1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:28,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Don't 2 00:00:28,635 --> 00:00:32,315 Speaker 1: get me wrong, I would not trust Tulsey Gabbard to 3 00:00:32,355 --> 00:00:35,235 Speaker 1: watch the Washington Monument for five minutes to make sure 4 00:00:35,275 --> 00:00:37,635 Speaker 1: it didn't get pulled out of the ground and stolen 5 00:00:37,995 --> 00:00:40,595 Speaker 1: while I went to get a slice of pizza. And 6 00:00:40,635 --> 00:00:44,195 Speaker 1: she has betrayed not only this nation but herself specifically 7 00:00:44,275 --> 00:00:50,315 Speaker 1: over Iran. And Joe Kent is unstable garbage. Neither of 8 00:00:50,355 --> 00:00:53,355 Speaker 1: them is noble, Neither of them is not cowardly. Neither 9 00:00:53,395 --> 00:00:56,515 Speaker 1: of them may escape prosecution in the future. But we 10 00:00:56,555 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 1: are all looking at what they did or did not 11 00:00:59,755 --> 00:01:06,875 Speaker 1: do on Capitol Hill about Iran backwards, passively, aggressively in 12 00:01:06,915 --> 00:01:11,875 Speaker 1: a kind of bizarre code through omission not comission. They 13 00:01:11,915 --> 00:01:15,275 Speaker 1: called Trump a liar about Iran and the nuclear weapon 14 00:01:15,315 --> 00:01:18,915 Speaker 1: that he alone in the world, thinks Iran was about 15 00:01:18,955 --> 00:01:24,755 Speaker 1: to have. This was, in fact, Tulsey Gabbard's mini coup 16 00:01:25,395 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: against Trump over Iran. They didn't try to dance around 17 00:01:30,715 --> 00:01:35,675 Speaker 1: the rationale for Trump's nonsensical, delusional, disastrous war in Iran, 18 00:01:36,115 --> 00:01:38,235 Speaker 1: the one that if he is not losing it, it 19 00:01:38,315 --> 00:01:41,275 Speaker 1: is only because he has already lost it. They did 20 00:01:41,315 --> 00:01:45,395 Speaker 1: not lie for him. They refused to lie for him. 21 00:01:45,835 --> 00:01:49,115 Speaker 1: They refused to sugarcoat the fact that they all told him, 22 00:01:49,155 --> 00:01:52,435 Speaker 1: in different ways and at different times, that Iran posed 23 00:01:52,595 --> 00:01:56,235 Speaker 1: no imminent nuclear threat and would not. They not only 24 00:01:56,275 --> 00:01:59,955 Speaker 1: refused to roll under the bus for him, they stopped 25 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:03,595 Speaker 1: standing between him and the bus, and he rolled right 26 00:02:03,755 --> 00:02:09,395 Speaker 1: under it of his own volition. Kent's resignation and Gabbard's 27 00:02:09,475 --> 00:02:12,395 Speaker 1: cover of the ramones I want to be sedated but 28 00:02:12,555 --> 00:02:17,155 Speaker 1: in testimony form, and John Ratcliffe's words salad too, were 29 00:02:17,315 --> 00:02:21,035 Speaker 1: cheesy and cheap. They could have easily been almost entirely accidental, 30 00:02:21,315 --> 00:02:23,995 Speaker 1: or maybe at best, they were the equivalent of hostage 31 00:02:24,075 --> 00:02:27,435 Speaker 1: videos where the victim blinks out the identity of the 32 00:02:27,515 --> 00:02:32,355 Speaker 1: kidnapper in Morse code. But everybody, even people in the 33 00:02:32,395 --> 00:02:37,235 Speaker 1: Trump administration, everybody has a breaking point, or if not 34 00:02:37,275 --> 00:02:40,675 Speaker 1: a breaking point, then a self preservation point, and I 35 00:02:40,715 --> 00:02:43,915 Speaker 1: think Kent and Gabbard, and to a lesser degree Ratcliffe 36 00:02:44,115 --> 00:02:49,155 Speaker 1: all reached it this week. Kent's resignation as Gabbard's chief 37 00:02:49,195 --> 00:02:52,595 Speaker 1: deputy and his confession that quote, I cannot in good 38 00:02:52,675 --> 00:02:57,155 Speaker 1: conscience support the ongoing war. Iran posed no imminent threat 39 00:02:57,155 --> 00:03:00,755 Speaker 1: to our nation and his boss, Gabbard's jiu jitsu like 40 00:03:00,835 --> 00:03:03,875 Speaker 1: inertia barely twenty eight hours later in front of the 41 00:03:03,915 --> 00:03:09,835 Speaker 1: Senate were not some kind of coincidence of timing. She said, 42 00:03:09,955 --> 00:03:13,195 Speaker 1: only Trump could state if Iran were an imminent threat. 43 00:03:13,275 --> 00:03:16,995 Speaker 1: Only the President could make that conclusion. It's not really true, 44 00:03:17,435 --> 00:03:19,235 Speaker 1: but it is true that that's the only thing she 45 00:03:19,275 --> 00:03:22,955 Speaker 1: could say without being fired and without having everything else 46 00:03:23,075 --> 00:03:26,835 Speaker 1: she said, dismissed by the Maga cult and by a 47 00:03:26,835 --> 00:03:30,115 Speaker 1: lot of normal people as well. And then she agreed 48 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:34,555 Speaker 1: a day after her top deputy quit saying Iran was 49 00:03:34,635 --> 00:03:38,275 Speaker 1: not an imminent threat. She agreed that everything the intelligence 50 00:03:38,275 --> 00:03:41,995 Speaker 1: community told Trump was that Iran was not an imminent 51 00:03:42,115 --> 00:03:45,475 Speaker 1: nuclear threat. The Senator is John Ossoff. 52 00:03:45,755 --> 00:03:48,915 Speaker 2: So the assessment of the intelligence community is that Iran's 53 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:52,635 Speaker 2: nuclear enrichment program was obliterated by last summer's airstrikes. Yes, 54 00:03:53,955 --> 00:03:55,955 Speaker 2: and the opening statement you submitted to the committee last 55 00:03:55,995 --> 00:03:59,035 Speaker 2: night also stated, quote there has been no efforts since 56 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 2: then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability end quote. 57 00:04:02,755 --> 00:04:03,075 Speaker 1: Correct. 58 00:04:03,395 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 2: That's right, and that's the assessment of the intelligence community. 59 00:04:06,555 --> 00:04:10,995 Speaker 1: Yes, the only way Iran could be an imminent nuclear threat. 60 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:15,835 Speaker 1: Is if the twenty twenty five bombing runs by Trump failed. 61 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:19,475 Speaker 1: She just said they didn't fail. The only way Iran 62 00:04:19,555 --> 00:04:21,755 Speaker 1: could be an imminent nuclear threat would be if they 63 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:25,715 Speaker 1: rebuilt their nuclear enrichment program after the twenty twenty five 64 00:04:25,755 --> 00:04:30,115 Speaker 1: bombing runs. She just said they hadn't tried. The other 65 00:04:30,235 --> 00:04:33,115 Speaker 1: part about how only the president can assess an imminent threat, 66 00:04:33,315 --> 00:04:37,915 Speaker 1: her chief deputy at National Intelligence figuratively lit himself on 67 00:04:38,035 --> 00:04:41,475 Speaker 1: fire and threw himself off the roof of their building 68 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:46,475 Speaker 1: twenty eight hours earlier, announcing Iran posed no imminent threat 69 00:04:46,515 --> 00:04:52,475 Speaker 1: to our nation that would include nukes. At that point, 70 00:04:52,555 --> 00:04:55,675 Speaker 1: it would have been great if Tulsi Gabbard had said 71 00:04:56,315 --> 00:05:00,355 Speaker 1: Trump is lying, But it's Tulsi Gabbard that she got 72 00:05:00,395 --> 00:05:02,875 Speaker 1: as far as she did yesterday. That is the high 73 00:05:02,915 --> 00:05:05,955 Speaker 1: water mark both of any intelligence in the head of 74 00:05:05,955 --> 00:05:09,395 Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence and any integrity for her. 75 00:05:09,955 --> 00:05:15,315 Speaker 1: That was nirvana. And still when I heard that, I thought, Anna, 76 00:05:16,715 --> 00:05:20,235 Speaker 1: she still might have just slipped. There's no coup, there's 77 00:05:20,275 --> 00:05:24,555 Speaker 1: no secret message, there's no revolt, there's no trail of 78 00:05:24,835 --> 00:05:28,675 Speaker 1: orchid pedals that fell off her last lay, leading to 79 00:05:28,715 --> 00:05:31,715 Speaker 1: the fact that the truth is out there and then 80 00:05:31,755 --> 00:05:35,355 Speaker 1: she did it again. Gabbard got out of Trump's way 81 00:05:35,355 --> 00:05:38,755 Speaker 1: a second time and let his own instability throw him 82 00:05:38,835 --> 00:05:41,875 Speaker 1: under the bus again on an entirely different topic. She 83 00:05:41,955 --> 00:05:45,075 Speaker 1: also got him on his ongoing attempt to overthrow the government, 84 00:05:45,395 --> 00:05:50,595 Speaker 1: to overturn the elections, to overrule the midterms. You may 85 00:05:50,635 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: recall back in the haze of all of the scandals 86 00:05:53,835 --> 00:05:57,195 Speaker 1: and nightmares, that on January twenty eighth, Gabbard was there 87 00:05:57,875 --> 00:06:02,475 Speaker 1: as FBI agents illegally seized ballots from a voting center 88 00:06:02,515 --> 00:06:07,915 Speaker 1: in Fulton County, Georgia, ballots from twenty twenty. She was photographed, 89 00:06:08,075 --> 00:06:10,835 Speaker 1: She was photographed on the phone. Turns out she was 90 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:13,155 Speaker 1: on the phone with Trump. Turns out she put the 91 00:06:13,235 --> 00:06:17,075 Speaker 1: FBI agents on the phone with Trump as well. On 92 00:06:17,115 --> 00:06:22,155 Speaker 1: February fourth, in an otherwise softball interview, NBC asked Trump quote, 93 00:06:22,275 --> 00:06:28,115 Speaker 1: why is Tulca Gabbard there? And Trump answered ullo. On 94 00:06:28,155 --> 00:06:31,235 Speaker 1: February fifth, the next day, Trump was asked again, why 95 00:06:31,355 --> 00:06:34,315 Speaker 1: was Tulca Gabbard there? Suddenly he had a story. She 96 00:06:34,395 --> 00:06:40,035 Speaker 1: went in at Pam's insistence. March eighteenth, yesterday under oath, 97 00:06:40,315 --> 00:06:43,915 Speaker 1: Gabbard was finally asked by Senator Warner, What the f 98 00:06:43,995 --> 00:06:47,635 Speaker 1: were you doing there? And that's when she met Trump 99 00:06:47,675 --> 00:06:49,475 Speaker 1: throw himself under the bus. Again. 100 00:06:50,075 --> 00:06:54,075 Speaker 3: I did not participate in a law enforcement activity, nor 101 00:06:54,115 --> 00:06:56,755 Speaker 3: would I because that does not exist within my authorities. 102 00:06:57,555 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 4: That honest. 103 00:06:58,795 --> 00:07:00,875 Speaker 1: The photos are the photos of you I was seeing. 104 00:07:01,035 --> 00:07:04,235 Speaker 3: I was at Fulton County, Sir, at the request of 105 00:07:04,275 --> 00:07:08,315 Speaker 3: the presentident and to work with the FBI to observe 106 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:09,595 Speaker 3: this action. 107 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:14,515 Speaker 1: It's a mini coup. It's at least a protest, it's 108 00:07:14,515 --> 00:07:17,995 Speaker 1: at least a truth leak. And I'll say this again, 109 00:07:18,075 --> 00:07:22,075 Speaker 1: I loathe Tulsy Gabbard. It's personal with me. She once 110 00:07:22,115 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: got Harmeat Dylan to threaten me with a lawsuit because 111 00:07:26,475 --> 00:07:31,435 Speaker 1: I retweeted something about Tulsa Gabbard retweeted, my god, have 112 00:07:31,475 --> 00:07:36,675 Speaker 1: you ever read my tweets? A retweet Seriously, I will 113 00:07:36,755 --> 00:07:41,235 Speaker 1: never praise Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent is twice as 114 00:07:41,275 --> 00:07:44,075 Speaker 1: bad as she is. But don't look into the wrong 115 00:07:44,195 --> 00:07:47,915 Speaker 1: end of the telescope here or with the tepid testimony 116 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:51,915 Speaker 1: about Iran from the CIA director Ratcliffe yesterday. Either these 117 00:07:51,955 --> 00:07:56,275 Speaker 1: are scumbags. These are anti democracy threats to the world. 118 00:07:56,515 --> 00:08:00,395 Speaker 1: These are Trump stooges. But even Trump stooges know when 119 00:08:00,395 --> 00:08:03,635 Speaker 1: they have to start covering their own assets. And there's 120 00:08:03,675 --> 00:08:08,115 Speaker 1: no question what Kent did Tuesday. And if you say 121 00:08:08,355 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: out loud the things that Gabard could only imply if 122 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:15,355 Speaker 1: you provide that part of the equation for her. That's 123 00:08:15,435 --> 00:08:20,875 Speaker 1: also what Gabard did yesterday. That was Gabbard's mini coup 124 00:08:21,115 --> 00:08:26,475 Speaker 1: against Trump on Iran, and clearly on more than just Iran. 125 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:31,955 Speaker 1: Why did she fess up about the Georgia thing. Keep 126 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:35,635 Speaker 1: these two on your list of Trump's scandals and watch 127 00:08:35,715 --> 00:09:04,035 Speaker 1: them daily. Back to Iran and back to the theme 128 00:09:04,075 --> 00:09:07,675 Speaker 1: of the passive aggressive under the bus throw our smarter 129 00:09:07,835 --> 00:09:12,115 Speaker 1: allies have told Trump to f off. It really is 130 00:09:12,155 --> 00:09:16,555 Speaker 1: amazing to see them, sort of gabbared the verb to Gabbard. 131 00:09:17,035 --> 00:09:20,075 Speaker 1: Trump's desperate plea for some adult come pull him out 132 00:09:20,115 --> 00:09:26,635 Speaker 1: of this ocean of quicksand he decided on designed, ordered, personally, mixed, loaded, 133 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:30,355 Speaker 1: and then jumped into while whistling Yankee Doodle out his ass. 134 00:09:31,795 --> 00:09:34,435 Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, it was England is a bad ally 135 00:09:34,515 --> 00:09:38,555 Speaker 1: with slow responses. Ten days ago it was Prime Minister 136 00:09:38,595 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: Starmer's trying to horn in on the glory of a 137 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:45,555 Speaker 1: war I already won all by myself. Five days ago. 138 00:09:45,595 --> 00:09:49,675 Speaker 1: It was save me Starmer. Now it's Starmer is a 139 00:09:49,715 --> 00:09:54,155 Speaker 1: poopy pants. Tomorrow it will be We'll see how Starmer 140 00:09:54,195 --> 00:09:56,515 Speaker 1: does when I suddenly pull out of this quicksand war 141 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:59,955 Speaker 1: in Iran, and next week it'll be Hi. This is 142 00:09:59,995 --> 00:10:02,195 Speaker 1: the President. I'd like to talk to the Prime Minister 143 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:09,435 Speaker 1: of England, Uh Sherlock Holmes, please, both regarding the British 144 00:10:09,515 --> 00:10:13,115 Speaker 1: and the other allies. Trump is in fact at the 145 00:10:13,395 --> 00:10:17,355 Speaker 1: eye broke it, you bought it stage quoting him yesterday, 146 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:19,835 Speaker 1: I wonder what would happen if we finished off what's 147 00:10:19,915 --> 00:10:22,715 Speaker 1: left of the Iranian terror state and let the countries 148 00:10:22,715 --> 00:10:25,715 Speaker 1: that use it. We don't be responsible for the so 149 00:10:25,835 --> 00:10:31,315 Speaker 1: called straight and he misspelled straight the dingus. That would 150 00:10:31,395 --> 00:10:34,315 Speaker 1: get some of our non responsive allies in gear and 151 00:10:34,555 --> 00:10:42,755 Speaker 1: fast exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, President DJT, No, 152 00:10:43,035 --> 00:10:46,275 Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't. In fact, it would get our allies 153 00:10:46,315 --> 00:10:48,035 Speaker 1: to try to back out of the area where the 154 00:10:48,115 --> 00:10:51,675 Speaker 1: quicksand has consumed. Trump now and cut some kind of 155 00:10:51,715 --> 00:10:54,875 Speaker 1: deal with Iran and then wait for the Trump bubbles 156 00:10:54,915 --> 00:10:58,515 Speaker 1: to stop rising to the surface of the quicksand the 157 00:10:58,555 --> 00:11:01,195 Speaker 1: EU started to try to cut a deal with the 158 00:11:01,235 --> 00:11:04,475 Speaker 1: Iranian government yesterday. Kayak Khalis she is essentially the EU 159 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:07,315 Speaker 1: FIGN minister looking to reach some sort of settlement with 160 00:11:07,355 --> 00:11:12,075 Speaker 1: Iran to provide safe passage through the straight Strait of 161 00:11:12,155 --> 00:11:17,115 Speaker 1: Hormuze for well for European Union tankers. Sorry, Trump, be 162 00:11:18,235 --> 00:11:20,035 Speaker 1: the UK wants nothing to do with the war in 163 00:11:20,035 --> 00:11:22,515 Speaker 1: the Middle East. Trump is so stupid it never dawned 164 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:26,075 Speaker 1: on him that attacking Starmer has made Starmer more popular 165 00:11:26,195 --> 00:11:29,835 Speaker 1: back home, to say nothing of his deputy Prime Minister, 166 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 1: doctor Watson. But in the bigger picture, Trump has gone 167 00:11:33,715 --> 00:11:36,515 Speaker 1: in three weeks from one, I can do this all 168 00:11:36,515 --> 00:11:38,635 Speaker 1: by myself. I'm so great. I'm not even going to 169 00:11:38,715 --> 00:11:41,915 Speaker 1: tell the allies. I'm going to do it. Two we 170 00:11:41,955 --> 00:11:47,475 Speaker 1: need help. Three we need help. Why aren't they helping me? Four? 171 00:11:48,035 --> 00:11:50,515 Speaker 1: So many allies have told me they will be helping me, 172 00:11:50,515 --> 00:11:54,995 Speaker 1: and then I was so smart to do it this way, sir. Five, No, 173 00:11:55,155 --> 00:11:57,315 Speaker 1: I won't tell you who those allies are who will 174 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:01,755 Speaker 1: be helping me. Six. So no, nobody's helping me. But 175 00:12:01,795 --> 00:12:04,115 Speaker 1: that's great because I don't need help anyway. Iran is 176 00:12:04,155 --> 00:12:09,115 Speaker 1: totally just seven. I talked to an ex president about this. 177 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:11,075 Speaker 1: He says, I was so smart to do it. He 178 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:13,915 Speaker 1: wishes he had done it. And sure they all denied 179 00:12:13,955 --> 00:12:16,355 Speaker 1: they talked to me. But did you ever think about this. 180 00:12:16,755 --> 00:12:19,755 Speaker 1: I'm an ex president too. Maybe I was just talking 181 00:12:19,795 --> 00:12:24,755 Speaker 1: to myself. Ha huh. Eight The war that is still 182 00:12:24,835 --> 00:12:27,675 Speaker 1: raging in Iran and the Middle East, I don't know, 183 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:33,195 Speaker 1: must be ghosts. And nine, we don't need anybody's help 184 00:12:33,275 --> 00:12:37,835 Speaker 1: now because because we're leaving and all of you can 185 00:12:37,875 --> 00:12:43,075 Speaker 1: fix it. When a White House insider talking to White 186 00:12:43,115 --> 00:12:47,635 Speaker 1: House House organ and propaganda sheet Politico says, quote, the 187 00:12:47,795 --> 00:12:51,635 Speaker 1: off ramps don't work anymore, and the second White House 188 00:12:51,635 --> 00:12:55,035 Speaker 1: insider says, quote, we clearly just kicked Iran's ass in 189 00:12:55,075 --> 00:12:57,555 Speaker 1: the field. But to a large extent, they hold the 190 00:12:57,595 --> 00:13:00,395 Speaker 1: cards now. They decide how long we're involved, and they 191 00:13:00,395 --> 00:13:03,315 Speaker 1: decide if we put boots on the ground unquote. Guess 192 00:13:03,355 --> 00:13:07,515 Speaker 1: what that means. Like I said before, that means there 193 00:13:07,515 --> 00:13:12,035 Speaker 1: are two choices. A we are losing or B we 194 00:13:12,155 --> 00:13:19,315 Speaker 1: are not losing, but only because we already lost. Practically, 195 00:13:19,315 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: what has Trump gotten done in the Middle East besides 196 00:13:22,755 --> 00:13:25,435 Speaker 1: enough to get Joe Kent to quit and go look 197 00:13:25,475 --> 00:13:28,155 Speaker 1: for somebody to swear fealty to. Who is more of 198 00:13:28,195 --> 00:13:31,795 Speaker 1: a Nazi than Trump? What has he done besides drive 199 00:13:31,835 --> 00:13:34,235 Speaker 1: the price of gallon of oil towards one hundred and ten, 200 00:13:35,755 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: besides destabilize the entire Middle East, besides knowing in advance 201 00:13:40,715 --> 00:13:43,835 Speaker 1: that Israel would blow up the gigantic natural gas field 202 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 1: half owned by our ally Qatar, while he and NETANYAHUO 203 00:13:48,875 --> 00:13:53,395 Speaker 1: have killed eleven Iranian leaders, the head of State, three 204 00:13:53,475 --> 00:13:58,275 Speaker 1: leading defense officials, national security Council leader, intelligence director, intelligence minister, 205 00:13:58,475 --> 00:14:02,355 Speaker 1: head of the paramilitary, a religious leader, a spokesperson, and 206 00:14:02,435 --> 00:14:06,635 Speaker 1: maybe the head of State's son. Wow. So if it 207 00:14:06,675 --> 00:14:09,115 Speaker 1: had been the other way around, and Iran had done 208 00:14:09,155 --> 00:14:13,235 Speaker 1: that to us, that would be what Trump vance junior 209 00:14:13,635 --> 00:14:18,915 Speaker 1: heg Seth, General Kin, acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, 210 00:14:19,515 --> 00:14:23,395 Speaker 1: Cash Patel, and say the head of the paramilitary. So 211 00:14:23,435 --> 00:14:28,195 Speaker 1: that would be still Christy Gnome, religious leader, Okay, the 212 00:14:28,515 --> 00:14:32,915 Speaker 1: clown televangelist PAULA. White, and somebody else an eleventh guy 213 00:14:33,035 --> 00:14:37,555 Speaker 1: like I don't know Bessentt or Gabbard or if it 214 00:14:37,635 --> 00:14:44,395 Speaker 1: includes the unofficial regime spokesman Joe Scarborough. So if those 215 00:14:44,435 --> 00:14:50,035 Speaker 1: eleven people had been eliminated here? Who would notice? I mean, 216 00:14:50,075 --> 00:14:54,755 Speaker 1: ha ha, But seriously, would would the government fall? Would 217 00:14:54,795 --> 00:14:57,795 Speaker 1: the jets stop taking off at the airports? Would America 218 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: give up? Would America beg for peace? Would a majority 219 00:15:00,675 --> 00:15:04,275 Speaker 1: of Americans be changed in some way or institute some 220 00:15:04,315 --> 00:15:07,195 Speaker 1: sort of different kind of government? Or would they just 221 00:15:07,435 --> 00:15:10,875 Speaker 1: the smarter ones simply ask why is this Johnson guy 222 00:15:10,915 --> 00:15:14,075 Speaker 1: calling himself president? And that would be the end of it. 223 00:15:15,595 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: This is like the era of two thousand and one 224 00:15:17,595 --> 00:15:20,155 Speaker 1: through two thousand and six, when every other week Bush 225 00:15:20,155 --> 00:15:24,235 Speaker 1: would announce a major terrorist has been killed or captured, 226 00:15:24,995 --> 00:15:28,595 Speaker 1: and the impact on that tiny percentage of Americans keeping 227 00:15:28,635 --> 00:15:32,355 Speaker 1: track might have been Wait a minute, the name of 228 00:15:32,395 --> 00:15:36,835 Speaker 1: this new major terrorist isn't this the same as the 229 00:15:37,195 --> 00:15:43,875 Speaker 1: major terrorist from last month, only written backwards? I mean, 230 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:47,315 Speaker 1: if that grinning fop Kevin Hassett got blown up by iron, 231 00:15:48,075 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: what would actually happen to this country? We'd see the 232 00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:58,035 Speaker 1: latest clip of him running on a loop on cable 233 00:15:58,075 --> 00:16:04,595 Speaker 1: news while ninety percent of America obsessed over its ncle 234 00:16:04,795 --> 00:16:16,755 Speaker 1: lay brackets. And the clip of Kevin Hassett that they 235 00:16:16,755 --> 00:16:18,715 Speaker 1: would show was the one where he said, I if 236 00:16:18,755 --> 00:16:20,955 Speaker 1: the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt 237 00:16:20,995 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, 238 00:16:24,195 --> 00:16:25,995 Speaker 1: and we'd have to think about what we'd have to 239 00:16:26,035 --> 00:16:28,915 Speaker 1: do about that. But that's really the last of our 240 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:35,115 Speaker 1: concerns right now. And yet somehow that the consumer is 241 00:16:35,155 --> 00:16:38,195 Speaker 1: the last of our concerns right now, said said the 242 00:16:38,395 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: Trump's spokesman. That was not the weirdest thing said by 243 00:16:41,835 --> 00:16:45,395 Speaker 1: the White House since last you and I spoke. What 244 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:49,715 Speaker 1: was wasn't just weird. It may be really really important 245 00:16:49,755 --> 00:16:54,115 Speaker 1: because it's a really really bad sign about Trump's brain and. 246 00:16:54,155 --> 00:16:56,715 Speaker 4: Always bothered me that we're protecting and we don't need him. 247 00:16:57,035 --> 00:17:00,675 Speaker 1: We didn't need him before we started. Dig we must, 248 00:17:00,795 --> 00:17:03,395 Speaker 1: I dig me? Was that said Trump policy of lots 249 00:17:03,395 --> 00:17:11,515 Speaker 1: of oil? Dig we must, dig we must. Some people 250 00:17:11,515 --> 00:17:14,115 Speaker 1: shook their heads and wondered what Grandpa Shardy was talking 251 00:17:14,195 --> 00:17:17,675 Speaker 1: about and why he said dig we must instead of drill, 252 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:21,515 Speaker 1: baby drill, And only some of us aging New Yorkers 253 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:28,555 Speaker 1: went pale. Dig we must dig we must used to 254 00:17:28,635 --> 00:17:32,595 Speaker 1: be the ubiquitous, very effective ad slogan for the electric 255 00:17:32,635 --> 00:17:36,155 Speaker 1: company here Kan ed it was, in fact, in total, 256 00:17:36,595 --> 00:17:41,475 Speaker 1: dig we must for growing New York. The streets, the sidewalks, 257 00:17:41,475 --> 00:17:44,075 Speaker 1: the empty lots of the city from Times Square to 258 00:17:44,115 --> 00:17:46,675 Speaker 1: the most rural parts of Staten Island used to be 259 00:17:46,715 --> 00:17:50,635 Speaker 1: covered with kan ed barricades saw horses as they dug 260 00:17:50,715 --> 00:17:55,555 Speaker 1: up the streets and annoyed everybody, and the saw horses 261 00:17:55,595 --> 00:18:00,835 Speaker 1: were covered with this phrase, dig we must. It became 262 00:18:00,875 --> 00:18:02,955 Speaker 1: part of the vernacular of the city. It's in the 263 00:18:02,995 --> 00:18:08,195 Speaker 1: classic movie The Manchurian Candidate. The Chinese scientist who brainwashes 264 00:18:08,355 --> 00:18:12,075 Speaker 1: the presidential assassin says with a laugh, if kill we 265 00:18:12,195 --> 00:18:16,115 Speaker 1: must for a better New York. That movie came out 266 00:18:16,195 --> 00:18:20,915 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. Dig we must was a big, 267 00:18:20,995 --> 00:18:25,315 Speaker 1: big local catchphrase here in the fifties. It was phased 268 00:18:25,395 --> 00:18:28,835 Speaker 1: out by nineteen sixty five nineteen sixty six. I mean, 269 00:18:28,875 --> 00:18:32,795 Speaker 1: I remember my grandfather saying it to me when he 270 00:18:32,835 --> 00:18:36,035 Speaker 1: still lived in the Bronx. He moved out in nineteen 271 00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:41,275 Speaker 1: sixty six. Dig we must, dig we must Keith. What 272 00:18:41,395 --> 00:18:44,395 Speaker 1: appears to be the last cultural reference to dig we 273 00:18:44,555 --> 00:18:47,595 Speaker 1: must anywhere was apparently in a supposed New York City 274 00:18:47,595 --> 00:18:50,275 Speaker 1: street scene in an episode of the old TV detective 275 00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:53,915 Speaker 1: series Kojak with the bald guy with the lollipop Telly 276 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:56,875 Speaker 1: Sabalis and there's a bunch of cod head workers down 277 00:18:56,915 --> 00:18:59,995 Speaker 1: an open manhole surrounded by a bunch of sawhorses, and 278 00:19:00,035 --> 00:19:02,635 Speaker 1: the sawhorses all read dig we must for Growing New York. 279 00:19:03,355 --> 00:19:06,915 Speaker 1: That episode aired in Night eeteen seventy three, and most 280 00:19:06,955 --> 00:19:09,275 Speaker 1: people probably said, what the hell does dig we must mean? 281 00:19:10,235 --> 00:19:13,195 Speaker 1: And I go into this excruciating detail because the week 282 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:18,595 Speaker 1: before Trump called Caroline Levitt Kelly Anne Conway four times 283 00:19:18,955 --> 00:19:23,715 Speaker 1: in one speech. Then he threatened reporters with treason charges 284 00:19:24,235 --> 00:19:26,915 Speaker 1: for some reports about the Iran war that were not 285 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:31,435 Speaker 1: reported in the American media, only in foreign media. Then 286 00:19:32,635 --> 00:19:37,675 Speaker 1: then Trump said dig we must instead of drill, Baby, Drill. 287 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: That was the latest evidence that this is no ordinary 288 00:19:41,275 --> 00:19:46,755 Speaker 1: Trump brownout. This is a complete system's failure. Whatever is 289 00:19:46,795 --> 00:19:49,275 Speaker 1: going on in that decaying body, whatever is going on 290 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:53,755 Speaker 1: in that disintegrating brain, it has now gotten so bad 291 00:19:53,875 --> 00:19:57,275 Speaker 1: that when the wires fray and start shooting out sparks 292 00:19:59,675 --> 00:20:05,155 Speaker 1: for Trump, it is now suddenly turning into nineteen sixty two, 293 00:20:09,275 --> 00:20:16,915 Speaker 1: dig we must. Also of interest here beginning to wish 294 00:20:16,955 --> 00:20:20,315 Speaker 1: the US men's hockey team didn't win the Olympics, the 295 00:20:20,355 --> 00:20:24,515 Speaker 1: guy who scored the winning goal mister sportsmanship. His name 296 00:20:24,595 --> 00:20:29,515 Speaker 1: is Jack Hughes. Just discovered, just discovered that the Olympics 297 00:20:29,515 --> 00:20:32,315 Speaker 1: people gave the puck to the Hockey Hall of Fame, 298 00:20:32,515 --> 00:20:36,755 Speaker 1: and he's pissed off. He says it's his, even though 299 00:20:37,355 --> 00:20:39,595 Speaker 1: he didn't bother to try to pick it up after 300 00:20:39,635 --> 00:20:42,915 Speaker 1: he scored the goal, and he didn't ask anybody what 301 00:20:43,035 --> 00:20:48,395 Speaker 1: happened to it for days afterwards. But it's nine and 302 00:20:48,955 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: more sports. The Los Angeles Dodgers have won it all again. 303 00:20:52,835 --> 00:20:55,675 Speaker 1: They have sold the naming rights to Dodger Stadium while 304 00:20:55,755 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: lying that they did not sell the naming rights to 305 00:20:58,835 --> 00:21:03,795 Speaker 1: Uniclode Dodger Stadium. They have won the worst persons in 306 00:21:03,835 --> 00:21:10,835 Speaker 1: the world ward edging out Rachel Maddow. That's next. This 307 00:21:11,035 --> 00:21:11,715 Speaker 1: is countdown. 308 00:21:13,435 --> 00:21:29,795 Speaker 4: This is countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend. This 309 00:21:30,755 --> 00:21:37,035 Speaker 4: is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore. This is 310 00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:45,275 Speaker 4: countdown with Keith Olberman in sports, mal sports politics. I cannot, 311 00:21:45,315 --> 00:21:48,395 Speaker 4: in fifty years of covering this stuff, remember an American 312 00:21:48,435 --> 00:21:53,315 Speaker 4: international sports triumph where the shine wore off faster or 313 00:21:53,355 --> 00:21:57,595 Speaker 4: the good vibes turned to sour crap more completely than 314 00:21:58,115 --> 00:22:02,555 Speaker 4: the men's Olympic hockey gold medal of twenty twenty six. First, 315 00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:05,475 Speaker 4: there was, of course, the real time fansco with Cash 316 00:22:05,475 --> 00:22:09,195 Speaker 4: Pattel in the dressing room Glug glug. Then there was 317 00:22:09,235 --> 00:22:11,555 Speaker 4: the use of the team as political props, and this 318 00:22:11,715 --> 00:22:15,795 Speaker 4: moron Tage Thompson of the Buffalo Sabers wearing a Maga 319 00:22:15,875 --> 00:22:20,875 Speaker 4: hat to the state of the Union while his teammates 320 00:22:20,875 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 4: complained the rest of us were wrong to make this political. Now, 321 00:22:25,435 --> 00:22:27,795 Speaker 4: the guy who happened to score the game winning goal 322 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:31,915 Speaker 4: in the gold medal victory over Time over Canada, Jack Hughes, 323 00:22:33,115 --> 00:22:35,955 Speaker 4: is demanding that he'd be given the puck to. 324 00:22:36,035 --> 00:22:41,955 Speaker 1: Keep for himself or his dad. He doesn't really have 325 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:44,395 Speaker 1: an argument for this. This is not like a baseball 326 00:22:44,435 --> 00:22:47,635 Speaker 1: that he caught for the final out, or a football 327 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:49,915 Speaker 1: he caught for the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl, 328 00:22:50,635 --> 00:22:52,715 Speaker 1: or a fan who caught something that was hit or 329 00:22:52,715 --> 00:22:55,675 Speaker 1: thrown into the stands. Jack Hughes never held the puck, 330 00:22:56,635 --> 00:22:59,235 Speaker 1: probably never even touched the puck. He certainly didn't bring 331 00:22:59,355 --> 00:23:01,635 Speaker 1: the puck. It wasn't his puck at any point. He 332 00:23:01,675 --> 00:23:04,155 Speaker 1: didn't go and grab the puck after he scored the goal. 333 00:23:04,395 --> 00:23:06,715 Speaker 1: He even admitted that it was several days after the 334 00:23:06,715 --> 00:23:10,355 Speaker 1: game before he realized I don't have it. It only 335 00:23:10,395 --> 00:23:13,435 Speaker 1: occurred to him when an interviewer asked him what became 336 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:17,195 Speaker 1: of the puck. But now quote, I'm trying to get 337 00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:20,635 Speaker 1: it like, that's bullshit that the Hockey Hall of Fame 338 00:23:20,715 --> 00:23:23,795 Speaker 1: has it. In my opinion, why would they have that puck? 339 00:23:25,595 --> 00:23:29,915 Speaker 1: Possibly because the Olympics, which is a private, for profit corporation, 340 00:23:30,435 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: donated the puck and other memorabilia from the Olympic Hockey 341 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:39,875 Speaker 1: Tournament which it owns to the Hockey Hall of Fame. 342 00:23:40,595 --> 00:23:42,675 Speaker 1: The Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto is an actual 343 00:23:42,795 --> 00:23:46,795 Speaker 1: charitable international organization, which, among other things, also has the 344 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:50,675 Speaker 1: puck that Sidney Crosby scored when fortunes here were reversed 345 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:53,995 Speaker 1: and the Canadian team beat the Americans in overtime at 346 00:23:54,035 --> 00:23:57,635 Speaker 1: the Olympics in twenty ten. I wouldn't even want it 347 00:23:57,635 --> 00:24:02,115 Speaker 1: for myself, Jacques Hughes says, while demanding it for himself, 348 00:24:02,195 --> 00:24:04,595 Speaker 1: even though it's not his. I'd want it for my dad. 349 00:24:04,875 --> 00:24:09,435 Speaker 1: I know he'd just love love having it. I'd love 350 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:14,715 Speaker 1: love having it too. So what the problem here, really, though, 351 00:24:14,875 --> 00:24:18,915 Speaker 1: is the framing of this story. ESPN broke the Jacques 352 00:24:18,955 --> 00:24:23,835 Speaker 1: hughes story, and their headlines reads, Jack Hughes wants his 353 00:24:23,955 --> 00:24:29,075 Speaker 1: golden gold puck back from Hockey Hall of Fame back. 354 00:24:30,475 --> 00:24:32,995 Speaker 1: You never had it in the first place. They didn't 355 00:24:32,995 --> 00:24:35,635 Speaker 1: take it from him. He had no interest in securing 356 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,155 Speaker 1: it for dear old dad on that day. He might 357 00:24:38,195 --> 00:24:40,555 Speaker 1: never have thought about it or dear old Dad until 358 00:24:40,555 --> 00:24:43,475 Speaker 1: the reporter asked, if he never had it, how could 359 00:24:43,475 --> 00:24:48,035 Speaker 1: he be getting it back. He wants the puck. Okay, 360 00:24:48,075 --> 00:24:49,915 Speaker 1: he doesn't want it back. He didn't have it before. 361 00:24:50,075 --> 00:24:55,275 Speaker 1: Pat McAfee, the dumb sounding guy ESPN has on all 362 00:24:55,395 --> 00:24:58,355 Speaker 1: day during the day, has started a campaign to get 363 00:24:58,435 --> 00:25:03,195 Speaker 1: Jack Hughes his puck. Puck. There is a tradition in 364 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:07,155 Speaker 1: the National Hockey League, a private organization to give players 365 00:25:07,195 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: many of the pucks that represent landmarks in their careers 366 00:25:10,395 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: one hundredth goal, five hundredth goal, whatever. But even that 367 00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:18,075 Speaker 1: isn't giving a player his puck back. It's an employer 368 00:25:18,355 --> 00:25:24,075 Speaker 1: paying tribute to an employee with a tribute that transcends cash. 369 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:28,115 Speaker 1: It's not like some fan caught the puck and refused 370 00:25:28,115 --> 00:25:31,555 Speaker 1: to let Jack Hughes have it for cash or for free. 371 00:25:31,715 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: In other sports, even players who've gotten the equivalent of 372 00:25:34,875 --> 00:25:38,835 Speaker 1: the puck that way have had no luck establishing ownership. 373 00:25:39,035 --> 00:25:41,835 Speaker 1: My friend Doug min Kaevich as a minor leaguer who's 374 00:25:41,875 --> 00:25:44,475 Speaker 1: actually at my going away party at ESPN in nineteen 375 00:25:44,515 --> 00:25:47,675 Speaker 1: ninety seven. Believe it or not, Minkaevich was the first 376 00:25:47,675 --> 00:25:50,755 Speaker 1: baseman who caught the ball for the final out when 377 00:25:50,795 --> 00:25:52,795 Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in two 378 00:25:52,795 --> 00:25:55,755 Speaker 1: thousand and four, their first series title since nineteen eighteen. 379 00:25:56,995 --> 00:25:59,395 Speaker 1: He kept the ball where it landed in his glove 380 00:26:00,075 --> 00:26:03,155 Speaker 1: and he took it home and everything was great until 381 00:26:03,155 --> 00:26:05,755 Speaker 1: he made a joke like a year later about selling it, 382 00:26:06,275 --> 00:26:08,115 Speaker 1: and the next thing you knew, the Red Sox had 383 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:12,195 Speaker 1: sued him. After a lot of wrangling, the ball wound 384 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:14,955 Speaker 1: up by joint agreement at the Baseball Hall of Fame, 385 00:26:16,155 --> 00:26:18,915 Speaker 1: which by the way, is a private corporation, no tax 386 00:26:18,955 --> 00:26:23,395 Speaker 1: deductions involved. Now, if Jack Hughes had said I want 387 00:26:23,435 --> 00:26:25,115 Speaker 1: the puck and I want my dad to have it, 388 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:27,395 Speaker 1: and we agree not to sell it, and when he's 389 00:26:27,395 --> 00:26:30,435 Speaker 1: done with it, he's donating to the Hall of Fame, 390 00:26:30,995 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: maybe that's a different story. But get Jack Hughes his 391 00:26:34,075 --> 00:26:40,515 Speaker 1: puck back. It's not his puck. I mean, if Sidney 392 00:26:40,515 --> 00:26:42,595 Speaker 1: Crosby is one of the greatest players of all time 393 00:26:42,595 --> 00:26:46,195 Speaker 1: in hockey has never complained about his puck being in 394 00:26:46,195 --> 00:26:49,315 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Now for sixteen years, you know, 395 00:26:50,315 --> 00:26:52,315 Speaker 1: Jack Hughes tried to be one tenth of the human 396 00:26:52,315 --> 00:26:55,795 Speaker 1: being that Sidney Crosby is. Pretend you've been there before 397 00:26:56,355 --> 00:27:00,675 Speaker 1: or will ever be there again. Anyway, If this is 398 00:27:00,715 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: not bad enough, there is an ESPN hockey host who 399 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: has continued my alma mater's increasingly mistaken decision to periodically 400 00:27:08,555 --> 00:27:12,555 Speaker 1: swerve into the oncoming traffic that is politics for no 401 00:27:12,915 --> 00:27:17,995 Speaker 1: good goddamned reason. There's the aforementioned McAfee with Aaron Rodgers. 402 00:27:18,275 --> 00:27:21,195 Speaker 1: There's Steven A. Smith pretending to know anything about politics, 403 00:27:21,235 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: let alone enough to run as a stalking horse third 404 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:27,675 Speaker 1: party candidate to siphon votes away from the Democrat and 405 00:27:27,795 --> 00:27:31,555 Speaker 1: do so while he is still on ESPN's air. I mean, 406 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: if he were a guy on Fox who was nominally 407 00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:36,715 Speaker 1: running for president of the United States, Fox would take 408 00:27:36,795 --> 00:27:41,275 Speaker 1: him off. And now there's this from someone I remembered 409 00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:44,075 Speaker 1: from when we launched ESPN News in the nineties. I 410 00:27:44,155 --> 00:27:46,595 Speaker 1: was surprised to find out he's still at ESPN. His 411 00:27:46,675 --> 00:27:50,395 Speaker 1: name is John Butchergross about the newly announced World Cup 412 00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 1: of Hockey. It is going to have eight teams from 413 00:27:53,635 --> 00:27:56,155 Speaker 1: eight countries, but they haven't announced all the countries yet. 414 00:27:56,715 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: This is what he wrote, Russia should be among the 415 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:03,795 Speaker 1: eight teams. Undoubtedly Russian players decorate the NHL with their 416 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: skill and commitment. To deny them as a slap in 417 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:11,155 Speaker 1: the face to players like Nikita Kuchirov who dedicate their 418 00:28:11,155 --> 00:28:15,115 Speaker 1: lives to improving their skill level at their benefit. Yes, 419 00:28:15,435 --> 00:28:18,795 Speaker 1: and thus enhances the entertainment value of the sport. Be 420 00:28:18,955 --> 00:28:23,275 Speaker 1: above the sanctimonious and filth muck of politics and politicians 421 00:28:23,315 --> 00:28:29,075 Speaker 1: the dregs of the earth. We are watching a hockey tournament. Well, sir, 422 00:28:29,115 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: you have a nice time watching your hockey tournament. Russia 423 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:36,315 Speaker 1: is an enemy of this nation, probably its foremost enemy, 424 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:41,355 Speaker 1: and an enemy of Canada's. Russia is currently openly supplying 425 00:28:41,395 --> 00:28:45,755 Speaker 1: Iran with the locations of American assets and personnel in 426 00:28:45,835 --> 00:28:48,155 Speaker 1: the Middle East. And whether you like this war or not, 427 00:28:48,875 --> 00:28:52,235 Speaker 1: Russia is helping to kill Americans in the Middle East. 428 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:56,795 Speaker 1: Russia is actively helping a country that is at war 429 00:28:56,995 --> 00:29:02,875 Speaker 1: with US. Why is ESPN even by several remote steps 430 00:29:03,235 --> 00:29:07,755 Speaker 1: supporting Russia in this equation, I mean, just on a 431 00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:11,715 Speaker 1: consistency basis, the network is waving the jingoistic flag with 432 00:29:11,955 --> 00:29:15,715 Speaker 1: Pat McAfee and Jack Hughes and his MAGA adjacent agenda 433 00:29:15,715 --> 00:29:18,795 Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers and get me my puck back. And 434 00:29:18,875 --> 00:29:24,035 Speaker 1: yet with the other hand, it's supporting Russia and dismissing 435 00:29:24,075 --> 00:29:26,795 Speaker 1: American troops in Harm's way as being just the quote 436 00:29:26,995 --> 00:29:31,835 Speaker 1: sanctimonious and filth muck of politics and politicians, the dregs 437 00:29:31,915 --> 00:29:36,435 Speaker 1: of the earth. I'm sorry, sir, American soldiers getting their 438 00:29:36,555 --> 00:29:44,195 Speaker 1: legs blown off is not politics. There's a difference. I 439 00:29:44,195 --> 00:29:47,675 Speaker 1: don't know, sanctimonious and filth muck of politics and politicians 440 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: talk about American soldiers like that. I don't know. Don't 441 00:29:50,795 --> 00:29:54,795 Speaker 1: let tage Maga Thompson here that you said that, mister 442 00:29:54,835 --> 00:29:57,355 Speaker 1: butcher gross, he might call up Jack Hughes's dad and 443 00:29:57,395 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: the three of them will come over and visit you 444 00:29:59,195 --> 00:30:25,395 Speaker 1: and demand to see your birth certificate. Hey guess what. 445 00:30:26,515 --> 00:30:31,635 Speaker 1: As always, we always have more new idiots to talk about. 446 00:30:32,875 --> 00:30:35,675 Speaker 1: The roundup of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 447 00:30:35,675 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, Lebrons, 448 00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:48,995 Speaker 1: Nut Gingrich. He just never runs out of the stupid. 449 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:53,035 Speaker 1: This is the second century of this. If you don't 450 00:30:53,075 --> 00:30:56,715 Speaker 1: recognize the name, Nut Gingrich is the guy who thought 451 00:30:56,715 --> 00:30:59,875 Speaker 1: he was going to impeach and remove President Clinton and 452 00:30:59,915 --> 00:31:05,435 Speaker 1: then convince President Al Gore to pardon Clinton, and then 453 00:31:06,435 --> 00:31:10,315 Speaker 1: before there was a new vice president named impeach and 454 00:31:10,355 --> 00:31:13,275 Speaker 1: removed President Gore, and that would make the Speaker of 455 00:31:13,275 --> 00:31:16,435 Speaker 1: the House president when the Speaker of the House was 456 00:31:16,755 --> 00:31:22,115 Speaker 1: himself Nut Gingrich, and instead the only guy who wound 457 00:31:22,155 --> 00:31:24,955 Speaker 1: up losing his job was the Speaker of the House, 458 00:31:25,075 --> 00:31:31,555 Speaker 1: Nut Gingrich, who got fired. Knut's and moron slick, occasionally clever, 459 00:31:31,675 --> 00:31:35,875 Speaker 1: occasionally shrewd. He had won good catchphrase in the nineties, 460 00:31:36,035 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: the Contract with America. But ultimately Nut's big problem is 461 00:31:41,355 --> 00:31:45,075 Speaker 1: he's easily led. He saw this thing on the Internet 462 00:31:45,075 --> 00:31:48,115 Speaker 1: about replacing the strait of horror moves, and he posted 463 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:53,315 Speaker 1: it because it filled all his requirements. It made Democrats 464 00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:59,115 Speaker 1: look bad, it made Trump look good, and it involved 465 00:31:59,355 --> 00:32:02,515 Speaker 1: killing people and blowing stuff up. So he linked to 466 00:32:02,555 --> 00:32:05,155 Speaker 1: this and he wrote it up and tweeted it out. 467 00:32:05,475 --> 00:32:09,595 Speaker 1: Newt Gingrich wrote, quote, instead of fighting over a twenty 468 00:32:09,635 --> 00:32:13,275 Speaker 1: one mile wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel 469 00:32:13,315 --> 00:32:17,915 Speaker 1: through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations, and you've got 470 00:32:17,915 --> 00:32:22,315 Speaker 1: a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, 471 00:32:22,395 --> 00:32:26,795 Speaker 1: and safe from Iranian attacks. In case you missed it 472 00:32:26,835 --> 00:32:32,275 Speaker 1: in there, this plan that newt seriously posted involves using 473 00:32:32,755 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: nukes thermonuclear detonations, a dozen of them, he writes, to 474 00:32:38,115 --> 00:32:41,915 Speaker 1: destroy part of the Middle East to create a new 475 00:32:41,995 --> 00:32:47,195 Speaker 1: canal called the Trump Canal through the United Arab Emirates 476 00:32:47,235 --> 00:32:51,435 Speaker 1: and other friendly nations who probably will be surprised by this, 477 00:32:51,915 --> 00:32:55,195 Speaker 1: whether they like it or not, seriously, and he links 478 00:32:55,235 --> 00:32:57,955 Speaker 1: to this site and the article with illustrations, and the 479 00:32:58,035 --> 00:33:00,675 Speaker 1: site's called China Talk, and the article is by somebody 480 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: named Jordan Schaeffer, who illustrates the plan profusely and says 481 00:33:04,755 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: that after all, you know, you don't have to worry 482 00:33:07,515 --> 00:33:11,195 Speaker 1: about any side effects because radiation is the greatest liberal 483 00:33:11,275 --> 00:33:15,195 Speaker 1: bogus conspiracy of all time. And after they set off 484 00:33:15,235 --> 00:33:16,915 Speaker 1: a dozen nukes in the Middle East and have an 485 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:20,035 Speaker 1: instant canal, Trump could just have Caroline Levitt call them 486 00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: quote a controlled landscaping event. And the more you look 487 00:33:24,835 --> 00:33:28,075 Speaker 1: at this thing, the more the smile breaks across your 488 00:33:28,075 --> 00:33:32,075 Speaker 1: face because it is deadpan, economical, simple. Never let on, 489 00:33:32,195 --> 00:33:36,115 Speaker 1: you're mocking anybody, satire. And it ends with this, Jordan 490 00:33:36,195 --> 00:33:40,995 Speaker 1: Schaeffer writing, the views expressed above do not necessarily represent 491 00:33:41,075 --> 00:33:45,715 Speaker 1: those of anyone with a brain. Boy, he got that right. 492 00:33:46,075 --> 00:33:49,955 Speaker 1: That's Newt Gingrich in one sentence. Newt took it seriously. 493 00:33:50,355 --> 00:33:53,315 Speaker 1: Nut posted this on Sunday, and even though it has 494 00:33:53,355 --> 00:33:57,035 Speaker 1: been community noted already and the author, Schaeffer has posted 495 00:33:57,115 --> 00:34:01,995 Speaker 1: a screenshot of Nut's idiotic tweet, endorsing it. As of 496 00:34:02,075 --> 00:34:06,395 Speaker 1: recording time, Newt's idiotic tweet, He's still alive. He hasn't 497 00:34:06,395 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: even deleted it surreptitiously. Yet he is still seriously endorsing 498 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:14,035 Speaker 1: a proposal to blow up part of the Middle East 499 00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:18,115 Speaker 1: with nuclear weapons to create a canal. And the thing 500 00:34:18,355 --> 00:34:21,795 Speaker 1: ends with this, Schaeffer writing, quote, your boss is a builder. 501 00:34:21,955 --> 00:34:24,555 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want to play nice with a coalition of countries. 502 00:34:24,715 --> 00:34:27,835 Speaker 1: He hates to patrol the Strait of Hormuz. He wants 503 00:34:27,835 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: to cut a ribbon and watch the chiron on Fox. 504 00:34:31,115 --> 00:34:36,675 Speaker 1: Trump canal opens largest in human history. Mister secretary, give 505 00:34:36,715 --> 00:34:39,315 Speaker 1: him that chiron and you win the war and keep 506 00:34:39,355 --> 00:34:43,835 Speaker 1: your job. We can even tariff the tankers. My dms 507 00:34:44,195 --> 00:34:54,955 Speaker 1: are open and Newt Gingrich fell for it. Runner up 508 00:34:55,395 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: Rachel Meadow. Now she is not alone in this, but 509 00:34:59,115 --> 00:35:03,675 Speaker 1: honest to god, I am so tired of everybody doing 510 00:35:03,755 --> 00:35:07,075 Speaker 1: this exact same thing with I don't know how many 511 00:35:07,155 --> 00:35:10,875 Speaker 1: dozens of stories, A quick summary of an important story, 512 00:35:10,915 --> 00:35:14,235 Speaker 1: and then the question, in various forms, why isn't this 513 00:35:14,275 --> 00:35:19,035 Speaker 1: getting more attention or significant attention or all the attention? 514 00:35:19,595 --> 00:35:26,475 Speaker 1: Why aren't we talking about these cobblestones? In Belfast, Mattow 515 00:35:27,035 --> 00:35:29,795 Speaker 1: focused on Jared Kushner's attempt to leverage the war in 516 00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:31,995 Speaker 1: the Middle East that his father in law has started 517 00:35:32,515 --> 00:35:35,835 Speaker 1: and get two billion dollars in investments for his own 518 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:39,755 Speaker 1: companies out of the countries. He's supposedly a piece Envoyd two. 519 00:35:40,675 --> 00:35:45,675 Speaker 1: It's really easily digested graft. And yes it's important, and 520 00:35:45,755 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: Kushner is himself a sleeper first round choice if your 521 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:52,875 Speaker 1: fantasy Scumbag League draft is coming up later this month. 522 00:35:53,555 --> 00:35:56,115 Speaker 1: But Mattow went on her show and said, and then 523 00:35:56,355 --> 00:36:00,075 Speaker 1: wrote it again. Asked on socials quote how is Jared 524 00:36:00,115 --> 00:36:03,755 Speaker 1: Kushner's role in the US attacking Iran not more of 525 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: a show stopped scandal? Unquote? Well, gosh, maybe it isn't 526 00:36:08,995 --> 00:36:11,475 Speaker 1: more of a show stopping scandal, because they're four hundred 527 00:36:11,475 --> 00:36:14,315 Speaker 1: and fifty seven show stopping scandals going on at the moment, 528 00:36:14,595 --> 00:36:17,115 Speaker 1: including about a dozen that could literally end the world, 529 00:36:17,235 --> 00:36:19,435 Speaker 1: and maybe a hundred that could end democracy in this 530 00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:23,635 Speaker 1: country or voting in this country forever. Maybe we stop 531 00:36:23,715 --> 00:36:27,115 Speaker 1: trying to say your problem isn't as important as my problem. 532 00:36:27,155 --> 00:36:30,835 Speaker 1: They're all important. They're all threats to humanity. Every single 533 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:33,875 Speaker 1: thing Trump does could kill us all. Stop trying to 534 00:36:33,915 --> 00:36:37,795 Speaker 1: gain primacy over all the other disasters. We got to 535 00:36:37,835 --> 00:36:40,715 Speaker 1: deal with all of them at the same time. Maybe 536 00:36:40,755 --> 00:36:43,155 Speaker 1: we could just pick one and advocate for our own 537 00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:46,235 Speaker 1: personal one and stick to that without saying, why is 538 00:36:46,315 --> 00:36:50,275 Speaker 1: they getting more attention just because he's he's threatening to 539 00:36:50,355 --> 00:36:56,835 Speaker 1: destroy the Straits of Hormuz and Harg Island. My god. 540 00:36:57,435 --> 00:37:00,035 Speaker 1: And as to the other part the specifics here, how 541 00:37:00,115 --> 00:37:04,155 Speaker 1: is it quote not more of a show stopping scandal? Rachel, 542 00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:08,675 Speaker 1: which one of us has a TV show now that 543 00:37:08,755 --> 00:37:12,395 Speaker 1: she could stop to make it a show stopping scandal, 544 00:37:12,955 --> 00:37:14,755 Speaker 1: but the show is now on only once a week, 545 00:37:15,995 --> 00:37:17,995 Speaker 1: which one of us is new working the bill maher 546 00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:22,795 Speaker 1: schedule now and has let her own insecurities and vendettas 547 00:37:23,395 --> 00:37:26,635 Speaker 1: lead her to block her mentor from coming back to 548 00:37:26,675 --> 00:37:30,315 Speaker 1: that network and lead her to help blacklist him from 549 00:37:30,315 --> 00:37:34,355 Speaker 1: that network. Because this may be the end of the world, 550 00:37:34,435 --> 00:37:36,915 Speaker 1: but it's not a big enough deal to prioritize fighting 551 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:41,195 Speaker 1: commentators on your air ahead of grudges that you've nursed 552 00:37:41,235 --> 00:37:44,715 Speaker 1: since two thousand and eleven. For Af's sake, Mattow, we 553 00:37:44,755 --> 00:37:46,955 Speaker 1: haven't spoken since the day I told you I was leaving, 554 00:37:47,075 --> 00:37:48,755 Speaker 1: after I warned you every day for two months that 555 00:37:48,795 --> 00:37:51,275 Speaker 1: I would be leaving, and you went on Mars Show 556 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,475 Speaker 1: an hour after I announced I was leaving, and you 557 00:37:53,675 --> 00:37:57,555 Speaker 1: lied that you knew nothing about it. First. I've heard 558 00:37:57,555 --> 00:38:01,275 Speaker 1: of it other than every day for the last fifty days. 559 00:38:01,315 --> 00:38:03,515 Speaker 1: He won't stop talking about it in the office. We 560 00:38:03,595 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: haven't spoken because you'rettas and your time off are more 561 00:38:06,475 --> 00:38:10,355 Speaker 1: important to you than the impact on America your words 562 00:38:10,475 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: might have or my words might have. How is Jared 563 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,835 Speaker 1: Kushner's role in the US attacking around not more of 564 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:20,115 Speaker 1: a show stopping scandal, and part the answer is, Rachel, 565 00:38:20,755 --> 00:38:23,835 Speaker 1: your fault. You can't be bothered to be on more 566 00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: than once a week, even when this old guy who 567 00:38:26,835 --> 00:38:29,755 Speaker 1: got you your career and is fifteen years older than 568 00:38:29,795 --> 00:38:32,115 Speaker 1: you are, and all he wanted to do is retire 569 00:38:32,475 --> 00:38:36,075 Speaker 1: and maybe do an occasional baseball broadcast on the radio 570 00:38:36,235 --> 00:38:38,835 Speaker 1: once a month to just see if you could get 571 00:38:38,835 --> 00:38:41,715 Speaker 1: to the ballpark and remember where it was. He's on 572 00:38:41,755 --> 00:38:45,795 Speaker 1: twice as often as you are. Well, Hokob, it's not 573 00:38:45,915 --> 00:38:48,715 Speaker 1: more of a show stopping scandle because you let it 574 00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:53,315 Speaker 1: not be a show stopping scandal, and stop everybody doing 575 00:38:53,355 --> 00:39:00,715 Speaker 1: this with their story. They're all important. That's still not 576 00:39:00,835 --> 00:39:07,195 Speaker 1: the worst. The worst the winners the worst the Los 577 00:39:07,195 --> 00:39:13,475 Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Even as the Los Angeles Dodgers 578 00:39:13,475 --> 00:39:16,955 Speaker 1: have won two consecutive World Series by having spent more 579 00:39:16,995 --> 00:39:19,955 Speaker 1: money than it seems all the other teams in baseball 580 00:39:20,035 --> 00:39:24,075 Speaker 1: history combined, the Dodgers have retained an element of dignity. 581 00:39:24,635 --> 00:39:29,755 Speaker 1: They have embarrassment insurance. They have a yeah, but there's 582 00:39:29,795 --> 00:39:32,235 Speaker 1: always In fact, they have two of those. One of 583 00:39:32,235 --> 00:39:35,395 Speaker 1: them is the memory of their sainted voice, Vin Scully. 584 00:39:35,595 --> 00:39:38,315 Speaker 1: Recordings of whom they still use on a daily basis. 585 00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:44,075 Speaker 1: The other insurance is their ballpark. Dodger Stadium, now sixty 586 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:47,675 Speaker 1: four years old, almost as old as me, the third 587 00:39:47,755 --> 00:39:50,955 Speaker 1: oldest baseball stadium there is. I think it's the fourth 588 00:39:51,035 --> 00:39:55,155 Speaker 1: oldest sports arena or stadium in pro sports in this country. 589 00:39:56,235 --> 00:39:58,955 Speaker 1: And yet Dodger Stadium looks brand new and state of 590 00:39:58,995 --> 00:40:01,795 Speaker 1: the art, and most importantly, it looks dignified, and it 591 00:40:01,835 --> 00:40:06,355 Speaker 1: is dignified. Just a handful of stadiums had not sold 592 00:40:06,395 --> 00:40:09,795 Speaker 1: out to sponsors. I think there's only seven in baseball 593 00:40:09,955 --> 00:40:14,075 Speaker 1: haven't done the naming rights deal. And because of the 594 00:40:14,155 --> 00:40:16,755 Speaker 1: naming rights deals, most of these stadiums and these teams 595 00:40:16,795 --> 00:40:20,035 Speaker 1: go through the humiliation of changing the name of their 596 00:40:20,075 --> 00:40:24,955 Speaker 1: ballpark every few minutes. Since two thousand and three, the 597 00:40:24,955 --> 00:40:29,275 Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants have played in pack Bell Park, SBC Park, 598 00:40:29,515 --> 00:40:33,235 Speaker 1: at and T Park, and Oracle Park and they haven't 599 00:40:33,275 --> 00:40:37,355 Speaker 1: even like moved five feet. And some of the names 600 00:40:37,355 --> 00:40:41,195 Speaker 1: are just ridiculous. Any idea out there, which is Daikin Park? 601 00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:47,035 Speaker 1: Which one was Ringtone Stadium or whatever it was. But 602 00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:50,635 Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium has remained true to the dignity of selling 603 00:40:50,795 --> 00:40:57,155 Speaker 1: only one brand the Dodgers. Well it had. The team 604 00:40:57,235 --> 00:41:01,195 Speaker 1: will now play starting this season at Uniclo Field at 605 00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:08,075 Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. That's a Japanese clobe thing for him, apparently, Uniciclow. Hey, 606 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:13,035 Speaker 1: it happens. Sacramento Kings of the NBA started this shit 607 00:41:13,115 --> 00:41:15,115 Speaker 1: in the eighties, and I used to go on the 608 00:41:15,155 --> 00:41:18,915 Speaker 1: air and refer to their Arco Arena as unconscionable oil 609 00:41:18,955 --> 00:41:22,635 Speaker 1: profit stadium on local TV in LA. And one day 610 00:41:22,675 --> 00:41:25,275 Speaker 1: I got this nasty letter from the chief of pr 611 00:41:25,395 --> 00:41:28,915 Speaker 1: at Arco, who said he'd go to my boss, and 612 00:41:28,995 --> 00:41:31,075 Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of writing back to him that 613 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:33,235 Speaker 1: my boss had just gotten fired and I was leaving 614 00:41:33,235 --> 00:41:35,995 Speaker 1: the station in six months and he could screw himself. 615 00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:39,875 Speaker 1: And that was the end of that unconscionable oil profits stadium. 616 00:41:41,155 --> 00:41:44,275 Speaker 1: And it hurts. It hurts that it'll be Uniglob Field 617 00:41:44,275 --> 00:41:48,635 Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium, but it happens. It's inevitable, it's money. 618 00:41:48,675 --> 00:41:53,115 Speaker 1: One day it'll be Viagra Heights at Fenway Park in Boston, 619 00:41:53,835 --> 00:41:56,755 Speaker 1: and it'll be o Zempic Stadium, the home of your 620 00:41:56,875 --> 00:42:01,515 Speaker 1: New York Yankees. As the great sportswriter Wells Twombly once 621 00:42:01,595 --> 00:42:06,275 Speaker 1: noted larceny of whoores a vacuum. It's too much money 622 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:08,795 Speaker 1: to not take it and stuff it in your ears, 623 00:42:09,715 --> 00:42:15,955 Speaker 1: So Looney Clowfield at Dodger Stadium. It is alas. But 624 00:42:16,995 --> 00:42:19,475 Speaker 1: the reason the Dodgers are on this list, the reason 625 00:42:19,675 --> 00:42:22,875 Speaker 1: the Dodgers have earned themselves a special place in naming 626 00:42:22,955 --> 00:42:26,355 Speaker 1: rights hell, is because after selling the naming rights to 627 00:42:26,435 --> 00:42:29,675 Speaker 1: their stadium, Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers are insisting they have 628 00:42:29,835 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: not sold the naming rights to Dodger Stadium. They think 629 00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:35,155 Speaker 1: they can convince their fans that they are still in 630 00:42:35,195 --> 00:42:39,115 Speaker 1: some way pure because they only sold the naming rights 631 00:42:39,195 --> 00:42:43,515 Speaker 1: to the field. We didn't sell the stadium name. We 632 00:42:43,635 --> 00:42:48,195 Speaker 1: only sold the name of the dirt because they didn't 633 00:42:48,195 --> 00:42:52,635 Speaker 1: replace the Dodger in Dodger Stadium and call it Tesla 634 00:42:52,755 --> 00:42:59,955 Speaker 1: Stadium or Geico Gecko Grounds. The New York Times The 635 00:43:00,115 --> 00:43:04,155 Speaker 1: Athletic actually wrote it's Dodger Beat writer Katie who actually 636 00:43:04,795 --> 00:43:09,555 Speaker 1: actuously wrote quote, Dodgers Stadium's name will remain unchanged. The 637 00:43:09,635 --> 00:43:12,315 Speaker 1: Dodgers did not sell the naming rights to their ballpark, 638 00:43:12,435 --> 00:43:14,955 Speaker 1: and we're not open to doing so throughout the process. 639 00:43:15,235 --> 00:43:17,595 Speaker 1: Protecting the legacy of Dodger Stadium, which has been the 640 00:43:17,635 --> 00:43:19,915 Speaker 1: name of the historic park since it's opening in nineteen 641 00:43:19,915 --> 00:43:23,715 Speaker 1: sixty two, is a top priority for the organization. Excuse 642 00:43:23,755 --> 00:43:28,915 Speaker 1: me ball shit. However, Uniclo will hold the rights to 643 00:43:28,955 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: the playing field, which will likely be named Uniclo Field 644 00:43:32,515 --> 00:43:35,155 Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. Its name will be used in all 645 00:43:35,235 --> 00:43:38,795 Speaker 1: references in signage related to Dodger Stadium, including a newly 646 00:43:38,835 --> 00:43:42,915 Speaker 1: constructed sign in center field. Uniclo will also hold exclusive 647 00:43:42,955 --> 00:43:48,155 Speaker 1: marketing and promotional opportunities as the organization's top sponsor. Unquote, 648 00:43:50,515 --> 00:43:53,315 Speaker 1: you fell for it. There's gonna be a big sign 649 00:43:53,395 --> 00:43:57,715 Speaker 1: in center field reading Uniclot Field at Dodger Stadium or something, 650 00:43:58,315 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: and all the broadcasters on the Dodger games will have 651 00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:04,315 Speaker 1: to say from Unigoo Field at Dodger Stadium. And you 652 00:44:04,435 --> 00:44:07,475 Speaker 1: know that they have got to at least have been 653 00:44:07,555 --> 00:44:12,075 Speaker 1: looking into trying to ai Vin Scully's voice so they 654 00:44:12,075 --> 00:44:15,435 Speaker 1: can get Vinn to say, from beyond the grave, it's 655 00:44:15,555 --> 00:44:23,235 Speaker 1: time for Dodger Baseball from unicrab Field at Dodger Stadium. 656 00:44:23,715 --> 00:44:27,475 Speaker 1: But they didn't sell the naming rights to make more 657 00:44:27,555 --> 00:44:31,395 Speaker 1: money for a franchise now valued it being worth eight 658 00:44:31,515 --> 00:44:37,955 Speaker 1: billion dollars. You can still say Dodgers Stadium. Of course, 659 00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:41,435 Speaker 1: there will probably be an attendant in a quaint nineteen 660 00:44:41,515 --> 00:44:44,315 Speaker 1: sixty two Dodger straw hat will then tap you on 661 00:44:44,395 --> 00:44:47,275 Speaker 1: the shoulder and politely tell you that you will now 662 00:44:47,355 --> 00:44:50,515 Speaker 1: be ejected from the place unless you immediately revise what 663 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:54,115 Speaker 1: you just said so that you actually said you are 664 00:44:54,155 --> 00:45:00,635 Speaker 1: at unagreed field at Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers, 665 00:45:01,235 --> 00:45:05,515 Speaker 1: who just made the Yankees look dignified. Two Day's other 666 00:45:07,155 --> 00:45:17,315 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world, brought to you by Una Klow. 667 00:45:36,355 --> 00:45:39,635 Speaker 1: Haven't done this for a while. Every dog has its day. 668 00:45:40,675 --> 00:45:43,235 Speaker 1: My request to you to help me with a dog 669 00:45:43,315 --> 00:45:46,835 Speaker 1: in need. And I know doing this every show kind 670 00:45:46,835 --> 00:45:49,315 Speaker 1: of wore you guys out, so I have limited it 671 00:45:49,355 --> 00:45:53,075 Speaker 1: to two. I don't remember the last time I did this. 672 00:45:53,675 --> 00:45:56,035 Speaker 1: But this is special. This is close to my heart. 673 00:45:56,155 --> 00:45:59,875 Speaker 1: It is about not just a senior Maltese, but two 674 00:45:59,915 --> 00:46:04,395 Speaker 1: of them. Two senior Malteses, bonded girls who appear to 675 00:46:04,435 --> 00:46:06,795 Speaker 1: have been rescued from a life in a puppy mill. 676 00:46:07,475 --> 00:46:09,675 Speaker 1: They are safe with each other, they are wonderful, they 677 00:46:09,675 --> 00:46:12,915 Speaker 1: are healthy, and they need a home together. They can't 678 00:46:12,915 --> 00:46:16,235 Speaker 1: be split up. By the way, if adopting two dogs 679 00:46:16,635 --> 00:46:18,595 Speaker 1: seems like a lot to you, let me assure you 680 00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:21,875 Speaker 1: it is worth the extra effort, and the extra effort 681 00:46:21,955 --> 00:46:26,275 Speaker 1: is only about fifty percent. It's not double and adopting 682 00:46:26,315 --> 00:46:30,915 Speaker 1: a senior dog. Senior dogs know how to be dogs already, 683 00:46:31,435 --> 00:46:34,195 Speaker 1: and they recognize when you're helping them, and the moment 684 00:46:34,275 --> 00:46:37,115 Speaker 1: they begin to thank you will be as special a 685 00:46:37,155 --> 00:46:40,795 Speaker 1: moment as you will have in your life. So two 686 00:46:40,875 --> 00:46:44,595 Speaker 1: these two girls are fostered in Centerville, Pennsylvania, which is 687 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:48,595 Speaker 1: about an hour south of Eerie and really close to 688 00:46:48,675 --> 00:46:53,195 Speaker 1: almost everywhere in the Northeast, everywhere from Cleveland the east. 689 00:46:53,555 --> 00:46:57,475 Speaker 1: My Tie and soria The guess is they're ten years old. 690 00:46:57,515 --> 00:47:00,515 Speaker 1: They are gentle, they are shy. They will need a patient, 691 00:47:00,915 --> 00:47:03,635 Speaker 1: calm home. But once they accept that home, they'll be 692 00:47:03,835 --> 00:47:08,515 Speaker 1: like puppies. Soriah is deaf, you'd never know it. She 693 00:47:08,955 --> 00:47:13,155 Speaker 1: reads hand signs, She gets along fabulously, and she's very playful. 694 00:47:13,475 --> 00:47:15,875 Speaker 1: They have a puppy pen in their foster home. It 695 00:47:15,955 --> 00:47:18,555 Speaker 1: is their safe space. Anything that goes wrong, as long 696 00:47:18,595 --> 00:47:21,355 Speaker 1: as they can get back into their puppy pen, they're happy. 697 00:47:22,075 --> 00:47:23,995 Speaker 1: All the vaccines are up to date, their chip, that 698 00:47:24,155 --> 00:47:27,395 Speaker 1: got their shots, They've had their dentals. They are great 699 00:47:27,515 --> 00:47:31,195 Speaker 1: adoptable dogs. I would take them in a moment, but 700 00:47:31,275 --> 00:47:35,155 Speaker 1: that would give me six Anyway, if you're within driving 701 00:47:35,235 --> 00:47:38,355 Speaker 1: range of Centreville, Pennsylvania, like I said, a big area. 702 00:47:38,995 --> 00:47:42,235 Speaker 1: I mean, you're two hours from Cleveland, you're six seven 703 00:47:42,355 --> 00:47:46,155 Speaker 1: from New York, you can apply to adopt them. If 704 00:47:46,155 --> 00:47:48,435 Speaker 1: you want to see them. There's video. You can go 705 00:47:48,475 --> 00:47:53,475 Speaker 1: to Instagram. Just type in my tie, m Ai Tai Maltese, 706 00:47:53,675 --> 00:47:56,955 Speaker 1: my time Maltese and it's the first video that will 707 00:47:56,995 --> 00:48:00,035 Speaker 1: come up. Or go to American Maltese Rescue dot org 708 00:48:00,475 --> 00:48:04,395 Speaker 1: American Maltese Rescue dot org and look for the story 709 00:48:04,475 --> 00:48:07,195 Speaker 1: of my Tie and Soria And I'll put all this 710 00:48:07,195 --> 00:48:10,835 Speaker 1: stuff on my socials too. My Tie, thanks you, and 711 00:48:10,915 --> 00:48:22,035 Speaker 1: soriah thanks you, and I thank you. Back in a 712 00:48:22,075 --> 00:48:24,635 Speaker 1: moment with things I promised not to tell, and the 713 00:48:24,675 --> 00:48:28,955 Speaker 1: story of how my great grandfather gave away the name 714 00:48:29,875 --> 00:48:32,875 Speaker 1: and one thousand dollars in stock in the company that 715 00:48:32,995 --> 00:48:45,275 Speaker 1: became General Motors, to the number one story on the countdown, 716 00:48:45,595 --> 00:48:49,595 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic me and what is some much 717 00:48:49,675 --> 00:48:54,995 Speaker 1: needed comic relief. I think though my late father would 718 00:48:55,035 --> 00:48:57,635 Speaker 1: not have agreed with the idea that this was comic relief, 719 00:48:57,715 --> 00:49:03,955 Speaker 1: not at all. My great grandfather told this story every 720 00:49:03,995 --> 00:49:07,235 Speaker 1: day until he died. It was legendary in the family. 721 00:49:07,755 --> 00:49:13,035 Speaker 1: There is also considerable circumstantial evidence that it is all true, 722 00:49:14,075 --> 00:49:17,075 Speaker 1: and the last possible date that it could have actually 723 00:49:17,155 --> 00:49:23,515 Speaker 1: happened was Wednesday, the sixteenth of September nineteen o eight. 724 00:49:24,875 --> 00:49:29,595 Speaker 1: Antony Zelinsky was born in Krackoff in Poland in eighteen 725 00:49:29,715 --> 00:49:33,835 Speaker 1: sixty eight. My sister found some evidence that he changed 726 00:49:33,875 --> 00:49:37,235 Speaker 1: the way his name was spelled, that it was originally 727 00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:42,155 Speaker 1: Zelenski with two y's or two eyes at the end, 728 00:49:42,235 --> 00:49:45,035 Speaker 1: just like the Ukrainian president, and then he changed it 729 00:49:45,075 --> 00:49:51,155 Speaker 1: to ze l n Ski. Antony, or as my father 730 00:49:51,315 --> 00:49:55,275 Speaker 1: nicknamed him, the Great Financier, was a natural musician. He 731 00:49:55,315 --> 00:49:58,075 Speaker 1: could sing, he could play any instrument, He could compose 732 00:49:58,275 --> 00:50:01,035 Speaker 1: music and lyrics. He could teach you how to play. 733 00:50:01,315 --> 00:50:04,115 Speaker 1: He could build and repair anything from a kazoo to 734 00:50:04,195 --> 00:50:08,155 Speaker 1: a grand piano, and that from his late teens that 735 00:50:08,435 --> 00:50:11,995 Speaker 1: was how he made his income. He traveled all around 736 00:50:12,075 --> 00:50:16,315 Speaker 1: Europe from maybe eighteen eighty five eighty six eighty seven onwards, 737 00:50:16,395 --> 00:50:20,475 Speaker 1: staying at the homes of rich people for several days, 738 00:50:20,955 --> 00:50:23,275 Speaker 1: teaching the girls how to sing and the boys how 739 00:50:23,315 --> 00:50:26,475 Speaker 1: to play whatever was lying around the house, fixing the 740 00:50:26,515 --> 00:50:33,635 Speaker 1: broken harpsichord, cobbling together the odd flute. So one day 741 00:50:33,675 --> 00:50:36,235 Speaker 1: and we're guessing around eighteen eighty nine, eighteen ninety, he 742 00:50:36,315 --> 00:50:39,595 Speaker 1: traveled to the home of well off merchants in Odessa, 743 00:50:40,035 --> 00:50:45,035 Speaker 1: then part of Russia, the Chevshenkos. He taught the boys 744 00:50:45,035 --> 00:50:47,035 Speaker 1: how to sing and the girls how to play the organ, 745 00:50:47,075 --> 00:50:53,595 Speaker 1: and then he fell in love with the youngest daughter, Matrona. 746 00:50:54,635 --> 00:51:00,275 Speaker 1: The Chefshenkos were not happy when they discovered them in love, 747 00:51:00,795 --> 00:51:04,275 Speaker 1: and they chased my great grandfather and their daughter out 748 00:51:04,275 --> 00:51:07,075 Speaker 1: of the house, out of the city, and out of 749 00:51:07,115 --> 00:51:12,595 Speaker 1: the country. Anthony Zelenski went home to Poland, he married 750 00:51:12,635 --> 00:51:16,475 Speaker 1: his child bride. He returned to Krackoff, whereupon all of 751 00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:19,075 Speaker 1: his family then chased them out of the house, out 752 00:51:19,075 --> 00:51:21,515 Speaker 1: of the city, and out of the country. Get lost 753 00:51:21,555 --> 00:51:24,875 Speaker 1: with you and your Russian horror, he would later tell 754 00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:29,115 Speaker 1: the nephew for whom my father was named, Teddy. Antony 755 00:51:29,155 --> 00:51:31,755 Speaker 1: and Matrona had to think fast. It's eighteen eighty nine, 756 00:51:31,795 --> 00:51:35,115 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety. Where's a hard working guy thrown out of 757 00:51:35,195 --> 00:51:38,315 Speaker 1: Russia and Poland in a matter of days, Where's he 758 00:51:38,355 --> 00:51:46,035 Speaker 1: gonna go? They arrived in New York within weeks. This was, 759 00:51:46,115 --> 00:51:49,115 Speaker 1: after all, the place with the statue that said she 760 00:51:49,355 --> 00:51:52,675 Speaker 1: was the mother of all exiles. As I said, he 761 00:51:52,755 --> 00:51:55,875 Speaker 1: was a natural musician. He picked up the English language quickly, 762 00:51:55,875 --> 00:51:58,875 Speaker 1: and supposedly within a month or two, he was leaving 763 00:51:58,875 --> 00:52:02,315 Speaker 1: his wife, my great grandmother in their apartment in the 764 00:52:02,355 --> 00:52:05,795 Speaker 1: Bronx and getting on trains for cities as far west 765 00:52:05,795 --> 00:52:09,355 Speaker 1: as Chicago, going to the rich people's homes and getting 766 00:52:09,355 --> 00:52:12,075 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars to teach music and write music and 767 00:52:12,115 --> 00:52:14,555 Speaker 1: repair musical instruments, and then get back on the train 768 00:52:14,635 --> 00:52:17,995 Speaker 1: to New York. And though he earned a very good 769 00:52:18,075 --> 00:52:23,555 Speaker 1: income doing this, Anthony and his wife Matrona, lived frugally, 770 00:52:23,835 --> 00:52:27,275 Speaker 1: often without hot water in their home. Because my great 771 00:52:27,275 --> 00:52:34,395 Speaker 1: grandfather was now driven, driven to avenge himself. Teddy, he 772 00:52:34,435 --> 00:52:37,955 Speaker 1: would tell his nephew, who then told my dad, I 773 00:52:38,075 --> 00:52:40,795 Speaker 1: save every dollar I can save I in West in 774 00:52:40,875 --> 00:52:45,955 Speaker 1: the safest investment in the world. Debolish national bonds. For 775 00:52:46,035 --> 00:52:49,475 Speaker 1: one day. I will return to Kragov. I will buy 776 00:52:49,515 --> 00:52:52,835 Speaker 1: the biggest house on top of the biggest hill. I 777 00:52:52,875 --> 00:52:55,355 Speaker 1: will stand outside all day waving my money at my 778 00:52:55,435 --> 00:52:58,155 Speaker 1: relatives who made me and your aunt leave, and I 779 00:52:58,195 --> 00:53:01,755 Speaker 1: will be saying to them as loudly as I can, afyo, 780 00:53:03,915 --> 00:53:08,555 Speaker 1: this is my goal. And on and on. This went 781 00:53:09,235 --> 00:53:13,475 Speaker 1: for a decade and more until he went to Flint, Michigan, 782 00:53:14,155 --> 00:53:16,195 Speaker 1: to do his usual routine to stay at the house 783 00:53:16,195 --> 00:53:22,435 Speaker 1: of a prosperous American businessman, to write a family song anthem, 784 00:53:22,995 --> 00:53:26,075 Speaker 1: to repair the broken tuba, to teach the kids how 785 00:53:26,075 --> 00:53:30,995 Speaker 1: to play the guitar, and to generally delight the family, 786 00:53:31,035 --> 00:53:33,715 Speaker 1: in this case, the family of a businessman who he 787 00:53:33,795 --> 00:53:38,515 Speaker 1: remembered as mister Billy. Came the end of my great 788 00:53:38,555 --> 00:53:41,475 Speaker 1: grandfather stay with mister Billy and his family, and mister 789 00:53:41,515 --> 00:53:44,715 Speaker 1: Billy was so taken with Antony Zelensky that he took 790 00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:47,715 Speaker 1: him personally to the train station in Flint, Michigan, and 791 00:53:47,795 --> 00:53:51,595 Speaker 1: went with him onto the platform. Mister Zelenski, we have 792 00:53:51,715 --> 00:53:54,995 Speaker 1: been delighted to have you here, said mister Billy, so 793 00:53:55,195 --> 00:53:57,635 Speaker 1: delighted that I would be honored if you would accept, 794 00:53:58,035 --> 00:54:01,195 Speaker 1: instead of the five hundred dollars I owe you, if 795 00:54:01,235 --> 00:54:05,915 Speaker 1: you would accept one thousand dollars in stocks ortificates from 796 00:54:05,955 --> 00:54:09,355 Speaker 1: my business. My way of saying thanks, my way of 797 00:54:09,395 --> 00:54:11,315 Speaker 1: saying I hope you can return and visit us again. 798 00:54:12,915 --> 00:54:15,835 Speaker 1: My great grandfather always said he was moved almost to 799 00:54:15,995 --> 00:54:20,795 Speaker 1: tears by this gesture. But mister Billy, I live very inexpensively. 800 00:54:20,875 --> 00:54:23,315 Speaker 1: I invest all of my money in the world's safest 801 00:54:23,315 --> 00:54:28,355 Speaker 1: in Westman, the Polish National Bonds. Mister Billy congratulated Antony 802 00:54:28,355 --> 00:54:31,795 Speaker 1: on his prudence, but he said, I believe I am 803 00:54:31,955 --> 00:54:34,795 Speaker 1: at the cusp here of the next great business in 804 00:54:34,875 --> 00:54:38,475 Speaker 1: this country, and I would again offer you this stock. 805 00:54:39,515 --> 00:54:42,235 Speaker 1: I think you will make so much money that you 806 00:54:42,275 --> 00:54:45,675 Speaker 1: can take it and buy all the Polish National Bonds 807 00:54:45,715 --> 00:54:50,035 Speaker 1: you can find. My great grandfather thought about this for 808 00:54:50,075 --> 00:54:54,115 Speaker 1: a moment. I know, mister Billy, you mentioned you own 809 00:54:54,315 --> 00:54:58,715 Speaker 1: a manufactory in town. What is this you manufactore? Mister 810 00:54:58,755 --> 00:55:02,395 Speaker 1: Billy said, We're in the automobile business. Mister Zelensky, my 811 00:55:02,435 --> 00:55:06,555 Speaker 1: great grandfather lit up. Yes, the streets of New York 812 00:55:06,995 --> 00:55:10,515 Speaker 1: filled with the automobiles. This is the coming thing. But 813 00:55:10,595 --> 00:55:13,435 Speaker 1: I still I will still take the cash and I 814 00:55:13,435 --> 00:55:16,315 Speaker 1: will invest in the world safest in Westment, the Polish 815 00:55:16,435 --> 00:55:20,755 Speaker 1: National Bonds. The train was late. There was an awkward 816 00:55:20,875 --> 00:55:25,155 Speaker 1: silence between the two men, which my great grandfather finally broke. 817 00:55:25,995 --> 00:55:29,675 Speaker 1: Do I know the name of your company, mister Billy. 818 00:55:30,635 --> 00:55:34,515 Speaker 1: Mister Billy replied, well, that's the topic of the moment, 819 00:55:34,555 --> 00:55:36,755 Speaker 1: mister Zelensky, and I must say, having gotten to know 820 00:55:36,795 --> 00:55:38,955 Speaker 1: you in the last week, I am not at all 821 00:55:39,075 --> 00:55:42,835 Speaker 1: surprised that you have brought this subject up, because currently 822 00:55:42,875 --> 00:55:50,275 Speaker 1: my company is called Buick Motor Cars. My great grandfather said, Ah, yes, Buke, 823 00:55:50,915 --> 00:55:54,035 Speaker 1: I have heard of Buke. You are changing the name, 824 00:55:55,715 --> 00:56:01,315 Speaker 1: not exactly, mister Billy began. I believe, mister Zelinsky, that 825 00:56:01,355 --> 00:56:06,995 Speaker 1: the automotive business is going to grow exponent but we 826 00:56:07,155 --> 00:56:11,075 Speaker 1: have one large company in this field, now Ford, my 827 00:56:11,155 --> 00:56:15,755 Speaker 1: great grandfather nodded in recognition, And dozens of the smaller 828 00:56:15,795 --> 00:56:19,475 Speaker 1: companies like mine, like Buick. So I'm going to buy 829 00:56:19,595 --> 00:56:22,395 Speaker 1: up several of my competitors and I'm going to form 830 00:56:22,675 --> 00:56:25,395 Speaker 1: one company that's going to be bigger than Ford, and 831 00:56:25,675 --> 00:56:29,515 Speaker 1: I think we will dominate the automobile field for decades 832 00:56:29,515 --> 00:56:34,475 Speaker 1: to come. Ah yes, said my great grandfather in appreciation. 833 00:56:34,835 --> 00:56:38,995 Speaker 1: And what is it you will call this behemoth? Mister 834 00:56:39,035 --> 00:56:42,235 Speaker 1: Billy laughed again. You cut to the heart of the matter, 835 00:56:42,275 --> 00:56:46,075 Speaker 1: mister Lensky, We are debating that right now. We need 836 00:56:46,155 --> 00:56:51,795 Speaker 1: something that expresses our national stature. My great grandfather shook 837 00:56:51,795 --> 00:56:54,755 Speaker 1: his head at this. The problem is an easy one. No, 838 00:56:55,755 --> 00:57:03,235 Speaker 1: you use National, National motor cars. Now it is mister 839 00:57:03,275 --> 00:57:07,515 Speaker 1: Billy's turn to laugh again. Your insight is extraordinary. That 840 00:57:07,675 --> 00:57:10,795 Speaker 1: was our first thought, as well, my very words. But 841 00:57:10,875 --> 00:57:13,795 Speaker 1: would you believe there is a company in Indiana, of 842 00:57:13,835 --> 00:57:17,035 Speaker 1: all places, they make electric automobiles which will never work, 843 00:57:17,675 --> 00:57:20,995 Speaker 1: and they are called National motor Vehicles. We need a 844 00:57:21,035 --> 00:57:25,875 Speaker 1: different name. We can't use national. American is taken, Continental 845 00:57:25,995 --> 00:57:28,795 Speaker 1: is taken, and damn it, mister Zelinski, we can't think 846 00:57:28,795 --> 00:57:32,955 Speaker 1: of a good name that isn't already taken. My great 847 00:57:32,955 --> 00:57:38,475 Speaker 1: grandfather thought for a second. You wish to express the national, 848 00:57:38,675 --> 00:57:47,915 Speaker 1: the American, the broadly available, the national Continental. What is 849 00:57:47,955 --> 00:57:53,755 Speaker 1: the word in English about the availability of your vehicles? 850 00:57:54,635 --> 00:58:02,515 Speaker 1: The general, the general availability of your vehiculars? Mister Billy, 851 00:58:03,355 --> 00:58:11,555 Speaker 1: why not that? Why not general general automobiles, general automotive, 852 00:58:12,595 --> 00:58:22,995 Speaker 1: general motor car, or or maybe general motors. Now it 853 00:58:23,035 --> 00:58:26,715 Speaker 1: was time for mister Billy to become pensive. Finally he 854 00:58:26,835 --> 00:58:35,315 Speaker 1: spoke general motors. H it does have a certain ring 855 00:58:35,555 --> 00:58:43,835 Speaker 1: to it. Mister Zelensky, Oh look, here's your train. Mister 856 00:58:43,955 --> 00:58:48,435 Speaker 1: Billy was, of course Billy Durant, and Billy Durant owned 857 00:58:48,595 --> 00:58:52,035 Speaker 1: Durant Dort, and then he owned Buick, and then he 858 00:58:52,115 --> 00:58:56,955 Speaker 1: consolidated thirteen auto manufacturers and ten parts and accessories companies 859 00:58:56,995 --> 00:59:01,355 Speaker 1: together into, as it was called on the day Billy 860 00:59:01,555 --> 00:59:05,555 Speaker 1: and his partners opened the escrow account on Wednesday, September sixteenth, 861 00:59:05,635 --> 00:59:08,075 Speaker 1: nineteen oh eight, as it was called as of that day, 862 00:59:08,395 --> 00:59:15,435 Speaker 1: General Motors Holding Company. My great grandfather, meanwhile, having gotten 863 00:59:15,475 --> 00:59:18,475 Speaker 1: another five hundred dollars to invest in the world's safest 864 00:59:18,515 --> 00:59:22,955 Speaker 1: investment instead of one thousand dollars in stock in not 865 00:59:23,355 --> 00:59:29,995 Speaker 1: General Motors, but the company that would become General Motors. 866 00:59:30,795 --> 00:59:35,035 Speaker 1: Having passed on that and given the chairman of the 867 00:59:35,035 --> 00:59:40,635 Speaker 1: company the name General Motors for free, my great grandfather 868 00:59:40,675 --> 00:59:44,915 Speaker 1: returned to New York. He died fifteen years later. And 869 00:59:44,955 --> 00:59:47,635 Speaker 1: to his credit, we know of this story because the 870 00:59:47,715 --> 00:59:50,675 Speaker 1: person who told it to everyone with a laugh, with 871 00:59:50,715 --> 00:59:53,315 Speaker 1: a warning to his relatives that none of them had 872 00:59:53,355 --> 00:59:58,555 Speaker 1: the genes of a businessman either, was my great grandfather himself. 873 01:00:00,915 --> 01:00:06,355 Speaker 1: Needless to say this, good self deprecating humor makes my 874 01:00:06,435 --> 01:00:12,515 Speaker 1: great grandfather my favorite of all of my ancestors, and 875 01:00:12,555 --> 01:00:14,995 Speaker 1: I hope wherever he went when he died in nineteen 876 01:00:15,035 --> 01:00:18,075 Speaker 1: twenty three, his humor went with him. Because there were 877 01:00:18,115 --> 01:00:22,435 Speaker 1: several postscripts to this story that lend it authenticity and 878 01:00:22,675 --> 01:00:28,155 Speaker 1: drive the rest of us even more nuts. My father 879 01:00:28,395 --> 01:00:30,435 Speaker 1: was very much alive in nineteen forty. He was an 880 01:00:30,475 --> 01:00:34,875 Speaker 1: eleven year old boy with his uncle Teddy Antony's nephew, 881 01:00:35,035 --> 01:00:40,075 Speaker 1: my great grandfather's nephew, living with my dad and my 882 01:00:40,195 --> 01:00:45,995 Speaker 1: grandparents and my uncles in the Bronx. My dad told 883 01:00:45,995 --> 01:00:48,195 Speaker 1: me that one day there was a knock on the 884 01:00:48,275 --> 01:00:51,195 Speaker 1: apartment door and he opened it to the site, as 885 01:00:51,195 --> 01:00:53,955 Speaker 1: he put it, the sight of the two best suits 886 01:00:53,995 --> 01:00:57,795 Speaker 1: of clothes I had ever seen in my life. The 887 01:00:57,835 --> 01:01:00,795 Speaker 1: two men asked for my dad's uncle, and he went 888 01:01:00,835 --> 01:01:03,635 Speaker 1: and got him, and the men began to speak Polish 889 01:01:04,075 --> 01:01:08,075 Speaker 1: to Uncle Teddy. Gentlemen, we are here in America. Would 890 01:01:08,115 --> 01:01:13,355 Speaker 1: you please speak English in front of my family. Mister Zelinsky, 891 01:01:13,835 --> 01:01:16,515 Speaker 1: one of the suits said, we know that your uncle 892 01:01:16,595 --> 01:01:19,675 Speaker 1: left you his investments in Polish national bonds. He was 893 01:01:19,715 --> 01:01:24,035 Speaker 1: obviously a great Polish patriot. We represent the Polish government 894 01:01:24,075 --> 01:01:26,915 Speaker 1: in exile, when we run the Nazis out of our 895 01:01:26,955 --> 01:01:30,715 Speaker 1: homeland and freedom is again ours. I know your uncle 896 01:01:30,795 --> 01:01:35,795 Speaker 1: would have and you would want the free Polish national 897 01:01:35,835 --> 01:01:41,115 Speaker 1: State to be burdened financially to the least possible degree. 898 01:01:41,155 --> 01:01:44,595 Speaker 1: Mister Zelinsky, your uncle was the fourth largest private investor 899 01:01:44,675 --> 01:01:48,995 Speaker 1: in Polish national bonds in North America. In fact, he 900 01:01:49,155 --> 01:01:52,955 Speaker 1: was just a few notches behind the National Bank of Mexico. 901 01:01:54,035 --> 01:01:59,995 Speaker 1: Will you retire these bonds for a nominal fee as 902 01:02:00,075 --> 01:02:07,635 Speaker 1: a great Polish patriot. My dad was never sure how 903 01:02:07,915 --> 01:02:10,835 Speaker 1: nominal the feat was, but he was convinced his uncle 904 01:02:10,875 --> 01:02:13,195 Speaker 1: got less than five hundred dollars for what was at 905 01:02:13,315 --> 01:02:16,155 Speaker 1: least one hundred thousand dollars in bonds that were due 906 01:02:16,155 --> 01:02:20,475 Speaker 1: in the year nineteen fifty or later. My dad did 907 01:02:20,515 --> 01:02:24,035 Speaker 1: not spend his life wondering about his grandfather's magnificent moment 908 01:02:24,075 --> 01:02:26,835 Speaker 1: of investment stupidity, but it would occasionally wake him in 909 01:02:26,915 --> 01:02:31,395 Speaker 1: the middle of the night. I didn't hear him screaming 910 01:02:31,395 --> 01:02:34,875 Speaker 1: through the walls or anything, but it bothered him, and 911 01:02:34,955 --> 01:02:39,675 Speaker 1: it then began to bother me. And on my dad's 912 01:02:39,755 --> 01:02:42,915 Speaker 1: nightly commutes from Manhattan to our little home in the suburbs. 913 01:02:43,355 --> 01:02:45,795 Speaker 1: My dad came to know the other regulars on the train, 914 01:02:45,955 --> 01:02:49,075 Speaker 1: just like Don Draper did on Mad Men. It's the 915 01:02:49,115 --> 01:02:52,475 Speaker 1: same train, and one of the regulars on that train 916 01:02:52,515 --> 01:02:58,235 Speaker 1: turned out to be, of all things, a stock market historian. Naturally, 917 01:02:58,355 --> 01:03:01,795 Speaker 1: Dad told him the story in the stock historian invited 918 01:03:01,795 --> 01:03:04,555 Speaker 1: my dad to stop by his office at lunch one days. 919 01:03:04,915 --> 01:03:08,595 Speaker 1: Sit down, Ted, and I mean, I mean sit down. 920 01:03:10,075 --> 01:03:14,555 Speaker 1: The historian showed my father the math. This was what 921 01:03:14,595 --> 01:03:18,035 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars in Buick in nineteen oh eight turned 922 01:03:18,035 --> 01:03:22,235 Speaker 1: into when Billy Durant created General Motors. Here's where it split. 923 01:03:22,875 --> 01:03:26,635 Speaker 1: Here's where the stocks split again, Here's when it quartered 924 01:03:26,675 --> 01:03:29,995 Speaker 1: after they forced Durant out. Then he bought Chevrolet, and 925 01:03:30,035 --> 01:03:32,555 Speaker 1: he came back in and took over again, and they 926 01:03:32,595 --> 01:03:35,115 Speaker 1: splitted it. And my father said he started a sweat 927 01:03:35,155 --> 01:03:41,635 Speaker 1: and finally said, just tell me already, Ted, the thousand 928 01:03:41,835 --> 01:03:47,875 Speaker 1: dollars your great grandfather turned down nineteen oh seven or 929 01:03:48,035 --> 01:03:56,515 Speaker 1: eight would now be worth about sixty million dollars. My 930 01:03:56,635 --> 01:04:00,315 Speaker 1: father said. He struggled to not pass out his friend 931 01:04:00,355 --> 01:04:04,195 Speaker 1: from the train, then said, plus the value of the name. 932 01:04:05,035 --> 01:04:07,795 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't get that figure exactly, but it's 933 01:04:07,795 --> 01:04:12,395 Speaker 1: got to be another couple million at least, especially if 934 01:04:12,395 --> 01:04:19,155 Speaker 1: he had taken stock in exchange for it. Wait, it 935 01:04:19,195 --> 01:04:22,435 Speaker 1: gets worse. There's one more twist to this knife. When 936 01:04:22,555 --> 01:04:25,795 Speaker 1: unions ran the Soviets out of Poland and lect Valsa 937 01:04:25,915 --> 01:04:28,795 Speaker 1: became the President of the Free Poland in nineteen ninety, 938 01:04:29,475 --> 01:04:32,395 Speaker 1: he gave a speech establishing the new government, and he 939 01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:37,315 Speaker 1: spoke naturally in Polish until that is, it was time 940 01:04:37,355 --> 01:04:40,235 Speaker 1: to address one topic, and then the president read that 941 01:04:40,395 --> 01:04:46,035 Speaker 1: part in the international language of finance English, my government 942 01:04:46,115 --> 01:04:50,835 Speaker 1: will recognize and honor the following years of the Polish 943 01:04:50,915 --> 01:04:57,235 Speaker 1: national bonds. My dad called me that night. He had 944 01:04:57,235 --> 01:05:00,795 Speaker 1: spoken to his stock historian friend and gotten a rough estimate. 945 01:05:02,475 --> 01:05:05,715 Speaker 1: My great grandfather had turned down six million dollars in 946 01:05:05,795 --> 01:05:10,195 Speaker 1: general motors stock to keep, say, one hundred thousand dollars 947 01:05:10,235 --> 01:05:14,155 Speaker 1: in Polish bonds doing the year nineteen fifty, and le 948 01:05:14,355 --> 01:05:16,915 Speaker 1: Belessa had just said, we will pay on those bonds. 949 01:05:17,035 --> 01:05:20,115 Speaker 1: And so if great grandfather's nephew had just sat on them, 950 01:05:20,435 --> 01:05:23,115 Speaker 1: if he'd thrown the guys in the great suits out 951 01:05:23,355 --> 01:05:29,075 Speaker 1: and just accepted his great beloved uncle's mistake and just 952 01:05:29,435 --> 01:05:32,435 Speaker 1: cut his losses there. If he just held on to 953 01:05:32,555 --> 01:05:35,915 Speaker 1: the bonds that he chose over the sixty million dollars, 954 01:05:35,955 --> 01:05:41,315 Speaker 1: the bonds would have been worth five or six million. Keith, 955 01:05:42,235 --> 01:05:46,515 Speaker 1: my dad said quietly over the phone. Let me remind 956 01:05:46,555 --> 01:05:55,315 Speaker 1: you what the great financier my grandfather told everyone. Remember this, 957 01:05:57,355 --> 01:06:15,875 Speaker 1: none of us have the genes of a businessman. I've 958 01:06:15,875 --> 01:06:17,635 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 959 01:06:17,675 --> 01:06:20,595 Speaker 1: for listening. Our musical directors have countdown our John Phillip 960 01:06:20,635 --> 01:06:24,595 Speaker 1: Schaneil on keyboards and handling the orchestration, and Brian Ray 961 01:06:24,755 --> 01:06:28,635 Speaker 1: on guitars, bass and drums. Their work is produced by 962 01:06:28,675 --> 01:06:32,715 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 963 01:06:33,275 --> 01:06:37,915 Speaker 1: is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. Nancy 964 01:06:37,995 --> 01:06:41,395 Speaker 1: used to work at Kamiski Park before the old idiots 965 01:06:41,435 --> 01:06:43,675 Speaker 1: who owned the White Sox changed the name of it 966 01:06:43,715 --> 01:06:51,715 Speaker 1: to I don't know dust mold Stadium, whatever it is. 967 01:06:52,635 --> 01:06:55,515 Speaker 1: When we play the sports music, it's the old Olderman 968 01:06:55,635 --> 01:06:59,715 Speaker 1: Show theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis 969 01:06:59,715 --> 01:07:03,315 Speaker 1: Curtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music is arranged and performed 970 01:07:03,355 --> 01:07:05,915 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed and my announcer today 971 01:07:05,955 --> 01:07:11,075 Speaker 1: is my friend Tony Kornheiser, brought to you by probably 972 01:07:11,155 --> 01:07:16,555 Speaker 1: a probably a cab, maybe the bus. The program was 973 01:07:16,595 --> 01:07:23,675 Speaker 1: produced by Ted Ted, whose birthday is tomorrow, Happy birthdate. 974 01:07:24,595 --> 01:07:28,035 Speaker 1: Everything else was, as always my fault. That's countdown for today. 975 01:07:28,115 --> 01:07:31,555 Speaker 1: Day four hundred and twenty four of America held hostage again, 976 01:07:32,155 --> 01:07:34,875 Speaker 1: just one thirty nine days until the scheduled end of 977 01:07:34,915 --> 01:07:37,235 Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brained term, unless he is 978 01:07:37,275 --> 01:07:45,675 Speaker 1: removed sooner by our allies at harg Island. The next 979 01:07:45,675 --> 01:07:49,435 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Monday Bulletins. As the news merits until 980 01:07:49,475 --> 01:07:51,875 Speaker 1: the next one. I'm Keith Oldraman, good morning, good afternoon, 981 01:07:51,915 --> 01:08:02,275 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck dig We must Digmy was 982 01:08:02,675 --> 01:08:06,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 983 01:08:06,835 --> 01:08:11,875 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 984 01:08:11,995 --> 01:08:13,955 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.