1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,075 --> 00:00:27,275 Speaker 1: Now that we know what at least two more of 3 00:00:27,355 --> 00:00:31,515 Speaker 1: the documents Trump stole ore, this vital question occurs to me. 4 00:00:32,235 --> 00:00:39,235 Speaker 1: What if he stole them as insurance, as insurance against prosecution. 5 00:00:39,675 --> 00:00:42,395 Speaker 1: What if he took the nukes document or now the 6 00:00:42,395 --> 00:00:46,275 Speaker 1: Iran document and the China document and the tradecraft documents. 7 00:00:46,475 --> 00:00:48,515 Speaker 1: What if he took them to keep him from going 8 00:00:48,555 --> 00:00:53,435 Speaker 1: to jail for January six or from being executed for espionage. 9 00:00:53,835 --> 00:00:57,035 Speaker 1: What if the idea was you let me go or 10 00:00:57,155 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: Putin gets these and Kim gets those. What if the 11 00:01:01,515 --> 00:01:05,355 Speaker 1: whole documents saga is not about his kleptomy any not 12 00:01:05,475 --> 00:01:08,475 Speaker 1: about his ego, not about giving them to Putin, not 13 00:01:08,595 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: about selling them, but about blackmail against the United States 14 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:16,355 Speaker 1: of America. Even if we have recovered all the documents, 15 00:01:16,435 --> 00:01:19,555 Speaker 1: what if he has copies. What if he can create 16 00:01:19,635 --> 00:01:23,755 Speaker 1: a reasonable doubt about whether or not there's another box somewhere. 17 00:01:24,315 --> 00:01:26,275 Speaker 1: What if it isn't to give it to Putin or 18 00:01:26,355 --> 00:01:28,355 Speaker 1: sell it to the eyes bitter or because he needs 19 00:01:28,355 --> 00:01:30,675 Speaker 1: it to feed his ego. What if it is to 20 00:01:30,835 --> 00:01:36,995 Speaker 1: threaten us? This is a creature without any loyalties without 21 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:42,075 Speaker 1: any belief that anything other than himself matters or really exists. 22 00:01:42,555 --> 00:01:45,435 Speaker 1: We know that a year ago he wanted his lawyers 23 00:01:45,475 --> 00:01:48,755 Speaker 1: to offer to return the product of his kleptomania in 24 00:01:48,835 --> 00:01:52,195 Speaker 1: exchange for all the documents pertaining to his two thousand 25 00:01:52,235 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: sixteen electoral conspiracy with Russia. What if the idea was 26 00:01:56,795 --> 00:02:00,395 Speaker 1: even bigger than that, you need these documents, then I 27 00:02:00,555 --> 00:02:04,835 Speaker 1: don't die or I don't go to prison. Because the 28 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: newest reporting from the Washington Post only adds to the 29 00:02:08,835 --> 00:02:13,155 Speaker 1: growing realization that theft, possession, and dissemination of any one 30 00:02:13,195 --> 00:02:17,835 Speaker 1: of these documents could easily be capital espionage. As always 31 00:02:17,915 --> 00:02:23,835 Speaker 1: with Trump, the zone is so flooded with Trump that 32 00:02:23,955 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: we can't see the trees for the forest on three documents, 33 00:02:28,595 --> 00:02:32,235 Speaker 1: but only this one is really bad. Where these two, well, 34 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:34,915 Speaker 1: now this small pile is really bad. Soon you are 35 00:02:35,035 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: rationalizing the entire theft because not everything is fatal. Sure, 36 00:02:39,955 --> 00:02:42,315 Speaker 1: he fired a hundred and three bullets, but only three 37 00:02:42,395 --> 00:02:46,755 Speaker 1: of them killed anybody. The Post is now reporting that 38 00:02:46,835 --> 00:02:50,955 Speaker 1: one of the documents described quote a foreign government's military defenses, 39 00:02:50,995 --> 00:02:55,315 Speaker 1: including its nuclear capabilities. We knew that already, and now 40 00:02:55,395 --> 00:02:59,235 Speaker 1: the same paper says some documents quote included highly sensitive 41 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:03,195 Speaker 1: intelligence regarding Iran and China unquote, at least one of 42 00:03:03,235 --> 00:03:07,835 Speaker 1: which quote describees Iran's missile program, and some of which 43 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:13,515 Speaker 1: describes quote highly sensitive intelligence work aimed at China. That 44 00:03:13,675 --> 00:03:15,355 Speaker 1: is alarming enough on the face of it, But the 45 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: Post moves quickly to add that quote. If shared with others, 46 00:03:19,275 --> 00:03:23,155 Speaker 1: people familiar with the matter said, such information could expose 47 00:03:23,355 --> 00:03:27,235 Speaker 1: intelligence gathering methods that the United States wants to keep 48 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:30,195 Speaker 1: hidden from the world. So he has at least one 49 00:03:30,275 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: document delineating what nuclear capability in other country does or 50 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:36,835 Speaker 1: does not have, which is presumably not part of the 51 00:03:36,915 --> 00:03:40,275 Speaker 1: tranch the Post just revealed because they broke both stories 52 00:03:40,315 --> 00:03:43,115 Speaker 1: and presumably would have mentioned this was a document they 53 00:03:43,155 --> 00:03:46,435 Speaker 1: had already scooped everybody else on. He has something about 54 00:03:46,435 --> 00:03:50,555 Speaker 1: Iran's missile program. I'm guessing here sounds like information plucked 55 00:03:50,555 --> 00:03:52,755 Speaker 1: out of the Iran nuclear deal that he blew up. 56 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: He has something else about China that may or may 57 00:03:56,675 --> 00:03:59,995 Speaker 1: not be the same thing as highly sensitive intelligence work 58 00:04:00,115 --> 00:04:04,275 Speaker 1: aimed at China, And just as importantly, one or more 59 00:04:04,395 --> 00:04:07,955 Speaker 1: of these documents, or maybe another document, or maybe all 60 00:04:07,995 --> 00:04:13,395 Speaker 1: the documents reveal tradecraft, either human sources are compromised or 61 00:04:13,435 --> 00:04:18,035 Speaker 1: otherwise identified, or bugs or taps or satellite spying or 62 00:04:18,075 --> 00:04:22,395 Speaker 1: other hardware that other countries don't know about. Whatever the 63 00:04:22,475 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: mcguffin here is, as Hitchcock would have called it, Trump 64 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:30,595 Speaker 1: could blow years of intelligence already accumulated and years of 65 00:04:30,635 --> 00:04:34,195 Speaker 1: intelligence yet to be obtained by just showing these documents 66 00:04:34,195 --> 00:04:38,475 Speaker 1: to the wrong person. There's an even more diaphanous consequence 67 00:04:38,635 --> 00:04:42,275 Speaker 1: the Post phrases that quote. In addition, other countries or 68 00:04:42,395 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: US adversaries could retaliate against the United States for actions 69 00:04:46,755 --> 00:04:52,555 Speaker 1: it has taken in secret. The subject of these documents 70 00:04:52,995 --> 00:04:56,355 Speaker 1: is clearly looming larger and larger for Trump. He brought 71 00:04:56,395 --> 00:04:59,795 Speaker 1: back his threat to sue the Pulitzer Prize Committee to 72 00:05:00,035 --> 00:05:03,275 Speaker 1: force it to take back its awards to the Post 73 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:06,275 Speaker 1: and the New York Times, as if such a thing 74 00:05:06,395 --> 00:05:10,235 Speaker 1: was possible, or any court anywhere in the world would 75 00:05:10,235 --> 00:05:15,715 Speaker 1: bother and in an otherwise bland, repetitive and unusually self absorbed, 76 00:05:15,755 --> 00:05:18,675 Speaker 1: even for him, speech at his fascist rally in Texas 77 00:05:18,715 --> 00:05:23,555 Speaker 1: Saturday night, his lone jaw dropper was about leaks. He 78 00:05:23,635 --> 00:05:26,595 Speaker 1: prefaced this with a rant about all the leaks against him, 79 00:05:26,595 --> 00:05:29,235 Speaker 1: and then segued to the Roe V. Wade leak, as 80 00:05:29,275 --> 00:05:32,035 Speaker 1: if to pretend he wasn't really just talking about the 81 00:05:32,075 --> 00:05:34,595 Speaker 1: leaks against him, and he claimed to have found a 82 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:42,195 Speaker 1: surefire way to identify the leakers, threatening suspects with rape. 83 00:05:43,235 --> 00:05:46,835 Speaker 1: You take the writer and or the publisher of the paper, 84 00:05:47,435 --> 00:05:49,955 Speaker 1: a certain paper, and you know, and you say who 85 00:05:50,035 --> 00:05:53,715 Speaker 1: is the leaker? National security? And they say, we're not 86 00:05:53,755 --> 00:05:55,995 Speaker 1: going to tell you this as okay, you're going to jail. 87 00:05:57,115 --> 00:06:00,115 Speaker 1: And when this person realizes that he is going to 88 00:06:00,195 --> 00:06:07,675 Speaker 1: be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, 89 00:06:08,315 --> 00:06:11,355 Speaker 1: I'd very much like to tell you exactly who that 90 00:06:11,475 --> 00:06:14,435 Speaker 1: liaquer it was built Zones. I swear he's a liquor 91 00:06:15,035 --> 00:06:18,755 Speaker 1: to try it against Trump's family too. The silver lining 92 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:21,715 Speaker 1: in there is the usual Trump threat that's really a confession. 93 00:06:21,795 --> 00:06:25,755 Speaker 1: He invoked national security unsanely as it might have been. 94 00:06:26,235 --> 00:06:29,715 Speaker 1: The leak of Samuel Alito's draft opinion is not a 95 00:06:29,795 --> 00:06:34,555 Speaker 1: national security issue now. Stealing documents, Stealing a document that 96 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:39,475 Speaker 1: quote describes Iran's missile program, or another document that details 97 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:43,075 Speaker 1: quote highly sensitive intelligence work aimed at China, see, those 98 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:47,955 Speaker 1: are national security issues. So Trump just said, if convicted 99 00:06:47,995 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: of stealing them, he should not only go to prison, 100 00:06:51,235 --> 00:06:56,515 Speaker 1: he should not go to solitary confinement. He is insane. 101 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 1: It is fascinating, though hardly surprising, that Trump and his 102 00:07:01,515 --> 00:07:04,435 Speaker 1: minions are obsessed with the leaks and not the crimes. 103 00:07:04,995 --> 00:07:08,715 Speaker 1: Jonathan Turley, who used to be a constitutional lawyer, used 104 00:07:08,715 --> 00:07:12,635 Speaker 1: to appear regularly on Countdown and was an almost preternatural 105 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:16,915 Speaker 1: political neutral. But who's now migrating towards becoming Sydney Powell 106 00:07:16,915 --> 00:07:20,955 Speaker 1: with a higher voice winally wrote more leaks from the 107 00:07:21,035 --> 00:07:24,155 Speaker 1: Justice Department just before the mid term elections. Not a 108 00:07:24,195 --> 00:07:26,675 Speaker 1: wisp of concern over the use of such leaks to 109 00:07:26,795 --> 00:07:31,635 Speaker 1: influence not just the course of the case, but the election. Firstly, John, 110 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:34,595 Speaker 1: try to overthrow the government and steal its secrets in 111 00:07:34,635 --> 00:07:37,555 Speaker 1: the same lifetime, and I'm afraid your guy loses the 112 00:07:37,595 --> 00:07:41,915 Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt on the leak front. But more importantly, John, 113 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:45,595 Speaker 1: not a wisp of concern over the use of such 114 00:07:45,675 --> 00:07:49,755 Speaker 1: leaks to influence the election. Seriously, John Turley, where were 115 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: you on Friday October two thousand, sixteen, eleven days before 116 00:07:55,075 --> 00:07:59,035 Speaker 1: presidential election, when the FBI director publicly wrote on the 117 00:07:59,115 --> 00:08:02,715 Speaker 1: record that the Bureau had found new emails that quote 118 00:08:02,755 --> 00:08:07,075 Speaker 1: appeared to be pertinent to its bullcrap investigation of Hillary 119 00:08:07,115 --> 00:08:10,835 Speaker 1: Clinton's bull crap server use. Where were you on Sunday 120 00:08:10,875 --> 00:08:14,195 Speaker 1: November six, two thousand sixteen, two days before the election, 121 00:08:14,955 --> 00:08:18,435 Speaker 1: when Comy wrote another letter that fed Trump's conspiracy theories 122 00:08:18,555 --> 00:08:21,635 Speaker 1: and put the same bull crap story back on page one. 123 00:08:22,915 --> 00:08:26,995 Speaker 1: The unwritten rule about the Justice Department and its employees 124 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:29,435 Speaker 1: at the FBI and how they cannot act in anyway 125 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:33,235 Speaker 1: that might influence an election was erased for all time 126 00:08:34,035 --> 00:08:37,115 Speaker 1: on those two days. And whoever has been leaking to 127 00:08:37,195 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, whether in the Justice Department or not, 128 00:08:41,315 --> 00:08:43,795 Speaker 1: has done nothing more than remind the country that the 129 00:08:43,915 --> 00:08:47,915 Speaker 1: unwritten rule was mindless in the first place, rarely observed, 130 00:08:47,995 --> 00:08:53,075 Speaker 1: and it is dead, long dead if there is any 131 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:55,435 Speaker 1: reason for the FBI and d o J to hold 132 00:08:55,475 --> 00:08:57,235 Speaker 1: back now. And I told you last week that the 133 00:08:57,315 --> 00:09:01,035 Speaker 1: unheralded Bloomberg scoop suggests there would not be an indictment 134 00:09:01,075 --> 00:09:04,235 Speaker 1: before the new year. It would be the focus all 135 00:09:04,715 --> 00:09:09,595 Speaker 1: the Department's energy on stopping Trump cultists and right wingers 136 00:09:09,795 --> 00:09:13,075 Speaker 1: from turning the mid terms into a war game. Rolling 137 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:16,755 Speaker 1: Stone reported yesterday that Trump and his militias want to 138 00:09:16,795 --> 00:09:21,315 Speaker 1: contest every even vaguely close election next month, and that 139 00:09:21,395 --> 00:09:26,235 Speaker 1: he is fixated on Pennsylvania, particularly Philadelphia. The presence of 140 00:09:26,315 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: violence is real, and frankly, the d o J and 141 00:09:28,795 --> 00:09:31,915 Speaker 1: the President need to take preventive steps like putting FBI 142 00:09:31,995 --> 00:09:35,475 Speaker 1: agents at polling places and maybe uniformed military at some 143 00:09:35,595 --> 00:09:38,955 Speaker 1: of them. More on this ahead and worse persons now 144 00:09:40,075 --> 00:09:43,315 Speaker 1: so much needed comic relief and thanks against Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 145 00:09:43,955 --> 00:09:47,555 Speaker 1: As you know, the January six Committee has subpoena Trump, 146 00:09:47,635 --> 00:09:50,715 Speaker 1: or tried to. All of his lawyers have said they 147 00:09:50,715 --> 00:09:54,235 Speaker 1: are not authorized to accept any such subpoena. He's ducking it. 148 00:09:55,155 --> 00:09:59,155 Speaker 1: This is almost certainly academic. Anyway, he would only testify live, 149 00:09:59,715 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: and he may be lying about doing that. Anyway, the 150 00:10:02,555 --> 00:10:05,755 Speaker 1: committee would only have him testify in closed session, and 151 00:10:05,795 --> 00:10:08,915 Speaker 1: either way, his lawyers would never let him say anything, 152 00:10:08,955 --> 00:10:12,235 Speaker 1: and he might just for that moment, be smart enough 153 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:15,995 Speaker 1: not to say anything. But it gave Pelosi her now 154 00:10:16,155 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: weakly chance to kick Trump in his tiny genitals. She 155 00:10:20,595 --> 00:10:24,755 Speaker 1: does not think he will testify under any circumstances. She says, quote, 156 00:10:25,435 --> 00:10:29,075 Speaker 1: I don't think he's mad enough to show up, we'll see. 157 00:10:29,475 --> 00:10:32,835 Speaker 1: We'll see if he's mad enough to show up. That 158 00:10:32,915 --> 00:10:36,395 Speaker 1: line is worth the cost of the process. Server right there. 159 00:10:37,395 --> 00:10:40,955 Speaker 1: But of course everybody's missing this. The ducking issue is 160 00:10:40,995 --> 00:10:44,675 Speaker 1: easily resolved. You say you're having trouble getting him to 161 00:10:44,835 --> 00:10:49,475 Speaker 1: accept the document, accept his subpoena from the January six committee, 162 00:10:49,595 --> 00:10:53,195 Speaker 1: Well it's not a problem. Just tell Trump it's classified 163 00:10:53,195 --> 00:10:55,835 Speaker 1: and it doesn't belong to him. Then he'll grab it immediately. 164 00:10:55,875 --> 00:11:14,395 Speaker 1: And personally still ahead on countdown. Who those guys were 165 00:11:14,395 --> 00:11:17,555 Speaker 1: on the l a freeway overpassed with the Kanye was 166 00:11:17,675 --> 00:11:21,475 Speaker 1: right about the Jews signs and other warnings about the 167 00:11:21,475 --> 00:11:26,195 Speaker 1: burgeoning anti Semitism in this country. Meet Tucker Carlson and 168 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:33,195 Speaker 1: his loser's son Buckley Buckley Carlson. Buckley looks stupid in 169 00:11:33,315 --> 00:11:37,515 Speaker 1: public again, so daddy has to rush to threaten somebody 170 00:11:37,835 --> 00:11:43,635 Speaker 1: to protect Buckley again. Buckley Carlson's mother would be a 171 00:11:43,715 --> 00:11:46,995 Speaker 1: mother Buckley, wouldn't she. And if you've ever been watching 172 00:11:46,995 --> 00:11:48,875 Speaker 1: a movie and suddenly there's a scene in it that 173 00:11:48,915 --> 00:11:51,195 Speaker 1: looks like it was taken directly from your life, well 174 00:11:51,235 --> 00:11:54,315 Speaker 1: it happened to me too. In the movie at Christmas, Carol. 175 00:11:55,155 --> 00:12:00,195 Speaker 1: That's saga which stretches just forty three years coming up 176 00:12:00,195 --> 00:12:03,075 Speaker 1: in Things I Promised not to tell. That's next. This 177 00:12:03,315 --> 00:12:11,875 Speaker 1: is countdown, you know, this is countdown with you know 178 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:20,115 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman still ahead on Countdown, Sir. They're playing the 179 00:12:20,235 --> 00:12:28,955 Speaker 1: national anthem, Sir, Sir, sir, and a Christmas story. The 180 00:12:28,995 --> 00:12:33,235 Speaker 1: scene when Ralphie nearly kills the bully. Yeah, that was 181 00:12:33,275 --> 00:12:36,715 Speaker 1: actually me. First. In each edition of Countdown, we feature 182 00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:38,795 Speaker 1: a dog in need whom you can help. Every dog 183 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:42,915 Speaker 1: has its day. Pit bulls get a terrible rap. Nine 184 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:46,875 Speaker 1: out of ten of them are big MUSHes, pibbles like aman. 185 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:50,075 Speaker 1: Aman was being abused, being beaten with some sort of 186 00:12:50,075 --> 00:12:55,155 Speaker 1: blunt instrument head I New York Bully Crew rescued him, 187 00:12:55,155 --> 00:12:57,395 Speaker 1: got him adopted, and now he's a nine year old 188 00:12:57,515 --> 00:13:00,675 Speaker 1: big mush. Problem is he's now beginning to have vision 189 00:13:00,715 --> 00:13:03,875 Speaker 1: problems because of those beatings. There is a mass on 190 00:13:03,915 --> 00:13:06,875 Speaker 1: the eyelid. Can be corrected by surgery, or they can 191 00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:10,555 Speaker 1: let it go and let him go blind. It's a 192 00:13:10,595 --> 00:13:14,395 Speaker 1: lot to do for one dog. Let's do it. If 193 00:13:14,395 --> 00:13:16,755 Speaker 1: you can contribute. Aimin will be in the pinned tweet 194 00:13:16,795 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: on my account for Dogs in Need Tom Jumbo Grumbo 195 00:13:19,795 --> 00:13:23,355 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Your donation, big or small, will be gratefully welcomed, 196 00:13:23,635 --> 00:13:26,035 Speaker 1: as will your retweet of the story of this big 197 00:13:26,115 --> 00:13:38,795 Speaker 1: mush and thank you for doing so. Both scripts to 198 00:13:38,795 --> 00:13:42,755 Speaker 1: the news some headlines, some insights, some snark, Dateline Washington 199 00:13:42,875 --> 00:13:46,115 Speaker 1: Axios reporting the Tucker Carlson has threatened the head of 200 00:13:46,115 --> 00:13:50,915 Speaker 1: the Republican House Campaign Committee, the Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, 201 00:13:51,435 --> 00:13:55,075 Speaker 1: over an anonymous quote. In a Daily Beast story that 202 00:13:55,235 --> 00:13:59,915 Speaker 1: came out last Friday, the GOP strategists supposedly said of 203 00:13:59,955 --> 00:14:03,955 Speaker 1: Emmer's rival for possible House whip, Congressman Jim Banks, quote, 204 00:14:04,235 --> 00:14:08,715 Speaker 1: deep down, he Banks dies to be liked by the establishment. 205 00:14:08,955 --> 00:14:12,555 Speaker 1: He hires Tucker Carlson's son, a twenty four year old kid, 206 00:14:12,795 --> 00:14:17,715 Speaker 1: to be his communications director. Axio says Tucker Carlson told Emmer, 207 00:14:18,035 --> 00:14:20,635 Speaker 1: if Emmer did not tell him, who said that about 208 00:14:20,675 --> 00:14:27,315 Speaker 1: his son, dear precious, fragile, little failed son, Buckley. That's right. 209 00:14:27,435 --> 00:14:34,235 Speaker 1: His son is named Buckley. Buckley. Carlson pray for Buckley. 210 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:36,475 Speaker 1: If he didn't do that, Tucker would have to assume 211 00:14:36,675 --> 00:14:39,035 Speaker 1: it was Emmer himself who said it, and as we know, 212 00:14:39,355 --> 00:14:43,395 Speaker 1: Tucker can kill people by simply snapping his fingers. See, 213 00:14:43,435 --> 00:14:47,035 Speaker 1: I think this is worthy of a duel. Tucker. Hi, 214 00:14:47,155 --> 00:14:51,715 Speaker 1: I'm Tucker and this is my son Buckley. Buckley Carlson 215 00:14:51,915 --> 00:14:54,275 Speaker 1: is the same kid. Tucker was so desperate to get 216 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:57,435 Speaker 1: accepted by Georgetown that eight years ago he turned to 217 00:14:57,435 --> 00:15:00,115 Speaker 1: a prominent Hoya alum to help get him in. The 218 00:15:00,155 --> 00:15:06,035 Speaker 1: alum's name was Hunter Biden. Hi, I'm Tucker and this 219 00:15:06,115 --> 00:15:09,155 Speaker 1: is my son Buckley, and this is my daughter Trump. 220 00:15:10,675 --> 00:15:12,955 Speaker 1: Let me get to you to meet my cousins. Over here, 221 00:15:13,315 --> 00:15:18,315 Speaker 1: she's hit date line four oh five Freeway, Los Angeles. 222 00:15:18,915 --> 00:15:23,795 Speaker 1: Banners hanging from a southern California over passed Saturday. Quote honk, 223 00:15:24,115 --> 00:15:28,795 Speaker 1: if you know Kanye is right about the Jews unquote perpetrators, 224 00:15:28,835 --> 00:15:32,195 Speaker 1: the so called Goyam Defense League, a couple of thugs 225 00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:36,355 Speaker 1: led by one John Minnedeo the second Pedaluma, California. We're 226 00:15:36,395 --> 00:15:38,355 Speaker 1: not sure if he was there above that sign, but 227 00:15:38,435 --> 00:15:41,115 Speaker 1: he's in charge of the Goyam Defense League. They got 228 00:15:41,115 --> 00:15:44,755 Speaker 1: away with this as opposed to say, you know, accidentally 229 00:15:44,795 --> 00:15:48,235 Speaker 1: falling from that freeway overpass, in large part because the 230 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:52,075 Speaker 1: appropriate companies like the Gap and other platforms have not 231 00:15:52,275 --> 00:15:55,715 Speaker 1: rid us of Kanye West new clip of him servicing 232 00:15:55,995 --> 00:15:59,835 Speaker 1: boasting that his apparel partner, Adidas can't drop him no 233 00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:03,275 Speaker 1: matter what, And then Kanye said, what the what was 234 00:16:04,195 --> 00:16:07,475 Speaker 1: the thing about me and Adidas? It's like I can 235 00:16:07,515 --> 00:16:12,555 Speaker 1: literally say anti semitic and they can't drop me. I 236 00:16:12,635 --> 00:16:16,235 Speaker 1: could say anti Semitic things and Adidas can't drop me. 237 00:16:17,315 --> 00:16:20,275 Speaker 1: Now what. No, there's nothing wrong with him at all, 238 00:16:20,635 --> 00:16:23,475 Speaker 1: And I bet you're wrong about that, sir. Anyway, if 239 00:16:23,515 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: West isn't dropped, then the solution is to bankrupt Adidas 240 00:16:27,795 --> 00:16:31,675 Speaker 1: through boycotts and boycotting stores and boycotting vendors that carry 241 00:16:31,675 --> 00:16:36,515 Speaker 1: Adidas products, and boycotting the other celebrities associated with Adidas, 242 00:16:36,555 --> 00:16:40,235 Speaker 1: like Damian Lillard and Candice Parker from basketball, and Trey 243 00:16:40,315 --> 00:16:43,555 Speaker 1: Turner and Corey Seeger from baseball, and the entire Real 244 00:16:43,675 --> 00:16:48,635 Speaker 1: Madrid team from soccer. Of course, this won't erase anti Semitism, 245 00:16:48,635 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: and it won't shut up worms like Nick Fuente's, the 246 00:16:51,635 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: anti Semite who was defended just last month by the 247 00:16:54,675 --> 00:16:58,515 Speaker 1: crazy Congressman Paul Gozer of Arizona and at one of 248 00:16:58,555 --> 00:17:01,595 Speaker 1: whose hate fests. One of the speakers was Marjorie Trailer 249 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:06,755 Speaker 1: Park Green. Fuente's in short, says, Jews hate Jesus and 250 00:17:06,835 --> 00:17:11,195 Speaker 1: therefore they must leave America. Do you think I'm exaggerating? 251 00:17:11,715 --> 00:17:14,595 Speaker 1: And sofar as that's your belief, then you have no 252 00:17:14,675 --> 00:17:18,835 Speaker 1: business being here, certainly have no business being anywhere near 253 00:17:18,915 --> 00:17:21,635 Speaker 1: the lovers of power if you believe that, Because who 254 00:17:21,675 --> 00:17:24,635 Speaker 1: do you serve? If you don't serve Jesus Christ, you 255 00:17:24,755 --> 00:17:29,275 Speaker 1: serve the devil, You serve Satan. I'm anti Semitic. Yeah, whatever, 256 00:17:30,075 --> 00:17:32,475 Speaker 1: you call me whatever you want. You hate Jesus, your 257 00:17:32,475 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: opinion doesn't matter to me. Call me what everyone? Do 258 00:17:35,355 --> 00:17:38,915 Speaker 1: you believe in God? Okay? Opinion discarded, opinion thrown in 259 00:17:38,955 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: the garbage and piste on. Oh I'm anti Semitic? Yeah, 260 00:17:44,075 --> 00:17:46,595 Speaker 1: I piss on your town. But you think I'm anti Semitic? 261 00:17:46,675 --> 00:17:50,235 Speaker 1: You think I care what anti Christ believes. While listening 262 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:53,435 Speaker 1: to this mental amiba, you can take some small solace 263 00:17:53,475 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: that the same fascists who applaud him now, secretly or 264 00:17:56,315 --> 00:18:01,795 Speaker 1: otherwise would eventually turn on Puente's because his name is Puente's. 265 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:05,435 Speaker 1: Welcome to the world. You have created it for yourself. 266 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:09,275 Speaker 1: But the point is Trump's fascist movement has accelerated into 267 00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:13,195 Speaker 1: full throated anti Semitism faster than a lot of people expected. 268 00:18:13,755 --> 00:18:16,275 Speaker 1: It was only a week ago that Trump was tweeting 269 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: quote US Jews have to get their act together, and 270 00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:23,915 Speaker 1: adding before it's too late. Now, the ridiculous Jenna Ellis 271 00:18:23,955 --> 00:18:26,795 Speaker 1: has decided she gets to decide who's really Jewish and 272 00:18:26,795 --> 00:18:30,995 Speaker 1: who's not. Josh Shapiro, she wrote about, the Democratic nominee 273 00:18:31,035 --> 00:18:34,355 Speaker 1: for governor of Pennsylvania, is at best a secular jew 274 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:38,275 Speaker 1: Ellis is a campaign advisor to the noted anti semit 275 00:18:38,355 --> 00:18:41,795 Speaker 1: Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee in Pennsylvania. And there are 276 00:18:41,795 --> 00:18:44,195 Speaker 1: two points here. And I say this as a gentile. 277 00:18:44,475 --> 00:18:47,995 Speaker 1: If you think it doesn't apply to you because you're 278 00:18:48,035 --> 00:18:50,755 Speaker 1: a gentile. See, that's exactly what the five million non 279 00:18:50,835 --> 00:18:53,915 Speaker 1: Jewish victims of the Holocaust thought too. And as to 280 00:18:53,995 --> 00:18:58,075 Speaker 1: Fuente's and John Mennedeto the second and Jenna Ellis and 281 00:18:58,155 --> 00:19:01,355 Speaker 1: Doug Mastriano and Kanye West, if you really think there 282 00:19:01,435 --> 00:19:05,475 Speaker 1: is a Jewish cabal controlling everything and everyone and it's 283 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:12,035 Speaker 1: all powerful, shouldn't you guys go into hiding? Fast Dateline 284 00:19:12,075 --> 00:19:15,195 Speaker 1: Mace Arizona fascist vigilantes with the license plates on their 285 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:18,675 Speaker 1: trucks covered have appeared at drop boxes in that community. 286 00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:20,835 Speaker 1: It has been suggested that it may be time in 287 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:24,475 Speaker 1: that state, maybe also Nevada, to invoke Article Force section 288 00:19:24,555 --> 00:19:27,915 Speaker 1: for the Constitution, which reads quote, the United States shall 289 00:19:27,955 --> 00:19:31,155 Speaker 1: guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form 290 00:19:31,235 --> 00:19:34,915 Speaker 1: of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion 291 00:19:35,395 --> 00:19:38,635 Speaker 1: and on application of the Legislature or of the Executive 292 00:19:38,955 --> 00:19:43,955 Speaker 1: when the legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence. In 293 00:19:43,995 --> 00:19:47,595 Speaker 1: other words, the elections in Arizona are threatened by domestic violence. 294 00:19:47,915 --> 00:19:50,835 Speaker 1: The drop boxes and the polling places need to be protected, 295 00:19:51,315 --> 00:19:54,315 Speaker 1: and not by fascists with long guns, but by the 296 00:19:54,395 --> 00:19:58,675 Speaker 1: National Guard. Dateline sent Calm. Despite the Saudiast collusion with 297 00:19:58,675 --> 00:20:01,515 Speaker 1: the Republicans to raise gas prices just before the election, 298 00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:04,635 Speaker 1: our cent Com is going ahead with a training site 299 00:20:04,755 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia for anti drone technology. This according to 300 00:20:08,795 --> 00:20:13,515 Speaker 1: the Middle East website al Monitor, It's madness and Dateline 301 00:20:13,555 --> 00:20:16,475 Speaker 1: London no mo bo Joe Boris Johnson drops out of 302 00:20:16,515 --> 00:20:19,715 Speaker 1: his very short lived bid to return as British Prime Minister. 303 00:20:19,795 --> 00:20:22,555 Speaker 1: It looks like it'll be rishi Sunak so Boris can 304 00:20:22,635 --> 00:20:26,635 Speaker 1: repeat Napoleon's palindrome able was i ere i saw elba 305 00:20:26,795 --> 00:20:29,595 Speaker 1: and the British, who will have had two unelected prime 306 00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:33,275 Speaker 1: ministers in two months, we'll be able to look back 307 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:36,755 Speaker 1: at the year as the year that first their monarch 308 00:20:37,275 --> 00:20:56,115 Speaker 1: and then their electoral system died. This is Sports Center. Wait, 309 00:20:56,315 --> 00:21:05,355 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in sports. 310 00:21:05,395 --> 00:21:07,835 Speaker 1: The Yankees blew with three nothing lead, but then local 311 00:21:07,915 --> 00:21:10,835 Speaker 1: kid Harrison Bader hit his fifth homer of the postseason, 312 00:21:11,115 --> 00:21:13,355 Speaker 1: as many as he hit in the regular season, to 313 00:21:13,395 --> 00:21:16,035 Speaker 1: put them back ahead five four in the seventh, and 314 00:21:16,115 --> 00:21:18,755 Speaker 1: they blew that lead to and wound up getting swept 315 00:21:18,795 --> 00:21:21,875 Speaker 1: by the Astros. Houston goes to its fourth World Series 316 00:21:21,875 --> 00:21:24,315 Speaker 1: in the last six years in a rematch of the 317 00:21:24,475 --> 00:21:29,995 Speaker 1: National League Championship Series, which by itself pretty much eliminates 318 00:21:29,995 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: any remaining smidgen of distinction between the two leagues, and 319 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:36,835 Speaker 1: the Phillies are going to their first World Series since 320 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:39,915 Speaker 1: two thousand nine after the San Diego Padres coughed up 321 00:21:39,915 --> 00:21:42,155 Speaker 1: an eighth inning lead in Game five of their playoff 322 00:21:42,235 --> 00:21:46,835 Speaker 1: series yesterday. This pains me because Padres manager Bob Melbourne 323 00:21:46,875 --> 00:21:48,315 Speaker 1: is a good enough friend of mine that we have 324 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:52,115 Speaker 1: written the Subway Back from the Ballpark together. But I'll 325 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:54,835 Speaker 1: spend the winter wondering why his top reliever was sitting 326 00:21:54,875 --> 00:21:56,955 Speaker 1: on the bench in the bullpen while one of the 327 00:21:57,035 --> 00:22:00,075 Speaker 1: lesser guys was in there surrendering the season ending two 328 00:22:00,115 --> 00:22:03,715 Speaker 1: run homer to Bryce Harper, and why his breakout center 329 00:22:03,755 --> 00:22:07,235 Speaker 1: fielder Trent grish A bunted with his team down by one, 330 00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:10,275 Speaker 1: two on the ninth place hitter on deck, and two 331 00:22:10,275 --> 00:22:13,995 Speaker 1: outs left in the San Diego season. Anyway, the Phillies, 332 00:22:14,035 --> 00:22:17,195 Speaker 1: with the eleventh best record in baseball will play for 333 00:22:17,235 --> 00:22:21,555 Speaker 1: the crown, and we got to see baseball's four true outcomes, 334 00:22:22,155 --> 00:22:25,635 Speaker 1: homer's strikeouts, walks, and what is the point of the 335 00:22:25,675 --> 00:22:29,875 Speaker 1: regular season anymore? We also got the obligatory political campaign 336 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:32,795 Speaker 1: tries to jump on the bandwagon, only to crash to 337 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:36,435 Speaker 1: the ground. At six thirteen Eastern Time last night, Pennsylvania 338 00:22:36,475 --> 00:22:41,115 Speaker 1: State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta tweeted, quote before Dr Oz starts lying, 339 00:22:41,275 --> 00:22:45,475 Speaker 1: he's not a Phillies fan. At six pm, mem at 340 00:22:45,475 --> 00:23:03,715 Speaker 1: Oz tweeted, let's go Phillies. Next stop World series coming up. 341 00:23:03,755 --> 00:23:06,115 Speaker 1: Remember that scene in movie A Christmas Story where a 342 00:23:06,115 --> 00:23:10,155 Speaker 1: little Ralphie wigs out and nearly kills the bully. Yeah, 343 00:23:10,195 --> 00:23:12,675 Speaker 1: I kind of lived that scene, and then at a 344 00:23:12,755 --> 00:23:15,315 Speaker 1: reunion forty three years later, I ran into the bully. 345 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:19,235 Speaker 1: Good times. First, the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons 346 00:23:19,275 --> 00:23:23,515 Speaker 1: and Dunning Krueger effects besimens who constitute today's worse persons 347 00:23:23,595 --> 00:23:28,195 Speaker 1: in the law Lebronze right wing troll Matt Walsh Blog. 348 00:23:28,595 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: Apparently Walsh Blog braid at some other jackasses in Nashville. 349 00:23:32,755 --> 00:23:34,955 Speaker 1: Then he tweeted he was leaving for his next stop, 350 00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:37,875 Speaker 1: and a singer named Courtney j tweeted, good idea to 351 00:23:37,955 --> 00:23:41,595 Speaker 1: leave Nashville. You are not wanted there. He retweeted her 352 00:23:41,635 --> 00:23:44,835 Speaker 1: and added a photo of an outdoor crowd, many holding signs, 353 00:23:45,195 --> 00:23:48,195 Speaker 1: and tried to insult her by adding these Nashville residents 354 00:23:48,195 --> 00:23:51,715 Speaker 1: say otherwise. And there's no evidence he ever looked closely 355 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:54,115 Speaker 1: enough at the photo that he tweeted on several of 356 00:23:54,155 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: the signs quote protect trans kids on another, no room 357 00:23:59,635 --> 00:24:05,035 Speaker 1: for fascists in Nashville. Nice self ownage, Mr Walsh blogg 358 00:24:05,515 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: the renners up. Remember the so called Freedom Convoy in 359 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:11,395 Speaker 1: Canada in January and February, where a bunch of softies 360 00:24:11,395 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: who were afraid of vaccine needles use their trucks to 361 00:24:14,435 --> 00:24:18,675 Speaker 1: block the streets of the capital to complain about whatever. 362 00:24:19,675 --> 00:24:24,075 Speaker 1: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario confirmed to Canada's Global News 363 00:24:24,115 --> 00:24:28,155 Speaker 1: that as a direct result of that blockade, thirteen families 364 00:24:28,155 --> 00:24:30,995 Speaker 1: with kids who were there for cancer treatments had to 365 00:24:30,995 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: have those treatments to layter rescheduled. Nice work, boys, you 366 00:24:34,595 --> 00:24:38,995 Speaker 1: should showed those kids with cancer. Whose boss but our winner? 367 00:24:39,155 --> 00:24:43,795 Speaker 1: L Douche again from Saturday's rally in Robstown, Texas. As 368 00:24:43,795 --> 00:24:45,835 Speaker 1: soon as Trump began to talk about how great as 369 00:24:45,915 --> 00:24:49,035 Speaker 1: January sixth rally was, and he began to boast about 370 00:24:49,035 --> 00:24:51,595 Speaker 1: its size, and he began to say other things that 371 00:24:51,755 --> 00:24:53,875 Speaker 1: might be taken down and used against him in a 372 00:24:53,875 --> 00:24:58,035 Speaker 1: court of law. On Q, his supporters started seeing the 373 00:24:58,075 --> 00:25:02,315 Speaker 1: star spangled banner stopped him from incriminating himself. The group 374 00:25:02,395 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: was later identified as Negative forty Negative forty eight, of course, 375 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: is an offshoot of Q and on and as those 376 00:25:10,035 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: in the crowd who actually know the words to the 377 00:25:12,355 --> 00:25:16,395 Speaker 1: national anthem that they never sing joined in. Trump never 378 00:25:17,075 --> 00:25:24,275 Speaker 1: took off his cheap plastic Chinese made baseball cap. Donald I. 379 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:26,915 Speaker 1: Can't take off the cap the hair is attached to it. 380 00:25:27,075 --> 00:25:46,835 Speaker 1: Trump Today's worst person in the world. She's the number 381 00:25:46,835 --> 00:25:49,235 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and my favorite subject, me 382 00:25:49,395 --> 00:25:52,755 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell as a preface. 383 00:25:53,475 --> 00:25:55,955 Speaker 1: Let me just be clear about this. I was never 384 00:25:56,075 --> 00:25:59,435 Speaker 1: a bully as a kid. I mentioned this in the 385 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:02,195 Speaker 1: context of this question. Have you ever watched a movie 386 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: and there's a scene in it and you go all 387 00:26:04,715 --> 00:26:08,835 Speaker 1: pale because it really happened to you. Have you seen 388 00:26:08,835 --> 00:26:12,915 Speaker 1: a Christmas story? The movie TBS runs all day every Christmas. 389 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:16,235 Speaker 1: Little Ralphie and the Red Writer bb gun and you'll 390 00:26:16,275 --> 00:26:19,675 Speaker 1: shoot your eye out. The scene where Ralphie completely loses 391 00:26:19,715 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: it and takes down the bully and bloodies him, swearing 392 00:26:22,835 --> 00:26:26,035 Speaker 1: a blue streak. Yeah, that was me. When I was 393 00:26:26,075 --> 00:26:29,275 Speaker 1: a kid in Hastings on Hudson, New York, I was 394 00:26:29,315 --> 00:26:34,435 Speaker 1: considered above average in intelligence. Clearly I have disproved this 395 00:26:34,595 --> 00:26:38,275 Speaker 1: nearly every day of my adult life, but they didn't 396 00:26:38,275 --> 00:26:42,315 Speaker 1: know that then. The main results of this assessment were 397 00:26:42,595 --> 00:26:44,755 Speaker 1: I was moved into a class with kids a year 398 00:26:44,795 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: older than me, sometimes two years, and I was still 399 00:26:47,555 --> 00:26:51,155 Speaker 1: bigger than they were, and I had no patience If 400 00:26:51,195 --> 00:26:53,915 Speaker 1: I was talking and they were not paying attention. I 401 00:26:53,995 --> 00:26:58,395 Speaker 1: got shovy, you know like today. Like I said, I 402 00:26:58,435 --> 00:27:00,875 Speaker 1: was never a bully. I just had a bugs bunny 403 00:27:00,915 --> 00:27:03,835 Speaker 1: concept of violence. So my folks had me talk to 404 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:06,675 Speaker 1: a psychologist that I quickly caught on and I stopped 405 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:09,155 Speaker 1: shoving or hitting or pushing or anything. In fact, the 406 00:27:09,195 --> 00:27:12,315 Speaker 1: advice was too good. The doctor turned me into a 407 00:27:12,395 --> 00:27:16,155 Speaker 1: little New Yorker Gandhi. When the day came in the 408 00:27:16,195 --> 00:27:18,595 Speaker 1: fourth grade, as it does for all kids, at some 409 00:27:18,715 --> 00:27:24,475 Speaker 1: point that somebody else shoved me, I did nothing. I 410 00:27:24,515 --> 00:27:27,475 Speaker 1: had been taught by the doctor, no shoving Keith. This 411 00:27:27,595 --> 00:27:31,875 Speaker 1: quickly deteriorated into the inevitable situation in which I got bullied. 412 00:27:32,675 --> 00:27:35,595 Speaker 1: This went on for most of a school year, and 413 00:27:35,675 --> 00:27:38,155 Speaker 1: no matter what my folks said, no matter how frustrated 414 00:27:38,195 --> 00:27:41,395 Speaker 1: I got, I would not hit back. But this was 415 00:27:41,515 --> 00:27:44,035 Speaker 1: also the same year that I became a baseball fan 416 00:27:44,155 --> 00:27:47,835 Speaker 1: and a baseball card collector. And as the fourth grade ended, 417 00:27:48,235 --> 00:27:51,155 Speaker 1: literally the next to last day of class, some kid 418 00:27:51,915 --> 00:27:56,195 Speaker 1: sold me his entire baseball card collection, maybe a thousand cards. 419 00:27:56,355 --> 00:27:59,075 Speaker 1: Maybe it cost me two dollars. They were in a 420 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:02,435 Speaker 1: big paper shopping bag, and after a trip to the bathroom. 421 00:28:02,475 --> 00:28:05,955 Speaker 1: I returned to my desk to discover that the bag 422 00:28:05,995 --> 00:28:09,595 Speaker 1: had been stolen. As this penultimate school day ended, and 423 00:28:09,675 --> 00:28:12,035 Speaker 1: we all filed out of the classroom down several flights 424 00:28:12,075 --> 00:28:14,475 Speaker 1: of stairs to the building exit, which opened onto the flat, 425 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: beautiful Tar Macadam playground. My main antagonist, the lead bully, 426 00:28:20,755 --> 00:28:25,995 Speaker 1: the scut Farcas of my fourth grade, shouted up from 427 00:28:26,035 --> 00:28:30,395 Speaker 1: maybe six or seven steps below me on the stairs. Hey, Keith, 428 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:33,875 Speaker 1: what do you think of my baseball card collection? He 429 00:28:33,995 --> 00:28:40,115 Speaker 1: then held the bag of my cards aloft. Suddenly, my 430 00:28:40,235 --> 00:28:46,835 Speaker 1: own rage and my opportunity merged into one shining moment. 431 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,515 Speaker 1: The bully was now on the ground floor landing of 432 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:53,915 Speaker 1: the school, moving towards the door that opened onto the playground. 433 00:28:54,155 --> 00:28:58,075 Speaker 1: But I was still on the stairs, six or seven 434 00:28:58,115 --> 00:29:00,755 Speaker 1: steps up, and it dawned upon me that now those 435 00:29:00,795 --> 00:29:03,835 Speaker 1: stairs made me at least two ft taller than this 436 00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:07,955 Speaker 1: guy was, and that gravity had become my accomplice. I 437 00:29:08,115 --> 00:29:13,075 Speaker 1: literally threw myself forward off the stairs. I landed on him, 438 00:29:13,075 --> 00:29:16,155 Speaker 1: my knees connecting with his chest. The force of my 439 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:19,115 Speaker 1: leap pushed us both through the open door. We hit 440 00:29:19,155 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: the playground with a thud. Him on his back, me 441 00:29:22,715 --> 00:29:25,555 Speaker 1: on his chest, with my knees and the full weight 442 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,035 Speaker 1: of my body pinning down his elbows and upper arms. 443 00:29:29,675 --> 00:29:32,635 Speaker 1: The most he could do was slap at me without 444 00:29:32,755 --> 00:29:37,115 Speaker 1: aim or force. This is basically the visual of the 445 00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:39,995 Speaker 1: Ralphie beats up the bully scene in a Christmas story, 446 00:29:40,075 --> 00:29:43,315 Speaker 1: only there was no snow because it was June and 447 00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:49,035 Speaker 1: I went to town. All that nice pacifist deep programming 448 00:29:49,075 --> 00:29:54,395 Speaker 1: went out the window. The bully had stolen my baseball cards. 449 00:29:55,035 --> 00:29:59,755 Speaker 1: I punched him repeatedly, even as a serene clarity overtook me. 450 00:30:00,035 --> 00:30:03,715 Speaker 1: I was displeased, but I was not blind with anger. 451 00:30:04,475 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: At As I was contemplating this, suddenly I felt the 452 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: large hands under my arms of the gym teacher, Mr. Hood. 453 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:14,475 Speaker 1: Mr Hood lifted me off the bully and said something, 454 00:30:14,475 --> 00:30:18,035 Speaker 1: And I said, matter of factually, why did you do that? 455 00:30:18,515 --> 00:30:21,755 Speaker 1: I'm not finished yet. I shook him off, and to 456 00:30:21,875 --> 00:30:26,515 Speaker 1: my surprise, he fell into some low hedges. I turned 457 00:30:26,515 --> 00:30:29,035 Speaker 1: back to the bully, who was still soupine on the beautiful, 458 00:30:29,075 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: freshly resurfaced playground. I assumed the same posture I had before, 459 00:30:33,595 --> 00:30:36,435 Speaker 1: but instead of hitting him now, I simply grabbed his 460 00:30:36,475 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: head and began to lift it up and then pound 461 00:30:38,555 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: it down, Lift it up and then pound it down, 462 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:44,595 Speaker 1: lifted up, and then pound it down. I became aware 463 00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:47,035 Speaker 1: at this point that the entire fourth grade had formed 464 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:50,915 Speaker 1: a gasping semi circle around us, And now I thought, 465 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:57,035 Speaker 1: of them, I'm a giver. He bullied them too, boys 466 00:30:57,075 --> 00:31:01,115 Speaker 1: and girls alike, and we had, as I figured out 467 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: at that moment, eight years and one day left of school, 468 00:31:05,995 --> 00:31:10,275 Speaker 1: to deal with this bully. It would be easiest. I 469 00:31:10,315 --> 00:31:13,675 Speaker 1: concluded that if I ended his bullying right there, so 470 00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:16,515 Speaker 1: I kept pounding his head into the tarm academ surface 471 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:21,595 Speaker 1: so he'd never forget, or maybe forgot a lot. And 472 00:31:21,635 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: then I felt four large hands under my arms. Mr 473 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:28,715 Speaker 1: Hood had finally disentangled himself from the shrubbery, and my 474 00:31:28,835 --> 00:31:32,235 Speaker 1: mother had appeared somehow, just as in the movie, they 475 00:31:32,235 --> 00:31:36,835 Speaker 1: were finally able to overpower me. Since my folks had 476 00:31:36,835 --> 00:31:38,355 Speaker 1: spent the year trying to get me to do what 477 00:31:38,435 --> 00:31:40,275 Speaker 1: I had just done, they were cool with all this, 478 00:31:40,395 --> 00:31:43,395 Speaker 1: I believe. We went to get some ice cream. Somehow 479 00:31:43,435 --> 00:31:47,475 Speaker 1: I didn't even get punished for pushing the gym teacher Mr. Hood, So, 480 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:49,675 Speaker 1: now that I think about it, from that day, on. 481 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:52,675 Speaker 1: Mr Hood always looked warily at me, and then he 482 00:31:52,755 --> 00:31:57,675 Speaker 1: transferred to another school. Mm hmm. The next day, the 483 00:31:57,795 --> 00:32:00,195 Speaker 1: last day of fourth grade, I walked into my classroom, 484 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:03,875 Speaker 1: Mrs Wolf's class, really not thinking about the previous days 485 00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: dry run for a movie scene. All the boys in 486 00:32:08,715 --> 00:32:10,995 Speaker 1: the class were huddled in a far corner of the 487 00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:14,235 Speaker 1: room whispering. After I sat at my desk, the one 488 00:32:14,235 --> 00:32:17,195 Speaker 1: who had collaborated the least with the bully and his toadies, 489 00:32:17,555 --> 00:32:21,515 Speaker 1: Tom Charlapp, came over and said, huh, Keith, I thought 490 00:32:21,515 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: you might like these, and he handed me a stack 491 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:29,355 Speaker 1: of baseball cards. I was very moved. I said thank you, Tom, 492 00:32:29,395 --> 00:32:33,395 Speaker 1: and soon, to my bewilderment, every one of the other 493 00:32:33,475 --> 00:32:39,875 Speaker 1: boys brought me tribute baseball card Tribute. Some of the 494 00:32:39,915 --> 00:32:43,075 Speaker 1: cards were still unopened in the packs and had clearly 495 00:32:43,075 --> 00:32:48,195 Speaker 1: been obtained that morning at a local candy store. Of course, 496 00:32:48,235 --> 00:32:50,515 Speaker 1: I had now been removed from some kind of cosmic 497 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:53,675 Speaker 1: precursor to the film At Christmas Story, and I had 498 00:32:53,835 --> 00:32:56,355 Speaker 1: instead been placed in some kind of cosmic precursor to 499 00:32:56,395 --> 00:32:59,715 Speaker 1: the film The Godfather, the scene of his daughter's wedding. 500 00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:05,275 Speaker 1: Needless to say, there was no more bullying, although as 501 00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: always there's a PostScript. I left that school after the 502 00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:14,395 Speaker 1: seventh grade. But twenty years after that class of kids graduated, 503 00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:16,715 Speaker 1: a girl I had stayed friendly with she was with 504 00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:19,875 Speaker 1: me in college, invited me to what was there and 505 00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: kind of my reunion, and it was transcendent. I also 506 00:33:24,355 --> 00:33:32,915 Speaker 1: made the thirtieth anniversary, and in Saturday, October twelve years ago, yesterday, 507 00:33:32,955 --> 00:33:36,075 Speaker 1: I went to the thirty fifth anniversary. It was held in, 508 00:33:36,195 --> 00:33:40,035 Speaker 1: of all places, a restaurant in my hometown, across the 509 00:33:40,075 --> 00:33:43,875 Speaker 1: street from a two story building once owned by my dad, 510 00:33:44,435 --> 00:33:48,115 Speaker 1: where my grandmother and grandfather once lived. It was a 511 00:33:48,155 --> 00:33:52,115 Speaker 1: Saturday night in October. It was frosty, misty, the first 512 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: night that truly hinted at the inevitability of winter. And 513 00:33:55,275 --> 00:33:57,755 Speaker 1: I was half an hour early, and I sat there 514 00:33:57,755 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: on a bench between the restaurant and the municipal parking lot, 515 00:34:01,035 --> 00:34:04,595 Speaker 1: and my whole youth replayed itself in front of my eye, 516 00:34:05,475 --> 00:34:10,035 Speaker 1: some sadness, mostly happiness, mostly eager anticipation of seeing these 517 00:34:10,075 --> 00:34:14,635 Speaker 1: friends of my youngest youth once more, And then out 518 00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:20,915 Speaker 1: of the distance, his familiar skinny form, irregularly illuminated by 519 00:34:20,915 --> 00:34:25,515 Speaker 1: the street lights, walking towards me out of the fog 520 00:34:28,035 --> 00:34:32,115 Speaker 1: was the bully Keith, big hug. You really made it 521 00:34:32,675 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: some small talk, all a bit warm, completely in keeping 522 00:34:35,115 --> 00:34:37,835 Speaker 1: with the o Henry quality of the fog and the 523 00:34:37,915 --> 00:34:40,355 Speaker 1: chill in the air and the reunion. And then he said, hey, 524 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:42,955 Speaker 1: you know what. I told my mother that you were 525 00:34:42,955 --> 00:34:46,315 Speaker 1: gonna be here supposedly tonight. And she said, son, maybe 526 00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:49,475 Speaker 1: you shouldn't go. And I said, why not, ma? And 527 00:34:49,515 --> 00:34:54,795 Speaker 1: she said, well, you and Keith had some problems when 528 00:34:54,835 --> 00:34:58,635 Speaker 1: you were kids, fourth or fifth grade. And I said, 529 00:34:58,635 --> 00:35:00,635 Speaker 1: I had no idea what she was talking about. Did 530 00:35:00,635 --> 00:35:02,755 Speaker 1: we have problems, do we have a fight or something? 531 00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:12,715 Speaker 1: Time stood still. What do you say to him? It 532 00:35:12,795 --> 00:35:15,555 Speaker 1: felt like I considered the options for several minutes. In reality, 533 00:35:15,555 --> 00:35:17,755 Speaker 1: it was just a few seconds of hesitation. At that long, 534 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:22,635 Speaker 1: it dawned on me. I won that battle in nineteen 535 00:35:22,715 --> 00:35:26,955 Speaker 1: sixty seven. This was now. There was no reason to 536 00:35:26,995 --> 00:35:30,675 Speaker 1: read litigate this. If he was faking not remembering it, 537 00:35:30,875 --> 00:35:33,635 Speaker 1: I should go along with him and also fake not 538 00:35:33,755 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 1: remembering it. If he really didn't remember, it was possible 539 00:35:37,955 --> 00:35:41,035 Speaker 1: that this was because I kept pounding his head against 540 00:35:41,035 --> 00:35:47,315 Speaker 1: the playground surface. In June seven, I'm sure we had 541 00:35:47,355 --> 00:35:50,395 Speaker 1: a fight, I said, finally, I mean every kid in 542 00:35:50,435 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: that class had a fight. I mean in the fourth grade. 543 00:35:52,475 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: I fought Brian Reuben one day, and then I fought 544 00:35:55,435 --> 00:35:58,235 Speaker 1: with him against Gordon Craig and Ricky Western the next day. 545 00:35:58,275 --> 00:36:03,555 Speaker 1: So what he smiled? I smiled. Another figure emerged from 546 00:36:03,555 --> 00:36:06,515 Speaker 1: a newly parked car. Hey, look, it's kats In Stein. 547 00:36:07,195 --> 00:36:10,355 Speaker 1: Let's go inside. I'll buy both of you guys a drink. 548 00:36:11,555 --> 00:36:14,475 Speaker 1: We had a great time, and I never brought up 549 00:36:14,515 --> 00:36:17,875 Speaker 1: the fight. But truth be told, it did take all 550 00:36:17,995 --> 00:36:22,315 Speaker 1: of my self control to not ask one question of 551 00:36:22,475 --> 00:36:27,875 Speaker 1: everybody I saw, and that one question would have been, Hey, 552 00:36:27,915 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: anybody know whatever happened to that Jim Teacher, Mr Hood, 553 00:36:47,315 --> 00:36:51,275 Speaker 1: last fight I ever started? Well until now, anyway, I've 554 00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:52,955 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Since you've 555 00:36:52,995 --> 00:36:54,835 Speaker 1: listened this far, helped me out spread the word. Tell 556 00:36:54,915 --> 00:36:57,435 Speaker 1: somebody about the podcast, get them to subscribe if you can. 557 00:36:58,315 --> 00:37:00,355 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 558 00:37:00,395 --> 00:37:03,315 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and performed by 559 00:37:03,315 --> 00:37:05,635 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip shou Ale, who are the 560 00:37:05,675 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillips, 561 00:37:09,835 --> 00:37:14,115 Speaker 1: Chanelle gar guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, who 562 00:37:14,275 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 1: also heard on the gar produced by t k O Brothers. 563 00:37:18,755 --> 00:37:21,395 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No 564 00:37:21,515 --> 00:37:24,915 Speaker 1: Horns allowed. The sports music is the auld Woman theme 565 00:37:24,955 --> 00:37:27,835 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, and it was written by Mitch Warren 566 00:37:27,915 --> 00:37:30,635 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And no, there are no 567 00:37:30,835 --> 00:37:34,875 Speaker 1: lyrics musical comments from Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium 568 00:37:34,955 --> 00:37:38,275 Speaker 1: organist ever our announcer today was Richard Lewis, and everything 569 00:37:38,275 --> 00:37:40,715 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for this 570 00:37:40,795 --> 00:37:44,675 Speaker 1: the si fifty seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted 571 00:37:44,715 --> 00:37:47,475 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 572 00:37:47,675 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can a new episode tomorrow. 573 00:37:51,715 --> 00:37:54,515 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 574 00:37:55,195 --> 00:38:07,555 Speaker 1: and good luck. M h Countdown with Keith Alderman is 575 00:38:07,555 --> 00:38:11,155 Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. 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