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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is not difficult. Justice Samuel Alito must be off the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court of the United States immediately today. He is

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Speaker 1: a man without any morals, ethics, judicial standards, and if

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Speaker 1: the conflict of interest, he no longer gives a damn

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Speaker 1: about the appearance of a conflict of interest. He is

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Speaker 1: one of the people destroying this nation. He should not

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Speaker 1: serve on it. ABC News reports, and Alito actually has

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Speaker 1: confirmed that on Tuesday he spoke to Trump the day

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Speaker 1: before Trump's lawyers filed an emergency request demanding that Alito

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Speaker 1: and the other justices block a state judge, New York

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Speaker 1: State Judge jan mere Shan from sentencing Trump tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: his thirty four convictions in the election interference Stormy Daniel's case. Here,

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Speaker 1: even though there is zero percent chance of jail time

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Speaker 1: and probably not much more of chances of probation or fine,

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Speaker 1: the convicted felon and constitutionally ineligible president elect who is

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Speaker 1: running because Alito in the Supreme Court made up a

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Speaker 1: new interpretation of an amendment that has never before been made,

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Speaker 1: and then made up something called presidential immunity. He still

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Speaker 1: has the TikTok case in front of the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: Now he will probably take the release of either or

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Speaker 1: both of the halves of the Jack Smith report on

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Speaker 1: Trump espionage the coup attempt to the Supreme Court in

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Speaker 1: the next few days to try to keep those reports

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Speaker 1: from ever seeing the light of day. And this human

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Speaker 1: embodiment of sleas Sam effing Alito talked to him by

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Speaker 1: phone less than forty eight hours ago. And what is

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Speaker 1: Alito's excuse for this complete breach of judicial etiquette? Alito

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Speaker 1: told ABC the conversation was not about that case, was

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Speaker 1: next morning. It was about a job reference. I'll quote

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Speaker 1: what he told ABC. Quote William Levi, one of my

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Speaker 1: former law clerks, asked me to take a call from

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Speaker 1: President elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a

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Speaker 1: government position. I agreed to discuss this matter with President

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Speaker 1: elect Trump, and he called me yesterday Tuesday afternoon. We

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Speaker 1: did not discuss the emergency application filed today Wednesday, And

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Speaker 1: we also did not discuss any other matter that is

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Speaker 1: pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President elect.

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Speaker 1: Sam Alito to ABC News unquote bullshit. Sam Alito has

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Speaker 1: lied in the case of the political flags flown over

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Speaker 1: an argument that he has long since passed the Chief

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Speaker 1: Justice at the time of the Court's affirmation of slavery,

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Speaker 1: Roger B. Tawney as the worst human ever to sit

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Speaker 1: of his former clerks in Trump's administration, while Trump has

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Speaker 1: business before the Court and more to come. Even if

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Speaker 1: to hire your former law clerk. It looks like the

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Speaker 1: first half of a bribe. If you did it, that's

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Speaker 1: what they'd say about you. How could he be so dense,

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Speaker 1: so unaware of the hatred he has personally brought down

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Speaker 1: upon this once most respected of American governmental institutions. As

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Speaker 1: judged against Trump's conduct. That's how bad this is. This

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Speaker 1: is not difficult. Recusing is insufficient here he must be

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Speaker 1: off the court. In point of fact, Alito should in

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Speaker 1: this order recuse, resign, and go to hell. And this

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Speaker 1: also is not difficult. Eileen Cannon, Trump's other concier's judge

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Speaker 1: ruled the DOJ can't release Smith's report on the espionage

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Speaker 1: of Trump's involvement in the attempted revolution January sixth. The

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Speaker 1: solution here is far easier than in the case of

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Speaker 1: sam Alito. Oh, He's only talking to him about a job.

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Speaker 1: The solution here is far easier. Ignore Eileen Cannon, to

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Speaker 1: his very small credit. Merrick Garland is going to release

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Speaker 1: the January sixth part of Smith's final report on Trump,

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Speaker 1: but withhold the document's part until a final court ruling. Doubtless,

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Speaker 1: Daniels case. Here in New York, an internal Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice report has nothing to god damned do with a

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Speaker 1: case that no longer exists because the judge threw it

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Speaker 1: out corruptly. If her superior judges at the Eleventh Circuit

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Speaker 1: to the man to whom she owes her job, President

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Speaker 1: Biden himself must release all of Smith's report on the

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Speaker 1: stolen documents on national security grounds, and if somebody in

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Speaker 1: the Trump regime doesn't like it, they can prosecute Biden.

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Speaker 1: All right, It's an official presidential act, and thus Biden

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Speaker 1: is considering preemptive pardons for people like Liz Cheney and

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Speaker 1: Tony Fauci, and I still think there should be a

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Speaker 1: million more on the list, should hit Trump with one final, short,

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Speaker 1: sharp shock. He should take the whole Smith report on

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Speaker 1: the insurrection and the documents and release it a week

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Speaker 1: from Sunday, the night before the inauguration, or crack of

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Speaker 1: dawn on Inauguration Day itself. The Attorney General, who can

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Speaker 1: report before tomorrow morning at the earliest. Hold on to it, Bigfoot.

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Speaker 1: It overshadow the inauguration with it every humiliation of Trump

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Speaker 1: making out of himself every goddamn day. No matter how

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Speaker 1: I still think Biden should retire before the twentieth for

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Speaker 1: the sole reason of making just for a few hours

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Speaker 1: or a few days, Kamala Harris the forty seventh president anyway,

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Speaker 1: and to do, if nothing else, screw up Trump's forty

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Speaker 1: seven merchandise. Meanwhile, the Eleventh Circuit Court should not only

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Speaker 1: reprimand Eileen Cannon, but they should attempt to suspend her, and,

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Speaker 1: personification of the Trump Maga Republican Party, prostitution of the bench.

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Speaker 1: And to the degree it is still possible, those few

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Speaker 1: property in this country, especially over his home at Muscalago.

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Speaker 1: And as to the courts still hearing these cases, this

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Speaker 1: is it for your entire profession, kids, for possibly centuries

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Speaker 1: the law and for what you have supposedly don detiquete

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Speaker 1: a system in which no man, even a fat, stupid,

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Speaker 1: crazy one, is above the law. And now to your

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Speaker 1: obeying in advanced scorecard. And it is hard to believe

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Speaker 1: worse than Elon or Jeff Bezos. Mark Zuckerberg in a

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Speaker 1: owns Meta Matza what I don't even know what it's

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Speaker 1: He has the Trump flunky go on Fox News to

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Speaker 1: threads or or whatever it's called threats. An A makes

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Speaker 1: it sound like he is in a BDSM relationship with Trump,

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Speaker 1: b makes elon musk sound subtle. Let me read this

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Speaker 1: and translate it, and it's basically already a transcription of

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Speaker 1: a video Zuckerberg did in which he's wearing some sort

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Speaker 1: Would it decrease whistleblowing? I guess when was the last

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Speaker 1: for people? They're doing that now. People are docksed every hour,

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Speaker 1: And basically what Zucker saying is sure, you can dox them,

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Speaker 1: you can slander them. We're going back to our roots.

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Speaker 1: Here's what we're going to do. One replace fact checkers

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Speaker 1: the public is dumber than that guy. So we're going

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Speaker 1: to let those people decide what is real and what

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Speaker 1: is a fact and what is not. Two, simplify our

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Speaker 1: gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse. So

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Speaker 1: get out all of your jokes about transgenders and your

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Speaker 1: threats against them, mar Zuckerberg and immigration. You can start

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Speaker 1: using terms that were dropped from polite conversation in this

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Speaker 1: or Jewish people. If you want, go right ahead, immigration, gender,

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Speaker 1: open warfare is now permitted on Facebook, threads, Instagram, instacrap,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Three change how we enforce our policies

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Speaker 1: requiring higher confidence for our filters to take action. Yes,

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Speaker 1: because there were so many censorship mistakes banning Trump from

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Speaker 1: that was in planning for at least a year. It's

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Speaker 1: the FBI. It's a major political event taking place in

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Speaker 1: Washington hours before the certification of the election, which Trump

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Speaker 1: has been spending months trying to prevent, and you are

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Speaker 1: surprised that the FBI was there. The FBI is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be there. Somebody is supposed to be there. Everybody

434
00:31:42,915 --> 00:31:47,755
Speaker 1: else blew it. Every other aspect of that Trump administration

435
00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:53,115
Speaker 1: controlled Justice Department and law enforcement officials, they blew it.

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Speaker 1: But the FBI confidential program had a couple of people

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Speaker 1: in the crowd good. During the September thirtieth, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two episode of Cash's Corner, by the way, that was

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00:32:05,275 --> 00:32:07,395
Speaker 1: the best name you could come up for a podcast,

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Speaker 1: Cash's Corner, Patel said, the question that has to be

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Speaker 1: answered is when did the FBI put those goes in

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Speaker 1: and where and did those confidential human sources engage people

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Speaker 1: who are not going to conduct criminal activity and convince

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Speaker 1: them to do so. Come on, everybody, let's stage a revolution.

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00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:31,195
Speaker 1: Battel claimed that it is the definition of entrapment, which

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Speaker 1: is illegal, and you can't charge someone who's been entrapped,

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00:32:33,915 --> 00:32:36,315
Speaker 1: and he wondered who was running this confidential human source

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00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:40,195
Speaker 1: network and reporting it to FBI Director Chris Ray. Petel

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Speaker 1: added he would venture a guess that once we see

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Speaker 1: the documentation from January sixth, you will see the FBI's

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Speaker 1: confidential human source corruption cover up network on blast and

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Speaker 1: he accused the FBI of inserting these human sources into

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Speaker 1: these matters. Petel asked rhetorically, why why would you say

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Speaker 1: January sixth? Because they wanted a political target, a political prosecution,

455
00:33:01,835 --> 00:33:07,035
Speaker 1: not one based on law. In fact, it's an interesting

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Speaker 1: article the Bulwark, Thomas Joscelyn and Norm Eisen. The problem,

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Speaker 1: of course, is that as a corrupt head of the

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Speaker 1: FBI with a screw loose cash, Patel could easily fabricate

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Speaker 1: documents or order equally maniacal subordinates to do it for

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00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:28,715
Speaker 1: him and pass them off as evidence of whatever it

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Speaker 1: is he thinks happened here. And then we have jumped

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Speaker 1: immediately into the Stalin Purge trials of the nineteen thirties

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Speaker 1: with fabricated evidence against Chris Ray. No, Biden's got a

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Speaker 1: powerdon Chris Ray, who's not that cleaner record. But now

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Speaker 1: I's got to everybody else. Is all going to come

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Speaker 1: back to. Liz Cheney was in the crowd dressed as

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Abraham Lincoln, like in the Manchurian Candidate.

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00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:02,715
Speaker 1: She was wearing a Lincoln beard and a hat. That

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Speaker 1: these people are not very bright is established fact that

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Speaker 1: I cite often It does not change the fact though,

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Speaker 1: that they can still be very dangerous. But sometimes there

472
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Speaker 1: is comic relief in the stupidity of the Greenland thing.

473
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Speaker 1: The Midas Network quotes Danish media on truth social Trump

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Speaker 1: posted a video of a man from Greenland asking him

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Speaker 1: to purchase the Danish colony. As it turns out, the man,

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Speaker 1: Timmy Zeb tim eh Zeb Zeeb, is a convicted drug dealer,

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Speaker 1: according to dr News quote. But Timmy Zeb, who on

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Speaker 1: Trump's profile has been made the face of Greenlander's desire

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Speaker 1: to become part of the United States, has a long

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Speaker 1: list of convictions behind him, most striking as a verdict

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Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen, where Timmy Zeb was sentenced to four

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Speaker 1: years in prison in one of Greenland's largest cannabis cases.

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Speaker 1: Back in two thousand and nine, Greenlandic police described how

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Speaker 1: Timmy Zeb was known for crimes that were dangerous to people.

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Speaker 1: This happened in connection with Timmy Zebe's escape from prison. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he not only fits right in with Trump,

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00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,755
Speaker 1: he should be in the cabinet or at least ambassador

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Speaker 1: to Greenland. Mister Zeb also apparently said Americans were too fat,

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Speaker 1: which I guess means that how fat he appears in

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Speaker 1: his video, which I would roughly describe as ten pounds

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00:35:25,835 --> 00:35:28,595
Speaker 1: and a five pound bag would be just fat enough.

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00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:35,275
Speaker 1: Yet through all this, Trump of course reserved the ultimate

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Speaker 1: crazy about January sixth to himself. He has now dropped

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Speaker 1: the hint of a new plot line coming up, suggesting

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Speaker 1: maybe January sixth was done by I can barely say

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Speaker 1: it has Belah, you might as well Trump have said

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Speaker 1: January sixth was a conspiracy led by the Visiting Nurse

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Speaker 1: Association and the Los Angeles Fires. As a former resident,

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Speaker 1: I'm a mess. You may have heard it. I'll go

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00:36:18,835 --> 00:36:23,675
Speaker 1: into this at length later. The fatal, arrogant, and worse

501
00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:26,595
Speaker 1: mistake of Trump and the cult is that the only

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00:36:26,715 --> 00:36:31,915
Speaker 1: force on earth that matters is money. When say, Florida

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Speaker 1: is rendered unlivable at some point in the next fifty years,

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Speaker 1: five years, five months, whatever it is, by winds, by fires,

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00:36:39,915 --> 00:36:43,395
Speaker 1: by storms, by nature, by God, whatever, all the money

506
00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:49,475
Speaker 1: will mean nothing that moment when you discover that Trump

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00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:51,355
Speaker 1: is wrong, that money is not the only force in

508
00:36:51,395 --> 00:36:54,155
Speaker 1: the universe that matters, was on public display in the

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Speaker 1: last few days at the height of the disaster, as

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00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:02,595
Speaker 1: others perished and fire after fire broke out a celebrity

511
00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:06,475
Speaker 1: house flipping guy or a real estate jackass or something.

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00:37:06,675 --> 00:37:10,515
Speaker 1: A week ago was touting the great investments in Pacific Palisades,

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00:37:11,035 --> 00:37:14,835
Speaker 1: where much of the destruction occurred posts this. His name

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00:37:14,875 --> 00:37:17,595
Speaker 1: is Keith Watserman and on behalf of all the Keiths

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00:37:17,595 --> 00:37:20,515
Speaker 1: in the world. I'd like to apologize for this. Does

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Speaker 1: anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home

517
00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:28,275
Speaker 1: in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here all neighbors'

518
00:37:28,275 --> 00:37:34,155
Speaker 1: houses burning. Will pay any amount, thank you, Please save

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Speaker 1: my luxury home firemen. I can pay more than those

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Speaker 1: people who will pay you to save their children. I'm

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00:37:44,035 --> 00:37:46,475
Speaker 1: even in this America, even in this America that has

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00:37:46,515 --> 00:37:49,515
Speaker 1: been building since I was a child, in which people

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00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:53,395
Speaker 1: believe that money can get them anything. And remember there

524
00:37:53,475 --> 00:37:56,755
Speaker 1: is an eternal life cult around the idea that if

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Speaker 1: they spend enough money, they can live or be frozen

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Speaker 1: and resuscitated in a thousand years. They really believe this.

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00:38:03,675 --> 00:38:05,355
Speaker 1: They can extend their own life last to one hundred

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00:38:05,355 --> 00:38:07,555
Speaker 1: and twenty five years and then get frozen and resuscitated.

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Speaker 1: Ted Williams was right seeing the condition his head is in. No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't well look around the room later. It's got

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Speaker 1: to be here somewhere. Does anyone have access to private

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00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:25,755
Speaker 1: firefighters to protect our home? And Pacific Palisades need to

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00:38:25,755 --> 00:38:29,035
Speaker 1: act fast here all neighbors' houses burning will pay any amount,

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Speaker 1: thank you. So just picture this. Somebody says yes to

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Speaker 1: this and sends private firefighters weaving through everybody being evacuated

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Speaker 1: from Pacific Palisades to go in and just save this

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00:38:43,515 --> 00:38:47,235
Speaker 1: one guy's house, as if that was physically possible. When

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00:38:47,275 --> 00:38:49,595
Speaker 1: winds of up to one hundred miles an hour, we're

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00:38:49,635 --> 00:38:56,075
Speaker 1: blowing the fire dozens, perhaps one hundred miles across southern

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Speaker 1: California in a forty eight hour period. This idiot believes

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Speaker 1: that his home and his home alone can be saved

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00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:10,195
Speaker 1: by private firefighters because there must be private firefighters. There

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00:39:10,275 --> 00:39:16,155
Speaker 1: must be for him. He just didn't know about it beforehand,

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00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,435
Speaker 1: or he would have signed a contract and probably left

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00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:23,475
Speaker 1: a five dollars tip. Wait, it gets worse. This is

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00:39:23,515 --> 00:39:30,715
Speaker 1: this same guy, Keith Wasserman. Also on ex Twitter in September,

547
00:39:31,475 --> 00:39:36,075
Speaker 1: Trump reposts, your automobile insurance is up seventy three percent.

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00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:38,275
Speaker 1: Vote for Trump. I'll cut that number in half. He

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00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:44,235
Speaker 1: retweets this and adds property taxes too. Please, you know

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00:39:44,275 --> 00:39:48,515
Speaker 1: what property taxes go to. Yeah, trying to stop your

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00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:52,635
Speaker 1: goddamn house from burning down, and your neighbor's house and

552
00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:56,595
Speaker 1: everybody else's house, because it's cheaper that way and more efficient,

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00:39:56,835 --> 00:39:59,035
Speaker 1: because you can't just go into a burning neighborhood and

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00:39:59,075 --> 00:40:02,515
Speaker 1: go thirty two seventy one will save that one. The

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00:40:02,555 --> 00:40:06,035
Speaker 1: rest of you can go to hell. I never dreamed

556
00:40:06,035 --> 00:40:08,875
Speaker 1: the cut taxes so your house burns down party would

557
00:40:08,955 --> 00:40:18,395
Speaker 1: let my house burn down. Thousands of buildings destroyed by

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Speaker 1: the mill of yesterday afternoon, at least seventy thousand evacuated,

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Speaker 1: more than one million people without power in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: The total number in Southern California in the Greater Area

561
00:40:32,075 --> 00:40:36,035
Speaker 1: was approaching a million and a half. Wind gusts up

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Speaker 1: to one hundred miles an hour to the point where

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Speaker 1: they could not fly those planes dropping the water and

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00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:45,355
Speaker 1: the fire retardant. But only when you discover a piece

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00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:47,835
Speaker 1: of trivia like the following does it become personal and

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Speaker 1: help you clarify your mind about why we continue to

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Speaker 1: tempt climatic disaster and the local tragedies that will precede

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Speaker 1: it like this in Los Angeles, when we imagine something

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00:41:02,195 --> 00:41:05,915
Speaker 1: like this every day, every day, a little worse than

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00:41:05,915 --> 00:41:12,755
Speaker 1: the last one. The denial of disasters from my own

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00:41:12,835 --> 00:41:16,635
Speaker 1: time living in Santa Monica, where I found out yesterday

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Speaker 1: that my old house is literally the last time I

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Speaker 1: looked three blocks south of the mandatory evacuation. All right,

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Speaker 1: I know I've taken up a lot of your time,

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00:41:37,075 --> 00:41:38,835
Speaker 1: but there's much more to come. Also of interest here

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00:41:38,835 --> 00:41:41,475
Speaker 1: in an all new edition, the guy in charge of

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post actually is quoted by a staffer who

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Speaker 1: resigned as having asked a reporter for the Washington Post quote,

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Speaker 1: what can we do to attract Trump supporters? Well, he's

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Speaker 1: doing what you could do. Go out of business. That's next.

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Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Albumen still

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Speaker 1: ahead of us on countdown. To paraphrase the old radio joke,

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00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:37,675
Speaker 1: No it's not leaving here. Fine, I hope it sounds fine.

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Speaker 1: The episode has been a little ragged. I want to

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Speaker 1: go into length and distance about why it has been

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00:42:46,315 --> 00:42:49,835
Speaker 1: so ragged. The short answer to that is two words,

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00:42:50,315 --> 00:42:55,315
Speaker 1: three words. Really, Southern California fires. I used to live there,

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00:42:55,875 --> 00:43:02,395
Speaker 1: and I mean there at the intersections. Believe it or not,

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00:43:02,435 --> 00:43:04,955
Speaker 1: there's still first more new idiots to talk about. The

590
00:43:04,995 --> 00:43:07,635
Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects

591
00:43:07,635 --> 00:43:11,435
Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world,

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Speaker 1: the bronze worse. Jen Saki. Jen Saki is not terrible

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00:43:16,155 --> 00:43:19,755
Speaker 1: on MSNBC, although if they had wanted to hire somebody

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00:43:19,795 --> 00:43:22,395
Speaker 1: to do a Rachel Matdow impression, they should have gotten

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00:43:22,395 --> 00:43:25,875
Speaker 1: somebody to commit to the bit like Abby Elliott used

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00:43:25,875 --> 00:43:30,715
Speaker 1: to on SNL. She does, however, have that little I'm

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Speaker 1: going to explain this to you like you were a

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00:43:32,355 --> 00:43:35,795
Speaker 1: child tone to her voice. She's gotten that now very nicely.

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00:43:36,595 --> 00:43:39,875
Speaker 1: But boy, oh boy, oh boys, can she not shake

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Speaker 1: the propagandist part. That was not the idea of MSNBC.

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Speaker 1: When the Democrats aligned with our positions as we thought

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Speaker 1: them out, and our guests believed that was great. When

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00:43:54,155 --> 00:43:58,595
Speaker 1: they didn't, we slammed Democrats. When we made mistakes, we

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Speaker 1: apologized for them, even in past lives, in past careers. Nope,

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Speaker 1: Jensaki has now descended into rationalizing fatal mistakes made by

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Speaker 1: Jensaki and the presidential administration for which she worked four

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00:44:13,475 --> 00:44:18,635
Speaker 1: years ago. Talking on MSNBC about Merrick Garland, who right

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Speaker 1: now will go down into history as one of the

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Speaker 1: great and perhaps final villains of American democracy. This is

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Speaker 1: a man, Jensaki said, who has an unassailable resume. I

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Speaker 1: believe you have the tense wrong there and views the

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Speaker 1: job as it should be viewed through the prism of

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Speaker 1: the law and history. No, clearly that's not true. But

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Speaker 1: I do wonder if that at that moment in history,

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Speaker 1: he was the right choice for the job. She went

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Speaker 1: on a long monologue about her internal wonderings. She wondered

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Speaker 1: if she should have helped support Garland from the White

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Speaker 1: House press podium or gone along with not addressing the

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Speaker 1: second Trump impeachment, or much of January sixth from the

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Speaker 1: White Ho press podium. A lot of wondering and that

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Speaker 1: sort of meanderingly went to her excusing herself for not

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00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:16,235
Speaker 1: being more aggressive towards Trump. We can't predict the future,

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Speaker 1: she said, Funny, Jen, everybody else did, everybody else, pretty

624
00:45:21,515 --> 00:45:24,635
Speaker 1: much in the Democratic Party, everybody else in America told

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00:45:24,675 --> 00:45:28,755
Speaker 1: you lock him up, send him to ELBA, put him

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00:45:28,795 --> 00:45:31,875
Speaker 1: and everybody who was involved in this, and put him

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00:45:31,875 --> 00:45:37,315
Speaker 1: away for good forever, and most importantly, do it before

628
00:45:37,355 --> 00:45:46,275
Speaker 1: he regains strength. You are talking about the Godzilla of politicians. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't predict the future now. Of course, Jensaki is

630
00:45:50,955 --> 00:45:53,595
Speaker 1: still doing the job she quit in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Stop giving these ponderous, overwrought commentaries that somehow always end

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Speaker 1: up with you distancing yourself from the disaster you participated in,

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00:46:03,435 --> 00:46:07,795
Speaker 1: and then end with you forgive yourself. You failed, you

634
00:46:07,995 --> 00:46:16,915
Speaker 1: all failed. You may have cost America representative government, but no,

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00:46:17,035 --> 00:46:21,395
Speaker 1: write a long commentary about how you wonder now if

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland at that moment in history was the right

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00:46:23,675 --> 00:46:26,595
Speaker 1: choice for the job he wasn't, or at any other

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Speaker 1: point in history right now, If you want to do

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Speaker 1: a commentary about Merrick Garland having vaguely worked for him,

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Speaker 1: with him or with the people who chose him, I

641
00:46:36,435 --> 00:46:38,115
Speaker 1: think you should devote it to wondering whether or not

642
00:46:38,195 --> 00:46:40,875
Speaker 1: he's actually a Democrat, a liberal, or a believer in

643
00:46:40,955 --> 00:46:45,075
Speaker 1: representative government. How about that for a commentary. On the

644
00:46:45,115 --> 00:46:48,675
Speaker 1: other hand, your disgrace, your failure, has been rewarded with

645
00:46:48,715 --> 00:46:51,555
Speaker 1: the high paying TV job that you don't do very

646
00:46:51,555 --> 00:46:55,195
Speaker 1: well and you clearly don't understand the purpose of So

647
00:46:55,315 --> 00:47:00,755
Speaker 1: you got that going for you? Runner up worser. We'll

648
00:47:00,835 --> 00:47:04,635
Speaker 1: let Eric Erickson represent all the fascists who now have trumpsomnia.

649
00:47:05,035 --> 00:47:07,715
Speaker 1: But also playing back to what Jensaki said, you can't

650
00:47:07,715 --> 00:47:10,995
Speaker 1: predict the future. Eric Erickson is one of I don't

651
00:47:11,035 --> 00:47:14,915
Speaker 1: know how many ten million Republican commentators, all of whom,

652
00:47:15,555 --> 00:47:19,835
Speaker 1: all of whom have somehow memory hold January sixth and

653
00:47:19,995 --> 00:47:26,395
Speaker 1: changed its meeting, altogether, changed it utterly beyond all recognition,

654
00:47:27,355 --> 00:47:30,715
Speaker 1: as if the Civil War was in fact the war

655
00:47:30,955 --> 00:47:36,355
Speaker 1: of Northern aggression to destroy Confederate property rights, you know,

656
00:47:36,515 --> 00:47:43,475
Speaker 1: the slaves. On January sixth, twenty twenty one, at three

657
00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:49,395
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon Eastern Standard time, Eric Erickson, a

658
00:47:49,435 --> 00:47:52,675
Speaker 1: Conservative who came from such humble beginning beginnings that his

659
00:47:52,675 --> 00:47:57,195
Speaker 1: family could only afford the one name. Eric Erickson tweeted,

660
00:47:57,995 --> 00:48:04,595
Speaker 1: shoot the protesters, wave the rules, impeach, wave the rules, convict,

661
00:48:05,315 --> 00:48:08,955
Speaker 1: waive the rules, deny the ability to run for election again.

662
00:48:10,715 --> 00:48:13,035
Speaker 1: Possibly the only time and certainly the last time. Eric

663
00:48:13,035 --> 00:48:16,355
Speaker 1: Erickson was right, and today he and all the rest

664
00:48:16,395 --> 00:48:21,795
Speaker 1: of them have rationalized putting the man he wanted to impeach,

665
00:48:22,035 --> 00:48:25,315
Speaker 1: convict and deny the ability to run for election again.

666
00:48:27,115 --> 00:48:31,195
Speaker 1: Back in the White House to run the world again

667
00:48:32,595 --> 00:48:37,075
Speaker 1: and rename it the Gulf of America or the gulf

668
00:48:37,155 --> 00:48:43,075
Speaker 1: between Trump's insanity and reality. Eric Erickson representing that group,

669
00:48:43,595 --> 00:48:45,555
Speaker 1: and that group is now pushing, if you have not

670
00:48:45,635 --> 00:48:48,555
Speaker 1: heard this, for an investigation into the death of the

671
00:48:48,715 --> 00:48:52,555
Speaker 1: terrorist Ashley Babbitt, the one he said should have been

672
00:48:52,595 --> 00:48:56,515
Speaker 1: shot along with all the other protesters. I'm not a

673
00:48:56,515 --> 00:48:59,875
Speaker 1: big fan of shooting people. I'm certainly not a big

674
00:48:59,915 --> 00:49:03,155
Speaker 1: fan of shooting people who are expressing political opinions, even

675
00:49:03,155 --> 00:49:06,275
Speaker 1: if they are completely wrong. And they want to shoot me,

676
00:49:07,395 --> 00:49:10,875
Speaker 1: but shoot the protesters. That was a pretty good idea,

677
00:49:10,875 --> 00:49:14,515
Speaker 1: and we didn't do it. Instead we got Merrick Garland

678
00:49:15,795 --> 00:49:19,315
Speaker 1: shoot the protesters. And now they want to investigate the

679
00:49:19,315 --> 00:49:22,155
Speaker 1: death of Ashley Babbitt. And you know already where this ends.

680
00:49:22,395 --> 00:49:26,875
Speaker 1: This ends with indicting people who were involved in protecting

681
00:49:26,955 --> 00:49:29,595
Speaker 1: the capital for the simple reason that not only does

682
00:49:29,635 --> 00:49:32,715
Speaker 1: Trump have to be cleared and made the actual victim

683
00:49:32,755 --> 00:49:35,635
Speaker 1: of all this, but they want to lay the groundwork

684
00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:39,315
Speaker 1: for when they do it again. And they'll do it again,

685
00:49:40,835 --> 00:49:45,835
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's another election. Instead of an investigation

686
00:49:45,955 --> 00:49:48,715
Speaker 1: into the death of Ashley Babbitt, may I suggest this instead,

687
00:49:48,715 --> 00:49:51,795
Speaker 1: which will go over really big, I think in conservative circles.

688
00:49:51,995 --> 00:49:56,395
Speaker 1: How instead about doing this, you fascists, bring Ashley Babbitt

689
00:49:56,435 --> 00:49:59,315
Speaker 1: back to life again. The way you convinced your dim

690
00:49:59,355 --> 00:50:02,595
Speaker 1: bulb occultists that you could bring JFK Junior and JFK

691
00:50:02,755 --> 00:50:05,155
Speaker 1: back to life again, and you can vince them that

692
00:50:05,195 --> 00:50:07,795
Speaker 1: you could bring RFK Junior back to life again. That

693
00:50:07,875 --> 00:50:12,955
Speaker 1: didn't go so well. Hey, Robert, are you over? Oh

694
00:50:12,995 --> 00:50:16,955
Speaker 1: you're on, You're on, You're on FaceTime. Okay, take that

695
00:50:16,995 --> 00:50:21,955
Speaker 1: in the other room, please, AnyWho. I think they should

696
00:50:21,955 --> 00:50:24,035
Speaker 1: bring Ashley Babbitt back to life so she can go

697
00:50:24,075 --> 00:50:28,435
Speaker 1: and do the same insane, stupid, self destructive, anti freedom,

698
00:50:28,555 --> 00:50:32,075
Speaker 1: anti American conspiracy theory crap again and the officers can

699
00:50:32,075 --> 00:50:36,475
Speaker 1: shoot her again now again. I will be happy if

700
00:50:36,515 --> 00:50:38,075
Speaker 1: they bring her back to life and they shoot her

701
00:50:38,115 --> 00:50:40,155
Speaker 1: and they just wound her and she recovers. The point

702
00:50:40,155 --> 00:50:43,955
Speaker 1: will have been made by that. And with all of this,

703
00:50:43,955 --> 00:50:46,875
Speaker 1: this winner is very brief and very much to the point.

704
00:50:46,915 --> 00:50:51,195
Speaker 1: The CEO Will Lewis of The Washington Post also known

705
00:50:51,195 --> 00:50:53,915
Speaker 1: as The Washington Post going out of business sale, the

706
00:50:54,035 --> 00:50:57,355
Speaker 1: Washington Post, what's left of it? The Washington Post no

707
00:50:57,475 --> 00:51:02,355
Speaker 1: longer at this address. The Washington Post now printing three

708
00:51:02,395 --> 00:51:07,675
Speaker 1: times a month. This is from Semaphore News. The Post's

709
00:51:07,715 --> 00:51:12,635
Speaker 1: former deputy Democracy editor, Mary Joe Murphy, quietly quit in

710
00:51:12,675 --> 00:51:16,635
Speaker 1: response to owner Jeff Bezos killing its presidential endorsement. She

711
00:51:16,715 --> 00:51:19,395
Speaker 1: wrote about it on a Facebook page for New York

712
00:51:19,435 --> 00:51:24,675
Speaker 1: Times alumni Quizzlings. She wrote, are inside the house that

713
00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:30,275
Speaker 1: Graham's and Bradley's, Woodwards and Bernstein's built. She recalled here's

714
00:51:30,315 --> 00:51:33,475
Speaker 1: the fun part that CEO will Lewis had asked a

715
00:51:33,515 --> 00:51:38,315
Speaker 1: reporter she managed quote what the Post could do to

716
00:51:38,435 --> 00:51:45,155
Speaker 1: attract Trump supporters parenthesis, I don't know, she wrote, lie

717
00:51:45,275 --> 00:51:52,235
Speaker 1: to them. Will Lewis Jeff Bezos, proprietors of after the

718
00:51:52,475 --> 00:52:00,955
Speaker 1: upcoming doubtless inevitable merger will Lewis, CEO of The Washington Post,

719
00:52:01,235 --> 00:52:09,715
Speaker 1: Penny Saver and Hot Singles News two days Whisson in

720
00:52:09,795 --> 00:52:25,035
Speaker 1: the world. Finally to the number one story on the

721
00:52:25,035 --> 00:52:28,715
Speaker 1: countdown and things I promised not to tell. And if

722
00:52:28,755 --> 00:52:32,675
Speaker 1: this episode has seemed a little ragged, a little more

723
00:52:32,755 --> 00:52:36,355
Speaker 1: ragged than usual, I have an explanation, if not an excuse.

724
00:52:37,275 --> 00:52:41,755
Speaker 1: I spent much of Tuesday night not sleeping, but watching

725
00:52:41,995 --> 00:52:46,355
Speaker 1: and listening to local television and radio coverage of the

726
00:52:46,395 --> 00:52:50,115
Speaker 1: disaster in southern California, specifically in Los Angeles, specifically in

727
00:52:50,155 --> 00:52:54,675
Speaker 1: the area basically north of Santa Monica along the Pacific

728
00:52:54,675 --> 00:53:00,675
Speaker 1: Coast Highway. Other fires, aided by wind gusts approaching one

729
00:53:00,715 --> 00:53:04,475
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, afflicted the other parts of the area,

730
00:53:05,715 --> 00:53:11,115
Speaker 1: and it is not fire season. I used to live there,

731
00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:15,835
Speaker 1: and as I said, I was almost an honorary native

732
00:53:16,195 --> 00:53:18,995
Speaker 1: in the news business in Southern California, in TV, particularly

733
00:53:19,035 --> 00:53:21,795
Speaker 1: if you get to seven years on the air there

734
00:53:22,155 --> 00:53:25,395
Speaker 1: in local news, you can be there forever. There were

735
00:53:25,395 --> 00:53:28,875
Speaker 1: people with whom I broke in in Los Angeles television

736
00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:30,995
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five who are still on the air,

737
00:53:31,595 --> 00:53:34,275
Speaker 1: and I'm not being critical of them, nor the fact

738
00:53:34,275 --> 00:53:36,315
Speaker 1: that I got to like six and a half years

739
00:53:36,715 --> 00:53:39,755
Speaker 1: and that was it. So I didn't quite make my

740
00:53:40,235 --> 00:53:44,595
Speaker 1: permanent honorary native status. But I enjoyed my time there.

741
00:53:44,715 --> 00:53:46,875
Speaker 1: It was my second favorite place to live in the

742
00:53:46,915 --> 00:53:49,875
Speaker 1: world and was always an option that I considered moving

743
00:53:49,915 --> 00:53:54,315
Speaker 1: back to as recently as twenty and sixteen. In any event,

744
00:53:54,595 --> 00:53:57,595
Speaker 1: I have affection for la and I have affection particularly

745
00:53:57,635 --> 00:54:01,835
Speaker 1: for that part of LA that was so immediately affected,

746
00:54:01,875 --> 00:54:05,115
Speaker 1: with so many homes lost and so many people evacuated

747
00:54:05,995 --> 00:54:10,435
Speaker 1: overnight Tuesday that I could not stop listening to what was,

748
00:54:10,515 --> 00:54:13,315
Speaker 1: of course a radio station, an all news station that

749
00:54:13,395 --> 00:54:15,115
Speaker 1: I used to work for for the better part of

750
00:54:15,155 --> 00:54:20,155
Speaker 1: my first trip in La KNX. Then they did a

751
00:54:20,195 --> 00:54:25,235
Speaker 1: marvelous job, not surprising. People who are working there are

752
00:54:25,235 --> 00:54:28,195
Speaker 1: people I worked with there. In any event, I went

753
00:54:28,275 --> 00:54:30,475
Speaker 1: back to LA for a second time to work for

754
00:54:30,515 --> 00:54:33,395
Speaker 1: Fox in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and two thousand

755
00:54:33,435 --> 00:54:35,995
Speaker 1: and one, and I lived in Santa Monica, and in

756
00:54:36,075 --> 00:54:41,715
Speaker 1: fact I lived on Pacific Coast Highway in the area

757
00:54:42,035 --> 00:54:46,635
Speaker 1: in which Santa Monica slowly evolves into Malibu. There were

758
00:54:46,875 --> 00:54:52,195
Speaker 1: a couple of country clubs and tennis establishments just north

759
00:54:52,235 --> 00:54:56,035
Speaker 1: of me. It was a beautiful house. It was a

760
00:54:56,155 --> 00:54:58,835
Speaker 1: house that would I believe was built in nineteen twenty

761
00:54:58,835 --> 00:55:03,155
Speaker 1: seven by a Hollywood producer. It was a house there

762
00:55:03,395 --> 00:55:07,595
Speaker 1: that had the inter section of Pacific Coast Highway and

763
00:55:07,635 --> 00:55:12,435
Speaker 1: the California Incline, a key visual from the movie from

764
00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:14,875
Speaker 1: the sixties, It's a Mad, Mad Mad Mad World. The

765
00:55:14,955 --> 00:55:17,835
Speaker 1: California Incline is this hill that goes up from the

766
00:55:17,835 --> 00:55:24,675
Speaker 1: Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Monica proper. And so this house,

767
00:55:25,515 --> 00:55:30,675
Speaker 1: four stories tall, seven bedrooms and priced ridiculously low, had

768
00:55:30,955 --> 00:55:37,075
Speaker 1: at one end past the little spare guesthouse and the pool.

769
00:55:38,515 --> 00:55:42,155
Speaker 1: Beyond that there was a gate, There was the beach,

770
00:55:42,915 --> 00:55:45,635
Speaker 1: there was the ocean, and there was off in the

771
00:55:45,675 --> 00:55:49,235
Speaker 1: distance somewhere Hawaii, which no, you could not see from

772
00:55:49,235 --> 00:55:54,995
Speaker 1: my house. It was great. There was one problem and

773
00:55:55,075 --> 00:55:58,315
Speaker 1: one fear, and it's why I'm bringing all this up now,

774
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:01,075
Speaker 1: other than simply to say this is part of me

775
00:56:01,155 --> 00:56:06,115
Speaker 1: that was in spirit there as this has unfolded, as

776
00:56:06,195 --> 00:56:10,555
Speaker 1: it is for all calamities in that community. There was

777
00:56:10,595 --> 00:56:13,955
Speaker 1: one problem with the place. When it was built. It

778
00:56:13,955 --> 00:56:17,395
Speaker 1: was on the beach. Santa Monica was not necessarily unpopulated,

779
00:56:17,395 --> 00:56:20,195
Speaker 1: but it was difficult to get to. There wasn't a

780
00:56:20,235 --> 00:56:23,475
Speaker 1: Pacific Coast Highway per se, and in any event, traffic

781
00:56:23,555 --> 00:56:25,755
Speaker 1: was not like it was in nineteen twenty seven. By

782
00:56:25,795 --> 00:56:27,555
Speaker 1: the time I lived there in nineteen ninety nine, there

783
00:56:27,555 --> 00:56:30,355
Speaker 1: was a red light at the California incline that you

784
00:56:30,395 --> 00:56:32,995
Speaker 1: could sort of reach out of my house and touch,

785
00:56:33,355 --> 00:56:36,115
Speaker 1: which meant that at peak driving hours, which are in

786
00:56:36,155 --> 00:56:42,955
Speaker 1: California daylight. The rush hour starts at daylight and ends

787
00:56:43,035 --> 00:56:46,515
Speaker 1: at the sunset, except in winter, when it's about four

788
00:56:46,515 --> 00:56:49,635
Speaker 1: hours longer. At that light, whenever it would turn red

789
00:56:49,675 --> 00:56:54,955
Speaker 1: on Pacific Coast Highway, there would be sixty seventy cars

790
00:56:55,235 --> 00:57:01,515
Speaker 1: idling going in each direction, So a constant rumble was

791
00:57:01,555 --> 00:57:04,955
Speaker 1: in the background there, and when there wasn't a red light,

792
00:57:05,795 --> 00:57:08,675
Speaker 1: you were treated to this sound from Pacific Coast Highway

793
00:57:08,755 --> 00:57:18,395
Speaker 1: echoing through the house, except at night when it was

794
00:57:18,475 --> 00:57:25,915
Speaker 1: motorcycles making that sound. Soon after about the third or

795
00:57:25,915 --> 00:57:29,315
Speaker 1: fourth day that I lived there, I began to find

796
00:57:29,315 --> 00:57:33,275
Speaker 1: myself involuntarily making those sounds myself while I was on

797
00:57:33,355 --> 00:57:36,155
Speaker 1: the phone with people who said are you okay, and

798
00:57:36,195 --> 00:57:42,275
Speaker 1: I would say I'm fine, even when I was seated

799
00:57:42,315 --> 00:57:46,635
Speaker 1: in the back of the backyard visiting with my neighbor

800
00:57:46,715 --> 00:57:53,715
Speaker 1: the beach and the Pacific Ocean. So that was the problem,

801
00:57:53,755 --> 00:57:55,755
Speaker 1: and I didn't stay there that long. But there was

802
00:57:55,795 --> 00:57:58,475
Speaker 1: also something else that worked on my mind then, and

803
00:57:58,515 --> 00:58:01,635
Speaker 1: I didn't really fully understand it and why it was

804
00:58:01,675 --> 00:58:05,955
Speaker 1: such a problem until I watched the fire in Santa

805
00:58:05,995 --> 00:58:10,355
Speaker 1: Monica on the same street on which I lived. Consume

806
00:58:10,475 --> 00:58:16,075
Speaker 1: most of the area and the structures on each floor

807
00:58:16,075 --> 00:58:21,915
Speaker 1: of this magnificent nineteen twenty seven underpriced four story building

808
00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:26,315
Speaker 1: built by the way like a British castle. There weren't

809
00:58:26,315 --> 00:58:29,395
Speaker 1: even cracks in the masonry, and it had been there

810
00:58:29,435 --> 00:58:33,915
Speaker 1: through countless earthquakes. On each floor there was a small door,

811
00:58:33,955 --> 00:58:37,075
Speaker 1: and inside it there was on a wheel on a

812
00:58:37,115 --> 00:58:41,915
Speaker 1: big roof, sometimes rusty and repaired wheel, a fire hose.

813
00:58:43,035 --> 00:58:44,635
Speaker 1: I don't know. I never took one of them out.

814
00:58:44,635 --> 00:58:46,315
Speaker 1: I wasn't there long enough, and I didn't need to.

815
00:58:46,955 --> 00:58:50,715
Speaker 1: I think they might have been fifty feet long. I

816
00:58:50,755 --> 00:58:53,035
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not good at estimating these things. Let's

817
00:58:53,035 --> 00:58:56,395
Speaker 1: put it this way. These were not seven foot long hoses,

818
00:58:56,555 --> 00:59:00,275
Speaker 1: and these were not garden hoses. These were big, flat,

819
00:59:00,475 --> 00:59:04,635
Speaker 1: leather bound firefighters hoses like I used to see in

820
00:59:04,795 --> 00:59:07,875
Speaker 1: my grandfather, the New York City Fireman's pictures of himself

821
00:59:07,955 --> 00:59:11,115
Speaker 1: driving the hook and ladder in nineteen thirty one, big

822
00:59:11,635 --> 00:59:16,955
Speaker 1: hoses for home use. And obviously I rationalize this by saying, well,

823
00:59:16,995 --> 00:59:18,715
Speaker 1: you know, when they built this in nineteen twenty seven,

824
00:59:18,755 --> 00:59:21,115
Speaker 1: Santa Monica was not out in the middle of nowhere necessarily,

825
00:59:21,195 --> 00:59:24,475
Speaker 1: But the idea that there would be conceivably a fire

826
00:59:24,515 --> 00:59:26,075
Speaker 1: in the house, and you'd need to deal with it,

827
00:59:26,115 --> 00:59:27,995
Speaker 1: and you should have something like this, And it was

828
00:59:28,035 --> 00:59:31,515
Speaker 1: instead of sprinklers, it instead of rapid response. Now I

829
00:59:31,555 --> 00:59:35,035
Speaker 1: know better. The fear has always been there in southern

830
00:59:35,075 --> 00:59:39,075
Speaker 1: California all and I read this when I lived there

831
00:59:39,115 --> 00:59:42,115
Speaker 1: and was worried about the earthquakes. All of the prophecies

832
00:59:42,115 --> 00:59:45,835
Speaker 1: of the doom of Los Angeles have been about not

833
00:59:45,995 --> 00:59:50,795
Speaker 1: earthquakes but fires. Nathaniel West the day of the Locust,

834
00:59:50,995 --> 00:59:55,435
Speaker 1: los Angeles burns to the ground, painting after painting is

835
00:59:55,475 --> 01:00:00,195
Speaker 1: Los Angeles burning. The real story always from the scientists

836
01:00:01,195 --> 01:00:06,995
Speaker 1: who studied earthquakes was because, of course, an earthquake, no

837
01:00:06,995 --> 01:00:12,395
Speaker 1: matter how damaging it is, is over in a minute,

838
01:00:12,555 --> 01:00:17,155
Speaker 1: or if it's a disastrous, world shaking earthquake, two three minutes.

839
01:00:17,475 --> 01:00:21,275
Speaker 1: A fire, as we see can be two three days.

840
01:00:24,235 --> 01:00:26,955
Speaker 1: And so now they have one hundred mile an hour gusts,

841
01:00:27,755 --> 01:00:35,395
Speaker 1: and I understand why I can still see those little

842
01:00:35,435 --> 01:00:41,235
Speaker 1: doors and the little rusty wheels and the fire hoses.

843
01:00:42,715 --> 01:00:44,635
Speaker 1: I sold the place because somebody else fell in love

844
01:00:44,635 --> 01:00:46,915
Speaker 1: with it, got my money back, and moved out and

845
01:00:46,995 --> 01:00:48,915
Speaker 1: moved back into where I live for most of my

846
01:00:48,955 --> 01:00:51,555
Speaker 1: time in southern California, second time around in a hotel

847
01:00:51,755 --> 01:00:54,035
Speaker 1: or one of two hotels, which, by the way, is

848
01:00:54,075 --> 01:00:58,075
Speaker 1: the reverse of living in a troublesome house or a

849
01:00:58,195 --> 01:01:02,515
Speaker 1: discounted house. It is, as Warren Batty said about moving

850
01:01:02,555 --> 01:01:05,955
Speaker 1: into a hotel, it takes you a long time to

851
01:01:05,995 --> 01:01:10,195
Speaker 1: adjust to living into a hotel room or hotel suite

852
01:01:10,235 --> 01:01:19,315
Speaker 1: several hours. Other than occasional noise from neighbors, there's really

853
01:01:19,395 --> 01:01:21,515
Speaker 1: very little wrong with it, and of course the cost,

854
01:01:22,595 --> 01:01:28,355
Speaker 1: but what the hell, There's something else about the southern

855
01:01:28,355 --> 01:01:33,035
Speaker 1: California aspires that strikes me. And this might be interpreted,

856
01:01:33,115 --> 01:01:37,355
Speaker 1: especially by my friends from that time, with whom I

857
01:01:37,355 --> 01:01:40,675
Speaker 1: am still in touch with many of them, as criticism

858
01:01:41,635 --> 01:01:46,155
Speaker 1: or tisking or you see, you got what you paid for,

859
01:01:48,075 --> 01:01:51,035
Speaker 1: and it's not meant to be that way. But as

860
01:01:51,115 --> 01:01:56,795
Speaker 1: I just expressed, to live in that house in Pacific

861
01:01:56,835 --> 01:02:03,395
Speaker 1: Coast Highway, just north of the California Incline, like the

862
01:02:04,915 --> 01:02:12,395
Speaker 1: westernmost building at home on the continental United States, I

863
01:02:12,435 --> 01:02:18,995
Speaker 1: guess to live in that required a certain amount of denial.

864
01:02:20,315 --> 01:02:24,235
Speaker 1: I didn't recognize that those fire hoses were kept in

865
01:02:24,275 --> 01:02:27,315
Speaker 1: working order because you might need them because something like

866
01:02:27,355 --> 01:02:31,555
Speaker 1: this could happen someday, because fires burning towards the coast

867
01:02:32,235 --> 01:02:35,075
Speaker 1: from the wooded areas, if hit by the winds just right,

868
01:02:35,675 --> 01:02:38,395
Speaker 1: would jump Pacific Coast Highway and burn everything till it

869
01:02:38,435 --> 01:02:45,275
Speaker 1: got to the ocean, as we have seen. But the

870
01:02:45,315 --> 01:02:49,435
Speaker 1: other part of denial and physical calamity in southern California

871
01:02:49,675 --> 01:02:52,835
Speaker 1: has always stayed with me, And it also came back

872
01:02:52,875 --> 01:02:54,915
Speaker 1: to my mind as I heard the announcers on kN

873
01:02:55,115 --> 01:02:58,995
Speaker 1: X again and again try to place the disaster they

874
01:02:58,995 --> 01:03:02,035
Speaker 1: were seeing and the damage they were seeing in historical

875
01:03:02,075 --> 01:03:06,875
Speaker 1: context for native southern California, and they kept referring back

876
01:03:06,915 --> 01:03:09,915
Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety three and the Northridge earthquake and what

877
01:03:09,955 --> 01:03:14,115
Speaker 1: that did to the entirety of the community, and fires

878
01:03:14,275 --> 01:03:16,715
Speaker 1: the same year and what that did to the entire community.

879
01:03:16,795 --> 01:03:21,275
Speaker 1: So thirty two years ago nearly was the first historical comparison,

880
01:03:21,435 --> 01:03:23,635
Speaker 1: and they were all saying, it's dark, we can't really

881
01:03:23,635 --> 01:03:26,955
Speaker 1: see how much damage there's been. It may be nineteen

882
01:03:27,035 --> 01:03:32,035
Speaker 1: sixty one on the Malibu fires, but nineteen ninety three

883
01:03:32,035 --> 01:03:33,955
Speaker 1: and Northridge was the first time that I ever heard

884
01:03:34,035 --> 01:03:36,875
Speaker 1: my friends who had been born and raised in southern California,

885
01:03:36,915 --> 01:03:39,075
Speaker 1: and by the time I knew them, when we were

886
01:03:39,075 --> 01:03:43,195
Speaker 1: all in our twenties and thirties, shook off earthquakes and

887
01:03:43,195 --> 01:03:44,755
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, that was a bad one. I

888
01:03:46,635 --> 01:03:49,115
Speaker 1: had forgotten about it in the three hours since it happened.

889
01:03:50,875 --> 01:03:54,995
Speaker 1: But the Northridge one was not that at all. Nobody

890
01:03:55,315 --> 01:03:59,115
Speaker 1: that I talked to who was from southern California when

891
01:03:59,155 --> 01:04:01,075
Speaker 1: I talked to them by phone in my new haunts

892
01:04:01,075 --> 01:04:03,275
Speaker 1: of Bristol, Connecticut in nineteen ninety three, not one of

893
01:04:03,315 --> 01:04:08,355
Speaker 1: them made a joke, not one of them seemed anything

894
01:04:08,395 --> 01:04:13,715
Speaker 1: but still shaken. Days, weeks, months, years later. I had

895
01:04:13,755 --> 01:04:19,555
Speaker 1: friends who lived in the apartment building that pancaked. In fact,

896
01:04:19,595 --> 01:04:22,395
Speaker 1: some of them occupied one of the apartments that was

897
01:04:22,395 --> 01:04:25,635
Speaker 1: totally crushed, and a couple of them, one of them

898
01:04:25,635 --> 01:04:29,395
Speaker 1: in particular, had moved out at my slight help from

899
01:04:29,435 --> 01:04:32,795
Speaker 1: Southern California to ESPN months earlier, and the first thing

900
01:04:32,835 --> 01:04:36,075
Speaker 1: he did was get his roommates jobs at ESPN, and

901
01:04:36,075 --> 01:04:38,315
Speaker 1: they all moved out and the apartment building was empty.

902
01:04:38,915 --> 01:04:41,755
Speaker 1: If you'd like to think about the consequences of your

903
01:04:41,835 --> 01:04:47,915
Speaker 1: job choices and your career pursuits in any event, when

904
01:04:47,955 --> 01:04:50,555
Speaker 1: I got to southern California and experienced my first minor

905
01:04:50,595 --> 01:04:53,675
Speaker 1: earthquake and went, oh, I get it. That thunking sound

906
01:04:53,675 --> 01:04:56,155
Speaker 1: in the chugga chugga chugga for a minute is like

907
01:04:56,235 --> 01:04:58,995
Speaker 1: an old train, a subway train pulling out a Times

908
01:04:58,995 --> 01:05:03,795
Speaker 1: Square station or Grand Central and everything rattling and you

909
01:05:03,875 --> 01:05:10,195
Speaker 1: get all the noises, only it's everything that's shaking, not

910
01:05:10,315 --> 01:05:11,995
Speaker 1: just the train that you're in, but you can pretend

911
01:05:11,995 --> 01:05:14,675
Speaker 1: it's a train. So the first couple of earthquakes in

912
01:05:14,675 --> 01:05:18,475
Speaker 1: the first couple of years, I was okay. And then

913
01:05:18,515 --> 01:05:20,235
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven we had a big one on

914
01:05:20,275 --> 01:05:22,835
Speaker 1: October first, that was I believe five point eight, and

915
01:05:23,315 --> 01:05:25,635
Speaker 1: the pictures on my wall moved, and a star player

916
01:05:25,635 --> 01:05:28,355
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Dodgers injured his back and was

917
01:05:28,395 --> 01:05:30,515
Speaker 1: never the same because he tried to catch his big

918
01:05:30,555 --> 01:05:35,395
Speaker 1: screen TV as it fell off the wall. Oops. And

919
01:05:36,595 --> 01:05:39,675
Speaker 1: later on all the crazy earthquakes with people being hit

920
01:05:39,755 --> 01:05:43,075
Speaker 1: by arm wairs in their bedrooms, and of course the

921
01:05:43,195 --> 01:05:49,395
Speaker 1: number one injury requiring hospital at least doctor attention after

922
01:05:49,515 --> 01:05:53,155
Speaker 1: earthquakes of all sizes, it's people stepping on broken glass

923
01:05:53,155 --> 01:05:58,235
Speaker 1: in their home. It was evident to me from the

924
01:05:58,315 --> 01:06:00,675
Speaker 1: day that I moved in. If you want anything in

925
01:06:00,755 --> 01:06:04,995
Speaker 1: your particularly your bedroom, and you're living in southern you

926
01:06:05,035 --> 01:06:08,235
Speaker 1: put up a poster. Put up a cat. The cat

927
01:06:08,275 --> 01:06:12,755
Speaker 1: poster that says, hang in there and use nothing sharper

928
01:06:13,155 --> 01:06:19,275
Speaker 1: or more potentially damaging than thumbtacks. Tape is recommended. The

929
01:06:19,315 --> 01:06:21,915
Speaker 1: other thing was I once saw a special about what

930
01:06:22,035 --> 01:06:24,755
Speaker 1: you needed in an earthquake and how you could fit

931
01:06:24,835 --> 01:06:27,155
Speaker 1: it in a box and store it in your closet.

932
01:06:27,355 --> 01:06:30,115
Speaker 1: You needed a device a wrench that could actually shut

933
01:06:30,115 --> 01:06:34,235
Speaker 1: off the gas meters again fire not earthquakes. You needed

934
01:06:34,875 --> 01:06:38,795
Speaker 1: some form of water supply that could leave you alive

935
01:06:38,875 --> 01:06:40,275
Speaker 1: at the end of a couple of days when they

936
01:06:40,275 --> 01:06:43,475
Speaker 1: could not get to you through the rubble. You needed

937
01:06:43,635 --> 01:06:47,635
Speaker 1: a radio and batteries. You needed a small shovel, You

938
01:06:47,715 --> 01:06:53,475
Speaker 1: needed a medical kit. Just a few things, and they

939
01:06:53,555 --> 01:06:55,835
Speaker 1: sold these things for two hundred dollars. And then there

940
01:06:55,835 --> 01:06:58,275
Speaker 1: were little household things that you could do to make

941
01:06:58,315 --> 01:07:02,315
Speaker 1: things easier to survive an earthquake and not be hit

942
01:07:02,555 --> 01:07:08,075
Speaker 1: in your neck with an armoire as you got out

943
01:07:08,075 --> 01:07:14,235
Speaker 1: of bed and stepped on broken glass. Drill a little

944
01:07:14,315 --> 01:07:16,995
Speaker 1: drill and put in a couple of screws and tie

945
01:07:17,155 --> 01:07:23,875
Speaker 1: things like bookcases to your walls with piano wire, a

946
01:07:23,955 --> 01:07:27,155
Speaker 1: very simple process, so simple that I was able to

947
01:07:27,195 --> 01:07:30,715
Speaker 1: do it with everything in all of my apartments, and

948
01:07:30,915 --> 01:07:32,835
Speaker 1: even I was starting to do it when I moved

949
01:07:32,875 --> 01:07:36,635
Speaker 1: into Pacific Coast Highway, just not screwing them into the wall,

950
01:07:36,635 --> 01:07:38,715
Speaker 1: but just attaching them to the wall, with the premise

951
01:07:38,755 --> 01:07:40,915
Speaker 1: being that if there's a major earthquake enough to knock

952
01:07:40,915 --> 01:07:42,875
Speaker 1: one of them over, it probably will not come over.

953
01:07:43,475 --> 01:07:44,875
Speaker 1: All you'll have to deal with is all of your

954
01:07:44,875 --> 01:07:46,795
Speaker 1: books flying off and hitting you in the head. And

955
01:07:46,995 --> 01:07:50,115
Speaker 1: anybody can say you got a choice of a bookcase

956
01:07:50,355 --> 01:07:52,595
Speaker 1: full of books fawing on you or a bunch of

957
01:07:52,595 --> 01:07:55,275
Speaker 1: books flying off the wall and hitting you in your forehead.

958
01:07:55,315 --> 01:08:02,635
Speaker 1: You'll take the books hitting you in the forehead. But

959
01:08:02,795 --> 01:08:07,115
Speaker 1: at some point, I think around nineteen eighty eight, I

960
01:08:07,155 --> 01:08:11,195
Speaker 1: had an idea, because I wanted to go into some

961
01:08:11,235 --> 01:08:16,435
Speaker 1: sort of advanced prepper stuff about earthquakes. What else could

962
01:08:16,475 --> 01:08:19,635
Speaker 1: you do besides tying your bookcase to the wall. What

963
01:08:19,675 --> 01:08:21,875
Speaker 1: else could you do besides having that one box in

964
01:08:21,915 --> 01:08:26,355
Speaker 1: your closet. And I looked and looked for stores in

965
01:08:26,395 --> 01:08:28,635
Speaker 1: the malls, and there were very healthy malls in those

966
01:08:28,715 --> 01:08:32,435
Speaker 1: days in nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties in southern California,

967
01:08:32,955 --> 01:08:36,915
Speaker 1: healthy malls with stores of all kinds, and never was

968
01:08:36,955 --> 01:08:41,275
Speaker 1: there a earthquake preparedness store. And finally the bright idea

969
01:08:41,315 --> 01:08:45,195
Speaker 1: came to me, I would open an earthquake preparedness store.

970
01:08:45,395 --> 01:08:50,195
Speaker 1: Clearly somebody had missed this entire market. I mean, I

971
01:08:50,275 --> 01:08:52,315
Speaker 1: was already at the stage where whenever I went into

972
01:08:52,355 --> 01:08:55,195
Speaker 1: a building, and since you didn't really have to deal

973
01:08:55,195 --> 01:08:57,435
Speaker 1: with too many high rises, you're talking about the buildings

974
01:08:57,475 --> 01:09:00,955
Speaker 1: of four to twelve stories tall, I guess would be

975
01:09:00,995 --> 01:09:05,955
Speaker 1: probably the main rage in southern California. I would take

976
01:09:05,955 --> 01:09:09,515
Speaker 1: the elevator up and take the stairs down, having thus

977
01:09:09,555 --> 01:09:12,115
Speaker 1: decreased by fifty percent my chances of getting stuck in

978
01:09:12,115 --> 01:09:16,035
Speaker 1: an elevator during an earthquake. A minor thing like that,

979
01:09:16,115 --> 01:09:19,915
Speaker 1: just improve your numbers. You cannot earthquake proof yourself in

980
01:09:19,995 --> 01:09:23,875
Speaker 1: earthquake country. Well what else could you do? What else

981
01:09:23,875 --> 01:09:27,395
Speaker 1: could I be selling people? What else could I? And

982
01:09:27,435 --> 01:09:32,115
Speaker 1: I got this far of seeing the logo for this

983
01:09:32,235 --> 01:09:36,195
Speaker 1: place called be Prepared with me in a boy Scout

984
01:09:36,275 --> 01:09:40,235
Speaker 1: uniform with my fingers up in the boy Scout salute

985
01:09:40,795 --> 01:09:43,675
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe go a little edgy and do

986
01:09:43,715 --> 01:09:48,075
Speaker 1: the other finger salute. And I thought this was the

987
01:09:48,075 --> 01:09:50,755
Speaker 1: greatest idea of all time. And my friends from Southern

988
01:09:50,835 --> 01:09:54,515
Speaker 1: California looked at me not only like I was crazy

989
01:09:54,715 --> 01:09:57,715
Speaker 1: and going to lose every dollar I had, but they

990
01:09:57,755 --> 01:10:02,155
Speaker 1: looked at me as if I were insulting them. This confirmed,

991
01:10:02,235 --> 01:10:06,075
Speaker 1: after years of things that I had noticed vaguely that

992
01:10:06,235 --> 01:10:10,075
Speaker 1: the main defense against earthquakes and other disasters in Southern

993
01:10:10,075 --> 01:10:13,475
Speaker 1: California is denial. And again I'm trying not to be

994
01:10:13,555 --> 01:10:18,875
Speaker 1: critical here because I did it myself. But if you

995
01:10:18,955 --> 01:10:22,755
Speaker 1: go into a building and your first thought is how

996
01:10:22,795 --> 01:10:24,035
Speaker 1: the hell would I get out of here? If this

997
01:10:24,595 --> 01:10:30,475
Speaker 1: hallway is blocked, that can quickly turn into the government

998
01:10:30,595 --> 01:10:34,395
Speaker 1: is causing the earthquakes. It's a straight line from one

999
01:10:34,395 --> 01:10:36,755
Speaker 1: to the other. You have to call it off somewhere

1000
01:10:36,755 --> 01:10:40,995
Speaker 1: and have some sort of reasonable idea. Attach your bookshelves

1001
01:10:41,035 --> 01:10:46,435
Speaker 1: to your walls with string or with wire or with

1002
01:10:46,515 --> 01:10:55,195
Speaker 1: chewing gum. Take the elevator up but not down. Don't

1003
01:10:55,275 --> 01:10:59,075
Speaker 1: accept the office at the radio station in Los Angeles

1004
01:10:59,115 --> 01:11:06,315
Speaker 1: that's seven doors away from the nearest window. Yeah, at

1005
01:11:06,355 --> 01:11:10,195
Speaker 1: that point, like keeping a box full of emergency equipment

1006
01:11:10,555 --> 01:11:14,195
Speaker 1: and food stuffs in your closet, and you begin to

1007
01:11:14,315 --> 01:11:17,115
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge that you are in denial because you

1008
01:11:17,155 --> 01:11:19,395
Speaker 1: are making preparations for a thing that you are convinced

1009
01:11:19,475 --> 01:11:23,475
Speaker 1: cannot happen. No matter how many previews you have gotten.

1010
01:11:26,715 --> 01:11:32,715
Speaker 1: It was denial, and it was capped by this one winter.

1011
01:11:33,235 --> 01:11:37,355
Speaker 1: The company that had sold and they delivered them by ups.

1012
01:11:37,395 --> 01:11:43,155
Speaker 1: I think these boxes full of water in some kind

1013
01:11:43,155 --> 01:11:48,155
Speaker 1: of plastic pouch, impermeable plastic pouch, water that would last

1014
01:11:48,195 --> 01:11:54,795
Speaker 1: you several days, and that God bless America gigantic wrench

1015
01:11:54,995 --> 01:11:56,955
Speaker 1: to shut off the gas. Yeah, I want to be

1016
01:11:56,995 --> 01:12:01,475
Speaker 1: playing with the gas during an earthquake and aftershocks. What

1017
01:12:01,555 --> 01:12:03,835
Speaker 1: do hell do I know about turning off the gas.

1018
01:12:04,035 --> 01:12:06,995
Speaker 1: We're not talking about turning off the gas on your stove.

1019
01:12:07,475 --> 01:12:09,915
Speaker 1: Worry about it, going in, finding in your building or

1020
01:12:09,915 --> 01:12:11,995
Speaker 1: the building which you live, or your home, going in

1021
01:12:12,155 --> 01:12:15,675
Speaker 1: finding the main artery to the gas and making sure

1022
01:12:15,715 --> 01:12:18,395
Speaker 1: you turned this. And by the way, you and sixteen

1023
01:12:18,435 --> 01:12:20,755
Speaker 1: neighbors probably could not turn it if you all turned

1024
01:12:20,795 --> 01:12:25,955
Speaker 1: it at the same time. But it had everything else

1025
01:12:25,995 --> 01:12:28,995
Speaker 1: that you needed, particularly the medical supplies and the radio

1026
01:12:29,075 --> 01:12:31,955
Speaker 1: and the batteries and the little little alerts that told

1027
01:12:31,995 --> 01:12:34,995
Speaker 1: you when you needed to throw in more batteries into

1028
01:12:35,235 --> 01:12:38,755
Speaker 1: your box in your closet. And for Christmas one year,

1029
01:12:38,955 --> 01:12:42,555
Speaker 1: I chose my twenty dearest friends and sent them all

1030
01:12:42,995 --> 01:12:47,515
Speaker 1: one of these boxes. Four or five of them not

1031
01:12:47,675 --> 01:12:51,995
Speaker 1: born in southern California called me on Christmas to say thanks.

1032
01:12:54,035 --> 01:12:58,835
Speaker 1: From four or five, I received no response whatsoever. The

1033
01:12:58,915 --> 01:13:03,115
Speaker 1: other ten or twelve either returned the box to me

1034
01:13:03,355 --> 01:13:06,315
Speaker 1: or called me up and yelled at me for having

1035
01:13:06,355 --> 01:13:09,915
Speaker 1: had the nerve to disturb them with something like this

1036
01:13:10,275 --> 01:13:15,435
Speaker 1: on Christmas. I swear denial is a hell of a

1037
01:13:15,515 --> 01:13:19,355
Speaker 1: drug in some respects. As I have indicated from my

1038
01:13:19,395 --> 01:13:21,435
Speaker 1: own behavior, it is necessary to live in a place

1039
01:13:21,475 --> 01:13:30,355
Speaker 1: like southern California, or I imagine in hurricane country, in cyclone country,

1040
01:13:31,195 --> 01:13:36,115
Speaker 1: in those areas of the Midwest with twisters. In fact,

1041
01:13:36,115 --> 01:13:38,755
Speaker 1: in all of human life, we have to have some

1042
01:13:38,955 --> 01:13:42,715
Speaker 1: denial or you will never ever go outside again, and

1043
01:13:42,835 --> 01:13:45,395
Speaker 1: while you're inside, you'll be worried about the roof falling in.

1044
01:13:45,635 --> 01:13:47,795
Speaker 1: You can't live that way. You do have to proceed,

1045
01:13:48,315 --> 01:13:51,515
Speaker 1: But in some areas where it's much more dangerous and

1046
01:13:51,555 --> 01:13:55,315
Speaker 1: the dangers are much more lethal. You then resort to

1047
01:13:55,355 --> 01:14:04,035
Speaker 1: denying everything and thinking, well, those four giant industrial grade

1048
01:14:04,355 --> 01:14:06,955
Speaker 1: fire hoses, they were just here for the problems they

1049
01:14:06,995 --> 01:14:17,235
Speaker 1: had in the twenties. It's not like that anymore. Unfortunately,

1050
01:14:18,475 --> 01:14:21,595
Speaker 1: as the climate continues to deteriorate, and we now know

1051
01:14:21,675 --> 01:14:24,355
Speaker 1: that the process by which we make the planet uninhabitable

1052
01:14:24,515 --> 01:14:29,075
Speaker 1: has just been advanced by fifty years. Because that's the

1053
01:14:29,115 --> 01:14:32,795
Speaker 1: real story of the Trump election. The key decisions that

1054
01:14:32,875 --> 01:14:37,235
Speaker 1: will mitigate or worsen the immediate effect of climate change

1055
01:14:38,435 --> 01:14:41,795
Speaker 1: and let's call it for what it is, atmospheric disaster,

1056
01:14:43,995 --> 01:14:45,875
Speaker 1: those decisions will now be in the hands of a

1057
01:14:45,875 --> 01:14:47,755
Speaker 1: madman who doesn't believe in any of it and can't

1058
01:14:47,755 --> 01:14:52,195
Speaker 1: make money off of it. As I said earlier, the

1059
01:14:52,235 --> 01:14:56,595
Speaker 1: fatal element of the Trump madness is the idea that

1060
01:14:56,635 --> 01:15:00,075
Speaker 1: the only force in the world that matters is money.

1061
01:15:00,835 --> 01:15:05,755
Speaker 1: Money did nothing other than hasten a vaccine when a

1062
01:15:05,795 --> 01:15:09,915
Speaker 1: pandemic hit, and it will do nothing to stop fire

1063
01:15:10,475 --> 01:15:12,515
Speaker 1: like we have seen in southern California, and it will

1064
01:15:12,515 --> 01:15:16,715
Speaker 1: do nothing for whatever else is next. So when we

1065
01:15:16,755 --> 01:15:21,635
Speaker 1: are in denial, and we are now dealing with the

1066
01:15:21,675 --> 01:15:28,475
Speaker 1: scenario in which the time off in southern California from wildfires.

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Speaker 1: Was the midwinter Rose Bowl Rose Bowl Parade, no fires.

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Speaker 1: It's a great time of year, fifty sixty degrees every day,

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Speaker 1: sometimes into the eighties. It's great being here. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean Santa Monica is on fire? These are the

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Speaker 1: changes we will see. It doesn't get warmer, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: get colder. It just gets more extreme, more often. And

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Speaker 1: now we have a man who thinks somehow that is

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Speaker 1: caused by Hezbollah, So we will all have to make

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Speaker 1: contain a little denial going forward. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much time the planet has left. The scenes I saw

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Speaker 1: from southern California that kept me up all night Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night and led this to being a ragged broadcast make

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Speaker 1: me thinks, as always that it's sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: My heart goes out to my former home. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what happened to the brick spit house at the

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Speaker 1: California Inc Line in pch, but I know I heard

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Speaker 1: addresses mentioned Montana Lincoln Boulevard taking people off the freeway

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Speaker 1: at Lincoln Boulevard. He used to get my mail on

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Boulevard. The distance between Lincoln Boulevard and where I

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Speaker 1: lived throughout My last stay in southern California was walking

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01:16:53,635 --> 01:16:57,915
Speaker 1: distance and that's where I got my mail. And there

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Speaker 1: were fires, and there were blockades, and there were refugees.

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Speaker 1: So the question that I raised earlier, which is, what

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01:17:07,115 --> 01:17:11,475
Speaker 1: the hell does all this wasted energy that this country

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01:17:11,515 --> 01:17:14,755
Speaker 1: is putting into blocking people from coming here who have

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01:17:14,835 --> 01:17:17,155
Speaker 1: nowhere else to live? What the hell does that mean

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01:17:18,395 --> 01:17:22,835
Speaker 1: when we are rendering parts of the planet uninhabitable, the

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01:17:22,915 --> 01:17:26,115
Speaker 1: areas around the equator, that within a few years it

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01:17:26,155 --> 01:17:29,075
Speaker 1: won't be oh, ten thousand migrants are at the border,

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01:17:29,195 --> 01:17:32,515
Speaker 1: or there's imaginary caravans on Fox News, there will be

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Speaker 1: millions of people trying to get here because guess what,

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01:17:34,915 --> 01:17:37,275
Speaker 1: They're not going to stay and live in a place

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01:17:37,315 --> 01:17:39,795
Speaker 1: that's one hundred and fifty degrees. They're going to do

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Speaker 1: something else. And the people, the number of people at

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01:17:43,395 --> 01:17:47,235
Speaker 1: the border may exceed the number of people inside the country.

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Speaker 1: So the solution to immigration is not building walls which

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01:17:51,155 --> 01:17:53,915
Speaker 1: will not hold out a million people a day, which

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01:17:53,915 --> 01:17:55,915
Speaker 1: would be three hundred and sixty five million people in

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Speaker 1: a year, which will be the size of our population. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's not the solution. The solution is to do our

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01:18:02,835 --> 01:18:08,355
Speaker 1: best to mitigate all of this and to arrange in

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01:18:08,435 --> 01:18:12,915
Speaker 1: advance areas for which these people can go. And I

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01:18:12,955 --> 01:18:17,035
Speaker 1: don't care if you have to bend some rules and say, well,

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Speaker 1: you refugees from climate crises, you have to live in

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Speaker 1: the unpopulated areas, which will be a little bit colder,

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Speaker 1: because there are going to be more climate problems here too,

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Speaker 1: but not like we're dealing with in the equatorial part

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Speaker 1: of the country of the planet. I think there would

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01:18:39,755 --> 01:18:42,075
Speaker 1: be ways we can handle this, But we live in

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Speaker 1: the land of stupid people, led by Trump, who is

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01:18:46,515 --> 01:18:48,955
Speaker 1: crazier than ever and there's something wrong with his eyes.

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01:18:49,835 --> 01:18:52,315
Speaker 1: And even if he does succumb to whatever is wrong

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01:18:52,355 --> 01:18:54,635
Speaker 1: with him, and he looks like he's on the verge,

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Speaker 1: but often he's looked like that's imminent, he'll be replaced

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01:18:58,715 --> 01:19:00,355
Speaker 1: by a bunch of other people who get their news

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01:19:00,355 --> 01:19:06,155
Speaker 1: from YouTube conspiracy videos, to believe that the only force

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Speaker 1: that matters in the world is money, and who do

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01:19:09,235 --> 01:19:11,955
Speaker 1: not know how to process nor act upon situations in

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Speaker 1: which nature, the universe, the climate, the atmosphere, God, whatever

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01:19:21,235 --> 01:19:24,515
Speaker 1: you want to call the forces of reality tell you

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01:19:24,555 --> 01:19:28,395
Speaker 1: to shove your money up your ass and take what

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01:19:28,435 --> 01:19:30,395
Speaker 1: you can with you because we're burning down your house

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01:19:30,435 --> 01:19:39,355
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. We should have some denial, We should

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01:19:39,395 --> 01:19:41,915
Speaker 1: try to outlive our lives. But we can't have that

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01:19:41,995 --> 01:19:45,075
Speaker 1: much denial. And so back to the memo or the

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01:19:45,555 --> 01:19:47,355
Speaker 1: mantra I was going to use and trying to sell

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Speaker 1: my stores that so offended Southern California with earthquake preparedness,

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Speaker 1: it is be prepared. I've done all the damage I

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Speaker 1: can do here raggedly, but I've been prepared. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced,

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration

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01:20:22,835 --> 01:20:25,755
Speaker 1: and keyboards, Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums,

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01:20:25,795 --> 01:20:28,835
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and

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01:20:28,835 --> 01:20:31,955
Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,

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01:20:32,195 --> 01:20:35,795
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from

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01:20:35,995 --> 01:20:39,475
Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Larry David, who I'm

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01:20:46,915 --> 01:20:52,195
Speaker 1: sure long ago screwed his cabinets, into his walls. Everything

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01:20:52,235 --> 01:20:56,515
Speaker 1: else was, as ever, my fault. You can't believe. Even

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01:20:56,675 --> 01:21:00,275
Speaker 1: thirty five years later, one of my friends from southern

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01:21:00,275 --> 01:21:04,355
Speaker 1: California brought up that gift of the earthquake preparedness box,

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01:21:05,515 --> 01:21:09,515
Speaker 1: like I had sent her a box of manure. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be thinking about earthquakes for the whole year. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's countdown for today, week and a half until we

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Speaker 1: inaugurate a constitutionally ineligible president who does not believe in

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01:21:24,835 --> 01:21:27,715
Speaker 1: any of this and has no connection to reality anymore

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01:21:28,275 --> 01:21:31,635
Speaker 1: and thinks that there is money and him and nothing

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01:21:31,635 --> 01:21:35,075
Speaker 1: else in the world that matters. But it's just four

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three days until the scheduled end of

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Speaker 1: his lame duck term. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.

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Speaker 1: I hope to announce a new schedule for this series

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Speaker 1: by then. Maybe in the interim has always bulletins as

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Speaker 1: the news warrants till the next one. I'm Keith Olderuman.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown

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Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.