1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. More 2 00:00:24,915 --> 00:00:28,475 Speaker 1: people were arrested in LA after the Lakers won the 3 00:00:28,515 --> 00:00:33,195 Speaker 1: twenty twenty NBA title than were arrested in LA on 4 00:00:33,395 --> 00:00:37,715 Speaker 1: Sunday during the protests during the Ice Riot during the 5 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:42,635 Speaker 1: Gestapo invasion of Southern California. This is not some sort 6 00:00:42,675 --> 00:00:46,955 Speaker 1: of metaphor or analogy. October eleventh, twenty twenty, after the 7 00:00:46,995 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: COVID delayed NBA Finals ended with the LA Lakers winning 8 00:00:50,675 --> 00:00:56,315 Speaker 1: the championship, in LA, there were seventy six arrests Sunday, 9 00:00:56,915 --> 00:00:59,155 Speaker 1: the day Trump now says that without him and his 10 00:00:59,235 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: Brown Shirts, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated. There 11 00:01:03,555 --> 00:01:11,955 Speaker 1: were forty two arrests seventy six to forty two vandalism, 12 00:01:12,115 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, bottles thrown at cops, vehicles 13 00:01:16,475 --> 00:01:20,555 Speaker 1: set on fire, flash bangs and projectiles fired at civilians, 14 00:01:20,715 --> 00:01:24,035 Speaker 1: graffiti covering buildings, property damage, a crowd of at least 15 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:29,115 Speaker 1: two thousand out of control, Downtown LA streets closed. No, 16 00:01:29,275 --> 00:01:33,195 Speaker 1: that was also all after the Lakers won. The Lakers 17 00:01:33,475 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 1: victory celebration five years ago was measurably a greater risk 18 00:01:39,955 --> 00:01:44,955 Speaker 1: to security and safety than were the protests against Trump's 19 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:50,115 Speaker 1: unconstitutional kidnapping of civilians, often citizens, almost always law abiding 20 00:01:50,355 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: this past Sunday, And if that raw final score is 21 00:01:55,955 --> 00:02:00,715 Speaker 1: not stark enough Lakers seventy six protests for due process 22 00:02:00,755 --> 00:02:05,195 Speaker 1: forty two. It's a final. You knew this will true. 23 00:02:05,755 --> 00:02:11,955 Speaker 1: Once Trump declared victory yesterday, at midnight, our hitler was posting, 24 00:02:12,195 --> 00:02:16,235 Speaker 1: looking really bad in La, bring in the troops. At noon, 25 00:02:17,355 --> 00:02:19,555 Speaker 1: our hitler was posting that the governor and the mayor 26 00:02:19,555 --> 00:02:22,955 Speaker 1: who just fire five things are not insane fascist dictators 27 00:02:23,275 --> 00:02:26,795 Speaker 1: quote should be saying thank you, President Trump. You are 28 00:02:26,835 --> 00:02:32,235 Speaker 1: so wonderful. We would be nothing without you? Sir? Is 29 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:36,235 Speaker 1: he an insane narcissist or calculating monster? Why can't we 30 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:41,275 Speaker 1: have both? Right after congratulating himself, Trump mobilized five hundred 31 00:02:41,275 --> 00:02:45,075 Speaker 1: members of the Marines to join the National Guard in La. 32 00:02:46,235 --> 00:02:49,275 Speaker 1: Some say it's seven hundred members of the Marines to 33 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:54,915 Speaker 1: take care of the rapidly expanding nothing. It is not 34 00:02:55,235 --> 00:02:58,835 Speaker 1: just unnecessary, it is illegal, and I will get to 35 00:02:58,835 --> 00:03:01,555 Speaker 1: the California lawsuit against all of it presently, which has 36 00:03:01,595 --> 00:03:06,155 Speaker 1: now been filed. The other content, though, that Sunday was 37 00:03:06,195 --> 00:03:09,995 Speaker 1: nothing seventy six Laker arrests forty two Trump riot arrests. 38 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:13,155 Speaker 1: Was when Trump insisted, quote, I wouldn't call it quite 39 00:03:13,195 --> 00:03:15,675 Speaker 1: an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection 40 00:03:16,475 --> 00:03:19,995 Speaker 1: on quote, And there was disappointment in his voice because 41 00:03:20,035 --> 00:03:23,555 Speaker 1: of course he wants one. As we will analyze in 42 00:03:23,595 --> 00:03:27,755 Speaker 1: a moment, the powers he has awarded himself when federalizing 43 00:03:27,835 --> 00:03:30,315 Speaker 1: the National Guard turned out to be enough for him 44 00:03:30,515 --> 00:03:36,995 Speaker 1: to literally install his dictatorship to day. But let's first 45 00:03:37,035 --> 00:03:39,915 Speaker 1: finish the clean up on the near complete obliteration of 46 00:03:39,955 --> 00:03:43,195 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Ah, what a shame. I like the place 47 00:03:43,675 --> 00:03:48,595 Speaker 1: this could reignite at any point. You could know more 48 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:51,955 Speaker 1: about this than I do, because I recorded this earlier 49 00:03:51,995 --> 00:03:56,235 Speaker 1: than you're listening to it. The rumor within local government 50 00:03:56,435 --> 00:03:59,395 Speaker 1: was ICE would be kidnapping people off the streets of 51 00:03:59,555 --> 00:04:02,235 Speaker 1: LA and southern California for the next twenty eight days 52 00:04:02,275 --> 00:04:05,555 Speaker 1: to a month. They were at multiple home debas yesterday, 53 00:04:06,035 --> 00:04:09,035 Speaker 1: And of course Trump wants it reignited, because that is 54 00:04:09,115 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: the point of it. The deportations are not only an 55 00:04:11,995 --> 00:04:15,115 Speaker 1: end in themselves raw meet to the racists and the 56 00:04:15,155 --> 00:04:18,635 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller grade psychos, but they are also a means 57 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:23,795 Speaker 1: for him to control anything he wants, especially foremost the 58 00:04:23,795 --> 00:04:27,835 Speaker 1: midterm elections, but that there was nothing approaching what he 59 00:04:27,955 --> 00:04:31,755 Speaker 1: told his cult had happened was underscored when Rick Caruso, 60 00:04:31,835 --> 00:04:34,795 Speaker 1: the lifelong Republican who lost the election for mayor to 61 00:04:34,955 --> 00:04:38,475 Speaker 1: Karen Bass in November twenty twenty two and has since 62 00:04:38,555 --> 00:04:43,875 Speaker 1: criticized her every move, when he wrote, quote, there is 63 00:04:43,915 --> 00:04:47,515 Speaker 1: no emergency, widespread threat, or out of control violence in 64 00:04:47,595 --> 00:04:51,915 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and absolutely no danger that justifies deployment of 65 00:04:51,915 --> 00:04:55,195 Speaker 1: the National Guard, military, or other federal force to the 66 00:04:55,275 --> 00:04:58,915 Speaker 1: streets of this or any other Southern California city. Local 67 00:04:58,995 --> 00:05:02,355 Speaker 1: law enforcement is capable of handling the situation and should 68 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:06,715 Speaker 1: arrest anyone causing violence in the streets. We must call 69 00:05:06,835 --> 00:05:10,195 Speaker 1: for calm in the streets, and deployment of the National 70 00:05:10,195 --> 00:05:16,555 Speaker 1: Guard may prompt just the opposite. Lifelong Republican lost the 71 00:05:16,595 --> 00:05:22,035 Speaker 1: mayor's race, hates the mayor. Caruso reiterated all of that yesterday, 72 00:05:22,115 --> 00:05:25,915 Speaker 1: just in case you missed it, live in drivetime on 73 00:05:25,995 --> 00:05:31,155 Speaker 1: local radio news just before noon Eastern. For the record, 74 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:34,115 Speaker 1: Caruso was the Republican head of the Police Commission in 75 00:05:34,315 --> 00:05:37,075 Speaker 1: LA for many years, and he has a little money 76 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:40,195 Speaker 1: behind him that race for mayor. He blew forty one 77 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:46,275 Speaker 1: million on the primary around the country as much as 78 00:05:46,275 --> 00:05:48,595 Speaker 1: Trump is selling the idea that la is a cauldron 79 00:05:48,635 --> 00:05:50,875 Speaker 1: and he alone can save it, even though no, no, 80 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:54,355 Speaker 1: that's right. I saved it yesterday, so everybody should call me, sir. 81 00:05:55,475 --> 00:05:58,595 Speaker 1: It's not Landing. Polling by the Last King of five 82 00:05:58,755 --> 00:06:01,835 Speaker 1: thirty eight Elliott Morris confirms Trump has been hurt by 83 00:06:01,835 --> 00:06:04,995 Speaker 1: the deportations and especially the case of kilm Are of 84 00:06:05,075 --> 00:06:08,515 Speaker 1: Rego Garcia, and people like him and the Democrats have 85 00:06:08,595 --> 00:06:11,995 Speaker 1: been helped, not that they're doing anything with it, except 86 00:06:12,035 --> 00:06:16,355 Speaker 1: for Newsome. New CBS polling says fifty five percent in 87 00:06:16,435 --> 00:06:20,515 Speaker 1: this country supports the general idea of these deportations, but 88 00:06:21,435 --> 00:06:25,755 Speaker 1: fifty six percent dislike how Trump is doing it, and 89 00:06:25,795 --> 00:06:28,715 Speaker 1: no matter how they feel about the kidnappings and the renditions, 90 00:06:28,955 --> 00:06:34,075 Speaker 1: sixty three percent want due process. The problem, of course, 91 00:06:34,155 --> 00:06:36,835 Speaker 1: is that Trump doesn't have to convince anybody but his 92 00:06:36,915 --> 00:06:41,235 Speaker 1: supporters and the news media and the Republican political wars 93 00:06:41,515 --> 00:06:45,275 Speaker 1: he terrorizes into submission. He doesn't need fifty one percent 94 00:06:45,315 --> 00:06:48,275 Speaker 1: of voters. He doesn't need fifty one percent of Americans. 95 00:06:48,355 --> 00:06:52,195 Speaker 1: He just needs one hundred percent of his voters. They are, 96 00:06:52,235 --> 00:06:57,475 Speaker 1: in short, a mob, a gang, an organized crime family, 97 00:06:58,355 --> 00:07:04,675 Speaker 1: a cult, a suicide cult. Trump stumbling up those airplanes 98 00:07:04,675 --> 00:07:07,835 Speaker 1: step Sunday is the perfect metaphor. You and I correctly 99 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:14,235 Speaker 1: see a deranged, delusional, elderly creature rapidly losing control not 100 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:17,715 Speaker 1: just of his mind but of his bloated carcass. They 101 00:07:17,835 --> 00:07:22,675 Speaker 1: see him triumphantly getting up the stairs anyway and overcoming 102 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:25,835 Speaker 1: all the obstacles anyway, and saving Los Angeles from a 103 00:07:25,875 --> 00:07:31,235 Speaker 1: crisis that he completely provoked and escalated. And matter of fact, 104 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:33,955 Speaker 1: the son of a bitch didn't even manage to create 105 00:07:33,995 --> 00:07:39,195 Speaker 1: a real crisis, did he. I need a couple of 106 00:07:39,195 --> 00:07:43,515 Speaker 1: moments of humorous relief. One North Carolina congressman, a Republican 107 00:07:43,595 --> 00:07:46,635 Speaker 1: named Moore who does not appear to have his own neck, 108 00:07:47,195 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: let alone a brain, retweeted a Homeland Security post insisting 109 00:07:51,555 --> 00:07:56,275 Speaker 1: California politicians must call off their rioting mob. More added, 110 00:07:56,475 --> 00:07:59,595 Speaker 1: La is being burned down by lawless mobs who support 111 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:04,635 Speaker 1: foreign criminals. The photo from DHS that he has reached 112 00:08:04,675 --> 00:08:12,955 Speaker 1: tweeted shows one car on fire, one not even very 113 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:16,835 Speaker 1: on fire. There's some smoke There's about a dozen people 114 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:21,275 Speaker 1: around this car. One is standing on top of it. 115 00:08:21,315 --> 00:08:23,435 Speaker 1: He is shirtless. He is wearing a Mexican flag, because 116 00:08:23,475 --> 00:08:26,515 Speaker 1: of course you never see a Mexican flag in Los Angeles. 117 00:08:26,675 --> 00:08:34,355 Speaker 1: It's the apocalypse again. Lakers arrests seventy six, Trump Ice 118 00:08:34,555 --> 00:08:41,635 Speaker 1: riot arrests forty two a final score. Then there is 119 00:08:42,195 --> 00:08:46,195 Speaker 1: the foppish conservative grifter, Scott Presler, you know, the guy 120 00:08:46,235 --> 00:08:49,675 Speaker 1: with the shoulder length hair, the one Politico reported had 121 00:08:49,755 --> 00:08:52,955 Speaker 1: sex in an office shared by the Republican National Committee 122 00:08:52,995 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: and the Republican Party of Virginia while he was working 123 00:08:55,675 --> 00:08:58,315 Speaker 1: for the latter group, and took pictures of himself having 124 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:01,755 Speaker 1: sex in the office and posted the pictures on Craigslist. 125 00:09:03,235 --> 00:09:08,715 Speaker 1: Political outreach. I suppose well trump ists, mister Pressler is 126 00:09:08,755 --> 00:09:12,115 Speaker 1: ready to meet you at the barricades. Quote if Ice 127 00:09:12,155 --> 00:09:15,835 Speaker 1: needs more bodies on the ground, I'm willing to temporarily 128 00:09:15,875 --> 00:09:19,995 Speaker 1: stop my political work to help. I studied criminal justice 129 00:09:20,035 --> 00:09:24,235 Speaker 1: in college. I am physically fit and want to make 130 00:09:24,275 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: sure that the mission is a success. I'm very serious, 131 00:09:28,195 --> 00:09:35,315 Speaker 1: ready and willing to serve. Oh, Scott will save you. 132 00:09:36,035 --> 00:09:45,275 Speaker 1: He has a degree from George Mason University. Now about 133 00:09:45,515 --> 00:09:50,115 Speaker 1: the real danger behind this danger. Governor Gavin Newsom has 134 00:09:50,315 --> 00:09:54,635 Speaker 1: filed the Attorney General has filed a federal lawsuit by 135 00:09:54,675 --> 00:09:57,275 Speaker 1: the State of California against the Department of Defense and 136 00:09:57,475 --> 00:10:02,875 Speaker 1: Warrior Ethos and hair Products devotee Pete Hegseth for violating 137 00:10:02,915 --> 00:10:06,515 Speaker 1: the states' rights in the tenth amend, specifically the provisos 138 00:10:06,555 --> 00:10:10,475 Speaker 1: that state control of the National Guard is in the 139 00:10:10,555 --> 00:10:13,395 Speaker 1: hands of the states, or as somebody else put it 140 00:10:13,435 --> 00:10:16,115 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, quote, we have laws. We have to 141 00:10:16,155 --> 00:10:18,875 Speaker 1: go buy the laws. We can't move in the National Guard. 142 00:10:19,075 --> 00:10:21,675 Speaker 1: We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested 143 00:10:21,675 --> 00:10:24,955 Speaker 1: by a governor unquote and you know who said that, 144 00:10:25,755 --> 00:10:32,715 Speaker 1: then President d Mensha Trump. As straightforward as this would seem, 145 00:10:32,795 --> 00:10:37,515 Speaker 1: especially with Trump providing this unintentional testimony against himself, there 146 00:10:37,555 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: is a darker element to this, as outlined yesterday by 147 00:10:40,875 --> 00:10:44,035 Speaker 1: the impeccable Ryan Goodman, the co editor in chief of 148 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:48,875 Speaker 1: Just Security and CNN analyst. Mister Goodman notes what most 149 00:10:48,875 --> 00:10:50,795 Speaker 1: of us had not had time to see because of 150 00:10:50,835 --> 00:10:55,675 Speaker 1: the spectacle of Trump's terrorist attack against la The memorandum 151 00:10:55,675 --> 00:10:59,555 Speaker 1: from Saturday, which federalizes the National Guard is almost unbelievably 152 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:06,155 Speaker 1: almost completely vague. I encourage you to read Ryan Goodman's 153 00:11:06,155 --> 00:11:10,675 Speaker 1: thread on Blue Sky. It is harrowing and detailed. These 154 00:11:10,755 --> 00:11:13,835 Speaker 1: are the eight bullet points, and unfortunately that term may 155 00:11:13,875 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: never have been more appropriate than now. Points one and two. 156 00:11:18,115 --> 00:11:22,075 Speaker 1: The definition of rebellion, which used to mean, you know, 157 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:29,955 Speaker 1: at least January sixth, rebellion, now means peaceful protests. The 158 00:11:29,995 --> 00:11:33,715 Speaker 1: part of the combined Pentagon and Homeland Security Memo Goodman 159 00:11:33,835 --> 00:11:37,835 Speaker 1: highlighted reads to the extent that protests or acts of 160 00:11:37,955 --> 00:11:42,715 Speaker 1: violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws. They constitute 161 00:11:42,755 --> 00:11:47,155 Speaker 1: a form of rebellion against the authority of the government 162 00:11:47,155 --> 00:11:51,635 Speaker 1: of the United States. So if you protest, the National 163 00:11:51,635 --> 00:11:57,075 Speaker 1: Guard is in theory entitled I shoot you. The second 164 00:11:57,155 --> 00:12:00,355 Speaker 1: point he makes is that one use of that word 165 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:06,075 Speaker 1: or to the extent that protests or acts of violence, 166 00:12:07,235 --> 00:12:10,475 Speaker 1: so they're both covered. If you protest or you commit 167 00:12:10,515 --> 00:12:14,435 Speaker 1: an active violence, they can shoot you. Goodman's third and 168 00:12:14,475 --> 00:12:17,955 Speaker 1: fourth points this memo authorizes the use of preemptive force 169 00:12:18,595 --> 00:12:24,155 Speaker 1: and the use of preemptive force for quote protests. I 170 00:12:24,195 --> 00:12:26,955 Speaker 1: hereby call into Federal service members and units of the 171 00:12:27,035 --> 00:12:29,635 Speaker 1: National Guard under ten USC one two four oh six 172 00:12:30,035 --> 00:12:33,635 Speaker 1: to temporarily protect ice and other United States government personnel 173 00:12:33,835 --> 00:12:37,035 Speaker 1: who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, 174 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:41,835 Speaker 1: and to protect federal property at locations where protests against 175 00:12:41,835 --> 00:12:47,835 Speaker 1: these functions are occurring or are likely to occur. Based 176 00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:56,035 Speaker 1: on current threat assessments and planned operations, Your non violent 177 00:12:56,115 --> 00:12:59,075 Speaker 1: protest doesn't even have to have happened, yet they can 178 00:12:59,115 --> 00:13:04,555 Speaker 1: bring in the National Guard. Goodman's fifth point no geographically, 179 00:13:05,635 --> 00:13:08,115 Speaker 1: this is not an authorization to use the Guard in 180 00:13:08,155 --> 00:13:13,195 Speaker 1: southern California. In June of twenty twenty five, it's all purpose. 181 00:13:13,515 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: It's a magic, evil wand of all people. Bill Crystal 182 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:21,315 Speaker 1: noted this first to quote him. The presidential memorandum never 183 00:13:21,435 --> 00:13:25,595 Speaker 1: mentions Los Angeles or California. It's a blank check for 184 00:13:25,715 --> 00:13:30,635 Speaker 1: mobilizing National Guard and active duty troops to deploy anywhere 185 00:13:31,635 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: to protect federal personnel or functions wherever protests are occurring 186 00:13:36,875 --> 00:13:43,115 Speaker 1: or are likely to occur. It gets worse and worse. 187 00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:48,035 Speaker 1: Goodman six point authorizes regular armed forces. It does not 188 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:52,115 Speaker 1: tell you under what authority a president can use the 189 00:13:52,115 --> 00:13:55,835 Speaker 1: military in an emergency that is established, but he has 190 00:13:55,915 --> 00:14:00,115 Speaker 1: to invoke the Insurrection Act first, except this memo does 191 00:14:00,155 --> 00:14:05,355 Speaker 1: not say that. It just says members of the regular 192 00:14:05,515 --> 00:14:12,075 Speaker 1: Armed Forces, as determined appropriate in his discretion. So much 193 00:14:12,075 --> 00:14:15,755 Speaker 1: for the Insurrection Act, so much for any review of 194 00:14:15,755 --> 00:14:21,235 Speaker 1: what a president does. Goodman's seventh point expressly overrides the 195 00:14:21,275 --> 00:14:25,675 Speaker 1: governor's authorities, changing Title ten, Section one two four oh 196 00:14:25,795 --> 00:14:29,115 Speaker 1: six from orders for these purposes shall be issued through 197 00:14:29,115 --> 00:14:32,075 Speaker 1: the Governors of the States to saying only that the 198 00:14:32,115 --> 00:14:35,515 Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense should quote coordinate with the governors of 199 00:14:35,555 --> 00:14:40,875 Speaker 1: the States. For the record, before we finish these points, 200 00:14:40,915 --> 00:14:44,355 Speaker 1: this whole thing is, or at least should be, incredibly illegal, 201 00:14:45,555 --> 00:14:49,355 Speaker 1: but amazingly Trump has already violated it. His own new 202 00:14:49,475 --> 00:14:52,995 Speaker 1: illegal rules, according to Governor Knusimi, not only ignored the 203 00:14:52,995 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: governor's rights regarding the National Guard, he didn't even bother 204 00:14:55,875 --> 00:15:01,475 Speaker 1: with that lip service instruction to coordinate with the governor. Lastly, 205 00:15:01,595 --> 00:15:06,755 Speaker 1: Ryan Goodman's eighth point not a last resort. The Department 206 00:15:06,795 --> 00:15:09,995 Speaker 1: of Justice has a policy which is at least as 207 00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:12,595 Speaker 1: old as the policy that you can indict a candidate 208 00:15:12,635 --> 00:15:16,875 Speaker 1: around election time, that the military can only be deployed 209 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:24,595 Speaker 1: legally in this country. As a last resort. This whole thing, 210 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:28,315 Speaker 1: quite clearly and You don't need to be Ryan Goodman 211 00:15:28,355 --> 00:15:30,995 Speaker 1: to realize this, and you don't need to read the 212 00:15:31,195 --> 00:15:35,915 Speaker 1: entire memo from Homeland Security and the Pentagon to realize this. 213 00:15:35,915 --> 00:15:39,555 Speaker 1: This whole thing authorizes the use of the military as 214 00:15:40,075 --> 00:15:46,155 Speaker 1: a first resort. This is why Gavin Newsom in California 215 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:50,675 Speaker 1: are suing. This is why, ultimately that lawsuit may be 216 00:15:50,715 --> 00:15:53,155 Speaker 1: more important than anything that happens on the streets of 217 00:15:53,155 --> 00:15:58,675 Speaker 1: Los Angeles this entire month. This is why Newsom is suing. 218 00:15:58,915 --> 00:16:01,515 Speaker 1: It is not just about what Trump is doing in LA, 219 00:16:01,755 --> 00:16:04,515 Speaker 1: and it won't be resolved fast enough to likely impact 220 00:16:04,755 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: Trump is doing in LA. It is that it provides 221 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:12,595 Speaker 1: a template for Trump to institute a police state, a 222 00:16:12,755 --> 00:16:20,675 Speaker 1: military dictatorship in this country today. You can use the 223 00:16:20,755 --> 00:16:24,195 Speaker 1: National Guard and the military against peaceful protests, or just 224 00:16:24,315 --> 00:16:29,155 Speaker 1: the threat of peaceful protests, or your threat assessment that 225 00:16:29,195 --> 00:16:32,435 Speaker 1: there may be peaceful protests, or you can use it 226 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:35,235 Speaker 1: against anything really, or as we are seeing in LA, 227 00:16:35,515 --> 00:16:41,355 Speaker 1: you can use it against nothing. CNN should have mister 228 00:16:41,395 --> 00:16:43,275 Speaker 1: Goodman on to cover this twenty four to seven and 229 00:16:43,315 --> 00:16:45,675 Speaker 1: said it will show you an empty intersection in downtown 230 00:16:45,835 --> 00:16:48,795 Speaker 1: LA and insists hell may break loose at any moment. 231 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:53,955 Speaker 1: Right after this message from yet another insurance firm specializing 232 00:16:53,995 --> 00:16:59,715 Speaker 1: in mesothelioma, which leads me to one dark bit of humor. 233 00:16:59,795 --> 00:17:03,915 Speaker 1: I am glad CNN televised George Clooney's good Night and 234 00:17:03,955 --> 00:17:07,355 Speaker 1: good Luck over the weekend, which I mentioned I saw 235 00:17:07,395 --> 00:17:11,075 Speaker 1: the first night of previews. I hope they rerun the 236 00:17:11,075 --> 00:17:14,715 Speaker 1: live presentation again. It has many flaws, not the least 237 00:17:14,715 --> 00:17:19,675 Speaker 1: of one is fairly hilarious. George Clooney is not as 238 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:22,995 Speaker 1: an actor as good a newscaster as his father, Nick 239 00:17:23,035 --> 00:17:27,035 Speaker 1: Clooney was, largely because Nick Clooney was a newscaster in 240 00:17:27,155 --> 00:17:30,875 Speaker 1: Los Angeles when I was a sportscaster there. It has flaws, 241 00:17:30,875 --> 00:17:35,035 Speaker 1: but it is invaluable right now. Except I couldn't help 242 00:17:35,115 --> 00:17:39,515 Speaker 1: notice that CNN ran it Saturday night just as the 243 00:17:39,555 --> 00:17:43,115 Speaker 1: events in LA were beginning to snowball, and CNN kept 244 00:17:43,115 --> 00:17:45,715 Speaker 1: with it, kept showing it and a postgame show for 245 00:17:45,795 --> 00:17:52,795 Speaker 1: three hours anyway. In short, CNN was showing a play 246 00:17:53,075 --> 00:18:02,195 Speaker 1: about news instead of showing you know news, which sadly 247 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:08,555 Speaker 1: is the CNN story in a nuts Next now to 248 00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:12,675 Speaker 1: Musk and Trump, and why follow me closely here? Why 249 00:18:12,755 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: I think their fight probably proves no. Musk did not 250 00:18:18,115 --> 00:18:21,235 Speaker 1: rig the voting machines last November. That's next. This is 251 00:18:21,275 --> 00:18:52,075 Speaker 1: countdown now. Two things that may have slipped off your 252 00:18:52,075 --> 00:18:56,835 Speaker 1: plate in the last ten days of constant chaos. Okay, 253 00:18:56,915 --> 00:19:00,275 Speaker 1: last ten years of constant chaos. They are beginning to 254 00:19:00,315 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: talk about a military draft again. Bluntly, nothing, nothing, not 255 00:19:06,555 --> 00:19:10,435 Speaker 1: even the Blue state tax strike I mentioned yesterday, could 256 00:19:10,435 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: bring Trump down faster than if he imposed a draft 257 00:19:16,035 --> 00:19:20,275 Speaker 1: on the families of American youth in the twenty first century. 258 00:19:22,515 --> 00:19:25,555 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, one of the oldest and most obvious distributors 259 00:19:25,595 --> 00:19:29,795 Speaker 1: of Trump's trial balloons, said on his radio show last week, quote, Look, 260 00:19:30,075 --> 00:19:33,315 Speaker 1: Israel's safety today depends on the brave men and women 261 00:19:33,395 --> 00:19:37,595 Speaker 1: of the IDF. Well that's also bullshit, but we'll pass 262 00:19:37,595 --> 00:19:39,875 Speaker 1: on that for the moment. Every citizen, by the way, 263 00:19:39,915 --> 00:19:43,515 Speaker 1: is required to serve. I actually think we should adopt 264 00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:46,555 Speaker 1: this in Thish country. It'd be so good for our 265 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:54,195 Speaker 1: young people. Required to serve. That means a draft, or 266 00:19:54,235 --> 00:19:58,555 Speaker 1: it means compulsory registration and service, which is a draft 267 00:19:58,595 --> 00:20:04,235 Speaker 1: where everybody is drafted and sent to La to rendition 268 00:20:04,315 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: the brown people. We should a competition Nish country. You first, Sean, 269 00:20:10,235 --> 00:20:14,155 Speaker 1: see if we can find a military suit of paratroopers 270 00:20:14,195 --> 00:20:19,515 Speaker 1: outfit that would fit you. Trump hit it at this 271 00:20:19,675 --> 00:20:22,595 Speaker 1: during the campaign. Last June, his former Secretary of Defense 272 00:20:22,755 --> 00:20:27,555 Speaker 1: Christopher Miller, told The Washington Post that a national service 273 00:20:27,595 --> 00:20:32,115 Speaker 1: requirement should be quote strongly considered. He described the concept 274 00:20:32,115 --> 00:20:34,995 Speaker 1: as a common right of passage, one that would create 275 00:20:34,995 --> 00:20:40,995 Speaker 1: a sense of quote shared sacrifice among America's youth unquote. 276 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:45,635 Speaker 1: A little article, not much play, and it went over 277 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:48,675 Speaker 1: so badly. Trump had to publicly deny it, to say 278 00:20:48,715 --> 00:20:50,915 Speaker 1: he'd never even thought about a draft, never, not once, 279 00:20:52,275 --> 00:20:54,635 Speaker 1: just as I'm certain he's not thinking about it now. 280 00:20:55,315 --> 00:21:00,915 Speaker 1: I'm certain Sean Hannity the Renfield to Trump's Dracula, the 281 00:21:00,955 --> 00:21:03,475 Speaker 1: man who has not had an original idea since nineteen 282 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:07,635 Speaker 1: ninety six. I'm sure Sean Hannity dreamed that up all 283 00:21:07,715 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: on a jan and he wasn't told to shay it 284 00:21:10,755 --> 00:21:22,435 Speaker 1: by his master. And the second news story that you 285 00:21:22,515 --> 00:21:29,435 Speaker 1: may have missed Musk and Trump. Remember Elon Musk, Remember 286 00:21:29,435 --> 00:21:31,435 Speaker 1: when it was not just the lead story but the 287 00:21:31,475 --> 00:21:35,115 Speaker 1: only story. Are you old enough to? I mean it 288 00:21:35,275 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: was Czech's calendar three thousand years ago, oh no, sorry, 289 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:45,675 Speaker 1: I read that wrong. It was last Friday. And one, yes, 290 00:21:45,755 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: it's a distraction, certainly by now it is a distraction. 291 00:21:48,515 --> 00:21:51,995 Speaker 1: But two, I think it's a meaningful distraction. And three 292 00:21:52,075 --> 00:21:54,315 Speaker 1: to understand its meaning, you really have to turn off 293 00:21:54,315 --> 00:21:57,275 Speaker 1: your sanity and your filters for a moment and infer 294 00:21:57,635 --> 00:22:01,515 Speaker 1: what crazy people do in such circumstances. And also four, 295 00:22:02,475 --> 00:22:07,195 Speaker 1: I told you so if you miss this or have 296 00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:10,595 Speaker 1: forgotten it, because after all, there's only so much space 297 00:22:10,675 --> 00:22:13,835 Speaker 1: in our brains for the latest asshole thing Trump has done. 298 00:22:14,555 --> 00:22:19,115 Speaker 1: Overnight Friday, Musk deleted his Trump is in the Epstein 299 00:22:19,195 --> 00:22:23,555 Speaker 1: files tweets and the Trump should be immediately impeached tweets, 300 00:22:23,995 --> 00:22:27,595 Speaker 1: But Musk did not delete his I won the election 301 00:22:27,795 --> 00:22:33,115 Speaker 1: for Trump tweets. Now again, it's trivia. That's why it's 302 00:22:33,155 --> 00:22:35,275 Speaker 1: at the back end of the segment here, and it 303 00:22:35,315 --> 00:22:38,275 Speaker 1: could wait till Tuesday. But the tea leaves I think 304 00:22:38,355 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: are important. When this erupted, Musk went almost immediately to 305 00:22:43,835 --> 00:22:49,235 Speaker 1: Epstein and impeachment and President Vance. And I suppose it's 306 00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:53,315 Speaker 1: possible Elon was hit by lightning over the weekend and 307 00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:57,835 Speaker 1: suddenly his head cleared and he removed those tweets because 308 00:22:57,875 --> 00:23:01,155 Speaker 1: he wanted to de escalate like a you know, human 309 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:05,915 Speaker 1: being would. But Musk and Trump aren't human beings in 310 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:08,635 Speaker 1: the sense the rest of us understand the term. They 311 00:23:08,675 --> 00:23:13,275 Speaker 1: don't de escalate in an emergency. They may occasionally run 312 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:19,155 Speaker 1: away in fear, but they can't be strategic or remorseful 313 00:23:19,835 --> 00:23:25,035 Speaker 1: or corrective even in self interest, and screenshots be damned. 314 00:23:25,915 --> 00:23:29,275 Speaker 1: They just try to burn the evidence and hope nobody notices. 315 00:23:30,515 --> 00:23:32,675 Speaker 1: And since the mottos of the Republican Party and the 316 00:23:32,715 --> 00:23:36,675 Speaker 1: Association of MAGA disease Victims have long since become I 317 00:23:36,795 --> 00:23:40,115 Speaker 1: haven't seen what he posted, said wrote on the sidewalk 318 00:23:40,155 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 1: in his own blood, so I can't comment on it. 319 00:23:44,315 --> 00:23:48,435 Speaker 1: Burning the evidence usually works. What I notice is that 320 00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:51,755 Speaker 1: he did not delete quote. Without me, Trump would have 321 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: lost the election, Dems would control the House, and Republicans 322 00:23:55,675 --> 00:23:57,715 Speaker 1: would be fifty one to forty nine in the Senate. 323 00:23:59,075 --> 00:24:01,675 Speaker 1: And adopting for a moment the crazy think that prevails 324 00:24:01,835 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 1: in the vast empty caverns of Musk's mind, I would 325 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:09,755 Speaker 1: suggest this confirms Musk did not rig the voting for Trump, 326 00:24:10,555 --> 00:24:14,035 Speaker 1: and that Trump's infamous remark about Musk knowing those vote 327 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:20,595 Speaker 1: counting computers was just more of Trump's imbecilic imprecision. Now, look, 328 00:24:20,675 --> 00:24:25,835 Speaker 1: I don't diminish or demean anybody who thinks otherwise. I 329 00:24:25,315 --> 00:24:28,315 Speaker 1: don't doubt that people could listen to that and think 330 00:24:28,715 --> 00:24:32,635 Speaker 1: Trump just confessed that Musk rigged the election. To you 331 00:24:32,715 --> 00:24:38,355 Speaker 1: and me, vote counting computers that means elections and devoled 332 00:24:38,475 --> 00:24:42,395 Speaker 1: company machines switching votes in Florida in two thousand, from 333 00:24:42,435 --> 00:24:47,315 Speaker 1: Gore to Bush, but to Trump, who is more like 334 00:24:47,395 --> 00:24:53,915 Speaker 1: a semi sentient vegetable of some kind. Vote counting computers 335 00:24:53,915 --> 00:24:58,435 Speaker 1: could mean anything, anything from that actual election rigging to 336 00:24:58,795 --> 00:25:02,475 Speaker 1: computers that produce polling results to tell Trump how many 337 00:25:02,555 --> 00:25:05,755 Speaker 1: votes he's going to get. It could mean that or 338 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:09,075 Speaker 1: the other thing. It could mean, Siri. Trump used the 339 00:25:09,075 --> 00:25:13,235 Speaker 1: word counting, and sometimes to Trump, counting means counting out loud. 340 00:25:14,195 --> 00:25:16,435 Speaker 1: It didn't say the out loud. Party just says counting. 341 00:25:16,635 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: And we're supposed to assume we know what he means. 342 00:25:19,115 --> 00:25:22,435 Speaker 1: We're supposed to assume he knows what he means. That's 343 00:25:22,475 --> 00:25:26,115 Speaker 1: the way Trump is. His relationship to language, to human 344 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:30,155 Speaker 1: language is like that of chance the gardener from being there. 345 00:25:30,355 --> 00:25:35,075 Speaker 1: Trump only uses words that could mean ten different things. 346 00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: In any event, The reason I think all this sturm 347 00:25:38,795 --> 00:25:41,755 Speaker 1: Undran with the two worst people in this country actually 348 00:25:41,795 --> 00:25:44,435 Speaker 1: confirms there was no Musk effort to fix the twenty 349 00:25:44,475 --> 00:25:47,755 Speaker 1: twenty four election is that when things with Trump got 350 00:25:47,795 --> 00:25:52,555 Speaker 1: so bad that Musk was willing to invoke Epstein not 351 00:25:52,595 --> 00:25:56,235 Speaker 1: only accused Trump of pedophilia or knowledge of pedophilia, but 352 00:25:56,275 --> 00:26:01,395 Speaker 1: of using his government to cover up evidence of pedophilia. 353 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:03,795 Speaker 1: When things with Trump got so bad so fast that 354 00:26:03,875 --> 00:26:07,795 Speaker 1: Musk went to each faster than well, faster than I do, 355 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:12,355 Speaker 1: Musk did not say I rigged the election for him. 356 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:16,275 Speaker 1: His post, which is still up, is about the things 357 00:26:16,315 --> 00:26:19,795 Speaker 1: we know about immoral, unforgivable but largely legal things. Two 358 00:26:19,835 --> 00:26:23,435 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollars in funding putting onto 359 00:26:23,475 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: the campaign trail is not inconsiderable appeal as a stupid 360 00:26:27,355 --> 00:26:30,275 Speaker 1: person's idea of a smart person throwing his social media 361 00:26:30,315 --> 00:26:34,275 Speaker 1: site completely behind Trump, because if you are willing to 362 00:26:34,315 --> 00:26:37,075 Speaker 1: apply to idiots who believe all Liberals are part of 363 00:26:37,115 --> 00:26:41,115 Speaker 1: a cannibalistic pedophilia ring that their hero, the sitting president 364 00:26:41,155 --> 00:26:44,835 Speaker 1: of the United States and semi Jesus is in a 365 00:26:44,955 --> 00:26:48,315 Speaker 1: report about a pedophilia ring, and that's why he hasn't 366 00:26:48,355 --> 00:26:50,955 Speaker 1: released it to you the way he promised. And if 367 00:26:50,955 --> 00:26:53,435 Speaker 1: you're willing to say flat out, he should be immediately impeached. 368 00:26:54,315 --> 00:26:57,475 Speaker 1: What on God's green earth would stop you from saying, 369 00:26:57,515 --> 00:27:01,355 Speaker 1: by the way, I rig the election for him. To 370 00:27:01,475 --> 00:27:03,955 Speaker 1: Trump's supporters, the idea that you rig the election for 371 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:07,395 Speaker 1: him is like seventeenth on the list of great admissions. 372 00:27:07,755 --> 00:27:10,475 Speaker 1: Oh you did tell us how, so we can do 373 00:27:10,515 --> 00:27:13,355 Speaker 1: it without you next time. I mean, nuclear war is 374 00:27:13,435 --> 00:27:18,635 Speaker 1: nuclear war. You don't hold anything back, And Musk didn't 375 00:27:18,675 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: hold anything back. He may have rolled some of it 376 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:23,995 Speaker 1: back over the weekend, but the claim he won the 377 00:27:23,995 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: election for Trump is still out there. And the only 378 00:27:26,435 --> 00:27:28,435 Speaker 1: reason I can think of for why what he wrote 379 00:27:28,475 --> 00:27:30,715 Speaker 1: is not stronger than it is is that what he 380 00:27:30,755 --> 00:27:35,195 Speaker 1: did was not stronger than it was. Musk Thursday was 381 00:27:35,275 --> 00:27:39,795 Speaker 1: reaching for things with which to kill Trump, at least metaphorically, 382 00:27:40,155 --> 00:27:44,515 Speaker 1: Epstein impeachment. Then he suddenly said, oh, rigging the election. 383 00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: I won't throw that at him. Nonsense. Also, if Musk 384 00:27:50,715 --> 00:27:52,915 Speaker 1: or anybody else actually rigged all or part of the 385 00:27:52,915 --> 00:27:55,555 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election, why didn't he rig the Wisconsin 386 00:27:55,555 --> 00:27:58,675 Speaker 1: Supreme Court election two months ago. I mean he spent 387 00:27:58,835 --> 00:28:03,515 Speaker 1: twenty million on it. He went there, humiliated himself, campaigned 388 00:28:03,555 --> 00:28:07,995 Speaker 1: in his ketamineupopt Clip's way, and his guy, Brad, lost 389 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:13,355 Speaker 1: by ten percent. It's a lot, but ten percent in 390 00:28:13,395 --> 00:28:16,395 Speaker 1: a statewide special election is less than two hundred and 391 00:28:16,435 --> 00:28:19,715 Speaker 1: thirty nine thousand votes, and Musk would have literally had 392 00:28:19,715 --> 00:28:22,155 Speaker 1: to flip only one hundred and twenty thousand votes and 393 00:28:22,195 --> 00:28:26,435 Speaker 1: Brad wins. And if you can't do that, how can 394 00:28:26,435 --> 00:28:29,635 Speaker 1: you rig several swing states in an actual presidential election? 395 00:28:29,835 --> 00:28:31,475 Speaker 1: And by the way, one of them you would have 396 00:28:31,515 --> 00:28:36,115 Speaker 1: had to have rigged would have been Wisconsin. The Musk 397 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:40,955 Speaker 1: vote rigging machine broke, did it between November and April. 398 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:45,515 Speaker 1: Couldn't get the Wi Fi starlink, failed gelon, you got 399 00:28:45,555 --> 00:28:50,955 Speaker 1: a blue screen on your Dell. So there is the 400 00:28:51,075 --> 00:28:54,435 Speaker 1: rather serpentine backwards logic that says to me, the Musk 401 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:57,915 Speaker 1: Trump fight kind of proves the election wasn't rigged, because 402 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:00,715 Speaker 1: given what Musk wanted to do to Trump last week, 403 00:29:00,715 --> 00:29:02,635 Speaker 1: if he had that rock, he would have dropped it 404 00:29:02,675 --> 00:29:06,955 Speaker 1: on Trump like Trump was while e Coyote, which brings 405 00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:09,955 Speaker 1: me to my last point about this. I did tell 406 00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:15,035 Speaker 1: you so. When the podcast promos dropped last Wednesday night, 407 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:18,715 Speaker 1: Musk attacks Trump, there was blowback from every corner. No 408 00:29:18,795 --> 00:29:21,995 Speaker 1: he didn't. No, you're making too much of one retweet. 409 00:29:22,955 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: No I got that one right. I am not an insider. 410 00:29:27,315 --> 00:29:31,195 Speaker 1: I do not have sources. Even on TV, I really 411 00:29:31,195 --> 00:29:35,115 Speaker 1: didn't have sources. They all looked at me funny in Washington, 412 00:29:35,235 --> 00:29:37,835 Speaker 1: like how does this guy know stuff? But what I 413 00:29:37,915 --> 00:29:40,835 Speaker 1: might lack in those and even lack in insight at 414 00:29:40,875 --> 00:29:45,395 Speaker 1: times I make up for in old age Trump as 415 00:29:45,435 --> 00:29:48,955 Speaker 1: the coyote and Musk as the road runner. Okay, Trump 416 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:52,155 Speaker 1: is the coyote and Musk as a different coyote might 417 00:29:52,235 --> 00:29:56,795 Speaker 1: be new, but the formula ain't. These are narcissists with 418 00:29:56,915 --> 00:30:00,315 Speaker 1: brains that don't work. Right. I have covered them half 419 00:30:00,355 --> 00:30:03,075 Speaker 1: of my career, and I have worked for them half 420 00:30:03,115 --> 00:30:06,795 Speaker 1: of my life. And oh, by the way, there will 421 00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:11,475 Speaker 1: be another round to this fight, at least another round. Trump, 422 00:30:11,835 --> 00:30:16,235 Speaker 1: drifting off from reality like ooh, a metallic balloon let 423 00:30:16,235 --> 00:30:20,595 Speaker 1: go by a child in southern California callback to the 424 00:30:20,675 --> 00:30:25,035 Speaker 1: last episode, has threatened Musk with more king Lear consequences 425 00:30:25,075 --> 00:30:30,275 Speaker 1: if now he helps Democrats instead. Howell Musk respond who 426 00:30:30,315 --> 00:30:34,795 Speaker 1: knows other than that he will respond. These are mad 427 00:30:34,835 --> 00:30:37,315 Speaker 1: men with basses who cannot conceive that their cult leader 428 00:30:37,355 --> 00:30:41,275 Speaker 1: is wrong. They will fight. As I suggested online, we 429 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:44,595 Speaker 1: can only hope that when they fight, it's a duel, 430 00:30:46,395 --> 00:30:48,915 Speaker 1: which brings me to the chef's kiss here. The Washington 431 00:30:48,955 --> 00:30:52,315 Speaker 1: Post buried this in its thumbsucker on the Musk Trump brawl. 432 00:30:52,395 --> 00:30:54,995 Speaker 1: It got a little play on Sunday because it's such 433 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: a dramatic image. They didn't deny it at the White House, 434 00:30:58,555 --> 00:31:01,595 Speaker 1: but literally, The Washington Post put this in paragraph twenty two, 435 00:31:01,675 --> 00:31:05,035 Speaker 1: long past the point Bezos or his whorees would fallen 436 00:31:05,075 --> 00:31:07,675 Speaker 1: asleep and thus missed it. It was about a sub 437 00:31:07,795 --> 00:31:12,155 Speaker 1: fight between Musk and Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, who 438 00:31:12,235 --> 00:31:15,555 Speaker 1: I am still not convinced actually exists, who I am 439 00:31:15,555 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: still not convinced isn't just a character played by the 440 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:23,395 Speaker 1: impeccable actor Barry Bostwick, who used to portray the mayor 441 00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:28,195 Speaker 1: on Spin City. The term fight here is used literally, 442 00:31:28,315 --> 00:31:31,435 Speaker 1: quoting the Post quoting Steve Bannon, and yes, we will 443 00:31:31,435 --> 00:31:34,075 Speaker 1: accept Steve Bannon as a source for anything this much 444 00:31:34,235 --> 00:31:38,395 Speaker 1: fun quote. In mid April, Musk and Besson had gone 445 00:31:38,435 --> 00:31:41,035 Speaker 1: into the Oval Office to make their respective cases about 446 00:31:41,035 --> 00:31:45,075 Speaker 1: their preferences for acting IRS Commissioner. Trump decided to support 447 00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: Besson's choice. That disagreement was first reported by The New 448 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:51,835 Speaker 1: York Times. Actor Bessant and Musk exited the Oval office 449 00:31:51,915 --> 00:31:54,635 Speaker 1: and began walking down the hallway. The two men started 450 00:31:54,675 --> 00:31:58,275 Speaker 1: to exchange insults, Bannon said, adding that Bessant brought up 451 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:01,235 Speaker 1: Musk's claims that he would uncover more than one trillion 452 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:05,515 Speaker 1: dollars in wasteful and fraudulent government spending, which Musk had 453 00:32:05,555 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: not succeeded at doing. Quote, Scott said, You're a fraud. 454 00:32:09,835 --> 00:32:13,595 Speaker 1: You're a total fraud, Bannon said in an interview. Musk 455 00:32:13,675 --> 00:32:17,235 Speaker 1: then rammed his shoulder into Besson's ribcage quote like a 456 00:32:17,315 --> 00:32:21,835 Speaker 1: rugby player, Bannon said, and Bessont hit him back. Multiple 457 00:32:21,835 --> 00:32:25,595 Speaker 1: people stepped in to break up the scrum who rugby 458 00:32:25,635 --> 00:32:28,915 Speaker 1: term as the two men reached the National Security Advisor's 459 00:32:28,915 --> 00:32:31,515 Speaker 1: office and Musk was shuffled out of the White House. 460 00:32:33,235 --> 00:32:36,595 Speaker 1: So we are now at this point in this bizarre timeline. 461 00:32:36,675 --> 00:32:42,315 Speaker 1: The Treasury Secretary is physically attacked by the mad scientist 462 00:32:42,515 --> 00:32:51,115 Speaker 1: spacey guy outside the National Security advisor's office. Thus the 463 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:57,275 Speaker 1: movie Doctor Strangelove is real. Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. 464 00:32:57,475 --> 00:33:06,595 Speaker 1: This is the war room. Finally, the number one story 465 00:33:06,595 --> 00:33:09,395 Speaker 1: on the countdown, and my favorite topic me and things 466 00:33:09,395 --> 00:33:11,675 Speaker 1: from my career and my life. And it is to 467 00:33:11,715 --> 00:33:14,795 Speaker 1: me amazing, even after all this time, that you could 468 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:18,475 Speaker 1: meet somebody just once in your life, but years later 469 00:33:18,595 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: be moved to tears upon learning of their death. Then again, 470 00:33:22,995 --> 00:33:26,275 Speaker 1: the man in question was named Walter Mathow, and if 471 00:33:26,275 --> 00:33:29,155 Speaker 1: he was not the most popular American comedic actor of 472 00:33:29,155 --> 00:33:31,515 Speaker 1: the last half of the twentieth century, he was close 473 00:33:31,555 --> 00:33:35,635 Speaker 1: to it. And maybe more importantly, he was the most skilled, 474 00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:38,715 Speaker 1: minimal touch American actor of the last half of the 475 00:33:38,715 --> 00:33:41,075 Speaker 1: twentieth century. In other words, he was the man who, 476 00:33:41,155 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: on stage or on camera, seemed to be doing the 477 00:33:43,515 --> 00:33:47,195 Speaker 1: least amount of actual acting while still keeping you utterly 478 00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:49,715 Speaker 1: convinced that the guy you saw on the screen was 479 00:33:49,715 --> 00:33:53,315 Speaker 1: not Walter Mathow, but was Oscar Madison, and was not 480 00:33:53,435 --> 00:33:56,635 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow, but was Max Goldman, and was not Walter Mathow, 481 00:33:56,755 --> 00:33:59,835 Speaker 1: but was Willie Gingrich, and was not Walter Mathow but 482 00:34:00,035 --> 00:34:03,675 Speaker 1: was Mel Miller, even though mel Miller had a Southern accent, 483 00:34:03,755 --> 00:34:06,275 Speaker 1: smoked a pipe, had horn rim glasses, and supposedly went 484 00:34:06,275 --> 00:34:11,275 Speaker 1: to Vanderbilt. We all knew Walter Mathow. It felt like 485 00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:14,235 Speaker 1: we knew him personally because he managed a miracle. Every 486 00:34:14,235 --> 00:34:16,915 Speaker 1: time he performed it was all him up there, and 487 00:34:16,995 --> 00:34:19,915 Speaker 1: yet at the same time it was not him at 488 00:34:19,955 --> 00:34:24,355 Speaker 1: all anyway. October first was his birthday, which is what 489 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,355 Speaker 1: brought this extraordinary man to the front of my mind again. 490 00:34:27,835 --> 00:34:30,555 Speaker 1: I will get to my meeting with him first. Walter 491 00:34:30,595 --> 00:34:33,115 Speaker 1: Mathow's best friends as an adult were his partner in 492 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:35,875 Speaker 1: half a dozen films, Jack Lemon and my dear friend 493 00:34:35,915 --> 00:34:38,755 Speaker 1: Norman Lloyd, the one man history of Hollywood, who he 494 00:34:38,795 --> 00:34:40,475 Speaker 1: lost in twenty twenty one at the age of one 495 00:34:40,515 --> 00:34:45,475 Speaker 1: hundred and six. Norman loved Walter, and Norman loved talking 496 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: about Walter, and there was an amazing amount of things 497 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: to talk about about Walter. Norman told me that on 498 00:34:51,835 --> 00:34:54,875 Speaker 1: the last of the Grumpy Old Men movies that he 499 00:34:54,915 --> 00:34:57,475 Speaker 1: and Lemon made together, I think it was called Grumpy 500 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:01,035 Speaker 1: Old Men were doing this for the money. Mathow wanted 501 00:35:01,075 --> 00:35:03,235 Speaker 1: to wrap up one day of shooting quickly. He was 502 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:05,595 Speaker 1: scheduled to film a scene in a water slide made 503 00:35:05,675 --> 00:35:08,155 Speaker 1: up to look like a sewer through which his character 504 00:35:08,235 --> 00:35:11,595 Speaker 1: was escaping. As the lunch break was called, he said 505 00:35:11,635 --> 00:35:14,035 Speaker 1: to lemon, come on, Jack, let's go rehearse the water 506 00:35:14,075 --> 00:35:16,475 Speaker 1: slide thing. This way. We can do it in one take. 507 00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:19,355 Speaker 1: Get the hell out of here anyway. Don't you have 508 00:35:19,395 --> 00:35:21,195 Speaker 1: to wait an hour after eating before you can shoot 509 00:35:21,195 --> 00:35:25,715 Speaker 1: through a sewer. They went to the sewer water slide set. 510 00:35:25,755 --> 00:35:28,435 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow grabbed the raft he was supposed to ride, 511 00:35:28,475 --> 00:35:30,715 Speaker 1: and he jumped in. As he went through it, he 512 00:35:30,755 --> 00:35:33,315 Speaker 1: studied all the corners and where the cameras would be, 513 00:35:33,355 --> 00:35:36,515 Speaker 1: so he knew where to make his faces. And seconds 514 00:35:36,595 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: later he was shooting out the far end of the 515 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:40,995 Speaker 1: water slide onto the giant inflatable twelve foot square air 516 00:35:41,035 --> 00:35:44,275 Speaker 1: mattress placed there to break his fall. Or he would 517 00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:47,075 Speaker 1: have been doing that, except it was lunch and the 518 00:35:47,115 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: teamsters had deflated the mattress then moved it away because 519 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: the set was on lunch break. So Walter Mathow, then 520 00:35:53,715 --> 00:35:56,035 Speaker 1: seventy three years old, came flying out of the water 521 00:35:56,115 --> 00:36:02,275 Speaker 1: slide onto the pavement. He broke his collarbone, which is 522 00:36:02,475 --> 00:36:04,915 Speaker 1: just about as painful a thing as you can break. 523 00:36:05,635 --> 00:36:10,315 Speaker 1: No Walter Mathow screamed. Jack Lemon raced over to him. Walter, Walter, 524 00:36:10,355 --> 00:36:13,275 Speaker 1: are you all right? No? Not Jack? Call nine one one? 525 00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:17,955 Speaker 1: Oh how Lemon panicked? Can I help you, Walter? Can 526 00:36:17,995 --> 00:36:20,275 Speaker 1: I Can I get you something? Walter? Yes, Jack, get 527 00:36:20,315 --> 00:36:25,155 Speaker 1: me nine one one ow o. Lemon continued to panic 528 00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:29,475 Speaker 1: but till they come. Are you okay, Walter? Are you comfortable? 529 00:36:30,675 --> 00:36:33,715 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow was in sheer agony, but he realized through 530 00:36:33,755 --> 00:36:36,915 Speaker 1: the fog of pain that one of the oldest jokes 531 00:36:36,915 --> 00:36:40,715 Speaker 1: in show business was actually happening to him. Finally, in 532 00:36:40,835 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: real life. Am I comfortable? I make a nice living? 533 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:51,835 Speaker 1: Jack ow O? My friend Norman Lloyd used to go 534 00:36:51,915 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: hiking with Walter Mathow in the Hollywood Hills, and he 535 00:36:54,315 --> 00:36:57,555 Speaker 1: told me that one day Walter was unusually quiet. The 536 00:36:57,555 --> 00:37:00,395 Speaker 1: two had gone a mile or so, and Mathow suddenly 537 00:37:00,475 --> 00:37:03,995 Speaker 1: stopped and grabbed Norman by the arm. Nomy, did you 538 00:37:04,115 --> 00:37:07,395 Speaker 1: know at the end and Beethoven was so deaf he 539 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:11,755 Speaker 1: thought he was painting. Norman smiled, snorted, and started to 540 00:37:11,755 --> 00:37:13,355 Speaker 1: say that it was the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. 541 00:37:13,595 --> 00:37:16,555 Speaker 1: But halfway through norman sentence, Mathow had already turned away 542 00:37:16,555 --> 00:37:21,475 Speaker 1: from him and was back walking again. Another mile passed 543 00:37:21,475 --> 00:37:24,035 Speaker 1: in silence, and now Mathou slowed down and faced his 544 00:37:24,035 --> 00:37:27,075 Speaker 1: friend Norman. This is important. I have something to tell you, 545 00:37:27,115 --> 00:37:29,515 Speaker 1: Norman said. His heart skipped. He thought there was something wrong. 546 00:37:30,155 --> 00:37:32,995 Speaker 1: What is it, Walt did you know at the end 547 00:37:32,995 --> 00:37:36,795 Speaker 1: Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was painting? Now 548 00:37:36,835 --> 00:37:40,235 Speaker 1: Norman just shook his head. As they completed their five 549 00:37:40,315 --> 00:37:43,315 Speaker 1: mile hike through the hills, Mathou stopped roughly once every 550 00:37:43,355 --> 00:37:46,795 Speaker 1: mile and repeated the same line, did you know at 551 00:37:46,835 --> 00:37:49,155 Speaker 1: the end Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was painting? 552 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:54,155 Speaker 1: Norman told me it totally unnerved me. When we got 553 00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:56,115 Speaker 1: back to where we parked our cars, I felt like 554 00:37:56,155 --> 00:37:58,555 Speaker 1: I had to avenge myself somehow, so I blurted out 555 00:37:58,555 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: to him, WALTA, did you know at the end Beethoven 556 00:38:02,515 --> 00:38:06,955 Speaker 1: was so deaf he thought he was painting, Norman said. 557 00:38:06,955 --> 00:38:10,435 Speaker 1: Mathow looked at him, screwing his great craggy face into 558 00:38:10,435 --> 00:38:14,155 Speaker 1: a resentful sneer as he did, what the hell are 559 00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:17,075 Speaker 1: you talking about? Thought he was painting? That's the dumbest 560 00:38:17,075 --> 00:38:21,555 Speaker 1: thing I ever heard, As I said, I met Walter 561 00:38:21,635 --> 00:38:24,795 Speaker 1: Mathow once when I was a local sportscaster in Los Angeles. 562 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,275 Speaker 1: I was invited to host a charity event at the 563 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:31,275 Speaker 1: Hollywood Park Racetrack. I ordinarily did not do these things 564 00:38:31,715 --> 00:38:33,595 Speaker 1: because to do them I would have to take the 565 00:38:33,675 --> 00:38:37,875 Speaker 1: day off. But when the organizer said, oh, and Walter 566 00:38:37,955 --> 00:38:42,275 Speaker 1: Mathow will be there, I just asked for directions. First 567 00:38:42,315 --> 00:38:44,515 Speaker 1: time I had ever imagined what it was like to 568 00:38:44,595 --> 00:38:48,315 Speaker 1: be a sportswriter or to be a sports broadcaster. It 569 00:38:48,395 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: was when I was nine years old and I saw 570 00:38:50,435 --> 00:38:54,635 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow portray Oscar Madison in the movie The Odd Couple. 571 00:38:54,635 --> 00:38:57,555 Speaker 1: It was exactly what I wanted to be and where 572 00:38:57,555 --> 00:39:00,675 Speaker 1: I wanted to live and how I wanted to eat. 573 00:39:01,395 --> 00:39:04,435 Speaker 1: And I wanted to get a chance to tell him that. 574 00:39:06,235 --> 00:39:08,715 Speaker 1: So at the charity dinner, I screwed up my courage, 575 00:39:08,795 --> 00:39:11,755 Speaker 1: I introduced myself. I told him all that, and he replied, 576 00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:16,675 Speaker 1: I hate you. I was so crushed I almost passed out, 577 00:39:17,315 --> 00:39:20,795 Speaker 1: and clearly Walter Mathow recognized this. No, no, no, I 578 00:39:20,795 --> 00:39:22,955 Speaker 1: don't hate your work. I watch you every night on 579 00:39:23,035 --> 00:39:26,355 Speaker 1: Channel two Action News, you and Jim Lampley and Bree 580 00:39:26,395 --> 00:39:29,395 Speaker 1: Lampley and Jim Lampley. But I hate the fact that 581 00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:31,395 Speaker 1: you don't have an accent of any kind. Where are 582 00:39:31,435 --> 00:39:36,755 Speaker 1: you raised? Iowa? I did not know where this conversation 583 00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:39,355 Speaker 1: was going. I said, I was from the Bronx originally, 584 00:39:39,675 --> 00:39:43,315 Speaker 1: Is that right? I'm from Brooklyn? Could you tell the 585 00:39:43,315 --> 00:39:45,195 Speaker 1: hell kind of speech teacher did you have? You? You 586 00:39:45,275 --> 00:39:48,315 Speaker 1: sound like Iowa? I explained, my father had said that 587 00:39:48,355 --> 00:39:50,195 Speaker 1: if I wanted to go into broadcasting, I could not 588 00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:53,675 Speaker 1: talk quote like the rest of us. Walter looked away 589 00:39:53,715 --> 00:39:56,075 Speaker 1: from me and then back, and he said, very wise words. 590 00:39:56,155 --> 00:40:01,115 Speaker 1: Your father was a speech teacher. No, I said, architect. 591 00:40:02,195 --> 00:40:04,875 Speaker 1: His eyes flared. How in the hell does that work? 592 00:40:05,995 --> 00:40:08,435 Speaker 1: I started to explain, when it suddenly dawned on me 593 00:40:08,475 --> 00:40:11,355 Speaker 1: that we were discussing this only because he said he 594 00:40:11,435 --> 00:40:13,995 Speaker 1: hated the fact that I did not have an accent. 595 00:40:15,475 --> 00:40:18,715 Speaker 1: I asked him, why no accent means I can't do 596 00:40:18,755 --> 00:40:25,035 Speaker 1: an impression of you? Well? This caused me to pause. Impressions. 597 00:40:25,555 --> 00:40:30,275 Speaker 1: This is nineteen ninety one. In nineteen ninety one, Walter 598 00:40:30,395 --> 00:40:33,995 Speaker 1: Mathow was one of the top five most impersonated voices 599 00:40:34,355 --> 00:40:39,955 Speaker 1: in America. Anybody who did impressions, good or bad, professional 600 00:40:40,075 --> 00:40:44,795 Speaker 1: or amateur. Anybody did a Walter Mathow? You did your 601 00:40:44,795 --> 00:40:49,355 Speaker 1: Sammy Davis, your Howard Cosell, your Walter Mathow. Wait, I 602 00:40:49,355 --> 00:40:55,955 Speaker 1: said to him, you do impressions of sportscasters? Yes, he said, proudly. 603 00:40:56,195 --> 00:41:00,955 Speaker 1: Would you like to hear them? I said, I'll pay cash. 604 00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:03,875 Speaker 1: Don't normally do these, but seeing you are in the business, 605 00:41:03,915 --> 00:41:07,395 Speaker 1: I will just for you. I practiced these a lot. 606 00:41:07,435 --> 00:41:10,835 Speaker 1: By the way, twenty years later, Norman Lloyd confirmed for 607 00:41:10,955 --> 00:41:16,595 Speaker 1: me Mathou did do sportscaster impressions. He did practice them 608 00:41:16,595 --> 00:41:20,475 Speaker 1: a lot. This was not some sort of bit. Now 609 00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:23,115 Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety one, Mathow cleared his throat, he 610 00:41:23,155 --> 00:41:25,995 Speaker 1: shook his shoulders. Let's start with the best, and it 611 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:31,235 Speaker 1: sounds something like this, Hello, everybody, this is Vin Scully 612 00:41:31,235 --> 00:41:34,995 Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. What do you think? It sounded exactly 613 00:41:35,115 --> 00:41:39,755 Speaker 1: like Walter Mathow. Didn't sound like Vin Scully. It didn't 614 00:41:39,795 --> 00:41:43,435 Speaker 1: even sound like a bad impression of Vin Scully. It 615 00:41:43,475 --> 00:41:45,755 Speaker 1: didn't even sound like a bad impression of Walter Mathow. 616 00:41:45,835 --> 00:41:52,075 Speaker 1: It was just Walter Mathow talking. Thinking quickly, I said, uncanny, 617 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:55,315 Speaker 1: mister Mathow, thank you. I work on Vinnie especially hat 618 00:41:55,355 --> 00:41:57,595 Speaker 1: he's my favorite. Now the big mouth. Hello again, this 619 00:41:57,635 --> 00:41:59,835 Speaker 1: is Howard co Sell at ringside. How about that one? 620 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:04,475 Speaker 1: I think I got most of the inflection. Goodness, mister Mathow, 621 00:42:04,675 --> 00:42:07,355 Speaker 1: It's like he's in the room with us. This went 622 00:42:07,395 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: on for many minutes, Kurt Goudie, Chick, hern Al Michaels, 623 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:17,075 Speaker 1: several local LA radio announcers. I cursed myself for not 624 00:42:17,115 --> 00:42:19,915 Speaker 1: having brought a tape recorder with me. Walter Mathow did 625 00:42:19,915 --> 00:42:26,275 Speaker 1: impressions of sportscasters, and they were all terrible, but he 626 00:42:26,275 --> 00:42:28,115 Speaker 1: said he couldn't do one of me because I had 627 00:42:28,155 --> 00:42:33,595 Speaker 1: no accent. I was complimented and crushed after a very 628 00:42:33,675 --> 00:42:36,115 Speaker 1: nice event, saluting his friend and neighbor in the front 629 00:42:36,195 --> 00:42:39,795 Speaker 1: row seats at the Laker Games, doctor Robert Curlin. We 630 00:42:39,915 --> 00:42:42,195 Speaker 1: called it an evening, and as everybody got up to leave, 631 00:42:42,275 --> 00:42:45,155 Speaker 1: I asked Walter Mathow to autograph my program from the 632 00:42:45,195 --> 00:42:48,995 Speaker 1: dinner my pleasure. He said, nice work tonight. But I 633 00:42:48,995 --> 00:42:51,115 Speaker 1: still don't get how your father, the architect was also 634 00:42:51,195 --> 00:42:54,955 Speaker 1: a speech teacher. But never mind. In the program he 635 00:42:54,995 --> 00:43:02,715 Speaker 1: wrote this listen, Keith quit kidding around, No, don't. Walter 636 00:43:02,755 --> 00:43:07,635 Speaker 1: mathowt it was lovely, and then he did something that 637 00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:10,275 Speaker 1: took my breath away, something I have tried to do 638 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:15,435 Speaker 1: anytime circumstances permitted me to. He picked up his program, 639 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:20,475 Speaker 1: he handed it to me, and he said, no, you 640 00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:27,515 Speaker 1: sign mine. Can you believe that I only met him 641 00:43:27,555 --> 00:43:30,715 Speaker 1: the one time, but that gesture stayed with me to 642 00:43:30,755 --> 00:43:35,795 Speaker 1: such a degree that this happened. Nine years later. I 643 00:43:35,795 --> 00:43:37,555 Speaker 1: woke up at the crack of dawn to go host 644 00:43:37,555 --> 00:43:39,755 Speaker 1: the baseball Game of the Week at Fox Studios in 645 00:43:39,915 --> 00:43:43,795 Speaker 1: LA It was Saturday morning, July first, two thousand. It 646 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:48,075 Speaker 1: was nine years and about two weeks after I met 647 00:43:48,075 --> 00:43:52,475 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow and on the all news radio station. There 648 00:43:52,555 --> 00:43:56,875 Speaker 1: was one big story that morning in Los Angeles. Overnight 649 00:43:56,955 --> 00:44:01,355 Speaker 1: the great actor Walter Mathow had died heart attack, aged 650 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:20,035 Speaker 1: seventy nine. To tears, I've done all the damage I 651 00:44:20,035 --> 00:44:22,075 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. 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Other music arranged 661 00:44:57,995 --> 00:45:01,075 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. That's countdown 662 00:45:01,115 --> 00:45:03,155 Speaker 1: for today, Day one hundred and forty two of America 663 00:45:03,195 --> 00:45:06,955 Speaker 1: held hostage just one and twenty two days until the 664 00:45:06,955 --> 00:45:09,715 Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term 665 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:14,235 Speaker 1: unless putin or musk remove him sooner, or the actuarial 666 00:45:14,315 --> 00:45:19,955 Speaker 1: tables do, or we do the next scheduled countdown. He 667 00:45:20,035 --> 00:45:24,915 Speaker 1: is Thursday until that next one. 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