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

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Speaker 1: Newsom has reached his effort moments, and it might be

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Speaker 1: the moment we begin to save the democracy. The effort

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Speaker 1: moment I will explain presently, But first there is an

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Speaker 1: immediate and urgent question, and it is less what made

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom step up than step up even higher the

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Speaker 1: second time. It is more why haven't any other democratic

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Speaker 1: so called leaders followed Newsom over the top into no

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Speaker 1: man's land, even though he went first and discovered there

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Speaker 1: are oh about one hundred two hundred million Americans just

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Speaker 1: standing there waiting for somebody to lead them against Trump.

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Speaker 1: If you missed Newsom's effort speech, and trust me I did,

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Speaker 1: its only failure was its roll out. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: play the whole thing at the end of this first

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Speaker 1: segment because it was that good eight minutes of escalating

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Speaker 1: but still suppressed righteous indignation bordering on rage, eight minutes

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Speaker 1: building towards effet of which I think I am still

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Speaker 1: the official East Coast exclusive distributor. I think I know

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Speaker 1: my eight minute suppressed righteous indignation effort speeches, and that

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Speaker 1: one was outstanding. But consider the larger context. Newsom's emergence,

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Speaker 1: and this is a stupid analogy, but somehow it works,

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Speaker 1: was like a caterpillar emerging as a gigantic butterfly, a

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Speaker 1: butterfly equipped with nukes, a stealth bomber butterfly. And that

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Speaker 1: was just last Friday, with his threat to crash Trump

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Speaker 1: by withholding all of California's federal taxes, all six of

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Speaker 1: ninety two billion dollars worth, the economic civil war game ender.

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Speaker 1: I've been advocating out here in the wilderness for a decade. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I have an idea. Only then the stealth bomber butterfly says, wait,

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Speaker 1: I'm not finished yet, and he goes back inside the

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Speaker 1: cocoon for a minute, and he comes out even larger

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Speaker 1: with more nukes. And now he is the resistance. He

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Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party. He is the hope to save America.

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Speaker 1: All of what has been missing in a Democratic party

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Speaker 1: to B. All of that that is missing, the rest

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Speaker 1: of the alphabet has somehow wound up in Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 1: A week ago, Gavin Newsom was posting a podcast in

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Speaker 1: which he interviewed seriously quote doctor, unquote Phil McGraw, doctor

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Speaker 1: Phil a week ago, Phil, who then rode along on

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Speaker 1: the ice Gestapo raids of civilians here in America a

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Speaker 1: week ago Gavin Newsom was platforming him. June four, glad

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Speaker 1: Hand interview that utter fraud Phil McGraw, after glad Hand

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Speaker 1: interviewing Gingrich, Michael Savage, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Effing Bannon.

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Speaker 1: Steve Effing Bannon June six, respond to Trump's threats to

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Speaker 1: kneecap California by threatening to lead a tax strike by itself,

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Speaker 1: the most liberal, progressive in your faced political protest proposed

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Speaker 1: in this century. June seven, June eight, June nine, come

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Speaker 1: back and top it, top the tax strike with calling

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Speaker 1: the bluff of these Halloween mask bullies like this idiot

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Speaker 1: dementia Jay Trump and Tom Homan, who's really tough now

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Speaker 1: that he has appeared. Then June ten, give this speech.

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Speaker 1: That's a hell of a week, Gavin. As an aside,

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Speaker 1: I cannot fathom a faster reversal, a faster steer out

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Speaker 1: from the both sides is let's negotiate with the Nazis.

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Speaker 1: Kumbay a bullshit skid than the one that constituted Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom's last week, nor a more successful one, nor a

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Speaker 1: more important one. As a second aside, I don't care

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Speaker 1: if the podcast and the both sides is bullshit where

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Speaker 1: political calculations or the tax strike idea is a political calculation,

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Speaker 1: or the speech is a political calculation, or the whole

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Speaker 1: thing is a political calculation. About twenty twenty eight, I

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Speaker 1: don't care to quote Lincoln about General Grant. I can't

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Speaker 1: spare this man. He fights and again. It's not as

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Speaker 1: if what he did was the daffy duck. First, drink

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Speaker 1: some nitroglycerin, a goodly amount of gunpowder, some uranium two

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Speaker 1: thirty eight, shake well, strike an ordinary match, and girls,

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Speaker 1: you'd better hold on near boyfriends. It's that Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: in five days did more practical damage to Trump, and

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Speaker 1: even more importantly, gave more practical encouragement to Democrats, big

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Speaker 1: D Democrats and small D Democrats alike, and our allies

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Speaker 1: and our friends around the world. He did more good

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Speaker 1: than the rest of the zombie Democratic Party has done

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Speaker 1: since Joe Biden was elected. That reality that the playing

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Speaker 1: field wasn't just tilted or stricken or empty, but completely

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Speaker 1: denuded of everything plays its part. Nothing makes you stand

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Speaker 1: out better, Nothing makes your courage an A plus, even

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Speaker 1: if it might really only be a B minus in

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Speaker 1: other circumstances. Nothing makes that stand out if there is

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Speaker 1: only a blank canvas behind you. Obama on Trump's dismantling

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Speaker 1: of democracy, Well, he put out a couple of tweets

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Speaker 1: defending Obamacare. Chuck Schumer, He's convinced Trump will destroy himself

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Speaker 1: and has apparently taken a year long vow of silence.

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. You can tell me you had forgotten about

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, hadn't you? I had Hillary Clinton a couple

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Speaker 1: of passable one liners. Pete boutajeedge Oh, he grew a

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure which, Josh Shapiro. The exception to this,

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Speaker 1: of course, is Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, who

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Speaker 1: good f at fight. But unlike Newsome, they bluntly were

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Speaker 1: not simultaneously blessed and cursed by the politician's worst enemy

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Speaker 1: and his best friend. Events you can't threaten to cut

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Speaker 1: off Trump's money genitals if he doesn't threaten yours first,

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Speaker 1: and you can't dare his himmler to arrest you, if

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Speaker 1: he doesn't threaten to arrest you, and you can't give

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Speaker 1: a speech condemning Trump if you aren't his target, and

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Speaker 1: you can't do any of that without the heft or

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Speaker 1: of that moment's storm. On the other hand, you can't

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Speaker 1: be any of those things if you are Chuck Schumer, useless, unimaginative,

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Speaker 1: self interested, insisted it is still really nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 1: We're just going to get back to normal, and most

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Speaker 1: of all, inflexible. The background to Newsom's week was his

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Speaker 1: recognition that he had been going at the wrong speed,

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Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, on the wrong track. To get

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Speaker 1: to effort, you have to travel there first in your mind,

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Speaker 1: and you have to be willing to actually go there

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Speaker 1: and say, maybe maybe it's time to say the F word.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer is twenty five meetings with consultants and ten

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Speaker 1: as the general vicinity of nearly within a day's ride

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Speaker 1: of the suburbs of Effet. I think, I think you

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Speaker 1: cannot reach Effet utterly, insincerely. There may be self interested elements,

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Speaker 1: there may be scenarios of success you see as possibilities,

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Speaker 1: unlikely and remote ones, but you really have to at

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Speaker 1: least three quarters of the way realistically believe, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: get fired, arrested, renditioned, disappeared, or perhaps the worst scenario

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Speaker 1: you say it, doctor Phil won't come back for a

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Speaker 1: suddenly Charles de Gaulle and George Washington and Admiral Dan

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Speaker 1: the Torpedoes full speed ahead. Farragut historical trivia. When Admiral

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Speaker 1: he was living in Hastings on Hudson, New York, much

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Speaker 1: That is your effet moment. My only true frame of

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Speaker 1: own small effort moment. I had done commentaries, I had

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Speaker 1: grown increasingly anti Bush, and then one day I read

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Speaker 1: something Donald Rumsfeldt said about us. His critics, Bush's critics,

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Speaker 1: IRAQS critics said we were suffering from quote moral or

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Speaker 1: fully expected the commentary I wrote would get me fired.

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Speaker 1: Instead it got me double the audience, and then there

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Speaker 1: bought me five years of room to do such commentaries

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Speaker 1: before NBC found a more unprincipled and easier way to

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Speaker 1: Do not undervalue what Governor Newsom has done just the speech.

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Speaker 1: John Kerry told me that that rumsfeld commentary from two

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Speaker 1: What did that say about the Democrats who should have

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Speaker 1: And then, by the way, just in case the hole

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Speaker 1: even Schumer could. And the lesson from what Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: the lesson that clearly has guided Gavin Newsom, the one

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Speaker 1: Practically speaking, the LA disturbances. After Trump's terrorist attack, his

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Speaker 1: When Mayor Karen Bass had her own effort moment and

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Speaker 1: the arrests Tuesday were really like this. You're arrested. Now

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Speaker 1: had been imposed, per local all news radio my alma

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Speaker 1: an underrated thing, she says. A cordon of officers then

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Speaker 4: on division because it allows them to take more power

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Speaker 4: and exert even more control. And by the way, Trump,

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Speaker 4: he's not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as

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Speaker 4: it serves him. What more evidence do we need than

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Speaker 4: January sixth, ask everyone take time reflect on this perilous moment.

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Speaker 4: A president who wants to be bound by no law

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Speaker 4: or constitution perpetuating a unified assault on American traditions. This

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Speaker 4: is a president who, in just over one hundred and

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Speaker 4: forty days has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable,

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Speaker 4: accountable for corrupt and fraud. He's declared a war, a

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Speaker 4: war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself.

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Speaker 4: Databases quite literally are vanishing. He's delegitimizing news organizations, and

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Speaker 4: he's assaulting the First Amendment and the threat of defunding

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Speaker 4: them at threat. He's dictating what universities themselves can teach.

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Speaker 4: He's targeting law firms and the judicial brands that are

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Speaker 4: the foundations of an orderly in civil society. He's calling

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Speaker 4: for a sitting governor to be arrested for no other

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Speaker 4: reason than to, in his own words, for getting elected.

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Speaker 4: And we all know this Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes,

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Speaker 4: the United States military and forcing them to put on

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Speaker 4: a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other

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Speaker 4: failed dictators have done in the past. Look, this isn't

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Speaker 4: just about protests here in Los Angeles. When Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: sought blanket authority to commandeer the Nawational Guard, he made

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Speaker 4: that order apply to every state in this nation. This

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Speaker 4: is about all of us. This is about you. California

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Speaker 4: maybe first, but it clearly will not end here. Other

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Speaker 4: states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault

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Speaker 4: before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.

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Speaker 4: He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our

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Speaker 4: founding father's historic project, three co equal branches of independent government.

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Speaker 4: They are no longer any checks and balances. Congress is

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Speaker 4: nowhere to be found. Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility.

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Speaker 4: The rule of law has increasingly been given way to

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Speaker 4: the rule of Don the founding fathers. They didn't lived

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Speaker 4: and died to see this kind of moment. It's time

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Speaker 4: for all of us to stand up. Justice Brandeis he

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Speaker 4: said it best. In a democracy, the most important office,

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Speaker 4: with all due respect, mister president, is not the president Andy,

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Speaker 4: and it's certainly not governor. The most important office is

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Speaker 4: office of citizen. At this moment, at this moment, we

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Speaker 4: all need to stand up and be held to account

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Speaker 4: a higher level of accountability. If you exercise your First

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Speaker 4: Amendment rights, please please do it peacefully. I know many

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Speaker 4: of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress and fear, but

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Speaker 4: I want you to know that you are the antidote

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Speaker 4: to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants

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Speaker 4: most is your fealty, your silence to be complicit in

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Speaker 4: this moment. Do not give in to him.

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Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead on this

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Speaker 1: editionive Countdown. Yesterday was the anniversary of the day he

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Speaker 1: chose me, the third anniversary of that day. The day

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Speaker 1: before it was World Pet Memorial Day. As if you

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Speaker 1: needed a special day to remember the animals who have

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Speaker 1: blessed and then left your life, or as if there

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Speaker 1: should be only one such day. Good news. In fact,

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Speaker 1: there is a National Pet Memorial Day in September as well,

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Speaker 1: so this seems like the perfect time to remember again

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Speaker 1: the life of an extraordinary little dog cared for but

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Speaker 1: given up on because he had dementia or a stroke

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Speaker 1: And it happens then and then his life turned around,

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Speaker 1: and for its last two years he was a puppy

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Speaker 1: again who spent much of his day literally jumping for joy,

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Speaker 1: and I was fortunate enough to be there with him.

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Speaker 1: Let me share with you this extraordinary guy, Minae and

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Speaker 1: his just extraordinary passing on an unforgettable Sunday in July

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Speaker 1: of last year for World Pet Memorial Day and mine

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Speaker 1: gotcha day, le mote deminee coming up first. Believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.

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Speaker 1: The roundups of the miscrants, morons and doun in Kruger

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Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's other worse persons in the world,

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Speaker 1: the brons worse Senator Kevin Kramer of North Dakota. There

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Speaker 1: are degrees of the devils who are infected with Maga disease.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to believe, but Senator Josh you

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Speaker 1: go girl, January sixth, Insurrectionists Hawley wants the federal minimum salary,

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Speaker 1: the hourly wage raised to fifteen dollars an hour. It

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Speaker 1: has been at less than half. It has been at

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Speaker 1: seven dollars and twenty five cents since nineteen ten. I

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Speaker 1: think just a guess. So naturally, Senator Hawley had to

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Speaker 1: get brushed back on Fox by another Republican Senator Kramer,

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Speaker 1: who is, of course worse. Quote from Kramer, I don't

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Speaker 1: even know why we have a federal minimal wage. To

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Speaker 1: be honest, I think the market works really well. I

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Speaker 1: just think manipulating markets with mandatory wages doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? All right?

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Speaker 1: The last part of the quote was actually Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Speaker 1: But mister Kramer cannot conceive that the purpose of a

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Speaker 1: minimum wage is not to facilitate business, which is what

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Speaker 1: it sounds like. He thinks it's there for it's there

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Speaker 1: so people, can, you know, eat and live inside. Mister

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Speaker 1: Kramer himself has never actually worked for a living. Out

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Speaker 1: of grad school, he began to work for and then

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Speaker 1: manage political campaigns. He became chairman of the North Dakota

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Speaker 1: State Republican Party in nineteen ninety one, the youngest ever

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Speaker 1: to do it. And the only thing worse than being

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Speaker 1: chairman of the North Dakota State Republican Party is not

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Speaker 1: being chairman of the North Dakota State Republican Party age thirty.

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Speaker 1: That means he stopped doing any work the day after

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Speaker 1: his appointment in age thirty. So since then, Kevin Kramer

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Speaker 1: has managed to lose a string of elections for the

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives spanning two centuries. Finally, after sixteen years

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Speaker 1: of failure, he was elected in twenty twelve, and then

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Speaker 1: he made the Senate in twenty eighteen, where he is

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Speaker 1: now a prostitute. So of course he doesn't even know

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Speaker 1: why we have a federal minimum wage or minimum wage.

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Speaker 1: He's never had a job. He's a lifelong politician and

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Speaker 1: thus of no value to anyone. On top of which

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Speaker 1: he's a North Dakota politician. Nothing against North Dakota, but

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Speaker 1: the politicians there. Yeah, the runner up worser Tulsey Gabbard

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Speaker 1: speaking of being of no value to anyone, The Director

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Speaker 1: of National utter lack of intelligence. You know, skunkhead. For

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Speaker 1: some reason, Telsey Gabbard has decided to waste an unannounced

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Speaker 1: amount of taxpayer money on a kind of semi religious

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Speaker 1: snuff film about atomic war to scare everybody to argue

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Speaker 1: against Iran having nuclear camp I would It's not clear.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense whatsoever. Maybe to her in it

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Speaker 1: she included one of the great pieces of bullshit ever designed,

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Speaker 1: the one designed long ago to satisfy morons like well,

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Speaker 1: like Telsey Gabbard. It's the idea that there are underground

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Speaker 1: bunkers so that the rich they can survive nuclear war.

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Speaker 1: So they're in favor of it for some reason because

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Speaker 1: property values will go up, or they never get around

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Speaker 1: to the reason why the elites want to have a

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Speaker 1: nuclear war.

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Speaker 3: Political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear intensions between

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Speaker 3: nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because they are confident that they

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Speaker 3: will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for

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Speaker 3: their families that regular people won't have access to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, tell us. If you aren't killed by the

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Speaker 1: impact of an ICBM or a nuclear blast, no matter

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Speaker 1: how close it was to you, or by the radiation

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Speaker 1: making its through way anyway into your bunker. You would

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Speaker 1: be stuck underground in your bunker for quite a few

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Speaker 1: decades till the radiation died down. In fact, you'd be

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Speaker 1: stuck there long past your own demise, and the children

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Speaker 1: you had would never have seen the sun. That's the point, Telsey.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing to survive, nothing to return to, and there

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Speaker 1: are no elites with secret bunkers designed to let them

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Speaker 1: pop back out next week. The only secret, large empty

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Speaker 1: bunkers are the ones between your ears. Dipshit, but the

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Speaker 1: winner worst. Jake Tapper of CNN, you may recall as

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Speaker 1: much as Bob Eiger and the whoores at Disney and

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Speaker 1: ABC News want you to forget that. ABC News suspended

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Speaker 1: their veteran reporter Terry Moran, who actually confronted Trump in

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Speaker 1: an interview just weeks ago. After Terry then wrote a clearheaded, calm,

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Speaker 1: how Donald Trump hates and how Stephen Miller hates. They

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Speaker 1: said he was suspended for editorial and whatever. They suspended

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Speaker 1: him because he called Trump and Miller what they are.

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Speaker 1: And Eiger doesn't want this. He's still trying to bribe

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Speaker 1: and appease Trump. Miran could easily remain suspended for ever.

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Speaker 1: ABC wants this to go away. ABC wants Terry Moran

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Speaker 1: to go away because the White House, which sells itself

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Speaker 1: on hatred and rage and revenge, is inexplicably objecting to

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Speaker 1: an incident in which a real news organization points this out,

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Speaker 1: objecting when a Terry Moran points out what Trump and

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Speaker 1: Miller feed themselves and their cult on what fuels their

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Speaker 1: monstrous attempt to overthrow our form of government. What they

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Speaker 1: boast about. The whole point of MAGA is the cruelty

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Speaker 1: and the hatred. Seems to me they should have pulled

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Speaker 1: lines from Terry Moran's tweet, like movie publicists who still

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Speaker 1: poll lines from good reviews and stick them on the

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Speaker 1: ads for the movies. Steven Miller is a hater Terry Moran,

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Speaker 1: ABC News. In any event, Terry Moran's fate is made

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Speaker 1: still more curious by the fact that an identical, albeit

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Speaker 1: briefer transgression of whatever rule ABC just made up that

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Speaker 1: they think Terry Moran transgressed, was also transgressed by Jake Tapper, who,

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Speaker 1: in the year's time since the Biden debate, has destroyed

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Speaker 1: his career and sent his reputation plummeting to Joe Scarborough

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Speaker 1: levels of non credibility and non relevance. I just don't

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Speaker 1: understand why CNN has not suspended Jake Tapper. If Moran

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Speaker 1: strayed into political opinion? What is this? Fox News posts Fetterman.

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Speaker 1: That would be Senator Fetterman from Pennsylvania and the cannimate planet.

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Speaker 1: Fetterman calls out quote anarchy in LA, noting that DEM's

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Speaker 1: forfeit moral high ground by failing to decry violence. This

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Speaker 1: was retweeted by Jonah Goldberg. Among other things, is the

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Speaker 1: daughter of the woman who was behind the Clinton Lewinsky scandal.

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Speaker 1: Jonah is proved to be kind of acceptable over the years.

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Speaker 1: His mother was a witch. Jonah Goldberg. Sometimes I think

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Speaker 1: Fetterman is the only Democrat who gets what annoys so

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Speaker 1: many people about Democrats. This all the retweet is now

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Speaker 1: reposted retweeted by Jake Tapper. There it is Jake Tapper

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Speaker 1: and his logo. I guess this is an American ball

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Speaker 1: to you go. It might be a profile of Jake's head.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Jake Tapper reposted Jonah Goldberg reposting Fox

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Speaker 1: News quoting fedri So, this is reposted by Jake Tapper,

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Speaker 1: So it's political opinion by Senator Fetterman, posted by an

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Speaker 1: opinion network called Fox. Reposted by a political opinion writer

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Speaker 1: named Jonah Goldberg, re reposted by Jake Tapper, who isn't

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Speaker 1: supposed to do opinion, He's just supposed to do the news.

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Speaker 1: He boasts that he doesn't do opinion, He condescends, towards

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Speaker 1: and insults everybody who does do opinion, and yet here

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Speaker 1: he is posting an opinion. Why hasn't Jake Tapper been

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Speaker 1: suspended by CNN for that matter, after his journalistic malpractice

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Speaker 1: over Biden and over the sales of his own Biden book.

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Speaker 1: Why hasn't Jake Tapper been fired? The only thing I

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Speaker 1: can figure is the best punishment for somebody who transgresses

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Speaker 1: its CNN is to make them work more at CNN. Jake,

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Speaker 1: by the way, his Twitter account does not say retweets

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Speaker 1: do not equal endorsements. That's why you have that saying

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Speaker 1: in their Tapper two days other worst person end I

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Speaker 1: have joked previously, but contained within that joke is a

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Speaker 1: very sincere thought I would pay sometimes, I say five

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: see a full length documentary program about the first fifteen

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Speaker 1: years of MiNet German Olderman's life. I know he was

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Speaker 1: born in New York on July fifteenth, two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: and that you helped me celebrate his seventeenth birthday just

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Speaker 1: a week and a day ago. And until I encountered

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Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty two, I knew nothing of him,

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Speaker 1: and all the records, all the anecdotes, almost all of

637
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Speaker 1: the verbal stories are gone because his human got sick

638
00:46:28,795 --> 00:46:32,795
Speaker 1: and sicker and began to lose much of her cognitive

639
00:46:32,835 --> 00:46:36,155
Speaker 1: function and declined and one day went to the hospital

640
00:46:36,195 --> 00:46:38,875
Speaker 1: and did not come back, and had made no arrangements

641
00:46:39,315 --> 00:46:42,035
Speaker 1: for what was to happen to Mene and other dogs.

642
00:46:42,675 --> 00:46:45,755
Speaker 1: She had at least two Malteses. We don't know what

643
00:46:45,875 --> 00:46:50,195
Speaker 1: happened to them. I've heard stories that suggested they were

644
00:46:50,275 --> 00:46:52,755
Speaker 1: left to fend for their own in an apartment for

645
00:46:52,795 --> 00:46:56,995
Speaker 1: a while. Happily, I know that the neighbor and a

646
00:46:56,995 --> 00:47:00,675
Speaker 1: former student of messer Man who taught French, a man

647
00:47:00,755 --> 00:47:04,595
Speaker 1: named Keith Peterson, came across Menee and knew of me

648
00:47:04,875 --> 00:47:08,195
Speaker 1: from the neighborhood and from his teacher and knew she

649
00:47:08,275 --> 00:47:10,275
Speaker 1: had gone away, and wondered what happened to the dogs,

650
00:47:10,315 --> 00:47:13,395
Speaker 1: and he began to feed them. And he was prepared

651
00:47:13,475 --> 00:47:16,835
Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty two to adopt me Nee.

652
00:47:17,315 --> 00:47:19,635
Speaker 1: And then something changed in his life and he was

653
00:47:19,675 --> 00:47:23,275
Speaker 1: going to be traveling once a month or so, perhaps

654
00:47:23,355 --> 00:47:26,995
Speaker 1: more often, and the whole premise fell through. In addition

655
00:47:27,075 --> 00:47:30,195
Speaker 1: to the fact that he recognized that mine was not well,

656
00:47:30,315 --> 00:47:32,875
Speaker 1: something had happened to him. He kept bumping into things,

657
00:47:32,875 --> 00:47:35,675
Speaker 1: he didn't walk correctly, his back looked a little crooked.

658
00:47:35,755 --> 00:47:38,995
Speaker 1: It looked like something bad had happened to him neurologically,

659
00:47:39,195 --> 00:47:41,555
Speaker 1: and he did not know what would be next or

660
00:47:41,595 --> 00:47:44,475
Speaker 1: if he could care for me Nee. So he went

661
00:47:44,515 --> 00:47:48,075
Speaker 1: looking for an organization that might take care of Maltese.

662
00:47:48,115 --> 00:47:51,355
Speaker 1: Is there must be some sort of Maltese rescue association? Well,

663
00:47:51,355 --> 00:47:54,235
Speaker 1: there are two of them. One the one I would

664
00:47:54,275 --> 00:47:58,875
Speaker 1: recommend to you is American Maltese Association Rescue. It is

665
00:47:58,995 --> 00:48:01,515
Speaker 1: run by a dear friend of mine named Sue Levitt,

666
00:48:02,195 --> 00:48:06,515
Speaker 1: and we take care of MALTI That's where I got

667
00:48:06,555 --> 00:48:09,515
Speaker 1: my little boy Ted, who had a very bad heart

668
00:48:10,035 --> 00:48:12,795
Speaker 1: and was not really believed to be a likely candidate

669
00:48:12,835 --> 00:48:15,315
Speaker 1: to last ten months and Ted just turned six years old.

670
00:48:16,195 --> 00:48:19,435
Speaker 1: And where we got Mishu, whose story I've told you before,

671
00:48:19,435 --> 00:48:23,915
Speaker 1: who had tetrology of fullow, a disease barely treatable in

672
00:48:24,035 --> 00:48:27,075
Speaker 1: large dogs, let alone four or five pound malteses. And

673
00:48:27,155 --> 00:48:31,635
Speaker 1: he had a brilliant, happy brief life. And he died

674
00:48:31,635 --> 00:48:33,515
Speaker 1: in my arms at five and a half months old.

675
00:48:33,795 --> 00:48:36,755
Speaker 1: And that happened in November of twenty twenty one, which

676
00:48:36,795 --> 00:48:40,435
Speaker 1: is when I discovered I could handle four dogs at

677
00:48:40,435 --> 00:48:42,155
Speaker 1: the same time. And again I didn't have a dog

678
00:48:42,195 --> 00:48:46,635
Speaker 1: in my life until twenty twelve. I didn't know when

679
00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:49,435
Speaker 1: I broke up with my girlfriend in twenty fifteen if

680
00:48:49,435 --> 00:48:51,715
Speaker 1: I could take care of two dogs by myself. And

681
00:48:51,755 --> 00:48:55,835
Speaker 1: suddenly I had four, including one who was a hospice puppy.

682
00:48:56,075 --> 00:48:59,235
Speaker 1: So after that I was offered by the people who

683
00:48:59,395 --> 00:49:07,235
Speaker 1: had bred Mishu one of his brothers from a late litter,

684
00:49:08,155 --> 00:49:11,955
Speaker 1: and they came in here and they were monsters. Mishu

685
00:49:12,235 --> 00:49:14,875
Speaker 1: was a wonderful dog who liked to start fights, had

686
00:49:14,915 --> 00:49:17,915
Speaker 1: no energy, couldn't really oxygen eight he couldn't he could

687
00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:20,475
Speaker 1: breathe fine, He just could not. Once the oxygen got

688
00:49:20,475 --> 00:49:24,195
Speaker 1: into his bloodstream, he could not pass it anywhere around

689
00:49:24,195 --> 00:49:26,955
Speaker 1: his body or insufficiently, so he would start fights and

690
00:49:26,995 --> 00:49:29,315
Speaker 1: then sit back and watch the other dogs fight. On

691
00:49:29,355 --> 00:49:32,155
Speaker 1: the other hand, he also was communal. He brought the

692
00:49:32,195 --> 00:49:35,555
Speaker 1: dogs together literally and figuratively. He was a lovely boy,

693
00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:40,515
Speaker 1: and he just didn't live very long. But I was

694
00:49:40,555 --> 00:49:42,515
Speaker 1: offered his brothers. And his brothers had all the strength

695
00:49:42,515 --> 00:49:45,115
Speaker 1: in the world, and they were like something out of

696
00:49:45,155 --> 00:49:49,035
Speaker 1: a horror film. They could climb up walls. The first

697
00:49:49,035 --> 00:49:53,315
Speaker 1: one bit me, bit each of the other dogs, then

698
00:49:53,395 --> 00:49:55,915
Speaker 1: came back and bit us all in the genitals. The

699
00:49:55,955 --> 00:49:58,835
Speaker 1: next one was trouble. He was able to climb up

700
00:49:58,875 --> 00:50:02,035
Speaker 1: out of his cage. He had the most beautiful marbles

701
00:50:02,755 --> 00:50:06,835
Speaker 1: like blue eyes ever seen on a dog, and he

702
00:50:06,915 --> 00:50:11,275
Speaker 1: was a silent killer. These two dogs later found homes

703
00:50:11,355 --> 00:50:14,395
Speaker 1: in which they were either the only male or the

704
00:50:14,395 --> 00:50:16,875
Speaker 1: only dog, and they have had happy lives ever since.

705
00:50:17,955 --> 00:50:20,995
Speaker 1: They did not have the same heart disease that felled

706
00:50:21,035 --> 00:50:24,795
Speaker 1: poor Misho. In any event. After Mishu's passing and after

707
00:50:24,835 --> 00:50:31,555
Speaker 1: the failed two weeks with Kubush and Snowy, Mishu's brothers

708
00:50:32,355 --> 00:50:34,635
Speaker 1: there were three of us again here in the household,

709
00:50:35,235 --> 00:50:39,595
Speaker 1: three dogs and me. They're human. And one day my

710
00:50:39,675 --> 00:50:41,675
Speaker 1: friend Sue Levitt texted me and said, we've got a

711
00:50:41,755 --> 00:50:44,475
Speaker 1: terrible case. We had a woman in Hell's kitchen and

712
00:50:44,515 --> 00:50:46,635
Speaker 1: she died in her eighties and she didn't take care

713
00:50:46,635 --> 00:50:49,635
Speaker 1: of the dogs. And there's one dog left. And I mean,

714
00:50:49,675 --> 00:50:52,755
Speaker 1: he's fourteen, and he has dementia and he has bad teeth,

715
00:50:52,795 --> 00:50:54,835
Speaker 1: and who's going to adopt that? And I sent back

716
00:50:54,835 --> 00:50:59,435
Speaker 1: the raised hand emoji, because you know, as I've said previously,

717
00:50:59,955 --> 00:51:02,035
Speaker 1: you don't know till you have a dog that the

718
00:51:02,115 --> 00:51:04,515
Speaker 1: answer to the question what is the meaning of life?

719
00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:08,235
Speaker 1: Is not fully answered by the word dogs, but it's

720
00:51:08,275 --> 00:51:13,995
Speaker 1: partially answered by that word. One of the reasons of life,

721
00:51:14,795 --> 00:51:17,075
Speaker 1: one of the reasons for life, one of the reasons

722
00:51:17,075 --> 00:51:19,315
Speaker 1: for putting up with life, one of the reasons for

723
00:51:19,395 --> 00:51:22,875
Speaker 1: putting up with other humans is dogs. And honestly, the

724
00:51:22,915 --> 00:51:26,555
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of in the column of

725
00:51:26,595 --> 00:51:29,715
Speaker 1: what's good about mankind is we've lots of us taken

726
00:51:29,755 --> 00:51:33,235
Speaker 1: care of dogs and other pets too. Other than that,

727
00:51:33,635 --> 00:51:36,235
Speaker 1: I don't know what purpose we have. Other than that,

728
00:51:36,355 --> 00:51:38,635
Speaker 1: I don't know what good, what net good we have

729
00:51:38,715 --> 00:51:41,715
Speaker 1: done this planet, or where we would fit into some

730
00:51:41,755 --> 00:51:46,075
Speaker 1: sort of scheme, whether it is intentional, created or accidental.

731
00:51:46,435 --> 00:51:49,275
Speaker 1: The through line to all the theories about why we

732
00:51:49,315 --> 00:51:54,275
Speaker 1: are on Earth, from atheism to the most pure religious

733
00:51:54,835 --> 00:52:00,795
Speaker 1: doctrinaire theories, all have this one through line. As the

734
00:52:00,835 --> 00:52:03,195
Speaker 1: Great Bill Hicks said, people suck. I can prove it

735
00:52:03,235 --> 00:52:07,955
Speaker 1: on an etche sketch. In any event, I'm meandering on

736
00:52:07,995 --> 00:52:10,875
Speaker 1: this to try to avoid the topic of poor Mine.

737
00:52:11,675 --> 00:52:15,755
Speaker 1: So I raised my hand and the warning was Mine

738
00:52:15,995 --> 00:52:19,515
Speaker 1: is not going to interact with you. Something happened to him.

739
00:52:19,595 --> 00:52:22,595
Speaker 1: He has dementia. He really doesn't know where he is.

740
00:52:23,115 --> 00:52:27,915
Speaker 1: He's okay outside, but he's really confused. His human went

741
00:52:27,955 --> 00:52:31,555
Speaker 1: away after fourteen nearly fifteen years, and he doesn't know

742
00:52:31,595 --> 00:52:35,435
Speaker 1: what happened to her. And Maltese is particularly attached to

743
00:52:35,555 --> 00:52:39,595
Speaker 1: one human for life, and if something happens to that human,

744
00:52:40,675 --> 00:52:44,435
Speaker 1: something will happen to the Maltese. So came a day

745
00:52:44,595 --> 00:52:51,995
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty two when Keith Peterson brought Mine.

746
00:52:52,235 --> 00:52:55,435
Speaker 1: And it's a French name, m I n et. It

747
00:52:55,595 --> 00:53:00,115
Speaker 1: means kitty in French colloquial French. Mine is kitty and

748
00:53:00,155 --> 00:53:02,835
Speaker 1: as I said, right then, this must have led to

749
00:53:02,915 --> 00:53:06,235
Speaker 1: extraordinary confusion in his first fifteen years. Something else to

750
00:53:06,235 --> 00:53:10,795
Speaker 1: put in the documentary. Me Nay and Keith Peterson and

751
00:53:10,795 --> 00:53:15,315
Speaker 1: I met up outside one of the entryways into Central Park,

752
00:53:15,675 --> 00:53:17,715
Speaker 1: and I picked me May up and sat him on

753
00:53:17,755 --> 00:53:21,195
Speaker 1: my lap and noticed two things. One was his teeth

754
00:53:21,715 --> 00:53:25,355
Speaker 1: smelled from a distance from feet they were so bad

755
00:53:25,395 --> 00:53:30,755
Speaker 1: away from feet away, his teeth smelled. He was a

756
00:53:30,995 --> 00:53:34,795
Speaker 1: thin dog, but not scary thin. He just was very,

757
00:53:34,955 --> 00:53:38,275
Speaker 1: very wiry. And he was standing there on my lap,

758
00:53:38,635 --> 00:53:40,795
Speaker 1: and he decided he didn't want to do that anymore,

759
00:53:40,835 --> 00:53:44,915
Speaker 1: so he leaped to the pavement. And I thought to myself,

760
00:53:45,035 --> 00:53:47,515
Speaker 1: let's not leave him up on places where he can leap,

761
00:53:47,555 --> 00:53:49,795
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have any idea when not to leap,

762
00:53:50,035 --> 00:53:53,115
Speaker 1: which proved to be another through line in his existence.

763
00:53:53,915 --> 00:53:58,315
Speaker 1: So fingers crossed and hoping to improve his lot for

764
00:53:58,395 --> 00:54:02,275
Speaker 1: however many months or years he had left, in came

765
00:54:02,355 --> 00:54:05,315
Speaker 1: me Nay to join the rest of my pupps. They

766
00:54:05,395 --> 00:54:07,675
Speaker 1: really didn't know what to make of him. They didn't

767
00:54:07,715 --> 00:54:11,075
Speaker 1: interact much. Mine did a lot of sleeping. He was,

768
00:54:11,235 --> 00:54:14,355
Speaker 1: after all, a month shy of his fifteenth birthday, and

769
00:54:14,435 --> 00:54:16,755
Speaker 1: not in good health, and the rest of the time

770
00:54:17,235 --> 00:54:23,835
Speaker 1: was heartbreaking. Minee walked around the house always, this could

771
00:54:23,875 --> 00:54:26,235
Speaker 1: be said of him. He did his steps, and he

772
00:54:26,315 --> 00:54:30,235
Speaker 1: hydrated a lot. He must have walked every day a

773
00:54:30,315 --> 00:54:34,515
Speaker 1: mile or two miles indoors, and sadly, when he got here,

774
00:54:35,115 --> 00:54:38,275
Speaker 1: you could have traced the pattern, having watched him do

775
00:54:38,355 --> 00:54:41,195
Speaker 1: it once or twice, exactly where he would walk in

776
00:54:41,235 --> 00:54:43,915
Speaker 1: my apartment, where he would bump into walls. And it

777
00:54:43,955 --> 00:54:46,715
Speaker 1: became pretty evident to me that he was retracing the

778
00:54:46,755 --> 00:54:52,155
Speaker 1: steps at Madame Germain's house. That he could not adjust

779
00:54:52,195 --> 00:54:55,155
Speaker 1: to a new apartment, he could not adjust to new walls.

780
00:54:55,635 --> 00:54:58,635
Speaker 1: The other dogs, well, there were other dogs, but they

781
00:54:58,635 --> 00:55:02,835
Speaker 1: weren't the right dogs. And then there was the smell

782
00:55:02,875 --> 00:55:06,595
Speaker 1: of his teeth. My vet came to look at him,

783
00:55:06,595 --> 00:55:09,275
Speaker 1: and mine slept a lot and didn't really interact. He

784
00:55:09,475 --> 00:55:15,635
Speaker 1: ate pretty well, he ate okay, And then my vet

785
00:55:15,675 --> 00:55:18,235
Speaker 1: came in and said, I'm looking at his teeth, and

786
00:55:18,275 --> 00:55:20,955
Speaker 1: some of these teeth are in such bad shape that

787
00:55:21,035 --> 00:55:25,475
Speaker 1: I'm afraid they will begin to infect his airways. There's

788
00:55:25,515 --> 00:55:28,515
Speaker 1: no sign of this spreading. His heart is great, his

789
00:55:28,515 --> 00:55:32,035
Speaker 1: heart is extraordinary for a fourteen to fifteen year old dog.

790
00:55:32,715 --> 00:55:34,675
Speaker 1: It would be a good heart for a six year

791
00:55:34,715 --> 00:55:37,395
Speaker 1: old dog or a six month old dog. He's got

792
00:55:37,395 --> 00:55:41,675
Speaker 1: a strong ticker. He's going to live a while, but

793
00:55:41,755 --> 00:55:43,875
Speaker 1: these teeth will kill him if you don't do something

794
00:55:43,875 --> 00:55:46,275
Speaker 1: about it. I think you need to get a hold

795
00:55:46,315 --> 00:55:51,875
Speaker 1: to day of the veterinary dentists, the dental experts at

796
00:55:51,875 --> 00:55:54,955
Speaker 1: the Animal medical Center. In the interim. I think I

797
00:55:54,995 --> 00:55:57,315
Speaker 1: can take a few of these teeth out right now

798
00:55:57,515 --> 00:56:02,755
Speaker 1: with a little topical and maybe just my fingers. I've

799
00:56:02,755 --> 00:56:04,475
Speaker 1: been through a lot with my dogs, and I've been

800
00:56:04,755 --> 00:56:06,355
Speaker 1: prized at how much I have been willing to be

801
00:56:06,555 --> 00:56:09,435
Speaker 1: there for them when they have been in excruciating pain

802
00:56:09,595 --> 00:56:13,195
Speaker 1: or fear. This is the only time in twelve years

803
00:56:13,195 --> 00:56:15,515
Speaker 1: with dogs that I had to leave the room. The

804
00:56:15,595 --> 00:56:19,115
Speaker 1: noises Minee made when he had barely spoken before, when

805
00:56:19,155 --> 00:56:24,835
Speaker 1: he never barked, howls of incredible pain and fear. And

806
00:56:24,875 --> 00:56:26,835
Speaker 1: she only took out three or four of the teeth

807
00:56:26,915 --> 00:56:31,435
Speaker 1: that were literally loose to the touch, So she stopped

808
00:56:31,475 --> 00:56:33,595
Speaker 1: after I think six, and then we went into the

809
00:56:33,635 --> 00:56:40,315
Speaker 1: Animal medical center and all his teeth were removed. I

810
00:56:40,355 --> 00:56:44,795
Speaker 1: had my other dogs checked, some of them lost half

811
00:56:44,835 --> 00:56:48,555
Speaker 1: of their teeth. My little girl Rose had no symptoms

812
00:56:48,595 --> 00:56:51,835
Speaker 1: of it, but she had advanced periodontal disease. She was

813
00:56:51,995 --> 00:56:53,675
Speaker 1: very sick. She was about to have be in the

814
00:56:53,715 --> 00:56:57,195
Speaker 1: same situation Minee was. Without symptoms, it would have happened overnight.

815
00:56:57,555 --> 00:56:59,635
Speaker 1: We took out half of her teeth. She woke up

816
00:56:59,675 --> 00:57:04,115
Speaker 1: from the anesthesia, all of her allergies disappeared. Within weeks,

817
00:57:04,395 --> 00:57:07,875
Speaker 1: her curvy puppy figure was back, and she was eight

818
00:57:07,955 --> 00:57:11,955
Speaker 1: years old. I went into my dentist and I said, hey,

819
00:57:12,555 --> 00:57:14,675
Speaker 1: I need to be about twenty percent smarter. Can you

820
00:57:14,715 --> 00:57:16,435
Speaker 1: pull some of my teeth out? And the guy goes,

821
00:57:16,555 --> 00:57:18,715
Speaker 1: We've got very bad news for you. You have an

822
00:57:18,715 --> 00:57:21,275
Speaker 1: absolutely clean checkup, and I said, this is the first

823
00:57:21,315 --> 00:57:26,995
Speaker 1: one since nineteen sixty eight. Sorry me. Nay, having had

824
00:57:27,115 --> 00:57:31,875
Speaker 1: all of his teeth removed, woke up from the anesthesia,

825
00:57:32,155 --> 00:57:36,595
Speaker 1: came home to my house, fell asleep, woke up again.

826
00:57:36,955 --> 00:57:39,635
Speaker 1: Now it's about eight ten, twelve hours after we got

827
00:57:39,715 --> 00:57:43,235
Speaker 1: him back from the hospital, and he got up, left

828
00:57:43,235 --> 00:57:45,675
Speaker 1: the little bed in my bedroom next to my bed,

829
00:57:45,715 --> 00:57:49,355
Speaker 1: and wandered out and came over and started to stare

830
00:57:49,395 --> 00:57:53,715
Speaker 1: at me, like who the hell are you? Or Since

831
00:57:53,715 --> 00:57:56,515
Speaker 1: I always envisioned him speaking in a French accent, who

832
00:57:56,515 --> 00:57:59,875
Speaker 1: the hell are you? And he looked at the other dogs, like,

833
00:58:00,035 --> 00:58:03,715
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? Where am I? And where

834
00:58:03,755 --> 00:58:07,235
Speaker 1: did these other dogs come from? It was instantaneous me

835
00:58:07,315 --> 00:58:11,915
Speaker 1: Nay did not have dementia. He might have had a

836
00:58:11,915 --> 00:58:14,275
Speaker 1: little He was the equivalent then of a ninety five

837
00:58:14,355 --> 00:58:16,875
Speaker 1: year old man. He might have been a little slow.

838
00:58:16,995 --> 00:58:19,115
Speaker 1: I know this hasn't been a topic anywhere in public

839
00:58:19,155 --> 00:58:22,875
Speaker 1: discourse lately. He might have been a little slow. But

840
00:58:22,915 --> 00:58:25,315
Speaker 1: the problem he had was he had these terrible teeth,

841
00:58:25,555 --> 00:58:27,995
Speaker 1: and the moment they were out and the blood stopped,

842
00:58:27,995 --> 00:58:30,755
Speaker 1: which was pretty quick, he started to get younger. And

843
00:58:30,835 --> 00:58:33,435
Speaker 1: I mean he started to get younger every day. He

844
00:58:33,515 --> 00:58:36,595
Speaker 1: was a little sharper, a little bit more interactive, still

845
00:58:36,635 --> 00:58:40,395
Speaker 1: on his own, still sleeping sixteen eighteen hours a day

846
00:58:40,915 --> 00:58:42,955
Speaker 1: in a bed that I found for him by accident,

847
00:58:42,995 --> 00:58:46,395
Speaker 1: that he treated like the womb. He would curl up

848
00:58:46,395 --> 00:58:50,795
Speaker 1: in there, and the blissfulness of his sleeping experience made

849
00:58:50,835 --> 00:58:53,875
Speaker 1: me jealous. And then I took him out for the

850
00:58:53,915 --> 00:58:57,075
Speaker 1: first time because my last experience with him was he

851
00:58:57,195 --> 00:59:00,235
Speaker 1: jumped off onto the hard pavement outside Central Park. I

852
00:59:00,235 --> 00:59:05,635
Speaker 1: don't know if he's a good walker. His serenity upon

853
00:59:05,715 --> 00:59:10,795
Speaker 1: hearing the sounds of New York City is indescribable. A

854
00:59:10,835 --> 00:59:14,715
Speaker 1: look would come across his face, and whereas indoors, he

855
00:59:14,755 --> 00:59:17,835
Speaker 1: didn't really particularly like you picking him up or holding him,

856
00:59:17,875 --> 00:59:20,555
Speaker 1: and he certainly didn't like a vet prying at his

857
00:59:20,675 --> 00:59:23,235
Speaker 1: teeth or anything like that. If you wanted to pick

858
00:59:23,315 --> 00:59:24,835
Speaker 1: him up and sit him on your lap, as long

859
00:59:24,875 --> 00:59:28,755
Speaker 1: as you were on a park bench, he was the

860
00:59:28,795 --> 00:59:32,195
Speaker 1: happiest creature on this earth. He'd walk with you for

861
00:59:32,275 --> 00:59:35,355
Speaker 1: two hours, he'd sit with you for two hours. If

862
00:59:35,435 --> 00:59:38,115
Speaker 1: you were walking him with another dog, he would immediately

863
00:59:38,235 --> 00:59:42,675
Speaker 1: sink up with that dog's pace. If it was just

864
00:59:42,795 --> 00:59:45,115
Speaker 1: you and him, he would sync up with your pace.

865
00:59:45,475 --> 00:59:48,515
Speaker 1: I swear there were times when I had not stopped

866
00:59:48,835 --> 00:59:51,675
Speaker 1: or slowed down, and he was slowing down because he

867
00:59:51,755 --> 00:59:56,515
Speaker 1: knew I was going to And gradually through that winter

868
00:59:57,555 --> 01:00:00,875
Speaker 1: and into the spring of twenty twenty three, he got

869
01:00:00,955 --> 01:00:04,395
Speaker 1: more and more interactive. One tenth of one percent every

870
01:00:04,475 --> 01:00:10,155
Speaker 1: day other dogs walk to pee or to poop. Mine

871
01:00:10,155 --> 01:00:13,115
Speaker 1: walked to walk, and to walk with you or walk

872
01:00:13,195 --> 01:00:20,995
Speaker 1: with another dog. An extraordinary creature. And finally, not long

873
01:00:21,035 --> 01:00:25,635
Speaker 1: after his sixteenth birthday last year, the most extraordinary thing

874
01:00:25,875 --> 01:00:29,715
Speaker 1: I have ever experienced with my dogs, and the first

875
01:00:29,715 --> 01:00:34,795
Speaker 1: time Stevie ever relieved herself on a walk. It was

876
01:00:34,915 --> 01:00:39,155
Speaker 1: under a marquee that read Fox News, and I picked

877
01:00:39,155 --> 01:00:41,395
Speaker 1: her up and said, I will always love you. So

878
01:00:41,515 --> 01:00:44,115
Speaker 1: I've seen some extraordinary things even though I only have

879
01:00:44,195 --> 01:00:49,315
Speaker 1: twelve years in the world of dog. The most extraordinary

880
01:00:49,315 --> 01:00:52,515
Speaker 1: thing I ever saw began sometime in the late summer

881
01:00:52,635 --> 01:00:55,995
Speaker 1: last year, maybe about this time, right after mine turned sixteen.

882
01:00:57,555 --> 01:00:59,115
Speaker 1: I saw it briefly out of the corner of my

883
01:00:59,155 --> 01:01:02,795
Speaker 1: eye and didn't believe what I'd seen. The stripes on

884
01:01:02,915 --> 01:01:06,315
Speaker 1: the New York City streets are crosswalks. They're almost a

885
01:01:06,315 --> 01:01:09,795
Speaker 1: barber pole effect, usually white on the black tarmac surface,

886
01:01:10,195 --> 01:01:15,155
Speaker 1: and sometimes the stripes are two three inches thick. And

887
01:01:15,235 --> 01:01:19,355
Speaker 1: Menee was seeing them with his one really good eye

888
01:01:19,795 --> 01:01:25,075
Speaker 1: and leaping over them. Consider this for a second. Mine

889
01:01:25,435 --> 01:01:30,315
Speaker 1: had been a year before unable to negotiate his way

890
01:01:30,395 --> 01:01:33,995
Speaker 1: around a new apartment, half because of vision problems, half

891
01:01:34,035 --> 01:01:37,595
Speaker 1: because of neurological problems that were in fact dental problems,

892
01:01:37,635 --> 01:01:41,515
Speaker 1: almost one hundred percent, and now he was, for some

893
01:01:41,675 --> 01:01:43,955
Speaker 1: reason leaping in the air. I thought he was sick.

894
01:01:44,035 --> 01:01:47,715
Speaker 1: I thought there was some new neurological problem. And then

895
01:01:47,755 --> 01:01:50,875
Speaker 1: he did it again on a different stripe, and then

896
01:01:50,875 --> 01:01:54,795
Speaker 1: he did it again up onto a curb, and then

897
01:01:54,835 --> 01:01:56,915
Speaker 1: we went out on a walk and he did it

898
01:01:56,995 --> 01:01:59,835
Speaker 1: ten times. And I began to hear people laughing behind me,

899
01:02:00,355 --> 01:02:04,035
Speaker 1: and getting over my natural paranoia, thinking what's on the

900
01:02:04,035 --> 01:02:08,755
Speaker 1: back of my I realized people who were not expecting

901
01:02:08,795 --> 01:02:12,395
Speaker 1: this were seeing this tiny, skinny, eight pound dog who

902
01:02:12,435 --> 01:02:16,595
Speaker 1: sometimes had to wear a sweater in the summer, jumping

903
01:02:16,675 --> 01:02:19,955
Speaker 1: up in the air, sometimes reaching I would say, ten

904
01:02:19,995 --> 01:02:25,475
Speaker 1: inches off the ground. Last October, I ordered God help

905
01:02:25,555 --> 01:02:28,915
Speaker 1: me a selfie stick. I wanted to see from his

906
01:02:29,115 --> 01:02:31,595
Speaker 1: level what in the hell he was doing and try

907
01:02:31,635 --> 01:02:35,275
Speaker 1: to figure out why. I put the selfie stick and

908
01:02:35,355 --> 01:02:38,035
Speaker 1: put the phone on it, hung it down at his level,

909
01:02:38,115 --> 01:02:41,235
Speaker 1: and sometimes I shot in slow motion and sometimes in

910
01:02:41,315 --> 01:02:45,595
Speaker 1: full speed, and I recorded me nay, and I saw

911
01:02:45,835 --> 01:02:50,195
Speaker 1: something even more startling. There was no question that this

912
01:02:50,395 --> 01:02:54,235
Speaker 1: was premeditated and intentional, and he was enjoying it because

913
01:02:54,675 --> 01:03:00,075
Speaker 1: after each jump, he would locate the camera and look

914
01:03:00,115 --> 01:03:05,355
Speaker 1: at it and stare it down like James Harden, the

915
01:03:05,435 --> 01:03:10,755
Speaker 1: basketball player backing away after a successful shot. What do

916
01:03:10,755 --> 01:03:15,235
Speaker 1: you think of that? Pal Mena, of course without any teeth,

917
01:03:15,675 --> 01:03:19,315
Speaker 1: had a tongue that hung out of his mouth, adding

918
01:03:19,355 --> 01:03:25,595
Speaker 1: to his extraordinary cuteness and this leaping ability, which got

919
01:03:25,635 --> 01:03:27,355
Speaker 1: better and better the more he tried it, and it

920
01:03:27,435 --> 01:03:29,635
Speaker 1: was clear he must have done it before. You don't suddenly,

921
01:03:29,875 --> 01:03:33,995
Speaker 1: after years of neurological problems, decide to start becoming an

922
01:03:34,035 --> 01:03:40,075
Speaker 1: Olympic jumper at sixteen, at the equivalent of ninety five

923
01:03:40,195 --> 01:03:44,435
Speaker 1: now as a dog as a human years he would

924
01:03:44,475 --> 01:03:48,515
Speaker 1: do this forty or fifty times on a trip, sometimes

925
01:03:48,915 --> 01:03:51,755
Speaker 1: when there were no white stripes, when we weren't crossing anything,

926
01:03:51,755 --> 01:03:53,995
Speaker 1: when we were in the parking, to jump over the

927
01:03:54,075 --> 01:03:57,875
Speaker 1: grooves in the pavement. And I discovered from the videos

928
01:03:57,875 --> 01:04:01,155
Speaker 1: and from careful analysis that he had three different jumps.

929
01:04:01,715 --> 01:04:04,275
Speaker 1: He had your standard I'm running and moving fast and

930
01:04:04,275 --> 01:04:07,475
Speaker 1: I'm using my own propulsion to just spring upwards and

931
01:04:07,515 --> 01:04:10,635
Speaker 1: then down and stick the landing by the way each time.

932
01:04:11,835 --> 01:04:14,835
Speaker 1: And he had another one where he knew he was

933
01:04:14,875 --> 01:04:19,475
Speaker 1: going up onto a curb and he angled himself. His

934
01:04:19,555 --> 01:04:24,995
Speaker 1: launch angle, baseball fans, was about five percent higher. And

935
01:04:25,035 --> 01:04:28,475
Speaker 1: then he introduced the third one, the standing jump. He'd

936
01:04:28,475 --> 01:04:31,555
Speaker 1: be walking across the street and stop and see how

937
01:04:31,555 --> 01:04:37,075
Speaker 1: far he could go without any momentum. He did this

938
01:04:37,195 --> 01:04:42,995
Speaker 1: all of last winter. As spring approached, it became evident

939
01:04:43,075 --> 01:04:45,195
Speaker 1: he was beginning to slow down a little bit of

940
01:04:45,235 --> 01:04:49,035
Speaker 1: his own accord as his seventeenth birthday neared and he

941
01:04:49,075 --> 01:04:54,995
Speaker 1: didn't do as many jumps at first. His extraordinary longevity

942
01:04:55,035 --> 01:04:58,515
Speaker 1: and his extraordinary stamina on walks continued. If we wanted

943
01:04:58,515 --> 01:05:02,715
Speaker 1: to go to two hours in the park, sure, maybe

944
01:05:02,755 --> 01:05:04,315
Speaker 1: you could give me a lift? Gone up the hill

945
01:05:06,235 --> 01:05:09,915
Speaker 1: that was his only problem. And the leaps became fewer

946
01:05:09,955 --> 01:05:13,555
Speaker 1: and farther between, and sometimes a little shorter, And sometimes

947
01:05:13,555 --> 01:05:16,155
Speaker 1: when he wasn't quite in the mood, he'd just do

948
01:05:16,235 --> 01:05:19,115
Speaker 1: a little hop. He'd just clear it, basically to say yeah,

949
01:05:19,115 --> 01:05:20,915
Speaker 1: I can still do this, and then on he'd go.

950
01:05:22,875 --> 01:05:25,435
Speaker 1: The most extraordinary thing I have ever seen with a dog,

951
01:05:26,795 --> 01:05:32,355
Speaker 1: and I saw Stevie poop under the Fox News sign

952
01:05:32,715 --> 01:05:38,395
Speaker 1: me nay. We had him examined neurologically in March, just

953
01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:40,475
Speaker 1: to see if there was something to make whatever time

954
01:05:40,515 --> 01:05:45,395
Speaker 1: he had left more enjoyable easier to get through because

955
01:05:45,395 --> 01:05:48,635
Speaker 1: he bumped into things. He was beginning to lose control,

956
01:05:48,635 --> 01:05:50,635
Speaker 1: and he'd never had full control of his limbs, which

957
01:05:50,635 --> 01:05:53,875
Speaker 1: made these jumps even more extraordinary. It's not quite he

958
01:05:53,915 --> 01:05:55,915
Speaker 1: got up out of a wheelchair and did these leaps,

959
01:05:55,955 --> 01:06:00,955
Speaker 1: but neurologically speaking, was almost like that. The neurologist had

960
01:06:00,955 --> 01:06:04,955
Speaker 1: no explanation for this other than he liked it, very

961
01:06:04,995 --> 01:06:07,595
Speaker 1: good reason to keep doing it. But he would bump

962
01:06:07,635 --> 01:06:09,515
Speaker 1: into things, and we thought, well, maybe there's something that

963
01:06:09,555 --> 01:06:12,235
Speaker 1: would help him, and there wasn't. But they did determine.

964
01:06:12,235 --> 01:06:14,035
Speaker 1: They were confident that at some point in the past

965
01:06:14,075 --> 01:06:16,635
Speaker 1: he'd actually had a stroke. So he had a little

966
01:06:16,635 --> 01:06:21,035
Speaker 1: dementia and a stroke, and he was an Olympic level

967
01:06:21,915 --> 01:06:28,075
Speaker 1: hurdler and leaper. He began to bump into things a

968
01:06:28,155 --> 01:06:31,355
Speaker 1: lot more in the last few months, and I thought,

969
01:06:31,355 --> 01:06:34,795
Speaker 1: what do I do about this? Well, I'm the only person,

970
01:06:34,875 --> 01:06:37,275
Speaker 1: I think, in the city of New York whose walls

971
01:06:37,315 --> 01:06:40,635
Speaker 1: are baby proofed at a height of about four inches

972
01:06:40,755 --> 01:06:44,675
Speaker 1: or so. They worked wonderfully. Now when he would bump

973
01:06:44,715 --> 01:06:49,075
Speaker 1: into a wall, instead of maybe getting a concussion, he

974
01:06:49,115 --> 01:06:53,915
Speaker 1: would just bounce into some rubber foam. In fact, he

975
01:06:53,995 --> 01:06:55,995
Speaker 1: learned how too. When he didn't have full control of

976
01:06:56,035 --> 01:06:59,595
Speaker 1: his legs guide himself along by putting his head intentionally

977
01:06:59,835 --> 01:07:04,955
Speaker 1: against the rubber foam and just kind of pushing. He

978
01:07:05,155 --> 01:07:10,675
Speaker 1: ate like a horse without teeth. He loved the soft

979
01:07:10,715 --> 01:07:13,035
Speaker 1: meals that I got for him, and he thrived on them,

980
01:07:14,235 --> 01:07:16,875
Speaker 1: and he would still eat the hard treats that he liked.

981
01:07:17,035 --> 01:07:19,595
Speaker 1: The kibble, and often he would take a piece of

982
01:07:19,635 --> 01:07:22,315
Speaker 1: kibble and put it in the water bowl, let it

983
01:07:22,435 --> 01:07:24,435
Speaker 1: soak for a while, and come back for it later

984
01:07:24,475 --> 01:07:28,595
Speaker 1: and suck on it like a cough drop. Dementia, my ass,

985
01:07:29,315 --> 01:07:31,355
Speaker 1: it's one of the smartest beings I have ever met

986
01:07:31,435 --> 01:07:36,355
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't think I was honest with

987
01:07:36,395 --> 01:07:39,035
Speaker 1: myself about how mine began to slow down. Early in

988
01:07:39,035 --> 01:07:41,635
Speaker 1: the summer, we didn't get to walk that much because

989
01:07:41,675 --> 01:07:44,515
Speaker 1: we went directly from spring into hell. This year in

990
01:07:44,555 --> 01:07:47,395
Speaker 1: New York. As I'm sure you've experienced too, it got

991
01:07:47,435 --> 01:07:50,675
Speaker 1: really warm, really fast. He didn't like really warm, and

992
01:07:50,675 --> 01:07:52,955
Speaker 1: he didn't like really cold. Well. Hell, he was basically

993
01:07:52,955 --> 01:07:56,835
Speaker 1: one hundred years old now, and as his seventeenth birthday approached,

994
01:07:57,955 --> 01:08:00,275
Speaker 1: it began to be evident that he was slowing down

995
01:08:00,315 --> 01:08:01,915
Speaker 1: a little bit. I had to carry him a little

996
01:08:01,955 --> 01:08:05,515
Speaker 1: bit more. There were occasionally hops, but mostly it was

997
01:08:05,635 --> 01:08:08,275
Speaker 1: just a good forty minute walk was a delight for him.

998
01:08:09,675 --> 01:08:12,795
Speaker 1: We had one last Thursday. It didn't end that well.

999
01:08:13,395 --> 01:08:16,875
Speaker 1: He seemed to be having real trouble controlling his back legs.

1000
01:08:18,155 --> 01:08:20,715
Speaker 1: Of course, when I got him home, the back legs

1001
01:08:20,715 --> 01:08:24,955
Speaker 1: had gotten stiff and he was kind of folding over them.

1002
01:08:25,555 --> 01:08:27,995
Speaker 1: I got him home, he was fine. He walked around

1003
01:08:27,995 --> 01:08:32,315
Speaker 1: the house for two hours, but he didn't eat that night,

1004
01:08:33,555 --> 01:08:39,835
Speaker 1: and he didn't eat Friday, and he was listless. I

1005
01:08:39,875 --> 01:08:42,355
Speaker 1: will say this for him, in the last four or

1006
01:08:42,435 --> 01:08:46,475
Speaker 1: five months, he had suddenly uniformly accepted all of us.

1007
01:08:46,835 --> 01:08:49,875
Speaker 1: Where he was always hanging back in my bedroom in

1008
01:08:49,915 --> 01:08:55,235
Speaker 1: his little womblike bed, now he would greet me with

1009
01:08:55,275 --> 01:08:58,035
Speaker 1: the other dogs at the front door when I came home.

1010
01:08:58,115 --> 01:08:59,875
Speaker 1: He would often give me a kiss with that big

1011
01:08:59,955 --> 01:09:03,515
Speaker 1: hanging out tongue of his. And in the last few

1012
01:09:03,515 --> 01:09:07,435
Speaker 1: months particularly, he stopped living in the bedroom and would

1013
01:09:07,475 --> 01:09:11,675
Speaker 1: often just stagger out into the living room where the

1014
01:09:11,715 --> 01:09:15,435
Speaker 1: dogs and I were working. I was working the dogs,

1015
01:09:15,475 --> 01:09:19,275
Speaker 1: really weren't I have to confess that he would come out,

1016
01:09:19,555 --> 01:09:21,235
Speaker 1: come over and give me a kiss on the ankle

1017
01:09:22,275 --> 01:09:23,875
Speaker 1: if I wanted to pick him up, and he wanted

1018
01:09:23,915 --> 01:09:25,355
Speaker 1: to be picked up. He'd come and sit with us

1019
01:09:25,355 --> 01:09:27,315
Speaker 1: for a while, and then he'd sort of motion like

1020
01:09:27,315 --> 01:09:28,835
Speaker 1: he wanted to get down back on the floor, and

1021
01:09:28,875 --> 01:09:30,555
Speaker 1: he'd go over to his bed in the living room

1022
01:09:30,635 --> 01:09:34,235
Speaker 1: and sleep out here with us for eight hours, just

1023
01:09:34,315 --> 01:09:38,115
Speaker 1: out of a sense of community. So he was still

1024
01:09:38,155 --> 01:09:42,915
Speaker 1: doing that and then wandering back in to sleep on

1025
01:09:42,955 --> 01:09:45,275
Speaker 1: the floor next to the bed, because obviously I couldn't

1026
01:09:45,315 --> 01:09:47,115
Speaker 1: keep him in the bed with the other dogs and me.

1027
01:09:48,435 --> 01:09:50,595
Speaker 1: He tended to fall off things like that. No matter

1028
01:09:50,595 --> 01:09:52,075
Speaker 1: how good a jumper you are, you're not a good

1029
01:09:52,155 --> 01:09:57,035
Speaker 1: jumper if you don't know you're about to jump. And

1030
01:09:57,075 --> 01:10:00,115
Speaker 1: then last Thursday he wasn't really eating, and last Friday

1031
01:10:00,155 --> 01:10:02,395
Speaker 1: he was very listless, and I took him in my

1032
01:10:02,515 --> 01:10:04,435
Speaker 1: arms and I went outside and sat on the balcony

1033
01:10:04,715 --> 01:10:07,275
Speaker 1: a long conversation with him, and I said, you're just

1034
01:10:07,315 --> 01:10:11,755
Speaker 1: wearing out. And the feeling I got back was yeah,

1035
01:10:11,795 --> 01:10:17,195
Speaker 1: but I have some time. He didn't urinate at all,

1036
01:10:18,035 --> 01:10:20,955
Speaker 1: and this was one of his major hobbies. He tried

1037
01:10:20,995 --> 01:10:23,115
Speaker 1: so hard. He had been so good at the pad,

1038
01:10:23,235 --> 01:10:25,675
Speaker 1: and he tried so hard, and I think he thought

1039
01:10:25,675 --> 01:10:28,355
Speaker 1: he was doing real well. Unfortunately, his definition of what

1040
01:10:28,395 --> 01:10:31,155
Speaker 1: the pad was became a little broader than it should

1041
01:10:31,155 --> 01:10:35,755
Speaker 1: have been. Any soft surface became the pad. But he

1042
01:10:35,795 --> 01:10:40,155
Speaker 1: wasn't peeing. He didn't pee Friday, and he didn't eat.

1043
01:10:40,435 --> 01:10:42,315
Speaker 1: And you don't have to be a twelve year dog

1044
01:10:42,315 --> 01:10:45,355
Speaker 1: owner or a one year dog owner to know if

1045
01:10:45,395 --> 01:10:50,795
Speaker 1: your dog stops eating and he's old, he's checking out.

1046
01:10:51,835 --> 01:10:55,835
Speaker 1: And so I envisioned this Friday night, having just celebrated

1047
01:10:55,835 --> 01:11:00,155
Speaker 1: his seventeenth birthday, an extraordinary accomplishment for any dog, but

1048
01:11:00,235 --> 01:11:04,435
Speaker 1: particularly wanted out a stroke and neurological problems and was

1049
01:11:04,475 --> 01:11:10,035
Speaker 1: near well. He starved to death. At some point I

1050
01:11:10,075 --> 01:11:13,395
Speaker 1: think he's done a great job. We'll let him go.

1051
01:11:14,635 --> 01:11:16,635
Speaker 1: We don't have to do anything about it. He'll go

1052
01:11:16,715 --> 01:11:21,315
Speaker 1: on his own, particularly if he's not eating. And then

1053
01:11:21,355 --> 01:11:24,475
Speaker 1: Saturday morning he had getting up out of bed because

1054
01:11:24,475 --> 01:11:26,795
Speaker 1: he was still sleeping. He called to me a couple

1055
01:11:26,835 --> 01:11:28,515
Speaker 1: of times to come out and just hold him for

1056
01:11:28,515 --> 01:11:31,555
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he had a surprisingly high little bark.

1057
01:11:32,635 --> 01:11:41,435
Speaker 1: His I'm hungry bark was very French. His uh hello

1058
01:11:42,115 --> 01:11:50,075
Speaker 1: was a puppy, a high pitched puppy bar. He barked

1059
01:11:50,555 --> 01:11:53,995
Speaker 1: and got up to greet me and fell over and

1060
01:11:54,395 --> 01:11:56,355
Speaker 1: wriggled like a dead bug on the floor for about

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Speaker 1: a minute. It was a miniature seizure, and given his

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Speaker 1: neurological history, I actually thought it was good news because

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Speaker 1: it suggested maybe there was some thing to fix here.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't just placidly saying okay, time you know it.

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Speaker 1: I know it. Took him into the Animal Medical Center,

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Speaker 1: took him, at the advice of all the people I

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Speaker 1: know over there, into the emergency room. Treated wonderfully. They said,

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Speaker 1: he's low on fluids. We can do this much for him.

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Speaker 1: Leave him here overnight, we'll assess in the morning. We'll

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Speaker 1: get him fluids. We'll get him a little shunt here

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Speaker 1: and take his blood work and see how his kidneys

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Speaker 1: are doing, because he had kidney problems his whole life,

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Speaker 1: apparently anecdotally. That's in the documentary. They won't let me

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Speaker 1: see about him kidding. Sunday morning, I got a phone

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Speaker 1: call saying he'd had a good night. Nothing had changed.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't any better, he wasn't any worse. He was alert.

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Speaker 1: An hour later I got a call from the internal

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Speaker 1: medicine people who had taken over his case from the

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Speaker 1: emergency room. They said, no not. Things have not gone well.

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Speaker 1: His kidney values are down to zero, his temperature is down,

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Speaker 1: He's developed a heart murmur, and his heart was his

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Speaker 1: strongest organ. He's not really responding. He's not standing on

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Speaker 1: his own. You ought to consider this is the end.

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Speaker 1: And you may want to hasten the end because there's

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Speaker 1: no evidence it hurts. But if your organs are going

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Speaker 1: to start shutting down, it may begin to hurt fairly

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Speaker 1: soon and in very very unpleasant ways, in addition to

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Speaker 1: the fear and the shock and the confusion. And so

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Speaker 1: I made the decision to do that. Sunday afternoon. I

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01:13:44,395 --> 01:13:49,835
Speaker 1: went over, picked him up and thought, well, it's not

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01:13:49,875 --> 01:13:52,755
Speaker 1: like there's a rush here or anything. What is it

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01:13:52,795 --> 01:13:58,235
Speaker 1: he likes most in the world Outdoors in the city

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Speaker 1: near the Animal Medical Center is the fifty ninth Street Bridge,

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Speaker 1: or for you out of towner's Edward and Kotch Bridge, Queensboro.

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Speaker 1: We don't even like to call it the Queensboro Bridge.

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Speaker 1: That's for people in Queens US Manhattanites, we call it

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Speaker 1: the fifty ninth Street Bridge. There's a song, the fifty

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01:14:17,155 --> 01:14:23,955
Speaker 1: ninth Street Song, fifty ninth Bridge strong song. So we

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Speaker 1: went and sat in the new park that they built

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01:14:25,955 --> 01:14:29,195
Speaker 1: in some I don't know, I think abandoned exit from

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01:14:29,275 --> 01:14:32,235
Speaker 1: the FDR drive. And the breeze was perfect. It was

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01:14:32,235 --> 01:14:34,515
Speaker 1: a little warm, but the breeze was perfect. In me nay,

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01:14:35,235 --> 01:14:38,435
Speaker 1: barely able to raise his head, sat there and took

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Speaker 1: little SIPs of water from water that I put on

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01:14:42,155 --> 01:14:46,675
Speaker 1: his tongue with my finger, and he would stretch, stretching

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01:14:46,795 --> 01:14:50,595
Speaker 1: like he was asleep and just stretching, getting comfortable and

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01:14:50,635 --> 01:14:56,155
Speaker 1: sitting there with me and communing. Supposed to be there.

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Speaker 1: I think my plan was, I guess half an hour

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01:14:58,635 --> 01:15:00,795
Speaker 1: or an hour, and then take him inside and give

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Speaker 1: him the medication that would end his life. Well, we

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01:15:03,915 --> 01:15:07,995
Speaker 1: were there three and a half hours. Again, what's the

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Speaker 1: rush there is? I will say this for any dog

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Speaker 1: owner who worries about their dog, and I shouldn't say owner,

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01:15:18,275 --> 01:15:20,795
Speaker 1: anybody owned by a dog who worries about their dog.

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Speaker 1: There is an extraordinary liberation to a time like that.

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Speaker 1: Make it three and a half hours. Take him out

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Speaker 1: of the hospital. What's the difference. Give him a cigarette.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna hurt him, That's what I said. They said, Well,

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Speaker 1: if he begins to have it, he has another seizure,

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Speaker 1: bring him back. I was like, why, what's gonna harm him?

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Speaker 1: We want him to die painlessly. That's all I'm concerned about.

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Speaker 1: Is he in pain? Doesn't look like it. So we

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Speaker 1: sat out there for three and a half hours and

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01:15:52,635 --> 01:15:55,675
Speaker 1: it was a period of time with no fear or

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Speaker 1: anxiety or stress or how can I screw this up?

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Speaker 1: And he seemed to enjoy it too. The breeze was wonderful.

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01:16:07,355 --> 01:16:09,755
Speaker 1: He always loved the breeze in New York City. And

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Speaker 1: the sounds of the FDR drive and the river and

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Speaker 1: the bridge and the tram going overhead. My god. And

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Speaker 1: then I reached put some water on his tongue and

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01:16:21,395 --> 01:16:24,115
Speaker 1: he didn't really respond to it, and he hadn't stretched

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Speaker 1: in probably twenty twenty five minutes. A couple of birds

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Speaker 1: flew by, and I thought, it's time. The rest of it.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever been through it fairly routine, me nay,

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Speaker 1: good to the last drop, gets the injection, And one last,

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Speaker 1: convinced moment that he was at the peapad, he peed

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Speaker 1: on my pants. I actually smiled. He broke the tension.

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Speaker 1: A wax philosophical at a later time about the value

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Speaker 1: of adopting they're being adopted by a geriatric dog. Not

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Speaker 1: just a senior dog, but a senior dog is okay too,

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Speaker 1: but a dog that needs a home. Nothing like it.

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Speaker 1: A wax philosophical and poetic about that at some future time,

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Speaker 1: spare me doing it now. I will give him credit

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Speaker 1: for extraordinary timing. I got to seventeen. Anything else you need,

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Speaker 1: all right? Check? Please Mine German Oberman July fifteenth, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven to July twenty first, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. My tattoo of mine here on just below

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01:18:35,395 --> 01:18:40,195
Speaker 1: my right wrist shows him in the middle of one

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01:18:40,195 --> 01:18:46,235
Speaker 1: of his leaps. And of course when I recorded the

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01:18:46,315 --> 01:18:50,035
Speaker 1: story of his passing, I did not know that he

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01:18:50,075 --> 01:18:53,075
Speaker 1: had a brother named Paul Ann, who was apparently a

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01:18:53,115 --> 01:18:56,075
Speaker 1: lovely dog and passed away long before he did, and

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01:18:56,235 --> 01:19:01,075
Speaker 1: a sister, Mimi Shah, who was Ah. She was Mine's sister.

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Speaker 1: We'll just be nice and say that I could not

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Speaker 1: have known when I recorded that that nearly two months earlier,

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Speaker 1: two months before mine died, a pup had been born

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01:19:12,795 --> 01:19:18,075
Speaker 1: in Mississant, Massachusetts, another Maltese who needed extensive heart surgery

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Speaker 1: to survive, and had already been named Kit and would

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01:19:22,555 --> 01:19:25,675
Speaker 1: shortly be sent to me for safe keeping and to

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Speaker 1: in effect take Manet's spot on the team. Mine, as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, is colloquial French for kitty, as in kit.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big one for deities and foregone conclusions

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01:19:46,275 --> 01:19:51,875
Speaker 1: and unseen forces, but a dog named Kitty in French

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Speaker 1: dies and is replaced by a dog named Kit worked

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Speaker 1: for me. Thanks for listening. Most of our countdown music

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Speaker 1: was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray and John

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Speaker 1: Phillip Shaneil our musical director's of Countdown and produced by

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Speaker 1: TKO Brothers. Mister Ray on the guitars, bass and drums,

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Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and the keyboards at our

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Speaker 1: satirical and fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball

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Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The Olderman theme from ESPN two,

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

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Speaker 1: the sports music. Other music, like in the intro to

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Speaker 1: this segment, was arranged and performed by the group No

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Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. So that's countdown for today. Day one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty four of America held hostage just three d

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Speaker 1: and twenty days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame

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Speaker 1: duck and lame brained term unless Putin or Musk remove

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Speaker 1: him sooner, or the actuarial tables due, or we do

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Speaker 1: don't forget to enjoy his parade Sunday or is it Saturday?

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Speaker 1: Don't ask him till the next countdown. I'm Keith Alderman,

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Speaker 1: thanking you for your time this time too, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'll do the regular one good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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

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