1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:21,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. We 2 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: have complied with the court's ordered four fifty three Eastern 3 00:00:27,235 --> 00:00:31,395 Speaker 1: dayline time yesterday, and thanks for stopping by. We hope 4 00:00:31,435 --> 00:00:35,515 Speaker 1: you enjoyed Jack Smith Day. The nearly two hundred pages 5 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: worth of evidence in the revised case of the United 6 00:00:37,995 --> 00:00:42,355 Speaker 1: States of America Versus Disorderly Jay Trump submitted before the 7 00:00:42,395 --> 00:00:48,915 Speaker 1: five pm deadline and under seal evidently not unsealed last 8 00:00:48,995 --> 00:00:51,995 Speaker 1: night by Judge Tanya Chutkin, and no indication as to 9 00:00:52,035 --> 00:00:54,475 Speaker 1: when it will be unsealed or when parts of it 10 00:00:54,515 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 1: will be unsealed. On the other hand, Trump, as always 11 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:03,915 Speaker 1: confesses more than he convinces whenever he's scared. Early yesterday morning, 12 00:01:03,955 --> 00:01:07,675 Speaker 1: he posted some weird even for him that I think 13 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:11,715 Speaker 1: gives us in broad strokes at least what he has 14 00:01:11,835 --> 00:01:16,115 Speaker 1: heard about where Smith is going henceforth. The answer, I 15 00:01:16,155 --> 00:01:21,755 Speaker 1: think is this Smith is still going virtually everywhere he 16 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:25,675 Speaker 1: was going before the Supreme Court immunity decision. Smith may 17 00:01:25,715 --> 00:01:30,755 Speaker 1: have found some way around that Supreme Court ruling. I mean, 18 00:01:30,835 --> 00:01:34,515 Speaker 1: listen to the newest of Trump's three hundred and thirty 19 00:01:34,555 --> 00:01:38,715 Speaker 1: seven different explanations for what happened on January sixth, quoting 20 00:01:39,155 --> 00:01:42,475 Speaker 1: shocking breaking news as exposed by John Solomon and blah 21 00:01:42,475 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 1: blah blah blah and the great work of Congressman Barry 22 00:01:46,195 --> 00:01:51,475 Speaker 1: Loudermilk and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The Deep 23 00:01:51,715 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: State chose to disregard my direct authorization of at least 24 00:01:56,755 --> 00:02:01,075 Speaker 1: ten thousand National Guard troops to ensure that Washington, DC 25 00:02:01,355 --> 00:02:04,755 Speaker 1: was safe and secure on January sixth, twenty twenty one. 26 00:02:05,355 --> 00:02:11,355 Speaker 1: These Deep State subversives disobeyed the President's directives, which would 27 00:02:11,395 --> 00:02:15,315 Speaker 1: have prevented any unrest that day. January sixth, as it 28 00:02:15,355 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: is known, would never have taken place. So to Barry 29 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:26,675 Speaker 1: louder Milk, your friendly Capitol Hill tour guide is too 30 00:02:26,795 --> 00:02:30,075 Speaker 1: inscrutable even for me to try to figure out. But 31 00:02:30,195 --> 00:02:33,595 Speaker 1: Trump has brought back his most frequently used lie about 32 00:02:33,715 --> 00:02:38,395 Speaker 1: January sixth, which is that he offered troops but Nancy 33 00:02:38,395 --> 00:02:41,715 Speaker 1: Pelosi turned them down. And though he left Nancy Pelosi 34 00:02:41,715 --> 00:02:43,875 Speaker 1: out of that post, I just read, he did bring 35 00:02:43,955 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: her up yesterday in the afternoon in remarks he made 36 00:02:46,955 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: around the corner from me, here there goes the neighborhood again. 37 00:02:51,555 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: In Trump's reptile brain. He must be working some kind 38 00:02:55,315 --> 00:02:59,595 Speaker 1: of Everything I did that day was official, and everybody 39 00:02:59,635 --> 00:03:03,395 Speaker 1: who responded to it was official. But they betrayed me, 40 00:03:04,115 --> 00:03:07,035 Speaker 1: and they trade the official chain of command, and therefore 41 00:03:07,395 --> 00:03:13,155 Speaker 1: I am immune from prosecution for everything. That's what I'm 42 00:03:13,155 --> 00:03:16,715 Speaker 1: seeing here, and that would dubtail neatly into something one 43 00:03:16,715 --> 00:03:20,595 Speaker 1: of Trump's todys said on CNBC yesterday, Joe Kernan, the 44 00:03:20,595 --> 00:03:23,275 Speaker 1: guy with the worst two pay on the network. It's 45 00:03:23,315 --> 00:03:25,235 Speaker 1: so bad. It looks like he bought one two pay 46 00:03:25,275 --> 00:03:27,715 Speaker 1: and thought it looked good, so much so that he 47 00:03:27,755 --> 00:03:29,275 Speaker 1: bought a second one and put it on top of 48 00:03:29,315 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: the first one, and he wears them both at the 49 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:33,475 Speaker 1: same time. Listen to this and see if it doesn't 50 00:03:33,515 --> 00:03:36,835 Speaker 1: line up with the idea that the whole day was 51 00:03:36,875 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: somebody else's fault. Quoting Joe Kernan in the heat of 52 00:03:40,475 --> 00:03:43,755 Speaker 1: that moment, at that point, I think he really did 53 00:03:43,835 --> 00:03:47,715 Speaker 1: believe that it the election had been stolen. At that point, 54 00:03:47,995 --> 00:03:51,835 Speaker 1: I don't know if he believes it anymore. Well, Joe, 55 00:03:51,875 --> 00:03:53,915 Speaker 1: that's all right. Then, in the heat of the moment, 56 00:03:53,955 --> 00:03:57,155 Speaker 1: when I smashed through the giant, forty foot wide plate 57 00:03:57,195 --> 00:03:59,595 Speaker 1: glass window in the front of J. C. Pennies. I 58 00:03:59,675 --> 00:04:02,915 Speaker 1: really did believe that that was my washer dryer combo 59 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:09,595 Speaker 1: in there. So Trump may be saying everything I did 60 00:04:09,755 --> 00:04:14,435 Speaker 1: on January sixth and before was official, and all the 61 00:04:14,555 --> 00:04:19,195 Speaker 1: charges against me must be dismissed. And why would he 62 00:04:19,275 --> 00:04:21,955 Speaker 1: do that? He might do that because Smith may have 63 00:04:22,035 --> 00:04:25,035 Speaker 1: found some way to say, no, guess what, none of 64 00:04:25,075 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: it is official. And again I'm way out on a 65 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:32,155 Speaker 1: limb here. But the means to that end none of 66 00:04:32,155 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: this is official. He is immune from none of it. 67 00:04:36,515 --> 00:04:39,595 Speaker 1: The means to that end could be to start your 68 00:04:39,675 --> 00:04:43,435 Speaker 1: case by proving that long before the insurrection started it 69 00:04:43,475 --> 00:04:46,835 Speaker 1: on January sixth, and long before the Christmas time meetings, 70 00:04:46,835 --> 00:04:50,835 Speaker 1: and long before the frivolous lawsuits started in November and December, 71 00:04:50,995 --> 00:04:56,315 Speaker 1: Trump knew damned well he had lost, and that none 72 00:04:56,475 --> 00:05:01,515 Speaker 1: of his actions were as president, that all of his 73 00:05:01,715 --> 00:05:09,075 Speaker 1: actions were as private citizen and politician. And if Smith 74 00:05:09,115 --> 00:05:13,875 Speaker 1: can prove that the Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on presidential 75 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:28,875 Speaker 1: immunity means nothing, we'll see briefly some new polls national 76 00:05:28,955 --> 00:05:33,315 Speaker 1: all likely voters yesterday, Harris fifty Trump forty six, Big village. 77 00:05:33,355 --> 00:05:37,875 Speaker 1: That's four points Harris fifty three Trump forty seven. Outward 78 00:05:37,955 --> 00:05:42,395 Speaker 1: Intelligence polling, that's six points Harris fifty two to Trump 79 00:05:42,435 --> 00:05:49,795 Speaker 1: forty five. Echelon Insights that's seven points. One non swing 80 00:05:49,835 --> 00:05:53,115 Speaker 1: state poll Maryland, where it's sixty three point thirty one Harris, 81 00:05:53,315 --> 00:05:56,075 Speaker 1: and it's two Democrats for every Republican. This is mentioned 82 00:05:56,075 --> 00:05:59,795 Speaker 1: only because it's a Washington Post poll and it includes 83 00:05:59,875 --> 00:06:04,115 Speaker 1: the Senate run with the popular Republican former Governor Larry 84 00:06:04,115 --> 00:06:07,395 Speaker 1: Hogan to their hopes of taking the Senate back, and 85 00:06:07,955 --> 00:06:11,835 Speaker 1: he's trailing the Democrat Angela also Brooks fifty one to 86 00:06:11,875 --> 00:06:24,995 Speaker 1: forty so that's also Brooks by eleven over also ran. Meanwhile, 87 00:06:25,035 --> 00:06:27,155 Speaker 1: in the most shocking development in the history of the 88 00:06:27,155 --> 00:06:30,795 Speaker 1: governance of the City of New York since at least Wednesday, 89 00:06:31,755 --> 00:06:34,835 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on charges of acting 90 00:06:34,835 --> 00:06:36,955 Speaker 1: as a foreign agent for the government of the Turkish 91 00:06:36,995 --> 00:06:41,795 Speaker 1: dictator Erdwan, of getting the new Turkish embassy here opened 92 00:06:41,795 --> 00:06:45,795 Speaker 1: before fire inspections had been completed, and for basically ending 93 00:06:45,835 --> 00:06:48,115 Speaker 1: his career for something like one hundred and forty thousand 94 00:06:48,195 --> 00:06:53,915 Speaker 1: dollars over eight years, mostly in flight upgrades and Kushier 95 00:06:53,995 --> 00:06:58,915 Speaker 1: hotel rooms. So like seventeen thousand dollars a year, plus 96 00:06:59,675 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: foreign contributions to his campaign for mayor that were illegally 97 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:06,875 Speaker 1: washed through fake don't owns, and which in turn entitled 98 00:07:06,915 --> 00:07:10,955 Speaker 1: him to matching public funds for his campaign, maybe as 99 00:07:10,995 --> 00:07:13,395 Speaker 1: much as ten million dollars. He didn't get ten million 100 00:07:13,435 --> 00:07:18,475 Speaker 1: dollars his campaign did. Don't blame me, I voted for 101 00:07:18,515 --> 00:07:22,955 Speaker 1: the garbage commissioner. Lady Adam says he is not resigning. 102 00:07:23,395 --> 00:07:25,755 Speaker 1: But if you would like your I'm not resigning news 103 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:28,355 Speaker 1: conference to get off to the worst possible start, you 104 00:07:28,475 --> 00:07:30,675 Speaker 1: do what he did. You go out and stand in 105 00:07:30,675 --> 00:07:34,115 Speaker 1: front of the mayor's official residence, Gracie Mansion. And that's 106 00:07:34,155 --> 00:07:36,555 Speaker 1: when you discover that your opponents have brought a bullhorn, 107 00:07:37,075 --> 00:07:40,515 Speaker 1: and the bullhorn is louder than your own portable public 108 00:07:40,595 --> 00:08:24,595 Speaker 1: address system. Can you hear me? Now? This is serious stuff. 109 00:08:25,595 --> 00:08:29,595 Speaker 1: All evidence to the contrary. I mean it is small scale. 110 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:32,435 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas here and frankly, if Adams were smart, he 111 00:08:32,475 --> 00:08:35,835 Speaker 1: would announce he's joining the Republican Party by Monday. Harlan 112 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:39,275 Speaker 1: Crow and Leonard Leo would have built a statue to him. 113 00:08:39,475 --> 00:08:41,995 Speaker 1: And given that, symbolically Adams had to fight his way 114 00:08:42,035 --> 00:08:45,755 Speaker 1: onto the street through the crowds of people fired from 115 00:08:45,915 --> 00:08:48,675 Speaker 1: or quitting his administration over the last month. It is 116 00:08:48,755 --> 00:08:52,235 Speaker 1: hard to believe he can remain in office. I mean, 117 00:08:52,275 --> 00:08:56,435 Speaker 1: he's barely in office now as it is. But the 118 00:08:56,475 --> 00:09:01,275 Speaker 1: rest of this, this is freaking hilarious. This is the 119 00:09:01,315 --> 00:09:05,315 Speaker 1: best comedy material in New York this week, as this 120 00:09:05,435 --> 00:09:08,555 Speaker 1: is the dumbest mayor of New York in my lifetime. 121 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:12,115 Speaker 1: This has to be the dumbest indictment of any politician 122 00:09:12,155 --> 00:09:17,475 Speaker 1: in my lifetime. The Turks allegedly decided that this guy 123 00:09:17,675 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: Adams was exactly the right New York City politician to 124 00:09:21,555 --> 00:09:25,595 Speaker 1: invest in back when he was Borough president of Brooklyn. 125 00:09:26,195 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: I'm quoting from the indictment. During their meeting, Adams and 126 00:09:29,715 --> 00:09:34,875 Speaker 1: the promoter solicited campaign contributions from Businessman three, who, as 127 00:09:34,915 --> 00:09:38,755 Speaker 1: a Turkish national, could not lawfully contribute to any US campaign. 128 00:09:39,275 --> 00:09:43,155 Speaker 1: During the meeting, Businessman three agreed to contribute fifty thousand 129 00:09:43,155 --> 00:09:46,995 Speaker 1: dollars or more to the twenty twenty one campaign, believing 130 00:09:47,035 --> 00:09:51,235 Speaker 1: that Adams might one day be the president of the 131 00:09:51,395 --> 00:09:58,315 Speaker 1: United States and hoping to gain influence with Adams. This 132 00:09:58,395 --> 00:10:00,875 Speaker 1: is like going into a fantasy Baseball draft with the 133 00:10:00,915 --> 00:10:03,475 Speaker 1: first pick overall and saying, you know who I want? 134 00:10:03,795 --> 00:10:06,555 Speaker 1: I want the backup catcher on the Chicago White Sox. 135 00:10:07,915 --> 00:10:10,715 Speaker 1: He's gonna break all the records. They've already lost one 136 00:10:10,755 --> 00:10:14,715 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty games. Right wait, it gets worse. Quote. 137 00:10:14,875 --> 00:10:18,795 Speaker 1: The Adams staffer also agreed to speak with FBI agents 138 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:22,595 Speaker 1: and falsely denied the criminal conduct of herself and Adams, 139 00:10:22,635 --> 00:10:26,355 Speaker 1: among others. At one point during her voluntary interview, the 140 00:10:26,395 --> 00:10:30,155 Speaker 1: Adams staffer excused herself to a bathroom and while there 141 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:35,315 Speaker 1: deleted the encrypted messaging applications she had used to communicate 142 00:10:35,355 --> 00:10:39,635 Speaker 1: with Adams, the promoter, the Turkish official, the airline manager, 143 00:10:40,035 --> 00:10:47,875 Speaker 1: and others. Unquote and oh we are far from done. Quote. 144 00:10:48,395 --> 00:10:52,075 Speaker 1: On November six, twenty twenty three, FBI agents executed a 145 00:10:52,075 --> 00:10:55,835 Speaker 1: search warrant for the electronic devices used by Eric Adams. 146 00:10:56,355 --> 00:11:00,115 Speaker 1: Although Adams was carrying several electronic devices, including two cell phones, 147 00:11:00,275 --> 00:11:03,155 Speaker 1: he was not carrying his personal cell phone, which is 148 00:11:03,195 --> 00:11:06,115 Speaker 1: the device he used to communicate about the conduct described 149 00:11:06,115 --> 00:11:09,635 Speaker 1: in this indictment. When Adams produced his personal cell phone 150 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:12,035 Speaker 1: the next day in response to a subpoena, it was 151 00:11:12,155 --> 00:11:15,715 Speaker 1: locked such that the device required a password to open. 152 00:11:16,275 --> 00:11:19,395 Speaker 1: Adams claimed that after he learned about the investigations into 153 00:11:19,435 --> 00:11:23,195 Speaker 1: his conduct, he changed the password on November fifth, twenty 154 00:11:23,275 --> 00:11:27,835 Speaker 1: twenty four, and increase the complexity of his password from 155 00:11:27,875 --> 00:11:31,355 Speaker 1: four digits to six. Obviously there's a typo in there. 156 00:11:31,395 --> 00:11:34,395 Speaker 1: It's November fifth, twenty twenty three. But get that part again. 157 00:11:34,595 --> 00:11:38,035 Speaker 1: He increased the complexity of his passwords from four ward 158 00:11:38,075 --> 00:11:41,915 Speaker 1: digits to six. Adams had done this, he claimed to 159 00:11:41,995 --> 00:11:47,435 Speaker 1: prevent members of his staff from inadvertently or intentionally deleting 160 00:11:47,475 --> 00:11:50,315 Speaker 1: the contents of his phone, because, according to Adams, he 161 00:11:50,395 --> 00:11:53,235 Speaker 1: wished to preserve the contents of his phone due to 162 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:58,155 Speaker 1: the investigation. But Adams further claimed he had forgotten the 163 00:11:58,195 --> 00:12:01,515 Speaker 1: password he had just said, and thus was unable to 164 00:12:01,555 --> 00:12:09,915 Speaker 1: provide the FBI with a password that would unlock the phone. 165 00:12:10,115 --> 00:12:12,035 Speaker 1: You see that meme of the guy tapping his head 166 00:12:12,035 --> 00:12:14,635 Speaker 1: to show how smart he is, don't you? Right now? 167 00:12:16,795 --> 00:12:19,395 Speaker 1: The Adams premise here of courses, that he is Mayor 168 00:12:19,475 --> 00:12:21,595 Speaker 1: of New York City not because he was elected, but 169 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:25,675 Speaker 1: because God has put him there. I wish I were exaggerating. 170 00:12:25,715 --> 00:12:28,515 Speaker 1: I am not. Some of his past quotes quote I 171 00:12:28,595 --> 00:12:32,155 Speaker 1: thank God I'm the mayor right now. And the famous 172 00:12:32,315 --> 00:12:36,675 Speaker 1: nonsense elliptical statement quote, there is no way God created 173 00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:38,835 Speaker 1: me for this moment. If he did not believe this 174 00:12:39,035 --> 00:12:43,155 Speaker 1: was my moment, you could read that sentence backwards and 175 00:12:43,155 --> 00:12:46,635 Speaker 1: it would make just as much sense. None. And this 176 00:12:46,755 --> 00:12:50,715 Speaker 1: Messiah complex is not limited to his dishonor his niece 177 00:12:51,275 --> 00:12:53,955 Speaker 1: who says she's an actress or a dancer or a 178 00:12:53,955 --> 00:12:59,915 Speaker 1: singer or something. Danielle Adams Elias is just as nuts 179 00:12:59,955 --> 00:13:00,475 Speaker 1: as he is. 180 00:13:01,195 --> 00:13:05,435 Speaker 2: Young of an ax. I'm my uncle, Sorrial. I don't 181 00:13:05,475 --> 00:13:08,115 Speaker 2: know how you feel. I don't care how you feel 182 00:13:09,395 --> 00:13:13,315 Speaker 2: about whatever decisions he had to make that you would 183 00:13:13,355 --> 00:13:19,115 Speaker 2: never understand. I don't care how you feel about anything, honestly, 184 00:13:19,235 --> 00:13:22,995 Speaker 2: because nobody asked you. Like when God created his story, 185 00:13:23,075 --> 00:13:27,915 Speaker 2: he didn't ask Sally Sue on the other line, if 186 00:13:27,955 --> 00:13:30,555 Speaker 2: he can do it. That was what was chosen for 187 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:33,315 Speaker 2: this man because he was the man for the job. So, 188 00:13:33,475 --> 00:13:36,035 Speaker 2: like I say every time, if you have a problem, 189 00:13:36,075 --> 00:13:40,195 Speaker 2: taking up with Jesus, because we don't care, and that 190 00:13:40,235 --> 00:13:42,395 Speaker 2: man will continue to do what the Lord told him 191 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:45,875 Speaker 2: to do. So y'all gonna relax on my uncle, because 192 00:13:45,915 --> 00:13:49,635 Speaker 2: you could never stay in your purpose and relax. Take 193 00:13:49,635 --> 00:13:50,035 Speaker 2: a seat. 194 00:13:50,475 --> 00:13:53,355 Speaker 1: I think even the mayor would recognize his niece Danielle here, 195 00:13:53,515 --> 00:13:59,515 Speaker 1: ain't helping please asks for help any who. It's not 196 00:13:59,555 --> 00:14:02,835 Speaker 1: like anybody could have seen this coming, given that Adams 197 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:07,315 Speaker 1: won a ranked choice Democratic I'm Mary defeating the aforementioned 198 00:14:07,835 --> 00:14:13,235 Speaker 1: sanitation commissioner and mayo Wiley. Adams has always had some 199 00:14:14,715 --> 00:14:19,275 Speaker 1: curious support from some even more curious characters. Tucker Carlson, 200 00:14:19,355 --> 00:14:23,795 Speaker 1: Remember Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson once asked, can Eric Adams 201 00:14:23,835 --> 00:14:27,835 Speaker 1: save New York from itself? January twenty twenty two, The 202 00:14:27,875 --> 00:14:31,675 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal printed is Mansion Adams the future of 203 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:36,755 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party Wonderland. Joe Biden may have become more progressive, 204 00:14:36,755 --> 00:14:38,915 Speaker 1: but Joe Manchin and Eric Adams appear to believe the 205 00:14:38,955 --> 00:14:43,915 Speaker 1: Democratic Party's future lies elsewhere. Yeah, evidently in Turkey. Am 206 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:47,715 Speaker 1: I right? Brett Stevens New York Times July twentieth, twenty 207 00:14:47,715 --> 00:14:50,515 Speaker 1: twenty one, opinion, Eric Adams is going to save New 208 00:14:50,595 --> 00:14:58,835 Speaker 1: York and the best January three, twenty twenty two. Nate Silver, 209 00:14:59,755 --> 00:15:02,915 Speaker 1: It's probably foolish, all right. You should have just deleted 210 00:15:02,955 --> 00:15:05,795 Speaker 1: it at that point if you start something with. It's 211 00:15:05,915 --> 00:15:12,995 Speaker 1: probably foolish. It's probably foolish. It's probably foolish. Nate wrote 212 00:15:13,155 --> 00:15:16,635 Speaker 1: to think an NYC. Mayer will successfully translate into being 213 00:15:16,635 --> 00:15:20,035 Speaker 1: a national political figure. But I still think Eric Adams 214 00:15:20,075 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: would be in my top five for who will be 215 00:15:24,595 --> 00:15:29,035 Speaker 1: the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden. He's going 216 00:15:29,075 --> 00:15:32,315 Speaker 1: to be good at getting media attention, you bet your 217 00:15:32,395 --> 00:15:36,515 Speaker 1: ass is. And he has a chance of carving out 218 00:15:36,555 --> 00:15:40,355 Speaker 1: a niche that's different from what other Democrats are offering. 219 00:15:41,755 --> 00:15:45,835 Speaker 1: I didn't know he was from Turkey. That's a niche. Okay, 220 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:53,155 Speaker 1: That's a potentially powerful combination given how primaries are conducted nowadays. Also, 221 00:15:53,315 --> 00:15:57,915 Speaker 1: the competition isn't great. Twenty twenty two, Nate goes on 222 00:15:57,955 --> 00:16:00,315 Speaker 1: to specifically insist that Eric Adams was a better bet 223 00:16:00,355 --> 00:16:04,915 Speaker 1: to succeed Joe Biden than was Kamala Harris, who had 224 00:16:04,955 --> 00:16:12,355 Speaker 1: already been vice president for a year. And if you 225 00:16:12,435 --> 00:16:17,075 Speaker 1: think this is over the support Democrats who are actually 226 00:16:17,075 --> 00:16:20,835 Speaker 1: corrupt Republicans campaign, guess who wrote the lead story yesterday 227 00:16:20,955 --> 00:16:26,475 Speaker 1: analyzing the charges against Adams for the amazingly fictional fascist 228 00:16:26,675 --> 00:16:29,915 Speaker 1: Murdoch propaganda rag. Here The New York Post. It was 229 00:16:29,995 --> 00:16:35,355 Speaker 1: written by Jonathan Effing Turley and his lead and his 230 00:16:35,475 --> 00:16:40,995 Speaker 1: conclusion there may be less here than meets the eye. 231 00:16:41,195 --> 00:16:46,035 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I'm telling you he's going to try 232 00:16:46,075 --> 00:16:56,995 Speaker 1: to stay on as mayor as a Republican. You watch. Yeah, 233 00:16:57,035 --> 00:16:58,715 Speaker 1: I know the odds are long, and I just quoted 234 00:16:58,755 --> 00:17:00,595 Speaker 1: Nate Silver and you should never make a prediction after 235 00:17:00,675 --> 00:17:03,435 Speaker 1: Nate Silver has just proved you should never make predictions 236 00:17:03,475 --> 00:17:05,435 Speaker 1: like that. But I am. I'm on a one game 237 00:17:05,435 --> 00:17:08,755 Speaker 1: winning streak. I did mention Wednesday. I think that all 238 00:17:08,835 --> 00:17:12,035 Speaker 1: the sturm undrong by the New York Times, by the 239 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:15,075 Speaker 1: Washington Post, by Politico, even by Judd Legum of Popular 240 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:18,115 Speaker 1: Information over whether or not to publish the internal Trump 241 00:17:18,155 --> 00:17:22,155 Speaker 1: campaign documents allegedly hacked by Iran and offered around the 242 00:17:22,195 --> 00:17:24,995 Speaker 1: news business by someone calling themselves Robert, that that was 243 00:17:25,035 --> 00:17:29,555 Speaker 1: all academic. That soon or late, Robert's rules of order 244 00:17:29,635 --> 00:17:32,395 Speaker 1: would lead Robert to connect with some kind of independent 245 00:17:32,795 --> 00:17:35,395 Speaker 1: journalists who would look at it to make sure they 246 00:17:35,435 --> 00:17:38,755 Speaker 1: weren't jeopardizing themselves legally and then say, ef it here 247 00:17:38,795 --> 00:17:42,715 Speaker 1: it is. I Actually, silly, old guy me thought this 248 00:17:42,755 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: wouldn't happen till next month. Instead, it happened yesterday. Kenklippenstein, 249 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:51,635 Speaker 1: formerly of The Intercept, published it. Ken Klippenstein put it 250 00:17:51,675 --> 00:17:54,355 Speaker 1: online yesterday, got suspended by Elon Musk for his trouble 251 00:17:54,355 --> 00:17:58,595 Speaker 1: because Elon Musk is soft as church music. And it's 252 00:17:58,635 --> 00:18:02,035 Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy one pages about jd Vance. It's 253 00:18:02,115 --> 00:18:07,195 Speaker 1: the jd Vance file. And while, as Klippeteine notes, it 254 00:18:07,275 --> 00:18:09,515 Speaker 1: does give you a kind of checklist for what the 255 00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: Trump campaign likes best about JV, and what it likes 256 00:18:13,035 --> 00:18:16,155 Speaker 1: least about JV, and what it's kind of mad about JV, 257 00:18:16,555 --> 00:18:20,195 Speaker 1: there is nothing compelling in there. Doesn't even identify his 258 00:18:20,315 --> 00:18:24,115 Speaker 1: brand a choice and eyeliner. Clippenstein then goes to the 259 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:26,195 Speaker 1: heart of the matter to quote his post. If the 260 00:18:26,235 --> 00:18:29,955 Speaker 1: document had been hacked by some anonymous like hacker group, 261 00:18:30,155 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: the news media would be all over it. I'm just 262 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:35,475 Speaker 1: not a believer of the news media as an arm 263 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:39,115 Speaker 1: of the government doing its work combating foreign influence, nor 264 00:18:39,155 --> 00:18:41,555 Speaker 1: should it be a gatekeeper of what the public should know. 265 00:18:43,475 --> 00:18:47,355 Speaker 1: The gatekeeper and government parts are debatable. Those actions can 266 00:18:47,435 --> 00:18:51,715 Speaker 1: on occasion be defended. But he nails the whole other thing. 267 00:18:51,755 --> 00:18:53,315 Speaker 1: The Times, the Post, and the others looked at this 268 00:18:53,355 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: and they said, this is boring as crap it, My god, 269 00:18:57,275 --> 00:18:59,875 Speaker 1: look at the opportunity we can put on a performative 270 00:19:00,075 --> 00:19:03,835 Speaker 1: dance here portraying ourselves as martyrs to the cause of 271 00:19:03,915 --> 00:19:09,875 Speaker 1: responsible journalism, and it doesn't even cost us a good story. 272 00:19:10,675 --> 00:19:16,275 Speaker 1: There's one cautionary aside, though, Liz Mayor m Ai r 273 00:19:16,435 --> 00:19:19,035 Speaker 1: the kind of all over the map political operative who's 274 00:19:19,075 --> 00:19:21,155 Speaker 1: probably not only the only person who have worked on 275 00:19:21,195 --> 00:19:24,875 Speaker 1: the campaigns of both Rishi Sunak and Carly Fiorina, but 276 00:19:25,035 --> 00:19:27,275 Speaker 1: very probably the only person on the planet to know 277 00:19:27,315 --> 00:19:31,515 Speaker 1: who both Rishi Sunak and Carly Fiorina are. She has 278 00:19:31,595 --> 00:19:35,435 Speaker 1: read the whole thing. I'm sorry, my god, did you 279 00:19:35,515 --> 00:19:37,635 Speaker 1: think I had read the whole thing? Two hundred and 280 00:19:37,675 --> 00:19:40,995 Speaker 1: seventy one pages about J. D. Vance? How many lives 281 00:19:41,035 --> 00:19:45,035 Speaker 1: you think I got here? Anyway, she read it, and 282 00:19:45,115 --> 00:19:47,835 Speaker 1: Liz Mayer says what matters is what's not in it, 283 00:19:48,635 --> 00:19:51,835 Speaker 1: quoting her, There is more damaging stuff to be found 284 00:19:51,875 --> 00:19:54,395 Speaker 1: on Vance. I guess the Trump team missed it, and 285 00:19:54,435 --> 00:19:57,915 Speaker 1: so have Dems. I have no interest in tearing Vance down. 286 00:19:57,995 --> 00:20:00,595 Speaker 1: I disagree with him profoundly on many issues, but we 287 00:20:00,635 --> 00:20:03,115 Speaker 1: have too much in common in our bios and backgrounds, 288 00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:06,075 Speaker 1: so I'll leave it alone. Well, there's one politico placing 289 00:20:06,075 --> 00:20:10,675 Speaker 1: country at a party, my ass, So there's more to 290 00:20:10,715 --> 00:20:15,315 Speaker 1: look for. The message of this unpublishable, now published not 291 00:20:15,395 --> 00:20:20,715 Speaker 1: that interesting JD Vance compendium is they left the good 292 00:20:20,715 --> 00:20:26,155 Speaker 1: stuff out and it's still out there. Not to worry, though, 293 00:20:26,275 --> 00:20:28,995 Speaker 1: traditional media is still burying one story at least a 294 00:20:29,155 --> 00:20:31,875 Speaker 1: far more import than that, and with far more evident 295 00:20:31,915 --> 00:20:34,795 Speaker 1: help from the government. In the burial, The independent site 296 00:20:34,955 --> 00:20:39,435 Speaker 1: Notice writes, quote, lawmakers are still waiting on the Pentagon 297 00:20:39,555 --> 00:20:42,115 Speaker 1: for more details about what happened between Donald Trump's campaign 298 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:46,315 Speaker 1: and Arlington National Cemetery's staff during last month's memorial service 299 00:20:46,355 --> 00:20:50,115 Speaker 1: for soldiers who died during the Afghanistan withdrawal. The Pentagon 300 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:53,155 Speaker 1: appears to be hoping the lawmakers just forget about it. 301 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:57,595 Speaker 1: Department of Defense officials informally told at least one congressional 302 00:20:57,595 --> 00:21:00,795 Speaker 1: office to let the issue fade into the background. A 303 00:21:00,875 --> 00:21:05,355 Speaker 1: Congressional aid told Notice. The aide said the Pentagon offices 304 00:21:05,355 --> 00:21:08,515 Speaker 1: on both sides of the aisle to move on from 305 00:21:08,515 --> 00:21:11,755 Speaker 1: the incident. When reach for comment, the Department of Defense 306 00:21:11,795 --> 00:21:15,515 Speaker 1: referred Notice to the Department of the Army. Note that 307 00:21:16,715 --> 00:21:19,595 Speaker 1: as in aside its statements like that last one, the 308 00:21:19,635 --> 00:21:23,715 Speaker 1: Department of Defense referred you to the Department of the Army. 309 00:21:23,835 --> 00:21:26,195 Speaker 1: It's statements like that one that led Joseph Heller to 310 00:21:26,275 --> 00:21:29,555 Speaker 1: dream up the notion of catch twenty two to resume 311 00:21:29,635 --> 00:21:34,275 Speaker 1: quoting from the notice report. The altercation prompted Congressional Democrats 312 00:21:34,315 --> 00:21:37,635 Speaker 1: to request a copy of the incident report outlining what 313 00:21:37,915 --> 00:21:43,515 Speaker 1: had happened. The official report hasn't yet been released, but 314 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:46,835 Speaker 1: their quiet appeal to at least one lawmaker's office regarding 315 00:21:46,835 --> 00:21:49,915 Speaker 1: the request for the full incident report shows the challenges 316 00:21:50,675 --> 00:21:56,235 Speaker 1: the Department of Defense faces in the current political landscape. Unquote. 317 00:21:56,395 --> 00:21:59,555 Speaker 1: So apparently there is some illusion that if they just 318 00:21:59,635 --> 00:22:03,195 Speaker 1: shut up about it, this and the prospect of anybody 319 00:22:03,235 --> 00:22:05,875 Speaker 1: who's ever been in the mill terry getting involved in 320 00:22:05,915 --> 00:22:11,435 Speaker 1: the election in any way, shape or form, like you know, 321 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:19,195 Speaker 1: uh Iraq Army disinformation specialist JD. Whatever his name was, vance, 322 00:22:19,795 --> 00:22:25,315 Speaker 1: that all this will just vanish no military involvement. In 323 00:22:25,355 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: an unrelated story, Kamala Harris has just been endorsed in 324 00:22:28,075 --> 00:22:29,955 Speaker 1: a New York Times up ed by the guy who 325 00:22:29,995 --> 00:22:32,435 Speaker 1: was killing al Qaeda leaders in Iraq for George Bush 326 00:22:32,435 --> 00:22:35,755 Speaker 1: twenty years ago and mocking President Obama and Vice President 327 00:22:35,795 --> 00:22:41,275 Speaker 1: Biden fifteen years ago, General Stan McCrystal. Thank god they 328 00:22:41,315 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: are keeping that wall up between the warriors and real patriotism. 329 00:22:52,075 --> 00:22:53,955 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, you have to hand it to 330 00:22:53,995 --> 00:22:57,875 Speaker 1: white trash Congressman Clay Higgins. While he was trying to 331 00:22:57,875 --> 00:23:02,355 Speaker 1: claim he only meant Haitian gang members, not the Haitians 332 00:23:02,355 --> 00:23:06,875 Speaker 1: in Ohio, Well he was doing that, he was simultaneously 333 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:10,035 Speaker 1: telling CNN, no, he meant every word. He'd posted about 334 00:23:10,235 --> 00:23:13,515 Speaker 1: Haitians and voodoo and get out by January twentieth, and 335 00:23:13,635 --> 00:23:18,715 Speaker 1: he'd posted again. Now here is a tease. We will 336 00:23:18,715 --> 00:23:23,875 Speaker 1: be premiering on Monday, a new revised version of the 337 00:23:23,915 --> 00:23:31,795 Speaker 1: Countdown theme music specially recast for the election home stretch Monday. 338 00:23:32,515 --> 00:23:40,715 Speaker 1: But I can now offer you a tease. This is next. 339 00:23:41,435 --> 00:24:17,835 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still 340 00:24:17,835 --> 00:24:19,755 Speaker 1: ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. I don't 341 00:24:19,755 --> 00:24:23,715 Speaker 1: know about you, but I need a break from this crap. Adams, 342 00:24:23,715 --> 00:24:26,275 Speaker 1: holy crap, I'm gonna take one. I'm telling you, just 343 00:24:26,355 --> 00:24:29,715 Speaker 1: become a Republican. You'll either be on the Supreme Court, 344 00:24:30,035 --> 00:24:33,875 Speaker 1: or you'll be the presidential nominee by next week. We'll 345 00:24:33,875 --> 00:24:37,315 Speaker 1: take a break Friday's with Thurber. One of Thurber's dog stories. 346 00:24:37,355 --> 00:24:39,355 Speaker 1: It's not the sweetest of his dog stories, but it's 347 00:24:39,355 --> 00:24:41,395 Speaker 1: easily the funniest of his dog stories. And it's a 348 00:24:41,395 --> 00:24:45,315 Speaker 1: Thurber dog story. Next. Okay, break time over. There are 349 00:24:45,315 --> 00:24:48,555 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about. A rollicking edition 350 00:24:48,595 --> 00:24:51,235 Speaker 1: of the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning 351 00:24:51,275 --> 00:24:54,395 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons in 352 00:24:54,435 --> 00:24:57,555 Speaker 1: the world. And sometimes this is satirical. Sometimes this is 353 00:24:57,595 --> 00:25:00,795 Speaker 1: directed at me. Sometimes this is poking fun at friends 354 00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:04,395 Speaker 1: or colleagues. No, not this time. I mean every word 355 00:25:04,395 --> 00:25:07,795 Speaker 1: of this. These are three of the scumbaggiest people in 356 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:11,235 Speaker 1: the world. As John Clees once set on Faulty Towers. 357 00:25:11,595 --> 00:25:16,075 Speaker 1: This is total ass worse the bronze former New York 358 00:25:16,115 --> 00:25:20,315 Speaker 1: Mayor Rudy ass Giuliani for once, though I'll give him this. 359 00:25:20,395 --> 00:25:23,835 Speaker 1: The timing work to Rudy's benefit. This happened to him 360 00:25:24,235 --> 00:25:28,235 Speaker 1: on the day the current mayor gets indicted for selling 361 00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:33,315 Speaker 1: his soul for like an upgrade from business class aisle 362 00:25:33,555 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: to business class window on a flight to Turkey the Schmndrick. Meanwhile, 363 00:25:38,715 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 1: in Washington Rudy, who after nine to eleven thought we 364 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: should cancel the election and just let him stay on 365 00:25:43,315 --> 00:25:45,635 Speaker 1: as mayor because so what if that was what the 366 00:25:45,755 --> 00:25:49,235 Speaker 1: terrorists would have wanted? He was wooty. Woody has just 367 00:25:49,275 --> 00:25:52,875 Speaker 1: been disbawd, no longer allowed to practice law in the 368 00:25:52,915 --> 00:25:57,075 Speaker 1: District of Columbia, which is especially sad because clearly Rudy 369 00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:02,795 Speaker 1: needed way more practice. I will say this, between Rudy's 370 00:26:02,835 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: dispartment and the indictment of Adams, only needed one more 371 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:09,115 Speaker 1: event to make this the biggest week for scumbag New 372 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:14,235 Speaker 1: York mayors in the proud history of my hometown. Like, 373 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:17,595 Speaker 1: maybe somebody could have done something about Jimmy bo James Walker, 374 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:20,195 Speaker 1: who was forced out of office in nineteen thirty two 375 00:26:20,635 --> 00:26:24,115 Speaker 1: after a series of scandals, including his own chosen cops 376 00:26:24,435 --> 00:26:27,755 Speaker 1: arresting ordinary women on the streets of New York City 377 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:31,915 Speaker 1: and charging them with prostitution, literally charging them with street 378 00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:36,235 Speaker 1: walking because they were literally walking on the streets and 379 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:39,195 Speaker 1: holding them unless they paid off the cops with cash 380 00:26:39,555 --> 00:26:43,755 Speaker 1: or other considerations. Mayor Walker was allowed to flee to 381 00:26:43,955 --> 00:26:47,355 Speaker 1: Europe with his mistress. But he came back six or 382 00:26:47,395 --> 00:26:51,915 Speaker 1: seven years later and naturally became a disc jockey on 383 00:26:52,075 --> 00:26:57,155 Speaker 1: WHN radio. Hi, I'm your corrupt mayor on WHN New York. 384 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:01,475 Speaker 1: Walker is buried in suburban Hawthorne, New York. Maybe somebody 385 00:27:01,515 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: should have gone up yesterday and danced on his grave 386 00:27:03,995 --> 00:27:07,235 Speaker 1: or something, just to finish off the hat trick. The 387 00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:11,955 Speaker 1: runner up worser, Dylan Buyers of Puck Puck is another 388 00:27:11,995 --> 00:27:14,435 Speaker 1: one of those subscription outlets in which the emphasis is 389 00:27:14,475 --> 00:27:19,075 Speaker 1: on pretending that doing press releases for corporations and executives 390 00:27:19,115 --> 00:27:22,475 Speaker 1: and the powerful that that constitutes some kind of quote news. 391 00:27:23,355 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: I've mentioned Dylan Buyers before when, in twenty twenty one, 392 00:27:27,675 --> 00:27:30,555 Speaker 1: I concluded the last round of a decade's worth of 393 00:27:30,635 --> 00:27:34,355 Speaker 1: dancing with MSNBC about going back to do a show there, 394 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:37,475 Speaker 1: Buyers contacted me and told me that all I had 395 00:27:37,515 --> 00:27:40,075 Speaker 1: told him, and all I had said in public about 396 00:27:40,115 --> 00:27:43,595 Speaker 1: my negotiations with the then head of Comcast, Jeff Schell, 397 00:27:44,075 --> 00:27:46,795 Speaker 1: all of it was not true because a spokesman from 398 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:50,155 Speaker 1: NBC had told him it was not true. I asked him, naturally, 399 00:27:50,195 --> 00:27:52,875 Speaker 1: which spokesman, and he said he couldn't tell me. He 400 00:27:52,915 --> 00:27:55,675 Speaker 1: said the spokesman had agreed to be referenced in a story, 401 00:27:55,675 --> 00:27:58,915 Speaker 1: but never by name. I asked him what the spokesman 402 00:27:58,915 --> 00:28:00,995 Speaker 1: had said specifically. He said he couldn't tell me that either. 403 00:28:01,195 --> 00:28:04,075 Speaker 1: That was part of the deal with them too. I 404 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:07,555 Speaker 1: then sent him screenshots of all of my email correspondence 405 00:28:07,635 --> 00:28:11,195 Speaker 1: with Jeff Shell and NBC News figure head, says Arcande, 406 00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:13,675 Speaker 1: to confirm that what I had been saying was true 407 00:28:13,755 --> 00:28:16,435 Speaker 1: and what the spokesman had not really been saying was 408 00:28:16,475 --> 00:28:21,155 Speaker 1: not true. And Byers reacted with shock, like you told 409 00:28:21,235 --> 00:28:25,035 Speaker 1: him he was adopted. I mean, he was genuinely surprised 410 00:28:25,235 --> 00:28:28,995 Speaker 1: that NBC PR people had lied to him, like what 411 00:28:29,035 --> 00:28:31,235 Speaker 1: was the first time it happened in world historily, I 412 00:28:31,235 --> 00:28:33,955 Speaker 1: mean repeatedly lied to him. In fact, each thing the 413 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:36,955 Speaker 1: anonymous spokesman had told him wasn't just wrong, it was 414 00:28:36,995 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: a lie. In his follow up story, Buyers still somehow 415 00:28:41,035 --> 00:28:45,315 Speaker 1: managed to carry some of NBC's waters for it by 416 00:28:45,355 --> 00:28:48,315 Speaker 1: saying that I should have known that Jeff Shell was 417 00:28:48,395 --> 00:28:50,915 Speaker 1: lying to me. That's not quite the flex you think 418 00:28:50,915 --> 00:28:53,355 Speaker 1: it is. In any event, Byers has now moved on 419 00:28:53,395 --> 00:28:56,835 Speaker 1: to the Oliviya newsy RFK junior story and is surprisingly 420 00:28:56,955 --> 00:29:00,515 Speaker 1: enough carrying water for RFK Junior. He's one of these 421 00:29:00,555 --> 00:29:03,955 Speaker 1: morons propagating the idea that RFK is going to get 422 00:29:03,995 --> 00:29:09,235 Speaker 1: Newsy prosecuted or arrested or sued because she sent him 423 00:29:09,235 --> 00:29:13,155 Speaker 1: photos of herself that he wanted and he never bothered 424 00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:15,595 Speaker 1: to tell her bosses to ask her to stop. But 425 00:29:15,635 --> 00:29:19,315 Speaker 1: he's RFK and the other one's Dylan Byer, so Dylan 426 00:29:19,355 --> 00:29:22,515 Speaker 1: Byers must serve him. Dylan Byers wrote up the story 427 00:29:22,555 --> 00:29:25,475 Speaker 1: for Puck on Wednesday night, and since I regularly swipe 428 00:29:25,475 --> 00:29:28,715 Speaker 1: at him on Twitter and here for doing crap like this, 429 00:29:28,955 --> 00:29:31,795 Speaker 1: he decided to throw me into his update and said 430 00:29:31,795 --> 00:29:35,675 Speaker 1: I had rushed. Was the word rushed to remind everybody 431 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:37,875 Speaker 1: that Olivia and I had lived together and that I 432 00:29:37,875 --> 00:29:43,795 Speaker 1: should grow up. I rushed. I never revealed the relationship 433 00:29:43,795 --> 00:29:47,875 Speaker 1: publicly from the time it started until Monday afternoon of 434 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:50,995 Speaker 1: this week, when the New York Post found out and 435 00:29:51,155 --> 00:29:54,155 Speaker 1: asked me. And thus I followed the age old truth 436 00:29:54,195 --> 00:29:56,795 Speaker 1: about how to deal with reporters barging in on your 437 00:29:56,795 --> 00:30:01,235 Speaker 1: personal life. If you can blow up their scoop, report 438 00:30:01,275 --> 00:30:03,715 Speaker 1: what they're going to report before they can report it, 439 00:30:03,715 --> 00:30:06,955 Speaker 1: it isn't much but at all, always ruins their day. Yeah, 440 00:30:06,955 --> 00:30:10,715 Speaker 1: I rushed, Dylan. I kept it private, as it would 441 00:30:10,755 --> 00:30:14,955 Speaker 1: have stayed private for well over a decade. I rushed. 442 00:30:15,275 --> 00:30:17,515 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't run fast, but I can rush 443 00:30:17,715 --> 00:30:21,795 Speaker 1: faster than ten years worth idiot. I'd urge you to 444 00:30:21,835 --> 00:30:23,675 Speaker 1: grow up too, but in fact I like dealing with 445 00:30:23,715 --> 00:30:26,155 Speaker 1: you as you are a child. It's much easier to 446 00:30:26,195 --> 00:30:28,955 Speaker 1: send you to bed without your supper this way. Oh 447 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:30,475 Speaker 1: and I might add. A couple of years ago, a 448 00:30:30,515 --> 00:30:35,555 Speaker 1: prominent reporter got a terrible fatal diagnosis about an awful disease, 449 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,475 Speaker 1: and within weeks, Dylan Byers had written an article in 450 00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:41,795 Speaker 1: which he gratuitously threw the reporter's name into the story 451 00:30:41,995 --> 00:30:44,635 Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with him, and insulted him 452 00:30:44,915 --> 00:30:47,875 Speaker 1: just to drive by shot at a dying man for 453 00:30:47,955 --> 00:30:51,195 Speaker 1: no reason and with no explanation. There are a lot 454 00:30:51,235 --> 00:30:55,475 Speaker 1: of bad media reporters. This Buyer's guy is the worst, 455 00:30:56,195 --> 00:31:00,875 Speaker 1: but ultimately he's still only a media reporter. So if 456 00:31:00,915 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 1: somebody else showed us up Monday claiming to be Dylan 457 00:31:03,595 --> 00:31:06,555 Speaker 1: Byer's and it's a different guy, nobody will know the difference. 458 00:31:07,315 --> 00:31:10,355 Speaker 1: A media reporter cannot even win the worst person's competition 459 00:31:10,795 --> 00:31:17,715 Speaker 1: because the winner the worst is white trash Congressman Clay Higgins, R. 460 00:31:17,875 --> 00:31:23,395 Speaker 1: Louisiana and the R standful rathist. You will recall, Higgins 461 00:31:23,395 --> 00:31:27,315 Speaker 1: came this close to dropping the N word Wednesday on 462 00:31:27,395 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: the Haitian Bridge Group, which sued in Ohio to get 463 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:34,755 Speaker 1: local prosecutors to charge Trump Advance for attempting to get 464 00:31:34,795 --> 00:31:39,835 Speaker 1: the legal Haitian migrants in Ohio, you know killed. Higgins 465 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:42,875 Speaker 1: responded with something that even for this David Duke supporting 466 00:31:43,115 --> 00:31:49,035 Speaker 1: the clans to liberal for him, ghost bus hallucinating, insurrectionist asshole, 467 00:31:49,555 --> 00:31:53,075 Speaker 1: Even for him, this was astonishing. He screenshoted that news 468 00:31:53,075 --> 00:31:55,195 Speaker 1: story and again the story was about a legal motion 469 00:31:55,635 --> 00:32:00,155 Speaker 1: in an American local court by Americans, and Higgins added 470 00:32:00,635 --> 00:32:05,275 Speaker 1: on his congressional account, while these Haitians are our wild 471 00:32:05,395 --> 00:32:10,595 Speaker 1: eating pets voodoo spelled vudu, by the way, nastiest country 472 00:32:10,635 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: in the Western Hemisphere. Cults slapstick gangsters, but damned if 473 00:32:14,355 --> 00:32:17,515 Speaker 1: they don't feel all sophisticated. Now he's so close to 474 00:32:17,555 --> 00:32:21,315 Speaker 1: the N word filing charges against our president, and VP 475 00:32:21,955 --> 00:32:25,315 Speaker 1: Trump's not President Vance is not VP Clay Higgins has 476 00:32:25,315 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: probably stoned all these dougs. Better get their mind rat 477 00:32:29,435 --> 00:32:32,915 Speaker 1: and to ask out of our countra. Before January twentieth, 478 00:32:33,715 --> 00:32:38,595 Speaker 1: he said in that patois of Louisiana. Patua is a 479 00:32:38,675 --> 00:32:40,835 Speaker 1: nice word where you got shit in your mouth. The 480 00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:44,195 Speaker 1: speaker and chief buffoon of the House, Mike Johnson, also 481 00:32:44,235 --> 00:32:47,635 Speaker 1: of Louisiana, then zaid Higgins had prayed on what he 482 00:32:47,675 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: had written, realized it was in error, and deleted the 483 00:32:51,315 --> 00:32:56,195 Speaker 1: post as a gentleman would. Yesterday this excrem at, Higgins 484 00:32:56,275 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: tried to walk it back, claiming he was talking about 485 00:32:58,595 --> 00:33:03,195 Speaker 1: Haitian gangs in Ohio, even though there aren't any Haitian 486 00:33:03,275 --> 00:33:07,595 Speaker 1: gangs in Ohio and he didn't refer to gangs, and 487 00:33:07,675 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: the filers of the lawsuit who he threatened with expulsion 488 00:33:10,475 --> 00:33:13,355 Speaker 1: and targeted for stochastic violence are members of a community 489 00:33:13,475 --> 00:33:17,795 Speaker 1: support group, not a gang. You never want to intentionally 490 00:33:17,835 --> 00:33:20,675 Speaker 1: hurt someone's feelings. I wish I could do the John 491 00:33:20,755 --> 00:33:25,315 Speaker 1: Candy Louisiana accent from the JFK movie. You never want 492 00:33:25,355 --> 00:33:28,595 Speaker 1: to intentionally hurt someone's feelings. And that post was intended 493 00:33:28,595 --> 00:33:31,795 Speaker 1: for Haitian gangs, you understand, or the one from Kevin 494 00:33:31,835 --> 00:33:35,355 Speaker 1: Bacon when he's asking, never mind, you never want to 495 00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:38,235 Speaker 1: intentionally hurt someone's feelings. And that post was intended for 496 00:33:38,275 --> 00:33:42,995 Speaker 1: Haitian gangs, you understand, not for I mean Haiti as 497 00:33:43,035 --> 00:33:45,795 Speaker 1: a country, not at all. And the unintended impact that 498 00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:48,675 Speaker 1: was expressed very sincerely from one of my colleagues, very 499 00:33:48,675 --> 00:33:52,155 Speaker 1: graciously that touched me as a gentleman. Well you're not 500 00:33:52,195 --> 00:33:54,635 Speaker 1: a gentleman, so what the hell you're talking about. It's 501 00:33:54,755 --> 00:33:57,635 Speaker 1: bad enough that this Higgins, who has behaved in public 502 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:01,395 Speaker 1: life as a disgraced fired cop, as a white supremacist, 503 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: as an insurrectionist, as a guy with the only known 504 00:34:04,755 --> 00:34:08,315 Speaker 1: IQ that's in negative numbers, who apparently heard the movie 505 00:34:08,355 --> 00:34:11,715 Speaker 1: titled Ghostbusters once and drew from it this concept of 506 00:34:12,075 --> 00:34:15,435 Speaker 1: ghost busses on January sixth, and still has never even 507 00:34:15,475 --> 00:34:19,235 Speaker 1: bothered to explain what he thinks ghost busses are. This 508 00:34:19,315 --> 00:34:22,275 Speaker 1: guy who acts like he is the child of an 509 00:34:22,315 --> 00:34:25,315 Speaker 1: alligator that mate it with a barrel of rotten fish. 510 00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:28,795 Speaker 1: It's bad enough that he is pretending he said something 511 00:34:28,875 --> 00:34:31,355 Speaker 1: far less destructive than he did on that deleted tweet. 512 00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:35,195 Speaker 1: But it turns out that Higgins almost simultaneously doubled down 513 00:34:35,355 --> 00:34:39,275 Speaker 1: on the original racist tweet about the Haitians. CNN asked 514 00:34:39,355 --> 00:34:42,475 Speaker 1: him for a comment, and he replied about his remarks 515 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:45,995 Speaker 1: about the Haitians quote, it's all true. I can put 516 00:34:46,035 --> 00:34:48,515 Speaker 1: up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. 517 00:34:48,835 --> 00:34:51,435 Speaker 1: I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I'll say 518 00:34:51,435 --> 00:34:53,435 Speaker 1: what I want. It's not a big deal to me. 519 00:34:53,755 --> 00:34:56,075 Speaker 1: It's like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. 520 00:34:56,475 --> 00:35:00,435 Speaker 1: Just scrape it off and move on with my life. Unquote. Hey, 521 00:35:00,435 --> 00:35:03,235 Speaker 1: I wouldn't scrape too hard there, Higgins sounds like what 522 00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:06,315 Speaker 1: that something stuck to the bottom of your boot is? 523 00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:10,435 Speaker 1: Is all that's left of your meager, insufficient, worthless soul. 524 00:35:11,435 --> 00:35:18,035 Speaker 1: Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana White Trash, Today's worst person 525 00:35:18,515 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: in the world to the number one story on the 526 00:35:29,395 --> 00:35:32,195 Speaker 1: Countdown on Fridays with Thurber. And it's amazing to me 527 00:35:32,315 --> 00:35:36,635 Speaker 1: in retrospect, how I read all of his wonderful, realistic, 528 00:35:37,075 --> 00:35:42,835 Speaker 1: not goopy writing about dogs and enjoyed it thoroughly, years 529 00:35:42,875 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: before I was ever adopted by a dog. Now, reading 530 00:35:48,155 --> 00:35:51,915 Speaker 1: his dog stories and anecdotes is like reading about a 531 00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:57,235 Speaker 1: bunch of friends, even that one surly friend for whom 532 00:35:57,275 --> 00:36:04,955 Speaker 1: we must continuously make excuses. The dog that bit people 533 00:36:05,035 --> 00:36:10,715 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. Probably no one man should have as 534 00:36:10,755 --> 00:36:13,515 Speaker 1: many dogs in this life as I have had, but 535 00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:16,915 Speaker 1: there was more pleasure than distress in them for me, 536 00:36:17,195 --> 00:36:22,155 Speaker 1: except in the case of an Airdale named Mugs. He 537 00:36:22,275 --> 00:36:24,955 Speaker 1: gave me more trouble than all the other fifty four 538 00:36:25,155 --> 00:36:30,035 Speaker 1: or five put together. Although my moment of keenest embarrassment 539 00:36:30,595 --> 00:36:33,395 Speaker 1: was the time a Scotch Terrier named Jeanie, who had 540 00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: just had six puppies in the clothes closet of a 541 00:36:35,995 --> 00:36:39,675 Speaker 1: fourth floor apartment in New York, had the unexpected seventh 542 00:36:39,715 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: and last at the corner of Eleventh Street and Fifth 543 00:36:43,075 --> 00:36:47,315 Speaker 1: Avenue during a walk she had insisted on taking. Then 544 00:36:47,475 --> 00:36:50,555 Speaker 1: two there was the prize winning French poodle, a giant, 545 00:36:50,595 --> 00:36:54,115 Speaker 1: big black poodle, none of your little, untroublesome white miniatures, 546 00:36:54,355 --> 00:36:57,235 Speaker 1: who got sick riding in the rumble seat of a 547 00:36:57,315 --> 00:37:00,555 Speaker 1: car with me on her way to the Greenwich Dog Show. 548 00:37:00,795 --> 00:37:03,755 Speaker 1: She had a red rubber bib tucked around her throat, 549 00:37:03,795 --> 00:37:06,235 Speaker 1: and since a rain storm came up when we were 550 00:37:06,235 --> 00:37:09,635 Speaker 1: halfway through the Bronx, I had to hold over her 551 00:37:10,475 --> 00:37:15,795 Speaker 1: a small green umbrella, really more of a parasol. The 552 00:37:15,915 --> 00:37:18,555 Speaker 1: rain beat down fearfully, and suddenly the driver of the 553 00:37:18,595 --> 00:37:21,555 Speaker 1: car drove into a big garage filled with mechanics. It 554 00:37:21,635 --> 00:37:24,555 Speaker 1: happened so quickly that I forgot to put the umbrella down, 555 00:37:25,355 --> 00:37:29,995 Speaker 1: and I will always remember with sickening distress the look 556 00:37:30,035 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: of incredulity mixed with hatred that came over the face 557 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:36,955 Speaker 1: of the particular hardened garage man that came over to 558 00:37:36,995 --> 00:37:38,995 Speaker 1: see what we wanted when he took a look at 559 00:37:39,035 --> 00:37:43,435 Speaker 1: me and the poodle. All garage men and people of 560 00:37:43,475 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: that intolerant stripe hate poodles with their curious haircuts, especially 561 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:51,915 Speaker 1: the pom poms that you got to leave on their 562 00:37:51,995 --> 00:37:56,075 Speaker 1: hips if you expect the dogs to win a prize. 563 00:37:56,355 --> 00:38:00,395 Speaker 1: But the Airdale, as I have said, was the worst 564 00:38:00,475 --> 00:38:03,035 Speaker 1: of all my dogs. He really wasn't my dog. Matter 565 00:38:03,035 --> 00:38:05,795 Speaker 1: of fact, I came home from vacation one summer to 566 00:38:05,795 --> 00:38:08,355 Speaker 1: find that my brother Roy had bought him while I 567 00:38:08,475 --> 00:38:13,315 Speaker 1: was away, a big, burly, choleric dog. He always acted 568 00:38:13,355 --> 00:38:16,635 Speaker 1: as if he thought I wasn't one of the family. 569 00:38:17,595 --> 00:38:20,235 Speaker 1: There was a slight advantage in being one of the family, 570 00:38:20,275 --> 00:38:22,235 Speaker 1: for he didn't bite the family as often as a 571 00:38:22,355 --> 00:38:25,835 Speaker 1: bit strangers. Still, in the years that we had him, 572 00:38:26,035 --> 00:38:29,875 Speaker 1: he bit everybody but mother, and he made a pass 573 00:38:29,995 --> 00:38:33,635 Speaker 1: at her once but missed. It was during the month 574 00:38:33,675 --> 00:38:37,275 Speaker 1: when we suddenly had mice, and Mugs refused to do 575 00:38:37,355 --> 00:38:40,715 Speaker 1: anything about them. Nobody ever had mice exactly like the 576 00:38:40,755 --> 00:38:43,235 Speaker 1: mice we had that month. They acted like pet mice, 577 00:38:44,035 --> 00:38:48,915 Speaker 1: almost like mice somebody had trained. They were so friendly 578 00:38:48,955 --> 00:38:52,555 Speaker 1: that one night, when Mother entertained at dinner the freer Realiras, 579 00:38:52,795 --> 00:38:54,955 Speaker 1: a club she and my father had belonged to for 580 00:38:54,995 --> 00:38:57,515 Speaker 1: twenty years, she put down a lot of little dishes 581 00:38:57,515 --> 00:39:00,475 Speaker 1: with food in them on the pantry floor so that 582 00:39:00,515 --> 00:39:02,875 Speaker 1: the mice would be satisfied with that and would not 583 00:39:02,955 --> 00:39:07,595 Speaker 1: come into the dining room. Mugs stayed out in the 584 00:39:07,635 --> 00:39:11,355 Speaker 1: pantry with the mice lying on the floor, growling to himself, 585 00:39:11,635 --> 00:39:14,275 Speaker 1: not at the mice, but about all the people in 586 00:39:14,315 --> 00:39:17,555 Speaker 1: the next room that he would have liked to get at. 587 00:39:18,355 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: Mother slipped out into the pantry once to see how 588 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:24,635 Speaker 1: everything was going. Everything was going fine. It made her 589 00:39:24,715 --> 00:39:28,515 Speaker 1: so mad to see Mugs lying there oblivious of the mice. 590 00:39:28,675 --> 00:39:31,995 Speaker 1: They came running up to her that she slapped him, 591 00:39:33,075 --> 00:39:35,955 Speaker 1: and he slashed at her, but didn't make it. He 592 00:39:36,115 --> 00:39:40,595 Speaker 1: was sorry immediately. Mother said he was always sorry, she 593 00:39:40,715 --> 00:39:43,275 Speaker 1: said after he bit someone. But we could not understand 594 00:39:43,275 --> 00:39:47,995 Speaker 1: how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry. Mother 595 00:39:48,115 --> 00:39:50,515 Speaker 1: used to send a box of candy every Christmas to 596 00:39:50,555 --> 00:39:55,115 Speaker 1: the people the Airdale bit. The list finally contained forty 597 00:39:55,195 --> 00:39:58,515 Speaker 1: or more names. Nobody could understand why we did not 598 00:39:58,555 --> 00:40:00,595 Speaker 1: get rid of the dog. I didn't understand it very 599 00:40:00,595 --> 00:40:03,595 Speaker 1: well myself, but we didn't get rid of him. I 600 00:40:03,675 --> 00:40:07,635 Speaker 1: think that one or two people tried to poison Mugs. 601 00:40:08,035 --> 00:40:11,915 Speaker 1: He acted poisoned once in a while, and old Major 602 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:15,995 Speaker 1: Moberly fired at him once with his service revolver near 603 00:40:16,035 --> 00:40:19,755 Speaker 1: the Seneca Hotel and he's Broad Street. But Muggs lived 604 00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:22,075 Speaker 1: to almost eleven years old, and even when he could 605 00:40:22,075 --> 00:40:25,595 Speaker 1: hardly get around. He bit a congressman who had called 606 00:40:25,595 --> 00:40:29,515 Speaker 1: to see my father on business. My mother had never 607 00:40:29,715 --> 00:40:33,715 Speaker 1: liked the congressman. She said the signs of his horoscope 608 00:40:33,755 --> 00:40:36,835 Speaker 1: showed he couldn't be trusted. He was Saturn with the 609 00:40:36,875 --> 00:40:39,955 Speaker 1: moon and Virgo. But she sent him a box of 610 00:40:39,955 --> 00:40:44,195 Speaker 1: candy that Christmas. Anyway, he sent it right back, probably 611 00:40:44,195 --> 00:40:48,995 Speaker 1: because he suspected it was trick candy. Mother persuaded herself 612 00:40:48,995 --> 00:40:50,595 Speaker 1: that it was all for the best that the dog 613 00:40:50,635 --> 00:40:53,195 Speaker 1: had bitten him, even though father lost an important business 614 00:40:53,195 --> 00:40:56,435 Speaker 1: association because of it. I wouldn't be associated with such 615 00:40:56,435 --> 00:41:00,155 Speaker 1: a man. Mother said, Mugs could read him lack a book. 616 00:41:01,955 --> 00:41:04,835 Speaker 1: We used to take turns feeding Mugs to be on 617 00:41:04,915 --> 00:41:07,915 Speaker 1: his good side, but that didn't always work. He was 618 00:41:07,995 --> 00:41:10,275 Speaker 1: never in a very good humor even after a meal. 619 00:41:10,995 --> 00:41:14,235 Speaker 1: Nobody knew exactly what was the matter with him, but 620 00:41:14,315 --> 00:41:18,275 Speaker 1: whatever it was, it made him irascible, especially in the mornings. 621 00:41:18,915 --> 00:41:22,155 Speaker 1: Roy my brother, never felt very well in the morning either, 622 00:41:22,235 --> 00:41:25,275 Speaker 1: especially before breakfast, And once when he came downstairs and 623 00:41:25,435 --> 00:41:28,835 Speaker 1: found that Mugs had moodily chewed up the morning paper, 624 00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:32,675 Speaker 1: he hit him in the face with a grapefruit and 625 00:41:32,715 --> 00:41:36,435 Speaker 1: then jumped up on the dining room table, scattering dishes 626 00:41:36,435 --> 00:41:41,115 Speaker 1: and silverware and spilling the coffee. Muggs first free leap 627 00:41:41,435 --> 00:41:44,315 Speaker 1: carried him all the way across the table and into 628 00:41:44,315 --> 00:41:46,995 Speaker 1: a brass fire screen in front of the gas grate, 629 00:41:47,595 --> 00:41:49,235 Speaker 1: but he was back on his feet in a moment, 630 00:41:49,275 --> 00:41:50,915 Speaker 1: and in the end he got Roy and gave him 631 00:41:50,915 --> 00:41:54,035 Speaker 1: a pretty vicious bite in the leg. Then he was 632 00:41:54,075 --> 00:41:56,595 Speaker 1: all over it. He never bid anyone more than once 633 00:41:56,635 --> 00:42:00,795 Speaker 1: at a time. Mother always mentioned that as an argument 634 00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:03,435 Speaker 1: in his favor. She said he had a quick temper, 635 00:42:03,795 --> 00:42:08,195 Speaker 1: but that he didn't hold grudge. She was forever defending him. 636 00:42:08,715 --> 00:42:11,675 Speaker 1: I think she liked him because he wasn't well. He's 637 00:42:11,755 --> 00:42:17,755 Speaker 1: not strong, she would say pityingly, but that was inaccurate. 638 00:42:18,235 --> 00:42:21,435 Speaker 1: He may not have been well, but he was terribly strong. 639 00:42:23,275 --> 00:42:26,195 Speaker 1: One time my mother went to the Chittenden Hotel to 640 00:42:26,235 --> 00:42:29,515 Speaker 1: call on a woman mental healer who was lecturing in 641 00:42:29,595 --> 00:42:33,995 Speaker 1: Columbus on the subject of harmonious vibrations. She wanted to 642 00:42:33,995 --> 00:42:37,195 Speaker 1: find out if it was possible to get harmonious vibrations 643 00:42:37,235 --> 00:42:42,675 Speaker 1: into a dog. He's a large, tan colored Airdale, Mother explained. 644 00:42:43,355 --> 00:42:45,595 Speaker 1: The woman said that she had never treated a dog, 645 00:42:46,035 --> 00:42:48,875 Speaker 1: but she advised my mother to hold the thought that 646 00:42:48,955 --> 00:42:53,275 Speaker 1: he did not bite and would not bite. Mother was 647 00:42:53,315 --> 00:42:55,675 Speaker 1: holding the thought the very next morning when Muggs got 648 00:42:55,675 --> 00:42:59,355 Speaker 1: the iceman. But she blamed that slip up on the iceman. 649 00:42:59,715 --> 00:43:02,235 Speaker 1: If you didn't think he would bite you, he wouldn't. 650 00:43:02,795 --> 00:43:06,115 Speaker 1: Mother told himmped out of the house in a terrible 651 00:43:06,315 --> 00:43:12,195 Speaker 1: jangle of vibrations. One morning when Mugs bit me slightly 652 00:43:12,315 --> 00:43:14,595 Speaker 1: more or less in passing. I reached down and grabbed 653 00:43:14,595 --> 00:43:17,875 Speaker 1: his short, stumpy tail and hoisted him into the air. 654 00:43:19,115 --> 00:43:22,115 Speaker 1: It was a foolhardy thing to do, and the last 655 00:43:22,115 --> 00:43:24,355 Speaker 1: time I saw my mother, about six months ago, she 656 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:28,315 Speaker 1: said she didn't know what possessed me. I don't either, 657 00:43:28,475 --> 00:43:31,315 Speaker 1: except that I was pretty mad. As long as I 658 00:43:31,395 --> 00:43:33,515 Speaker 1: held the dog off the floor by his tail, he 659 00:43:33,555 --> 00:43:36,155 Speaker 1: couldn't get at me. But he twisted and jerked so 660 00:43:36,475 --> 00:43:40,195 Speaker 1: snarling all the time that I realized I couldn't hold 661 00:43:40,275 --> 00:43:43,315 Speaker 1: him that way very long, and I carried him into 662 00:43:43,355 --> 00:43:45,795 Speaker 1: the kitchen and flung him onto the floor and shut 663 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:48,275 Speaker 1: the door on him just as he crashed against it. 664 00:43:49,115 --> 00:43:53,315 Speaker 1: But I forgot about the backstairs. Muggs went up the 665 00:43:53,355 --> 00:43:56,915 Speaker 1: backstairs and down the front stairs and had me cornered 666 00:43:56,955 --> 00:43:59,755 Speaker 1: in the living room. I managed to get up out 667 00:43:59,795 --> 00:44:02,635 Speaker 1: of the mantelpiece above the fireplace, but it gave way 668 00:44:03,115 --> 00:44:06,635 Speaker 1: and came down with a tremendous crash, throwing a large 669 00:44:06,675 --> 00:44:10,875 Speaker 1: marble clock, several vases, and myself heavily to the floor. 670 00:44:12,035 --> 00:44:15,155 Speaker 1: Muggs was so alarmed by the racket that when I 671 00:44:15,195 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: picked myself up, he had disappeared. We couldn't find him anywhere, 672 00:44:19,115 --> 00:44:23,635 Speaker 1: although we whistled and shouted until old Missus Dettweiler called 673 00:44:23,675 --> 00:44:27,595 Speaker 1: after dinner that night. Muggs had bitten her once in 674 00:44:27,675 --> 00:44:29,795 Speaker 1: the leg, and she came into the living room only 675 00:44:29,795 --> 00:44:33,675 Speaker 1: after we assured her that Muggs had run away. She 676 00:44:33,795 --> 00:44:37,555 Speaker 1: had just seated herself when with great growling and scratching 677 00:44:37,635 --> 00:44:42,195 Speaker 1: of claws, Mugs emerged from under a davenport where he 678 00:44:42,235 --> 00:44:46,595 Speaker 1: had been quietly hiding all the time and bit her again. 679 00:44:48,515 --> 00:44:51,075 Speaker 1: Mother examined the bite and put arnica on it and 680 00:44:51,075 --> 00:44:53,875 Speaker 1: told Missus Dttweiler that it was only a bruise. He 681 00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:58,875 Speaker 1: just bumped you, she said. But Missus Dettwiler left our 682 00:44:58,915 --> 00:45:03,035 Speaker 1: house in a nasty state of mind. Lots of people 683 00:45:03,075 --> 00:45:05,955 Speaker 1: reported our airdale to the police, but my father held 684 00:45:05,995 --> 00:45:08,315 Speaker 1: a municipal office at the time and was on friendly 685 00:45:08,435 --> 00:45:11,955 Speaker 1: terms with the police. Even so, the cops had been 686 00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:15,195 Speaker 1: out a couple of times, once when Mugs bit Missus 687 00:45:15,275 --> 00:45:19,275 Speaker 1: rufus Sturt event and again when he bit Lieutenant Governor Molloy, 688 00:45:20,235 --> 00:45:22,435 Speaker 1: But Mother told him it hadn't been Muggs's fault, but 689 00:45:22,515 --> 00:45:25,195 Speaker 1: the fault of the people who were bitten. When he 690 00:45:25,275 --> 00:45:30,315 Speaker 1: starts for them, they scream, she explained, and that excites him. 691 00:45:30,835 --> 00:45:32,995 Speaker 1: The cops suggested that it might be a good idea 692 00:45:33,035 --> 00:45:35,435 Speaker 1: to tie the dog up, but mother said that it 693 00:45:35,675 --> 00:45:38,315 Speaker 1: mortified him to be tied up and that he wouldn't 694 00:45:38,315 --> 00:45:42,235 Speaker 1: eat when he was tied up. Mugs at his meals 695 00:45:42,275 --> 00:45:44,755 Speaker 1: was an unusual site because of the fact that if 696 00:45:44,795 --> 00:45:49,475 Speaker 1: you reached toward the floor, he would bite you. We 697 00:45:49,595 --> 00:45:51,675 Speaker 1: usually put his food plate on top of an old 698 00:45:51,755 --> 00:45:54,995 Speaker 1: kitchen table with a bench alongside the table. Muggs would 699 00:45:55,035 --> 00:45:58,635 Speaker 1: stand on the bench and eat. I remember that my 700 00:45:58,715 --> 00:46:02,435 Speaker 1: mother's uncle Horatio, who boasted that he was the third 701 00:46:02,515 --> 00:46:07,675 Speaker 1: man up Missionary Ridge, was flutteringly indignant when he found 702 00:46:07,715 --> 00:46:10,075 Speaker 1: out that we fed the dog on a table because 703 00:46:10,075 --> 00:46:12,995 Speaker 1: we were afraid to put his plate on the floor. 704 00:46:13,515 --> 00:46:15,755 Speaker 1: He said he wasn't afraid of any dog that ever lived, 705 00:46:15,795 --> 00:46:17,515 Speaker 1: and that he would put the dog's plate on the 706 00:46:17,515 --> 00:46:20,555 Speaker 1: floor if we would give it to him. Roy said 707 00:46:20,555 --> 00:46:23,195 Speaker 1: that if Uncle Horatio had fed Mugs on the ground 708 00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:25,555 Speaker 1: just before the battle, he would have been the first 709 00:46:25,555 --> 00:46:31,835 Speaker 1: man up Missionary Ridge. Uncle Horatio was furious. Ray, amen, 710 00:46:32,355 --> 00:46:37,955 Speaker 1: bray amen, Now, he shouted, I'll feed them on the floor. 711 00:46:39,595 --> 00:46:41,795 Speaker 1: Roy was all forgiving him a chance, but my father 712 00:46:41,835 --> 00:46:43,995 Speaker 1: wouldn't hear of it. He said that Mugs had already 713 00:46:44,035 --> 00:46:50,115 Speaker 1: been fed. I'll feed them again, bawled Uncle Horatio. We 714 00:46:50,195 --> 00:46:54,315 Speaker 1: had quite a time quieting him. In his last year. 715 00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:57,995 Speaker 1: Muggs used to spend practically all of his time outdoors. 716 00:46:58,635 --> 00:47:00,275 Speaker 1: He didn't like to stay in the house for some 717 00:47:00,315 --> 00:47:03,315 Speaker 1: reason or other. Perhaps it held too many unpleasant memories 718 00:47:03,355 --> 00:47:06,035 Speaker 1: for him. Anyway, it was hard to get him to 719 00:47:06,075 --> 00:47:08,715 Speaker 1: come in, and as a result, the garbage man, the iceman, 720 00:47:08,755 --> 00:47:12,635 Speaker 1: and the laundryman would not come near our house. We 721 00:47:12,715 --> 00:47:15,155 Speaker 1: had to haul the garbage down to the corner, take 722 00:47:15,195 --> 00:47:17,315 Speaker 1: the laundry out, and bring it back and meet the 723 00:47:17,315 --> 00:47:21,195 Speaker 1: iceman a block from home. After this had gone on 724 00:47:21,315 --> 00:47:24,155 Speaker 1: for some time, we hit on an ingenious arrangement for 725 00:47:24,195 --> 00:47:26,635 Speaker 1: getting the dog in the house so that we could 726 00:47:26,715 --> 00:47:29,715 Speaker 1: lock him up while the gas meter was red and 727 00:47:29,795 --> 00:47:37,315 Speaker 1: so on. Mugs was afraid of only one thing, an 728 00:47:37,475 --> 00:47:43,195 Speaker 1: electrical storm. Thunder and lightning frightened him out of his senses. 729 00:47:43,675 --> 00:47:46,595 Speaker 1: I think he thought a storm had broken the day 730 00:47:46,635 --> 00:47:49,995 Speaker 1: the mantelpiece fell. He would rush into the house and 731 00:47:50,115 --> 00:47:52,675 Speaker 1: hide under a bed or in a clothes closet, So 732 00:47:53,355 --> 00:47:56,155 Speaker 1: we fixed up a thunder machine out of a long, 733 00:47:56,355 --> 00:47:58,915 Speaker 1: narrow piece of sheet iron with a wooden handle on 734 00:47:58,915 --> 00:48:02,835 Speaker 1: one end. Mother would shake this vigorously when she wanted 735 00:48:02,875 --> 00:48:05,875 Speaker 1: to get Mugs into the house. Made an excellent imitation 736 00:48:05,955 --> 00:48:08,795 Speaker 1: of thunder. But I suppose it was the most roundabout 737 00:48:08,835 --> 00:48:12,675 Speaker 1: system for running a household that was ever devised. It 738 00:48:12,755 --> 00:48:16,275 Speaker 1: took a lot out of mother. A few months before 739 00:48:16,355 --> 00:48:21,395 Speaker 1: Mugs died, he got to seeing things. He would rise 740 00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:27,355 Speaker 1: slowly from the floor, growling low and stalk, stiff legged 741 00:48:27,875 --> 00:48:34,195 Speaker 1: and menacing toward nothing at all. Sometimes the thing would 742 00:48:34,235 --> 00:48:37,155 Speaker 1: be just a little to the right or left of 743 00:48:37,195 --> 00:48:42,235 Speaker 1: a visitor. Once a fuller brush salesman got hysterics, Muggs 744 00:48:42,235 --> 00:48:45,675 Speaker 1: came wandering into the room like Hamlet, following his father's ghosts. 745 00:48:45,875 --> 00:48:48,275 Speaker 1: His eyes were fixed on a spot just to the 746 00:48:48,475 --> 00:48:51,555 Speaker 1: left of the fuller brush man, who stood it until 747 00:48:51,635 --> 00:48:55,955 Speaker 1: Muggs was about three slow creeping paces from him. Then 748 00:48:55,995 --> 00:49:00,275 Speaker 1: he shouted, Mugs wavered on past him into the hallway, 749 00:49:00,395 --> 00:49:03,235 Speaker 1: grumbling to himself, but the fuller man went on shouting. 750 00:49:03,755 --> 00:49:05,715 Speaker 1: I think Mother had to throw a pan of cold 751 00:49:05,835 --> 00:49:08,955 Speaker 1: water on him before he stopped. That was the way 752 00:49:08,995 --> 00:49:11,315 Speaker 1: she used to stop us boys when we got into fights. 753 00:49:12,795 --> 00:49:16,715 Speaker 1: Muggs died quite suddenly one night. Mother wanted to bury 754 00:49:16,795 --> 00:49:19,155 Speaker 1: him in the family lot under a marble stone with 755 00:49:19,235 --> 00:49:22,355 Speaker 1: some such inscription as flights of angels sing thee to 756 00:49:22,475 --> 00:49:25,795 Speaker 1: thy rest, but we persuaded her it was against the law. 757 00:49:27,395 --> 00:49:29,395 Speaker 1: In the end we just put up a smooth board 758 00:49:29,435 --> 00:49:33,315 Speaker 1: above his grave along a lonely road. On the board 759 00:49:33,355 --> 00:49:39,395 Speaker 1: I wrote with an indelible pencil, cave Kanum. Mother was 760 00:49:39,475 --> 00:49:43,195 Speaker 1: quite pleased with the simple, classic dignity of the old 761 00:49:43,435 --> 00:49:50,515 Speaker 1: Latin epitaph The Dog that Bit People by James Thurber. 762 00:50:03,555 --> 00:50:05,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can here. Thank you 763 00:50:05,395 --> 00:50:09,635 Speaker 1: for listening, mugs. We are now back to five episodes 764 00:50:09,675 --> 00:50:12,475 Speaker 1: a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again 765 00:50:12,475 --> 00:50:16,475 Speaker 1: there is a Monday Countdown. Please send this podcast to 766 00:50:16,515 --> 00:50:19,155 Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't listen but should, And a little preview 767 00:50:19,195 --> 00:50:23,075 Speaker 1: of course about Monday, Monday Steedy day, you know what 768 00:50:23,115 --> 00:50:25,715 Speaker 1: that means. Brian Ray and John Phillip Schhaneil the music 769 00:50:25,795 --> 00:50:29,475 Speaker 1: Jeal directors of Countdown, arranged, produced and performed most of 770 00:50:29,475 --> 00:50:33,235 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray 771 00:50:33,275 --> 00:50:35,875 Speaker 1: was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced 772 00:50:35,875 --> 00:50:39,555 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers and again their premiere of our revised 773 00:50:39,595 --> 00:50:43,875 Speaker 1: theme is also in Monday special edition. Our satirical and 774 00:50:43,915 --> 00:50:47,195 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 775 00:50:47,315 --> 00:50:50,315 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Old Woman theme 776 00:50:50,355 --> 00:50:53,555 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 777 00:50:53,755 --> 00:50:57,115 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group 778 00:50:57,155 --> 00:51:00,715 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. My announcer today is my friend Larry David. 779 00:51:01,075 --> 00:51:03,915 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. The that's countdown 780 00:51:03,955 --> 00:51:07,235 Speaker 1: for today, five weeks and four days until the twenty 781 00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:10,995 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election and the three hundred and sixty 782 00:51:11,035 --> 00:51:15,595 Speaker 1: first day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted 783 00:51:15,635 --> 00:51:18,395 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 784 00:51:18,995 --> 00:51:22,675 Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential 785 00:51:22,675 --> 00:51:25,635 Speaker 1: immunity if we have to, to keep him from doing 786 00:51:25,635 --> 00:51:31,475 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 787 00:51:31,715 --> 00:51:35,635 Speaker 1: is Monday bulletins as the news requires. Until then, I'm 788 00:51:35,715 --> 00:51:40,115 Speaker 1: Keith Oulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 789 00:51:48,915 --> 00:51:52,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 790 00:51:53,035 --> 00:51:57,955 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 791 00:51:58,195 --> 00:52:00,195 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.