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Speaker 1: will see Jack Smith's evidence on Trump's attempt to foment

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Speaker 1: the violent overthrow of the government of the United States

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Speaker 1: before the election. Thanks to Judge Tanya Chutkins rulings, we

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Speaker 1: statements could be made public. That's right, Mike Pence might

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Speaker 1: metaphorically get to hang Donald Trump out to dry. At

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Speaker 1: least we will read about it, or at least much

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on the bogus concept of presidential

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Speaker 1: immune notwithstanding, Judge Chutkin and she should pose for the

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Speaker 1: statue now. To save time, has scheduled a series of

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Speaker 1: deadlines for the Justice Department and for Trump's legal whores

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Speaker 1: to file briefs and motions and responses. And the schedule

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Speaker 1: starts three weeks from yesterday and it ends two days

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Speaker 1: after the election. And there is absolutely no guarantee that

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Speaker 1: the paperwork about immunity will include the evidence against Trump.

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Speaker 1: But consider for a moment what the documents would have

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Speaker 1: to look like if the filings about what is eliminated

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Speaker 1: each of those documents would then be one word long,

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Speaker 1: should or shouldn't Pence and whether he can testify or

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Speaker 1: his previous testimony is erased by the immunity fix. It

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Speaker 1: the public hands for whatever that is or isn't worth

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Speaker 1: to some degree. Beginning on the twenty sixth of this month,

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Speaker 1: with the first Smith opening brief on the issue of immunity,

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Speaker 1: Trump must supplement his motion to dismiss on statutory grounds

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Speaker 1: a week later, on Thursday, October third. Two weeks after that,

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Speaker 1: Trump replies to the initial Smith filing and Smith replies

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Speaker 1: to the Trump motion to dismiss. Smith replies to that

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, October twenty ninth. Smith has another reply to

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Speaker 1: on Halloween. So if you want an October surprise, pick one.

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Speaker 1: It could come early in three weeks or on the

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Speaker 1: or maybe not even November sixth, the last of the hearings.

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Speaker 1: Trump's answer to the Smith Halloween reply comes with the

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Speaker 1: not qualified to, and unlike almost everybody else talking about it,

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Speaker 1: I admit that. But Trump lawyer John Laura's fixation on

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Speaker 1: this for those of us who are legal illiterates. Laura

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Speaker 1: yesterday insisted the ruling needs to be made immediately because

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Speaker 1: this is a quote sensitive time for Trump. That is,

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Speaker 1: it's the election quote. If your honor decides, and your

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Speaker 1: Vice President pens is not only presumptively immune, but immune,

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Speaker 1: then that indictment has to be dismissed. Huge mistake, cheap mouthpiece.

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Speaker 1: Chutkin did not like that term sensitive time at all,

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Speaker 1: it to them. As Shakespeare wrote, hoist with his own petard.

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Speaker 1: I have asked it before, and based upon his performance

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Speaker 4: sure seems just in my bones, they just feel that

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00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:39,355
Speaker 4: there's a great deal of corruption and control there that

427
00:31:39,755 --> 00:31:42,355
Speaker 4: the vast majority of people do not understand. And again,

428
00:31:42,755 --> 00:31:45,555
Speaker 4: when you're the few people who do understand, and you've

429
00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:49,395
Speaker 4: got the levers of power, bad things can happen.

430
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Speaker 1: By the way, Joseph P. Kennedy and JP Morgan are

431
00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:57,675
Speaker 1: going to do it again. Kennedy died in nineteen sixty nine,

432
00:31:58,595 --> 00:32:02,475
Speaker 1: Morgan died in nineteen thirteen, and the Great Depression thirty

433
00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:07,835
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty. Unless yes, Senator Johnson means JP Morgan junior,

434
00:32:08,355 --> 00:32:12,315
Speaker 1: or alternatively Johnson meant the actress, singer, and Gong show

435
00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:16,995
Speaker 1: star JP Morgan. That's Jye. She was born in nineteen

436
00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:19,635
Speaker 1: thirty one. So I don't think the nineteen twenty nine

437
00:32:19,675 --> 00:32:26,275
Speaker 1: stock crash and the simultaneous depression were her fault. Her

438
00:32:26,275 --> 00:32:30,715
Speaker 1: performance on the Gong Show was her fault. Senator doesn't

439
00:32:30,755 --> 00:32:34,675
Speaker 1: understand any of this. He just feels it in his bones. Senator,

440
00:32:34,755 --> 00:32:39,355
Speaker 1: that feeling in your bones is actually rickets. But our

441
00:32:39,395 --> 00:32:43,115
Speaker 1: winner is speaking of never understanding it. He will never

442
00:32:43,115 --> 00:32:47,995
Speaker 1: have rickets because he has no bones. Jesse Waters of Fox, who,

443
00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:51,235
Speaker 1: in his rush to attack Tim Walls, has actually managed

444
00:32:51,675 --> 00:32:56,875
Speaker 1: to attack instead his old boss and Donald Trump. The

445
00:32:56,955 --> 00:33:01,115
Speaker 1: quote from Jesse Waters, women love masculinity, and women do

446
00:33:01,195 --> 00:33:04,195
Speaker 1: not love Tim Walls. So that should just tell you

447
00:33:04,235 --> 00:33:07,555
Speaker 1: about how masculine Tim Walls as. The other day you

448
00:33:07,595 --> 00:33:12,995
Speaker 1: saw him with a vanilla ice cream shake. Vanilla ice

449
00:33:12,995 --> 00:33:15,875
Speaker 1: cream shake is a sign of lack of masculinity. Here's

450
00:33:15,915 --> 00:33:18,635
Speaker 1: the problem with that. As I've mentioned many times, Jesse

451
00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:22,515
Speaker 1: Waters started at Fox as the stalker who went out

452
00:33:22,555 --> 00:33:25,555
Speaker 1: and did Bill O'Reilly stalking for him when Bill O'Reilly

453
00:33:25,595 --> 00:33:28,955
Speaker 1: was too busy stalking his own producers. Jesse Waters was

454
00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:32,675
Speaker 1: the guy who literally followed around in a car a blogger,

455
00:33:32,755 --> 00:33:36,395
Speaker 1: a liberal blogger, and told her when he finally confronted

456
00:33:36,395 --> 00:33:39,035
Speaker 1: her and she thought she was being physically attacked by

457
00:33:39,075 --> 00:33:42,475
Speaker 1: some strange guy, and boy is he a strange guy.

458
00:33:43,835 --> 00:33:47,435
Speaker 1: She actually told her Amanda Turkle was her name, that

459
00:33:47,755 --> 00:33:51,995
Speaker 1: O'Reilly had sent her him to follow her to stalk her.

460
00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:54,835
Speaker 1: And he did this countless times with other people. He

461
00:33:54,955 --> 00:34:00,075
Speaker 1: was Little Jesse waters Bill O'Reilly's stalker producer. The thing

462
00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:02,675
Speaker 1: is that I used to have front row seats at

463
00:34:02,755 --> 00:34:05,515
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, mostly to give the tickets away to make

464
00:34:05,515 --> 00:34:08,035
Speaker 1: a wish, but I also went twenty twenty five times

465
00:34:08,035 --> 00:34:10,955
Speaker 1: a year, entertained my friends, spent my money in a

466
00:34:11,035 --> 00:34:16,195
Speaker 1: very conspicuous and you know, non socialist way, sitting in

467
00:34:16,235 --> 00:34:19,835
Speaker 1: the front row, trying to annoy my former friends at

468
00:34:19,875 --> 00:34:22,635
Speaker 1: the Yes Network by making sure that their shot of

469
00:34:22,675 --> 00:34:24,595
Speaker 1: home plate had to include me in it since I

470
00:34:24,635 --> 00:34:26,715
Speaker 1: was sitting there. I I'd bring my friends and we'd

471
00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:29,555
Speaker 1: eat all the food and everything else. And often two

472
00:34:29,595 --> 00:34:31,955
Speaker 1: people would be seated a couple of rows behind us

473
00:34:31,955 --> 00:34:34,115
Speaker 1: in the free seats that they could call up and

474
00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:36,515
Speaker 1: demand from the Yankees because they were too cheap to

475
00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:39,035
Speaker 1: buy front row tickets or any other tickets. And they

476
00:34:39,115 --> 00:34:41,675
Speaker 1: used to sit there, two friends apparently, and they used

477
00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:46,395
Speaker 1: to drink nothing but vanilla ice cream shakes. To use

478
00:34:46,475 --> 00:34:48,875
Speaker 1: Jesse Water's phrase, the other day you signed with a

479
00:34:48,955 --> 00:34:54,155
Speaker 1: vanilla ice cream shake, which Tim Walls calls not masculine.

480
00:34:54,555 --> 00:34:58,435
Speaker 1: The two friends were Bill O'Reilly and his friend Donald Trump,

481
00:34:58,915 --> 00:35:00,275
Speaker 1: and the two of them used to sit there and

482
00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:03,195
Speaker 1: I would look over periodically because O'Reilly is always, as

483
00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:05,915
Speaker 1: you know, fascinated me. Every time he's ever seen me,

484
00:35:06,275 --> 00:35:08,395
Speaker 1: he's looked the other way, and then when he thought

485
00:35:08,435 --> 00:35:10,155
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking at him, he would stare at me.

486
00:35:10,395 --> 00:35:12,155
Speaker 1: So we would have these I don't think he's looking

487
00:35:12,155 --> 00:35:14,915
Speaker 1: at me, I'm going to stare at him contests. In

488
00:35:14,955 --> 00:35:17,755
Speaker 1: any event, all they did they never talked, they never

489
00:35:17,795 --> 00:35:20,795
Speaker 1: said anything, They never interacted with anybody. All they did

490
00:35:20,875 --> 00:35:27,715
Speaker 1: was sit there chain chugging vanilla milkshakes. But apparently to

491
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:31,635
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly's former employee Jesse Waters, who is openly trying

492
00:35:31,675 --> 00:35:35,475
Speaker 1: to get Donald Trump elected president, sorry, dictator of the

493
00:35:35,555 --> 00:35:39,875
Speaker 1: United States. To Jesse Waters, the vanilla ice cream shake

494
00:35:39,955 --> 00:35:43,555
Speaker 1: favored by O'Reilly and Trump is a sign of a

495
00:35:43,595 --> 00:35:49,275
Speaker 1: feminine man. You heard him, Jesse, I may soon be

496
00:35:49,435 --> 00:35:54,035
Speaker 1: selling milkshakes at Yankee Stadium, right. I made an Oopsie,

497
00:35:54,075 --> 00:36:28,995
Speaker 1: Waters Today's worst milkshake in the world to the number

498
00:36:28,995 --> 00:36:31,795
Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown, and Friday's were Thurber and

499
00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:36,435
Speaker 1: I don't know when I went to Sullivan became my

500
00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:40,315
Speaker 1: father's favorite Thurber story. I suspect it was in the hospital,

501
00:36:40,355 --> 00:36:42,115
Speaker 1: when I was reading to him in the last six

502
00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:44,315
Speaker 1: months of his life. I know I read it to

503
00:36:44,395 --> 00:36:46,675
Speaker 1: him at least half a dozen times, the first five

504
00:36:46,755 --> 00:36:51,475
Speaker 1: by his request. The last time he did not request it,

505
00:36:51,675 --> 00:36:54,235
Speaker 1: in fact, and this is the most perverse kind of

506
00:36:54,315 --> 00:36:58,515
Speaker 1: compliment I think any restriter has ever received. I read

507
00:36:58,555 --> 00:37:01,235
Speaker 1: this story to him. It was the last thing that

508
00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:03,115
Speaker 1: I read to him. In fact, it was the last

509
00:37:03,115 --> 00:37:05,155
Speaker 1: thing he did on earth, was to listen to this

510
00:37:05,235 --> 00:37:10,395
Speaker 1: story in a state of semi consciousness. He waited till

511
00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:13,155
Speaker 1: the end of it. He took one deep, satisfied breath,

512
00:37:13,195 --> 00:37:17,515
Speaker 1: and he died. I don't recommend this, but I think

513
00:37:17,555 --> 00:37:20,195
Speaker 1: it does speak to the quality of the writing I

514
00:37:20,315 --> 00:37:26,115
Speaker 1: went to Sullivant by James Thurber. I was reminded the

515
00:37:26,115 --> 00:37:28,995
Speaker 1: other morning by what I don't remember, and it doesn't matter,

516
00:37:29,355 --> 00:37:31,995
Speaker 1: of a crisp September morning last year when I went

517
00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:34,555
Speaker 1: to the Grand Central to see a little boy of

518
00:37:34,675 --> 00:37:37,715
Speaker 1: ten get excitedly on a special coach that was to

519
00:37:37,755 --> 00:37:41,195
Speaker 1: take him to a boys' school somewhere north of Boston.

520
00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:44,915
Speaker 1: He had never been away to school before. The coach

521
00:37:45,075 --> 00:37:48,595
Speaker 1: was squirming with youngsters. You could tell after a while

522
00:37:48,915 --> 00:37:53,075
Speaker 1: the novitiates shining and tremulous and a little awed from

523
00:37:53,075 --> 00:37:56,075
Speaker 1: the more aloof boys who had been away to school before.

524
00:37:56,675 --> 00:38:00,515
Speaker 1: But they were very much alike at first glance. There

525
00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:02,635
Speaker 1: was for me, in case you thought I was leading

526
00:38:02,715 --> 00:38:07,155
Speaker 1: up to that, no sharp feeling of old lost years

527
00:38:07,195 --> 00:38:09,875
Speaker 1: in the tense atmosphere of that coach, because I never

528
00:38:09,915 --> 00:38:11,475
Speaker 1: went away to a private school when I was a

529
00:38:11,475 --> 00:38:16,475
Speaker 1: little boy. I went to Sullivant School in Columbus. I

530
00:38:16,515 --> 00:38:18,395
Speaker 1: thought about it as I walked back to my hotel.

531
00:38:19,475 --> 00:38:22,795
Speaker 1: Sullivant was an ordinary public school, and yet it was

532
00:38:22,875 --> 00:38:26,395
Speaker 1: not like any other I have ever known of. In

533
00:38:26,515 --> 00:38:29,875
Speaker 1: seeking an adjective to describe the Sullivant School of my

534
00:38:30,035 --> 00:38:32,915
Speaker 1: years nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and eight, I can

535
00:38:32,995 --> 00:38:39,355
Speaker 1: only think of tough. Sullivant School was tough. The boys

536
00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:42,435
Speaker 1: of Sullivant came mostly from the region around Central Market,

537
00:38:42,475 --> 00:38:46,195
Speaker 1: a poorish district with many families of the laboring class.

538
00:38:47,035 --> 00:38:49,395
Speaker 1: The school district also included a number of homes of

539
00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:51,635
Speaker 1: the upper classes, because at the turn of the century

540
00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:55,515
Speaker 1: one or two old residential streets still lingered near the

541
00:38:55,555 --> 00:38:59,035
Speaker 1: shouting and rumbling of the market, reluctant to surrender their

542
00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:01,955
Speaker 1: fine old houses to the encroaching rabble of commerce and

543
00:39:02,035 --> 00:39:07,715
Speaker 1: become as a last they now have more vulgar business streets.

544
00:39:09,115 --> 00:39:13,115
Speaker 1: I remember always first of all, the Sullivant baseball team.

545
00:39:13,875 --> 00:39:16,555
Speaker 1: Most grammar school baseball teams are made up of boys

546
00:39:16,555 --> 00:39:18,315
Speaker 1: in the seventh and eighth grades, or they were in

547
00:39:18,355 --> 00:39:21,995
Speaker 1: my day, But with Sullivant it was different. Several of

548
00:39:22,035 --> 00:39:25,075
Speaker 1: its best players were in the fourth grade, known to

549
00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:29,155
Speaker 1: the teachers of the school as the terrible fourth. In

550
00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:37,795
Speaker 1: that grade you first encountered fractions and long division, and

551
00:39:37,955 --> 00:39:43,995
Speaker 1: many pupils lodged there for years, like logs in a brook.

552
00:39:45,435 --> 00:39:47,675
Speaker 1: Some of the more able baseball players have been in

553
00:39:47,715 --> 00:39:51,995
Speaker 1: the fourth grade for seven or eight years. Then, too,

554
00:39:52,035 --> 00:39:54,355
Speaker 1: there were a number of boys who had not been

555
00:39:54,395 --> 00:39:56,875
Speaker 1: in the class past the normal time, but were nevertheless

556
00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:01,315
Speaker 1: deep into their teens. They had avoided starting to school

557
00:40:01,715 --> 00:40:04,755
Speaker 1: by eluding the truant officer until they were ready to

558
00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,475
Speaker 1: go into long pants, but he always got them in

559
00:40:07,515 --> 00:40:10,555
Speaker 1: the end. One or two of these fourth graders were

560
00:40:10,595 --> 00:40:14,395
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen years old, but the dean of the

561
00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:18,235
Speaker 1: squad was a tall, husky young man of twenty two

562
00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:21,875
Speaker 1: who was in the fifth grade. The teachers of the

563
00:40:21,915 --> 00:40:23,675
Speaker 1: third and fourth I had got tired of having him

564
00:40:23,715 --> 00:40:26,195
Speaker 1: around as the years rolled along, and had pushed him on.

565
00:40:27,355 --> 00:40:31,995
Speaker 1: His name was Dana Wayeney, and he had a mustache.

566
00:40:32,675 --> 00:40:35,155
Speaker 1: Don't ask me why his parents allowed him to stay

567
00:40:35,155 --> 00:40:38,235
Speaker 1: in school so long. There were many mysteries at Sullivant

568
00:40:38,475 --> 00:40:41,115
Speaker 1: that were never cleared up. All I know is why

569
00:40:41,195 --> 00:40:43,995
Speaker 1: he kept on in school and didn't go to work.

570
00:40:44,795 --> 00:40:48,235
Speaker 1: He liked playing on the baseball team, and he had

571
00:40:48,275 --> 00:40:50,755
Speaker 1: a pretty easy time in class because the teachers had

572
00:40:50,755 --> 00:40:54,115
Speaker 1: given up asking him any questions at all years before.

573
00:40:55,595 --> 00:40:58,275
Speaker 1: The story was that he had answered but one question

574
00:40:58,315 --> 00:41:00,835
Speaker 1: in the seventeen years he had been going to classes

575
00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:04,795
Speaker 1: at Sullivant, and that was what is one use of

576
00:41:04,835 --> 00:41:11,115
Speaker 1: the comma? The kami, said Dana, embarrassingly, unsnarling his long

577
00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:13,915
Speaker 1: legs from beneath a desk much too low for him,

578
00:41:14,355 --> 00:41:18,355
Speaker 1: is used to shoot marbles with Kami's was our word

579
00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:21,395
Speaker 1: for those cheap ten percent marbles, in case it wasn't yours.

580
00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:26,275
Speaker 1: The Sullivant School baseball team of nineteen hundred and five

581
00:41:26,835 --> 00:41:29,955
Speaker 1: defeated several high school teams in the city and claimed

582
00:41:29,955 --> 00:41:32,395
Speaker 1: the high school championship of the state, to which title

583
00:41:32,395 --> 00:41:36,035
Speaker 1: it had, of course, no technical right. I believe the

584
00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:39,435
Speaker 1: boys could have proved their moral right to the championship, however,

585
00:41:39,755 --> 00:41:41,595
Speaker 1: if they had been allowed to go out of town

586
00:41:41,755 --> 00:41:44,675
Speaker 1: and play all the teams they challenged, such as the

587
00:41:44,675 --> 00:41:48,635
Speaker 1: powerful Dayton and Toledo Nines. But their road season was

588
00:41:48,635 --> 00:41:52,795
Speaker 1: called off after a terrific fight that occurred during one

589
00:41:52,835 --> 00:41:58,915
Speaker 1: game at Mount Stirling or Picqua or Zenia, I can't

590
00:41:58,915 --> 00:42:03,595
Speaker 1: remember which. Our first baseman, Dana Whaney, crowned the umpire

591
00:42:03,635 --> 00:42:06,915
Speaker 1: with a bat during an altercation overcalled strike and the

592
00:42:06,955 --> 00:42:10,075
Speaker 1: fight was on. It took place in the fourth inning,

593
00:42:10,115 --> 00:42:12,395
Speaker 1: so of course the game was never finished. The battle

594
00:42:12,435 --> 00:42:15,115
Speaker 1: continued on down into the business section of the town

595
00:42:15,195 --> 00:42:19,035
Speaker 1: and raged for hours, with much destruction of property. But

596
00:42:19,275 --> 00:42:22,515
Speaker 1: since Sullivan was ahead of the time seventeen to nothing,

597
00:42:23,115 --> 00:42:25,195
Speaker 1: there could have been no doubt as to the outcome.

598
00:42:26,595 --> 00:42:30,155
Speaker 1: Nobody was killed all of US boys were sure our

599
00:42:30,235 --> 00:42:33,195
Speaker 1: team could have beaten Ohio State University that year, but

600
00:42:33,235 --> 00:42:38,475
Speaker 1: they wouldn't play us. They were scared. Wayney was by

601
00:42:38,515 --> 00:42:40,995
Speaker 1: no means the biggest or toughest guy on the Grammar

602
00:42:40,995 --> 00:42:43,595
Speaker 1: School team. He was merely the oldest, being about a

603
00:42:43,715 --> 00:42:47,835
Speaker 1: year the senior of Floyd, the center fielder who could

604
00:42:47,915 --> 00:42:50,115
Speaker 1: jump five feet straight into the air without taking a

605
00:42:50,195 --> 00:42:54,835
Speaker 1: running start. Nobody knew, not even the Board of Education,

606
00:42:54,915 --> 00:42:59,195
Speaker 1: which once tried to find out whether Floyd was Floyd's

607
00:42:59,635 --> 00:43:05,075
Speaker 1: first name or his last name. He apparently only had one.

608
00:43:06,395 --> 00:43:09,515
Speaker 1: He didn't have any parents, and nobody, including himself, seemed

609
00:43:09,515 --> 00:43:12,755
Speaker 1: to know where he lived. When teachers insisted that he

610
00:43:12,835 --> 00:43:14,755
Speaker 1: must have another name to go with Floyd, he would

611
00:43:14,755 --> 00:43:19,115
Speaker 1: grow sullen and ominous, and they would cease questioning him

612
00:43:19,115 --> 00:43:22,955
Speaker 1: because he was a dangerous scholar in his schoolroom brawl,

613
00:43:22,995 --> 00:43:25,715
Speaker 1: as mister Harrigan, the janitor found out one morning when

614
00:43:25,715 --> 00:43:29,275
Speaker 1: he was called in by a screaming teacher. All our

615
00:43:29,355 --> 00:43:33,115
Speaker 1: teachers were women to get Floyd under control after she

616
00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:36,435
Speaker 1: had tried to whip him and he had begun to

617
00:43:36,635 --> 00:43:42,115
Speaker 1: take the room apart, beginning with the desks, Floyd broke

618
00:43:42,155 --> 00:43:44,995
Speaker 1: into small pieces the switch she had used on him.

619
00:43:45,555 --> 00:43:48,995
Speaker 1: Some said he also ate it. I don't know, because

620
00:43:49,035 --> 00:43:51,195
Speaker 1: I was home sick at the time with mumps or something.

621
00:43:52,235 --> 00:43:56,115
Speaker 1: Harrigan was a burly, iron muscle janitor, a man come

622
00:43:56,115 --> 00:43:58,955
Speaker 1: from a long line of coal shovelers, but he was

623
00:43:59,035 --> 00:44:01,475
Speaker 1: no match for Floyd, who had to be sure the

624
00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,995
Speaker 1: considerable advantage of being more aroused than mister Harrigan. When

625
00:44:04,995 --> 00:44:08,315
Speaker 1: their fight started, Floyd had him down and was sitting

626
00:44:08,355 --> 00:44:10,395
Speaker 1: on his chest in no time, and Harrigan had to

627
00:44:10,435 --> 00:44:12,795
Speaker 1: promise to be good and to say that's what I

628
00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:18,315
Speaker 1: get ten times before Floyd would let him up. I

629
00:44:18,355 --> 00:44:21,515
Speaker 1: don't suppose I would ever have got through Sullivant School

630
00:44:21,595 --> 00:44:25,315
Speaker 1: alive if it hadn't been for Floyd. For some reason,

631
00:44:25,355 --> 00:44:29,595
Speaker 1: he appointed himself my protector, and I needed one. If

632
00:44:29,595 --> 00:44:32,195
Speaker 1: Floyd was known to be on your side, nobody in

633
00:44:32,235 --> 00:44:35,475
Speaker 1: the school would dare be after you and chase you home.

634
00:44:35,955 --> 00:44:38,235
Speaker 1: I was one of the ten or fifteen male pupils

635
00:44:38,275 --> 00:44:42,755
Speaker 1: in Sullivant School who always or almost always knew their lessons,

636
00:44:43,195 --> 00:44:46,115
Speaker 1: and I believe Floyd admired the mental prowess of a

637
00:44:46,155 --> 00:44:49,675
Speaker 1: youngster who knew how many continents there were, and whether

638
00:44:49,755 --> 00:44:53,955
Speaker 1: or not the sun was inhabited. Also, one time, when

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Speaker 1: came across the word Duquane and knew how to pronounce it.

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Speaker 1: That charmed Floyd, who had been slouched in his seat

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Speaker 1: idly following the printed page of his worn and penciled textbook.

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Speaker 1: How you know that was duquane, boy, he asked me

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Speaker 1: He looked at me with round eyes. Oh that's something

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Speaker 1: he said. After that word got around that Floyd would

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Speaker 1: beat the tar out of anybody that messed around with me.

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00:45:32,035 --> 00:45:34,195
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Speaker 1: I knew my lessons, and both of those things were

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Speaker 1: considered pretty terrible at Sullivan. Floyd had one idiosyncrasy though.

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Speaker 1: In the early nineteen hundreds, long, warm, furry gloves that

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Speaker 1: came almost to your elbows were popular with boys, and

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Speaker 1: Floyd had one of the biggest pears in school. He

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Speaker 1: wore them the year round. Dick Peterson was an either

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Speaker 1: greater figure on the baseball team and in the school

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Speaker 1: than Floyd was. He had a way in the classroom

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Speaker 1: of blurting out a long, deep, rolling be for no

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Speaker 1: reason at all. Once he licked three boys his own size,

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Speaker 1: single handed, really single handed, for he fought with his

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Speaker 1: right hand and held a mandolin in his left hand

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Speaker 1: all the time. It came out uninjured. Dick and Floyd

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Speaker 1: never met in mortal combat, so nobody ever knew which

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Speaker 1: one could beat, and the scholars were about evenly divided

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Speaker 1: in their opinions. Many a fight started among them after

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Speaker 1: school when the argument came up. I think school never

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Speaker 1: let out at Sullivan without at least one fight starting up,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes there was as many as five or six

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Speaker 1: Now and again, virtually the whole school turned out to

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Speaker 1: fight the Catholic boys of the Holy Cross Academy in

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Speaker 1: Fifth Street near town for no reason at all, in

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Speaker 1: winter with snowballs and ice balls, in other seasons with fists,

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Speaker 1: brick bats, and clubs. Dick Peterson was always in the van, yelling, singing,

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Speaker 1: being whirling all the way around when he swung with

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Speaker 1: his right, or if he hadn't brought his mandle in

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Speaker 1: his left and missed. He made himself the pitcher on

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Speaker 1: the baseball team because he was the captain. He was

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Speaker 1: the captain because everybody else was afraid to challenge his

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Speaker 1: self election except Floyd. Floyd was too lazy to pitch,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't care who was captain because he didn't

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Speaker 1: fully comprehend what that meant. On one occasion, when Earl Baddock,

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Speaker 1: a steamfitter's son, had shut out Mound Street School for

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Speaker 1: six innings without a hit, Dick took him out of

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Speaker 1: the pitcher's box and went in himself. He was hit

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Speaker 1: hard and the other team scored, but it didn't make

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Speaker 1: much difference because the margin of Sullivan's victory was so

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Speaker 1: great the team didn't lose a game for five years

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Speaker 1: to another grammar school. When Dick Peterson was in the

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Speaker 1: sixth grade, he got into a saloon brawl and was killed.

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Speaker 1: When I go back to Columbus, I always walked past

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Speaker 1: Sullivant School. I have never happened to get there when

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Speaker 1: classes were letting out, so I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: pupils are like. Now. I am sure there are no

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Speaker 1: more Dick Peterson's and no more Floyd's unless Floyd is

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Speaker 1: still going to school there. The playyard is still entirely

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Speaker 1: bare of grass and covered with gravel, and the sycamore

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Speaker 1: is still lining the curb between the schoolhouse fence and

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Speaker 1: the Oak Street car line. A street car line running

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Speaker 1: past a schoolhouse is a dangerous thing as a rule,

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Speaker 1: but I remember no one being injured while I was

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Speaker 1: attending Sullivant. I do remember, however, one person who came

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Speaker 1: very near being injured. He was a motorman on the

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Speaker 1: Oak Street line, and once when his car stopped at

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Speaker 1: the corner of six to let off passengers, he yelled

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Speaker 1: at Judy Davidson, who played third base on the ball

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Speaker 1: team and was a member of the Terrible Fourth, to

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Speaker 1: get out of the way. Choudy was fourteen years old,

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Speaker 1: but huge for his age, and he was standing on

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Speaker 1: the tracks taking a chew of tobacco. Come on down

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Speaker 1: off of that con I'll not kip lock off, said Chouty,

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Speaker 1: and what I can only describe as a sullivant tone

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Speaker 1: of voice. The motorman waited until Shooty moved slowly off

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Speaker 1: the tracks, then he went on about his business. I

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Speaker 1: think it was lucky for him that he did. There

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Speaker 1: were boys in those days. I went to Sullivant by

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Speaker 1: James Thurber. The baseball team could have beaten Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. We are now back to five episodes

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Speaker 1: a week, starting Monday, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern

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Speaker 1: as usual. I'm gonna say this again. The ones on

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Speaker 1: Monday are gonna be brief, probably less than ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: so I don't want to hear any complaints. You got me.

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Speaker 1: I'm an old man. I've been doing something like this

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Speaker 1: every day for like forty nine years now. I need

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Speaker 1: a nap. I'm giving my nap up so you can

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Speaker 1: have this on Monday mornings. Hush. The YouTube version goes

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Speaker 1: up around five am. If you're not subscribing to one

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Speaker 1: or both, and you know what, if I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go and do this, you should subscribe to both the

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Speaker 1: YouTube version and the podcast version. Artificial inflation of numbers online?

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Speaker 1: Who to thunk it? I'm just gonna make a public

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Speaker 1: appeal here. I don't have Kremlin money coming in. I

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Speaker 1: don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars now, Look, I

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Speaker 1: don't need any more money. If I live to be

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two years old, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: run out of cash. On the other hand, if you'd

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Speaker 1: like to keep motivating me, cash is a good way

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Speaker 1: of doing it. When I don't want to do this

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Speaker 1: and I think, Wow, four hundred thousand dollars a week

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Speaker 1: from the Kremlin, Okay, I can understand why these idiots

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Speaker 1: are doing it. And I'm not asking for four hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and I certainly don't want it from the Kremlin.

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Speaker 1: Four hundred thousand dollars a year from the We don't

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Speaker 1: have a liberal version of the Kremlin. Four thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: a month from the forty dollars a week. All right,

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Speaker 1: how much you get if you got on you? What

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Speaker 1: am I asking for you from you? Am I asking

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Speaker 1: for four dollars a week? No, I'm not. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: just subscribe to the two things and we'll inflate the

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Speaker 1: numbers that way. That'll be my motivation. Oh, there are

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million people listening to this. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's two hundred and fifty people and they've each

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Speaker 1: described a million times. But I digress. Please share this

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Speaker 1: podcast with somebody who does not subscribe. Brian Ray and

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Speaker 1: John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors, have Countdown Arrange, produced

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. They have subscribed two

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one times each. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration

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Speaker 1: in keyboards, mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums.

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Speaker 1: And of course when I say two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: one times each, I'm lying. These are all principled people

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Speaker 1: who have not subscribed more than once. Unfortunately, it was

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Speaker 1: produced by TKO Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments

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Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, the eminently

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Speaker 1: ethical Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme

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Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, a completely

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Speaker 1: ethical individual courtesy of ESPN Inc. Nothing but ethics there.

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Speaker 1: That's what the E in ESPN stands for. I mean

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Speaker 1: ESPN could underwrite this other music arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: Noah Horns allowed. I do have to pay for the advertisements. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe someone can underwrite the advertisements. My announcer today is

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Speaker 1: my friend John Dean, and by the way, for all

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Speaker 1: the joking around about ethics. When I list all the

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Speaker 1: people I know with ethics, John is first, and then

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Speaker 1: there's like a five hundred person spaceless gap there until

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Speaker 1: we get to number two. Who is actually number five

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Speaker 1: hundred and two. I have to figure out who that is.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. Maybe I'm number

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Speaker 1: five hundred and two of all the ethical people I know. Coincidentally,

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Speaker 1: that's the five hundred and first edition of countdown for

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Speaker 1: this the sixty first day until the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: presidential election, the one thousand, three hundred and thirty third

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Speaker 1: day since convicted felon dementia j Trump's first attempted coup

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Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. I

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Speaker 1: don't think Trump's on that ethical list at all. He's

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Speaker 1: down there below Ron Johnson use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing,

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Speaker 1: use the mental health system used presidential immunity. The Supreme

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Speaker 1: Theocratic Court has given it to you, President Biden. Hugh's

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Speaker 1: the immunity. I mean, they've said, if it's official, it's legal,

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Speaker 1: Go have fun. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. What

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Speaker 1: am I doing? Bulletins as the news requires, till the

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Speaker 1: next one. If I ever finished this one, I'm Keith Olderman.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown

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Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more

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Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.