1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,075 --> 00:00:29,035 Speaker 1: This should have been a landmark day, the investiture ceremony 3 00:00:29,075 --> 00:00:33,755 Speaker 1: for Justice Katangi Brown Jackson at the Supreme Court, but 4 00:00:33,875 --> 00:00:37,475 Speaker 1: it comes instead, just as the court she joins has 5 00:00:37,555 --> 00:00:41,595 Speaker 1: lost its last shred of authenticity and relevance and honesty 6 00:00:41,755 --> 00:00:43,955 Speaker 1: and credibility, and we are forced to look at it 7 00:00:43,995 --> 00:00:47,555 Speaker 1: and say, there are no other options. It must be 8 00:00:47,675 --> 00:00:52,235 Speaker 1: reconceived or at least enlarged, or if there is nothing 9 00:00:52,275 --> 00:00:57,675 Speaker 1: else to do, it must be ignored. Justice Samuel Alito 10 00:00:58,515 --> 00:01:04,595 Speaker 1: is a prejudiced, dishonest, lazy, proselytizing fraud with a missile, 11 00:01:04,795 --> 00:01:07,715 Speaker 1: a complex and an agenda to serve not the law, 12 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:11,275 Speaker 1: not the democracy, not the nation, but to serve his 13 00:01:11,315 --> 00:01:15,595 Speaker 1: own religious beliefs. He is intent on turning the Supreme 14 00:01:15,635 --> 00:01:20,155 Speaker 1: Court into the Republican Supreme Religious Court, and intent on 15 00:01:20,195 --> 00:01:23,355 Speaker 1: turning this nation into a theocracy. And he has gotten 16 00:01:23,435 --> 00:01:28,075 Speaker 1: quite a headstart on both. And yet somehow, this week, 17 00:01:28,635 --> 00:01:31,995 Speaker 1: on the eve of the investiture of Justice Jackson, he 18 00:01:32,035 --> 00:01:37,035 Speaker 1: has reached a personal new high in law. It goes 19 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:40,635 Speaker 1: without saying that everyone is free to express disagreement with 20 00:01:40,675 --> 00:01:44,595 Speaker 1: our decisions and to criticize our reasoning as they see fit, 21 00:01:45,355 --> 00:01:49,035 Speaker 1: Alito said in response to a stark but mild reality 22 00:01:49,155 --> 00:01:53,915 Speaker 1: check from Justice Elena Kagan. But saying or implying that 23 00:01:53,995 --> 00:01:59,195 Speaker 1: the Court is becoming an illegitimate institution, or questioning our 24 00:01:59,475 --> 00:02:07,435 Speaker 1: integrity crosses an important line, Mr Alito. You have no 25 00:02:07,595 --> 00:02:13,755 Speaker 1: integrity left to be questioned. Mr Alito, Your institution consists 26 00:02:13,755 --> 00:02:18,035 Speaker 1: of at least four justices who perjured themselves under oath 27 00:02:18,195 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: to the Senate in their confirmation hearings. One of your justices, 28 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:25,715 Speaker 1: Mr Alito, is married to a woman who needed to 29 00:02:25,755 --> 00:02:29,795 Speaker 1: testify yesterday to the House committee investigating the attempt to 30 00:02:29,995 --> 00:02:33,955 Speaker 1: overthrow the government of the United States by coup, and 31 00:02:34,035 --> 00:02:37,475 Speaker 1: she had to reassure that committee that she never discussed 32 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:42,915 Speaker 1: any of her involvement with her husband, the Justice. These justices, 33 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:47,355 Speaker 1: Mr Alito, are illegitimate, and they alone would make the 34 00:02:47,515 --> 00:02:51,955 Speaker 1: Court illegitimate. Mr Alito, at least one of your justices 35 00:02:52,075 --> 00:02:56,195 Speaker 1: sits with you only because of the destruction of the 36 00:02:56,235 --> 00:02:59,675 Speaker 1: Senate of the United States by its lead Republican member. 37 00:03:00,275 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: The line, Sir, was crossed when Merrick Garland was pocket vetoed. 38 00:03:06,595 --> 00:03:09,515 Speaker 1: Ever since that moment, your Institution has been nothing more 39 00:03:09,555 --> 00:03:12,835 Speaker 1: than a tool of the Republican Party, designed to use 40 00:03:12,875 --> 00:03:16,635 Speaker 1: the trappings of the law to legitimize the illegitimate, and 41 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:21,795 Speaker 1: to assert integrity when there is nothing but corruption. Mr Alito, 42 00:03:22,195 --> 00:03:28,755 Speaker 1: you are a political prostitute. And Justice Clarence Thomas is 43 00:03:28,795 --> 00:03:34,235 Speaker 1: a political prostitute. Justice Neil Gorsuch is a political prostitute. 44 00:03:34,395 --> 00:03:39,075 Speaker 1: Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a political prostitute. Justice Amy Coney 45 00:03:39,155 --> 00:03:43,955 Speaker 1: Barrett is a political prostitute. Chief Justice John Roberts is 46 00:03:43,995 --> 00:03:51,155 Speaker 1: a political prostitute. Whatever you once aspired to, Mr Alito, 47 00:03:51,595 --> 00:03:54,115 Speaker 1: whatever you believed you had become when you were given 48 00:03:54,155 --> 00:03:57,195 Speaker 1: your seat, whatever dignity or respect you thought you were 49 00:03:57,235 --> 00:04:02,035 Speaker 1: now owed, you have long since forfeited, and forfeited beyond 50 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:06,315 Speaker 1: the most remote possibility of reclamation. You and that room 51 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:10,435 Speaker 1: full of partisan hacks have destroyed the Supreme Court of 52 00:04:10,435 --> 00:04:14,235 Speaker 1: the United States, And had you either intelligence or dignity, 53 00:04:14,595 --> 00:04:17,675 Speaker 1: you would resign and devote the rest of your life 54 00:04:17,675 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: to seeking forgiveness for the damage you have personally inflicted 55 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:24,075 Speaker 1: up on this nation in the name of a corrupt 56 00:04:24,235 --> 00:04:28,915 Speaker 1: and morally bankrupt political party, and in the name of religion, 57 00:04:29,675 --> 00:04:34,355 Speaker 1: not just your religion, but all religions, which, whatever else 58 00:04:34,475 --> 00:04:38,435 Speaker 1: it is or is not, is just a belief, just 59 00:04:38,755 --> 00:04:44,115 Speaker 1: a hope, just a wish, perhaps more reliable than a horoscope, 60 00:04:44,555 --> 00:04:51,835 Speaker 1: but perhaps not. Two years ago, sixty seven percent of 61 00:04:51,915 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: this country said it had a great deal or fair 62 00:04:55,835 --> 00:04:59,875 Speaker 1: amount of trust in the Supreme Court. Last year that 63 00:04:59,955 --> 00:05:04,195 Speaker 1: number was still fifty four percent. As of a gallop 64 00:05:04,235 --> 00:05:08,155 Speaker 1: pole least yesterday, it is now forty seven percent. The 65 00:05:08,275 --> 00:05:15,395 Speaker 1: Court's job approval in was percent it is now. The 66 00:05:15,435 --> 00:05:19,995 Speaker 1: political majority has not changed on the Court since, indeed 67 00:05:20,035 --> 00:05:24,635 Speaker 1: it has not changed since. The citizens of this country 68 00:05:24,635 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: have not politicized their view of you and the Court, 69 00:05:28,195 --> 00:05:31,555 Speaker 1: Mr Alito. It is you and the frauds with whom 70 00:05:31,595 --> 00:05:35,515 Speaker 1: you sit who have politicized the Court beyond this nation's 71 00:05:35,555 --> 00:05:39,475 Speaker 1: ability to withstand it anymore. And it is you and 72 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:42,835 Speaker 1: the frauds with whom you sit who have now substituted 73 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: the Bible for the law book. Saying or implying that 74 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: the Court is becoming an illegitimate institution, or questioning our 75 00:05:54,035 --> 00:06:01,475 Speaker 1: integrity crosses an important line. No one has said this, 76 00:06:01,875 --> 00:06:05,715 Speaker 1: Mr Alito, but you and the charlatan in robes around 77 00:06:05,795 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: you have accomplished this. You are the assassins of your 78 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: own institution, and you are the murderers of your own integrity, 79 00:06:13,435 --> 00:06:16,715 Speaker 1: and you are the erasers of the most important line 80 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:24,595 Speaker 1: between legal impartiality and political fagg ury. The very worst moments, 81 00:06:24,875 --> 00:06:28,515 Speaker 1: said Justice Kagan, of the Court's history, have been times 82 00:06:28,515 --> 00:06:33,035 Speaker 1: when judges have even essentially reflected one parties or one 83 00:06:33,155 --> 00:06:37,035 Speaker 1: ideology set of views in their legal decisions. The thing 84 00:06:37,115 --> 00:06:40,755 Speaker 1: that builds up reservoirs of public confidence is the court 85 00:06:41,035 --> 00:06:45,635 Speaker 1: acting like a court and not acting like an extension 86 00:06:45,675 --> 00:06:50,555 Speaker 1: of the political process. If over time the court loses 87 00:06:50,635 --> 00:06:54,155 Speaker 1: all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that 88 00:06:54,355 --> 00:06:59,955 Speaker 1: is a dangerous thing for democracy. To that judicious, polite, 89 00:07:00,515 --> 00:07:04,315 Speaker 1: almost milk toast recitation of facts from Justice Kagan, You, 90 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:08,475 Speaker 1: Mr Alito, decided you needed to try to metaphorically martyr 91 00:07:08,475 --> 00:07:11,515 Speaker 1: yourself and to threaten this country for having had the 92 00:07:11,555 --> 00:07:15,915 Speaker 1: nerve to recognize your illegitimacy and the audacity to question 93 00:07:15,995 --> 00:07:23,595 Speaker 1: what had been your integrity. The Alito Court, and make 94 00:07:23,635 --> 00:07:26,155 Speaker 1: no mistake, it is his court, John Roberts is sinking 95 00:07:26,155 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: into utter irrelevance. The Alito Court is to hear cases 96 00:07:30,875 --> 00:07:35,435 Speaker 1: starting next month that could roll back affirmative action in 97 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:39,315 Speaker 1: the admissions offices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, 98 00:07:39,715 --> 00:07:43,555 Speaker 1: and thus at every American college and university. The Court 99 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:47,715 Speaker 1: may circumscribe the Voting Rights Act as it pertains to 100 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:52,835 Speaker 1: draw in congressional districts and African American voters. It may 101 00:07:52,955 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: rule to permit rogue state legislatures to eliminate election results 102 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:02,635 Speaker 1: at will. It may repeal laws that protect lgbt Q 103 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:08,835 Speaker 1: customers from discriminate by businesses. Do we expect the Alito 104 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:15,555 Speaker 1: Court will examine legal precedents or the opinions of televangelists. 105 00:08:17,035 --> 00:08:20,875 Speaker 1: You probably already know of Alito's speech in Rome in 106 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:24,955 Speaker 1: July at the Notre Dame Religious Freedom Summit, which, as 107 00:08:24,995 --> 00:08:27,955 Speaker 1: with most religious conferences, is misnamed and was actually the 108 00:08:27,995 --> 00:08:31,595 Speaker 1: Notre Dame Religious You have no freedom but to obey 109 00:08:31,675 --> 00:08:36,075 Speaker 1: us summit. You probably heard him mock the world leaders 110 00:08:36,115 --> 00:08:40,595 Speaker 1: who were appalled by the courts dishonest overturning of Roe v. Wade, 111 00:08:40,635 --> 00:08:43,475 Speaker 1: with its reliance on the legal wisdom of a judge 112 00:08:43,555 --> 00:08:47,755 Speaker 1: who used to oversee the hanging of witches. You may 113 00:08:47,795 --> 00:08:51,875 Speaker 1: have heard him bash secular values and the quote new 114 00:08:52,115 --> 00:08:56,435 Speaker 1: Moral Code, but you probably did not hear him tell 115 00:08:57,075 --> 00:09:01,355 Speaker 1: this meaningless anecdote, which he told with the gravity of 116 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:05,555 Speaker 1: someone who has just watched the burning of an original 117 00:09:05,635 --> 00:09:11,075 Speaker 1: copy of the Constitution. I'm reminded of an experience I 118 00:09:11,155 --> 00:09:15,075 Speaker 1: had a number of years ago in a museum in 119 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:20,915 Speaker 1: um in Berlin. One of the exhibits was a rustic 120 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:26,235 Speaker 1: wooden cross. A young uh, an effluent woman, a well 121 00:09:26,315 --> 00:09:29,795 Speaker 1: dressed woman, and a young boy who were looking at 122 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:33,435 Speaker 1: this exhibit. And the young boy turned to the woman, 123 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:39,275 Speaker 1: presumably his mother, and said, who is that man? That 124 00:09:39,315 --> 00:09:43,115 Speaker 1: memory has stuck in my mind as a harbinger of 125 00:09:43,155 --> 00:09:47,795 Speaker 1: what may lie ahead for our culture. Samuel Alito believes 126 00:09:47,875 --> 00:09:50,115 Speaker 1: it is his job. It is the job of an 127 00:09:50,115 --> 00:09:53,515 Speaker 1: American judge. It is the job of the Supreme Court. 128 00:09:53,595 --> 00:09:56,395 Speaker 1: It is the job of the United States of America 129 00:09:56,515 --> 00:10:01,115 Speaker 1: government to force its citizens to be able to identify 130 00:10:01,155 --> 00:10:04,835 Speaker 1: a man on a cross who may or may not 131 00:10:04,995 --> 00:10:09,515 Speaker 1: have ever existed, To force them to honor the businesses 132 00:10:09,875 --> 00:10:14,275 Speaker 1: that have built themselves into world influencing powers by attributing 133 00:10:14,395 --> 00:10:18,315 Speaker 1: quotes to this potentially fictional character, and to defer to 134 00:10:18,435 --> 00:10:22,235 Speaker 1: the interpretations of what this man, who may or may 135 00:10:22,275 --> 00:10:25,875 Speaker 1: not have ever lived, had to say about what the 136 00:10:25,995 --> 00:10:29,195 Speaker 1: laws of the United States of America should be and 137 00:10:29,235 --> 00:10:32,275 Speaker 1: who the President of the United States of America should be. 138 00:10:33,515 --> 00:10:36,955 Speaker 1: Mr Alito, that rustic wouldn't cross I have a suggestion 139 00:10:36,995 --> 00:10:41,755 Speaker 1: where you can put it. There is one last vital 140 00:10:41,795 --> 00:10:45,435 Speaker 1: point about what Samuel Alito said and the danger it 141 00:10:45,515 --> 00:10:51,715 Speaker 1: represents and the necessity for action that it causes. When 142 00:10:51,795 --> 00:10:57,875 Speaker 1: Alito says, questioning the court's integrity, quote crosses an important line. 143 00:10:59,555 --> 00:11:05,315 Speaker 1: What line does he mean? What also does he believes 144 00:11:05,315 --> 00:11:10,315 Speaker 1: should be done after whatever that line is is crossed? 145 00:11:12,075 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: I believe the answer is far more ominous than is 146 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:21,355 Speaker 1: currently being recognized. On June this year, I tweeted, forgive 147 00:11:21,395 --> 00:11:25,675 Speaker 1: the self quote, it has become necessary to dissolve the 148 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:28,755 Speaker 1: Supreme Court of the United States. The first step is 149 00:11:28,795 --> 00:11:31,955 Speaker 1: for a state the court has now forced guns upon 150 00:11:32,355 --> 00:11:37,155 Speaker 1: to ignore this ruling. Great your court, Why and how 151 00:11:37,235 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 1: do you think you can enforce your rulings? Hashtag ignore 152 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:48,555 Speaker 1: the Court? It's a tweet. Three days later, on June, 153 00:11:48,955 --> 00:11:54,435 Speaker 1: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida retweeted my remarks and added quote, 154 00:11:54,835 --> 00:12:00,155 Speaker 1: it is a federal offense to incite rebellion or insurrection 155 00:12:00,235 --> 00:12:03,875 Speaker 1: against the authority of the United States or the laws 156 00:12:03,915 --> 00:12:09,835 Speaker 1: there are of what Rubio all but said there. What 157 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:13,515 Speaker 1: Alito has opaquely danced around when asserting the questioning the 158 00:12:13,555 --> 00:12:18,075 Speaker 1: Court's integrity crosses an important line is that they intend 159 00:12:18,195 --> 00:12:23,795 Speaker 1: not just to suppress criticism of a corrupt, prostituted Supreme Court, 160 00:12:23,995 --> 00:12:29,715 Speaker 1: but to criminalize it. If Marco Rubio can look at 161 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:34,195 Speaker 1: a tweet calling for states to ignore court rulings, which 162 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:37,315 Speaker 1: is one of the court values of his Republican party, 163 00:12:37,435 --> 00:12:39,875 Speaker 1: if he can do that and apply that I am 164 00:12:39,995 --> 00:12:47,715 Speaker 1: guilty of inciting rebellion and insurrection by tweeting, then unfortunately, 165 00:12:47,755 --> 00:12:51,475 Speaker 1: we have to take Alito's reference to saying or implying 166 00:12:51,515 --> 00:12:55,515 Speaker 1: that the Court is becoming an illegitimate institution, or questioning 167 00:12:55,555 --> 00:13:01,395 Speaker 1: our integrity crosses an important line, not as a defensive 168 00:13:01,995 --> 00:13:08,555 Speaker 1: Holier than Thou spasm, but as a threat to every 169 00:13:08,555 --> 00:13:22,675 Speaker 1: one of us still ahead on countdown. The self owned 170 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:27,515 Speaker 1: by Ben Shapiro in Worst Persons and frankly, a lot 171 00:13:27,555 --> 00:13:30,315 Speaker 1: of the anniversaries I bring you in things I promised 172 00:13:30,355 --> 00:13:33,915 Speaker 1: not to tell her kind of lame. They're off by 173 00:13:33,955 --> 00:13:36,155 Speaker 1: a day or a week or a month, or it's 174 00:13:36,155 --> 00:13:41,955 Speaker 1: a clunky anniversary year like the or the third, not today, 175 00:13:42,635 --> 00:13:47,195 Speaker 1: September two thousand and twelve, ten years ago to the day, 176 00:13:48,355 --> 00:13:51,795 Speaker 1: very probably the most important day of my life, all 177 00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:56,355 Speaker 1: because the girlfriend needed what she called a puppy fix. 178 00:13:57,595 --> 00:14:09,915 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith open. 179 00:14:14,755 --> 00:14:19,715 Speaker 1: Still ahead on Countdown, I need a puppy fix. This 180 00:14:19,795 --> 00:14:22,515 Speaker 1: will be explained coming up first. In each edition of Countdown, 181 00:14:22,515 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 182 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:28,315 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. This is a bigger picture. 183 00:14:28,435 --> 00:14:30,675 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day than usual. This is an 184 00:14:30,795 --> 00:14:34,035 Speaker 1: entire dog rescue that needs your help. The Gulf Coast 185 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:38,595 Speaker 1: Humane Society in Fort Myers, Florida. I don't have to 186 00:14:38,595 --> 00:14:40,595 Speaker 1: tell you what they are facing right now. It is 187 00:14:40,635 --> 00:14:43,635 Speaker 1: still unclear whether they're dogs and cats got through it, 188 00:14:44,035 --> 00:14:46,795 Speaker 1: or their building got through it, or if they got 189 00:14:46,835 --> 00:14:49,635 Speaker 1: through it. But already Giving Grid is running a fundraiser 190 00:14:49,675 --> 00:14:52,875 Speaker 1: trying to get them ten dollars with which to restart. 191 00:14:53,475 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: If you can help, go to Giving Grid, search for 192 00:14:55,955 --> 00:14:58,195 Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Humane or just look for my tweet on 193 00:14:58,235 --> 00:15:01,715 Speaker 1: my feed for dogs in need at tom Jumbo Grumbo 194 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:28,555 Speaker 1: and thank you very much. Still ahead, coming up, things 195 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:31,915 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell I didn't promise not to 196 00:15:31,955 --> 00:15:37,235 Speaker 1: tell you about her. I just haven't. Please meet Stevie First, 197 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons, and dunning Krueger 198 00:15:39,915 --> 00:15:43,795 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 199 00:15:44,555 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: The bronze right wing troll Ben Shapiro, the little boy 200 00:15:48,195 --> 00:15:50,955 Speaker 1: who once explained that climate change was no problem because 201 00:15:50,995 --> 00:15:54,635 Speaker 1: long before the ocean's actually rose, people with waterfront homes 202 00:15:54,635 --> 00:15:58,555 Speaker 1: would simply sell them. He's back with another snippet of genius. 203 00:15:58,555 --> 00:16:01,755 Speaker 1: To quote a tweet. This Lizzo Flute controversy is a 204 00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:05,595 Speaker 1: perfect example of what I have termed face to phenomenon, 205 00:16:06,075 --> 00:16:10,395 Speaker 1: the phenomenon whereby someone does something deliberately controversial in an 206 00:16:10,435 --> 00:16:14,075 Speaker 1: attempt to draw attention, and then acts offended when you 207 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:20,955 Speaker 1: notice unquote in other words, Ben your entire career the 208 00:16:21,035 --> 00:16:23,795 Speaker 1: runner up everybody mentioned in this next story. This is 209 00:16:23,835 --> 00:16:27,195 Speaker 1: like a collision of worse persons. The Saudi Blood Money 210 00:16:27,235 --> 00:16:31,155 Speaker 1: golf tour with the ironic name Live Golf, is reportedly 211 00:16:31,235 --> 00:16:33,395 Speaker 1: close to a deal to show its tournaments on the 212 00:16:33,435 --> 00:16:38,835 Speaker 1: cable outlet Fox Sports one. So what, Well, Unlike every 213 00:16:38,875 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: other sports rights deal in television. In this one, the 214 00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:45,715 Speaker 1: sports league will be paying the TV network, not the 215 00:16:45,715 --> 00:16:49,395 Speaker 1: other way around. Nobody wanted to touch the Saudi Blood 216 00:16:49,395 --> 00:16:52,795 Speaker 1: Money Golf Tour, so CEO Greg Norman had to resort 217 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:58,555 Speaker 1: to buying time on Fox like an infomercial for electorate 218 00:16:58,915 --> 00:17:04,155 Speaker 1: heating hangers or something. Golf Digest reports that Live employed 219 00:17:04,195 --> 00:17:06,515 Speaker 1: an unusual will intermediary back when it thought it still 220 00:17:06,595 --> 00:17:09,915 Speaker 1: would get paid rather than having to pay Jared Kushner. 221 00:17:10,315 --> 00:17:13,795 Speaker 1: Kushner finally begged Lochlan Murdoch to help him out, So 222 00:17:13,835 --> 00:17:17,395 Speaker 1: the Blood Money Golf Tour is using Mr. Blood Money's 223 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:20,755 Speaker 1: son in law to pay Blood Money to the Blood 224 00:17:20,795 --> 00:17:25,955 Speaker 1: Money TV Network. But our winner politicos John Harris. He 225 00:17:26,035 --> 00:17:29,955 Speaker 1: has written a ponderous piece called The Reporters Who Proved 226 00:17:29,955 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 1: that Journalism is More Powerful than Trump, in which he 227 00:17:33,115 --> 00:17:37,915 Speaker 1: defends what he mistakenly calls CNN CEO Chris Lickts plans 228 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:41,755 Speaker 1: to steer the network back towards journalistic traditionalism, never once 229 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:44,675 Speaker 1: mentioning that licks boss doesn't want that he wants a 230 00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:48,275 Speaker 1: network full of Brett Bears. Harris also never mentions paste 231 00:17:48,355 --> 00:17:51,675 Speaker 1: for some reason. Harris also never mentions that Politico is 232 00:17:51,715 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: now owned by a German right winger, who wrote, do 233 00:17:54,555 --> 00:17:56,795 Speaker 1: we all want to get together for an hour and 234 00:17:56,875 --> 00:18:00,555 Speaker 1: the morning of November three and pray that Donald Trump 235 00:18:00,555 --> 00:18:03,595 Speaker 1: will again become president? But Harris did go to the 236 00:18:03,675 --> 00:18:07,795 Speaker 1: online equivalent of a massage parlor about the others in 237 00:18:07,915 --> 00:18:10,595 Speaker 1: journalism that he's referring to, summing up the rest of 238 00:18:10,635 --> 00:18:14,195 Speaker 1: his piece by writing, quote, no, journalism doesn't need to 239 00:18:14,235 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: reinvent itself in the face of the Trump challenge. It 240 00:18:17,155 --> 00:18:21,475 Speaker 1: just needs more reporting of the kind offered by Maggie Haberman, 241 00:18:22,155 --> 00:18:28,275 Speaker 1: Susan Glasser, Peter Baker, who's her husband, Alexander Burns, and 242 00:18:28,595 --> 00:18:35,355 Speaker 1: his co author Jonathan Martin, Josh Gerstein, and alex Ward Haberman, Glasser, Baker, 243 00:18:35,395 --> 00:18:38,475 Speaker 1: Burns and Martin all wrote Trump Books this year, featuring 244 00:18:38,515 --> 00:18:42,755 Speaker 1: galling and sometimes important revelations about Trump's threat to American democracy. 245 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:47,835 Speaker 1: That we're all eighteen months old or older. Because Haberman, Glasser, Baker, Burns, 246 00:18:47,835 --> 00:18:51,955 Speaker 1: and Martin had been sitting on, hiding, suppressing, secreting, and 247 00:18:52,075 --> 00:18:55,795 Speaker 1: embargoing breaking news that should have been reported in their 248 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:58,795 Speaker 1: own breaking news outlets, because that's kind of the point 249 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:02,195 Speaker 1: of breaking news. They hit all this stuff until they 250 00:19:02,195 --> 00:19:06,155 Speaker 1: could monetize it with book deal. What Harris does not 251 00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:11,395 Speaker 1: understand is that American quote journalism unquote did reinvent itself. 252 00:19:11,475 --> 00:19:15,355 Speaker 1: The overriding principle used to be get a scoop, get 253 00:19:15,395 --> 00:19:17,195 Speaker 1: it in the paper or on the air as soon 254 00:19:17,235 --> 00:19:20,635 Speaker 1: as possible, because that's your job, and that's your only 255 00:19:20,675 --> 00:19:24,755 Speaker 1: actual value to society as well. It is also, and 256 00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:27,235 Speaker 1: I speak as somebody who broke a lot of sports news, 257 00:19:27,275 --> 00:19:30,715 Speaker 1: including the Wayne Gretzky trade and Michael Jordan's first dalliance 258 00:19:30,795 --> 00:19:34,995 Speaker 1: with a comeback, It is the joy of doing a journalism. 259 00:19:35,235 --> 00:19:40,275 Speaker 1: You have the story and nobody else does. But now Haberman, 260 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:43,435 Speaker 1: glassar Baker, Burns, Martin and John Harris think the point 261 00:19:43,435 --> 00:19:46,195 Speaker 1: of American journalism is how much money you can make 262 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:51,035 Speaker 1: by withholding vital public information. The reporters who proved the 263 00:19:51,115 --> 00:19:54,275 Speaker 1: journalism is more powerful than Trump is Harris's title. Yeah, 264 00:19:54,355 --> 00:20:00,075 Speaker 1: proved journalism is more powerful than Trump in moving merchandise, John, 265 00:20:00,275 --> 00:20:05,875 Speaker 1: I've completely lost the journalistic Fred Harris today a's worst 266 00:20:06,315 --> 00:20:25,435 Speaker 1: person in the world. Now to the top of the 267 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:28,795 Speaker 1: countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 268 00:20:28,795 --> 00:20:31,595 Speaker 1: not to tell. I never promised not to tell this 269 00:20:31,955 --> 00:20:34,115 Speaker 1: I just haven't told it to you yet. This is 270 00:20:34,155 --> 00:20:37,955 Speaker 1: exactly the right day to tell you. Olivia looked at 271 00:20:37,955 --> 00:20:41,995 Speaker 1: me and said, I need a puppy fix. Ten years 272 00:20:41,995 --> 00:20:45,955 Speaker 1: ago today, my girlfriend's family dog was dying. My girlfriend 273 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:48,075 Speaker 1: would not say it, her folks would not say it. 274 00:20:48,515 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: The dog, a Jack Russell Terrier named Casey, did her 275 00:20:52,035 --> 00:20:54,155 Speaker 1: best to be the only truthful one in the bunch, 276 00:20:54,235 --> 00:20:57,955 Speaker 1: moving purposefully and unsteadily with every step and looking out 277 00:20:57,995 --> 00:21:01,795 Speaker 1: at her world with a seeming mixture of acceptance and sadness, 278 00:21:02,155 --> 00:21:05,475 Speaker 1: and especially regret that the one time she really needed 279 00:21:05,715 --> 00:21:09,275 Speaker 1: her bipeds to speak for her, they would not. I 280 00:21:09,395 --> 00:21:12,755 Speaker 1: just need for dogs, not to mean sadness, Olivia said, 281 00:21:12,955 --> 00:21:15,315 Speaker 1: just for a while, can we go to that pet 282 00:21:15,355 --> 00:21:18,595 Speaker 1: shop on lex? I mumbled that we could go, but 283 00:21:18,675 --> 00:21:22,235 Speaker 1: that I had resisted the dog entreaties of eleven girlfriends 284 00:21:22,275 --> 00:21:26,235 Speaker 1: before her, and I would successfully resist hers. I had 285 00:21:26,315 --> 00:21:29,955 Speaker 1: always loved dogs, but I was really allergic to them, 286 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:32,955 Speaker 1: and my doctors had all said that even hypo allergenic 287 00:21:33,035 --> 00:21:36,475 Speaker 1: dogs were a crap shoot. She said, I do not 288 00:21:36,715 --> 00:21:39,635 Speaker 1: want a dog. I am not trying to convince you 289 00:21:39,755 --> 00:21:43,115 Speaker 1: to get us a dog. I just want to hold 290 00:21:43,195 --> 00:21:46,755 Speaker 1: a puppy for a little while. She paused, as she 291 00:21:46,795 --> 00:21:49,155 Speaker 1: always did when she felt both hopeless and angry at 292 00:21:49,195 --> 00:21:52,395 Speaker 1: being at the mercy of feelings, and she lapsed into 293 00:21:52,435 --> 00:21:58,075 Speaker 1: the shrug emoji. As sappy as that sounds, Olivia the girlfriend, 294 00:21:58,595 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: the former girlfriend, let me make this easier, and both 295 00:22:01,395 --> 00:22:03,435 Speaker 1: of us will call her t f g F the 296 00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:06,075 Speaker 1: former girlfriend e f GF and I left for the 297 00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:07,995 Speaker 1: pet shop in mid afternoon, and I told her my 298 00:22:08,075 --> 00:22:12,075 Speaker 1: true fear here that my native but dormant shared affinity 299 00:22:12,115 --> 00:22:15,235 Speaker 1: with dogs would all of a moment spring fully grown 300 00:22:15,315 --> 00:22:18,595 Speaker 1: from my soul, and I would blurt, just give me 301 00:22:18,675 --> 00:22:21,715 Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, what kind of life could 302 00:22:21,755 --> 00:22:25,555 Speaker 1: I offer a dog? I was on television, and thus 303 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:28,435 Speaker 1: always in a television studio, and thus never home for 304 00:22:28,555 --> 00:22:32,355 Speaker 1: play or walks or just the prevention of canine loneliness. 305 00:22:32,915 --> 00:22:35,155 Speaker 1: I had a girlfriend who lived out of town. Half 306 00:22:35,195 --> 00:22:38,715 Speaker 1: the time, I was clueless as to every practical aspect 307 00:22:38,715 --> 00:22:41,915 Speaker 1: of the dog thing. I had littered the continent with 308 00:22:42,035 --> 00:22:45,475 Speaker 1: dead house plants, and I no longer thought myself capable 309 00:22:45,515 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: of pulling my ego out of my backside sufficiently to 310 00:22:48,515 --> 00:22:52,035 Speaker 1: take care of fish. I had literally not had a 311 00:22:52,075 --> 00:22:57,435 Speaker 1: pet of any kind, since I had come to terms 312 00:22:57,995 --> 00:23:01,075 Speaker 1: with living in a wistful, hazy world in which I 313 00:23:01,155 --> 00:23:05,075 Speaker 1: might inadvertently have a dog pal for a few moments, 314 00:23:05,075 --> 00:23:07,635 Speaker 1: but almost never indoors, and never without the pang of 315 00:23:07,675 --> 00:23:11,795 Speaker 1: knowing that the hello itself contained the start of the goodbye. 316 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:16,795 Speaker 1: And I was allergic. I was allergic to the obvious big, furry, 317 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:19,955 Speaker 1: friendly dogs, and I might be allergic to the ones 318 00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:23,875 Speaker 1: that were billed as non allergic. And if I disobeyed 319 00:23:23,915 --> 00:23:28,475 Speaker 1: this immutable cannon, the buried tears of permanent exclusion might 320 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:31,355 Speaker 1: be replaced by far worse ones of separation and loss. 321 00:23:31,635 --> 00:23:36,075 Speaker 1: Me I would get over it, probably, but without overvaluing 322 00:23:36,075 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: myself too much to betray the love of a dog 323 00:23:39,915 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 1: to send a dog back because of allergies. As t F, 324 00:23:46,475 --> 00:23:49,595 Speaker 1: g F and I approached the shop, there was, as 325 00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:53,715 Speaker 1: they're almost always is, there a small crowd undulating around it. 326 00:23:54,155 --> 00:23:58,435 Speaker 1: Lexington avenues narrow sidewalks make these human clots easier to form, 327 00:23:58,475 --> 00:24:01,995 Speaker 1: even late on the first Sunday of autumn. There's also 328 00:24:02,035 --> 00:24:05,435 Speaker 1: an obstacle course of greats and cellar doors and bikes, 329 00:24:05,515 --> 00:24:09,275 Speaker 1: chained poles and parking meters and canopies for diners and 330 00:24:09,355 --> 00:24:12,315 Speaker 1: restaurants and mattress show rooms and other places. They're not 331 00:24:12,475 --> 00:24:17,635 Speaker 1: quite seedy, but also aren't quite your first choice. The 332 00:24:17,755 --> 00:24:20,755 Speaker 1: uptown edges of the grime and noise that constitute the 333 00:24:20,795 --> 00:24:25,155 Speaker 1: maze of fifty nine Street bridge approaches lend the place 334 00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:29,355 Speaker 1: a congested feeling even when it's otherwise quiet. We are 335 00:24:29,355 --> 00:24:31,675 Speaker 1: three blocks up from the trying just a little too 336 00:24:31,675 --> 00:24:36,595 Speaker 1: hard merchandizing of Bloomingdale's. There are unwashed delivery trucks, double 337 00:24:36,635 --> 00:24:40,155 Speaker 1: parked five days a year, and then totally out of 338 00:24:40,195 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: place amid the prosaic trappings of a big city at 339 00:24:42,835 --> 00:24:47,555 Speaker 1: its most men there they are bouncing off each other, 340 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:51,555 Speaker 1: tearing impotitely at other, tiny heads and tails and paws 341 00:24:51,795 --> 00:24:55,835 Speaker 1: doing a seeming pantomime of dismemberment. Their yips and the 342 00:24:55,875 --> 00:24:59,595 Speaker 1: crunch of the shredded cavorting paper are just audible through 343 00:24:59,595 --> 00:25:01,435 Speaker 1: the glass and over the din of the street. They 344 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: create an oasis of cute and us. In case you 345 00:25:05,595 --> 00:25:08,915 Speaker 1: can't tell what they are, there's this big Neon sign 346 00:25:08,995 --> 00:25:16,115 Speaker 1: above their street front window that reads, puppies don't make 347 00:25:16,155 --> 00:25:19,555 Speaker 1: me go in, I pleaded. She reassured me. We'd go 348 00:25:19,595 --> 00:25:21,395 Speaker 1: in she'd hold the dog. All I had to do 349 00:25:21,435 --> 00:25:25,715 Speaker 1: was take a picture. You don't understand, I reached for 350 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:28,555 Speaker 1: her hand. What I'm trying to say is I always 351 00:25:28,595 --> 00:25:31,515 Speaker 1: wanted a dog, but I could never have a dog. 352 00:25:32,435 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: Just as the door to the shop opened, she grabbed 353 00:25:34,915 --> 00:25:37,395 Speaker 1: my arm. She yanked hard, She swore, and she muttered, 354 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: you'll survive. Man up. Don't make eye contact. Don't make 355 00:25:41,195 --> 00:25:43,635 Speaker 1: eye contact. Don't make eye contact. Don't make eye contact. 356 00:25:44,235 --> 00:25:47,515 Speaker 1: We were going towards puppies and past puppies, and the 357 00:25:47,555 --> 00:25:50,315 Speaker 1: appearance of a small staircase to a training laft confirmed 358 00:25:50,355 --> 00:25:53,915 Speaker 1: we're now going under puppies. And in the deepest recesses 359 00:25:53,955 --> 00:25:56,955 Speaker 1: of the shop there was a wall of puppies two 360 00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:00,555 Speaker 1: our right, three cages high, six across, all a yellowish 361 00:26:00,635 --> 00:26:03,875 Speaker 1: beige behind a reddish brown for mica countertop, then a 362 00:26:03,915 --> 00:26:07,555 Speaker 1: structural be and then three cages high, two across, then 363 00:26:07,595 --> 00:26:10,595 Speaker 1: a corner with a small visiting pen built into the countertop. 364 00:26:10,755 --> 00:26:14,115 Speaker 1: Then right in front of me, the Hollywood squares of 365 00:26:14,315 --> 00:26:19,555 Speaker 1: puppies three high, three across, and all of their inmates, 366 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:21,755 Speaker 1: all nine of them, staring at me and screaming at 367 00:26:21,755 --> 00:26:25,275 Speaker 1: me and making eye contact and saying, by EESP, take 368 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 1: me home. A salesman now introduced himself as Jeffrey, and 369 00:26:30,395 --> 00:26:34,035 Speaker 1: Jeffrey asked if t F GF had any particular dog 370 00:26:34,155 --> 00:26:36,675 Speaker 1: she wanted him to bring to her. Let me see 371 00:26:36,715 --> 00:26:42,675 Speaker 1: the Maltese the girl. In that moment, two things struck me. Firstly, 372 00:26:42,715 --> 00:26:44,475 Speaker 1: this was my cue to get the phone out and 373 00:26:44,555 --> 00:26:47,715 Speaker 1: prepared to take the photo of her with the puppy. Secondly, 374 00:26:47,795 --> 00:26:50,995 Speaker 1: the dog, whom the salesman was now temporarily liberating from 375 00:26:51,035 --> 00:26:55,635 Speaker 1: the surprisingly spare cage, was the only living soul inside 376 00:26:55,675 --> 00:26:58,515 Speaker 1: that pet shop besides me, who was not making any 377 00:26:58,715 --> 00:27:02,875 Speaker 1: damn noise. Every other puppy was perfecting its adolescent bark. 378 00:27:03,075 --> 00:27:06,435 Speaker 1: The cats were making a bewildered variety of noises. And 379 00:27:06,435 --> 00:27:09,475 Speaker 1: and was that a Norwegian blue parrots squawk? Remarkable bird, 380 00:27:09,515 --> 00:27:14,915 Speaker 1: the Norwegian blue? Isn't it beautiful plumage? This Maltese said nothing. 381 00:27:15,755 --> 00:27:18,035 Speaker 1: She looked like her torso would easily fit in one 382 00:27:18,075 --> 00:27:20,715 Speaker 1: of my hands if she was three pounds. A quarter 383 00:27:20,795 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: of it was hair, and half of that was curled. 384 00:27:23,715 --> 00:27:26,195 Speaker 1: And presumably somebody came by every day to turn what 385 00:27:26,315 --> 00:27:28,835 Speaker 1: sat atop her head into a mohawk up top and 386 00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:32,315 Speaker 1: a mullet in the back. Her cage mate brothers seemed 387 00:27:32,315 --> 00:27:35,355 Speaker 1: a little bigger, but his eyes were clearly smaller, and 388 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:38,635 Speaker 1: their ocular contrast was immediately visible, even if you still 389 00:27:38,635 --> 00:27:44,835 Speaker 1: had forlorn hopes of avoiding eye contact. His shown hers. 390 00:27:45,715 --> 00:27:49,115 Speaker 1: We're illuminated. He tried to get past her into the 391 00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:52,435 Speaker 1: salesman's arms. She simply lifted up her head towards him, 392 00:27:52,595 --> 00:27:54,715 Speaker 1: and it actually crossed my mind that she looked like 393 00:27:54,795 --> 00:27:57,595 Speaker 1: she was about to say, Hi, Jeffrey, how are you today. 394 00:27:58,155 --> 00:28:00,155 Speaker 1: He put her gently down in the playpen at the 395 00:28:00,235 --> 00:28:02,835 Speaker 1: right corner of the counter. T F g F asked 396 00:28:02,835 --> 00:28:05,755 Speaker 1: if she could pick the puppy and nodded to me 397 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:09,595 Speaker 1: to get the camera ready. Honestly, Jeffrey said, this is 398 00:28:09,635 --> 00:28:11,675 Speaker 1: the sweetest dog we've had in here for months. I 399 00:28:11,675 --> 00:28:14,315 Speaker 1: say that every day to almost everybody, but this time 400 00:28:14,315 --> 00:28:18,675 Speaker 1: I'm actually not lying. T F GF cradled the Maltese 401 00:28:18,715 --> 00:28:21,475 Speaker 1: in her arms, with the dog's head facing to my right. 402 00:28:21,955 --> 00:28:24,795 Speaker 1: I tapped the camera on the phone. My hand was 403 00:28:24,835 --> 00:28:27,835 Speaker 1: already shaking as I centered up t F g F 404 00:28:27,955 --> 00:28:30,795 Speaker 1: and the puppy in the frame. The Maltese suddenly wiggled upright, 405 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: placed her front paws on my girlfriend's chest, and just 406 00:28:35,835 --> 00:28:38,675 Speaker 1: as I snapped the image, the dog reached up and 407 00:28:38,795 --> 00:28:44,515 Speaker 1: kissed my girlfriend on the lips. I am, on occasion 408 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:49,875 Speaker 1: completely incapable of remembering anything that happened in my entire 409 00:28:49,995 --> 00:28:56,315 Speaker 1: life before that moment. T f GF made the appropriate 410 00:28:56,315 --> 00:28:59,595 Speaker 1: sounds of approval. Jeffrey began discussing how little grooming the 411 00:28:59,635 --> 00:29:03,075 Speaker 1: Maltese breed needs and the great price he could give us, 412 00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:05,035 Speaker 1: and even as my head spun, it seems silly to 413 00:29:05,075 --> 00:29:07,395 Speaker 1: me that he was calculating the tax on something that 414 00:29:07,435 --> 00:29:12,115 Speaker 1: was obviously timelessly and eternally priceless. T f g F 415 00:29:12,235 --> 00:29:14,275 Speaker 1: said something about how we needed a minute outside to 416 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:17,115 Speaker 1: discuss it, and she handed the puppy back to Jeffrey, 417 00:29:17,115 --> 00:29:18,835 Speaker 1: and the dog looked at each of each of us 418 00:29:18,875 --> 00:29:21,275 Speaker 1: and as if she was about to say, nice to 419 00:29:21,315 --> 00:29:24,875 Speaker 1: meet you. As the pup went back up into the 420 00:29:24,915 --> 00:29:29,235 Speaker 1: cage with her brother, something extraordinary happened. The little girl 421 00:29:29,355 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: was reaching her head up towards the spout of the 422 00:29:32,315 --> 00:29:36,635 Speaker 1: cage's water bottle with the same graceful movement she had 423 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: made to bestow that kiss on t F GF. When 424 00:29:40,115 --> 00:29:44,035 Speaker 1: her brother puppy abruptly body slammed her out of the way, 425 00:29:44,515 --> 00:29:47,275 Speaker 1: and her tiny frame bounced off the side of the cage. 426 00:29:47,515 --> 00:29:50,555 Speaker 1: And then, to my shock and confusion, a deep and 427 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:59,235 Speaker 1: threatening growl, a vengeful reverberated throughout the pet shop. The 428 00:29:59,315 --> 00:30:05,795 Speaker 1: growl was coming from me. The next sounds were from 429 00:30:05,915 --> 00:30:09,195 Speaker 1: t F GF. My god, what's wrong with you? I 430 00:30:09,235 --> 00:30:10,955 Speaker 1: didn't know it at the time, but as we turned 431 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:13,195 Speaker 1: to fight our way back out through the shop to 432 00:30:13,275 --> 00:30:16,555 Speaker 1: the street, I evidently half skidded into a displayful of 433 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:20,155 Speaker 1: chew toys. They nearly toppled to the floor. I nearly 434 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:23,155 Speaker 1: toppled to the floor. I couldn't see, but I didn't 435 00:30:23,155 --> 00:30:25,515 Speaker 1: recognize my own tears until they hit the edges of 436 00:30:25,555 --> 00:30:28,555 Speaker 1: my lips. Somehow I managed to say it again, this 437 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:31,235 Speaker 1: time in despair. I always wanted a dog, but I 438 00:30:31,235 --> 00:30:35,875 Speaker 1: could never have one. She suddenly realized what had happened. 439 00:30:35,915 --> 00:30:38,835 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm an asshole. T F GF 440 00:30:38,875 --> 00:30:41,515 Speaker 1: was now holding me upright and steering me towards the 441 00:30:41,555 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: door to the street. I didn't listen to I'm an asshole. 442 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:45,435 Speaker 1: I'm an asshole. You told me. I didn't believe you, 443 00:30:45,475 --> 00:30:49,675 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Well, now the stories came pouring out, 444 00:30:49,755 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: all jumbled, one on top of the other. Tiny, the 445 00:30:52,795 --> 00:30:56,715 Speaker 1: st Bernard at the Katzenstein's, He only wanted to embrace me. 446 00:30:56,755 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to eat me. And the mcconnons Mutt 447 00:30:59,755 --> 00:31:01,955 Speaker 1: next door. Boots used to come sit on my lap, 448 00:31:01,995 --> 00:31:04,715 Speaker 1: and Tiny didn't make me sneezing only scared me. The 449 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: mcconnons had three boys and a mother who baked cookies 450 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,755 Speaker 1: by the car load lot, and Boots never left their side, 451 00:31:09,755 --> 00:31:11,795 Speaker 1: and I was always at their house. And if I 452 00:31:11,835 --> 00:31:13,595 Speaker 1: was allergic, how was it that I never once had 453 00:31:13,635 --> 00:31:16,155 Speaker 1: a problem with Boots? How in the hell did that work? Huh? 454 00:31:16,195 --> 00:31:18,515 Speaker 1: And what about Vladimir or the straight cat my sister found? 455 00:31:18,515 --> 00:31:20,395 Speaker 1: He used to live in the garage and behave like 456 00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:22,355 Speaker 1: a dog and like to be carried around like a baby. 457 00:31:22,395 --> 00:31:25,515 Speaker 1: And how allergic was I had? Beautiful, beautiful little Maltese 458 00:31:25,515 --> 00:31:27,355 Speaker 1: reached up and kissed you on the mouth. And the 459 00:31:27,395 --> 00:31:29,235 Speaker 1: one time I took my dad's movie camera to the 460 00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:32,115 Speaker 1: mcconnons house, half of the film was of Boots. And 461 00:31:32,115 --> 00:31:34,235 Speaker 1: what if I went back and got the allergy shots again? 462 00:31:34,235 --> 00:31:36,435 Speaker 1: And it was my mother who said she was really allergic, 463 00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:38,355 Speaker 1: so I must be too, And what's the use The 464 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:40,835 Speaker 1: little Maltese was perfect and the next person, who was Caesar, 465 00:31:40,835 --> 00:31:42,435 Speaker 1: will snap her up in an instant. And I asked 466 00:31:42,515 --> 00:31:44,435 Speaker 1: them just to let me try a little dog who 467 00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:46,395 Speaker 1: wouldn't shed. The only thing my mother would let me 468 00:31:46,435 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: have were lizards, and I could take a zyr tech 469 00:31:49,235 --> 00:31:51,835 Speaker 1: every day. I'm so sorry, Tiny, I didn't realize I 470 00:31:51,835 --> 00:31:54,595 Speaker 1: never said goodbye to Boots. Maltese is gone. She's gone. 471 00:31:54,675 --> 00:31:56,275 Speaker 1: She's gone, and she's my dog. I know what. I 472 00:31:56,275 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: could feel it. She's my dog and she's gone. What 473 00:32:02,875 --> 00:32:10,155 Speaker 1: happened next Beggar's fiction. It involves Rudy Giulianti and his 474 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:14,035 Speaker 1: part of this story of ten years ago today and 475 00:32:14,235 --> 00:32:19,395 Speaker 1: what happened to the dog and to me continues after 476 00:32:19,435 --> 00:32:28,675 Speaker 1: this back to the number one story on the countdown 477 00:32:28,675 --> 00:32:30,395 Speaker 1: and the day I fell in love with a dog 478 00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:33,555 Speaker 1: for the first time and my girlfriend, the former girlfriend 479 00:32:33,675 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: t F GF and I left the puppy in the 480 00:32:37,635 --> 00:32:41,795 Speaker 1: pet shop. T F GF and I were walking me 481 00:32:42,155 --> 00:32:47,035 Speaker 1: mid meltdown somehow, now nearing the Park Avenue Armory one 482 00:32:47,075 --> 00:32:49,715 Speaker 1: block west and four blocks north of the pet shop 483 00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:52,715 Speaker 1: that I thought we were still in. To her credit, 484 00:32:52,795 --> 00:32:55,275 Speaker 1: t F GF had kept me from throwing myself into 485 00:32:55,355 --> 00:32:59,835 Speaker 1: traffic or dissolving into a puddle on sixty Street. The 486 00:32:59,995 --> 00:33:03,235 Speaker 1: overwhelming sensation I had was not one of having left 487 00:33:03,275 --> 00:33:05,875 Speaker 1: the tiny puppy in the shop, but of having left 488 00:33:05,915 --> 00:33:10,675 Speaker 1: a part of myself there that was my dog. And 489 00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:12,795 Speaker 1: what was worse was she was obviously going to be 490 00:33:12,835 --> 00:33:15,355 Speaker 1: taken by somebody else, even before I got back there, 491 00:33:15,395 --> 00:33:17,635 Speaker 1: even if we turned around right away. Who could resist her? 492 00:33:18,395 --> 00:33:23,315 Speaker 1: I certainly hadn't. My chaotic stream of consciousness monologue paused 493 00:33:23,355 --> 00:33:25,595 Speaker 1: only when I had no choice but to shut up 494 00:33:25,635 --> 00:33:28,675 Speaker 1: and gasp for breath, and the comments with which t 495 00:33:28,835 --> 00:33:31,475 Speaker 1: F g F tried to soothe me in these moments 496 00:33:31,515 --> 00:33:35,235 Speaker 1: were self abnegating and solemn. She had talked me off 497 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:37,675 Speaker 1: the limb of my certainty that the dog had already 498 00:33:37,675 --> 00:33:41,155 Speaker 1: been sold, and was now steering me back towards sanity. 499 00:33:41,475 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: I had to, she would say, later, you were having 500 00:33:43,435 --> 00:33:46,515 Speaker 1: a breakdown. She said we should go home, and if 501 00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:49,355 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk seriously about the practicalities of owning 502 00:33:49,355 --> 00:33:52,035 Speaker 1: the dog, we could do that and still get the 503 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:54,195 Speaker 1: puppy the next morning, even if it meant delaying her 504 00:33:54,235 --> 00:33:58,355 Speaker 1: departure for d C. Don't worry. I'm sure she's still there. 505 00:33:58,635 --> 00:34:00,355 Speaker 1: They were getting ready to close. She'll be there in 506 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:06,875 Speaker 1: the morning. I exhaled, and then I repanicked. She's she's 507 00:34:07,555 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: I sniffed anew and the tears resumed. She's in that 508 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,995 Speaker 1: cage with that brother of hers in the basement somewhere. 509 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:18,475 Speaker 1: Before t F GF could answer, and I swear this 510 00:34:18,595 --> 00:34:24,395 Speaker 1: is true, Rudy Giuliani spilled down the stairs from the 511 00:34:24,515 --> 00:34:28,075 Speaker 1: armory we were passing. A cop suddenly appeared from a 512 00:34:28,075 --> 00:34:30,915 Speaker 1: different nowhere and put out an arm and firmly asked 513 00:34:30,995 --> 00:34:34,915 Speaker 1: us to stop walking, and Giuliani scuttled rodent like into 514 00:34:34,995 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: a waiting car. A wife was with him. I did 515 00:34:38,555 --> 00:34:41,755 Speaker 1: not and do not know which number. The driver was 516 00:34:41,795 --> 00:34:44,235 Speaker 1: already closing the door behind them when I shouted it, 517 00:34:44,675 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: how come my dog has to spend the night in 518 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:49,635 Speaker 1: a cage while that ass hat is allowed to roam 519 00:34:49,675 --> 00:34:54,835 Speaker 1: around this city without a leash on him. Later that evening, 520 00:34:54,875 --> 00:34:56,715 Speaker 1: t F GF said that was the first moment she 521 00:34:56,755 --> 00:34:59,995 Speaker 1: thought we might just get home safe and sound. After all, 522 00:35:02,155 --> 00:35:04,435 Speaker 1: it was not ten more minutes back to my apartment 523 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,035 Speaker 1: and walked it in silence. Now I had long since 524 00:35:07,075 --> 00:35:10,395 Speaker 1: saturated my handkerchief and some tissues t f GF had 525 00:35:10,395 --> 00:35:13,995 Speaker 1: in her pockets. I was breathing deeply and restorative lee. 526 00:35:14,075 --> 00:35:17,995 Speaker 1: Now the sniffle frequency reduced to once or twice per block, 527 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:24,955 Speaker 1: and my mind was crowded with the dogs I had known, Boots, Tiny, Vladimir, 528 00:35:24,995 --> 00:35:28,235 Speaker 1: the Cat, even t fgf's little Casey dying out in 529 00:35:28,315 --> 00:35:31,195 Speaker 1: Jersey and unaware of the seismic events which she had 530 00:35:31,235 --> 00:35:34,635 Speaker 1: set in motion. I was thinking of other dogs. To 531 00:35:34,795 --> 00:35:37,075 Speaker 1: all of the dogs, and all of the stories of 532 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:39,595 Speaker 1: James Thurber that I read on TV every Friday night, 533 00:35:39,995 --> 00:35:42,835 Speaker 1: I had smiled along with his poetic descriptions of them, 534 00:35:42,835 --> 00:35:47,075 Speaker 1: but never confessed I loved them as he must have. 535 00:35:48,955 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 1: There was Samantha, who my late friend Bruce Hagen used 536 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:54,315 Speaker 1: to bring everywhere, including our college radio station newsroom, the 537 00:35:54,315 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: first really big dog who did not frighten me. My 538 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:01,955 Speaker 1: great aunts Yorkie, whose gas was so potent that the 539 00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:04,835 Speaker 1: Christmas just before I turned nine, my great uncle's he 540 00:36:04,875 --> 00:36:07,635 Speaker 1: was convinced she had been a German terror weapmon at 541 00:36:07,675 --> 00:36:10,115 Speaker 1: Chateau Terry in the First World War, and he and 542 00:36:10,195 --> 00:36:12,715 Speaker 1: I had bonded because I knew what Chateau Terry was. 543 00:36:13,955 --> 00:36:16,675 Speaker 1: There was Nellie McNally, the only dog that any of 544 00:36:16,715 --> 00:36:19,595 Speaker 1: my sometimes out of town girlfriends ever had actually put 545 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:22,715 Speaker 1: on the phone with me. In my mind. They all 546 00:36:22,755 --> 00:36:27,195 Speaker 1: stood before me, all lined up, all quiet, smiling, all 547 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:31,195 Speaker 1: with the kindest type of I told you so, dummy 548 00:36:31,795 --> 00:36:36,675 Speaker 1: on their wonderful faces, and dozens more behind them, vague 549 00:36:36,675 --> 00:36:40,595 Speaker 1: shapes and sizes, who belonged to neighbors or co workers passed, 550 00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:42,955 Speaker 1: who are just chance encounters on the streets of any 551 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:48,195 Speaker 1: of a dozen cities decades before. No, I'm sorry, she said, 552 00:36:48,195 --> 00:36:51,475 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have been that selfish. But now I disagreed 553 00:36:51,475 --> 00:36:53,115 Speaker 1: with her, and as I unlocked the apartment door, I 554 00:36:53,155 --> 00:36:55,275 Speaker 1: began to tell her of the dogs I had just 555 00:36:55,355 --> 00:36:59,395 Speaker 1: been communing within my mind, and what had suddenly become necessary, urgent, 556 00:36:59,475 --> 00:37:02,755 Speaker 1: inevitable and perfect, but about which I needed as much 557 00:37:02,795 --> 00:37:05,955 Speaker 1: detail as I could in as sure a period as possible. 558 00:37:07,155 --> 00:37:10,115 Speaker 1: T F GF tried, well, you just take the dog 559 00:37:10,155 --> 00:37:13,155 Speaker 1: wherever you can. My parents have been saying this a 560 00:37:13,155 --> 00:37:16,115 Speaker 1: lot lately. Now they regret not doing more things with Casey, 561 00:37:16,395 --> 00:37:20,755 Speaker 1: not adventures, not kayaking, just taking her with them or 562 00:37:20,795 --> 00:37:22,955 Speaker 1: going out in the yard, or just holding her while 563 00:37:22,955 --> 00:37:27,915 Speaker 1: they watched TV. You just let the dog in. We 564 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:33,555 Speaker 1: went through topic after topic, cleaning, training, handling, poop walks, food, 565 00:37:33,755 --> 00:37:37,235 Speaker 1: puppy sitters, moving books off ground level shelves, discipline, and 566 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:40,395 Speaker 1: most importantly of all, a backup plan in case this 567 00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:44,995 Speaker 1: epiphany was false and or I was still allergic or 568 00:37:45,115 --> 00:37:50,235 Speaker 1: terrified or incompetent or all three. I don't think it 569 00:37:50,235 --> 00:37:52,595 Speaker 1: will take much to convince my parents to take her. 570 00:37:52,595 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: I mean, even after Casey recovers and I can take 571 00:37:57,355 --> 00:37:59,595 Speaker 1: her with me to d C tomorrow, I'll bring her 572 00:37:59,635 --> 00:38:01,675 Speaker 1: back next weekend, so you can get the apartment ready, 573 00:38:01,675 --> 00:38:04,035 Speaker 1: and you can get you ready, and you don't have 574 00:38:04,075 --> 00:38:07,395 Speaker 1: to go in at the deep end. Right away, I 575 00:38:07,475 --> 00:38:10,835 Speaker 1: interrupted her with a kiss. Let's go back there before 576 00:38:11,035 --> 00:38:14,595 Speaker 1: they close. I don't want to wait till morning. I'm 577 00:38:14,595 --> 00:38:20,675 Speaker 1: still terrified somebody else will realize how extraordinary she is unexpectedly. 578 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:22,755 Speaker 1: I had a moment of doubt at this point. This 579 00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:24,915 Speaker 1: isn't just me having a breakdown, right, I mean, she 580 00:38:25,075 --> 00:38:28,995 Speaker 1: is extraordinary. I'm having a breakdown, and she is extraordinary, 581 00:38:29,035 --> 00:38:32,155 Speaker 1: isn't she t F GF stopped being nice, and now 582 00:38:32,195 --> 00:38:33,555 Speaker 1: for the first time, looked at me like I had 583 00:38:33,555 --> 00:38:36,755 Speaker 1: just gone crazy, even though I just had gone crazy. Obviously, 584 00:38:36,835 --> 00:38:40,475 Speaker 1: she said that was a real kiss. The pet shop 585 00:38:40,515 --> 00:38:44,755 Speaker 1: had stayed open, partly because t F GF phoned them 586 00:38:44,795 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: as we hit the street outside of the apartment building, 587 00:38:46,955 --> 00:38:51,955 Speaker 1: and partly because they knew you were coming back. Jeffrey said, 588 00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:56,635 Speaker 1: you just see it sometimes. Also, you seemed kind of emotional. 589 00:38:57,875 --> 00:39:00,475 Speaker 1: T F GF helpfully mentioned that I'd had a breakdown. 590 00:39:01,755 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: They had all the paraphernal you're ready, A little aquabed, 591 00:39:05,155 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: a series of attached gates that could be used as 592 00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:10,315 Speaker 1: a pen or a barrier, a small pink blanket, a 593 00:39:10,315 --> 00:39:13,275 Speaker 1: bag of training pads, and a plastic pad holder, enough 594 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:17,395 Speaker 1: dry food to last twelve fourteen months, some horrific wet 595 00:39:17,435 --> 00:39:20,515 Speaker 1: food that looked like a discarded early design for liverwurst, 596 00:39:20,835 --> 00:39:23,035 Speaker 1: a few chew toys, a bright pink harness and a 597 00:39:23,115 --> 00:39:25,915 Speaker 1: leash as light as a ribbon, a black carrying bag, 598 00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:28,995 Speaker 1: and paperwork with the Pempy Puppies family tree, which, to 599 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:32,035 Speaker 1: my astonishment, stretched back beyond her birth one week Shy 600 00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:35,715 Speaker 1: and three months before, through the six preceding generations, all 601 00:39:35,715 --> 00:39:41,475 Speaker 1: the way back to six entire years earlier. In addition 602 00:39:41,515 --> 00:39:43,475 Speaker 1: to all this, they could have included a moped, a 603 00:39:43,555 --> 00:39:46,675 Speaker 1: stock portfolio to guarantee her college education, and I'm all 604 00:39:46,755 --> 00:39:50,155 Speaker 1: t size typewriter with a twenty years supply of replacement ribbons, 605 00:39:50,235 --> 00:39:53,915 Speaker 1: and I would have also bought them. Very nice lady 606 00:39:53,955 --> 00:39:56,635 Speaker 1: named Ellie tried to train me to be a dog 607 00:39:56,635 --> 00:39:59,395 Speaker 1: owner in about ninety four seconds and handed me a 608 00:39:59,435 --> 00:40:02,315 Speaker 1: voucher for a vet at a checklist of stuff to do, 609 00:40:02,755 --> 00:40:05,115 Speaker 1: I signed a credit card bill. I think I used 610 00:40:05,115 --> 00:40:08,115 Speaker 1: my own name. I absolved myself of the guilt of 611 00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:11,035 Speaker 1: not getting a shelter dog because I was allergic and 612 00:40:11,115 --> 00:40:13,915 Speaker 1: kind of had to go the shop route. Plus I 613 00:40:13,955 --> 00:40:15,955 Speaker 1: was not looking for a dog. I had actually fallen 614 00:40:15,995 --> 00:40:19,035 Speaker 1: in love at first sight with this dog. And lastly, 615 00:40:19,075 --> 00:40:21,595 Speaker 1: because no matter how the obvious and often tragic flaws 616 00:40:21,595 --> 00:40:23,875 Speaker 1: in this system, there was no arguing with the fact 617 00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:27,595 Speaker 1: that those dogs who came from a pet shop had 618 00:40:27,635 --> 00:40:29,435 Speaker 1: as much of a right to a happy life as 619 00:40:29,475 --> 00:40:33,395 Speaker 1: any other dog. At that moment, they produced her from 620 00:40:33,435 --> 00:40:35,555 Speaker 1: the back room behind the block of cages, where we 621 00:40:35,595 --> 00:40:38,755 Speaker 1: had first seen her. Her curls had been fluffed up 622 00:40:39,075 --> 00:40:42,475 Speaker 1: and her hair freshly brushed. It would be lovely to 623 00:40:42,515 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: say she made eye contact him across the shop floor, 624 00:40:45,555 --> 00:40:48,075 Speaker 1: or was aware of our presence, or yipped happily at 625 00:40:48,115 --> 00:40:50,515 Speaker 1: the sight of me, and it would be completely untrue. 626 00:40:51,355 --> 00:40:55,475 Speaker 1: The little Maltese calmly scanned the room, only occasionally glancing 627 00:40:55,555 --> 00:40:57,675 Speaker 1: up at the manager who carried her, and not once 628 00:40:57,755 --> 00:41:01,835 Speaker 1: at us, until she was, without ceremony or comment, handed 629 00:41:01,915 --> 00:41:07,155 Speaker 1: to me, whereupon she immediately twisted out of my trembling hands, 630 00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:10,835 Speaker 1: stuck her front paws on my chest, and reached up 631 00:41:10,875 --> 00:41:14,275 Speaker 1: to give me a kiss on the lips, and then another, 632 00:41:14,955 --> 00:41:18,115 Speaker 1: and a third, and my sunglasses hid the tears that 633 00:41:18,115 --> 00:41:21,035 Speaker 1: welled up again. I managed to ask if they all 634 00:41:21,115 --> 00:41:25,515 Speaker 1: did that. No, came the answer from that salesman, Jeffrey. Honestly, 635 00:41:26,035 --> 00:41:28,995 Speaker 1: like I told you, sweetest pup we've had here in months, 636 00:41:29,155 --> 00:41:32,075 Speaker 1: loves people, loves people. I'm sad to see her go. 637 00:41:34,755 --> 00:41:37,275 Speaker 1: I marveled and how light she was, and yet how 638 00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:40,955 Speaker 1: articulated on strong her body was. Her eyes were far 639 00:41:40,995 --> 00:41:44,155 Speaker 1: more beautiful than I had realized, oversized even for a puppy, 640 00:41:44,195 --> 00:41:47,515 Speaker 1: Almost no white visible, the reflection off the deep brown 641 00:41:47,555 --> 00:41:52,155 Speaker 1: iris is almost iridescent. And more astonishingly, this little soul 642 00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:56,515 Speaker 1: who was about one twelve my age and about one 643 00:41:57,075 --> 00:42:00,315 Speaker 1: seven my weight, and who had a great great great 644 00:42:00,515 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: great grandmother born in two thousand six, when my great 645 00:42:04,875 --> 00:42:09,955 Speaker 1: great great great grandmother was born in like d she 646 00:42:10,115 --> 00:42:13,675 Speaker 1: was meeting and holding my gaze with her own. Whatever 647 00:42:13,755 --> 00:42:16,555 Speaker 1: I was seeing in her eyes, whatever the inner being 648 00:42:16,595 --> 00:42:19,315 Speaker 1: I was actually processing, she seemed to be doing her 649 00:42:19,355 --> 00:42:23,355 Speaker 1: equivalent vetting. I gave her a little kiss, and was 650 00:42:23,395 --> 00:42:26,635 Speaker 1: by now not surprised when she kissed me again. The 651 00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:28,715 Speaker 1: little tongue poked out a fraction of an inch, just 652 00:42:28,875 --> 00:42:31,315 Speaker 1: enough so any one of us dumb, unsettled bipeds could 653 00:42:31,355 --> 00:42:34,115 Speaker 1: tell she meant it. And then she relaxed from her 654 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:37,475 Speaker 1: upright pose and settled back into my arms, her head 655 00:42:37,515 --> 00:42:40,235 Speaker 1: and the crook of my right elbow, in an attitude 656 00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:43,395 Speaker 1: I would soon discover she would repeat every time I 657 00:42:43,515 --> 00:42:50,315 Speaker 1: ever picked her up. A couple hours later, the name 658 00:42:50,435 --> 00:42:55,435 Speaker 1: came to me her hair cut. It was Stevie Nicks's haircut. 659 00:42:56,875 --> 00:43:01,235 Speaker 1: I named her Stevie. We went and got rose. A 660 00:43:01,315 --> 00:43:03,755 Speaker 1: year later, T F G F and I split a 661 00:43:03,835 --> 00:43:06,835 Speaker 1: year after that, so was a win win win. Ted, 662 00:43:07,275 --> 00:43:09,955 Speaker 1: my rescue with the bad heart, arrived in two thousand 663 00:43:10,035 --> 00:43:12,235 Speaker 1: eighteen and had surgery and he doesn't have a bad 664 00:43:12,235 --> 00:43:16,195 Speaker 1: heart anymore. He's fine. Mishu, my other rescue with a 665 00:43:16,195 --> 00:43:18,035 Speaker 1: bad heart, was here last year and had a very 666 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:21,435 Speaker 1: happy life, just not a very long one. Mena, who 667 00:43:21,515 --> 00:43:24,355 Speaker 1: is fifteen, who we thought had dementia, but it was 668 00:43:24,395 --> 00:43:28,515 Speaker 1: like just rotten teeth. Get your dog's teeth checked. He 669 00:43:28,515 --> 00:43:32,315 Speaker 1: showed up this June. It is a crowd. There are 670 00:43:32,395 --> 00:43:36,275 Speaker 1: four Maltese is here. But then again, I wasted the 671 00:43:36,275 --> 00:43:38,955 Speaker 1: first fifty three years of my life living without a dog. 672 00:43:38,995 --> 00:43:43,515 Speaker 1: So I have to make up for lost time ten 673 00:43:43,595 --> 00:43:49,995 Speaker 1: years ago today when it became official, when I was adopted. 674 00:43:59,435 --> 00:44:01,475 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Help 675 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,235 Speaker 1: me out with wait, hold on, let me stop the 676 00:44:04,315 --> 00:44:08,115 Speaker 1: music or something. Stevie, do you want to treat? Do 677 00:44:08,155 --> 00:44:11,555 Speaker 1: you want to treat? Girl? All right, there you go, Rose, 678 00:44:11,795 --> 00:44:14,475 Speaker 1: you want one? Here you go, Rose, Ted one for 679 00:44:14,515 --> 00:44:16,875 Speaker 1: you me and he's asleep. When he's fifteen, he gets 680 00:44:16,875 --> 00:44:22,595 Speaker 1: to basically you another treat. Steve A, say something. No, 681 00:44:22,755 --> 00:44:25,595 Speaker 1: you don't have to sit, just talk. Is it like 682 00:44:25,635 --> 00:44:27,395 Speaker 1: the third time in your life you've ever sat. You 683 00:44:27,435 --> 00:44:35,995 Speaker 1: want one? Come on right, okay? Whatever? Help me out here. 684 00:44:36,035 --> 00:44:38,595 Speaker 1: Give this thing a good review or a rating, or 685 00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:41,395 Speaker 1: a heart or a smiley emoji or whatever. Forward it 686 00:44:41,435 --> 00:44:45,195 Speaker 1: to somebody. The Countdown theme from Beethoven's ninth the Range, 687 00:44:45,235 --> 00:44:47,955 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and 688 00:44:48,035 --> 00:44:51,555 Speaker 1: John Philip Chanelle. 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Everything else was pretty much my fault. 697 00:45:20,235 --> 00:45:23,555 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the third day since Donald 698 00:45:23,595 --> 00:45:26,875 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 699 00:45:26,875 --> 00:45:29,635 Speaker 1: the United States. Arrest him now while we still can 700 00:45:30,475 --> 00:45:33,795 Speaker 1: a new episode Monday till then I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, 701 00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:48,675 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 702 00:45:48,755 --> 00:45:51,995 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of I heart Radio. For more 703 00:45:52,115 --> 00:45:55,475 Speaker 1: podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 704 00:45:55,555 --> 00:45:58,915 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.