1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:25,315 Speaker 1: start date of the Trump elections subversion trial in Washington 3 00:00:25,395 --> 00:00:29,315 Speaker 1: has been postponed. It will not start as originally planned 4 00:00:29,435 --> 00:00:33,355 Speaker 1: on March fourth. From the impeccable Scott McFarland of CBS. 5 00:00:33,395 --> 00:00:35,795 Speaker 1: Not a surprise, not unexpected, not the end of the world. 6 00:00:35,915 --> 00:00:38,875 Speaker 1: Still not what you want to hear, I quote him. 7 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:41,835 Speaker 1: Amid the wait for an appeals court ruling on Trump's 8 00:00:41,835 --> 00:00:45,675 Speaker 1: claim of presidential immunity and other potential delays, but Washington 9 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:50,795 Speaker 1: DC Federal Court no longer lists USA v. Donald Trump 10 00:00:50,875 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: criminal trial on its calendar for March four, twenty twenty four. 11 00:00:56,235 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 1: The reality of the Trump stall working cannot be stopped. 12 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:02,435 Speaker 1: You can only hope to contain it. As somebody once said, 13 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:05,955 Speaker 1: there is nothing official on this, only the fact that 14 00:01:05,995 --> 00:01:09,275 Speaker 1: the trial date has dropped off the calendar, and Judge 15 00:01:09,355 --> 00:01:12,075 Speaker 1: Chutkin has said she no longer anticipates that she will 16 00:01:12,115 --> 00:01:16,435 Speaker 1: be overseeing a trial in March. The Washington Post finally 17 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:20,195 Speaker 1: jumped on the story last night, interpreting this more encouragingly 18 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:23,035 Speaker 1: that while the stall is in progress in d C, 19 00:01:23,955 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: this may be allowing Judge Juan Mershan to begin the 20 00:01:28,315 --> 00:01:32,435 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's payoff trial here in New York sometime next month. 21 00:01:33,195 --> 00:01:35,595 Speaker 1: But all this is still just the reading of tea 22 00:01:35,675 --> 00:01:39,995 Speaker 1: leaves from the equally impeccable Norm Ornstein on whatever happened 23 00:01:40,035 --> 00:01:45,395 Speaker 1: to that ruling on Trump's presidential immunity stall, and remembering 24 00:01:45,435 --> 00:01:48,875 Speaker 1: that Karen Henderson was elevated to the judiciary by Reagan 25 00:01:49,155 --> 00:01:52,595 Speaker 1: and to the three judge appeals court by George W. Bush, 26 00:01:52,755 --> 00:01:57,115 Speaker 1: the only one not named by Biden quote, there is 27 00:01:57,155 --> 00:02:00,355 Speaker 1: only one plausible explanation for why the three judge panel 28 00:02:00,435 --> 00:02:03,155 Speaker 1: of the DC Circuit has delayed its ruling on a 29 00:02:03,235 --> 00:02:09,395 Speaker 1: slam dunk case involving presidential immunity. Karen Lacraft Henderson is 30 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:16,835 Speaker 1: emulating Eileen Cannon delaying to help Donald Trump, but that 31 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:19,715 Speaker 1: there will be a DC trial on the charges brought 32 00:02:19,755 --> 00:02:23,275 Speaker 1: against defended j Trump by Jack Smith is still a 33 00:02:23,355 --> 00:02:26,755 Speaker 1: virtual certainty because the pundits can be wrong, and the 34 00:02:26,835 --> 00:02:30,435 Speaker 1: reporters can be wrong, and the podcasters can be wrong, 35 00:02:30,555 --> 00:02:36,395 Speaker 1: but the bureaucracy is never wrong. The federal government and 36 00:02:36,515 --> 00:02:39,955 Speaker 1: the District of Columbia are also per the sources of 37 00:02:40,035 --> 00:02:45,475 Speaker 1: the Washington Post busily planning how to secure the Freddyman 38 00:02:45,595 --> 00:02:49,635 Speaker 1: Courthouse for the Trump trial by closing all the streets 39 00:02:49,635 --> 00:02:53,315 Speaker 1: around the courthouse, by closing and or controlling sidewalk access 40 00:02:53,355 --> 00:02:57,675 Speaker 1: for blocks, and by ringing the entire area with metal fencing, 41 00:02:58,115 --> 00:03:02,235 Speaker 1: as they did the Capital after Trump began his attempted 42 00:03:02,275 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: coup three years ago. So you see Trump isn't lying. 43 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:15,955 Speaker 1: He does get things built. Meanwhile, down the street, Marjorie 44 00:03:15,995 --> 00:03:19,715 Speaker 1: Taylor Green is the worst person ever to serve in 45 00:03:19,755 --> 00:03:22,155 Speaker 1: the United States House of Representatives. 46 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:26,315 Speaker 2: This historical evidence is overwhelming that the founding fathers intended 47 00:03:26,355 --> 00:03:30,115 Speaker 2: impeachment to be used to deal with the commission of 48 00:03:30,275 --> 00:03:35,715 Speaker 2: indictable crimes in the abuse of power indictable. 49 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 1: I'm going to skip the Lauren Bobert jokes and the 50 00:03:39,915 --> 00:03:42,675 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace jokes and the Marge is thinking of her 51 00:03:42,715 --> 00:03:46,875 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden photo album jokes, because there are three important 52 00:03:46,915 --> 00:03:51,795 Speaker 1: things here that have kind of gotten lost behind the sheer, 53 00:03:52,155 --> 00:03:59,075 Speaker 1: infuriating numbness of Marjorie Taylor Green, who resembles and seems 54 00:03:59,115 --> 00:04:04,515 Speaker 1: to have the awareness of the MOI statues on Easter Island. 55 00:04:05,635 --> 00:04:09,195 Speaker 1: The first important thing is this. In October twenty twenty, 56 00:04:09,635 --> 00:04:13,355 Speaker 1: Green blew up at people she called grammar police and 57 00:04:13,435 --> 00:04:17,955 Speaker 1: spelling Nazis. She put an apostrophe after the eye in 58 00:04:18,115 --> 00:04:23,155 Speaker 1: Nazis and wrote, quote, Dyslexia runs in my family. It's 59 00:04:23,275 --> 00:04:28,835 Speaker 1: probably why we are so creative, hardworking, and successful. Of note, 60 00:04:28,915 --> 00:04:32,595 Speaker 1: she never says she has been diagnosed with it. There 61 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:35,155 Speaker 1: are no further references to it, and it is terrifying 62 00:04:35,195 --> 00:04:39,675 Speaker 1: to contemplate that she thinks she might be creative or 63 00:04:39,755 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: hardworking or successful. Still, we must give her the benefit 64 00:04:45,275 --> 00:04:49,435 Speaker 1: of the doubt, that she may have dyslexia and deserves 65 00:04:49,995 --> 00:04:54,795 Speaker 1: empathy or did deserve empathy until she said. 66 00:04:54,635 --> 00:04:57,875 Speaker 3: This, I mean, this is like, it's so stupid simple. 67 00:04:57,955 --> 00:05:03,915 Speaker 3: It's not even funny. It's stupid simple. But we have retards. 68 00:05:04,035 --> 00:05:06,915 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I know that's an offensive word, and I'm 69 00:05:06,955 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 3: not trying to talk down on people with Down syndrome, 70 00:05:09,675 --> 00:05:12,995 Speaker 3: but that's what these people are. These people are so 71 00:05:13,515 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 3: stupid and ignorant they cannot put something common sense in place. 72 00:05:19,875 --> 00:05:26,155 Speaker 1: And that's not dyslexia, ma'am, that's being dickheaded. The second 73 00:05:26,235 --> 00:05:30,835 Speaker 1: important thing lost behind all this, her boundless stupidity, needs 74 00:05:30,835 --> 00:05:33,995 Speaker 1: to be recognized, not just as an insult to her 75 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:38,155 Speaker 1: and to us, but as a microcosm of why we 76 00:05:38,235 --> 00:05:40,435 Speaker 1: are in the peril we are in today. And I'll 77 00:05:40,435 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: circle back to this first, the third one. I say 78 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:48,995 Speaker 1: none of this without empathy. Indict and indicted and indictable 79 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: and indictment are words that to this day I spell 80 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:59,995 Speaker 1: out phonetically on my scripts, because if I am reading 81 00:05:59,995 --> 00:06:03,195 Speaker 1: them off a teleprompter or even on this podcast, especially 82 00:06:03,195 --> 00:06:06,435 Speaker 1: if I'm reading them cold, especially if I'm reading fast, 83 00:06:07,115 --> 00:06:10,875 Speaker 1: there remains a chance, or at least there remains a 84 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:14,955 Speaker 1: fear that I'll pronounce it just like it's spelled, like 85 00:06:14,995 --> 00:06:23,355 Speaker 1: she did. So I spell indict, I ndigt. In fact, 86 00:06:23,355 --> 00:06:27,995 Speaker 1: at NBCi reprogrammed my computer to spell correct, indict with 87 00:06:28,075 --> 00:06:32,435 Speaker 1: a C, to indict with a GH. I guess that 88 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:37,755 Speaker 1: would have to be called spell incorrect. Because phonetic spelling 89 00:06:37,955 --> 00:06:43,795 Speaker 1: is not just an invaluable tool for public speakers, it's 90 00:06:44,395 --> 00:06:47,315 Speaker 1: a really good thing to do. It helps with names 91 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:51,275 Speaker 1: and names of places and words that don't match the 92 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:57,315 Speaker 1: way they're spelled. So is pre reading something aloud or 93 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:03,115 Speaker 1: silently before you say it in congress. These are the 94 00:07:03,195 --> 00:07:09,675 Speaker 1: seat belts of reading aloud your self protection, especially if 95 00:07:09,795 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: she has dyslexia. Or any other processing complication, and Marge 96 00:07:14,595 --> 00:07:18,395 Speaker 1: Green did not wear her seat belt. You cross out 97 00:07:18,435 --> 00:07:21,755 Speaker 1: the word, you write the correct pronunciation above it or 98 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: near it in red. It's great for names, it's great 99 00:07:24,355 --> 00:07:27,595 Speaker 1: for words like that. There's no shame in it. It's 100 00:07:27,635 --> 00:07:32,395 Speaker 1: a life hack. There is shame in solemnly reading something 101 00:07:32,515 --> 00:07:36,635 Speaker 1: you think buttresses your phony baloney impeachment of the Director 102 00:07:36,675 --> 00:07:41,955 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security while your party is stopping a bipartisan 103 00:07:42,035 --> 00:07:46,315 Speaker 1: deal on the border, with your reading glasses perched arrogantly 104 00:07:46,435 --> 00:07:49,795 Speaker 1: halfway down your nose and looking as unused as those 105 00:07:49,795 --> 00:07:54,155 Speaker 1: of Homer Simpson, your index finger moving haltingly across the page, 106 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:59,355 Speaker 1: while you insist that the Founding Fathers support your case 107 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:06,595 Speaker 1: as a means of indictment. That's the point. There are 108 00:08:06,635 --> 00:08:10,115 Speaker 1: a thousand turns this nation has taken that has led 109 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: us to the precipice in front of us, the one 110 00:08:12,915 --> 00:08:15,875 Speaker 1: that the Marjorie Taylor Greens of this world don't even see, 111 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:19,235 Speaker 1: and which dozens and dozens of her colleagues have already 112 00:08:19,275 --> 00:08:23,075 Speaker 1: walked over to their metaphorical doom, either because they did 113 00:08:23,115 --> 00:08:26,115 Speaker 1: not see the cliffs edge or they believed the warnings 114 00:08:26,115 --> 00:08:29,995 Speaker 1: about it were just crooked fakes and liberal hoaxes, and 115 00:08:30,155 --> 00:08:35,715 Speaker 1: bad science and rigged scams. But the worst ones have 116 00:08:35,795 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: been in our educational system, because the blunt fact is 117 00:08:38,915 --> 00:08:41,275 Speaker 1: that in most of it now we do not use 118 00:08:41,475 --> 00:08:44,915 Speaker 1: all the tools we used to use to save one 119 00:08:44,995 --> 00:08:49,995 Speaker 1: time at risk fourth grade readers who will instead be 120 00:08:50,075 --> 00:08:53,035 Speaker 1: celebrating their fiftieth birthdays this spring in Congress by still 121 00:08:53,035 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: tracing the words they are trying to read aloud with 122 00:08:55,715 --> 00:08:59,515 Speaker 1: their finger and mispronouncing some of them rather than just 123 00:08:59,675 --> 00:09:03,675 Speaker 1: writing in the correct pronunciation like the rest of us do. 124 00:09:03,715 --> 00:09:07,955 Speaker 1: We used to have remedial reading courses and after school 125 00:09:08,035 --> 00:09:14,355 Speaker 1: courses and summer courses and tutors, and if everything else failed, 126 00:09:14,675 --> 00:09:17,995 Speaker 1: we used to leave students back to repeat a school 127 00:09:18,115 --> 00:09:23,155 Speaker 1: year or two or three. And if none of that worked, 128 00:09:23,395 --> 00:09:26,555 Speaker 1: or all of it seemed cruel or to be punishing 129 00:09:26,555 --> 00:09:29,195 Speaker 1: a student who was really trying but was really challenged 130 00:09:29,195 --> 00:09:32,395 Speaker 1: in some processing way, we used to tell the parents 131 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:35,755 Speaker 1: about this without fear that they would then sue the 132 00:09:35,795 --> 00:09:39,035 Speaker 1: school district, or sue the teacher, or shoot somebody. And 133 00:09:39,075 --> 00:09:41,675 Speaker 1: for a long time, those suffering with processing issues were, 134 00:09:41,715 --> 00:09:44,995 Speaker 1: if not grateful, at least receptive, and they would avail 135 00:09:45,075 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: themselves of the help, rather than almost boast about a 136 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:50,235 Speaker 1: problem and daring the rest of us to do or 137 00:09:50,235 --> 00:09:54,955 Speaker 1: say anything about it. I have no idea about Marjorie 138 00:09:54,955 --> 00:09:59,835 Speaker 1: Taylor Green's upbringing. Maybe she has dyslexia, Maybe she is 139 00:09:59,915 --> 00:10:02,795 Speaker 1: lying about it. I have changed my mind on which 140 00:10:02,875 --> 00:10:05,795 Speaker 1: is likely. Are only about two hundred times since I 141 00:10:05,835 --> 00:10:09,835 Speaker 1: started to write this script. The very thought of her 142 00:10:09,915 --> 00:10:15,435 Speaker 1: upbringing sends shutters down my spine. I'm inferring, and I'm 143 00:10:15,435 --> 00:10:20,755 Speaker 1: inferring backwards. Until twenty sixteen, her personal biography is almost 144 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:27,995 Speaker 1: blank except for references to CrossFit Then twenty seventeen, correspondent 145 00:10:28,075 --> 00:10:33,995 Speaker 1: for American truth Seekers, a conspiracy news website, twenty eighteen 146 00:10:34,035 --> 00:10:38,995 Speaker 1: correspondent for Law Enforcement Today, a pro police conspiracy and 147 00:10:39,115 --> 00:10:45,355 Speaker 1: fake news website. Twenty nineteen Family America Project Facebook page, 148 00:10:45,395 --> 00:10:50,035 Speaker 1: moderator where other members made death threats against Democrats. Twenty 149 00:10:50,115 --> 00:10:53,475 Speaker 1: twenty ran for Congress, first in the Georgia seventh, switching 150 00:10:53,475 --> 00:10:55,995 Speaker 1: a few weeks later to the Georgia sixth, finally to 151 00:10:56,035 --> 00:11:00,035 Speaker 1: the Georgia fourteenth the rest of it. Since then, she's 152 00:11:00,035 --> 00:11:02,395 Speaker 1: accused every group in America except her own family and 153 00:11:02,475 --> 00:11:06,675 Speaker 1: CrossFit trainers. Of communism and conspiracy and cutting to the chase. 154 00:11:06,795 --> 00:11:11,155 Speaker 1: Yesterday on the House floor, she said indictable. You really 155 00:11:11,235 --> 00:11:14,475 Speaker 1: don't have to be smarter than Marge Green to know 156 00:11:14,555 --> 00:11:20,475 Speaker 1: that uneducated or educationally challenged people support Trump in vast numbers, 157 00:11:21,195 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: and that they believe conspiracy theories and in QAnon, and 158 00:11:25,955 --> 00:11:31,075 Speaker 1: in guns, and in ignoring warning signs, and in their 159 00:11:31,115 --> 00:11:38,915 Speaker 1: own invincibility talking about precipices. Congressman Rich McCormick was reported 160 00:11:38,955 --> 00:11:41,955 Speaker 1: to the House Sergeant at Arms this week because during 161 00:11:41,995 --> 00:11:44,835 Speaker 1: a tour of the Capitol Dome he saw the sign 162 00:11:44,915 --> 00:11:49,755 Speaker 1: reading no person permitted above this platform under any circumstances, 163 00:11:49,795 --> 00:11:54,315 Speaker 1: so he immediately went above the platform. He got up 164 00:11:54,315 --> 00:11:57,755 Speaker 1: onto a safety railing and straddled it and did pull 165 00:11:57,795 --> 00:12:01,755 Speaker 1: ups on it and pretended to fall or slide over 166 00:12:01,915 --> 00:12:05,355 Speaker 1: and off it. And the railing was two hundred feet 167 00:12:05,395 --> 00:12:12,835 Speaker 1: above the Capitol floor. Representative McCormick represents the sixth District 168 00:12:12,875 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: of Georgia and he is a member of the Republican Party, 169 00:12:19,835 --> 00:12:22,955 Speaker 1: and two months ago he was accused by another representative 170 00:12:23,035 --> 00:12:27,995 Speaker 1: of violent assault, namely grabbing them by the shoulders and 171 00:12:28,035 --> 00:12:33,235 Speaker 1: shaking them, and the alleged victim was Marjorie Taylor Green, 172 00:12:33,355 --> 00:12:35,675 Speaker 1: And it's just a damn shame she didn't get Congressom 173 00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:38,395 Speaker 1: McCormick arrested so we could have found out if he 174 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:47,435 Speaker 1: were indeed indictable. I have focused on Green because well, 175 00:12:48,235 --> 00:12:52,715 Speaker 1: she sucks, but also because she does indeed represent the 176 00:12:52,715 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: true national crisis of our times. Nobody ever said stupidity 177 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:01,355 Speaker 1: bordering on imbecility was mutually exclusive to success, not even 178 00:13:01,395 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: in the House after all, even the founding fathers, who 179 00:13:04,315 --> 00:13:06,275 Speaker 1: may or may not have wondered if they should order 180 00:13:06,315 --> 00:13:09,955 Speaker 1: a new spelling of the word indict We're able somehow 181 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:16,835 Speaker 1: to rationalize slavery, but Green is sadly not alone. I 182 00:13:16,875 --> 00:13:19,595 Speaker 1: submit the last two days of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 183 00:13:20,355 --> 00:13:23,435 Speaker 1: For a self admitted recovering addict with a plethora of 184 00:13:23,475 --> 00:13:27,315 Speaker 1: other problems. He sure seems to deny everything everybody has 185 00:13:27,395 --> 00:13:31,395 Speaker 1: ever accused him of doing. An unidentified woman posted a 186 00:13:31,475 --> 00:13:35,995 Speaker 1: rather unremarkable skin photo of herself on TikTok sometime in 187 00:13:36,075 --> 00:13:39,475 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, sideshot into a mirror, very high short, 188 00:13:39,475 --> 00:13:44,115 Speaker 1: it's not really exposing, but certainly not covering a prominent posterior, 189 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:48,635 Speaker 1: and there in the comments dated September sixteenth, twenty twenty 190 00:13:48,635 --> 00:13:53,195 Speaker 1: two is wow in capital letters with two face emojis 191 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:55,355 Speaker 1: with three hearts on them each and the name on 192 00:13:55,395 --> 00:14:02,475 Speaker 1: the account is Robert F. Kennedy Junior with a verification symbol. Yesterday, 193 00:14:03,115 --> 00:14:07,555 Speaker 1: Kennedy offered an amazing reply to this to quote it 194 00:14:07,595 --> 00:14:11,275 Speaker 1: in full. Do people really think I was tiktoking in 195 00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:14,395 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? The TikTok comment and question was made 196 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:16,555 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, long before I ever had a 197 00:14:16,595 --> 00:14:20,635 Speaker 1: TikTok account. This comment now appears on my account because 198 00:14:20,675 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: the account was previously owned by one of the campaign's 199 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:26,395 Speaker 1: young social media managers. When I announced my run for 200 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:29,235 Speaker 1: the presidency in April of twenty twenty three, the team 201 00:14:29,355 --> 00:14:34,395 Speaker 1: wanted it broadcasted on every social media platform, including TikTok. However, 202 00:14:34,755 --> 00:14:37,475 Speaker 1: TikTok does not allow live streaming for accounts that have 203 00:14:37,555 --> 00:14:40,955 Speaker 1: less than one thousand followers. The social media manager decided 204 00:14:40,995 --> 00:14:44,515 Speaker 1: to transfer his account, which had around fifteen hundred followers, 205 00:14:44,635 --> 00:14:48,995 Speaker 1: to me in order to stream my announcement on TikTok. Unquote, 206 00:14:49,195 --> 00:14:55,155 Speaker 1: shew one almost wants to applaud my ex friend Bob, 207 00:14:55,795 --> 00:15:01,195 Speaker 1: even if he's lying. Just for the sheer, labyrinthine intricacy 208 00:15:01,475 --> 00:15:06,835 Speaker 1: of this excuse, maybe it is true. The problem that 209 00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:09,635 Speaker 1: does not seem to have occurred to him, through the 210 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:13,395 Speaker 1: wrapping of stupidity that has strangled what was once his intelligence, 211 00:15:13,555 --> 00:15:17,635 Speaker 1: is if you are putting your name, or more importantly, 212 00:15:17,675 --> 00:15:21,675 Speaker 1: if you are putting your presidential campaign's name on somebody 213 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:26,955 Speaker 1: else's old used social media account, does not logic demand 214 00:15:27,315 --> 00:15:30,555 Speaker 1: that you or somebody you trust must go back through 215 00:15:30,715 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: all the likes and the comments and the reposts by 216 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:39,995 Speaker 1: that account to make sure that you know your presidential 217 00:15:40,115 --> 00:15:48,715 Speaker 1: campaign account has not just endorsed Tyler Idol's backside. As 218 00:15:48,755 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: the philosopher's bell BIV Devaux once said, never trust a 219 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:57,395 Speaker 1: big butt on a smile. Also, never trust Congressman Dean Phillips. 220 00:15:58,115 --> 00:16:01,875 Speaker 1: As we continue our review of the Stupid It burns. 221 00:16:02,555 --> 00:16:06,355 Speaker 1: Wednesday night, the Washington Press Club Foundation conducted its annual 222 00:16:06,395 --> 00:16:09,675 Speaker 1: Congressional dinner, and as in the first seventy seven of them, 223 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:11,795 Speaker 1: there were a lot of would be stand ups among 224 00:16:11,835 --> 00:16:14,635 Speaker 1: the representatives, But unlike most of those seventy seven, there 225 00:16:14,715 --> 00:16:19,355 Speaker 1: was some really funny, really mean, and really true jokes. 226 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:25,035 Speaker 1: This year, Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Tina Smith skipped out, did 227 00:16:25,035 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: not attend due to a case of flu, but instead 228 00:16:28,275 --> 00:16:32,475 Speaker 1: sent in a one minute video. I would feel terrible 229 00:16:32,995 --> 00:16:35,995 Speaker 1: if I showed up and everybody got sick, she told 230 00:16:36,035 --> 00:16:39,435 Speaker 1: the crowd at the dinner via tape. The only way 231 00:16:39,475 --> 00:16:42,475 Speaker 1: it would have worked is if everybody had agreed to 232 00:16:42,515 --> 00:16:44,995 Speaker 1: get up and leave the room when I started talking, 233 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:54,995 Speaker 1: you know, kind of like a Dean Phillips rally. Oo. Wait, 234 00:16:55,675 --> 00:17:01,155 Speaker 1: there's more representative Smith than added poor Dean. He took 235 00:17:01,195 --> 00:17:03,915 Speaker 1: a real beating in New Hampshire, but he's staying on 236 00:17:03,955 --> 00:17:09,035 Speaker 1: the ballot for Seve North Carolina because you can't spell 237 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:14,875 Speaker 1: Dean Phillips with only one l. Throw the towel. Throw 238 00:17:14,915 --> 00:17:20,355 Speaker 1: the towel, Throw the damn towel. Now, if you're Dean Phillips, 239 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:22,715 Speaker 1: what do you do after that? A lot of people 240 00:17:22,715 --> 00:17:27,795 Speaker 1: would answer, ignore it acceptable, but I disagree. You're in 241 00:17:27,795 --> 00:17:30,275 Speaker 1: the middle of a bid for presidential nomination. It's not 242 00:17:30,475 --> 00:17:32,195 Speaker 1: much of a bid, and you're not going to get it, 243 00:17:33,235 --> 00:17:37,235 Speaker 1: but the spotlight is on you, and you may have 244 00:17:37,475 --> 00:17:40,395 Speaker 1: five seconds to actually make people aware of what you 245 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:44,635 Speaker 1: are trying to do. Surprise them. Say you laughed your 246 00:17:44,675 --> 00:17:49,795 Speaker 1: ass off, Say you appreciate people remembering you say thanks 247 00:17:49,795 --> 00:17:52,715 Speaker 1: to Tina Smith because she just doubled the reach of 248 00:17:52,755 --> 00:17:58,235 Speaker 1: your advertising. Those are the smart answers this this is 249 00:17:58,315 --> 00:18:02,715 Speaker 1: not a smart answer quote. Representative Phillips extends his thanks 250 00:18:02,755 --> 00:18:05,675 Speaker 1: to his friends in Congress for their kind words and encouragement. 251 00:18:05,915 --> 00:18:08,715 Speaker 1: It takes real courage on their part to stick back 252 00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:11,875 Speaker 1: and reject democracy in favor of a coronation that will 253 00:18:11,915 --> 00:18:14,955 Speaker 1: hand our country back over to Donald Trump. He looks 254 00:18:14,955 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: forward to seeing them on Capitol Hill this upcoming week 255 00:18:17,635 --> 00:18:20,275 Speaker 1: for votes and welcomes them to join him for a 256 00:18:20,355 --> 00:18:25,755 Speaker 1: coffee to share their thoughts with him personally. Once again, 257 00:18:26,635 --> 00:18:29,835 Speaker 1: the joke from the British TV series The Young Ones 258 00:18:29,875 --> 00:18:34,515 Speaker 1: from the nineteen eighties applies. Dean give up on the 259 00:18:34,555 --> 00:18:38,595 Speaker 1: self crucifixion. You can never hammer in the last nail yourself. 260 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:44,115 Speaker 1: I know, I've tried. Dean took a real beating in 261 00:18:44,155 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: the Hampshire, but he's staying on the ballot for South 262 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: Carolina because you can't spell Dean Phillips with only one el. 263 00:18:54,155 --> 00:19:03,515 Speaker 1: Holy cow. And finally, on this topic of stupidity, we 264 00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:08,035 Speaker 1: turned back to the raw of ridiculous. The Ministerio of moronity, 265 00:19:08,395 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: the incredible, the unforgettable dementia. J Trump, he made a 266 00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:20,355 Speaker 1: clean mistake. He made the mistake of taking questions from 267 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:22,835 Speaker 1: that group of auto workers he had brought together in 268 00:19:22,875 --> 00:19:26,355 Speaker 1: hopes of countering the UAW endorsement of Joe Biden. He 269 00:19:26,395 --> 00:19:29,875 Speaker 1: made the mistake of taking a question from somebody who 270 00:19:29,995 --> 00:19:33,315 Speaker 1: asked him about the penalties from his trials. The eighty 271 00:19:33,355 --> 00:19:37,475 Speaker 1: three million dollars to Egen Carroll and whatever twion three 272 00:19:37,515 --> 00:19:39,955 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million is assessed against him in the 273 00:19:39,955 --> 00:19:44,795 Speaker 1: New York business fraud case. And Trump's stupidity is so 274 00:19:45,075 --> 00:19:54,675 Speaker 1: powerful that he believes his own delusions. Penalties. There are 275 00:19:54,715 --> 00:20:00,835 Speaker 1: no penalties. They have been overturned in the court of 276 00:20:02,675 --> 00:20:04,435 Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump appeal. 277 00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:11,395 Speaker 4: I don't understand what penalties. I didn't do anything wrong. 278 00:20:11,515 --> 00:20:13,595 Speaker 4: I mean, that's been proven as far as I'm concerned. 279 00:20:13,915 --> 00:20:15,995 Speaker 4: And actually we won in the court of appeals. He 280 00:20:16,075 --> 00:20:18,955 Speaker 4: probably saw that that case has been largely won in 281 00:20:19,035 --> 00:20:22,955 Speaker 4: the court of appeals. That was a political case coordinated 282 00:20:22,995 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 4: with the White House by the Attorney General, I assume 283 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:27,955 Speaker 4: is what you're talking about. And we won that case 284 00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:34,635 Speaker 4: largely in the court of appeals. That's a ridiculous case. 285 00:20:34,675 --> 00:20:38,755 Speaker 4: That case is a ridiculous case. We're appealing it. 286 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:41,355 Speaker 5: Is she didn't know anything about me. She didn't know 287 00:20:41,955 --> 00:20:45,035 Speaker 5: when it happened. There was nothing. People are looking at 288 00:20:45,035 --> 00:20:47,755 Speaker 5: that case. It's a disgrace. We're appealing that case. We 289 00:20:47,795 --> 00:20:50,875 Speaker 5: had a very hostile judge. We're appealing that case. It's 290 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:51,955 Speaker 5: a ridiculous case. 291 00:20:52,235 --> 00:20:55,555 Speaker 1: Trump's mistake was to take those questions from outside his 292 00:20:55,675 --> 00:21:00,475 Speaker 1: warm in casing bubble of stupidity. It was Newsmax's mistake 293 00:21:00,555 --> 00:21:04,795 Speaker 1: to take those questions live. I believe they are still 294 00:21:04,795 --> 00:21:07,755 Speaker 1: trying to clean up what he just said there and 295 00:21:07,835 --> 00:21:14,435 Speaker 1: to try to not mention that he's so indicted. One 296 00:21:14,475 --> 00:21:17,195 Speaker 1: more thing, why is Trump treating his trials like campaign 297 00:21:17,195 --> 00:21:20,275 Speaker 1: ads and campaign events? Because it turns out he can't 298 00:21:20,315 --> 00:21:24,835 Speaker 1: afford campaign ads and campaign events. The fiscal reporting is out, 299 00:21:24,875 --> 00:21:29,435 Speaker 1: and so is his supply of cash. Two Trump packs 300 00:21:29,915 --> 00:21:34,275 Speaker 1: spent twenty nine million dollars in legal fees and legal 301 00:21:34,355 --> 00:21:39,675 Speaker 1: consulting just in the second half of last year, forty 302 00:21:39,755 --> 00:21:44,155 Speaker 1: seven million for the whole year, just from Save America pack. 303 00:21:44,555 --> 00:21:51,755 Speaker 1: His leadership pack has five million dollars left. Total expenditures 304 00:21:51,755 --> 00:21:54,915 Speaker 1: and income twenty twenty three funds raised just under two 305 00:21:54,995 --> 00:21:59,115 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. Twenty twenty three funds spent just over 306 00:21:59,155 --> 00:22:04,115 Speaker 1: two hundred and ten million dollars. As Dickens, mister Micawber said, 307 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:08,955 Speaker 1: annual income two hundred million dollars, annual expenditure one hundred 308 00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: and ninety nine million dollars result happiness. Annual income two 309 00:22:12,995 --> 00:22:16,795 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, annual expenditures two hundred and one million 310 00:22:16,835 --> 00:22:28,115 Speaker 1: dollars result misery. Just for the record, in this episode 311 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:32,435 Speaker 1: of this podcast, I have quoted Dickens and Bell Bivdevoux. 312 00:22:33,915 --> 00:22:36,995 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, a top conservative polster has the 313 00:22:37,155 --> 00:22:40,875 Speaker 1: unbeatable formula for Trump to again seize power in November. 314 00:22:41,315 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: All this polster says he has to do is to 315 00:22:44,675 --> 00:22:48,595 Speaker 1: get all of those voters who are African American and 316 00:22:48,755 --> 00:22:56,595 Speaker 1: have three arms. You heard me. That's next. This is Countdown. 317 00:22:58,635 --> 00:23:23,955 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, still a head on 318 00:23:23,995 --> 00:23:27,915 Speaker 1: Countdown Fridays with Thurber and the best known thing James 319 00:23:27,915 --> 00:23:32,035 Speaker 1: Thurber ever wrote, ever so well known that they made 320 00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:35,715 Speaker 1: it into a movie just eleven years ago. First time 321 00:23:35,715 --> 00:23:37,835 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the mis Grants, Morons and 322 00:23:37,915 --> 00:23:42,795 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst worst persons 323 00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:47,875 Speaker 1: persons in the world, world the ron's worse. California Republican 324 00:23:47,955 --> 00:23:51,995 Speaker 1: senatorial candidate Steve Garvey, who expected to be catapulted into 325 00:23:52,035 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: office based on his baseball career which ended checks notes 326 00:23:56,555 --> 00:24:02,795 Speaker 1: inside Baseball Encyclopedia dusts off Baseball Encyclica thirty six seasons ago. 327 00:24:04,035 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: Garvey was profiled by his hometown paper, The Los Angeles Times, 328 00:24:08,235 --> 00:24:10,515 Speaker 1: which used to treat him like a human god even 329 00:24:10,555 --> 00:24:12,595 Speaker 1: after he left the Dodgers to go play for San 330 00:24:12,595 --> 00:24:16,155 Speaker 1: Diego in nineteen eighty three. Will the Times is no 331 00:24:16,275 --> 00:24:19,555 Speaker 1: longer treating him like a human god, as the peace 332 00:24:19,675 --> 00:24:23,715 Speaker 1: was summarized by one analyst. The Times, in a brutal report, 333 00:24:24,835 --> 00:24:28,115 Speaker 1: added that quote Garvey has had no relationship with two 334 00:24:28,155 --> 00:24:30,835 Speaker 1: of his children despite their efforts, and that he cut 335 00:24:30,835 --> 00:24:34,395 Speaker 1: off a third child without explanation fifteen years ago. Though 336 00:24:34,395 --> 00:24:37,875 Speaker 1: the MLB legend calls himself a devoted family man, he 337 00:24:37,955 --> 00:24:42,355 Speaker 1: has struggled with debt, been repeatedly sued, faced a bitter divorce, 338 00:24:42,595 --> 00:24:46,035 Speaker 1: and got two women pregnant before quickly marrying a third woman, 339 00:24:46,315 --> 00:24:49,155 Speaker 1: his current wife, in a scandal that briefly made him 340 00:24:49,195 --> 00:24:52,755 Speaker 1: a national punchline in nineteen eighty nine, all of which 341 00:24:52,795 --> 00:24:55,475 Speaker 1: is true. On the other hand, his other one hundred 342 00:24:55,475 --> 00:24:58,435 Speaker 1: and seventy eight kids adore him. Also, there is no 343 00:24:58,555 --> 00:25:01,155 Speaker 1: mention of the Marvin Hamlish sign I told you about 344 00:25:01,275 --> 00:25:04,115 Speaker 1: from the nineteen eighty one World Series. Right after his 345 00:25:04,155 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: first wif a TV host in Los Angeles left him 346 00:25:07,995 --> 00:25:11,835 Speaker 1: and started to have a relationship with Marvin Hamlish, the composer, 347 00:25:11,995 --> 00:25:15,555 Speaker 1: the somewhat nerdy composer. A few fans before the first 348 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:18,235 Speaker 1: game of the World Series at Yankee Stadium that year 349 00:25:18,395 --> 00:25:21,875 Speaker 1: between Garvey's Dodgers and the Yankees unfurled from the upper 350 00:25:21,915 --> 00:25:24,915 Speaker 1: deck as large a banner as I have ever seen 351 00:25:25,235 --> 00:25:29,675 Speaker 1: at a sporting event, and it read simply Steve question mark, 352 00:25:30,555 --> 00:25:35,955 Speaker 1: Marvin Hamlish question mark, the runners up worser. Good old 353 00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:40,955 Speaker 1: Moms for Liberty. You remember their stars, Florida GOP chief 354 00:25:41,115 --> 00:25:46,195 Speaker 1: Chris Ziegler no longer the head of the GOP, the 355 00:25:46,355 --> 00:25:50,035 Speaker 1: husband of Moms for Liberty co founder Bridget Ziegler, who 356 00:25:50,155 --> 00:25:56,035 Speaker 1: liked to have friends join them for evenings. One of 357 00:25:56,035 --> 00:25:59,595 Speaker 1: the evenings, all right, When I say evenings, I mean 358 00:25:59,715 --> 00:26:03,555 Speaker 1: three ways led to a rape allegation against Christian Ziegler 359 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:07,315 Speaker 1: and his resignation as head of the GOP. Now bridget 360 00:26:07,395 --> 00:26:10,795 Speaker 1: Ziegler's outfit, the Florida Moms for Liberty branch, has gone 361 00:26:10,795 --> 00:26:14,195 Speaker 1: beyond its previous book banning fascism and to the next level. 362 00:26:14,635 --> 00:26:19,195 Speaker 1: Indian River, Florida's Moms for Liberty chief Jennifer Pippen got 363 00:26:19,315 --> 00:26:22,355 Speaker 1: very upset at the famed Maurice Sendax in the Night 364 00:26:22,475 --> 00:26:25,475 Speaker 1: Kitchen book because there it was in the library, and 365 00:26:25,595 --> 00:26:28,395 Speaker 1: on the cover Sendak had drawn a naked five year 366 00:26:28,435 --> 00:26:30,515 Speaker 1: old boy dreaming that he has to bake a cake. 367 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:34,035 Speaker 1: Pippin had a novel response to this, and a few 368 00:26:34,075 --> 00:26:37,875 Speaker 1: other novels with naked figures on or in them, like Oh, 369 00:26:37,995 --> 00:26:42,795 Speaker 1: the drawn visible butt of a goblin inside Unicorns are 370 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:45,955 Speaker 1: the worst. She did not call for these books to 371 00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:49,955 Speaker 1: be banned. Instead, she had volunteers take the books, take 372 00:26:49,955 --> 00:26:56,515 Speaker 1: those illustrations and draw pants on them or bikinis or overalls. 373 00:26:57,315 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: You wouldn't want your kids looking at a naked drawing 374 00:27:00,795 --> 00:27:06,075 Speaker 1: of a purple goblin. Meanwhile, back at the Ziegler's house, 375 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:09,355 Speaker 1: Florida investigators have discovered the yin and yang of this 376 00:27:09,635 --> 00:27:12,995 Speaker 1: and of the universe indeed a list of women apparently 377 00:27:13,035 --> 00:27:17,195 Speaker 1: made by Christian Ziegler under the heading well, the heading 378 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:21,995 Speaker 1: is a four letter verb beginning with f but our 379 00:27:22,035 --> 00:27:26,595 Speaker 1: winners Echelon Insights and pollster Patrick Raffini, the right wing 380 00:27:26,635 --> 00:27:29,155 Speaker 1: pulling outlet that tries to include an ad for the 381 00:27:29,195 --> 00:27:32,315 Speaker 1: GOP and every poll result, and to promote the GOP 382 00:27:32,435 --> 00:27:35,515 Speaker 1: and every press release and news story. It's not the 383 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:38,875 Speaker 1: worst in terms of bias, not the worst polster either, 384 00:27:38,915 --> 00:27:44,875 Speaker 1: It's just kind of sloppy house sloppy. Well. There's a 385 00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:48,475 Speaker 1: tweet on Raffini's account that reads, Republican victory in twenty 386 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:50,915 Speaker 1: twenty four depends on their being able to do this, 387 00:27:51,595 --> 00:27:55,755 Speaker 1: and beneath that two pictures showing two African American men 388 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:59,715 Speaker 1: wearing the red Maga Dunce cap standing on two different porches, 389 00:27:59,755 --> 00:28:04,355 Speaker 1: apparently registering two older African American men to vote or 390 00:28:04,395 --> 00:28:09,675 Speaker 1: to volunteer or given the new headlines, to loan Trump money. 391 00:28:10,115 --> 00:28:13,675 Speaker 1: I don't know something. The guys in the Maga hats 392 00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:17,035 Speaker 1: have clipboards, But what's on the clipboards, what's written on 393 00:28:17,075 --> 00:28:19,755 Speaker 1: the clipboards You can't tell. And the reason you can't 394 00:28:19,755 --> 00:28:22,235 Speaker 1: tell is that if you zoom in on what's on 395 00:28:22,275 --> 00:28:26,075 Speaker 1: the caps and the shirts. The two apparent black trumpists 396 00:28:26,115 --> 00:28:29,315 Speaker 1: are wearing the lettering on the shirts and the caps 397 00:28:29,315 --> 00:28:33,595 Speaker 1: and everything else. It doesn't actually spell anything. It's gibberish. 398 00:28:33,915 --> 00:28:39,875 Speaker 1: One shirt seems to read groat a goon groat like 399 00:28:39,915 --> 00:28:42,915 Speaker 1: the former baseball player a g g O N groat 400 00:28:42,995 --> 00:28:45,595 Speaker 1: a gone. Lettering on the side of one of the 401 00:28:45,595 --> 00:28:51,035 Speaker 1: caps seems to spell gunar fran g u n a 402 00:28:51,475 --> 00:28:54,875 Speaker 1: r f r a n gunnar Fran. Of course, few 403 00:28:54,915 --> 00:28:58,715 Speaker 1: who saw this pollster's tweet noticed any of that literal 404 00:28:58,755 --> 00:29:02,555 Speaker 1: nonsense because of the pictures. The picture on the right, 405 00:29:02,675 --> 00:29:05,475 Speaker 1: particularly in which the African American voter is reaching for 406 00:29:05,515 --> 00:29:08,435 Speaker 1: the clipboard with his right hand and he seems to 407 00:29:08,475 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: be holding some kind of trump key ring or something 408 00:29:10,955 --> 00:29:13,835 Speaker 1: in his left hand, but he's holding his other left 409 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:16,875 Speaker 1: hand by his side. The guy in the picture has 410 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:22,915 Speaker 1: three hands and three arms. Yeah, the photo is Ai 411 00:29:23,355 --> 00:29:27,755 Speaker 1: bad Ai. And not only did Raffini post it and 412 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:31,755 Speaker 1: apparently never notice it and keep it posted, but as 413 00:29:31,795 --> 00:29:34,035 Speaker 1: he got frick asied by the Internet, he added his 414 00:29:34,195 --> 00:29:37,955 Speaker 1: own reply quote. The response to this has gotten out 415 00:29:37,955 --> 00:29:43,315 Speaker 1: of hand. Patrick Raffini and Echelon Insights If they really 416 00:29:43,355 --> 00:29:46,115 Speaker 1: wanted to be self deprecating and make the thing kind 417 00:29:46,155 --> 00:29:48,715 Speaker 1: of a win, their reply should have been the response 418 00:29:48,755 --> 00:29:54,355 Speaker 1: to this as grim frickping ognor fran two days worse 419 00:29:54,755 --> 00:30:18,755 Speaker 1: Parson's all the World to the number one story on 420 00:30:18,755 --> 00:30:21,475 Speaker 1: the countdown. It's the weekend, so it is Fridays with Thurber, 421 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:24,115 Speaker 1: and next week I will resume the harrowing tales of 422 00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:27,675 Speaker 1: my youth and not so youth, with things I promise 423 00:30:27,795 --> 00:30:31,235 Speaker 1: not to tell. Anniversary schedule for next week include and 424 00:30:31,315 --> 00:30:33,995 Speaker 1: this is literally true, the story of the day My 425 00:30:34,075 --> 00:30:38,395 Speaker 1: great grandfather Zelenski suggested that an acquaintance of his name 426 00:30:38,475 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: his new company, General Motors. It's true we didn't get 427 00:30:44,155 --> 00:30:48,555 Speaker 1: a dime out of it. But now Perfection, James Thurber's 428 00:30:48,595 --> 00:30:52,235 Speaker 1: best known work, best loved work, and maybe just best work, 429 00:30:52,315 --> 00:30:55,595 Speaker 1: has been made into two different films, neither of which 430 00:30:55,635 --> 00:30:58,515 Speaker 1: is really satisfactory, but each gives you just a glimpse 431 00:30:58,955 --> 00:31:03,115 Speaker 1: of what your imagination is doing as you hear or 432 00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: read his words. It is a universal It is the 433 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:10,995 Speaker 1: story of everybody who's ever lived, who has ever daydreamed. 434 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:17,515 Speaker 1: It is the Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. 435 00:31:19,235 --> 00:31:23,875 Speaker 1: We're going through. The Commander's voice was like thin ice breaking. 436 00:31:24,435 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: He wore his full dress uniform with the heavily braided 437 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:31,115 Speaker 1: white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye. 438 00:31:32,275 --> 00:31:36,075 Speaker 1: We can't make it, sir. It's spoiling for a hurricane. 439 00:31:36,115 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: If you ask me, I'm not asking you, Lieutenant Berg, 440 00:31:39,195 --> 00:31:41,875 Speaker 1: said the commander. Throw on the power lights. Rever up 441 00:31:41,915 --> 00:31:46,035 Speaker 1: to eighty five hundred. We're going through. The pounding of 442 00:31:46,035 --> 00:31:48,955 Speaker 1: the cylinders increased to pocket to pocket, to pocket, to 443 00:31:48,995 --> 00:31:52,315 Speaker 1: pocket to pocket. The commander stared at the ice forming 444 00:31:52,315 --> 00:31:54,715 Speaker 1: on the pilot window. He walked over and twisted a 445 00:31:54,795 --> 00:31:59,275 Speaker 1: row of complicated dials. Sweitch on number eight auxiliary, He shouted, 446 00:31:59,595 --> 00:32:04,275 Speaker 1: Switch on number eight auxillary, repeated Lieutenant Berg. Full strength 447 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:07,275 Speaker 1: and number 're a three turret, shouted the commander, Full 448 00:32:07,355 --> 00:32:11,115 Speaker 1: strength and number three turret. The crew, bending to their 449 00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:15,155 Speaker 1: various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight engined Navy hydroplane, 450 00:32:15,315 --> 00:32:17,755 Speaker 1: looked at each other and grinned. The old man will 451 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:20,235 Speaker 1: get us through, they said to one another. The old 452 00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:25,355 Speaker 1: man ain't afraid of hell. Not the fast. You're driving 453 00:32:25,395 --> 00:32:28,875 Speaker 1: too fast, said missus middy. What are you driving so 454 00:32:29,035 --> 00:32:34,395 Speaker 1: fast for hmmm, said Walter Middy. He looked at his 455 00:32:34,435 --> 00:32:38,315 Speaker 1: wife in the seat beside him with shocked astonishment. She 456 00:32:38,395 --> 00:32:41,955 Speaker 1: seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled 457 00:32:41,995 --> 00:32:44,715 Speaker 1: at him in a crowd. You're up to fifty five, 458 00:32:45,235 --> 00:32:46,995 Speaker 1: she said. You know I don't like to go more 459 00:32:47,035 --> 00:32:50,795 Speaker 1: than forty. You're up to fifty five. Walter Middy drove 460 00:32:50,835 --> 00:32:53,835 Speaker 1: on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the s 461 00:32:54,035 --> 00:32:57,155 Speaker 1: N two two through the worst storm in twenty years 462 00:32:57,195 --> 00:33:02,475 Speaker 1: of Navy flying, fading in the remote intimate airways of 463 00:33:02,555 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: his mind. You're tense, began said missus Mitty. It's one 464 00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:11,115 Speaker 1: of your days. I wish you'd let doctor Renshaw look 465 00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:14,515 Speaker 1: you over. Walter Mitty stopped the car in front of 466 00:33:14,555 --> 00:33:16,635 Speaker 1: the building where his wife went to have her hair done. 467 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:19,555 Speaker 1: Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having my hair done, 468 00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:24,395 Speaker 1: she said, I don't need overshoes, said Mitty. She put 469 00:33:24,395 --> 00:33:27,715 Speaker 1: her mirror back into her bag. We've been all through that, 470 00:33:28,395 --> 00:33:30,435 Speaker 1: she said, getting out of the car. You're not a 471 00:33:30,435 --> 00:33:33,835 Speaker 1: young man any longer. He raced the engine a little. 472 00:33:34,235 --> 00:33:37,315 Speaker 1: Why don't you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves? 473 00:33:38,275 --> 00:33:40,875 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty reached in a pocket and brought out the gloves. 474 00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:43,395 Speaker 1: He put them on, but after she had turned and 475 00:33:43,435 --> 00:33:45,395 Speaker 1: gone into the building and he had driven onto a 476 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:49,795 Speaker 1: red light, he took them off again. Pick it up. 477 00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:52,835 Speaker 1: Brother snapped the cop as the light changed, and Mitty 478 00:33:53,035 --> 00:33:56,795 Speaker 1: hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead. He drove 479 00:33:56,835 --> 00:33:58,875 Speaker 1: around the streets aimlessly for a time, and then he 480 00:33:58,955 --> 00:34:02,795 Speaker 1: drove past the hospital on his way to the parking lot. 481 00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: It's the millionaire banker Wellington, McMillan, said the pretty nurse, Yes, 482 00:34:09,715 --> 00:34:13,395 Speaker 1: said Walter Mitty, removing his gloves slowly. Who has the case? 483 00:34:14,115 --> 00:34:17,915 Speaker 1: Doctor Renshawn, Doctor Renbow. But there are two specialists here, 484 00:34:18,075 --> 00:34:21,515 Speaker 1: doctor Remington from New York and mister Prichard Mitford from London. 485 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:25,835 Speaker 1: He flew over the door, opened down a long cool carter, 486 00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:30,355 Speaker 1: and doctor Renshaw came out. He looked distraught and haggard. 487 00:34:30,915 --> 00:34:33,875 Speaker 1: Hello Mitty, he said, we're having the devil's own time 488 00:34:33,915 --> 00:34:36,395 Speaker 1: with McMillan, the millionaire banker and close personal friend of 489 00:34:36,475 --> 00:34:42,395 Speaker 1: Roosevelt obstriosis of the ductal tract tertiary. Wish you'd take 490 00:34:42,395 --> 00:34:47,035 Speaker 1: a look at him. Glad to said Mitty, in the 491 00:34:47,075 --> 00:34:52,195 Speaker 1: operating room. There were whispered introductions Doctor Remington, doctor Mitty, 492 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:57,315 Speaker 1: mister Richard Mitford, Doctor Mitty. I've read your book on 493 00:34:57,395 --> 00:35:02,235 Speaker 1: screpto thracosis, said Prichard Mitford, shaking hands. A brilliant performance, sir, 494 00:35:03,315 --> 00:35:06,715 Speaker 1: thank you, said Walter Middy. Didn't know you're in the 495 00:35:06,835 --> 00:35:11,355 Speaker 1: state's midty, grumbled Remington. Coles to Newcastle, bringing Mitford to 496 00:35:11,355 --> 00:35:14,795 Speaker 1: me up here for a tertiary. You are very kind, 497 00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:20,035 Speaker 1: said Mitti. A huge, complicated machine connected to the operating 498 00:35:20,075 --> 00:35:23,075 Speaker 1: table with many tubes and wires began at this moment 499 00:35:23,115 --> 00:35:28,715 Speaker 1: to go pocket, pocketa pocketa. The new anesthetizer is giving way, 500 00:35:28,955 --> 00:35:31,395 Speaker 1: shouted an in turn. There is no one in the 501 00:35:31,435 --> 00:35:34,755 Speaker 1: east who knows how to fix it. Quiet man, said 502 00:35:34,755 --> 00:35:37,795 Speaker 1: Mitty in a low, cool voice. He sprang to the machine, 503 00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: which was now going pocket to pocket a creep, pocket 504 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: to pocket a cep. He began fingering delicately a roll 505 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 1: of glistening dials. Give me a fountain pen, he snapped. 506 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:51,715 Speaker 1: Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled a faulty 507 00:35:51,755 --> 00:35:53,955 Speaker 1: piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in 508 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:58,355 Speaker 1: its place. That will hold for ten minutes. He said, 509 00:35:58,555 --> 00:36:01,275 Speaker 1: get on with the operation. A nurse hurried over and 510 00:36:01,315 --> 00:36:04,155 Speaker 1: whispered to Renshaw and Mitty saw the man turn. Pale. 511 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:09,435 Speaker 1: Coreopsis has set in, said Renshawn nervously. If you would 512 00:36:09,755 --> 00:36:13,155 Speaker 1: take over, Middy. Mitty looked at him and at the 513 00:36:13,275 --> 00:36:17,635 Speaker 1: craven figure of Benbow who drank, and at the grave 514 00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:21,875 Speaker 1: uncertain faces of the two great specialists. If you wish, 515 00:36:22,115 --> 00:36:24,635 Speaker 1: he said. They slipped a white gown on him. He 516 00:36:24,675 --> 00:36:27,875 Speaker 1: adjusted a mask and drew on thin gloves. Nurses handed 517 00:36:27,955 --> 00:36:31,835 Speaker 1: him shiny back it up, Mac, look out for that buick. 518 00:36:32,875 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. Wrong lane, Mack, said 519 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:40,515 Speaker 1: the parking lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. Gee yeah, 520 00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:44,555 Speaker 1: muttered Mitty. He began cautiously to back out of the 521 00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:48,755 Speaker 1: lane marked exit. Only leave us sit there, said the attendant. 522 00:36:48,955 --> 00:36:53,155 Speaker 1: I'll put her away. Mitty got out of the car. Hey, uh, 523 00:36:53,675 --> 00:36:58,395 Speaker 1: better leave the key, oh, said Mitty, handing the man 524 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:01,915 Speaker 1: the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car, backed 525 00:37:01,915 --> 00:37:05,235 Speaker 1: it up with insolent skill, and put it where belonged. 526 00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:11,715 Speaker 1: They're so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking along Main Street. 527 00:37:11,995 --> 00:37:15,515 Speaker 1: They think they know everything. Once he had tried to 528 00:37:15,555 --> 00:37:18,915 Speaker 1: take his chains off outside New Milford, and he got 529 00:37:18,955 --> 00:37:21,835 Speaker 1: them wound around the axles. The man had to come 530 00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:25,155 Speaker 1: out in a wrecking car and unwind them a young, 531 00:37:25,675 --> 00:37:29,915 Speaker 1: grinning garage man. Since then, Missus Mitty always made him 532 00:37:29,995 --> 00:37:32,315 Speaker 1: drive to a garage to have the chains taken off. 533 00:37:32,755 --> 00:37:35,515 Speaker 1: The next time, he thought, I'll wear my right arm 534 00:37:35,595 --> 00:37:38,715 Speaker 1: in a sling. They won't grin at me. Then I 535 00:37:38,795 --> 00:37:40,595 Speaker 1: have my right arm in a sling, and they'll see 536 00:37:40,595 --> 00:37:44,275 Speaker 1: I couldn't possibly take the chains off myself. He kicked 537 00:37:44,315 --> 00:37:49,075 Speaker 1: at the slush on the sidewalk. Overshoes, he said to himself, 538 00:37:49,115 --> 00:37:51,675 Speaker 1: and he began looking for a shoe store. When he 539 00:37:51,755 --> 00:37:53,675 Speaker 1: came out into the street again with the overshoes in 540 00:37:53,715 --> 00:37:56,115 Speaker 1: a box under his arm, Walter Mitty began to wonder 541 00:37:56,195 --> 00:37:58,355 Speaker 1: what the other thing was his wife had told him 542 00:37:58,395 --> 00:38:02,075 Speaker 1: to get. She had told him twice before they set 543 00:38:02,115 --> 00:38:04,875 Speaker 1: out from their house for Waterbury. In a way way. 544 00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,515 Speaker 1: He hated these weekly trips to town. He was always 545 00:38:07,515 --> 00:38:14,435 Speaker 1: getting something wrong. Kleenex, he thoughts, quibbs, razor blades now toothpaste, 546 00:38:14,555 --> 00:38:19,995 Speaker 1: toothbrush by carbon. At Carborundum initiative referendum, he gave it up, 547 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:23,555 Speaker 1: but she would remember it. Where's the what's its name? 548 00:38:23,795 --> 00:38:25,915 Speaker 1: She would ask? Don't tell me you forgot the what's 549 00:38:25,955 --> 00:38:29,035 Speaker 1: its name? The newsboy went by, shouting something about the 550 00:38:29,115 --> 00:38:35,315 Speaker 1: Waterbury trial. Perhaps this will refresh your memory. The district 551 00:38:35,315 --> 00:38:38,155 Speaker 1: attorney suddenly thrust a heavy automatic at the quiet figure 552 00:38:38,195 --> 00:38:40,515 Speaker 1: on the witness stand. Have you ever seen this before? 553 00:38:41,835 --> 00:38:45,595 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty took the gun and examined it expertly. This 554 00:38:46,155 --> 00:38:50,395 Speaker 1: is my Webley Vickers fifty point eight, oh, he said calmly. 555 00:38:50,555 --> 00:38:53,875 Speaker 1: An excited buzz ran around the courtroom. The judge rapped 556 00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:57,235 Speaker 1: for order. You are a crack shot with any sort 557 00:38:57,275 --> 00:39:01,875 Speaker 1: of firearms, I believe, said the district attorney, insinuatingly. Objection, 558 00:39:02,515 --> 00:39:05,595 Speaker 1: shouted Mitty's attorney. We have showed own that the defendant 559 00:39:05,675 --> 00:39:07,995 Speaker 1: could not have fired the shot. We have shown that 560 00:39:08,115 --> 00:39:10,915 Speaker 1: he wore his right arm in a sling on the 561 00:39:11,035 --> 00:39:14,275 Speaker 1: night of the fourteenth of July. Walter Mitty raised his 562 00:39:14,435 --> 00:39:18,435 Speaker 1: hand briefly, and the bickering attorneys were stilled with any 563 00:39:18,555 --> 00:39:22,075 Speaker 1: known make of gun. He said evenly, I could have 564 00:39:22,275 --> 00:39:27,555 Speaker 1: killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand. 565 00:39:28,315 --> 00:39:32,195 Speaker 1: Pandemonium broke out in the courtroom. A woman's scream rose 566 00:39:32,235 --> 00:39:34,795 Speaker 1: above the bedlom, and suddenly a lovely, dark haired girl 567 00:39:34,915 --> 00:39:37,955 Speaker 1: was in Walter Mitty's arms. The district attorney struck at 568 00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:40,995 Speaker 1: her savagely, without rising from his chair. Mitty let the 569 00:39:41,035 --> 00:39:42,555 Speaker 1: man have it on the point of the chin, You 570 00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:50,235 Speaker 1: miserable cur puppy biscuit, said Walter Mitty. He stopped walking, 571 00:39:50,315 --> 00:39:52,355 Speaker 1: and the buildings of Waterbury rose up out of the 572 00:39:52,395 --> 00:39:55,195 Speaker 1: misty courtroom and surrounded him again. A woman who was 573 00:39:55,275 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: passing laughed. He said, peppy biscuit, She said to her companion. 574 00:39:59,675 --> 00:40:04,115 Speaker 1: That man said puppy biscuit to himself. Walter Mitty hurried on. 575 00:40:05,035 --> 00:40:06,915 Speaker 1: He went into an a and p not the first 576 00:40:06,955 --> 00:40:08,955 Speaker 1: one he came to, but a smaller one farther up 577 00:40:08,995 --> 00:40:13,795 Speaker 1: the street. I want some biscuit for small young dogs, 578 00:40:14,395 --> 00:40:18,555 Speaker 1: he said to the clerk. Any special brand, Sir, the 579 00:40:18,635 --> 00:40:23,875 Speaker 1: greatest pistol shot in the world. Thought a moment. It says, 580 00:40:24,995 --> 00:40:29,035 Speaker 1: puppies bark for it on the box, said Walter Mitty. 581 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: His wife would be through at the hairdressers in fifteen minutes. 582 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:35,835 Speaker 1: Mitty saw in looking at his watch. Unless they had 583 00:40:35,915 --> 00:40:39,915 Speaker 1: trouble drying it sometimes they had trouble drying it. She 584 00:40:40,035 --> 00:40:42,355 Speaker 1: didn't like to get to the hotel first. She would 585 00:40:42,355 --> 00:40:44,915 Speaker 1: want him to be there waiting for her as usual. 586 00:40:45,555 --> 00:40:47,755 Speaker 1: He found a big leather chair in the lobby facing 587 00:40:47,795 --> 00:40:50,195 Speaker 1: the window, and he put the overshoes and the puppy 588 00:40:50,235 --> 00:40:53,075 Speaker 1: biscuit on the floor beside it. He picked up an 589 00:40:53,075 --> 00:40:56,235 Speaker 1: old copy of Liberty and sank down into the chair. 590 00:40:57,395 --> 00:41:01,275 Speaker 1: And Germany conquered the world through the air. Walter Mitty 591 00:41:01,355 --> 00:41:06,915 Speaker 1: looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. 592 00:41:09,235 --> 00:41:12,275 Speaker 1: The Cannonaden has got the wind up in young Rawleigh, Sir, 593 00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:16,355 Speaker 1: said the sergeant. Captain Mitty looked at him through touzled hair. 594 00:41:16,955 --> 00:41:20,395 Speaker 1: Get him to bed, he said, wearily. With the others, 595 00:41:20,715 --> 00:41:24,835 Speaker 1: I'll fly alone. But you can't, Sir, said the sergeant anxiously. 596 00:41:24,955 --> 00:41:26,875 Speaker 1: It takes two men to handle that bomber, and the 597 00:41:27,035 --> 00:41:29,835 Speaker 1: Archies are pounding l out of the air. Von Rickman's 598 00:41:29,835 --> 00:41:34,195 Speaker 1: circus is between here and Solier. Somebody's got to get 599 00:41:34,235 --> 00:41:38,275 Speaker 1: that ammunition dump, said Mitty. I'm going over spot of brandy. 600 00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:42,595 Speaker 1: He poured a drink for the sergeant and won for himself. Wore, 601 00:41:42,755 --> 00:41:45,475 Speaker 1: thundered and whined around the dugout and battered at the door. 602 00:41:45,915 --> 00:41:48,515 Speaker 1: There was a rending of wood and splinters flew through 603 00:41:48,555 --> 00:41:52,795 Speaker 1: the room of a near thing, said Captain Mitty carelessly. 604 00:41:53,715 --> 00:41:57,395 Speaker 1: The box barrage is closing in, said the sergeant. We 605 00:41:57,555 --> 00:42:01,635 Speaker 1: only live once, sergeant, said Mitty, with his faint, fleeting smile, 606 00:42:02,715 --> 00:42:06,155 Speaker 1: Or do we He poured an brandy and tossed it off. 607 00:42:06,595 --> 00:42:08,875 Speaker 1: I've never seen a man could hold his brandy like you, sir, 608 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:12,995 Speaker 1: said the sergeant, begging you pardon, sir. Captain Mitty stood 609 00:42:13,075 --> 00:42:16,955 Speaker 1: up and scrapped on his huge Webbley vicars automatic. It's 610 00:42:17,035 --> 00:42:21,155 Speaker 1: forty kilometers through el, sir, said the sergeant. Mitty finished 611 00:42:21,155 --> 00:42:26,915 Speaker 1: one last brandy after all, he said, softly, What isn't 612 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:30,035 Speaker 1: The pounding of the cannon increased. There was the rat 613 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:32,515 Speaker 1: tat tatting of the machine guns, and from somewhere came 614 00:42:32,595 --> 00:42:36,315 Speaker 1: the menacing pucket to pucket a pucket, a pucketer of 615 00:42:36,435 --> 00:42:40,595 Speaker 1: the new flame throwers. Walter Mitty walked to the door 616 00:42:40,755 --> 00:42:44,675 Speaker 1: of the dugout, humming out, prey de my blonde. He 617 00:42:44,795 --> 00:42:50,555 Speaker 1: turned and waved to the sergeant cheerio. He said, something 618 00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:53,675 Speaker 1: struck his shoulder. I've been looking all over this hotel 619 00:42:53,795 --> 00:42:56,475 Speaker 1: for you, said missus Mitty. Why do you have to 620 00:42:56,555 --> 00:42:58,955 Speaker 1: hide in this old chair? How did you expect me 621 00:42:59,035 --> 00:43:03,915 Speaker 1: to find you? Things? Close in? Said Walter Mitty, vaguely 622 00:43:04,235 --> 00:43:07,275 Speaker 1: what missus Mitty said? Did you get the wats it's 623 00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:12,715 Speaker 1: name the poppy biscuit? What's in that box? Overshoes? Said Mitty? 624 00:43:12,915 --> 00:43:16,395 Speaker 1: Couldn't you put them on on the star? I was thinking, 625 00:43:16,915 --> 00:43:19,235 Speaker 1: said Walter Middy. Does it ever occur to you that 626 00:43:19,315 --> 00:43:23,755 Speaker 1: I am sometimes thinking? She looked at him. I'm going 627 00:43:23,795 --> 00:43:27,275 Speaker 1: to take your temperature when I get you home, she said. 628 00:43:28,275 --> 00:43:30,195 Speaker 1: They went out through the revolving doors that made a 629 00:43:30,275 --> 00:43:33,715 Speaker 1: faintly derisive whistling sound when you push them. It was 630 00:43:33,795 --> 00:43:36,715 Speaker 1: two blocks to the parking lot at the drug store 631 00:43:36,795 --> 00:43:39,235 Speaker 1: on the corner. She said, wait here for me. I've 632 00:43:39,235 --> 00:43:42,555 Speaker 1: forgot something. I won't be a minute. She was more 633 00:43:42,635 --> 00:43:47,355 Speaker 1: than a minute. Walter Mitty lighted a cigarette. It began 634 00:43:47,475 --> 00:43:51,075 Speaker 1: to rain, rain with sleet in it. He stood up 635 00:43:51,115 --> 00:43:53,995 Speaker 1: against the wall of the drug store smoking. He put 636 00:43:54,035 --> 00:43:57,515 Speaker 1: his shoulders back and his heels together. To hell with 637 00:43:57,595 --> 00:44:01,235 Speaker 1: the handkerchief, said Walter Middy scornfully. He took one last 638 00:44:01,395 --> 00:44:03,955 Speaker 1: drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with 639 00:44:04,075 --> 00:44:08,995 Speaker 1: that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced 640 00:44:09,035 --> 00:44:15,035 Speaker 1: the firing squad, erect and motionless, proud and disdainful. Walter Mitty, 641 00:44:15,195 --> 00:44:22,675 Speaker 1: the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last. The Secret Life of 642 00:44:22,795 --> 00:44:39,315 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty by James Thurber. I've done all the damage 643 00:44:39,315 --> 00:44:42,035 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical 644 00:44:42,075 --> 00:44:45,115 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Shanelle arranged, produced, and 645 00:44:45,195 --> 00:44:47,915 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, 646 00:44:47,955 --> 00:44:51,515 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, 647 00:44:51,715 --> 00:44:54,755 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including 648 00:44:54,795 --> 00:44:57,675 Speaker 1: some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by 649 00:44:57,715 --> 00:45:00,475 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the 650 00:45:00,595 --> 00:45:04,155 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis 651 00:45:04,235 --> 00:45:08,675 Speaker 1: courtesy ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 652 00:45:08,715 --> 00:45:12,275 Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 653 00:45:12,355 --> 00:45:14,995 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant, and everything 654 00:45:15,035 --> 00:45:18,115 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this. 655 00:45:18,195 --> 00:45:20,675 Speaker 1: The two hundred and seventy eighth day until the twenty 656 00:45:20,835 --> 00:45:25,355 Speaker 1: twenty four US presidential election, and the twenty third day 657 00:45:25,475 --> 00:45:28,835 Speaker 1: since dementia. J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 658 00:45:28,875 --> 00:45:32,315 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, 659 00:45:32,795 --> 00:45:36,435 Speaker 1: use the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the 660 00:45:36,515 --> 00:45:40,155 Speaker 1: mental health system to stop him from doing it again 661 00:45:40,835 --> 00:45:45,635 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday, 662 00:45:46,075 --> 00:45:49,155 Speaker 1: though I warn you, although careful editing has concealed much 663 00:45:49,195 --> 00:45:52,515 Speaker 1: of this, if you listen carefully, my voice is shot 664 00:45:53,275 --> 00:45:56,515 Speaker 1: bulletins as the news warrants, although I may just write 665 00:45:56,555 --> 00:45:59,275 Speaker 1: them out rather than try to read them aloud. Till then, 666 00:45:59,395 --> 00:46:02,235 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 667 00:46:02,435 --> 00:46:19,115 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 668 00:46:19,435 --> 00:46:24,555 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 669 00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:26,795 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.