1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,875 --> 00:00:27,075 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what is to come. Because there 3 00:00:27,195 --> 00:00:31,075 Speaker 1: was no red wave on Tuesday. Donald Trump is wounded 4 00:00:31,635 --> 00:00:34,635 Speaker 1: and the right wing establishment, which loved him Tuesday morning, 5 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:38,155 Speaker 1: is turning on him Thursday morning. The front page of 6 00:00:38,195 --> 00:00:42,995 Speaker 1: today's Murdoch tabloid, The New York Post, has an illustration 7 00:00:43,115 --> 00:00:48,795 Speaker 1: of Trump as an egg a top a wall, and 8 00:00:48,915 --> 00:00:54,555 Speaker 1: in big block letters, there is the inevitable caption Trumpty, dumpty. 9 00:00:56,155 --> 00:00:59,275 Speaker 1: Donald Trump will respond with his only two emotions, rage 10 00:00:59,315 --> 00:01:02,915 Speaker 1: and the thirst for revenge. He will declare his candidacy 11 00:01:02,955 --> 00:01:05,715 Speaker 1: as planned next week, no matter how it will hurt 12 00:01:05,715 --> 00:01:08,555 Speaker 1: the Georgia runoff. He will step up his attacks on 13 00:01:08,675 --> 00:01:12,355 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis. He will call all his opponents rhinos. 14 00:01:12,395 --> 00:01:15,675 Speaker 1: He will be indicted in January. He will call the 15 00:01:15,715 --> 00:01:19,755 Speaker 1: indictment political persecution. He will note De Santis is morph 16 00:01:19,755 --> 00:01:22,755 Speaker 1: into a Jesus freak. He will attempt to go further 17 00:01:22,835 --> 00:01:25,955 Speaker 1: than that. He will claim God told him only he 18 00:01:26,035 --> 00:01:30,155 Speaker 1: can save America. He will keep running even if his 19 00:01:30,315 --> 00:01:36,235 Speaker 1: trial has already started, and De Santis he will also run. 20 00:01:36,555 --> 00:01:39,995 Speaker 1: He will drop hints, maybe as early as Trump's declaration 21 00:01:40,075 --> 00:01:43,555 Speaker 1: next week. He will let the anticipation build. He will 22 00:01:43,675 --> 00:01:47,195 Speaker 1: let the pundits switch to him. He will only announce 23 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:50,195 Speaker 1: later in the winter or even spring. He will position 24 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:55,075 Speaker 1: himself as sane and Trump as crazy. Himself as dedicated 25 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:58,035 Speaker 1: to others in the party, and Trump as dedicated only 26 00:01:58,075 --> 00:02:01,635 Speaker 1: to himself. He and Trump will spend the rest of 27 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:06,075 Speaker 1: three beating each other up. He and Trump will then 28 00:02:06,155 --> 00:02:09,795 Speaker 1: spend the debate season of three beating each other up. 29 00:02:10,155 --> 00:02:12,475 Speaker 1: He and Trump will then spend the primary season of 30 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:18,235 Speaker 1: beating each other up. And it is only then that 31 00:02:18,355 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: it will get interesting, because the Republican Party will have 32 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:25,555 Speaker 1: taken all may learn from Trump. They will have stolen 33 00:02:25,555 --> 00:02:28,955 Speaker 1: it from him, refined it, taken it some extra steps, 34 00:02:29,435 --> 00:02:33,515 Speaker 1: and they will deny Trump the nomination by hook or 35 00:02:33,595 --> 00:02:39,155 Speaker 1: by crook, and then, barring the unforeseen, the presidential election 36 00:02:39,235 --> 00:02:46,035 Speaker 1: will be Joe Biden versus Rhonda Santis versus Donald Trump 37 00:02:46,235 --> 00:02:50,795 Speaker 1: as an independent. You know that is what a thwarted 38 00:02:50,835 --> 00:02:55,555 Speaker 1: Trump would do. You know it if there was any 39 00:02:55,595 --> 00:02:58,635 Speaker 1: reason to doubt it, that gleeful tweet from Tuesday night 40 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: about the Republican he did not support Joe o' day 41 00:03:02,355 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: losing the Colorado Senate seat is your room. Finder that 42 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:08,875 Speaker 1: while Trump once understood although he did not like the 43 00:03:08,915 --> 00:03:12,035 Speaker 1: fact that he was in a partnership with the Republican Party, 44 00:03:12,195 --> 00:03:15,955 Speaker 1: he has long since left behind that correct assessment of reality. 45 00:03:16,155 --> 00:03:21,635 Speaker 1: Trump believes Trump invented the world, and the world owes Trump, 46 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:26,075 Speaker 1: and the world cannot function without Trump, but Trump can 47 00:03:26,155 --> 00:03:36,075 Speaker 1: win without the world. November five, Biden, Democratic Party, incumbent 48 00:03:36,875 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: De Santis, Republican Party Trump, Trump is Jesus Party, and 49 00:03:44,955 --> 00:03:48,715 Speaker 1: the outcome the scales may have fallen from the eyes 50 00:03:48,835 --> 00:03:52,555 Speaker 1: of the Republicans, the Conservatives, and even some of the fascists, 51 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:54,755 Speaker 1: but that does not mean Trump will have been reduced 52 00:03:54,795 --> 00:03:59,395 Speaker 1: to Jill Stein two thousand sixteen or Ralph Nader two thousand. 53 00:03:59,635 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: It does not even mean Trump will have been reduced 54 00:04:01,755 --> 00:04:04,195 Speaker 1: to the thirteen point five percent of the vote George 55 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:07,435 Speaker 1: Wallace got that wiped out Hubert Humphrey's last chance in 56 00:04:07,515 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, nor even the percent for Ross Pero 57 00:04:10,995 --> 00:04:14,835 Speaker 1: in nine two that threw any doubt about that election 58 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:19,915 Speaker 1: to Bill Clinton. It is realistic to suggest that in 59 00:04:19,955 --> 00:04:23,475 Speaker 1: a three way battle for the presidency in four that 60 00:04:23,515 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: Trump and even the most charismatic of other Republicans like 61 00:04:27,235 --> 00:04:31,595 Speaker 1: de Santis could split fifty two or fifty three or 62 00:04:31,635 --> 00:04:34,875 Speaker 1: fifty four percent of what would have been the Republican vote. 63 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:39,475 Speaker 1: Maybe it's thirty to twenty three to twenty five, or 64 00:04:39,555 --> 00:04:42,595 Speaker 1: something like the nineteen twelve election, in which a similarly 65 00:04:42,675 --> 00:04:45,955 Speaker 1: magnetic ex president. And I hate to compare these two men, 66 00:04:46,475 --> 00:04:50,715 Speaker 1: but in nineteen twelve, Theodore Roosevelt denied the Republican nomination, 67 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:54,035 Speaker 1: went out on the progressive third party ticket, the Bull 68 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:57,995 Speaker 1: Moose Party, and he finished second, ahead of the incumbent 69 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:01,835 Speaker 1: Republican President, William Howard Taft. And all that did was 70 00:05:01,875 --> 00:05:08,635 Speaker 1: guaranteed the Democrats the White House Woodrow Wilson Roosevelt president 71 00:05:08,755 --> 00:05:15,355 Speaker 1: Taft could do. Santis finished second and Trump third. Sure, 72 00:05:15,395 --> 00:05:20,195 Speaker 1: it's a long time until November, but you know that 73 00:05:20,355 --> 00:05:24,875 Speaker 1: even Trump's morbid fear of losing would not stop him 74 00:05:24,875 --> 00:05:29,955 Speaker 1: from running as an independent somehow, even if he understood 75 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:33,595 Speaker 1: it meant also destroying the party that he in essence built, 76 00:05:34,035 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: and that it would mean keeping the Democrats in the 77 00:05:36,435 --> 00:05:41,955 Speaker 1: White House. Let's review your doubts. Do your doubt to 78 00:05:42,075 --> 00:05:45,115 Speaker 1: Santis will run. Do you really think he made a 79 00:05:45,115 --> 00:05:49,155 Speaker 1: two minute commercial about how God created him on the 80 00:05:49,235 --> 00:05:53,355 Speaker 1: eighth Day. How God made him to be the man 81 00:05:53,955 --> 00:05:58,075 Speaker 1: who protected the world. Do you really think he made 82 00:05:58,115 --> 00:06:01,635 Speaker 1: that miniature Bible epic just to run up the score 83 00:06:01,755 --> 00:06:06,595 Speaker 1: in Florida against Charlie Freak and Chris de Santis is 84 00:06:06,635 --> 00:06:09,835 Speaker 1: going for the evangelicals. He started it months ago by 85 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:12,995 Speaker 1: ending every speech by imploring the audience to put on 86 00:06:13,115 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 1: the armor of God. That is a quote, put on 87 00:06:15,755 --> 00:06:19,795 Speaker 1: the armor of God. And for all we know, De 88 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:24,915 Speaker 1: Santis may actually believe he has been anointed. Do you 89 00:06:25,075 --> 00:06:29,595 Speaker 1: doubt the GOP mainstream didn't just tell Trump it is 90 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:33,595 Speaker 1: leaving him. The rest of that New York Post cover reads, 91 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:37,195 Speaker 1: Don who couldn't build a wall, had a great fall. 92 00:06:37,755 --> 00:06:41,395 Speaker 1: Can all the GOP's men put the party back together again? 93 00:06:42,075 --> 00:06:45,355 Speaker 1: And it's more than just a humiliating illustration. The Post 94 00:06:45,395 --> 00:06:49,955 Speaker 1: promises on its cover nine pages of Trump Republican coverage, 95 00:06:50,075 --> 00:06:53,195 Speaker 1: and writes analyst John put oor ITTs has two words, 96 00:06:53,195 --> 00:06:57,475 Speaker 1: Why Tuesday was a red trickle. Donald Trump his terrible 97 00:06:57,515 --> 00:07:03,835 Speaker 1: candidates dragged Republicans down. Rupert Murdoch approved this and there's 98 00:07:03,875 --> 00:07:07,675 Speaker 1: more on the cover, and now, writes columnists Pierce Morgan, 99 00:07:08,435 --> 00:07:14,875 Speaker 1: It's time for Trump to move on from politics inside 100 00:07:14,955 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: pot Or It's His column begins, Hey, Lion, Ted and 101 00:07:18,915 --> 00:07:25,755 Speaker 1: Sleepy Joe meet Toxic Trump. He calls him toxic Trump 102 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:30,155 Speaker 1: five times in The New York Post. What Tuesday Nights 103 00:07:30,195 --> 00:07:33,755 Speaker 1: results suggest, he writes, is that Trump is perhaps the 104 00:07:33,795 --> 00:07:39,235 Speaker 1: most profound vote repellent in modern American history. This is 105 00:07:39,235 --> 00:07:44,395 Speaker 1: not peak over losing the midterms. This is scapegoating, and 106 00:07:44,475 --> 00:07:48,435 Speaker 1: from Rupert Murdoch. That is to expand a phrase I 107 00:07:48,555 --> 00:07:51,715 Speaker 1: know from somewhere that is not just burning the bridges, 108 00:07:51,955 --> 00:07:55,355 Speaker 1: it's napalming them. In fact, it's not just burning the bridges, 109 00:07:55,595 --> 00:08:00,115 Speaker 1: it's burning the river as well. And every major news 110 00:08:00,155 --> 00:08:05,715 Speaker 1: outlet with a conservative source through Trump overboard, Yes Your Day. 111 00:08:05,755 --> 00:08:08,115 Speaker 1: This was the end of the Trump era and the 112 00:08:08,195 --> 00:08:11,675 Speaker 1: dawn of the De Santis era. ABC News quoted a 113 00:08:11,715 --> 00:08:14,475 Speaker 1: Republican operative it says is close to the Trump orbit. 114 00:08:14,915 --> 00:08:18,475 Speaker 1: Like every other Trump catastrophe, he did this to himself 115 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:22,675 Speaker 1: with stupid and reckless decisions. If I did not know better, 116 00:08:22,715 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: I would have thought that was said by me in 117 00:08:26,795 --> 00:08:30,715 Speaker 1: the New York Times quote. I strongly believe he should 118 00:08:30,755 --> 00:08:34,635 Speaker 1: no longer be the face of the Republican Party. That 119 00:08:34,755 --> 00:08:38,155 Speaker 1: is from the arch Trump loyalist and longtime New York 120 00:08:38,195 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: Congressman Pete King. The rage against Trump is obviously not 121 00:08:44,795 --> 00:08:48,795 Speaker 1: without basis or merit. In these mid terms, the Republicans 122 00:08:48,835 --> 00:08:52,315 Speaker 1: had on their side the tradition of nearly every White 123 00:08:52,355 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: House losing heavily at the mid terms, but also Biden's 124 00:08:56,395 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: low approval numbers, wild inflation, gas price jumps, supply chain issues, 125 00:09:02,995 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: a war in Europe, the res to do of the 126 00:09:05,115 --> 00:09:11,715 Speaker 1: Afghanistan withdrawal, voter caging, pandemic paranoia, jerrymandering, and then the 127 00:09:11,755 --> 00:09:15,595 Speaker 1: Democratic nominee from Pennsylvania having a stroke and needing electronic 128 00:09:15,635 --> 00:09:20,755 Speaker 1: help processing speech during the debate, and they lost. And 129 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:23,275 Speaker 1: what did all that get them? A margin in the 130 00:09:23,315 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: House so small that the Washington Post Jennifer Reuben observed 131 00:09:27,835 --> 00:09:31,755 Speaker 1: last night that the Democrats could get four although they 132 00:09:31,835 --> 00:09:36,955 Speaker 1: might need maybe eight, saying Republicans and say, look, if 133 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:40,075 Speaker 1: you will vote for her, we will vote for her. 134 00:09:40,875 --> 00:09:43,555 Speaker 1: And they would then nominate Liz Cheney to be the 135 00:09:43,555 --> 00:09:48,875 Speaker 1: new Speaker of the House, and they'd probably pull it off. Instead, 136 00:09:49,635 --> 00:09:52,795 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy says he has enough votes to become speaker. 137 00:09:53,355 --> 00:09:56,075 Speaker 1: He met with Marjorie Trailer Park Green last night for 138 00:09:56,155 --> 00:09:59,195 Speaker 1: forty five minutes, after which he might have thought about 139 00:09:59,275 --> 00:10:03,635 Speaker 1: running instead forehead preschool teacher. It looks like McCarthy will 140 00:10:03,675 --> 00:10:07,475 Speaker 1: have two hundred twenty four Republicans. That is not enough 141 00:10:07,515 --> 00:10:10,715 Speaker 1: to impeach Joe Biden. That is not enough to cut 142 00:10:10,715 --> 00:10:14,675 Speaker 1: off Ukraine. That is not enough to undermine the security net. 143 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:17,435 Speaker 1: That is not enough to shut up the lunatics like 144 00:10:17,635 --> 00:10:22,275 Speaker 1: Trailer Park Green, with or without Bobert. If McCarthy wakes 145 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:25,635 Speaker 1: up tomorrow morning and endorses Liz Cheney for Speaker, I 146 00:10:25,635 --> 00:10:31,315 Speaker 1: would only be mildly flabbergasted. In the Senate. All Trump 147 00:10:31,395 --> 00:10:35,155 Speaker 1: got them was a repeat of control, likely to hinge 148 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:39,595 Speaker 1: on a runoff. In Georgia again, a runoff after a 149 00:10:39,635 --> 00:10:43,955 Speaker 1: general election in which herschel Walker got one million, nine 150 00:10:44,035 --> 00:10:46,675 Speaker 1: hundred and six thousand, two hundred and twenty nine votes 151 00:10:46,995 --> 00:10:49,995 Speaker 1: one million, nine hundred and six thousand to two nine. 152 00:10:50,675 --> 00:10:54,915 Speaker 1: In the same general election, George's Republican governor Brian Kemp 153 00:10:55,035 --> 00:10:59,355 Speaker 1: got two million, one hundred nine thousand, two hundred eight 154 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:04,075 Speaker 1: votes to one oh nine to eight. That's two hundred 155 00:11:04,155 --> 00:11:08,195 Speaker 1: and three thousand Georgians, nearly all of them Republicans who 156 00:11:08,275 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: did not vote for herschel Walker. Why on earth would 157 00:11:12,195 --> 00:11:15,235 Speaker 1: anybody expect all two hundred and three thousand of them 158 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:19,635 Speaker 1: to turn up for a runoff, another runoff, another Georgia 159 00:11:19,715 --> 00:11:23,755 Speaker 1: election and vote for herschel Walker when they just refused to. 160 00:11:27,155 --> 00:11:30,195 Speaker 1: There is at the bottom of all this always the 161 00:11:30,275 --> 00:11:33,355 Speaker 1: same issue, the issue of forgive the use of the 162 00:11:33,475 --> 00:11:39,075 Speaker 1: term Trump's slaves the cultists. For seven years, he and 163 00:11:39,115 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 1: Fox and Murdoch and news Max and every evangelical have 164 00:11:44,155 --> 00:11:47,835 Speaker 1: been positioning him as the Messiah. And there are tens 165 00:11:47,875 --> 00:11:51,315 Speaker 1: of millions of Americans whose belief in that is as 166 00:11:51,355 --> 00:11:55,235 Speaker 1: strong at this moment as it was on Tuesday. But 167 00:11:55,355 --> 00:11:59,635 Speaker 1: the problem becomes, as it becomes for all the messiahs 168 00:11:59,635 --> 00:12:04,315 Speaker 1: in all the pages of history. What happens? What do 169 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:08,835 Speaker 1: you do when a new Messiah opens up a messiah 170 00:12:08,915 --> 00:12:12,955 Speaker 1: shop down the block, and he does the messiah thing 171 00:12:13,795 --> 00:12:17,075 Speaker 1: just a little bit better than you do. And on 172 00:12:17,155 --> 00:12:23,235 Speaker 1: the day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 173 00:12:23,795 --> 00:12:29,555 Speaker 1: I need a protector. So God made a fighter. God 174 00:12:29,635 --> 00:12:32,275 Speaker 1: said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, 175 00:12:32,475 --> 00:12:36,515 Speaker 1: kiss his family goodbye. Travel thousands of miles, two minutes 176 00:12:36,555 --> 00:12:41,395 Speaker 1: of that Mark my words. Rhn de Santis is running 177 00:12:41,435 --> 00:12:46,235 Speaker 1: to be God and the Republican nominee for President Trump 178 00:12:46,275 --> 00:12:49,195 Speaker 1: doesn't care if he's elected God or the devil, or 179 00:12:49,275 --> 00:12:53,115 Speaker 1: is even on the Republican ticket in he is also 180 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:59,115 Speaker 1: running for president, but only one of them is on 181 00:12:59,155 --> 00:13:03,635 Speaker 1: the cover of the Rupert Murdoch newspaper this morning, portrayed 182 00:13:04,715 --> 00:13:23,275 Speaker 1: is a cracked egg still ahead. Everything's just fine at Twitter, 183 00:13:23,835 --> 00:13:26,115 Speaker 1: just because there's a fake Donald Trump with a blue 184 00:13:26,195 --> 00:13:28,675 Speaker 1: check mark, and a fake Lebron James with a blue 185 00:13:28,755 --> 00:13:31,715 Speaker 1: check mark, and a fake ESPN with a blue check mark, 186 00:13:32,795 --> 00:13:35,755 Speaker 1: the convenience of timing. A Republican who made fun of 187 00:13:35,795 --> 00:13:40,475 Speaker 1: the attack on Paul Policy apologizes after the election is over, 188 00:13:41,315 --> 00:13:45,035 Speaker 1: and it is an anniversary for me, both heartbreaking and heartwarming. 189 00:13:45,635 --> 00:13:48,595 Speaker 1: Indulge me, please, I want to tell you the story 190 00:13:48,635 --> 00:13:56,755 Speaker 1: of my dog, Misshoe. That's next. This is countdown. This 191 00:13:56,955 --> 00:14:03,915 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead. On countdown, Elon 192 00:14:03,995 --> 00:14:07,395 Speaker 1: Musk says everything, I'll be fine when verification ends on Twitter, 193 00:14:07,555 --> 00:14:10,195 Speaker 1: and then a fake Lebron James with a blue check 194 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:14,515 Speaker 1: mark demands the Lakers trade him and gets thousands of retweets. 195 00:14:15,035 --> 00:14:18,955 Speaker 1: It's gone great Almo. First, In each addition of Countdown, 196 00:14:18,995 --> 00:14:20,755 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 197 00:14:20,795 --> 00:14:23,835 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. As you will hear shortly, 198 00:14:23,875 --> 00:14:27,635 Speaker 1: any dog named Spaghetti is family to me. This one 199 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:31,675 Speaker 1: is a big, handsome bulldog pit mix tan and white. 200 00:14:31,675 --> 00:14:34,515 Speaker 1: He was found in Staten Island, New York, almost dehydrated, 201 00:14:34,715 --> 00:14:38,795 Speaker 1: almost starved by his humans, with a sweet face and 202 00:14:38,835 --> 00:14:41,755 Speaker 1: a look of desperation in his eyes. Near and Far 203 00:14:41,875 --> 00:14:45,035 Speaker 1: Animal Foundation has gotten him and launched a fundraiser for 204 00:14:45,235 --> 00:14:49,475 Speaker 1: Spaghetti on Cuddly. Any donation will help. You can find 205 00:14:49,515 --> 00:14:53,275 Speaker 1: Spaghetti on Cuddly or Spaghetti will be my pinned tweet 206 00:14:53,315 --> 00:14:56,675 Speaker 1: at tom Jumbo Grumbo with a link to donate. If 207 00:14:56,715 --> 00:15:01,315 Speaker 1: you can't donate, a retweet can almost be invaluable. I 208 00:15:01,435 --> 00:15:26,995 Speaker 1: thank you and Spaghetti thank you. Coming up on Countdown, 209 00:15:27,035 --> 00:15:31,875 Speaker 1: the story of Mishu. First, the daily roundup of the miscreants, 210 00:15:31,875 --> 00:15:35,635 Speaker 1: morons and Donning Krueger Effect specimens who constitute today's worst 211 00:15:35,675 --> 00:15:39,555 Speaker 1: persons in the world. Le Bronze gonna give you three 212 00:15:39,635 --> 00:15:41,515 Speaker 1: hints and see if you can guess who the guy 213 00:15:41,755 --> 00:15:44,995 Speaker 1: is before I say his name. The column is from 214 00:15:44,995 --> 00:15:48,675 Speaker 1: two weeks ago yesterday. The first hint the title of 215 00:15:48,675 --> 00:15:51,955 Speaker 1: the column, why the midterms are going to be great 216 00:15:51,995 --> 00:15:56,875 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. The second hint he wrote, all signs 217 00:15:56,875 --> 00:15:59,515 Speaker 1: you're pointing to a strong Republican showing that would result 218 00:15:59,555 --> 00:16:01,275 Speaker 1: in a switch of party control in the House and 219 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:04,315 Speaker 1: possibly the Senate. That's very good news for Donald Trump. 220 00:16:05,275 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: And the thing is, there won't be anyone within the 221 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:10,035 Speaker 1: GOP willing to step up in question Trump's claims of 222 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:12,275 Speaker 1: credit because he is both the loudest voice in the 223 00:16:12,355 --> 00:16:15,275 Speaker 1: room and the most popular person in the party. Now 224 00:16:15,275 --> 00:16:19,555 Speaker 1: when Republicans on November eight would accrue to Trump's political benefit, 225 00:16:20,555 --> 00:16:24,155 Speaker 1: So it wasn't a strong showing. It wasn't good news 226 00:16:24,195 --> 00:16:26,835 Speaker 1: for Trump. Lots of people in the GOP have stood 227 00:16:26,875 --> 00:16:29,955 Speaker 1: up in questioned Trump's claims and it has not accrued 228 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:33,595 Speaker 1: to his benefit. Who could get that much wrong in 229 00:16:33,675 --> 00:16:39,675 Speaker 1: one short column? Who else but CNN's Chris always bet 230 00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:45,155 Speaker 1: against him Solizza the runner up Virginia Governor Glenn un Kin, 231 00:16:46,035 --> 00:16:48,875 Speaker 1: that a rally for a Republican who lost by the way, 232 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:51,635 Speaker 1: a rally on the day that Paul Pelosi was attacked 233 00:16:51,835 --> 00:16:55,355 Speaker 1: during the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi. Young Kins said 234 00:16:55,635 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: there's no room for violence anywhere, but we're going to 235 00:16:58,395 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: send her back to be with him in California. The 236 00:17:01,915 --> 00:17:06,595 Speaker 1: Republican crowd cheered his joke about a stochastic terrorist attack. 237 00:17:07,435 --> 00:17:11,595 Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. Yesterday, Pelosi's office revealed it 238 00:17:11,635 --> 00:17:15,035 Speaker 1: had received an apology from Governor Junkin and young contold 239 00:17:15,115 --> 00:17:18,515 Speaker 1: Huffington Post he intended to say political violence was never 240 00:17:18,555 --> 00:17:22,275 Speaker 1: acceptable quote, and I didn't do a great job with that. 241 00:17:23,395 --> 00:17:26,235 Speaker 1: The Speaker's office said the apology has been accepted, and 242 00:17:26,315 --> 00:17:28,995 Speaker 1: good for her. She is a bigger person than I am. 243 00:17:29,235 --> 00:17:32,915 Speaker 1: I would note here that young Can had eleven days 244 00:17:33,035 --> 00:17:37,555 Speaker 1: to apologize, but those eleven days were before the election, 245 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:43,035 Speaker 1: and he didn't apologize that exploiting the attack on Pelosi 246 00:17:43,275 --> 00:17:47,635 Speaker 1: was to his and the Republicans political advantage before the election. 247 00:17:47,715 --> 00:17:51,275 Speaker 1: So that's why he didn't apologize before the election. That's 248 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:56,435 Speaker 1: just a coincidence, no doubt, ass clown, governor ass clown, 249 00:17:57,395 --> 00:18:01,995 Speaker 1: but our winner, Elon Musk the bad news. Nobody has 250 00:18:02,035 --> 00:18:04,915 Speaker 1: any idea what he's doing with Twitter. The worst news. 251 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:08,155 Speaker 1: Clearly he has no idea what he's doing with Twitter. 252 00:18:08,595 --> 00:18:12,755 Speaker 1: In a span of hours. Yesterday, Musk introduced his new 253 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:17,435 Speaker 1: own version of verification, called Official, then he deleted it. 254 00:18:17,475 --> 00:18:20,875 Speaker 1: He scrapped it. He later told advertisers that he compares 255 00:18:21,115 --> 00:18:24,235 Speaker 1: the tweets of users who will not buy a blue 256 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:29,035 Speaker 1: checkmark from him to spam emails. You pay eight dollars, 257 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:32,955 Speaker 1: or your tweets pretty much vanished in the ether. He 258 00:18:33,115 --> 00:18:35,955 Speaker 1: also said he really wants Twitter to become a way 259 00:18:35,995 --> 00:18:41,955 Speaker 1: to make payments. Tweeters could link their online bank account 260 00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:46,035 Speaker 1: to Twitter. Twitter would offer quote extremely compelling money market 261 00:18:46,035 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: accounts to get extremely high yield on your balance, and 262 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:54,635 Speaker 1: eventually he would make Twitter debit cards. One reporter phrase 263 00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:58,555 Speaker 1: the blue check elimination of verification. Thus Lee Musk's whole 264 00:18:58,635 --> 00:19:01,355 Speaker 1: idea seems to be that people won't do bad things 265 00:19:01,675 --> 00:19:07,315 Speaker 1: impersonation or hate speech if they're risking a dollars. Within hours, 266 00:19:07,875 --> 00:19:11,195 Speaker 1: a fake Espan account with a blue check mark tweeted 267 00:19:11,195 --> 00:19:13,995 Speaker 1: that the Las Vegas Raiders football team had fired its coach. 268 00:19:14,755 --> 00:19:17,835 Speaker 1: A fake Lebron James account with a blue check mark 269 00:19:18,155 --> 00:19:21,515 Speaker 1: tweeted that he was requesting a trade by the l 270 00:19:21,555 --> 00:19:24,915 Speaker 1: A Lakers, and to fake Rudy Giuliani account with a 271 00:19:24,915 --> 00:19:29,315 Speaker 1: blue check Mark tweeted that he had just defecated. None 272 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:34,035 Speaker 1: of these things were true, maybe the Giuliani one. The 273 00:19:34,115 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: site The Intercept notes that since Musk's bid to buy 274 00:19:37,435 --> 00:19:42,555 Speaker 1: Twitter went public on April fourteen, Tesla's stock price has 275 00:19:42,635 --> 00:19:48,435 Speaker 1: fallen and Elon Musk's company is now worth a little 276 00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:51,875 Speaker 1: less than it was that morning. It's worth half a 277 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:56,755 Speaker 1: trillion dollars less than it was that morning. Ellen, but 278 00:19:56,915 --> 00:20:02,235 Speaker 1: I'm rich. I must be infallible. Musk two Day's worst 279 00:20:02,555 --> 00:20:24,035 Speaker 1: person in the world, old to the number one story 280 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:26,595 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 281 00:20:26,675 --> 00:20:28,835 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And this is not a 282 00:20:28,875 --> 00:20:33,555 Speaker 1: career story this time. It is a dog story about Mishoe. 283 00:20:34,955 --> 00:20:36,955 Speaker 1: It has been a year. I think I can get 284 00:20:36,995 --> 00:20:41,955 Speaker 1: through this. As I've mentioned before, I never had a 285 00:20:42,035 --> 00:20:45,275 Speaker 1: dog until two thousand and twelve. I was allergic as 286 00:20:45,275 --> 00:20:49,275 Speaker 1: a kid still am to big fur dogs, and I 287 00:20:49,315 --> 00:20:54,275 Speaker 1: was repeatedly warned by my allergists that hypoallergenic dogs weren't 288 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: really a thing, and if you had a minor reaction 289 00:20:57,155 --> 00:21:00,075 Speaker 1: to the hair of a poodle or a Westier a Maltese, 290 00:21:00,595 --> 00:21:07,155 Speaker 1: you were lucky, and if you didn't, you'd heartbreak. In fact, 291 00:21:07,195 --> 00:21:10,075 Speaker 1: I had almost no reaction at all. I was blessed, 292 00:21:10,555 --> 00:21:13,955 Speaker 1: and I was blessed by the opposite of heartbreak. And 293 00:21:13,995 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: I rapidly realized after getting my first dog, Stevie, that 294 00:21:18,475 --> 00:21:21,355 Speaker 1: I had wasted the first fifty three years of my life. 295 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:26,115 Speaker 1: So I've tried to make up for it. My gal 296 00:21:26,195 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: Stevie and I just celebrated the ten year anniversary of 297 00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:32,555 Speaker 1: having adopted one another. Rose's birthday is next month. It 298 00:21:32,595 --> 00:21:35,635 Speaker 1: will be her ninth I had often looked into getting 299 00:21:35,635 --> 00:21:38,115 Speaker 1: a third dog, and I had gotten heavily involved in 300 00:21:38,195 --> 00:21:42,315 Speaker 1: rescue work, and then in two thousand eighteen, the paths crossed. 301 00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:45,955 Speaker 1: I got a call from a woman I met at 302 00:21:46,435 --> 00:21:50,315 Speaker 1: a pet food store and she became my friend, Sue Levitt, 303 00:21:50,355 --> 00:21:53,475 Speaker 1: who runs the rescue part of the American Maltese Association 304 00:21:53,515 --> 00:21:56,275 Speaker 1: for much of the Northeast. And Sue said, we have 305 00:21:56,395 --> 00:21:59,235 Speaker 1: something special and challenging, and if you don't want to 306 00:21:59,275 --> 00:22:03,115 Speaker 1: do it, understood. He's a three month old Maltese pup 307 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:06,635 Speaker 1: with a terrible, terrible heart condition and they are not 308 00:22:06,715 --> 00:22:11,315 Speaker 1: sure that he will make it past ten months. And 309 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:14,595 Speaker 1: I thought about it for about five seconds, and I 310 00:22:14,635 --> 00:22:19,355 Speaker 1: said yes, and soon Spaghetti was in my apartment trying 311 00:22:19,395 --> 00:22:22,595 Speaker 1: to boss Stevie and rose around, and I knew he 312 00:22:22,635 --> 00:22:24,995 Speaker 1: needed to stay, and I knew one other thing. He 313 00:22:25,035 --> 00:22:32,635 Speaker 1: needed a new name. Spaghetti, Spaghetti Getty Teddy Ted my 314 00:22:32,755 --> 00:22:38,275 Speaker 1: dad's name perfect. I was so prepared for the worst though, 315 00:22:38,275 --> 00:22:41,115 Speaker 1: with Ted that it was July and I did not 316 00:22:41,235 --> 00:22:44,235 Speaker 1: buy him any stuff for winter until I took him 317 00:22:44,235 --> 00:22:46,275 Speaker 1: to the Animal Medical Center here in New York, and 318 00:22:46,315 --> 00:22:49,995 Speaker 1: the cardiologist Dennis Traffney said, he's got a heavy valve 319 00:22:50,115 --> 00:22:52,555 Speaker 1: in his heart. If we don't do anything, he's got 320 00:22:52,595 --> 00:22:59,795 Speaker 1: five to seven years. My ears perked up. Then he said, 321 00:22:59,955 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: with medication, seven to ten years. But I can operate, 322 00:23:04,795 --> 00:23:07,315 Speaker 1: he added, I and probably give him a normal lifespan, 323 00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:09,755 Speaker 1: at least close to it. I thread this filament that 324 00:23:09,795 --> 00:23:12,315 Speaker 1: I'm holding in through his jugular vein and into his heart, 325 00:23:12,315 --> 00:23:14,555 Speaker 1: and then I stopped his heart electrically for three seconds. 326 00:23:14,995 --> 00:23:17,155 Speaker 1: See this push button here. I pushed this button on 327 00:23:17,155 --> 00:23:19,115 Speaker 1: the filament, and the other end of the filament is 328 00:23:19,155 --> 00:23:21,435 Speaker 1: a tiny balloon, and it pushes the valve open in 329 00:23:21,475 --> 00:23:23,315 Speaker 1: the heart. And you keep doing this as long as 330 00:23:23,315 --> 00:23:25,515 Speaker 1: he can stand it. And it's like knocking the rust 331 00:23:25,555 --> 00:23:28,075 Speaker 1: off a hinge on a door by just opening the 332 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: door again and again. And I said, I don't see 333 00:23:31,955 --> 00:23:35,635 Speaker 1: any filament, and he said sorry, and he moved it 334 00:23:35,675 --> 00:23:37,795 Speaker 1: in front of a black background, and there it was 335 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:41,715 Speaker 1: about half the width of a hair. And I said great. 336 00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:44,595 Speaker 1: And then I said, but but why did they think 337 00:23:44,595 --> 00:23:47,955 Speaker 1: he wouldn't make it past ten months? And he said, well, 338 00:23:47,995 --> 00:23:51,595 Speaker 1: if you're a vet, you might see this condition once 339 00:23:51,635 --> 00:23:56,035 Speaker 1: in your entire career. I operate on it three times 340 00:23:56,035 --> 00:24:00,915 Speaker 1: a month. Ted is now four and a half years old. 341 00:24:01,555 --> 00:24:03,515 Speaker 1: He is a four and a half year old boy 342 00:24:03,755 --> 00:24:08,715 Speaker 1: in a dog's body. On our walks, Ted flirts with 343 00:24:08,755 --> 00:24:11,955 Speaker 1: all the human girls. He barks at all the other 344 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: dogs and then goes up and says hi to most 345 00:24:14,435 --> 00:24:18,515 Speaker 1: of them. He has a series of enemies, the printer, 346 00:24:19,195 --> 00:24:24,155 Speaker 1: the plunger, the thunder, and at least a dozen television commercials. 347 00:24:24,955 --> 00:24:27,675 Speaker 1: The operation went so well that they were an hour 348 00:24:27,835 --> 00:24:31,115 Speaker 1: late giving him back to me because, as the surgical 349 00:24:31,155 --> 00:24:33,595 Speaker 1: resident said, he had to do all the tests a 350 00:24:33,675 --> 00:24:36,635 Speaker 1: second time because he was worried he had screwed up 351 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:40,715 Speaker 1: the first set of tests because the results were too good. 352 00:24:41,835 --> 00:24:45,555 Speaker 1: If I could have gotten luckier given the prognosis with 353 00:24:45,595 --> 00:24:48,955 Speaker 1: which Ted arrived. I don't know how I could have 354 00:24:48,995 --> 00:24:54,795 Speaker 1: gotten luck here. So when my friends Sue from Maltese 355 00:24:54,795 --> 00:24:58,075 Speaker 1: Rescue called last summer August of two thousand twenty one 356 00:24:58,195 --> 00:25:02,075 Speaker 1: and said, I have a really, really tough case now, 357 00:25:02,235 --> 00:25:04,435 Speaker 1: and I don't think there's a chance that there's some 358 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: sort of unexpectedly positive outcome like there was with Ted. 359 00:25:08,835 --> 00:25:13,675 Speaker 1: This was another puppy, barely three months. The family loved him, 360 00:25:13,835 --> 00:25:17,235 Speaker 1: but there were two young kids, and frankly the mother 361 00:25:17,515 --> 00:25:20,755 Speaker 1: thought the kids were too young to watch this little 362 00:25:20,795 --> 00:25:25,675 Speaker 1: dog die. His name was Mishu m i s h 363 00:25:25,955 --> 00:25:31,115 Speaker 1: U Polish for little bear, and the condition he had 364 00:25:31,195 --> 00:25:37,115 Speaker 1: was well known and feared. Tetrology of fallow. If that 365 00:25:37,275 --> 00:25:42,115 Speaker 1: sounds familiar, it happens to human children. And to correct 366 00:25:42,115 --> 00:25:44,755 Speaker 1: it in a human child, now take surgery that can 367 00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:50,355 Speaker 1: last twelve hours. Jimmy Kimmel's son had tetrology of fallow. 368 00:25:50,635 --> 00:25:55,955 Speaker 1: It's four major problems all in one heart. In dogs, 369 00:25:56,555 --> 00:26:00,675 Speaker 1: there have been early experiments in surgery, but almost exclusively 370 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:04,955 Speaker 1: for bigger dogs. And to try to explain what's wrong. 371 00:26:05,075 --> 00:26:08,195 Speaker 1: If you've ever seen the drawings of mc Escher where 372 00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:11,395 Speaker 1: the same staircase can go up and down at the 373 00:26:11,475 --> 00:26:14,595 Speaker 1: same time as you look at it. That's more or 374 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:18,155 Speaker 1: less what a heart afflicted with tetrology of fallow looks 375 00:26:18,195 --> 00:26:21,635 Speaker 1: like there are arteries going over the heart, and there 376 00:26:21,635 --> 00:26:25,595 Speaker 1: are others that take the oxygenated blood and pump it 377 00:26:25,715 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: backwards in the wrong direction. In the middle of last August, 378 00:26:31,355 --> 00:26:35,875 Speaker 1: Mishu arrived here. It is so easy to romanticize things 379 00:26:35,915 --> 00:26:38,515 Speaker 1: like this, but there was from the first something magical 380 00:26:38,515 --> 00:26:42,355 Speaker 1: about this little puppy. He was very, very sick. His 381 00:26:42,515 --> 00:26:45,795 Speaker 1: tongue and his gums. We're not that healthy pink that 382 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:48,075 Speaker 1: you are familiar with if you've ever seen a dog 383 00:26:48,115 --> 00:26:51,075 Speaker 1: once in your life. His tongue and gums were purple. 384 00:26:52,075 --> 00:26:55,755 Speaker 1: He was tiny, he was dwarfed by my other three dogs, 385 00:26:57,235 --> 00:27:00,915 Speaker 1: but he was surprisingly healthy. And he would start trouble 386 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: with the other dogs. He would silently charge into Ted, 387 00:27:04,275 --> 00:27:06,315 Speaker 1: or he'd go up and yap at Stevie, and soon 388 00:27:06,555 --> 00:27:08,795 Speaker 1: he get all three of the other dogs of them 389 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:12,595 Speaker 1: playing and fighting, and then all the strength that he 390 00:27:12,675 --> 00:27:15,755 Speaker 1: had would drain away a minute tops and he would 391 00:27:15,795 --> 00:27:18,555 Speaker 1: have to sit down and watch the chaos he created. 392 00:27:19,115 --> 00:27:22,555 Speaker 1: And he clearly loved watching the chaos he created, and 393 00:27:22,635 --> 00:27:26,275 Speaker 1: he also clearly loved the dogs. If two of them 394 00:27:26,315 --> 00:27:29,555 Speaker 1: were lying near each other but not right next together, 395 00:27:29,995 --> 00:27:34,275 Speaker 1: Mishu would lie in the empty space so that his 396 00:27:34,355 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: head would rest on one and his back paws would 397 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:40,275 Speaker 1: rest on the other. Soon they would respond to his 398 00:27:40,395 --> 00:27:46,795 Speaker 1: presence by arranging themselves, cuddling together with the space for him. 399 00:27:46,995 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 1: Once I was stretched out legs up on my couch 400 00:27:51,195 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: and the four of them climbed in, two by my 401 00:27:54,515 --> 00:27:58,275 Speaker 1: feet and two by my knees. I called Mishu's name, 402 00:27:58,315 --> 00:28:01,995 Speaker 1: and he turned and looked up at me, and then 403 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:07,635 Speaker 1: the four of them almost simultaneously fell asleep. Such a 404 00:28:07,715 --> 00:28:12,955 Speaker 1: simple thing that easily one of the most extraordinary and 405 00:28:13,115 --> 00:28:18,835 Speaker 1: wonderful moments of my entire life. And I prayed that night, 406 00:28:18,875 --> 00:28:20,595 Speaker 1: and not for the last time, that if there was 407 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:23,075 Speaker 1: no miracle meant for Mishu, that at least when he 408 00:28:23,235 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: left us, could he be in my arms. This dog 409 00:28:32,395 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: was an athlete, bad heart or not, he just was 410 00:28:35,595 --> 00:28:38,315 Speaker 1: one with no stamina. In the pen that I would 411 00:28:38,355 --> 00:28:40,475 Speaker 1: keep him in for his own safety, especially when I 412 00:28:40,475 --> 00:28:42,875 Speaker 1: had to go out. Misha would get up on his 413 00:28:42,955 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: hind legs and stand or try to get out. And 414 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:49,115 Speaker 1: once he did get out, he moved the walls of 415 00:28:49,155 --> 00:28:52,355 Speaker 1: the pen. He got out of the cage, he broke free, 416 00:28:52,755 --> 00:28:55,875 Speaker 1: and he trotted confidently around the place. And he loved 417 00:28:55,875 --> 00:28:59,475 Speaker 1: to move and to run and to play, and he 418 00:28:59,595 --> 00:29:05,035 Speaker 1: just had to stop early. Mishu also enjoyed food as 419 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:09,515 Speaker 1: much as any dog I had ever seen. He gained 420 00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:12,315 Speaker 1: nearly a pound a month while he was with me. 421 00:29:12,355 --> 00:29:15,435 Speaker 1: If you approached him with a treat, he would see 422 00:29:15,435 --> 00:29:18,235 Speaker 1: it from across the room and he would literally punch 423 00:29:18,355 --> 00:29:21,995 Speaker 1: the air with one of his front paws and legs 424 00:29:22,035 --> 00:29:26,515 Speaker 1: like an athlete celebrating a success, and often with one paw, 425 00:29:27,355 --> 00:29:30,795 Speaker 1: and then punch with the other paw, and the sheer 426 00:29:30,915 --> 00:29:33,995 Speaker 1: joy of that never failed to make me smile and laugh. 427 00:29:34,195 --> 00:29:38,675 Speaker 1: A one to punch, put him on his back next 428 00:29:38,715 --> 00:29:41,395 Speaker 1: to you, and jab a finger at his paws, and 429 00:29:41,435 --> 00:29:43,475 Speaker 1: you'd be in a boxing match with a four pound 430 00:29:43,475 --> 00:29:46,395 Speaker 1: puppy who exulted in duking it out with you. You 431 00:29:46,435 --> 00:29:48,915 Speaker 1: always knew, though, when the fight was over, miche would 432 00:29:48,915 --> 00:29:53,275 Speaker 1: simply stop throwing hands, pause, and he would simply take 433 00:29:53,315 --> 00:29:57,715 Speaker 1: his front paws and grab your finger and hold onto it. 434 00:29:58,675 --> 00:30:02,075 Speaker 1: He once did this for a solid minute. I have 435 00:30:02,315 --> 00:30:06,115 Speaker 1: never felt more as if I were truly communicating with 436 00:30:06,155 --> 00:30:10,875 Speaker 1: a dog than when he would hold my finger. He 437 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:15,835 Speaker 1: was an extraordinarily happy puppy, even when he felt bad physically. 438 00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:21,955 Speaker 1: When he felt bad physically, those were the harrowing times. 439 00:30:22,635 --> 00:30:24,995 Speaker 1: Mishu would be sitting on my lap, or walking on 440 00:30:25,075 --> 00:30:28,075 Speaker 1: the floor, or just chilling with the other dogs when 441 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:31,275 Speaker 1: he would suddenly tense up and often let out a cry. 442 00:30:31,315 --> 00:30:34,115 Speaker 1: And twice that cry was like that of a young 443 00:30:34,315 --> 00:30:37,955 Speaker 1: human child, and it was so startling that the other 444 00:30:38,075 --> 00:30:42,995 Speaker 1: dogs stopped and stared with what could genuinely be described 445 00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:47,475 Speaker 1: as looks of alarm. Most times, the tensing was my 446 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: cue to grab him and hold him tight as he writhed, 447 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:54,435 Speaker 1: because that inability to get oxygen to all the parts 448 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: of his body would cause his body to contract, and 449 00:30:58,395 --> 00:31:00,475 Speaker 1: if he was on any surface other than the ground, 450 00:31:00,515 --> 00:31:03,955 Speaker 1: it could literally propel him to the floor. The first 451 00:31:03,955 --> 00:31:06,715 Speaker 1: time he did that, my veterinarian was here, and she said, 452 00:31:06,715 --> 00:31:08,555 Speaker 1: you may have to take him to the emergency room 453 00:31:08,635 --> 00:31:11,315 Speaker 1: right now. She said. It was essentially what a dog 454 00:31:11,435 --> 00:31:16,555 Speaker 1: does just before he faints, but then within seconds, as 455 00:31:16,555 --> 00:31:18,595 Speaker 1: it did that first time with the vet here, it 456 00:31:18,595 --> 00:31:23,115 Speaker 1: would stop and his body would relax, and he would 457 00:31:23,115 --> 00:31:27,675 Speaker 1: be close to find it had taken something out of him. 458 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:30,115 Speaker 1: And then, more or less by accident, I discovered that 459 00:31:30,195 --> 00:31:33,795 Speaker 1: after one of these seizures, he seemed to be soothed 460 00:31:34,475 --> 00:31:38,715 Speaker 1: if I would carry him and walk him around, gently 461 00:31:39,035 --> 00:31:43,835 Speaker 1: rocking him in my arms and talking to him. As 462 00:31:43,915 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: I did so, Missu and I solved a lot of 463 00:31:48,235 --> 00:31:50,595 Speaker 1: the world's problems in those little walks out in the 464 00:31:50,635 --> 00:31:53,315 Speaker 1: fresh air, on the balcony or just around the house. 465 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:56,435 Speaker 1: He would often doze off, but just as often would 466 00:31:56,515 --> 00:32:00,555 Speaker 1: within minutes be ready to start playing again. And so 467 00:32:00,635 --> 00:32:05,555 Speaker 1: I had in my little flock of lovely dogs, a sweet, wise, serene, 468 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,675 Speaker 1: playful puppy who liked to grasp my finger with his paws, 469 00:32:09,715 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: and loved everything about life. And he was dying well, 470 00:32:17,515 --> 00:32:21,155 Speaker 1: and I could not not try to find out if 471 00:32:21,195 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: there was something to be done to make his life 472 00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:29,155 Speaker 1: longer or happier. What we tried to do when I 473 00:32:29,195 --> 00:32:33,995 Speaker 1: resumed the story of Mishu. Next resuming now the story 474 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:37,555 Speaker 1: of my Maltese puppy, Mishu. His heart so bad that 475 00:32:37,635 --> 00:32:41,715 Speaker 1: it pumped oxygenated blood the wrong way and limited him 476 00:32:41,715 --> 00:32:45,355 Speaker 1: to brief bursts of energy, and how he never really 477 00:32:45,435 --> 00:32:47,315 Speaker 1: knew how sick he was, or that he had been 478 00:32:47,315 --> 00:32:50,635 Speaker 1: dealt such a bad, tragic hand, and how he just 479 00:32:50,675 --> 00:32:55,475 Speaker 1: took the life he was given and loved and was loved. 480 00:32:57,595 --> 00:33:01,115 Speaker 1: Of course, I knew what sadness this was, this special 481 00:33:01,195 --> 00:33:03,715 Speaker 1: soul trapped in a body that would betray him at 482 00:33:03,755 --> 00:33:06,875 Speaker 1: any time, and fatally, so I had to at least 483 00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:10,235 Speaker 1: try to see if something could keep him here longer, 484 00:33:11,035 --> 00:33:14,995 Speaker 1: or at least make him feel better. We went to 485 00:33:14,995 --> 00:33:19,395 Speaker 1: see the city's top cardiologist for dogs, and there wasn't 486 00:33:19,435 --> 00:33:23,875 Speaker 1: anything to do. Although he thought keeping the cans of 487 00:33:23,915 --> 00:33:27,075 Speaker 1: a minute's worth of oxygen that you sometimes see football 488 00:33:27,115 --> 00:33:30,035 Speaker 1: players breathing from on the sidelines, He thought those might 489 00:33:30,115 --> 00:33:33,235 Speaker 1: help a little when he would have these little pre feints. 490 00:33:34,355 --> 00:33:37,075 Speaker 1: Soon I had dozens of those cans in the hall closet, 491 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:41,235 Speaker 1: and I was discussing building him an oxygen tent. But 492 00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:44,875 Speaker 1: ultimately the problem wasn't his breathing. He was breathing fine, 493 00:33:44,995 --> 00:33:48,075 Speaker 1: He got all the oxygen he would normally need. It 494 00:33:48,155 --> 00:33:51,595 Speaker 1: was finding some way to get the oxygen pumped by 495 00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:57,035 Speaker 1: his fatally flawed heart, to carry the oxygen in the 496 00:33:57,115 --> 00:34:00,155 Speaker 1: blood around his body, and there was no way to 497 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:05,395 Speaker 1: do that. The median age of survival for dogs suffering 498 00:34:05,475 --> 00:34:10,915 Speaker 1: from tetrology of fellow was just about two years. The 499 00:34:10,995 --> 00:34:14,435 Speaker 1: cardiologist brought up Mischu's case on a board of international 500 00:34:14,515 --> 00:34:19,755 Speaker 1: experts in canine cardiac care, and they agreed that unfortunately, 501 00:34:20,355 --> 00:34:24,435 Speaker 1: there was no chance he could survive any operation, let 502 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:29,155 Speaker 1: alone experimental surgery for this devastating malformation. He could not 503 00:34:29,315 --> 00:34:34,035 Speaker 1: survive the anesthesia, let alone six eight, ten, twelve hours 504 00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:39,915 Speaker 1: of surgery. Thus, the visits to the hospital turned out 505 00:34:39,955 --> 00:34:42,755 Speaker 1: to be more about letting people there who I knew, 506 00:34:42,915 --> 00:34:46,075 Speaker 1: meet him and hold him. And I can tell you 507 00:34:46,115 --> 00:34:50,315 Speaker 1: there was an extraordinary soothing quality to holding him. I 508 00:34:50,395 --> 00:34:53,075 Speaker 1: heard it from these people again and again, what a 509 00:34:53,155 --> 00:34:59,715 Speaker 1: special little soul, and he loved to be held. I 510 00:34:59,755 --> 00:35:01,635 Speaker 1: took him everywhere they would let me take him. He 511 00:35:01,635 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 1: was a regular at my weekly physical therapy for my 512 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,995 Speaker 1: art critic joints. My therapist adored him. She would just 513 00:35:08,075 --> 00:35:11,395 Speaker 1: hold him and tell him stories. Took him to the 514 00:35:11,395 --> 00:35:15,915 Speaker 1: apple store once that he did not like. He went 515 00:35:15,955 --> 00:35:18,195 Speaker 1: for walks with me and the other dogs, but always 516 00:35:18,355 --> 00:35:20,635 Speaker 1: in a bag draped over my shoulder. He did not 517 00:35:20,715 --> 00:35:23,475 Speaker 1: have the stamina to walk for very long. But he 518 00:35:23,595 --> 00:35:26,435 Speaker 1: enjoyed the outdoors. He enjoyed the park. He enjoyed the 519 00:35:26,435 --> 00:35:28,995 Speaker 1: other dogs. He enjoyed the people who would come up 520 00:35:28,995 --> 00:35:34,355 Speaker 1: and say hello to him. The inevitable finally came this 521 00:35:34,435 --> 00:35:40,715 Speaker 1: time last year. Throughout the last week, the little prefaints increased, 522 00:35:42,675 --> 00:35:46,995 Speaker 1: but Misho's happiness did not decrease. Two days before the end, 523 00:35:47,635 --> 00:35:50,475 Speaker 1: I approached him with a treat and my camera phone rolling, 524 00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:53,395 Speaker 1: and sure enough he punched with the left, and he 525 00:35:53,435 --> 00:35:56,035 Speaker 1: punched with the right, and he ate the treat, and 526 00:35:56,075 --> 00:35:58,395 Speaker 1: he licked his purple lips, And when I surprised him 527 00:35:58,395 --> 00:36:03,555 Speaker 1: with a second treat, he did it all again. Some 528 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:08,555 Speaker 1: time a year ago, I was sound asleep. The dogs 529 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:14,115 Speaker 1: sleep with me, and in my dreams somebody or something 530 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:20,675 Speaker 1: was breathing in my ear. Well, of course it was Mishue. 531 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:25,995 Speaker 1: He had figured out how to wake me. He had 532 00:36:26,035 --> 00:36:29,875 Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. He knew enough to tell 533 00:36:29,915 --> 00:36:32,955 Speaker 1: me that he knew enough to wake me to get 534 00:36:32,995 --> 00:36:36,235 Speaker 1: me to get him down, and he had to get 535 00:36:36,275 --> 00:36:43,675 Speaker 1: some water. On the afternoon of the twelfth of November 536 00:36:43,795 --> 00:36:46,675 Speaker 1: a year ago, Saturday, I was holding Mishu in my lap. 537 00:36:46,715 --> 00:36:49,035 Speaker 1: As I sat and looked at the peak foliage in 538 00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:52,435 Speaker 1: the park out the window. With no warning, he suddenly 539 00:36:52,515 --> 00:36:57,515 Speaker 1: let out that near human cry. The other dog's frozey 540 00:36:57,555 --> 00:37:00,435 Speaker 1: in place. I stood up and walked him around the 541 00:37:00,435 --> 00:37:03,755 Speaker 1: balcony again. I had to sit him down in his 542 00:37:03,835 --> 00:37:05,715 Speaker 1: pen for a second, and I was just picking him 543 00:37:05,715 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: back up when he tensed up, just like all the 544 00:37:07,755 --> 00:37:14,115 Speaker 1: other times. His body got rigid and twisted, and he died. 545 00:37:16,275 --> 00:37:21,315 Speaker 1: He died as I picked him back up. The special 546 00:37:21,515 --> 00:37:26,235 Speaker 1: little soul was gone. His body was getting cold with 547 00:37:26,395 --> 00:37:30,155 Speaker 1: stunning rapidity, and something inside me said, no, not yet. 548 00:37:32,595 --> 00:37:36,235 Speaker 1: I'm not ready. And I don't know why, but I 549 00:37:36,235 --> 00:37:40,635 Speaker 1: don't think he's ready. And with no training and no 550 00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:44,595 Speaker 1: earthly clue what I was doing, I tried CPR on him. 551 00:37:44,635 --> 00:37:50,035 Speaker 1: You have to try, you have to try. I had 552 00:37:50,075 --> 00:37:52,595 Speaker 1: so little idea what I was doing that after breathing 553 00:37:52,675 --> 00:37:55,595 Speaker 1: air in and out of his lifeless body, I moved 554 00:37:55,635 --> 00:37:57,435 Speaker 1: my face away as if I was going to spit 555 00:37:57,475 --> 00:38:00,635 Speaker 1: out water before I had to remind myself, no, moron, 556 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 1: that would be if he was drowning. I must have 557 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:08,475 Speaker 1: done five or six breaths when I heard him exhale 558 00:38:09,595 --> 00:38:11,635 Speaker 1: I waited for it to stop or to be a 559 00:38:11,635 --> 00:38:16,635 Speaker 1: false alarm. It wasn't damned if this little dog didn't 560 00:38:16,675 --> 00:38:21,875 Speaker 1: somehow teach me how to resuscitate him. He was dead, 561 00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:27,355 Speaker 1: and now he was back. I didn't delude myself that 562 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:32,315 Speaker 1: this was going to last very long, and the circumstances 563 00:38:32,315 --> 00:38:34,195 Speaker 1: could not have been worse. It was a rush hour 564 00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:38,035 Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon, and there was a bottleneck and 565 00:38:38,155 --> 00:38:41,835 Speaker 1: the bridge approach between Mishu and I and the hospital, 566 00:38:42,075 --> 00:38:44,595 Speaker 1: and I had visions of being stuck in traffic for 567 00:38:44,715 --> 00:38:47,675 Speaker 1: half an hour or longer and almost nothing they could 568 00:38:47,715 --> 00:38:50,755 Speaker 1: do for him if we somehow got there in time. 569 00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:56,955 Speaker 1: But you have to try. You have to try. I 570 00:38:57,075 --> 00:39:00,115 Speaker 1: loaded a bag full of those cans of oxygen. I 571 00:39:00,195 --> 00:39:03,315 Speaker 1: grabbed him. I got in the car. The driver realized 572 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:05,515 Speaker 1: my distress and asked me what he could do to help, 573 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:07,955 Speaker 1: and I said, don't run any lights, but do not 574 00:39:08,115 --> 00:39:10,515 Speaker 1: stop unless you have to, and when you do stop, 575 00:39:10,555 --> 00:39:15,195 Speaker 1: help me unwrap some of these plastic wrapped oxygen cans. 576 00:39:15,635 --> 00:39:22,115 Speaker 1: The oxygen cans are what are keeping him alive. Normal 577 00:39:22,155 --> 00:39:26,595 Speaker 1: trip twenty minutes. We made it in eleven minutes. The 578 00:39:26,675 --> 00:39:32,555 Speaker 1: streets parted for Mishu at the Animal Medical Center. Somehow 579 00:39:33,115 --> 00:39:35,475 Speaker 1: I ran up the stairs. I handed him off to 580 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:38,475 Speaker 1: the emergency room doctor, saying with an evenness, I could 581 00:39:38,515 --> 00:39:42,555 Speaker 1: not believe I was mustering. My dog is dying. He 582 00:39:42,635 --> 00:39:47,195 Speaker 1: has tetrology of fellow. She ran off with him to 583 00:39:47,235 --> 00:39:50,235 Speaker 1: an examining room, and a second doctor came out, and 584 00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:54,795 Speaker 1: I briefed her on everything, including missus human like cry 585 00:39:54,955 --> 00:39:59,195 Speaker 1: and his unexpected resuscitation. And I told her he had 586 00:39:59,235 --> 00:40:02,075 Speaker 1: been seen by the chief cardiologists there, and she said 587 00:40:03,395 --> 00:40:06,755 Speaker 1: Dr Fox. Dr Fox is here and now Mishu was 588 00:40:06,795 --> 00:40:10,155 Speaker 1: being worked on by the expert in the field. And 589 00:40:10,235 --> 00:40:13,835 Speaker 1: despite all of this good fortune, I knew, I knew 590 00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:20,755 Speaker 1: there was no hope. I had managed to text Sue 591 00:40:20,795 --> 00:40:24,115 Speaker 1: from the Maltese rescue who adored him, and she came 592 00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:27,995 Speaker 1: to the hospital, and three of the people from other 593 00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:31,955 Speaker 1: departments in the hospital who had met Mishu came down 594 00:40:32,115 --> 00:40:39,835 Speaker 1: to see him, not for my sake, for his It 595 00:40:39,915 --> 00:40:44,475 Speaker 1: was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. And when 596 00:40:44,515 --> 00:40:46,635 Speaker 1: his doctor came to me and said, he is alive, 597 00:40:46,995 --> 00:40:49,595 Speaker 1: but if you take him out of the hospital, you'd 598 00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:51,755 Speaker 1: get about as far as the parking garage. And then 599 00:40:51,795 --> 00:40:53,675 Speaker 1: you'd have to bring him back, because what you heard 600 00:40:53,675 --> 00:40:57,435 Speaker 1: when he cried out was a stroke. The oxygen deprivation 601 00:40:57,755 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: was finally too much for him. He had a stroke, 602 00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,955 Speaker 1: and he began to gently prepare me for the question 603 00:41:03,995 --> 00:41:09,835 Speaker 1: about him go, and I stopped him, and I said, 604 00:41:09,875 --> 00:41:14,435 Speaker 1: I know we've all done everything we can, miss you, 605 00:41:14,635 --> 00:41:25,435 Speaker 1: especially I'm ready when you are. So they brought him 606 00:41:25,435 --> 00:41:28,435 Speaker 1: back to me, a little drip attached to his arm, 607 00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:30,955 Speaker 1: and when the toggle on the drip was thrown, the 608 00:41:30,995 --> 00:41:35,835 Speaker 1: medication would end his life. He was as warm and 609 00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:43,355 Speaker 1: as soft as ever in my arms, and yet I 610 00:41:43,395 --> 00:41:46,875 Speaker 1: knew he was no longer there. Sue held him for 611 00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:56,635 Speaker 1: a while too, and then everybody left me alone with him. 612 00:41:56,675 --> 00:42:02,835 Speaker 1: I said what you would expect somebody to say in 613 00:42:02,915 --> 00:42:14,755 Speaker 1: such a circumstance, about love and happiness, And then I 614 00:42:14,795 --> 00:42:18,595 Speaker 1: heard myself saying things about gratitude, gratitude to him for 615 00:42:18,675 --> 00:42:21,435 Speaker 1: teaching me that in the face of death, the point 616 00:42:22,315 --> 00:42:25,875 Speaker 1: is to know when to try and when to say enough, 617 00:42:26,635 --> 00:42:28,595 Speaker 1: and that he had taught me how to confront death 618 00:42:28,675 --> 00:42:34,795 Speaker 1: and crisis and urgency with evenness and practicality that I 619 00:42:34,915 --> 00:42:39,555 Speaker 1: never knew I had in any quantity whatsoever and to 620 00:42:39,595 --> 00:42:46,115 Speaker 1: be able to say, I know you had a happy life, Missue, 621 00:42:47,275 --> 00:42:50,155 Speaker 1: and it seems like that, and not the fact that 622 00:42:50,195 --> 00:42:52,955 Speaker 1: you had a happy life but not a long one. 623 00:42:54,395 --> 00:43:00,435 Speaker 1: The happy life is all that mattered to you. The cardiologist, 624 00:43:00,715 --> 00:43:06,595 Speaker 1: Dr Fox and the tech came back to the room 625 00:43:06,635 --> 00:43:09,395 Speaker 1: at this point, and I said I was ready, and 626 00:43:09,595 --> 00:43:14,995 Speaker 1: they turned the toggle and left very quietly, and I 627 00:43:15,035 --> 00:43:17,355 Speaker 1: said to miss you, I know if there is a 628 00:43:17,395 --> 00:43:20,155 Speaker 1: place for you to go now, I am certain you 629 00:43:20,195 --> 00:43:23,195 Speaker 1: will be the first one they let in. I just 630 00:43:23,275 --> 00:43:27,435 Speaker 1: hope they will let me visit you there someday, and 631 00:43:27,555 --> 00:43:34,915 Speaker 1: I hope you will remember us. I said, good night, 632 00:43:35,075 --> 00:43:38,555 Speaker 1: sweet prints and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, 633 00:43:42,955 --> 00:43:49,075 Speaker 1: and he was gone again, as I had prayed when 634 00:43:49,115 --> 00:43:54,555 Speaker 1: he died, Miss You died in my arms, and he 635 00:43:54,675 --> 00:44:03,595 Speaker 1: managed somehow to do it twice. There are some postscripts, missus. 636 00:44:03,635 --> 00:44:07,675 Speaker 1: Cardiologist very solemnly returned and respectfully said that of those 637 00:44:07,715 --> 00:44:11,395 Speaker 1: international experts who had reviewed his case and were deeply 638 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:15,555 Speaker 1: saddened that they could not help him, only two out 639 00:44:15,555 --> 00:44:18,315 Speaker 1: of a couple of dozen had actually seen and been 640 00:44:18,355 --> 00:44:22,955 Speaker 1: able to study any small dog suffering from tetralogy of 641 00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:27,475 Speaker 1: fallow and Mishu might have one final blessing for them 642 00:44:27,555 --> 00:44:30,235 Speaker 1: and the rest of us, if they could keep and 643 00:44:30,275 --> 00:44:35,475 Speaker 1: study his poor little malformed heart without hesitation. I said yes, 644 00:44:35,915 --> 00:44:40,475 Speaker 1: because in that instance I saw him positioning his head 645 00:44:40,995 --> 00:44:44,955 Speaker 1: on Stevie's head, and his back paws on roses back paws, 646 00:44:45,355 --> 00:44:47,515 Speaker 1: So the three of them were cuddling together, and I knew, 647 00:44:47,555 --> 00:44:50,315 Speaker 1: as I had always known, this was a dog who 648 00:44:50,435 --> 00:44:56,355 Speaker 1: cared about and actually loved other dogs. So the hospital 649 00:44:56,395 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: wound up recalibrating some of the cameras they had that 650 00:44:59,915 --> 00:45:04,315 Speaker 1: they used to photograph the smallest teeth in the smallest dogs, 651 00:45:05,075 --> 00:45:08,755 Speaker 1: so they could get every imaginable image of Mishu's tiny 652 00:45:08,795 --> 00:45:14,075 Speaker 1: heart and maybe someday learn methods with which to fix 653 00:45:14,155 --> 00:45:21,195 Speaker 1: this nightmare in another dog. And Mishu is in the 654 00:45:21,275 --> 00:45:27,275 Speaker 1: veterinary textbooks now. As a second PostScript, Mishu's parents had 655 00:45:27,315 --> 00:45:32,355 Speaker 1: another litter late last year after he died, and they're 656 00:45:32,475 --> 00:45:35,075 Speaker 1: human was kind enough to offer me either of the brothers. 657 00:45:35,115 --> 00:45:40,555 Speaker 1: Mischau would never know. Each was eerily reminiscent of him, 658 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:47,075 Speaker 1: but healthy, completely healthy, so healthy that they were threats 659 00:45:47,155 --> 00:45:49,675 Speaker 1: to my other three dogs. I had each of them 660 00:45:49,715 --> 00:45:51,275 Speaker 1: live a week with us, and I would have been 661 00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:55,435 Speaker 1: fine with each other. They liked me fine, but each 662 00:45:55,475 --> 00:45:58,355 Speaker 1: of them first bit ted in the genitals, and then 663 00:45:58,395 --> 00:46:00,995 Speaker 1: Stevie in the genitals, and rose in the genitals, and 664 00:46:01,035 --> 00:46:04,395 Speaker 1: in one case me and the genitals. They were crazy, 665 00:46:05,355 --> 00:46:09,675 Speaker 1: fun but crazy. And the second one was not only 666 00:46:09,755 --> 00:46:14,115 Speaker 1: twice as large as other Maltese his age, he was 667 00:46:14,155 --> 00:46:17,515 Speaker 1: able to vault out of his pen like an Olympic gymnast. 668 00:46:20,075 --> 00:46:22,515 Speaker 1: So they went back and now have their own homes 669 00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:26,195 Speaker 1: where there they are the only dogs in their own homes. 670 00:46:29,275 --> 00:46:34,115 Speaker 1: So the third PostScript when Sue from Maltese Rescue reached 671 00:46:34,115 --> 00:46:37,555 Speaker 1: out again this past June and said, um, I've got 672 00:46:37,595 --> 00:46:42,275 Speaker 1: another special case. Fifteen year old perfect health but but 673 00:46:42,475 --> 00:46:46,195 Speaker 1: rotting teeth, and he has dementia. His human got sick 674 00:46:46,275 --> 00:46:48,555 Speaker 1: and and didn't really take care of him, and then 675 00:46:48,595 --> 00:46:50,795 Speaker 1: she died, and I don't know what to do. Who's 676 00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:56,395 Speaker 1: going to adopt a fifteen year old? I was able 677 00:46:56,435 --> 00:46:59,875 Speaker 1: to raise my hand. I had an open roster spot. 678 00:47:01,515 --> 00:47:04,635 Speaker 1: The fifteen year old's name is Mena. It's French for kids. 679 00:47:05,395 --> 00:47:08,235 Speaker 1: I can't imagine what confusion that's caused him all these years. 680 00:47:09,275 --> 00:47:13,275 Speaker 1: His human had been a French teacher. He actually didn't 681 00:47:13,315 --> 00:47:15,795 Speaker 1: have dementia, or at least not very much dementia. It 682 00:47:15,835 --> 00:47:20,195 Speaker 1: was those teeth. His teeth was so bad, so rotten. 683 00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:22,235 Speaker 1: Some of them came out by just pulling on them 684 00:47:22,235 --> 00:47:25,275 Speaker 1: with your fingers. So we had them all taken out. 685 00:47:26,275 --> 00:47:28,075 Speaker 1: And the next day he woke up like he was 686 00:47:28,115 --> 00:47:30,715 Speaker 1: seven years old, looked around like how long have these 687 00:47:30,715 --> 00:47:34,835 Speaker 1: other dogs been here? Every day since then he's gotten 688 00:47:34,875 --> 00:47:40,755 Speaker 1: a little younger. He's Benjamin Button, and he's a living instruction. 689 00:47:40,915 --> 00:47:43,675 Speaker 1: Look out for your dog's teeth. Even if you think 690 00:47:43,715 --> 00:47:49,835 Speaker 1: you know to do that, do it more. The last PostScript, 691 00:47:52,355 --> 00:47:56,275 Speaker 1: I got the tattoo a month after me Sho died. 692 00:47:57,035 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: His pensive, half smiling little face looks up at me 693 00:48:01,835 --> 00:48:03,915 Speaker 1: from near the crook of my elbow where he used 694 00:48:03,955 --> 00:48:07,035 Speaker 1: to sit when I would carry him around after one 695 00:48:07,035 --> 00:48:13,355 Speaker 1: of those pre feints. It is a remarkable likeness to me. 696 00:48:13,635 --> 00:48:15,955 Speaker 1: It means exactly what you would think it means. It 697 00:48:16,235 --> 00:48:24,635 Speaker 1: comforts me greatly. It means Mishu is always with me 698 00:48:28,475 --> 00:48:38,315 Speaker 1: and always will be with me. And now as this 699 00:48:38,515 --> 00:48:45,355 Speaker 1: unwanted but not tragic anniversary approaches, Misshu will also, I hope, 700 00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:57,955 Speaker 1: always be with you. I'm taking the holiday off. There 701 00:48:57,955 --> 00:49:02,235 Speaker 1: will be a new episode Monday. Thank You. Countdown with 702 00:49:02,355 --> 00:49:05,475 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of my heart Radio. For 703 00:49:05,635 --> 00:49:08,635 Speaker 1: more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart 704 00:49:08,715 --> 00:49:12,795 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.