1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. My 2 00:00:21,435 --> 00:00:25,195 Speaker 1: friend Donald Sutherland died yesterday and I have a lot 3 00:00:25,235 --> 00:00:26,875 Speaker 1: to tell you about him, and I will do that. 4 00:00:27,475 --> 00:00:30,275 Speaker 1: But as someone who began his professional life as a 5 00:00:30,435 --> 00:00:33,955 Speaker 1: radio news reporter as a teenager, he would have been 6 00:00:33,995 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: appalled if I led with him, and not with my 7 00:00:37,275 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: suspicion that somebody is setting up Trump's concierge, Judge Eileen Cannon, 8 00:00:42,315 --> 00:00:45,955 Speaker 1: for removal from his case and maybe removal from the bench, 9 00:00:45,995 --> 00:00:50,155 Speaker 1: and amen to both. The New York Times quotes two 10 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:54,035 Speaker 1: sources briefed on the conversations who say that the Chief 11 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:58,315 Speaker 1: Judge of the Southern District of Florida and another experienced 12 00:00:58,395 --> 00:01:01,715 Speaker 1: judge both called Judge Cannon a year ago this month 13 00:01:01,915 --> 00:01:04,595 Speaker 1: to urge her to recuse herself from the Trump case, 14 00:01:04,795 --> 00:01:08,755 Speaker 1: to decline handling it, to send it to a different judge, 15 00:01:08,795 --> 00:01:12,195 Speaker 1: not just because of the terrible optics, but because she 16 00:01:12,275 --> 00:01:15,595 Speaker 1: was so inexperienced behind the bench, let alone behind the 17 00:01:15,595 --> 00:01:19,475 Speaker 1: bench in such a high profile and complicated case. The 18 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:24,755 Speaker 1: obvious peril is that Trump appointed Judge Cannon, and this 19 00:01:24,955 --> 00:01:29,715 Speaker 1: was emphasized to her by Chief Judge Cecilia Altlanaga, who 20 00:01:29,795 --> 00:01:33,715 Speaker 1: herself was appointed to the Circuit Court by Governor Jeb 21 00:01:33,755 --> 00:01:37,515 Speaker 1: Bush and then appointed to the Federal Court by President 22 00:01:37,515 --> 00:01:41,915 Speaker 1: George W. Bush. So one would think Judge Altonaga's opinion 23 00:01:42,275 --> 00:01:46,475 Speaker 1: on bad appointment optics would be taken seriously by Eileen Cannon. 24 00:01:46,635 --> 00:01:49,955 Speaker 1: But it's Aileen goddamned Canon. And as I always feel 25 00:01:49,995 --> 00:01:53,075 Speaker 1: compelled to mention to you, she is the former yoga 26 00:01:53,115 --> 00:01:57,195 Speaker 1: and flamenco correspondent for the Miami Nuevo Herald newspaper. Then 27 00:01:57,235 --> 00:01:59,155 Speaker 1: I wish I were making that up, but I'm not. 28 00:01:59,275 --> 00:02:01,435 Speaker 1: And she is a nit wit, and her handling of 29 00:02:01,435 --> 00:02:04,235 Speaker 1: the last year has been, at its best and most 30 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: noble moments, an utter disgrace, and at its worst so corrupt, 31 00:02:08,555 --> 00:02:12,515 Speaker 1: so slow, so inadequate, that not only was she chastised 32 00:02:12,755 --> 00:02:15,995 Speaker 1: by a conservative appeals court panel, but all of her 33 00:02:16,035 --> 00:02:22,795 Speaker 1: behavior would embarrass Clarence Thomas. Needless to say, the Times 34 00:02:22,835 --> 00:02:28,275 Speaker 1: reports Judge Canon refused to follow Judge Altonaga's suggestion or 35 00:02:28,995 --> 00:02:32,595 Speaker 1: the suggestion by the other senior Florida judge, whose identity 36 00:02:32,635 --> 00:02:36,075 Speaker 1: the Times sources did not reveal, although it does explain 37 00:02:36,475 --> 00:02:40,075 Speaker 1: that the unidentified judge called first and when Canon did 38 00:02:40,075 --> 00:02:43,755 Speaker 1: not take that hint, only then did the chief judge 39 00:02:43,755 --> 00:02:47,875 Speaker 1: follow up. There is a reason I suggest that this 40 00:02:47,915 --> 00:02:51,195 Speaker 1: story and the leak or leaks or planted leaks behind 41 00:02:51,235 --> 00:02:54,755 Speaker 1: it pressage a bid to get Canon off the case 42 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:58,235 Speaker 1: beyond the obvious one that you just don't hear stories 43 00:02:58,235 --> 00:03:02,075 Speaker 1: of judges criticizing other judges, especially judges who would seemingly 44 00:03:02,155 --> 00:03:06,755 Speaker 1: share the same political origins and leafs as Altonaga and Canon. 45 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:12,395 Speaker 1: The Times story contains details of what Canon has done 46 00:03:12,435 --> 00:03:16,155 Speaker 1: wrong and what the chief judge warned her she could 47 00:03:16,155 --> 00:03:19,195 Speaker 1: do wrong, And they look like somebody is trying to 48 00:03:19,235 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: warn Judge Cannon that if even at this laid date 49 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:24,675 Speaker 1: she does not bow out, they are going to take 50 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: the limited steps available to them to get the Eleventh 51 00:03:28,035 --> 00:03:31,675 Speaker 1: Circuit Court to throw her out. But the details, the 52 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:35,435 Speaker 1: choice of details, is what makes me think this is 53 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:38,595 Speaker 1: the start of a get rid of Canon move. The 54 00:03:38,675 --> 00:03:42,635 Speaker 1: details are not the ones, the obvious ones, the fact 55 00:03:42,675 --> 00:03:45,315 Speaker 1: that she's in the tank for Trump. The details are 56 00:03:45,355 --> 00:03:48,835 Speaker 1: instead about how she did not follow accepted practice for 57 00:03:48,955 --> 00:03:52,715 Speaker 1: federal judges to farm out the pre trial motions to 58 00:03:52,795 --> 00:03:57,195 Speaker 1: a magistrate judge, how she indefinitely postponed the trial. How 59 00:03:57,275 --> 00:04:01,555 Speaker 1: even after the prosecution and the defense had both said 60 00:04:01,595 --> 00:04:04,395 Speaker 1: they were ready to go, she still declined to set 61 00:04:04,395 --> 00:04:08,555 Speaker 1: a start date. The details are about how she failed 62 00:04:08,595 --> 00:04:13,395 Speaker 1: to recognize that the case required a secure facility, a 63 00:04:13,515 --> 00:04:17,475 Speaker 1: skiff suitable to handle the classified materials that are at 64 00:04:17,515 --> 00:04:20,315 Speaker 1: the heart of the trial, and instead of handing the 65 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:23,115 Speaker 1: trial off to a judge operating in the federal courthouse 66 00:04:23,155 --> 00:04:25,995 Speaker 1: in Miami, which is where Trump was indicted and which 67 00:04:26,035 --> 00:04:30,395 Speaker 1: already has such a secure skiff facility, she kept the 68 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:36,075 Speaker 1: case in Fort freaking Pierce, two hours away. And because 69 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:39,395 Speaker 1: she did that, that has required the wasting of taxpayer 70 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:44,675 Speaker 1: money to build a whole new secure facility just for 71 00:04:44,795 --> 00:04:50,435 Speaker 1: this trial. That all, apparently was the argument from the 72 00:04:50,475 --> 00:04:55,915 Speaker 1: first judge. Chief Judge Altonaga reiterated those logistics in her call, 73 00:04:56,275 --> 00:04:58,715 Speaker 1: and then, according to The Times, brought up the optics 74 00:04:59,275 --> 00:05:01,915 Speaker 1: and Cannon's missteps when she got some of the Trump 75 00:05:01,995 --> 00:05:06,035 Speaker 1: nuisance motions about the search at Mary Lago. The Times 76 00:05:06,115 --> 00:05:09,715 Speaker 1: obviously does not identify its sources in this story about 77 00:05:09,715 --> 00:05:12,275 Speaker 1: the internal effort to get Canon off the Trump trial, 78 00:05:12,755 --> 00:05:16,155 Speaker 1: but it does say of those sources quote each had 79 00:05:16,195 --> 00:05:20,195 Speaker 1: been told about it by different federal judges in the 80 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:25,995 Speaker 1: Southern District of Florida, including Judge Altonaga. They are setting 81 00:05:26,035 --> 00:05:29,475 Speaker 1: Cannon up, setting her up for forced removal, and telling 82 00:05:29,475 --> 00:05:33,595 Speaker 1: her publicly that they're going to do it, but first 83 00:05:33,795 --> 00:05:36,835 Speaker 1: that they're giving her a way out. Whether or not 84 00:05:36,915 --> 00:05:40,315 Speaker 1: she listens, whether or not she can hear any of 85 00:05:40,355 --> 00:05:44,355 Speaker 1: it over the sound of the flamenco music of years 86 00:05:44,435 --> 00:05:48,795 Speaker 1: gone by, that is a separate question, as is whether 87 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:51,995 Speaker 1: or not there is some involvement here by the Office 88 00:05:52,035 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 1: of the Special Council, which would have to instigate or 89 00:05:55,075 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: at least accelerate the rare attempt to remove a judge who, 90 00:05:59,315 --> 00:06:03,755 Speaker 1: if she is not removed, will still be there ready 91 00:06:03,795 --> 00:06:32,875 Speaker 1: to rule off or more likely rule against their case. Okay, 92 00:06:32,875 --> 00:06:35,275 Speaker 1: time for Bob Kennedy Junior to drop out of the 93 00:06:35,275 --> 00:06:41,955 Speaker 1: presidential race. Time for him and vice presidential candidate Ditsy 94 00:06:42,075 --> 00:06:44,555 Speaker 1: mcmoney bags or whatever the hell her name is, to 95 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:49,435 Speaker 1: bow out, and for their party, the Asshole Party or 96 00:06:49,475 --> 00:06:52,315 Speaker 1: whatever its name is, to stop burning through millions of 97 00:06:52,355 --> 00:06:56,115 Speaker 1: dollars in Trump's stalking horse money, because under Robert F. 98 00:06:56,195 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior's name, his campaign has just threatened to put 99 00:07:00,715 --> 00:07:04,435 Speaker 1: Danna Bash and Jake Tapper and all the executives from 100 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:10,075 Speaker 1: in prison because they will not let Kennedy participate in 101 00:07:10,195 --> 00:07:15,395 Speaker 1: next week's debate prison Quoting the Kennedy campaign official statement, 102 00:07:16,155 --> 00:07:21,115 Speaker 1: serious jail time. Kennedy just threatened not merely to imprison 103 00:07:21,235 --> 00:07:27,475 Speaker 1: news reporters, but to imprison specific news reporters. This makes 104 00:07:27,555 --> 00:07:33,315 Speaker 1: Trump look good enough. I knew this man before. Whatever 105 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: it was he used to inject between his toes completely 106 00:07:36,795 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: destroyed his mind. And he was only and already and 107 00:07:41,115 --> 00:07:43,275 Speaker 1: given what happened to his father and to his uncle, 108 00:07:43,355 --> 00:07:49,955 Speaker 1: understandably tending towards conspiracy theories. This press release, this is 109 00:07:49,955 --> 00:07:54,355 Speaker 1: not a conspiracy theory. This is disqualifying. This is get 110 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:58,555 Speaker 1: everybody to the famous Kennedy compound in Hyanna's Port and 111 00:07:58,675 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: take a vote and forcibly institutionalize Bobby Junior. That level 112 00:08:03,955 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: of disqualifying. The press release begins quote CNN today announced 113 00:08:09,715 --> 00:08:12,235 Speaker 1: the June twenty seven debate in Atlanta will be a 114 00:08:12,315 --> 00:08:16,035 Speaker 1: head to head with Presidents Biden and Trump, excluding Kennedy 115 00:08:16,075 --> 00:08:19,675 Speaker 1: from the stage. This decision is a clear violation of 116 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:24,795 Speaker 1: federal law. Then we get the disqualifying quote from the 117 00:08:24,835 --> 00:08:28,795 Speaker 1: candidate himself. Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me 118 00:08:28,955 --> 00:08:36,675 Speaker 1: on the debate stage, and CNN illegally agreed to their demand. Unquote. Again, 119 00:08:36,715 --> 00:08:40,475 Speaker 1: the campaign says that because it is excluding Kennedy because 120 00:08:40,515 --> 00:08:42,635 Speaker 1: he has not been nominated by a major party nor 121 00:08:42,675 --> 00:08:47,155 Speaker 1: officially qualified for enough states for enough electoral votes to 122 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:50,435 Speaker 1: get elected, but that Biden and Trump have been accepted 123 00:08:50,435 --> 00:08:52,635 Speaker 1: for the debate even though technically they have not been 124 00:08:52,715 --> 00:08:58,315 Speaker 1: nominated yet either quote. This means CNN and every member 125 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:02,275 Speaker 1: of CNN who is participating in planning, executing, and holding 126 00:09:02,315 --> 00:09:06,355 Speaker 1: this debate is at risk of prosecut has happened to 127 00:09:06,475 --> 00:09:12,155 Speaker 1: Michael Cohen for violating campaign finance laws. This risk is 128 00:09:12,195 --> 00:09:15,835 Speaker 1: now acute given that any further violation would be knowing 129 00:09:15,915 --> 00:09:20,915 Speaker 1: and willful and thus could carry with it serious jail time. 130 00:09:23,555 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: It's serious insanity. It's literally insanity if the debate goes 131 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:34,675 Speaker 1: forward without mister Kennedy. The Kennedy campaign intends to pursue 132 00:09:34,715 --> 00:09:38,155 Speaker 1: this issue for as long as it takes to obtain 133 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:42,635 Speaker 1: justice against these illegal acts, if for no other reason 134 00:09:42,675 --> 00:09:46,155 Speaker 1: than to ensure this type of undemocratic and un American 135 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:51,675 Speaker 1: conduct does not occur again in the future. This is 136 00:09:51,755 --> 00:09:54,835 Speaker 1: after Kennedy suggested that the news organizations are run by 137 00:09:54,835 --> 00:10:01,515 Speaker 1: the CIA. He needs to be institutionalized, and Bunny mcs 138 00:10:01,515 --> 00:10:04,275 Speaker 1: self funding or whatever her name is, she needs to 139 00:10:04,275 --> 00:10:07,915 Speaker 1: take one of those Trump style cognitive tests. But fast 140 00:10:09,155 --> 00:10:13,955 Speaker 1: called doctor Johnson, doctor Jackson, doctor Johnson, doctor Jackson, not 141 00:10:14,035 --> 00:10:21,315 Speaker 1: my sister, my daughter, doctor Johnson. To be fair, I 142 00:10:21,315 --> 00:10:25,275 Speaker 1: will say the debate does inspire many conspiracy theories. I 143 00:10:25,355 --> 00:10:29,675 Speaker 1: even have one. I keep thinking the Supreme Court has 144 00:10:29,795 --> 00:10:33,915 Speaker 1: been deliberately holding up announcing a ruling on the fascist 145 00:10:34,035 --> 00:10:39,235 Speaker 1: fantasy of presidential immunity, holding it up maybe until a 146 00:10:39,235 --> 00:10:42,075 Speaker 1: week from today, just so it won't be a topic 147 00:10:42,155 --> 00:10:46,475 Speaker 1: in the debate, because on a practical level, if they 148 00:10:46,595 --> 00:10:50,035 Speaker 1: rule that, of course it's nonsense, Trump will spend the 149 00:10:50,115 --> 00:10:54,555 Speaker 1: debate whining and self martyring about it and threatening the 150 00:10:54,715 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: justices about it. On the other hand, if they rule 151 00:10:56,955 --> 00:11:01,355 Speaker 1: there is presidential immunity, Biden can stop the debate at 152 00:11:01,395 --> 00:11:03,995 Speaker 1: any point he wants and have Trump arrested, and there's 153 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:06,755 Speaker 1: fall anybody can do about it. And if the Supreme 154 00:11:06,755 --> 00:11:08,595 Speaker 1: Court tries to stop it, he can have the Supreme 155 00:11:08,595 --> 00:11:12,155 Speaker 1: Court arrested. Two. Of course, they may have ruled on 156 00:11:12,235 --> 00:11:17,315 Speaker 1: it by the time you're hearing this one last debate note. 157 00:11:17,355 --> 00:11:20,715 Speaker 1: Biden won the coin toss and was thus given first 158 00:11:20,835 --> 00:11:25,475 Speaker 1: choice of two logistical questions, which podium do you want? 159 00:11:26,635 --> 00:11:29,395 Speaker 1: And do you want to give the first closing statement 160 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:34,035 Speaker 1: or the second closing statement? You get the first choice 161 00:11:34,075 --> 00:11:36,795 Speaker 1: of one of those two questions. The Biden team decided 162 00:11:36,955 --> 00:11:39,555 Speaker 1: the optics are more important. They want him on the 163 00:11:39,635 --> 00:11:44,195 Speaker 1: right side of the television screen. I imagine there's research or something. 164 00:11:44,835 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 1: All I know is I have some experience of being 165 00:11:48,395 --> 00:11:52,515 Speaker 1: on television with somebody else for an hour or two 166 00:11:52,555 --> 00:11:56,075 Speaker 1: at a time, or seven or eight, with me on 167 00:11:56,075 --> 00:11:58,035 Speaker 1: one side of the screen and the other person on 168 00:11:58,075 --> 00:12:01,355 Speaker 1: the other side. And at SportsCenter management told me they 169 00:12:01,355 --> 00:12:04,195 Speaker 1: wanted me on the left side of the screen, that 170 00:12:04,195 --> 00:12:07,875 Speaker 1: that ind priority of the two anchors. And then at 171 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:11,595 Speaker 1: MSNBC management told me they wanted me on the right 172 00:12:11,635 --> 00:12:17,035 Speaker 1: side of the screen because that indicated priority. For all 173 00:12:17,075 --> 00:12:22,035 Speaker 1: I know, they told my broadcast partners that the right 174 00:12:22,115 --> 00:12:24,875 Speaker 1: side at Sports Center indicated priority and the left side 175 00:12:24,915 --> 00:12:31,715 Speaker 1: at MSNBC indicated priority. This decision left the Trump crew 176 00:12:31,755 --> 00:12:35,675 Speaker 1: to decide which closing address to give. They decided Biden 177 00:12:35,715 --> 00:12:38,395 Speaker 1: should give the first one, and Trump will give the 178 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:43,155 Speaker 1: rebuttal the second one, the last thing viewers see. This, 179 00:12:43,275 --> 00:12:48,315 Speaker 1: in turn allows me to propose the following, especially if 180 00:12:48,355 --> 00:12:50,995 Speaker 1: Bob Kennedy goes through with his threats and the CNN 181 00:12:51,035 --> 00:12:56,875 Speaker 1: people need bail money, I will pay CNN executives the 182 00:12:56,995 --> 00:13:03,275 Speaker 1: equivalent of one year's CNN TV network profits. That's right, 183 00:13:05,155 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. I will pay them five thousand dollars 184 00:13:13,115 --> 00:13:19,115 Speaker 1: American unmarked. I will pay them five thousand dollars if 185 00:13:19,115 --> 00:13:23,515 Speaker 1: as soon as Trump starts his closing statement, they cut 186 00:13:23,595 --> 00:13:29,435 Speaker 1: off the mics and turn off the studio lights. As 187 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:32,155 Speaker 1: I said earlier, Donald Sutherland died yesterday, and he was 188 00:13:32,195 --> 00:13:35,755 Speaker 1: my friend. I came to know him only about fifteen 189 00:13:35,835 --> 00:13:38,275 Speaker 1: years ago, after one of those free health clinics we 190 00:13:38,355 --> 00:13:42,555 Speaker 1: used to co sponsor on the Countdown TV series. He 191 00:13:42,635 --> 00:13:47,235 Speaker 1: loved that and was appalled by the necessity of it, 192 00:13:47,515 --> 00:13:51,835 Speaker 1: as was I. He feared for this country in the 193 00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:54,275 Speaker 1: way that I have found only those who were alive 194 00:13:54,355 --> 00:13:58,275 Speaker 1: during the Second World War could fear for it. All 195 00:13:58,315 --> 00:14:04,595 Speaker 1: of the death, the upheaval, the terror, the uncertainty. They 196 00:14:04,875 --> 00:14:08,675 Speaker 1: lived through that without the assurance we have when we 197 00:14:08,755 --> 00:14:13,075 Speaker 1: think about that time. We know how it turned out. 198 00:14:13,715 --> 00:14:17,195 Speaker 1: We know how Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese military 199 00:14:17,275 --> 00:14:23,515 Speaker 1: dictatorship were defeated. We knew how evil lost. They knew 200 00:14:23,555 --> 00:14:26,915 Speaker 1: that time. They know it still. Donald knew it as 201 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:30,955 Speaker 1: a tangible thing, an uncertainty and evil that could have 202 00:14:31,595 --> 00:14:34,875 Speaker 1: destroyed the world in nineteen forty four and can easily 203 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:40,595 Speaker 1: destroy it in twenty twenty four, twenty ten, two thousand 204 00:14:40,595 --> 00:14:44,115 Speaker 1: and nine. He saw a Trump coming, He saw freedom 205 00:14:44,155 --> 00:14:47,795 Speaker 1: here being taken for granted. Hell, he even warned me 206 00:14:48,155 --> 00:14:51,555 Speaker 1: that just from watching all of us, several people on 207 00:14:51,715 --> 00:14:54,955 Speaker 1: MSNBC who I thought were friends were nothing of the kind. 208 00:14:54,995 --> 00:14:57,915 Speaker 1: And sadly he was completely right, and I was completely wrong. 209 00:14:59,435 --> 00:15:01,755 Speaker 1: And I don't know that I've ever known anybody who 210 00:15:01,995 --> 00:15:07,875 Speaker 1: cared more deeply about more import things than did Donald Sutherland. 211 00:15:09,915 --> 00:15:11,555 Speaker 1: And by the way, he might have been the best 212 00:15:11,595 --> 00:15:14,915 Speaker 1: and most prolific and most versatile actor you and I 213 00:15:14,955 --> 00:15:18,915 Speaker 1: will ever see. There are so many characters in film 214 00:15:19,035 --> 00:15:22,115 Speaker 1: and television who I would have wanted to know in 215 00:15:22,195 --> 00:15:24,595 Speaker 1: real life, and I think at least half of them 216 00:15:24,635 --> 00:15:27,955 Speaker 1: were performed by him. And that was before I knew him. 217 00:15:29,235 --> 00:15:32,715 Speaker 1: His greatness as an actor I think was believing in 218 00:15:32,795 --> 00:15:38,195 Speaker 1: people and sympathizing and empathizing with them, and summoning that 219 00:15:38,635 --> 00:15:42,755 Speaker 1: as he portrayed them. He was in so many films, 220 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:46,235 Speaker 1: so many TV series, in so many commercial voiceovers for 221 00:15:46,315 --> 00:15:49,355 Speaker 1: so many decades that I'm sure it's hard to believe 222 00:15:49,355 --> 00:15:52,275 Speaker 1: that there might be things everybody did not already know 223 00:15:52,355 --> 00:15:57,155 Speaker 1: about him. But here is one. He was the best 224 00:15:57,555 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 1: correspondent I have ever known, and I mean correspondent in 225 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:06,955 Speaker 1: the old sense of the word. He wrote to me 226 00:16:07,035 --> 00:16:13,755 Speaker 1: a lot emails, stream of consciousness, meandering, surprising, often initially inscrutable, 227 00:16:13,795 --> 00:16:16,755 Speaker 1: emails that turned out to be nothing less than poetry 228 00:16:17,555 --> 00:16:21,715 Speaker 1: about his career, about my career, about my dad's coma, 229 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:27,235 Speaker 1: about his coma from nineteen sixty nine, about filming mash 230 00:16:27,315 --> 00:16:32,955 Speaker 1: about Baseball, about Jane Fonda, more about Jane Fonda. I 231 00:16:32,995 --> 00:16:37,155 Speaker 1: cannot read you any of the emails about Jane Fonda. 232 00:16:37,275 --> 00:16:41,235 Speaker 1: Trust me. It's really tempting, really really really tempting, but 233 00:16:41,355 --> 00:16:45,595 Speaker 1: it is beyond the pale. I did suggest to mister 234 00:16:45,635 --> 00:16:48,195 Speaker 1: Sutherland once that he was such a good writer and 235 00:16:48,235 --> 00:16:51,475 Speaker 1: had so many extraordinary stories that he had to put 236 00:16:51,475 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: them in a book. He asked if I had suddenly 237 00:16:55,475 --> 00:17:00,115 Speaker 1: gone crazy and had suddenly become incapable of realizing how 238 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:03,075 Speaker 1: many people would respond to such a book by trying 239 00:17:03,115 --> 00:17:08,715 Speaker 1: to kill him. But what a writer, And I think 240 00:17:08,755 --> 00:17:13,355 Speaker 1: I'm within ethical bounds to read one of his briefer emails, 241 00:17:13,795 --> 00:17:19,235 Speaker 1: an email about baseball. He had described to me before 242 00:17:19,835 --> 00:17:22,955 Speaker 1: his lonely upbringing as a sickly child in New Brunswick 243 00:17:22,995 --> 00:17:26,195 Speaker 1: and then Nova Scotia in Canada in the forties and fifties, 244 00:17:26,195 --> 00:17:31,515 Speaker 1: and his first taste of the outside world the radio 245 00:17:31,675 --> 00:17:36,915 Speaker 1: broadcasts of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games by the legendary Red 246 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:44,515 Speaker 1: Barber that somehow you could hear in Nova Scotia. He 247 00:17:44,635 --> 00:17:47,835 Speaker 1: used to keep score of the baseball games at home 248 00:17:48,395 --> 00:17:52,635 Speaker 1: by himself, feeling like that phrase by himself meant by 249 00:17:52,675 --> 00:17:57,515 Speaker 1: himself in the world, never dreaming he'd actually get to 250 00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:03,315 Speaker 1: go to a baseball game, so he kept scoring every 251 00:18:03,435 --> 00:18:06,875 Speaker 1: game he ever went to, first as a Brooklyn Dodger fan, 252 00:18:07,035 --> 00:18:09,635 Speaker 1: and then as a crazy I can't go to the 253 00:18:09,675 --> 00:18:14,075 Speaker 1: bathroom now we're winning fan of the late lamented Montreal Expos. 254 00:18:14,155 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 1: He kept score of baseball games for sixty years, and 255 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:23,555 Speaker 1: he kept the score books and Red Barber's broadcasts, he wrote, 256 00:18:23,555 --> 00:18:29,555 Speaker 1: had inspired him to pursue his original career radio news. 257 00:18:30,915 --> 00:18:35,675 Speaker 1: He was a radio news correspondent too as a teenager 258 00:18:36,595 --> 00:18:40,355 Speaker 1: with that voice. And then he said, the drama of 259 00:18:40,395 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 1: the games translated into the drama of acting in an off. 260 00:18:43,795 --> 00:18:48,715 Speaker 1: He went in that direction, so I knew what to do. 261 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:51,235 Speaker 1: I sent him a CD, and on the CD was 262 00:18:51,275 --> 00:18:55,075 Speaker 1: the complete recording of Red Barber's broadcast of the Brooklyn 263 00:18:55,115 --> 00:18:58,915 Speaker 1: Dodgers New York Giants game at Ebbittsfield in Brooklyn, New York, 264 00:18:59,235 --> 00:19:03,915 Speaker 1: on Saturday, the twenty second of April nineteen fifty. This 265 00:19:04,075 --> 00:19:08,355 Speaker 1: was the email he sent in reply, it's one paragraph. 266 00:19:08,675 --> 00:19:13,795 Speaker 1: It's one paragraph, and try to imagine this Red in 267 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:21,475 Speaker 1: Donald Sutherland's voice, my car up. Heears old ten years old, 268 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:24,155 Speaker 1: and the CD player skips, so I hear a bit 269 00:19:24,355 --> 00:19:26,755 Speaker 1: and then it stalls like an old seventy eight and 270 00:19:26,835 --> 00:19:30,515 Speaker 1: I push buttons to get past it. I think there's 271 00:19:30,515 --> 00:19:33,195 Speaker 1: a CD in the kitchen, one of those Sony kitchen 272 00:19:33,195 --> 00:19:36,035 Speaker 1: televisions with the CD that front Gate used to sell. 273 00:19:37,395 --> 00:19:42,155 Speaker 1: What a delight this recording. I'm transfixed. Time has stopped. 274 00:19:42,755 --> 00:19:45,555 Speaker 1: They're trying to get people out to the park a doubleheader, 275 00:19:46,515 --> 00:19:48,555 Speaker 1: see the end of this one and all the next one, 276 00:19:48,795 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: and eat a good breakfast. One of the requisite items 277 00:19:51,235 --> 00:19:55,595 Speaker 1: was bread and butter. Duke Snyder gave me my score 278 00:19:55,635 --> 00:19:59,115 Speaker 1: books a big blue binder each year in the eighties. 279 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:02,675 Speaker 1: He did color for the Expos broadcasts. I still have them, 280 00:20:04,155 --> 00:20:06,555 Speaker 1: Peter you. Eustonoff told a story about getting on a 281 00:20:06,635 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: train for London in Manchester. He had a repertory theater 282 00:20:10,355 --> 00:20:12,555 Speaker 1: there and I worked for him. Once he got on 283 00:20:12,635 --> 00:20:15,755 Speaker 1: the train and into one of those two benched, sliding 284 00:20:15,875 --> 00:20:20,555 Speaker 1: doored six cedar cabins in first class and lounged languidly 285 00:20:20,595 --> 00:20:25,635 Speaker 1: in the corner. He's Russian. Eustonof was a chap with 286 00:20:25,715 --> 00:20:29,315 Speaker 1: a furled umbrella and a black briefcase, a bowler hat 287 00:20:29,355 --> 00:20:32,035 Speaker 1: and a black three piece suit. A La Savile row 288 00:20:32,675 --> 00:20:35,275 Speaker 1: came in and sat kitty corner to him by the window. 289 00:20:36,475 --> 00:20:39,075 Speaker 1: Eustonov said he looked down his nose at the chap 290 00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:43,795 Speaker 1: and watched him bring sheet music out of his briefcase. 291 00:20:45,595 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: Being Russian, Eustonof fancied he had music in his DNA, 292 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:52,355 Speaker 1: kind of like Ali. When someone asked him if he 293 00:20:52,395 --> 00:20:54,595 Speaker 1: played the piano, and he said he didn't know if 294 00:20:54,595 --> 00:20:58,475 Speaker 1: he did or not, because he'd never sat down at one. 295 00:20:58,755 --> 00:21:05,915 Speaker 1: Eustinov watched the guy turn the pages one, two, three, four, 296 00:21:06,795 --> 00:21:09,395 Speaker 1: and then halfway down the fifth page, the fellow reading 297 00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:17,435 Speaker 1: the music quietly started to laugh to himself. Eustonoff said 298 00:21:17,435 --> 00:21:22,755 Speaker 1: he then knew that he Eustonoff, knew nothing about music. 299 00:21:24,555 --> 00:21:28,235 Speaker 1: Years ago, my brilliant accountant, who'd run as a child 300 00:21:28,235 --> 00:21:31,395 Speaker 1: from one of the camps through Switzerland and Spain to 301 00:21:31,475 --> 00:21:37,075 Speaker 1: Ellis Island, told me that he loved reading year end spreadsheets. 302 00:21:37,835 --> 00:21:42,595 Speaker 1: They were novels to him, an entire year's life presented 303 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:50,035 Speaker 1: itself to him in exquisite detail. He was transported. Sorry 304 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:52,715 Speaker 1: this has been so long. The point of it was 305 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:57,195 Speaker 1: that looking at those old score books, the line drives 306 00:21:57,195 --> 00:22:00,835 Speaker 1: and the pop ups, the bullpen, the pitfalls of that 307 00:22:00,955 --> 00:22:05,675 Speaker 1: awful stadium became in themselves such a saga. And so 308 00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:13,195 Speaker 1: does this CD. I'm fifteen again now though out of 309 00:22:13,235 --> 00:22:16,675 Speaker 1: the car, I'm seventy five, and I'm in the garden. 310 00:22:17,595 --> 00:22:22,275 Speaker 1: The car stopped by my wife. I left at the 311 00:22:22,275 --> 00:22:27,075 Speaker 1: top of the seventh but Red Barber's just come back. 312 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:31,915 Speaker 1: Post Toasties two to one Pirates, Philly's losing six to 313 00:22:31,955 --> 00:22:35,835 Speaker 1: two in Chicago. I hope the CD player in the 314 00:22:35,915 --> 00:22:41,195 Speaker 1: kitchen works because it's going to rain. Thank you for this. 315 00:22:46,355 --> 00:22:50,675 Speaker 1: I will miss my friend. He was one of our 316 00:22:50,795 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: greatest humanists. He was one of our greatest actors. You 317 00:22:54,075 --> 00:22:57,235 Speaker 1: could watch one great performance from him every week and 318 00:22:57,355 --> 00:23:00,275 Speaker 1: it would be twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven 319 00:23:00,395 --> 00:23:03,275 Speaker 1: or so before you'd even have to think about starting 320 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:07,675 Speaker 1: from the beginning again. And I somehow got a little 321 00:23:07,675 --> 00:23:13,635 Speaker 1: bit more to remember him with. I have those emails, 322 00:23:15,075 --> 00:23:20,475 Speaker 1: baseball emails, MSNBC emails, emails about individual commentaries I did 323 00:23:20,515 --> 00:23:26,475 Speaker 1: on the show, emails after emails, after emails, and now 324 00:23:27,395 --> 00:23:29,795 Speaker 1: while we take a break before I return with Worst 325 00:23:29,835 --> 00:23:36,595 Speaker 1: Persons and Thurber, you can think about what one of 326 00:23:36,635 --> 00:23:40,995 Speaker 1: those emails from Donald Sutherland would have sounded like when 327 00:23:40,995 --> 00:23:47,275 Speaker 1: it was about Jane. This is Countdown with Keith Alboman 328 00:24:09,035 --> 00:24:11,515 Speaker 1: still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown Fridays 329 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:13,995 Speaker 1: with Thurber. I have to admit I will always be 330 00:24:14,115 --> 00:24:16,915 Speaker 1: very proud that my late friend mister Sutherland thought I 331 00:24:16,995 --> 00:24:20,475 Speaker 1: read these well. It goes without saying there was no 332 00:24:20,555 --> 00:24:25,795 Speaker 1: better narrator reader none. Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones 333 00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 1: are more resonant, but their work is consistent. Donald Sutherland 334 00:24:30,315 --> 00:24:35,435 Speaker 1: had about forty different styles of reading aloud. The field 335 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:41,115 Speaker 1: was his, at least since Orson Wells died. Anyway, on 336 00:24:41,115 --> 00:24:44,875 Speaker 1: that list, I'm somewhere around at number ten thousand, I'll 337 00:24:44,875 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: do my best with Thurber. Thurber proving this week he 338 00:24:47,875 --> 00:24:50,635 Speaker 1: could turn anything as if on a Dare from the 339 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:55,595 Speaker 1: universe into just another story of just another squabble between 340 00:24:55,595 --> 00:24:59,755 Speaker 1: a married couple. As she tells him he is murdering 341 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:04,355 Speaker 1: her all wrong In mister Prebble gets rid of his wife. 342 00:25:04,755 --> 00:25:07,475 Speaker 1: But first there are still more new idiots to talk about. 343 00:25:07,475 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger 344 00:25:10,475 --> 00:25:16,275 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world. 345 00:25:16,875 --> 00:25:22,875 Speaker 1: The Bronze Worst. Tucker Carlson. Remember Tucker Carlson. He's on tour. 346 00:25:23,875 --> 00:25:27,595 Speaker 1: Pay money to see Tucker Carlson live when you could 347 00:25:27,595 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: see him talk endlessly on TV or Twitter for hours 348 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:35,315 Speaker 1: on end for free. It's not a good business model. Actually, 349 00:25:35,315 --> 00:25:38,715 Speaker 1: it turns out to not be any kind of business model. 350 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:42,235 Speaker 1: He opens in Tuesday in Sydney, Australia and as the 351 00:25:42,235 --> 00:25:45,715 Speaker 1: broadcasters say, if you're in the neighborhood, stop by, there 352 00:25:45,715 --> 00:25:49,995 Speaker 1: are plenty of good seats available. Mister Sutherland mentioned it 353 00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: in his email. Well there are plenty of good seats 354 00:25:53,035 --> 00:25:58,075 Speaker 1: available and bad seats too, Tucker down Under, you should 355 00:25:58,075 --> 00:26:01,475 Speaker 1: excuse The expression was announced in April by the chairman 356 00:26:01,555 --> 00:26:04,635 Speaker 1: of the United Australia Party, which is apparently for Auzzie 357 00:26:04,795 --> 00:26:07,955 Speaker 1: nut jobs. You think Rupert Murdoch is too liberal. His 358 00:26:08,035 --> 00:26:12,155 Speaker 1: name is Clive Palmer. His strip mining company sponsored the 359 00:26:12,195 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: tour at as a bonus. When you pay two hundred 360 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:18,475 Speaker 1: dollars Australian, you know, get just Tucker Carlson. You also 361 00:26:18,555 --> 00:26:22,195 Speaker 1: get to hear Clive speak as well. Ah but two 362 00:26:22,275 --> 00:26:24,675 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Those two hundred dollars seats are now available 363 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:30,155 Speaker 1: for your cost fifty dollars. The Australian newspaper, cleverly called 364 00:26:30,195 --> 00:26:33,875 Speaker 1: The Australian says it cannot calculate how many tickets have 365 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:37,115 Speaker 1: not sold like hotcakes, but that there are hundreds still 366 00:26:37,115 --> 00:26:39,795 Speaker 1: available for the opening night in Sydney. And one of 367 00:26:39,795 --> 00:26:43,115 Speaker 1: the events in Sydney is at the ICC Sydney Theater, 368 00:26:43,515 --> 00:26:47,155 Speaker 1: which seats nine thousand people, so hundreds of seats are 369 00:26:47,155 --> 00:26:52,395 Speaker 1: still available is not good news. And the price cut 370 00:26:52,435 --> 00:26:54,555 Speaker 1: from one hundred dollars or two hundred dollars a seat 371 00:26:54,595 --> 00:26:59,355 Speaker 1: down to fifty that's also not good news. In Brisbane 372 00:26:59,475 --> 00:27:02,595 Speaker 1: it's down to eighty dollars a ticket, Adelaide, Melbourne and 373 00:27:02,635 --> 00:27:04,195 Speaker 1: Perth down to one hundred and ten. But there at 374 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:07,675 Speaker 1: the end of the time, so look out below, further 375 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:13,275 Speaker 1: deep discounts may be applied. Why has Tucker Live failed? Well, 376 00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:17,195 Speaker 1: For one thing, he started as a manipulative, dishonest fascist. 377 00:27:17,195 --> 00:27:19,035 Speaker 1: That was when I worked with him twenty years ago. 378 00:27:19,195 --> 00:27:22,315 Speaker 1: But he's gone bad since then and he's now approaching 379 00:27:22,355 --> 00:27:26,355 Speaker 1: full on psychosis. The other thing, I forgot to mention 380 00:27:26,435 --> 00:27:31,115 Speaker 1: the special guest on the tour Detucker, Denesh Desuza, will 381 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:34,515 Speaker 1: be there. Come on, give it up for Denesh Desuza. 382 00:27:35,435 --> 00:27:38,155 Speaker 1: Come on out, Denesh and lie to the people. Come 383 00:27:38,155 --> 00:27:42,435 Speaker 1: on the runner up. Jeff Bezos still owner of the 384 00:27:42,515 --> 00:27:45,915 Speaker 1: Washington Post and still apparently not even close to steering 385 00:27:45,995 --> 00:27:49,275 Speaker 1: out of the skid that could yet destroy the paper. 386 00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:53,595 Speaker 1: He is still committed, apparently to this British publisher Will Lewis, 387 00:27:54,235 --> 00:27:57,035 Speaker 1: even after my friend David Marinus, who has worked at 388 00:27:57,035 --> 00:27:59,955 Speaker 1: the Washington Post since I was a sophomore in college, 389 00:28:00,555 --> 00:28:03,515 Speaker 1: publicly called for new leadership there and a new editor 390 00:28:03,555 --> 00:28:06,755 Speaker 1: and a new publisher. And David said of Bezos that 391 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:09,995 Speaker 1: he quote owns the Post, but he is not of 392 00:28:10,235 --> 00:28:15,155 Speaker 1: and for the Post, or he would understand everywhere this 393 00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:17,835 Speaker 1: fellow Will Lewis turns, he steps on another rake, or 394 00:28:17,875 --> 00:28:21,115 Speaker 1: he gets hit over the head by somebody carrying a 395 00:28:21,235 --> 00:28:24,955 Speaker 1: nuclear rake. The newspaper The Guardian now reports that on 396 00:28:25,035 --> 00:28:28,075 Speaker 1: top of the phone hacking scandal that Lewis was involved 397 00:28:28,075 --> 00:28:31,035 Speaker 1: with and his attempts to bury coverage of the phone 398 00:28:31,075 --> 00:28:34,835 Speaker 1: hacking scandal in the Post, Lewis was also an informal 399 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:38,515 Speaker 1: advisor to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and when 400 00:28:38,595 --> 00:28:41,915 Speaker 1: the party gate scandal broke at the worst moments of COVID, 401 00:28:42,395 --> 00:28:46,355 Speaker 1: Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home and isolate, 402 00:28:46,955 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: and then like right after that broadcast, he and his 403 00:28:49,475 --> 00:28:51,675 Speaker 1: staff promptly went into an office and held a big 404 00:28:51,715 --> 00:28:56,075 Speaker 1: party for somebody, and Lewis, according to the Guardian, told 405 00:28:56,115 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 1: Boris Johnson that Johnson and his staff should then clean 406 00:28:59,155 --> 00:29:01,755 Speaker 1: up their phones, that is, get rid of all the 407 00:29:01,835 --> 00:29:07,395 Speaker 1: texts and photos about and of that party, and he's 408 00:29:07,395 --> 00:29:10,555 Speaker 1: still editor or publisher of The Washington Post. Well, clearly 409 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:14,035 Speaker 1: Bezos is too distracted. He's on vacation with his fiance 410 00:29:14,555 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: and I guess he's trying to remember how to inflate 411 00:29:16,595 --> 00:29:22,355 Speaker 1: her or whatever. But our winner, Dylan Buyers. Dylan Byers 412 00:29:22,435 --> 00:29:24,355 Speaker 1: is probably not a name you know. He is the 413 00:29:24,355 --> 00:29:28,035 Speaker 1: well traveled media writer and writer is doing the proverbial 414 00:29:28,115 --> 00:29:31,395 Speaker 1: lot of work here. He's a media jock sniffer, especially 415 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:35,875 Speaker 1: a media management jock sniffer. He's now part of Puck News, 416 00:29:36,115 --> 00:29:38,995 Speaker 1: which is one letter off from being an accurate description 417 00:29:39,075 --> 00:29:42,635 Speaker 1: of the man. If you read of an anonymous management 418 00:29:42,715 --> 00:29:46,595 Speaker 1: source somewhere trashing a reporter or an anchor or the 419 00:29:46,715 --> 00:29:51,275 Speaker 1: audience or whatever, you're probably reading something that Dylan Buyers wrote. 420 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: He's one of those guys who finds it hard to 421 00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:57,795 Speaker 1: believe that an executive would lie, and he cannot and 422 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:01,875 Speaker 1: will not believe that an executive or a newspaper or 423 00:30:01,955 --> 00:30:07,195 Speaker 1: a website or a network would lie to him. Dylan Buyers. 424 00:30:08,275 --> 00:30:11,915 Speaker 1: This week, one of the Buyer's emails about the news 425 00:30:11,955 --> 00:30:17,075 Speaker 1: business began at the funeral of Howard Feinneman. It's actually 426 00:30:17,155 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 1: pretty good, especially for buyers. And I'm going out of 427 00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:23,075 Speaker 1: chronological order here. I'm going to first read you what 428 00:30:23,195 --> 00:30:26,835 Speaker 1: he wrote about Howard on Monday, and then read you 429 00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:30,915 Speaker 1: what he wrote about him in April of last year. Quote. 430 00:30:31,315 --> 00:30:34,555 Speaker 1: On Monday, many of the swells of the Washington political 431 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:38,755 Speaker 1: media in crowd gathered at Temple Sinai to celebrate the 432 00:30:38,795 --> 00:30:43,075 Speaker 1: life and times of legendary author and journalist Howard Feyneman. 433 00:30:43,155 --> 00:30:48,475 Speaker 1: The longtime Newsweek star and NBC analyst Mark Whittaker. Evan Thomas, 434 00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:51,675 Speaker 1: Chris Matthews, Al Franken, and Jill Abramson were among those 435 00:30:51,715 --> 00:30:54,475 Speaker 1: who delivered remarks, and at the end of his eulogy, 436 00:30:54,595 --> 00:30:58,275 Speaker 1: Former Rep. John Yarmouth broke out a mini bar sized 437 00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:02,315 Speaker 1: bourbon and toasted Fineman's days as a cub reporter for 438 00:31:02,395 --> 00:31:05,915 Speaker 1: the Louisville Courier Journal with a wig from the pulpit 439 00:31:06,635 --> 00:31:10,955 Speaker 1: in Washington, a town built on institutions and legacies. It 440 00:31:11,075 --> 00:31:18,555 Speaker 1: was a true heroes. Goodbye well, very nice, legendary Newsweek star, 441 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:25,115 Speaker 1: A true heroes, Goodbye, Howard Fineman. On April twenty first, 442 00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:28,275 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the same Dylan Byers was writing something 443 00:31:28,275 --> 00:31:31,995 Speaker 1: else about somebody else, and it had nothing to do 444 00:31:32,035 --> 00:31:35,235 Speaker 1: with Howard Fineman when he complimented the somebody else who 445 00:31:35,315 --> 00:31:38,355 Speaker 1: was somebody named Smith by throwing in out of nowhere 446 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:43,555 Speaker 1: that the guy's work quote sure beat whatever throat clearing 447 00:31:43,795 --> 00:31:48,915 Speaker 1: Mount Olympus garbage that some Howard Fineman type was recycling 448 00:31:49,035 --> 00:31:52,715 Speaker 1: in Newsweek or the echo chamber of the Washington Post. 449 00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:59,875 Speaker 1: End quote, throat clearing Mount Olympus garbage that some Howard 450 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:04,115 Speaker 1: Fineman type was recycling now bluntly, since Howard was my 451 00:32:04,195 --> 00:32:07,195 Speaker 1: friend and he had confided in me three months previously 452 00:32:07,235 --> 00:32:09,915 Speaker 1: that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had 453 00:32:09,955 --> 00:32:12,315 Speaker 1: been given as little as four months to live, and 454 00:32:12,355 --> 00:32:16,915 Speaker 1: thank goodness, he really beat that and lasted until last week. 455 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: I may have overreacted to reading this from Dylan Byers. 456 00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:24,555 Speaker 1: I screenshotted what Buyers had written, and I sent it 457 00:32:24,595 --> 00:32:27,635 Speaker 1: back to him, along with the message, what a truly childish, 458 00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:31,235 Speaker 1: worthless piece of shit you really are. Feineman is a 459 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:34,515 Speaker 1: better man than you, and that dropped fire hose Smith 460 00:32:34,755 --> 00:32:38,395 Speaker 1: would combine to be in a hundred lifetimes. How you 461 00:32:38,595 --> 00:32:43,475 Speaker 1: will regret writing this Obviously, buyers could not have known 462 00:32:43,475 --> 00:32:47,475 Speaker 1: he had gratuitously insulted someone who just received a terminal prognosis. 463 00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:50,715 Speaker 1: I did not believe that he should be blamed for 464 00:32:50,795 --> 00:32:53,275 Speaker 1: that part of it. But of course, even without the knowledge, 465 00:32:53,435 --> 00:32:56,915 Speaker 1: there is the idea that maybe you shouldn't just gratuitously 466 00:32:56,995 --> 00:33:01,155 Speaker 1: insult somebody with a fifty year career in journalism who 467 00:33:01,235 --> 00:33:03,355 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with what you're writing about in 468 00:33:03,435 --> 00:33:07,795 Speaker 1: a desperate and unsuccessful bid just to sound cool, especially 469 00:33:07,795 --> 00:33:11,915 Speaker 1: given the simple actuarial odds that whoever you pick, if 470 00:33:11,915 --> 00:33:15,115 Speaker 1: they are seventy four years old, you're probably going to 471 00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: be publicly trashing someone who is sick, or someone who's 472 00:33:19,195 --> 00:33:21,915 Speaker 1: just lost a loved one, or someone who is retiring 473 00:33:21,955 --> 00:33:25,115 Speaker 1: against their will. I mean, if you're criticizing somebody for 474 00:33:25,195 --> 00:33:28,235 Speaker 1: a reason they wrote this crap last week, or they 475 00:33:28,235 --> 00:33:30,995 Speaker 1: did that terrible thing to somebody a year ago, fine 476 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:35,955 Speaker 1: do it. I am the last person to criticize criticism, 477 00:33:36,475 --> 00:33:39,315 Speaker 1: but just to do it for its own sake, as 478 00:33:39,355 --> 00:33:46,555 Speaker 1: an aside, just to shoot somebody at random, subhuman Maybe 479 00:33:46,555 --> 00:33:49,515 Speaker 1: that defense of whoever this smith was would have been 480 00:33:49,675 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 1: just as good with quote sure beat whatever, throat clearing 481 00:33:53,235 --> 00:33:56,715 Speaker 1: mount Olympus garbage someone was recycling in Newsweek or the 482 00:33:56,755 --> 00:33:59,555 Speaker 1: echo chamber of the Washington Post, not mentioning Howard Feineman, 483 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:04,155 Speaker 1: not mentioning anybody for that matter. Throat clearing. Mount Olympus 484 00:34:04,195 --> 00:34:08,315 Speaker 1: garbage is a pretty good phrase. It needs to be 485 00:34:08,555 --> 00:34:12,355 Speaker 1: smeared over somebody's face for you to feel good about 486 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:17,035 Speaker 1: what you're writing. But to then come back after you 487 00:34:17,075 --> 00:34:20,955 Speaker 1: did that, and you did smear somebody and rub this 488 00:34:21,275 --> 00:34:25,355 Speaker 1: line over their face, and to go to the funeral 489 00:34:25,395 --> 00:34:28,515 Speaker 1: of that person that you could not resist insulting fourteen 490 00:34:28,555 --> 00:34:31,395 Speaker 1: months earlier for no good reason, and in the same 491 00:34:31,515 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: newsletter report from it, and suddenly attach fake respect that 492 00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:40,035 Speaker 1: is probably just as gratuitous as the insult was in 493 00:34:40,115 --> 00:34:45,515 Speaker 1: your soulless mind. That makes it all exponentially worse. What 494 00:34:45,995 --> 00:34:52,835 Speaker 1: a scumbag Dylan Buyers. And someday there may be an 495 00:34:52,875 --> 00:34:58,275 Speaker 1: additional payoff. Someday somebody will be praising some media critic 496 00:34:58,395 --> 00:35:01,035 Speaker 1: or writer or someone and they'll say he was so 497 00:35:01,235 --> 00:35:08,395 Speaker 1: much better than his useless, aging contemporary Dylan Buyers. Well, 498 00:35:08,395 --> 00:35:10,235 Speaker 1: now that I think of it, probably not. I mean, 499 00:35:10,515 --> 00:35:14,435 Speaker 1: who is going to remember the work of Dylan Buyers? 500 00:35:15,755 --> 00:35:19,355 Speaker 1: So don't be Dylan Buyers, because you never know when 501 00:35:19,355 --> 00:35:22,435 Speaker 1: the person you're going to gratuitously name drop an insult 502 00:35:22,675 --> 00:35:28,795 Speaker 1: is going to you know, die Dylan Byers, Today's worst 503 00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:38,915 Speaker 1: person in the World to the top of the countdown 504 00:35:38,915 --> 00:35:41,315 Speaker 1: and Fridays with Thurber, and I am not going to 505 00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:44,315 Speaker 1: dare suggest to you that there isn't at least something 506 00:35:44,355 --> 00:35:48,835 Speaker 1: misogynistic about mister Prebble gets rid of his wife. But 507 00:35:48,955 --> 00:35:52,555 Speaker 1: the ultimate point of this short story, so masterfully crafted 508 00:35:52,595 --> 00:35:56,515 Speaker 1: by James Thurber, this matter of fact style that almost 509 00:35:56,515 --> 00:35:58,595 Speaker 1: makes you forget you are hearing about a man trying 510 00:35:58,595 --> 00:36:02,155 Speaker 1: to murder his wife, is in a larger sense, about 511 00:36:02,195 --> 00:36:06,355 Speaker 1: the fact that women are more success bes full than men. 512 00:36:06,755 --> 00:36:09,915 Speaker 1: This story does not compliment men, it does not compliment women, 513 00:36:09,915 --> 00:36:13,795 Speaker 1: It does not compliment human beings. But it is still marvelous. 514 00:36:14,715 --> 00:36:19,035 Speaker 1: Mister Preble Gets rid of his Wife by James Thurber. 515 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: Mister Prebble was a plump, middle aged lawyer in Scarsdale. 516 00:36:25,995 --> 00:36:28,635 Speaker 1: He used to kid with his stenographer about running away 517 00:36:28,635 --> 00:36:32,315 Speaker 1: with him. Let's run away together, he would say, during 518 00:36:32,355 --> 00:36:38,355 Speaker 1: a pause in dictation, alrighty, she would say. One rainy 519 00:36:38,395 --> 00:36:41,195 Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, mister Prebble was more serious about it than usual. 520 00:36:42,195 --> 00:36:48,915 Speaker 1: Let's run away together, said mister Preble. Alrighty, said his stenographer. 521 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:51,755 Speaker 1: Mister Prebble jingled the keys in his pocket and looked 522 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:54,835 Speaker 1: out the window. My wife would be glad to get 523 00:36:54,915 --> 00:36:57,755 Speaker 1: rid of me, he said. Would you give you a divorce, 524 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:03,275 Speaker 1: asked the stenographer. I don't suppose so, he said. The 525 00:37:03,315 --> 00:37:06,795 Speaker 1: stenographer laughed, you'd have to get rid of your wife, 526 00:37:07,235 --> 00:37:12,635 Speaker 1: she said. Mister Preble was unusually silent at dinner that night. 527 00:37:12,995 --> 00:37:15,835 Speaker 1: About half an hour after coffee, he spoke, without looking 528 00:37:15,915 --> 00:37:20,235 Speaker 1: up from his paper, let's uh go down in the cellar. 529 00:37:20,995 --> 00:37:24,835 Speaker 1: Mister Prebble said to his wife, what far? She said, 530 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:29,075 Speaker 1: not looking up from her book. Oh, I don't know, 531 00:37:29,635 --> 00:37:33,555 Speaker 1: he said. We uh never go down in the cellar 532 00:37:33,595 --> 00:37:36,555 Speaker 1: anymore the way we used to. We never did go 533 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,515 Speaker 1: down in the cellar that I remember, said missus Prebble. 534 00:37:39,915 --> 00:37:42,155 Speaker 1: I could rest easy the balance of my life if 535 00:37:42,235 --> 00:37:45,715 Speaker 1: I never went down in the cellar. Mister Preble was 536 00:37:45,755 --> 00:37:50,115 Speaker 1: silent for several minutes. Supposing I said, it meant a 537 00:37:50,155 --> 00:37:54,355 Speaker 1: whole lot to me. Began mister Prebble, what's come over you? 538 00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:58,155 Speaker 1: His wife demanded, it's cold down there. There's absolutely nothing 539 00:37:58,195 --> 00:38:04,515 Speaker 1: to do. We could pick up pieces of coal, said mister. 540 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:08,035 Speaker 1: We might get up some sort of game with pieces 541 00:38:08,075 --> 00:38:12,155 Speaker 1: of coal. I don't want to, said his wife. Anyway, 542 00:38:12,195 --> 00:38:17,395 Speaker 1: I'm reading, listen, said mister Prebble, rising and walking up 543 00:38:17,395 --> 00:38:20,115 Speaker 1: and down. Why won't you come down in the cellar. 544 00:38:20,195 --> 00:38:22,155 Speaker 1: You can read down there as far as that goes. 545 00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:26,195 Speaker 1: There isn't a good enough light down there, she said. 546 00:38:26,235 --> 00:38:29,315 Speaker 1: And anyway, I'm not going to go down in the cellar. 547 00:38:29,355 --> 00:38:33,275 Speaker 1: You may as well make up your mind. That g whiz, 548 00:38:33,835 --> 00:38:36,435 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble, kicking into the edge of a rug. 549 00:38:36,795 --> 00:38:39,155 Speaker 1: Other people's wives go down in the cellar. Why is 550 00:38:39,195 --> 00:38:41,795 Speaker 1: it you never want to do anything? I come home 551 00:38:42,155 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: worn out from the office, and you won't even go 552 00:38:44,395 --> 00:38:47,115 Speaker 1: down in the cellar with me. God knows, it isn't 553 00:38:47,195 --> 00:38:49,475 Speaker 1: very far. It isn't as if I was asking you 554 00:38:49,515 --> 00:38:53,755 Speaker 1: to go to the movies or someplace. I don't want 555 00:38:53,795 --> 00:38:59,075 Speaker 1: to go, shouted missus Prebble. Mister Preble sat down on 556 00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:03,995 Speaker 1: the edge of a davenport. All right, all right, he said, 557 00:39:05,075 --> 00:39:08,315 Speaker 1: He picked up the newspaper again. I wish you'd let 558 00:39:08,395 --> 00:39:11,315 Speaker 1: me tell you more about it. It's kind of a surprise. 559 00:39:13,035 --> 00:39:18,355 Speaker 1: Well you quit harping on that subject, asked missus Prebble. Listen, 560 00:39:18,595 --> 00:39:21,155 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble, leaping to his feet, I might as 561 00:39:21,195 --> 00:39:23,075 Speaker 1: well tell you the truth instead of beating around the bush. 562 00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:24,835 Speaker 1: I want to get rid of you so I can 563 00:39:24,835 --> 00:39:27,515 Speaker 1: marry my stenographer. Is there anything especially wrong about that? 564 00:39:27,875 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 1: People do it every day. Love is something you can't control. 565 00:39:30,675 --> 00:39:34,635 Speaker 1: We've been all over that, said missus Prebble. I'm not 566 00:39:35,115 --> 00:39:40,995 Speaker 1: going to go all over that again. I just wanted 567 00:39:40,995 --> 00:39:43,875 Speaker 1: you to know how things are, said mister Prebble. But 568 00:39:43,955 --> 00:39:47,795 Speaker 1: you have to take everything so literally. Good Lord, do 569 00:39:47,995 --> 00:39:50,475 Speaker 1: you suppose I really wanted to go down in the 570 00:39:50,515 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: cellar and make up some silly game with pieces of coal. 571 00:39:55,355 --> 00:39:58,875 Speaker 1: I never believe that for a minute, said missus Preble. 572 00:39:58,995 --> 00:40:00,715 Speaker 1: I knew all along you wanted to get me down 573 00:40:00,755 --> 00:40:05,195 Speaker 1: there and bury me. You can say that now after 574 00:40:05,275 --> 00:40:08,715 Speaker 1: I told you, said mister Prebble. But it would never 575 00:40:08,755 --> 00:40:12,235 Speaker 1: have occurred to you if I hadn't. You didn't tell me. 576 00:40:12,795 --> 00:40:16,275 Speaker 1: I got it out of you, said missus Prebble. Anyway, 577 00:40:16,315 --> 00:40:19,715 Speaker 1: I'm always two steps ahead of what you're thinking. You're 578 00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:22,435 Speaker 1: never within a mile of what I'm thinking, said mister Prebble. 579 00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:24,955 Speaker 1: Is that so I knew you wanted to bury me 580 00:40:25,115 --> 00:40:27,315 Speaker 1: the minute you got some foot in this house tonight, 581 00:40:28,115 --> 00:40:31,555 Speaker 1: missus Prebble held him with a glare. Now that's just 582 00:40:32,035 --> 00:40:36,595 Speaker 1: plain damn exaggeration, said mister Prebble, considerably annoyed. You knew 583 00:40:36,635 --> 00:40:38,155 Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, I 584 00:40:38,195 --> 00:40:39,835 Speaker 1: never thought of it till just a few minutes ago. 585 00:40:41,035 --> 00:40:44,115 Speaker 1: It was in the back of your mind, said missus Prebble. 586 00:40:44,395 --> 00:40:47,275 Speaker 1: I suppose this filing woman puts you up to it. 587 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:52,835 Speaker 1: You needn't get sarcastic, said mister Prebble. I have plenty 588 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:56,195 Speaker 1: of people to file without having her file. She doesn't 589 00:40:56,195 --> 00:40:58,995 Speaker 1: know anything about this, She isn't in on it. I 590 00:40:59,035 --> 00:41:00,755 Speaker 1: was going to tell her you'd gone to visit some 591 00:41:00,835 --> 00:41:04,075 Speaker 1: friends and fell over a cliff. She wants me to 592 00:41:04,115 --> 00:41:08,355 Speaker 1: get a divorce. That's a laugh, said missus Prebble. That's 593 00:41:08,555 --> 00:41:12,235 Speaker 1: a laugh. You may bury me, but you'll never get 594 00:41:12,275 --> 00:41:15,635 Speaker 1: a divorce. She knows that I told her that, said 595 00:41:15,675 --> 00:41:18,195 Speaker 1: mister Prebble. I mean I told her I'd never get 596 00:41:18,195 --> 00:41:22,915 Speaker 1: a divorce. Oh, you probably told her about burying me too, 597 00:41:23,155 --> 00:41:28,995 Speaker 1: said missus Prebble. That's not true, said mister Prebble, with dignity. 598 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:31,835 Speaker 1: That's between you and me. I was never going to 599 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:35,315 Speaker 1: tell a soul. You'd blab it to the whole world. 600 00:41:35,435 --> 00:41:39,875 Speaker 1: Don't tell me, said missus Prebble. I know you. Mister 601 00:41:39,915 --> 00:41:43,595 Speaker 1: Prebble puffed at his cigar. I wish you were buried 602 00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:46,635 Speaker 1: now it was all over with, he said. Don't you 603 00:41:46,715 --> 00:41:49,835 Speaker 1: suppose you would get caught, you crazy thing? She said, 604 00:41:50,435 --> 00:41:53,515 Speaker 1: They always get caught. Why don't you go to bed. 605 00:41:53,555 --> 00:41:56,315 Speaker 1: You're just getting yourself all worked up over nothing. I'm 606 00:41:56,315 --> 00:41:58,755 Speaker 1: not going to bed, said mister Prebble. I'm going to 607 00:41:58,835 --> 00:42:00,915 Speaker 1: bury you in the cellar. I got my mind made 608 00:42:00,955 --> 00:42:02,515 Speaker 1: up to it. I don't know how I could make 609 00:42:02,595 --> 00:42:07,875 Speaker 1: any plainer listen, cried missus Preble, throwing her book down. 610 00:42:08,115 --> 00:42:10,355 Speaker 1: Will you be satisfied and shut up? If I go 611 00:42:10,515 --> 00:42:12,635 Speaker 1: down in the cellar. Can I have a little peace? 612 00:42:12,875 --> 00:42:14,835 Speaker 1: If I go down in the cellar, will you let 613 00:42:14,915 --> 00:42:20,475 Speaker 1: me alone? Then? Yes, said mister Prebble. But you spoil 614 00:42:20,515 --> 00:42:25,155 Speaker 1: it by taking that attitude. Sure, sure, I always spoil everything. 615 00:42:25,435 --> 00:42:27,315 Speaker 1: I stop reading right in the middle of a chapter. 616 00:42:27,595 --> 00:42:29,475 Speaker 1: I'll never know how the story comes out. But that's 617 00:42:29,555 --> 00:42:33,275 Speaker 1: nothing to you. Did I make you start reading that book, 618 00:42:33,595 --> 00:42:35,875 Speaker 1: asked mister Prebble. He opened the cellar door. Here you 619 00:42:35,955 --> 00:42:40,195 Speaker 1: go first, said missus Prebble, starting down the steps. It's 620 00:42:40,275 --> 00:42:42,955 Speaker 1: cold down here. You would think of this at this 621 00:42:43,115 --> 00:42:46,195 Speaker 1: time of the year. Any other husband would have buried 622 00:42:46,195 --> 00:42:49,755 Speaker 1: his wife in the summer. You can't arrange those things 623 00:42:49,795 --> 00:42:52,155 Speaker 1: just whenever you want to, said mister Prebble. That didn't 624 00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:54,915 Speaker 1: fall in love with this girl till late fall. Anybody 625 00:42:54,955 --> 00:42:57,515 Speaker 1: else would have fallen in love with her long before that. 626 00:42:57,715 --> 00:43:00,315 Speaker 1: She's been around for years. Why is it you always 627 00:43:00,355 --> 00:43:02,515 Speaker 1: let other men get in ahead of you, mercy? But 628 00:43:02,555 --> 00:43:04,635 Speaker 1: it's dirty down here. What have you got down there? 629 00:43:05,755 --> 00:43:07,035 Speaker 1: I was going to hit you over the head with 630 00:43:07,075 --> 00:43:10,955 Speaker 1: a shovel, said mister Prebble. You were huh, said missus Prebble. 631 00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:12,835 Speaker 1: We'll get that out of your mind. You want to 632 00:43:12,875 --> 00:43:15,315 Speaker 1: leave a great, big clue right here in the middle 633 00:43:15,355 --> 00:43:18,395 Speaker 1: of everything. We're the first detective to come snooping around 634 00:43:18,395 --> 00:43:21,235 Speaker 1: will find it. Come out in the street and find 635 00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,275 Speaker 1: some piece of iron or something. Something doesn't belong to you, 636 00:43:26,395 --> 00:43:29,155 Speaker 1: all right, said mister Prebble. But there won't be any 637 00:43:29,275 --> 00:43:32,355 Speaker 1: piece of iron in the street. Women always expect to 638 00:43:32,355 --> 00:43:35,795 Speaker 1: pick up a piece of iron anywhere. If you look 639 00:43:35,835 --> 00:43:38,715 Speaker 1: in the right place, you'll find it, said missus Prebble. 640 00:43:38,995 --> 00:43:41,755 Speaker 1: And don't be gone long, don't you dare stopping at 641 00:43:41,755 --> 00:43:43,715 Speaker 1: the cigar store. I'm not going to stand down here 642 00:43:43,715 --> 00:43:47,035 Speaker 1: in this cold cellar all night and freeze, all right, 643 00:43:47,435 --> 00:43:51,515 Speaker 1: said mister Prebble. I'll hurry and shut that door behind you. 644 00:43:51,955 --> 00:43:55,715 Speaker 1: She screamed after him, Where were you born in a barn? 645 00:43:58,715 --> 00:44:03,195 Speaker 1: Mister Preble gets rid of his wife by James Thurber. 646 00:44:16,235 --> 00:44:17,995 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 647 00:44:18,035 --> 00:44:20,795 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John 648 00:44:20,795 --> 00:44:23,795 Speaker 1: Phillip Schanell arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 649 00:44:24,235 --> 00:44:26,995 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister 650 00:44:27,115 --> 00:44:31,755 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, 651 00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:35,115 Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed 652 00:44:35,155 --> 00:44:38,755 Speaker 1: by No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme 653 00:44:38,795 --> 00:44:41,995 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy of 654 00:44:42,235 --> 00:44:45,915 Speaker 1: ESPN inc. Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by 655 00:44:45,995 --> 00:44:49,315 Speaker 1: Nancy Fauss. The Best Baseball stadium organist. Ever, our announcer 656 00:44:49,315 --> 00:44:52,115 Speaker 1: today was my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and 657 00:44:52,275 --> 00:44:55,915 Speaker 1: Better Call Saul. And of course James Thurber's mister Prebble 658 00:44:55,955 --> 00:44:59,755 Speaker 1: gets rid of his wife is courtesy the Thurber Literary Trust. 659 00:45:00,395 --> 00:45:04,155 Speaker 1: Everything else, everything else was pretty much my fault. So 660 00:45:04,195 --> 00:45:06,275 Speaker 1: that's count for this. The one hundred and thirty eighth 661 00:45:06,355 --> 00:45:11,355 Speaker 1: day until the twenty twenty four presidential election and sixty 662 00:45:11,395 --> 00:45:16,515 Speaker 1: fourth day since convicted felon elderly Donald Trump's first attempted 663 00:45:16,555 --> 00:45:19,915 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government in the United States. 664 00:45:20,675 --> 00:45:24,115 Speaker 1: Use the July eleventh sentencing hearing, use the mental health system, 665 00:45:24,395 --> 00:45:28,155 Speaker 1: use presidential immunity if it happens, to stop him from 666 00:45:28,195 --> 00:45:35,515 Speaker 1: doing it again while we still can. A reminder will 667 00:45:35,555 --> 00:45:39,635 Speaker 1: be live again on YouTube after the debate next Thursday night. 668 00:45:40,515 --> 00:45:43,035 Speaker 1: Send your link to this podcast to somebody who doesn't 669 00:45:43,075 --> 00:45:45,835 Speaker 1: already listen, and don't forget to join us on YouTube 670 00:45:45,875 --> 00:45:49,795 Speaker 1: and on the podcast thereafter. The next scheduled countdown is 671 00:45:49,835 --> 00:45:53,475 Speaker 1: Tuesday Bulletins as the news warrants until the next one. 672 00:45:53,715 --> 00:45:57,835 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olriman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 673 00:45:58,115 --> 00:46:22,675 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 674 00:46:22,955 --> 00:46:28,115 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 675 00:46:28,395 --> 00:46:30,355 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.