1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,115 --> 00:00:32,875 Speaker 1: We must face the reality that Trump is America's Hitler. 3 00:00:34,115 --> 00:00:38,275 Speaker 1: We must use the real words. Now. There are no 4 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:41,795 Speaker 1: more dog whistles as of now, as of this weekend passed, 5 00:00:41,795 --> 00:00:46,035 Speaker 1: as of this morning, they have begun to salute him 6 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:49,995 Speaker 1: as others saluted Hitler. They have begun to play the 7 00:00:50,075 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: music and chant the slogans of Q and on. They 8 00:00:53,275 --> 00:00:56,155 Speaker 1: have begun to we've in the sing song melodies of 9 00:00:56,155 --> 00:01:01,715 Speaker 1: the televangelists and the Christo Fascists. They have stopped pretending, 10 00:01:02,595 --> 00:01:09,755 Speaker 1: So too, must we stop pretending America's Hitler is here. 11 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:14,395 Speaker 1: We have to face the reality that if Trump had 12 00:01:14,435 --> 00:01:17,995 Speaker 1: not already chosen that path, Saturday night in Youngstown, Ohio, 13 00:01:18,075 --> 00:01:23,315 Speaker 1: he dropped the pretense and made it unmistakably clear. First 14 00:01:23,435 --> 00:01:26,355 Speaker 1: he saw the worst in the Republican Party and unleashed 15 00:01:26,395 --> 00:01:30,595 Speaker 1: its darkness and made the Republican Party his slaves. Then 16 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:33,155 Speaker 1: he saw the worst in the Cristo Fascist movement and 17 00:01:33,275 --> 00:01:37,555 Speaker 1: unleashed its darkness and made the Cristo Fascist movement his slaves. 18 00:01:37,595 --> 00:01:40,675 Speaker 1: And now he has seen the worst in the Quean 19 00:01:40,835 --> 00:01:44,995 Speaker 1: On cult and unleashed its darkness and made the qann 20 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:51,275 Speaker 1: cult his slaves. For the first time, Saturday, Trump interwove 21 00:01:51,475 --> 00:01:55,955 Speaker 1: the music of q and On into his apocalyptic speech fraud, 22 00:01:56,755 --> 00:02:00,915 Speaker 1: And we have a president who is cognitively impaired and 23 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:05,035 Speaker 1: in no condition to lead our country, which may end 24 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:10,195 Speaker 1: up in World War three. We are a nation that 25 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:14,755 Speaker 1: no longer has a free press, and has no fair 26 00:02:14,835 --> 00:02:19,635 Speaker 1: press any longer. Fake news is all you get. And 27 00:02:19,675 --> 00:02:23,315 Speaker 1: they are truly the enemy of the people. We are 28 00:02:23,355 --> 00:02:26,875 Speaker 1: a nation where free speech is no longer allowed. And 29 00:02:26,955 --> 00:02:30,955 Speaker 1: before that, music not from q and On, but nearly 30 00:02:30,995 --> 00:02:35,355 Speaker 1: identical to it, was over. Nearly the entirety of that 31 00:02:35,435 --> 00:02:38,835 Speaker 1: crowd was standing in front of Trump, each with one 32 00:02:38,955 --> 00:02:43,555 Speaker 1: arm in the air with a forefinger extended. Heads bowed 33 00:02:44,155 --> 00:02:48,555 Speaker 1: not just a seeg hile to Trump, but an enduring one, 34 00:02:49,035 --> 00:02:53,195 Speaker 1: lasting for a minute after excruciating minute, as they swayed 35 00:02:53,355 --> 00:02:58,075 Speaker 1: slowly to his words of hate and revenge and persecution, 36 00:02:58,275 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: and his calls to violence and blood lust and revolution. 37 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:05,035 Speaker 1: No longer just the most extreme and stomach turn an 38 00:03:05,035 --> 00:03:09,155 Speaker 1: anti American and fascistic political movement in our nation's history, 39 00:03:09,195 --> 00:03:13,395 Speaker 1: but now the result of the full horrible combination of 40 00:03:13,475 --> 00:03:20,475 Speaker 1: personal madness, religious fanaticism, vengeance, fantasies, and delusional cultism rolled 41 00:03:20,555 --> 00:03:27,955 Speaker 1: into one man. It's a cult. It's a radicalized cult 42 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:33,075 Speaker 1: preparing to wage war against this country. Not political war, 43 00:03:33,675 --> 00:03:39,995 Speaker 1: not symbolic war, not cultural war, not virtual war, war itself, 44 00:03:40,315 --> 00:03:45,075 Speaker 1: with blood, with murder, with scapegoats, with death camps, with 45 00:03:45,195 --> 00:03:48,995 Speaker 1: presidents for life, and what would be for this country 46 00:03:49,035 --> 00:03:52,595 Speaker 1: at the end, at best, a struggle in the future 47 00:03:52,635 --> 00:03:57,115 Speaker 1: to somehow regain democracy in the future, to somehow regain freedom, 48 00:03:57,155 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: to somehow regain diversity. While a dictatorship tightened its grip 49 00:04:02,115 --> 00:04:05,555 Speaker 1: and went from declaring its opponents enemy of the people 50 00:04:06,075 --> 00:04:09,715 Speaker 1: to declaring the elected president of the United States and 51 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:13,675 Speaker 1: his government enemies of the people, and to trying to 52 00:04:13,715 --> 00:04:17,595 Speaker 1: get rid of all of them and all of us. 53 00:04:18,195 --> 00:04:21,675 Speaker 1: But the thugs and tyrants attacking our movement, and there's 54 00:04:21,755 --> 00:04:25,075 Speaker 1: never been a movement even close in the history of 55 00:04:25,115 --> 00:04:29,395 Speaker 1: the United States. Have no idea of the sleeping giant 56 00:04:29,795 --> 00:04:41,835 Speaker 1: that they have awoken. Trump did not cross a line 57 00:04:41,875 --> 00:04:45,475 Speaker 1: Saturday night in Youngstown, Ohio. He erased one. It is 58 00:04:45,515 --> 00:04:48,995 Speaker 1: not the ultimate line. It is the penultimate one. There 59 00:04:48,995 --> 00:04:51,795 Speaker 1: are still ways to prevent him, and ways to forestall 60 00:04:51,915 --> 00:04:54,875 Speaker 1: the horror and the destruction of all we call America. 61 00:04:55,515 --> 00:04:59,315 Speaker 1: But Saturday night he climaxed a week of stochastic terror threats, 62 00:04:59,315 --> 00:05:01,955 Speaker 1: in a week of movement towards the full embrace of 63 00:05:01,995 --> 00:05:05,155 Speaker 1: the Q and on madness, Saturday night he made it 64 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:11,715 Speaker 1: unavoidable and inescapable. It is Christo fascism or America. It 65 00:05:11,915 --> 00:05:18,395 Speaker 1: is Q and On or America. It is Trump or America. 66 00:05:18,595 --> 00:05:25,275 Speaker 1: And our fight, our last chance, starts with this. We 67 00:05:25,435 --> 00:05:30,155 Speaker 1: have to face the reality that Trump is America's Hitler 68 00:05:30,675 --> 00:05:35,195 Speaker 1: and is now openly emulating Hitler and his most venomous 69 00:05:35,275 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: call to dictatorship. One people, one nation, one fewer. We 70 00:05:41,915 --> 00:05:45,715 Speaker 1: are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious 71 00:05:45,755 --> 00:05:50,515 Speaker 1: American nation. Once the comparison between Trump and Hitler could 72 00:05:50,555 --> 00:05:54,435 Speaker 1: be misinterpreted as hyperbole and alarmism and political science fiction, 73 00:05:54,475 --> 00:05:57,995 Speaker 1: it was Godwin's law wearing orange makeup. The first to 74 00:05:58,075 --> 00:06:02,195 Speaker 1: invoke Hitler automatically loses the debate. And while some of 75 00:06:02,275 --> 00:06:04,875 Speaker 1: us who actually knew Trump said, as it starts, had 76 00:06:04,875 --> 00:06:07,755 Speaker 1: seven long years ago that in him there were all 77 00:06:07,795 --> 00:06:11,315 Speaker 1: the elements of mass murder and of dictatorship, so many 78 00:06:11,395 --> 00:06:14,395 Speaker 1: others thought the guardrails that have saved us since Aaron 79 00:06:14,515 --> 00:06:18,035 Speaker 1: Burr made it so that no man, no matter how insane, 80 00:06:18,035 --> 00:06:20,755 Speaker 1: no matter how power mad, no matter how devoid of 81 00:06:20,795 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: the slightest concern for anyone but himself, anything but himself, 82 00:06:25,395 --> 00:06:30,395 Speaker 1: could ever erase democracy in America. We who saw horror 83 00:06:30,835 --> 00:06:34,235 Speaker 1: hoped those who saw aberration were right, and we were wrong. 84 00:06:36,235 --> 00:06:39,555 Speaker 1: But we were not wrong, and we are not wrong. 85 00:06:40,715 --> 00:06:44,195 Speaker 1: We must use the real words. We have to face 86 00:06:44,235 --> 00:06:51,035 Speaker 1: the reality that Trump is America's Hitler. This statement is 87 00:06:51,075 --> 00:06:54,475 Speaker 1: no longer alarmism. It is no longer theoretical, It is 88 00:06:54,515 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 1: no longer political science fiction. It is after Saturday night 89 00:06:58,195 --> 00:07:02,475 Speaker 1: in Ohio, with his wild, orgiastic call to violence, with 90 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: the continuing beckoning for others to fight, to take back, 91 00:07:06,635 --> 00:07:10,955 Speaker 1: to terrorize, with the arms raised in mindless salute, and 92 00:07:10,995 --> 00:07:14,075 Speaker 1: the entirety of existence reduced to a song that makes 93 00:07:14,075 --> 00:07:17,635 Speaker 1: no sense, sung by cultists who make no sense, to 94 00:07:17,715 --> 00:07:21,155 Speaker 1: a messianic later who makes no sense. It is now 95 00:07:21,355 --> 00:07:30,315 Speaker 1: undeniable fact. Our Hitler is here now. The comparison always 96 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:33,795 Speaker 1: repels many who would otherwise recognize and agree to its 97 00:07:33,795 --> 00:07:37,195 Speaker 1: component parts. It is easily rejected because the Hitler and 98 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:41,235 Speaker 1: our collective human mind. Is the Hitler already forcing society 99 00:07:41,235 --> 00:07:45,195 Speaker 1: into uniforms and regimentation, and the Hitler already bombing England, 100 00:07:45,435 --> 00:07:49,115 Speaker 1: and the Hitler already gassing Jews. But Trump has so 101 00:07:49,155 --> 00:07:53,875 Speaker 1: far acted by neglect, by proxy, by invoking and inspiring 102 00:07:53,875 --> 00:07:56,395 Speaker 1: evil in others, while being able to deny his own 103 00:07:56,435 --> 00:08:02,915 Speaker 1: total responsibility for that. Trump is not Hitler, not yet. 104 00:08:03,555 --> 00:08:07,555 Speaker 1: But he is Hitler nineteen thirty or nineteen thirty two. 105 00:08:07,915 --> 00:08:11,555 Speaker 1: He is Hitler at that stage when the most powerful, 106 00:08:11,635 --> 00:08:15,635 Speaker 1: most vicious right wing mainstream politician in Germany, Franz von Poppin, 107 00:08:15,915 --> 00:08:18,955 Speaker 1: could insist he and his colleagues could make Hitler chancellor 108 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:22,155 Speaker 1: and then bury him. Quote within two months, we'll have 109 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:27,195 Speaker 1: pushed Hitler into the corner. That was on January ninety three. 110 00:08:27,875 --> 00:08:30,915 Speaker 1: Twenty eight days after that the German parliament building, the Reichstag, 111 00:08:31,435 --> 00:08:33,395 Speaker 1: was burned to the ground, and twenty four days after 112 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:36,475 Speaker 1: that the parliament voted to give Hitler the right to 113 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:40,755 Speaker 1: make his own laws and to end the elections in Germany, 114 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:44,515 Speaker 1: and the sun would not rise again until nine. We 115 00:08:44,595 --> 00:08:47,235 Speaker 1: have to face the reality that Trump is America's Hitler, 116 00:08:47,715 --> 00:08:52,995 Speaker 1: that Hitler the Hitler on the verge of all night forever. 117 00:08:55,275 --> 00:08:58,555 Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler first emerged in German politics in the nineteen twenties, 118 00:08:58,835 --> 00:09:04,075 Speaker 1: already deranged, already irrational, already a threat to his country's democracy. 119 00:09:04,235 --> 00:09:07,675 Speaker 1: And then he was thwarted in his bid for total power, 120 00:09:07,795 --> 00:09:11,435 Speaker 1: denied by the rule of law. From superseding the rule 121 00:09:11,555 --> 00:09:15,635 Speaker 1: of law, and to his instability and in humanity were 122 00:09:15,675 --> 00:09:19,235 Speaker 1: added cultism and vengeance, and the utter disregard of anything 123 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:22,515 Speaker 1: except his own wanton desires, and a kind of rapture 124 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:26,275 Speaker 1: of rage that would no longer be satisfied with total power, 125 00:09:26,355 --> 00:09:30,035 Speaker 1: but now demanded that power be gained by the destruction 126 00:09:30,195 --> 00:09:34,195 Speaker 1: of others. The day he seized control, he did not 127 00:09:34,315 --> 00:09:37,435 Speaker 1: begin to imprison and then murder millions of Jews and opponents, 128 00:09:37,435 --> 00:09:40,435 Speaker 1: and intellectuals and minorities. The day he seized control, he 129 00:09:40,515 --> 00:09:43,675 Speaker 1: did not start World War two. The day he seized control, 130 00:09:43,715 --> 00:09:46,155 Speaker 1: he did not unleash the forces that would kill eighty 131 00:09:46,155 --> 00:09:48,995 Speaker 1: five million people in a world war. But the day 132 00:09:49,035 --> 00:09:52,635 Speaker 1: he seized control, he quickly made sure that the rules 133 00:09:52,675 --> 00:09:55,475 Speaker 1: and laws and powers of the Institution of the state 134 00:09:55,795 --> 00:10:02,155 Speaker 1: lost their usefulness in stopping him. We have to face 135 00:10:02,195 --> 00:10:06,675 Speaker 1: the reality that Trump is America's Hitler, and there is 136 00:10:06,715 --> 00:10:09,875 Speaker 1: no reason to be squeamish about that comparison. On the 137 00:10:09,955 --> 00:10:14,475 Speaker 1: subject of Donald Trump. Hitler was at first invoked by 138 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:19,915 Speaker 1: Hitler was first made relevant by Trump. It is not 139 00:10:20,075 --> 00:10:22,835 Speaker 1: six weeks since his former chief of staff, General Kelly, 140 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:26,715 Speaker 1: demanded to know why quote you effing generals, Why can't 141 00:10:26,755 --> 00:10:29,115 Speaker 1: you be like the German generals in World War Two? 142 00:10:30,875 --> 00:10:32,835 Speaker 1: And when Kelly challenged him with the fact that it 143 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:36,195 Speaker 1: was German generals who tried to kill Hitler, Trump insisted, no, no, no, 144 00:10:36,835 --> 00:10:40,435 Speaker 1: they were totally loyal to him. It is four years 145 00:10:40,475 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: since Trump had a commemoration of the dead of World 146 00:10:42,955 --> 00:10:46,315 Speaker 1: War One, who said to Kelly, quote, well, Hitler did 147 00:10:46,315 --> 00:10:51,435 Speaker 1: a lot of good things and talked about Hitler's economy. 148 00:10:51,715 --> 00:10:54,755 Speaker 1: And it is thirty two years thirty two years this 149 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:59,555 Speaker 1: month since Marie Brenner wrote in Vanity Fair magazine Ivanna 150 00:10:59,595 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: Trump told her lawyer that from time to time her 151 00:11:01,755 --> 00:11:05,275 Speaker 1: husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, which he 152 00:11:05,395 --> 00:11:09,555 Speaker 1: keeps in a cabinet by his bed. And this reporter 153 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:12,675 Speaker 1: Brenner asks Trump if his cousin John gave him that book, 154 00:11:12,715 --> 00:11:15,195 Speaker 1: and Trump says, quote, actually, it was my friend Marty 155 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:17,355 Speaker 1: Davis from Paramount, who gave me a copy of mine 156 00:11:17,395 --> 00:11:19,955 Speaker 1: comp And then it's Marty Davis who says he didn't 157 00:11:19,995 --> 00:11:23,555 Speaker 1: give Trump that Hitler book. He gave Trump Hitler's my 158 00:11:23,755 --> 00:11:28,275 Speaker 1: new Order, Hitler's book of his favorite speeches. And Trump 159 00:11:28,315 --> 00:11:30,715 Speaker 1: comes back to the topic and tells Marie Brenner, if 160 00:11:30,755 --> 00:11:32,675 Speaker 1: I had these speeches, and I am not saying that 161 00:11:32,755 --> 00:11:37,835 Speaker 1: I do, I would never read them. There was another 162 00:11:37,915 --> 00:11:40,115 Speaker 1: quote in that article from thirty two years ago this month, 163 00:11:40,155 --> 00:11:44,115 Speaker 1: attributed to one of Trump's attorneys. Donald the lawyer said 164 00:11:45,155 --> 00:11:50,315 Speaker 1: is a believer in the big lie theory. If you 165 00:11:50,395 --> 00:11:59,355 Speaker 1: say something again and again, people will believe you use 166 00:11:59,915 --> 00:12:05,995 Speaker 1: the real words. What we saw Saturday, a night in Youngstown, Ohio, 167 00:12:06,195 --> 00:12:09,635 Speaker 1: was the last shreds of the Trump mask being torn away, 168 00:12:09,755 --> 00:12:12,075 Speaker 1: and the last barrier between Trump and q and On 169 00:12:12,235 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: being torn away, and the last distinction between Trump and 170 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:19,195 Speaker 1: another Hitler being torn away, and the last hesitation to 171 00:12:19,315 --> 00:12:23,435 Speaker 1: make their plans clear being torn away, and also the 172 00:12:23,475 --> 00:12:30,075 Speaker 1: start of something within literally hours. At another rally yesterday 173 00:12:30,155 --> 00:12:33,915 Speaker 1: for the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, 174 00:12:34,155 --> 00:12:38,435 Speaker 1: a crystal fascist called Lance Wall now had only to ask, 175 00:12:38,995 --> 00:12:43,115 Speaker 1: and the crowd there in Pennsylvania raised all of their 176 00:12:43,235 --> 00:12:48,915 Speaker 1: arms and grunted along with this poisonous mixture of religious insanity, fascism, 177 00:12:49,035 --> 00:12:52,875 Speaker 1: war fantasies, and Q and on. And we'll do that 178 00:12:52,915 --> 00:12:54,395 Speaker 1: if I've been in the right hand of the air 179 00:12:54,635 --> 00:12:57,475 Speaker 1: on the count three. If you're willing to do this, 180 00:12:58,555 --> 00:13:01,875 Speaker 1: can you say what they said at Gettysburg when you 181 00:13:01,955 --> 00:13:06,835 Speaker 1: see us lined up as see down the end of 182 00:13:06,835 --> 00:13:15,395 Speaker 1: the victory. Indeed, Pennsylvania will be like the Little round 183 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:25,715 Speaker 1: time and America will have a new birth of We 184 00:13:25,795 --> 00:13:29,675 Speaker 1: have to face the reality that Trump is America's hitler, 185 00:13:30,675 --> 00:13:33,315 Speaker 1: and we have to face another reality, the one expressed 186 00:13:33,355 --> 00:13:35,675 Speaker 1: by the author of the political insider book This Town, 187 00:13:35,715 --> 00:13:39,715 Speaker 1: Mark Liebovich. Mr. Leebovich quoted a former Republican congressman who 188 00:13:39,715 --> 00:13:43,555 Speaker 1: has seen this coming and who warned, quote, look, we 189 00:13:43,635 --> 00:13:47,315 Speaker 1: have no plan for this except sitting around hoping he dies. 190 00:13:49,515 --> 00:13:51,635 Speaker 1: We must accept the fact that the day in the 191 00:13:51,675 --> 00:13:54,835 Speaker 1: near future is now visible when even the most drastic 192 00:13:54,915 --> 00:13:58,675 Speaker 1: steps against Trump will not stop him. We have to 193 00:13:58,715 --> 00:14:01,235 Speaker 1: look at the country around us today, right now, September 194 00:14:01,755 --> 00:14:03,915 Speaker 1: twenty two, and we have to admit that as in 195 00:14:03,955 --> 00:14:08,355 Speaker 1: Germany and nine seen thirty three. Our rules and our laws, 196 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:12,275 Speaker 1: and our powers of our institutions of our state are 197 00:14:12,355 --> 00:14:17,195 Speaker 1: beginning to lose their usefulness in stopping Trump and the 198 00:14:17,275 --> 00:14:22,795 Speaker 1: Christo fascists, and the q and Ons and the Republicans. 199 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:28,235 Speaker 1: The judiciary has already compromised and losing its usefulness in 200 00:14:28,275 --> 00:14:32,235 Speaker 1: stopping Trump. A judge he appointed has overruled the laws 201 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:36,635 Speaker 1: of this country protecting us against espionage and nuclear kleptomania 202 00:14:36,755 --> 00:14:40,035 Speaker 1: and said no, he was the victim. Another judge will 203 00:14:40,075 --> 00:14:43,835 Speaker 1: now act as special Master and delay any prosecution of 204 00:14:43,875 --> 00:14:48,395 Speaker 1: Trump for his crimes until December. At least six judges 205 00:14:48,395 --> 00:14:52,595 Speaker 1: Trump appointed will hear the appeal of the Special Master case. 206 00:14:52,875 --> 00:14:56,035 Speaker 1: Three Supreme Court judges Trump appointed would hear the appeal 207 00:14:56,155 --> 00:15:01,635 Speaker 1: after that. The elections are already compromised and losing their 208 00:15:01,715 --> 00:15:04,395 Speaker 1: usefulness in stopping Trump. In six weeks, we will hold 209 00:15:04,395 --> 00:15:06,755 Speaker 1: elect and we will permit at least some people to 210 00:15:06,795 --> 00:15:10,995 Speaker 1: assume office that control the elections. People who have sworn 211 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:13,755 Speaker 1: loyalty not to this country but to Trump. People who 212 00:15:13,755 --> 00:15:16,195 Speaker 1: are committed not to fair elections that they might win 213 00:15:16,275 --> 00:15:19,115 Speaker 1: and they might lose, but to elections that are legitimate 214 00:15:19,115 --> 00:15:22,475 Speaker 1: only if Trump wins and can be ignored or overturned 215 00:15:22,595 --> 00:15:25,275 Speaker 1: or redone if Trump loses. People who might as well 216 00:15:25,315 --> 00:15:27,475 Speaker 1: have been in that crowd in Ohio Saturday night and 217 00:15:27,475 --> 00:15:30,995 Speaker 1: in that crowd in Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon, their eyes closed 218 00:15:31,035 --> 00:15:33,955 Speaker 1: in the presence of their God Trump, their fore fingers 219 00:15:34,035 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: raised in mindless salute to their God Trump, their poisoned 220 00:15:37,715 --> 00:15:41,715 Speaker 1: minds dedicated to vengeance on behalf of their God Trump. 221 00:15:44,115 --> 00:15:48,395 Speaker 1: The legislative branch is already compromised and losing its usefulness 222 00:15:48,395 --> 00:15:52,035 Speaker 1: in stopping Trump. If the Republicans take the House, they 223 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:55,515 Speaker 1: will not just stop the January six Commission, they will 224 00:15:55,635 --> 00:15:59,515 Speaker 1: pervert it and use it to prove that Trump was 225 00:15:59,555 --> 00:16:02,515 Speaker 1: the victim, and the Proud Boys were victims, and the 226 00:16:02,515 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: oath keepers were victims. And the committee should impeach the 227 00:16:05,275 --> 00:16:09,555 Speaker 1: Attorney General and Biden and free every seditionist scum involved 228 00:16:09,595 --> 00:16:14,235 Speaker 1: in every component of every attempted coup. The Republican Party 229 00:16:14,235 --> 00:16:17,555 Speaker 1: has already compromised and is losing its usefulness in stopping Trump. 230 00:16:17,595 --> 00:16:20,395 Speaker 1: It has been subsumed by Trump. If Trump has now 231 00:16:20,435 --> 00:16:22,755 Speaker 1: empraised q and On, and q and On is a cult, 232 00:16:22,795 --> 00:16:25,755 Speaker 1: then Trump has become a cult, and his Republican Party 233 00:16:25,875 --> 00:16:28,875 Speaker 1: is a cult. The Republican Party has cut its connection 234 00:16:28,915 --> 00:16:32,915 Speaker 1: to democracy or public service or any policy other than power, 235 00:16:33,315 --> 00:16:36,635 Speaker 1: and some political figures still believe the Republican Party will 236 00:16:36,635 --> 00:16:39,915 Speaker 1: act to stop Trump, when in point of fact, Trump 237 00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:43,795 Speaker 1: brings them power, and they asked no other questions, just 238 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: like the German Conservatives of nineteen thirty three asked no 239 00:16:46,675 --> 00:16:50,875 Speaker 1: other questions until Hitler started sending some of them to 240 00:16:50,915 --> 00:16:55,075 Speaker 1: the camps. The only Republicans who make the slightest motions 241 00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: against Trump do so by trying to out trump him, 242 00:16:58,355 --> 00:17:02,115 Speaker 1: like De Santis and the Human Traffic, or even more ominously, 243 00:17:02,515 --> 00:17:05,235 Speaker 1: ending half of his speeches by telling his audience to 244 00:17:05,395 --> 00:17:08,835 Speaker 1: put on the armor of God, or Mastriano and his 245 00:17:08,915 --> 00:17:11,875 Speaker 1: proxy Wall now yesterday, mixing Q and On and religion 246 00:17:11,915 --> 00:17:16,835 Speaker 1: and the Civil War into one horrible recipe for theocracy. 247 00:17:18,755 --> 00:17:21,075 Speaker 1: What is left to us, who want peace and who 248 00:17:21,075 --> 00:17:23,875 Speaker 1: want democracy, and who want elections, and who want an 249 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:28,355 Speaker 1: America in which no one is killed or sent to 250 00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:32,755 Speaker 1: a camp because they non violently oppose any politician. Our 251 00:17:33,035 --> 00:17:36,595 Speaker 1: last plan, our only plan for this, except sitting around 252 00:17:36,675 --> 00:17:41,275 Speaker 1: hoping he dies, is the executive branch, and as it 253 00:17:41,315 --> 00:17:44,315 Speaker 1: fell to Joe Biden to defeat Trump in an election 254 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:48,355 Speaker 1: to save American democracy. It falls again to him to 255 00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:52,835 Speaker 1: use the means at his disposal to defeat Trump as 256 00:17:52,835 --> 00:17:56,755 Speaker 1: he waits to take the penultimate step to destroy American 257 00:17:56,795 --> 00:18:00,195 Speaker 1: democracy and to propel this country into chaos and horror 258 00:18:00,235 --> 00:18:05,555 Speaker 1: and nightmare. Trump is the p R. Beale, clear and 259 00:18:05,635 --> 00:18:08,355 Speaker 1: present danger to the safety of this nation and every 260 00:18:08,355 --> 00:18:11,715 Speaker 1: one of her citizens. He must be treated as we 261 00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:17,235 Speaker 1: would treat any other terrorists loose in our midst. Biden's 262 00:18:17,235 --> 00:18:20,475 Speaker 1: Attorney general spent Saturday at Ellis Island fighting back tears 263 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:22,555 Speaker 1: and pleading we are all in this together, we are 264 00:18:22,595 --> 00:18:25,715 Speaker 1: all Americans. Instead of realizing the people he is pleading 265 00:18:25,755 --> 00:18:29,075 Speaker 1: with want to kill him and you and me. And 266 00:18:29,115 --> 00:18:31,795 Speaker 1: instead of pleading, he should be prosecuting, even if it 267 00:18:31,835 --> 00:18:34,875 Speaker 1: means ignoring the Florida Court, or ignoring the Appeals Court, 268 00:18:35,035 --> 00:18:39,235 Speaker 1: or ignoring the Supreme Court. And if this still does 269 00:18:39,275 --> 00:18:41,835 Speaker 1: not end the terror, Joe Biden must act against the 270 00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:48,635 Speaker 1: terrorist Trump threatens this nation and everyone in it today, 271 00:18:48,755 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: right now, the next January six is being organized while 272 00:18:52,475 --> 00:18:59,275 Speaker 1: we watch and we respond with memes. And if Biden acts, 273 00:18:59,315 --> 00:19:02,115 Speaker 1: and if what follows are the riots in the streets 274 00:19:02,195 --> 00:19:05,235 Speaker 1: promised by Lindsey Graham or the quote big Trouble from 275 00:19:05,235 --> 00:19:08,875 Speaker 1: the Sleeping Giants summoned Saturday night by Trump. Biden must 276 00:19:08,915 --> 00:19:11,075 Speaker 1: respond with the full power of the United States of 277 00:19:11,075 --> 00:19:15,155 Speaker 1: America and face the rioters in the streets, and face 278 00:19:15,235 --> 00:19:17,795 Speaker 1: the sleeping Giant, and face the Trump Q and on 279 00:19:17,915 --> 00:19:22,955 Speaker 1: Christo fascist cultists. And in defense of everything this country 280 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:26,555 Speaker 1: has ever meant and everything it is supposed to mean, 281 00:19:27,635 --> 00:19:34,115 Speaker 1: to crush them, we must use the real words. We 282 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:52,635 Speaker 1: must face the reality that Trump is America's hitler. Still ahead, 283 00:19:52,675 --> 00:19:55,595 Speaker 1: uncountdown the anniversary of the day my great grandfather turned 284 00:19:55,595 --> 00:19:58,435 Speaker 1: down stock in the company that would become General Motors 285 00:19:58,515 --> 00:20:02,035 Speaker 1: and gave the owner the idea for the name. It 286 00:20:02,195 --> 00:20:05,435 Speaker 1: is humorous relief, and God knows we need it, Aaron 287 00:20:05,555 --> 00:20:08,635 Speaker 1: Judge Homers one away from the record or two? Or 288 00:20:08,715 --> 00:20:12,795 Speaker 1: is it? And worse persons? Who's that standing next to 289 00:20:12,835 --> 00:20:16,235 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer park Green in that photo? Why it's America's sweetheart, 290 00:20:16,235 --> 00:20:19,995 Speaker 1: pat say Jack. And that board is spelling out F 291 00:20:20,195 --> 00:20:29,795 Speaker 1: A S blank I S T. That's next, Bannah. This 292 00:20:29,955 --> 00:20:51,555 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 293 00:20:51,555 --> 00:20:54,435 Speaker 1: on Countdown. Puerto Rico hit again by a hurricane of 294 00:20:54,475 --> 00:20:58,555 Speaker 1: impossible dimensions. Pat say Jack self identifies as a pal 295 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,955 Speaker 1: of Marjorie Taylor Green and the woman who devoted her 296 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:04,515 Speaker 1: life to getting her late husband elected to Baseball's Hall 297 00:21:04,555 --> 00:21:08,995 Speaker 1: of Fame has died after fifty years of struggling to 298 00:21:09,035 --> 00:21:11,995 Speaker 1: make it happen. First, in each edition of Countdown, we 299 00:21:11,995 --> 00:21:13,915 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every 300 00:21:13,955 --> 00:21:17,675 Speaker 1: dog has its day if she knows you already. Henrietta 301 00:21:17,795 --> 00:21:20,515 Speaker 1: is a perfect sweetheart. She'll take treats gently and calmly, 302 00:21:20,635 --> 00:21:23,435 Speaker 1: your respond to your commands. She needs time, though, to 303 00:21:23,475 --> 00:21:26,315 Speaker 1: adjust to strangers, which makes sense since they found her 304 00:21:26,395 --> 00:21:29,395 Speaker 1: roaming a Brooklyn apartment building. She hates the pound, is 305 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:32,915 Speaker 1: terrified there, but she loves people and dogs alike. She's 306 00:21:32,955 --> 00:21:34,915 Speaker 1: at the New York Pound marked for death, and as 307 00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:37,395 Speaker 1: a seventy two pound brindle mixed breeds, she will not 308 00:21:37,515 --> 00:21:40,155 Speaker 1: make it out alive unless we can help put together 309 00:21:40,235 --> 00:21:43,515 Speaker 1: enough pledges to defray a rescue groups costs in pulling 310 00:21:43,515 --> 00:21:45,915 Speaker 1: her out of the pound. Look for my tweet about 311 00:21:45,955 --> 00:21:49,355 Speaker 1: Henrietta on my account for Dogs in Trouble. Tom Jumbo 312 00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:52,515 Speaker 1: Grumbo and pledge something for Henriette if you can, or 313 00:21:52,555 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: just retweet her please and thank you very much. Coming 314 00:22:06,675 --> 00:22:09,235 Speaker 1: up on countdown. Sure, if you'll lure forty eight immigrants 315 00:22:09,235 --> 00:22:11,875 Speaker 1: onto a flight with false promises of jobs and then 316 00:22:11,915 --> 00:22:14,035 Speaker 1: fly them somewhere other than where you told them you 317 00:22:14,075 --> 00:22:16,595 Speaker 1: were going, it's bad. But if they were treated well 318 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:19,715 Speaker 1: when they got their CNN asks, how could you call 319 00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:23,675 Speaker 1: it kidnapping? Worst persons? Coming up first postscripts to the news, 320 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:31,995 Speaker 1: Some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Stateline San Juan, Puerto Rico, 321 00:22:32,155 --> 00:22:34,875 Speaker 1: once again part of this country is decimated by natural 322 00:22:34,915 --> 00:22:38,475 Speaker 1: disasters accelerated by climate change, and yet it gets overlooked. 323 00:22:38,635 --> 00:22:40,955 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is still trying to come back from Hurricane 324 00:22:40,995 --> 00:22:44,115 Speaker 1: Maria in two thousand seventeen and the negligence of the 325 00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:47,835 Speaker 1: Trump administration afterwards, Remember him tossing the victims rolls of 326 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:51,715 Speaker 1: paper towels. Puerto Rico lost all power last night as 327 00:22:51,755 --> 00:22:55,955 Speaker 1: Hurricane Fiona hit the island. Date donned London or they're 328 00:22:55,995 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: finally having the funeral service and the burial of Queen 329 00:22:58,555 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: Elizabeth the second. Sorry they rushed it like that should 330 00:23:01,835 --> 00:23:05,395 Speaker 1: have taken a little longer. Dateline. Twitter too weird tweets 331 00:23:05,435 --> 00:23:09,395 Speaker 1: about the right wing troll Tommy Laren. The Independent tweeted, 332 00:23:09,395 --> 00:23:14,635 Speaker 1: Tommy Laren evacuated as protesters pound doors evacuated. It must 333 00:23:14,675 --> 00:23:18,195 Speaker 1: have been messy and outkicked. The Coverage tweeted police had 334 00:23:18,235 --> 00:23:23,995 Speaker 1: to escort Tommy Laren. Out escort Tommy Laren, who knew 335 00:23:24,115 --> 00:23:27,555 Speaker 1: state line? Woodland Hills, California. Henry Silva has died. The 336 00:23:27,635 --> 00:23:30,395 Speaker 1: veteran character actor and all around heavy was in the 337 00:23:30,395 --> 00:23:33,995 Speaker 1: original Oceans eleven with Frank Sinatra in nineteen sixty and 338 00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:37,635 Speaker 1: stood out in the extraordinary political science fiction classic The 339 00:23:37,635 --> 00:23:41,755 Speaker 1: Manchurian Candidate, including a karate fight with Frank Sinatra that 340 00:23:41,795 --> 00:23:44,195 Speaker 1: takes up more than two minutes of the film. You've 341 00:23:44,195 --> 00:23:46,755 Speaker 1: never seen The Manchurian Candidate. This is a good reason 342 00:23:46,835 --> 00:23:48,795 Speaker 1: for you to go see it right now, shut the 343 00:23:48,835 --> 00:23:51,835 Speaker 1: podcast off and watch it. Henry Silva was nine and 344 00:23:51,955 --> 00:23:54,635 Speaker 1: Hollywood New York Times reporting that Apple is in a 345 00:23:54,835 --> 00:23:58,315 Speaker 1: quandary over what to do with its one million dollar 346 00:23:58,435 --> 00:24:04,555 Speaker 1: Will Smith film Emancipation because anybody guess anybody remember why 347 00:24:05,275 --> 00:24:10,395 Speaker 1: anybody care? Because Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 348 00:24:10,435 --> 00:24:14,675 Speaker 1: Oscars last March only the entertainment industry could be so 349 00:24:14,755 --> 00:24:18,275 Speaker 1: self absorbed as to think people won't go or will 350 00:24:18,395 --> 00:24:21,435 Speaker 1: go because of that incident or remember anything in last 351 00:24:21,555 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: March or earlier. On the other hand, Apple is clearly 352 00:24:25,955 --> 00:24:30,195 Speaker 1: missing the perfect marketing campaign for this movie. Now go 353 00:24:30,355 --> 00:24:50,035 Speaker 1: see Emancipation. It slaps. This is Sports Center. Wait, check 354 00:24:50,115 --> 00:24:59,355 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman. It slaps. 355 00:24:59,355 --> 00:25:03,435 Speaker 1: That's what the kids say, right, It slaps in sports. 356 00:25:03,475 --> 00:25:05,995 Speaker 1: Maybe Tom Brady and his if Gazelle Bunchen and the 357 00:25:05,995 --> 00:25:08,995 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucks should each be living in separate homes. 358 00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:12,235 Speaker 1: Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucks beat New Orleans twenty 359 00:25:12,395 --> 00:25:17,355 Speaker 1: ten yesterday, but Brady through eighteen completed passes and sixteen incompletes, 360 00:25:17,395 --> 00:25:19,195 Speaker 1: and after one of the ladder Brady yelled at the 361 00:25:19,235 --> 00:25:22,355 Speaker 1: New Orleans quarterback Marshawn Lattimore. Next thing you know, there's 362 00:25:22,355 --> 00:25:26,595 Speaker 1: a bench clearing brawl while Brady basically exits stage left, 363 00:25:27,035 --> 00:25:29,155 Speaker 1: and then he would not answer media questions about the 364 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:32,235 Speaker 1: brew haha afterwards. Brew ha ha ha ha. He was 365 00:25:32,235 --> 00:25:34,635 Speaker 1: supposed to be such a big deal in San Francisco. 366 00:25:34,675 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: They've done a documentary series on him called The Choice 367 00:25:38,075 --> 00:25:42,515 Speaker 1: now forty quarterback and one third overall choice, Trey Lance 368 00:25:42,755 --> 00:25:45,755 Speaker 1: has broken his right ankle. Turns out the choice they 369 00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:47,955 Speaker 1: met was the one the Niners made not to trade 370 00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:51,315 Speaker 1: his presumed backup, Jimmy Garoppolo. They also made a choice 371 00:25:51,315 --> 00:25:54,515 Speaker 1: not to give Garoppolo forty Niners playbook in training camp, 372 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,235 Speaker 1: thinking he could tell his next team what was in it. 373 00:25:57,795 --> 00:25:59,555 Speaker 1: His next team turns out to be his old team. 374 00:25:59,595 --> 00:26:02,195 Speaker 1: Garoppolo tossed a touchdown and with him at the helm, 375 00:26:02,275 --> 00:26:06,315 Speaker 1: San Francisco beat Seattle seven. The Las Vegas Aces beat 376 00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:08,955 Speaker 1: Connecticut seventy one to take the w n b A 377 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:13,995 Speaker 1: crown in five games. I'm sorry, w n b A. 378 00:26:13,995 --> 00:26:16,875 Speaker 1: Aaron Judge homer twice fifty nine for the season, which 379 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:20,115 Speaker 1: means he's certainly within two of tying the all time 380 00:26:20,315 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: American League record. Except how is it the American League 381 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:27,835 Speaker 1: record if nine of Aaron judges fifty nine homers this 382 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:32,275 Speaker 1: year have been against National League teams in interleague play? 383 00:26:32,355 --> 00:26:34,475 Speaker 1: And if you're saying that doesn't matter, the league's play 384 00:26:34,515 --> 00:26:36,515 Speaker 1: each other all the time and they're not really that 385 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,915 Speaker 1: different than how can there be a National league record 386 00:26:40,395 --> 00:26:44,515 Speaker 1: or an American League record anymore? Isn't there just one record? 387 00:26:45,355 --> 00:26:47,435 Speaker 1: Fifty years ago, the great manager of the New York 388 00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:50,715 Speaker 1: Mets and legendary first basement of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Gil Hodges, 389 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:52,795 Speaker 1: died of a heart attack at the age of forty seven, 390 00:26:53,035 --> 00:26:55,835 Speaker 1: just as the nineteen seventy two baseball season was beginning. 391 00:26:56,155 --> 00:26:58,795 Speaker 1: For half a century, his widow, Joan, had continued to 392 00:26:58,875 --> 00:27:02,635 Speaker 1: live in her Brooklyn home, spearheading an increasingly desperate bid 393 00:27:02,675 --> 00:27:04,915 Speaker 1: to get her late husband the place he does irved 394 00:27:04,915 --> 00:27:08,795 Speaker 1: in Baseball's Hall of Fame. Fifteen times, the voting writers 395 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:12,795 Speaker 1: bypassed gil Hodges twice, as many times various veterans committees 396 00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:15,635 Speaker 1: did the same. Finally, last winter, he was elected to 397 00:27:15,675 --> 00:27:19,755 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and on July Mrs gil Hodges 398 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:24,555 Speaker 1: watched her daughter except the honor fifty years overdue. Saturday night, 399 00:27:24,715 --> 00:27:37,435 Speaker 1: Joan Hodges died ten days short of her ninety six birthday. 400 00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:45,195 Speaker 1: Still ahead, ever, wondered who came up with that name 401 00:27:45,395 --> 00:27:53,795 Speaker 1: General Motors spoiler alert, It was my great grandfather. Gruesome details. Next, first, 402 00:27:53,795 --> 00:27:56,315 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger 403 00:27:56,355 --> 00:28:00,835 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the World 404 00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:05,755 Speaker 1: le Bronze. Pat Say Jack is a lazy guy. Once 405 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:07,955 Speaker 1: thirty years ago, when I was a guest on his 406 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:10,995 Speaker 1: late night talk show on CBS, the one that got canceled. 407 00:28:11,395 --> 00:28:13,715 Speaker 1: I arrived an hour before taping time and asked if 408 00:28:13,715 --> 00:28:15,355 Speaker 1: I could stop in and say hello to Pat, and 409 00:28:15,355 --> 00:28:18,315 Speaker 1: they said no, he's not here yet, and I said what. 410 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:21,795 Speaker 1: Suddenly the vice president of late night for CBS was 411 00:28:21,795 --> 00:28:23,595 Speaker 1: there and he said, Hey, have you ever thought of 412 00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:26,755 Speaker 1: hosting one of these shows? Because our host ain't here yet, 413 00:28:26,755 --> 00:28:29,875 Speaker 1: and we'd tap in an hour later. Pat would claim 414 00:28:29,915 --> 00:28:32,515 Speaker 1: in public that he got me started on Network TV 415 00:28:32,795 --> 00:28:34,875 Speaker 1: on that show and regretted it ever since. And I 416 00:28:34,915 --> 00:28:39,875 Speaker 1: had to tell him, Pat, that was I was on CNN. 417 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:44,835 Speaker 1: That's all preface to something really lazy from Pat. He's 418 00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:47,075 Speaker 1: pretty good about hiding his trump is um, but he 419 00:28:47,155 --> 00:28:50,115 Speaker 1: just gave away the store. Posted on social media a 420 00:28:50,115 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: photo of a on camera stooge from the propaganda outlet 421 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:57,315 Speaker 1: right side broadcasting beaming on the left of the picture, 422 00:28:57,915 --> 00:29:00,875 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park green beaming on the right of the picture, 423 00:29:00,955 --> 00:29:05,835 Speaker 1: and beaming in the middle, Pat Say Jack, Pat, I'd 424 00:29:05,915 --> 00:29:09,795 Speaker 1: like to buy a dictatorship. The runners up kidnappers and 425 00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:12,955 Speaker 1: human traffickers rhn De Santis and Greg Abbott as they're 426 00:29:12,995 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: in humanity and criminality continues to resonate. There is this 427 00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:20,555 Speaker 1: detail that was lost as it all happens, which well, 428 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: maybe it's just me, but I think it kind of 429 00:29:22,555 --> 00:29:26,675 Speaker 1: underscores the you know, falsehood of Rhonda Santis is alleged 430 00:29:26,755 --> 00:29:30,115 Speaker 1: Christianity and the fact that he wouldn't know Jesus if 431 00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:32,675 Speaker 1: Jesus came up and bid him in his ill fitting suit. 432 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:38,555 Speaker 1: One of the kidnapping kidnapped immigrants rather is named Nazareth, 433 00:29:39,435 --> 00:29:45,715 Speaker 1: our Dennis Nazareth. M hmm Nazareth? Why does that? Why 434 00:29:45,755 --> 00:29:51,035 Speaker 1: does that name sound so familiar? M? But our winner 435 00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: In the latest example from the transformation of CNN into 436 00:29:54,115 --> 00:29:57,715 Speaker 1: a fascist propaganda outlet under the chairman and chief executive 437 00:29:57,755 --> 00:30:00,555 Speaker 1: officer of CNN Worldwide, who when we were at MSNBC 438 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:03,995 Speaker 1: together I thought used to eat paste, Chris licked Rhonda 439 00:30:04,035 --> 00:30:07,635 Speaker 1: Santis is a election opponent. Charlie Christ referred to the 440 00:30:07,755 --> 00:30:10,595 Speaker 1: DeSantis kidnapping of forty eight immigrants and sending them to 441 00:30:10,635 --> 00:30:15,755 Speaker 1: Massachusetts as kidnapping, and CNN anchor Alison Camerata, formerly a 442 00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:19,955 Speaker 1: Fox News replied to him, quote, Yes, they were lured 443 00:30:19,995 --> 00:30:23,195 Speaker 1: on false pretenses, that's true, but when they got to 444 00:30:23,275 --> 00:30:27,155 Speaker 1: Martha's vineyard they were certainly treated very humanely. Is that 445 00:30:27,355 --> 00:30:35,995 Speaker 1: really kidnapping? Yes, yes, it is really kidnapping. Seriously, Allison. 446 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:38,355 Speaker 1: Other than that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs 447 00:30:38,395 --> 00:30:57,275 Speaker 1: Lincoln Camerata Today's worst person none the world to the 448 00:30:57,315 --> 00:30:59,395 Speaker 1: top of the countdown on the number one story in 449 00:30:59,475 --> 00:31:03,235 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and what is some much needed 450 00:31:03,275 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: comic relief today? I think though my late father would 451 00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:11,595 Speaker 1: never have agreed with that statement, not at all. My 452 00:31:11,755 --> 00:31:15,795 Speaker 1: great grandfather told this story something like every day until 453 00:31:15,835 --> 00:31:18,395 Speaker 1: he died. It was legendary in the family. There is 454 00:31:18,435 --> 00:31:21,835 Speaker 1: considerable circumstantial evidence that it is all true, and the 455 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:24,355 Speaker 1: last possible date that it could have happened was a 456 00:31:24,435 --> 00:31:30,075 Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen years ago, last Friday, September sixteen eight. 457 00:31:31,315 --> 00:31:35,595 Speaker 1: Anthony Zelinsky was born in Crackoff in Poland in eighteen 458 00:31:35,675 --> 00:31:38,435 Speaker 1: sixty eight. My sister just found some evidence that he 459 00:31:38,635 --> 00:31:41,355 Speaker 1: changed the way his name was spelled, that it was 460 00:31:41,395 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: originally Zelenski with two wise or two eyes at the end, 461 00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:47,675 Speaker 1: just like the Ukrainian president. We're kind of pleased with 462 00:31:47,715 --> 00:31:51,555 Speaker 1: her discovery. Antony, or as my father nicknamed him, the 463 00:31:51,595 --> 00:31:55,395 Speaker 1: Great Financier, was a natural musician. He could sing, play 464 00:31:55,435 --> 00:31:58,155 Speaker 1: any instrument, He could compose music and lyrics. He could 465 00:31:58,155 --> 00:32:00,995 Speaker 1: teach you how to play. He could build or repair 466 00:32:01,035 --> 00:32:04,395 Speaker 1: anything from a kazoo to a grand piano, and that 467 00:32:05,155 --> 00:32:07,275 Speaker 1: from his late teens is how he made his money. 468 00:32:07,635 --> 00:32:11,315 Speaker 1: He traveled all around Europe from maybe eighteen eighty six onwards, 469 00:32:11,355 --> 00:32:14,555 Speaker 1: staying at rich people's houses for several days, teaching the 470 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:17,115 Speaker 1: girls had to sing and the boys how to play 471 00:32:17,115 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: whatever was lying around the house, fixing the family harpsichord, 472 00:32:21,155 --> 00:32:26,035 Speaker 1: cobbling together the odd flute. One day, we're guessing around 473 00:32:26,155 --> 00:32:28,795 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty nine eighteen ninety, he traveled to the home 474 00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:31,515 Speaker 1: of well off merchants in Odessa, then part of Russia, 475 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:34,635 Speaker 1: the chef Chenkos. He taught the boys how to sing 476 00:32:34,715 --> 00:32:36,395 Speaker 1: and the girls how to play the organ, and then 477 00:32:36,395 --> 00:32:41,115 Speaker 1: he uh fell in love with the youngest daughter, Matrona. 478 00:32:41,955 --> 00:32:45,395 Speaker 1: The chef Schenkos were not happy when they discovered them 479 00:32:45,435 --> 00:32:50,035 Speaker 1: in love and chased my great grandfather and their daughter 480 00:32:50,475 --> 00:32:52,835 Speaker 1: out of the house, out of the city and out 481 00:32:52,875 --> 00:32:56,235 Speaker 1: of the country. Antony went home to Poland, married his 482 00:32:56,355 --> 00:32:59,035 Speaker 1: child bride, returned to crack Off, where all of his 483 00:32:59,115 --> 00:33:01,555 Speaker 1: family then chased them out of that house, out of 484 00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:03,875 Speaker 1: that city, and out of that country. Get lost with 485 00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:06,955 Speaker 1: you and you Russia horror, he would later tell the 486 00:33:07,035 --> 00:33:10,995 Speaker 1: nephew for whom my father was named Teddy. Anthony and 487 00:33:11,075 --> 00:33:13,755 Speaker 1: Matrona had to think fast. It's eighteen eighty nine, eighteen 488 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:16,035 Speaker 1: ninety wears a hard working guy thrown out of Russia 489 00:33:16,075 --> 00:33:19,195 Speaker 1: and Poland, gonna go. They arrived in New York City 490 00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:21,835 Speaker 1: within weeks. As I said, he was a natural musician. 491 00:33:22,195 --> 00:33:24,955 Speaker 1: He picked up English quickly, and supposedly within a month 492 00:33:25,075 --> 00:33:27,795 Speaker 1: or two, he was leaving his wife, my great grandmother, 493 00:33:28,115 --> 00:33:31,115 Speaker 1: in an apartment in the Bronx and getting on trains 494 00:33:31,115 --> 00:33:34,475 Speaker 1: for distant cities as far west as Chicago, going to 495 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: the rich people's homes and getting a hundred dollars to 496 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:40,075 Speaker 1: teach the music, rite music, repair musical instruments, and then 497 00:33:40,075 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: get right back on the train to New York. Though 498 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:46,435 Speaker 1: he earned a very good income doing this, especially for 499 00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:50,475 Speaker 1: an immigrant, Anthony and Matrona lived frugally, often without hot 500 00:33:50,515 --> 00:33:54,355 Speaker 1: water in their home. Because my great grandfather was now driven, 501 00:33:55,035 --> 00:34:00,195 Speaker 1: driven to avenge himself Teddy, He would tell his nephew, 502 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:03,075 Speaker 1: who told my dad, I say every dollar I can 503 00:34:03,155 --> 00:34:05,315 Speaker 1: save I and west in the safest in Westman in 504 00:34:05,355 --> 00:34:08,635 Speaker 1: the world the Polish national bonds. For one day, I 505 00:34:08,675 --> 00:34:11,635 Speaker 1: shall return to Krakoff. I shall buy the biggest house 506 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,235 Speaker 1: on top of the biggest hill and stand outside all 507 00:34:14,355 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: day waiving my money at my relatives who made me 508 00:34:17,275 --> 00:34:19,555 Speaker 1: and your aunt leave, and saying to them, f you, 509 00:34:20,395 --> 00:34:24,315 Speaker 1: this is my goal. And on and on. This went 510 00:34:25,075 --> 00:34:28,475 Speaker 1: for a decade and more, until he went to Flint, Michigan, 511 00:34:28,555 --> 00:34:30,955 Speaker 1: to do his usual routine to stay at the house 512 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: of a prosperous American, write a family song, repair the 513 00:34:34,555 --> 00:34:36,915 Speaker 1: broken tuba, to teach the kids to play the guitar, 514 00:34:36,955 --> 00:34:40,035 Speaker 1: and generally delight the family, in this case, the family 515 00:34:40,075 --> 00:34:44,915 Speaker 1: of a businessman who he remembered as Mr Billy. Came 516 00:34:44,955 --> 00:34:47,795 Speaker 1: the end of my great grandfather's stay with Mr Billy 517 00:34:47,915 --> 00:34:52,075 Speaker 1: in Michigan and his family in Michigan, and Mr Billy 518 00:34:52,195 --> 00:34:54,755 Speaker 1: was so taken with Anthony's Lynsky that he took him 519 00:34:54,795 --> 00:34:57,955 Speaker 1: personally to the train station in Flint and went with 520 00:34:58,075 --> 00:35:01,595 Speaker 1: him onto the platform to wait for the train. Mr Zelinsky, 521 00:35:01,675 --> 00:35:03,635 Speaker 1: he said, we have been delighted to have you here 522 00:35:04,275 --> 00:35:06,795 Speaker 1: that I would be honored if you would accept. Instead 523 00:35:06,795 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: of the five hundred dollars I owe you, please take 524 00:35:09,595 --> 00:35:13,155 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars in stock certificates from my business, my 525 00:35:13,235 --> 00:35:15,955 Speaker 1: way of saying thanks and hoping you can return and 526 00:35:16,075 --> 00:35:20,315 Speaker 1: visit us again. My great grandfather said he was almost 527 00:35:20,395 --> 00:35:24,155 Speaker 1: moved to tears by the gesture. But Mr Billy, he explained, 528 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:26,755 Speaker 1: I lived very inexpensively, and I in West all my 529 00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:31,435 Speaker 1: money in the world's safest in Westment the Polish National bonds. 530 00:35:32,835 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: Mr Billy congratulated Antony on his prudence, but said, I 531 00:35:35,595 --> 00:35:37,315 Speaker 1: believe I am at the cusp of the next great 532 00:35:37,355 --> 00:35:40,395 Speaker 1: business in this country. I would again offer you this stock. 533 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:42,515 Speaker 1: I think you will make so much money that you 534 00:35:42,555 --> 00:35:47,995 Speaker 1: could buy all the Polish National bonds. My great grandfather, 535 00:35:48,155 --> 00:35:51,555 Speaker 1: standing there on the train station in Flint, Michigan, fought 536 00:35:51,595 --> 00:35:54,995 Speaker 1: for a moment. I know, Mr Billy, you mentioned you 537 00:35:55,035 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: own a manufactory in town. What is this you manufactor? 538 00:35:58,915 --> 00:36:02,235 Speaker 1: Mr Billy said, we are in the automobile business. Mr Lynsky, 539 00:36:02,355 --> 00:36:05,235 Speaker 1: my great grandfather lit up. I s the streets of 540 00:36:05,235 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: New York are filled with automobiles. This is the coming thing. 541 00:36:09,635 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: But I will still take the cash and in west 542 00:36:12,315 --> 00:36:16,315 Speaker 1: in the world's safest investment, the Polish National Bonds. The 543 00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: train was late. There was an awkward silence now between them, 544 00:36:19,755 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: which my great grandfather finally broke. Do I know the 545 00:36:23,155 --> 00:36:26,995 Speaker 1: name of your company? Mr Billy? Mr Billy replied, well, 546 00:36:27,035 --> 00:36:29,075 Speaker 1: that's the topic of the moment, Mr Zelensky, and I 547 00:36:29,155 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: must say, having gotten to know you a little bit, 548 00:36:30,915 --> 00:36:35,035 Speaker 1: I'm not at all surprised you brought this subject up. Currently, 549 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:39,995 Speaker 1: my company is called Buick Motor Cars. My great grandfather said, 550 00:36:40,035 --> 00:36:43,195 Speaker 1: h yes, Buke, I've heard of Buke. You're changing the name. 551 00:36:44,155 --> 00:36:47,715 Speaker 1: Not exactly, said Mr Billy. I believe the automotive business 552 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:50,155 Speaker 1: is going to grow exponentially. But we have one large 553 00:36:50,155 --> 00:36:52,915 Speaker 1: company in the field Forward, and we have dozens of 554 00:36:52,955 --> 00:36:55,995 Speaker 1: smaller ones like Buick. And I'm about to buy up 555 00:36:56,035 --> 00:36:59,035 Speaker 1: several of my competitors and form one big company, bigger 556 00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:03,315 Speaker 1: than Ford, and we will dominate automobiles for decades to come. 557 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:07,075 Speaker 1: I yes, said my great grandfather. And what will you 558 00:37:07,155 --> 00:37:11,315 Speaker 1: call this behemoth? Mr Billy laughed again. You cut to 559 00:37:11,355 --> 00:37:13,675 Speaker 1: the heart of the matter, Mr Zelinski. We are debating 560 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:16,515 Speaker 1: that right now, we need a name that expresses our 561 00:37:16,675 --> 00:37:20,955 Speaker 1: national stature. My great grandfather shook his head at the 562 00:37:20,955 --> 00:37:23,675 Speaker 1: obviousness of this. The problem is an easy one. No, 563 00:37:24,115 --> 00:37:28,275 Speaker 1: you use National National motor Cars. Mr Billy laughed again, 564 00:37:29,035 --> 00:37:33,235 Speaker 1: your insight is extraordinary. That was our first thought as well. 565 00:37:33,235 --> 00:37:35,955 Speaker 1: But would you believe there is a company in Indiana, 566 00:37:36,035 --> 00:37:39,795 Speaker 1: of all places, they make electric automobiles which will never work, 567 00:37:40,195 --> 00:37:43,635 Speaker 1: and they're called National Motor Vehicles. We need another name. 568 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:47,315 Speaker 1: American has also taken, Continental has taken. Damn it, Mr Zelinsky, 569 00:37:47,395 --> 00:37:49,315 Speaker 1: we can't think of a good name that isn't already taken. 570 00:37:51,275 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: My great grandfather, who had just turned down the stock 571 00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:56,715 Speaker 1: in a thousand dollars worth of the stock in this company, 572 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:59,515 Speaker 1: thought for a second. You wish to express the national, 573 00:37:59,675 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: the American, the broadly available or available National, Continental nationals. 574 00:38:07,155 --> 00:38:13,435 Speaker 1: What is the word in English? The general the general 575 00:38:13,475 --> 00:38:17,475 Speaker 1: availability of your vehiculars? Well, Mr Billy, why not that? 576 00:38:18,235 --> 00:38:24,355 Speaker 1: Why not general? General automobiles, general automotive, general motor car. 577 00:38:25,235 --> 00:38:30,595 Speaker 1: Maybe uh, general motors. Now it was time for Mr 578 00:38:30,635 --> 00:38:38,595 Speaker 1: Billy to become pensive. Finally he spoke general motors. M hmmm, 579 00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:42,635 Speaker 1: does have a certain ring to it, Mr Zelinski, Oh 580 00:38:42,715 --> 00:38:49,035 Speaker 1: look here's your train. Ah. Mr Billy was, of course 581 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:53,035 Speaker 1: Billy Durant, and he owned Durant Dort, and then he 582 00:38:53,075 --> 00:38:56,675 Speaker 1: owned Buick, and then he consolidated thirteen auto manufacturers and 583 00:38:56,715 --> 00:39:00,635 Speaker 1: ten parts and accessory companies together into as it was called. 584 00:39:00,635 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: On the day Billy and his partners opened the s 585 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:08,235 Speaker 1: grow account Wednesday, September six eight, General Motors Holding Company, 586 00:39:08,635 --> 00:39:12,315 Speaker 1: My great grandfather, having gotten another five dollars to invest 587 00:39:12,355 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: in the world's safest investment instead of a thousand dollars 588 00:39:15,675 --> 00:39:19,315 Speaker 1: in stock, and not General Motors in nineteen o eight, 589 00:39:19,395 --> 00:39:23,195 Speaker 1: but the company that would become General Motors, and having 590 00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:28,795 Speaker 1: given its chairman the name General Motors for free, waved goodbye, 591 00:39:28,795 --> 00:39:32,675 Speaker 1: got on the train, returned to New York. He died 592 00:39:32,755 --> 00:39:36,195 Speaker 1: fifteen years later. And to his credit, we know of 593 00:39:36,235 --> 00:39:39,595 Speaker 1: the detail of this story because the person who told 594 00:39:39,595 --> 00:39:41,715 Speaker 1: it to everyone with a laugh, with a warning to 595 00:39:41,795 --> 00:39:43,875 Speaker 1: his relatives that none of them had the genes of 596 00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:49,835 Speaker 1: a businessman either, was my great grandfather himself. Needless to say, 597 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:54,955 Speaker 1: this good self deprecating humor makes him my favorite of 598 00:39:54,995 --> 00:39:58,315 Speaker 1: all my ancestors, and I hope wherever he went when 599 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:02,035 Speaker 1: he died in his humor went with him because there 600 00:40:02,075 --> 00:40:06,035 Speaker 1: were several postscripts to this story that lend it authenticity 601 00:40:06,155 --> 00:40:12,195 Speaker 1: and induce further rage in his descendants. My father was 602 00:40:12,275 --> 00:40:14,795 Speaker 1: very much alive in nineteen forty. He was an eleven 603 00:40:14,875 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: year old boy with his uncle Teddy Antony's nephew, living 604 00:40:18,155 --> 00:40:21,195 Speaker 1: with my dad and grandparents and my uncle's and the Bronx. 605 00:40:22,075 --> 00:40:25,115 Speaker 1: My dad, who did not meet his grandfather antony'sz Lynsky, 606 00:40:25,595 --> 00:40:27,435 Speaker 1: said there was a knock on the apartment door one 607 00:40:27,515 --> 00:40:29,075 Speaker 1: day and he opened it to the site, as he 608 00:40:29,115 --> 00:40:31,715 Speaker 1: put it, of the two best suits of clothing I 609 00:40:31,795 --> 00:40:35,675 Speaker 1: had ever seen. The men wearing them asked for my 610 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:39,555 Speaker 1: dad's uncle. He got him, and them men began to 611 00:40:39,555 --> 00:40:44,035 Speaker 1: speak Polish to Uncle Teddy. Gentlemen, we are here in America. 612 00:40:44,115 --> 00:40:46,075 Speaker 1: You will please speak English in front of my family. 613 00:40:47,635 --> 00:40:49,675 Speaker 1: Mr Zelinsky. One of them said, we know that your 614 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:52,795 Speaker 1: uncle left you his investments in Polish national bonds. He 615 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:56,435 Speaker 1: was obviously a great patriot. We represent the Polish government 616 00:40:56,435 --> 00:40:58,915 Speaker 1: in exile when we run the Nazis out of our 617 00:40:58,955 --> 00:41:01,315 Speaker 1: homeland and freedom is again hours. I know your uncle 618 00:41:01,395 --> 00:41:05,675 Speaker 1: would have and you would want the free Wtish national state, 619 00:41:05,715 --> 00:41:10,435 Speaker 1: to not be burdened financially, to be unburdened, in fact, 620 00:41:10,435 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: to the greatest possible degree, Mr Zelenski, your uncle was 621 00:41:14,475 --> 00:41:17,755 Speaker 1: the fourth largest private investor in Polish national bonds in 622 00:41:17,755 --> 00:41:20,115 Speaker 1: North America. In fact, he was just behind the National 623 00:41:20,115 --> 00:41:24,195 Speaker 1: Bank of Mexico. Will you retire his bonds for a 624 00:41:24,275 --> 00:41:30,635 Speaker 1: nominal fee as a great Polish patriot. My dad was 625 00:41:30,675 --> 00:41:33,155 Speaker 1: never sure how nominal the fee was, but he was 626 00:41:33,195 --> 00:41:35,635 Speaker 1: convinced his uncle got less than five hundred dollars for 627 00:41:35,675 --> 00:41:38,075 Speaker 1: what was at least a hundred thousand dollars in bonds 628 00:41:38,155 --> 00:41:42,355 Speaker 1: during the year nineteen fifty or later. My dad did 629 00:41:42,395 --> 00:41:45,795 Speaker 1: not spend his life wondering about his grandfather's magnificent moment 630 00:41:45,835 --> 00:41:48,795 Speaker 1: of investment stupidity, but it would occasionally wake him in 631 00:41:48,795 --> 00:41:52,075 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and on his nightly commutes 632 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:54,955 Speaker 1: from Manhattan to our little home in the suburbs, he 633 00:41:55,075 --> 00:41:57,755 Speaker 1: came to know the other regulars on the train, just 634 00:41:57,955 --> 00:42:01,515 Speaker 1: like Don Draper did on Madmen same train, in fact, 635 00:42:01,995 --> 00:42:03,915 Speaker 1: and one of the regulars on the train turned out 636 00:42:03,955 --> 00:42:08,475 Speaker 1: to be a stock historian. Eventually Dad told him the 637 00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:11,795 Speaker 1: story of Antony's Lynsky and Billy Durant and General Motors, 638 00:42:12,355 --> 00:42:14,635 Speaker 1: and the stock historian invited him to stop by the 639 00:42:14,675 --> 00:42:18,195 Speaker 1: office at lunch one day. Sit down, Ted, and I 640 00:42:18,235 --> 00:42:23,795 Speaker 1: mean sit down, Ted. The historian showed his math. This 641 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:26,395 Speaker 1: was what a thousand dollars in Buick in nineteen o 642 00:42:26,475 --> 00:42:29,715 Speaker 1: eight turned into when Billy Durant created General Motors in 643 00:42:29,795 --> 00:42:32,875 Speaker 1: nineteen o eight. And here's where it's split. And see, 644 00:42:32,875 --> 00:42:35,395 Speaker 1: and here's where it split again, and here's where it 645 00:42:35,555 --> 00:42:38,275 Speaker 1: quartered after they forced Durant out and then he bought 646 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:40,875 Speaker 1: Chevrolet and he came back in and took over General 647 00:42:40,955 --> 00:42:43,915 Speaker 1: Motors again. And it's split. And my father said, he 648 00:42:43,955 --> 00:42:48,475 Speaker 1: started to sweat. Just tell me already, Ted, the thousand 649 00:42:48,475 --> 00:42:51,915 Speaker 1: dollars your great grandfather turned down in General Motors in 650 00:42:51,995 --> 00:42:56,675 Speaker 1: nineteen o eight would now be worth approximately sixty million dollars. 651 00:42:58,395 --> 00:43:00,915 Speaker 1: My father said. He struggled to not pass out his 652 00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:03,395 Speaker 1: friend from the train, then said, plus the value of 653 00:43:03,435 --> 00:43:08,635 Speaker 1: the name. I can't get that exactly, the stock historian said, 654 00:43:08,675 --> 00:43:11,835 Speaker 1: but it's got to be another couple million, five ten maybe, 655 00:43:11,915 --> 00:43:14,555 Speaker 1: especially if he had taken stock in exchange for the name. 656 00:43:17,195 --> 00:43:20,755 Speaker 1: There's one more twist to the knife. Well, so far, 657 00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:24,435 Speaker 1: there's still plenty of time for more. When the Unions 658 00:43:24,515 --> 00:43:27,755 Speaker 1: ran the Soviets out of Poland and let Valessa became 659 00:43:27,795 --> 00:43:30,915 Speaker 1: President of the Free Poland In he gave a speech 660 00:43:31,035 --> 00:43:35,035 Speaker 1: establishing the new government. He spoke naturally in Polish, until 661 00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:38,475 Speaker 1: that is, it was time to address one topic. The 662 00:43:38,555 --> 00:43:41,875 Speaker 1: president read that part of the speech in English. My 663 00:43:42,035 --> 00:43:44,755 Speaker 1: government will recognize and honor the following years of the 664 00:43:44,755 --> 00:43:49,675 Speaker 1: Polish national bonds. My father called me in Los Angeles 665 00:43:49,675 --> 00:43:52,635 Speaker 1: that night. He had spoken to his stock historian friend 666 00:43:52,715 --> 00:43:56,915 Speaker 1: again and gotten a new rough estimate. My great grandfather 667 00:43:56,955 --> 00:44:00,835 Speaker 1: had turned down sixty maybe seventy million dollars in general 668 00:44:00,835 --> 00:44:04,835 Speaker 1: motors stock to keep, say, hundred thousand dollars in Poleish 669 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:07,955 Speaker 1: bonds do in the year nine fifty, and let Valessa 670 00:44:08,035 --> 00:44:10,435 Speaker 1: had just said, we'll pay on those bonds that we're 671 00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:14,275 Speaker 1: doing nineteen fifty and so if great grandfather's nephew Teddy 672 00:44:15,075 --> 00:44:18,355 Speaker 1: had just sat on them, those bonds would have been 673 00:44:18,355 --> 00:44:25,435 Speaker 1: worth five or six million dollars. Keith, my father said, quietly, 674 00:44:26,155 --> 00:44:30,475 Speaker 1: let me remind you again with the great financier. My 675 00:44:30,675 --> 00:44:37,155 Speaker 1: grandfather told everyone, told all of us, none of us, 676 00:44:37,915 --> 00:44:55,675 Speaker 1: none of us have the genes of a businessman. Easy come, 677 00:44:55,715 --> 00:44:59,595 Speaker 1: easy go. I've done all the damage I can do here. 678 00:44:59,755 --> 00:45:01,875 Speaker 1: Help me out. Give this thing a good review or rating, 679 00:45:01,955 --> 00:45:04,155 Speaker 1: or subscribe or email it to somebody I don't know. 680 00:45:04,195 --> 00:45:06,555 Speaker 1: Whatever the through these days. The Countdown theme is from 681 00:45:06,595 --> 00:45:10,275 Speaker 1: Beethoven's ninth was arranged, produced and performed by Countdown musical 682 00:45:10,275 --> 00:45:13,675 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and 683 00:45:13,795 --> 00:45:17,395 Speaker 1: keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. 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