1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Justice 2 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:25,515 Speaker 1: Juan Mershon has to send Trump to Rikers Island for 3 00:00:25,675 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: violating the gag order or he is going to lose 4 00:00:28,515 --> 00:00:32,195 Speaker 1: control of this trial after what happened yesterday. Mershon has 5 00:00:32,315 --> 00:00:36,315 Speaker 1: to jail Trump. He has to. Trump tried to finesse 6 00:00:36,395 --> 00:00:41,435 Speaker 1: the gag order by quoting somebody else that worm waters 7 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:46,395 Speaker 1: from Fox, quoting somebody else, denigrating the jurors and the judge, 8 00:00:46,395 --> 00:00:49,875 Speaker 1: and adding to the pile of stochastic inducements to violence 9 00:00:49,915 --> 00:00:54,395 Speaker 1: against anyone who thwarts Trump here or anywhere else. And 10 00:00:54,515 --> 00:00:58,355 Speaker 1: by morning, one of the jurors, the silhouette of their 11 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:02,915 Speaker 1: name and the vague depiction of their home revealed, was 12 00:01:02,995 --> 00:01:07,275 Speaker 1: quitting out of fear. Because what Trump sought by denigrating 13 00:01:07,315 --> 00:01:14,755 Speaker 1: the jury works, because Trump's intimidation works, because Trump's terrorism works. 14 00:01:15,515 --> 00:01:20,315 Speaker 1: He has to see the inside of a jail cell. 15 00:01:20,435 --> 00:01:22,755 Speaker 1: I don't care if it's for life, I don't care 16 00:01:22,795 --> 00:01:27,715 Speaker 1: if it's for one hour. Trump's conviction that he will 17 00:01:27,795 --> 00:01:31,555 Speaker 1: break Mayor Sean, and break the New York State Supreme Court, 18 00:01:31,875 --> 00:01:37,275 Speaker 1: and break the American justice system must itself be broken now, 19 00:01:37,995 --> 00:01:40,595 Speaker 1: or it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. It is 20 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:46,595 Speaker 1: Trump who must be broken. Prosecutors began day three of 21 00:01:46,635 --> 00:01:49,795 Speaker 1: the trial yesterday by noting he had violated the gag 22 00:01:49,915 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: order seven different times just since jury selection began Monday, 23 00:01:55,915 --> 00:02:00,435 Speaker 1: and they actually undersold the most egregious of Trump's crimes, 24 00:02:00,915 --> 00:02:06,475 Speaker 1: with Joshua Steinlass saying quote the defendant reposts about liberals 25 00:02:06,635 --> 00:02:08,875 Speaker 1: lying to try to get on the jury. A post 26 00:02:08,875 --> 00:02:13,355 Speaker 1: by Jesse Waters that was not a repost. Trump does 27 00:02:13,475 --> 00:02:17,875 Speaker 1: dozens of reposts a day. You hit a repost icon, 28 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:21,195 Speaker 1: a couple of rounded arrows, maybe you add a comment. 29 00:02:21,435 --> 00:02:26,115 Speaker 1: Trump knows what a repost is. That is not what 30 00:02:26,195 --> 00:02:30,115 Speaker 1: Trump or someone in control of the social media account 31 00:02:30,155 --> 00:02:33,995 Speaker 1: bearing his name did. What Trump did was to make 32 00:02:34,115 --> 00:02:39,675 Speaker 1: a new post quoting Waters. It read, it still reads, 33 00:02:39,795 --> 00:02:44,915 Speaker 1: It's still live, quotation marks. They are catching undercover liberal 34 00:02:45,155 --> 00:02:49,075 Speaker 1: activists lying to the judge in order to get on 35 00:02:49,195 --> 00:02:55,435 Speaker 1: the Trump jury, and quotation marks Jesse Waters. It is 36 00:02:55,595 --> 00:03:00,635 Speaker 1: in Trump's own electronic hand. It is not a repost. 37 00:03:00,795 --> 00:03:03,875 Speaker 1: It is not technically okay within the gag order, because 38 00:03:03,915 --> 00:03:06,355 Speaker 1: Trump is an lying about the judge and the jurors 39 00:03:06,475 --> 00:03:09,955 Speaker 1: and endangering them all he's just quoting Jesse Waters, lying 40 00:03:09,955 --> 00:03:12,475 Speaker 1: about the judge and the jurors and endangering them all. 41 00:03:13,115 --> 00:03:16,795 Speaker 1: Trump wrote that it is Trump himself violating the gag 42 00:03:16,915 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: order in that way, and the prosecution believes the other examples, 43 00:03:21,915 --> 00:03:25,235 Speaker 1: posting articles about Michael Cohen on his social media feed 44 00:03:25,275 --> 00:03:29,195 Speaker 1: at his campaign website are also violations. And the longer 45 00:03:29,275 --> 00:03:33,235 Speaker 1: we wait to break Trump, the less our ability to 46 00:03:33,395 --> 00:03:38,675 Speaker 1: contain him will be. At this rate, it is just 47 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:41,315 Speaker 1: a matter of time until Trump has somebody on his 48 00:03:41,475 --> 00:03:45,075 Speaker 1: team leak the name of a juror in this case 49 00:03:45,475 --> 00:03:51,035 Speaker 1: and provoke another delay, more fear of retribution for the 50 00:03:51,115 --> 00:03:54,795 Speaker 1: jurors who do not ask out, or maybe even a mistrial. 51 00:03:56,395 --> 00:03:59,995 Speaker 1: Trump's team is working full time scouring the histories and 52 00:04:00,035 --> 00:04:02,795 Speaker 1: the social media histories of those already on the jury. 53 00:04:02,915 --> 00:04:07,995 Speaker 1: What do you think that is? For Trump is a wounded, 54 00:04:08,435 --> 00:04:13,675 Speaker 1: cornered animal in a case of life or death. Think 55 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:21,355 Speaker 1: of him always as a cockroach with thumbs and for 56 00:04:21,435 --> 00:04:24,875 Speaker 1: good insulting measure. Trump also used his phone in court 57 00:04:24,955 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: and took a call, also a violation of court rules everywhere, 58 00:04:29,795 --> 00:04:33,075 Speaker 1: and he didn't stand when the jurors and prospective jurors 59 00:04:33,115 --> 00:04:36,515 Speaker 1: came in even though everybody else officially in court did so. 60 00:04:36,835 --> 00:04:40,195 Speaker 1: And he muttered and gestured at the jurors on Tuesday, 61 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: and he brought Jason Miller and his ex wrestler thug 62 00:04:44,195 --> 00:04:49,275 Speaker 1: Stephen Chung into court to lend a further air of intimidation. 63 00:04:49,595 --> 00:04:52,275 Speaker 1: And he not only tried to intimidate the jurors and 64 00:04:52,315 --> 00:04:55,995 Speaker 1: the potential jurors and the witnesses, he did intimidate them. 65 00:04:57,275 --> 00:05:00,995 Speaker 1: One of them quit. And if you or I, or 66 00:05:00,995 --> 00:05:04,595 Speaker 1: anybody who is not Trump did any one of those things, 67 00:05:05,035 --> 00:05:08,995 Speaker 1: and repeatedly lied by promising we would stop, we would 68 00:05:08,995 --> 00:05:13,155 Speaker 1: see the inside of a jail cell. And Trump must 69 00:05:14,475 --> 00:05:18,995 Speaker 1: just for one hour, Justice meyr Sean, just long enough 70 00:05:18,995 --> 00:05:26,475 Speaker 1: for Trump to soil his pants. The other part of 71 00:05:26,555 --> 00:05:30,315 Speaker 1: the standard Trump court practice did not go so well. 72 00:05:30,875 --> 00:05:34,235 Speaker 1: The Trump post in which he quoted Waters also served 73 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:39,075 Speaker 1: it seemed to delay the court process, because nothing slows 74 00:05:39,115 --> 00:05:41,475 Speaker 1: down a trial more than when instead of filling up 75 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:45,275 Speaker 1: the jury pool, you start draining it. Before lunch, they 76 00:05:45,315 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: were down from seven seated jurors to five, and by 77 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:51,595 Speaker 1: late afternoon I heard an expert on CNN explained he'd 78 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:55,755 Speaker 1: always known the judge's statement on Tuesday that opening statements 79 00:05:55,755 --> 00:05:57,955 Speaker 1: in the actual trial would be next Monday at nine 80 00:05:58,075 --> 00:06:01,355 Speaker 1: thirty was impossible. And then an hour later the judge 81 00:06:01,355 --> 00:06:04,475 Speaker 1: announced they had seated the twelve jurors and one al 82 00:06:04,515 --> 00:06:09,075 Speaker 1: t and we're just five alternates shy of the complete set, 83 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:12,595 Speaker 1: so we likely will start on Monday morning. And then 84 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:16,275 Speaker 1: Tuesday comes the hearing on Trump violating the gag order 85 00:06:16,715 --> 00:06:20,995 Speaker 1: again and again and again. Slightly wide range of possible 86 00:06:21,035 --> 00:06:25,275 Speaker 1: outcomes at that hearing. For him might be as little 87 00:06:25,315 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: as one thousand dollars fine per offense. For you, it 88 00:06:30,915 --> 00:06:36,235 Speaker 1: would be jail. The rest of it yesterday was mere detail, 89 00:06:36,315 --> 00:06:38,995 Speaker 1: though some of it was funny or entertaining or stupid 90 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,155 Speaker 1: or all. There seemed to be consensus that for once, 91 00:06:42,195 --> 00:06:46,035 Speaker 1: Trump did not fall asleep. But one NBC analyst wrote 92 00:06:46,035 --> 00:06:48,595 Speaker 1: that while Justice Mershawn was giving instructions to the new 93 00:06:48,635 --> 00:06:52,235 Speaker 1: crowd of ninety six would be jurors, quote, Trump rests 94 00:06:52,395 --> 00:06:56,955 Speaker 1: his eyes. There was a reminder that, like finding a 95 00:06:56,955 --> 00:06:59,075 Speaker 1: bunch of people in a large crowded room who share 96 00:06:59,195 --> 00:07:02,275 Speaker 1: your birthday, is way easier than the math would at 97 00:07:02,275 --> 00:07:07,235 Speaker 1: first suggest, there are coins. One of Trump's lawyers asked 98 00:07:07,275 --> 00:07:11,075 Speaker 1: for a prospective juror to be dismissed for cause why 99 00:07:12,075 --> 00:07:16,555 Speaker 1: she and her husband had stayed at the lawyer's house 100 00:07:17,075 --> 00:07:21,435 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Oh and the husband reviewed Maggie Haberman's book. 101 00:07:22,835 --> 00:07:25,475 Speaker 1: Another would be juror was born in Italy and immediately 102 00:07:25,515 --> 00:07:28,515 Speaker 1: noted that there they compare Trump to the corrupt prime 103 00:07:28,555 --> 00:07:32,035 Speaker 1: minister and media baron Silvio Bert Lasconi, an excellent comp 104 00:07:34,035 --> 00:07:37,995 Speaker 1: One of the jurors, also dismissed from the pool, gave 105 00:07:38,075 --> 00:07:42,755 Speaker 1: Trump the most backhanded compliment imaginable quote, he looked less 106 00:07:42,995 --> 00:07:49,635 Speaker 1: orange than I imagined. We had one post courtroom unintentional revelation 107 00:07:49,715 --> 00:07:52,635 Speaker 1: from Trump that he is as has been speculated, panicking 108 00:07:53,435 --> 00:07:55,875 Speaker 1: both over this case and the sudden reversal of the 109 00:07:55,915 --> 00:08:00,235 Speaker 1: polling winds. The first thing Trump did after leaving one 110 00:08:00,315 --> 00:08:03,915 Speaker 1: hundred Center Street yesterday was to post a graphic on 111 00:08:04,035 --> 00:08:09,235 Speaker 1: his social media reading Trump dominates Biden in new national poll, 112 00:08:10,635 --> 00:08:13,715 Speaker 1: along with the numbers and the bar graphs. What were 113 00:08:13,755 --> 00:08:19,475 Speaker 1: the numbers? Trump forty six Biden forty three. Lead is 114 00:08:19,555 --> 00:08:23,115 Speaker 1: three points, margin of error is two point seven points. 115 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:27,275 Speaker 1: When the word Trump uses for an outlier poll with 116 00:08:27,395 --> 00:08:31,475 Speaker 1: an effective lead of zero point three percent is dominates. 117 00:08:32,235 --> 00:08:36,235 Speaker 1: He's panicking. And after the day ended, we had two 118 00:08:36,275 --> 00:08:40,195 Speaker 1: more reminders that occasionally it is impossible to believe that 119 00:08:40,315 --> 00:08:45,715 Speaker 1: Trump is actually smart enough, actually ever made enough money 120 00:08:45,755 --> 00:08:49,515 Speaker 1: despite his stupidity, to ensure that he did not starve 121 00:08:49,635 --> 00:08:52,515 Speaker 1: to death, let alone lasts long enough to take over 122 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:56,475 Speaker 1: the government. To prove his innocence, he marched out of 123 00:08:56,555 --> 00:09:01,995 Speaker 1: court and held in his hands a stack of right 124 00:09:02,035 --> 00:09:08,355 Speaker 1: wing media bleatings, insisting on his martyrdom. It looked like 125 00:09:08,395 --> 00:09:12,915 Speaker 1: a small telephone book printed out computer stories. At one 126 00:09:12,995 --> 00:09:15,795 Speaker 1: point he read off the names of the authors, Greg Jarrett, 127 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:19,395 Speaker 1: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, as if these names do not 128 00:09:19,475 --> 00:09:22,435 Speaker 1: provoke laughter from at least as many Americans as they 129 00:09:22,435 --> 00:09:27,275 Speaker 1: would impress Jonathan Turley, I mean Trump, why not Kanye West. 130 00:09:28,595 --> 00:09:30,715 Speaker 1: He also said the stories were just from the last 131 00:09:30,715 --> 00:09:33,555 Speaker 1: few days, while at least one print out was done 132 00:09:33,595 --> 00:09:38,195 Speaker 1: in such a large font that reporters could tell the 133 00:09:38,235 --> 00:09:42,755 Speaker 1: story was in fact from twenty twenty three. And lastly, 134 00:09:43,515 --> 00:09:49,915 Speaker 1: the World's toughest man, the symbol of masculinity for Maga millions, 135 00:09:50,915 --> 00:09:54,595 Speaker 1: the man who is going through all this for America 136 00:09:55,515 --> 00:10:04,515 Speaker 1: and for you, a greater martyr than Abraham Lincoln, that superman. 137 00:10:06,475 --> 00:10:10,435 Speaker 1: It's really cold. I'm sitting here for days now, from 138 00:10:10,435 --> 00:10:15,435 Speaker 1: morning till ninety and then freezing from freezing. Everybody was 139 00:10:15,475 --> 00:10:18,435 Speaker 1: freezing in there. Okay, I got two for this one. 140 00:10:19,115 --> 00:10:25,115 Speaker 1: One Trump, it's that cold, so you won't freaking fall 141 00:10:25,275 --> 00:10:32,595 Speaker 1: asleep again, moron. And two don't worry defendant Jay Trump. 142 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:44,835 Speaker 1: It'll be much warmer in hell. All right, let's run 143 00:10:44,915 --> 00:10:47,355 Speaker 1: some of the other headlines. This is what Congress is 144 00:10:47,515 --> 00:10:50,315 Speaker 1: like at the moment. In case you didn't know for 145 00:10:50,395 --> 00:10:54,115 Speaker 1: a time yesterday, the controversy was not about whether or 146 00:10:54,235 --> 00:10:58,475 Speaker 1: not a Republican congressman had called another Republican congressman Quote 147 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:04,395 Speaker 1: Tubby in an argument. It was about which congressman the 148 00:11:04,435 --> 00:11:10,075 Speaker 1: first congressman had called Tubby. NBC News quoted two sources 149 00:11:10,475 --> 00:11:14,435 Speaker 1: saying that during a heated argument in the House about 150 00:11:14,475 --> 00:11:19,195 Speaker 1: the upcoming foreign aid bills, Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin, 151 00:11:20,115 --> 00:11:25,075 Speaker 1: the whirling dervish of the House, had called the Speaker 152 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:28,275 Speaker 1: of the House Mike Johnson. I mean he's still the speaker. 153 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:32,235 Speaker 1: We'll see about next week. Van Orden had called Speaker 154 00:11:32,275 --> 00:11:36,715 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson Tubby. Van Orden has all kinds of problems. 155 00:11:37,195 --> 00:11:42,355 Speaker 1: But one thing Johnson is not is tubby. And Van 156 00:11:42,515 --> 00:11:45,515 Speaker 1: Orden was outraged by this report because he didn't call 157 00:11:45,675 --> 00:11:49,915 Speaker 1: Johnson tubby. He called Matt Gates tubby that he said 158 00:11:49,995 --> 00:11:55,435 Speaker 1: was directed directly at Matt Gates, directed directly anything further. Father, 159 00:11:56,075 --> 00:11:59,355 Speaker 1: he felt like he should call me a squish, And 160 00:11:59,435 --> 00:12:01,595 Speaker 1: I wanted to remind anybody who has not been in 161 00:12:01,675 --> 00:12:05,595 Speaker 1: combat and held his friend's hand as the died being 162 00:12:05,675 --> 00:12:08,755 Speaker 1: shot by the enemy, really doesn't have any business calling 163 00:12:08,795 --> 00:12:12,275 Speaker 1: someone else a squish. And so in fact I did 164 00:12:12,355 --> 00:12:18,515 Speaker 1: call him tubby, and I stand by that. As difficult 165 00:12:18,635 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: as it is to criticize anybody who would call Matt 166 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:30,955 Speaker 1: Gates anything, particularly tubby, Van Orden is nuts. He was 167 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:35,075 Speaker 1: seen at the January sixth coup attempt. He was heard 168 00:12:35,635 --> 00:12:39,395 Speaker 1: telling Robert Reisch, who spells his name r eic h 169 00:12:39,515 --> 00:12:42,595 Speaker 1: but pronounces it Reisch, telling Robert Reisch that he should 170 00:12:42,635 --> 00:12:47,155 Speaker 1: change his first name to third, leaving millions confused, what 171 00:12:47,195 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 1: the hell's the third Reisch. He was seen swearing at 172 00:12:51,875 --> 00:12:55,315 Speaker 1: and threatening a bunch of teenage senate pages because they 173 00:12:55,315 --> 00:12:57,875 Speaker 1: were lying on the floor taking pictures on their last 174 00:12:57,955 --> 00:13:04,875 Speaker 1: day defiling his house. He reportedly was swearing her. We'd 175 00:13:04,995 --> 00:13:07,235 Speaker 1: swearing at a bunch of briefers from the White House 176 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:11,195 Speaker 1: who were updating a large group of congressmen about Israel. 177 00:13:12,435 --> 00:13:14,715 Speaker 1: The last time I had him on this show, he 178 00:13:14,915 --> 00:13:19,035 Speaker 1: was heard claiming that Senator Warren makes seven hundred thousand 179 00:13:19,035 --> 00:13:23,515 Speaker 1: dollars a month. Those Senate pay raises have gotten out 180 00:13:23,515 --> 00:13:27,475 Speaker 1: of hand. When the Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota, 181 00:13:27,515 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: who is Jewish and we remember him from his ill 182 00:13:29,915 --> 00:13:35,555 Speaker 1: fated career ending attempt to unseat President Biden. When Phillips 183 00:13:35,595 --> 00:13:39,555 Speaker 1: heard about this remark about the briefers from the White 184 00:13:39,595 --> 00:13:45,995 Speaker 1: House about Israel, he replied, shame on you to Van Orden, 185 00:13:45,995 --> 00:13:48,915 Speaker 1: and Van Orden promptly dropped an F bomb on him. 186 00:13:49,555 --> 00:13:52,955 Speaker 1: And then there is this thing again, this automatic reverting 187 00:13:52,995 --> 00:13:55,795 Speaker 1: to I served in the military, therefore I am a god. 188 00:13:56,235 --> 00:13:58,475 Speaker 1: I mean, listen to this again. I wanted to remind 189 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:00,915 Speaker 1: anybody who has not been in combat and held his 190 00:14:00,955 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: friend's hand as they died being shot by the enemy 191 00:14:04,075 --> 00:14:08,835 Speaker 1: really doesn't have any business calling someone else as squish. 192 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:13,275 Speaker 1: My god, what did we start doing this for electing 193 00:14:13,355 --> 00:14:15,595 Speaker 1: people who were in the military at a time when 194 00:14:15,595 --> 00:14:19,715 Speaker 1: it appears that merely holding one of our weapons and 195 00:14:19,835 --> 00:14:23,315 Speaker 1: firing it can cause brain damage. Why are we electing 196 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:25,915 Speaker 1: these people to Congress because they're louder than everybody else. 197 00:14:26,915 --> 00:14:30,755 Speaker 1: I served in the military, therefore I am a human deity. 198 00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:33,075 Speaker 1: Mister van Orton, it looks like all you got in 199 00:14:33,075 --> 00:14:37,315 Speaker 1: the military was PTSD. I mean, I know the House 200 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:41,995 Speaker 1: has this great multi century tradition having sent one of 201 00:14:41,995 --> 00:14:45,755 Speaker 1: its members physically into the Senate to try to beat 202 00:14:45,955 --> 00:14:49,635 Speaker 1: a senator to death, Senator Charles Sumner, and the congressman 203 00:14:49,715 --> 00:14:52,395 Speaker 1: was pressed in Brooks and he used his cane, and 204 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:56,475 Speaker 1: it was several minutes, and Sumner was already seriously brain 205 00:14:56,595 --> 00:15:00,515 Speaker 1: damaged by the time anybody pulled him off. Sumner and 206 00:15:00,555 --> 00:15:03,155 Speaker 1: the response from his home constituents when they found out 207 00:15:03,195 --> 00:15:05,195 Speaker 1: that he broke his cane on Senator's there was to 208 00:15:05,235 --> 00:15:08,995 Speaker 1: send him more canes. But the stupidity of this Congress 209 00:15:08,995 --> 00:15:14,115 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four burns Marjorie Taylor Green, who has 210 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:18,995 Speaker 1: responded to almost everything in some really stupid way that 211 00:15:19,035 --> 00:15:22,155 Speaker 1: suggests maybe she was in the service to and got 212 00:15:22,155 --> 00:15:24,835 Speaker 1: PTSD and has forgotten her entire service because she doesn't 213 00:15:24,875 --> 00:15:27,635 Speaker 1: make a point of it. Marjorie Taylor Green responded to 214 00:15:27,635 --> 00:15:32,835 Speaker 1: the Ukraine Funding Bill to be voted on tomorrow Saturday, 215 00:15:32,955 --> 00:15:36,515 Speaker 1: with an amendment that would make anybody who votes for 216 00:15:36,835 --> 00:15:43,915 Speaker 1: Ukraine aid conscripted into the Ukrainian Army. Somehow, I don't 217 00:15:43,955 --> 00:15:46,475 Speaker 1: think that was going to be adopted or is possibly legal. 218 00:15:47,875 --> 00:15:54,715 Speaker 1: Then Congressman Norman and Congressman Perry and Congressman Biggs, they 219 00:15:54,715 --> 00:15:58,035 Speaker 1: offered a Ukraine amendment. It would delete line one of 220 00:15:58,075 --> 00:16:01,875 Speaker 1: the Ukraine Funding Bill and all that follows quote all 221 00:16:01,955 --> 00:16:05,835 Speaker 1: that follows. In other words, the amendment would eliminate everything 222 00:16:05,915 --> 00:16:09,235 Speaker 1: in the Ukraine Funding Bill. Now, on the other hand, 223 00:16:09,555 --> 00:16:12,435 Speaker 1: there is a slight ray of hope we already know 224 00:16:12,475 --> 00:16:15,835 Speaker 1: about what Jamie Raskin can do to Congressman Comer, which 225 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:20,955 Speaker 1: is almost worth the price of this NonStop performative act 226 00:16:20,995 --> 00:16:24,715 Speaker 1: in which they pretend to impeach people. It's almost worth it. 227 00:16:25,155 --> 00:16:28,435 Speaker 1: But maybe the bright light of this House, maybe the 228 00:16:28,435 --> 00:16:31,715 Speaker 1: bright light of this Congress, is Jared Moskowitz of Florida, 229 00:16:32,115 --> 00:16:35,315 Speaker 1: because he responded to Marge Green's amendment about conscription in 230 00:16:35,395 --> 00:16:41,515 Speaker 1: the Ukraine Army like she could spell army. Moskowitz offered 231 00:16:41,555 --> 00:16:47,395 Speaker 1: amendment to this renaming Cannon House Office building, Room four 232 00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:55,595 Speaker 1: to three, the Neville Chamberlain Room. Who occupies room four 233 00:16:55,675 --> 00:16:58,955 Speaker 1: oh three in the Canon House of Oh, it's Congresswoman 234 00:16:59,115 --> 00:17:03,875 Speaker 1: Green of Georgia. That's a coincidence. Wait a minute, Moscowitz 235 00:17:03,915 --> 00:17:10,435 Speaker 1: was busy yesterday another amendment urging that Congresswoman Green quote 236 00:17:10,475 --> 00:17:14,875 Speaker 1: should be appointed Vladimir Putin's special envoy to the United 237 00:17:14,875 --> 00:17:25,035 Speaker 1: States Congress. We need an official Democratic House troll. I 238 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:31,035 Speaker 1: nominate Jared Moskowitz, to paraphrase Groucho Marks. Okay, mister Moskowitz, 239 00:17:32,875 --> 00:17:36,275 Speaker 1: And there is hope coming in a bipartisan fashion in 240 00:17:36,315 --> 00:17:41,675 Speaker 1: the House coming from the other side from Sean Davis, 241 00:17:41,675 --> 00:17:45,875 Speaker 1: CEO of the Federalist, former executive at the Daily Caller, 242 00:17:47,195 --> 00:17:51,795 Speaker 1: economic policy advisor to the dumbest man ever to serve 243 00:17:52,995 --> 00:17:56,875 Speaker 1: Rick Perry, and somebody who blocked me on Twitter. I 244 00:17:56,875 --> 00:18:01,035 Speaker 1: don't know how long ago. He has the greatest idea ever, 245 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:07,915 Speaker 1: the greatest idea ever, the most effective burn against the Liberals, 246 00:18:07,955 --> 00:18:10,955 Speaker 1: the most damaging thing to the Democratic Party. And I 247 00:18:10,995 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: think we need to tell mister Davis. I think we 248 00:18:13,115 --> 00:18:14,915 Speaker 1: all need to go on Twitter. Those of you who 249 00:18:14,955 --> 00:18:17,075 Speaker 1: have not been blocked by him need to go on 250 00:18:17,115 --> 00:18:20,835 Speaker 1: to Twitter and say, Sean Davis. I believe he Seawan M. Dave, 251 00:18:21,955 --> 00:18:25,075 Speaker 1: Shawn M. Dave because he ran out of planning. I 252 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:27,635 Speaker 1: don't know what I just didn't write Sean Davis or 253 00:18:27,675 --> 00:18:31,755 Speaker 1: S M. Davis. He wrote, Shawn M. Dev you need 254 00:18:31,795 --> 00:18:34,155 Speaker 1: to tell him not to do this because it would 255 00:18:34,195 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: be so damaging to the Democratic Party. It would destroy 256 00:18:37,235 --> 00:18:40,755 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's chances of reelection. This is what he wrote, 257 00:18:41,515 --> 00:18:45,835 Speaker 1: Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist one of the great 258 00:18:45,835 --> 00:18:52,275 Speaker 1: intellects on the right. The four smarter people on the 259 00:18:52,395 --> 00:18:56,635 Speaker 1: right are all seven years old. If four Republicans, write 260 00:18:56,635 --> 00:19:00,275 Speaker 1: Sean Davis, were to resign from Congress in protests of 261 00:19:00,435 --> 00:19:05,315 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson's indefensible betrayal of the country and her borders, 262 00:19:05,875 --> 00:19:08,355 Speaker 1: it would deadlock the House two hundred and thirteen to 263 00:19:08,355 --> 00:19:13,075 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirteen, lead to Mike Johnson's ouster, prevent 264 00:19:13,155 --> 00:19:16,635 Speaker 1: the election of a new speaker, prevent new members from 265 00:19:16,635 --> 00:19:20,355 Speaker 1: being sworn in following special elections, and also prevent any 266 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:25,955 Speaker 1: more Biden priorities from being enacted this Congress, including Ukraine. 267 00:19:26,235 --> 00:19:29,595 Speaker 1: It would be the ultimate nuclear option. In response to 268 00:19:29,715 --> 00:19:40,835 Speaker 1: Johnson's threats to punish Republicans refuse to bless his border betrayal. Yes, 269 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:46,115 Speaker 1: do this. I can't tell you how much damage it 270 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:49,275 Speaker 1: would do to me. I am so impressed by this idea, 271 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:55,115 Speaker 1: mister Davis. This is you must push for this, you must. 272 00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:59,715 Speaker 1: You heard it. This far right fascist maga Republican wants 273 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:03,555 Speaker 1: enough Republican congressman to resign to own the Libs by 274 00:20:03,635 --> 00:20:11,315 Speaker 1: giving up the republ book and majority. You know, Sean Davis, 275 00:20:11,915 --> 00:20:16,955 Speaker 1: there's an even better plan. And truly this would hurt 276 00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: us on the left, those of us who consider ourselves 277 00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:26,235 Speaker 1: democrats or liberals or communists. By the way, years ago, 278 00:20:26,235 --> 00:20:27,795 Speaker 1: at a high school reunion, I had a friend of 279 00:20:27,795 --> 00:20:30,315 Speaker 1: mine who I'd known since nineteen sixty seven come up 280 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:32,115 Speaker 1: to me and go, I'm offended that they call you 281 00:20:32,155 --> 00:20:35,995 Speaker 1: a communist. I said, why, he goes, I'm an actual communist. 282 00:20:36,195 --> 00:20:39,755 Speaker 1: I'm a labor organizer in San Francisco. You're not a communist, 283 00:20:40,635 --> 00:20:43,155 Speaker 1: Sean Davis, This would destroy all of us on the left. 284 00:20:43,755 --> 00:20:47,915 Speaker 1: Many of us would actually vaporize, self vaporized. Just we'd 285 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:52,115 Speaker 1: turn into a pile of salt like Locke's wife. Yes, 286 00:20:52,155 --> 00:20:54,395 Speaker 1: I made a biblical reference. Now you can turn into 287 00:20:54,435 --> 00:20:57,435 Speaker 1: a pile of salt, Sean Davis. But here's the better plan. 288 00:20:57,835 --> 00:21:02,715 Speaker 1: You're not thinking big enough for resignations to deadlock the 289 00:21:02,715 --> 00:21:06,155 Speaker 1: House at two hundred and thirteen. All that's not big 290 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:09,195 Speaker 1: enough to own the Libs giving up the majority. Well, 291 00:21:09,235 --> 00:21:15,395 Speaker 1: that's not enough. This other idea I have would hurt 292 00:21:15,555 --> 00:21:19,075 Speaker 1: us so much. I am probably going to be thrown 293 00:21:19,315 --> 00:21:24,675 Speaker 1: out of the communist, socialist liberal plot to destroy America. 294 00:21:25,315 --> 00:21:28,355 Speaker 1: I will have my membership card withdrawn and they will 295 00:21:28,395 --> 00:21:33,395 Speaker 1: not even refund my twelve hours dollar annual dues. I 296 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:38,275 Speaker 1: will be destroyed for saying this. But say it. I 297 00:21:38,395 --> 00:21:47,955 Speaker 1: must four resignations from Congress. No. Five Republican congressmen must resign, 298 00:21:48,755 --> 00:22:00,435 Speaker 1: Sean Davis. Five. Think big, be big, my friend, give 299 00:22:00,515 --> 00:22:05,315 Speaker 1: up their majority to own the Libs again. Sometime, you wonder. 300 00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:08,915 Speaker 1: But I'll go back to my cliche of cliches. The 301 00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:11,355 Speaker 1: democracy is not preserved by the efforts of those of 302 00:22:11,395 --> 00:22:13,675 Speaker 1: us who are hoping to preserve it. It is preserved 303 00:22:13,715 --> 00:22:17,355 Speaker 1: by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. Sure, 304 00:22:17,515 --> 00:22:22,315 Speaker 1: give up the leader, Jess, Yeah, resign. Absolutely. A couple 305 00:22:22,315 --> 00:22:26,155 Speaker 1: of more headlines, and they are, of course about political violence. 306 00:22:27,795 --> 00:22:31,435 Speaker 1: You probably heard about the Kennedy family on Moss endorsing 307 00:22:31,515 --> 00:22:36,075 Speaker 1: Joe Biden yesterday rather than Robert F. Junior, who is nuts. Well, 308 00:22:36,235 --> 00:22:39,155 Speaker 1: it was quite a press conference because fifty four thousand 309 00:22:39,195 --> 00:22:42,475 Speaker 1: members of the Kennedy family, as you know, practicing Catholics, 310 00:22:42,515 --> 00:22:45,195 Speaker 1: and boy do they practice a lot. Fifty four thousand 311 00:22:45,195 --> 00:22:49,915 Speaker 1: members of the Kennedy family endorsed Biden yesterday and said, yeah, 312 00:22:50,355 --> 00:22:54,715 Speaker 1: Bob Junior's out of his mind. But this was more interesting. 313 00:22:54,915 --> 00:22:58,915 Speaker 1: Nicole Shanahan, who is the vice president on the RFK 314 00:22:59,115 --> 00:23:04,675 Speaker 1: Junior Crazy Train ticket. The day before her appointment, RK 315 00:23:04,675 --> 00:23:10,475 Speaker 1: campaign got a two million dollar donation from Nicole Shanahan. 316 00:23:11,275 --> 00:23:18,195 Speaker 1: Nicole Shanahan, Why that's Nicole Shanahan's name, But an amazing coincidence. 317 00:23:20,515 --> 00:23:22,355 Speaker 1: There is a reason to believe that, apart from the 318 00:23:22,435 --> 00:23:27,115 Speaker 1: two million dollars, Kennedy chose her because she is the 319 00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:31,835 Speaker 1: only rich person in America crazier than he is, quoting 320 00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:36,795 Speaker 1: the Midas Network. Since becoming RFK Junior's running mate, Nicole 321 00:23:36,835 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: Shanahan has liked a tweet depicting herself and her running 322 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:47,435 Speaker 1: mate unleashing violence on their political opponents in the Matrix 323 00:23:47,475 --> 00:23:52,035 Speaker 1: style video Shanahan can be seen striking President Joe Biden 324 00:23:52,755 --> 00:23:57,995 Speaker 1: while RFK Junior fires an automatic weapon, shooting Democratic Senator 325 00:23:58,035 --> 00:24:04,795 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren before kicking Trump in the head. Yes, I know, 326 00:24:04,395 --> 00:24:07,635 Speaker 1: I know it's political violence and we should not publicize 327 00:24:07,635 --> 00:24:10,755 Speaker 1: nor glorify it. But on the other hand, to be optimistic, 328 00:24:10,795 --> 00:24:13,315 Speaker 1: and I'm, as you know, a glass half full guy, 329 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: I'll just point out that at least this political violence 330 00:24:16,315 --> 00:24:22,635 Speaker 1: is bipartisan. Kicker Punchline who posted the video that Nicole 331 00:24:22,715 --> 00:24:28,795 Speaker 1: Shanahan liked, in which Shanahan strikes Biden and RFK Jr. 332 00:24:29,675 --> 00:24:32,515 Speaker 1: Kicks Trump in the head and shoots Liz Warren who 333 00:24:32,555 --> 00:24:35,515 Speaker 1: posted this video. The Midas Group did some digging and 334 00:24:35,555 --> 00:24:38,195 Speaker 1: says it's a guy who claims to be a national 335 00:24:38,235 --> 00:24:45,635 Speaker 1: security advisor to ORFK Junior. Once again, it's the campaign 336 00:24:45,635 --> 00:24:47,715 Speaker 1: for the people who are too crazy even for Trump. 337 00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:53,435 Speaker 1: And speaking of which, there's Carrie Lake. And we close 338 00:24:53,715 --> 00:24:58,715 Speaker 1: our jaunty breezy review of the other headlines today with 339 00:24:58,875 --> 00:25:04,115 Speaker 1: this from Carrie Lake campaign speech in Arizona. I have 340 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:08,515 Speaker 1: been debate reading the whole time since I first read 341 00:25:08,555 --> 00:25:11,675 Speaker 1: this early in this week, how to present this and 342 00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:14,715 Speaker 1: whether or not to do the joke, and I've decided yes, 343 00:25:15,155 --> 00:25:20,115 Speaker 1: I have to do the joke. She said. Trump is 344 00:25:20,155 --> 00:25:23,955 Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice everything I am. That's why they're coming 345 00:25:23,995 --> 00:25:27,675 Speaker 1: after us with law fair. This is the fired weather 346 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:30,795 Speaker 1: woman from a station in Phoenix. That's why they're coming 347 00:25:30,835 --> 00:25:33,435 Speaker 1: after us with law fair. They're going to come after 348 00:25:33,515 --> 00:25:38,395 Speaker 1: us with everything. She's never won an election, never came close. 349 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:46,275 Speaker 1: Running for Senate makes Kirsten Cinema look good as a candidate. 350 00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:50,515 Speaker 1: That's why the next six months is going to be intense. 351 00:25:50,555 --> 00:25:55,515 Speaker 1: And we need to strap on our Let's see, she said, 352 00:25:55,675 --> 00:25:59,555 Speaker 1: what do we want to strap on? We're going to 353 00:25:59,635 --> 00:26:06,035 Speaker 1: strap on our our seat belt. We're going to put 354 00:26:06,075 --> 00:26:11,075 Speaker 1: on our helmet or your Carrie Lake ball cap. We're 355 00:26:11,115 --> 00:26:15,035 Speaker 1: going to put on the armor of God, and maybe 356 00:26:15,435 --> 00:26:20,675 Speaker 1: strap on a glock on the side of us just 357 00:26:20,955 --> 00:26:31,155 Speaker 1: in case. I hate to say this, but my God, 358 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:35,475 Speaker 1: even for somebody running as a Republican for the US Senate, 359 00:26:35,755 --> 00:26:40,475 Speaker 1: this person is spending an extraordinary and an inordinate amount 360 00:26:40,515 --> 00:26:52,675 Speaker 1: of time saying the words strap on. Also of interest, here, 361 00:26:52,795 --> 00:26:56,635 Speaker 1: history does not repeat itself carry Lake, but it does rhyme. 362 00:26:57,275 --> 00:27:01,675 Speaker 1: Twain said, Now, what did Twain? No? Sometimes it does 363 00:27:01,715 --> 00:27:07,195 Speaker 1: repeat itself. The ex MSNBC host fired for homophobic comments 364 00:27:07,235 --> 00:27:10,035 Speaker 1: about a reporter that he made live on his two 365 00:27:10,115 --> 00:27:14,595 Speaker 1: thousand and five show that only lasted two episodes, is 366 00:27:14,675 --> 00:27:17,595 Speaker 1: now fired by an arm of the campaign of New 367 00:27:17,635 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: York Mayor Eric Adams. Four homophobic comments about a reporter. Yes, 368 00:27:24,995 --> 00:27:29,435 Speaker 1: it's happened. Worst persons in the world has gone into reruns. 369 00:27:30,635 --> 00:27:36,595 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown. With Keith 370 00:27:36,635 --> 00:28:00,155 Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead of us. On this edition of Countdown, 371 00:28:00,155 --> 00:28:02,195 Speaker 1: we will close out the week with a dog you 372 00:28:02,235 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: can help and the story of another dog who was 373 00:28:05,635 --> 00:28:09,875 Speaker 1: alive when Teddy Roosevelt was president, yet who you will 374 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:15,195 Speaker 1: recognize immediately. Mugs is one dog from one hundred and 375 00:28:15,195 --> 00:28:19,195 Speaker 1: fifty dog generations ago, and yet he's all dogs. His 376 00:28:19,395 --> 00:28:23,395 Speaker 1: humans defended him to the last, even though Mugs was 377 00:28:23,515 --> 00:28:28,355 Speaker 1: James Thurber's the Dog that bit people. Coming up first, 378 00:28:28,435 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: Still more new idiots to talk about and at length. 379 00:28:32,035 --> 00:28:36,275 Speaker 1: These are some special contenders in the daily roundup of 380 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:39,995 Speaker 1: the miss grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens, including 381 00:28:40,035 --> 00:28:44,075 Speaker 1: the NYPD mugging decoy and the guy on the all 382 00:28:44,315 --> 00:28:49,675 Speaker 1: pudding diet. Among those who constitute two days worst persons 383 00:28:49,755 --> 00:28:55,955 Speaker 1: in the world, the bronze worse Clay Travis, ex lawyer, 384 00:28:56,155 --> 00:28:59,875 Speaker 1: ex sportswriter, now branching out and soon to be ex 385 00:28:59,995 --> 00:29:03,635 Speaker 1: political commentator. And guess what he sucks at all of it. 386 00:29:04,675 --> 00:29:07,875 Speaker 1: I can tell you from personal experience the conversion from 387 00:29:07,995 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: sports to politics is tougher than it looks. But it 388 00:29:10,995 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: ain't this tough. He co hosts a podcast with an 389 00:29:14,595 --> 00:29:18,035 Speaker 1: ex cop with one of those Stephen King hair problems 390 00:29:18,435 --> 00:29:21,635 Speaker 1: where his hair grows like a werewolf. I think the 391 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:28,355 Speaker 1: name is bunk sex Bump Buck Sex sex Bunk Bump. Anyway, 392 00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:32,515 Speaker 1: his hair keeps growing further and further down his forehead 393 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:35,795 Speaker 1: every new picture of him. The hairline is a little lower. 394 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:38,555 Speaker 1: He must have to shave it twice an hour or 395 00:29:38,595 --> 00:29:40,635 Speaker 1: it's going to grow off his body and take over 396 00:29:40,675 --> 00:29:44,475 Speaker 1: the world. Anyway, So it's the Clay Travis and Bunk 397 00:29:44,555 --> 00:29:47,715 Speaker 1: Sex Bump Show, and on it, surprise, surprise, Clay Travis, 398 00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: a little fascist attacked women's basketball and the WNBA. And 399 00:29:52,795 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: the attention being paid to the college star turning pro 400 00:29:56,315 --> 00:30:00,075 Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, and the shock that her salary will be 401 00:30:00,195 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars, although she's got an eight figure 402 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:06,835 Speaker 1: endorsement deal, so she's not going to be you know, 403 00:30:06,915 --> 00:30:10,435 Speaker 1: in need of shoes figuratively or literally. This is what 404 00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: he said. The revenue produced by the NBA is ten 405 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:17,115 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year. The revenue produced by the WNBA 406 00:30:17,195 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: is around sixty million. And if you actually do the 407 00:30:20,155 --> 00:30:24,675 Speaker 1: math as a percentage of revenue, WNBA players actually make 408 00:30:24,835 --> 00:30:31,315 Speaker 1: more than NBA players, just nobody cares about their profession unquote. 409 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,515 Speaker 1: So this goes on for a while, and it's, you know, 410 00:30:35,475 --> 00:30:39,715 Speaker 1: textbook for the right attack on women's sports, particularly as 411 00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:43,035 Speaker 1: it grows, and the rights attack on women in general. 412 00:30:43,515 --> 00:30:45,515 Speaker 1: Of Course, women should not be paid as much as 413 00:30:45,555 --> 00:30:48,395 Speaker 1: men in sports their women. Of course, women should not 414 00:30:48,435 --> 00:30:50,955 Speaker 1: be paid as much as men not in sports their women. 415 00:30:51,155 --> 00:30:53,475 Speaker 1: Of Course, women should not have the vote or rights 416 00:30:53,515 --> 00:30:57,435 Speaker 1: their women. Of course, they should wear handmade tail costumes 417 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:01,755 Speaker 1: their women. On the other hand, in December twenty twenty one, 418 00:31:01,795 --> 00:31:05,475 Speaker 1: when a mediocre college swimmer named Gains began to complain 419 00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:09,075 Speaker 1: that a transgender woman named Leah Thomas was winning college 420 00:31:09,115 --> 00:31:12,875 Speaker 1: swimming races, Clay Travis went on Fox quote news unquote 421 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:17,115 Speaker 1: and announced that Thomas quote threatens to destroy all of 422 00:31:17,195 --> 00:31:21,435 Speaker 1: women's sports. That's the very sanctity of the sporting universe. 423 00:31:22,395 --> 00:31:26,475 Speaker 1: Travis self righteously continued, where we believe in a meritocracy, 424 00:31:26,675 --> 00:31:30,955 Speaker 1: the best man or woman wins. So in one case, 425 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:34,515 Speaker 1: this Travis idiot cares about the sanctity of women's sports, 426 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:38,635 Speaker 1: and in this case he says, nobody cares about the 427 00:31:38,635 --> 00:31:41,995 Speaker 1: sanctity of women's sports or anything about women's sports. Even 428 00:31:42,035 --> 00:31:45,075 Speaker 1: though the NCAA Women's championship game had more TV viewers 429 00:31:45,075 --> 00:31:48,395 Speaker 1: this year than did the men's championship game. It must 430 00:31:48,395 --> 00:31:52,155 Speaker 1: be nice for Travis to be so simple minded that 431 00:31:52,235 --> 00:31:55,275 Speaker 1: he can turn his ethics on and off like that 432 00:31:55,555 --> 00:32:00,155 Speaker 1: to defend women's sports and then to utterly dismiss women's sports. 433 00:32:01,075 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. Travis was not done bickling. I 434 00:32:06,875 --> 00:32:08,835 Speaker 1: asked this question, and I bet the answer is no. 435 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:11,315 Speaker 1: Can you think of any business that has existed for 436 00:32:11,355 --> 00:32:13,635 Speaker 1: twenty five years? By the way, I've left out his 437 00:32:13,755 --> 00:32:16,675 Speaker 1: more on southern accent, can you think of any business 438 00:32:16,755 --> 00:32:19,755 Speaker 1: that has existed for twenty five years and never made 439 00:32:19,795 --> 00:32:23,315 Speaker 1: a profit and still exists. The fact that the WNBA 440 00:32:23,595 --> 00:32:29,115 Speaker 1: exists at all is a testament in many ways too well. 441 00:32:30,075 --> 00:32:35,035 Speaker 1: The government, I guess you could say, unquote Klay Travis 442 00:32:35,035 --> 00:32:39,635 Speaker 1: never explains how the government made the WNBA happen, probably 443 00:32:39,675 --> 00:32:44,835 Speaker 1: because there's no explanation. It's nonsense. But his rhetorical question 444 00:32:44,915 --> 00:32:48,595 Speaker 1: has a real answer about any business that has existed 445 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: for twenty five years and never made a profit, and 446 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,435 Speaker 1: he clearly does not know it. There was a sports 447 00:32:54,515 --> 00:32:56,955 Speaker 1: league founded in nineteen forty six, and at one point 448 00:32:57,155 --> 00:32:59,875 Speaker 1: it had grown to twenty four teams, but it was 449 00:32:59,995 --> 00:33:04,515 Speaker 1: so unsuccessful over its first two decades, first twenty years, 450 00:33:04,795 --> 00:33:07,395 Speaker 1: not twenty five, but close enough that in that time 451 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:12,155 Speaker 1: literally seventeen of its franchises went bankrupt. Two of them 452 00:33:12,195 --> 00:33:16,235 Speaker 1: went bankrupt in the middle of the season. How's Baltimore doing? 453 00:33:16,275 --> 00:33:19,435 Speaker 1: They went out of business? Oh? It had three different 454 00:33:19,435 --> 00:33:23,715 Speaker 1: teams in Chicago, each of them failed, three in Indianapolis. 455 00:33:23,995 --> 00:33:26,235 Speaker 1: And by nineteen sixty six this league was now to 456 00:33:26,355 --> 00:33:29,915 Speaker 1: just nine teams, and the league had never made any money, 457 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 1: and had even stopped bleeding cash in the late sixties 458 00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:37,995 Speaker 1: to expand a little, but its championship games were still 459 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:42,355 Speaker 1: only shown on television on tape delay at eleven thirty 460 00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:45,795 Speaker 1: at night. In its twenty fifth year. And that league 461 00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:48,275 Speaker 1: that was a complete failure for its first twenty five 462 00:33:48,355 --> 00:33:53,995 Speaker 1: years was the National Basketball Association, the NBA, the men's 463 00:33:54,715 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 1: National Basketball Association. Oh what would this guy Travis know 464 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:02,155 Speaker 1: about the history of American sports leagues? His idea of 465 00:34:02,195 --> 00:34:04,475 Speaker 1: sports is twenty years ago, when he couldn't see NFL 466 00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:07,155 Speaker 1: game on his TV in the Virgin Islands, he went 467 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:09,915 Speaker 1: on a hunger strike, demanding that they may make them 468 00:34:09,955 --> 00:34:13,275 Speaker 1: available to him. There no, no, no, not a hunger strike, 469 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:18,755 Speaker 1: a pudding strike. For fifty days, Clay Travis ate nothing 470 00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:23,755 Speaker 1: but pudding, something from which he has clearly yet to recover. 471 00:34:24,995 --> 00:34:28,435 Speaker 1: The runner up worser, the Republican Party of Charlotte, North 472 00:34:28,435 --> 00:34:31,955 Speaker 1: Carolina could be run by Clay Travis. I'm not sure. 473 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:35,955 Speaker 1: Somebody claiming to be a first time history teacher hosted 474 00:34:35,995 --> 00:34:39,515 Speaker 1: what they mockingly pretended was a paper about the Battle 475 00:34:39,555 --> 00:34:43,555 Speaker 1: of Gettysburg. Teaching my first history course. This semester has 476 00:34:43,595 --> 00:34:45,635 Speaker 1: been rewarding, but I don't know what to do with 477 00:34:45,715 --> 00:34:49,955 Speaker 1: this student. They wrote, and the paper, a photograph was 478 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:53,035 Speaker 1: provided of it, began quote how our union was saved 479 00:34:53,035 --> 00:34:57,035 Speaker 1: by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg What an unbelievable 480 00:34:57,035 --> 00:35:00,755 Speaker 1: battle that was the Battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable 481 00:35:00,995 --> 00:35:03,595 Speaker 1: I mean, it was so much and so interesting and 482 00:35:03,675 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: so vicious, and it's so beautiful in so many different ways. Gettysburg. Wow. 483 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:12,555 Speaker 1: The paper is of course littered with red marks and 484 00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:16,115 Speaker 1: notes from the teacher. I count twelve and it's only 485 00:35:16,155 --> 00:35:19,475 Speaker 1: one paragraph. Of course, it's not an actual school paper 486 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:22,555 Speaker 1: about Gettysburg. It was a transcript of Trump trying to 487 00:35:22,595 --> 00:35:26,235 Speaker 1: speak normally and trying to express whatever little he remembered 488 00:35:26,275 --> 00:35:31,755 Speaker 1: from studying Gettysburg in like nineteen sixty one. This is 489 00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:34,595 Speaker 1: where the idiots from the Charlotte Republican Party come in. 490 00:35:35,035 --> 00:35:38,315 Speaker 1: They replied to that tweet with quote that's probably from 491 00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:42,475 Speaker 1: a student in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools led by your Mecklenburg Democrats. 492 00:35:42,595 --> 00:35:45,795 Speaker 1: That totally tracks. We can't read, or spell, or add 493 00:35:46,035 --> 00:35:48,555 Speaker 1: or locate countries on grade level, but we can make 494 00:35:48,595 --> 00:35:54,155 Speaker 1: sure your feelings aren't hurt during social and emotional learning. Well, yes, 495 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:56,995 Speaker 1: somebody here didn't learn how to read. The photo of 496 00:35:56,995 --> 00:36:00,115 Speaker 1: the paper literally has Trump's name typed in the upper 497 00:36:00,195 --> 00:36:04,715 Speaker 1: left hand corner next to the big red fo The 498 00:36:04,755 --> 00:36:09,675 Speaker 1: Publican Party whoever handles their Twitter account didn't notice, hasn't noticed. 499 00:36:09,675 --> 00:36:14,395 Speaker 1: The reply is still live. Maybe Trump won't find out 500 00:36:14,715 --> 00:36:20,275 Speaker 1: how the Charlotte Republican Party has dissed him. But our 501 00:36:20,395 --> 00:36:30,155 Speaker 1: winner the worst, Bo Dietel Bo Dietel di Etl is 502 00:36:30,195 --> 00:36:33,635 Speaker 1: the former World Trade Center ironworker, New York City cop, 503 00:36:33,675 --> 00:36:38,675 Speaker 1: New York City detective, failed congressional candidate, failed mayoralty candidate, 504 00:36:39,035 --> 00:36:43,235 Speaker 1: failed radio host, failed TV host, security consultant, and frequent 505 00:36:43,315 --> 00:36:48,115 Speaker 1: guest on The Don I'm a Show. The Years of Deterioration. 506 00:36:49,355 --> 00:36:52,835 Speaker 1: Bo Didal also has a problem. He's not just a homophobe. 507 00:36:53,155 --> 00:36:56,235 Speaker 1: There are lots of homophobes. He's a homophobe who has 508 00:36:56,235 --> 00:36:59,755 Speaker 1: to express it by insisting he's not homophobic towards people 509 00:36:59,755 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: who he then calls really unfortunate names. And it's happened 510 00:37:04,475 --> 00:37:07,675 Speaker 1: to yea and the Legal Defense Fund for New York 511 00:37:07,715 --> 00:37:12,755 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams. Yeah, yeah, that's a whole, whole different story. 512 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:15,595 Speaker 1: I only have infinity here. I don't have time for 513 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:20,155 Speaker 1: the Eric Adams Legal Defense Fund story. Anyway, The Eric 514 00:37:20,195 --> 00:37:24,755 Speaker 1: Adams Legal Defense Fund hired Bo Deedle's company to vet donors. 515 00:37:25,355 --> 00:37:29,355 Speaker 1: It is now fired. Bo Deetle's company to vet donors 516 00:37:29,395 --> 00:37:31,715 Speaker 1: because first, when the New York Daily News reported that 517 00:37:31,755 --> 00:37:34,475 Speaker 1: the Eric Adams Defense Fund had paid Bo Deedle and 518 00:37:34,515 --> 00:37:37,915 Speaker 1: his company thirteen grand Bo Deedle responded to the paper's 519 00:37:37,915 --> 00:37:41,155 Speaker 1: request for comment by saying, quote, I wouldn't effing tell 520 00:37:41,195 --> 00:37:46,275 Speaker 1: you any effing tang bad. But again, we're in New York. 521 00:37:47,355 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: Priests talk like that. But then Politico called for comment 522 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:55,555 Speaker 1: about the story, and Diedel told that guy, quote, why 523 00:37:55,595 --> 00:37:58,955 Speaker 1: don't you do me a favor, Go suck somebody's blank, 524 00:37:59,395 --> 00:38:01,355 Speaker 1: because I don't want to talk to you. Okay, you 525 00:38:01,555 --> 00:38:06,235 Speaker 1: like to suck blank? Go suck blank somewhere fired two 526 00:38:06,275 --> 00:38:11,075 Speaker 1: hours later. A few of us who are alive still 527 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:15,395 Speaker 1: to remember, who are like Ishmael at the end of 528 00:38:15,515 --> 00:38:21,755 Speaker 1: Moby Dick, those of us left alive to tell thee 529 00:38:21,835 --> 00:38:26,515 Speaker 1: we saw this story. We laughed, we cried, we shuddered. 530 00:38:28,275 --> 00:38:31,075 Speaker 1: On Friday, April eighth, two thousand and five, at four 531 00:38:31,115 --> 00:38:35,675 Speaker 1: pm Eastern daylight time, they are premiered on MSNBC at 532 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:38,755 Speaker 1: the best of the new network president Rick Kaplan, a 533 00:38:38,795 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: little show called Dietel and Daniels. It was one of 534 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:47,835 Speaker 1: Kaplan's many show ideas that got launched because he liked 535 00:38:48,115 --> 00:38:51,115 Speaker 1: the title of the show. He wanted me to co 536 00:38:51,155 --> 00:38:53,635 Speaker 1: host with Tucker Carlson because then he could have called 537 00:38:53,635 --> 00:38:58,035 Speaker 1: a show TKO. You get it. That's how he made 538 00:38:58,075 --> 00:39:02,755 Speaker 1: his decisions. Here in Dietel and Daniels, he also saw 539 00:39:02,995 --> 00:39:06,675 Speaker 1: some of the content he saw a contrasting buddy show. 540 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:09,955 Speaker 1: Lisa Daniels was a Magna cum Laudy graduate of Harvard 541 00:39:10,075 --> 00:39:13,555 Speaker 1: Law who preferred television and was very good at anchoring 542 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:18,075 Speaker 1: it smart. Yet, as they say in TV circles, accessible 543 00:39:18,675 --> 00:39:23,155 Speaker 1: and Boddel bo Dedel was a go suck somebody's blank guy. 544 00:39:24,395 --> 00:39:27,035 Speaker 1: So I can't remember if it was the premiere episode 545 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:31,155 Speaker 1: of Deal and Daniels on MSNBC or the farewell episode 546 00:39:31,475 --> 00:39:35,275 Speaker 1: two weeks later. There were only the two episodes, but 547 00:39:35,435 --> 00:39:38,555 Speaker 1: one of the guests was a man named James Guckert, 548 00:39:39,195 --> 00:39:42,755 Speaker 1: who was at a couple of steps removed, hired by 549 00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:47,955 Speaker 1: the Bush administration to portray a character named Jeff Gannon 550 00:39:48,275 --> 00:39:51,155 Speaker 1: who would get White House press credentials for a made 551 00:39:51,235 --> 00:39:54,835 Speaker 1: up news website called Talon News, and he would go 552 00:39:55,235 --> 00:39:59,795 Speaker 1: to Bush's Press Secretary's press conferences and ask tough questions 553 00:39:59,875 --> 00:40:03,035 Speaker 1: like is George Bush the greatest president ever or the 554 00:40:03,035 --> 00:40:07,595 Speaker 1: greatest American ever? And do liberals like Osama bin Laden 555 00:40:07,715 --> 00:40:11,355 Speaker 1: or do they love Osama bin Laden? I'm not exaggerating 556 00:40:11,395 --> 00:40:14,995 Speaker 1: by very much here. Well, it soon turned out that 557 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:19,435 Speaker 1: Jeff Gannon was actually James Guckert, former nude model and 558 00:40:20,475 --> 00:40:25,435 Speaker 1: male escort, although he had been editor of his high 559 00:40:25,435 --> 00:40:29,995 Speaker 1: school newspaper. Must have been some newspaper. So this is 560 00:40:30,035 --> 00:40:32,555 Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and he was basically the prototype 561 00:40:32,595 --> 00:40:36,795 Speaker 1: for the entirety of today's right wing media and streaming shows. 562 00:40:37,155 --> 00:40:41,995 Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Fake website, fake name, connected 563 00:40:41,995 --> 00:40:44,675 Speaker 1: to the people he's covering, and he has a whole 564 00:40:44,715 --> 00:40:48,275 Speaker 1: sort of sordid history that he thinks nobody's ever gonna notice, 565 00:40:48,275 --> 00:40:51,475 Speaker 1: even though there are pictures of him naked with other Okay, anyway, 566 00:40:51,795 --> 00:40:56,515 Speaker 1: any who, Didel and Daniels had mister Gucker's and or 567 00:40:56,555 --> 00:40:59,155 Speaker 1: Gannon on. I think it was supposed to be half 568 00:40:59,235 --> 00:41:01,915 Speaker 1: the show half an hour, or it was supposed to 569 00:41:01,915 --> 00:41:04,315 Speaker 1: be half an hour except Bo Diedle got kind of 570 00:41:04,355 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: excited during the introduction, so he started, I got no 571 00:41:08,435 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: problem with you. And I'm going to quote him here 572 00:41:11,195 --> 00:41:14,635 Speaker 1: word for word because the words themselves are not obscenities. 573 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:18,915 Speaker 1: Just the implication here, so brace for impact here. Quoting 574 00:41:19,075 --> 00:41:23,035 Speaker 1: Boddle Premiere, I think of Deedel and Daniels quote, I 575 00:41:23,115 --> 00:41:28,315 Speaker 1: got no problem with you being a fudge packa. Honestly, 576 00:41:28,395 --> 00:41:31,755 Speaker 1: I don't remember what happened after that. They did take 577 00:41:31,835 --> 00:41:34,115 Speaker 1: Diedel and Daniels off the air for a week to 578 00:41:34,275 --> 00:41:39,155 Speaker 1: retool it, although they left Deedel on as chief tool. 579 00:41:40,035 --> 00:41:43,435 Speaker 1: I do remember Lisa Daniels, a truly lovely person in 580 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:47,115 Speaker 1: all aspects of that word, coming into my office either 581 00:41:47,155 --> 00:41:50,115 Speaker 1: before or after what turned out to be the farewell 582 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:54,355 Speaker 1: episode of Deedel and Daniels and bursting into tears. And 583 00:41:54,395 --> 00:41:57,555 Speaker 1: I said, you've substituted on the early morning news on 584 00:41:57,595 --> 00:42:01,155 Speaker 1: the big network. They love you. Here. Go call the 585 00:42:01,195 --> 00:42:04,715 Speaker 1: president of NBC News who hired you, and explain to 586 00:42:04,795 --> 00:42:09,315 Speaker 1: him this is making you burst into tears into Olberman's office. 587 00:42:10,315 --> 00:42:12,115 Speaker 1: So she did, and the next thing you knew, she 588 00:42:12,195 --> 00:42:15,755 Speaker 1: had been plucked out of MSNBC and they let her 589 00:42:15,755 --> 00:42:17,995 Speaker 1: go work in thirty Rock and they made her an 590 00:42:18,075 --> 00:42:21,435 Speaker 1: NBC News correspondent, and then like a year later, still 591 00:42:21,475 --> 00:42:25,995 Speaker 1: haunted by Bo Didel, she left the business. She didn't 592 00:42:25,995 --> 00:42:29,395 Speaker 1: even go back into lawyering. I can't find anything further 593 00:42:29,435 --> 00:42:32,955 Speaker 1: about her more recently than from twenty fourteen, when she 594 00:42:32,995 --> 00:42:35,915 Speaker 1: wrote a piece for Huffington Post about quitting television and 595 00:42:35,995 --> 00:42:40,435 Speaker 1: going home and having four kids. Four kids good for 596 00:42:40,515 --> 00:42:45,955 Speaker 1: her anyway. That's what Lisa Daniels learned in the years 597 00:42:45,995 --> 00:42:50,435 Speaker 1: since two thousand and five. What has Boddel learned? Well? 598 00:42:50,475 --> 00:42:53,435 Speaker 1: Not to say fudge paka on TV just to ask 599 00:42:54,035 --> 00:43:00,515 Speaker 1: about sucking to a reporter. Bo did I mention that 600 00:43:00,555 --> 00:43:02,755 Speaker 1: he proudly tells people that when he was a copy 601 00:43:02,755 --> 00:43:05,195 Speaker 1: his specialty was to be a decoy for violent crime. 602 00:43:05,355 --> 00:43:07,635 Speaker 1: So he was mugged more than five hundred times, and 603 00:43:07,635 --> 00:43:10,315 Speaker 1: he had thirty line of duty injuries. And I'm just 604 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:15,475 Speaker 1: thinking maybe this made a bad situation. Mooie Deedle. Two 605 00:43:15,555 --> 00:43:32,555 Speaker 1: days weist Pyson find the world just to head on 606 00:43:32,595 --> 00:43:35,875 Speaker 1: this editionive Countdown Fridays with Thurber. Since I got good 607 00:43:35,915 --> 00:43:38,195 Speaker 1: news about my pups this week, let's finish the week 608 00:43:38,435 --> 00:43:41,835 Speaker 1: helping another dog and then hearing Thurber's epic biography of 609 00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:46,035 Speaker 1: a pup the dog that bit people. As mentioned first, 610 00:43:46,035 --> 00:43:47,835 Speaker 1: a dog in need you can help. Every dog has 611 00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:50,995 Speaker 1: its day. This is about Snowy, and Snowy is maybe 612 00:43:50,995 --> 00:43:53,955 Speaker 1: a big ish Maltese or a Havinese or a Bijeon 613 00:43:54,315 --> 00:43:58,035 Speaker 1: or some kind of mix with that big Maltese like smile. 614 00:43:59,035 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: She was rushed to the er at the end of 615 00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:05,475 Speaker 1: last month with pancreatitis and cato acidosis. It was touch 616 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:08,875 Speaker 1: and go. She needed three different ives and twenty four 617 00:44:08,915 --> 00:44:12,235 Speaker 1: hour care. Because she's a rescue she's about eight, she 618 00:44:12,275 --> 00:44:15,515 Speaker 1: has diabetes. She was in there for a couple of weeks. Well, 619 00:44:15,515 --> 00:44:18,715 Speaker 1: she's doing marvelously now she's home, but she'll have to 620 00:44:18,715 --> 00:44:22,115 Speaker 1: be tested all the time for a recurrence of the pancreatitis. 621 00:44:22,155 --> 00:44:25,875 Speaker 1: And here's the problem. The total bill is thirty four 622 00:44:25,915 --> 00:44:29,355 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Now Snowy's people don't want us to cover 623 00:44:29,435 --> 00:44:32,475 Speaker 1: the entirety of the thirty four thousand, but anything will help. 624 00:44:32,635 --> 00:44:35,115 Speaker 1: I put in five hundred. If you have five dollars, 625 00:44:35,595 --> 00:44:37,155 Speaker 1: I'll tweet out the link, or you can just go 626 00:44:37,235 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: to go fund me and search for Snowe with an 627 00:44:40,235 --> 00:44:44,635 Speaker 1: ie Snowie and she'll be the first one to pop 628 00:44:44,715 --> 00:44:48,115 Speaker 1: up among the results. If you can't donate, just a 629 00:44:48,195 --> 00:44:52,315 Speaker 1: retweet can help. And as I always say, Snowy thanks you, 630 00:44:53,195 --> 00:45:02,835 Speaker 1: and I thank you to the number one story on 631 00:45:02,875 --> 00:45:05,595 Speaker 1: the Countdown and Fridays with Thurber. And it's amazing to 632 00:45:05,675 --> 00:45:10,195 Speaker 1: me in retrospect how I read all of his wonderful, realistic, 633 00:45:10,635 --> 00:45:16,395 Speaker 1: not goopy writing about dogs and enjoyed it thoroughly years 634 00:45:16,435 --> 00:45:21,635 Speaker 1: before I was ever adopted by a dog. Now reading 635 00:45:21,715 --> 00:45:25,475 Speaker 1: his dog stories and anecdotes is like reading about a 636 00:45:25,475 --> 00:45:30,795 Speaker 1: bunch of friends, even that one surly friend for whom 637 00:45:30,835 --> 00:45:37,355 Speaker 1: we must continuously make excuses the dog that bit people 638 00:45:38,595 --> 00:45:44,275 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. Probably no one man should have as 639 00:45:44,315 --> 00:45:47,075 Speaker 1: many dogs in this life as I have had, but 640 00:45:47,835 --> 00:45:50,475 Speaker 1: there was more pleasure than distress in them for me, 641 00:45:50,755 --> 00:45:55,715 Speaker 1: except in the case of an Airdale named Mugs. He 642 00:45:55,835 --> 00:45:58,515 Speaker 1: gave me more trouble than all the other fifty four 643 00:45:58,715 --> 00:46:03,595 Speaker 1: or five put together. Although my moment of keenest embarrassment 644 00:46:04,115 --> 00:46:06,755 Speaker 1: was the time I a Scotch Terrier named Jeanie, who 645 00:46:06,755 --> 00:46:09,395 Speaker 1: had just had six puppies in the clothes closet of 646 00:46:09,435 --> 00:46:12,755 Speaker 1: a fourth floor apartment in New York, had the unexpected 647 00:46:12,835 --> 00:46:16,275 Speaker 1: seventh and last at the corner of Eleventh Street and 648 00:46:16,315 --> 00:46:19,555 Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue during a walk she had insisted on taking. 649 00:46:20,715 --> 00:46:24,115 Speaker 1: Then two there was the prize winning French poodle, a giant, 650 00:46:24,155 --> 00:46:27,675 Speaker 1: big black poodle, none of your little, untroublesome white miniatures, 651 00:46:27,915 --> 00:46:30,795 Speaker 1: who got sick riding in the rumble seat of a 652 00:46:30,875 --> 00:46:34,115 Speaker 1: car with me on her way to the Greenwich Dog Show. 653 00:46:34,355 --> 00:46:37,315 Speaker 1: She had a red rubber bib tucked around her throat, 654 00:46:37,315 --> 00:46:39,755 Speaker 1: and since a rain storm came up when we were 655 00:46:39,795 --> 00:46:43,155 Speaker 1: halfway through the Bronx, I had to hold over her 656 00:46:44,035 --> 00:46:49,355 Speaker 1: a small green umbrella, really more of a parasol. The 657 00:46:49,475 --> 00:46:52,115 Speaker 1: rain beat down fearfully, and suddenly the driver of the 658 00:46:52,155 --> 00:46:55,115 Speaker 1: car drove into a big garage filled with mechanics. It 659 00:46:55,195 --> 00:46:58,155 Speaker 1: happened so quickly that I forgot to put the umbrella down, 660 00:46:58,915 --> 00:47:03,555 Speaker 1: and I will always remember with sickening distress the look 661 00:47:03,595 --> 00:47:07,075 Speaker 1: of incredula he mixed with hatred that came over the 662 00:47:07,075 --> 00:47:10,395 Speaker 1: face of the particular hardened garage man that came over 663 00:47:10,475 --> 00:47:12,395 Speaker 1: to see what we wanted when he took a look 664 00:47:12,395 --> 00:47:16,915 Speaker 1: at me and the poodle. All garage men and people 665 00:47:16,915 --> 00:47:22,315 Speaker 1: of that intolerant stripe hate poodles with their curious haircuts, 666 00:47:22,915 --> 00:47:25,275 Speaker 1: especially the pom poms that you got to leave on 667 00:47:25,355 --> 00:47:29,675 Speaker 1: their hips if you expect the dogs to win a prize. 668 00:47:29,915 --> 00:47:33,955 Speaker 1: But the Airdale, as I have said, was the worst 669 00:47:34,035 --> 00:47:36,595 Speaker 1: of all my dogs. He really wasn't my dog. Matter 670 00:47:36,595 --> 00:47:39,275 Speaker 1: of fact, I came home from a vacation one summer 671 00:47:39,315 --> 00:47:41,835 Speaker 1: to find that my brother Roy had bought him while 672 00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:46,555 Speaker 1: I was away. The big, burly, choleric dog. He always 673 00:47:46,595 --> 00:47:50,195 Speaker 1: acted as if he thought I wasn't one of the family. 674 00:47:51,155 --> 00:47:53,795 Speaker 1: There was a slight advantage in being one of the family, 675 00:47:53,835 --> 00:47:55,795 Speaker 1: for he didn't bite the family as often as a 676 00:47:55,915 --> 00:47:59,395 Speaker 1: bit strangers. Still, in the years that we had him, 677 00:47:59,595 --> 00:48:03,435 Speaker 1: he bit everybody but Mother, and he made a pass 678 00:48:03,555 --> 00:48:07,395 Speaker 1: at her once missed. It was during the month when 679 00:48:07,395 --> 00:48:11,315 Speaker 1: we suddenly had mice, and mugs refused to do anything 680 00:48:11,355 --> 00:48:14,555 Speaker 1: about them. Nobody ever had mice exactly like the mice 681 00:48:14,635 --> 00:48:17,995 Speaker 1: we had that month. They acted like pet mice, almost 682 00:48:18,035 --> 00:48:22,635 Speaker 1: like mice somebody had trained. They were so friendly that 683 00:48:22,675 --> 00:48:26,115 Speaker 1: one night, when Mother entertained at dinner the Freer Realilras, 684 00:48:26,355 --> 00:48:28,515 Speaker 1: a club she and my father had belonged to for 685 00:48:28,555 --> 00:48:31,035 Speaker 1: twenty years, she put down a lot of little dishes 686 00:48:31,075 --> 00:48:34,035 Speaker 1: with food in them on the pantry floor so that 687 00:48:34,075 --> 00:48:36,435 Speaker 1: the mice would be satisfied with that and would not 688 00:48:36,515 --> 00:48:41,155 Speaker 1: come into the dining room. Mugs stayed out in the 689 00:48:41,155 --> 00:48:44,915 Speaker 1: pantry with the mice lying on the floor, growling to himself, 690 00:48:45,195 --> 00:48:47,835 Speaker 1: not at the mice, but about all the people in 691 00:48:47,875 --> 00:48:51,115 Speaker 1: the next room that he would have liked to get at. 692 00:48:51,915 --> 00:48:54,195 Speaker 1: Mother slipped out into the pantry once to see how 693 00:48:54,235 --> 00:48:58,195 Speaker 1: everything was going. Everything was going fine. It made her 694 00:48:58,275 --> 00:49:02,035 Speaker 1: so mad to see Mugs lying there oblivious of the mice. 695 00:49:02,235 --> 00:49:05,555 Speaker 1: They came running up to her that she slapped him, 696 00:49:06,635 --> 00:49:09,515 Speaker 1: and he slashed at her, but didn't make it. He 697 00:49:09,675 --> 00:49:14,155 Speaker 1: was sorry immediately. Mother said. He was always sorry, she 698 00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:16,835 Speaker 1: said after he bit someone. But we could not understand 699 00:49:16,835 --> 00:49:21,555 Speaker 1: how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry. Mother 700 00:49:21,675 --> 00:49:24,075 Speaker 1: used to send a box of candy every Christmas to 701 00:49:24,115 --> 00:49:28,675 Speaker 1: the people the Airdale bit. The list finally contained forty 702 00:49:28,755 --> 00:49:32,075 Speaker 1: or more names. Nobody could understand why we did not 703 00:49:32,115 --> 00:49:34,155 Speaker 1: get rid of the dog. I didn't understand it very 704 00:49:34,155 --> 00:49:37,155 Speaker 1: well myself, but we didn't get rid of him. I 705 00:49:37,235 --> 00:49:41,195 Speaker 1: think that one or two people tried to poison Mugs. 706 00:49:41,595 --> 00:49:45,475 Speaker 1: He acted poisoned once in a while, and old Major 707 00:49:45,595 --> 00:49:49,555 Speaker 1: Moberly fired at him once with his service revolver near 708 00:49:49,595 --> 00:49:53,275 Speaker 1: the Seneca Hotel and He's Broad Street. But Muggs lived 709 00:49:53,355 --> 00:49:55,635 Speaker 1: to almost eleven years old, and even when he could 710 00:49:55,635 --> 00:49:59,155 Speaker 1: hardly get around, he bit a congressman who had called 711 00:49:59,155 --> 00:50:03,075 Speaker 1: to see my father on business. My mother had never 712 00:50:03,275 --> 00:50:07,275 Speaker 1: liked the congressman. She said the signs of his horoscope 713 00:50:07,315 --> 00:50:10,395 Speaker 1: showed he couldn't be trusted. He was Saturn with the 714 00:50:10,435 --> 00:50:13,515 Speaker 1: moon and Virgo. But she sent him a box of 715 00:50:13,515 --> 00:50:17,755 Speaker 1: candy that Christmas. Anyway, he sent it right back, probably 716 00:50:17,755 --> 00:50:22,555 Speaker 1: because he suspected it was trick candy. Mother persuaded herself 717 00:50:22,555 --> 00:50:24,155 Speaker 1: that it was all for the best that the dog 718 00:50:24,195 --> 00:50:26,755 Speaker 1: had bitten him, even though father lost an important business 719 00:50:26,755 --> 00:50:29,995 Speaker 1: association because of it. I wouldn't be associated with such 720 00:50:29,995 --> 00:50:33,715 Speaker 1: a man, Mother said. Mugs could read him lack a book. 721 00:50:35,515 --> 00:50:38,355 Speaker 1: We used to take turns feeding Mugs to be on 722 00:50:38,435 --> 00:50:41,475 Speaker 1: his good side, but that didn't always work. He was 723 00:50:41,555 --> 00:50:43,835 Speaker 1: never in a very good humor even after a meal. 724 00:50:44,555 --> 00:50:47,795 Speaker 1: Nobody knew exactly what was the matter with him, but 725 00:50:47,875 --> 00:50:51,755 Speaker 1: whatever it was, it made him irascible, especially in the mornings. 726 00:50:52,475 --> 00:50:55,675 Speaker 1: Roy my brother, never felt very well in the morning either, 727 00:50:55,795 --> 00:50:58,875 Speaker 1: especially before breakfast, and once when he came downstairs and 728 00:50:58,995 --> 00:51:02,395 Speaker 1: found that Mugs had moodily chewed up the morning paper, 729 00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:06,195 Speaker 1: he hit him in the face with the grapefruit, and 730 00:51:06,275 --> 00:51:09,995 Speaker 1: then jumped up on the dining room table, scattering dishes 731 00:51:09,995 --> 00:51:14,675 Speaker 1: and silverware and spilling the coffee. Mugg's first free leap 732 00:51:14,995 --> 00:51:17,875 Speaker 1: carried him all the way across the table and into 733 00:51:17,875 --> 00:51:20,515 Speaker 1: a brass fire screen in front of the gas grate. 734 00:51:21,155 --> 00:51:22,795 Speaker 1: But he was back on his feet in a moment, 735 00:51:22,835 --> 00:51:24,475 Speaker 1: and in the end he got roy and gave him 736 00:51:24,475 --> 00:51:27,595 Speaker 1: a pretty vicious bite in the leg. Then he was 737 00:51:27,635 --> 00:51:30,155 Speaker 1: all over it. He never bid anyone more than once 738 00:51:30,195 --> 00:51:34,315 Speaker 1: at a time. Mother always mentioned that as an argument 739 00:51:34,395 --> 00:51:36,995 Speaker 1: in his favor. She said he had a quick temper, 740 00:51:37,355 --> 00:51:40,595 Speaker 1: but that he didn't hold a grudge. She was forever 741 00:51:40,715 --> 00:51:44,395 Speaker 1: defending him. I think she liked him because he wasn't well. 742 00:51:44,995 --> 00:51:51,315 Speaker 1: He's not strong, she would say, pityingly, But that was inaccurate. 743 00:51:51,795 --> 00:51:54,995 Speaker 1: He may not have been well, but he was terribly strong. 744 00:51:56,835 --> 00:51:59,755 Speaker 1: One time my mother went to the Chittenden Hotel to 745 00:51:59,795 --> 00:52:03,075 Speaker 1: call on a woman mental healer who was lecturing in 746 00:52:03,155 --> 00:52:07,555 Speaker 1: Columbus on the subject of harmonious vibrations. She wanted to 747 00:52:07,555 --> 00:52:10,755 Speaker 1: find out if it was possible to get harmonious vibrations 748 00:52:10,795 --> 00:52:16,235 Speaker 1: into a dog. He's a large, tan colored airdale. Mother explained. 749 00:52:16,875 --> 00:52:19,155 Speaker 1: The woman said that she had never treated a dog, 750 00:52:19,595 --> 00:52:22,395 Speaker 1: but she advised my mother to hold the thought that 751 00:52:22,515 --> 00:52:26,835 Speaker 1: he did not bite and would not bite. Mother was 752 00:52:26,875 --> 00:52:29,195 Speaker 1: holding the thought the very next morning when Muggs got 753 00:52:29,235 --> 00:52:32,915 Speaker 1: the iceman, but she blamed that slip up on the iceman. 754 00:52:33,275 --> 00:52:35,795 Speaker 1: If you didn't think he would bite you, he wouldn't, 755 00:52:36,355 --> 00:52:39,035 Speaker 1: Mother told him. He stomped out of the house in 756 00:52:39,075 --> 00:52:44,795 Speaker 1: a terrible jangle of vibrations. One morning, when Mugs bit 757 00:52:44,955 --> 00:52:47,635 Speaker 1: me slightly more or less in passing, I reached down 758 00:52:47,635 --> 00:52:50,955 Speaker 1: and grabbed his short, stumpy tail and hoisted him into 759 00:52:50,995 --> 00:52:55,195 Speaker 1: the air. It was a foolhardy thing to do, and 760 00:52:55,235 --> 00:52:57,795 Speaker 1: the last time I saw my mother, about six months ago, 761 00:52:57,835 --> 00:53:01,875 Speaker 1: she said she didn't know what possessed me. I don't either, 762 00:53:02,035 --> 00:53:04,875 Speaker 1: except that I was pretty mad. As long as I 763 00:53:04,955 --> 00:53:07,075 Speaker 1: held the dog off the floor by his tail, he 764 00:53:07,115 --> 00:53:09,715 Speaker 1: couldn't get at me. But he twisted and jerked so 765 00:53:10,035 --> 00:53:13,755 Speaker 1: snarling all the time that I realized I couldn't hold 766 00:53:13,835 --> 00:53:16,875 Speaker 1: him that way very long, and I carried him into 767 00:53:16,875 --> 00:53:19,355 Speaker 1: the kitchen and flung him onto the floor and shut 768 00:53:19,395 --> 00:53:21,835 Speaker 1: the door on him just as he crashed against it. 769 00:53:22,675 --> 00:53:26,875 Speaker 1: But I forgot about the backstairs. Mugs went up the 770 00:53:26,915 --> 00:53:30,475 Speaker 1: backstairs and down the front stairs and had me cornered 771 00:53:30,475 --> 00:53:33,315 Speaker 1: in the living room. I managed to get up out 772 00:53:33,355 --> 00:53:36,195 Speaker 1: of the mantelpiece above the fireplace, but it gave way 773 00:53:36,675 --> 00:53:40,195 Speaker 1: and came down with a tremendous crash, throwing a large 774 00:53:40,195 --> 00:53:44,435 Speaker 1: marble clock, several vases, and myself heavily to the floor. 775 00:53:45,595 --> 00:53:48,715 Speaker 1: Muggs was so alarmed by the racket that when I 776 00:53:48,755 --> 00:53:52,595 Speaker 1: picked myself up, he had disappeared. We couldn't find him anywhere, 777 00:53:52,675 --> 00:53:57,195 Speaker 1: although we whistled and shouted until old Missus Dettweiler called 778 00:53:57,235 --> 00:54:01,155 Speaker 1: after dinner that night. Muggs had bitten her once in 779 00:54:01,235 --> 00:54:03,355 Speaker 1: the leg, and she came into the living room only 780 00:54:03,355 --> 00:54:07,235 Speaker 1: after we assured her that Mugs had run away. She 781 00:54:07,355 --> 00:54:11,155 Speaker 1: had just seated herself when with great growling and scratching 782 00:54:11,195 --> 00:54:15,755 Speaker 1: of claws, Mugs emerged from under a davenport where he 783 00:54:15,795 --> 00:54:20,155 Speaker 1: had been quietly hiding all the time and bit her again. 784 00:54:22,075 --> 00:54:24,635 Speaker 1: Mother examined the bite and put arnica on it and 785 00:54:24,635 --> 00:54:27,435 Speaker 1: told Missus Detwiler that it was only a bruise. He 786 00:54:27,715 --> 00:54:32,435 Speaker 1: just bumped you, she said. But Missus Dettwiler left our 787 00:54:32,475 --> 00:54:36,555 Speaker 1: house in a nasty state of mind. Lots of people 788 00:54:36,635 --> 00:54:39,515 Speaker 1: reported our Airdale to the police, but my father held 789 00:54:39,555 --> 00:54:41,875 Speaker 1: a municipal office at the time and was on friendly 790 00:54:41,995 --> 00:54:45,515 Speaker 1: terms with the police. Even so, the cops had been 791 00:54:45,555 --> 00:54:48,755 Speaker 1: out a couple of times, once when Mugs bit missus 792 00:54:48,835 --> 00:54:52,835 Speaker 1: rufus Sturtevent and again when he bit Lieutenant Governor Molloy. 793 00:54:53,795 --> 00:54:55,995 Speaker 1: But mother told him it hadn't been Muggs's fault, but 794 00:54:56,075 --> 00:54:58,755 Speaker 1: the fault of the people who were bitten. When he 795 00:54:58,835 --> 00:55:04,555 Speaker 1: starts for them, they scream, she explained, and that excites him. 796 00:55:04,315 --> 00:55:06,675 Speaker 1: The suggested that it might be a good idea to 797 00:55:06,715 --> 00:55:09,835 Speaker 1: tie the dog up, but Mother said that it mortified 798 00:55:09,915 --> 00:55:12,115 Speaker 1: him to be tied up, and that he wouldn't eat 799 00:55:12,155 --> 00:55:15,875 Speaker 1: when he was tied up. Mugs at his meals was 800 00:55:15,915 --> 00:55:18,395 Speaker 1: an unusual sight because of the fact that if you 801 00:55:18,515 --> 00:55:23,475 Speaker 1: reached toward the floor, he would bite you. We usually 802 00:55:23,515 --> 00:55:25,675 Speaker 1: put his food plate on top of an old kitchen 803 00:55:25,715 --> 00:55:28,915 Speaker 1: table with a bench alongside the table. Mugs would stand 804 00:55:28,955 --> 00:55:33,595 Speaker 1: on the bench and eat. I remember that my mother's uncle, Horatio, 805 00:55:34,075 --> 00:55:37,755 Speaker 1: who boasted that he was the third man up Missionary Ridge, 806 00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:42,035 Speaker 1: was flutteringly indignant when he found out that we fed 807 00:55:42,035 --> 00:55:44,755 Speaker 1: the dog on a table because we were afraid to 808 00:55:44,835 --> 00:55:47,755 Speaker 1: put his plate on the floor. He said he wasn't 809 00:55:47,755 --> 00:55:49,755 Speaker 1: afraid of any dog that ever lived, and that he 810 00:55:49,795 --> 00:55:51,515 Speaker 1: would put the dog's plate on the floor if we 811 00:55:51,555 --> 00:55:54,675 Speaker 1: would give it to him. Roy said that if Uncle 812 00:55:54,675 --> 00:55:57,755 Speaker 1: Horatio had fed mugs on the ground just before the battle, 813 00:55:58,035 --> 00:56:01,555 Speaker 1: he would have been the first man up Missionary ridge. 814 00:56:01,715 --> 00:56:08,115 Speaker 1: Uncle Horatio was furious. Ray amen, bray amen, now, he shouted, 815 00:56:08,435 --> 00:56:14,155 Speaker 1: I'll feed them on the floor. Roy was all forgiving 816 00:56:14,195 --> 00:56:16,155 Speaker 1: him a chance. But my father wouldn't hear of it. 817 00:56:16,275 --> 00:56:19,235 Speaker 1: He said that mugs had already been fed. I'll feed 818 00:56:19,315 --> 00:56:24,555 Speaker 1: them again, bawled Uncle Horatio. We had quite a time 819 00:56:24,675 --> 00:56:29,315 Speaker 1: quieting him. In his last year, Muggs used to spend 820 00:56:29,355 --> 00:56:32,835 Speaker 1: practically all of his time outdoors. He didn't like to 821 00:56:32,835 --> 00:56:35,075 Speaker 1: stay in the house for some reason or other. Perhaps 822 00:56:35,075 --> 00:56:38,715 Speaker 1: it held too many unpleasant memories for him. Anyway, it 823 00:56:38,755 --> 00:56:40,435 Speaker 1: was hard to get him to come in, and as 824 00:56:40,475 --> 00:56:43,075 Speaker 1: a result, the garbage man, the iceman, and the laundryman 825 00:56:43,315 --> 00:56:46,795 Speaker 1: would not come near our house. We had to haul 826 00:56:46,835 --> 00:56:49,595 Speaker 1: the garbage down to the corner, take the laundry out 827 00:56:49,595 --> 00:56:51,875 Speaker 1: and bring it back and meet the iceman a block 828 00:56:51,915 --> 00:56:55,475 Speaker 1: from home. After this had gone on for some time. 829 00:56:55,515 --> 00:56:58,395 Speaker 1: We hit on an ingenious arrangement for getting the dog 830 00:56:58,515 --> 00:57:00,835 Speaker 1: in the house, so that we could lock him up 831 00:57:00,875 --> 00:57:05,235 Speaker 1: while the gas meter was red, and so on. Mugs 832 00:57:05,475 --> 00:57:13,515 Speaker 1: was afraid of only one thing, an electrical storm. Thunder 833 00:57:13,675 --> 00:57:17,875 Speaker 1: and lightning frightened him out of his senses. I think 834 00:57:18,275 --> 00:57:21,275 Speaker 1: he thought a storm had broken the day the mantelpiece fell. 835 00:57:21,995 --> 00:57:24,315 Speaker 1: He would rush into the house and hide under a 836 00:57:24,315 --> 00:57:27,715 Speaker 1: bed or in a clothes closet. So we fixed up 837 00:57:27,755 --> 00:57:30,715 Speaker 1: a thunder machine out of a long, narrow piece of 838 00:57:30,755 --> 00:57:33,955 Speaker 1: sheet iron with a wooden handle on one end. Mother 839 00:57:33,995 --> 00:57:37,075 Speaker 1: would shake this vigorously when she wanted to get Mugs 840 00:57:37,075 --> 00:57:39,995 Speaker 1: into the house. It made an excellent imitation of thunder, 841 00:57:40,155 --> 00:57:42,835 Speaker 1: but I suppose it was the most roundabout system for 842 00:57:42,915 --> 00:57:46,595 Speaker 1: running a household that was ever devised. It took a 843 00:57:46,635 --> 00:57:50,675 Speaker 1: lot out of mother. A few months before Mugs died, 844 00:57:50,755 --> 00:57:56,315 Speaker 1: he got to seeing things. He would rise slowly from 845 00:57:56,355 --> 00:58:02,275 Speaker 1: the floor, growling low and stalk, stiff legged and menacing 846 00:58:02,475 --> 00:58:08,155 Speaker 1: toward thing at all. Sometimes the thing would be just 847 00:58:08,275 --> 00:58:11,395 Speaker 1: a little to the right or left of a visitor. 848 00:58:11,515 --> 00:58:16,435 Speaker 1: Once a fuller brush salesman got hysterics, Muggs came wandering 849 00:58:16,515 --> 00:58:19,555 Speaker 1: into the room like Hamlet, following his father's ghosts. His 850 00:58:19,635 --> 00:58:22,395 Speaker 1: eyes were fixed on a spot just to the left 851 00:58:22,475 --> 00:58:25,515 Speaker 1: of the fuller brush man, who stood it until Muggs 852 00:58:25,595 --> 00:58:30,395 Speaker 1: was about three slow creeping paces from him. Then he shouted, 853 00:58:31,595 --> 00:58:35,075 Speaker 1: Mugs wavered on pass him into the hallway, grumbling to himself, 854 00:58:35,075 --> 00:58:37,835 Speaker 1: but the fuller man went on shouting. I think Mother 855 00:58:37,875 --> 00:58:40,155 Speaker 1: had to throw a pan of cold water on him 856 00:58:40,195 --> 00:58:42,915 Speaker 1: before he stopped. That was the way she used to 857 00:58:42,915 --> 00:58:47,075 Speaker 1: stop us boys when we got into fights. Mugs died 858 00:58:47,195 --> 00:58:50,555 Speaker 1: quite suddenly one night. Mother wanted to bury him in 859 00:58:50,595 --> 00:58:53,195 Speaker 1: the family lot under a marble stone with some such 860 00:58:53,275 --> 00:58:56,635 Speaker 1: inscription as flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, 861 00:58:57,195 --> 00:59:01,035 Speaker 1: but we persuaded her it was against the law. In 862 00:59:01,115 --> 00:59:03,275 Speaker 1: the end, we just put up a smooth board above 863 00:59:03,275 --> 00:59:06,875 Speaker 1: his grave along the way lonely road. On the board 864 00:59:06,915 --> 00:59:12,955 Speaker 1: I wrote with an indelible pencil, kave Kanam. Mother was 865 00:59:13,035 --> 00:59:16,755 Speaker 1: quite pleased with the simple classic dignity of the old 866 00:59:16,995 --> 00:59:37,995 Speaker 1: Latin epitaph The Dog that Bit People by James Thurber. Mugs. 867 00:59:39,035 --> 00:59:40,715 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 868 00:59:40,795 --> 00:59:43,555 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown Musical Directors Brian Ray and John 869 00:59:43,555 --> 00:59:47,235 Speaker 1: Phillip Schaneil arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 870 00:59:47,595 --> 00:59:49,875 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, the bass, and the drums, 871 00:59:49,875 --> 00:59:53,075 Speaker 1: and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. It was produced 872 00:59:53,075 --> 00:59:56,795 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 873 00:59:57,035 --> 00:59:59,795 Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 874 01:00:00,235 --> 01:00:03,275 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. 875 01:00:03,635 --> 01:00:06,635 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Larren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 876 01:00:07,075 --> 01:00:10,395 Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Faust. 877 01:00:10,475 --> 01:00:13,995 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today is 878 01:00:13,995 --> 01:00:17,315 Speaker 1: my friend Howard Feinneman, and everything else was pretty much 879 01:00:17,435 --> 01:00:20,315 Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for this the two hundred and 880 01:00:20,515 --> 01:00:25,715 Speaker 1: first day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, Yes Saturday, 881 01:00:26,155 --> 01:00:32,075 Speaker 1: two hundred days. Also the twelve hundredth day since Defendant 882 01:00:32,155 --> 01:00:35,635 Speaker 1: Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 883 01:00:35,715 --> 01:00:38,715 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the fourteenth Amendment and the 884 01:00:38,795 --> 01:00:43,315 Speaker 1: not regularly given elector objection option. Use the Insurrection Act. 885 01:00:43,835 --> 01:00:47,835 Speaker 1: Use the justice system in New York and elsewhere. Use 886 01:00:47,915 --> 01:00:50,875 Speaker 1: the mental health system to stop him from doing it 887 01:00:50,915 --> 01:00:57,715 Speaker 1: again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. 888 01:00:57,795 --> 01:01:01,355 Speaker 1: Bulletins as the news warrants. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. 889 01:01:01,435 --> 01:01:11,955 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck and 890 01:01:12,075 --> 01:01:16,835 Speaker 1: then Freezing grow Freezing. Everybody was freezing in the Countdown 891 01:01:16,915 --> 01:01:20,635 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 892 01:01:20,755 --> 01:01:25,675 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 893 01:01:25,715 --> 01:01:27,555 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.