1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:09,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio CISUS 2 00:00:10,075 --> 00:00:16,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alberman. My brother, Richard Lewis is dead. 3 00:00:16,555 --> 00:00:21,355 Speaker 1: He had a heart attack on Tuesday night and was 4 00:00:21,395 --> 00:00:24,115 Speaker 1: seventy six years old. He had been suffering from Parkinson's 5 00:00:24,115 --> 00:00:27,515 Speaker 1: disease for the last year. At least it was a 6 00:00:27,635 --> 00:00:34,155 Speaker 1: year since the diagnosis. And I call him my brother 7 00:00:34,315 --> 00:00:38,235 Speaker 1: and will because from the time we met in nineteen 8 00:00:38,275 --> 00:00:43,315 Speaker 1: eighty nine or nineteen ninety in Los Angeles, he said 9 00:00:43,355 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: I was his brother, and I felt the same way 10 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: about him. We did not spend extraordinary amounts of time together, 11 00:00:51,875 --> 00:00:55,595 Speaker 1: and we did not pal around together, but we were 12 00:00:55,635 --> 00:01:02,195 Speaker 1: in constant contact for thirty four or thirty five years, 13 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: and every moment of it was a privilege. I was 14 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:20,795 Speaker 1: transported by the news to two phone calls, hilarious, terrifying, moving, 15 00:01:22,995 --> 00:01:26,755 Speaker 1: encapsulations of Richard Lewis as a friend, as a person. 16 00:01:29,315 --> 00:01:32,395 Speaker 1: The phone rang, and I can smell the fresh cut 17 00:01:32,435 --> 00:01:36,035 Speaker 1: grass on the lawn. It's how well I remember this 18 00:01:36,155 --> 00:01:39,875 Speaker 1: phone call. The phone rang, I guess in the early 19 00:01:39,995 --> 00:01:45,395 Speaker 1: summer of nineteen ninety six, I was at my house 20 00:01:46,195 --> 00:01:50,795 Speaker 1: near ESPN, on my way to go do SportsCenter. I 21 00:01:50,835 --> 00:01:56,435 Speaker 1: had known Richard for seven years perhaps, and the voice 22 00:01:56,475 --> 00:01:58,155 Speaker 1: I heard on the other end of the phone was 23 00:01:58,235 --> 00:02:01,795 Speaker 1: unlike any other I had ever heard from him, and 24 00:02:01,835 --> 00:02:05,155 Speaker 1: I never heard it again. He was in something of 25 00:02:06,035 --> 00:02:11,555 Speaker 1: a panic. He was speaking rapidly. He was alarmed and confused, 26 00:02:11,795 --> 00:02:16,195 Speaker 1: and he said, my god, I can't believe what happened. 27 00:02:16,275 --> 00:02:18,315 Speaker 1: Just happened. And I thought there had been a car accident. 28 00:02:18,315 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: I thought somebody was gone. I thought somebody is dead. 29 00:02:20,515 --> 00:02:23,675 Speaker 1: And he said, I just spent twenty minutes talking to 30 00:02:25,195 --> 00:02:31,395 Speaker 1: your mother. And this concentrated my attention very much, so 31 00:02:31,515 --> 00:02:34,355 Speaker 1: I said, why did you talk to my mother? What 32 00:02:34,435 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: in God's reason which you have to talk to my mother? Well, 33 00:02:38,515 --> 00:02:41,355 Speaker 1: you know, you know me and my phone books. This 34 00:02:41,595 --> 00:02:45,195 Speaker 1: was one of the more extraordinary things about this extraordinary man. 35 00:02:45,475 --> 00:02:49,115 Speaker 1: He was not only constantly losing phone and address books 36 00:02:49,155 --> 00:02:51,755 Speaker 1: back when we kept these things manually, but he would 37 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: lose the new one and find the old one. So 38 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:57,955 Speaker 1: when he went to make a call to talk to me, 39 00:02:58,035 --> 00:03:00,915 Speaker 1: he had a phone number that was in fact my mother's. 40 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:04,595 Speaker 1: The phone at my mother and father's house in suburban 41 00:03:04,795 --> 00:03:07,035 Speaker 1: New York, where I had been staying for about a 42 00:03:07,075 --> 00:03:09,755 Speaker 1: week the year before, and he had written that number 43 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:12,675 Speaker 1: in this phone book, lost his current phone book, found 44 00:03:12,715 --> 00:03:15,755 Speaker 1: the old one, called my mother and for some reason 45 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: had talked to her and was now in a state 46 00:03:18,315 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: of panic. And I said, well wait wait, okay, so 47 00:03:20,315 --> 00:03:24,075 Speaker 1: you talked to her, never mind, why what's wrong? Well, 48 00:03:24,155 --> 00:03:27,355 Speaker 1: I just called up, I said, missus Olverman, Hya, it's 49 00:03:27,435 --> 00:03:30,275 Speaker 1: Richard Lewis. And your mother said, oh, Hi, nice to 50 00:03:30,315 --> 00:03:33,035 Speaker 1: talk to you. And I said, is Keith there, Oh no, 51 00:03:33,075 --> 00:03:35,355 Speaker 1: he's up at his house. Oh I guess I have 52 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:38,595 Speaker 1: the wrong number, I said, And your mother started talking 53 00:03:39,035 --> 00:03:42,755 Speaker 1: and I went, uh, oh, what did she talk to 54 00:03:42,755 --> 00:03:48,955 Speaker 1: you about? Richard? And he said. She said, if if 55 00:03:50,515 --> 00:03:54,315 Speaker 1: the world had been changed and she had had two sons, 56 00:03:54,795 --> 00:03:59,075 Speaker 1: I mean, she just barely had managed to survive having 57 00:03:59,155 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 1: you as a son. But if if I had been 58 00:04:02,795 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: her other son, if if we had actually been brothers 59 00:04:06,475 --> 00:04:09,555 Speaker 1: and and she had been my mother, she would have 60 00:04:09,635 --> 00:04:12,635 Speaker 1: killed herself by now. And I said, missus overman, I'm 61 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:14,875 Speaker 1: just trying to get Keith's phone number, and she went 62 00:04:14,915 --> 00:04:19,435 Speaker 1: on and on, and I'm just calling because I just realized, 63 00:04:19,435 --> 00:04:23,435 Speaker 1: after this conversation, I don't understand how you've been able 64 00:04:23,475 --> 00:04:26,515 Speaker 1: to become so normal after all this. And I've spent 65 00:04:26,595 --> 00:04:29,395 Speaker 1: my entire life making money off the fact that my 66 00:04:29,555 --> 00:04:32,355 Speaker 1: mom and dad were not quite normal, and I've kind 67 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:36,955 Speaker 1: of exaggerated it, But but you you really had that 68 00:04:37,035 --> 00:04:39,555 Speaker 1: kind of experience that I've just sort of joked about 69 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:44,715 Speaker 1: and I never understood, and I feel so protective of you, 70 00:04:45,355 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: and and well, by this point I was crying and 71 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:55,995 Speaker 1: I said, uh, yeah, it was an interesting child. He 72 00:04:55,995 --> 00:04:58,555 Speaker 1: would no, no, don't minimize it. Don't don't minimize it. 73 00:04:58,595 --> 00:05:00,955 Speaker 1: I've been through therapy for twenty years trying to get 74 00:05:00,955 --> 00:05:05,235 Speaker 1: through my mother, and your mother's twice as crazy as 75 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:09,555 Speaker 1: my mother was. I love you, brother, I'll take care 76 00:05:09,595 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: of you all the time like that. I joked with 77 00:05:22,435 --> 00:05:28,475 Speaker 1: him once that if it ever got out how caring 78 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:31,995 Speaker 1: and loving an individual he really was, it would ruin him. 79 00:05:33,635 --> 00:05:42,275 Speaker 1: People had this vision of him as this acerbic, self absorbed, neurotic, troubled, incomplete, 80 00:05:43,035 --> 00:05:46,235 Speaker 1: dysfunctional guy. And I'm not saying he wasn't all of 81 00:05:46,235 --> 00:05:48,435 Speaker 1: those things, and God knows, he never said he wasn't 82 00:05:48,435 --> 00:05:51,475 Speaker 1: all those things. But at the core of him, the 83 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:56,995 Speaker 1: essence of all of his problems was this extraordinary caring, 84 00:05:58,835 --> 00:06:02,995 Speaker 1: obsessively caring person and not obsessively in a bad way. 85 00:06:03,075 --> 00:06:06,675 Speaker 1: I know he had countless bad relationships with women who 86 00:06:06,755 --> 00:06:10,995 Speaker 1: would have happily treated him like Carrie Fisher wanted to 87 00:06:11,035 --> 00:06:14,755 Speaker 1: treat John Belushi. At the end of Blues Brothers, he 88 00:06:14,835 --> 00:06:17,795 Speaker 1: admitted to that he had drug abuse problems at times, 89 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:20,395 Speaker 1: he had alcohol abuse problems at times, he had life 90 00:06:20,475 --> 00:06:24,355 Speaker 1: abuse problems at times, but at the core of him 91 00:06:24,475 --> 00:06:27,835 Speaker 1: was this guy who just cared. And that was the 92 00:06:27,835 --> 00:06:32,115 Speaker 1: other phone call. The reason he had my parents' phone 93 00:06:32,155 --> 00:06:35,635 Speaker 1: number was that the year before, I was supposed to 94 00:06:35,675 --> 00:06:40,315 Speaker 1: go do a bit part in a movie by a 95 00:06:40,395 --> 00:06:44,635 Speaker 1: guy named Adam Sandler, and I guess this was the 96 00:06:44,675 --> 00:06:47,675 Speaker 1: part that Dan Patrick then played because I didn't go 97 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:52,395 Speaker 1: because I was at my folks house to cut the 98 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: commute rather than trying to fly from Bristol, Connecticut to 99 00:06:57,515 --> 00:07:01,275 Speaker 1: somewhere else to Chicago to Vancouver where they were filming 100 00:07:01,315 --> 00:07:05,715 Speaker 1: this film. Instead, I went to see my folks, took 101 00:07:05,755 --> 00:07:08,395 Speaker 1: a week off from ESPN, went to my folks. Nice 102 00:07:08,475 --> 00:07:11,835 Speaker 1: easy commute to JFK Airport in New York and then 103 00:07:11,875 --> 00:07:14,835 Speaker 1: out directly to Vancouver. And it would have been so 104 00:07:14,955 --> 00:07:19,195 Speaker 1: much easier and then the night before the flight, I 105 00:07:19,275 --> 00:07:24,795 Speaker 1: began to have chest pains, quite serious chest pains, and 106 00:07:25,075 --> 00:07:27,835 Speaker 1: I didn't sleep, and I was not a good flyer then, 107 00:07:27,995 --> 00:07:29,955 Speaker 1: for various reasons that don't have anything to do with 108 00:07:30,035 --> 00:07:34,395 Speaker 1: Richard Lewis's passing, but he was one of the people 109 00:07:34,435 --> 00:07:35,475 Speaker 1: I was going to see. I was going to go 110 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:38,835 Speaker 1: to Vancouver shoot this thing with the Adam Sandler film, 111 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:41,835 Speaker 1: and then come down to Los Angeles and visit with 112 00:07:41,875 --> 00:07:44,115 Speaker 1: my friends there, first of them being Richard Lewis. We're 113 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: going to have lunch, and I was calling to tell 114 00:07:45,995 --> 00:07:47,995 Speaker 1: him that I didn't think I was going to get 115 00:07:47,995 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: on the plane. Well, it wasn't a heart attack. I 116 00:07:52,995 --> 00:07:54,315 Speaker 1: had a doctor who thought it might have been a 117 00:07:54,355 --> 00:07:56,875 Speaker 1: heart attack. In fact, it was some kind of bone 118 00:07:56,955 --> 00:08:00,675 Speaker 1: bruise in my ribs. And the doctor actually got me 119 00:08:00,715 --> 00:08:03,435 Speaker 1: and I've told this story in this podcast, actually got 120 00:08:03,475 --> 00:08:07,435 Speaker 1: me into the emergency room secretively without my knowing that 121 00:08:07,515 --> 00:08:08,875 Speaker 1: he thought I had a heart attack and they were 122 00:08:08,875 --> 00:08:10,675 Speaker 1: shaving my chest and I thought, you actually think I've 123 00:08:10,675 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: had a heart attack. He said, I don't know, maybe 124 00:08:12,475 --> 00:08:14,235 Speaker 1: it is. In any event, it was not. It was 125 00:08:14,915 --> 00:08:17,835 Speaker 1: it was a bruise that felt that bad. I had 126 00:08:17,915 --> 00:08:22,995 Speaker 1: hurt my ribs somehow, upper ribs, somehow. I was advised 127 00:08:23,035 --> 00:08:24,715 Speaker 1: to just hang out at my folks for the week 128 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:27,635 Speaker 1: and just you know, go to the municipal puel pool 129 00:08:27,675 --> 00:08:29,955 Speaker 1: in their town and just just sit there and do 130 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:33,675 Speaker 1: nothing for a week and let this stop hurting. Richard 131 00:08:33,755 --> 00:08:38,035 Speaker 1: Lewis called me twice every day, every day while I 132 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:43,275 Speaker 1: was there, with stories, with advice, with amusement, with just 133 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:46,955 Speaker 1: something to pass the time, just because he knew that 134 00:08:46,995 --> 00:08:51,475 Speaker 1: I'd had a scare, just because he knew that sometimes 135 00:08:51,555 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: even if you're not really that sick, and it seemed 136 00:08:53,675 --> 00:08:56,475 Speaker 1: like you're that sick, you don't feel that much better afterwards. 137 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:00,475 Speaker 1: And he had advice, don't tell anybody that they thought 138 00:09:00,515 --> 00:09:02,195 Speaker 1: it was your heart. Whatever you do, it'll be in 139 00:09:02,195 --> 00:09:04,315 Speaker 1: the front page of the La Times tomorrow. You know that. 140 00:09:05,155 --> 00:09:07,515 Speaker 1: I'm just telling you from experience. Don't tell anybody it 141 00:09:07,555 --> 00:09:10,475 Speaker 1: was serious. Don't tell anybody what was wrong. Rather they 142 00:09:10,555 --> 00:09:12,875 Speaker 1: think you bailed out on the project, than the thing 143 00:09:12,955 --> 00:09:14,755 Speaker 1: to think something's wrong with your heart, because then they 144 00:09:14,755 --> 00:09:16,435 Speaker 1: can't get insurance and won't be able to do the 145 00:09:16,435 --> 00:09:19,835 Speaker 1: next series. I never asked him what had happened to him. 146 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:22,955 Speaker 1: That met him an expert on this, but he believed 147 00:09:22,995 --> 00:09:27,435 Speaker 1: he was. He called every day, and he called every 148 00:09:27,475 --> 00:09:30,195 Speaker 1: day and said, how do you feeling? Are you okay? 149 00:09:30,475 --> 00:09:33,835 Speaker 1: And he was like that, and that's why he had 150 00:09:34,035 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: my mother's phone number. And that's why my mother, in 151 00:09:36,795 --> 00:09:40,995 Speaker 1: an extraordinary revelation, told him that. And what I finally 152 00:09:41,035 --> 00:09:44,235 Speaker 1: said to Richard was you are my brother now because 153 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:47,595 Speaker 1: she said that, and also because you're the first person 154 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:50,955 Speaker 1: she's ever revealed that side of her personality too. And 155 00:09:50,995 --> 00:09:57,715 Speaker 1: now I know I'm not alone. What is a brother 156 00:09:57,755 --> 00:10:01,395 Speaker 1: if not that we met, As I said, in nineteen 157 00:10:01,395 --> 00:10:03,715 Speaker 1: eighty nine or nineteen ninety, I was a local sportscaster 158 00:10:03,835 --> 00:10:06,155 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and I was at a Lakers game 159 00:10:06,235 --> 00:10:08,315 Speaker 1: and he was at the Lakers game, and he came 160 00:10:08,395 --> 00:10:10,395 Speaker 1: up to me and he said, you are the funniest 161 00:10:10,395 --> 00:10:13,435 Speaker 1: person on television. And I went, no, you have me 162 00:10:13,515 --> 00:10:16,715 Speaker 1: mistaken for somebody else. You are the funniest person on television. 163 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:20,675 Speaker 1: And before the end of that conversation, he said, when 164 00:10:20,715 --> 00:10:22,755 Speaker 1: we had to exchanged life stories and where he grew 165 00:10:22,795 --> 00:10:24,515 Speaker 1: up in New Jersey and I grew up in New York, 166 00:10:24,555 --> 00:10:26,235 Speaker 1: and how when and well of the rest and the 167 00:10:26,315 --> 00:10:28,795 Speaker 1: nature of the family and the rough outlines of our childhood. 168 00:10:28,835 --> 00:10:43,475 Speaker 1: He goes, we are brothers, and we were supportive, protective, caring. Professionally, 169 00:10:43,675 --> 00:10:48,235 Speaker 1: he was your publicist. I don't know how many people 170 00:10:48,435 --> 00:10:51,235 Speaker 1: I have met who were in the entertainment business who said, 171 00:10:51,235 --> 00:10:53,995 Speaker 1: I had no idea who you were until Richard Lewis 172 00:10:54,035 --> 00:10:57,475 Speaker 1: told me to watch you on Channel two on Sports 173 00:10:57,555 --> 00:11:03,275 Speaker 1: Center on MSNBC, on Fox Baseball on MSNBC. The second 174 00:11:03,315 --> 00:11:05,595 Speaker 1: time they told me where to find you when you 175 00:11:05,635 --> 00:11:08,595 Speaker 1: went to Current TV, they Richard told me that you 176 00:11:08,635 --> 00:11:17,795 Speaker 1: were back on ESPN. He was my publicist, and I 177 00:11:18,115 --> 00:11:24,355 Speaker 1: was one of hundreds of people in the entertainment business 178 00:11:24,395 --> 00:11:28,075 Speaker 1: and the media business and outside of it who he 179 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:31,675 Speaker 1: treated that way, both in terms of publicizing and emphasizing 180 00:11:31,715 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: and promoting and saying this guy watch this. He's watched 181 00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:41,755 Speaker 1: this guy and comedians and singers and musicians and newspeople 182 00:11:41,955 --> 00:11:45,275 Speaker 1: and others. I mean, on and on and on. And 183 00:11:45,315 --> 00:11:48,515 Speaker 1: then there were the special people in his life, his 184 00:11:48,755 --> 00:11:54,715 Speaker 1: heroes who had advanced into retirement or post career periods. 185 00:11:54,755 --> 00:12:01,435 Speaker 1: And I think constantly of his filial affection for the 186 00:12:01,475 --> 00:12:06,675 Speaker 1: great comedian Jonathan Winters, which we shared although my affection 187 00:12:06,755 --> 00:12:09,515 Speaker 1: for Jonathan Winters was a bunch of records that I 188 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:12,755 Speaker 1: had that he had made in the sixties, and Richard's 189 00:12:12,795 --> 00:12:15,155 Speaker 1: connection to Jonathan Winters was going to his house every 190 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: day to make sure he was okay until Jonathan Winters died. 191 00:12:20,115 --> 00:12:23,475 Speaker 1: And I believe, outside of his wife, who saved his 192 00:12:23,555 --> 00:12:26,275 Speaker 1: life at some point in the nineteen nineties, joice I 193 00:12:26,355 --> 00:12:32,715 Speaker 1: believe Richard's most prized possession was a picture of himself 194 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:36,355 Speaker 1: with Jonathan Winters as Jonathan Winters planted a kiss on 195 00:12:36,355 --> 00:12:42,955 Speaker 1: his cheek. For a long time, Richard Lewis lived to 196 00:12:43,075 --> 00:12:50,395 Speaker 1: help Jonathan Winters. Lately since the Parkinson's diagnosis. He had 197 00:12:50,435 --> 00:12:55,395 Speaker 1: lived to be on the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 198 00:12:56,835 --> 00:12:58,555 Speaker 1: If you don't know this, and I think they had 199 00:12:58,595 --> 00:13:03,835 Speaker 1: mentioned this on that show, Richard and Larry David, And 200 00:13:03,915 --> 00:13:07,955 Speaker 1: he told me this story before Larry David, before Larry 201 00:13:08,035 --> 00:13:13,755 Speaker 1: David was known for anything besides writing, before Seinfeld, before 202 00:13:14,435 --> 00:13:18,675 Speaker 1: almost anything that now my friend Larry David became famous for. 203 00:13:21,035 --> 00:13:24,475 Speaker 1: Richard told me about Larry David and their childhood at 204 00:13:24,475 --> 00:13:28,995 Speaker 1: a basketball camp where they were at I guess the 205 00:13:29,035 --> 00:13:37,035 Speaker 1: age of twelve. Mortal enemies mortal enemies, fistfights, basketballs thrown 206 00:13:37,075 --> 00:13:40,715 Speaker 1: in each other's faces, hated each other's guts. In the 207 00:13:40,755 --> 00:13:45,515 Speaker 1: performances you saw on Curb Your Enthusiasm resonated a fight 208 00:13:46,275 --> 00:13:52,555 Speaker 1: from somewhere in the mid to late nineteen fifties or 209 00:13:52,675 --> 00:14:01,355 Speaker 1: early nineteen sixties. They brought themselves into those roles, and 210 00:14:02,315 --> 00:14:06,275 Speaker 1: he loved to tell about how years later they were 211 00:14:06,315 --> 00:14:10,035 Speaker 1: sitting around backstage, didn't know who each other was. They 212 00:14:10,035 --> 00:14:13,475 Speaker 1: were going on stage at some club, some open mic night, 213 00:14:13,555 --> 00:14:18,395 Speaker 1: or early career performance in Hollywood, and it dawned on them, 214 00:14:19,795 --> 00:14:26,115 Speaker 1: wait a minute, I know you from Camp Run Amuck, 215 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:30,195 Speaker 1: whatever it was, and they started to have the same 216 00:14:30,275 --> 00:14:34,115 Speaker 1: fistfight Richard told me that they had had in nineteen 217 00:14:34,195 --> 00:14:39,315 Speaker 1: sixty four or whenever it was. And then something made 218 00:14:39,355 --> 00:14:48,595 Speaker 1: one of them laugh, and they became brothers. The insistence 219 00:14:48,755 --> 00:14:51,755 Speaker 1: in his voice and in his texts and in his 220 00:14:51,995 --> 00:14:58,235 Speaker 1: emails in the last year that he was going to 221 00:14:58,315 --> 00:15:02,195 Speaker 1: be in the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 222 00:15:02,315 --> 00:15:05,155 Speaker 1: he was going to watch the last season of Curb 223 00:15:05,195 --> 00:15:07,835 Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm, and he was going to enjoy the hell 224 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:10,675 Speaker 1: out of being in the last season of Curb Your 225 00:15:10,795 --> 00:15:14,515 Speaker 1: enthusiasm had given me the sense for the last year 226 00:15:15,275 --> 00:15:19,915 Speaker 1: that he would never worry us with anything about this, 227 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:24,275 Speaker 1: but that what I feared the most was the case 228 00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:26,675 Speaker 1: that he did not think he was going to be 229 00:15:26,795 --> 00:15:32,075 Speaker 1: here much longer. So the news yesterday was not a shock, 230 00:15:33,635 --> 00:15:38,235 Speaker 1: just an end to the world that I have known 231 00:15:39,915 --> 00:15:41,955 Speaker 1: for thirty five years with. 232 00:15:43,395 --> 00:15:44,955 Speaker 2: My brother. 233 00:15:50,195 --> 00:15:53,715 Speaker 1: He once staged an intervention with me over a woman. 234 00:15:58,635 --> 00:16:03,195 Speaker 1: I know you're dating her, he said, problem is, I 235 00:16:03,235 --> 00:16:09,075 Speaker 1: don't think she's really dating you worked like a charm boy, 236 00:16:09,075 --> 00:16:13,235 Speaker 1: oh boy. For all the things Richard said in these 237 00:16:13,235 --> 00:16:20,555 Speaker 1: incredibly complicated, note filled performances, he had sometimes on stage 238 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:23,435 Speaker 1: in his stand up and go and please watch one 239 00:16:23,435 --> 00:16:27,315 Speaker 1: of his stand up specials. There second, I think only 240 00:16:27,355 --> 00:16:34,635 Speaker 1: to Carlin's his his notes would fold out, and I 241 00:16:34,675 --> 00:16:39,475 Speaker 1: told him this once, like a roadmap of the United States. 242 00:16:41,235 --> 00:16:43,475 Speaker 1: You know, fulld this thing completely over and we can 243 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:46,355 Speaker 1: we can put it over the top of Yankee Stadium 244 00:16:46,395 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: and they can play in the rain. Everything was prepared 245 00:16:50,715 --> 00:16:55,795 Speaker 1: and researched and regurgitated and planned and if he if 246 00:16:55,795 --> 00:16:57,675 Speaker 1: he wanted to go this way, because he sensed this 247 00:16:57,755 --> 00:17:00,275 Speaker 1: with the audience, and then he would move down to 248 00:17:00,315 --> 00:17:02,755 Speaker 1: the next square, but maybe he go up to the 249 00:17:02,795 --> 00:17:05,515 Speaker 1: top square because that guy in the back was laughing 250 00:17:05,555 --> 00:17:08,875 Speaker 1: at the other thing. It was mechanically precise, it was. 251 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:12,235 Speaker 1: It was a craft for him, and yet the things 252 00:17:12,235 --> 00:17:15,795 Speaker 1: he would come out with that were not planned, like 253 00:17:15,995 --> 00:17:17,715 Speaker 1: I know you're dating her, but I don't think she's 254 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:21,555 Speaker 1: really dating you. The mojuiced rather than the bond MO. 255 00:17:24,195 --> 00:17:28,195 Speaker 1: And we texted and emailed and phoned. I don't know 256 00:17:28,235 --> 00:17:32,435 Speaker 1: a thousand times, two thousand times. I went back on 257 00:17:32,475 --> 00:17:35,235 Speaker 1: the phone. There'd been one hundred and eleven of them 258 00:17:35,595 --> 00:17:41,235 Speaker 1: this year, and the parallels, well, we were brothers. I 259 00:17:41,275 --> 00:17:45,675 Speaker 1: make no bones about the fact that honorary brotherhood was 260 00:17:45,715 --> 00:17:49,915 Speaker 1: absolutely deserved and not an exaggeration. Neither of us had 261 00:17:49,915 --> 00:17:53,955 Speaker 1: ever had a dog. One day I told him I 262 00:17:54,355 --> 00:17:56,595 Speaker 1: just got my first dog at the age of fifty three, 263 00:17:56,715 --> 00:17:58,795 Speaker 1: said I was meaning to tell you this, and he 264 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:01,515 Speaker 1: sent me a picture. He'd gotten a dog the week before, 265 00:18:01,595 --> 00:18:06,315 Speaker 1: a Maltese. I'd gotten a Maltese Luna. He lost Luna. 266 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:11,475 Speaker 1: She had Cushing's disease. He loved Luna and was crushed 267 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:13,915 Speaker 1: when she was gone, and went and got another dog, 268 00:18:14,235 --> 00:18:18,195 Speaker 1: but not another Maltese. But he demanded photos of my 269 00:18:18,315 --> 00:18:21,275 Speaker 1: malteses on a daily basis, So what again, If you've 270 00:18:21,315 --> 00:18:25,635 Speaker 1: ever thought of Richard Lewis as this hard edged, dysfunctional, 271 00:18:25,715 --> 00:18:28,795 Speaker 1: self absorbed guy, the last time I sent him new 272 00:18:28,835 --> 00:18:38,715 Speaker 1: photos of my malteses was last Monday. In two thousand 273 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:43,315 Speaker 1: and eight. The ninety second Street y here which does 274 00:18:43,355 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 1: these things, had a night with Richard Lewis and he 275 00:18:46,515 --> 00:18:49,515 Speaker 1: called me one day and said, they want me to 276 00:18:49,515 --> 00:18:52,475 Speaker 1: pick somebody. And I said, well, I'm not going to 277 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:54,835 Speaker 1: do it unless it's Keith, so you have to do it. 278 00:18:54,955 --> 00:18:58,475 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, I said, but I have a proviso. 279 00:18:58,595 --> 00:19:02,715 Speaker 1: He said, okay, okay, what do you want money? I said, 280 00:19:03,115 --> 00:19:06,155 Speaker 1: I said, I want to go out on stage first 281 00:19:07,115 --> 00:19:09,355 Speaker 1: and I will introduce you, and then you come on stage. 282 00:19:09,395 --> 00:19:11,995 Speaker 1: I do not want to go on stage with you simultaneously. 283 00:19:12,835 --> 00:19:16,075 Speaker 1: And he had been on countdown with me on MSNBC. 284 00:19:16,355 --> 00:19:17,835 Speaker 1: I don't know every time he was in New York. 285 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:19,755 Speaker 1: He would make sure he came over and it was 286 00:19:19,755 --> 00:19:23,315 Speaker 1: always something to sell. But he'd probably been on by 287 00:19:23,355 --> 00:19:27,355 Speaker 1: that point ten times in five years. And I said 288 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:30,155 Speaker 1: to him, okay, two thousand, okay, fine, I'll do it. 289 00:19:30,195 --> 00:19:32,355 Speaker 1: But I have to get out there first so I 290 00:19:32,395 --> 00:19:36,035 Speaker 1: can introduce you, and also so that the next to 291 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:38,195 Speaker 1: last sentence that I say before I say here is 292 00:19:38,435 --> 00:19:41,595 Speaker 1: the Prince of praying Richard Lewis. The last sentence before 293 00:19:41,635 --> 00:19:43,915 Speaker 1: that I'm going to say is And the other thing 294 00:19:43,955 --> 00:19:46,555 Speaker 1: I wanted to say was this will be the last 295 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:50,995 Speaker 1: sentence I get to complete by myself tonight. And I 296 00:19:51,035 --> 00:19:52,675 Speaker 1: think we were out there for two hours and it 297 00:19:52,795 --> 00:19:55,675 Speaker 1: was and it was one of the most memorable, enjoyable 298 00:19:55,675 --> 00:19:58,235 Speaker 1: things I have ever had in my life. 299 00:19:58,275 --> 00:19:58,915 Speaker 3: And I've. 300 00:20:00,555 --> 00:20:02,595 Speaker 1: I have a copy of it on my phone and 301 00:20:02,675 --> 00:20:04,355 Speaker 1: I'm going to play some of it at the end 302 00:20:04,355 --> 00:20:06,875 Speaker 1: of this podcast. And I have not asked for permission, 303 00:20:06,875 --> 00:20:08,675 Speaker 1: and they consume me if they want. And I'm also 304 00:20:08,755 --> 00:20:12,035 Speaker 1: going to at the end play one of our MSNBC 305 00:20:12,195 --> 00:20:14,715 Speaker 1: segments together and I didn't ask them, And if they 306 00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:19,795 Speaker 1: want to assume me, fine, go ahead. Before that, though, 307 00:20:19,995 --> 00:20:26,475 Speaker 1: Richard also cared passionately for this country and as I 308 00:20:26,515 --> 00:20:28,875 Speaker 1: suppose his true view and as you know is true 309 00:20:28,875 --> 00:20:34,515 Speaker 1: of me, feared for its future, and this support he 310 00:20:34,675 --> 00:20:38,435 Speaker 1: gave me in the political part of my career, and 311 00:20:38,475 --> 00:20:42,595 Speaker 1: he was, as I said, Nightly Sports viewer too but 312 00:20:42,715 --> 00:20:46,995 Speaker 1: the support he gave me for my political commentary rested 313 00:20:47,075 --> 00:20:50,595 Speaker 1: upon something he told me once that he knew that 314 00:20:50,675 --> 00:20:52,595 Speaker 1: I knew that I was speaking for a lot of people, 315 00:20:52,915 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: but he wanted me to remember that there were constraints 316 00:20:57,155 --> 00:20:59,675 Speaker 1: on what he could and could not say publicly, and 317 00:20:59,715 --> 00:21:08,875 Speaker 1: thus I was speaking always for him. So after the 318 00:21:08,875 --> 00:21:13,115 Speaker 1: break there is news of the day, most of which 319 00:21:13,155 --> 00:21:16,395 Speaker 1: I'll confess I wrote before this news came in about 320 00:21:16,435 --> 00:21:20,835 Speaker 1: Richard's passing, because I could not write it now. It's 321 00:21:20,955 --> 00:21:24,275 Speaker 1: news that would have continued to scare my brother, the 322 00:21:24,315 --> 00:21:27,355 Speaker 1: Prince of Pain, and news that would have made him laugh, 323 00:21:27,915 --> 00:21:31,115 Speaker 1: particularly the news that Trump basically confessed yesterday that he 324 00:21:31,235 --> 00:21:36,515 Speaker 1: is in effect insolvent, and Richard would have said and 325 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:45,115 Speaker 1: probably incontinent. A close with two more things about Richard Lewis. 326 00:21:47,955 --> 00:21:53,475 Speaker 1: The official statement of his death from his publicist, put 327 00:21:53,475 --> 00:21:56,355 Speaker 1: out at four pm Eastern yesterday, mentions the heart attack, 328 00:21:57,355 --> 00:22:00,795 Speaker 1: mentions his Parkinson's diagnosis from nearly a year ago. But 329 00:22:00,835 --> 00:22:04,235 Speaker 1: I'll just read the fourth sentence verbadim, because this is 330 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:12,995 Speaker 1: Richard Lewis quote. Richard can currently be seen co starring 331 00:22:13,155 --> 00:22:17,475 Speaker 1: in the final season of HBO's Curb Your enthusiasm, and 332 00:22:17,835 --> 00:22:29,315 Speaker 1: of course his obituary emphasizes his next appearance. And the 333 00:22:29,395 --> 00:22:34,635 Speaker 1: last thing is this. I don't know how long this 334 00:22:34,835 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: was true. It was true the length of the time 335 00:22:37,915 --> 00:22:41,035 Speaker 1: that I knew him. It may have only been pertinent 336 00:22:41,115 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: to me. It may have only been pertinent on the phone. 337 00:22:45,075 --> 00:22:48,635 Speaker 1: I don't know. But in conversation with me, Richard Lewis 338 00:22:48,675 --> 00:22:54,795 Speaker 1: could not say the word goodbye a phone call WI 339 00:22:54,955 --> 00:23:02,275 Speaker 1: just and end with all right or okay tomorrow or 340 00:23:02,515 --> 00:23:07,875 Speaker 1: love you. It was a weird thing. At first. I 341 00:23:07,915 --> 00:23:10,835 Speaker 1: don't know of anybody else at whom it was true. 342 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:14,555 Speaker 1: I just wrote it off as part of his personality, 343 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:19,075 Speaker 1: like I'm going to judge somebody else's personality quirks. Then 344 00:23:19,115 --> 00:23:20,755 Speaker 1: I got used to it and didn't think much about it, 345 00:23:20,795 --> 00:23:22,835 Speaker 1: And now right now I cherish. 346 00:23:22,475 --> 00:23:33,915 Speaker 3: It because he could not say goodbye. 347 00:23:34,155 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: He did not ever say goodbye to me, And therefore 348 00:23:46,435 --> 00:24:26,955 Speaker 1: my brother Richard Lewis will always be with me. The 349 00:24:27,075 --> 00:24:31,435 Speaker 1: Supreme Court will actually listen to arguments in Trump's made 350 00:24:31,515 --> 00:24:35,275 Speaker 1: up presidential immunity farce the week of April twenty second, 351 00:24:35,595 --> 00:24:39,155 Speaker 1: thus delaying the start of his election subversion trial. And 352 00:24:39,315 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: if they can drag out the delay long enough, jeopardizing 353 00:24:42,955 --> 00:24:46,595 Speaker 1: getting him convicted before the election. And I do not 354 00:24:46,755 --> 00:24:50,595 Speaker 1: consider this bad news for democracy, because the conservatives on 355 00:24:50,635 --> 00:24:53,795 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court are Trump's whoes, and we all knew that, 356 00:24:54,395 --> 00:24:57,795 Speaker 1: and there should be no surprise in this chief. Justice 357 00:24:57,875 --> 00:25:00,675 Speaker 1: Roberts is a Trump whore and he can burn in hell. 358 00:25:01,515 --> 00:25:04,075 Speaker 1: And Justice Alito is a Trump whore, and he can 359 00:25:04,115 --> 00:25:07,795 Speaker 1: burn in hell. And Justice Gorsich is a self contradicting 360 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:10,875 Speaker 1: Trump poor, and he can burn in hell. And Justice 361 00:25:10,955 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: Kavanaugh is a drunken abuser Trump poor, and he can 362 00:25:14,315 --> 00:25:18,315 Speaker 1: burn in hell. And Justice Barrett is a handmade Trump poor, 363 00:25:18,715 --> 00:25:22,835 Speaker 1: and she can burn in hell. They are corrupt, They 364 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:25,835 Speaker 1: have corrupted the Supreme Court. We will have to remove 365 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:30,075 Speaker 1: them from the Supreme Court or create a replacement for 366 00:25:30,355 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And if Joe Biden is re elected 367 00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:37,195 Speaker 1: and the democracy is not destroyed, his first effort should 368 00:25:37,235 --> 00:25:41,595 Speaker 1: be to add enough additional justices to the Court to 369 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:46,675 Speaker 1: make the five of them living irrelevancies. Send them to 370 00:25:46,715 --> 00:25:50,715 Speaker 1: Madame Tussaud's and let them lie and corrupt the nation 371 00:25:50,915 --> 00:25:56,995 Speaker 1: from there. The good news is that something far more 372 00:25:57,035 --> 00:26:02,275 Speaker 1: important to the psychopath Trump has broken against him. In 373 00:26:02,355 --> 00:26:07,355 Speaker 1: spectacular fashion and at his own hand. Trump is, for 374 00:26:07,515 --> 00:26:13,595 Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, insolvent. He has now confessed in 375 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:16,715 Speaker 1: writing that he does not have the four hundred and 376 00:26:16,715 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars he fines an interests he owes 377 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:21,715 Speaker 1: the state of New York, which he has to pay 378 00:26:21,835 --> 00:26:25,555 Speaker 1: into escrow by March twenty fifth, or forfeit his right 379 00:26:25,635 --> 00:26:29,395 Speaker 1: to appeal the verdict. In a Trump ploy as old 380 00:26:29,515 --> 00:26:33,435 Speaker 1: as Trump's corrupt business itself, Trump has offered a bond 381 00:26:33,835 --> 00:26:36,955 Speaker 1: of one hundred million dollars. Trump is offering to pay 382 00:26:37,355 --> 00:26:41,635 Speaker 1: twenty two percent of what he owes. Usually his scam 383 00:26:41,835 --> 00:26:44,875 Speaker 1: is to offer to pay closer to sixty to seventy 384 00:26:44,915 --> 00:26:48,395 Speaker 1: percent of what he owes and fu sue me for 385 00:26:48,475 --> 00:26:51,755 Speaker 1: the rest. But if he doesn't have four hundred and 386 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:54,595 Speaker 1: sixty five million, he also does not have sixty to 387 00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:57,395 Speaker 1: seventy percent of four hundred and sixty five million, he 388 00:26:57,435 --> 00:27:00,035 Speaker 1: can get his hands on a bond for one hundred 389 00:27:00,075 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: million dollars. The appeals judged to whom he made this 390 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:08,155 Speaker 1: lootar Chris extra legal offer, immediately ruled against him. Trump 391 00:27:08,195 --> 00:27:10,115 Speaker 1: can now take it to the full appeals court in 392 00:27:10,155 --> 00:27:12,715 Speaker 1: a month, but he has already lost this part of it. 393 00:27:13,435 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: There is a lot else in his filing about poor me. 394 00:27:16,435 --> 00:27:18,555 Speaker 1: I have to sell stuff and you can't stop me 395 00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:21,195 Speaker 1: from getting loans from New York banks. And the judge 396 00:27:21,355 --> 00:27:26,715 Speaker 1: stayed that punishment. And who cares. He is seventy eight 397 00:27:26,835 --> 00:27:32,195 Speaker 1: percent short. The billionaire doesn't have any money. He is, 398 00:27:32,315 --> 00:27:39,155 Speaker 1: for all intents and judicial purposes, insolvent, and he may 399 00:27:39,195 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: shortly become, for all intents and purposes, bankrupt and bankruptcy. 400 00:27:46,595 --> 00:28:04,035 Speaker 1: Bankruptcy would kill Donald Trump, kill him in the interim 401 00:28:04,355 --> 00:28:06,875 Speaker 1: of the the worst human beings to have ever served 402 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:09,475 Speaker 1: in American government is stepping down, and the nation is 403 00:28:09,515 --> 00:28:12,755 Speaker 1: so hanging by its fingertips from a precipice that his 404 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:16,915 Speaker 1: departure is actually bad news for the chances that we 405 00:28:16,955 --> 00:28:21,475 Speaker 1: will still have representative democracy one year from now, if 406 00:28:21,515 --> 00:28:23,755 Speaker 1: there is a hell, I have no doubt that they 407 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:27,155 Speaker 1: have been building a special new wing just for Mitch McConnell. 408 00:28:27,555 --> 00:28:30,955 Speaker 1: But bluntly, this year he has been the closest thing 409 00:28:31,355 --> 00:28:35,315 Speaker 1: to a Republican bulwark against the authoritarian insanity of Trump. 410 00:28:35,795 --> 00:28:38,395 Speaker 1: And his decision to step down as Senate Minority Leader 411 00:28:38,395 --> 00:28:41,755 Speaker 1: in November, combined with two other GOP developments this week 412 00:28:41,915 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: means that Trump has now accomplished within the Republican Party 413 00:28:45,675 --> 00:28:48,875 Speaker 1: what he intends to do in the country, full and 414 00:28:49,035 --> 00:28:55,515 Speaker 1: complete dictatorship. This doesn't even include what happened at the 415 00:28:55,515 --> 00:29:00,475 Speaker 1: Supreme Court yesterday. Four days ago. Mitch McConnell's number two, 416 00:29:00,875 --> 00:29:08,035 Speaker 1: the Senate Minority whip, John Thune, endorsed Trump. Tuesday, Anthony Desposito, 417 00:29:08,475 --> 00:29:12,475 Speaker 1: the congressman in probably the most vulnerable Republican held seat 418 00:29:12,515 --> 00:29:16,755 Speaker 1: in the nation, the New York Fourth, endorsed Trump. The 419 00:29:16,795 --> 00:29:21,075 Speaker 1: other two Republicans in the other two possibilities for most 420 00:29:21,355 --> 00:29:24,995 Speaker 1: vulnerable Republican held seats in the nation, Desposito's neighbor Nick 421 00:29:25,075 --> 00:29:27,715 Speaker 1: Lalatta of the New York First and Brandon Williams of 422 00:29:27,755 --> 00:29:31,395 Speaker 1: the New York twenty second, which is basically upstate Syracuse. 423 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:34,315 Speaker 1: All the liberal colleges in and around Syracuse they had 424 00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:39,595 Speaker 1: already endorsed Trump. Endorsing Trump probably means all three of 425 00:29:39,635 --> 00:29:43,915 Speaker 1: them will lose and the Republicans will lose the House 426 00:29:44,155 --> 00:29:47,395 Speaker 1: no matter what else happens in November. But these three 427 00:29:47,435 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: idiots did it anyway. It is almost certain political suicide 428 00:29:52,555 --> 00:29:58,275 Speaker 1: for Desposito. For Lalatta for Williams. They did it anyway 429 00:29:59,075 --> 00:30:03,875 Speaker 1: because it's almost certain political suicide, but their donors and 430 00:30:03,915 --> 00:30:05,675 Speaker 1: Trump and the rest the cult told them to do 431 00:30:05,715 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: it anyway, because to defy Trump now is certain political 432 00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:13,195 Speaker 1: suicide within the Trump Party. And if they are not 433 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:17,115 Speaker 1: willing to jump to their deaths, some even dumber political 434 00:30:17,155 --> 00:30:21,235 Speaker 1: prostitute will be happy to primary them and then jump 435 00:30:21,275 --> 00:30:25,195 Speaker 1: to their own deaths instead. Because the Trump Party is 436 00:30:25,835 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: a suicide cult. No more half kidding about that term, 437 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: no more detached bitterness or sad sympathetic head shaking. The 438 00:30:35,235 --> 00:30:41,155 Speaker 1: Republican Party exists now only to do Trump's bidding and 439 00:30:41,275 --> 00:30:45,915 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's bidding. And frankly, if the suicide cult is 440 00:30:45,915 --> 00:30:50,635 Speaker 1: not just a tragically apt analogy but a reality, hey Republicans, 441 00:30:51,435 --> 00:30:57,155 Speaker 1: the sooner the better, because this is what Trump has 442 00:30:57,275 --> 00:31:02,755 Speaker 1: planned for the country. This is where the madness ultimately 443 00:31:02,875 --> 00:31:09,555 Speaker 1: leads to his or die. If we are lucky, the 444 00:31:09,675 --> 00:31:14,195 Speaker 1: death would only be metaphorical. We know about schedule f 445 00:31:14,195 --> 00:31:17,875 Speaker 1: federal employees not loyal to Trump will be fired. We 446 00:31:17,955 --> 00:31:22,515 Speaker 1: know about Project twenty twenty five. All new federal appointees judges, 447 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:29,715 Speaker 1: law enforcement, maybe cops, certainly military will be ultra conservatives 448 00:31:29,955 --> 00:31:33,195 Speaker 1: loyal to Trump. We know about the Center for Renewing 449 00:31:33,195 --> 00:31:38,995 Speaker 1: America plan, where white fundamentalist Christian quote values will be 450 00:31:39,115 --> 00:31:41,675 Speaker 1: imposed on every aspect of government and every aspect of 451 00:31:41,715 --> 00:31:44,315 Speaker 1: American life, from abortion to whether or not you go 452 00:31:44,395 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: to church on Sundays and which church you must go 453 00:31:48,355 --> 00:31:55,995 Speaker 1: to that's next. It's a purge. It's a purge designed 454 00:31:56,075 --> 00:32:00,555 Speaker 1: to outlive Trump. He is, in fact just the weapon. 455 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:05,795 Speaker 1: He will eventually become just another victim of the per urge. 456 00:32:06,155 --> 00:32:09,235 Speaker 1: Whenever he gets too crazy or too personally vengeful, or 457 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:12,075 Speaker 1: inconvenient for the guys actually running the thing, they will 458 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:15,155 Speaker 1: kill his character off too, or he will die in 459 00:32:15,195 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: the interim and with McConnell Gon and in the other 460 00:32:20,435 --> 00:32:25,115 Speaker 1: apt analogy, if those of us fighting Nazis and fighting 461 00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:28,875 Speaker 1: fascism and fighting racism are now in our own version 462 00:32:28,915 --> 00:32:32,595 Speaker 1: of World War Two, McConnell was our ally stalin in 463 00:32:32,635 --> 00:32:36,235 Speaker 1: this equation. With McConnell Gon, the purge is almost complete 464 00:32:36,235 --> 00:32:39,715 Speaker 1: now within the Republican Party. So make no mistake about 465 00:32:39,755 --> 00:32:41,875 Speaker 1: our task in the next two hundred and fifty days, 466 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:45,075 Speaker 1: and it is that till the election, we must stop 467 00:32:45,275 --> 00:32:50,115 Speaker 1: Trump and his cult by any means necessary, any means. 468 00:32:52,075 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: There is one glimmering, shining bit of good news about that, 469 00:32:58,275 --> 00:33:00,755 Speaker 1: and I don't think you've heard it. And it's the 470 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:04,115 Speaker 1: actual headline from the Michigan primary Tuesday, and it is 471 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:07,795 Speaker 1: from a man named Jeff Timmer, the former executive director 472 00:33:07,835 --> 00:33:11,755 Speaker 1: of the Michigan Republican Party, one of their trop drawers 473 00:33:11,795 --> 00:33:18,235 Speaker 1: of jerrymandered regional maps before Trump came along, and mister 474 00:33:18,275 --> 00:33:21,475 Speaker 1: Timmer realized early it was a death cult. He basically 475 00:33:21,515 --> 00:33:24,595 Speaker 1: got out of it in twenty sixteen, and he posted 476 00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:28,355 Speaker 1: yesterday to little fanfare, the flashing red light in the 477 00:33:28,395 --> 00:33:31,715 Speaker 1: Michigan Republican primary results that I didn't see and I 478 00:33:31,755 --> 00:33:34,475 Speaker 1: wouldn't have known, and I don't know how many of 479 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:40,155 Speaker 1: us civilians saw or would have understood, but he understands it. Quote. 480 00:33:40,515 --> 00:33:43,715 Speaker 1: One cannot typically look at primary election results and draw 481 00:33:43,755 --> 00:33:48,315 Speaker 1: conclusions about the general. However, I can say that Trump's 482 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:52,995 Speaker 1: fifty nine percent in the Grand Rapids area makes it 483 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:58,515 Speaker 1: nearly impossible for him to win Michigan in November. Michigan 484 00:33:58,555 --> 00:34:06,355 Speaker 1: will remain close my crystal ball, says Biden. Wins. I'll 485 00:34:06,395 --> 00:34:10,035 Speaker 1: repeat the key part Trump's fifty nine percent in the 486 00:34:10,035 --> 00:34:13,035 Speaker 1: Grand Rapids area makes it nearly impossible for him to 487 00:34:13,075 --> 00:34:18,155 Speaker 1: win Michigan in November from the former chairman executive director 488 00:34:19,035 --> 00:34:28,875 Speaker 1: of the Michigan Republican Party, from his lips to the 489 00:34:28,915 --> 00:34:36,075 Speaker 1: Electoral College's years. Of course, you did not see that 490 00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:40,115 Speaker 1: in the New York Times or CNN or anywhere else 491 00:34:40,155 --> 00:34:43,395 Speaker 1: in the I hate the phrase, but it's accurate legacy 492 00:34:43,555 --> 00:34:47,275 Speaker 1: news media, because if there were any remaining doubt that 493 00:34:47,315 --> 00:34:51,595 Speaker 1: the entire legacy news industry has lost the plot, it 494 00:34:51,635 --> 00:34:57,155 Speaker 1: has come in the last forty eight hours. It used 495 00:34:57,155 --> 00:35:00,395 Speaker 1: to be as if they were a Shakespearean performance company, 496 00:35:01,195 --> 00:35:05,195 Speaker 1: and now they still produce Shakespearean plays and dramas and comedies. 497 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:07,795 Speaker 1: And their only concern is not the lines, or the 498 00:35:07,835 --> 00:35:10,315 Speaker 1: meeting or the quality of the acting. Their only concern 499 00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: is is anybody going to be offended by the curtains 500 00:35:14,675 --> 00:35:21,355 Speaker 1: on the stage. There is a difference between facts and truth. 501 00:35:21,955 --> 00:35:25,955 Speaker 1: If I say my body is made entirely out of 502 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:30,475 Speaker 1: green cheese, it is a fact that I just said that. 503 00:35:30,675 --> 00:35:34,955 Speaker 1: It is not. However, the truth and the legacy news 504 00:35:35,035 --> 00:35:39,075 Speaker 1: media in this country doesn't understand that anymore. It has 505 00:35:39,155 --> 00:35:43,955 Speaker 1: abandoned truth because truth is complicated and nuanced, and it 506 00:35:43,995 --> 00:35:48,435 Speaker 1: produces angry blowback and maybe personal threats, and maybe worst 507 00:35:48,475 --> 00:35:54,155 Speaker 1: of all, reduced traffic on your site. And it is 508 00:35:54,195 --> 00:35:56,635 Speaker 1: getting worse because maybe the real story of the primaries 509 00:35:56,635 --> 00:36:00,915 Speaker 1: in Michigan Tuesday is how astonishingly completely the New York Times, 510 00:36:01,155 --> 00:36:07,155 Speaker 1: The Washington Post, CNN, and countless others hid behind facts 511 00:36:08,115 --> 00:36:14,555 Speaker 1: and buried truth. The refs have been worked for sixty 512 00:36:14,635 --> 00:36:16,635 Speaker 1: years in this country by the far right, and it 513 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:20,875 Speaker 1: has succeeded. And the problem is the refs are the 514 00:36:20,955 --> 00:36:24,475 Speaker 1: businessmen at news organizations, the ones who used to have 515 00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:28,955 Speaker 1: no role in news coverage. Network television news used to 516 00:36:28,995 --> 00:36:33,315 Speaker 1: be not for profit. It used to be presumed to 517 00:36:33,395 --> 00:36:36,275 Speaker 1: lose forty fifty sixty million dollars a year, the price 518 00:36:36,315 --> 00:36:38,675 Speaker 1: you paid to be able to make all that other 519 00:36:38,795 --> 00:36:47,955 Speaker 1: money by airing the Beverly Hillbillies. The refs, the businessmen 520 00:36:48,035 --> 00:36:50,115 Speaker 1: at the news organizations used to have no role in 521 00:36:50,155 --> 00:36:53,155 Speaker 1: news coverage at all, but who now look for ways 522 00:36:53,195 --> 00:36:59,235 Speaker 1: to do the following. If Donald Trump's campaign problem indictments, rape, racism, dictatorship, 523 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:04,035 Speaker 1: underperformance in the primaries, if he has campaign problems, their 524 00:37:04,035 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: outlet is not allowed to cover it without counterbalancing it 525 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:11,835 Speaker 1: often in the same story with some problem in the 526 00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: Biden campaign, And so you cannot report that in the 527 00:37:14,915 --> 00:37:18,155 Speaker 1: Michigan primary Tuesday that the reality was the facts were. 528 00:37:18,355 --> 00:37:20,915 Speaker 1: The simple math was Trump lost four out of ten 529 00:37:20,995 --> 00:37:24,635 Speaker 1: votes in Grand Rapids, and without one hundred percent Republican support, 530 00:37:24,755 --> 00:37:27,595 Speaker 1: he cannot win Grand Rapids in November, and without Grand 531 00:37:27,675 --> 00:37:31,355 Speaker 1: Rapids he cannot win Michigan in November. And the reality 532 00:37:31,515 --> 00:37:34,635 Speaker 1: was the facts were. The simple math was throughout Michigan, 533 00:37:34,675 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: Trump underperformed expectations and Biden over performed expectations. And the 534 00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:46,075 Speaker 1: protest vote against Biden's Middle East policy slightly overperformed expectations, 535 00:37:46,675 --> 00:37:50,515 Speaker 1: but it only did about the average when compared to 536 00:37:50,715 --> 00:37:56,155 Speaker 1: previous Michigan Democratic primaries. And throw in the default position 537 00:37:56,195 --> 00:38:00,315 Speaker 1: at the times, campaign problems mean clicks, and you have 538 00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: a recipe in which you and me and everybody who 539 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:06,555 Speaker 1: works at the time times, we will all lined up 540 00:38:06,595 --> 00:38:10,475 Speaker 1: together in the buzz wind trip media re education camp 541 00:38:10,995 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. You can only report the problems 542 00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:21,355 Speaker 1: in the times Biden faced discontent, Donald Trump won again, 543 00:38:21,555 --> 00:38:25,075 Speaker 1: and both may face challenges from within their parties. That 544 00:38:25,235 --> 00:38:28,755 Speaker 1: was the headline about Michigan in The Times. That headline 545 00:38:29,635 --> 00:38:38,115 Speaker 1: is legally true. It is not, however, actual truth. The 546 00:38:38,235 --> 00:38:41,475 Speaker 1: average of polling in Michigan had Trump winning Michigan by 547 00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:46,115 Speaker 1: fifty nine points. He won by forty two. The average 548 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:48,875 Speaker 1: of polling in Michigan had Biden winning only seventy seven 549 00:38:48,915 --> 00:38:52,195 Speaker 1: percent of the vote. He won eighty one percent. Uncommitted 550 00:38:52,235 --> 00:38:56,755 Speaker 1: got thirteen percent of the vote. In twenty twelve, uncommitted 551 00:38:56,795 --> 00:39:02,195 Speaker 1: got eleven percent of the vote. The protest did very well, 552 00:39:02,635 --> 00:39:06,155 Speaker 1: and the protest drove Biden voters to come out in 553 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:09,995 Speaker 1: record waves. That's not in this headline. That's not what 554 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:18,315 Speaker 1: it says. He faced discontent. Ooh, breaking news. Olderman faced discontent. Yesterday, 555 00:39:18,475 --> 00:39:32,035 Speaker 1: your mom faced discontent. That was the headline in The Times. 556 00:39:32,035 --> 00:39:37,395 Speaker 1: That headline legally true, but not truth. Of the two 557 00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:41,195 Speaker 1: candidates and the one protest movement, Joe Biden had the 558 00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:47,515 Speaker 1: best night, the most unexpectedly best night, the biggest gain 559 00:39:48,235 --> 00:39:52,795 Speaker 1: relative to the polls, the most success, the most encouraging signs, 560 00:39:52,995 --> 00:39:57,235 Speaker 1: the least amount of discontent, the smallest challenge. Again, the 561 00:39:57,275 --> 00:40:00,355 Speaker 1: Times headline, Biden faced discontent. Donald Trump won again, and 562 00:40:00,355 --> 00:40:03,915 Speaker 1: both may face challenges for more than their parties. It's 563 00:40:03,955 --> 00:40:05,955 Speaker 1: like saying both may owe the city of New York 564 00:40:05,995 --> 00:40:07,635 Speaker 1: in the state of New York four hundred and sixty 565 00:40:07,635 --> 00:40:10,515 Speaker 1: four million dollars. Well, that's true, they both may only 566 00:40:10,595 --> 00:40:19,595 Speaker 1: Trump does. This was everywhere. CNN's top polling guy's kind 567 00:40:19,595 --> 00:40:24,075 Speaker 1: of an odd ball named Harry Enton wrote, Uncommitted is 568 00:40:24,115 --> 00:40:25,835 Speaker 1: getting about the same share of the vote as it 569 00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:29,155 Speaker 1: did in twenty twelve. I get the raw vot is higher, 570 00:40:29,635 --> 00:40:32,915 Speaker 1: but turnout is also up. I feel like I'm missing 571 00:40:32,995 --> 00:40:38,475 Speaker 1: something here. Yes, what Harry Anton was missing was the 572 00:40:38,555 --> 00:40:41,715 Speaker 1: memo from his bosses. CNN's front page at the same 573 00:40:41,755 --> 00:40:49,075 Speaker 1: time read protest vote against Biden exceeds expectations by two points. 574 00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:54,035 Speaker 1: The Washington Post, though, produced my favorite quote. Biden meanwhile, 575 00:40:54,075 --> 00:40:57,755 Speaker 1: won the Democratic primary by an even more overwhelming margin, 576 00:40:57,875 --> 00:41:02,595 Speaker 1: but thirteen percent of voters mark their ballots uncommitted, following 577 00:41:02,595 --> 00:41:05,555 Speaker 1: a campaign to persuade voters to not support Biden in 578 00:41:05,595 --> 00:41:07,595 Speaker 1: protest of his support for Israel and his refusal to 579 00:41:07,595 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Unquote. The sentence might 580 00:41:11,195 --> 00:41:14,035 Speaker 1: have been written a month ago or a millennium ago, 581 00:41:14,835 --> 00:41:16,955 Speaker 1: and it might have been written like this Biden meanwhile, 582 00:41:16,995 --> 00:41:20,115 Speaker 1: won the Democratic primary by a fill in the blank margin, 583 00:41:20,595 --> 00:41:25,595 Speaker 1: but blank percent of voters marked their ballots blank. Following 584 00:41:25,595 --> 00:41:31,035 Speaker 1: a campaign to persuade voters do not support Biden. Bad news, Biden, Biden, 585 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: bad news. Read all about it, Biden, Biden, Biden, bad 586 00:41:34,355 --> 00:41:38,795 Speaker 1: bad bed. At around nine pm Tuesday night, The New 587 00:41:38,875 --> 00:41:40,995 Speaker 1: York Times had pushed out a bulletin to its digital 588 00:41:41,035 --> 00:41:44,835 Speaker 1: audience quote President Biden won the state's Democratic primary election, 589 00:41:44,995 --> 00:41:50,435 Speaker 1: but faced opposition over his gazip policy, and Donald Trump 590 00:41:50,555 --> 00:41:57,155 Speaker 1: easily beat Nikki Haley. Ultimately, Biden won by sixty eight 591 00:41:57,195 --> 00:42:02,795 Speaker 1: points and Trump by only forty two. The journalistic failures, 592 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:06,035 Speaker 1: the boiler plate struck. You're designed to make sure you 593 00:42:06,155 --> 00:42:08,995 Speaker 1: show them that we are being as tough on Biden 594 00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:12,835 Speaker 1: and Democrats as we are on Trump and Republicans. They 595 00:42:12,915 --> 00:42:16,675 Speaker 1: cascade down upon your head, like the dust falling off 596 00:42:16,715 --> 00:42:19,235 Speaker 1: the top tier of the bookshelf when you reach up there. 597 00:42:20,715 --> 00:42:24,875 Speaker 1: The Times had another headline, reading, Biden's Israel policy prompts 598 00:42:24,955 --> 00:42:28,315 Speaker 1: democratic protest votes in Michigan primary. Well, what the hell 599 00:42:28,355 --> 00:42:34,755 Speaker 1: does that mean? Prompts democratic protest votes? How many? Four 600 00:42:35,755 --> 00:42:40,795 Speaker 1: four million? Something in between? It's like saying Keith Olriman 601 00:42:40,875 --> 00:42:45,035 Speaker 1: is many years old, how many twenty two hundred and 602 00:42:45,075 --> 00:42:51,395 Speaker 1: six something in between. It is this fear of telling 603 00:42:51,475 --> 00:42:53,995 Speaker 1: the truth because you will have to stay late in 604 00:42:54,035 --> 00:42:58,835 Speaker 1: the office, or that your subscriber base won't keep growing 605 00:42:58,875 --> 00:43:04,555 Speaker 1: at its current rate. You should be able to put 606 00:43:04,715 --> 00:43:09,915 Speaker 1: people in prison for fear like that, because fear like 607 00:43:09,995 --> 00:43:20,275 Speaker 1: that could end our democracy. It is crushing, depressing, terrifying 608 00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,915 Speaker 1: that news coverage by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, 609 00:43:25,275 --> 00:43:32,275 Speaker 1: countless others has actually systemically and probably permanently failed. It 610 00:43:32,355 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: is worse than just disastrous. It could easily help to 611 00:43:35,795 --> 00:43:41,955 Speaker 1: cost us representative government in this country. For it was 612 00:43:41,995 --> 00:43:44,995 Speaker 1: not Edmund Burke who said all that is required for 613 00:43:45,075 --> 00:43:47,555 Speaker 1: evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. 614 00:43:48,795 --> 00:43:50,995 Speaker 1: But it is the people who own and operate the 615 00:43:51,035 --> 00:43:56,315 Speaker 1: New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and the others 616 00:43:56,435 --> 00:44:03,755 Speaker 1: who are proving that statement to be truth. Because as 617 00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:09,275 Speaker 1: evil gathers and consolidates in our country, in our cities, 618 00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:15,635 Speaker 1: in our time, Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, 619 00:44:15,955 --> 00:44:27,075 Speaker 1: and the others, they are doing nothing. Back next with 620 00:44:27,155 --> 00:44:30,435 Speaker 1: two final segments with my brother from another mother, Richard 621 00:44:30,515 --> 00:44:32,995 Speaker 1: Lewis and I at the ninety second Street y in 622 00:44:33,035 --> 00:44:35,555 Speaker 1: April two thousand and eight, and a couple of days 623 00:44:35,635 --> 00:44:38,955 Speaker 1: later in a memorable appearance on Countdown on MSNBC in 624 00:44:38,995 --> 00:44:41,795 Speaker 1: which he let it all hang out politically and I 625 00:44:41,875 --> 00:44:47,195 Speaker 1: contributed what I always contributed best to his appearances. I 626 00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:54,915 Speaker 1: laughed my ass off as promised to close with two 627 00:44:54,995 --> 00:45:02,195 Speaker 1: of my favorite memories audio memories of my late friend 628 00:45:02,515 --> 00:45:07,515 Speaker 1: and honorary brother, Retur Lewis. Our appearance together at the 629 00:45:07,595 --> 00:45:11,235 Speaker 1: ninety second Street Why in New York was April twenty 630 00:45:11,275 --> 00:45:15,275 Speaker 1: seventh of two thousand and eight, and I think we 631 00:45:15,275 --> 00:45:18,435 Speaker 1: were there for two hours. This clip, which they put 632 00:45:18,475 --> 00:45:21,515 Speaker 1: together and put up on YouTube, is nearly one hundred 633 00:45:21,555 --> 00:45:25,275 Speaker 1: percent him, and as I watched it, I was reminded 634 00:45:25,275 --> 00:45:29,635 Speaker 1: that so was the two hours, and that was because 635 00:45:29,915 --> 00:45:33,155 Speaker 1: he was NonStop funny. And I said, what once? I 636 00:45:33,155 --> 00:45:35,995 Speaker 1: said to him, do I contribute anything to this? He said, 637 00:45:36,035 --> 00:45:38,675 Speaker 1: you're the best audience in the world. I said, you 638 00:45:38,715 --> 00:45:40,115 Speaker 1: mean because I don't interrupt you. 639 00:45:40,115 --> 00:45:40,755 Speaker 2: You interrupt me. 640 00:45:40,835 --> 00:45:43,315 Speaker 1: You interrupt me, Fine, you got me going in different directions. No, 641 00:45:43,395 --> 00:45:47,675 Speaker 1: you're essential to this. Richard Lewis at the ninety second 642 00:45:47,715 --> 00:45:51,275 Speaker 1: Street why April two thousand and eight, my pleasure and 643 00:45:51,355 --> 00:45:55,035 Speaker 1: honor to introduce to you my friend, the Prince of 644 00:45:55,075 --> 00:45:59,915 Speaker 1: Paine himself, Richard Lewis. 645 00:46:02,195 --> 00:46:02,875 Speaker 4: Well, here I am. 646 00:46:03,075 --> 00:46:05,555 Speaker 2: I've been here before. This is a very historic place. 647 00:46:05,595 --> 00:46:08,995 Speaker 1: You know that, don't Yeah, I'm from the city. 648 00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:09,835 Speaker 5: I did not. 649 00:46:09,835 --> 00:46:11,595 Speaker 4: I thought you were what you were. 650 00:46:12,115 --> 00:46:17,115 Speaker 1: I came from announcer school, so huh No. This by 651 00:46:17,155 --> 00:46:18,955 Speaker 1: the way, if you've ever have you ever anybody out 652 00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:21,435 Speaker 1: there ever had a conversation with a friend in which 653 00:46:21,435 --> 00:46:25,955 Speaker 1: there were two microphones interviewed, it's like, please speak clearly. 654 00:46:25,715 --> 00:46:27,635 Speaker 4: Into me, like the first space shuttle, is it? 655 00:46:27,635 --> 00:46:31,835 Speaker 5: It's like Houston, Yeah, you know, I have some friends 656 00:46:31,915 --> 00:46:34,315 Speaker 5: with scientologists. I had no idea it was religion. I 657 00:46:34,315 --> 00:46:36,435 Speaker 5: thought it was a food group, to be honest with you. 658 00:46:38,355 --> 00:46:41,635 Speaker 5: But I know people that have gotten help from it, okay, 659 00:46:41,675 --> 00:46:45,115 Speaker 5: and I know some people who are into them for 660 00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:48,955 Speaker 5: now over three hundred million dollars. But the thing is, 661 00:46:49,155 --> 00:46:52,395 Speaker 5: when I saw Tom Cruise say, don't you know most 662 00:46:52,435 --> 00:46:54,235 Speaker 5: of my friends take a little while future in a 663 00:46:54,235 --> 00:46:56,355 Speaker 5: little paxel. They put a little provolo and they put 664 00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:59,515 Speaker 5: it in and if it wasn't for that, they wouldn't 665 00:46:59,515 --> 00:47:01,715 Speaker 5: have They would lie in bed like this, they wouldn't 666 00:47:01,795 --> 00:47:04,555 Speaker 5: raise their children, they couldn't live, They couldn't live. That's 667 00:47:04,795 --> 00:47:07,755 Speaker 5: got that religion, el Ron whatever that the space ship, 668 00:47:07,795 --> 00:47:10,475 Speaker 5: whatever that shit is. I don't care good. And then 669 00:47:10,515 --> 00:47:13,715 Speaker 5: they say that therapists are Satanic. I have never seen 670 00:47:13,715 --> 00:47:15,595 Speaker 5: my shrink. Well you're a little early and stuffing his 671 00:47:15,715 --> 00:47:19,995 Speaker 5: tail and his underwear, so you know, and this is 672 00:47:20,035 --> 00:47:22,835 Speaker 5: the thing, and I'm a Jew. I pop out a Jew, 673 00:47:22,955 --> 00:47:24,795 Speaker 5: and I say this on stage a lot. And when 674 00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:27,915 Speaker 5: I open up, Bob Dylan, you know, has a line 675 00:47:27,995 --> 00:47:30,435 Speaker 5: I was born here and I'll die here against my will. 676 00:47:30,795 --> 00:47:32,715 Speaker 5: And I'm not quite sure when I heard it, and 677 00:47:32,715 --> 00:47:37,355 Speaker 5: I didn't understand what because it was but I'm just 678 00:47:37,475 --> 00:47:41,235 Speaker 5: heartbroken that this young country has gotten into a position 679 00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:46,955 Speaker 5: where we allowed ourselves to let a man who, you know, 680 00:47:47,755 --> 00:47:51,555 Speaker 5: who literally should just be coloring. 681 00:47:54,915 --> 00:47:59,995 Speaker 2: Run our country. So it's really bad. 682 00:48:02,315 --> 00:48:05,195 Speaker 5: I'm off the politics, and I you know, by the way, 683 00:48:05,235 --> 00:48:07,555 Speaker 5: you know, when I started doing this shit on stage, 684 00:48:07,835 --> 00:48:10,235 Speaker 5: you know, he had like a ninety nine percent approval rating. 685 00:48:10,275 --> 00:48:13,075 Speaker 2: Now he's you know, we discussed he's like two thank you, 686 00:48:13,275 --> 00:48:15,715 Speaker 2: thank you, and even I think his daughter come out. 687 00:48:15,835 --> 00:48:18,675 Speaker 2: You know, I can look at some democrats, you know, 688 00:48:19,955 --> 00:48:21,235 Speaker 2: so it's easy for me. I come. 689 00:48:21,355 --> 00:48:23,675 Speaker 4: You know, even cowboys doing a poker. 690 00:48:23,355 --> 00:48:25,595 Speaker 2: Go, yeah, he sucks. Whoa. 691 00:48:26,555 --> 00:48:29,355 Speaker 4: It's the punchline is the least of it. It's the premise. 692 00:48:30,035 --> 00:48:30,875 Speaker 2: It's the premise. 693 00:48:31,315 --> 00:48:34,315 Speaker 5: If you have a great premise, then the punchline just 694 00:48:34,315 --> 00:48:36,355 Speaker 5: sort of flies. 695 00:48:35,915 --> 00:48:36,595 Speaker 2: Out, you know. 696 00:48:36,715 --> 00:48:38,955 Speaker 5: I mean, here's like an old joke. It's thirty five 697 00:48:39,035 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 5: years old. I you know, because the premise was and 698 00:48:42,355 --> 00:48:45,475 Speaker 5: I would write down, there's no way even though my 699 00:48:45,515 --> 00:48:48,915 Speaker 5: father was a Kosha caterer, that we were religious, as 700 00:48:49,075 --> 00:48:51,595 Speaker 5: we had pork chops on you know, Passover, you know. 701 00:48:51,555 --> 00:48:56,395 Speaker 2: What I mean. So I wrote a j So the 702 00:48:56,475 --> 00:48:57,835 Speaker 2: joke just you know, it happens. 703 00:48:57,875 --> 00:49:00,115 Speaker 5: You know, I have I have about thirteen hundred pages 704 00:49:00,155 --> 00:49:02,155 Speaker 5: in my computer from the last four years. 705 00:49:02,195 --> 00:49:04,435 Speaker 4: There's millions of premises and I'll never get to them. 706 00:49:04,835 --> 00:49:06,635 Speaker 2: But so I wrote a joke could just hit me 707 00:49:06,795 --> 00:49:07,075 Speaker 2: on a. 708 00:49:07,035 --> 00:49:09,635 Speaker 5: Toilet or in a shower, and I wrote, yeah, we 709 00:49:09,635 --> 00:49:11,515 Speaker 5: weren't very religious. I don't know how I said. I 710 00:49:11,555 --> 00:49:14,315 Speaker 5: said something like, yeah, we have a menora on a dimmer. 711 00:49:14,595 --> 00:49:16,435 Speaker 2: That that was the line. 712 00:49:17,915 --> 00:49:21,235 Speaker 5: So the punchline's easy, but thinking about you know, but 713 00:49:21,315 --> 00:49:24,275 Speaker 5: it came or like my mother was so negative. I said, 714 00:49:24,315 --> 00:49:26,555 Speaker 5: you know, I bought my mother for Haneka a self 715 00:49:26,595 --> 00:49:27,395 Speaker 5: complaining of it. 716 00:49:27,595 --> 00:49:28,675 Speaker 2: You know those kind of jokes. 717 00:49:29,395 --> 00:49:30,435 Speaker 4: You know Larry. 718 00:49:30,275 --> 00:49:35,155 Speaker 5: David on Curb, who has really bookended my career in 719 00:49:35,155 --> 00:49:36,035 Speaker 5: an astonishing way. 720 00:49:36,075 --> 00:49:38,635 Speaker 2: I know him since I'm twelve. He's he's a genius. 721 00:49:38,835 --> 00:49:42,955 Speaker 5: He's maybe the arguably the best writer of this generation. 722 00:49:43,595 --> 00:49:45,995 Speaker 5: You know, he won a Writer's Guild award two years 723 00:49:45,995 --> 00:49:47,995 Speaker 5: ago if you don't know, out West. 724 00:49:47,955 --> 00:49:50,515 Speaker 4: For Best Sitcom Writer for Curb. 725 00:49:50,955 --> 00:49:53,475 Speaker 2: But he only doesn't write any scripts. It's just some idea. 726 00:49:53,515 --> 00:49:55,155 Speaker 2: How mystical this guy is. 727 00:49:55,235 --> 00:49:56,395 Speaker 1: He submitted blank pages. 728 00:49:56,595 --> 00:49:59,755 Speaker 5: No, it's an outline, and the writers know that if 729 00:49:59,755 --> 00:50:02,435 Speaker 5: that outline isn't air tight, it's like it would be 730 00:50:02,475 --> 00:50:04,635 Speaker 5: like a souffle that would just, you know, go down. 731 00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:07,035 Speaker 5: It would be over all. The producers are watching the 732 00:50:07,075 --> 00:50:09,115 Speaker 5: monitors in some room and you have, you know, with 733 00:50:09,155 --> 00:50:11,915 Speaker 5: their headphones on. And Larry and I once had this 734 00:50:12,275 --> 00:50:17,315 Speaker 5: really big fight outside and then action and we walked 735 00:50:17,315 --> 00:50:20,435 Speaker 5: into the scene but talking because I'm playing myself and 736 00:50:20,475 --> 00:50:23,475 Speaker 5: he's playing himself. I'm going you know you're full of shit. Man. 737 00:50:23,555 --> 00:50:30,955 Speaker 5: You know I'm sick of pied and that cut print Goodbye. 738 00:50:31,475 --> 00:50:32,555 Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. 739 00:50:32,675 --> 00:50:34,555 Speaker 4: So my wife, when Joyce says, how did it go? 740 00:50:34,955 --> 00:50:35,475 Speaker 1: I hate it? 741 00:50:35,515 --> 00:50:37,875 Speaker 2: I mean I was still angry at the argument, and 742 00:50:37,915 --> 00:50:39,515 Speaker 2: then I see it. I don't know if it's going 743 00:50:39,595 --> 00:50:40,315 Speaker 2: to make the cut. 744 00:50:40,475 --> 00:50:42,875 Speaker 4: But then when I watched the show, I go fantastic. 745 00:50:42,955 --> 00:50:45,355 Speaker 1: You know, it's just like he fouled you back at 746 00:50:45,395 --> 00:50:46,715 Speaker 1: camp when you were twelve years old. 747 00:50:46,755 --> 00:50:49,075 Speaker 2: He is so smart. He could push my buttons. 748 00:50:49,115 --> 00:50:49,315 Speaker 5: Man. 749 00:50:49,515 --> 00:50:51,475 Speaker 2: I mean it's like you hear those stories about you know. 750 00:50:51,355 --> 00:50:55,355 Speaker 5: Elia Kazan making little four year old actresses cry your 751 00:50:55,435 --> 00:50:56,275 Speaker 5: dady felt. 752 00:50:56,075 --> 00:50:57,875 Speaker 2: You know, it fell off the Chrysler building. 753 00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:06,515 Speaker 5: Just kidding, just kidding, print, you know, but Larry pushes 754 00:51:06,555 --> 00:51:09,915 Speaker 5: my buttons. He gets what he wants and he's impeccable. 755 00:51:09,955 --> 00:51:13,155 Speaker 5: He's he's a genius, he really is, and I love him. 756 00:51:13,155 --> 00:51:14,355 Speaker 2: I would do anything for the guy. 757 00:51:14,835 --> 00:51:17,595 Speaker 1: I think we've gone past where we were supposed to apologize. 758 00:51:17,595 --> 00:51:18,235 Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's me. 759 00:51:18,315 --> 00:51:19,155 Speaker 1: I'm the one who did all. 760 00:51:19,195 --> 00:51:19,635 Speaker 2: We're talking. 761 00:51:20,035 --> 00:51:26,155 Speaker 1: That's true. You're you're going to sign books now. 762 00:51:26,715 --> 00:51:30,155 Speaker 4: I don't even feel any remote obligat you know. 763 00:51:31,195 --> 00:51:33,435 Speaker 2: I mean, I like the book. I think it's a 764 00:51:33,475 --> 00:51:36,555 Speaker 2: good read. And uh, but I didn't I came here. 765 00:51:37,075 --> 00:51:38,115 Speaker 2: I love this guy. 766 00:51:38,915 --> 00:51:41,075 Speaker 4: I think we're very lucky to have him on the air. 767 00:51:41,835 --> 00:51:49,835 Speaker 5: He's uh, there's I'm sorry. 768 00:51:49,915 --> 00:51:50,755 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Keith. 769 00:51:50,795 --> 00:51:53,755 Speaker 5: You know, I you you know you you have transformed 770 00:51:53,795 --> 00:51:56,475 Speaker 5: it again. And uh, you know, and you know when 771 00:51:56,475 --> 00:51:58,595 Speaker 5: you always mentioned why you meant why you do the 772 00:51:58,875 --> 00:52:01,275 Speaker 5: Hountley Brinkley theme in the beginning and why you do 773 00:52:01,515 --> 00:52:05,755 Speaker 5: the the homage to tomorrow is because those those are 774 00:52:05,795 --> 00:52:07,555 Speaker 5: your Jonathan Winners and your mel. 775 00:52:07,435 --> 00:52:09,715 Speaker 2: Brooks and and those are your guys, you know. 776 00:52:09,795 --> 00:52:12,915 Speaker 5: And uh, it's it's just really beautiful and and and 777 00:52:13,075 --> 00:52:17,075 Speaker 5: and it's and it's stunning to watch your your bravado 778 00:52:17,395 --> 00:52:20,515 Speaker 5: every night. And it's like no one else has comes 779 00:52:20,635 --> 00:52:23,515 Speaker 5: close if he has. If take don't take this the 780 00:52:23,555 --> 00:52:29,435 Speaker 5: wrong way. Between Shaquille's penis and your balls, we have 781 00:52:29,595 --> 00:52:32,515 Speaker 5: the perfect team to run for the on the Democratic 782 00:52:32,675 --> 00:52:33,035 Speaker 5: take us. 783 00:52:33,315 --> 00:52:33,635 Speaker 2: Let's just. 784 00:52:40,835 --> 00:52:42,475 Speaker 5: H and uh. 785 00:52:44,355 --> 00:52:45,835 Speaker 1: On that note, I think I got to make my 786 00:52:46,355 --> 00:52:48,475 Speaker 1: exit or our exit. And I don't know the logistics 787 00:52:48,515 --> 00:52:50,835 Speaker 1: of where the signing is, but yeah, I'm just gonna 788 00:52:50,835 --> 00:52:51,195 Speaker 1: stand here. 789 00:52:51,315 --> 00:52:53,595 Speaker 2: Don't me really? Thank you for coming, and it's an 790 00:52:53,595 --> 00:52:55,035 Speaker 2: I'm gonna be with mister Alderman. 791 00:53:01,875 --> 00:53:06,115 Speaker 1: A few days later, Richard came on Countdown on MSNBC 792 00:53:06,835 --> 00:53:11,115 Speaker 1: and it happened to be the fifth anniversary of George W. 793 00:53:11,315 --> 00:53:16,835 Speaker 1: Bush and the mission accomplished speech. We played the video 794 00:53:17,475 --> 00:53:21,195 Speaker 1: and Richard rebelled before I even got a chance to 795 00:53:21,355 --> 00:53:24,435 Speaker 1: introduce him. It's her mission accomplished, which we covered yesterday 796 00:53:24,475 --> 00:53:27,515 Speaker 1: in this news hour. We now arrive at day one of. 797 00:53:27,755 --> 00:53:29,875 Speaker 2: Years six anymore. 798 00:53:29,955 --> 00:53:31,875 Speaker 1: All right, we'll cut it off and show you instead 799 00:53:32,595 --> 00:53:34,875 Speaker 1: me now, I was promised. Richard lewis star of Curb 800 00:53:34,915 --> 00:53:36,235 Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm. 801 00:53:35,715 --> 00:53:38,595 Speaker 2: On Larry, I love you and good luck with Woody 802 00:53:38,635 --> 00:53:39,675 Speaker 2: and I hope you come back. 803 00:53:39,835 --> 00:53:42,355 Speaker 1: His memoir of his triumph over addiction, The Other Great Depression, 804 00:53:42,435 --> 00:53:44,915 Speaker 1: is out in paperback with a new afterward, and he 805 00:53:44,955 --> 00:53:48,995 Speaker 1: also has a new DVD, Richard Lewis Naked. Yeah it's metaphoric. 806 00:53:50,195 --> 00:53:51,315 Speaker 2: He survived a night. 807 00:53:51,355 --> 00:53:52,915 Speaker 1: At New York's ninety second Street. 808 00:53:52,955 --> 00:53:55,075 Speaker 5: Why this is a great night. Thank you my pleasure 809 00:53:55,075 --> 00:53:56,875 Speaker 5: to be there, and then thanks for that. I'm gonna 810 00:53:56,875 --> 00:54:00,115 Speaker 5: have nightmaes. Now, just getting over about of infantancy, and 811 00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:03,035 Speaker 5: now I had to hear that intro first of all. 812 00:54:03,235 --> 00:54:05,715 Speaker 5: Every time I see that thing, I'm just no, I 813 00:54:05,755 --> 00:54:07,475 Speaker 5: gotta tell you what happened, you know, because I do. 814 00:54:07,755 --> 00:54:10,715 Speaker 5: I've been doing your show forever, right, Yeah, I'm walking 815 00:54:10,835 --> 00:54:12,515 Speaker 5: up and you look. I guess I've been doing this 816 00:54:12,595 --> 00:54:14,595 Speaker 5: for thirty eight forty year, so people know me, and 817 00:54:14,675 --> 00:54:16,635 Speaker 5: people come on, hey, mister lewis a big fan, and 818 00:54:17,115 --> 00:54:18,995 Speaker 5: they give you a card like they I have a 819 00:54:19,075 --> 00:54:21,475 Speaker 5: new CD, or I'm a puppeteer, whatever the hell it's 820 00:54:22,155 --> 00:54:23,555 Speaker 5: I'm a mom, so the guy. 821 00:54:23,635 --> 00:54:25,715 Speaker 4: I swear to god, this happened a half hour ago, 822 00:54:25,755 --> 00:54:26,235 Speaker 4: and I'm freaked. 823 00:54:26,275 --> 00:54:26,755 Speaker 2: I don't care. 824 00:54:26,875 --> 00:54:28,995 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't care, because you knows I do countdown, 825 00:54:29,315 --> 00:54:30,115 Speaker 5: doing countdown again. 826 00:54:30,555 --> 00:54:33,515 Speaker 4: That's right here, here's my card. If you ever need 827 00:54:33,675 --> 00:54:40,355 Speaker 4: a flak jacket, cooll me a flatjack you bring on. 828 00:54:40,595 --> 00:54:43,155 Speaker 5: I'm a recovered alcohol that was fourteen. You bring on 829 00:54:43,275 --> 00:54:45,235 Speaker 5: those right wing that can be. I don't care, come on, 830 00:54:45,475 --> 00:54:48,075 Speaker 5: let's go, come on. Really, I'm not afraid of Anyon. 831 00:54:48,435 --> 00:54:50,235 Speaker 5: Why do they send him to all our troops, our 832 00:54:50,275 --> 00:54:51,235 Speaker 5: heroes exactly? 833 00:54:51,475 --> 00:54:52,715 Speaker 1: Really, I just try to say, if you get some 834 00:54:52,795 --> 00:54:54,995 Speaker 1: extras we've got some people we know, confuse them. 835 00:54:55,035 --> 00:54:57,435 Speaker 4: You can imagine a flat jacket and a triple mirror, like. 836 00:54:57,755 --> 00:55:00,755 Speaker 5: No, no, no, yeah, yeah, they should have said, listen 837 00:55:00,995 --> 00:55:03,435 Speaker 5: when I see that thing. I am so nauseated by 838 00:55:03,475 --> 00:55:05,115 Speaker 5: this whole mission. You know, by the way, I love 839 00:55:05,195 --> 00:55:05,955 Speaker 5: a Stone's doing. 840 00:55:05,755 --> 00:55:06,315 Speaker 2: A movie right on. 841 00:55:06,435 --> 00:55:08,795 Speaker 4: Yes, w I pray to God and I know I 842 00:55:08,875 --> 00:55:09,115 Speaker 4: don't know. 843 00:55:09,355 --> 00:55:11,755 Speaker 5: Well. I flew with him once when he was riding Scarface, 844 00:55:11,795 --> 00:55:14,155 Speaker 5: and I was, boy, it was quite a trip. Let 845 00:55:14,195 --> 00:55:15,795 Speaker 5: me just say that it was I'll never forget, but 846 00:55:15,835 --> 00:55:18,395 Speaker 5: I'm off the subjects and it's going to be great. 847 00:55:18,635 --> 00:55:22,435 Speaker 4: He doesn't have to use any surreal conspiracy. 848 00:55:22,475 --> 00:55:24,235 Speaker 2: No, it's not gonna be like mixing or JF. 849 00:55:24,315 --> 00:55:24,355 Speaker 5: No. 850 00:55:24,515 --> 00:55:26,115 Speaker 2: No, he doesn't have to say. You know, it's like 851 00:55:26,235 --> 00:55:28,635 Speaker 2: Sharry Lewis and Lamb Chop got us to a rick. 852 00:55:29,315 --> 00:55:32,195 Speaker 1: Just show the story follow her stones w was starring 853 00:55:32,275 --> 00:55:34,755 Speaker 1: Schry Lewis and right, the Muppets. 854 00:55:34,355 --> 00:55:36,675 Speaker 2: Had nothing to do with it. It was the Neo Khan. 855 00:55:36,835 --> 00:55:39,155 Speaker 5: It was it was seven people and now and then 856 00:55:39,235 --> 00:55:41,755 Speaker 5: McCain And mister McCain said to the mcgin, you know, 857 00:55:41,835 --> 00:55:43,595 Speaker 5: and not my friend when he does this, my friend, 858 00:55:43,675 --> 00:55:45,275 Speaker 5: Like in the very half a pope. 859 00:55:45,275 --> 00:55:47,635 Speaker 4: I don't know what he's doing, but he's not my friend. 860 00:55:47,835 --> 00:55:48,555 Speaker 2: Half a pope. 861 00:55:48,675 --> 00:55:51,675 Speaker 4: Well he does this exact a friend, he's not my friend. 862 00:55:52,195 --> 00:55:54,115 Speaker 4: And this whole thing with oil. Every time I follow her, 863 00:55:54,155 --> 00:55:55,875 Speaker 4: you know her, she she's so brilliant. I feel like 864 00:55:56,035 --> 00:55:57,955 Speaker 4: I feel like a jerk, you know. And look at this. 865 00:55:58,075 --> 00:55:59,875 Speaker 5: You know I was throwing off the enterprise. I was 866 00:55:59,955 --> 00:56:03,155 Speaker 5: doing Bible studies and Captain Krook threw me off. That's 867 00:56:03,235 --> 00:56:06,715 Speaker 5: why I but he said, he said, well, we're going. 868 00:56:06,355 --> 00:56:07,715 Speaker 1: Again for oil. 869 00:56:07,835 --> 00:56:10,235 Speaker 4: I know we're gonna blew the secret. 870 00:56:10,635 --> 00:56:12,635 Speaker 2: Right, he wasn't supposed to give that away. Now he would. 871 00:56:12,715 --> 00:56:15,275 Speaker 4: It's so idiotic, and that was not that's gonna, that's gonna. 872 00:56:15,275 --> 00:56:17,435 Speaker 4: I hope that follows him forever. How he's gonna, what's 873 00:56:17,475 --> 00:56:18,275 Speaker 4: gonna say next time? 874 00:56:18,395 --> 00:56:18,515 Speaker 1: You know? 875 00:56:18,715 --> 00:56:20,595 Speaker 4: Now we're gonna we're gonna go to a rat now 876 00:56:20,635 --> 00:56:21,755 Speaker 4: and we can't go there. 877 00:56:21,755 --> 00:56:24,595 Speaker 5: We can't get hershey bars, we can't get off our 878 00:56:24,715 --> 00:56:25,515 Speaker 5: tires filled. 879 00:56:25,715 --> 00:56:26,755 Speaker 4: It's so stupid. 880 00:56:27,115 --> 00:56:29,475 Speaker 5: If they, if they, if we elect, Look, I know 881 00:56:29,595 --> 00:56:32,355 Speaker 5: what's going on Tuesday, and I feel badly for all 882 00:56:32,395 --> 00:56:36,595 Speaker 5: you brilliant scholars and fundans. After Tuesday, because nothing's gonna change. 883 00:56:36,915 --> 00:56:38,995 Speaker 5: He said, I need, Well, it's not it's gonna be 884 00:56:38,995 --> 00:56:40,395 Speaker 5: a night you need Jackie Mason. 885 00:56:40,555 --> 00:56:40,915 Speaker 4: I don't know. 886 00:56:41,115 --> 00:56:43,035 Speaker 5: If they don't his it's not gonna happen. And then 887 00:56:43,115 --> 00:56:44,955 Speaker 5: I got the super delegates and that it's behind them. 888 00:56:45,075 --> 00:56:46,955 Speaker 5: I mean, you should almost have him on the show 889 00:56:47,035 --> 00:56:48,315 Speaker 5: because it's gonna be that confused. 890 00:56:48,315 --> 00:56:49,435 Speaker 4: He's the only one is not there. 891 00:56:50,315 --> 00:56:52,475 Speaker 2: Nybody else is on. It's gonna be unbelive. 892 00:56:52,475 --> 00:56:54,155 Speaker 4: But this mission a cop. Let me tell you what happened. 893 00:56:54,155 --> 00:56:56,515 Speaker 5: It almost ruined my marriage because my wife and I had, 894 00:56:56,795 --> 00:57:00,195 Speaker 5: you know, diehard Democrats. When he when that happens, first 895 00:57:00,195 --> 00:57:02,155 Speaker 5: of all, we were sick to our stomach. And again 896 00:57:02,235 --> 00:57:05,235 Speaker 5: I will say this again, our soldiers we mentioned it 897 00:57:05,235 --> 00:57:07,875 Speaker 5: because I had I cannot stand it when they can, 898 00:57:07,995 --> 00:57:10,795 Speaker 5: when they when they sort of convolute the fact that 899 00:57:11,115 --> 00:57:13,355 Speaker 5: this whole line and all these bush I mean, these 900 00:57:13,475 --> 00:57:15,875 Speaker 5: billions of lines, and I'm going to be long dead 901 00:57:15,915 --> 00:57:17,955 Speaker 5: when it all comes out, you know, and they're going 902 00:57:18,035 --> 00:57:20,195 Speaker 5: to be dead without being tried for war crimes and 903 00:57:20,275 --> 00:57:23,035 Speaker 5: all of this stuff. Okay, I'm going to be long gone, 904 00:57:23,155 --> 00:57:24,595 Speaker 5: and I wish I could come back as a ghost. 905 00:57:24,635 --> 00:57:26,675 Speaker 5: And see what really happened and read the books thirty 906 00:57:26,715 --> 00:57:27,475 Speaker 5: forty years from now. 907 00:57:27,795 --> 00:57:29,315 Speaker 4: But when I was wh when this happened. 908 00:57:29,395 --> 00:57:32,235 Speaker 5: But when they but the soldiers, they go because that's 909 00:57:32,275 --> 00:57:34,235 Speaker 5: what we're proud to be Americans and they and they 910 00:57:34,355 --> 00:57:35,315 Speaker 5: keep this country here. 911 00:57:35,395 --> 00:57:37,395 Speaker 2: But they but you know, it's not their fault. They 912 00:57:37,555 --> 00:57:39,515 Speaker 2: just go. It's like Super Bowl Sunday. 913 00:57:39,195 --> 00:57:41,515 Speaker 5: For these cats go to you know, they didn't go 914 00:57:41,555 --> 00:57:43,155 Speaker 5: to They should have gone to a forgot. 915 00:57:43,115 --> 00:57:43,395 Speaker 2: To be all. 916 00:57:43,555 --> 00:57:44,315 Speaker 4: It's all old news. 917 00:57:44,555 --> 00:57:46,715 Speaker 5: But when this happened, when they when he's when he 918 00:57:46,835 --> 00:57:49,435 Speaker 5: was on that on that carrier mission accomplished. I made 919 00:57:49,595 --> 00:57:51,795 Speaker 5: you know, I mean I make love on occasion, okay, 920 00:57:51,955 --> 00:57:54,795 Speaker 5: and I have a fear of intimacy. And Bush when 921 00:57:54,835 --> 00:57:57,115 Speaker 5: he did that, and I think, I, you know, we 922 00:57:57,235 --> 00:58:00,995 Speaker 5: made love and I screamed out after I had my orgasmic. 923 00:58:01,155 --> 00:58:04,635 Speaker 4: They should have accomplished. I screamed. Then my wife screamed, 924 00:58:04,755 --> 00:58:07,195 Speaker 4: then left the house and for a weekend. 925 00:58:07,995 --> 00:58:10,275 Speaker 5: But because I was so aggrivate, I couldn't get it 926 00:58:10,395 --> 00:58:11,075 Speaker 5: off my mind. 927 00:58:11,475 --> 00:58:13,395 Speaker 4: It's look, let me tell you something. I am not 928 00:58:13,515 --> 00:58:14,475 Speaker 4: paying one dime. 929 00:58:14,635 --> 00:58:16,955 Speaker 5: I was going to tell you this last week when 930 00:58:16,995 --> 00:58:18,475 Speaker 5: when when Bush I don't know how many a couple 931 00:58:18,555 --> 00:58:21,315 Speaker 5: hundred days left, goodbye and good luck? All right, Really, 932 00:58:21,875 --> 00:58:23,275 Speaker 5: I am not you know, I don't know how much 933 00:58:23,355 --> 00:58:25,275 Speaker 5: taxes we're going to have to pay, and we're already 934 00:58:26,115 --> 00:58:28,555 Speaker 5: not you know, helping the middle class are getting screwed 935 00:58:28,595 --> 00:58:32,355 Speaker 5: by this war and the poor. I have always been disenfranchised. 936 00:58:31,595 --> 00:58:32,915 Speaker 1: You know, you know the deal. 937 00:58:33,195 --> 00:58:35,075 Speaker 5: But you know I am not paying a dime for 938 00:58:35,235 --> 00:58:38,475 Speaker 5: this President Bush's library, because you know it's every child 939 00:58:38,555 --> 00:58:39,355 Speaker 5: has been left behind. 940 00:58:39,355 --> 00:58:41,915 Speaker 4: As far as I a scept rich children if they're. 941 00:58:41,835 --> 00:58:43,515 Speaker 5: Lucky to be rich and go to private schools and 942 00:58:43,555 --> 00:58:44,035 Speaker 5: all the rest. 943 00:58:44,155 --> 00:58:46,075 Speaker 2: But here's the deal. He doesn't read. 944 00:58:46,715 --> 00:58:49,035 Speaker 5: You know, what could he possibly have if you like, 945 00:58:49,515 --> 00:58:52,235 Speaker 5: like a wet dream for college kids and walk in, well, 946 00:58:52,315 --> 00:58:56,115 Speaker 5: look at all these cliffs notes, unbelievable, No book, just 947 00:58:56,235 --> 00:58:58,795 Speaker 5: a lapt in, just one woman there. 948 00:58:59,275 --> 00:59:00,315 Speaker 2: We have no books. 949 00:59:00,635 --> 00:59:02,715 Speaker 5: You can there's an air condition room there, and there's 950 00:59:02,755 --> 00:59:05,235 Speaker 5: a comic book there, and there's a toilet said and 951 00:59:05,315 --> 00:59:06,835 Speaker 5: which it's one hundred million dollars. 952 00:59:06,875 --> 00:59:08,235 Speaker 4: I'm not No one should give. 953 00:59:08,355 --> 00:59:11,795 Speaker 5: Even Republicans independence, don't give a dime to that much library, 954 00:59:11,915 --> 00:59:13,995 Speaker 5: because look what he's done for these past eight years. 955 00:59:14,235 --> 00:59:16,515 Speaker 4: I'm telling you this guy, I am so I am 956 00:59:16,595 --> 00:59:18,515 Speaker 4: so glad he's going, and I pray to. 957 00:59:18,515 --> 00:59:21,275 Speaker 5: God the Democrats get behind whoever it is, because if 958 00:59:21,795 --> 00:59:24,795 Speaker 5: this macainue goes in and extensis for another one hundred 959 00:59:24,835 --> 00:59:28,355 Speaker 5: million years, my friends, half the pope, we're through. 960 00:59:28,715 --> 00:59:29,555 Speaker 4: We are Listen. 961 00:59:29,635 --> 00:59:30,635 Speaker 2: You know I heard this. 962 00:59:30,755 --> 00:59:32,115 Speaker 4: You don't know this. I know stuff. 963 00:59:32,355 --> 00:59:34,875 Speaker 5: When the first couple of days when Bush was president, 964 00:59:35,235 --> 00:59:37,875 Speaker 5: he thought the presidential seal was a seal, all right. 965 00:59:38,035 --> 00:59:40,755 Speaker 2: He was waiting, he thought see was going to come in. 966 00:59:40,915 --> 00:59:43,155 Speaker 4: He actually had a bowl of sardines. 967 00:59:43,875 --> 00:59:46,675 Speaker 5: He did ever seen him sign a bill with crayolas 968 00:59:46,755 --> 00:59:49,635 Speaker 5: like this, when his tongue out like a kindergarten gid stopping. 969 00:59:50,075 --> 00:59:51,355 Speaker 4: I can't stand the guy. 970 00:59:51,515 --> 00:59:52,115 Speaker 1: He's rulling. 971 00:59:52,755 --> 00:59:55,595 Speaker 4: He's made armor againting like one hundred years too early and. 972 00:59:55,915 --> 00:59:57,475 Speaker 2: Looking like a good option. All right. 973 00:59:57,555 --> 01:00:01,675 Speaker 1: That's Richard Lewis dis countdown for early twenty eighth days. 974 01:00:02,035 --> 01:00:04,235 Speaker 1: It's the declaration of bentiallycomplish right. 975 01:00:04,715 --> 01:00:05,555 Speaker 2: I'm Keith Alderman. 976 01:00:05,755 --> 01:00:10,475 Speaker 1: Good Night and good luck friends. Countdown with Keith Olberman 977 01:00:10,675 --> 01:00:15,115 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 978 01:00:15,275 --> 01:00:19,275 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 979 01:00:19,355 --> 01:00:20,235 Speaker 1: your podcasts.