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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Convicted

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Speaker 1: felon Donald Trump has been found guilty and guilty, and

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Speaker 1: guilty and guilty, guilty, guilty and guilty, guilty, guilty, and

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Speaker 1: guilty and guilty, guilty, ish, guilty, adjacent guilty, esque, also

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Speaker 1: guilty and guilty, gay, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, very guilty,

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Speaker 1: tartar control guilty, and lastly not not guilty. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we knew he was guilty. This was just the legal

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Speaker 1: system confirming it and before getting to what really matters

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Speaker 1: right now, which is in fact what happens not right now.

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Speaker 1: But next I would like to observe that, no, this

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Speaker 1: was not the legal system finally getting around to confirming

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Speaker 1: that he's guilty. Convicted felon. Donald Trump is now O

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Speaker 1: for five on trial his corporation guilty of seventeen felonies,

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Speaker 1: his first Egene Carroll trial finding him liable for sexual

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Speaker 1: abuse and defamation, his second Egen Carroll trial, finding him

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Speaker 1: more guilty. For a total of eighty nine million dollars

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Speaker 1: for a total of three hundred and fifty five million

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Speaker 1: in liability, and now thirty four count them thirty four

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Speaker 1: felonies thirty four and oh number thirty four, s Keel O'Neill,

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Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan thirty four, Austin Matthews, and best of all,

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Speaker 1: hersh Sholwalker. Trump just got herschel Walker thirty four. And

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Speaker 1: before I stop celebrating, I really need clarification from the

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Speaker 1: millions of Trump cultists who are just as assuredly not

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Speaker 1: stopping symbolically nailing themselves to crosses right now. Is this,

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Speaker 1: Fernando valezuela uniform number worth of thirty four convictions? Is

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Speaker 1: this the political gift from the Democrats and Biden that

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Speaker 1: assures Trump wins the election, as you all keep saying,

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Speaker 1: or is it election interference that guarantees he does not

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Speaker 1: win the election, as you idiots also all keep saying.

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Speaker 1: Because this is where I finally get to what's next,

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Speaker 1: And what's next is no, it's neither. What it is

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Speaker 1: is potentially just enough, just this, no sentence to jail,

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Speaker 1: no espionage trial, no election subversion trial, no Georgia trial,

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Speaker 1: just this, just this conviction, these convictions, this could cost

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Speaker 1: him two percent of Republican voters. That's where the polling

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Speaker 1: seems to have bottomed out. All of the polling done

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Speaker 1: before the verdict. Did I mention? They found him guilty

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Speaker 1: thirty four times. It's like three convictions per hour of

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Speaker 1: jury deliberation. And yet every news organization, every news organization

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Speaker 1: could cost him, according to polling, two percent, maybe more,

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Speaker 1: it was going to cost him like thirty four votes.

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Speaker 1: The loss of two percent of Trump's Republican support in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election would have cost Trump one million,

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Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty four, four hundred and eighty votes.

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Speaker 1: If the two percent applied evenly to the electoral college,

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Speaker 1: it would have cost him five electoral votes. The loss

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Speaker 1: of two percent of Republican support in the twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: six thousand votes in Michigan. It would have cost him

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Speaker 1: him twenty eight thousand votes in Wisconsin. In other words,

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, two percent would have cost him Michigan, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: a host on News Nation right now. And that math,

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Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton. Except when speaking of that, this does

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Speaker 1: not even address how many of that two percent of

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Speaker 1: How many of those go to Biden? Because if half

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Speaker 1: percent that convicted fellon Trump just lost, stays home. Now,

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Speaker 1: before you misinterpret my enthusiasms and say, oh good, that

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Speaker 1: That's not the way it works. That two percent number

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Speaker 1: Fella and Trump were convicted in the Stormy Daniel's case,

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Speaker 1: if it's four points, not two points, that's just under

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Speaker 1: eight point swing from this Marquette Law pole could possibly

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Speaker 1: polls by saying it's only two points. It is much

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Speaker 1: more fixated on the timing of the sentencing, now scheduled

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Speaker 1: for Thursday, July eleventh, with the Republican Convention Thug Life

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Speaker 1: twenty four opening in Milwaukee on Monday July fifteenth. First

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Speaker 1: again ask for a delay in sentencing until late July

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Speaker 1: after the convention, and they stand at least a fifty

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Speaker 1: the sentencing hearing is on July eleventh. But again, even

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Speaker 1: if on July eleventh or July twenty fifth, Mershawn says,

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Speaker 1: the horse race. You and I have known Trump as

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Speaker 1: Boutler again notes that convicted felons are disqualified from getting

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Speaker 1: clearance to receive classified intelligence. Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

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Speaker 1: He's convicted felon, Donald Trump. He got a call him that.

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Speaker 1: And Donald Trump, convicted felon, is a convicted fellain. The

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Speaker 1: Swift Vote Chris Lasovita writes, you just ended your campaign.

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Speaker 1: Good call, Skezics. The last thing you want in a

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Speaker 1: Trump dictatorship or a Biden second term. The last thing

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Speaker 1: you wants, Chris mfing idiot Lasovita, The last thing you

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Speaker 1: want is a Republican Senate. Moron, utter, unabashed, irredeemable moron,

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Speaker 1: back to Olderman's corollary about how democracy survives because of

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Speaker 1: Sonny Houston say the same thing? Sonny Hostin, to my knowledge, rarely,

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00:30:56,955 --> 00:31:00,475
Speaker 1: if ever says anything smart. I do think she's pretty

428
00:31:00,515 --> 00:31:03,715
Speaker 1: and she's a minority. Sonny Houston, we're an ugly, fat

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00:31:03,755 --> 00:31:07,075
Speaker 1: white woman. She would have no media career whatsoever if

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00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,515
Speaker 1: she had the exact same opinions as she does. Now,

431
00:31:09,675 --> 00:31:13,115
Speaker 1: think about that, says Clay Travis. Sonny Houston, you are

432
00:31:13,155 --> 00:31:16,555
Speaker 1: an ugly fat woman. You have no media career, unlike

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00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:20,155
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, who, regardless of her race or her sexuality,

434
00:31:20,315 --> 00:31:24,515
Speaker 1: would be employed in the WNBA. Frankly, we can debate

435
00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:28,555
Speaker 1: some of that. If Sonny Houston wasn't pretty and a minority,

436
00:31:28,795 --> 00:31:31,515
Speaker 1: she would have no media career whatsoever. If she were

437
00:31:31,595 --> 00:31:35,035
Speaker 1: unattractive and white, there's a zero percent chance she would

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00:31:35,035 --> 00:31:39,355
Speaker 1: be on the view, unquote Clay Travis. Well, obviously, Clay

439
00:31:39,395 --> 00:31:42,835
Speaker 1: Travis is a no talent racist, but his construction here

440
00:31:43,315 --> 00:31:46,275
Speaker 1: has some merit if you in fact pull it out

441
00:31:46,275 --> 00:31:52,595
Speaker 1: of this equation and apply it instead to him Clay Travis. Intellectually,

442
00:31:52,675 --> 00:31:57,235
Speaker 1: Clay Travis is now what we politely call challenged, and

443
00:31:57,315 --> 00:32:00,755
Speaker 1: if he were not fulfilling that niche he would have

444
00:32:00,915 --> 00:32:05,955
Speaker 1: no media career whatsoever. The runner up worse. Speaking of sports,

445
00:32:06,075 --> 00:32:10,835
Speaker 1: Speaking of spots, there's Royce White, who four years ago

446
00:32:10,915 --> 00:32:12,995
Speaker 1: right now is one of the leaders of the George

447
00:32:13,035 --> 00:32:16,395
Speaker 1: Floyd protests in Minnesota and then decided he should become

448
00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:19,475
Speaker 1: the Republican senator from that state. And he has in

449
00:32:19,475 --> 00:32:23,435
Speaker 1: those four years gone totally fascist. And he was endorsed

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00:32:23,475 --> 00:32:26,715
Speaker 1: by the state Republican Party even though the National Republican

451
00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:29,955
Speaker 1: Senatorial Commission doesn't want anything to do with them. And

452
00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:34,035
Speaker 1: here's why, because he does the traditional African American self

453
00:32:34,115 --> 00:32:37,715
Speaker 1: debasement to become accepted by the white fascists, you know,

454
00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:42,115
Speaker 1: the Tim Scott ploy, only with lots of online swearing

455
00:32:42,195 --> 00:32:45,435
Speaker 1: that even Tim Scott would not think of. I can't

456
00:32:45,475 --> 00:32:49,275
Speaker 1: say that. NBC News is now citing documents showing that

457
00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:52,515
Speaker 1: White quote was ordered to catch up after he fell

458
00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:56,315
Speaker 1: behind on court mandated child support payments at least a

459
00:32:56,355 --> 00:32:58,755
Speaker 1: half a dozen times from twenty twenty to twenty twenty three.

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00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:02,355
Speaker 1: Court filings in two cases show White, a father of four,

461
00:33:02,475 --> 00:33:05,395
Speaker 1: was twice found in contempt of court over the findings,

462
00:33:05,595 --> 00:33:07,915
Speaker 1: one of them in a Minnesota county, where he remains

463
00:33:07,955 --> 00:33:11,915
Speaker 1: in constructive contempt, facing the ongoing threat of a one

464
00:33:11,995 --> 00:33:15,075
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty day jail sentence should he again fail

465
00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:17,395
Speaker 1: to keep up with the payments. The next hearing in

466
00:33:17,435 --> 00:33:20,235
Speaker 1: that case is set for October twenty first, two weeks

467
00:33:20,235 --> 00:33:25,075
Speaker 1: before the election. White's response quote talk about some real issues,

468
00:33:25,115 --> 00:33:27,595
Speaker 1: White said in the interview. A lot of people have

469
00:33:27,715 --> 00:33:30,355
Speaker 1: child support, a lot of people have alimony, a lot

470
00:33:30,355 --> 00:33:33,795
Speaker 1: of people have back child support. All you liberals really

471
00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:37,835
Speaker 1: just want to shame people with kids because you're anti human.

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00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:44,555
Speaker 1: As f unquote, the best part of Royce White's campaign

473
00:33:45,195 --> 00:33:47,035
Speaker 1: is that he is, in large part running on the

474
00:33:47,035 --> 00:33:49,955
Speaker 1: fact that he is. As even this NBC article notes,

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00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:56,155
Speaker 1: quote Royce White, a former NBA player National Basketball Association

476
00:33:56,515 --> 00:34:02,435
Speaker 1: whil Sir Royce White's NBA career lasted eight minutes and

477
00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:07,755
Speaker 1: fifty five seconds. Eight minutes and fifty five seconds that's

478
00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:11,355
Speaker 1: how long he played for the twenty fourteen Sacramento Kings.

479
00:34:11,955 --> 00:34:15,235
Speaker 1: He played fifty six seconds in the March twenty first

480
00:34:15,275 --> 00:34:18,795
Speaker 1: game against San Antonio forty nine seconds on March twenty

481
00:34:18,835 --> 00:34:21,595
Speaker 1: third against Milwaukee, and a whopping seven minutes and ten

482
00:34:21,715 --> 00:34:25,955
Speaker 1: seconds on March twenty sixth against New York. Royce White

483
00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:29,915
Speaker 1: scored no points, Riyce White had no rebounds, Royce White

484
00:34:29,915 --> 00:34:33,475
Speaker 1: made no free throws, Royce White made no assists, and

485
00:34:33,635 --> 00:34:39,075
Speaker 1: Royce White took one shot which he missed. In other words,

486
00:34:39,435 --> 00:34:43,635
Speaker 1: Royce White's NBA career is exactly eight minutes and fifty

487
00:34:43,675 --> 00:34:49,675
Speaker 1: five seconds longer than yours was, and you scored as

488
00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:53,835
Speaker 1: many points as he did. But our winner here is

489
00:34:53,955 --> 00:34:56,675
Speaker 1: Christy Nome the worst. It's hard to say what her

490
00:34:56,715 --> 00:34:59,715
Speaker 1: boast in her new book that she murdered her daughter's

491
00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:02,635
Speaker 1: puppy because she failed to train it properly. What that's

492
00:35:02,675 --> 00:35:05,595
Speaker 1: done to her political career. We know what it has

493
00:35:05,635 --> 00:35:08,635
Speaker 1: done to with the book. In its first week, with

494
00:35:08,715 --> 00:35:12,115
Speaker 1: all the pre sales and the bulk book orders coming through,

495
00:35:12,355 --> 00:35:17,195
Speaker 1: Christy Nomes No Going Back. Good call on the title.

496
00:35:17,595 --> 00:35:21,035
Speaker 1: No Going Back sold twenty one nine hundred and eighty

497
00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:24,275
Speaker 1: one copies in this country. Pretty good in fact, about

498
00:35:24,315 --> 00:35:27,835
Speaker 1: average for right wing in doctrination books. Week two, with

499
00:35:28,035 --> 00:35:30,755
Speaker 1: news of the murder and the disastrous book tour just

500
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:33,915
Speaker 1: beginning to sync in nearly a fifty percent drop off.

501
00:35:33,995 --> 00:35:38,355
Speaker 1: Nomes sold eleven thousand copies in week two, Week three,

502
00:35:38,395 --> 00:35:40,915
Speaker 1: Make or Break Week for any book, May nineteenth through

503
00:35:40,915 --> 00:35:43,795
Speaker 1: May twenty fifth. Christy Nomes book that she might as

504
00:35:43,835 --> 00:35:47,675
Speaker 1: well have renamed it, I Kill Puppies. Christy Nomes Books

505
00:35:47,755 --> 00:35:53,475
Speaker 1: sold nationwide in a week two hundred and thirty seven copies,

506
00:35:54,515 --> 00:35:58,435
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty seven, two three and a seven,

507
00:36:00,235 --> 00:36:03,195
Speaker 1: nearly twenty two thousand copies in week one, two hundred

508
00:36:03,195 --> 00:36:06,715
Speaker 1: and thirty seven in week three. As one editor put it,

509
00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:09,075
Speaker 1: it's the most dramatic drop off in sales he's seen

510
00:36:09,155 --> 00:36:12,235
Speaker 1: in thirty years in the business. And if you want

511
00:36:12,435 --> 00:36:15,635
Speaker 1: the jaw dropping statistic to go at that assertion, that

512
00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:18,875
Speaker 1: drop off from week one sales to week three sales

513
00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:24,195
Speaker 1: is a mere nine two hundred and seventy five percent.

514
00:36:25,675 --> 00:36:27,515
Speaker 1: And we don't even know what the totals are for

515
00:36:27,795 --> 00:36:31,795
Speaker 1: returns of people who bought the book and said I

516
00:36:31,795 --> 00:36:35,595
Speaker 1: don't want it in my house. Christy, Hey, what about

517
00:36:35,595 --> 00:36:38,675
Speaker 1: those movie rights? Have you sold the movie rights yet?

518
00:36:38,875 --> 00:37:02,795
Speaker 1: Gnome two days worst author and Lord to the master

519
00:37:03,115 --> 00:37:06,115
Speaker 1: the work of James Thurber. There is a short film

520
00:37:06,355 --> 00:37:09,835
Speaker 1: of this story. I don't think it really does it justice.

521
00:37:09,915 --> 00:37:13,435
Speaker 1: I don't think anything does it justice. Occasionally, real life

522
00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:17,115
Speaker 1: does do it justice. I've thought I've seen this story

523
00:37:17,155 --> 00:37:20,755
Speaker 1: playing out in real time in this country almost every

524
00:37:20,875 --> 00:37:27,235
Speaker 1: day for about seven years. Sit back and relax, if

525
00:37:27,315 --> 00:37:31,435
Speaker 1: relax is the right word for it. For the Greatest

526
00:37:31,595 --> 00:37:37,995
Speaker 1: Man in the World by James Thurber. Looking back on

527
00:37:38,075 --> 00:37:40,835
Speaker 1: it now from the vantage point of nineteen forty one

528
00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:43,435
Speaker 1: can only marvel that it had not happened. Long before

529
00:37:43,435 --> 00:37:46,955
Speaker 1: it did. The United States of America had been ever

530
00:37:47,035 --> 00:37:52,075
Speaker 1: since Kitty Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate petard by which,

531
00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:57,755
Speaker 1: sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable

532
00:37:57,755 --> 00:37:59,995
Speaker 1: that someday there would come, roaring out of the skies

533
00:38:00,435 --> 00:38:05,155
Speaker 1: a national hero of insufficient intelligence background, and characters tesfully

534
00:38:05,235 --> 00:38:08,555
Speaker 1: to endure the mounting orgies of glory, prepared for aviators

535
00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:12,075
Speaker 1: who stayed up for a long time or flew a

536
00:38:12,115 --> 00:38:17,595
Speaker 1: great distance. Both Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum

537
00:38:17,635 --> 00:38:21,795
Speaker 1: and international amity, had been gentlemen, So had our other

538
00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:26,395
Speaker 1: famous aviators. They wore their laurels gracefully, withstood the awful

539
00:38:26,395 --> 00:38:30,795
Speaker 1: weather of publicity, married excellent women, usually fine family and

540
00:38:30,915 --> 00:38:33,835
Speaker 1: quietly retired to private life and the enjoyment of their

541
00:38:33,915 --> 00:38:39,835
Speaker 1: varying fortunes. No untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred

542
00:38:39,875 --> 00:38:42,875
Speaker 1: the perfection of their conduct on the perilous heights of fame.

543
00:38:44,275 --> 00:38:49,355
Speaker 1: The exception to the rule was, however, bound to occur,

544
00:38:50,195 --> 00:38:53,835
Speaker 1: and it did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack

545
00:38:54,595 --> 00:39:00,875
Speaker 1: Pal Smirch erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa,

546
00:39:01,235 --> 00:39:05,475
Speaker 1: flew a second hand single motored Brest Haven the Dragonfly

547
00:39:05,675 --> 00:39:10,795
Speaker 1: three monoplane all the way around the world without stopping.

548
00:39:13,675 --> 00:39:15,995
Speaker 1: Never before in the history of aviation had such a

549
00:39:15,995 --> 00:39:19,235
Speaker 1: flight as Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had

550
00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:23,995
Speaker 1: even taken seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention

551
00:39:24,075 --> 00:39:28,195
Speaker 1: of the mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles Lewis, Gresham,

552
00:39:28,515 --> 00:39:32,915
Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker,

553
00:39:33,235 --> 00:39:37,755
Speaker 1: a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young men of twenty two,

554
00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:41,355
Speaker 1: appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven,

555
00:39:41,955 --> 00:39:46,555
Speaker 1: slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco and announced,

556
00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:51,635
Speaker 1: nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly

557
00:39:51,755 --> 00:39:56,235
Speaker 1: and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight.

558
00:39:57,035 --> 00:40:01,475
Speaker 1: Aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly, implying that

559
00:40:01,515 --> 00:40:04,715
Speaker 1: it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, the

560
00:40:05,075 --> 00:40:11,515
Speaker 1: battered second hand plane wouldn't go, The Gresham auxiliary tanks

561
00:40:11,875 --> 00:40:19,915
Speaker 1: wouldn't work. It was simply a cheap joke smirch. However,

562
00:40:20,195 --> 00:40:22,755
Speaker 1: after calling on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in

563
00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:26,195
Speaker 1: the flap folding department of a large paper box factory,

564
00:40:26,235 --> 00:40:29,795
Speaker 1: a girl whom he later described as his sweet Petuti

565
00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:35,435
Speaker 1: climbed nonchalantly into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable

566
00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:39,155
Speaker 1: seventh of July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of

567
00:40:39,235 --> 00:40:42,715
Speaker 1: tobacco juice into the still air, and took off, carrying

568
00:40:42,795 --> 00:40:46,355
Speaker 1: with him only a gallon of bootleg gin and six

569
00:40:46,635 --> 00:40:52,355
Speaker 1: pounds of salami. When the garage boy thundered out over

570
00:40:52,355 --> 00:40:54,755
Speaker 1: the ocean, the papers were forced to record in all

571
00:40:54,875 --> 00:40:58,755
Speaker 1: seriousness that a mad, unknown young man his name was

572
00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:03,675
Speaker 1: variously misspelled, had actually set out upon a preposterous attempt

573
00:41:03,715 --> 00:41:07,035
Speaker 1: to span the world in a rickety one engine contraption,

574
00:41:07,395 --> 00:41:11,435
Speaker 1: trusting to the long distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster.

575
00:41:12,275 --> 00:41:16,115
Speaker 1: When nine days later, without having stopped once, the tiny

576
00:41:16,155 --> 00:41:19,675
Speaker 1: plane appeared above San Francisco Bay, headed for New York,

577
00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:23,115
Speaker 1: spluttering and choking, to be sure, but still magnificently and

578
00:41:23,195 --> 00:41:27,595
Speaker 1: miraculously aloft the headlines which long since had crowded everything

579
00:41:27,635 --> 00:41:30,235
Speaker 1: else off the front page. Even the shooting of the

580
00:41:30,275 --> 00:41:35,275
Speaker 1: Governor of Illinois by the Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size,

581
00:41:35,595 --> 00:41:38,195
Speaker 1: and the news stories began to run to twenty five

582
00:41:38,475 --> 00:41:45,795
Speaker 1: and thirty columns. It was noticeable, however, that the accounts

583
00:41:45,955 --> 00:41:50,035
Speaker 1: of the epoch making flight touched rather lightly upon the

584
00:41:50,115 --> 00:41:54,915
Speaker 1: aviator himself. This was not because the facts about the

585
00:41:54,955 --> 00:41:58,715
Speaker 1: hero as a man were too meager, but because they

586
00:41:58,715 --> 00:42:03,275
Speaker 1: were too complete. Reporters who had been rushed out to

587
00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:06,515
Speaker 1: Iowa when smirches Play was first sighted over the little

588
00:42:06,555 --> 00:42:09,675
Speaker 1: French coast town of Serlee Lemaire to dig up the

589
00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:13,235
Speaker 1: story of the great man's life, had promptly discovered that

590
00:42:13,315 --> 00:42:16,715
Speaker 1: the story of his life could not be printed. His mother,

591
00:42:17,155 --> 00:42:20,035
Speaker 1: a sullen short order cook, and a shack restaurant on

592
00:42:20,075 --> 00:42:23,155
Speaker 1: the edge of a tourists camping ground near Westfield, met

593
00:42:23,195 --> 00:42:25,995
Speaker 1: all inquiries as to her son with an angry and

594
00:42:26,155 --> 00:42:29,835
Speaker 1: the hell with him a hope he drowns. His father

595
00:42:29,915 --> 00:42:33,715
Speaker 1: appeared to be in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and

596
00:42:33,915 --> 00:42:38,315
Speaker 1: lap robes from tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak

597
00:42:38,395 --> 00:42:42,635
Speaker 1: minded lad, had but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory,

598
00:42:42,675 --> 00:42:45,395
Speaker 1: and was already wanted in several Western towns for the

599
00:42:45,395 --> 00:42:49,875
Speaker 1: theft of money order blanks from post offices. These alarming

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00:42:49,955 --> 00:42:52,875
Speaker 1: discoveries were still piling up at the very time that

601
00:42:52,995 --> 00:42:57,475
Speaker 1: pal Smirch, the greatest hero of the twentieth century, blear eyed,

602
00:42:57,915 --> 00:43:01,955
Speaker 1: dead for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk

603
00:43:02,035 --> 00:43:04,595
Speaker 1: heap high above the region in which the lamentable story

604
00:43:04,675 --> 00:43:07,475
Speaker 1: of his private life was being unearthed, headed for New

605
00:43:07,555 --> 00:43:10,315
Speaker 1: York and a greater glory than any man of his

606
00:43:10,515 --> 00:43:17,915
Speaker 1: time had ever known. The necessity for printing some account

607
00:43:18,035 --> 00:43:21,075
Speaker 1: in the papers of the young man's career and personality

608
00:43:21,115 --> 00:43:24,155
Speaker 1: had led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course,

609
00:43:24,195 --> 00:43:28,675
Speaker 1: impossible to reveal the facts for a tremendous popular feeling

610
00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,115
Speaker 1: in favor of the young hero had sprung up like

611
00:43:31,155 --> 00:43:34,115
Speaker 1: a grass fire when he was halfway across Europe on

612
00:43:34,155 --> 00:43:37,475
Speaker 1: his flight around the globe. He was therefore described as

613
00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:43,355
Speaker 1: a modest, chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular

614
00:43:43,395 --> 00:43:47,835
Speaker 1: with girls. The only available snapshot of Smirch, taken at

615
00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:50,555
Speaker 1: the wheel of a phony automobile in a cheap photo

616
00:43:50,595 --> 00:43:53,555
Speaker 1: studio at an amusement park, was touched up so that

617
00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:59,035
Speaker 1: the little vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was

618
00:43:59,115 --> 00:44:03,035
Speaker 1: smoothed into a pleasant smile. The truth was in this

619
00:44:03,115 --> 00:44:06,635
Speaker 1: way kept from the youth's static compatriots. They did not

620
00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:11,035
Speaker 1: dream that the Smirch family was despised and feared by

621
00:44:11,035 --> 00:44:13,795
Speaker 1: its neighbors in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the

622
00:44:13,835 --> 00:44:18,395
Speaker 1: hero himself, because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to

623
00:44:18,435 --> 00:44:21,675
Speaker 1: be regarded in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace.

624
00:44:23,315 --> 00:44:27,395
Speaker 1: Pal's Smirch had, the reporters discovered, once knife the principle

625
00:44:27,395 --> 00:44:30,435
Speaker 1: of his high school, not mortally, to be sure, but

626
00:44:30,475 --> 00:44:34,235
Speaker 1: he had knifed him, and on another occasion, surprised in

627
00:44:34,315 --> 00:44:37,875
Speaker 1: the act of an stealing altar cloth from a church,

628
00:44:38,275 --> 00:44:40,835
Speaker 1: he had bashed the sexton over the head with a

629
00:44:40,875 --> 00:44:45,555
Speaker 1: pot of Easter lilies. For each of these offenses, he

630
00:44:45,595 --> 00:44:50,795
Speaker 1: had served a sentence in the reformatory. Inwardly, the authorities,

631
00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:53,155
Speaker 1: both in New York and in Washington, prayed that an

632
00:44:53,275 --> 00:44:58,915
Speaker 1: understanding providence might, however awful, such a thing seemed, bring

633
00:44:59,075 --> 00:45:02,755
Speaker 1: disaster to the rusty, battered plane and its illustrious pilot,

634
00:45:02,835 --> 00:45:06,195
Speaker 1: whose unheard of flight had a rid the civilized world

635
00:45:06,235 --> 00:45:10,955
Speaker 1: to hosannas of hysterical praise. The authorities were convinced that

636
00:45:11,035 --> 00:45:14,195
Speaker 1: the character of the renowned aviator was such that the

637
00:45:14,235 --> 00:45:17,875
Speaker 1: limelight of adulation was bound to reveal him to all

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Speaker 1: the world as a congenital hooligan, mentally and morally unequipped

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Speaker 1: to cope with his own prodigious fame. I trust, said

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of State, at one of the many secret

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Speaker 1: cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma. I trust

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Speaker 1: that his mother's prayer will be answered, by which he

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00:45:40,475 --> 00:45:43,515
Speaker 1: referred to missus Emma's Smirch's wish that her son might

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00:45:43,555 --> 00:45:48,315
Speaker 1: be drowned. It was, however, too late for that. Smirch

645
00:45:48,395 --> 00:45:50,675
Speaker 1: had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific as if

646
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Speaker 1: they were mill ponds. At three minutes after two o'clock

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Speaker 1: on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven, the

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Speaker 1: garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field for

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Speaker 1: a perfect three point landing. It had, of course been

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Speaker 1: out of the question to arrange a modest little reception

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Speaker 1: for the greatest flier in the history of the world.

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Speaker 1: He was received at Roosevelt Field with such elaborate and

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Speaker 1: pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however, the warren

654
00:46:20,835 --> 00:46:24,955
Speaker 1: and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be removed bodily

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Speaker 1: from his plane, and was spirited from the field without

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Speaker 1: having opened his mouth once. Thus he did not jeopardize

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Speaker 1: the dignity of his first reception, a reception illumined by

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Speaker 1: the presence of the Secretaries of War and the Navy,

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Speaker 1: Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the Premier of Canada,

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Speaker 1: Governors Fanamine Groves, mcpheey and Critchfield, and a brilliant array

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Speaker 1: of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in fact come too

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Speaker 1: in time to take part in the gigantic hullabaloo arranged

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Speaker 1: at city Hall for the next day. He was rushed

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Speaker 1: to a secluded nursing home and confined in bed. It

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00:47:00,515 --> 00:47:03,035
Speaker 1: was nine days before he was able to get up, or,

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00:47:03,115 --> 00:47:09,075
Speaker 1: to be more exact, before he was permitted to get up. Meanwhile,

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00:47:09,115 --> 00:47:11,795
Speaker 1: the greatest minds in the country in solemn assembly, had

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Speaker 1: arranged a secret conference of city, state and government officials,

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Speaker 1: which Smirch was to attend for the purpose of being

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Speaker 1: instructed in the ethics and behavior of heroism. On the

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00:47:26,355 --> 00:47:28,675
Speaker 1: day that the little mechanic was finally allowed to get

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00:47:28,715 --> 00:47:30,755
Speaker 1: up in dress and for the first time in two weeks,

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00:47:30,795 --> 00:47:33,395
Speaker 1: took a great chew of tomacco, he was permitted to

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00:47:33,435 --> 00:47:37,475
Speaker 1: receive the newspaper men this by way of testing him out.

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00:47:38,675 --> 00:47:42,675
Speaker 1: Smirch did not wait for questions. Use guys, he said,

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00:47:43,315 --> 00:47:46,915
Speaker 1: and the Times man winced. Use guys can tell the

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00:47:46,995 --> 00:47:49,915
Speaker 1: cock eyed world that I put it over on Lindberg.

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00:47:50,035 --> 00:47:56,515
Speaker 1: See yeah, made an assaid, I'm two frogs. The two frogs.

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00:47:57,155 --> 00:48:00,795
Speaker 1: It was a reference to a pair of gallant French flyers, who,

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Speaker 1: in attempting to flight only halfway round the world, had

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Speaker 1: two weeks before unhappily been lost at sea. The Times

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00:48:07,555 --> 00:48:09,835
Speaker 1: Man was bold enough at this point to sketch out

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00:48:09,835 --> 00:48:13,555
Speaker 1: for Smirch the accepted formula for interviews in cases of

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Speaker 1: this kind. He explained that there should be no arrogant

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Speaker 1: statements belittling the achievements of other heroes, particularly heroes of

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Speaker 1: foreign nations. Ah, the hell with that, said Smirch. I

687
00:48:26,115 --> 00:48:29,435
Speaker 1: did it. See I did it, and I'm talking about it,

688
00:48:30,835 --> 00:48:34,875
Speaker 1: and he did talk about it. None of this extraordinary

689
00:48:34,915 --> 00:48:39,195
Speaker 1: interview was, of course printed. On the contrary, the newspapers,

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00:48:39,235 --> 00:48:42,435
Speaker 1: already under the discipline direction of a secret directorate created

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Speaker 1: for the occasion and composed of statesmen and editors, gave

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Speaker 1: out to a panting and restless world that Jackie, as

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00:48:49,715 --> 00:48:53,355
Speaker 1: he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent to say only

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00:48:53,395 --> 00:48:56,635
Speaker 1: that he was very happy, and that anyone could have

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00:48:56,675 --> 00:49:00,115
Speaker 1: done what he did. My achievement has been I fear

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00:49:00,475 --> 00:49:04,395
Speaker 1: slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article had him protest with

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00:49:04,435 --> 00:49:08,475
Speaker 1: a mind modest smile. These newspaper stories were kept from

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00:49:08,515 --> 00:49:11,755
Speaker 1: the hero, a restriction which did not serve to abate

699
00:49:11,835 --> 00:49:16,715
Speaker 1: the rising malevolence of his temper. The situation was indeed

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00:49:16,915 --> 00:49:22,355
Speaker 1: extremely grave. For Palell. Smirch was as he kept insisting,

701
00:49:22,795 --> 00:49:26,595
Speaker 1: raring to go, he could not much longer be kept

702
00:49:26,635 --> 00:49:29,475
Speaker 1: from a nation clamorous to lionize him. It was the

703
00:49:29,475 --> 00:49:32,835
Speaker 1: most desperate crisis the United States of America had faced

704
00:49:32,835 --> 00:49:38,715
Speaker 1: since the sinking of Belusitania. On the afternoon of the

705
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Speaker 1: twenty seventh of July, Smirch was spirited away to a

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Speaker 1: conference room in which were gathered mayors, governors, government officials, behaviorist, psychologists,

707
00:49:47,235 --> 00:49:51,195
Speaker 1: and editors. He gave them each a limp moist paw,

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00:49:51,675 --> 00:49:58,115
Speaker 1: and a brief, unlovely grin, hi, he said. When Smirch

709
00:49:58,195 --> 00:50:00,275
Speaker 1: was seated, the Mayor of New York arose, and, with

710
00:50:00,355 --> 00:50:04,115
Speaker 1: obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what he must say and

711
00:50:04,155 --> 00:50:07,675
Speaker 1: how he must act when presented to the world, ending

712
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Speaker 1: his talk with a high tribute to the hero's courage

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Speaker 1: and integrity. The mayor was followed by Governor Fannaman of

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Speaker 1: New York, who, after a touching declaration of faith, introduced

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Speaker 1: Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the American Embassy in Paris,

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Speaker 1: the gentleman selected to coach Smirch in the amenities of

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Speaker 1: public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair with a soiled yellow

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Speaker 1: tie in his hand and his shirt open at the throat, unshaved,

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Speaker 1: smoking a rolled cigarette. Jack Smirch listened with a leer

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Speaker 1: on his lips. I get you, I get you, He

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Speaker 1: cut in nastily. You want me to act like a softie. Huh?

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00:50:47,235 --> 00:50:51,115
Speaker 1: You want me to act like that? Memeny, mmany baby face,

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Speaker 1: lind big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone took

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Speaker 1: in his breath sharply. It was a sigh and a hiss.

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00:51:00,875 --> 00:51:05,835
Speaker 1: Mister Lindbergh began a United States senator with rage, and

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00:51:05,995 --> 00:51:10,635
Speaker 1: mister bird Smirch, who was paring his nails with a jackknife,

727
00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:14,435
Speaker 1: cut in again. Boyd, he exclaimed, Oh, for God's sake,

728
00:51:14,755 --> 00:51:18,515
Speaker 1: that big somebody shut off the blasphemies with a sharp word.

729
00:51:18,675 --> 00:51:22,315
Speaker 1: A newcomer had entered the word the room. Everyone stood up,

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Speaker 1: except Smirch, who was still busy with his nails, and

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Speaker 1: he did not even glance up. Mister Smirch, said someone sternly.

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00:51:29,075 --> 00:51:32,555
Speaker 1: The President of the United States. It had been thought

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Speaker 1: that the presence of the Chief Executive might have a

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00:51:35,075 --> 00:51:38,115
Speaker 1: chastening effect on the young hero, and the former had

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00:51:38,155 --> 00:51:41,635
Speaker 1: been thanks to the remarkable cooperation of the press secretly

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Speaker 1: brought to the obscure conference room. A great, painful silence fell.

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00:51:51,115 --> 00:51:56,835
Speaker 1: Smirch looked up, waved a hand at the president. How

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00:51:56,955 --> 00:52:04,275
Speaker 1: you coming, he asked, and began rolling a fresh cigarette.

739
00:52:04,475 --> 00:52:12,595
Speaker 1: The silence deepened. Someone coughed in a strained way. Jesuits hot,

740
00:52:12,635 --> 00:52:18,155
Speaker 1: ain't it, said Smirch. He loosened two more shirt buttons,

741
00:52:18,195 --> 00:52:22,915
Speaker 1: revealing a hairy chest and the tattooed word sadie enclosed

742
00:52:22,955 --> 00:52:27,395
Speaker 1: in a stenciled heart. The great and important men in

743
00:52:27,435 --> 00:52:31,115
Speaker 1: the room, faced by the most serious crisis in American history,

744
00:52:31,635 --> 00:52:36,355
Speaker 1: exchanged worried frowns. Nobody seemed to know how to proceed.

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00:52:36,955 --> 00:52:40,315
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, said Smirch. Let's get the hell

746
00:52:40,315 --> 00:52:42,715
Speaker 1: out of here. Why do I start cutting in on

747
00:52:42,795 --> 00:52:47,315
Speaker 1: the podies? Eh? And when is there gonna be this

748
00:52:47,795 --> 00:52:52,715
Speaker 1: in it? He rubbed a thumb and forefinger together meaningly. Money,

749
00:52:53,395 --> 00:52:58,715
Speaker 1: exclaimed a state senator, shocked pale, Yeah money, said pal,

750
00:52:58,995 --> 00:53:02,675
Speaker 1: flipping his cigarette out of the window. And big money.

751
00:53:02,835 --> 00:53:07,675
Speaker 1: He began rolling a fresh cigarette. Big money, he repeated,

752
00:53:08,115 --> 00:53:11,275
Speaker 1: Frowning over the rice paper. He tilted back in his

753
00:53:11,435 --> 00:53:15,435
Speaker 1: chair and leered at each gentleman separately. The leer of

754
00:53:15,475 --> 00:53:18,915
Speaker 1: an animal that knows its power, the leer of a

755
00:53:18,995 --> 00:53:23,235
Speaker 1: leopard loose in a bird and dog shop. Ah, for

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00:53:23,355 --> 00:53:26,835
Speaker 1: God's sake, let's get someplace where it's cool, he said.

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00:53:27,395 --> 00:53:31,755
Speaker 1: I've been cooped up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood

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00:53:31,835 --> 00:53:34,475
Speaker 1: up and walked over to an open window, where he

759
00:53:34,475 --> 00:53:39,155
Speaker 1: stood staring down into the street nine floors below. The

760
00:53:39,195 --> 00:53:42,835
Speaker 1: faint shouting of newsboys floated up to him. He made

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00:53:42,835 --> 00:53:47,595
Speaker 1: out his name, hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He

762
00:53:47,755 --> 00:53:52,555
Speaker 1: leaned out over the sill. You tell um babies, he

763
00:53:52,635 --> 00:53:57,595
Speaker 1: shouted down, Hot Diggity Dog. In the tense little knot

764
00:53:57,595 --> 00:54:01,635
Speaker 1: of men standing behind him, a quick, mad impulse flared up.

765
00:54:01,915 --> 00:54:05,675
Speaker 1: An unspoken word of a peal of manned seemed to

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00:54:05,755 --> 00:54:09,475
Speaker 1: ring through the room, yet it was deadly silent. Charles K.

767
00:54:09,915 --> 00:54:12,435
Speaker 1: L Brand, secretary to the Mayor of New York City,

768
00:54:12,555 --> 00:54:16,075
Speaker 1: happened to be standing nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at

769
00:54:16,075 --> 00:54:20,435
Speaker 1: the President of the United States. The President pale grim,

770
00:54:20,635 --> 00:54:24,915
Speaker 1: nodded shortly. Brand, a tall, powerfully built man wants to

771
00:54:24,915 --> 00:54:29,395
Speaker 1: tackle at Rutgers University, stepped forward, seized the greatest man

772
00:54:29,435 --> 00:54:31,315
Speaker 1: in the world by his left shoulder and the seat

773
00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:35,035
Speaker 1: of his pants, and pushed him out the window. My god,

774
00:54:35,075 --> 00:54:38,195
Speaker 1: he's falling out the window, cried a quick witted editor.

775
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:40,515
Speaker 1: Get me out of here, cried the president. Several men

776
00:54:40,555 --> 00:54:42,635
Speaker 1: sprang to his side, and he was hurriedly escorted out

777
00:54:42,675 --> 00:54:44,515
Speaker 1: of a door toward a side entrance of the building.

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00:54:44,755 --> 00:54:47,315
Speaker 1: The editor of the Associated Press took charge, Being used

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00:54:47,315 --> 00:54:50,075
Speaker 1: to such things crisply, he ordered certain men to leave,

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00:54:50,275 --> 00:54:53,195
Speaker 1: others to stay. Quickly. He outlined a story which all

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Speaker 1: the papers were to agree on, sent two men to

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Speaker 1: the street to handle that end of the tragedy, commanded

783
00:54:58,155 --> 00:55:00,915
Speaker 1: a Senator to sob, and two congressmen to go to

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00:55:00,955 --> 00:55:05,435
Speaker 1: pieces nervously. In a word, he skilled fully set the

785
00:55:05,515 --> 00:55:08,635
Speaker 1: stage for the gigantic task that was to follow, the

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00:55:08,755 --> 00:55:12,675
Speaker 1: task of breaking to a grief stricken world. The sad

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00:55:12,755 --> 00:55:17,955
Speaker 1: story of the untimely accidental death of its most illustrious

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00:55:17,955 --> 00:55:24,595
Speaker 1: and spectacular figure. The funeral was, as you know, the

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00:55:24,635 --> 00:55:29,675
Speaker 1: most elaborate, the finest, the solemnesst, and the saddest ever

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00:55:29,715 --> 00:55:33,035
Speaker 1: held in the United States of America. The monument in

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00:55:33,235 --> 00:55:37,475
Speaker 1: Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft of marble and

792
00:55:37,595 --> 00:55:41,355
Speaker 1: the simple device of a tiny plane carved on its

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00:55:41,395 --> 00:55:47,795
Speaker 1: base is a place for pilgrims in deep reverence to visit.

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00:55:48,915 --> 00:55:51,995
Speaker 1: The nations of the world paid lofty tributes to Little

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Speaker 1: Jackie Smirch, America's greatest hero. At a given hour, there

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00:55:58,475 --> 00:56:01,595
Speaker 1: were two minutes of silence throughout the nation. Even the

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00:56:01,635 --> 00:56:06,435
Speaker 1: inhabitants of the small, bewildered town of Westfield, Iowa, observed

798
00:56:06,515 --> 00:56:10,275
Speaker 1: this touching ceremony. Agents of the Department of Justice sough

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Speaker 1: to that one of them was especially assigned to stand

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Speaker 1: grimly in the doorway of a little shack restaurant on

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Speaker 1: the edge of the tourist's camping ground just outside the town. There,

802
00:56:23,315 --> 00:56:28,075
Speaker 1: under his stern scrutiny, Missus Emma Smirch bowed her head

803
00:56:28,115 --> 00:56:31,955
Speaker 1: over to Hamburger steaks sizzling on her grill. Bowed her

804
00:56:31,995 --> 00:56:36,395
Speaker 1: head and turned away so that the secret serviceman could

805
00:56:36,475 --> 00:56:45,395
Speaker 1: not see the twisted, strangely familiar leer on her lips.

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Speaker 1: The Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber, How

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Speaker 1: could he have known? I've done all the damage I

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Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors

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Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel arranged, produced, and performed

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Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars,

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00:57:13,275 --> 00:57:16,195
Speaker 1: the bass in the drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards.

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Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some

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Speaker 1: of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group

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Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from

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Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss,

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00:57:33,515 --> 00:57:36,635
Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was

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Speaker 1: my friend Stevie van Zacht, and everything else was pretty

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Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for this the one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixtieth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election.

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Speaker 1: The two and forty first day since convicted fellon Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's first attempt to coop against the democratically elected government

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Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the July eleventh sentencing hearing,

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00:57:59,915 --> 00:58:03,875
Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if it happens,

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00:58:04,195 --> 00:58:08,595
Speaker 1: use the not regularly given elector objection option to stop

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Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. The

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Speaker 1: next scheduled Countdown is Tuesday bulletins as the news warrants

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Speaker 1: till then, I'm Keith Ulreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oulderman is a production

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