1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Quinnipiac poll, 2 00:00:23,195 --> 00:00:27,595 Speaker 1: Paris by five in Pennsylvania, and I'm beginning to suspect 3 00:00:27,635 --> 00:00:30,715 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign is this close to you offering anybody 4 00:00:30,755 --> 00:00:33,715 Speaker 1: in a swing state who votes for him a nude 5 00:00:33,795 --> 00:00:38,235 Speaker 1: photo of Millennia. I mean, that is neither as gratuitous 6 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: nor as crazy as it sounds. I first heard about 7 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:44,915 Speaker 1: the post on Twitter, and I thought this was going 8 00:00:44,995 --> 00:00:48,915 Speaker 1: to be a Sarah Cooper bitch or the rebirth of 9 00:00:49,075 --> 00:00:51,635 Speaker 1: JibJab and then I clicked on it. 10 00:00:51,955 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 2: Why do I stand proudly behind my nute modeling work. 11 00:00:56,595 --> 00:01:00,795 Speaker 2: The more pressing question is why has the media chosen 12 00:01:00,835 --> 00:01:04,955 Speaker 2: to scrutinize my celebration of the Human Forum in a 13 00:01:05,035 --> 00:01:06,155 Speaker 2: fashioned photoshoot? 14 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:11,595 Speaker 1: Have we known? Michigan Harris by five, Quinnipiac, Wisconsin Harris 15 00:01:11,635 --> 00:01:16,675 Speaker 1: by one, Quinnipiac, Georgia, Trump by just three. That's Donald 16 00:01:16,715 --> 00:01:20,515 Speaker 1: not Milania. Atlanta Journal Constitution poll it had been five, 17 00:01:21,195 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 1: and as mentioned, Pennsylvania Harris by five, Quinnipiac, oh. Also 18 00:01:25,035 --> 00:01:31,235 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania throwing Stein and Oliver. It's Harris by six Quinnipiac. Nationally, 19 00:01:31,315 --> 00:01:34,315 Speaker 1: Harris fifty Trump forty eight, and a poll by Fox 20 00:01:34,395 --> 00:01:37,435 Speaker 1: News a month after they had a Trump fifty Harris 21 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:42,355 Speaker 1: forty nine. How about vote for Trump and order Millenia's 22 00:01:42,355 --> 00:01:46,115 Speaker 1: book and get two free nude photos of her. That's 23 00:01:46,155 --> 00:01:50,595 Speaker 1: where we are, or almost where we are. Ex prosecutor 24 00:01:50,675 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: vice president swapped in for the retiring president versus insane 25 00:01:56,835 --> 00:02:00,955 Speaker 1: proto Nazi racist would be dictator adjudicated sex offender with 26 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:03,755 Speaker 1: the nude model first lady and her step sons, who 27 00:02:03,755 --> 00:02:06,755 Speaker 1: are both appearing with it. Oklahoma religious crackpot who has 28 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:09,955 Speaker 1: called the vice president a quote lying whore and their 29 00:02:10,035 --> 00:02:15,715 Speaker 1: dad's campaign is about the scary illegal black people eating cats, 30 00:02:16,675 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: but the grotesque, misogynist Russian produced sexual memes are about 31 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:27,995 Speaker 1: the vice president. As a movie, it would be hilarious 32 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:31,195 Speaker 1: if the title hadn't been taken. You could call it 33 00:02:31,275 --> 00:02:32,475 Speaker 1: doctor Strangelove. 34 00:02:32,795 --> 00:02:36,195 Speaker 2: Why do I stand proudly behind my nute modeling word? 35 00:02:36,315 --> 00:02:38,715 Speaker 1: As the old joke goes, Hey Donald, got any nude 36 00:02:38,755 --> 00:02:45,355 Speaker 1: pictures of your first lady? Would you like them? Holy crap? Okay, 37 00:02:45,395 --> 00:02:47,875 Speaker 1: back to the numbers. The Pennsylvania and Michigan leeds are 38 00:02:47,915 --> 00:02:50,915 Speaker 1: outside the margin of error, So, to borrow another phrase, 39 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:56,995 Speaker 1: stop the count more nationally, you go for the economist 40 00:02:57,075 --> 00:03:00,675 Speaker 1: has it Harris by four, Active vote has Harris by six, 41 00:03:00,675 --> 00:03:03,235 Speaker 1: And literally two weeks ago it was Harris by two, 42 00:03:03,595 --> 00:03:06,235 Speaker 1: and the five thirty eight average ticked up to Harris 43 00:03:06,275 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: by three point three. Okay, okay, My final offer vote 44 00:03:10,595 --> 00:03:13,355 Speaker 1: for Trump in Pennsylvania, and you can take a photo 45 00:03:13,435 --> 00:03:16,635 Speaker 1: with the first lady. And that's as far as I go. 46 00:03:18,355 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: The Trump people remain utterly mystified by what is happening. 47 00:03:22,835 --> 00:03:26,795 Speaker 1: Like all Republicans ever since Newt Gingrich crawled out of 48 00:03:26,835 --> 00:03:31,635 Speaker 1: the primordial slime. They live by one mantra and one mantra. 49 00:03:31,755 --> 00:03:35,875 Speaker 1: Only if it is evil and it worked, do more 50 00:03:35,875 --> 00:03:39,995 Speaker 1: of it. If it's evil and it didn't work, do 51 00:03:40,195 --> 00:03:43,915 Speaker 1: twice as much of it. They cannot figure this out. 52 00:03:44,195 --> 00:03:48,115 Speaker 1: Crazy won them the White House in twenty sixteen. Crazy 53 00:03:48,275 --> 00:03:50,515 Speaker 1: almost won them a coup in twenty twenty. So why 54 00:03:50,595 --> 00:03:54,835 Speaker 1: is Crazy losing and losing a little bit more every week? 55 00:03:54,955 --> 00:04:02,275 Speaker 1: To her? Naturally, the response is the evil once worked, 56 00:04:02,275 --> 00:04:04,435 Speaker 1: but it hasn't been working, so we won't stop it, 57 00:04:04,435 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: and we won't double it. We have to do three 58 00:04:06,395 --> 00:04:09,555 Speaker 1: times as much of it as we did previously. I 59 00:04:09,595 --> 00:04:15,595 Speaker 1: mean Axios. Far right reactionary axios headlined all this last night, 60 00:04:15,955 --> 00:04:23,875 Speaker 1: the no shame strategy. The interior headline Vance's zero shame strategy. 61 00:04:25,195 --> 00:04:30,355 Speaker 1: It's also Vance's zero truth strategy. This whole thing, this 62 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:35,115 Speaker 1: whole thing about the cats and the migrants in Springfield, Ohio, 63 00:04:35,395 --> 00:04:41,355 Speaker 1: the whole Riizon detra of JV. Vance's stochastic terrorist attack 64 00:04:41,475 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: on the residents of his own state. This has now 65 00:04:44,515 --> 00:04:50,835 Speaker 1: been revealed to originate from two lies. The first lie 66 00:04:52,035 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: was from the woman who posted to Facebook about somebody's friends, neighbors, aunts, uncles, condoms, 67 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:03,755 Speaker 1: salesman seeing somebody eat a cat. The woman's name was 68 00:05:03,915 --> 00:05:09,955 Speaker 1: Erica Lee. She has at least expressed remorse. Vance's campaign 69 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:13,835 Speaker 1: knew this was not true. It had called the Springfield 70 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:16,675 Speaker 1: City Hall on the ninth of this month and was 71 00:05:16,755 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: told by people there that it was not true, and 72 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:22,875 Speaker 1: that did not stop them. It didn't even slow them down. 73 00:05:24,555 --> 00:05:28,755 Speaker 1: The second lie, revealed yesterday, turns out to have been 74 00:05:28,755 --> 00:05:32,475 Speaker 1: by the woman in Springfield who told the police her cat, 75 00:05:32,595 --> 00:05:38,315 Speaker 1: Miss Sassey, had been taken and killed. Maybe that's the 76 00:05:38,355 --> 00:05:41,715 Speaker 1: story Vance keeps using as a fallback. Oh there's a 77 00:05:41,795 --> 00:05:46,435 Speaker 1: police report. My constituents insist there is a missing cat. 78 00:05:47,435 --> 00:05:51,595 Speaker 1: The woman is named Anna Kilgore, and guess what her 79 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:58,155 Speaker 1: cat is alive? Sweet Sassy Melasses, the cat, Miss Sassey, 80 00:05:58,435 --> 00:06:02,715 Speaker 1: is alive. The Wall Street Journal did something that Trump 81 00:06:02,755 --> 00:06:05,635 Speaker 1: and Vance and their fellow scumbags would never do. They 82 00:06:05,755 --> 00:06:10,635 Speaker 1: fact checked Vance's story and kill Gore's story and Miss 83 00:06:10,675 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: Sasse's story. I quote. A Vance spokesperson on Tuesday provided 84 00:06:16,795 --> 00:06:19,315 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal with a police report in which 85 00:06:19,355 --> 00:06:22,075 Speaker 1: a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken 86 00:06:22,355 --> 00:06:26,035 Speaker 1: by Haitian neighbors. But when a reporter went to Anna 87 00:06:26,195 --> 00:06:30,595 Speaker 1: Kilgore's house Tuesday evening, she said her cat, Miss Sassey, 88 00:06:31,075 --> 00:06:35,195 Speaker 1: which went missing in late August, had actually returned a 89 00:06:35,235 --> 00:06:41,875 Speaker 1: few days later, found safe in her own basement. Kil Gore, 90 00:06:42,355 --> 00:06:46,275 Speaker 1: wearing a Trump shirt and hat, said she apologized to 91 00:06:46,315 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 1: her in Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter 92 00:06:49,195 --> 00:06:55,115 Speaker 1: and a mobile phone translation app. And again, as stupid 93 00:06:55,155 --> 00:06:58,875 Speaker 1: as all that sounds, at least she did that. At 94 00:06:58,995 --> 00:07:02,035 Speaker 1: least she made some effort to put one pinch of 95 00:07:02,075 --> 00:07:07,435 Speaker 1: the toothpaste back into the tube. Vance Vance got up 96 00:07:07,435 --> 00:07:10,635 Speaker 1: on a stage and insisted not only that he has 97 00:07:11,355 --> 00:07:15,395 Speaker 1: multiple reports from his constituents, but that the legal immigrants, 98 00:07:16,275 --> 00:07:20,795 Speaker 1: virtually everybody Republican or Democrat is generously welcomed into Springfield, 99 00:07:20,875 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: Ohio acknowledge that they have improved Springfield, Ohio. Vance got 100 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:28,555 Speaker 1: up there yesterday insisted they are not legally here and 101 00:07:28,595 --> 00:07:31,075 Speaker 1: that it's just a legal trick played by the Vice 102 00:07:31,115 --> 00:07:37,675 Speaker 1: president and he's going to keep calling them illegal. JD. 103 00:07:37,835 --> 00:07:40,075 Speaker 1: Vance is a menace to the peace and safety of 104 00:07:40,115 --> 00:07:43,275 Speaker 1: the citizens of this country. He is a liar. He 105 00:07:43,395 --> 00:07:46,355 Speaker 1: is an amoral son of a bitch. And guess what 106 00:07:46,995 --> 00:07:50,355 Speaker 1: if we start kicking people out of America, if we 107 00:07:50,555 --> 00:07:53,995 Speaker 1: start saying, oh, you think you're here legally, We've decided 108 00:07:54,195 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: you're not here legally. If we start deporting them, we 109 00:07:57,755 --> 00:08:00,715 Speaker 1: need to make sure Trump is first and JD. Vance 110 00:08:00,875 --> 00:08:04,595 Speaker 1: is second, or maybe it should be the other way round, 111 00:08:05,515 --> 00:08:12,075 Speaker 1: because Trump can't run as fast as Vance can. For 112 00:08:12,155 --> 00:08:14,715 Speaker 1: all the hyperbole here, it is essential to remember at 113 00:08:14,715 --> 00:08:17,635 Speaker 1: all times that Trump is the psychotic in this equation. 114 00:08:18,115 --> 00:08:24,795 Speaker 1: Vance is the one pretending to be psychotic, deliberately, exploitatively, reprehensively. 115 00:08:25,635 --> 00:08:29,355 Speaker 1: CNN reported yesterday that right after the twenty twelve election, 116 00:08:29,515 --> 00:08:33,835 Speaker 1: Vance then still at Yale law wrote a seemingly heartfelt 117 00:08:33,955 --> 00:08:38,555 Speaker 1: rebuke of people like the JD. Vance of twenty twenty four. 118 00:08:39,635 --> 00:08:42,915 Speaker 1: Vance twenty twenty twelve attacked the GOP platform on migrants 119 00:08:42,915 --> 00:08:46,395 Speaker 1: and minorities, calling it quote openly hostile to non whites 120 00:08:46,795 --> 00:08:52,675 Speaker 1: and alienating to blacks, Latinos, the youth. He wrote this 121 00:08:53,475 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: on a non partisan blog run by one of his 122 00:08:55,755 --> 00:08:58,635 Speaker 1: former teachers, and four years later, as he cynically mapped 123 00:08:58,635 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: out this path to political horedom we see him living today, 124 00:09:03,435 --> 00:09:06,355 Speaker 1: he decided it needed to be erased. He asked his 125 00:09:06,515 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: ex professor to delete it. Well, there's deleted, and then 126 00:09:11,235 --> 00:09:15,995 Speaker 1: there's deleted. It is still on the Internet archive. I 127 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:20,355 Speaker 1: quote JD. Vance twenty twelve. A significant part of Republican 128 00:09:20,355 --> 00:09:24,755 Speaker 1: immigration policy centers on the possibility of deporting twelve million 129 00:09:24,795 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: people or self deporting them. Think about it. We conservatives 130 00:09:29,835 --> 00:09:34,555 Speaker 1: rightly mistrust the government to efficiently administer business loans and 131 00:09:34,635 --> 00:09:38,435 Speaker 1: regulate our food supply, Yet we allegedly believe that it 132 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:42,875 Speaker 1: can deport millions of unregistered aliens. The notion fails to 133 00:09:42,995 --> 00:09:46,155 Speaker 1: pass the laugh test. The same can be said for 134 00:09:46,235 --> 00:09:52,315 Speaker 1: too much of the party's platform. That is exactly what 135 00:09:52,435 --> 00:09:56,715 Speaker 1: Vance without a second thought for truth or humanity, or 136 00:09:56,755 --> 00:09:59,475 Speaker 1: how much we laugh at him or who he used 137 00:09:59,475 --> 00:10:02,035 Speaker 1: to be when he was still a human being. That 138 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:06,075 Speaker 1: is exactly what jd. Vance is pushing on America right now. 139 00:10:06,635 --> 00:10:08,955 Speaker 1: It is even if he and Trump go down in 140 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: record breaking flames, indescribably damaging to this country, he should 141 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:21,635 Speaker 1: be ashamed of it. Remember the practicalities here too, which 142 00:10:21,635 --> 00:10:25,315 Speaker 1: I've been hammering since twenty sixteen, and I've never asked 143 00:10:25,315 --> 00:10:29,155 Speaker 1: anybody to delete the record of mass deportations require mass 144 00:10:29,155 --> 00:10:32,755 Speaker 1: concentration camps, and mass concentration camps require this nation to 145 00:10:32,795 --> 00:10:37,875 Speaker 1: move just one small step away from ethnic cleansing. The 146 00:10:37,955 --> 00:10:40,635 Speaker 1: Vice President underscored the point yesterday while talking to the 147 00:10:40,675 --> 00:10:46,035 Speaker 1: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Quote, massive raids, massive detention camps. 148 00:10:46,195 --> 00:10:50,035 Speaker 1: What are they talking about? She said, as the room 149 00:10:50,115 --> 00:10:54,955 Speaker 1: understandably went silent coverage of her speech. It was married 150 00:10:54,995 --> 00:10:57,995 Speaker 1: to an ipso's poll indicating fifty four percent of the 151 00:10:57,995 --> 00:11:02,395 Speaker 1: country at least somewhat supports apprehending and removing undocumented immigrants. 152 00:11:04,075 --> 00:11:08,875 Speaker 1: How about the net pole asking if America supports death 153 00:11:08,995 --> 00:11:12,235 Speaker 1: camps for them, because that as Kamala Harris rightly implies 154 00:11:12,675 --> 00:11:19,435 Speaker 1: is the inevitable trumpion outcome. And JD. Van's is still 155 00:11:19,475 --> 00:11:24,635 Speaker 1: out there every day selling lying about what he was 156 00:11:24,635 --> 00:11:29,035 Speaker 1: once ashamed of, and he should be ashamed of it still. 157 00:11:31,075 --> 00:11:34,475 Speaker 1: But I assume he asked his old propht to delete 158 00:11:34,475 --> 00:12:04,635 Speaker 1: his conscience for him as well. The overall picture can 159 00:12:04,915 --> 00:12:07,235 Speaker 1: used to verify something I guessed weeks ago. The Trump 160 00:12:07,235 --> 00:12:10,595 Speaker 1: campaign will just get darker and darker, and many of 161 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:13,995 Speaker 1: its leaders will abandon hope of an electoral victory and 162 00:12:14,035 --> 00:12:17,675 Speaker 1: focus entirely on forcing a contingent election in the House 163 00:12:17,675 --> 00:12:22,795 Speaker 1: of Representatives or another coup attempt. We're both. This is 164 00:12:22,835 --> 00:12:28,715 Speaker 1: a dangerous cult full of stupid, failed people looking for 165 00:12:28,795 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 1: somebody else to blame. When they were told yesterday at 166 00:12:35,355 --> 00:12:38,755 Speaker 1: advance event that the FED had cut interest rates, they 167 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:44,435 Speaker 1: booed because in their echo chamber, any economic improvement now, 168 00:12:44,835 --> 00:12:48,515 Speaker 1: including economic improvement for themselves, is bad news for Trump. 169 00:12:50,275 --> 00:12:53,355 Speaker 1: It is madness. And no. Lemmings do not actually follow 170 00:12:53,395 --> 00:12:58,555 Speaker 1: each other blindly off of cliffs, but metaphorically, Trump thugs 171 00:12:58,595 --> 00:13:03,755 Speaker 1: do follow each other blindly off of cliffs. For my 172 00:13:03,875 --> 00:13:07,395 Speaker 1: next guess, the next flashpoint is going to be a 173 00:13:07,515 --> 00:13:11,155 Speaker 1: really difficult one. Those two charges against the guy at 174 00:13:11,155 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: the Trump golf club, the weapons possessions violations that may 175 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:21,075 Speaker 1: be it. The Department of Justice may not have any 176 00:13:21,075 --> 00:13:24,475 Speaker 1: other legal action to take against him, although clearly it 177 00:13:24,555 --> 00:13:28,235 Speaker 1: wants more. It is combing his life to look for 178 00:13:28,275 --> 00:13:30,235 Speaker 1: something else to charge him with, as is the state 179 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:32,755 Speaker 1: of Florida. But as the Wall Street Journal put it, quote, 180 00:13:32,755 --> 00:13:38,395 Speaker 1: additional charges would present challenges for prosecutors, since law enforcement 181 00:13:38,395 --> 00:13:42,555 Speaker 1: officials have said Routh never fired a shot or had 182 00:13:42,595 --> 00:13:45,955 Speaker 1: Trump in his line of sight before a Secret Service 183 00:13:45,995 --> 00:13:48,715 Speaker 1: agent spotted his rifle poking through the golf course fence 184 00:13:48,955 --> 00:13:55,675 Speaker 1: and open fire, sending him fleeing. If you've noticed, even 185 00:13:55,755 --> 00:13:58,275 Speaker 1: places like the Wall Street Journal and Fox are backing 186 00:13:58,315 --> 00:14:00,995 Speaker 1: away from referring to this event at the golf course 187 00:14:01,235 --> 00:14:06,035 Speaker 1: as a quote assassination attempt unquote, still had that term 188 00:14:06,075 --> 00:14:09,595 Speaker 1: on its front page last night, in mice type at 189 00:14:09,635 --> 00:14:15,075 Speaker 1: the bottom. Given less prominent play than Woje leaving ESPN, 190 00:14:16,915 --> 00:14:23,195 Speaker 1: the journal has adopted quote apparent assassination attempt unquote. What 191 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:27,955 Speaker 1: happens when the cult figures out that the suspect is 192 00:14:28,035 --> 00:14:35,315 Speaker 1: facing like six years in jail for a crime they 193 00:14:35,355 --> 00:14:41,355 Speaker 1: consider worse than the crucifixion. Well, I'm just going to 194 00:14:41,395 --> 00:14:43,355 Speaker 1: guess that at that point they send out dvance to 195 00:14:43,355 --> 00:14:52,595 Speaker 1: claim that the man is also an undocumented immigrant. Also 196 00:14:52,635 --> 00:14:54,955 Speaker 1: of interest here the response to this from the former 197 00:14:55,035 --> 00:14:59,955 Speaker 1: Trump critic and fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. He phoned 198 00:15:00,115 --> 00:15:06,475 Speaker 1: Trump to apologize to him because I don't know, I 199 00:15:06,555 --> 00:15:12,755 Speaker 1: stopped understanding anything he was doing. Five years ago, Chris 200 00:15:12,835 --> 00:15:15,635 Speaker 1: Cuomo used to think the correct journalistic answer to how 201 00:15:15,675 --> 00:15:19,995 Speaker 1: to have CNN cover the implosion of his brother's tenure 202 00:15:20,315 --> 00:15:24,275 Speaker 1: as governor of New York was to just ignore the 203 00:15:24,355 --> 00:15:32,075 Speaker 1: story every night. Now he's apologizing to Trump for I 204 00:15:32,115 --> 00:15:37,355 Speaker 1: don't know. That's next, then, an all new edition of Countdown. 205 00:15:39,595 --> 00:16:04,835 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend set 206 00:16:04,835 --> 00:16:06,795 Speaker 3: of us on this all new edition of Countdown. It 207 00:16:06,875 --> 00:16:08,795 Speaker 3: dawned on me the other day that I have been 208 00:16:08,835 --> 00:16:13,355 Speaker 3: living in apartments in New York City for more than 209 00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 3: two thirds of my life now, and that inevitably led 210 00:16:17,995 --> 00:16:19,875 Speaker 3: me to think back to the day and how many 211 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:23,835 Speaker 3: times has this happened to you? How many times have 212 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:25,915 Speaker 3: you flashed back to the day when somebody came over 213 00:16:25,955 --> 00:16:29,515 Speaker 3: to the apartment building you were living in and lit 214 00:16:29,595 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 3: it on fire, the story of Hey, why is the 215 00:16:34,435 --> 00:16:38,195 Speaker 3: light through yonder window breaking so much brighter than usual? 216 00:16:38,515 --> 00:16:43,075 Speaker 3: Next in Things I Promised not to tell they let 217 00:16:43,115 --> 00:16:46,795 Speaker 3: my building on fire. First, there are still more new 218 00:16:46,835 --> 00:16:49,595 Speaker 3: idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, 219 00:16:49,635 --> 00:16:54,435 Speaker 3: morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst 220 00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:59,515 Speaker 3: persons in the world, or, as the number three here 221 00:16:59,555 --> 00:17:02,835 Speaker 3: would say it, whoo the bronze worse. 222 00:17:02,995 --> 00:17:08,195 Speaker 1: Maria Badauomo. Maria was once a business anchor at CNBC 223 00:17:08,355 --> 00:17:10,315 Speaker 1: and then she was hit by lightning or something that 224 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:14,835 Speaker 1: was transformed into a Saturday Night Live weekend update character 225 00:17:14,875 --> 00:17:16,915 Speaker 1: who could have been played by the late Gilda Radner 226 00:17:19,595 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: in her theory as expressed on Fox to Murdoch's Australian failure, 227 00:17:25,555 --> 00:17:28,795 Speaker 1: Miranda Divine of the New York Vanity Press Post, who 228 00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 1: restrained herself throughout this somehow from exploding and saying, boy, 229 00:17:33,115 --> 00:17:37,955 Speaker 1: are you nuts? Maria. It's Maria's theory that the world's 230 00:17:38,075 --> 00:17:45,955 Speaker 1: media is being manipulated by you ready, Alejandro majorcis the 231 00:17:46,035 --> 00:17:52,115 Speaker 1: head of Homeland Security. No, no, seriously, I mean, even 232 00:17:52,435 --> 00:17:57,235 Speaker 1: even as a conspiracy theory, even in the conspiracy theory world. Seriously, 233 00:17:58,115 --> 00:18:00,835 Speaker 1: the one time I would ever say this sentence. You 234 00:18:00,835 --> 00:18:04,355 Speaker 1: sure you don't mean George sorows where Joe Biden or 235 00:18:04,355 --> 00:18:10,115 Speaker 1: at least like Aaron Rodgers or somebody. Bartiromo's theory is 236 00:18:10,115 --> 00:18:14,875 Speaker 1: that the head of Homeland Security is manipulating the country 237 00:18:15,715 --> 00:18:18,835 Speaker 1: to stop talking about the guy who had the gun 238 00:18:18,955 --> 00:18:23,355 Speaker 1: at Trump's golf course. Once again, they take that same 239 00:18:23,395 --> 00:18:27,115 Speaker 1: strategy out, and that is change the conversation. She said, 240 00:18:27,635 --> 00:18:33,115 Speaker 1: the timing of the p Diddy arrest, Please, they must 241 00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:36,155 Speaker 1: have had the p Diddy arrest on the shelf, waiting 242 00:18:36,195 --> 00:18:38,795 Speaker 1: to take it off the shelf for when they needed it. 243 00:18:38,835 --> 00:18:42,635 Speaker 1: And yesterday, boy, oh boy, did they need it. Because 244 00:18:42,675 --> 00:18:46,915 Speaker 1: the questions were spiking everywhere as far as how it 245 00:18:46,995 --> 00:18:51,435 Speaker 1: is possibility that another assassination attempt happened, that another would 246 00:18:51,515 --> 00:18:54,395 Speaker 1: be assassin was within a couple of hundred yards of Trump. 247 00:18:56,035 --> 00:19:00,995 Speaker 1: What questions were spiking? Trump plays golf every day at 248 00:19:00,995 --> 00:19:05,715 Speaker 1: the same three courses. He walks slowly when he walks, 249 00:19:06,035 --> 00:19:10,155 Speaker 1: and he likes having people film him play golf as 250 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:13,355 Speaker 1: if he were good at it. And his golf course, 251 00:19:13,395 --> 00:19:16,115 Speaker 1: the one in Florida, the main one he uses next 252 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:20,435 Speaker 1: to Mari a lago. It abuts public streets. He has 253 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:24,235 Speaker 1: been warned endlessly while in office and out not to 254 00:19:24,395 --> 00:19:28,795 Speaker 1: do this, but he does it anyway. The only questions 255 00:19:28,835 --> 00:19:32,275 Speaker 1: that are spiking here are how is Trump this stupid? 256 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,995 Speaker 1: Not from Awa. As we are all asking these questions, boom, 257 00:19:38,435 --> 00:19:41,555 Speaker 1: they take P Diddy in and now we're all talking 258 00:19:41,595 --> 00:19:44,515 Speaker 1: about that. I saw right through it as soon as 259 00:19:44,555 --> 00:19:51,435 Speaker 1: it happened. Ah okay, I got it now, so uh sorry, 260 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:55,595 Speaker 1: I'm who's P Diddy? The rapper guy with the sex 261 00:19:55,635 --> 00:19:59,035 Speaker 1: trafficking thing? Who is not R Kelly? I got it right? 262 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:04,235 Speaker 1: Ah okay? Was that this week? Maria? The only thing 263 00:20:04,275 --> 00:20:07,355 Speaker 1: you saw right through his reality and into your own 264 00:20:07,355 --> 00:20:12,435 Speaker 1: little fantasy, paranoid world. The runner up worser the University 265 00:20:12,435 --> 00:20:15,675 Speaker 1: of South Carolina. I'll just read this intact from the 266 00:20:15,675 --> 00:20:19,835 Speaker 1: South Carolina Daily Gazette, the nonprofit news site in that 267 00:20:19,955 --> 00:20:23,875 Speaker 1: state Columbia. A social media message circulating among the University 268 00:20:23,875 --> 00:20:27,955 Speaker 1: of South Carolina alumni is criticizing the state's largest university 269 00:20:27,955 --> 00:20:30,915 Speaker 1: system for allowing the student event featuring a pair of 270 00:20:30,955 --> 00:20:35,795 Speaker 1: controversial far right political provocateurs, including the founder of the 271 00:20:35,835 --> 00:20:40,995 Speaker 1: Proud Boys. In response, a college spokesman said, allowing the 272 00:20:40,995 --> 00:20:43,235 Speaker 1: event as a matter of free speech. The September event, 273 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:48,195 Speaker 1: sponsored by the USC chapter of Uncensored America, bills itself 274 00:20:48,235 --> 00:20:53,075 Speaker 1: as a roast of Vice President Harris with roast masters 275 00:20:53,675 --> 00:20:58,755 Speaker 1: Milo Ianapolis and Gavin mckinness. It's Gavin mckinness from the 276 00:20:58,795 --> 00:21:02,235 Speaker 1: Proud Boys. Proud is a brand name. They don't have 277 00:21:02,275 --> 00:21:05,515 Speaker 1: anything to be proud about. The event's title uses a 278 00:21:05,635 --> 00:21:09,475 Speaker 1: crude spelling of the Democratic presidential nominee name, which the 279 00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: sc Daily Gazette is intentionally not repeating. Unquote, the newspaper 280 00:21:14,195 --> 00:21:17,595 Speaker 1: The Guardian is quoting a South Carolina student name Nick 281 00:21:17,635 --> 00:21:20,195 Speaker 1: Stewart is saying, as someone who normally has a lot 282 00:21:20,235 --> 00:21:24,155 Speaker 1: of school pride, this ordeal has made me feel ashamed 283 00:21:24,635 --> 00:21:29,115 Speaker 1: of being a student at USC. Well, yeah, look, it's 284 00:21:29,595 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: South Carolina, so our expectations for you doing the right 285 00:21:33,395 --> 00:21:36,475 Speaker 1: thing were next to nothing. But Jesus suffering f you're 286 00:21:36,515 --> 00:21:41,315 Speaker 1: actually hosting this on campus, an attack on a vice 287 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:45,195 Speaker 1: president of the United States and making a sexual joke 288 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:48,315 Speaker 1: about her. In the title of the thing with these 289 00:21:48,355 --> 00:21:54,515 Speaker 1: two idiots, mckinnis but our winner worse than all this 290 00:21:54,835 --> 00:21:59,795 Speaker 1: the worst Chris Cuomo I was explaining this. In fact, 291 00:21:59,915 --> 00:22:02,595 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo's name came up during it to a media 292 00:22:02,675 --> 00:22:05,555 Speaker 1: reporter the other day. There are those of us who 293 00:22:05,635 --> 00:22:10,755 Speaker 1: suffer from being on TV, radio, podcast disorder. It's a 294 00:22:10,795 --> 00:22:14,435 Speaker 1: minor personality disorder. And if you recognize you have it, 295 00:22:14,595 --> 00:22:17,915 Speaker 1: and that it's not quite one hundred percent healthy, you're 296 00:22:17,955 --> 00:22:21,635 Speaker 1: coping with it. You're not dangerous, You're not harming anybody. 297 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,475 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you might humiliate yourself now and again, 298 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:28,995 Speaker 1: But if you get fired from CNN for not understanding 299 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:33,355 Speaker 1: that there are rules about journalism and nepotism, and you 300 00:22:33,475 --> 00:22:37,555 Speaker 1: think you were right and so you must remain on TV, 301 00:22:38,395 --> 00:22:40,635 Speaker 1: you have the disease that says you must be on 302 00:22:40,715 --> 00:22:42,875 Speaker 1: TV to such a degree that you're willing to accept 303 00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:46,155 Speaker 1: a job on the nick at night of TV news 304 00:22:46,195 --> 00:22:49,955 Speaker 1: called News Nation. This is no longer a minor disorder, 305 00:22:50,195 --> 00:22:54,475 Speaker 1: it's no longer coping and you should seek help. Then 306 00:22:54,915 --> 00:22:57,315 Speaker 1: if you decide that what happened to Trump on Sunday, 307 00:22:57,355 --> 00:23:00,715 Speaker 1: what didn't happen to Trump on Sunday has never happened 308 00:23:00,715 --> 00:23:04,115 Speaker 1: to any politician before, even though your own father and 309 00:23:04,155 --> 00:23:07,835 Speaker 1: your own brother were governors, and you choose to call 310 00:23:07,955 --> 00:23:11,275 Speaker 1: Trump to apologize for something, and then you go on 311 00:23:11,355 --> 00:23:15,835 Speaker 1: the air and talk about calling Trump for twenty minutes. 312 00:23:16,755 --> 00:23:19,795 Speaker 1: I'm afraid, Chris Cuomo, you are in the tertiary stages 313 00:23:19,835 --> 00:23:20,715 Speaker 1: of this disease. 314 00:23:21,555 --> 00:23:28,155 Speaker 4: I called him today because I am ashamed of how 315 00:23:28,195 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 4: we are responding and not responding to the threats on him, 316 00:23:34,115 --> 00:23:37,395 Speaker 4: and I feel for his family. And I know you 317 00:23:37,395 --> 00:23:39,675 Speaker 4: can roll your eyes and say, oh, yeah, he asked, right, listen, 318 00:23:40,315 --> 00:23:42,915 Speaker 4: that's your choice, and I think it's a wrong choice. 319 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 3: Okay, we got to get out of. 320 00:23:46,315 --> 00:23:49,755 Speaker 4: The judgment business, unless it's judging ourselves. A guide point 321 00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:52,155 Speaker 4: in AK forty seven at him while he's playing golf, 322 00:23:53,555 --> 00:23:55,435 Speaker 4: and we take solace in the fact that the guy 323 00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:56,755 Speaker 4: didn't get any rounds off. 324 00:23:58,435 --> 00:23:59,635 Speaker 1: That does not work for me. 325 00:24:01,115 --> 00:24:03,075 Speaker 4: If I had been through what that guy's been through 326 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 4: in the last two months, you would not know where 327 00:24:05,035 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 4: I am. You would never see me on TV again. 328 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:11,835 Speaker 1: My god, Chris, get help, Chris. That happened to me. 329 00:24:11,875 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: You'd never see me on TV again. You're a news nation. 330 00:24:14,915 --> 00:24:19,035 Speaker 1: We never see you on TV now. Today's worst Person 331 00:24:19,955 --> 00:24:32,915 Speaker 1: nor She was the number one story on the Countdown 332 00:24:32,955 --> 00:24:35,195 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and things I promised not 333 00:24:35,275 --> 00:24:38,595 Speaker 1: to tell. I first lived in a New York City 334 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:43,835 Speaker 1: apartment in nineteen fifty nine. I mean, truth be told 335 00:24:43,995 --> 00:24:46,555 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. But I was in the womb then, 336 00:24:46,675 --> 00:24:49,795 Speaker 1: so I don't remember much about the apartment Grand Avenue 337 00:24:49,915 --> 00:24:53,635 Speaker 1: in the Bronx off Fordham Road. Full time. We live 338 00:24:53,715 --> 00:24:57,155 Speaker 1: there until October nineteen sixty, then roughly one day a 339 00:24:57,275 --> 00:25:01,515 Speaker 1: week in another apartment, the one my grandparents lived, same 340 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:05,235 Speaker 1: block until like my folks, my grandparents, it's moved out 341 00:25:05,235 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: of the Bronx to the suburbs round about when I 342 00:25:07,435 --> 00:25:10,875 Speaker 1: was seven. I did not get my own apartment in 343 00:25:10,915 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: New York City until nineteen eighty, which seems so long 344 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:16,515 Speaker 1: ago that if you ask me now, was it still 345 00:25:16,555 --> 00:25:19,995 Speaker 1: called New Amsterdam, then I'd have to stop and think 346 00:25:20,035 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: about my answer. Anyway, I was there the other day, 347 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:27,035 Speaker 1: a block away from my apartment. Could look right into 348 00:25:27,035 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: the window and at just the right angle to see it. 349 00:25:30,835 --> 00:25:34,035 Speaker 1: So I stood and stared and took some pictures with 350 00:25:34,115 --> 00:25:36,635 Speaker 1: my phone, and I shook my head and I went 351 00:25:36,795 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 1: into full flashback mode, and I saw the flames and 352 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:44,595 Speaker 1: the glow and the blackened lobby. Because one night somebody 353 00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:48,675 Speaker 1: threw a Malata fn cocktail into the building in which 354 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:53,315 Speaker 1: I had my first New York City apartment. The address 355 00:25:53,595 --> 00:25:56,915 Speaker 1: was it is two hundred and forty East fifty fifth Street, 356 00:25:57,275 --> 00:26:01,315 Speaker 1: Apartment ten F. It was two doors west of Second Avenue, 357 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:03,995 Speaker 1: south side of the street. It was the center apartment 358 00:26:04,035 --> 00:26:06,275 Speaker 1: on the streets side of the building, and I was 359 00:26:06,355 --> 00:26:09,515 Speaker 1: directly above the front entrance and above the only thing 360 00:26:09,555 --> 00:26:12,515 Speaker 1: of note in the whole place, a full fledged, old 361 00:26:12,555 --> 00:26:16,515 Speaker 1: fashioned New York City apartment building canopy. You could get 362 00:26:16,515 --> 00:26:18,315 Speaker 1: out of a cab and a rain storm and under 363 00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:20,595 Speaker 1: that canopy in like a second and a half and 364 00:26:20,675 --> 00:26:25,795 Speaker 1: pretty much not get wet. No doorman, no amenities, rather dubious, 365 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:29,675 Speaker 1: live in super but it had that canopy. I moved 366 00:26:29,755 --> 00:26:33,155 Speaker 1: in on June seventeenth, nineteen eighty. It was a big 367 00:26:33,195 --> 00:26:37,435 Speaker 1: studio apartment. The view was of a big video warehouse 368 00:26:37,475 --> 00:26:40,555 Speaker 1: across the street, though if you leaned out the westernmost 369 00:26:40,595 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: window you could see the City Corps Center, which was 370 00:26:43,035 --> 00:26:45,995 Speaker 1: always an impressive sight on a foggy night. The neighborhood 371 00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: and the building were safe and quiet, at least they 372 00:26:48,355 --> 00:26:50,875 Speaker 1: thought they were safe. It was a fifteen minute walk 373 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:52,755 Speaker 1: from my first job and then a twenty five minute 374 00:26:52,755 --> 00:26:55,555 Speaker 1: walk from my second job, and when I first rented there, 375 00:26:55,595 --> 00:26:58,915 Speaker 1: it was are you ready four hundred and eighty three 376 00:26:58,955 --> 00:27:04,355 Speaker 1: dollars a month, which sounds unbelievable except that was about 377 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:07,075 Speaker 1: a third of my salary. And I think when I 378 00:27:07,195 --> 00:27:09,275 Speaker 1: moved out in nineteen eighty four the rent had gone 379 00:27:09,315 --> 00:27:11,795 Speaker 1: up to five hundred and ten dollars a month, And 380 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:14,155 Speaker 1: that low price might have had something to do with 381 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:16,235 Speaker 1: the fact that one night somebody threw them all a 382 00:27:16,275 --> 00:27:20,795 Speaker 1: top cocktail into the building. You know how, once you've 383 00:27:20,835 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: been in any place for any length of time, you 384 00:27:23,355 --> 00:27:27,115 Speaker 1: get used to the physics of it, the feel of it. 385 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:31,475 Speaker 1: Not just someplace you live, any place you spend a 386 00:27:31,515 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: lot of time in an office, a classroom, a theater, 387 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:38,875 Speaker 1: or an apartment. You know what it sounds like. You 388 00:27:38,915 --> 00:27:41,675 Speaker 1: know what it feels like in the summer, or how 389 00:27:41,715 --> 00:27:43,755 Speaker 1: it feels differently in the winter. You know what it 390 00:27:43,875 --> 00:27:47,835 Speaker 1: looks like, the building, noise, the smells, if it's too hot, 391 00:27:47,875 --> 00:27:50,795 Speaker 1: if it's too cold, and especially, and think about this 392 00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:54,915 Speaker 1: for a second, especially what the light looks like at 393 00:27:55,035 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: every hour of the day. I don't know if there 394 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:01,235 Speaker 1: was a day when I could have said this is 395 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:03,475 Speaker 1: what the light looks like in Apartment ten f two 396 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:06,995 Speaker 1: forty East fifty fifth Street during a snowstorm, or what 397 00:28:07,035 --> 00:28:09,155 Speaker 1: the light looks like coming in through the shades at 398 00:28:09,155 --> 00:28:11,835 Speaker 1: eight in the morning or eight at night. But it 399 00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:15,235 Speaker 1: probably didn't take long. June nineteen eighty was when I 400 00:28:15,275 --> 00:28:17,115 Speaker 1: moved in. I bet I knew the various lights of 401 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:21,035 Speaker 1: the place by September, so by New Years of nineteen 402 00:28:21,075 --> 00:28:27,035 Speaker 1: eighty three, I knew it all instinctively, exactly reflexingly, boringly. 403 00:28:27,795 --> 00:28:30,035 Speaker 1: I would go to my bed in the southeast corner 404 00:28:30,035 --> 00:28:32,955 Speaker 1: of my studio apartment. I'd get in sleeping north south, 405 00:28:33,035 --> 00:28:35,435 Speaker 1: but with my head at the south end, and as 406 00:28:35,435 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: I lay on my back, I could look out the 407 00:28:37,155 --> 00:28:40,395 Speaker 1: windows and see the faint orangey glow from a couple 408 00:28:40,395 --> 00:28:43,075 Speaker 1: of street lights that shone through the four windows that 409 00:28:43,235 --> 00:28:45,595 Speaker 1: opened to on either side of a kind of small 410 00:28:45,675 --> 00:28:48,755 Speaker 1: picture window in the middle. The light would be brightest 411 00:28:48,755 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: from the window on the farthest right, which was the 412 00:28:50,835 --> 00:28:53,675 Speaker 1: one closest to Second Avenue and the closest to one 413 00:28:53,715 --> 00:28:58,755 Speaker 1: of those street lights. So on Sunday, January ninth, nineteen 414 00:28:58,835 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: eighty three, as that night turned into Monday, January tenth, 415 00:29:02,915 --> 00:29:05,715 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, I hit the sack around midnight because 416 00:29:05,755 --> 00:29:07,875 Speaker 1: I actually had one of those rare nine to five 417 00:29:07,995 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 1: jobs in television as a field reporter for CNN. I 418 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,315 Speaker 1: shut off the light on my nightstand. I laid down 419 00:29:14,315 --> 00:29:16,755 Speaker 1: on my back. I stared out my right hand window, 420 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:21,595 Speaker 1: and immediately I thought, boy, the light is slightly more 421 00:29:21,755 --> 00:29:26,595 Speaker 1: orange than it should be. What the hell's wrong? I'm 422 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:28,555 Speaker 1: guessing it was no more than five or ten percent 423 00:29:28,635 --> 00:29:31,395 Speaker 1: different from usual. But as I've gone to such lengths 424 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:33,875 Speaker 1: to point out, if you see the same light through 425 00:29:33,915 --> 00:29:38,355 Speaker 1: the same window in all conceivable conditions almost every night 426 00:29:38,435 --> 00:29:42,155 Speaker 1: for more than two years, five or ten percent difference 427 00:29:42,235 --> 00:29:44,995 Speaker 1: is a lot, I think. I lay there trying to 428 00:29:44,995 --> 00:29:46,555 Speaker 1: figure it out for a minute or so when I 429 00:29:46,595 --> 00:29:52,355 Speaker 1: realized it was now ten or fifteen percent different. Cleverly, 430 00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:55,755 Speaker 1: I got up and went to the window and rolled 431 00:29:55,835 --> 00:29:58,195 Speaker 1: up the shade and looked down to that canopy ten 432 00:29:58,235 --> 00:30:01,075 Speaker 1: floors below, and I must say, to my credit, I 433 00:30:01,315 --> 00:30:07,315 Speaker 1: quickly discerned that the canopy was on on fire. I 434 00:30:07,355 --> 00:30:11,275 Speaker 1: reacted as almost everybody does, matter of factly, thinking, maybe 435 00:30:11,315 --> 00:30:15,275 Speaker 1: even saying out loud, hey, the canopy is on fire. 436 00:30:15,835 --> 00:30:18,755 Speaker 1: And then registering the fact that the fire had already 437 00:30:18,795 --> 00:30:21,875 Speaker 1: burned through the building end of that canopy, and it 438 00:30:21,955 --> 00:30:27,155 Speaker 1: was moving quickly outwards towards the street, suggesting again, I 439 00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:30,755 Speaker 1: must say, I figured this out for myself, suggesting that 440 00:30:30,795 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: there was probably a fire in the lobby. I put 441 00:30:35,155 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: a robe on over my pajamas, I put on some shoes. 442 00:30:37,915 --> 00:30:40,475 Speaker 1: I grabbed my wallet and my keys, and I ventured 443 00:30:40,515 --> 00:30:42,875 Speaker 1: into the hallway. No smell of smoke, which I took 444 00:30:42,915 --> 00:30:47,395 Speaker 1: again intelligently, is a good sign. Two elevators were staring 445 00:30:47,435 --> 00:30:48,915 Speaker 1: me in the face, but I knew better than to 446 00:30:48,955 --> 00:30:52,755 Speaker 1: try them. I was, after all, the grandson of a firefighter. 447 00:30:53,675 --> 00:30:57,755 Speaker 1: So I opened the stairwell and then I smelled the smoke. Faint, 448 00:30:57,915 --> 00:31:01,555 Speaker 1: but it was there. I went down two floors, and 449 00:31:01,715 --> 00:31:04,035 Speaker 1: every step I took the smell got a little stronger. 450 00:31:04,715 --> 00:31:07,315 Speaker 1: I went back up. I went back into my apartment. 451 00:31:07,875 --> 00:31:10,475 Speaker 1: I did not really know what I was going to do. 452 00:31:11,955 --> 00:31:15,635 Speaker 1: Needless to say, ten floors is not jumpable. Also, there 453 00:31:15,675 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: was no outdoor fire escape like in many of the 454 00:31:18,315 --> 00:31:20,795 Speaker 1: New York City older apartment buildings. And even if I 455 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:23,435 Speaker 1: went down the elevator or the stairs or the side 456 00:31:23,475 --> 00:31:26,155 Speaker 1: of the damned building. I would wind up right in 457 00:31:26,195 --> 00:31:29,675 Speaker 1: the middle of the fire. For a few seconds, I 458 00:31:29,795 --> 00:31:32,635 Speaker 1: really didn't know what to do next. Me, the grandson 459 00:31:32,675 --> 00:31:34,795 Speaker 1: of the man who was not only a firefighter, but 460 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:41,635 Speaker 1: who drove the hook and ladder irony also fire. That's 461 00:31:41,675 --> 00:31:43,755 Speaker 1: when the sound of the fire engines broke me out 462 00:31:43,835 --> 00:31:47,675 Speaker 1: of self absorption and cheered me, I must say considerably. 463 00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:51,795 Speaker 1: They parked right near where that convenient canopy used to be, 464 00:31:52,435 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 1: but was now pretty much a charred hunk of the 465 00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:58,755 Speaker 1: metal framing in a little burned fabric. I'm sure you've 466 00:31:58,795 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: seen a fire. Maybe you've seen firefighters arrive at one 467 00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,475 Speaker 1: and get going with their amazing speed, But there is 468 00:32:05,555 --> 00:32:08,955 Speaker 1: something different in seeing it from the vantage point of 469 00:32:08,995 --> 00:32:13,755 Speaker 1: being above the fire. First there is an extraordinary amount 470 00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:17,035 Speaker 1: of water, then a lot of smoke, then an almost 471 00:32:17,155 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: unstoppable instinct to say cool. And then you go and 472 00:32:20,835 --> 00:32:23,795 Speaker 1: check the stairwell again and joyfully inhale the smell of 473 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:26,635 Speaker 1: stuff that had been on fire but was now no 474 00:32:26,755 --> 00:32:31,515 Speaker 1: longer on fire and just inundated with water. Hallelujah. I 475 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:33,915 Speaker 1: waited until after they left before I decided to go 476 00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:36,595 Speaker 1: back to my bed. I did not feel the need 477 00:32:36,635 --> 00:32:39,515 Speaker 1: to add to whatever loud chaos was going on in 478 00:32:39,555 --> 00:32:42,835 Speaker 1: the lobby or what have been the lobby, nor to 479 00:32:42,835 --> 00:32:45,595 Speaker 1: get any details about the fire other than the key one, 480 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:49,835 Speaker 1: which was it's out. But in the morning, since I 481 00:32:49,875 --> 00:32:53,195 Speaker 1: had to go to work anyway, I saw the elevator 482 00:32:53,235 --> 00:32:56,475 Speaker 1: door open onto the little linoleum covered landing in the lobby, 483 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:58,955 Speaker 1: and saw that everything else but it in the lobby 484 00:32:59,035 --> 00:33:03,755 Speaker 1: was jet black. They were still hosing some of it down. 485 00:33:04,515 --> 00:33:08,955 Speaker 1: They were already pulling up burned carpet, installing new windows 486 00:33:08,995 --> 00:33:12,355 Speaker 1: and doors, and carting away what was left of the canopy. 487 00:33:12,835 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: And it was evident that as thorough a job as 488 00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:19,675 Speaker 1: had been done there, nothing else in the building had burned. Nothing. 489 00:33:21,675 --> 00:33:24,115 Speaker 1: In the days and weeks to come, the other residents, 490 00:33:24,195 --> 00:33:26,995 Speaker 1: knowing I worked in news, clued me in on the 491 00:33:27,075 --> 00:33:30,115 Speaker 1: rumors and asked me to check them out. There was 492 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:33,955 Speaker 1: a dispute, somebody said, involving the owner. There was something 493 00:33:33,995 --> 00:33:36,155 Speaker 1: about a woman. No, there was nothing about a woman. 494 00:33:36,355 --> 00:33:40,995 Speaker 1: But all of them, every story, every rumor, included the obvious. 495 00:33:42,435 --> 00:33:44,915 Speaker 1: That was no boating accident. Somebody had thrown a milo 496 00:33:44,915 --> 00:33:49,395 Speaker 1: toof cocktail into or against our front door, and then 497 00:33:49,435 --> 00:33:52,595 Speaker 1: there was the best of the stories, born out or 498 00:33:52,635 --> 00:33:56,075 Speaker 1: at least lent plausibility by the rapidity with which the 499 00:33:56,115 --> 00:33:59,595 Speaker 1: firefighters arrived, which thinking back on it was no more 500 00:33:59,635 --> 00:34:02,875 Speaker 1: than three or four minutes after I first saw the 501 00:34:02,995 --> 00:34:07,515 Speaker 1: extra orange glow. The best rumor was that the fire 502 00:34:07,555 --> 00:34:12,435 Speaker 1: department had been called by somebody before anybody in the 503 00:34:12,475 --> 00:34:17,355 Speaker 1: building had called. The implication was somebody called in a 504 00:34:17,395 --> 00:34:23,195 Speaker 1: fire and then started the fire. For forty years plus 505 00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:27,155 Speaker 1: I have been unable to find the truth. The fire, 506 00:34:27,275 --> 00:34:30,875 Speaker 1: doing superficial but ultimately not serious damage did not make 507 00:34:30,915 --> 00:34:33,955 Speaker 1: the New York newspapers. Hell that year, I took a 508 00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:35,595 Speaker 1: subway to work in the morning and there was a 509 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:38,315 Speaker 1: guy sprawled over three seats. And when I went home 510 00:34:38,355 --> 00:34:40,155 Speaker 1: that night, I happened to get on the exact same 511 00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:43,235 Speaker 1: train car and there was the exact same guy sprawled 512 00:34:43,235 --> 00:34:45,915 Speaker 1: over the exact same three seats because he was dead. 513 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:49,355 Speaker 1: And that didn't make the New York newspapers of nineteen 514 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:53,915 Speaker 1: eighty three either. We old timey New Yorkers, we lived 515 00:34:53,955 --> 00:34:58,555 Speaker 1: on the edge. Baby. All I know is that within 516 00:34:58,635 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: weeks a doorman was hired. His name was Jane and 517 00:35:02,715 --> 00:35:05,635 Speaker 1: he had a strong Irish accent. And he was still 518 00:35:05,675 --> 00:35:08,195 Speaker 1: there as of two thousand and two, and then the 519 00:35:08,235 --> 00:35:12,035 Speaker 1: building suddenly went co op. All of us renters were 520 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:15,755 Speaker 1: suddenly offered the chance to buy our apartments. But I 521 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:17,915 Speaker 1: didn't want to take out a loan, and I expected 522 00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:20,115 Speaker 1: to be moving to Boston in the near future, and 523 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:23,435 Speaker 1: I kept thinking about that Molotov cocktail. So I turned 524 00:35:23,475 --> 00:35:27,275 Speaker 1: down that apartment at the price of are you lying 525 00:35:27,395 --> 00:35:36,155 Speaker 1: down thirty six five hundred dollars. Turned it down because, yeah, 526 00:35:36,195 --> 00:35:40,595 Speaker 1: there was the fire and the loan and Boston. But 527 00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:44,155 Speaker 1: ultimately I turned it down, even just to keep as 528 00:35:44,195 --> 00:35:48,275 Speaker 1: a storage unit. I turned that apartment down because when 529 00:35:48,315 --> 00:36:05,955 Speaker 1: it comes to investments, I'm a moron. I've done all 530 00:36:05,955 --> 00:36:08,155 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 531 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:11,115 Speaker 1: We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly 532 00:36:11,235 --> 00:36:14,875 Speaker 1: just after midnight Eastern. Once again there is a Monday countdown. 533 00:36:15,635 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: I was just thinking as I read that, if you 534 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:20,995 Speaker 1: said to me in nineteen eighty, you know you'll still 535 00:36:20,995 --> 00:36:23,075 Speaker 1: be doing this when you're sixty five, only you'll be 536 00:36:23,115 --> 00:36:27,155 Speaker 1: doing a podcast. I wouldn't have had any idea what 537 00:36:27,155 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: you were talking about. Of churs. I was pretty dim then. 538 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:32,515 Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have had any idea what you were 539 00:36:32,555 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: talking about, no matter what you brought up. 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Other music arranged and performed 548 00:37:02,475 --> 00:37:05,315 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed and out here today 549 00:37:05,435 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: is my friend Tony Kornheiser in honor of the retirement 550 00:37:08,315 --> 00:37:12,155 Speaker 1: of WOJ. Good Luck Adrian. Everything else was pretty much 551 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:14,915 Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for this the forty eighth day 552 00:37:14,955 --> 00:37:19,075 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the one and 553 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:24,995 Speaker 1: forty sixth day since convicted felon domestic jay terrorists first 554 00:37:25,075 --> 00:37:28,355 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government in the United States. 555 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:31,635 Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential 556 00:37:31,635 --> 00:37:34,755 Speaker 1: immunity if you have to to keep him from doing 557 00:37:34,755 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 558 00:37:40,195 --> 00:37:43,835 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires till the next 559 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:47,115 Speaker 1: one on Keith Olderman good Morning, good afternoon, good night, 560 00:37:47,675 --> 00:38:03,835 Speaker 1: and good luck. 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