1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:21,675 --> 00:00:26,435 Speaker 1: trump stochastic terrorist who hunted Barack Obama was so untethered 3 00:00:26,475 --> 00:00:29,555 Speaker 1: from reality that he was kicked out of a group 4 00:00:29,595 --> 00:00:34,595 Speaker 1: that holds nightly prayer vigils outside the jail in Washington 5 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:39,955 Speaker 1: for the January sixth insurrectionist defendants. The good news is 6 00:00:40,435 --> 00:00:44,795 Speaker 1: the judge in the Tailor Taranto case bought prosecutors and 7 00:00:44,875 --> 00:00:48,795 Speaker 1: former President Obama and the country a little more time 8 00:00:49,395 --> 00:00:52,195 Speaker 1: by not ruling yesterday on whether or not Toronto can 9 00:00:52,235 --> 00:00:56,075 Speaker 1: be held without bail until trial. The judge ordered prosecution 10 00:00:56,235 --> 00:01:00,395 Speaker 1: and defense to return to court next Wednesday to continue arguments. 11 00:01:00,755 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: That might be enough time for the Justice Department to 12 00:01:03,515 --> 00:01:06,755 Speaker 1: actually get its act together and stop sleep walking while 13 00:01:06,755 --> 00:01:10,195 Speaker 1: the rest of us face this nightmare. At the courthouse yesterday, 14 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:14,475 Speaker 1: the Assistant US Attorney Allison Ethan confirmed the government intended 15 00:01:14,475 --> 00:01:18,715 Speaker 1: to seek additional charges against Toronto. What charges, no answer? 16 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:23,595 Speaker 1: When no answer? What Tailored Toronto did a week ago 17 00:01:23,675 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: Thursday should be enough to underscore what a threat he 18 00:01:27,075 --> 00:01:30,515 Speaker 1: is and what a threat Donald Trump is by proxy, 19 00:01:30,595 --> 00:01:34,955 Speaker 1: by remote control, by surrogate. After Trump docks the Obama 20 00:01:35,035 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 1: family home, and Toronto reposted that doxing Toronto live streamed 21 00:01:39,555 --> 00:01:42,395 Speaker 1: himself near the house, explaining he was looking for quote 22 00:01:42,795 --> 00:01:47,435 Speaker 1: entrance points and a quote good angle on a shot unquote. 23 00:01:47,835 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: One would hope that he had met a video shot. 24 00:01:52,075 --> 00:01:55,515 Speaker 1: His van filled with two hundred rounds of ammunition, an 25 00:01:55,635 --> 00:02:01,155 Speaker 1: SNWMNP shield firearm and a SESSCA nine millimeter CZ Scorpion 26 00:02:01,195 --> 00:02:05,955 Speaker 1: E three firearm. They suggest. Otherwise, that is the same 27 00:02:06,115 --> 00:02:08,915 Speaker 1: band that the day before Toronto said, and yet another 28 00:02:08,995 --> 00:02:11,635 Speaker 1: live stream he was going to blow up outside the 29 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, at which 30 00:02:14,995 --> 00:02:19,475 Speaker 1: is located a nuclear reactor used for government research. The 31 00:02:19,555 --> 00:02:24,115 Speaker 1: infuriating reality that the Department of Justice cannot arrest Trump 32 00:02:24,235 --> 00:02:28,635 Speaker 1: for this just the latest example of madness and terrorism 33 00:02:28,715 --> 00:02:31,835 Speaker 1: coming out of his mouth and then being enacted by 34 00:02:31,915 --> 00:02:37,235 Speaker 1: an unbalanced fascist, I mean a different unbalanced fascist, somebody 35 00:02:37,315 --> 00:02:40,875 Speaker 1: other than Trump is to some degree counterbalanced by the 36 00:02:40,915 --> 00:02:45,275 Speaker 1: reality that DOJ can do something about Toronto and the 37 00:02:45,435 --> 00:02:48,595 Speaker 1: robot can be held accountable, if not the mad scientist 38 00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:53,515 Speaker 1: who built it, because the robot is dangerous enough it is. 39 00:02:53,715 --> 00:02:58,315 Speaker 1: WUSATV Channel nine in Washington reporting that just a week ago, 40 00:02:58,355 --> 00:03:01,715 Speaker 1: the leaders of this January sixth vigil group asked Toronto 41 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:06,875 Speaker 1: to leave. They disassociated themselves from him because, as the 42 00:03:06,915 --> 00:03:10,675 Speaker 1: wife of convicted three percenter Guy Refitt told the reporter, 43 00:03:10,955 --> 00:03:16,275 Speaker 1: Toronto quote did an interview saying he believed Ashley Babbitt 44 00:03:16,315 --> 00:03:20,715 Speaker 1: was not really dead. That is how far gone Taylor. 45 00:03:20,835 --> 00:03:25,115 Speaker 1: Toronto is the wife of a militia leader whom prosecutors 46 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:27,875 Speaker 1: proved in court quote lit. The match of the insurrection, 47 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:30,715 Speaker 1: who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. 48 00:03:30,995 --> 00:03:34,395 Speaker 1: She did not want to be associated with that guy. 49 00:03:36,875 --> 00:03:39,635 Speaker 1: There are two problems, though, with putting Toronto away and 50 00:03:39,755 --> 00:03:43,515 Speaker 1: keeping him there. The first is obvious to Trump. Toronto 51 00:03:43,635 --> 00:03:49,315 Speaker 1: is fungible, replaceable, irrelevant, meaningless enough to not really exist 52 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:52,995 Speaker 1: in Trump's mind. But the second problem takes us back 53 00:03:52,995 --> 00:03:57,595 Speaker 1: to infuriating realities. Taranto's lawyer, an assistant federal public defender, 54 00:03:57,835 --> 00:04:00,955 Speaker 1: says she believes the additional charges the government may file 55 00:04:00,995 --> 00:04:06,275 Speaker 1: against him would be local firearms charge arges. She says 56 00:04:06,315 --> 00:04:09,875 Speaker 1: they would be insufficient to allow the judge Zia Ferruki 57 00:04:10,355 --> 00:04:17,075 Speaker 1: to detain him without bail until trial. The premise of 58 00:04:17,195 --> 00:04:20,915 Speaker 1: Trump as terrorist, as the perpetrator of a well planned 59 00:04:20,955 --> 00:04:25,395 Speaker 1: series of stochastic terrorists' incitements is not just academic, but 60 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:28,555 Speaker 1: terrifyingly practical. And if you are sick to death of 61 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:31,995 Speaker 1: that word stochastic, I apologize, but it is the correct word, 62 00:04:32,235 --> 00:04:36,155 Speaker 1: and its importance was again underscored just yesterday when Citizens 63 00:04:36,195 --> 00:04:41,035 Speaker 1: for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREWE issued an analysis 64 00:04:41,115 --> 00:04:46,115 Speaker 1: of the defenses of literally everyone charged for participation in 65 00:04:46,195 --> 00:04:49,995 Speaker 1: the January sixth coup attempt. At last check, that number 66 00:04:49,995 --> 00:04:55,675 Speaker 1: had exceeded one thousand and thirty individuals, and CREWE found 67 00:04:55,755 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: that one hundred and seventy four of that more than 68 00:04:58,875 --> 00:05:03,595 Speaker 1: one thousand and thirty, specifically said they were quote answering 69 00:05:03,715 --> 00:05:08,475 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's calls when they traveled to Washington and joined 70 00:05:08,475 --> 00:05:13,315 Speaker 1: the violent attack on the capitol. In court filings, in transcripts, 71 00:05:13,355 --> 00:05:17,395 Speaker 1: in news items. These one hundred and seventy four people, 72 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:21,955 Speaker 1: again quoting the Crew report, considered Trump their leader and 73 00:05:22,075 --> 00:05:25,075 Speaker 1: believed they were following his lead by joining the insurrection, 74 00:05:25,315 --> 00:05:27,875 Speaker 1: and nearly all of those made some reference to his 75 00:05:28,195 --> 00:05:32,875 Speaker 1: December nineteenth It'll be Wild tweet about what would happen 76 00:05:32,915 --> 00:05:37,275 Speaker 1: on January sixth. Of those one hundred and seventy four defendants. 77 00:05:37,395 --> 00:05:41,435 Speaker 1: Ninety four specifically cited Trump's remarks in his January sixth 78 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: speech quote as the reason they went to the Capitol. 79 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:48,235 Speaker 1: Crew notes ominously that these totals do not include those 80 00:05:48,315 --> 00:05:50,235 Speaker 1: at the speech who were part of the attack on 81 00:05:50,275 --> 00:05:55,555 Speaker 1: the Capitol but not arrested or not yet arrested, a group, 82 00:05:55,635 --> 00:06:00,875 Speaker 1: of course, which includes Donald Trump. What Trump did last 83 00:06:00,915 --> 00:06:04,675 Speaker 1: Thursday was to incite an assassination attempt against a former 84 00:06:04,715 --> 00:06:08,755 Speaker 1: resident of the United States, and it is again infuriating 85 00:06:08,835 --> 00:06:12,635 Speaker 1: to realize that to find him legally responsible, even in 86 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:15,795 Speaker 1: the slightest manner, police would have had to let Taylor 87 00:06:15,835 --> 00:06:19,915 Speaker 1: Taranto begin to do whatever it was that he planned 88 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:24,235 Speaker 1: to do at the Obama home. But the cause and 89 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:28,435 Speaker 1: effect relationship of Trump's words and violent attacks or threats 90 00:06:28,515 --> 00:06:32,875 Speaker 1: or attempted attacks has already been proven too many times. Materially, 91 00:06:32,955 --> 00:06:36,835 Speaker 1: it began when Trump attacked Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, 92 00:06:37,235 --> 00:06:40,635 Speaker 1: and President Obama and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and 93 00:06:40,675 --> 00:06:44,075 Speaker 1: Corey Booker, Eric Holder and George Soros and Maxine Waters 94 00:06:44,075 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: and Robert De Niro and CNN and a man named 95 00:06:47,395 --> 00:06:52,155 Speaker 1: Ceesar Seyak sent all of them and six others pipe bombs. 96 00:06:53,035 --> 00:06:55,755 Speaker 1: And after Sayesar Seyak cut a plea deal and the 97 00:06:55,875 --> 00:06:58,635 Speaker 1: FBI got into his computer, they found another list of 98 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:01,395 Speaker 1: potential second wave targets, and it was thorough enough that 99 00:07:01,395 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: the FBI called and told me I was on it. 100 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: Trump attacked Black Lives Matter. Kyle Rittenhouse shot to Black 101 00:07:09,315 --> 00:07:13,155 Speaker 1: Lives Matter protesters, and the Missouri couple the mccloskey's, pointed 102 00:07:13,235 --> 00:07:17,715 Speaker 1: guns at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. Trump attacked 103 00:07:17,755 --> 00:07:22,115 Speaker 1: Michigan Governor Whitmer. Fascist plotters tried to kidnap Governor Whitmer, 104 00:07:22,395 --> 00:07:25,915 Speaker 1: and now Trump dox's Obama, and a heavily armed veteran 105 00:07:26,195 --> 00:07:30,035 Speaker 1: trained by this nation to kill in Iraq goes to 106 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:34,275 Speaker 1: that address to seek a good angle on a shot. 107 00:07:35,955 --> 00:07:39,075 Speaker 1: As much as the stochastic terrorism of Donald Trump is 108 00:07:39,275 --> 00:07:42,435 Speaker 1: practical and not theoretical, there is little practical that would 109 00:07:42,475 --> 00:07:46,035 Speaker 1: happen by repeating the fundamental truth in this equation, But 110 00:07:46,115 --> 00:07:50,995 Speaker 1: repeat it we must anyway. Donald Trump is evil. Donald 111 00:07:51,035 --> 00:07:53,715 Speaker 1: Trump is a threat to the safety and continuity and 112 00:07:53,795 --> 00:07:56,395 Speaker 1: freedom of this nation and every one of us in it. 113 00:07:56,595 --> 00:08:00,195 Speaker 1: And we must say this again and again until such 114 00:08:00,235 --> 00:08:03,395 Speaker 1: time as the laws that supposedly exist to protect us 115 00:08:03,435 --> 00:08:06,875 Speaker 1: from the evil in which preachers like Trump traffic, deny 116 00:08:06,995 --> 00:08:10,435 Speaker 1: him his ability to send his seeds of hate and 117 00:08:10,515 --> 00:08:14,835 Speaker 1: violence into the atmosphere and hope, in fact, and know 118 00:08:15,755 --> 00:08:19,315 Speaker 1: that they will grow in the fertile, poisoned soil of 119 00:08:19,595 --> 00:08:30,195 Speaker 1: terrorists at arms distance. Like Taylor Tarento, timing is everything 120 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:34,435 Speaker 1: in life, or maybe more specifically, juxtaposition is everything in life. 121 00:08:34,595 --> 00:08:38,275 Speaker 1: Crew finds one hundred and seventy four January sixth defendants, 122 00:08:38,275 --> 00:08:42,755 Speaker 1: invoking Trump's December nineteenth tweet about how wild January sixth 123 00:08:42,795 --> 00:08:46,515 Speaker 1: would be and his other comments as his call that 124 00:08:46,555 --> 00:08:51,235 Speaker 1: they were answering. Hours after the Crew report, CNN joins 125 00:08:51,275 --> 00:08:54,395 Speaker 1: the chorus of reporting that the Office of the Special 126 00:08:54,435 --> 00:08:58,075 Speaker 1: Prosecutor is zeroing in on the chaotic White House meeting 127 00:08:58,475 --> 00:09:02,115 Speaker 1: earlier in that day. In the life of Trump, the 128 00:09:02,235 --> 00:09:06,155 Speaker 1: tweet was early on the morning of the nineteenth. This 129 00:09:06,315 --> 00:09:11,355 Speaker 1: meeting was on the eighteenth. The timeline is inarguable, but 130 00:09:11,395 --> 00:09:14,755 Speaker 1: I have not often heard these connections made. Trump was 131 00:09:14,835 --> 00:09:18,715 Speaker 1: pitched an idea to have the military seize voting machines. 132 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,915 Speaker 1: The madness of Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell and the others, 133 00:09:22,955 --> 00:09:26,315 Speaker 1: and the rank opportunism of Rudy Giuliani were on full 134 00:09:26,355 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: display in the White House, and when the meeting on 135 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:33,035 Speaker 1: the eighteenth did not end in an agreement to invoke 136 00:09:33,035 --> 00:09:36,195 Speaker 1: at least one aspect of martial law than to invoke 137 00:09:36,235 --> 00:09:38,075 Speaker 1: the end of two hundred and forty four years of 138 00:09:38,075 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: American democracy, Trump thwarted like a three year old child 139 00:09:41,915 --> 00:09:45,995 Speaker 1: in diapers. Turned to his next idea to overthrow the 140 00:09:45,995 --> 00:09:50,355 Speaker 1: government and stay in power, mob violence summoned by social media. 141 00:09:51,435 --> 00:09:55,395 Speaker 1: CNN reported last night that Giuliani talked to Smith staffers 142 00:09:55,795 --> 00:09:59,715 Speaker 1: for two consecutive days last month, and much of it 143 00:09:59,755 --> 00:10:03,515 Speaker 1: was about the December eighteenth White House meeting. Quoting the report, 144 00:10:03,955 --> 00:10:08,435 Speaker 1: prosecutors have specifically inquired about three outside Trump advisors who 145 00:10:08,515 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: participated in the meeting, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, one 146 00:10:12,635 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: time national security advisor Michael Flynn, and former Overstock CEO 147 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:25,435 Speaker 1: Patrick Byrne. Unquote, somehow Mike Lindell evaded detection. CNN concludes 148 00:10:25,475 --> 00:10:28,195 Speaker 1: all this means quote, Smith's team appears to be nearing 149 00:10:28,475 --> 00:10:32,075 Speaker 1: charging decisions in the investigation into efforts to overturn the 150 00:10:32,115 --> 00:10:36,355 Speaker 1: election results. CNN does not say this, I will. We 151 00:10:36,395 --> 00:10:39,555 Speaker 1: should be prepared for the indictment of not just Trump here, 152 00:10:39,755 --> 00:10:43,595 Speaker 1: but also Flynn and Powell and Burn and probably others. 153 00:10:44,155 --> 00:10:48,515 Speaker 1: And if Giuliani and Mark Meadows and hell if Lindell 154 00:10:48,715 --> 00:10:52,155 Speaker 1: are not among them, we can conclude they will appear 155 00:10:52,195 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: in the case after all, as witnesses for the prosecution. 156 00:11:00,795 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: So far it is only little stupid Walt Naude who 157 00:11:04,675 --> 00:11:07,995 Speaker 1: there's the infamy of indictment alongside Trump. And I almost 158 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:12,595 Speaker 1: feel sorry for Walt. He finally pleaded yesterday not guilty. 159 00:11:13,275 --> 00:11:15,835 Speaker 1: This came just hours after more of the FBI request 160 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:18,915 Speaker 1: for the June twenty twenty two warrant to search Marrilago 161 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:24,115 Speaker 1: became unredacted, and the unredacted request describes security video from 162 00:11:24,195 --> 00:11:26,955 Speaker 1: May twenty fourth, and according to the Wall Street Journal, 163 00:11:26,955 --> 00:11:30,275 Speaker 1: the video shows naw toa quote moving dozens of boxes 164 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:34,195 Speaker 1: in the days before Justice Department investigators visited the property 165 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:39,075 Speaker 1: to retrieve records. And then on May twenty sixth, two 166 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:43,155 Speaker 1: days later, the FBI interviewed Walt Naude and that's when 167 00:11:43,195 --> 00:11:46,315 Speaker 1: he allegedly denied knowing much about the movement of boxes 168 00:11:46,995 --> 00:11:52,155 Speaker 1: nor their location, and that's why investigators began to suspect 169 00:11:52,235 --> 00:11:59,795 Speaker 1: Trump had pulled the old switcheroo. Not good news for Walt. 170 00:12:00,195 --> 00:12:02,915 Speaker 1: He's not guilty plea means Walt finally did find a 171 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:06,715 Speaker 1: Florida attorney willing to take his case. She is Sasha 172 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:10,555 Speaker 1: de Don and doing a quick goog on her resume, 173 00:12:10,715 --> 00:12:13,875 Speaker 1: I am even closer to feelings sorry for Walt. She 174 00:12:14,155 --> 00:12:16,635 Speaker 1: was described in news accounts as quote a thirty four 175 00:12:16,715 --> 00:12:21,715 Speaker 1: year old Republican all purpose criminal defense attorney, and incredibly 176 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:26,395 Speaker 1: that seems to be a generous description. She is listed 177 00:12:26,435 --> 00:12:30,035 Speaker 1: throughout the internet as a divorce and criminal defense attorney, 178 00:12:30,435 --> 00:12:36,475 Speaker 1: a personal injury attorney, good at juvenile law, DUI and DWI. 179 00:12:36,515 --> 00:12:41,235 Speaker 1: And this was once posted on Facebook quote got a ticket, 180 00:12:41,435 --> 00:12:46,475 Speaker 1: don't pay it? Call attorney Sasha to doan bana. Free consultations, 181 00:12:46,475 --> 00:12:56,275 Speaker 1: affordable prices. Good luck out there, Walt. Oh. By the way, 182 00:12:57,475 --> 00:13:01,915 Speaker 1: the Florida GOP says that if would be presidential nominees 183 00:13:01,995 --> 00:13:04,475 Speaker 1: want to be on the ballot for the Florida primary 184 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:09,715 Speaker 1: March nineteenth, they will have to sign a notarized pledge 185 00:13:09,755 --> 00:13:13,195 Speaker 1: not just to support the eventual Republican nominee, but to 186 00:13:13,435 --> 00:13:16,515 Speaker 1: indorse that nominee and to not run as a third 187 00:13:16,595 --> 00:13:20,475 Speaker 1: party candidate. Same language, as the National GOP pledge to 188 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: endorse or you don't get into the Republican debates notarized, 189 00:13:26,355 --> 00:13:29,235 Speaker 1: you have to go down to the mailboxes, etc. And 190 00:13:29,315 --> 00:13:32,195 Speaker 1: get a notary to witness you signing it and everything, 191 00:13:32,315 --> 00:13:34,635 Speaker 1: and you have to submit it by November twenty two. 192 00:13:35,075 --> 00:13:38,115 Speaker 1: Looking at you, mister de Santis, Looking at you, mister 193 00:13:38,195 --> 00:13:44,155 Speaker 1: Tarump prediction. I don't know what DeSantis has planned unless 194 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:46,675 Speaker 1: he's just going to turn all this over to that erzatz. 195 00:13:46,835 --> 00:13:49,955 Speaker 1: Jackie Kennedy wanna be wife of his. But I know 196 00:13:50,315 --> 00:13:53,995 Speaker 1: exactly what Trump will do for both the Florida and 197 00:13:54,075 --> 00:13:58,195 Speaker 1: the National GOP pledges. He will make those pledges, he 198 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:01,955 Speaker 1: will fundraise off of making those pledges, and if he 199 00:14:02,035 --> 00:14:05,595 Speaker 1: does not get the nomination, he will simply deny he 200 00:14:05,715 --> 00:14:08,195 Speaker 1: made those pledges, or he will sue to prevent the 201 00:14:08,235 --> 00:14:11,875 Speaker 1: pledges enforcement, or he will send people to kill whoever 202 00:14:12,075 --> 00:14:21,995 Speaker 1: has his pledges. Also of interest in this all new 203 00:14:22,155 --> 00:14:25,675 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, how crazy does Taylor Taranto have to 204 00:14:25,715 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: be to get kicked out of the January sixth Defendants 205 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:33,355 Speaker 1: Jail Side, vigil Marching and Chowder Society? How about exactly 206 00:14:33,435 --> 00:14:37,555 Speaker 1: as reprehensible as Marjorie Taylor Green has to have been 207 00:14:37,915 --> 00:14:40,875 Speaker 1: to have gotten kicked out of the house quote freedom, 208 00:14:41,035 --> 00:14:43,675 Speaker 1: unquote caucus. And if you're wondering, that is just a 209 00:14:43,715 --> 00:14:48,355 Speaker 1: brand name. And what do you do if you are 210 00:14:48,435 --> 00:14:50,835 Speaker 1: the mayor of New York City and you say that 211 00:14:50,955 --> 00:14:53,915 Speaker 1: in your wallet you still carry a picture of your friend, 212 00:14:54,675 --> 00:14:58,475 Speaker 1: your fellow former cop fallen in the line of duty 213 00:14:58,555 --> 00:15:03,475 Speaker 1: three long decades ago, and you show a newspaper the 214 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:08,795 Speaker 1: photo and it is clear that the photo was just 215 00:15:09,155 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: printed off the internet and stained with coffee to make 216 00:15:14,275 --> 00:15:20,595 Speaker 1: it look older. What do you say? Then? You say, 217 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:30,435 Speaker 1: that's next? This discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Overman. 218 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:41,555 Speaker 1: Post Scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, 219 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:46,155 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline, Riga Latvia. The Wagner Group chief and 220 00:15:46,275 --> 00:15:50,915 Speaker 1: semi insurrectionist, Evgeny Pregosian is not in Belarus. He was 221 00:15:50,955 --> 00:15:55,155 Speaker 1: in Russia yesterday, so says the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, 222 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:58,555 Speaker 1: who was supposed to be providing progotion with safe harbor 223 00:15:58,675 --> 00:16:02,435 Speaker 1: in Belarus. A businessman in Saint Petersburg whose name was 224 00:16:02,435 --> 00:16:06,915 Speaker 1: withheld because his home has windows confirmed Progosian was in 225 00:16:06,995 --> 00:16:10,755 Speaker 1: the old Leningrad and maybe Moscow as well, yesterday to 226 00:16:10,835 --> 00:16:13,995 Speaker 1: reclaim his money and his weapons, and that there was 227 00:16:14,035 --> 00:16:16,595 Speaker 1: no truth rumors that Pregosion had gone to live on 228 00:16:16,635 --> 00:16:23,915 Speaker 1: a farm upstate, a collective farm upstate. Dayline Washington also 229 00:16:23,995 --> 00:16:27,555 Speaker 1: put out to pasture Marjorie Trader Barney Rubbell, White Supremacy. 230 00:16:27,675 --> 00:16:32,195 Speaker 1: Karen Green, Maryland Republican Andy Harris tells Politico she has 231 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:36,195 Speaker 1: indeed been kicked out of the ironically named House Freedom 232 00:16:36,275 --> 00:16:39,875 Speaker 1: Caucus because she voted for the debt deal, supported the 233 00:16:39,915 --> 00:16:43,195 Speaker 1: Republican Speaker of the House, and criticized members of that caucus. 234 00:16:43,195 --> 00:16:45,955 Speaker 1: And yes, that's right. This is the first time in 235 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:49,235 Speaker 1: her adult life that Marjorie Taylor Green clearly is not 236 00:16:49,475 --> 00:17:13,715 Speaker 1: the craziest one in the room. I'm q Nancy Faust Dateline. 237 00:17:13,755 --> 00:17:17,035 Speaker 1: The metaverse Threads has launched. As you know, it's pretty 238 00:17:17,075 --> 00:17:21,155 Speaker 1: much Twitter with a different typeface, not that different. Elon 239 00:17:21,275 --> 00:17:23,915 Speaker 1: Musk and Twitter had threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg, and 240 00:17:24,035 --> 00:17:26,755 Speaker 1: ordinarily you'd think they might have a good case, except 241 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:29,915 Speaker 1: for the premise of the threatened suit that Zuckerberg hired 242 00:17:29,955 --> 00:17:34,075 Speaker 1: ex Twitter employees to create a quote copycat. Two problems 243 00:17:34,075 --> 00:17:37,475 Speaker 1: with that Threads responds that nobody on its engineering team 244 00:17:37,675 --> 00:17:41,915 Speaker 1: is a former Twitter employee, and it was after all 245 00:17:41,955 --> 00:17:45,315 Speaker 1: Elon Musk who fired those hundreds of Twitter employees. He 246 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:48,875 Speaker 1: now wants to sue for going to work elsewhere. What 247 00:17:48,995 --> 00:17:52,955 Speaker 1: are we living in Russia? Dateline Iowa? What are we 248 00:17:53,035 --> 00:17:56,715 Speaker 1: living in Iowa? It is being spun as Mike Pence 249 00:17:56,795 --> 00:17:59,395 Speaker 1: was just saying that the top ten percent of wealtholders 250 00:17:59,435 --> 00:18:03,075 Speaker 1: in this country are already doing this. But Pence actually 251 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:05,875 Speaker 1: said this on video at a for Congress and Randy 252 00:18:06,035 --> 00:18:09,235 Speaker 1: Feinstra And it's a campaign ad waiting to happen. I 253 00:18:09,395 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: don't really buy into the rich need to pay their 254 00:18:12,955 --> 00:18:18,155 Speaker 1: fair share. Oops. Just say oops and get out. Even 255 00:18:18,195 --> 00:18:20,995 Speaker 1: for a Republican this could be a campaign ender. Of course, 256 00:18:21,035 --> 00:18:23,315 Speaker 1: to end the Pence campaign would have had to have 257 00:18:23,395 --> 00:18:28,675 Speaker 1: begun dateline Fox quote news unquote headquarters one two one 258 00:18:28,755 --> 00:18:31,675 Speaker 1: one avenue of the America's Fun City. Not only is 259 00:18:31,715 --> 00:18:34,475 Speaker 1: the lead story on that network the cocaine found at 260 00:18:34,515 --> 00:18:36,995 Speaker 1: the White House and the assumption that it has something 261 00:18:37,035 --> 00:18:40,995 Speaker 1: to do with Hunter Biden, but Steve Doocey compared the 262 00:18:41,035 --> 00:18:48,035 Speaker 1: investigation into this to the investigation of the Supreme Court leak. Wait, Steve, 263 00:18:48,515 --> 00:18:52,755 Speaker 1: you're really saying that it belongs to sam Alito. Deucy 264 00:18:52,795 --> 00:18:56,475 Speaker 1: also said something really weird, even for Fox. He introduced 265 00:18:56,475 --> 00:18:59,275 Speaker 1: his co host by saying, quote, we are so lucky 266 00:18:59,315 --> 00:19:02,995 Speaker 1: today to have on the curvy couch Kaylee mcinnaney, who 267 00:19:03,035 --> 00:19:05,075 Speaker 1: worked in the West Wing for a good portion of 268 00:19:05,075 --> 00:19:08,395 Speaker 1: American history, and so you can help us figure out 269 00:19:08,435 --> 00:19:11,595 Speaker 1: what's going on. Wait, she's worked in the West Wing 270 00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: for a good portion of American history. The country turned 271 00:19:15,115 --> 00:19:17,675 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty seven years old on Tuesday. It 272 00:19:17,795 --> 00:19:21,515 Speaker 1: was in all the papers. Kaylee mcananney was Press Secretary 273 00:19:21,835 --> 00:19:39,555 Speaker 1: for exactly nine months and thirteen days. Still Ahead Fridays 274 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:41,875 Speaker 1: with Thurber. It's one of my favorites. But I've never 275 00:19:41,955 --> 00:19:43,915 Speaker 1: read it here before. But since this is an all 276 00:19:43,955 --> 00:19:46,355 Speaker 1: new addition of Countdown, let me fix that. Meet the 277 00:19:46,355 --> 00:19:49,475 Speaker 1: woman who is not buying the plot of Macbeth because 278 00:19:49,515 --> 00:19:53,275 Speaker 1: Shakespeare did not adhere to the rules of Hercule poirout 279 00:19:54,155 --> 00:19:57,675 Speaker 1: the Macbeth murder mystery, coming up first time for the 280 00:19:57,755 --> 00:19:59,875 Speaker 1: daily round up of the miss Grant's morons Undunning Kruger 281 00:19:59,875 --> 00:20:05,995 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today's uist pistons in ZiU. It's 282 00:20:06,395 --> 00:20:09,955 Speaker 1: worst Hercule Prolero, I ever heard the bronze. The actor 283 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:13,555 Speaker 1: Jim cavisl, the star of the very bizarre The Passion 284 00:20:13,595 --> 00:20:16,035 Speaker 1: of the Christ, who is out there promoting its sequel, 285 00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: Passion of the Christ Jesus to electric boogloo, don't f 286 00:20:21,635 --> 00:20:26,435 Speaker 1: with the Jesus. I might have the title wrong anyway. 287 00:20:26,515 --> 00:20:29,195 Speaker 1: Cavisel is promoting the sequel by giving an interview a 288 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:32,315 Speaker 1: day to right wing sites explaining we don't have a 289 00:20:32,395 --> 00:20:35,955 Speaker 1: First Amendment. There's no such thing as free speech anymore. 290 00:20:36,675 --> 00:20:40,235 Speaker 1: But amid that crap, he has also revealed that during 291 00:20:40,275 --> 00:20:43,035 Speaker 1: the filming of the Passion of the Christ, not only 292 00:20:43,115 --> 00:20:46,915 Speaker 1: was he Jim Cavisl struck by lightning quote on the 293 00:20:46,995 --> 00:20:49,435 Speaker 1: last shot of the movie unquote, but he was also 294 00:20:49,595 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: injured earlier in filming when a one hundred and fifty 295 00:20:52,075 --> 00:20:55,395 Speaker 1: pound cross hit him in the head. I am the 296 00:20:55,515 --> 00:20:57,955 Speaker 1: last one to make fun of anybody with a past 297 00:20:58,115 --> 00:21:01,515 Speaker 1: head injury, But good grief. If you are filming a 298 00:21:01,635 --> 00:21:06,875 Speaker 1: really religious movie about Christ and God drops across on 299 00:21:07,075 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: you and then hits you with lightning during the last 300 00:21:10,275 --> 00:21:13,515 Speaker 1: shot of the movie, are you not taking some time 301 00:21:13,595 --> 00:21:17,955 Speaker 1: off to seriously reevaluate whether or not making the movie 302 00:21:17,995 --> 00:21:24,595 Speaker 1: has pissed God off or something. I got hit by lightning. 303 00:21:24,755 --> 00:21:27,195 Speaker 1: The runner up Trump Junior. No, this is not about 304 00:21:27,195 --> 00:21:29,075 Speaker 1: the cocaine found at the White House. This is about 305 00:21:29,075 --> 00:21:32,235 Speaker 1: his claim that the Labor government of Australia had banned 306 00:21:32,275 --> 00:21:34,955 Speaker 1: him from a speaking tour in that country because he's 307 00:21:34,955 --> 00:21:37,955 Speaker 1: Trump Junior and they ain't, so he canceled the tour. 308 00:21:37,995 --> 00:21:43,435 Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Junior Trump lied. Australia's Home Minister, Claire O'Neill 309 00:21:43,555 --> 00:21:46,715 Speaker 1: said in a series of Facebook and Twitter posts that quote, 310 00:21:46,835 --> 00:21:49,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior has been given a visa to come 311 00:21:49,515 --> 00:21:52,915 Speaker 1: to Australia. He didn't get canceled. He's just a big 312 00:21:52,995 --> 00:21:57,035 Speaker 1: baby who wasn't very popular. Unquote. The minister says Trump 313 00:21:57,115 --> 00:22:00,555 Speaker 1: killed the tour because ticket sales had been weak. Geez, 314 00:22:01,115 --> 00:22:03,475 Speaker 1: She writes, Donald Trump Junior is a bit of a 315 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:09,355 Speaker 1: sore loser, sore just his nose, minister, but our winner, 316 00:22:09,355 --> 00:22:12,835 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams of New York. We have discussed the 317 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:16,515 Speaker 1: Mayor's lying and his messianic complex and his bewilderingly stupid 318 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:19,715 Speaker 1: comments like quote, there is no way God created me 319 00:22:19,795 --> 00:22:22,395 Speaker 1: for this moment. If he did not believe this was 320 00:22:22,435 --> 00:22:26,115 Speaker 1: my moment. Don't think too hard about what that means. 321 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:30,635 Speaker 1: The mayor, though, has now topped himself. Early last year, 322 00:22:30,675 --> 00:22:33,715 Speaker 1: after two city cops were killed in the line of duty, 323 00:22:33,755 --> 00:22:37,995 Speaker 1: Adams himself, a former NYPD captain, said the losses reminded 324 00:22:38,035 --> 00:22:40,395 Speaker 1: him of the line of duty death thirty five years 325 00:22:40,435 --> 00:22:44,475 Speaker 1: ago of his friend, Officer Robert Vennable. Mayor Adams told 326 00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:47,595 Speaker 1: a news conference, I still think about Robert. I keep 327 00:22:47,635 --> 00:22:51,435 Speaker 1: a picture of Robert in my wallet. You've guessed where 328 00:22:51,435 --> 00:22:54,555 Speaker 1: this is going, right, The New York Times promptly. New 329 00:22:54,635 --> 00:22:58,075 Speaker 1: York timesed this and thought, oh, what a story to 330 00:22:58,195 --> 00:23:01,355 Speaker 1: tug on the heartstrings of all of those secret Gotham 331 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:05,315 Speaker 1: softies here in fun town. It asked me, May Adams 332 00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:09,075 Speaker 1: to pose for a photo holding his weather beaten photo 333 00:23:09,235 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: of his late friend, Officer Venable, and Mayor Adams did 334 00:23:12,555 --> 00:23:15,475 Speaker 1: exactly that. And it turns out that the photo was 335 00:23:16,315 --> 00:23:20,995 Speaker 1: a couple of days old, The Times reported yesterday quote 336 00:23:21,155 --> 00:23:24,155 Speaker 1: it had been created by employees in the Mayor's office 337 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:26,555 Speaker 1: in the days after mister Adams claimed to have been 338 00:23:26,555 --> 00:23:30,075 Speaker 1: carrying it in his wallet. The employees were instructed to 339 00:23:30,115 --> 00:23:33,275 Speaker 1: create a photo of Officer Venable. According to a person 340 00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:36,235 Speaker 1: familiar with the request, a picture of the officer was 341 00:23:36,315 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: found on Google. It was printed in black and white 342 00:23:39,995 --> 00:23:42,475 Speaker 1: and made to look worn as if the mayor had 343 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:46,555 Speaker 1: been carrying it for some time, including by splashing some 344 00:23:46,795 --> 00:23:50,235 Speaker 1: coffee on it, said the person, who spoke on the 345 00:23:50,235 --> 00:23:54,515 Speaker 1: condition of anonymity for fear of retribution unquote. The best 346 00:23:55,355 --> 00:23:58,875 Speaker 1: an Adam's spokesman could do is basically say, well, he 347 00:23:59,075 --> 00:24:01,835 Speaker 1: did carry a photo of Officer Venable in his wallet 348 00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:06,515 Speaker 1: for decades. It just wasn't that photo that they printed 349 00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:11,235 Speaker 1: off the internet after googling the late cop and spilling 350 00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:15,755 Speaker 1: coffee on it. Spilling coffee on it, And how dare 351 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:21,315 Speaker 1: you mock a dead cop? Mayor Eric Adams of New York, 352 00:24:21,515 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: send help, Please send us help, send help. Every time 353 00:24:25,555 --> 00:24:27,995 Speaker 1: we turn around, we've elected a mayor who's crazier than 354 00:24:28,035 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 1: the last one. We haven't had a reliable mayor in 355 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:33,435 Speaker 1: this town. Sence fair Ella LaGuardia in nineteen forty five. 356 00:24:33,635 --> 00:24:36,675 Speaker 1: They spilled coffee on it to make it look older. 357 00:24:37,395 --> 00:24:49,315 Speaker 1: Today's worst person in the world, just a head on countdown? 358 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:54,435 Speaker 1: Who is the murderer in Macbeth? There's some doubt there 359 00:24:54,595 --> 00:24:57,115 Speaker 1: is in an all New Fridays with Thurber and the 360 00:24:57,155 --> 00:25:01,195 Speaker 1: Macbeth Murder Mystery next first time to feature another dog 361 00:25:01,275 --> 00:25:03,395 Speaker 1: in need. You can help. Every dog has its day. 362 00:25:03,995 --> 00:25:07,235 Speaker 1: The crisis continues at the New York Pound and Yu 363 00:25:07,355 --> 00:25:10,115 Speaker 1: gi Oh may be the latest victim on a long 364 00:25:10,195 --> 00:25:13,315 Speaker 1: list of those to be killed tomorrow because they don't 365 00:25:13,355 --> 00:25:16,515 Speaker 1: have enough space. He's a forty six pound ten pity. 366 00:25:16,955 --> 00:25:19,435 Speaker 1: He does not like everybody at first, but he warms 367 00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:21,995 Speaker 1: to people as he gets used to them. He arrived 368 00:25:22,035 --> 00:25:24,995 Speaker 1: as an emaciated strait just last week and they're already 369 00:25:25,035 --> 00:25:27,355 Speaker 1: ready to kill him. Yu gi Oh should be a 370 00:25:27,395 --> 00:25:31,075 Speaker 1: family's only dog. He's about five six years old and 371 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: he can be adopted by almost anybody from Virginia to Maine. 372 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: Or our pledges can help a rescue pull him out 373 00:25:38,235 --> 00:25:41,395 Speaker 1: in time. Look for Yu gi Oh on my Twitter feeds, 374 00:25:41,955 --> 00:25:45,475 Speaker 1: and your retweets can really help even if you can't pledge, 375 00:25:45,555 --> 00:25:48,795 Speaker 1: but your pledges help even more. Yu gi Oh thanks you, 376 00:25:49,635 --> 00:26:10,835 Speaker 1: and I thank you as well. Fridays with Thurber and 377 00:26:10,915 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: the Works of the Master and one I have not 378 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 1: read to you here before but is one of my 379 00:26:16,155 --> 00:26:21,475 Speaker 1: favorites because it is, well, you'll hear Fridays with Thurber 380 00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: and the Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber. It was 381 00:26:27,315 --> 00:26:30,355 Speaker 1: a stupid mistake to make, said the American woman. I 382 00:26:30,395 --> 00:26:32,915 Speaker 1: had met at my hotel in the English Lake Country. 383 00:26:33,315 --> 00:26:35,595 Speaker 1: But it was on the counter with the other Penguin books, 384 00:26:35,835 --> 00:26:38,355 Speaker 1: the little sixpenny ones, you know, with the paper covers, 385 00:26:38,875 --> 00:26:41,395 Speaker 1: and I suppose, of course, it was a detective story. 386 00:26:42,075 --> 00:26:45,355 Speaker 1: All the others were detective stories. I'd read all the others, 387 00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: so I bought this one without really looking at it carefully. 388 00:26:48,835 --> 00:26:50,875 Speaker 1: You can imagine how mad I was when I found 389 00:26:50,915 --> 00:26:58,355 Speaker 1: it was Shakespeare. I murmured something sympathetically. I don't see 390 00:26:58,355 --> 00:27:00,915 Speaker 1: why the Penguin Books people had to get out Shakespeare's 391 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:03,915 Speaker 1: plays in the same size and everything as the detective stories. 392 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:09,195 Speaker 1: When on my companion, I think they have different colored jackets, 393 00:27:09,235 --> 00:27:12,795 Speaker 1: I said, Well, I didn't notice that, she said. Anyway. 394 00:27:12,795 --> 00:27:14,995 Speaker 1: I got real comfy in bed that night and all 395 00:27:15,075 --> 00:27:17,555 Speaker 1: ready to read a good mystery story, and here I 396 00:27:17,635 --> 00:27:22,555 Speaker 1: had The Tragedy of Macbeth, a book for high school 397 00:27:22,595 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: students like ivan Hoe or Lorna Doone, I said, exactly, 398 00:27:30,115 --> 00:27:32,995 Speaker 1: said the American lady. And I was just crazy for 399 00:27:33,075 --> 00:27:36,955 Speaker 1: a good Agatha Christie or something. Ercuo Poirot is my 400 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:41,715 Speaker 1: favorite detective. Is he the Rabbity one, I asked, Oh, no, 401 00:27:42,395 --> 00:27:45,995 Speaker 1: said my crime fiction expert. He's the Belgian one you're 402 00:27:45,995 --> 00:27:48,915 Speaker 1: thinking of, mister Pinkerton, the one that helps Inspector Bull. 403 00:27:49,275 --> 00:27:54,115 Speaker 1: He's good too. Over her second cup of tea, my 404 00:27:54,235 --> 00:27:57,275 Speaker 1: companion began to tell me the plot of a detective 405 00:27:57,315 --> 00:28:00,915 Speaker 1: story that had fooled her completely. It seems it was 406 00:28:00,955 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: the old family doctor all the time. But I cut 407 00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:10,595 Speaker 1: in on her. Tell me, I said, did you read Macbeth? 408 00:28:11,355 --> 00:28:13,555 Speaker 1: I had to read it. She said, there wasn't a 409 00:28:13,595 --> 00:28:15,835 Speaker 1: scrap of anything else to read in the whole room. 410 00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:21,595 Speaker 1: Did you like it, I asked, no, I did not, 411 00:28:22,235 --> 00:28:25,395 Speaker 1: She said decisively in the first place, I don't think 412 00:28:25,395 --> 00:28:29,755 Speaker 1: for a moment that Macbeth did it. I looked at 413 00:28:29,755 --> 00:28:35,995 Speaker 1: her blankly. Did what I asked? I don't think for 414 00:28:36,075 --> 00:28:38,675 Speaker 1: a moment that he killed the king? She said, I 415 00:28:38,715 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: don't think the Macbeth woman was mixed up in it either. 416 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:43,635 Speaker 1: You suspect them the most, of course, but those are 417 00:28:43,675 --> 00:28:46,315 Speaker 1: the ones that are never guilty, or shouldn't be anyway. 418 00:28:48,155 --> 00:28:51,915 Speaker 1: I'm afraid, I began that. I but don't you see, 419 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:55,235 Speaker 1: said the American lady. It would spoil everything if you 420 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:58,115 Speaker 1: could figure out right away who did it. Shakespeare was 421 00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:01,275 Speaker 1: too smart for that. I've read that people never have 422 00:29:01,395 --> 00:29:04,595 Speaker 1: figured out Hamlet, so it isn't likely Shakespeare would have 423 00:29:04,595 --> 00:29:09,355 Speaker 1: been made Macbeth as simple as it seems. I thought 424 00:29:09,395 --> 00:29:15,795 Speaker 1: this over while I filled my pipe. Who do you suspect? 425 00:29:16,195 --> 00:29:23,315 Speaker 1: I asked suddenly, Macduff, she said promptly. Good God, I 426 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:27,555 Speaker 1: whispered softly. Oh McDuff did it all right, said the 427 00:29:27,595 --> 00:29:32,635 Speaker 1: murder specialist. Erkuo Paro would have gotten him easily. How 428 00:29:32,675 --> 00:29:36,515 Speaker 1: did you figure it out? I demanded, Well, she said 429 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: I didn't right away. First I suspected Banquo, and then 430 00:29:40,115 --> 00:29:42,795 Speaker 1: of course he was the second person killed. That was 431 00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: good right in there that part. The person you suspect 432 00:29:45,595 --> 00:29:48,435 Speaker 1: of the first murder should always be the second victim. 433 00:29:49,835 --> 00:29:53,475 Speaker 1: Is that so, I murmured, Oh, yes, said my informant. 434 00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:57,275 Speaker 1: They have to keep surprising you well. After the second murder, 435 00:29:57,315 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: I didn't know who the killer was for a while. 436 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:05,395 Speaker 1: Uh how about Malcolm and Donald Bain the king sons? 437 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:09,155 Speaker 1: I asked, as I remember it, They fled right after 438 00:30:09,195 --> 00:30:13,315 Speaker 1: the first murder. That looks suspicious. Too suspicious, said the 439 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:18,835 Speaker 1: American lady, much too suspicious. When they flee, they're never guilty. 440 00:30:18,835 --> 00:30:23,755 Speaker 1: You can count on that, I believe. I said, I'll 441 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:28,235 Speaker 1: have a brandy, and I summoned the waiter. My companion 442 00:30:28,395 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: leaned toward me, her eyes bright, her teacup quivering. Do 443 00:30:33,515 --> 00:30:38,475 Speaker 1: you know who discovered Duncan's body? She demanded. I said, 444 00:30:38,475 --> 00:30:42,595 Speaker 1: I was sorry, but I had forgotten McDuff discovers it, 445 00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:46,395 Speaker 1: she said, slipping into the historical present. Then he comes 446 00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:50,115 Speaker 1: running downstairs and shouts, confusion has broke open the Lord's 447 00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:54,195 Speaker 1: anointed temple, and sacrilegious murder has made his masterpiece, and 448 00:30:54,275 --> 00:30:57,355 Speaker 1: on and on like that. The good lady tapped me 449 00:30:57,395 --> 00:31:01,155 Speaker 1: on the knee. All that stuff was rehearsed. She said, 450 00:31:01,595 --> 00:31:03,995 Speaker 1: you wouldn't say a lot of stuff like that offhand, 451 00:31:03,995 --> 00:31:07,795 Speaker 1: would you, if you'd found a body. She fixed me 452 00:31:07,835 --> 00:31:12,555 Speaker 1: with a glittering eye. I began, you're right, She said, 453 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:16,915 Speaker 1: you wouldn't unless you had practiced it in advance. My god, 454 00:31:16,955 --> 00:31:19,595 Speaker 1: there's a body in here is what an innocent man 455 00:31:19,595 --> 00:31:25,555 Speaker 1: would say. She sat back with a confident glare. I 456 00:31:25,875 --> 00:31:28,875 Speaker 1: thought for a while, But what do you make of 457 00:31:28,915 --> 00:31:33,235 Speaker 1: the third murderer? I asked, You know, the third murderer 458 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:38,755 Speaker 1: has puzzled Macbeth's scholars for three hundred years. That's because 459 00:31:38,795 --> 00:31:41,755 Speaker 1: they never thought of McDuff, said the American lady. It 460 00:31:41,875 --> 00:31:44,315 Speaker 1: was McDuff. I'm certain you couldn't have one of the 461 00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:48,195 Speaker 1: victims murdered by two ordinary thugs. The murderer always has 462 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:52,395 Speaker 1: to be somebody important. But what about the banquet scene, 463 00:31:52,675 --> 00:31:55,155 Speaker 1: I asked after a moment, how do you account for 464 00:31:55,395 --> 00:31:59,835 Speaker 1: Macbeth's guilty actions there when Banquo's ghosts came in and 465 00:31:59,875 --> 00:32:04,315 Speaker 1: sat in his chair. The lady leaned forward and tapped 466 00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:08,635 Speaker 1: me on the knee. Again. There wasn't any ghost, she said. 467 00:32:08,915 --> 00:32:12,035 Speaker 1: A big strong man like that doesn't go around seeing ghosts, 468 00:32:12,355 --> 00:32:15,355 Speaker 1: especially in a brightly lighted banquet hall with dozens of 469 00:32:15,355 --> 00:32:21,995 Speaker 1: people around. Macbeth was shielding somebody. Who was he shielding, 470 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:27,315 Speaker 1: I asked, missus Macbeth. Of course, she said, he thought 471 00:32:27,435 --> 00:32:28,955 Speaker 1: she did it, and he was going to take the 472 00:32:29,035 --> 00:32:32,035 Speaker 1: rap himself. The husband always does that when the wife 473 00:32:32,115 --> 00:32:38,355 Speaker 1: is suspected. But what I demanded about the sleepwalking scene, 474 00:32:38,395 --> 00:32:41,675 Speaker 1: then the same thing, only the other way around, said 475 00:32:41,715 --> 00:32:46,675 Speaker 1: my companion. That time she was shielding him. She wasn't 476 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,635 Speaker 1: asleep at all. Do you remember where it says enter 477 00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:54,675 Speaker 1: lady Macbeth with a taper? Yes, I said, Well, people 478 00:32:54,715 --> 00:32:58,035 Speaker 1: who walk in their sleep never carry lights, said my 479 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:01,675 Speaker 1: fellow traveler. They have a second sight. Did you ever 480 00:33:01,715 --> 00:33:05,995 Speaker 1: hear of a sleepwalker carrying a light? No, I said, 481 00:33:06,715 --> 00:33:09,715 Speaker 1: I never did. Well, then she wasn't asleep. She was 482 00:33:09,875 --> 00:33:16,275 Speaker 1: acting guilty to shield Macbeth. I think, I said, I'll 483 00:33:16,315 --> 00:33:19,955 Speaker 1: have another brandy, and I called the waiter. When he 484 00:33:20,035 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: brought it, I drank it rapidly and rose to go. 485 00:33:23,955 --> 00:33:27,075 Speaker 1: I believe I said that you have got hold of something. 486 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:30,435 Speaker 1: Would you lend me that? Macbeth? I'd like to look 487 00:33:30,435 --> 00:33:32,915 Speaker 1: it over tonight. I don't feel somehow as if I've 488 00:33:33,155 --> 00:33:36,875 Speaker 1: ever really read it. I'll get it for you, she said, 489 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:41,275 Speaker 1: But you'll find that I'm right. I read the play 490 00:33:41,315 --> 00:33:44,595 Speaker 1: over carefully that night, and the next morning, after breakfast, 491 00:33:44,595 --> 00:33:47,275 Speaker 1: I sought out the American woman. She was on the 492 00:33:47,315 --> 00:33:50,715 Speaker 1: putting green, and I came up behind her silently and 493 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:55,555 Speaker 1: took her arm. She gave an exclamation. Could I see 494 00:33:55,595 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 1: you alone? I asked, in a low voice, She nodded 495 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:02,395 Speaker 1: cautiously and followed me to a secluded spot. You've found 496 00:34:02,395 --> 00:34:07,675 Speaker 1: out something, she breathed. I've found out, I said, triumphantly, 497 00:34:07,875 --> 00:34:12,235 Speaker 1: the name of the murderer. You mean it wasn't McDuff, 498 00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:17,475 Speaker 1: She said. McDuff is as innocent of those murders, I said, 499 00:34:18,115 --> 00:34:23,275 Speaker 1: as Macbeth and the Macbeth woman. I opened the copy 500 00:34:23,315 --> 00:34:25,315 Speaker 1: of the play which I had with me, and turned 501 00:34:25,315 --> 00:34:28,635 Speaker 1: to act to seem to hear, I said, you will 502 00:34:28,635 --> 00:34:33,635 Speaker 1: see where Lady Macbeth says, I laid their daggers ready. 503 00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:37,995 Speaker 1: He could not miss them. Had he not resembled my 504 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:44,515 Speaker 1: father as he slept, I had done it. Do you see, no, 505 00:34:45,475 --> 00:34:49,555 Speaker 1: said the American woman bluntly. I don't. But it's simple, 506 00:34:49,835 --> 00:34:52,275 Speaker 1: I exclaimed. I wonder I didn't see it years ago. 507 00:34:52,755 --> 00:34:57,515 Speaker 1: The reason Duncan resembled Lady Macbeth's father as he slept 508 00:34:57,595 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: is that it actually was her father. Good God, breathe 509 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:11,435 Speaker 1: my companion softly. Lady Macbeth's father killed the king, I said, and, 510 00:35:11,635 --> 00:35:14,635 Speaker 1: hearing someone coming, thrust the body under the bed and 511 00:35:14,715 --> 00:35:18,635 Speaker 1: crawled into the bed himself. But said the lady, you 512 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:21,115 Speaker 1: can't have a murderer who only appears in the story once. 513 00:35:21,235 --> 00:35:24,795 Speaker 1: You can't have that. I know that, I said, and 514 00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:27,435 Speaker 1: I turned to Act two, Scene four. It says, here 515 00:35:28,075 --> 00:35:33,915 Speaker 1: enter Ross with an old man. Now that old man 516 00:35:34,035 --> 00:35:36,835 Speaker 1: is never identified, and it is my contention that he 517 00:35:37,035 --> 00:35:40,275 Speaker 1: was old mister Macbeth, whose ambition it was to make 518 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:44,995 Speaker 1: his daughter queen. There you'll have your motive. But even then, 519 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:49,755 Speaker 1: cried the American lady, he's still a minor character. Not, 520 00:35:50,435 --> 00:35:53,075 Speaker 1: I said, gleefully, when you realize that he was also 521 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:56,955 Speaker 1: one of the weird sisters in disguise. You mean one 522 00:35:56,995 --> 00:36:01,315 Speaker 1: of those three witches. Precisely, I said, listen to this 523 00:36:01,435 --> 00:36:05,635 Speaker 1: speech of the old man's. On Tuesday last Falkan towering 524 00:36:05,675 --> 00:36:08,875 Speaker 1: in her pride of place was by a mousing owl, 525 00:36:09,075 --> 00:36:14,275 Speaker 1: hawked at and killed. Who does that sound like? It 526 00:36:14,435 --> 00:36:17,715 Speaker 1: sounds like the way the three witches talk, said my 527 00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:23,835 Speaker 1: companion reluctantly. Precisely, I said, again, Well, said the American woman. 528 00:36:24,315 --> 00:36:27,195 Speaker 1: Maybe you're right, but I'm sure I am, I said. 529 00:36:27,475 --> 00:36:30,075 Speaker 1: And do you know what I'm going to do now? No, 530 00:36:30,995 --> 00:36:35,755 Speaker 1: she said, what buy a copy of Hamlet? I said, 531 00:36:35,795 --> 00:36:43,275 Speaker 1: and solve that. My companion's eyes brightened. Then she said, 532 00:36:43,915 --> 00:36:48,035 Speaker 1: you don't think Hamlet did it? I am, I said, 533 00:36:48,675 --> 00:36:55,955 Speaker 1: absolutely positive he did not. But who? She demanded, who 534 00:36:55,995 --> 00:37:02,755 Speaker 1: do you suspect? I looked at her cryptically, everybody, I said, 535 00:37:03,315 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: and disappeared into a small grove of trees as silently 536 00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 1: as I had come. The Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber. 537 00:37:28,435 --> 00:37:30,795 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 538 00:37:30,835 --> 00:37:35,035 Speaker 1: you for listening. Good luck reading Macbeth ever again. Here 539 00:37:35,035 --> 00:37:37,195 Speaker 1: are the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced 540 00:37:37,195 --> 00:37:39,635 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips Shanelle. They 541 00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:42,995 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars, bass and drums by 542 00:37:43,035 --> 00:37:46,675 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shanel, 543 00:37:46,995 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers Mother Beethoven. Selections have been arranged 544 00:37:50,795 --> 00:37:53,955 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. 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