1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:20,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. He 2 00:00:20,995 --> 00:00:26,395 Speaker 1: says he's a black Nazi. So he's a black Nazi. 3 00:00:27,155 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: I mean their presidential nominee is a white Nazi. There's 4 00:00:30,875 --> 00:00:35,795 Speaker 1: a guy Fuentes, he's a Latino Nazi. They have Laura Lomer, 5 00:00:37,115 --> 00:00:40,555 Speaker 1: Trump's choice for governor of North Carolina. And remember, if 6 00:00:40,595 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: he's the nominee or the presumptive nominee for something and 7 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:46,035 Speaker 1: you take him off the ballot, that's a cou Trump said. So, 8 00:00:46,835 --> 00:00:50,035 Speaker 1: Trump's choice for governor of North Carolina went online and 9 00:00:50,075 --> 00:00:54,315 Speaker 1: wrote he was a black Nazi who supported reinstating slavery, 10 00:00:55,115 --> 00:00:59,715 Speaker 1: who loved transgender porn, who loved a porn site called 11 00:00:59,955 --> 00:01:06,755 Speaker 1: Nude Africa, and who declared he was a per And then, 12 00:01:06,795 --> 00:01:11,595 Speaker 1: according to CNN, there was the gross stuff. The only 13 00:01:11,635 --> 00:01:14,235 Speaker 1: surprise to me about Mark Robinson is how did he 14 00:01:14,515 --> 00:01:19,595 Speaker 1: not wind up is Trump's running mate. Okay, let me 15 00:01:19,635 --> 00:01:23,515 Speaker 1: try to explain this. Years ago, I asked a therapist 16 00:01:23,515 --> 00:01:27,755 Speaker 1: friend of mine about this exact phenomenon. Because the country, 17 00:01:27,955 --> 00:01:32,515 Speaker 1: the world, particularly the religious and political worlds, they are 18 00:01:32,715 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: filled with Mark Robinson's. This guy went on to threaten 19 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:44,075 Speaker 1: transgender people he's anti Semitic, he's Old Testament kill people religious. 20 00:01:44,955 --> 00:01:48,035 Speaker 1: And yet, like fifteen years ago, he was posting under 21 00:01:48,035 --> 00:01:51,915 Speaker 1: an online user name quote, I like watching tranny on 22 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: girl porn exclamation point un quote. So this is how 23 00:01:58,275 --> 00:02:03,515 Speaker 1: she explained it. Imagine that there's a child who believes 24 00:02:03,555 --> 00:02:06,835 Speaker 1: they're supposed to feed a certain way, that they've been 25 00:02:06,875 --> 00:02:10,355 Speaker 1: told there's one way that's normal and everything else is sick. 26 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:14,435 Speaker 1: That they've been told, if you're going to behave this way, 27 00:02:14,595 --> 00:02:17,795 Speaker 1: you're going to heaven. If you don't, you're going to hell. 28 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:20,715 Speaker 1: And depending on how much you don't and how badly 29 00:02:20,755 --> 00:02:22,995 Speaker 1: you don't, that's how long you're going to be in hell, 30 00:02:23,115 --> 00:02:24,835 Speaker 1: or how much you're going to be burned in hell 31 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: or whatever. And then as you become an adult, you 32 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:32,355 Speaker 1: find out that you really enjoy all the things they 33 00:02:32,395 --> 00:02:34,635 Speaker 1: told you are going to send you to hell, and 34 00:02:34,755 --> 00:02:37,475 Speaker 1: in many cases you enjoy them in a sexual way. 35 00:02:38,315 --> 00:02:42,115 Speaker 1: Sounds like Mark Robinson. Sounds like hundreds of thousands of 36 00:02:42,115 --> 00:02:45,275 Speaker 1: people in this country, most of whom represent the Republican 37 00:02:45,275 --> 00:02:49,755 Speaker 1: Party in Congress in any event, So what do these 38 00:02:49,795 --> 00:02:52,915 Speaker 1: people do to function? Now? I forget what the technical 39 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:55,915 Speaker 1: term for this was in psychological circles. But I do 40 00:02:55,995 --> 00:02:58,675 Speaker 1: remember that. To explain it to a dumb layman like me, 41 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:01,995 Speaker 1: my friend the therapist said, think of this in terms 42 00:03:02,035 --> 00:03:06,995 Speaker 1: of numbers. Each time this guy gives in to his 43 00:03:07,155 --> 00:03:12,715 Speaker 1: desire to watch transgender porn, he scores against himself in 44 00:03:12,795 --> 00:03:17,715 Speaker 1: his mind subconsciously a one, so that each time you're 45 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:21,155 Speaker 1: kind of paying for your sins literally one cent plus 46 00:03:21,195 --> 00:03:23,995 Speaker 1: one cent plus one cent until you get to like 47 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:29,115 Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand dollars. Each time you talk about owning slaves, 48 00:03:29,595 --> 00:03:32,075 Speaker 1: that's another one cent, another two say here we go, 49 00:03:32,315 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: and soon your debt, your evil. The amount of evil 50 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:39,595 Speaker 1: is quantifiable in your own mind. Whether or not you 51 00:03:39,635 --> 00:03:42,355 Speaker 1: actually ever dream up an actual number is irrelevant. But 52 00:03:42,475 --> 00:03:45,075 Speaker 1: in your mind, you've done this much evil, and you're 53 00:03:45,115 --> 00:03:47,235 Speaker 1: gonna go to hell for this length of time, and 54 00:03:47,275 --> 00:03:52,075 Speaker 1: you're gonna burn this much unless you come up with 55 00:03:52,115 --> 00:03:55,395 Speaker 1: a different, bigger score on the other side of what 56 00:03:55,595 --> 00:04:00,075 Speaker 1: is literally in your mind a psychological equation. If you 57 00:04:00,075 --> 00:04:05,675 Speaker 1: are thirty seven thousand points or dollars in day to 58 00:04:05,835 --> 00:04:12,995 Speaker 1: transgender porn and the website Nude Africa, and if you're 59 00:04:13,035 --> 00:04:15,835 Speaker 1: going to call yourself a black Nazi and you're thirty 60 00:04:15,875 --> 00:04:20,635 Speaker 1: seven thousand down. The way to rationalize this is to 61 00:04:20,675 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 1: go and do something that gives you a score of 62 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:28,315 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty seven thousand against all these things 63 00:04:28,915 --> 00:04:32,675 Speaker 1: you have sinned. Your chance to not erase the sin 64 00:04:32,955 --> 00:04:39,115 Speaker 1: and not even stop doing the sin, but just to overshadow, 65 00:04:39,235 --> 00:04:46,595 Speaker 1: obscure completely, overshadow, completely, dwarf the idea that you participated 66 00:04:46,595 --> 00:04:49,475 Speaker 1: in any of these things. Well, I can't be a perv. 67 00:04:49,715 --> 00:04:53,835 Speaker 1: I can't really love transgender porn. I don't really reinstate 68 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:57,395 Speaker 1: slavery because I'm persecuting the other people who do. And 69 00:04:57,435 --> 00:05:00,035 Speaker 1: look how many times I've done it. I have one 70 00:05:00,115 --> 00:05:04,515 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven thousand points on the Persecute transgender 71 00:05:04,715 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 1: people scoreboard. It's as simple as that. That's why they 72 00:05:09,555 --> 00:05:12,795 Speaker 1: all wind up doing this. There's no way for them 73 00:05:12,835 --> 00:05:15,835 Speaker 1: to change the way they feel or the gratification they get, 74 00:05:15,875 --> 00:05:19,355 Speaker 1: particularly if it's sexual, my friend explained to me. So 75 00:05:19,395 --> 00:05:23,555 Speaker 1: they have to then try to punish other people who 76 00:05:23,595 --> 00:05:31,235 Speaker 1: feel the same way. It is at first illogical, not natural, 77 00:05:31,995 --> 00:05:36,035 Speaker 1: and seemingly so much work for no good reason. And 78 00:05:36,075 --> 00:05:38,435 Speaker 1: the more you think about it, the more it makes 79 00:05:38,475 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: sense because the second part of This is, as my 80 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:46,755 Speaker 1: friend pointed out, that the Mark Robinson's of this world, 81 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:49,995 Speaker 1: when the scoreboard reads one hundred and thirty seven thousand 82 00:05:50,195 --> 00:05:54,995 Speaker 1: against perversion and sin at only thirty seven thousand four 83 00:05:55,195 --> 00:05:58,955 Speaker 1: perversion and sin, they can sit there and go, you know, 84 00:05:59,075 --> 00:06:00,915 Speaker 1: I have a little margin here to play with. I 85 00:06:00,915 --> 00:06:03,675 Speaker 1: think I'm going to go do ten thousand more in sin, 86 00:06:04,995 --> 00:06:08,195 Speaker 1: because running for office on a promise of punishing and 87 00:06:08,315 --> 00:06:40,115 Speaker 1: killing the sinners is by itself one hundred thousand. I 88 00:06:40,235 --> 00:06:46,595 Speaker 1: wonder how much somebody like Trump would know about bribing 89 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:52,635 Speaker 1: union bosses. Now. I don't have any inside information about 90 00:06:52,675 --> 00:06:56,555 Speaker 1: Sean O'Brien, and I'm certainly not suggesting that his national 91 00:06:56,635 --> 00:07:01,355 Speaker 1: teamsters are sitting out the election and not endorsing Kamala Harris, 92 00:07:02,075 --> 00:07:04,715 Speaker 1: even though they have endorsed every Democrat who's run for 93 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:07,595 Speaker 1: resident since nineteen ninety six. I'm not saying that's the 94 00:07:07,675 --> 00:07:11,555 Speaker 1: result of anything in particular, anything except a full and 95 00:07:12,115 --> 00:07:16,875 Speaker 1: fair voter poll, or or whatever it is they said 96 00:07:16,955 --> 00:07:19,755 Speaker 1: they did before they said they weren't going to do 97 00:07:19,835 --> 00:07:22,875 Speaker 1: anything in this election, even though Sean O'Brien went and 98 00:07:22,915 --> 00:07:27,915 Speaker 1: spoke at the Republican National Convention just because Harris has 99 00:07:28,195 --> 00:07:32,995 Speaker 1: since been endorsed by Teamsters regional councils in Michigan. That's 100 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:37,555 Speaker 1: a quarter million Teamsters right there, and California, Hawaii and Guam, 101 00:07:37,635 --> 00:07:40,555 Speaker 1: and the Battleground in Nevada that's another group of Teamsters 102 00:07:40,675 --> 00:07:44,755 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand, plus the local councils in Wisconsin and 103 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:48,355 Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Miami and Greater New York, and the Teamsters 104 00:07:48,435 --> 00:07:52,715 Speaker 1: National Black Caucus. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with 105 00:07:52,755 --> 00:07:56,355 Speaker 1: what the National Teamsters decided they had the votes for. 106 00:07:56,715 --> 00:07:59,795 Speaker 1: I'm not saying there was anything like bribing a union 107 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:03,755 Speaker 1: boss involved, just because there are a million, three hundred 108 00:08:03,795 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: thousand Teamsters nationally and they voted no endorsement, per President O'Brien, 109 00:08:10,355 --> 00:08:12,555 Speaker 1: and now it looks like a majority of them will 110 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:16,755 Speaker 1: be endorsing her via their regional councils. Anyway, that's no 111 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:21,115 Speaker 1: reason to assume there's helter skelter hanky panky run willy 112 00:08:21,315 --> 00:08:26,995 Speaker 1: nilly in union Land. But I do wonder how much 113 00:08:27,075 --> 00:08:30,115 Speaker 1: somebody like Trump would know about bribing a union boss, 114 00:08:30,595 --> 00:08:34,515 Speaker 1: given what he spent his life doing. Let me tell 115 00:08:34,515 --> 00:08:37,395 Speaker 1: you another story. This one is from my late father. 116 00:08:38,635 --> 00:08:40,915 Speaker 1: We have to go back in time a little put 117 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: yourself in the mind of being it. Just before Christmas 118 00:08:44,755 --> 00:08:47,835 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, We're in Binghamton, New York. It's a 119 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:50,195 Speaker 1: little warm for the time of year, at a new 120 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:55,115 Speaker 1: mall Cornell, my college has broken for the winter. And 121 00:08:55,155 --> 00:08:58,475 Speaker 1: by total coincidence, my dad, an architect who worked largely 122 00:08:58,475 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: in malls, is going to be in bingham to New York, 123 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: an hour away from Cornell, on the day that my 124 00:09:05,275 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: friends are leaving Ithaca to go home to their home 125 00:09:08,675 --> 00:09:14,875 Speaker 1: in outside Philadelphia. And we can time this perfectly. Exactly 126 00:09:14,955 --> 00:09:18,195 Speaker 1: where they have to hang a right which gets them 127 00:09:18,235 --> 00:09:20,875 Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, when going straight takes you to New York 128 00:09:21,315 --> 00:09:23,275 Speaker 1: is the mall my father's going to be at that 129 00:09:23,435 --> 00:09:26,395 Speaker 1: particular night. So I pile in the car with them, 130 00:09:26,715 --> 00:09:28,755 Speaker 1: and I get out at the mall and there's my 131 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:33,395 Speaker 1: dad's car, and on a foggy night, fifty fifty five degrees, 132 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:38,075 Speaker 1: foggier and foggier, finally out my father comes and says 133 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:41,035 Speaker 1: he's got somebody with him, and he goes, this is 134 00:09:41,075 --> 00:09:43,395 Speaker 1: my son. He's a senior at Cornell. We think he's 135 00:09:43,395 --> 00:09:45,115 Speaker 1: a saying he's going to graduate in the spring. You 136 00:09:45,155 --> 00:09:48,635 Speaker 1: are going to graduate Argie, the whole routine. Now, my 137 00:09:48,715 --> 00:09:51,315 Speaker 1: father had worked as an architect. He got his first 138 00:09:51,315 --> 00:09:54,075 Speaker 1: license in nineteen sixty seven and wound up being licensed 139 00:09:54,115 --> 00:09:56,035 Speaker 1: in forty of the states, which was pretty good for 140 00:09:56,075 --> 00:09:59,275 Speaker 1: a guy who never actually went to college. But before that, 141 00:09:59,395 --> 00:10:01,835 Speaker 1: he'd been a draftsman working for a firm in New 142 00:10:01,955 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: York for about fifteen years. He did the nitty gritty stuff, 143 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:08,395 Speaker 1: and when it came time to get stuff built, he 144 00:10:08,475 --> 00:10:11,035 Speaker 1: had to go there and deal with the union bosses, 145 00:10:11,275 --> 00:10:13,595 Speaker 1: and he had to go there and deal with the 146 00:10:13,635 --> 00:10:17,915 Speaker 1: contractors and the owners, and the inspectors and the city people. 147 00:10:18,195 --> 00:10:21,275 Speaker 1: He had to deal with people on a granular level, 148 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:24,995 Speaker 1: as they say. So my dad is talking to me 149 00:10:25,355 --> 00:10:27,395 Speaker 1: about as we got up into the car and this 150 00:10:27,555 --> 00:10:29,915 Speaker 1: foggy night, And it was foggy enough that at one point, 151 00:10:29,915 --> 00:10:32,675 Speaker 1: as we drove away from this mall, I said, when 152 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:35,435 Speaker 1: did they put that Christmas tree up? And he went, 153 00:10:35,475 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: what Christmas tree? There was a giant Christmas tree in 154 00:10:37,955 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: the parking lot, which we could not see even though 155 00:10:40,835 --> 00:10:44,075 Speaker 1: we were standing ten feet from it. Now the fog 156 00:10:44,155 --> 00:10:47,955 Speaker 1: is clearing it like it had just grown there. So 157 00:10:48,075 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 1: this is a very weird night to begin with, plus, 158 00:10:51,635 --> 00:10:55,195 Speaker 1: I'm almost an adult, not quite. I haven't turned twenty 159 00:10:55,275 --> 00:10:58,235 Speaker 1: years old yet. Maybe I'm graduating, maybe I'm not. And 160 00:10:58,475 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: I say something, and to this day, I don't remember 161 00:11:00,715 --> 00:11:04,035 Speaker 1: what it was to my dad about construction. And he 162 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:08,995 Speaker 1: almost swerves off the highway and says, look, I thought 163 00:11:09,035 --> 00:11:12,315 Speaker 1: I raised you well. And I went, what's wrong? He goes, 164 00:11:13,115 --> 00:11:15,595 Speaker 1: you've reached your age, you nearly twenty years old, and 165 00:11:15,635 --> 00:11:22,275 Speaker 1: you don't understand that everything that gets built involves a bribe. 166 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:25,595 Speaker 1: And I said, well, I mean, I guess that's true, 167 00:11:25,595 --> 00:11:27,315 Speaker 1: but I don't know that we've ever discussed. Oh, we 168 00:11:27,355 --> 00:11:29,555 Speaker 1: discussed it before you came with me on that one 169 00:11:29,635 --> 00:11:32,915 Speaker 1: job in Queens in nineteen sixty seven. I said, I 170 00:11:32,955 --> 00:11:36,955 Speaker 1: was eight years old. Dad goes on to explain that 171 00:11:37,035 --> 00:11:39,315 Speaker 1: everything that is built, certainly everything that is built in 172 00:11:39,355 --> 00:11:41,195 Speaker 1: New York, and everything that he has seen in his 173 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:44,515 Speaker 1: world travels, well, his national travels. He used to go 174 00:11:44,635 --> 00:11:48,235 Speaker 1: around the country. He had a mall and Nacadochius, Texas 175 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:50,755 Speaker 1: that he had six different stores in. He was at 176 00:11:50,755 --> 00:11:53,955 Speaker 1: one point the architect who had something like three hundred 177 00:11:53,995 --> 00:11:58,195 Speaker 1: and fifty different Baskin Robbins's around the country. That he 178 00:11:58,235 --> 00:12:02,275 Speaker 1: had designed. He was expert and intuitive and at great 179 00:12:02,315 --> 00:12:09,235 Speaker 1: demand for being able to put your standard boilerplate, official 180 00:12:10,475 --> 00:12:14,875 Speaker 1: restaurant or store design into an irregular space. So a 181 00:12:14,955 --> 00:12:17,955 Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins that needed to be I don't know, forty 182 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:20,755 Speaker 1: feet by forty feet, he could put it in a 183 00:12:20,915 --> 00:12:25,155 Speaker 1: thirty six by forty seven foot square and you, mister 184 00:12:25,235 --> 00:12:27,875 Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins, would never know the difference. That was what 185 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:30,595 Speaker 1: he excelled in. He didn't think it was pretty, that 186 00:12:30,795 --> 00:12:32,875 Speaker 1: creative or anything. He just that was what he was 187 00:12:32,915 --> 00:12:35,795 Speaker 1: good at. So Dad is now explaining to me that 188 00:12:35,995 --> 00:12:39,515 Speaker 1: no matter where you go, somebody is going to get bribed. 189 00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:44,955 Speaker 1: And I'm, of course at nineteen like you bribed someone. 190 00:12:45,235 --> 00:12:48,515 Speaker 1: He said, no, I don't do the bribes. I have 191 00:12:48,635 --> 00:12:51,875 Speaker 1: seen a few of them. That guy I introduced you to, 192 00:12:52,875 --> 00:12:56,955 Speaker 1: he got a bribe. But that's I know, because right 193 00:12:56,995 --> 00:13:01,435 Speaker 1: before the bribe came in, the guy I'm working for 194 00:13:01,555 --> 00:13:05,035 Speaker 1: asked me to leave, and I went and looked at 195 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:07,595 Speaker 1: some other stores in the mall and I said, on 196 00:13:07,675 --> 00:13:09,715 Speaker 1: the way out, how long He said five minutes? And 197 00:13:09,755 --> 00:13:12,315 Speaker 1: I know what was done. Then this way we'll get 198 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:15,315 Speaker 1: it done on time. The man that you just were 199 00:13:15,355 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: introduced to He told me just before I introduced him 200 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:21,875 Speaker 1: to you, just before you became visible in the fog, 201 00:13:22,155 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: he said, We're taken care of. This will get open 202 00:13:25,795 --> 00:13:33,315 Speaker 1: on time. Whatever it was February fifteenth, April first, everything 203 00:13:33,355 --> 00:13:39,555 Speaker 1: that gets built union, non union, somebody has gotten a 204 00:13:39,595 --> 00:13:44,715 Speaker 1: little taste, as they say in the Godfather movies. So 205 00:13:45,475 --> 00:13:48,235 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about how it is that after 206 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:52,795 Speaker 1: a tradition of nearly thirty years of always endorsing the Democrat, 207 00:13:53,435 --> 00:13:56,955 Speaker 1: and the rather obvious truth that no matter how bad 208 00:13:57,035 --> 00:14:01,515 Speaker 1: sometimes democrats, individual democrats or individual democratic presidents have been 209 00:14:01,555 --> 00:14:04,195 Speaker 1: for unions, that they have always been better than Republicans 210 00:14:04,235 --> 00:14:06,675 Speaker 1: have been for you, Unions at least the last sixty 211 00:14:06,755 --> 00:14:09,915 Speaker 1: years worth of them have been. I don't know anything 212 00:14:09,955 --> 00:14:15,515 Speaker 1: beyond that. I'm just a simple country commentator. But my 213 00:14:15,715 --> 00:14:22,795 Speaker 1: dad was a near witness to bribery of union officials 214 00:14:22,835 --> 00:14:25,275 Speaker 1: in every state of the Union in which he had 215 00:14:25,275 --> 00:14:30,155 Speaker 1: a license to practice architecture. That's forty of them, that's 216 00:14:30,315 --> 00:14:34,635 Speaker 1: four fifths. And what was it Trump did before he 217 00:14:34,675 --> 00:14:37,955 Speaker 1: went on TV and people went who is this ass? 218 00:14:38,475 --> 00:14:41,835 Speaker 1: And he became a star, and then they became president. 219 00:14:41,835 --> 00:14:44,795 Speaker 1: What was it he did before that? Did he build things? 220 00:14:44,795 --> 00:14:46,595 Speaker 1: Do I remember that? Really? Is that why his name 221 00:14:46,635 --> 00:14:50,315 Speaker 1: is on all those buildings that were all built with 222 00:14:50,555 --> 00:14:55,275 Speaker 1: either union or non union labor, in which everything had 223 00:14:55,315 --> 00:14:59,315 Speaker 1: to be approved by a local government inspector and things 224 00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:02,435 Speaker 1: to open on time, And Trump buildings always opened on time. 225 00:15:02,515 --> 00:15:04,715 Speaker 1: I wonder how that happened. As I said, I I 226 00:15:04,795 --> 00:15:09,195 Speaker 1: wonder how much somebody like Trump would know about bribing 227 00:15:09,395 --> 00:15:21,675 Speaker 1: a union boss. Heading into the weekend, polls all over 228 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:23,875 Speaker 1: the map, as you know, except for a couple of 229 00:15:23,955 --> 00:15:27,675 Speaker 1: consistent through lines. The New York Times Siena poll that 230 00:15:27,795 --> 00:15:32,315 Speaker 1: essentially shows the race tide before the debate, the Times poll, 231 00:15:32,395 --> 00:15:35,915 Speaker 1: the same one was Trump by two. The Times poll 232 00:15:35,955 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: has been an outlier all along, and the idea that 233 00:15:39,995 --> 00:15:42,595 Speaker 1: the informator of the New York Times is anything special 234 00:15:42,635 --> 00:15:47,155 Speaker 1: any longer has left the building except the building that 235 00:15:47,235 --> 00:15:50,315 Speaker 1: houses the New York Times, so there's nothing special. It's 236 00:15:50,355 --> 00:15:52,715 Speaker 1: not likely to be that they're right and everybody else 237 00:15:52,795 --> 00:15:56,435 Speaker 1: is wrong, because even the New York Times Siena poll, 238 00:15:56,875 --> 00:16:00,395 Speaker 1: like almost every other poll for the last six weeks, 239 00:16:00,715 --> 00:16:06,635 Speaker 1: shows one through line continued ongoing in incremental, sometimes really 240 00:16:06,795 --> 00:16:12,795 Speaker 1: small improvement, for Kamala Harris. The other national polls that 241 00:16:12,875 --> 00:16:18,195 Speaker 1: came out yesterday are suggestive of potential blowouts. Outward Intelligence 242 00:16:18,235 --> 00:16:22,595 Speaker 1: poll Harris by seven, Florida Atlantic University Harris by four, 243 00:16:23,155 --> 00:16:28,555 Speaker 1: you Gov for The Economist Harris by four. There are 244 00:16:28,635 --> 00:16:31,715 Speaker 1: two out of about twenty five national polls that do 245 00:16:31,875 --> 00:16:37,795 Speaker 1: not show Kamala Harris ahead of Trump. One was Atlas Intel, 246 00:16:38,195 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: which last week had Trump up by three. Nate Silver 247 00:16:42,035 --> 00:16:45,635 Speaker 1: likes Atlas Intel. I don't know anymore about Nate Silver. 248 00:16:46,595 --> 00:16:50,915 Speaker 1: My opinion of him changes day to day. The other 249 00:16:50,955 --> 00:16:53,635 Speaker 1: one was the New York Times poll, and even in 250 00:16:53,715 --> 00:16:58,235 Speaker 1: that it has gone from Harris minus two to even 251 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:02,555 Speaker 1: the point of this through line is the possession arrow 252 00:17:02,715 --> 00:17:06,475 Speaker 1: is pointing to Kamala Harris. The other through line, of course, 253 00:17:07,275 --> 00:17:10,995 Speaker 1: in the total national vote doesn't matter, as you know, 254 00:17:11,195 --> 00:17:14,395 Speaker 1: it's the swing states, and the other through line happens 255 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:18,915 Speaker 1: to be in oh a swing state Pennsylvania. The Times 256 00:17:18,995 --> 00:17:22,715 Speaker 1: poll has her up by four. If we are suggesting 257 00:17:22,755 --> 00:17:25,395 Speaker 1: that the Time Siena poll has been running as an 258 00:17:25,435 --> 00:17:28,155 Speaker 1: outlier against the Democrats for the whole of this year, 259 00:17:28,755 --> 00:17:32,515 Speaker 1: four point lead in Pennsylvania for Kamala Harris is worth 260 00:17:32,515 --> 00:17:37,115 Speaker 1: the weekend of Champagne. Quinnipiac we mentioned the other day, 261 00:17:37,315 --> 00:17:40,635 Speaker 1: has her up by six In Pennsylvania. Marrist and the 262 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:45,275 Speaker 1: Washington Posts separately have her up by just one. On 263 00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:48,355 Speaker 1: the other hand, other hand, other hand, there is one 264 00:17:48,395 --> 00:17:53,395 Speaker 1: poll this month that has Trump up in Pennsylvania one. 265 00:17:53,555 --> 00:17:57,155 Speaker 1: What's happening? Well, The easiest explanation is the oldest one. 266 00:17:57,555 --> 00:18:02,795 Speaker 1: Polling sucks. It's too easy. In point of fact, the 267 00:18:02,835 --> 00:18:04,635 Speaker 1: polls are not as bad as they used to be. 268 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:06,755 Speaker 1: They're better than they were in twenty twenty, when they 269 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:08,875 Speaker 1: were far better than they were in twenty sixteen. But 270 00:18:08,955 --> 00:18:13,075 Speaker 1: we keep ignoring one fundamental thing that the pollsters are 271 00:18:13,115 --> 00:18:15,115 Speaker 1: so used to that they don't really make a big 272 00:18:15,155 --> 00:18:19,755 Speaker 1: deal of anymore. The polls offer two flavors of results. 273 00:18:21,275 --> 00:18:24,915 Speaker 1: Who is leading among registered voters and who is leading 274 00:18:24,915 --> 00:18:31,195 Speaker 1: among likely voters. Registered voters is defined. Are you registered 275 00:18:31,195 --> 00:18:35,595 Speaker 1: to vote? Yes, I am, You're a registered voter. They 276 00:18:35,635 --> 00:18:40,275 Speaker 1: don't ask people in this way are you a likely voter? 277 00:18:41,115 --> 00:18:44,315 Speaker 1: They try to ascertain in their own opinion if this 278 00:18:44,395 --> 00:18:48,235 Speaker 1: person is in fact likely to vote. The idea of 279 00:18:48,275 --> 00:18:52,955 Speaker 1: the likely voter is the better number. It is more predictive, 280 00:18:52,995 --> 00:18:55,235 Speaker 1: but it can be played like a two dollars banjo. 281 00:18:55,555 --> 00:18:59,435 Speaker 1: That is where pollsters can be prejudiced towards one side 282 00:18:59,515 --> 00:19:03,075 Speaker 1: or the other. These people who say they're going to 283 00:19:03,115 --> 00:19:07,275 Speaker 1: vote for Harris, we're going to declare them not likely voters. 284 00:19:07,835 --> 00:19:10,355 Speaker 1: Or these people that say they're going to vote for Harris, 285 00:19:10,435 --> 00:19:14,075 Speaker 1: we're going to declare them likely voters. Each polster has 286 00:19:14,115 --> 00:19:17,115 Speaker 1: his own definition of likely voter, and the ones that 287 00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:20,155 Speaker 1: are playing it straight. Did they vote in the last 288 00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:23,235 Speaker 1: state election, did they vote in the last national election, 289 00:19:24,515 --> 00:19:28,675 Speaker 1: do they know the candidates? Did they vote in both 290 00:19:28,675 --> 00:19:31,275 Speaker 1: the nationals and locals? Did they vote in mid terms? 291 00:19:31,955 --> 00:19:35,995 Speaker 1: You get a score. You could have ten polsters though 292 00:19:36,115 --> 00:19:40,315 Speaker 1: poll literally the same eleven hundred people in Pennsylvania or 293 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:43,675 Speaker 1: anywhere else, and based on the different definitions of likely voter, 294 00:19:44,995 --> 00:19:47,715 Speaker 1: the same posters interviewing the same eleven hundred people could 295 00:19:47,715 --> 00:19:49,955 Speaker 1: give you a final score of Harris leading by six, 296 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:55,635 Speaker 1: Harris leading by four, or Harris leading by one. The 297 00:19:55,715 --> 00:19:58,075 Speaker 1: key thing in Pennsylvania is the number of polsters who, 298 00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:00,395 Speaker 1: no matter what they do to get this number, can 299 00:20:00,395 --> 00:20:06,595 Speaker 1: put together. Trump ahead in Pennsylvania is nearly extinct. There's 300 00:20:06,635 --> 00:20:10,355 Speaker 1: also one interior polling number worth mentioning I'll give Axios 301 00:20:10,355 --> 00:20:13,595 Speaker 1: credit on this, while they were whining at the same 302 00:20:13,635 --> 00:20:16,235 Speaker 1: time about Harris not giving them an interview, and they're 303 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:18,555 Speaker 1: on a record pace not to give any interviews before 304 00:20:18,555 --> 00:20:21,155 Speaker 1: the leg because they're trying to hire it. Okay, whatever, 305 00:20:21,355 --> 00:20:25,475 Speaker 1: you're that important. They're running a campaign. They're not running 306 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: to win over the vote of Jim Van Dehi, all right. 307 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:33,435 Speaker 1: So while they're complaining about that, Axios did conclude quoting 308 00:20:33,475 --> 00:20:39,795 Speaker 1: their headline, Harris closes trust gap with Trump on the economy, 309 00:20:40,555 --> 00:20:43,315 Speaker 1: Forty six percent of voters say they trust Kamala Harris 310 00:20:43,355 --> 00:20:46,875 Speaker 1: to handle the economy, the same share as Trump, according 311 00:20:46,875 --> 00:20:50,435 Speaker 1: to the Morning Consult poll, which was conducted in late 312 00:20:50,475 --> 00:20:56,635 Speaker 1: August and released Thursday Morning. They took their time on 313 00:20:56,675 --> 00:21:01,715 Speaker 1: this pole. A separate survey Axios notes from FT Michigan Ross, 314 00:21:02,195 --> 00:21:05,755 Speaker 1: taken after the debate and released last Sunday, shows Harris 315 00:21:05,755 --> 00:21:08,795 Speaker 1: with a slight edge over Trump when it comes to 316 00:21:08,835 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: the economy. I have noted this before that these numbers 317 00:21:11,835 --> 00:21:15,075 Speaker 1: are basically all within a range. Trump by a point, 318 00:21:15,075 --> 00:21:18,835 Speaker 1: Harris by a point. Even That's it. And the important 319 00:21:18,835 --> 00:21:21,675 Speaker 1: point there again goes back to the possession arrow and 320 00:21:21,715 --> 00:21:26,115 Speaker 1: the momentum this was Trump by ten over Biden, and 321 00:21:26,235 --> 00:21:31,195 Speaker 1: earlier than that it was even higher than that. And 322 00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:34,675 Speaker 1: remember the dreams of knocking Ted Cruz out of the Senate. 323 00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:37,275 Speaker 1: It may not last because the Democrats seem to have 324 00:21:37,275 --> 00:21:40,355 Speaker 1: spent like ninety percent of their ad budget in Texas, 325 00:21:40,915 --> 00:21:44,555 Speaker 1: while the Republicans have about that much left. But according 326 00:21:44,555 --> 00:21:48,755 Speaker 1: to Morning Consults, Colin Hall red leeds Ted Cruz in 327 00:21:48,795 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: the Texas Senate race forty five forty four. The Saint 328 00:21:52,275 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: Foster put out its first entirely post debate polls for 329 00:21:55,875 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: the swing states. It's Trump by one in Georgia, but 330 00:22:00,595 --> 00:22:03,715 Speaker 1: otherwise clean sweep. Harris, Harris by one in Arizona, Harris 331 00:22:03,755 --> 00:22:07,035 Speaker 1: by two in North care Carolina and Pennsylvania. Harris by 332 00:22:07,075 --> 00:22:10,675 Speaker 1: four in Nevada, Harris by six in Wisconsin, Harris by 333 00:22:10,755 --> 00:22:17,195 Speaker 1: eight in Michigan. Again, trends, and I can't wait to 334 00:22:17,235 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: see those post Mark Robinson polls in North Carolina. I mean, 335 00:22:21,435 --> 00:22:24,555 Speaker 1: first of all, they're going to read Morning Consult North 336 00:22:24,595 --> 00:22:31,515 Speaker 1: Carolina poll for Ashleymadison dot com. Lastly, comic relief bottom line. 337 00:22:32,395 --> 00:22:35,795 Speaker 1: Take this with you, Smile over the weekend as you 338 00:22:35,835 --> 00:22:41,435 Speaker 1: think about it. Trump is again hallucinating after he got 339 00:22:41,515 --> 00:22:44,275 Speaker 1: up in an abandoned New York hockey arena the other 340 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: night and announced he can win that state when he's 341 00:22:46,595 --> 00:22:50,395 Speaker 1: losing it by twenty He went into Fox News on 342 00:22:50,555 --> 00:22:53,595 Speaker 1: the show of the guy nearly as delusional as he is, 343 00:22:53,675 --> 00:22:56,435 Speaker 1: the guy Gutfeld, who has shown up to that office 344 00:22:56,475 --> 00:22:59,835 Speaker 1: every day for what ten fifteen years, has never made 345 00:22:59,955 --> 00:23:02,515 Speaker 1: one joke that actually had a laugh in it, and 346 00:23:02,635 --> 00:23:07,515 Speaker 1: thinks he is Mark Twain. Well, Trump got an even 347 00:23:07,555 --> 00:23:12,035 Speaker 1: bigger non laugh. He selected his wine for the night, 348 00:23:12,915 --> 00:23:15,115 Speaker 1: the fact checking at the debate, and I suppose we 349 00:23:15,115 --> 00:23:18,195 Speaker 1: should be happy that he was fact checking debates from 350 00:23:18,235 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four rather than twenty sixteen. Trump said on 351 00:23:21,995 --> 00:23:26,115 Speaker 1: the Gutfeld Show, they didn't correct her once, and they 352 00:23:26,155 --> 00:23:30,355 Speaker 1: corrected me everything I said, practically, I think nine times 353 00:23:30,475 --> 00:23:36,875 Speaker 1: or eleven times, and the audience was absolutely they went crazy, 354 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:42,395 Speaker 1: and I walked off unquote. Trump thinks there was an 355 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:48,275 Speaker 1: audience at his debate against Kamala Harris. Hece, you're forgetting 356 00:23:49,035 --> 00:23:52,315 Speaker 1: there was no audience. On the other hand, if your 357 00:23:52,355 --> 00:23:55,835 Speaker 1: ego is so large that it has to be continued 358 00:23:55,875 --> 00:23:59,675 Speaker 1: onto the person standing next to you, ah maybe that 359 00:23:59,755 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 1: guy does count as your audience. Also of interest here 360 00:24:07,555 --> 00:24:11,795 Speaker 1: the Late News comparatively speaking last night from an anti 361 00:24:11,835 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: anti Semitism dinner at which Donald Trump, because the comparisons 362 00:24:16,275 --> 00:24:20,515 Speaker 1: to Hitler are apparently insufficient in his mind, decided to 363 00:24:20,635 --> 00:24:23,835 Speaker 1: warn the Jewish people of this country that they will 364 00:24:23,875 --> 00:24:27,755 Speaker 1: be at fault if he is not elected president. He 365 00:24:27,915 --> 00:24:32,275 Speaker 1: is moving ever closer to Hitler. That's next. This is countdown. 366 00:24:40,195 --> 00:24:43,755 Speaker 1: I don't know when I first made a comparison between 367 00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:47,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. I know I implied it 368 00:24:47,875 --> 00:24:50,635 Speaker 1: in the article that I wrote for the BBC website 369 00:24:50,675 --> 00:24:55,035 Speaker 1: in twenty and sixteen about the early versions of Trump's 370 00:24:55,075 --> 00:24:59,635 Speaker 1: plan to remove millions of people here from this country, 371 00:25:00,595 --> 00:25:03,875 Speaker 1: and the realization that was not widespread at that point 372 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: that you could not simply expect immigrants or other people 373 00:25:08,515 --> 00:25:11,315 Speaker 1: who Trump did not like, to simply line up and 374 00:25:11,435 --> 00:25:15,035 Speaker 1: march out of the country without some kind of intermediary 375 00:25:15,155 --> 00:25:19,995 Speaker 1: stage in which they would be kept in camps in concentration, 376 00:25:20,595 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: or as I put it, camps with concentration, or as 377 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:30,915 Speaker 1: their known concentration camps. Trump, as we know since nineteen 378 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:36,395 Speaker 1: ninety when it was revealed by his first wife that 379 00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: he kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a bedside table, 380 00:25:42,955 --> 00:25:45,995 Speaker 1: and it was very important to him that when this 381 00:25:46,195 --> 00:25:48,675 Speaker 1: was found out, it was confirmed that the book had 382 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:51,875 Speaker 1: been given to him by somebody who was Jewish, and 383 00:25:51,915 --> 00:25:54,035 Speaker 1: that it was not mind comp it was a book 384 00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:57,435 Speaker 1: of speeches, and if he did have it, he never 385 00:25:57,475 --> 00:26:01,995 Speaker 1: read it. Anti Semitism is at the core of who 386 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:06,875 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is, and in increasingly people have recognized that 387 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:12,115 Speaker 1: the historical comparison to Hitler nineteen twenty nine, thirty thirty one, 388 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:16,955 Speaker 1: thirty two and the Trump of today is apt. Everybody 389 00:26:16,955 --> 00:26:21,075 Speaker 1: seems to think it's when made a comparison to Hitler 390 00:26:21,155 --> 00:26:26,675 Speaker 1: at the lowest point in his non humanity. That's not 391 00:26:26,755 --> 00:26:29,715 Speaker 1: what we're talking about. We're talking about what you would 392 00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: have seen if you had looked at Hitler in nineteen 393 00:26:32,155 --> 00:26:35,195 Speaker 1: thirty two. That is where we are with Trump, and 394 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:38,635 Speaker 1: if there was any doubt remaining of this, it ended 395 00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:42,275 Speaker 1: last night. Trump has been through the course of this 396 00:26:42,515 --> 00:26:48,075 Speaker 1: entire campaign saying that the Democrats are not serving Israel 397 00:26:48,155 --> 00:26:50,795 Speaker 1: and that anyone who's Jewish in this country who would 398 00:26:50,835 --> 00:26:54,515 Speaker 1: vote for a Democrat needs to and I'm quoting him here, 399 00:26:54,715 --> 00:26:59,835 Speaker 1: get their head examined because long ago, sometime before he 400 00:26:59,955 --> 00:27:03,955 Speaker 1: first needed to have his head examined. Trump utterly conflated 401 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:09,715 Speaker 1: in a per anti Semitic meme, the idea that the 402 00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:14,155 Speaker 1: Jews are loyal first to Israel, the Jews of America 403 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:17,035 Speaker 1: are first loyal to Israel, the Jews of Holland, or 404 00:27:17,075 --> 00:27:21,475 Speaker 1: first loyal to the Jews of Australia. It is the 405 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:25,195 Speaker 1: most common form of anti Semitism, and those who are 406 00:27:25,235 --> 00:27:30,555 Speaker 1: afflicted with it don't think they are being particularly anti Semitic. Well, 407 00:27:30,595 --> 00:27:33,475 Speaker 1: now there is a secondary stage up from that, and 408 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:36,875 Speaker 1: Trump reached it last night at a dinner at which 409 00:27:36,915 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 1: he was given an award and introduced by this Adelson 410 00:27:40,715 --> 00:27:45,115 Speaker 1: woman who is pouring millions of dollars into the attempt 411 00:27:45,155 --> 00:27:49,955 Speaker 1: to get Trump elected again and again. Trump with this 412 00:27:50,315 --> 00:27:54,155 Speaker 1: confusion between the idea that support for Jewish people and 413 00:27:54,235 --> 00:28:00,595 Speaker 1: support for Israel must overlap entirely, now he has gone 414 00:28:00,795 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: to the next stage. Jewish support for Trump is not 415 00:28:05,755 --> 00:28:09,195 Speaker 1: what it should be. And he openly and without any 416 00:28:09,275 --> 00:28:12,875 Speaker 1: kind of reservation, and in a sad tone of voice, 417 00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:16,275 Speaker 1: as if he was warning the Jews of America that 418 00:28:16,315 --> 00:28:18,715 Speaker 1: he's going to have to do something about them if 419 00:28:18,795 --> 00:28:22,755 Speaker 1: he wins and they have not supported him. He basically 420 00:28:22,995 --> 00:28:28,395 Speaker 1: in advance blamed Jewish Americans for the possibility that he 421 00:28:28,435 --> 00:28:30,915 Speaker 1: would not be returned to the presidency. I'm going to 422 00:28:30,915 --> 00:28:33,995 Speaker 1: play the whole clip. I have no comment to make afterwards. 423 00:28:34,235 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: It speaks for itself, and the reverse of what he 424 00:28:37,155 --> 00:28:41,115 Speaker 1: says is true. If any Jewish American votes for Donald Trump, 425 00:28:41,475 --> 00:28:44,555 Speaker 1: they need to have their head examined. If any Gentile 426 00:28:44,595 --> 00:28:47,475 Speaker 1: American votes for Donald Trump, they need to have their 427 00:28:47,515 --> 00:28:48,595 Speaker 1: head examined too. 428 00:28:49,035 --> 00:28:53,115 Speaker 2: But i will put it to you very simply and gently, 429 00:28:54,035 --> 00:28:57,395 Speaker 2: I really haven't been treated right. But you haven't been 430 00:28:57,435 --> 00:29:01,035 Speaker 2: treated right because you're putting yourself in great danger and 431 00:29:01,115 --> 00:29:04,915 Speaker 2: the United States hasn't been treated right. So if I 432 00:29:04,915 --> 00:29:07,635 Speaker 2: don't win this election, and I've been very good, you know, 433 00:29:07,675 --> 00:29:09,795 Speaker 2: they say Trump's been right about everything. I've been right 434 00:29:09,835 --> 00:29:12,435 Speaker 2: about a lot of things. Even Ted will admit that 435 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:14,795 Speaker 2: I've been right about a lot of things. A lot 436 00:29:14,835 --> 00:29:17,195 Speaker 2: of things that a lot of people said no, that 437 00:29:17,235 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 2: won't happen. But a lot of bad things happened, and 438 00:29:19,315 --> 00:29:21,795 Speaker 2: some good things I've been right about too, And I 439 00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 2: only want to be So I'm not going to call 440 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:28,035 Speaker 2: this as a prediction. But in my opinion, the Jewish 441 00:29:28,035 --> 00:29:30,675 Speaker 2: people would have a lot to do with a loss 442 00:29:31,355 --> 00:29:33,795 Speaker 2: if I'm at forty percent, if I'm at forethink of it, 443 00:29:33,875 --> 00:29:36,835 Speaker 2: I mean sixty percent of voting for Kamala, who in 444 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 2: particular is a bad Democrat. The Democrats are bad to Israel, 445 00:29:41,555 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 2: very bad. They'll never change because they have a section 446 00:29:44,435 --> 00:29:47,115 Speaker 2: of their party now which has become amazingly and quickly 447 00:29:47,195 --> 00:29:50,715 Speaker 2: very powerful both ways. I mean, Chuck Schumer is a 448 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:53,235 Speaker 2: Palestinian who would have thought that was going to happen. 449 00:29:53,755 --> 00:29:57,195 Speaker 2: What the hell happened to him? I saw him the 450 00:29:57,235 --> 00:30:00,035 Speaker 2: other day. He was dressed in one of their robes. 451 00:30:00,235 --> 00:30:02,475 Speaker 2: Now that'll be next. 452 00:30:08,715 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: James Thurber's best known work, best loved work, and maybe 453 00:30:12,275 --> 00:30:15,395 Speaker 1: just best work, has been made into two different films, 454 00:30:16,035 --> 00:30:18,555 Speaker 1: neither of which is really satisfactory, but each gives you 455 00:30:18,675 --> 00:30:22,715 Speaker 1: just a glimpse of what your imagination is doing as 456 00:30:22,755 --> 00:30:27,395 Speaker 1: you hear or read his words. It is a universal 457 00:30:27,635 --> 00:30:30,635 Speaker 1: It is the story of everybody who's ever lived, who 458 00:30:30,715 --> 00:30:35,995 Speaker 1: has ever daydreamed. It is the secret life of Walter 459 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:43,035 Speaker 1: Mitty by James Thurber. We're going through. The Commander's voice 460 00:30:43,075 --> 00:30:46,595 Speaker 1: was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full dress 461 00:30:46,715 --> 00:30:49,875 Speaker 1: uniform with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly 462 00:30:49,915 --> 00:30:54,395 Speaker 1: over one cold gray eye. We can't make it, sir. 463 00:30:55,675 --> 00:30:58,475 Speaker 1: It's spoiling for a hurricane. If you ask me, I'm 464 00:30:58,475 --> 00:31:01,435 Speaker 1: not asking you, Lieutenant Berg, said the commander. Throw on 465 00:31:01,515 --> 00:31:04,395 Speaker 1: the power lights, rever up to eighty five hundred. We're 466 00:31:04,395 --> 00:31:08,995 Speaker 1: going through. The pounding of the cylinders increased to pocket, 467 00:31:08,995 --> 00:31:11,955 Speaker 1: the pocket to pocket, to pocket to pocket. The commander 468 00:31:12,035 --> 00:31:14,595 Speaker 1: stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He 469 00:31:14,635 --> 00:31:17,915 Speaker 1: walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. Sweitch 470 00:31:17,995 --> 00:31:22,475 Speaker 1: on number eight auxiliary. He shouted, switch on number eight auxiliary, 471 00:31:23,115 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: repeated Lieutenant Berg. Full strength and number three turret, shouted 472 00:31:27,275 --> 00:31:31,115 Speaker 1: the commander, full strength and number three turret. The crew, 473 00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:34,595 Speaker 1: bending to the various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight 474 00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:37,955 Speaker 1: engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. The 475 00:31:38,035 --> 00:31:40,715 Speaker 1: old man will get us through, they said to one another. 476 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:44,675 Speaker 1: The old man ain't afraid of hell, not the fast. 477 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:49,355 Speaker 1: You're driving too fast, said missus Middy. What are you 478 00:31:49,435 --> 00:31:55,115 Speaker 1: driving so fast for? Hmmm, said Walter Middy. He looked 479 00:31:55,115 --> 00:31:58,795 Speaker 1: at his wife in the seat beside him with shocked astonishment. 480 00:31:59,195 --> 00:32:02,555 Speaker 1: She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had 481 00:32:02,635 --> 00:32:05,675 Speaker 1: yelled at him in a crowd. Up to fifty five, 482 00:32:06,195 --> 00:32:07,995 Speaker 1: she said, you know I don't like to go more 483 00:32:08,035 --> 00:32:11,755 Speaker 1: than forty. You're up to fifty five. Walter Midty drove 484 00:32:11,835 --> 00:32:14,835 Speaker 1: on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the s 485 00:32:14,995 --> 00:32:18,155 Speaker 1: N two two through the worst storm in twenty years 486 00:32:18,155 --> 00:32:23,435 Speaker 1: of Navy flying, fading in the remote intimate airways of 487 00:32:23,515 --> 00:32:28,155 Speaker 1: his mind. You're ten step again, said missus Midty. It's 488 00:32:28,195 --> 00:32:31,795 Speaker 1: one of your days. I wish you'd let doctor Renshaw 489 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:35,435 Speaker 1: look you over. Walter Mitty stopped the car in front 490 00:32:35,435 --> 00:32:37,075 Speaker 1: of the building where his wife went to have her 491 00:32:37,075 --> 00:32:39,875 Speaker 1: hair done. Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having 492 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:44,435 Speaker 1: the hair done, she said, I don't need overshoes, said Mitty. 493 00:32:44,995 --> 00:32:47,555 Speaker 1: She put her mirror back into her bag. We've been 494 00:32:47,755 --> 00:32:50,875 Speaker 1: all through that, she said, getting out of the car. 495 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: You're not a young man any longer. He raced the 496 00:32:54,075 --> 00:32:57,155 Speaker 1: engine a little. Why don't you wear your gloves? Have 497 00:32:57,235 --> 00:33:00,795 Speaker 1: you lost your gloves? Walter Mitty reached in a pocket 498 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:02,795 Speaker 1: and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but 499 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,435 Speaker 1: after she had turned and gone into the building, and 500 00:33:05,475 --> 00:33:07,995 Speaker 1: he had driven on to a red light. He took 501 00:33:08,115 --> 00:33:12,395 Speaker 1: them off again. Pick it up, brother snapped the cop 502 00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:15,035 Speaker 1: as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his 503 00:33:15,075 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly 504 00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:21,195 Speaker 1: for a time, and then he drove past the hospital 505 00:33:21,675 --> 00:33:26,315 Speaker 1: on his way to the parking lot. It's the millionaire 506 00:33:26,395 --> 00:33:31,555 Speaker 1: banker Wellington, McMillan, said the pretty nurse. Yes, said Walter Mitty, 507 00:33:31,595 --> 00:33:35,915 Speaker 1: removing his gloves slowly. Who has the case, Doctor Renshawn, 508 00:33:35,955 --> 00:33:39,835 Speaker 1: Doctor Renbow. But there are two specialists here, doctor Remington 509 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:42,915 Speaker 1: from New York and mister Prichard Mitford from London. He 510 00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:46,835 Speaker 1: flew over. The door opened down a long cool carter, 511 00:33:46,955 --> 00:33:51,315 Speaker 1: and doctor Renshaw came out. He looked distraught and haggard. 512 00:33:51,915 --> 00:33:54,875 Speaker 1: Hello Mitty, he said, we're having the devil's own time 513 00:33:54,915 --> 00:33:57,395 Speaker 1: with McMillan, the millionaire banker and close personal friend of 514 00:33:57,475 --> 00:34:03,355 Speaker 1: Roosevelt obstriosis of the ductal tract tertiary. Wish you'd take 515 00:34:03,395 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: a look at him. Glad to, said Mitty. In the 516 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:13,155 Speaker 1: operating room, there were whispered introductions Doctor Remington, doctor Mitty, 517 00:34:13,675 --> 00:34:18,235 Speaker 1: mister Richard Mitford, doctor Mitty, and I've read your book 518 00:34:18,235 --> 00:34:23,195 Speaker 1: on scripto thracosis, said Richard Mitford, shaking hands. A brilliant performance, sir, 519 00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:27,715 Speaker 1: thank you, said Walter Mitty. Didn't know you're in the 520 00:34:27,835 --> 00:34:32,315 Speaker 1: State's Mitty grumbled. Remington Cole's to Newcastle, bringing Midford to 521 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:35,795 Speaker 1: me up here for a tertiary. You are very kind, 522 00:34:36,475 --> 00:34:41,035 Speaker 1: said Mitty. A huge, complicated machine connected to the operating 523 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:44,075 Speaker 1: table with many tubes and wires began at this moment 524 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:49,115 Speaker 1: to go pocket to pocketa POCKETA the new anesthetizer is 525 00:34:49,155 --> 00:34:52,275 Speaker 1: giving way, shouted an interurn. There is no one in 526 00:34:52,315 --> 00:34:54,955 Speaker 1: the East who knows how to fix it. Quiet man, 527 00:34:55,475 --> 00:34:58,355 Speaker 1: said Mitty in a low, cool voice. He sprang to 528 00:34:58,395 --> 00:35:01,275 Speaker 1: the machine, which was now going pocket to pocket to creep, 529 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:05,395 Speaker 1: pocket to pocket to creep. He began fingering delicately a 530 00:35:05,475 --> 00:35:09,235 Speaker 1: roll of glistening dials. Give me a fountain pen, he snapped. 531 00:35:10,315 --> 00:35:12,715 Speaker 1: Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled a faulty 532 00:35:12,715 --> 00:35:14,995 Speaker 1: piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in 533 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:19,395 Speaker 1: its place. That will hold for ten minutes, he said, 534 00:35:19,555 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: Get on with the operation. A nurse hurried over and 535 00:35:22,315 --> 00:35:25,115 Speaker 1: whispered to Renshaw and Mitty saw the man turn pale. 536 00:35:25,955 --> 00:35:30,475 Speaker 1: Coreopsis has set in, said Renshaw nervously. If you would 537 00:35:30,755 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: take over, Middy. Mitty looked at him, and at the 538 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:38,635 Speaker 1: craven figure of Benbow who drank, and at the grave 539 00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: uncertain faces of the two great specialists. If you wish, 540 00:35:43,115 --> 00:35:45,635 Speaker 1: he said. They slipped a white gown on him. He 541 00:35:45,675 --> 00:35:48,875 Speaker 1: adjusted a mask and drew on thin gloves. Nurses handed 542 00:35:48,915 --> 00:35:52,875 Speaker 1: him shiny, back it up, Mac, look out for that buick. 543 00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:57,395 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. Wrong laye, Mac, said 544 00:35:57,435 --> 00:36:01,795 Speaker 1: the parking lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. Gee yeah, 545 00:36:02,315 --> 00:36:05,555 Speaker 1: muttered Mitty. He began cautious to back out of the 546 00:36:05,635 --> 00:36:09,795 Speaker 1: lane marked exit. Only leave us sit there, said the attendant. 547 00:36:09,955 --> 00:36:13,155 Speaker 1: I'll put her away. Mitty got out of the car. 548 00:36:13,635 --> 00:36:19,195 Speaker 1: Hey better leave the key, oh, said Mitty, handing the 549 00:36:19,235 --> 00:36:22,555 Speaker 1: man the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car, 550 00:36:22,635 --> 00:36:25,675 Speaker 1: backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where 551 00:36:25,675 --> 00:36:31,795 Speaker 1: it belonged. They're so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking 552 00:36:31,835 --> 00:36:35,995 Speaker 1: along main Street. They think they know everything. Once he 553 00:36:36,035 --> 00:36:39,075 Speaker 1: had tried to take his chains off outside New Milford, 554 00:36:39,475 --> 00:36:42,275 Speaker 1: and he got them wound around the axles. The man 555 00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:45,235 Speaker 1: had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind 556 00:36:45,355 --> 00:36:50,235 Speaker 1: them a young, grinning garage man. Since then, Missus Mitty 557 00:36:50,235 --> 00:36:52,395 Speaker 1: always made him drive to a garage to have the 558 00:36:52,475 --> 00:36:55,595 Speaker 1: chains taken off. The Next time, he thought, I'll wear 559 00:36:55,675 --> 00:36:59,235 Speaker 1: my right arm in a sling. They won't grin at me. 560 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:01,155 Speaker 1: Then I have my right arm in a sling, and 561 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: they'll see. I couldn't possibly take the chains off myself. 562 00:37:04,835 --> 00:37:09,435 Speaker 1: He kicked at the slush on the sidewalk. Overshoes, he 563 00:37:09,435 --> 00:37:11,475 Speaker 1: said to himself, and he began looking for a shoe store. 564 00:37:12,435 --> 00:37:14,075 Speaker 1: When he came out into the street again with the 565 00:37:14,075 --> 00:37:16,715 Speaker 1: overshoes in a box under his arm, Walter Mitty began 566 00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:18,995 Speaker 1: to wonder what the other thing was his wife had 567 00:37:18,995 --> 00:37:22,675 Speaker 1: told him to get. She had told him twice before 568 00:37:22,715 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: they set out from their house for Waterbury. In a way, 569 00:37:25,875 --> 00:37:28,475 Speaker 1: he hated these weekly trips to town. He was always 570 00:37:28,515 --> 00:37:35,475 Speaker 1: getting something wrong. Kleenex, he thoughts, quibbs, razor blades, now toothpaste, 571 00:37:35,515 --> 00:37:41,035 Speaker 1: toothbrush by carbon at Carborundum initiative referendum, he gave it up, 572 00:37:41,715 --> 00:37:44,595 Speaker 1: but she would remember it. Where's the what's its name? 573 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:46,915 Speaker 1: She would ask? Don't tell me you forgot the what's 574 00:37:46,915 --> 00:37:50,075 Speaker 1: its name? The newsboy went by, shouting something about the 575 00:37:50,075 --> 00:37:56,275 Speaker 1: Waterbury trial. Perhaps this will refresh your memory. The district 576 00:37:56,315 --> 00:37:59,155 Speaker 1: attorney suddenly thrust a heavy automatic at the quiet figure 577 00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: on the witness stand. Have you ever seen this before? 578 00:38:02,835 --> 00:38:07,275 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty took the gun and examined expertly. This is 579 00:38:07,395 --> 00:38:11,435 Speaker 1: my Webley Vicar's fifty point eight, oh, he said calmly. 580 00:38:11,555 --> 00:38:14,915 Speaker 1: An excited buzz ran around the courtroom. The judge wrapped 581 00:38:14,955 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: for order. You are a crack shot with any sort 582 00:38:18,235 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: of firearms, I believe, said the district attorney, insinuatingly. Objection, 583 00:38:23,475 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: shouted Mitty's attorney. We have shown that the defendant could 584 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:29,155 Speaker 1: not have fired the shot. We have shown that he 585 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:32,195 Speaker 1: wore his right arm in a sling on the night 586 00:38:32,235 --> 00:38:36,155 Speaker 1: of the fourteenth of July. Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly, 587 00:38:36,155 --> 00:38:40,035 Speaker 1: and the bickering attorneys were stilled with any known make 588 00:38:40,075 --> 00:38:43,955 Speaker 1: of gun, He said evenly, I could have killed Gregory 589 00:38:44,035 --> 00:38:50,155 Speaker 1: Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand. Pandemonium 590 00:38:50,195 --> 00:38:53,475 Speaker 1: broke out in the courtroom. A woman's scream rose above 591 00:38:53,475 --> 00:38:55,955 Speaker 1: the bedlom, and suddenly a lovely, dark haired girl was 592 00:38:55,955 --> 00:38:59,715 Speaker 1: in Walter Mitty's arms. The district attorney struck at her savagely, 593 00:38:59,875 --> 00:39:02,275 Speaker 1: without rising from his chair. Mitty let the man have 594 00:39:02,355 --> 00:39:04,915 Speaker 1: it on the point of the chin, you miserable curl er. 595 00:39:07,235 --> 00:39:11,475 Speaker 1: Puppy biscuit, said Walter Mitty. He stopped walking, and the 596 00:39:11,475 --> 00:39:14,195 Speaker 1: buildings of Waterbury rose up out of the misty courtroom 597 00:39:14,195 --> 00:39:17,115 Speaker 1: and surrounded him again. A woman who was passing laughed. 598 00:39:17,595 --> 00:39:20,755 Speaker 1: He said, puppy biscuit. She said to her companion. That 599 00:39:20,875 --> 00:39:25,115 Speaker 1: man said puppy biscuit to himself. Walter Mitty hurried on. 600 00:39:26,035 --> 00:39:27,915 Speaker 1: He went into an a and p not the first 601 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:29,915 Speaker 1: one he came to, but a smaller one farther up 602 00:39:29,955 --> 00:39:34,835 Speaker 1: the street. I want some biscuit for small young dogs, 603 00:39:35,355 --> 00:39:39,595 Speaker 1: he said to the clerk. Any special brand, Sir, the 604 00:39:39,635 --> 00:39:44,875 Speaker 1: greatest pistol shot in the world. Thought a moment. It says, 605 00:39:45,995 --> 00:39:50,035 Speaker 1: puppies bark for it on the box, said Walter Mitty. 606 00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:54,155 Speaker 1: His wife would be through at the hairdressers in fifteen minutes. 607 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:56,875 Speaker 1: Mitty saw in looking at his watch. Unless they had 608 00:39:56,915 --> 00:40:00,955 Speaker 1: trouble drying it, sometimes they had trouble drying it. She 609 00:40:01,035 --> 00:40:03,315 Speaker 1: didn't like to get to the hotel first, she would 610 00:40:03,355 --> 00:40:06,635 Speaker 1: want him to be there for her as usual. He 611 00:40:06,675 --> 00:40:09,235 Speaker 1: found a big leather chair in the lobby facing a window, 612 00:40:09,355 --> 00:40:11,715 Speaker 1: and he put the overshoes and the puppy biscuit on 613 00:40:11,715 --> 00:40:14,635 Speaker 1: the floor Beside it. He picked up an old copy 614 00:40:14,675 --> 00:40:19,075 Speaker 1: of Liberty and sank down into the chair. Can Germany 615 00:40:19,195 --> 00:40:22,635 Speaker 1: conquer the world through the air? Walter Mitty looked at 616 00:40:22,675 --> 00:40:30,315 Speaker 1: the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. The 617 00:40:30,395 --> 00:40:33,235 Speaker 1: Cannonaden has got the wind up in young Rawley, Sir, 618 00:40:33,595 --> 00:40:37,395 Speaker 1: said the sergeant. Captain. Mitty looked at him through touzled hair. 619 00:40:37,915 --> 00:40:41,395 Speaker 1: Get him to bed, he said, wearily. With the others, 620 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:45,355 Speaker 1: I'll fly alone, but you can't, sir, said the sergeant. 621 00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:47,875 Speaker 1: Anxiously takes two men to handle that bomber, and the 622 00:40:47,995 --> 00:40:50,795 Speaker 1: archies a pounding l out of the air. Von Rickman's 623 00:40:50,835 --> 00:40:55,195 Speaker 1: circus is between here and Solier. Somebody's got to get 624 00:40:55,235 --> 00:40:59,795 Speaker 1: that ammunition dump, said Mitty. I'm going over spot of brandy. 625 00:41:00,235 --> 00:41:02,715 Speaker 1: He poured a drink for the sergeant and won for himself. 626 00:41:03,355 --> 00:41:06,155 Speaker 1: Wore thundered and wine around the dugout and battered at 627 00:41:06,155 --> 00:41:09,035 Speaker 1: the door. There was a rending of wood and splinters 628 00:41:09,075 --> 00:41:12,915 Speaker 1: flew through the room of a near thing, said Captain 629 00:41:12,955 --> 00:41:17,395 Speaker 1: Mitty carelessly. The box barrage is closing in, said the sergeant. 630 00:41:18,355 --> 00:41:21,635 Speaker 1: We only live once, sergeant, said Mitty, with his faint 631 00:41:21,795 --> 00:41:26,355 Speaker 1: fleeting smile. Or do we He poured another brandy and 632 00:41:26,475 --> 00:41:28,835 Speaker 1: tossed it off. I've never seen a man could hold 633 00:41:28,835 --> 00:41:32,435 Speaker 1: his brandy. Lock you, sir, said the sergeant, begging you pardon, sir. 634 00:41:33,035 --> 00:41:36,195 Speaker 1: Captain Mitty stood up and scrapped on his huge Webbley 635 00:41:36,315 --> 00:41:40,635 Speaker 1: Vicars automatic. It's forty kilometers through el, sir, said the sergeant. 636 00:41:41,395 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: Mitty finished one last brandy after all, he said, softly. 637 00:41:47,235 --> 00:41:50,675 Speaker 1: What isn't The pounding of the cannon increased. There was 638 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:52,915 Speaker 1: the rat tat tatting of the machine guns, and from 639 00:41:52,915 --> 00:41:56,395 Speaker 1: somewhere came the menacing pucket a pucket to pucket a 640 00:41:56,435 --> 00:42:01,115 Speaker 1: pocket of the new flame thrilleries. Walter Mitty walked to 641 00:42:01,195 --> 00:42:04,515 Speaker 1: the door of the dugout, humming out Prey de ma blon, 642 00:42:04,675 --> 00:42:10,035 Speaker 1: and he turned and waved to the sergeant Cheerio. He said. 643 00:42:11,235 --> 00:42:14,155 Speaker 1: Something struck his shoulder. I've been looking all over this 644 00:42:14,235 --> 00:42:17,355 Speaker 1: hotel for you, said missus Mitty. Why do you have 645 00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:19,915 Speaker 1: to hide in this old chair. How did you expect 646 00:42:19,915 --> 00:42:24,475 Speaker 1: me to find you things close in? Said Walter Mitty, 647 00:42:24,555 --> 00:42:28,075 Speaker 1: vaguely what missus Mitty said? Did you get the wats 648 00:42:28,115 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: it's name the poppy biscuit? What's in that box? Overshoes? 649 00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:35,315 Speaker 1: Said Mitty? Couldn't you put them on on the star? 650 00:42:36,795 --> 00:42:39,915 Speaker 1: I was thinking? Said Walter Mitty. Does it ever occur 651 00:42:39,955 --> 00:42:43,555 Speaker 1: to you that I am sometimes thinking? She looked at him. 652 00:42:44,355 --> 00:42:46,915 Speaker 1: I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home, 653 00:42:47,835 --> 00:42:50,915 Speaker 1: she said. They went out through the revolving doors that 654 00:42:50,995 --> 00:42:53,835 Speaker 1: made a faintly derisive whistling sound when you push them. 655 00:42:54,475 --> 00:42:57,115 Speaker 1: It was two blocks to the parking lot at the 656 00:42:57,195 --> 00:42:59,995 Speaker 1: drug store on the corner. She said, wait here for me. 657 00:43:00,075 --> 00:43:03,355 Speaker 1: I forgot something. I won't be a minute. She was 658 00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:08,035 Speaker 1: more than a minute. Walter Mitty lighted a cigarette. It 659 00:43:08,115 --> 00:43:11,915 Speaker 1: began to rain, rained with sleet in it. He stood 660 00:43:11,995 --> 00:43:14,715 Speaker 1: up against the wall of the drug store smoking. He 661 00:43:14,795 --> 00:43:18,395 Speaker 1: put his shoulders back and his heels together. To hell 662 00:43:18,435 --> 00:43:21,915 Speaker 1: with the handkerchief, said Walter Middy scornfully. He took one 663 00:43:21,995 --> 00:43:24,835 Speaker 1: last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, 664 00:43:24,915 --> 00:43:29,515 Speaker 1: with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he 665 00:43:29,635 --> 00:43:34,715 Speaker 1: faced the Firing Squad, erect and motionless, proud and disdainful. 666 00:43:35,075 --> 00:43:42,555 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty, the Undefeated, Inscrutable to the last. The Secret 667 00:43:42,595 --> 00:43:59,875 Speaker 1: Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. I've done all 668 00:43:59,915 --> 00:44:01,875 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening 669 00:44:01,995 --> 00:44:04,435 Speaker 1: right now. Back to five episodes a week, posting nightly 670 00:44:04,515 --> 00:44:08,835 Speaker 1: just after midnight Eastern, so that's Sunday night, just after 671 00:44:08,875 --> 00:44:11,355 Speaker 1: midnight a Sunday night, early Monday morning. Once again there 672 00:44:11,395 --> 00:44:16,595 Speaker 1: is a Monday Countdown. Please forward both this podcast and 673 00:44:16,675 --> 00:44:20,115 Speaker 1: the news of the Monday Countdown to a non listener 674 00:44:20,315 --> 00:44:25,395 Speaker 1: who should fix that problem? Send it to Mark Robinson. 675 00:44:25,395 --> 00:44:27,875 Speaker 1: Tell them it's no, don't. Brian Ray and John Phillip 676 00:44:27,875 --> 00:44:30,515 Speaker 1: Shanel are the musical directors of Countdown and they have arranged, 677 00:44:30,555 --> 00:44:34,875 Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handling 678 00:44:34,955 --> 00:44:38,195 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray on guitars based on drums. 679 00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:41,835 Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy 680 00:44:41,875 --> 00:44:44,835 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organists ever, 681 00:44:45,155 --> 00:44:48,395 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 682 00:44:48,595 --> 00:44:52,235 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Horren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 683 00:44:52,915 --> 00:44:55,955 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns allowed. 684 00:44:56,555 --> 00:45:00,795 Speaker 1: Everything else. It's pretty much my fault. That's countdown for 685 00:45:00,835 --> 00:45:03,915 Speaker 1: this the forty seventh day until the twenty twenty four 686 00:45:03,955 --> 00:45:08,635 Speaker 1: presidential action. The election day included the three and forty 687 00:45:08,635 --> 00:45:13,035 Speaker 1: seventh day since convicted felon dementia J Trump's first attempted 688 00:45:13,115 --> 00:45:16,475 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 689 00:45:16,955 --> 00:45:20,395 Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity. 690 00:45:20,395 --> 00:45:23,075 Speaker 1: If we have to to keep him from doing it again. 691 00:45:23,675 --> 00:45:28,515 Speaker 1: Why we still can He thinks there's an audience. He 692 00:45:28,555 --> 00:45:33,875 Speaker 1: thought there was an audience at the debate. The next 693 00:45:33,915 --> 00:45:37,715 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Monday bulletins as the news requires until 694 00:45:37,715 --> 00:45:40,515 Speaker 1: the next one on Keith Oulderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 695 00:45:40,555 --> 00:46:00,115 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. 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