1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:25,155 --> 00:00:29,275 Speaker 1: jobs report will now be handled by the same guy 3 00:00:29,835 --> 00:00:36,475 Speaker 1: who keeps score when Trump plays golf. But first, sure 4 00:00:36,555 --> 00:00:39,275 Speaker 1: the firing shows Trump as a psychopath, and sure it 5 00:00:39,315 --> 00:00:42,275 Speaker 1: shows he's a fascist, and sure he's already tried shooting 6 00:00:42,315 --> 00:00:45,115 Speaker 1: the messenger when he didn't like his numbers. You just 7 00:00:45,155 --> 00:00:50,595 Speaker 1: forgot about it because it was ten thousand corruptions ago. First, 8 00:00:50,635 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: there is the small matter of what is today being 9 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:57,675 Speaker 1: described as the traditional conservative coup to take back the 10 00:00:57,715 --> 00:01:05,955 Speaker 1: Republican Party from Trump because of Epstein. Bless him. Every 11 00:01:06,075 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: time the fire trump stein is begins to die down, 12 00:01:09,915 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: Trump throws another can of gasoline on it. I mean, 13 00:01:13,195 --> 00:01:14,995 Speaker 1: I told you last week he had already made a 14 00:01:14,995 --> 00:01:18,995 Speaker 1: deal with Kallaine Maxwell, already figuratively gotten into bed with her, 15 00:01:19,395 --> 00:01:22,235 Speaker 1: just by sending the Deputy Attorney General to meet with 16 00:01:22,315 --> 00:01:25,275 Speaker 1: her and give her two days worth of proffer immunity. 17 00:01:25,475 --> 00:01:28,515 Speaker 1: Now he's made some other kind of second deal with 18 00:01:28,555 --> 00:01:32,035 Speaker 1: her that ends with her being relocated from that same 19 00:01:32,275 --> 00:01:38,275 Speaker 1: state as Alligator Alcatraz, to Club Fed in Texas. And 20 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:41,595 Speaker 1: just as that was beginning to settle down, Trump re 21 00:01:41,595 --> 00:01:47,795 Speaker 1: reignited Trumpstein by picking a fight with Leonard McKelvey political 22 00:01:47,795 --> 00:01:52,595 Speaker 1: commentary name Charlemagne the God and going full racist on 23 00:01:52,675 --> 00:01:56,155 Speaker 1: him because Charlemagne had the audacity to suggest that traditional 24 00:01:56,235 --> 00:02:00,235 Speaker 1: conservatives are mounting a coup to take back the GOP 25 00:02:00,755 --> 00:02:08,755 Speaker 1: from Trump over Trump's cover up of Jeffrey Epstein. Trumpstein now, Trumpstein, tomorrow, 26 00:02:09,195 --> 00:02:16,275 Speaker 1: Trumpstein forever. Nice work, Don, Let's sort this out if 27 00:02:16,315 --> 00:02:20,835 Speaker 1: we can. You may want to take notes. Somebody had 28 00:02:20,915 --> 00:02:25,035 Speaker 1: to change Maxwell's status as a registered sex offender to 29 00:02:25,115 --> 00:02:29,075 Speaker 1: get her transferred to an all women, all white collar 30 00:02:29,195 --> 00:02:33,635 Speaker 1: criminal minimum security facility in Texas. She might no longer 31 00:02:33,755 --> 00:02:37,195 Speaker 1: be a registered sex offender. That could be a free 32 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:39,835 Speaker 1: sample offered by Trump if she will lie for him. 33 00:02:40,395 --> 00:02:43,675 Speaker 1: The move to the Cushier camp could be another free sample. 34 00:02:43,835 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: Or they may have simply broken the rules for her, 35 00:02:46,715 --> 00:02:50,075 Speaker 1: or she may have blackmailed Trump into it, or they 36 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:54,115 Speaker 1: figure inmate number zero two eight seven nine five zero 37 00:02:54,235 --> 00:02:58,315 Speaker 1: nine will be punished enough by having to share her 38 00:02:58,395 --> 00:03:03,835 Speaker 1: new digs with Elizabeth Holmes, who presumably keeps everybody there 39 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:08,035 Speaker 1: up all night while she's practicing various new voices to 40 00:03:08,275 --> 00:03:14,995 Speaker 1: use when she gets out, or in Magaworld, where the 41 00:03:15,035 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: phrase of the moment is hey, wait a minute. They 42 00:03:19,035 --> 00:03:23,955 Speaker 1: hear minimum security and conclude Trump moved Glaine Maxwell to 43 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:26,755 Speaker 1: a place with minimum security in order to make it 44 00:03:26,795 --> 00:03:33,075 Speaker 1: easier for her to, you know, suffer rapid unscheduled disassembly, 45 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:37,315 Speaker 1: to which Charlemagne, who has come a long long way 46 00:03:37,355 --> 00:03:39,875 Speaker 1: from needing to ask me to be a guest on 47 00:03:39,995 --> 00:03:43,955 Speaker 1: his partially political show like a decade ago, and then 48 00:03:43,995 --> 00:03:46,395 Speaker 1: looking at me oddly when I said you should drop 49 00:03:46,435 --> 00:03:51,275 Speaker 1: this breakfast club stuff and just do politics, went on 50 00:03:51,355 --> 00:03:55,915 Speaker 1: with Trump's daughter in law on Fox, and Charlemagne said, quote, 51 00:03:55,955 --> 00:03:58,395 Speaker 1: I think that traditional conservatives are going to take the 52 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:01,755 Speaker 1: Republican Party back. I think there's a political coup going 53 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: on right now in the Republican Party that people aren't 54 00:04:05,235 --> 00:04:09,155 Speaker 1: paying attention to. We have the opportunity to have like 55 00:04:09,475 --> 00:04:14,915 Speaker 1: a huge reset. Trump has never known when to leave 56 00:04:15,075 --> 00:04:18,355 Speaker 1: bad enough alone. This time he just hit the side 57 00:04:18,395 --> 00:04:22,315 Speaker 1: of the hornet's nest with his tie. He called Charlemagne 58 00:04:22,755 --> 00:04:28,315 Speaker 1: quote racist sleesbag low iq. Individual has no idea what 59 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:31,475 Speaker 1: words are coming out of his mouth, knows nothing about me, 60 00:04:31,915 --> 00:04:36,635 Speaker 1: this dope. So now millions of people who didn't know 61 00:04:37,355 --> 00:04:42,795 Speaker 1: an often conservative leaning Trump accepting, if not supporting. African 62 00:04:42,875 --> 00:04:47,195 Speaker 1: American commentator has been describing a Republican palace coup against 63 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:51,955 Speaker 1: Trump over Epstein. Now they all have that new Trumpstein 64 00:04:52,195 --> 00:04:58,755 Speaker 1: tendril to ponder the coup against Trump as promoted by Trump. 65 00:05:00,035 --> 00:05:03,675 Speaker 1: But wait, there's more getting less attention in the background 66 00:05:03,715 --> 00:05:07,635 Speaker 1: Trumpstein and it back at its point of origin. Bloomberg's 67 00:05:07,675 --> 00:05:11,875 Speaker 1: freedom of information guru Jason Leopold reports that the FBI 68 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:16,315 Speaker 1: didn't just spend thousands of agent hours searching for Trump's 69 00:05:16,395 --> 00:05:19,435 Speaker 1: name in the Epstein files and lists it, and thus 70 00:05:19,515 --> 00:05:24,915 Speaker 1: Trump really has it redacted Trump's name god knows how 71 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: many times on the thinnest of pretexts, including the idea 72 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:31,595 Speaker 1: that many of the references to Trump and the Epstein 73 00:05:31,715 --> 00:05:35,155 Speaker 1: files are from when Trump was just a private citizen. 74 00:05:36,875 --> 00:05:40,995 Speaker 1: So there's a Trump cover up of the Epstein files, 75 00:05:41,395 --> 00:05:43,995 Speaker 1: and a Trump cover up of his own name in 76 00:05:44,035 --> 00:05:47,715 Speaker 1: the Epstein files, and a conservative coup against Trump over 77 00:05:47,755 --> 00:05:51,195 Speaker 1: the Epstein files, and the unexplained cushy new home for 78 00:05:51,235 --> 00:05:54,595 Speaker 1: Epstein's co rapist. And just in case you forgot about 79 00:05:54,595 --> 00:05:59,195 Speaker 1: the rhetorical question that reignited all this last week at Marrilago, 80 00:05:59,315 --> 00:06:01,835 Speaker 1: what did you think Epstein was stealing those women. For 81 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:05,435 Speaker 1: the question, he didn't answer and just walked out of 82 00:06:05,475 --> 00:06:09,395 Speaker 1: a room. During well, he was asked that question again 83 00:06:09,795 --> 00:06:13,555 Speaker 1: and he answered it this time. And guess what, walking 84 00:06:13,595 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: out of the room was a way better idea. Family 85 00:06:16,515 --> 00:06:19,795 Speaker 1: of Virginia Juffrey released a statement overnight and response to 86 00:06:19,835 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: some of the comments that it made this week. You 87 00:06:21,995 --> 00:06:24,675 Speaker 1: said that Jeffrey Epstein sole people from mar A Lago 88 00:06:25,195 --> 00:06:27,235 Speaker 1: at the time, did you know why he was taking 89 00:06:27,235 --> 00:06:29,435 Speaker 1: those young women, including Virginia. No, I didn't know. 90 00:06:29,595 --> 00:06:32,355 Speaker 2: I mean, I would figure it was ABC fake news. 91 00:06:32,435 --> 00:06:35,715 Speaker 2: I would ask that question one of the worst, But no, 92 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:39,395 Speaker 2: I don't know really why. But I said, if he's 93 00:06:39,435 --> 00:06:43,075 Speaker 2: taken anybody from mar A Lago, he's hiring or whatever 94 00:06:43,115 --> 00:06:45,915 Speaker 2: he's doing. I didn't like it, and we threw him out. 95 00:06:46,035 --> 00:06:48,355 Speaker 2: We said we don't want him, you know, at the place. 96 00:06:48,835 --> 00:06:51,515 Speaker 2: This is the story that's been known for many years, 97 00:06:51,555 --> 00:06:55,315 Speaker 2: as you know, but it's I didn't like it that 98 00:06:55,395 --> 00:06:56,235 Speaker 2: he was doing. 99 00:06:55,955 --> 00:06:58,955 Speaker 1: That perfect answer if you want to make sure the 100 00:06:58,995 --> 00:07:03,195 Speaker 1: story never goes away. A social media user with the 101 00:07:03,235 --> 00:07:08,515 Speaker 1: handle I am Hero summed it up quote, I don't 102 00:07:08,515 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: know if I can think of a worse defense against 103 00:07:10,595 --> 00:07:13,515 Speaker 1: being called a pedophile than to say you stopped being 104 00:07:13,595 --> 00:07:17,515 Speaker 1: friends with another pedophile because he stole a teenager from 105 00:07:17,555 --> 00:07:23,155 Speaker 1: you unquote. Oh but wait, Trump wasn't done yet. Remember 106 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:28,915 Speaker 1: Alex Acosta. Greg Kelly, the fired Fox host, the son 107 00:07:29,035 --> 00:07:31,995 Speaker 1: of the former New York City Police commissioner, is now 108 00:07:32,075 --> 00:07:37,795 Speaker 1: on Newsmax pushing the most novel original of all of 109 00:07:37,795 --> 00:07:43,475 Speaker 1: the bullshit explanations for this ever expanding trump Stein bottomless pit. 110 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:48,555 Speaker 1: His explanation is that the real victim here may be 111 00:07:49,515 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 1: Gallaine Maxwell, and that she may be innocent, and of 112 00:07:54,915 --> 00:07:57,675 Speaker 1: course our inference has to then be that that will 113 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:01,875 Speaker 1: be the excuse when Trump pardons her. They're testing it 114 00:08:02,035 --> 00:08:06,395 Speaker 1: out on Newsmax. Now, Gregg Kelly is a moron. It 115 00:08:06,435 --> 00:08:09,035 Speaker 1: may not be a test. It may just be the 116 00:08:09,035 --> 00:08:12,275 Speaker 1: fact that Greg Kelly is a moron, But the people 117 00:08:12,275 --> 00:08:16,075 Speaker 1: who put him on Newsmax are not morons. And now 118 00:08:16,115 --> 00:08:18,435 Speaker 1: it has been revealed that one of the newest members 119 00:08:18,475 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: of Newsmax's board of directors, appointed this summer is Alex Acosta. 120 00:08:23,955 --> 00:08:28,075 Speaker 1: And if the name alex Acosta sounds familiar, alex Acosta 121 00:08:28,475 --> 00:08:33,435 Speaker 1: was Trump's first Secretary of Labor who before that as 122 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:38,515 Speaker 1: the Bush US attorney in Miami, gave a thirteen months 123 00:08:38,635 --> 00:08:45,435 Speaker 1: sweetheart plea deal in two thousand and eight two Jeffrey Epstein, 124 00:08:47,675 --> 00:08:52,475 Speaker 1: the man who did not prosecute Epstein, board of directors 125 00:08:53,115 --> 00:09:01,075 Speaker 1: Newsmax now claiming Gallaine Maxwell maybe anocent just in case 126 00:09:01,155 --> 00:09:03,755 Speaker 1: it is not clear that the single individual on this 127 00:09:03,915 --> 00:09:06,035 Speaker 1: planet who has done the most, who has done the 128 00:09:06,035 --> 00:09:10,595 Speaker 1: most heroic work to keep trump Stein alive, is Trump. 129 00:09:11,195 --> 00:09:15,715 Speaker 1: He also made a big deal about a revivified President's 130 00:09:16,235 --> 00:09:21,315 Speaker 1: Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, and he named to 131 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:28,035 Speaker 1: that council football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor. Lawrence Taylor, 132 00:09:28,595 --> 00:09:31,715 Speaker 1: the guy who was arrested for the statutory rape of 133 00:09:31,755 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: a sixteen year old girl, then pleaded guilty to sexual 134 00:09:35,755 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: misconduct and to patronizing a prostitute, and then had to 135 00:09:39,875 --> 00:09:44,675 Speaker 1: register as a sex offender. Because what you want, in 136 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:48,875 Speaker 1: the middle of a presidential existential scandal in which you 137 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:52,115 Speaker 1: are clearly trying to cover up the entire twenty thirty 138 00:09:52,795 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: forty year long case involving a pedophile and his death 139 00:09:58,395 --> 00:10:02,035 Speaker 1: and his partner and your connection to them, the one 140 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:04,635 Speaker 1: thing you want to do is to name a register 141 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:08,435 Speaker 1: stard sex offender who was arrested for raping a sixteen 142 00:10:08,515 --> 00:10:11,515 Speaker 1: year old and bring him into the White House to 143 00:10:11,635 --> 00:10:17,955 Speaker 1: have him stand next to you. Well, at least that's 144 00:10:17,995 --> 00:10:20,635 Speaker 1: the end of it. Oh no, it's not. Just in 145 00:10:20,675 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: case you needed Trump to remind you once more about 146 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:27,795 Speaker 1: Trumpstein and about his perversions and about his own creepiness 147 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: towards young blondes that transcends Trumpstein. There's his press secretary, 148 00:10:34,915 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: the one he seems to have hired off the bottle 149 00:10:38,035 --> 00:10:44,035 Speaker 1: of Saint Pauly Girl beer, Caroline Levitt, just fifty two 150 00:10:44,155 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: years younger than him, dumb as two hundred pounds of rocks, 151 00:10:49,875 --> 00:10:55,075 Speaker 1: and in the room. As he said this, don't make 152 00:10:55,075 --> 00:10:57,395 Speaker 1: people think about Epstein. Don't make people think about Epstein. 153 00:10:57,435 --> 00:10:59,995 Speaker 1: Don't make people think about Epstein. I didn't realize she'd 154 00:10:59,995 --> 00:11:01,355 Speaker 1: be in the room, but she's on my list. 155 00:11:01,475 --> 00:11:07,635 Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt's I'm a star. It's that face, it's a brain. 156 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:10,555 Speaker 2: It's those lips, the where they move, they move like 157 00:11:10,635 --> 00:11:13,315 Speaker 2: she's a machine gun. Is she in the roof, She's 158 00:11:13,355 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 2: in the room. She's a star. 159 00:11:15,715 --> 00:11:17,875 Speaker 1: I better use some tic TACs just in case I 160 00:11:17,915 --> 00:11:21,195 Speaker 1: start kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful 161 00:11:21,315 --> 00:11:23,915 Speaker 1: I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just 162 00:11:24,035 --> 00:11:26,235 Speaker 1: kiss I don't even wait. And when you're a star, 163 00:11:26,355 --> 00:11:28,835 Speaker 1: they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 164 00:11:28,915 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: them by the presumably you remember the rest of that 165 00:11:32,875 --> 00:11:39,195 Speaker 1: quote from Donald. Of course, Trump watches Caroline Levitt's lips 166 00:11:39,315 --> 00:11:44,635 Speaker 1: move rather than listening to what comes out of them. 167 00:11:45,235 --> 00:11:48,795 Speaker 1: He doesn't know she's a buffoon. This is the woman 168 00:11:48,995 --> 00:11:54,835 Speaker 1: who infamously at the White House podium called Trump President Tump, 169 00:11:56,315 --> 00:12:01,875 Speaker 1: who wants in an interview called Hitler Hilter, and who 170 00:12:01,875 --> 00:12:05,275 Speaker 1: has now added to her own personal haul of dumb 171 00:12:06,275 --> 00:12:12,155 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, the Nobel Peace Prize. It's well past 172 00:12:12,195 --> 00:12:15,155 Speaker 1: time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 173 00:12:15,315 --> 00:12:16,675 Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god, Oh my god, oh 174 00:12:16,715 --> 00:12:20,355 Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. The Nobel Peace Prize presumably 175 00:12:20,915 --> 00:12:24,115 Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize as opposed to the Nobel Peace Prize. 176 00:12:24,395 --> 00:12:27,795 Speaker 1: The Nobel Peace Prize was presumably established by the late 177 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: James Noble, the actor who played Governor Gatling on the 178 00:12:31,515 --> 00:12:40,315 Speaker 1: old sitcom Benson Knitwit. But she's keeping trump steam alive, 179 00:12:41,475 --> 00:12:45,915 Speaker 1: just like everybody else in the White house, so good 180 00:12:45,995 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 1: work knit wit. So if the Bureau of Labor Statistics 181 00:13:14,315 --> 00:13:17,835 Speaker 1: is not going to be run by Erica mcintarfer, they 182 00:13:17,955 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 1: got fired. But he's going to be run and said 183 00:13:20,315 --> 00:13:24,955 Speaker 1: by Bryson Deshambeau or another one of Trump's jag off 184 00:13:24,995 --> 00:13:30,755 Speaker 1: golf buddies, or it'll be run by Ronnie Jackson. The 185 00:13:30,955 --> 00:13:33,515 Speaker 1: quote doctor unquote who said Trump was six foot three, 186 00:13:33,555 --> 00:13:38,475 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty nine pounds, which could be true 187 00:13:38,595 --> 00:13:40,995 Speaker 1: if you take it in the sense of I didn't 188 00:13:41,035 --> 00:13:44,035 Speaker 1: say just six y three two hundred and thirty nine pounds. 189 00:13:44,475 --> 00:13:47,435 Speaker 1: I mean anybody who weighs three hundred pounds is in 190 00:13:47,435 --> 00:13:49,835 Speaker 1: a sense two hundred and thirty nine pounds. That part 191 00:13:49,835 --> 00:13:53,755 Speaker 1: of him is two hundred and thirty nine pounds. Too bad. 192 00:13:53,835 --> 00:13:57,275 Speaker 1: The first doctor, the guy with the hair who basically 193 00:13:57,315 --> 00:14:00,075 Speaker 1: pronounced that Trump was immortal, and then a couple of 194 00:14:00,155 --> 00:14:03,155 Speaker 1: years later confessed that Trump had dictated the entire letter 195 00:14:04,955 --> 00:14:10,555 Speaker 1: Harold Bornstein sadly he's dead. Actually, I don't see that 196 00:14:10,835 --> 00:14:13,355 Speaker 1: as being a significant impediment to getting a statement out 197 00:14:13,355 --> 00:14:15,075 Speaker 1: of him that says Trump is going to be immortal 198 00:14:15,715 --> 00:14:20,555 Speaker 1: or that the labor stats are really good. I am 199 00:14:20,595 --> 00:14:24,755 Speaker 1: not disputing nor minimizing the significance of the memory holding 200 00:14:24,915 --> 00:14:29,035 Speaker 1: of bad job growth data and the statistician who compiled it. 201 00:14:29,515 --> 00:14:32,555 Speaker 1: This is directly from Orwell's nineteen eighty four. It is 202 00:14:32,715 --> 00:14:36,875 Speaker 1: absolutely a sign of Trump's evil and his growing desperation, 203 00:14:36,995 --> 00:14:42,835 Speaker 1: and especially his growing rage when his confabulation is being contradicted. 204 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:47,835 Speaker 1: Chris true Acts, the conservative writer, introduced that word into 205 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:52,795 Speaker 1: the dialogue in the Hill Confabulation, saying that Trump has 206 00:14:52,995 --> 00:14:56,595 Speaker 1: entered that stage of dementia, the one in which quote 207 00:14:56,635 --> 00:15:01,355 Speaker 1: the person doing it genuinely believes what he's saying, even 208 00:15:01,395 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: if it is obviously and patently false. True Axe brought 209 00:15:06,995 --> 00:15:10,995 Speaker 1: up this facocta Trump unibomber story from last month in 210 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:14,115 Speaker 1: which Trump claimed his uncle who taught at MIT and 211 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:18,555 Speaker 1: had three degrees nuclear, chemical, and math, and that's why 212 00:15:18,635 --> 00:15:21,435 Speaker 1: he Trump is a genius because his uncle had genes, 213 00:15:21,635 --> 00:15:24,955 Speaker 1: and now he Trump has those genes. How uncle John 214 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:28,675 Speaker 1: taught Ted Kazinski, the unibomber, at MIT, and told Donald 215 00:15:28,675 --> 00:15:33,155 Speaker 1: how smart Kazinsky was, except uncle John was a professor 216 00:15:33,275 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: of electrical engineering at MIT, and none of the other things. 217 00:15:37,755 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: And the unibomber went to Harvard, not MIT, and uncle John. 218 00:15:42,395 --> 00:15:45,675 Speaker 1: He died in nineteen eighty five, and the unibomber wasn't 219 00:15:45,875 --> 00:15:53,435 Speaker 1: identified as the unibomber until nineteen ninety six. I'm not 220 00:15:53,515 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: discounting any of the seriousness of this. I'm just saying 221 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:59,115 Speaker 1: that Trump didn't start cooking the books and shooting the 222 00:15:59,155 --> 00:16:03,515 Speaker 1: messengers last Friday. He began by doing that. He began 223 00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:07,515 Speaker 1: his career by doing that. Never mind the business stuff 224 00:16:07,595 --> 00:16:11,355 Speaker 1: where he cooked the books for forty years. Every pole 225 00:16:11,835 --> 00:16:16,515 Speaker 1: he didn't like from day one was fake. Every primary 226 00:16:16,595 --> 00:16:21,195 Speaker 1: result he didn't agree with, crooked, every election he lost, fixed, 227 00:16:21,315 --> 00:16:25,555 Speaker 1: all numbers fixed, crooked, fake. And it is now five 228 00:16:25,635 --> 00:16:29,235 Speaker 1: years and five months. It was late February twenty twenty 229 00:16:29,435 --> 00:16:32,395 Speaker 1: when dementia J. Trump demanded that some of the earliest 230 00:16:32,395 --> 00:16:36,075 Speaker 1: American victims of COVID must be kept on board the 231 00:16:36,235 --> 00:16:40,555 Speaker 1: Grand Princess Cruz ship where the virus was raging, rather 232 00:16:40,595 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: than brought ashore because quote, I like the numbers being 233 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:48,235 Speaker 1: where they are. I don't need to have the numbers 234 00:16:48,395 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: double because of one ship in private that the very 235 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:58,155 Speaker 1: start of the COVID pandemic, in which Trump was personally 236 00:16:58,195 --> 00:17:03,595 Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths and illnesses of untold hundreds of thousands, 237 00:17:03,595 --> 00:17:09,635 Speaker 1: if not millions. In private, the numbers became quote my numbers, 238 00:17:10,555 --> 00:17:13,635 Speaker 1: and Trump's fury that the CDC and FAUCI and the 239 00:17:13,715 --> 00:17:17,235 Speaker 1: Chinese and the virus were all plotting against him to 240 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:25,755 Speaker 1: ruin his numbers, because that's all those people were to him, numbers. 241 00:17:26,675 --> 00:17:31,635 Speaker 1: His numbers, just like the unemployed are just numbers, just 242 00:17:31,715 --> 00:17:35,195 Speaker 1: like you are just a number, and you are his number. 243 00:17:36,515 --> 00:17:39,875 Speaker 1: It is the same baseline mental reality I've been hammering 244 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:43,915 Speaker 1: home since twenty fifteen, in public, since nineteen eighty three 245 00:17:43,915 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: in private. Donald Trump's brain does not work right now. 246 00:17:49,315 --> 00:17:53,075 Speaker 1: Throw in this confabulation element. He may truly believe the 247 00:17:53,075 --> 00:17:56,235 Speaker 1: economy has never been better. He may truly believe gasoline 248 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:59,435 Speaker 1: is a dollar ninety eight a gallon in some mythical 249 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:02,395 Speaker 1: state that he dreamt of. He may truly believe he 250 00:18:02,435 --> 00:18:06,835 Speaker 1: can force the price of eggs to drop eleventy billion percent. 251 00:18:08,235 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: Of course, he truly believes it. His uncle had degrees 252 00:18:10,755 --> 00:18:15,915 Speaker 1: in nuclear chemical and math, and eleveny billion dollars math, 253 00:18:16,875 --> 00:18:21,915 Speaker 1: and his uncle gave him his brain before he died. 254 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:28,355 Speaker 1: There is a practical problem here, of course, besides making 255 00:18:28,395 --> 00:18:33,315 Speaker 1: more people doubt more reality even more Often these aren't 256 00:18:33,595 --> 00:18:37,915 Speaker 1: Fatso's golf scores or his correct weight estimated to the 257 00:18:37,955 --> 00:18:42,995 Speaker 1: nearest ton. These are the statistics upon which the economy rests. 258 00:18:43,875 --> 00:18:46,515 Speaker 1: I mean, economic numbers are corrupted enough as it is 259 00:18:46,595 --> 00:18:49,555 Speaker 1: without the Bureau of Labor Statistics simply running the numbers 260 00:18:49,555 --> 00:18:52,115 Speaker 1: past Trump first to see if he likes them enough 261 00:18:52,355 --> 00:18:55,435 Speaker 1: or they have to be many more thousand percent gooder 262 00:18:59,315 --> 00:19:01,835 Speaker 1: per Those parts of the Washington posts that still have 263 00:19:01,995 --> 00:19:06,435 Speaker 1: power companies and Wall Street and and other countries now 264 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:11,315 Speaker 1: worry quote that Trump's volatile temperament could cause additional economic 265 00:19:11,395 --> 00:19:16,755 Speaker 1: harm by undermining market confidence in the government data that investors, 266 00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:24,795 Speaker 1: business executives, and policymakers require to make decisions. Quote It's 267 00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:29,435 Speaker 1: like trying to drive a car blindfolded, says the former 268 00:19:29,515 --> 00:19:35,595 Speaker 1: chief economist from the Labor Department. Don't worry Trump can 269 00:19:35,635 --> 00:19:38,835 Speaker 1: do that. He can. He can drive a car blindfolded. 270 00:19:39,235 --> 00:19:43,195 Speaker 1: Ask Uncle John, Get him on the phone. Get Uncle 271 00:19:43,275 --> 00:19:45,035 Speaker 1: John on the phone right now. What do you mean 272 00:19:45,075 --> 00:19:48,275 Speaker 1: he died in nineteen eighty five. That's ridiculous. Died in 273 00:19:48,355 --> 00:19:52,995 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, That's unpossible. I mean, today's is nineteen 274 00:19:53,155 --> 00:20:07,435 Speaker 1: sixty five. So our team Hitler is completely bonkers and 275 00:20:07,595 --> 00:20:10,875 Speaker 1: is making up his own numbers and his own words. 276 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:16,595 Speaker 1: Remember he said Obama was sedacious. Making up your own 277 00:20:16,635 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: words is a primary symptom of bipolar disorder. In case, 278 00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:22,715 Speaker 1: we want to throw that into the salad bowl that 279 00:20:22,875 --> 00:20:26,035 Speaker 1: is his head. Ah so what, he can always fall 280 00:20:26,075 --> 00:20:29,475 Speaker 1: back on the military. Your attention is directed to Greg's 281 00:20:29,475 --> 00:20:33,035 Speaker 1: sergeant's piece in The New Republic over the weekend, based 282 00:20:33,075 --> 00:20:36,195 Speaker 1: on a leaked Homeland Security memo from that corner of 283 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: the White House where the Drunks meet the dog murdering sadists, 284 00:20:40,035 --> 00:20:45,915 Speaker 1: Christy nomes liaison to Pete Hegseth, who just happens to 285 00:20:45,915 --> 00:20:53,555 Speaker 1: be the liaison heg Seth's kid brother, Skippy. The memo 286 00:20:53,715 --> 00:20:57,595 Speaker 1: outlines the DHS needs to convince the Pentagon to authorize 287 00:20:57,675 --> 00:21:02,795 Speaker 1: way more troops to disappear way more brown people, and 288 00:21:02,835 --> 00:21:07,595 Speaker 1: not just at the border, things like Trump's terrorist attack 289 00:21:07,635 --> 00:21:10,155 Speaker 1: on Los Angeles. More of this, please only in New 290 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:13,795 Speaker 1: York and San Francisco and Chicago and who knows where else. 291 00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:19,195 Speaker 1: Rationalization for it cook the books call any immigrant committing 292 00:21:19,235 --> 00:21:22,995 Speaker 1: a crime the equivalent of al Qaeda or isis. Well, 293 00:21:23,035 --> 00:21:26,115 Speaker 1: you can't call them isis ICE is the equivalent of ices. 294 00:21:27,315 --> 00:21:30,795 Speaker 1: But they're cooking these books now, they're calling them the 295 00:21:30,835 --> 00:21:35,675 Speaker 1: equivalent of al Qaeda as it is. And your historical 296 00:21:35,755 --> 00:21:38,395 Speaker 1: role models for doing this for rounding people up. The 297 00:21:38,395 --> 00:21:41,635 Speaker 1: people who put the internment camps were Japanese Americans together 298 00:21:41,715 --> 00:21:45,315 Speaker 1: during the Second World War, and the political excuse the 299 00:21:45,435 --> 00:21:54,155 Speaker 1: Democrats did that, So shrug emoji. Last point on this. 300 00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:56,195 Speaker 1: You would think that in the Senate, the vote for 301 00:21:56,275 --> 00:22:00,795 Speaker 1: the dumbest smart guy or the smartest dumb guy would 302 00:22:00,835 --> 00:22:05,995 Speaker 1: be unanimous for Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, who 303 00:22:06,035 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: acts and talks like my late friend Pat Buttram, only 304 00:22:09,475 --> 00:22:14,195 Speaker 1: he doesn't wear that bowler hat, but went to UVA, Vanderbilt, 305 00:22:14,275 --> 00:22:18,315 Speaker 1: and Oxford, and only eighteen years ago decided he wasn't 306 00:22:18,355 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: going to get anywhere in Louisiana as a smart Democrat, 307 00:22:21,355 --> 00:22:25,755 Speaker 1: so he instead became a rube Republican. But I don't know, 308 00:22:27,715 --> 00:22:30,515 Speaker 1: Senator Kennedy might lose that election in an upset to 309 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:33,115 Speaker 1: Tom Cotton of Harvard and Harvard Law, who does not 310 00:22:33,315 --> 00:22:36,155 Speaker 1: act dumb, but does do dumb things in order to 311 00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:41,915 Speaker 1: manipulate dumb people and gets extraordinary yields. It was Tom 312 00:22:41,955 --> 00:22:46,755 Speaker 1: Cotton who floated prosecuting Jack Smith for violating the Hatch Act. 313 00:22:47,555 --> 00:22:51,595 Speaker 1: This got huge play in Maga fantasy land here, Oh, 314 00:22:51,835 --> 00:22:56,115 Speaker 1: they're going to execute Jack Smith for violating the Hatch Act. 315 00:22:57,315 --> 00:23:00,995 Speaker 1: It got some play here in real news, surprisingly a lot. 316 00:23:01,035 --> 00:23:03,995 Speaker 1: But internationally this was the second or third biggest story 317 00:23:04,195 --> 00:23:07,435 Speaker 1: coming from the US over the weekend. The BBC ran 318 00:23:07,515 --> 00:23:11,715 Speaker 1: it on its World TV newscasts every hour for a day. 319 00:23:12,955 --> 00:23:17,315 Speaker 1: Oh my god, the special prosecutor is being prosecuted. Not 320 00:23:17,435 --> 00:23:19,955 Speaker 1: once was it mentioned, just as not once was it 321 00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:24,715 Speaker 1: mentioned in Maga media that if this mystery man Jack Smith, 322 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:28,475 Speaker 1: who basically never spoke, is actually guilty of violating the 323 00:23:28,515 --> 00:23:33,435 Speaker 1: Hatch Act of campaigning while you shouldn't be campaigning, Jack 324 00:23:33,555 --> 00:23:38,595 Speaker 1: Smith faces possible fines, jail terms, and other punishments of 325 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:44,595 Speaker 1: up to nothing. If they throw the book at him, 326 00:23:44,635 --> 00:23:52,715 Speaker 1: He'll get no fine, no jail term, no punishment. They 327 00:23:52,795 --> 00:23:57,355 Speaker 1: warned or reprimanded Jen Saki on the Hatch Act, and 328 00:23:57,915 --> 00:24:03,715 Speaker 1: Kaylee Mcananey and Karine, Jean Pierre and Kelly and Cohnjob, 329 00:24:04,075 --> 00:24:09,595 Speaker 1: Mike Pump, Nikki Hayley, not James Comy. He was not 330 00:24:09,715 --> 00:24:13,595 Speaker 1: guilty and I spent way too much time over the 331 00:24:13,595 --> 00:24:18,315 Speaker 1: weekend looking to find the last person actually find under 332 00:24:18,355 --> 00:24:21,795 Speaker 1: the Hatch Act. Couldn't not any amount, let alone the 333 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:27,795 Speaker 1: maximum fine of one thousand dollars, doctor evil. There was 334 00:24:27,955 --> 00:24:31,715 Speaker 1: somebody suspended for four months from their job at Thers, 335 00:24:31,755 --> 00:24:34,795 Speaker 1: and somebody else who's actually fired from the Bureau of 336 00:24:34,875 --> 00:24:40,355 Speaker 1: Engraving fifteen years ago. But you would think that someone 337 00:24:40,555 --> 00:24:42,915 Speaker 1: somewhere on the news would have noted that unless Trump 338 00:24:42,955 --> 00:24:46,395 Speaker 1: takes the great dangerous presidentially fatal leap of just announcing 339 00:24:46,595 --> 00:24:50,955 Speaker 1: he is making a new retroactive law, the most they 340 00:24:50,955 --> 00:24:54,115 Speaker 1: can possibly do to Jack Smith with the Hatch Act 341 00:24:54,595 --> 00:24:58,995 Speaker 1: is fire him from his job as special counsel, the 342 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:04,475 Speaker 1: job of special counsel from which he resigned last January eleventh. 343 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:08,955 Speaker 1: That's if he's guilty of anything, you can fire him 344 00:25:08,955 --> 00:25:12,355 Speaker 1: from a job he doesn't have anymore if he's guilty 345 00:25:12,395 --> 00:25:18,835 Speaker 1: of anything. Guilty of anything besides taking Merrick Garland's words 346 00:25:18,835 --> 00:25:30,195 Speaker 1: of caution seriously also of interest here, Thank god they're morons. 347 00:25:30,995 --> 00:25:34,195 Speaker 1: The Republicans put out a meme for the newest mutation 348 00:25:34,915 --> 00:25:38,595 Speaker 1: of Maga Maga with two a's in the middle, make 349 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:43,275 Speaker 1: American automobiles great again. The meme has a picture of 350 00:25:43,315 --> 00:25:46,715 Speaker 1: Trump and a The automobile in the meme that he's 351 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:50,995 Speaker 1: celebrating is actually a car made in the Soviet Union 352 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:55,155 Speaker 1: in the seventies. And b you know how old Trump 353 00:25:55,195 --> 00:25:57,915 Speaker 1: looks in the meme, He looks two hundred and six. 354 00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:04,955 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith 355 00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:29,475 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. Next. 356 00:26:29,515 --> 00:26:31,875 Speaker 1: In Things I promised not to tell, I think I 357 00:26:31,995 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 1: mentioned this once. I went back to my high school, 358 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:39,835 Speaker 1: the school that produced Chris Berman and Will Bunch and 359 00:26:39,875 --> 00:26:45,515 Speaker 1: gave Obama his first political speech venue and I gave 360 00:26:45,555 --> 00:26:48,835 Speaker 1: the commencement address nineteen years after I had graduated, and 361 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:54,475 Speaker 1: in the crowd were twenty of my teachers. Twenty teachers 362 00:26:54,475 --> 00:26:59,835 Speaker 1: who had been there when I graduated. That's how long 363 00:26:59,875 --> 00:27:03,475 Speaker 1: they lasted there. They were great teachers, but greater people, 364 00:27:03,515 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: and one of them, the math department head, who literally 365 00:27:07,995 --> 00:27:12,195 Speaker 1: saved me from not graduating on time and possibly still 366 00:27:12,235 --> 00:27:16,115 Speaker 1: being the student theired. Today, the last of the greats 367 00:27:16,235 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: of the Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, Jerry Murphy, has died. 368 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: A Tribute to mister Murphy. Next first. Believe it or not, 369 00:27:25,715 --> 00:27:28,035 Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup 370 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:30,715 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunn Krueger effects specimens 371 00:27:30,835 --> 00:27:37,315 Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, the 372 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:42,915 Speaker 1: Bronze and Drew Cuomo slouching towards getting blown out in 373 00:27:42,915 --> 00:27:46,515 Speaker 1: the election for mayor of New York City twice in 374 00:27:46,595 --> 00:27:51,115 Speaker 1: one year. He is now stone cold lying about the 375 00:27:51,155 --> 00:27:56,315 Speaker 1: mayor to be, As was tweeted on CNBC, Cuomo says 376 00:27:56,395 --> 00:28:00,075 Speaker 1: of Zoran Mamdani, quote, thirty three years old, never had 377 00:28:00,115 --> 00:28:02,715 Speaker 1: a job, and now the first job is going to 378 00:28:02,795 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: be the mayor of New York. Mom Donnie has been 379 00:28:06,955 --> 00:28:11,235 Speaker 1: a State Assembly member since twenty twenty one. And if 380 00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:14,955 Speaker 1: quality of jobs and performance on them is the real 381 00:28:15,035 --> 00:28:18,795 Speaker 1: test here, Cromo is gonna lose by more than he thinks. 382 00:28:20,195 --> 00:28:28,155 Speaker 1: Just unbelievable. Andrew Cuomo Trumpian narcissist, lying scumbag and possibly 383 00:28:28,635 --> 00:28:36,755 Speaker 1: only the second biggest Trumpian narcissist lying scumbag among his 384 00:28:36,795 --> 00:28:42,275 Speaker 1: own siblings. Runner up worser Ryan Naked women on my 385 00:28:42,315 --> 00:28:45,595 Speaker 1: office TV during the State Education Board meeting executive session 386 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:47,675 Speaker 1: and they yell at me and I shout what's that? 387 00:28:47,795 --> 00:28:52,155 Speaker 1: And now everybody is lying but me, Walters. This is 388 00:28:52,235 --> 00:28:57,155 Speaker 1: the construction of the classic hidden porn addict story. I 389 00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:01,075 Speaker 1: told you about this. Why they behave this way? Ryan 390 00:29:01,235 --> 00:29:04,195 Speaker 1: is the superintendent of education in the state of Oklahoma. 391 00:29:04,235 --> 00:29:08,235 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not the state of Oklahoma, the theocratic kingdom 392 00:29:08,275 --> 00:29:14,155 Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. And he is frankly dying hard there. He 393 00:29:14,235 --> 00:29:16,955 Speaker 1: is not going gently into that good night that will 394 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:21,275 Speaker 1: envelop him soon or late. He is doubling down on me. 395 00:29:21,675 --> 00:29:24,795 Speaker 1: I can't be evil. Look at all these attacks on woke. 396 00:29:24,995 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: I'm doing bullshit. Don't look at the porn. He is 397 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:32,875 Speaker 1: again posted if you are a teacher coming to Oklahoma 398 00:29:32,915 --> 00:29:37,515 Speaker 1: from woke states, First of all, your premise is flawed. 399 00:29:37,795 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: Who the f is going to do that? If you 400 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:45,675 Speaker 1: are a teacher coming to Oklahoma from woke states, you 401 00:29:45,755 --> 00:29:49,275 Speaker 1: will not be indoctrinating our kids with a liberal agenda, 402 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:54,915 Speaker 1: you know, like porn in Oklahoma. He didn't say that. 403 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:57,835 Speaker 1: I did. In Oklahoma. We are proud to have America 404 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:05,835 Speaker 1: First values again my interpretation like porn, and he attaches 405 00:30:05,875 --> 00:30:11,355 Speaker 1: a Fox News story also porn Oklahoma requires America First 406 00:30:11,355 --> 00:30:15,155 Speaker 1: certification test for and it has more. But I didn't 407 00:30:15,155 --> 00:30:16,915 Speaker 1: click through, So all I know is that the title 408 00:30:16,995 --> 00:30:22,515 Speaker 1: is Oklahoma requires America first certification test for now, Ryan, 409 00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:25,035 Speaker 1: This certification test that they have to do for you. 410 00:30:25,635 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: Is this in addition to teach your applicants from woke 411 00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:33,475 Speaker 1: states bringing you a gift of porn with naked women 412 00:30:34,395 --> 00:30:39,115 Speaker 1: appearing on chiropractic tables? Or is this instead of bringing 413 00:30:39,115 --> 00:30:41,875 Speaker 1: you a gift of porn with naked women appearing on 414 00:30:41,955 --> 00:30:49,675 Speaker 1: chiropractic tables? Ryan, Ryan, mister Walters, buddy, if I can 415 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:53,075 Speaker 1: get your attention away from that one monitor in your 416 00:30:53,075 --> 00:30:57,795 Speaker 1: office for a moment, please come on, Ryan. This is 417 00:30:57,835 --> 00:31:00,875 Speaker 1: so obvious. Mike Johnson would have confessed to it by now. 418 00:31:01,835 --> 00:31:09,195 Speaker 1: Holy crap. But the winner the social media director of 419 00:31:09,195 --> 00:31:12,835 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. Well, I guess by now, given the 420 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:19,195 Speaker 1: way Trump fires people for inadvertently or advertently telling the truth. 421 00:31:20,595 --> 00:31:23,595 Speaker 1: The ex social media director of the Republican Party over 422 00:31:23,635 --> 00:31:27,715 Speaker 1: the gop Twitter x account. The one Big Beautiful Bill 423 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:31,515 Speaker 1: will drive the return of the Great American Car. Not 424 00:31:31,675 --> 00:31:36,675 Speaker 1: one American flag, emog follows this, but two American flags 425 00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:42,435 Speaker 1: double the America, and there's a giant white on blue sky, 426 00:31:43,315 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: making automobiles great again. See this, They've found another thing 427 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:53,075 Speaker 1: to call MAGA after only nine years. Huh what other 428 00:31:53,115 --> 00:32:00,195 Speaker 1: words start with g Uh? What other words start with A? 429 00:32:00,195 --> 00:32:03,755 Speaker 1: America starts with an M. That's what the M and 430 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:11,835 Speaker 1: magas for America is great again. I can't get over 431 00:32:11,955 --> 00:32:14,875 Speaker 1: Ryan Walters thinking people are deliberately moving to Oklahoma to 432 00:32:14,915 --> 00:32:18,035 Speaker 1: teach there. But back to this one. So there's this 433 00:32:18,155 --> 00:32:22,715 Speaker 1: picture of Trump at a car behind him and making 434 00:32:22,715 --> 00:32:26,715 Speaker 1: America making automobiles great again. The one big, beautiful Bill 435 00:32:26,755 --> 00:32:29,435 Speaker 1: will drive the return of the great American car. That's all, 436 00:32:29,475 --> 00:32:33,195 Speaker 1: it says the car shown behind Trump as he makes 437 00:32:33,195 --> 00:32:36,035 Speaker 1: that gesture with his hands in the air. You know, 438 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:40,555 Speaker 1: the eye can no longer move my body sufficiently to 439 00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:44,155 Speaker 1: actually dance, so you'll all have to pretend that I'm dancing. 440 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:48,515 Speaker 1: The car shown behind him is a small, boxy, bright 441 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:52,395 Speaker 1: yellow car with motorcycle hub caps that looks like a 442 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:56,235 Speaker 1: like a Paris taxi in a Peter Seller's pink Panther 443 00:32:56,315 --> 00:32:59,635 Speaker 1: Inspector Cluseau picture from the sixties or seventies. You got 444 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:03,155 Speaker 1: the image. I mean, anybody putting this meme together looks 445 00:33:03,195 --> 00:33:08,755 Speaker 1: at this and says, the new Ram pickup looks like crap. Wait, 446 00:33:08,835 --> 00:33:12,035 Speaker 1: that's not a ram, that's a turns out. That's a 447 00:33:12,195 --> 00:33:17,955 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy Vaz twenty one oh one Ziguli c Hi 448 00:33:18,075 --> 00:33:23,435 Speaker 1: g u l i jiguli, also called a Kopeika, also 449 00:33:23,595 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: called in international automobile circles a loda. All those names 450 00:33:29,635 --> 00:33:31,795 Speaker 1: play on house. It's so small it looks like the 451 00:33:31,835 --> 00:33:36,595 Speaker 1: smallest coin in Russia. Because the goddamned little tiny yellow 452 00:33:36,675 --> 00:33:41,995 Speaker 1: car that the Republicans think promotes American cars, the goddamn 453 00:33:42,075 --> 00:33:45,915 Speaker 1: car sitting there behind Trump, that these Republican losers picked 454 00:33:45,915 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 1: a show behind him, is not just Russian, it's Soviet. 455 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:54,795 Speaker 1: It was a Soviet produced car, the nineteen seventy Vaz 456 00:33:55,035 --> 00:33:58,515 Speaker 1: twenty one oh one. As late as nineteen seventy four, 457 00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:01,555 Speaker 1: this car was put on sale in England for nine 458 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:06,035 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine pounds even then. That wasn't a lot. 459 00:34:07,115 --> 00:34:13,195 Speaker 1: It's a pos Soviet car. And that's how his own 460 00:34:13,275 --> 00:34:20,115 Speaker 1: cult thinks. Trump is making American automobiles great again by 461 00:34:20,195 --> 00:34:26,195 Speaker 1: making Russian automobiles great again by making Soviet Russian automobiles 462 00:34:26,195 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: great again. The Republican Party, whatever you do, don't do 463 00:34:33,195 --> 00:34:40,515 Speaker 1: anything that underscores the connection between Trump and Russia, that 464 00:34:40,595 --> 00:34:46,515 Speaker 1: Republican Party, the Republican Party social media account, clown today's 465 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:57,115 Speaker 1: person in the world, to the number one story on 466 00:34:57,155 --> 00:35:00,035 Speaker 1: the Countdown, and my favorite topic, me and things I 467 00:35:00,115 --> 00:35:02,355 Speaker 1: promised not to tell, and in this case it is 468 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:06,675 Speaker 1: something I wish I did not have to tell. There 469 00:35:06,755 --> 00:35:12,515 Speaker 1: is another world somewhere, another universe, another timeline in which 470 00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: I am preparing right now for not the fiftieth anniversary 471 00:35:17,795 --> 00:35:21,475 Speaker 1: of my graduation from my high school, but I am 472 00:35:21,715 --> 00:35:25,115 Speaker 1: in fact preparing to return to my high school for 473 00:35:26,275 --> 00:35:31,835 Speaker 1: my fifty first year as a senior there because I 474 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:37,555 Speaker 1: am still trying to pass senior math. Because in this 475 00:35:37,715 --> 00:35:42,395 Speaker 1: parallel world, my math teacher in the school year nineteen 476 00:35:42,435 --> 00:35:46,275 Speaker 1: seventy four to seventy five is not Jerry Murphy, but 477 00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:51,235 Speaker 1: somebody else. Anybody else, somebody who wasn't quite the math 478 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:54,795 Speaker 1: teacher that he was, somebody who wasn't quite the empathetic 479 00:35:54,835 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: figure that he was, and most importantly, somebody who was 480 00:35:58,155 --> 00:36:05,195 Speaker 1: just not as much of a decent, caring, proactively kind 481 00:36:06,115 --> 00:36:12,715 Speaker 1: human being as Jerry Murphy was. You can probably guess 482 00:36:12,755 --> 00:36:17,115 Speaker 1: that Gerald C. Murphy of Brooklyn, New York, died in 483 00:36:17,155 --> 00:36:21,035 Speaker 1: Albuquerque on June eighteenth of this year. Those of us 484 00:36:21,035 --> 00:36:23,235 Speaker 1: who went to the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York 485 00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: were informed by email at the end of last week. 486 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: He had a degree from Fordham in math and an 487 00:36:34,435 --> 00:36:38,835 Speaker 1: MS in mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York. And 488 00:36:38,915 --> 00:36:42,715 Speaker 1: it reads oddly in his obituary in the Albuquerque newspaper 489 00:36:42,955 --> 00:36:46,555 Speaker 1: where he completed all course work towards a PhD. And 490 00:36:46,675 --> 00:36:50,235 Speaker 1: I saw that, and I smiled, because he told me 491 00:36:50,315 --> 00:36:54,155 Speaker 1: that story in nineteen seventy four or early nineteen seventy five. 492 00:36:55,155 --> 00:36:58,555 Speaker 1: It doesn't say it here. And I'm very unhappy that 493 00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:01,875 Speaker 1: the biography, which recounts the great events of his life, 494 00:37:01,875 --> 00:37:04,555 Speaker 1: and the fact that he taught at my alma mater, Hackley, 495 00:37:05,355 --> 00:37:07,915 Speaker 1: home of many many teachers who weren't paid well and 496 00:37:07,995 --> 00:37:11,555 Speaker 1: yet stayed twenty years, that he stayed twenty years, became 497 00:37:11,595 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: chairman of the math department, then moved to New Mexico 498 00:37:15,515 --> 00:37:20,755 Speaker 1: and taught at the Albuquerque Academy until the year twenty eleven. 499 00:37:21,515 --> 00:37:24,955 Speaker 1: So he spent twenty one years there and they were 500 00:37:24,955 --> 00:37:28,075 Speaker 1: fortunate to have him. And it goes on about his wife, 501 00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:32,355 Speaker 1: who I knew very briefly at Hackley, and how he 502 00:37:32,395 --> 00:37:35,115 Speaker 1: loved to ski and play tennis, and travel and reading 503 00:37:35,155 --> 00:37:38,355 Speaker 1: and taking photographs and was a member of the Zen 504 00:37:38,515 --> 00:37:40,995 Speaker 1: Buddhist community in New York, which I did not know, 505 00:37:41,275 --> 00:37:47,355 Speaker 1: but doesn't surprise me in the least. But it doesn't 506 00:37:47,395 --> 00:37:49,395 Speaker 1: say here what it should have said. At the first 507 00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:55,235 Speaker 1: Jerry Murphy, one of the great human beings died, the 508 00:37:55,275 --> 00:37:58,755 Speaker 1: world is a little smaller and worse for this fact. 509 00:37:59,475 --> 00:38:03,355 Speaker 1: It was better for him being here. And I know 510 00:38:03,475 --> 00:38:05,915 Speaker 1: so many of my classmates it's reached out to me 511 00:38:05,995 --> 00:38:08,995 Speaker 1: about this to see if I had seen it, including 512 00:38:09,035 --> 00:38:12,715 Speaker 1: my friend Will Bunch, who I've mentioned many times was 513 00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:16,515 Speaker 1: on the school newspaper with me and for whom mister 514 00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:19,275 Speaker 1: Murphy was one of his favorites, as mister Murphy was 515 00:38:19,275 --> 00:38:23,355 Speaker 1: one of mine. Because there is one story about Jerry Murphy, 516 00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:26,115 Speaker 1: and what I said, I guess is kind of an 517 00:38:26,155 --> 00:38:30,235 Speaker 1: exaggeration at the beginning of this reminiscence about him. But 518 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:33,675 Speaker 1: I suppose there is a world in which when the 519 00:38:33,755 --> 00:38:39,755 Speaker 1: subject of this last year of math changed to something 520 00:38:40,395 --> 00:38:44,435 Speaker 1: so mystifying to me that I have blotted out the 521 00:38:44,595 --> 00:38:47,515 Speaker 1: name of the kind of math it was. Might have 522 00:38:47,555 --> 00:38:51,595 Speaker 1: been trigonometry, might have been pterodactyl. I don't know what 523 00:38:51,675 --> 00:38:54,755 Speaker 1: it was, that's how little sense it made to me. 524 00:38:55,115 --> 00:38:57,715 Speaker 1: I remember raising my hand at one point and saying, 525 00:38:59,235 --> 00:39:04,195 Speaker 1: mister Murphy, the thing on the left is that the answer? 526 00:39:05,195 --> 00:39:08,475 Speaker 1: Or is that the question? And he looked at me 527 00:39:08,595 --> 00:39:14,075 Speaker 1: and a wry smile snapped across his thin mouth, and 528 00:39:14,155 --> 00:39:17,755 Speaker 1: he said, stay after, we need to talk about that, 529 00:39:18,275 --> 00:39:20,075 Speaker 1: and keep quiet the rest of the class, will you. 530 00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:25,475 Speaker 1: I had been, as I think I've mentioned several times, 531 00:39:25,515 --> 00:39:27,955 Speaker 1: mistaken for a math prodigy. When I was a child. 532 00:39:28,035 --> 00:39:30,075 Speaker 1: I used to like to play with numbers, and I 533 00:39:30,115 --> 00:39:34,235 Speaker 1: mean that literally. I had a small container full of 534 00:39:34,275 --> 00:39:38,675 Speaker 1: plastic numbers, and I like to array them in forty 535 00:39:38,715 --> 00:39:42,395 Speaker 1: and fifty digit numbers and add and subtract and then 536 00:39:42,475 --> 00:39:46,515 Speaker 1: later on multiply them. And for this they thought I 537 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:50,075 Speaker 1: was a math prodigy, that I would someday be doing 538 00:39:50,155 --> 00:39:56,115 Speaker 1: differential calculus. In fact, I just like doing addition, subtraction, 539 00:39:56,275 --> 00:40:02,355 Speaker 1: and multiplication. No division. My limit was division. So I 540 00:40:02,395 --> 00:40:05,035 Speaker 1: guess by the time I was a senior in school, 541 00:40:05,035 --> 00:40:06,875 Speaker 1: it was pretty well established that I was not a 542 00:40:06,915 --> 00:40:09,035 Speaker 1: math prodigy anymore. But there was no reason for me 543 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:12,235 Speaker 1: not to take math classes because There was no particular 544 00:40:12,275 --> 00:40:13,915 Speaker 1: reason for me to think that I would not be 545 00:40:14,035 --> 00:40:18,555 Speaker 1: able to process this stuff, which was fairly logical, and 546 00:40:18,755 --> 00:40:23,635 Speaker 1: which I continued to consume and process pretty well until 547 00:40:24,075 --> 00:40:26,395 Speaker 1: I guess it was trigonometry. In the middle of the 548 00:40:26,475 --> 00:40:29,195 Speaker 1: year we went to this and at one point I 549 00:40:29,275 --> 00:40:32,635 Speaker 1: remember turning my head upside down and looking at the 550 00:40:32,675 --> 00:40:35,475 Speaker 1: board that way to see if maybe it made more 551 00:40:35,595 --> 00:40:42,395 Speaker 1: sense looking at it upside down. Jerry Murphy, who was 552 00:40:42,435 --> 00:40:45,555 Speaker 1: a wonderful man, and treated us all as if we 553 00:40:45,555 --> 00:40:50,075 Speaker 1: were just junior members in some sort of partnership in 554 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:54,915 Speaker 1: his classroom, who would be upbraided when they did not 555 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:58,395 Speaker 1: behave as junior partners should be. But who were not 556 00:40:58,555 --> 00:41:06,755 Speaker 1: some you know, ragmuffin crowd of over rich or overfed 557 00:41:07,075 --> 00:41:13,435 Speaker 1: or deserving of resentment, none of that. We were his 558 00:41:13,555 --> 00:41:17,275 Speaker 1: partners in this experience called teaching math in Tarrytown, New 559 00:41:17,315 --> 00:41:22,595 Speaker 1: York in nineteen seventy four. And so in this little 560 00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:26,715 Speaker 1: meeting afterwards, he said, you don't see it, do you, 561 00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:28,635 Speaker 1: And I went, I don't see it at all. You 562 00:41:28,675 --> 00:41:31,955 Speaker 1: could write anything up there, and I would have a 563 00:41:31,955 --> 00:41:35,075 Speaker 1: better chance of solving anything else you wrote up there. 564 00:41:35,115 --> 00:41:37,155 Speaker 1: I don't know what it means I don't know where 565 00:41:37,155 --> 00:41:41,435 Speaker 1: to start. It's literally liking when like somebody turned the 566 00:41:41,435 --> 00:41:45,115 Speaker 1: gravity off. Yes, exactly, He goes, don't worry about it. 567 00:41:45,395 --> 00:41:48,595 Speaker 1: I said, don't worry about it. I don't when you're 568 00:41:48,635 --> 00:41:50,715 Speaker 1: going to test us on this, aren't you. It's like 569 00:41:50,755 --> 00:41:55,275 Speaker 1: everything else. And I've done BS and maybe an occasional C, 570 00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:58,355 Speaker 1: but maybe an occasional A for the whole of my 571 00:41:58,515 --> 00:42:00,675 Speaker 1: five years here at the various levels of math. I 572 00:42:00,675 --> 00:42:02,635 Speaker 1: did okay in algebra, I didn't like it. I did 573 00:42:02,675 --> 00:42:05,835 Speaker 1: okay Calculus I didn't like that. And now this, whatever 574 00:42:05,875 --> 00:42:09,995 Speaker 1: this is, I don't know what this is, let alone 575 00:42:10,035 --> 00:42:13,835 Speaker 1: how to solve it. And he said, just relax. It's 576 00:42:13,875 --> 00:42:17,195 Speaker 1: called the mathwall. And I said, that's what it's called. 577 00:42:17,235 --> 00:42:19,195 Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, what's happened to you is called 578 00:42:19,195 --> 00:42:22,155 Speaker 1: the mathwall. He said. If you didn't notice, there's three 579 00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:24,675 Speaker 1: or four others of you in this class. You've all 580 00:42:24,755 --> 00:42:27,595 Speaker 1: hit this at the same time. Don't worry about it. 581 00:42:28,515 --> 00:42:33,115 Speaker 1: We all hit the mathwall. And I said, who's this we? 582 00:42:33,395 --> 00:42:36,875 Speaker 1: He said, I hit the mathwall. This is why I 583 00:42:36,915 --> 00:42:41,075 Speaker 1: am not doctor Murphy. This goes back to completing all 584 00:42:41,275 --> 00:42:46,795 Speaker 1: coursework towards a PhD at Polytechnic Institute of New York. 585 00:42:47,355 --> 00:42:50,235 Speaker 1: He said that one day he came home with one 586 00:42:50,275 --> 00:42:53,555 Speaker 1: of those problems that they give would be people with 587 00:42:53,755 --> 00:42:58,315 Speaker 1: doctorates in mathematics, the ones that take three days to solve, 588 00:42:58,595 --> 00:43:00,715 Speaker 1: the ones you have to work on and work on 589 00:43:00,835 --> 00:43:04,115 Speaker 1: for twelve or fourteen hours and then risk going to 590 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:06,755 Speaker 1: sleep and losing your place and having to go back 591 00:43:06,755 --> 00:43:09,235 Speaker 1: to the beginning again. And he described the agony of 592 00:43:09,275 --> 00:43:12,035 Speaker 1: doing this, and on the third day, when he realized 593 00:43:12,195 --> 00:43:15,595 Speaker 1: he'd made a fundamental mistake in solving whatever this problem was, 594 00:43:17,035 --> 00:43:18,915 Speaker 1: which I hope was at least something to do with 595 00:43:18,995 --> 00:43:23,635 Speaker 1: time travel, it sounded so complex, he said, I started 596 00:43:23,675 --> 00:43:28,835 Speaker 1: to cry. Now, imagine just at any point in your life, 597 00:43:29,515 --> 00:43:35,195 Speaker 1: a teacher, especially a high school teacher, a man and 598 00:43:35,395 --> 00:43:39,155 Speaker 1: a very rugged Brooklyn kind of guy, no matter what 599 00:43:39,235 --> 00:43:44,115 Speaker 1: his education might have been, explaining to you that some 600 00:43:44,315 --> 00:43:49,675 Speaker 1: point something in the educational process had made him cry. 601 00:43:49,715 --> 00:43:55,915 Speaker 1: This was human in a way that so few teachers, 602 00:43:55,995 --> 00:44:02,675 Speaker 1: so few adults are. Then and now to kids, Jerry 603 00:44:02,755 --> 00:44:05,355 Speaker 1: Murphy said, yeah, I began to cry, and I went 604 00:44:05,395 --> 00:44:08,595 Speaker 1: back to the beginning, and my wife said, maybe it's 605 00:44:08,635 --> 00:44:10,795 Speaker 1: time for you to give this up and take what 606 00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:13,395 Speaker 1: you have in the way of an education and make 607 00:44:13,435 --> 00:44:17,235 Speaker 1: a career as a teacher rather than as a professional 608 00:44:17,235 --> 00:44:21,395 Speaker 1: mathematician or a collegiate instructor in math. And he went, 609 00:44:21,875 --> 00:44:24,635 Speaker 1: you know, you're right, and that's when he left. So 610 00:44:24,715 --> 00:44:27,915 Speaker 1: when it says he completed all the coursework, what it 611 00:44:27,955 --> 00:44:30,715 Speaker 1: doesn't say is there was this one three day problem 612 00:44:30,715 --> 00:44:33,955 Speaker 1: that caused him to cry and to give up on 613 00:44:34,155 --> 00:44:37,635 Speaker 1: that aspect of his career. And as he said, I 614 00:44:37,715 --> 00:44:41,355 Speaker 1: gave that up, but I regained my sanity. And here 615 00:44:41,395 --> 00:44:45,235 Speaker 1: we are today. So you've hit your math wall a 616 00:44:45,235 --> 00:44:49,115 Speaker 1: little earlier than I did, but realistically only about five years, 617 00:44:49,155 --> 00:44:53,035 Speaker 1: I guess, he said. You've done well. You're relatively well 618 00:44:53,075 --> 00:44:57,115 Speaker 1: behaved in this class, he said, and you're funny, and 619 00:44:57,315 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: we all enjoy your work, and everybody thinks you're a 620 00:44:59,835 --> 00:45:02,795 Speaker 1: good guy. And here's what we're going to do. You 621 00:45:02,915 --> 00:45:06,115 Speaker 1: go down to the registrar's off and here's my note 622 00:45:06,155 --> 00:45:10,955 Speaker 1: approving it. You change your course grading system on this 623 00:45:11,035 --> 00:45:14,035 Speaker 1: class whatever it was, Senior Math Math five, whatever the 624 00:45:14,075 --> 00:45:16,915 Speaker 1: calling of the name of this thing was, and you 625 00:45:17,115 --> 00:45:22,355 Speaker 1: change from grades letter grades to pass fail. He said, 626 00:45:22,475 --> 00:45:24,475 Speaker 1: I will pass you your work so far has been 627 00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:27,475 Speaker 1: a B plus. I will pass you. I'm not going 628 00:45:27,515 --> 00:45:31,035 Speaker 1: to grade you, and you can take the exams. I 629 00:45:31,075 --> 00:45:35,555 Speaker 1: suppose here's your requirement. Though, you and the other three 630 00:45:35,635 --> 00:45:38,395 Speaker 1: or four who have also hit this same math wall. 631 00:45:38,755 --> 00:45:41,075 Speaker 1: It's a real one. It's a tough one. You're not 632 00:45:41,195 --> 00:45:44,435 Speaker 1: the first I've ever seen do this. All of you 633 00:45:45,515 --> 00:45:48,955 Speaker 1: had damn well better be quiet in my classroom. I 634 00:45:48,995 --> 00:45:52,275 Speaker 1: don't hunt a single bit of trouble from any of 635 00:45:52,315 --> 00:45:54,755 Speaker 1: you for the rest of the year. And this may 636 00:45:54,795 --> 00:45:58,875 Speaker 1: have been November, December, January, I can't remember how early 637 00:45:58,955 --> 00:46:01,195 Speaker 1: it was. But he said, you go and take it, 638 00:46:01,275 --> 00:46:05,755 Speaker 1: pass fail and shut the hell up. And you and 639 00:46:05,755 --> 00:46:08,435 Speaker 1: that guy over there he brings in the papers anyway, 640 00:46:08,675 --> 00:46:11,835 Speaker 1: read the papers quietly to yourselves. Don't get in the 641 00:46:11,875 --> 00:46:14,555 Speaker 1: way of the students who still understand this stuff. And 642 00:46:14,635 --> 00:46:19,355 Speaker 1: certainly don't tell anybody that if they pretend that they've 643 00:46:19,435 --> 00:46:20,955 Speaker 1: hit the math wall, that they don't have to do 644 00:46:20,995 --> 00:46:24,115 Speaker 1: the work. You have to do everything except the work, 645 00:46:24,435 --> 00:46:25,915 Speaker 1: and you have to do more of it here in 646 00:46:25,955 --> 00:46:30,315 Speaker 1: the classroom. And there's another thing. Every Monday, when I 647 00:46:30,355 --> 00:46:32,635 Speaker 1: come in here at nine o'clock in the morning, we 648 00:46:32,635 --> 00:46:37,435 Speaker 1: were his first class. You guys are reciting some thing 649 00:46:37,635 --> 00:46:41,635 Speaker 1: from this what's it called Monty Something's Flying Something? And 650 00:46:41,675 --> 00:46:45,115 Speaker 1: I said Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British TV comedy 651 00:46:45,155 --> 00:46:49,515 Speaker 1: series on Channel thirteen exactly. He said, I saw it 652 00:46:49,555 --> 00:46:51,475 Speaker 1: once when we had the week off. I stayed up 653 00:46:51,515 --> 00:46:53,795 Speaker 1: that late. I don't normally stay up that late, ten 654 00:46:53,875 --> 00:47:00,715 Speaker 1: thirty at night and I said yeah. He said, you 655 00:47:00,755 --> 00:47:02,875 Speaker 1: seem to think it's pretty funny, and from what I've 656 00:47:03,115 --> 00:47:06,075 Speaker 1: heard you describe it, it sounds like it's really really way 657 00:47:06,075 --> 00:47:08,635 Speaker 1: off the wall. I said, it's like nothing I've ever 658 00:47:08,635 --> 00:47:11,515 Speaker 1: seen before. You get a good sense of humor. Overman, 659 00:47:12,315 --> 00:47:14,075 Speaker 1: here's what I want you to do. You get to 660 00:47:14,315 --> 00:47:16,515 Speaker 1: the other guys together they watch too, right, And he 661 00:47:16,595 --> 00:47:18,515 Speaker 1: listed the guys who are also at the math wall 662 00:47:18,555 --> 00:47:21,315 Speaker 1: with me. He said, I want you guys to come 663 00:47:21,355 --> 00:47:24,715 Speaker 1: in a little early and decide which of the sketches 664 00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:29,075 Speaker 1: from the previous night's episode of Monny Bithen's Flying Circus. 665 00:47:29,115 --> 00:47:32,195 Speaker 1: Did you say which of them you can remember the best? 666 00:47:32,755 --> 00:47:35,675 Speaker 1: And I want you to reenact it for me before 667 00:47:35,715 --> 00:47:41,395 Speaker 1: class starts. I said, yes, sir, And for this you're 668 00:47:41,395 --> 00:47:46,355 Speaker 1: going to pass me yep and be quiet in my classroom, 669 00:47:47,555 --> 00:47:50,995 Speaker 1: no laughing, and certainly don't make any noise during the 670 00:47:51,035 --> 00:47:55,275 Speaker 1: exams when the students who haven't gone math brain dead 671 00:47:55,395 --> 00:47:58,715 Speaker 1: yet are still trying to get a's and get into 672 00:47:58,755 --> 00:48:03,155 Speaker 1: colleges of their choice. And I said, well that's I said, 673 00:48:03,155 --> 00:48:07,035 Speaker 1: that's that's terrific of you. Thank you, and he went, 674 00:48:07,995 --> 00:48:10,915 Speaker 1: I don't want anybody crying over math in my classroom. 675 00:48:10,955 --> 00:48:14,715 Speaker 1: I've already been through that enough with me. And that's 676 00:48:14,715 --> 00:48:19,035 Speaker 1: how it went the rest of the year. Three of us, 677 00:48:19,155 --> 00:48:22,955 Speaker 1: I think eventually there were four would assemble about ten 678 00:48:22,995 --> 00:48:28,635 Speaker 1: minutes before mister Murphy walked in and go through whatever 679 00:48:28,675 --> 00:48:30,995 Speaker 1: the best Monty Python sketch had been the night before, 680 00:48:31,435 --> 00:48:34,835 Speaker 1: and remember what we could, and each assumed some roles 681 00:48:34,995 --> 00:48:38,355 Speaker 1: and reenacted as best we could. I often filled in 682 00:48:38,435 --> 00:48:41,555 Speaker 1: the detail and did some of the voices. We did 683 00:48:41,555 --> 00:48:44,715 Speaker 1: a passable job. And each time, as our remember, Jerry 684 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:52,075 Speaker 1: Murphy actually laughed. And came graduation time, and before that 685 00:48:52,195 --> 00:48:55,035 Speaker 1: the final exams, and he handed the final exam, put 686 00:48:55,075 --> 00:48:57,275 Speaker 1: it down on the desk, on my desk and the 687 00:48:57,315 --> 00:49:00,435 Speaker 1: other guy's desks, and everybody else in the class just 688 00:49:00,595 --> 00:49:03,995 Speaker 1: laughed because they knew we were essentially morons who had 689 00:49:04,075 --> 00:49:07,195 Speaker 1: hit the math. It was not like he was protecting 690 00:49:07,275 --> 00:49:10,115 Speaker 1: us and saying, don't laugh at them. They've hit the 691 00:49:10,155 --> 00:49:12,555 Speaker 1: math wall. You may too soon hit the math wall. 692 00:49:12,675 --> 00:49:16,475 Speaker 1: He didn't say that. He went, look at these idiots, Well, 693 00:49:16,475 --> 00:49:20,435 Speaker 1: we're just going to let them sit there and sit 694 00:49:20,515 --> 00:49:22,875 Speaker 1: on their math accomplishments and whatever else they have to 695 00:49:22,915 --> 00:49:26,035 Speaker 1: sit on for the rest of this class, and then 696 00:49:26,075 --> 00:49:28,395 Speaker 1: we do another Monty Python sketch and that would be 697 00:49:28,395 --> 00:49:30,915 Speaker 1: the end of it. Now, the end of it for 698 00:49:31,035 --> 00:49:32,875 Speaker 1: me was, as I think I have recounted a couple 699 00:49:32,955 --> 00:49:35,715 Speaker 1: of times. Because I took the class pass fail rather 700 00:49:35,755 --> 00:49:38,235 Speaker 1: than what would have happened, which would have been an F. 701 00:49:39,355 --> 00:49:43,715 Speaker 1: Number one, my grade point average soared. I did not 702 00:49:43,835 --> 00:49:46,875 Speaker 1: get a C or a B in math. I got 703 00:49:47,035 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: a pass, which did not count towards your grade point average. 704 00:49:50,115 --> 00:49:52,835 Speaker 1: Thus my grade point average probably went up. I don't 705 00:49:52,835 --> 00:49:58,075 Speaker 1: know point two something. I made the list of the 706 00:49:58,395 --> 00:50:02,355 Speaker 1: kum Laude Society top ten percent of the graduates of 707 00:50:02,395 --> 00:50:04,315 Speaker 1: the class had no business being in it. I hit 708 00:50:04,355 --> 00:50:09,675 Speaker 1: the math wall. In another world, I would have failed, 709 00:50:09,875 --> 00:50:11,715 Speaker 1: and they would have made me come back for another 710 00:50:11,755 --> 00:50:15,915 Speaker 1: senior year just for the math class. With a different teacher, 711 00:50:16,635 --> 00:50:19,555 Speaker 1: and then I would have failed again and again and again, 712 00:50:19,635 --> 00:50:21,555 Speaker 1: and so far we're up to nineteen eighty one, and 713 00:50:21,595 --> 00:50:24,115 Speaker 1: again and again and again. Now it's nineteen ninety seven. 714 00:50:24,475 --> 00:50:27,915 Speaker 1: I'm still a senior at Hackley School in Terrytown, New York, 715 00:50:29,115 --> 00:50:31,595 Speaker 1: and I am preparing now to go back for year 716 00:50:31,675 --> 00:50:35,155 Speaker 1: fifty one, the twenty twenty five twenty six academic year. 717 00:50:38,315 --> 00:50:44,075 Speaker 1: But for Jerry Murphy, he did much more than that. 718 00:50:44,115 --> 00:50:46,115 Speaker 1: I don't want to reduce his life to an active 719 00:50:46,235 --> 00:50:52,515 Speaker 1: kindness towards students in a time when that wasn't necessarily 720 00:50:52,555 --> 00:50:56,075 Speaker 1: approved of, even at a good school like Hackley. But 721 00:50:56,115 --> 00:50:58,755 Speaker 1: it occurs to me as I now look back at 722 00:50:58,755 --> 00:51:02,195 Speaker 1: these teachers, almost all of whom I think are gone now. 723 00:51:02,915 --> 00:51:05,595 Speaker 1: Jerry was one of the youngest, but all the others 724 00:51:05,915 --> 00:51:09,875 Speaker 1: who taught me, including the fierce ones and the ones 725 00:51:09,875 --> 00:51:13,355 Speaker 1: who had reputations as dictators in their classrooms, and Arthur 726 00:51:13,515 --> 00:51:18,715 Speaker 1: Nathing and Walter Schneller and Randy McNaughton and Rusty McMullen 727 00:51:19,155 --> 00:51:21,915 Speaker 1: and LM. A. Miller and all of them, and I 728 00:51:21,995 --> 00:51:26,395 Speaker 1: realized that they shared one fundamental element in common when 729 00:51:26,555 --> 00:51:30,475 Speaker 1: Jerry Murphy had it in spades. They were human beings 730 00:51:30,475 --> 00:51:35,675 Speaker 1: with empathy. They were good human beings. And the first 731 00:51:35,755 --> 00:51:41,475 Speaker 1: line of Jerry Murphy's obituary should say Gerald C. Murphy, 732 00:51:42,595 --> 00:51:46,355 Speaker 1: who was a great human being who thought about others 733 00:51:46,395 --> 00:51:52,675 Speaker 1: and the plights that they faced, and whose empathy lighted 734 00:51:52,755 --> 00:51:58,515 Speaker 1: up his corner of the world has left us. Let 735 00:51:58,595 --> 00:52:03,355 Speaker 1: us be where we can as empathetic as he was. 736 00:52:04,675 --> 00:52:09,995 Speaker 1: Remember that there is always a math wall awaiting each 737 00:52:10,035 --> 00:52:15,275 Speaker 1: of us eventually, and if we're lucky, the person at 738 00:52:15,275 --> 00:52:19,115 Speaker 1: the math wall says, just go downstairs and switch it 739 00:52:19,195 --> 00:52:22,435 Speaker 1: to pass fail and do a Monty Python sketch too. 740 00:52:22,835 --> 00:52:25,275 Speaker 1: By the way, this isn't part of my plan, but 741 00:52:25,515 --> 00:52:28,915 Speaker 1: you'll get to learn how to perform other people's comedy. 742 00:52:29,595 --> 00:52:34,795 Speaker 1: Hadn't thought of that? Had you? See? You thought you 743 00:52:34,835 --> 00:52:38,355 Speaker 1: were just sort of filling time in my classroom. In fact, 744 00:52:38,355 --> 00:52:41,195 Speaker 1: you were learning a different skill, to say nothing of 745 00:52:41,235 --> 00:52:59,955 Speaker 1: the empathy. Thank you, Jerry Murphy. Countdown with Keith Olderman 746 00:53:00,115 --> 00:53:04,555 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 747 00:53:04,795 --> 00:53:08,755 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 748 00:53:08,795 --> 00:53:09,715 Speaker 1: your podcasts.