill O'Reilly

0:36:01.915 --> 0:36:05.595
<v Speaker 1>was there. Therefore, you should doubt that Chris Cuomo was there.

0:36:06.275 --> 0:36:10.155
<v Speaker 1>And it's Bill O'Reilly, Cris Cuomo, Times News Nation plus

0:36:10.155 --> 0:36:14.075
<v Speaker 1>Stephen A. Smith. If you're not doubting, you're not breathing.

0:36:14.835 --> 0:36:18.115
<v Speaker 1>But my biggest concern is about this air traffic controller.

0:36:18.235 --> 0:36:22.395
<v Speaker 1>I imagine that there is some other explanation for this. I

0:36:22.475 --> 0:36:25.355
<v Speaker 1>looked again and again to make sure that the details

0:36:25.395 --> 0:36:31.675
<v Speaker 1>are correct. I don't understand what the other possible explanations are,

0:36:31.755 --> 0:36:34.675
<v Speaker 1>but maybe there is one. And if so, I apologize

0:36:34.715 --> 0:36:38.075
<v Speaker 1>to him, and to Stephen and to News Nation, to

0:36:38.155 --> 0:36:42.355
<v Speaker 1>everybody in this equation except O'Reilly. But here's the thing.

0:36:45.995 --> 0:36:49.595
<v Speaker 1>The air traffic controller Jack Chris Junior says he has

0:36:49.595 --> 0:36:53.635
<v Speaker 1>been working for sixteen years at Air Traffic Control in Dallas, Texas,

0:36:53.635 --> 0:36:56.515
<v Speaker 1>and now has to deliver door dash just to pay

0:36:56.515 --> 0:36:59.075
<v Speaker 1>for his daughter's tuition. And Steven A. Smith made a

0:36:59.115 --> 0:37:03.235
<v Speaker 1>big studied I'm so pissed off, I'm walking off the

0:37:03.275 --> 0:37:08.675
<v Speaker 1>set here. Apart from the audience benefiting from that, who

0:37:08.715 --> 0:37:13.035
<v Speaker 1>would know the difference? First of all, But secondly, wait,

0:37:13.075 --> 0:37:19.315
<v Speaker 1>a minute. Anybody noticed something inconsistent about this story? Where

0:37:19.355 --> 0:37:22.755
<v Speaker 1>have I said now sixteen times? This town hall took

0:37:22.795 --> 0:37:27.715
<v Speaker 1>place the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Where does Jack

0:37:27.795 --> 0:37:33.915
<v Speaker 1>Chris say? He works as an air traffic control Dallas,

0:37:34.715 --> 0:37:37.515
<v Speaker 1>but he has to work because you can't not work,

0:37:37.555 --> 0:37:40.075
<v Speaker 1>but he's not getting paid, so he has to drive

0:37:40.115 --> 0:37:46.915
<v Speaker 1>for door Dash in Washington. I mean, Stephen A. Smith said,

0:37:47.835 --> 0:37:49.835
<v Speaker 1>a young man walked up to the microphone and said

0:37:49.835 --> 0:37:51.315
<v Speaker 1>that he had to leave here to go to work

0:37:51.315 --> 0:37:55.515
<v Speaker 1>on DoorDash to help pay for his daughter's tuition. So

0:37:55.795 --> 0:37:59.675
<v Speaker 1>he's working in Dallas, and then at the end of

0:37:59.715 --> 0:38:03.875
<v Speaker 1>the workday in Dallas he what flies to Washington to

0:38:03.915 --> 0:38:07.755
<v Speaker 1>deliver door day or even if there's some muddle here

0:38:07.755 --> 0:38:11.155
<v Speaker 1>in Steven A. Smith's mind, Oh fat chance of that.

0:38:11.435 --> 0:38:14.275
<v Speaker 1>But even if there's some muddle in Steven A. Smith's mind,

0:38:15.435 --> 0:38:19.515
<v Speaker 1>he's in Dallas, and he's driving in Dallas, and he's

0:38:19.515 --> 0:38:22.435
<v Speaker 1>an air traffic controller in Dallas, and yet somehow he

0:38:22.555 --> 0:38:27.955
<v Speaker 1>is at the Kennedy Senator in Washington. Either he found

0:38:28.035 --> 0:38:31.475
<v Speaker 1>his own way to Washington paid for that with money

0:38:31.475 --> 0:38:33.835
<v Speaker 1>that he doesn't have because of the shutdown. That is

0:38:33.955 --> 0:38:41.795
<v Speaker 1>kind of the Democrats ball or or what. They flew

0:38:41.875 --> 0:38:44.315
<v Speaker 1>him there to tell this story, so they knew in

0:38:44.355 --> 0:38:48.195
<v Speaker 1>advanced the story he was going to tell. This man's

0:38:48.235 --> 0:38:51.435
<v Speaker 1>story was not a surprise to the people at News Nation,

0:38:51.515 --> 0:38:54.675
<v Speaker 1>which immediately raises the possibility that his story was not

0:38:54.755 --> 0:38:58.395
<v Speaker 1>a surprise to the people who were on stage, like

0:39:01.195 --> 0:39:04.835
<v Speaker 1>Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly and Steven A. Smith, who and

0:39:04.875 --> 0:39:08.835
<v Speaker 1>walked off to show how much a man of the

0:39:08.875 --> 0:39:14.635
<v Speaker 1>people he is. I am suggesting that perhaps this was

0:39:14.755 --> 0:39:20.115
<v Speaker 1>not as ad libbed an ad lib as it seemed

0:39:21.155 --> 0:39:27.035
<v Speaker 1>a gesture of frustration. Oh, Stephen A. Smith cares about you?

0:39:28.795 --> 0:39:32.475
<v Speaker 1>Scenario prompted panelist Stephen A. Smith to walk off the

0:39:32.515 --> 0:39:36.395
<v Speaker 1>stage and discust. I do notice in all of the

0:39:36.515 --> 0:39:39.155
<v Speaker 1>News Nation commentary on this, and it was covered in

0:39:39.235 --> 0:39:43.555
<v Speaker 1>other publications like The Hill, there was an element of

0:39:43.955 --> 0:39:46.515
<v Speaker 1>he responded to this and was so thrown by that

0:39:47.315 --> 0:39:51.315
<v Speaker 1>he was responding in some way to the surprise of this,

0:39:51.475 --> 0:39:54.555
<v Speaker 1>And that's not what News Nation says. It just prompted

0:39:54.635 --> 0:39:57.235
<v Speaker 1>him to walk off the stage the way a prompter,

0:39:57.835 --> 0:39:59.995
<v Speaker 1>like something written on the prompter would prompt you to

0:40:00.075 --> 0:40:06.635
<v Speaker 1>walk off the stage. I'm just saying, I like Steven

0:40:07.995 --> 0:40:13.355
<v Speaker 1>I worked with him at ESPN before they fired him,

0:40:14.355 --> 0:40:17.435
<v Speaker 1>and as somebody who came back to ESPN after quitting

0:40:18.395 --> 0:40:22.115
<v Speaker 1>and after having a contract run out and worked three

0:40:22.155 --> 0:40:24.915
<v Speaker 1>separate times there. I admire anybody who goes back to

0:40:24.955 --> 0:40:29.235
<v Speaker 1>work there. It means that there was a connection and

0:40:29.315 --> 0:40:31.995
<v Speaker 1>the audience wanted you, and the employers were happy to

0:40:31.995 --> 0:40:35.235
<v Speaker 1>have you back one way or the other. I admire him.

0:40:35.475 --> 0:40:38.955
<v Speaker 1>I used to know him in the local New York

0:40:38.995 --> 0:40:41.995
<v Speaker 1>news media when he was working at the ESPN New

0:40:42.075 --> 0:40:45.395
<v Speaker 1>York station, and we once were at a New York

0:40:45.435 --> 0:40:48.475
<v Speaker 1>Knicks game together along with the president of ESPN, and

0:40:48.475 --> 0:40:51.715
<v Speaker 1>had had a very good conversation and he didn't play

0:40:51.755 --> 0:40:53.235
<v Speaker 1>me at all, and he didn't try any of the

0:40:53.275 --> 0:40:56.915
<v Speaker 1>big steven A. Smith stuff. And I like him, but

0:40:57.195 --> 0:41:00.435
<v Speaker 1>I do think this ends. And first off, it's a

0:41:00.515 --> 0:41:03.515
<v Speaker 1>violation of every tenant ESPN has had since it went

0:41:03.515 --> 0:41:05.675
<v Speaker 1>on the air in nineteen seventy nine, to which I

0:41:05.795 --> 0:41:09.955
<v Speaker 1>subscribed at all times, which was not not to mix

0:41:10.035 --> 0:41:15.315
<v Speaker 1>politics and sports on the air in a high profile way.

0:41:16.275 --> 0:41:19.195
<v Speaker 1>In other words, I was when I was a television

0:41:19.235 --> 0:41:22.835
<v Speaker 1>political commentator. My ESPN work was radio only. I didn't

0:41:22.835 --> 0:41:25.395
<v Speaker 1>go on TV and when I was on ESPN doing TV,

0:41:25.475 --> 0:41:30.035
<v Speaker 1>I did not do any politics at all anywhere else,

0:41:30.115 --> 0:41:34.595
<v Speaker 1>I just did sports. This is something else. And I

0:41:34.635 --> 0:41:37.955
<v Speaker 1>think this ends up with Stephen not getting the presidential

0:41:37.995 --> 0:41:40.875
<v Speaker 1>nomination of whichever party he's seeking it from, because I

0:41:40.955 --> 0:41:45.155
<v Speaker 1>can't tell. And it does not get with him becoming

0:41:45.155 --> 0:41:49.235
<v Speaker 1>a prominent political commentator, because even this lack of depth

0:41:49.435 --> 0:41:53.195
<v Speaker 1>will not resonate with the dumber audiences that cover or

0:41:53.235 --> 0:41:58.075
<v Speaker 1>are interested in the coverage of politics. And I wonder

0:41:58.195 --> 0:42:01.155
<v Speaker 1>if it ends up with him losing his job at ESPN,

0:42:01.555 --> 0:42:03.835
<v Speaker 1>or at least his influence at ESPN, or at least

0:42:03.835 --> 0:42:07.275
<v Speaker 1>his prominen city ESPN, because if he's now involved in

0:42:07.355 --> 0:42:10.555
<v Speaker 1>things like a fake oh, hold me back, I don't.

0:42:11.075 --> 0:42:14.235
<v Speaker 1>I don't really want to ever run for president, but

0:42:14.275 --> 0:42:16.795
<v Speaker 1>if there's no other choice, I guess I'll be forced

0:42:16.835 --> 0:42:19.275
<v Speaker 1>to do it. Well, then maybe I'll consent to it.

0:42:19.315 --> 0:42:24.555
<v Speaker 1>Maybe if he's doing that, that's bad enough. Many men, though,

0:42:24.555 --> 0:42:30.595
<v Speaker 1>have done that before, and some women. But the panelist

0:42:30.915 --> 0:42:36.275
<v Speaker 1>walks off after it turns out that the audience member

0:42:36.555 --> 0:42:40.955
<v Speaker 1>is a sixteen year veteran of air traffic control in Dallas.

0:42:40.995 --> 0:42:43.715
<v Speaker 1>But he's got to go do his door dash job

0:42:43.835 --> 0:42:46.195
<v Speaker 1>now just to pay for his daughter's tuition because of

0:42:46.235 --> 0:42:50.435
<v Speaker 1>this damn democratic shutdown of the government. Except the guy

0:42:51.395 --> 0:42:54.235
<v Speaker 1>is in Washington, d C. At the moment, but he's

0:42:54.235 --> 0:43:01.395
<v Speaker 1>from Dallas. If Stephen had knowledge a forethought of this,

0:43:04.195 --> 0:43:09.235
<v Speaker 1>Good night, Stephen A Smith, a little Thurber when we

0:43:09.275 --> 0:43:18.155
<v Speaker 1>come back. I believe the first time I ever heard

0:43:18.275 --> 0:43:22.275
<v Speaker 1>James Thurber read aloud, it was by William Windham, the

0:43:22.315 --> 0:43:26.955
<v Speaker 1>great actor who did so much serious stuff, drama, comedy.

0:43:27.715 --> 0:43:32.715
<v Speaker 1>He's a Star Trek Original series key figure. He did

0:43:32.795 --> 0:43:35.635
<v Speaker 1>a lot of great acting in so many different roles.

0:43:35.955 --> 0:43:38.875
<v Speaker 1>And he did a special on PBS when I was

0:43:38.875 --> 0:43:43.195
<v Speaker 1>in college in which he performed as James Thurber, narrated

0:43:43.235 --> 0:43:46.195
<v Speaker 1>some of the drawings, recited from memory, many of the

0:43:46.195 --> 0:43:48.835
<v Speaker 1>short stories and many of the longer ones too, And

0:43:48.875 --> 0:43:51.035
<v Speaker 1>I later had the pleasure of telling him that he

0:43:51.235 --> 0:43:54.795
<v Speaker 1>was my inspiration for reading James Thurber aloud, and we

0:43:54.955 --> 0:44:00.515
<v Speaker 1>corresponded about how to possibly improve some of the diceier

0:44:00.595 --> 0:44:02.915
<v Speaker 1>parts of some of the Thurber stories and make them

0:44:03.435 --> 0:44:07.475
<v Speaker 1>useful for twenty first cent for America. Mister Wyndham died

0:44:07.715 --> 0:44:11.035
<v Speaker 1>about ten years ago, and I lament him still. I

0:44:11.155 --> 0:44:15.355
<v Speaker 1>recorded on tape His Thurber Special on PBS, and I

0:44:15.395 --> 0:44:20.075
<v Speaker 1>still have it, not videotape, audiotape, a cassette. We didn't

0:44:20.075 --> 0:44:22.755
<v Speaker 1>have home videotape, although I'm proud to say he sent

0:44:22.835 --> 0:44:26.635
<v Speaker 1>me a copy of a DVD of the performance, and

0:44:26.755 --> 0:44:29.555
<v Speaker 1>one of the stories he reads, or in fact recites,

0:44:29.755 --> 0:44:32.155
<v Speaker 1>I will now read for you it is. I like

0:44:32.195 --> 0:44:35.195
<v Speaker 1>it very much. It's not considered part of the great

0:44:36.155 --> 0:44:39.155
<v Speaker 1>canon of James Thurber, but I think it's terrific. And

0:44:39.235 --> 0:44:44.715
<v Speaker 1>it's called Shake Hands with Bertie Dogget by James Thurber.

0:44:46.035 --> 0:44:51.515
<v Speaker 1>John Bertie Dogget, known as Bertie to the few people

0:44:51.555 --> 0:44:55.075
<v Speaker 1>who speak to him, must be fifty three now, but

0:44:55.155 --> 0:44:57.635
<v Speaker 1>he wears his years with a smirk, and he has

0:44:57.675 --> 0:45:01.915
<v Speaker 1>as bad a practical joker as ever. Other American cutups

0:45:01.955 --> 0:45:04.515
<v Speaker 1>in the Grand Tradition began to disappear in October Night

0:45:04.675 --> 0:45:07.675
<v Speaker 1>twenty nine, and they are as hard to find now

0:45:07.715 --> 0:45:13.995
<v Speaker 1>as Bison. But Dogget's waggishness has no calendar. You must

0:45:14.035 --> 0:45:16.275
<v Speaker 1>have run into him at some party or other. He's

0:45:16.315 --> 0:45:18.595
<v Speaker 1>the man whose right hand comes off when you try

0:45:18.635 --> 0:45:21.635
<v Speaker 1>to shake it. The late George Bancroft once pulled that

0:45:21.715 --> 0:45:23.675
<v Speaker 1>gag in a movie but that was so long ago.

0:45:23.675 --> 0:45:26.315
<v Speaker 1>The picture must be a cherished item in the Museum

0:45:26.395 --> 0:45:31.635
<v Speaker 1>of Modern Arts Film Library even now, when everybody else

0:45:31.715 --> 0:45:35.635
<v Speaker 1>was running the gamut of bomb fear from A to H.

0:45:36.035 --> 0:45:39.995
<v Speaker 1>Birdie Dogget was at Grand Central with one roller skate,

0:45:40.595 --> 0:45:42.675
<v Speaker 1>which he managed to attach to the shoe of a

0:45:42.715 --> 0:45:46.075
<v Speaker 1>man sleeping on a bench. When the fellow woke and

0:45:46.115 --> 0:45:50.835
<v Speaker 1>stood up, he described a brief, desperate semi circle clutched

0:45:50.835 --> 0:45:53.475
<v Speaker 1>a woman shopper about the knees, dragged her and her

0:45:53.515 --> 0:45:56.115
<v Speaker 1>bundles to the cold floor, and was attacked by her

0:45:56.195 --> 0:46:00.755
<v Speaker 1>muzzled Scottie Dogget, as always, was the first to lend

0:46:00.755 --> 0:46:02.995
<v Speaker 1>a hand, helping the woman to her feet, and then

0:46:03.035 --> 0:46:05.995
<v Speaker 1>turning to the man, where the hell's your other skate?

0:46:06.515 --> 0:46:10.555
<v Speaker 1>He demanded, sharply, that's what caused all this trouble. He

0:46:10.635 --> 0:46:13.915
<v Speaker 1>took his skate off the victim's foot and disappeared into

0:46:13.955 --> 0:46:17.035
<v Speaker 1>the crowd that had begun to gather. What's the matter

0:46:17.115 --> 0:46:21.595
<v Speaker 1>over there, a small man asked him apprehensively. Dogget shrugged, Uh.

0:46:21.875 --> 0:46:24.155
<v Speaker 1>They found a woman with a ticking package, he said.

0:46:25.235 --> 0:46:28.395
<v Speaker 1>The other man turned and left the station, missing the train.

0:46:28.475 --> 0:46:32.595
<v Speaker 1>He had told his wife he would take. Doggett's pranks

0:46:32.795 --> 0:46:35.915
<v Speaker 1>usually have the effect of involving people on their far edges,

0:46:36.475 --> 0:46:40.115
<v Speaker 1>one or two of whom have been divorced as a result.

0:46:41.515 --> 0:46:44.315
<v Speaker 1>A publisher I know thinks dogget would make a good story.

0:46:44.995 --> 0:46:47.475
<v Speaker 1>I disagree, because I don't think there's anything good about

0:46:47.515 --> 0:46:50.115
<v Speaker 1>the fellow, but I have done some checking up on

0:46:50.235 --> 0:46:53.555
<v Speaker 1>him out of force of habit. His father, the late

0:46:53.755 --> 0:46:57.075
<v Speaker 1>Carol Lamb Dogget, was a Methodist minister, and his mother

0:46:57.155 --> 0:47:01.635
<v Speaker 1>was a witch, born Ata June Birdie. When her son

0:47:01.715 --> 0:47:03.955
<v Speaker 1>was only ten, she taught him how to set stranger's

0:47:04.075 --> 0:47:08.235
<v Speaker 1>umbrellas on fire. After an April shower, she would sally

0:47:08.355 --> 0:47:11.955
<v Speaker 1>forth with the little Hellion. They lived in Dayton in

0:47:11.995 --> 0:47:15.315
<v Speaker 1>search of a citizen with a floppy umbrella. After an

0:47:15.355 --> 0:47:19.075
<v Speaker 1>April shower, Dayton men lower their umbrellas without bothering to

0:47:19.155 --> 0:47:22.795
<v Speaker 1>roll them. Missus Dogget would hunt until she found a

0:47:22.795 --> 0:47:26.235
<v Speaker 1>man waiting for a street car, his umbrella sagging open

0:47:26.275 --> 0:47:29.955
<v Speaker 1>at his side. She would then surreptitiously fill the umbrella

0:47:30.035 --> 0:47:33.595
<v Speaker 1>with paper, several dozen kitchen matches, and perhaps one or

0:47:33.635 --> 0:47:38.355
<v Speaker 1>two ping pong balls. As the street car approached, she

0:47:38.395 --> 0:47:43.635
<v Speaker 1>would drop a lighted match into the umbrella. Now, hell

0:47:43.875 --> 0:47:48.235
<v Speaker 1>hath no dismay like that of a gentleman whose wet

0:47:48.355 --> 0:47:53.875
<v Speaker 1>umbrella suddenly bursts into flame. Instead of rolling the thing

0:47:53.955 --> 0:47:57.515
<v Speaker 1>to smother the blaze or simply throwing it away, nine

0:47:57.635 --> 0:48:01.515
<v Speaker 1>out of ten men, according to Dogget's statistics, will flail

0:48:01.555 --> 0:48:06.515
<v Speaker 1>it around in the air, thus increasing the conflict. Many

0:48:06.555 --> 0:48:09.435
<v Speaker 1>of Missus Doggett's victims were arrested for disturbing the peace

0:48:09.915 --> 0:48:15.475
<v Speaker 1>or for arson. Bertie Doggett has never been much interested

0:48:15.475 --> 0:48:19.555
<v Speaker 1>in the exasperating paraphernalia of the trick and puzzle shops.

0:48:20.315 --> 0:48:22.995
<v Speaker 1>He still uses the wax hand, and he has tried

0:48:23.035 --> 0:48:27.315
<v Speaker 1>out dribble glasses, whoopee cushions, the foul smelling stuff you

0:48:27.355 --> 0:48:29.475
<v Speaker 1>put on chair bottoms to make people think they've just

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<v Speaker 1>sat on a lighted cigarette, and other such juvenile props,

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<v Speaker 1>but they never got a real hold on his fancy.

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<v Speaker 1>He likes the elaborate rib involving a lot of people,

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<v Speaker 1>the more the better. He will take a sack full

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<v Speaker 1>of cold poached eggs to some crowded Fifth Avenue store

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<v Speaker 1>at Christmas time and slip them one at a time

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<v Speaker 1>into the pockets of shoppers husbands, and he dreams of

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<v Speaker 1>bumping into a woman visitor in the ancient glass and

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<v Speaker 1>crystal room of some museum, dropping an ordinary table tumbler

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<v Speaker 1>on the tile floor, and sweet God, lady, you have

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<v Speaker 1>broken the sacred chalice of King Alexander and making her

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<v Speaker 1>believe it. He has pulled this gag over and over

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<v Speaker 1>since nineteen twenty four, but never successfully, with the result

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<v Speaker 1>that he has appeared sixteen times in Jefferson Market Court

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<v Speaker 1>alone on charges of disturbing the peace, jostling, and molestation.

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<v Speaker 1>What dogget probably enjoys more than anything else is following

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of women along Fifth Avenue or Madison, keeping

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<v Speaker 1>discreetly out of sight but well within earshot, until he

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<v Speaker 1>hears one of the two ladies call the other by name.

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<v Speaker 1>He says that women are fond of using each other's

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<v Speaker 1>full name, as in Marriam Shirtle. I never heard of

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<v Speaker 1>such a thing in all my born days. As soon

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<v Speaker 1>as miss Shirtle let us say has thus been fully identified,

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<v Speaker 1>Doggett will walk briskly ahead for several blocks and then

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<v Speaker 1>retrace his steps. This soon brings him face to face

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<v Speaker 1>with his quarry, upon whom he will pounce with a

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<v Speaker 1>delighted why Miriam Shirtle, fancy meeting you here uncross those

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<v Speaker 1>lovely eyes and tell me I have been a young

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<v Speaker 1>woman he wants accosted like this in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, asked

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<v Speaker 1>him to her house for cocktails in the hope that

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<v Speaker 1>some member of her family would know who he was,

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<v Speaker 1>but nobody was home. His hostess turned out to be

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<v Speaker 1>a bore, so Bertie put knockout drops in her second martini,

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<v Speaker 1>and after she had passed out, he stole a marble

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<v Speaker 1>plaque of kitchener from her mother's room and he went away.

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<v Speaker 1>The next day it arrived at the Shirtles, beautifully wrapped

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<v Speaker 1>and bearing a card with the simple legend Married Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>from the President of the United States. John Bertie Doggett

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<v Speaker 1>married a tapioca brain one afternoon twenty years ago, possible

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<v Speaker 1>because he had lost a bet nobody knows. He took

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<v Speaker 1>her to his house and told her to wait in

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<v Speaker 1>the living room while he went upstairs and quieted his

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<v Speaker 1>two great danes. He put a record of a dog

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<v Speaker 1>fight on a phonograph he kept in his bedroom and

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<v Speaker 1>slipped quietly out the back door. At three in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>he showed up in the living room with two match players,

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<v Speaker 1>lou Gettling and Vic Talbot. Who's this disconsolate female? Talbot

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<v Speaker 1>demanded fairly, using an incurable antipathy to games of chance

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<v Speaker 1>and cunning, The bride drew herself up stiffly. I am

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<v Speaker 1>Missus John Berdie Doggett, she said, striving for a outeur.

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<v Speaker 1>The name will not sustain. I forgot about her wind Doggett.

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<v Speaker 1>After all, we haven't been married twenty or thirty years.

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<v Speaker 1>I've only been married eleven hours, Missus Doggett, the former

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<v Speaker 1>ann Queeley, went home to her mother, Missus Paul Coueleie,

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<v Speaker 1>and never saw Bertie again. I join her in the

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<v Speaker 1>fervent hope that he may someday choke on his candied

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<v Speaker 1>dice and pass forever out of our consciousness. He is

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<v Speaker 1>a hard man to forget, though. I never start to

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<v Speaker 1>get out of a chair no matter where I am,

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<v Speaker 1>without glancing at my shoes to see if I am

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<v Speaker 1>wearing one roller skate and feeling in my pockets for

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<v Speaker 1>old cold eggs. I've done all the damage I can

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<v Speaker 1>do here. Thank you for listening to this unfocused edition

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<v Speaker 1>group No Horns Allowed. Everything else was as always my fault,

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<v Speaker 1>including what happens when I just sit here and ramble.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe I'll walk off the stage now and protest. That's

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<v Speaker 1>countdown for today. Day two hundred and seventy four of

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<v Speaker 1>America held hostage, just one and eighty nine days until

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<v Speaker 1>the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck and lame brained

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<v Speaker 1>term unless he is removed sooner by MAGA or the

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<v Speaker 1>Psychopathy Test or Tile and All or No Kings or

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<v Speaker 1>who knows. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. I expect

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<v Speaker 1>to have written that one in advance till then. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Keith Oldraman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck,

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