1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,515 --> 00:00:28,195 Speaker 1: Ninety months in jail for the insurrectionist who, through Officer 3 00:00:28,275 --> 00:00:31,715 Speaker 1: Michael phanone to the mob on January six, and the 4 00:00:31,795 --> 00:00:35,555 Speaker 1: House committee investigating that day seeking testimony from at least 5 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:39,155 Speaker 1: six Secret Service agents and officials, with a clear implication 6 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:42,635 Speaker 1: that the erasure of all their texts from that day 7 00:00:42,715 --> 00:00:46,075 Speaker 1: was no accident, and their inaction when warned of threats 8 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:49,835 Speaker 1: against Pence and Pelosi and Schumer and democracy, that in 9 00:00:49,995 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: action was no accident either, And a week and a 10 00:00:53,635 --> 00:00:56,515 Speaker 1: half from now it will likely be a Lane Duck committee. 11 00:00:56,515 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: And we are two years from the election in which 12 00:00:58,835 --> 00:01:02,035 Speaker 1: Trump and trump is um were defeated and repudiated even 13 00:01:02,075 --> 00:01:05,755 Speaker 1: by a stricken democracy. And to this day, not one 14 00:01:05,955 --> 00:01:11,195 Speaker 1: god damned insurrectionist politician, not one god damned stochastic terrorists, 15 00:01:11,435 --> 00:01:15,315 Speaker 1: not one god damned Trump is in jail or even 16 00:01:15,395 --> 00:01:19,515 Speaker 1: under indictment, And all we have is excuses and delays, 17 00:01:19,675 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: when any other country in the world would have locked 18 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:28,235 Speaker 1: all these bastards up and then sorted out the legalities later. 19 00:01:31,555 --> 00:01:35,435 Speaker 1: Let me begin by saying the worst thing imaginable. We 20 00:01:35,515 --> 00:01:40,155 Speaker 1: need to act, not as if democracy is in jeopardy 21 00:01:40,195 --> 00:01:42,995 Speaker 1: in the mid terms. We need to act as if 22 00:01:43,075 --> 00:01:47,995 Speaker 1: it is already lost. We need to act as if 23 00:01:47,995 --> 00:01:52,315 Speaker 1: our job is not to defend democracy, but to regain it. 24 00:01:52,635 --> 00:01:56,075 Speaker 1: We need to act as if without us, night will 25 00:01:56,155 --> 00:02:00,955 Speaker 1: descend over this country all night forever, for you, soon 26 00:02:01,315 --> 00:02:04,835 Speaker 1: for your children, who will never even read about democracy 27 00:02:04,915 --> 00:02:08,355 Speaker 1: because it won't exist, and they will have closed all 28 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:12,515 Speaker 1: the libraries. We need to act as if darkness over 29 00:02:12,555 --> 00:02:16,075 Speaker 1: this country means there is no country to lead the 30 00:02:16,115 --> 00:02:20,675 Speaker 1: world against the burgeoning climate disaster, and therefore human life 31 00:02:20,675 --> 00:02:24,435 Speaker 1: on this planet will be unsustainable and society will collapse 32 00:02:24,475 --> 00:02:29,115 Speaker 1: in canaclysmic horror and bloodshed in a few short decades 33 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: or less, and it will not be just suicide, but 34 00:02:32,755 --> 00:02:38,195 Speaker 1: slow and horrible suicide for your kids and this planet. 35 00:02:39,115 --> 00:02:41,995 Speaker 1: We need to act this way because for all intents 36 00:02:42,075 --> 00:02:46,915 Speaker 1: and purposes, democracy is lost, and for all intents and purposes, 37 00:02:46,995 --> 00:02:50,035 Speaker 1: our job is to regain it. And for all intents 38 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:53,155 Speaker 1: and purposes, without us, night will descend over this country, 39 00:02:53,235 --> 00:02:55,635 Speaker 1: and for all intents and purposes, there will be no 40 00:02:55,755 --> 00:02:58,475 Speaker 1: country to lead in the climate disaster and the slow 41 00:02:58,555 --> 00:03:02,875 Speaker 1: and horrible suicide that is about to begin. And we 42 00:03:02,955 --> 00:03:09,035 Speaker 1: need to act our way ourselves, because the two institutions 43 00:03:09,075 --> 00:03:11,555 Speaker 1: upon which even the most cynical of us believe we 44 00:03:11,595 --> 00:03:16,075 Speaker 1: could rely, at least in some small degree to defend 45 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:20,195 Speaker 1: the democracy on our behalf have abandoned the fight so 46 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:24,795 Speaker 1: that they can instead defend their careers and their profits. 47 00:03:25,915 --> 00:03:29,915 Speaker 1: Those two institutions would be one the political and judicial 48 00:03:30,035 --> 00:03:34,715 Speaker 1: infrastructure of this country, and to the news media of 49 00:03:34,795 --> 00:03:38,435 Speaker 1: this country. They have all seen the future as I 50 00:03:38,475 --> 00:03:41,475 Speaker 1: have just described it, and as you know in in 51 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:45,155 Speaker 1: your heart to be true. They have all seen that future. 52 00:03:45,275 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: And in the one institution they have seen this gathering 53 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:51,275 Speaker 1: storm and said how do I get re elected in 54 00:03:51,275 --> 00:03:54,635 Speaker 1: this environment? And in the other institution they have seen 55 00:03:54,635 --> 00:03:57,395 Speaker 1: the gathering storm and said, how do we protect the 56 00:03:57,435 --> 00:04:00,635 Speaker 1: profits of our news organization if this country goes wholly 57 00:04:00,715 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: or just mostly fascist. History has placed today's small l 58 00:04:07,475 --> 00:04:12,275 Speaker 1: liberal politicians and today's small minded news executives and reporters 59 00:04:12,315 --> 00:04:15,515 Speaker 1: in as perilous at time ever for the future of 60 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:19,355 Speaker 1: freedom and the future of humanity, and they have responded 61 00:04:19,355 --> 00:04:25,915 Speaker 1: with cowardice and selfishness and looking for ways to become accessories. 62 00:04:27,035 --> 00:04:30,635 Speaker 1: Fear is everywhere, and not fear for the future of 63 00:04:30,635 --> 00:04:34,275 Speaker 1: our nation and our freedoms and our neighbors, fear for themselves, 64 00:04:35,235 --> 00:04:38,875 Speaker 1: fear for their offices, fear for their wallets, fear for 65 00:04:38,955 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: their ratings, fear for their climb up the corporate ladder. 66 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:47,195 Speaker 1: We have a week and a half left to beat 67 00:04:47,275 --> 00:04:52,075 Speaker 1: these idiots, not the fascists. The fascists are a moral, 68 00:04:52,155 --> 00:04:56,795 Speaker 1: murderous bastards, but they are not idiots. By idiots, I 69 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: mean beat the allegedly liberal politicians and the anything but 70 00:05:00,995 --> 00:05:05,915 Speaker 1: liberal media into action and not appeasement, and into rage 71 00:05:06,035 --> 00:05:11,675 Speaker 1: and not compromise. Quote. If you look at some of 72 00:05:11,675 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: the people that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, 73 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:18,675 Speaker 1: said the co president of CBS quote news unquote, if 74 00:05:18,715 --> 00:05:20,355 Speaker 1: you look at some of the people that we've been 75 00:05:20,435 --> 00:05:23,315 Speaker 1: hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure 76 00:05:23,395 --> 00:05:26,315 Speaker 1: that we are getting access to both sides of the 77 00:05:26,395 --> 00:05:30,355 Speaker 1: aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are 78 00:05:30,395 --> 00:05:34,235 Speaker 1: going to take over, most likely in the midterms. The 79 00:05:34,275 --> 00:05:37,955 Speaker 1: man who said that is name near as Kenlani. He 80 00:05:38,035 --> 00:05:40,875 Speaker 1: not only said this to his staff at CBS News, 81 00:05:41,355 --> 00:05:44,955 Speaker 1: but he said it understanding that those people were, yes, 82 00:05:44,995 --> 00:05:48,035 Speaker 1: all reporters and Golli gosh, maybe one of them would 83 00:05:48,035 --> 00:05:51,275 Speaker 1: record what he was saying and give that recording to 84 00:05:52,075 --> 00:05:56,275 Speaker 1: the Washington Post perhaps or somebody. A lot of the 85 00:05:56,315 --> 00:05:59,115 Speaker 1: people that we're bringing in are helping us in terms 86 00:05:59,155 --> 00:06:04,955 Speaker 1: of access to that side of the equation. Not only 87 00:06:04,995 --> 00:06:08,475 Speaker 1: has this near Raj Kim Lanni not been fired by 88 00:06:08,515 --> 00:06:12,915 Speaker 1: CBS News, but the sleez bag he hired first, the 89 00:06:12,995 --> 00:06:16,595 Speaker 1: former chief of staff to Crazy Trump, Mick Mulvaney, has 90 00:06:16,635 --> 00:06:20,915 Speaker 1: also not been fired. Mick Mulvaney, one of the principles 91 00:06:20,955 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: in Trump's blackmailing of President Zelenski of Ukraine. Mick Mulvaney 92 00:06:25,235 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: CBS News, Washington, Ukrainian Blood on my Hands hired so 93 00:06:31,515 --> 00:06:36,675 Speaker 1: CBS can get Republicans to go on face the nation, 94 00:06:37,395 --> 00:06:44,435 Speaker 1: and theoretically Republicans will watch CBS access to Republicans to 95 00:06:44,555 --> 00:06:48,915 Speaker 1: come on to CBS News shows which Republicans will never 96 00:06:49,435 --> 00:06:55,395 Speaker 1: ever watch. Near as Canlani is doing this because, as 97 00:06:55,395 --> 00:06:57,755 Speaker 1: he put it, quote, we know the Republicans are going 98 00:06:57,795 --> 00:07:00,075 Speaker 1: to take over, most likely in the midterms, and having 99 00:07:00,235 --> 00:07:03,195 Speaker 1: slime like Mick mulvaney on the staff of CBS News 100 00:07:03,355 --> 00:07:07,675 Speaker 1: gives CBS at its parent company some cover for whenever 101 00:07:07,795 --> 00:07:11,635 Speaker 1: Crazy Trump or the next Crazy Trump comes in with 102 00:07:11,675 --> 00:07:15,715 Speaker 1: new laws restricting what places like CBS News can and 103 00:07:15,755 --> 00:07:19,635 Speaker 1: cannot report. Near Ashkeren Lonnie can point to Mick mulvaney 104 00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:22,635 Speaker 1: CBS News Washington and say, but but some of your 105 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:26,875 Speaker 1: people work here, and maybe, just maybe, Crazy Trump or 106 00:07:26,915 --> 00:07:30,075 Speaker 1: the next Crazy Trump will say, Okay, you can stay 107 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:33,755 Speaker 1: in business and make your money, and your investors will 108 00:07:33,795 --> 00:07:37,155 Speaker 1: be happy, and all will be well for CBS and 109 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:39,275 Speaker 1: the stockholders. And so what if the rest of the 110 00:07:39,275 --> 00:07:41,795 Speaker 1: country has turned into Russia. All that money will let 111 00:07:41,795 --> 00:07:45,515 Speaker 1: you buy your way out of the nightmare. For a while. 112 00:07:48,355 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: Back in April, The New York Times did an extensive 113 00:07:53,075 --> 00:07:55,955 Speaker 1: take out on what it described in the headline as quote, 114 00:07:56,475 --> 00:08:02,835 Speaker 1: Trump allies continue legal drive to erase his loss, stoking 115 00:08:02,995 --> 00:08:08,435 Speaker 1: election doubts. The word allies is in their allies, as 116 00:08:08,435 --> 00:08:11,915 Speaker 1: in the Allies one World War Two. The word legal 117 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:13,995 Speaker 1: is in there, which implies that what is being done 118 00:08:14,315 --> 00:08:18,795 Speaker 1: is legal. The word erase is in there, as if 119 00:08:18,835 --> 00:08:23,315 Speaker 1: we were talking about backspacing over a typo or properly 120 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:29,315 Speaker 1: washing clean a blackboard. Trump allies continue legal drive to 121 00:08:29,435 --> 00:08:34,315 Speaker 1: erase his loss, stoking election doubts. You know a word 122 00:08:34,355 --> 00:08:37,235 Speaker 1: that was not in that New York Times headline. Coup 123 00:08:37,915 --> 00:08:40,795 Speaker 1: was not in that headline. Another word insurrection is not 124 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,435 Speaker 1: in there. There's an apt phrase that also is not 125 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:46,835 Speaker 1: in their attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of 126 00:08:46,875 --> 00:08:50,635 Speaker 1: the United goddamned States. None of that is in the headline, 127 00:08:50,995 --> 00:08:53,235 Speaker 1: and next to none of it was in the article. 128 00:08:53,475 --> 00:08:58,435 Speaker 1: It's just, oh, you know, allies doing legal erasing by 129 00:08:58,475 --> 00:09:04,155 Speaker 1: the New York Times by Maggie Haberman. Of course, because 130 00:09:04,875 --> 00:09:08,035 Speaker 1: the New York Times is so afraid that it might 131 00:09:08,115 --> 00:09:11,675 Speaker 1: take a side here. No, that's not right, exactly. The 132 00:09:11,715 --> 00:09:13,835 Speaker 1: New York Times is so afraid that it might take 133 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:19,075 Speaker 1: the wrong side here that even it will hedge its 134 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:23,035 Speaker 1: bets on occasion in the face of the looming shadow 135 00:09:23,155 --> 00:09:27,875 Speaker 1: of fascism, and it will passively cooperate with fabricating some 136 00:09:28,035 --> 00:09:32,075 Speaker 1: illegal excuse that sounds like it's a law to erase 137 00:09:32,355 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: an election, instead of saying the same fascist who try 138 00:09:36,835 --> 00:09:39,955 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government on January six are still at it. 139 00:09:40,035 --> 00:09:43,835 Speaker 1: And here are forty constitutional experts who explain why the 140 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:46,675 Speaker 1: correct response for this is for the President to send 141 00:09:46,675 --> 00:09:50,395 Speaker 1: in the military and detain these treasonous seditionists in a 142 00:09:50,515 --> 00:09:58,675 Speaker 1: naval brig The Times, The Post, CBS, CNN, have I 143 00:09:58,715 --> 00:10:03,715 Speaker 1: mentioned CNN and Chris licked all of them all media, 144 00:10:04,155 --> 00:10:08,075 Speaker 1: They all still don't know how to cover a political 145 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:10,835 Speaker 1: story that does not fit into one of maybe two 146 00:10:10,915 --> 00:10:15,115 Speaker 1: dozen templates. There's never been a political party that tried 147 00:10:15,155 --> 00:10:19,795 Speaker 1: to overthrow democracy. Therefore there can never be a political 148 00:10:19,835 --> 00:10:24,515 Speaker 1: party that tries to overthrow democracy. The papers editor quit 149 00:10:25,035 --> 00:10:27,435 Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen. He was the one who insisted 150 00:10:27,475 --> 00:10:30,595 Speaker 1: there was nothing unique about the current moment, that crazy 151 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:36,075 Speaker 1: Trump was just quote someone who says inflammatory statements like 152 00:10:36,155 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: a one time governor of Louisiana named Edwin Edwards, fear everywhere, 153 00:10:44,715 --> 00:10:50,755 Speaker 1: the wrong kind. And then there are the politicians. Let 154 00:10:50,755 --> 00:10:52,755 Speaker 1: me throw this in here because it is the ultimate 155 00:10:52,755 --> 00:10:56,355 Speaker 1: current example of self interest married to fear. Somebody at 156 00:10:56,395 --> 00:10:58,995 Speaker 1: The Economist wrote in the spring, you know it would 157 00:10:58,995 --> 00:11:01,755 Speaker 1: be a great idea with the red wave facing Democrats 158 00:11:01,755 --> 00:11:07,595 Speaker 1: in the midterms, g Elliott Morris right, quote would be 159 00:11:07,675 --> 00:11:11,315 Speaker 1: conservative and moderate Democrats in red states should shun the 160 00:11:11,355 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: democratic label and run instead as independence. Oh sneaky. Maybe 161 00:11:19,915 --> 00:11:22,555 Speaker 1: three of them could stand on each other's shoulders and 162 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:25,555 Speaker 1: wear a trench coat and insist They're not three Democrats, 163 00:11:25,675 --> 00:11:34,475 Speaker 1: They're just one giant independent quoting g Elliott again. This 164 00:11:34,715 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: both saves them from being automatically cast aside by rural 165 00:11:38,275 --> 00:11:42,235 Speaker 1: Republican voters and allows them to adopt some more conservative 166 00:11:42,315 --> 00:11:49,275 Speaker 1: social positions. I mentioned many times my heroes were the 167 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:53,155 Speaker 1: comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Golding. Bob Elliott the father 168 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: of Chris Elliott, whose work you may know. There was 169 00:11:56,595 --> 00:12:00,955 Speaker 1: a Bob and Ray sketch which I no by heart, 170 00:12:01,755 --> 00:12:04,915 Speaker 1: about the head of the National Ketchup Institute play by 171 00:12:04,995 --> 00:12:08,355 Speaker 1: Ray Goulding explaining to the interviewer played by Bob Elliott 172 00:12:08,395 --> 00:12:12,715 Speaker 1: about how his plans for National Ketchup Week would double sales. 173 00:12:13,275 --> 00:12:15,515 Speaker 1: We will be branching out to new areas, new flavors, 174 00:12:15,555 --> 00:12:21,435 Speaker 1: new meals for Ketchup. Bob answers evenly, new meals for Ketchup. 175 00:12:22,235 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: Ray resumes not catchup as you civilians know it now, 176 00:12:25,835 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 1: but catchup in which tomato has been replaced by chocolate flavoring. 177 00:12:29,595 --> 00:12:34,035 Speaker 1: This opens the entire dessert topping field to the Ketchup conglomerates. 178 00:12:35,595 --> 00:12:38,995 Speaker 1: Bob Elliott takes a long pause and says, so you're 179 00:12:39,035 --> 00:12:44,355 Speaker 1: holding National Ketchup Week to promote the sales of chocolate sauce. 180 00:12:45,715 --> 00:12:49,715 Speaker 1: Now it is Ray who pauses. Gosh, when you put 181 00:12:49,715 --> 00:12:53,235 Speaker 1: it that way, it sounds pretty stupid, and it's it's 182 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:56,035 Speaker 1: my idea. I better get back to the office before 183 00:12:56,075 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 1: all hell breaks out. Excuse me. Democrats in Red States 184 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:03,715 Speaker 1: pretending they're not Democrats and instead running as independence because 185 00:13:04,035 --> 00:13:06,515 Speaker 1: their Republican opponents would never figure that out in a 186 00:13:06,555 --> 00:13:10,195 Speaker 1: million years. It's genius. It's genius, I tells you, because 187 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: Texans would never figure out, say that the independent who 188 00:13:13,435 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: was running for governor Mr b Ato O'Rourke was actually 189 00:13:17,515 --> 00:13:20,595 Speaker 1: a Democrat. They never figured that out, and turn it 190 00:13:20,595 --> 00:13:23,995 Speaker 1: into another smear on o, a n with which to 191 00:13:24,075 --> 00:13:28,795 Speaker 1: further terrify the already cowering Democrats into submission National Ketchup 192 00:13:28,795 --> 00:13:33,275 Speaker 1: Week to sell chocolate sauce and independent not Democrats. Fear 193 00:13:33,715 --> 00:13:40,475 Speaker 1: fear fear. How even at this late hour can Democrats 194 00:13:40,515 --> 00:13:43,435 Speaker 1: and liberals not see the obviousness of the path in 195 00:13:43,515 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 1: front of them? The party in the White House always 196 00:13:45,715 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 1: gets crushed in the mid terms. The economy is good, 197 00:13:48,835 --> 00:13:52,955 Speaker 1: but inflation and the media make it seem disastrous. The 198 00:13:53,075 --> 00:13:56,755 Speaker 1: sense of inevitability is like Lincoln in eighteen sixty four 199 00:13:57,635 --> 00:14:01,555 Speaker 1: before they took Atlanta. There seems to be nothing left 200 00:14:01,595 --> 00:14:06,195 Speaker 1: to lose in the mid terms, so act that way. 201 00:14:06,795 --> 00:14:09,915 Speaker 1: You can't figure out how to stave off midterm disasters 202 00:14:09,915 --> 00:14:13,395 Speaker 1: against Republicans who have gerrymandered the nation and honed a 203 00:14:13,435 --> 00:14:16,875 Speaker 1: propaganda machine that now offers a channel of diet hate, 204 00:14:16,995 --> 00:14:19,795 Speaker 1: a channel of regular hate, and a channel of extra 205 00:14:19,915 --> 00:14:23,235 Speaker 1: strength hate. How about running on this wild idea. The 206 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:28,315 Speaker 1: Republicans tried to violently overthrow the government of this country 207 00:14:28,395 --> 00:14:31,635 Speaker 1: last year, and having been thwarted, they are trying to 208 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:36,115 Speaker 1: quote decertify an election and remove a president, even though 209 00:14:36,115 --> 00:14:39,035 Speaker 1: the Constitution says nobody can do that. And all, by 210 00:14:39,115 --> 00:14:43,515 Speaker 1: the way, each Republican candidate is a fascist or a racist, 211 00:14:43,875 --> 00:14:49,435 Speaker 1: or a vigilante or a Nazi or herschel Walker or 212 00:14:49,515 --> 00:14:51,475 Speaker 1: the best of them is none of these things. But 213 00:14:51,595 --> 00:14:57,715 Speaker 1: they tolerate fascists, racists, vigilantees, Nazis, and herschel Walkers in 214 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:01,835 Speaker 1: their party. You can't run as the anti fascism party 215 00:15:02,115 --> 00:15:06,675 Speaker 1: even now, the anti coup party, the anti Nazi party. 216 00:15:06,915 --> 00:15:09,635 Speaker 1: The if you vote Republican will be the last election 217 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:13,235 Speaker 1: we ever have party with democracy about to go up 218 00:15:13,275 --> 00:15:18,435 Speaker 1: and smoke with Republican Congressman promising to prosecute the members 219 00:15:18,515 --> 00:15:23,515 Speaker 1: of the committee that looked into the last coup. If 220 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,595 Speaker 1: democracy is holding, it's going out of business sale. You 221 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:31,635 Speaker 1: can't risk getting your skirts dirty here like Lincoln risk 222 00:15:31,715 --> 00:15:34,835 Speaker 1: getting his skirts dirty every day of his presidency. You 223 00:15:34,915 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: can't stash crazy Trump and Eastman and Mike freaking Lindell 224 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: in an army stockade and accused them of sedition and 225 00:15:42,315 --> 00:15:45,355 Speaker 1: fomenting violence, which, by the way, they have or at 226 00:15:45,395 --> 00:15:47,835 Speaker 1: least threatened them with an army stockade, I mean, before 227 00:15:47,995 --> 00:15:52,355 Speaker 1: just giving up and letting their minions take the House 228 00:15:53,155 --> 00:15:56,075 Speaker 1: in a week and a half and paving the way 229 00:15:56,115 --> 00:16:00,075 Speaker 1: for Crazy Trump's return. You don't want to try something aggressive. 230 00:16:00,195 --> 00:16:07,595 Speaker 1: Maybe you can't run on We stopped Trump from ending democracy, 231 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:10,315 Speaker 1: We stopped Trump from making himself dictator for life, and 232 00:16:10,355 --> 00:16:13,355 Speaker 1: we stopped Trump from letting putin annexed Ukraine. We're the 233 00:16:13,355 --> 00:16:16,555 Speaker 1: Democrats and we kill fascists. You can't run on that. 234 00:16:16,675 --> 00:16:26,395 Speaker 1: You're not even gonna try. Fear fear fear. We have 235 00:16:26,475 --> 00:16:29,395 Speaker 1: nothing to fear but fear itself. But unfortunately, to paraphrase, 236 00:16:29,435 --> 00:16:31,755 Speaker 1: not FDR but my late friend William Hurt in the 237 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:35,355 Speaker 1: movie Body Heat. Sometimes the fear comes down so heavy 238 00:16:35,555 --> 00:16:41,315 Speaker 1: I feel like I should wear a hat. So you 239 00:16:41,395 --> 00:16:45,035 Speaker 1: and I have to do it ourselves. Light of fire. 240 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:48,675 Speaker 1: Do the Democrats in the last week and a half, 241 00:16:50,275 --> 00:16:53,475 Speaker 1: or replace the ones who survive. And god damn it, 242 00:16:53,875 --> 00:16:56,595 Speaker 1: if he's not ready to indict Donald Trump by the 243 00:16:56,675 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: first of next year, I'm starting with Merrick Garland. Put 244 00:17:02,235 --> 00:17:05,475 Speaker 1: Trump in jail, or go to jail your self, Garland, 245 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:13,035 Speaker 1: and light a fire under the liberal media or replace 246 00:17:13,155 --> 00:17:17,035 Speaker 1: them too. And by the way, that's why I'm saying 247 00:17:17,075 --> 00:17:21,635 Speaker 1: this now and you are listening to it. We'll do 248 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:27,315 Speaker 1: it ourselves. We have to just remember, be careful out there. 249 00:17:28,435 --> 00:17:45,355 Speaker 1: Everybody wear a hat. Still ahead on countdown, the head 250 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:48,555 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party mocks the health of the President 251 00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:52,195 Speaker 1: of the United States and the would be senator from Pennsylvania. 252 00:17:52,515 --> 00:17:55,675 Speaker 1: And when it didn't do enough harm, she repeated the 253 00:17:55,715 --> 00:17:59,475 Speaker 1: remark she is filth and we must chase her off 254 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:03,395 Speaker 1: the political landscape. The New York Post gets hacked, The 255 00:18:03,435 --> 00:18:09,875 Speaker 1: Hacker Post wild violent, racist, sexist stories and nobody notices 256 00:18:09,915 --> 00:18:14,955 Speaker 1: the difference. And the World series preview why I'm not sure, 257 00:18:15,515 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: I'm going to watch the World Series and then something lighter, 258 00:18:20,995 --> 00:18:22,955 Speaker 1: come to think of it, almost anything after that would 259 00:18:22,955 --> 00:18:26,955 Speaker 1: be lighter Fridays with Thurber and the dog that bit people. 260 00:18:27,675 --> 00:18:37,675 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 261 00:18:37,715 --> 00:18:45,835 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead. What's that muskie smell in here? They're 262 00:18:45,995 --> 00:18:55,475 Speaker 1: saying at Twitter? My World Series preview preview and Theurber's 263 00:18:55,555 --> 00:18:59,195 Speaker 1: the dog that bit people first. In each edition of Countdown, 264 00:18:59,235 --> 00:19:01,155 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 265 00:19:01,155 --> 00:19:03,755 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day back to the Bahamas and 266 00:19:03,795 --> 00:19:07,555 Speaker 1: the good folks of Patty Cake Rescue. He's just another 267 00:19:07,595 --> 00:19:10,035 Speaker 1: puppy on the streets of just another place where they 268 00:19:10,075 --> 00:19:12,555 Speaker 1: are all too common, and we will not save them all, 269 00:19:12,835 --> 00:19:15,475 Speaker 1: but we can save him. His name is yo Feel. 270 00:19:15,795 --> 00:19:18,795 Speaker 1: He had mange fleas. He was anemic, thin, and yet 271 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:21,795 Speaker 1: when rescued he was still playful and happy. And then 272 00:19:21,795 --> 00:19:24,675 Speaker 1: he stopped eating and he tested positive for an awful 273 00:19:24,715 --> 00:19:28,275 Speaker 1: condition called lepto spirosis. It is a bacterial infection. He 274 00:19:28,315 --> 00:19:31,115 Speaker 1: needs a lot of drugs. Yo Feel's torso is about 275 00:19:31,155 --> 00:19:33,755 Speaker 1: the size of your hand. If you can help look 276 00:19:33,795 --> 00:19:35,915 Speaker 1: for him, you feel y O f I E l 277 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:38,835 Speaker 1: On giving grid or he'll be in the pinned tweet 278 00:19:38,875 --> 00:19:41,675 Speaker 1: on my account for dogs in Need, Tom Jumbo Grumbo. 279 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:45,395 Speaker 1: Your donation, big or small will be gratefully welcomed, as 280 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:48,755 Speaker 1: will your retweet of you Fiel's story and thank you 281 00:19:48,835 --> 00:20:04,635 Speaker 1: very much. Phote scripts to the news some headlines, some inside, 282 00:20:04,675 --> 00:20:07,915 Speaker 1: it's some snark. Dateline Albany, New York, just as he 283 00:20:07,995 --> 00:20:12,515 Speaker 1: was moving up from blowout to competitive, scandal strikes the 284 00:20:12,555 --> 00:20:16,595 Speaker 1: campaign of Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zelden. There 285 00:20:16,675 --> 00:20:20,475 Speaker 1: is enough evidence that he has illegally coordinated with supposedly 286 00:20:20,555 --> 00:20:24,155 Speaker 1: unaffiliated packs that have supplied his campaign with up to 287 00:20:24,195 --> 00:20:27,715 Speaker 1: twelve million dollars worth of advertising for the State Board 288 00:20:27,755 --> 00:20:32,035 Speaker 1: of Elections to seek subpoena power in investigating the case. 289 00:20:32,395 --> 00:20:35,915 Speaker 1: That has been delayed, though, because two Republican members of 290 00:20:35,955 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: the board, when they found out about the investigation into 291 00:20:38,515 --> 00:20:43,195 Speaker 1: Zelden and the alleged coordination, made themselves scarce, denying the 292 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:48,235 Speaker 1: board of quorum. Dateline Omaha exactly what law enforcement needs. 293 00:20:48,235 --> 00:20:52,475 Speaker 1: In this Nebraska town, Chief of Police Todd Schmaderer has 294 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 1: asked the city council to spend three and forty one thousand, 295 00:20:57,155 --> 00:21:00,475 Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy eight dollars to buy the omahaw 296 00:21:00,555 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: p D a Lenco Bearcat G three. A Lenco Bearcat 297 00:21:06,675 --> 00:21:12,115 Speaker 1: G three is in short, a tank, because the goddamn 298 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:25,595 Speaker 1: police in Omaha they really need a tank. Thank you, 299 00:21:25,715 --> 00:21:29,435 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Dateline, New York, The Murdoch Ragged. The post 300 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:33,835 Speaker 1: announces that yesterday it was hacked Well Yae when Rupert 301 00:21:33,915 --> 00:21:37,435 Speaker 1: Murdoch bought the paper in in nineties six or more 302 00:21:37,515 --> 00:21:40,515 Speaker 1: recently than that, the website and the social media accounts 303 00:21:40,555 --> 00:21:44,955 Speaker 1: suddenly showed complete stories very well done, in which Texas 304 00:21:45,035 --> 00:21:48,875 Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott had ordered the slaughter of undocumented immigrants. 305 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,435 Speaker 1: There were fried chicken jokes directed at New York Mayor 306 00:21:52,555 --> 00:21:56,715 Speaker 1: Eric Adams, supposedly by candidate Zelden, et cetera. The Post 307 00:21:56,755 --> 00:21:59,395 Speaker 1: says the hacker was an employee and he has been 308 00:21:59,435 --> 00:22:03,195 Speaker 1: fired and quote we immediately removed the vile and reprehensible 309 00:22:03,235 --> 00:22:07,515 Speaker 1: content from our web site. Unquote you removed the vile 310 00:22:07,555 --> 00:22:11,635 Speaker 1: and reprehensible content from the post's website, so now it's 311 00:22:11,675 --> 00:22:16,515 Speaker 1: blank and Dateline weehawk in New Jersey, the literary agent 312 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: Lucy Anne Goldberg died Wednesday. She was seven. It is 313 00:22:21,315 --> 00:22:24,275 Speaker 1: unpleasant to speak ill of the recently dead, and I'm 314 00:22:24,315 --> 00:22:26,515 Speaker 1: sure there were people who loved her, like her son. 315 00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:30,035 Speaker 1: But Goldberg was the person who convinced Linda Tripp to 316 00:22:30,155 --> 00:22:34,475 Speaker 1: tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and bait the teenager 317 00:22:34,555 --> 00:22:38,075 Speaker 1: Lewinsky into talking about her affair with President Bill Clinton 318 00:22:38,515 --> 00:22:41,675 Speaker 1: for the remaining twenty five years of her life, as 319 00:22:41,715 --> 00:22:45,755 Speaker 1: she assailed Clinton for his immorality and bad behavior. It 320 00:22:45,915 --> 00:22:50,435 Speaker 1: presumably never once occurred to Lucy Anne Goldberg that she 321 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:55,035 Speaker 1: was a far, far, far worse excuse for a human 322 00:22:55,075 --> 00:22:59,675 Speaker 1: being than was Clinton, and an implausible excuse for a 323 00:22:59,755 --> 00:23:18,235 Speaker 1: human being by Felicia. This is Sports Center. Wait, check 324 00:23:18,275 --> 00:23:26,995 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in Sports. 325 00:23:27,075 --> 00:23:30,195 Speaker 1: While soccer stars of half a dozen nations have already 326 00:23:30,315 --> 00:23:33,955 Speaker 1: staged or are planning human rights protests about the upcoming 327 00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:38,115 Speaker 1: World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is a crime, a 328 00:23:38,195 --> 00:23:42,875 Speaker 1: British diplomat is advising LGBT soccer fans planning to attend 329 00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:46,235 Speaker 1: the games there to remember that Qatar is making quote 330 00:23:46,435 --> 00:23:49,355 Speaker 1: some compromises in terms of what is you know and 331 00:23:49,475 --> 00:23:53,875 Speaker 1: Islamic country, so gay fans should quote be respectful of 332 00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:56,075 Speaker 1: the host nation. I think with a little bit of 333 00:23:56,195 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: flex and compromise at both ends, it can be a safe, 334 00:24:00,075 --> 00:24:04,275 Speaker 1: secure and exciting World Cup. This comment was made by 335 00:24:04,315 --> 00:24:09,635 Speaker 1: the ronically named James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary under this 336 00:24:09,755 --> 00:24:13,475 Speaker 1: week's UK Prime Minister. The former British soccer star and 337 00:24:13,555 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: top commentator Gary Lenaker summed this up quote whatever you 338 00:24:17,355 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: do don't do anything gay? Is that the message? Unquote? Here? 339 00:24:22,675 --> 00:24:26,715 Speaker 1: The World Series starts tonight. You remember the World Series? 340 00:24:27,235 --> 00:24:32,235 Speaker 1: It averaged forty four million TV viewers per game in night, 341 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:37,595 Speaker 1: and that included two day games, one against NFL broadcasts 342 00:24:37,635 --> 00:24:41,595 Speaker 1: and one against college football. But that forty four million 343 00:24:41,635 --> 00:24:44,835 Speaker 1: per game TV audience had dropped to eleven million, seven 344 00:24:44,915 --> 00:24:48,835 Speaker 1: hundred thousand last year as baseball continued to make changes 345 00:24:48,875 --> 00:24:53,155 Speaker 1: that gradually erased any chance that you would watch unless 346 00:24:53,155 --> 00:24:56,115 Speaker 1: it was your team playing in it, or that it 347 00:24:56,155 --> 00:25:00,915 Speaker 1: would not become In Bob Costas's memorable phrase from about 348 00:25:01,755 --> 00:25:05,435 Speaker 1: the MLB Finals, people are trying to hype this one 349 00:25:05,515 --> 00:25:09,195 Speaker 1: up as the plucky underdog Philadelphia Phillies against the loathsome 350 00:25:09,235 --> 00:25:12,115 Speaker 1: Houston Astros, and if the Phillies win, it will be 351 00:25:12,155 --> 00:25:14,995 Speaker 1: something of an upset. The Astros swept the first round 352 00:25:15,035 --> 00:25:16,835 Speaker 1: of the playoffs and then swept the second round of 353 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:19,515 Speaker 1: the playoffs and could easily sweep the series as well. 354 00:25:20,035 --> 00:25:23,835 Speaker 1: The problem, though, with the plucky underdog Phillies idea, is 355 00:25:23,875 --> 00:25:26,355 Speaker 1: that while they had just the eleventh best record in 356 00:25:26,395 --> 00:25:29,555 Speaker 1: baseball this year and fired their manager early in the season, 357 00:25:30,035 --> 00:25:33,395 Speaker 1: they had at least the fourth highest payroll in the game, 358 00:25:33,475 --> 00:25:36,995 Speaker 1: behind only the Mets, Yankees, and Dodgers. Yet they only 359 00:25:37,075 --> 00:25:39,995 Speaker 1: made the postseason when the Milwaukee Brewers choked in the 360 00:25:39,995 --> 00:25:43,515 Speaker 1: final days of the campaign. The Phillies hit a lot. 361 00:25:43,755 --> 00:25:47,675 Speaker 1: They have huge holes defensively, and at several positions. They 362 00:25:47,675 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: have players with an alarming tendency to not really have 363 00:25:51,235 --> 00:25:54,355 Speaker 1: any idea what to do next with a baseball hit 364 00:25:54,515 --> 00:25:59,035 Speaker 1: or thrown to them. The Astros have no visible flaws 365 00:25:59,075 --> 00:26:02,755 Speaker 1: except for their history of cheating, and they're really dull uniforms. 366 00:26:03,755 --> 00:26:06,675 Speaker 1: I guess I'm watching I'm not certain for the first 367 00:26:06,675 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 1: time in my adult life, but I'll probably watch it 368 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:12,275 Speaker 1: for no other reason than to keep my streak alive 369 00:26:12,315 --> 00:26:15,515 Speaker 1: of having watched some or all of the last fifty 370 00:26:15,555 --> 00:26:19,035 Speaker 1: five World Series and having reported on seventeen of them. 371 00:26:19,115 --> 00:26:21,475 Speaker 1: And attended to more and been the TV host for 372 00:26:21,515 --> 00:26:23,995 Speaker 1: two of them. But you know not, if the weather 373 00:26:24,075 --> 00:26:25,875 Speaker 1: is nice and I can get the dogs out, I'm 374 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 1: not watching coming up. Dog Lover James Thurber's Lovable Dog 375 00:26:36,075 --> 00:26:39,475 Speaker 1: story about an unlovable dog that if you're a dog lover, 376 00:26:39,755 --> 00:26:45,075 Speaker 1: you'll just love. Friday's next first, the daily roundup of 377 00:26:45,075 --> 00:26:48,435 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute 378 00:26:48,475 --> 00:26:54,315 Speaker 1: today's Where's person's in the world. Lebron's Republican fascist Looney 379 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:59,355 Speaker 1: Party candidate for governor in Michigan, Tutor Dixon. Tutor Dixon 380 00:27:00,635 --> 00:27:04,435 Speaker 1: CNN dug up one of her commentaries for the streaming 381 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:09,275 Speaker 1: net work Real America's Voice. That's the Steve Rasputin Bannon 382 00:27:09,395 --> 00:27:16,355 Speaker 1: channel and it is outstanding. Mrs Dixon a crackpot postulated 383 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:20,315 Speaker 1: that the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests were 384 00:27:20,395 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: quote in the works for years. The country today is divided, 385 00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:26,915 Speaker 1: and this was the plan to topple a country like 386 00:27:26,955 --> 00:27:29,595 Speaker 1: the United States of America. You must be planning this 387 00:27:29,675 --> 00:27:33,435 Speaker 1: for decades. Why wouldn't that come from the party that 388 00:27:33,635 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: lost the Civil War, the party that wanted to own 389 00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:39,835 Speaker 1: people because they viewed them as less than human. Do 390 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:43,235 Speaker 1: you think that the Democrats are over losing to the 391 00:27:43,275 --> 00:27:47,435 Speaker 1: North unquote, if it's hard for you to believe that 392 00:27:47,515 --> 00:27:50,995 Speaker 1: the intellectual high point for somebody running for governor somewhere 393 00:27:51,515 --> 00:27:54,675 Speaker 1: was when she was eaten alive by zombies in the 394 00:27:54,715 --> 00:27:59,195 Speaker 1: two thousand nine horror film Buddy Bebop Versus the Living Dead, 395 00:27:59,915 --> 00:28:02,515 Speaker 1: I understand that that would be difficult for you to believe, 396 00:28:03,395 --> 00:28:09,515 Speaker 1: but that was the high point Knitwit, the runner up 397 00:28:09,515 --> 00:28:13,955 Speaker 1: the Despicable Ronna Romney McDaniel, still chairwoman of the Republican 398 00:28:14,075 --> 00:28:18,475 Speaker 1: National Committee. On one of the thousand Different Fascist podcast 399 00:28:18,595 --> 00:28:22,075 Speaker 1: McDaniel was asked about President Biden and Vice President Harris 400 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:26,155 Speaker 1: going to Pennsylvania to campaign today for John Fetterman. Her 401 00:28:26,195 --> 00:28:30,075 Speaker 1: reply quote, well, maybe they can get a full sentence out, 402 00:28:30,675 --> 00:28:35,475 Speaker 1: evidently thinking mocking Biden's stutter and Futterman's stroke recovery was 403 00:28:35,515 --> 00:28:39,915 Speaker 1: a winning strategy. She added quote, so Biden said, between 404 00:28:39,955 --> 00:28:41,875 Speaker 1: the two of us, we may be able to finish 405 00:28:41,875 --> 00:28:46,995 Speaker 1: a full sentence. Supposedly two Fetterman obviously say, Mrs McDaniel, 406 00:28:47,075 --> 00:28:50,155 Speaker 1: you are the lick spittle of a man named Donald Trump, 407 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:54,315 Speaker 1: who is both brain damaged and not sane, whose next 408 00:28:54,395 --> 00:28:58,475 Speaker 1: intelligible statement will be his first, and who's deteriorating motor 409 00:28:58,515 --> 00:29:01,955 Speaker 1: skills keep him from walking down a slant of about 410 00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:06,115 Speaker 1: three degrees. Perhaps you should drop this topic and the 411 00:29:06,195 --> 00:29:10,995 Speaker 1: mocking of people's problems. But our winner is Elon Musk. 412 00:29:12,035 --> 00:29:15,515 Speaker 1: It went into headquarters in San Francisco Twitter and apparently 413 00:29:15,555 --> 00:29:19,195 Speaker 1: fired the top four executives last night. He also advised 414 00:29:19,195 --> 00:29:22,795 Speaker 1: advertisers he will not turn Twitter into a quote free 415 00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:26,515 Speaker 1: for all hellscape, like you have to try to do that. 416 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: That's what it is now, That's why we all log in. 417 00:29:30,035 --> 00:29:33,475 Speaker 1: But last night also came news that Musk has asked 418 00:29:33,595 --> 00:29:39,115 Speaker 1: Tesla engineers to meet with Twitter product leaders and review sitecode. 419 00:29:39,555 --> 00:29:46,115 Speaker 1: And that can mean only one thing. Driver List, Twitter, Ellen, 420 00:29:46,595 --> 00:29:53,995 Speaker 1: welcome back Kanye West Musk Today's worst person and the 421 00:29:54,155 --> 00:30:10,915 Speaker 1: world to the number one story on the Countdown and 422 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:14,075 Speaker 1: Fridays with Thurber. And it's amazing to me in retrospect, 423 00:30:14,075 --> 00:30:18,955 Speaker 1: how I read all of his wonderful, realistic, not goopy 424 00:30:19,115 --> 00:30:24,515 Speaker 1: writing about dogs and enjoyed it thoroughly, years before I 425 00:30:24,555 --> 00:30:29,635 Speaker 1: was ever adopted by a dog. Now, reading his dog 426 00:30:29,755 --> 00:30:33,715 Speaker 1: stories and anecdotes, it's like reading about a bunch of friends, 427 00:30:34,715 --> 00:30:39,475 Speaker 1: even that one surly friend for whom we must continuously 428 00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:46,995 Speaker 1: make excuses. The dog that bit people by James Thurber. 429 00:30:49,235 --> 00:30:52,635 Speaker 1: Probably no one man should have as many dogs in 430 00:30:52,715 --> 00:30:55,875 Speaker 1: this life as I have had, But there was more 431 00:30:55,955 --> 00:30:58,795 Speaker 1: pleasure than distress in them for me, except in the 432 00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:03,835 Speaker 1: case of an Airdale named Mugs. He gave me more 433 00:31:03,875 --> 00:31:07,395 Speaker 1: trouble than all the other fifty four or five put together. 434 00:31:07,915 --> 00:31:12,115 Speaker 1: Although my moment of keenest embarrassment was the time a 435 00:31:12,155 --> 00:31:15,515 Speaker 1: Scotch Terrier named Genie, who had just had six puppies 436 00:31:15,515 --> 00:31:17,995 Speaker 1: in the clothes closet of a fourth floor apartment in 437 00:31:18,035 --> 00:31:22,435 Speaker 1: New York, had the unexpected seventh and last at the 438 00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:25,395 Speaker 1: corner of Eleventh Street and Fifth Avenue during a walk 439 00:31:25,595 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: she had insisted on taking. Then two there was the 440 00:31:29,195 --> 00:31:32,715 Speaker 1: prize winning French poodle, a giant, big black poodle, none 441 00:31:32,755 --> 00:31:37,155 Speaker 1: of your little, untroublesome white miniatures, who got sick riding 442 00:31:37,155 --> 00:31:39,675 Speaker 1: in the rumble seat of a car with me on 443 00:31:39,715 --> 00:31:42,115 Speaker 1: her way to the Greenwiche Dog Show. She had a 444 00:31:42,155 --> 00:31:45,235 Speaker 1: red rubber bib tucked around her throat end since a 445 00:31:45,355 --> 00:31:48,315 Speaker 1: rain storm came up when we were halfway through the bronx. 446 00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:53,915 Speaker 1: I had to hold over her a small green umbrella, 447 00:31:54,275 --> 00:31:58,275 Speaker 1: really more of a parasol. The rain beat down fearfully, 448 00:31:58,315 --> 00:32:00,315 Speaker 1: and suddenly the driver of the car drove into a 449 00:32:00,315 --> 00:32:03,635 Speaker 1: big garage filled with mechanics. It happened so quickly that 450 00:32:03,715 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: I forgot to put the umbrella down, and I will 451 00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:12,515 Speaker 1: always remember with sickening distress the look of incredulity mixed 452 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:15,715 Speaker 1: with hatred that came over the face of the particular 453 00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:18,395 Speaker 1: hardened garage man that came over to see what we 454 00:32:18,475 --> 00:32:21,115 Speaker 1: wanted when he took a look at me and the poodle. 455 00:32:22,355 --> 00:32:26,955 Speaker 1: All garage men and people of that intolerant stripe hate 456 00:32:27,035 --> 00:32:31,715 Speaker 1: poodles with their curious haircuts, especially the pom poms that 457 00:32:31,755 --> 00:32:34,035 Speaker 1: you've got to leave on their hips if you expect 458 00:32:34,115 --> 00:32:39,835 Speaker 1: the dogs to win a prize. But the Airdale, as 459 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:42,235 Speaker 1: I have said, was the worst of all my dogs. 460 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:45,235 Speaker 1: He really wasn't my dog. Matter of fact, I came 461 00:32:45,275 --> 00:32:47,195 Speaker 1: home from a vacation one summery to find that my 462 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:51,955 Speaker 1: brother Roy had bought him while I was away. The big, burly, 463 00:32:52,435 --> 00:32:56,275 Speaker 1: choleric dog. He always acted as if he thought I 464 00:32:56,435 --> 00:33:00,075 Speaker 1: wasn't one of the family. There was a slight advantage 465 00:33:00,115 --> 00:33:02,075 Speaker 1: in being one of the family, for he didn't bite. 466 00:33:02,115 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: The family is often easy bit strangers. Still, in the 467 00:33:05,715 --> 00:33:08,755 Speaker 1: years that we had him, he bit everybody but mother, 468 00:33:09,475 --> 00:33:12,635 Speaker 1: and he made a pass at her once but missed. 469 00:33:13,715 --> 00:33:15,915 Speaker 1: It was during the month when we suddenly had mice, 470 00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:20,275 Speaker 1: and Muggs refused to do anything about them. Nobody ever 471 00:33:20,315 --> 00:33:22,795 Speaker 1: had mice exactly like the mice we had that month. 472 00:33:22,795 --> 00:33:26,915 Speaker 1: They acted like pet mice, almost like mice somebody had trained. 473 00:33:28,915 --> 00:33:31,435 Speaker 1: They were so friendly that one night, when Mother entertained 474 00:33:31,435 --> 00:33:34,675 Speaker 1: at dinner the Free relilas a club she and my 475 00:33:34,755 --> 00:33:37,435 Speaker 1: father had belonged to for twenty years, she put down 476 00:33:37,435 --> 00:33:39,435 Speaker 1: a lot of little dishes with food in them on 477 00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:42,795 Speaker 1: the pantry floor so that the mice would be satisfied 478 00:33:42,835 --> 00:33:46,075 Speaker 1: with that and would not come into the dining room. 479 00:33:46,355 --> 00:33:50,035 Speaker 1: Muggs stayed out in the pantry with the mice lying 480 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:53,355 Speaker 1: on the floor, growling to himself, not at the mice, 481 00:33:53,955 --> 00:33:55,955 Speaker 1: but about all the people in the next room that 482 00:33:55,995 --> 00:34:00,155 Speaker 1: he would have liked to get at. Mother slipped out 483 00:34:00,155 --> 00:34:02,435 Speaker 1: into the pantry wants to see how everything was going. 484 00:34:03,035 --> 00:34:06,435 Speaker 1: Everything was going fine. It made her so mad to 485 00:34:06,475 --> 00:34:09,995 Speaker 1: see Mugs lying there oblivious of the mice. They came 486 00:34:10,075 --> 00:34:14,235 Speaker 1: running up to her that she slapped him, and he 487 00:34:14,475 --> 00:34:18,235 Speaker 1: slashed at her, but didn't make it. He was sorry immediately. 488 00:34:18,595 --> 00:34:22,315 Speaker 1: Mother said he was always sorry, she said after he 489 00:34:22,395 --> 00:34:24,875 Speaker 1: bit someone. But we could not understand how she figured 490 00:34:24,915 --> 00:34:29,595 Speaker 1: this out. He didn't act sorry. Mother used to send 491 00:34:29,595 --> 00:34:31,995 Speaker 1: a box of candy every Christmas to the people. The 492 00:34:32,035 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: Airdale bit list finally contained forty or more names. Nobody 493 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:40,315 Speaker 1: could understand why we did not get rid of the dog. 494 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:42,795 Speaker 1: I didn't understand it very well myself, but we didn't 495 00:34:42,795 --> 00:34:46,595 Speaker 1: get rid of him. I think that one or two 496 00:34:46,635 --> 00:34:50,955 Speaker 1: people tried to poison mugs. He acted poisoned once in 497 00:34:50,995 --> 00:34:55,075 Speaker 1: a while, and old Major Moberly fired at him once 498 00:34:55,115 --> 00:34:58,115 Speaker 1: with his service revolver near the Seneca Hotel and he's 499 00:34:58,155 --> 00:35:02,275 Speaker 1: Broad Street. But Muggs lived to almost eleven years old, 500 00:35:02,275 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 1: and even when he could hardly get around, he bit 501 00:35:04,395 --> 00:35:08,075 Speaker 1: a congressman who had called to see my father on business. 502 00:35:09,555 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: My mother had never liked the congressman. She said, the 503 00:35:13,275 --> 00:35:16,715 Speaker 1: signs of his horrorscope showed he couldn't be trusted. He 504 00:35:16,835 --> 00:35:20,275 Speaker 1: was saturned with the moon and Virgo. But she sent 505 00:35:20,355 --> 00:35:23,075 Speaker 1: him a box of candy that Christmas. Anyway, he sent 506 00:35:23,155 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: it right back, probably because he suspected it was trick candy. 507 00:35:28,595 --> 00:35:30,955 Speaker 1: Mother persuaded herself that it was all for the best 508 00:35:31,035 --> 00:35:33,195 Speaker 1: that the dog had bitten him, even though father lost 509 00:35:33,195 --> 00:35:36,275 Speaker 1: an important business association because of it. I wouldn't be 510 00:35:36,275 --> 00:35:40,275 Speaker 1: associated with such a man, Mother said. Muggs could read 511 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:44,875 Speaker 1: him like a book. We used to take turns feeding 512 00:35:44,955 --> 00:35:47,555 Speaker 1: Mugs to be on his good side, but that didn't 513 00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:50,275 Speaker 1: always work. He was never in a very good humor 514 00:35:50,355 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: even after a meal. Nobody knew exactly what was the 515 00:35:53,635 --> 00:35:57,395 Speaker 1: matter with him, but whatever it was, it made him irascible, 516 00:35:57,555 --> 00:36:02,195 Speaker 1: especially in the mornings. Roy my brother, never felt very 517 00:36:02,195 --> 00:36:04,915 Speaker 1: well in the morning either, especially before breakfast, and when 518 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:08,715 Speaker 1: he came downstairs and found that Muggs had moodily chewed 519 00:36:08,795 --> 00:36:11,995 Speaker 1: up the morning paper, he hit him in the face 520 00:36:11,995 --> 00:36:15,315 Speaker 1: with a grapefruit and then jumped up on the dining 521 00:36:15,395 --> 00:36:19,835 Speaker 1: room table, scattering dishes and silverware and spilling the coffee. 522 00:36:20,355 --> 00:36:24,115 Speaker 1: Mugg's first free leap carried him all the way across 523 00:36:24,195 --> 00:36:27,115 Speaker 1: the table and into a brass fire screen in front 524 00:36:27,115 --> 00:36:29,475 Speaker 1: of the gas grate, but he was back on his 525 00:36:29,515 --> 00:36:31,075 Speaker 1: feet in a moment, and in the end he got 526 00:36:31,195 --> 00:36:33,475 Speaker 1: roy and gave him a pretty vicious bite in the leg. 527 00:36:34,595 --> 00:36:36,995 Speaker 1: Then he was all over it. He never bid anyone 528 00:36:37,035 --> 00:36:40,635 Speaker 1: more than once at a time. Mother always mentioned that 529 00:36:40,915 --> 00:36:43,595 Speaker 1: as an argument in his favor. She said he had 530 00:36:43,635 --> 00:36:46,235 Speaker 1: a quick temper, but that he didn't hold a grudge. 531 00:36:47,155 --> 00:36:50,635 Speaker 1: She was forever defending him. I think she liked him 532 00:36:50,635 --> 00:36:55,955 Speaker 1: because he wasn't well. He's not strong, she would say, pityingly, 533 00:36:57,035 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: but that was inaccurate. He may not have been well, 534 00:37:00,755 --> 00:37:05,395 Speaker 1: but he was terribly strong. One time my mother went 535 00:37:05,435 --> 00:37:08,515 Speaker 1: to the Chittenden Hotel to call on a woman mental 536 00:37:08,635 --> 00:37:11,675 Speaker 1: healer who was lecturing in Columbus on the subject of 537 00:37:11,955 --> 00:37:15,835 Speaker 1: harmonious vibrations. She wanted to find out if it was 538 00:37:15,875 --> 00:37:20,435 Speaker 1: possible to get harmonious vibrations into a dog. He's a large, 539 00:37:20,475 --> 00:37:25,075 Speaker 1: tan colored air Dale, Mother explained. The woman said that 540 00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:28,075 Speaker 1: she had never treated a dog, but she advised my 541 00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:31,235 Speaker 1: mother to hold the thought that he did not bite 542 00:37:31,475 --> 00:37:35,115 Speaker 1: and would not bite. Mother was holding the thought the 543 00:37:35,195 --> 00:37:37,995 Speaker 1: very next morning when Muggs got the ice man. But 544 00:37:38,155 --> 00:37:40,835 Speaker 1: she blamed that slip up on the ice man. If 545 00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 1: you didn't think he would bite you, he wouldn't. Mother 546 00:37:44,115 --> 00:37:46,635 Speaker 1: told him he stomped out of the house in a 547 00:37:46,755 --> 00:37:52,475 Speaker 1: terrible jangle of vibrations. One morning, when Muggs bit me 548 00:37:52,715 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: slightly more or less in passing, I reached down and 549 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:58,835 Speaker 1: grabbed his short, stumpy tail and hoisted him into the air. 550 00:38:00,075 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: It was a foolhardy thing to do, and the last 551 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:05,395 Speaker 1: time I saw my mother about sick months ago, she 552 00:38:05,435 --> 00:38:09,235 Speaker 1: said she didn't know what possessed me. I don't either, 553 00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:12,315 Speaker 1: except that I was pretty mad. As long as I 554 00:38:12,395 --> 00:38:14,515 Speaker 1: held the dog off the floor by his tail, he 555 00:38:14,555 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: couldn't get at me. But he twisted and jerked so 556 00:38:17,475 --> 00:38:21,155 Speaker 1: snarling all the time that I realized I couldn't hold 557 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:24,315 Speaker 1: him that way very long, and I carried him into 558 00:38:24,315 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: the kitchen and flung him onto the floor and shut 559 00:38:26,835 --> 00:38:29,275 Speaker 1: the door on him just as he crashed against it. 560 00:38:30,075 --> 00:38:34,315 Speaker 1: But I forgot about the backstairs. Muggs went up the 561 00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:37,875 Speaker 1: backstairs and down the front stairs and had me cornered 562 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:40,715 Speaker 1: in the living room. I managed to get up out 563 00:38:40,755 --> 00:38:43,635 Speaker 1: of the mantelpiece above the fireplace, but it gave way 564 00:38:44,115 --> 00:38:47,555 Speaker 1: and came down with a tremendous crash, throwing a large 565 00:38:47,635 --> 00:38:51,795 Speaker 1: marble clock, several vases, and myself heavily to the floor. 566 00:38:52,995 --> 00:38:56,155 Speaker 1: Muggs was so alarmed by the racket that when I 567 00:38:56,155 --> 00:38:59,995 Speaker 1: picked myself up, he had disappeared. We couldn't find him anywhere, 568 00:39:00,115 --> 00:39:04,195 Speaker 1: although we whistled and shouted until old Mrs Debt Wilder 569 00:39:04,315 --> 00:39:08,475 Speaker 1: called after dinner that night. Muggs had bitten her once 570 00:39:08,515 --> 00:39:10,515 Speaker 1: in the leg, and she came into the living room 571 00:39:10,555 --> 00:39:13,195 Speaker 1: only after we assured her that Muggs had run away. 572 00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:17,955 Speaker 1: She had just seated herself when with great growling and 573 00:39:18,035 --> 00:39:23,115 Speaker 1: scratching of claws, Muggs emerged from under a davenport where 574 00:39:23,115 --> 00:39:26,995 Speaker 1: he had been quietly hiding all the time and bit 575 00:39:27,075 --> 00:39:31,755 Speaker 1: her again. Mother examined the bite and put arnica on 576 00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,275 Speaker 1: it and told Mrs Detwiler that it was only a bruise. 577 00:39:34,795 --> 00:39:39,675 Speaker 1: He just bumped you, she said. But Mrs Detwiler left 578 00:39:39,715 --> 00:39:43,715 Speaker 1: our house in a nasty state of mind. Lots of 579 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:46,675 Speaker 1: people reported our airdale to the police, but my father 580 00:39:46,755 --> 00:39:48,875 Speaker 1: held a municipal office at the time and was on 581 00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: friendly terms with the police. You've been so the cops 582 00:39:52,675 --> 00:39:55,515 Speaker 1: had been out a couple of times, once when Muggs 583 00:39:55,515 --> 00:39:58,875 Speaker 1: bit Mrs rufus Stirred event, and again when he bit 584 00:39:58,955 --> 00:40:02,515 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Malloy, but Mother told him it hadn't been 585 00:40:02,555 --> 00:40:05,035 Speaker 1: Muggs's fault, but the fault of the people who were bitten. 586 00:40:05,915 --> 00:40:09,715 Speaker 1: When he starts for them, they scream, she explained, and 587 00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:13,395 Speaker 1: that excites him. The cops suggested that it might be 588 00:40:13,435 --> 00:40:15,555 Speaker 1: a good idea to tie the dog up, but Mother 589 00:40:15,635 --> 00:40:18,275 Speaker 1: said that it mortified him to be tied up, and 590 00:40:18,315 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: that he wouldn't eat when he was tied up. Mugs 591 00:40:22,435 --> 00:40:25,075 Speaker 1: at his meals was an unusual site because of the 592 00:40:25,075 --> 00:40:28,115 Speaker 1: fact that if you reach towards the floor, he would 593 00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:32,235 Speaker 1: bite you. We usually put his food plate on top 594 00:40:32,275 --> 00:40:35,235 Speaker 1: of an old kitchen table with a bench alongside the table. 595 00:40:35,435 --> 00:40:39,355 Speaker 1: Mugs would stand on the bench and eat. I remember 596 00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:42,595 Speaker 1: that my mother's uncle Horatio, who boasted that he was 597 00:40:42,835 --> 00:40:48,315 Speaker 1: the third man up Missionary Ridge, was flutteringly indignant when 598 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:50,075 Speaker 1: he found out that we fed the dog on a 599 00:40:50,155 --> 00:40:53,355 Speaker 1: table because we were afraid to put his plate on 600 00:40:53,435 --> 00:40:56,035 Speaker 1: the floor. He said he wasn't afraid of any dog 601 00:40:56,075 --> 00:40:58,035 Speaker 1: that ever lived, and that he would put the dog's 602 00:40:58,075 --> 00:41:00,875 Speaker 1: plate on the floor if we would give it to him. 603 00:41:01,035 --> 00:41:03,595 Speaker 1: Roy said that if Uncle Horatio had fed Mugs on 604 00:41:03,635 --> 00:41:05,995 Speaker 1: the ground just before the battle, he would have been 605 00:41:05,995 --> 00:41:11,795 Speaker 1: the first man up missionary ridge. Uncle Horatio was furious. 606 00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:17,155 Speaker 1: Ray Amen, Ray Amen, Now, he shouted, I'll feed them 607 00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:21,755 Speaker 1: mm on the floor. Roy was all for giving him 608 00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:23,795 Speaker 1: a chance, but my father wouldn't hear of it. He 609 00:41:23,795 --> 00:41:27,235 Speaker 1: said that Muggs had already been fed. I'll feed him again, 610 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: bald Uncle Horatio. We had quite a time quieting him. 611 00:41:34,355 --> 00:41:37,595 Speaker 1: In his last year. Muggs used to spend practically all 612 00:41:37,595 --> 00:41:40,715 Speaker 1: of his time outdoors. He didn't like to stay in 613 00:41:40,755 --> 00:41:42,995 Speaker 1: the house for some reason or other. Perhaps it held 614 00:41:43,035 --> 00:41:46,635 Speaker 1: too many unpleasant memories for him. Anyway, it was hard 615 00:41:46,675 --> 00:41:48,435 Speaker 1: to get him to come in, and as a result, 616 00:41:48,475 --> 00:41:51,115 Speaker 1: the garbage man, the iceman, and the laundry man would 617 00:41:51,155 --> 00:41:54,475 Speaker 1: not come near our house. We had to haul the 618 00:41:54,515 --> 00:41:57,275 Speaker 1: garbage down to the corner, take the laundry out, and 619 00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:59,395 Speaker 1: bring it back and meet the ice man a block 620 00:41:59,515 --> 00:42:03,075 Speaker 1: from home. After this had gone on for some time, 621 00:42:03,075 --> 00:42:05,995 Speaker 1: we hit on and ingenius arrangement for getting the dog 622 00:42:06,075 --> 00:42:08,435 Speaker 1: in the house so that we could lock him up 623 00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: while the gas meter was read, and so on. Muggs 624 00:42:13,035 --> 00:42:21,235 Speaker 1: was afraid of only one thing. An electrical storm thunder 625 00:42:21,235 --> 00:42:25,515 Speaker 1: and lightning frightened him out of his senses, I think 626 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:28,795 Speaker 1: he thought a storm had broken the day the mantelpiece spell. 627 00:42:29,555 --> 00:42:31,875 Speaker 1: He would rush into the house and hide under a 628 00:42:31,915 --> 00:42:35,315 Speaker 1: bed or in a clothes closet. So we fixed up 629 00:42:35,315 --> 00:42:38,315 Speaker 1: a thunder machine out of a long, narrow piece of 630 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:41,515 Speaker 1: sheet iron with a wooden handle on one end. Mother 631 00:42:41,555 --> 00:42:44,635 Speaker 1: would shake this vigorously when she wanted to get Mugs 632 00:42:44,675 --> 00:42:47,555 Speaker 1: into the house. It made an excellent imitation of thunder, 633 00:42:47,755 --> 00:42:50,395 Speaker 1: but I suppose it was the most roundabout system for 634 00:42:50,475 --> 00:42:54,195 Speaker 1: running a household that was every devised. It took a 635 00:42:54,235 --> 00:42:58,235 Speaker 1: lot out of Mother. A few months before Muggs died, 636 00:42:58,315 --> 00:43:03,915 Speaker 1: he got to seeing things. He would rise slowly from 637 00:43:03,915 --> 00:43:09,995 Speaker 1: the floor, growling low and stalk, stiff legged and menacing 638 00:43:10,035 --> 00:43:15,755 Speaker 1: toward nothing at all. Sometimes the thing would be just 639 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:18,955 Speaker 1: a little to the right or left of a visitor. 640 00:43:19,115 --> 00:43:24,075 Speaker 1: Once a fuller brush salesman got hysterics. Muggs came wandering 641 00:43:24,075 --> 00:43:27,115 Speaker 1: into the room like Hamlet, following his father's ghost. His 642 00:43:27,235 --> 00:43:29,955 Speaker 1: eyes were fixed on a spot just to the left 643 00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:33,235 Speaker 1: of the fuller brushman, who stood it until Muggs was 644 00:43:33,275 --> 00:43:37,995 Speaker 1: about three slow creeping paces from him. Then he shouted, 645 00:43:39,195 --> 00:43:42,675 Speaker 1: Muggs wavered on passed him into the hallway grumbling to himself, 646 00:43:42,675 --> 00:43:45,435 Speaker 1: but the fuller man went on shouting. I think Mother 647 00:43:45,475 --> 00:43:47,755 Speaker 1: had to throw a pan of cold water on him 648 00:43:47,795 --> 00:43:50,515 Speaker 1: before he stopped. That was the way she used to 649 00:43:50,515 --> 00:43:54,635 Speaker 1: stop us boys when we got into fights. Muggs died 650 00:43:54,755 --> 00:43:58,155 Speaker 1: quite suddenly one night. Mother wanted to bury him in 651 00:43:58,195 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: the family lot under a marble stone with some such 652 00:44:00,835 --> 00:44:04,235 Speaker 1: inscription as flights of angels seeing thee to thy rest, 653 00:44:04,795 --> 00:44:08,595 Speaker 1: but we persuaded her it was against the law. In 654 00:44:08,675 --> 00:44:10,835 Speaker 1: the end, we just put up a smooth board above 655 00:44:10,915 --> 00:44:14,595 Speaker 1: his grave along a lonely road. On the board, I 656 00:44:14,635 --> 00:44:20,555 Speaker 1: wrote with an indelible pencil, kab a conum. Mother was 657 00:44:20,635 --> 00:44:24,315 Speaker 1: quite pleased with the simple, classic dignity of the old 658 00:44:24,555 --> 00:44:31,635 Speaker 1: Latin epitaph The Dog that Bit People by James Thurber. 659 00:44:45,835 --> 00:44:47,715 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 660 00:44:47,715 --> 00:44:50,115 Speaker 1: you for listening this far. If you can can help 661 00:44:50,155 --> 00:44:52,315 Speaker 1: me out, please do so. Spread the word about this 662 00:44:52,395 --> 00:44:55,955 Speaker 1: Tell somebody about this podcast, get them to subscribe, or 663 00:44:56,035 --> 00:44:58,515 Speaker 1: just listen. Here are the credits. 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