1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It 2 00:00:21,515 --> 00:00:24,075 Speaker 1: is time for the government of the United States to 3 00:00:24,275 --> 00:00:28,795 Speaker 1: ban x, the social media site still primarily known as Twitter, 4 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:33,595 Speaker 1: and to terminate all government contracts with its owner. Under Trump, 5 00:00:34,275 --> 00:00:37,595 Speaker 1: the government had moved to ban TikTok as a security 6 00:00:37,675 --> 00:00:40,515 Speaker 1: risk to the United States, so there is precedent for 7 00:00:40,555 --> 00:00:43,315 Speaker 1: at least the attempt. Because a process that has been 8 00:00:43,355 --> 00:00:46,795 Speaker 1: accelerating for more than a year reached a climax Wednesday, 9 00:00:47,195 --> 00:00:51,515 Speaker 1: then continued Thursday when owner Elon Musk answered a blatantly 10 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:55,915 Speaker 1: anti Semitic tweet echoing the language of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, 11 00:00:56,355 --> 00:00:58,875 Speaker 1: with a reply from him that read, quote, you have 12 00:00:58,995 --> 00:01:03,915 Speaker 1: said the actual truth. Combined with surging anti semitism throughout 13 00:01:03,955 --> 00:01:07,475 Speaker 1: the website and the use of Nazi hate speech and 14 00:01:07,595 --> 00:01:11,435 Speaker 1: paraphrases of infamous Hitler quotes by the likely Republican candidate 15 00:01:11,475 --> 00:01:16,395 Speaker 1: for president, the tinderbox of anti semitism, indeed of hatred 16 00:01:16,435 --> 00:01:20,075 Speaker 1: against races and religions of all kinds. The tinderbox has 17 00:01:20,115 --> 00:01:23,955 Speaker 1: never been fuller nor drier, and Trump and Musk seem 18 00:01:24,075 --> 00:01:28,315 Speaker 1: determined to light it ablaze and with it to light 19 00:01:28,435 --> 00:01:32,635 Speaker 1: ablaze the peace and the security of this nation. Ban 20 00:01:32,995 --> 00:01:37,235 Speaker 1: Twitter x now, and ban all government financial dealings with 21 00:01:37,315 --> 00:01:41,115 Speaker 1: Musk now before it is too late, and before the 22 00:01:41,155 --> 00:01:45,515 Speaker 1: burgeoning anti semitism of twitter x and Musk's endorsement by 23 00:01:45,555 --> 00:01:48,675 Speaker 1: extension of the mass shooting at the Pittsburgh Synagogue becomes 24 00:01:48,715 --> 00:01:53,155 Speaker 1: the sole purpose of that platform. As I said in 25 00:01:53,195 --> 00:01:57,355 Speaker 1: an extraordinary irony, the precedent for this begins with Trump's 26 00:01:57,355 --> 00:02:01,155 Speaker 1: moves against TikTok, including an executive order in twenty twenty, 27 00:02:01,675 --> 00:02:04,795 Speaker 1: and then a Biden Department of Justice investigation of TikTok 28 00:02:04,995 --> 00:02:08,395 Speaker 1: that began on March seventeenth of this year. The TikTok 29 00:02:08,555 --> 00:02:11,875 Speaker 1: ban is a separate issue, and I don't want to 30 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:14,315 Speaker 1: mix it in here with the prospect of banning twitter x, 31 00:02:14,475 --> 00:02:18,595 Speaker 1: because in response to the appalling fan boying of Osama 32 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: bin Laden's hate screed against America and against Jewish people 33 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:25,635 Speaker 1: on TikTok this week, at least, that was followed by 34 00:02:25,675 --> 00:02:30,155 Speaker 1: a meeting between TikTok executives and prominent Jewish figures, TikTok 35 00:02:30,475 --> 00:02:34,555 Speaker 1: might actually be trying to fix things on its site. 36 00:02:34,835 --> 00:02:39,395 Speaker 1: That remains to be seen. Twitter X, on the other hand, 37 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:43,275 Speaker 1: is doing nothing and its madman owner Musk, seems to 38 00:02:43,315 --> 00:02:46,515 Speaker 1: have no awareness of the impact of his own diseased 39 00:02:46,515 --> 00:02:49,715 Speaker 1: and hateful mind, and he has attacked those who have 40 00:02:49,835 --> 00:02:54,515 Speaker 1: dared to criticize him about this. The post that turned 41 00:02:54,635 --> 00:02:58,955 Speaker 1: twitter x from a mere sewer to a sewer on fire, 42 00:02:59,075 --> 00:03:04,195 Speaker 1: belching toxic smoke read in part quote, Jewish communities have 43 00:03:04,235 --> 00:03:08,155 Speaker 1: been pushed the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites 44 00:03:08,795 --> 00:03:13,235 Speaker 1: that they claim to want people to stop using against them, 45 00:03:13,715 --> 00:03:16,155 Speaker 1: even though these are virtually word for word the sentiments 46 00:03:16,155 --> 00:03:18,355 Speaker 1: of the so called Tree of Life shooter, who murdered 47 00:03:18,395 --> 00:03:22,795 Speaker 1: eleven people, including Holocaust survivors, at a synagogue in twenty eighteen. 48 00:03:23,115 --> 00:03:26,155 Speaker 1: Musk replied, as noted quote, you have said the actual truth. 49 00:03:27,075 --> 00:03:31,355 Speaker 1: When criticized by the Anti Defamation lead, Musk doubled down. 50 00:03:31,875 --> 00:03:35,995 Speaker 1: I am deeply offended by ADL's messaging and any other 51 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:40,035 Speaker 1: groups who pushed de facto anti white racism or anti 52 00:03:40,155 --> 00:03:43,915 Speaker 1: Asian racism, or racism of any kind. I'm sick of it. 53 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:51,275 Speaker 1: Stop it now unquote. Musk's bizarre, self destructive running of 54 00:03:51,275 --> 00:03:54,595 Speaker 1: the twitter x platform had already destroyed more than half 55 00:03:54,635 --> 00:03:56,955 Speaker 1: of its value, and even more of its advertising. Then 56 00:03:57,075 --> 00:04:01,595 Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, IBM announced it was pulling its already scheduled 57 00:04:01,635 --> 00:04:04,075 Speaker 1: ads for the next three months. The New York Times 58 00:04:04,115 --> 00:04:08,715 Speaker 1: says that was about a million dollars worth. Rather remarkably, 59 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:10,835 Speaker 1: as of the close of business yesterday, the New York 60 00:04:10,875 --> 00:04:14,915 Speaker 1: Times had not yet canceled Musk's scheduled appearance twelve days 61 00:04:14,915 --> 00:04:17,915 Speaker 1: from now at a Times event that it calls its 62 00:04:18,075 --> 00:04:21,915 Speaker 1: deal Book Summit, which it describes as the gathering of quote, 63 00:04:22,115 --> 00:04:28,035 Speaker 1: the most consequential leaders in business, politics and culture unquote 64 00:04:28,115 --> 00:04:30,915 Speaker 1: and I guess the most consequential leaders in anti Semitism. 65 00:04:32,435 --> 00:04:36,235 Speaker 1: It seems impossible to believe that The Times will actually 66 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:41,395 Speaker 1: permit Musk to participate in its branded event. He has 67 00:04:41,435 --> 00:04:45,075 Speaker 1: not only rendered Twitter x toxic, but the revulsion has 68 00:04:45,115 --> 00:04:48,035 Speaker 1: spread to his other companies. As the publication The Street 69 00:04:48,115 --> 00:04:52,555 Speaker 1: wrote last night, some prominent Tesla investors seemed to finally 70 00:04:52,595 --> 00:04:56,115 Speaker 1: be losing faith in the company's often controversial CEO. The 71 00:04:56,155 --> 00:05:00,075 Speaker 1: stockfell roughly four percent Thursday after Musk highlighted an anti 72 00:05:00,075 --> 00:05:04,075 Speaker 1: Semitic conspiracy theory, then issued a series of seemingly bigoted 73 00:05:04,075 --> 00:05:09,075 Speaker 1: tweets X The Future Fund partner Gary Black wrote, I 74 00:05:09,155 --> 00:05:12,835 Speaker 1: want to believe the CEO's attitudes and Tesla brand equity 75 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:15,755 Speaker 1: are not linked, but my common sense tells me otherwise. 76 00:05:16,355 --> 00:05:19,995 Speaker 1: And wealth and investment manager Ross Gerber, whose fund owned 77 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty thousand shares of Tesla at the 78 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:27,995 Speaker 1: last counting, reached the inevitable conclusion. He wrote that Musk 79 00:05:28,155 --> 00:05:34,795 Speaker 1: has now gone too far. He's like Trump now as 80 00:05:34,875 --> 00:05:38,155 Speaker 1: the snowball rolling down the hill toward her reached speeds 81 00:05:38,195 --> 00:05:41,355 Speaker 1: of about one thousand miles an hour. Musk's handpicked CEO, 82 00:05:41,475 --> 00:05:44,555 Speaker 1: Linda Yakarino, posted a comment at three forty five pm 83 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: Eastern that seemed to have been crafted by the nation's 84 00:05:47,595 --> 00:05:52,475 Speaker 1: finest satirical comedians, maybe Tim Robinson in his hot dog 85 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:55,395 Speaker 1: suit in the middle of the We're all trying to 86 00:05:55,435 --> 00:05:59,475 Speaker 1: find the guy who did this meme, quoting Yakarino. X's 87 00:05:59,475 --> 00:06:02,155 Speaker 1: point of view has always been very clear that discrimination 88 00:06:02,315 --> 00:06:06,795 Speaker 1: by everyone should stop cross the board. I think that's 89 00:06:06,835 --> 00:06:09,675 Speaker 1: something we can and should all agree on when it 90 00:06:09,675 --> 00:06:13,595 Speaker 1: comes to this platform. X has also been extremely clear 91 00:06:14,115 --> 00:06:18,275 Speaker 1: about our efforts to combat anti Semitism and discrimination. There's 92 00:06:18,355 --> 00:06:20,995 Speaker 1: no place for it anywhere in the world. It's ugly 93 00:06:21,035 --> 00:06:26,475 Speaker 1: and wrong, full stop, unquote. If taken sincerely and literally, 94 00:06:26,675 --> 00:06:30,795 Speaker 1: Yakarino's only possible next action would be to suspend the 95 00:06:30,835 --> 00:06:36,995 Speaker 1: account of Elon Musk. As a gentile, I will note 96 00:06:36,995 --> 00:06:39,955 Speaker 1: that the phrase X has also been extremely clear about 97 00:06:39,995 --> 00:06:44,035 Speaker 1: our efforts to combat anti semitism and discrimination may also 98 00:06:44,115 --> 00:06:48,195 Speaker 1: be literally true. It has been extremely clear that it 99 00:06:48,235 --> 00:06:51,715 Speaker 1: has made no efforts to combat anti semitism and discrimination, 100 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:56,435 Speaker 1: and it is rather incredibly bigger than anti semitism alone. 101 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:01,075 Speaker 1: Twitter x is rife with other racism and other flavors 102 00:07:01,075 --> 00:07:04,315 Speaker 1: of religious hatred and other forms of discrimination at a 103 00:07:04,355 --> 00:07:10,475 Speaker 1: time when the concept stigmatizing, blaming and persecuting a generalized other, 104 00:07:11,195 --> 00:07:16,075 Speaker 1: and white supremacist thuggery, when these things are resurgent in 105 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:21,115 Speaker 1: the United States and elsewhere. If Twitter x or other 106 00:07:21,195 --> 00:07:25,995 Speaker 1: private entities cannot force Musk to sell the platform immediately, 107 00:07:26,435 --> 00:07:29,395 Speaker 1: he leaves the government of the United States no other option. 108 00:07:29,835 --> 00:07:34,795 Speaker 1: In such a perilous time, Congress could act, individual states 109 00:07:34,795 --> 00:07:37,835 Speaker 1: could act as some have acted against TikTok. The President 110 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:41,235 Speaker 1: could resort to his own executive order, or all branches 111 00:07:41,275 --> 00:07:44,355 Speaker 1: and all parties could work in concert. In a rare 112 00:07:44,515 --> 00:07:50,155 Speaker 1: and frankly rather easy display a bipartisanship. Musk has gone 113 00:07:50,195 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 1: down a path from which he cannot backtrack. Twitter X 114 00:07:55,235 --> 00:07:59,115 Speaker 1: at least his version of it must be banned, and 115 00:07:59,235 --> 00:08:02,915 Speaker 1: government contracts and other agreements local, state, and national with 116 00:08:02,995 --> 00:08:07,355 Speaker 1: his other firms SpaceX, Tesla, the boring company, Neuralink, and 117 00:08:07,755 --> 00:08:14,035 Speaker 1: Xai must be terminated. Today there is no other option 118 00:08:18,795 --> 00:08:23,235 Speaker 1: elsewhere another judge has proved incapable of seeing or proved 119 00:08:23,275 --> 00:08:26,035 Speaker 1: that he is deliberately ignoring the similar danger to the 120 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: peace and safety of the United States posed by the 121 00:08:28,755 --> 00:08:33,235 Speaker 1: Musk of politics Dementia J. Trump, a New York State 122 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:36,435 Speaker 1: Appellate Division judge who identifies as a Democrat but was 123 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:39,955 Speaker 1: appointed twenty five years ago by a Republican governor, has 124 00:08:40,075 --> 00:08:43,355 Speaker 1: joined the DC Court of Appeals in staying one of 125 00:08:43,395 --> 00:08:45,955 Speaker 1: the gag orders against Trump. This time it is the 126 00:08:45,955 --> 00:08:49,355 Speaker 1: gag order in the New York civil fraud case, during 127 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 1: which Trump has doxed Judge Arthur Engern's courtroom clerk and 128 00:08:53,875 --> 00:08:58,195 Speaker 1: fabricated a backstory for her to the benefit and pleasure 129 00:08:58,275 --> 00:09:02,355 Speaker 1: of his cult. Judge David Friedman said the order raised 130 00:09:02,755 --> 00:09:07,595 Speaker 1: constitutional and statutory rights at issue and state it until 131 00:09:07,595 --> 00:09:10,515 Speaker 1: the full State Appeals court panel can consider it a 132 00:09:10,515 --> 00:09:14,995 Speaker 1: week from Monday. Apart from Judge Friedman's cluelessness as to 133 00:09:15,035 --> 00:09:17,595 Speaker 1: the reality and imminence of the mortal danger to which 134 00:09:17,635 --> 00:09:21,635 Speaker 1: Trump subjects his targets, the most remarkable aspect to the 135 00:09:21,675 --> 00:09:24,835 Speaker 1: staying of this gag order and also the one imposed 136 00:09:24,835 --> 00:09:28,195 Speaker 1: by Judge Tanya Chutkin in the federal elections subversion trial, 137 00:09:28,595 --> 00:09:32,395 Speaker 1: is that, in response, Trump has shown for the first 138 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:39,195 Speaker 1: time unexpected weakness. While celebrating his lawyer's manipulation of Judge Friedman. 139 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:42,635 Speaker 1: In a social media post, Trump wrote about the quote 140 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:46,635 Speaker 1: ridiculous and unconstitutional gag order not allowing me to defend 141 00:09:46,635 --> 00:09:49,555 Speaker 1: myself against him and his politically biased and out of 142 00:09:49,595 --> 00:09:55,515 Speaker 1: control Trump hating clerk. In the post, Trump names Andngron. 143 00:09:56,075 --> 00:09:59,315 Speaker 1: Trump names the Attorney General Lytitia James. He does not 144 00:09:59,395 --> 00:10:01,675 Speaker 1: name the clerk, even though there is nothing at the 145 00:10:01,715 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: moment preventing him from doing so. It has not been 146 00:10:04,835 --> 00:10:08,355 Speaker 1: noted widely, but since the DC Appeals Court stayed that 147 00:10:08,715 --> 00:10:12,115 Speaker 1: gag order in that case, Trump has barely mentioned the 148 00:10:12,235 --> 00:10:15,795 Speaker 1: judge or the Special Council or anybody else in that case. 149 00:10:16,915 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: It cannot be good judgment. Trump does not have good judgment, 150 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: it has to be fear. In another curious Trump legal twist, 151 00:10:26,475 --> 00:10:28,275 Speaker 1: he has been hoist with his own petard in the 152 00:10:28,315 --> 00:10:31,875 Speaker 1: New York City criminal case against him for falsifying business 153 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:35,835 Speaker 1: records to hide hush money to Stormy Daniels. Trump's ambulance 154 00:10:35,955 --> 00:10:40,475 Speaker 1: chasers moved to dismiss that case. Manhattan da Alvin Bragg 155 00:10:40,515 --> 00:10:44,315 Speaker 1: has now replied by reconstructing Trump's words of self martyrdom 156 00:10:44,355 --> 00:10:50,755 Speaker 1: and using them against Trump. Quote. Defendant repeatedly suggests, begins 157 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:54,835 Speaker 1: Bragg's filing that because he is a current presidential candidate, 158 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:58,715 Speaker 1: the ordinary rules for criminal law and procedure should be 159 00:10:58,755 --> 00:11:02,995 Speaker 1: applied differently. Here. This argument is essentially an attempt to 160 00:11:03,115 --> 00:11:09,275 Speaker 1: evade criminal responsibility because defendant is politically powerful. Courts have 161 00:11:09,395 --> 00:11:14,755 Speaker 1: repeatedly rejected defendant's demands for special treatment and instead have 162 00:11:14,875 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: adhered to the core principle that the rule of law 163 00:11:18,075 --> 00:11:21,835 Speaker 1: applies equally to the power full as to the powerless. 164 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:27,035 Speaker 1: Quote did you say that, mister District Attorney? What a guy? 165 00:11:28,635 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: I'm hoping that mister Bragg sent a copy of that 166 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:35,835 Speaker 1: to Jack Smith. Judge Eileen Cannon, the former yoga and 167 00:11:35,915 --> 00:11:40,355 Speaker 1: Flamenco dancing correspondent of the Miami Nuevo Herald, has refused 168 00:11:40,355 --> 00:11:44,515 Speaker 1: to establish now a deadline for Trump to disclose which 169 00:11:44,555 --> 00:11:48,715 Speaker 1: classified materials he later intends to use in his defense 170 00:11:48,795 --> 00:11:53,035 Speaker 1: in the Florida case. Establishing the deadline now would increase 171 00:11:53,075 --> 00:11:57,315 Speaker 1: the chances of keeping the already tardy Florida trial schedule intact. 172 00:11:58,235 --> 00:12:01,675 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon says she will set that deadline in March 173 00:12:01,715 --> 00:12:04,555 Speaker 1: of next year, not four March of next year, but 174 00:12:04,795 --> 00:12:07,755 Speaker 1: in March of next year. The trial is supposed to 175 00:12:07,795 --> 00:12:12,755 Speaker 1: begin in May. Reporters covering that trial and legal experts 176 00:12:13,035 --> 00:12:17,355 Speaker 1: guess that we are now several months behind that schedule 177 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:23,315 Speaker 1: and the thing can't possibly start before July. Clearly, Judge 178 00:12:23,315 --> 00:12:25,595 Speaker 1: Cannon has no intention of ever going back to covering 179 00:12:25,715 --> 00:12:31,715 Speaker 1: yoga and flamenco as another note of curiosity. As the 180 00:12:31,715 --> 00:12:34,955 Speaker 1: Trump circumspection in the wake of the staid gag order 181 00:12:35,035 --> 00:12:40,595 Speaker 1: seems strange, so does Special Counsel Smith's relative inactivity, some 182 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:44,795 Speaker 1: might say inertness when it comes to delay after delay 183 00:12:45,035 --> 00:12:48,995 Speaker 1: sought by Trump and granted by the judge Trump appointed. 184 00:12:49,835 --> 00:12:53,155 Speaker 1: It's almost as if the Florida case is there is 185 00:12:53,195 --> 00:12:57,915 Speaker 1: a sidebar to the DC case and Smith isn't trying 186 00:12:57,915 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: to get other courts to overrule Judge Cannon in order 187 00:13:01,075 --> 00:13:03,715 Speaker 1: to foster some sense in Trump that his lawyers are 188 00:13:03,715 --> 00:13:06,595 Speaker 1: not idiots, and his strategy is not going to guarantee 189 00:13:06,635 --> 00:13:10,195 Speaker 1: his conviction in Washington and not guarantee that he will 190 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:12,955 Speaker 1: die in prison and in hockey at least, this would 191 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: all be called a deeck on. One more thing to 192 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:22,075 Speaker 1: add to Trump's paranoia, special council investigating the small collection 193 00:13:22,155 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: of mishandled classified documents in two locations connected to President Biden. 194 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:31,235 Speaker 1: CNN quotes two sources close to that investigation as saying 195 00:13:31,235 --> 00:13:35,155 Speaker 1: that the investigation is complete and the Special Council, Robert Hurr, 196 00:13:35,875 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: is writing an extensive report and he is going to 197 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:51,755 Speaker 1: charge nobody, nobody with nothing. Also of interest here to 198 00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:55,155 Speaker 1: continue the hockey imagery. George Santos is two thirds of 199 00:13:55,195 --> 00:13:58,555 Speaker 1: the way to a hat trick. After the ethics report 200 00:13:58,635 --> 00:14:01,115 Speaker 1: came in. He's saying he will not run for reelection. 201 00:14:01,955 --> 00:14:05,275 Speaker 1: What in waste? The negative sixteen thousand dollars campaign did 202 00:14:05,275 --> 00:14:08,675 Speaker 1: not raise in the third quarter, and momentum is building 203 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:11,275 Speaker 1: towards expelling him, which would leave only the third option, 204 00:14:11,355 --> 00:14:15,835 Speaker 1: where he quits immediately, and there is startling new research 205 00:14:15,915 --> 00:14:20,715 Speaker 1: that the Republicans actually would not miss his vote. And 206 00:14:20,835 --> 00:14:25,715 Speaker 1: speaking of fraud, there is the sportscaster Crisa Thompson's startling 207 00:14:25,755 --> 00:14:31,035 Speaker 1: boast that some of her halftime off camera Network TV 208 00:14:31,235 --> 00:14:36,555 Speaker 1: interviews with football coaches never happened and she just made 209 00:14:36,715 --> 00:14:42,515 Speaker 1: the stuff up. It's shocking unless she also just made 210 00:14:42,595 --> 00:14:49,115 Speaker 1: that up. That's next. This iscountdown. This is countdown with 211 00:14:49,435 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, 212 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:09,155 Speaker 1: some snarks, some predictions. Dateline. Washington House Ethics Committee report 213 00:15:09,275 --> 00:15:14,475 Speaker 1: is back. Surprise, surprise, surprise. George Santos doesn't have any 214 00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:19,635 Speaker 1: in response. Speaker Ugly Johnson has advised members to consider 215 00:15:19,915 --> 00:15:23,395 Speaker 1: whether or not to vote to expel him. Santos says 216 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:26,595 Speaker 1: he will not run for reelection. He may try to 217 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:29,835 Speaker 1: position that as a great moral stance for a change. 218 00:15:29,915 --> 00:15:31,755 Speaker 1: In fact, it probably has more to do with the 219 00:15:31,755 --> 00:15:34,635 Speaker 1: fact that his campaign fundraising for the third quarter of 220 00:15:34,635 --> 00:15:39,715 Speaker 1: this year was minus sixteen five hundred dollars. But most 221 00:15:39,795 --> 00:15:43,155 Speaker 1: interesting of all, the impeccable Philip Bump of The Washington 222 00:15:43,275 --> 00:15:47,115 Speaker 1: Post has researched all the Republican votes since they swore 223 00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:51,355 Speaker 1: Santos in Santos if that is his real name, and 224 00:15:51,435 --> 00:15:55,875 Speaker 1: guess what, the Republicans actually did not need him there 225 00:15:55,955 --> 00:16:02,275 Speaker 1: to pass anything, not even usual Republican time wasting stuff. 226 00:16:02,915 --> 00:16:06,275 Speaker 1: Quoting Phil Bump's calculation, there have been nearly six hundred 227 00:16:06,275 --> 00:16:09,515 Speaker 1: and seventy four votes this year, only ten resulted in 228 00:16:09,555 --> 00:16:12,635 Speaker 1: a one vote margin or in a tie. And while 229 00:16:12,675 --> 00:16:15,235 Speaker 1: that would theoretically mean that in those ten votes you 230 00:16:15,275 --> 00:16:19,555 Speaker 1: could say Santos's vote was essential in getting Republican stuff passed, 231 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:24,435 Speaker 1: Bump found a surprising caveat. None of the amendments or 232 00:16:24,555 --> 00:16:28,995 Speaker 1: bills covered by those ten votes ever became law anyway. 233 00:16:29,595 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 1: Each one of them passed the House and then went 234 00:16:32,195 --> 00:16:36,155 Speaker 1: into conference with the Senate, where they all died. Bump 235 00:16:36,195 --> 00:16:38,475 Speaker 1: has also found out that as the year has gone by, 236 00:16:38,715 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: Santos has become a less reliable vote for Republicans, so 237 00:16:43,275 --> 00:16:46,235 Speaker 1: from the GOP point of view, instead of helping their 238 00:16:46,315 --> 00:16:51,395 Speaker 1: well oiled voting machine in Congress, he had become kind 239 00:16:51,475 --> 00:17:41,355 Speaker 1: of a drag. Sorry, thank you, Nancy Faust. And yes, 240 00:17:41,475 --> 00:17:45,355 Speaker 1: if Santos does resign, the likeliest successor to his seat 241 00:17:45,955 --> 00:17:55,115 Speaker 1: is Republican newcomer Katara ravashe Dateline San Francisco. Most of 242 00:17:55,155 --> 00:17:57,915 Speaker 1: them will never believe it, but another right wing conspiracy 243 00:17:57,995 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: theory just blew up. David de Pap has been found 244 00:18:01,115 --> 00:18:04,035 Speaker 1: guilty on both counts in his violent attack with a 245 00:18:04,035 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: hammer against Nancy Pelosi's husband after Depap broke into their 246 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:12,435 Speaker 1: home hoping to kidnap and or torture and or assassinate her. 247 00:18:12,955 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: De Pap could face maximum sentences of thirty and twenty 248 00:18:16,115 --> 00:18:22,835 Speaker 1: years on the two convictions and Dateline Washington, another part 249 00:18:22,875 --> 00:18:27,515 Speaker 1: of the Tucker Carlson Maga January sixth conspiracy theory. No, 250 00:18:27,635 --> 00:18:32,635 Speaker 1: not the ghost busses thing, but rather the Antifa plant thing, 251 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: is again disproven. John Earl Sullivan, widely proclaimed to be 252 00:18:37,315 --> 00:18:40,875 Speaker 1: an informant or a plant or something, who said he 253 00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:43,555 Speaker 1: was just a citizen journalist, just a member of Black 254 00:18:43,595 --> 00:18:46,915 Speaker 1: Lives Matter who happened to record the shooting of the 255 00:18:47,035 --> 00:18:50,315 Speaker 1: terrorist Ashley Babbitt. He has been convicted on all counts, 256 00:18:50,515 --> 00:18:54,035 Speaker 1: including carrying a knife into the capitol. His lawyers may 257 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:56,875 Speaker 1: have sealed his fate for him when they called another 258 00:18:57,075 --> 00:19:00,955 Speaker 1: quote citizen journalist unquote to testify on his behalf and 259 00:19:00,995 --> 00:19:05,075 Speaker 1: she played video of him shouting into a bullhorn, exhorting 260 00:19:05,115 --> 00:19:07,635 Speaker 1: the crowd to go into the Capitol and telling that crowd, 261 00:19:08,035 --> 00:19:12,715 Speaker 1: We're about to burn this spit down. Unclear how much 262 00:19:12,755 --> 00:19:15,595 Speaker 1: time he'll spend in the big House. Unclear how much 263 00:19:15,635 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: money he spent on those lawyers still ahead of us 264 00:19:41,115 --> 00:19:43,995 Speaker 1: on countdown Fridays with Thurber and the one of all 265 00:19:44,035 --> 00:19:46,715 Speaker 1: of his short stories that has been in middle and 266 00:19:46,875 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: junior high school and high school textbooks for eighty years, 267 00:19:52,075 --> 00:19:55,275 Speaker 1: The Night the Bed Fell first time for the daily 268 00:19:55,355 --> 00:19:58,275 Speaker 1: roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 269 00:19:58,315 --> 00:20:03,235 Speaker 1: who constitute two days worst persons in the World. The 270 00:20:03,315 --> 00:20:06,755 Speaker 1: bronze to Caitlin jenn who responded to a Donald Trump 271 00:20:06,875 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: Junior post about how people of a certain age should 272 00:20:09,435 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: be able to use the R word. If you're not 273 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:15,715 Speaker 1: clear what I mean by that, the R word is 274 00:20:15,755 --> 00:20:17,955 Speaker 1: a version of one of the words in the following 275 00:20:17,995 --> 00:20:23,955 Speaker 1: phrase fire retardant. Jenner responded to the Trump tweet quote, 276 00:20:24,235 --> 00:20:30,715 Speaker 1: I'll say it quote retarted unquote, she spelled it wrong. 277 00:20:31,195 --> 00:20:34,555 Speaker 1: R e T A r T ed like you were 278 00:20:34,555 --> 00:20:38,875 Speaker 1: a tart and now you're a tart again? What a tart? 279 00:20:39,475 --> 00:20:42,355 Speaker 1: The runner up. Well, why it's Trump Junior again in 280 00:20:42,395 --> 00:20:45,715 Speaker 1: his own right. His word of the day was Congresswoman. 281 00:20:46,755 --> 00:20:50,275 Speaker 1: I thank Ron Philipkowski for pointing this out. It's worth 282 00:20:50,315 --> 00:20:53,795 Speaker 1: listening to a couple of times from his video cast 283 00:20:54,275 --> 00:20:58,955 Speaker 1: as Junior tries to introduce Marjorie Taylor Green and gets 284 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:03,915 Speaker 1: it wrong. I love this one. Congress rooman MTG. Marjorie 285 00:21:03,955 --> 00:21:06,115 Speaker 1: Taylor Green. We're gonna be talking to her new books. 286 00:21:06,395 --> 00:21:11,195 Speaker 1: I love this one. Congress Roman MTG. Marjorie Taylor Green, Friends, 287 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:17,715 Speaker 1: Congress Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. But our winner 288 00:21:17,755 --> 00:21:21,235 Speaker 1: is Curisa Thompson, former football sideline reporter at Fox and 289 00:21:21,315 --> 00:21:25,315 Speaker 1: at this rate, former sports broadcaster. I did the baseball 290 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: equivalent of the sideline reporter job dugout reporter, I guess 291 00:21:29,995 --> 00:21:32,835 Speaker 1: for about twenty twenty five games for Fox Sports and 292 00:21:32,995 --> 00:21:36,075 Speaker 1: NBC from ninety seven through two thousand and I remember 293 00:21:36,155 --> 00:21:38,475 Speaker 1: once needing to get a reaction in the middle of 294 00:21:38,515 --> 00:21:41,835 Speaker 1: the game from Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and having to 295 00:21:41,875 --> 00:21:45,835 Speaker 1: literally crawl under a camera and then crawl through a 296 00:21:45,915 --> 00:21:49,075 Speaker 1: half door to get out of the Yankee Stadium dugout 297 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,035 Speaker 1: and back towards where Selig was seated, So this was 298 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:56,995 Speaker 1: kind of shocking. On a podcast, MS Thompson announced where 299 00:21:56,995 --> 00:22:00,795 Speaker 1: it actually is boasted that when tasked with doing some 300 00:22:00,875 --> 00:22:05,275 Speaker 1: of those I talked to coach Smith halftime reports. She 301 00:22:05,835 --> 00:22:10,835 Speaker 1: she didn't talk to coach Smith. She just she just 302 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:11,435 Speaker 1: made it up. 303 00:22:12,115 --> 00:22:14,475 Speaker 2: And I've said this before, so I haven't been fired 304 00:22:14,475 --> 00:22:16,555 Speaker 2: for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would 305 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:19,755 Speaker 2: make up the report sometimes because a the coach wouldn't 306 00:22:19,795 --> 00:22:21,675 Speaker 2: come out at halftime or it was too late, and 307 00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:23,315 Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report. 308 00:22:23,355 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 2: So I was like, I'm just going to make this 309 00:22:24,995 --> 00:22:26,955 Speaker 2: up because first of all, no coach is going to 310 00:22:26,995 --> 00:22:29,555 Speaker 2: get mad if I say, hey, we need to stop 311 00:22:30,275 --> 00:22:32,515 Speaker 2: hurting ourselves. We needed to be better on third down, 312 00:22:32,595 --> 00:22:35,755 Speaker 2: we need to stop turning the ball over quarterback. Yeah exactly, 313 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 2: and do a better job of getting off the field. 314 00:22:38,115 --> 00:22:40,235 Speaker 2: Like they're not going to correct me on that. I'm like, 315 00:22:40,275 --> 00:22:41,235 Speaker 2: it's fine, I'll just make. 316 00:22:41,195 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: Up the report now. In terms of the quality of 317 00:22:43,715 --> 00:22:48,275 Speaker 1: the journalistic content, Miss Thompson is entirely correct. The coach 318 00:22:48,395 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: rarely ever says anything. Maybe we do not need sideline reporters. 319 00:22:54,475 --> 00:22:56,835 Speaker 1: But then there's that one time when you talk to 320 00:22:56,955 --> 00:22:59,555 Speaker 1: him or to somebody and he says something like what 321 00:22:59,635 --> 00:23:02,235 Speaker 1: happened during a near riot at a playoff game at 322 00:23:02,235 --> 00:23:05,795 Speaker 1: Fenway Park in nineteen ninety nine? On Fox, I got 323 00:23:05,915 --> 00:23:09,235 Speaker 1: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for my little report, and I 324 00:23:09,275 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: said something really deep, like what do you think, George? 325 00:23:13,035 --> 00:23:16,155 Speaker 1: And George said he thought that the Red Sox manager 326 00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:20,195 Speaker 1: Jimmy Williams had incited the crowd to riot. That was 327 00:23:20,235 --> 00:23:22,435 Speaker 1: a hell of a statement, and it basically became the 328 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:25,155 Speaker 1: lead story that night and the next day. And I 329 00:23:25,235 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: didn't contribute anything more to that than asking George if 330 00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:31,035 Speaker 1: he would come on with me, and then asking him 331 00:23:31,355 --> 00:23:37,555 Speaker 1: the most generic question ever, But I asked him. You 332 00:23:37,635 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: can't not ask them and then say you ask them. 333 00:23:42,715 --> 00:23:45,755 Speaker 1: You can't make it up. The premise is you never 334 00:23:45,875 --> 00:23:50,275 Speaker 1: make it up, benell or trivial or meaningless. You can't 335 00:23:50,315 --> 00:23:53,715 Speaker 1: make it up, and you certainly can't then boast about 336 00:23:53,755 --> 00:23:58,115 Speaker 1: making it up. HARRISA. Thompson is the host of Thursday 337 00:23:58,195 --> 00:24:00,795 Speaker 1: Night Football on Amazon. Management there was asked by the 338 00:24:00,835 --> 00:24:04,155 Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal if she would address this or if 339 00:24:04,155 --> 00:24:06,715 Speaker 1: there be a suspension or something, and the answer came 340 00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:12,155 Speaker 1: back quote, she was telling the story from fifteen years ago. Unquote, Well, 341 00:24:12,155 --> 00:24:14,835 Speaker 1: we assume she was telling a story from fifteen years ago, 342 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:17,755 Speaker 1: unless she made that up too, which is the point. 343 00:24:18,235 --> 00:24:20,315 Speaker 1: You say something like that, you kind of destroy the 344 00:24:20,355 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: presumption that you're not making stuff up all the time. 345 00:24:25,075 --> 00:24:27,915 Speaker 1: There are three other dimensions to this. The people who 346 00:24:27,955 --> 00:24:31,795 Speaker 1: did the podcast tweeted out the clip apparently proudly, and 347 00:24:31,835 --> 00:24:35,435 Speaker 1: then when the blowback occurred, they deleted it. The other 348 00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:38,595 Speaker 1: two dimensions to this I think are really mallid. At 349 00:24:38,715 --> 00:24:42,675 Speaker 1: least a dozen other women who still work as sideline reporters, 350 00:24:43,235 --> 00:24:48,475 Speaker 1: especially in football, were appalled at Thompson's revelation. They work hard, 351 00:24:49,595 --> 00:24:52,515 Speaker 1: the results, the goals, what they are there for. That's 352 00:24:52,515 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: not their decision, that's not their fault. They work hard, 353 00:24:56,195 --> 00:24:59,555 Speaker 1: they do what they're supposed to do. And Mike Freeman, 354 00:25:00,115 --> 00:25:03,875 Speaker 1: a veteran football reporter and an African American man, asked 355 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:07,075 Speaker 1: a really dis disturbing, an important question. What if that 356 00:25:07,115 --> 00:25:10,435 Speaker 1: announcement I didn't interview the coach, I just made up 357 00:25:10,435 --> 00:25:12,635 Speaker 1: what he probably would have said. What if that had 358 00:25:12,675 --> 00:25:15,435 Speaker 1: been made by a sideline reporter who was also an 359 00:25:15,475 --> 00:25:19,795 Speaker 1: African American man? How quickly would he have been fired 360 00:25:20,715 --> 00:25:25,195 Speaker 1: and justifiably, you can't make it up. Amazon may not 361 00:25:25,235 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: be able to fire her. She didn't make it up 362 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:29,635 Speaker 1: while she was working for them, But how do you 363 00:25:29,795 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: keep her on your broadcast when she's admitted to fabricating 364 00:25:35,315 --> 00:25:41,115 Speaker 1: a key element of all football broadcasts? Harisa, I wouldn't 365 00:25:41,155 --> 00:25:44,915 Speaker 1: worry too much about the next contract negotiation. Thompson two 366 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:52,275 Speaker 1: days worse person in the world to say he had 367 00:25:52,355 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: no comments. I have argued before that James Thurber is 368 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:08,475 Speaker 1: the greatest American humorist, and it dawns on me that 369 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:11,995 Speaker 1: the argument is not unlike the idea that shohe Otani 370 00:26:12,075 --> 00:26:15,555 Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Angels is almost automatically the most 371 00:26:15,635 --> 00:26:18,195 Speaker 1: valuable player in baseball each year because he is an 372 00:26:18,195 --> 00:26:21,675 Speaker 1: All Star hitter and an All Star pitcher in the 373 00:26:21,715 --> 00:26:25,515 Speaker 1: same body. James Thurber was a brilliant writer, and in 374 00:26:25,555 --> 00:26:28,435 Speaker 1: his spare time, it was an equally brilliant, almost avant 375 00:26:28,475 --> 00:26:33,035 Speaker 1: garde artist in the same body. His simple drawings to 376 00:26:33,035 --> 00:26:36,595 Speaker 1: pick the most complex of emotions and comedic situations. His 377 00:26:36,755 --> 00:26:40,355 Speaker 1: dogs are immortal, and then there were his captions. Well, 378 00:26:40,395 --> 00:26:42,795 Speaker 1: I can't do anything with his drawings in a podcast, 379 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:45,715 Speaker 1: So I'll just read and I will read you now 380 00:26:45,755 --> 00:26:48,915 Speaker 1: in this episode, what is probably his most famous story 381 00:26:50,035 --> 00:26:54,035 Speaker 1: from my life in hard times, The Night the bedfell 382 00:26:55,275 --> 00:27:01,395 Speaker 1: James Thurber. I suppose that the high water mark of 383 00:27:01,475 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: my youth in Columbus, Ohio was the night the bed 384 00:27:05,115 --> 00:27:09,355 Speaker 1: fell on my father. It makes a better recitation unless, 385 00:27:09,475 --> 00:27:11,515 Speaker 1: as some friends of mine have said, one has heard 386 00:27:11,555 --> 00:27:13,715 Speaker 1: it five or six times, than it does a piece 387 00:27:13,755 --> 00:27:17,795 Speaker 1: of writing, For it is almost necessary to throw furniture around, 388 00:27:18,035 --> 00:27:21,275 Speaker 1: shake doors, and bark like a dog to lend the 389 00:27:21,315 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: proper atmosphere and verisimilitude to what is admittedly a somewhat 390 00:27:26,435 --> 00:27:32,435 Speaker 1: incredible tale. Still it did take place. It happened then 391 00:27:32,475 --> 00:27:34,955 Speaker 1: that my father had decided to sleep in the attic 392 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:38,675 Speaker 1: one night, to be away where he could think. My 393 00:27:38,755 --> 00:27:41,795 Speaker 1: mother opposed the notion strongly, because she said the old 394 00:27:41,835 --> 00:27:45,235 Speaker 1: wooden bed up there was unsafe, It was wobbly, and 395 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,875 Speaker 1: the heavy headboard would crash down on father's head in 396 00:27:47,915 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: case the bed fell and kill him. There was no 397 00:27:52,355 --> 00:27:55,275 Speaker 1: dissuading him, however, and at a quarter past ten, he 398 00:27:55,355 --> 00:27:57,435 Speaker 1: closed the attic door behind him and went up the narrow, 399 00:27:57,555 --> 00:28:02,275 Speaker 1: twisting stairs. We later heard Amina's creakings as he crawled 400 00:28:02,315 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: into bed. Grandfather, who usually slept in the attic bed 401 00:28:05,595 --> 00:28:08,595 Speaker 1: when he was with us, had disappeared some days before. 402 00:28:09,235 --> 00:28:11,915 Speaker 1: On those occasions, he was usually gone six or eight days, 403 00:28:11,915 --> 00:28:15,675 Speaker 1: and returned growling and out of temper with the news 404 00:28:15,715 --> 00:28:18,875 Speaker 1: that the Federal Union was run by a passel of blockheads, 405 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:21,475 Speaker 1: and that the Army of the Potomac didn't have any 406 00:28:21,475 --> 00:28:26,355 Speaker 1: more chance than a fiddler's bitch. We had visiting us 407 00:28:26,395 --> 00:28:29,195 Speaker 1: at the time, a nervous first cousin of mine named 408 00:28:29,195 --> 00:28:32,355 Speaker 1: Briggs Beale, who believed that he was likely to cease 409 00:28:32,475 --> 00:28:35,715 Speaker 1: breathing when he was asleep. It was his feeling that 410 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:38,595 Speaker 1: if he were not awakened every hour during the night, 411 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:42,235 Speaker 1: he might die of suffocation. He had been accustomed to 412 00:28:42,315 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: setting an alarm clock to ring at intervals until morning, 413 00:28:45,715 --> 00:28:49,835 Speaker 1: but I persuaded him to abandon this. He slept in 414 00:28:49,875 --> 00:28:51,475 Speaker 1: my room, and I told him that I was such 415 00:28:51,515 --> 00:28:54,435 Speaker 1: a light sleeper that if anybody quit breathing in the 416 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: same room with me, I would wake instantly. He tested 417 00:28:57,875 --> 00:29:00,875 Speaker 1: me the first night, which I had suspected he would, 418 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:04,995 Speaker 1: by holding his breath after my regular breathing, had convinced 419 00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:08,395 Speaker 1: him I was asleep. I was not asleep, however, and 420 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:13,755 Speaker 1: called to him. This seemed to allay his fears a little, 421 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:16,555 Speaker 1: but he took the precaution of putting a glass of 422 00:29:16,675 --> 00:29:20,315 Speaker 1: spirits of camphor on a little table at the head 423 00:29:20,355 --> 00:29:23,315 Speaker 1: of his bed in case I didn't arouse him. Until 424 00:29:23,355 --> 00:29:26,595 Speaker 1: he was almost gone. He said he would sniff the camphor. 425 00:29:26,675 --> 00:29:30,675 Speaker 1: A powerful reviver, Briggs was not the only member of 426 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:34,795 Speaker 1: his family who had his crotchets. Old Aunt Melissa Belle, 427 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:37,475 Speaker 1: who could whistle like a man with two fingers in 428 00:29:37,515 --> 00:29:40,755 Speaker 1: her mouth, suffered under the premonition that she was destined 429 00:29:40,795 --> 00:29:43,515 Speaker 1: to die on South High Street because she had been 430 00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:47,555 Speaker 1: born on South High Street and married on South High Street. 431 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:51,115 Speaker 1: Then there was Aunt Sarah Schauf, who never went to 432 00:29:51,155 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: bed at night without the fear that a burglar was 433 00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:57,435 Speaker 1: going to get in and blow chloroform under her door 434 00:29:57,515 --> 00:30:01,195 Speaker 1: through a tube. To avert this calamity, for she was 435 00:30:01,235 --> 00:30:04,155 Speaker 1: in greater dread of anesthetics than of losing her household goods, 436 00:30:04,675 --> 00:30:08,595 Speaker 1: always piled her money, silverware, and other valuables in a 437 00:30:08,635 --> 00:30:12,035 Speaker 1: neat stack just outside her bedroom, with a note reading, 438 00:30:12,115 --> 00:30:14,315 Speaker 1: this is all I have, Please take it and do 439 00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:16,955 Speaker 1: not use your chloroform, as this is all I have. 440 00:30:18,515 --> 00:30:21,835 Speaker 1: Aunt Gracie's chauf also had a burglar phobia, but she 441 00:30:21,995 --> 00:30:25,515 Speaker 1: met it with more fortitude. She was confident that burglars 442 00:30:25,515 --> 00:30:28,595 Speaker 1: had been getting into her house every night for forty years. 443 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:32,235 Speaker 1: The fact that she never missed anything was to her 444 00:30:32,475 --> 00:30:35,035 Speaker 1: no proof. To the contrary, She always claimed that she 445 00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:38,195 Speaker 1: scared them off before they could take anything by throwing 446 00:30:38,435 --> 00:30:42,275 Speaker 1: shoes down the hallway. When she went to bed, she 447 00:30:42,475 --> 00:30:45,515 Speaker 1: piled where she could get at them handily, all the 448 00:30:45,555 --> 00:30:49,115 Speaker 1: shoes there were about her house. Five minutes after she 449 00:30:49,155 --> 00:30:50,875 Speaker 1: had turned off the light, she would sit up in 450 00:30:50,915 --> 00:30:56,235 Speaker 1: bed and say hark. Her husband, who had learned to 451 00:30:56,275 --> 00:30:59,435 Speaker 1: ignore the whole situation as long ago as nineteen o three, 452 00:31:00,155 --> 00:31:03,955 Speaker 1: would either be sound asleep or pretend to be sound asleep. 453 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:07,275 Speaker 1: In either case, he would not respond to her tugging 454 00:31:07,355 --> 00:31:11,155 Speaker 1: and pulling, so that presently she would arise, tiptoe to 455 00:31:11,195 --> 00:31:14,155 Speaker 1: the door, open it slightly, and heave a shoe down 456 00:31:14,155 --> 00:31:17,075 Speaker 1: the hall in one direction, and its mate down the 457 00:31:17,115 --> 00:31:20,755 Speaker 1: hall in the other direction. Some nights she threw them all, 458 00:31:21,195 --> 00:31:25,915 Speaker 1: some nights only a couple of pear. But I am 459 00:31:26,035 --> 00:31:29,235 Speaker 1: straying from the remarkable incidents that took place during the 460 00:31:29,315 --> 00:31:32,715 Speaker 1: night that the bed fell on father. By midnight we 461 00:31:32,715 --> 00:31:35,835 Speaker 1: were all in bed. The layout of the rooms and 462 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:38,875 Speaker 1: the disposition of their occupants is important to an understanding 463 00:31:38,915 --> 00:31:43,075 Speaker 1: of what later occurred. In the front room upstairs, just 464 00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: under father's attic bedroom, where my mother and my brother Hermann, 465 00:31:47,755 --> 00:31:51,235 Speaker 1: who sometimes sang in his sleep, usually marching through Georgia 466 00:31:51,435 --> 00:31:55,555 Speaker 1: or onward Christian soldiers briggs Beale and myself were in 467 00:31:55,555 --> 00:31:58,395 Speaker 1: a room adjoining this one. My brother Roy was in 468 00:31:58,435 --> 00:32:01,795 Speaker 1: a room across the hall from ours. Our bull terrier 469 00:32:01,835 --> 00:32:06,115 Speaker 1: Wrecks slept in the hall. My bed was an army cot, 470 00:32:06,155 --> 00:32:08,635 Speaker 1: one of those affairs which were made wide enough to 471 00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:11,355 Speaker 1: sleep on comfortably only by putting up flat, with the 472 00:32:11,395 --> 00:32:14,955 Speaker 1: middle section the two sides, which ordinarily hang down like 473 00:32:14,995 --> 00:32:18,195 Speaker 1: the sideboards of a drop leaf table. When these sides 474 00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:22,595 Speaker 1: are up, it is perilous to roll too far toward 475 00:32:22,635 --> 00:32:25,475 Speaker 1: the edge, for then the cot is likely to tip 476 00:32:25,515 --> 00:32:28,715 Speaker 1: completely over, bringing the whole bed down on top of 477 00:32:28,755 --> 00:32:33,835 Speaker 1: one with a tremendous banging crash. This, in fact, is 478 00:32:33,875 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: precisely what happened about two o'clock in the morning It 479 00:32:37,635 --> 00:32:40,195 Speaker 1: was my mother, who, in recalling the scene later first 480 00:32:40,195 --> 00:32:42,155 Speaker 1: referred to it as the night the bed fell on 481 00:32:42,235 --> 00:32:47,155 Speaker 1: your father. Always a deep sleeper and slow to arouse, 482 00:32:47,955 --> 00:32:51,875 Speaker 1: I had lied to Briggs. I was at first unconscious 483 00:32:51,915 --> 00:32:55,115 Speaker 1: of what had happened. When the ironcot rolled me onto 484 00:32:55,155 --> 00:32:58,635 Speaker 1: the floor and toppled over on me. It left me 485 00:32:58,675 --> 00:33:01,435 Speaker 1: still warmly bundled up and unheard, for the bed rested 486 00:33:01,435 --> 00:33:04,555 Speaker 1: above me like a canopy. Hence I did not wake up, 487 00:33:04,915 --> 00:33:09,195 Speaker 1: only reached the edge of consciousness and went back. The racket, however, 488 00:33:09,315 --> 00:33:11,755 Speaker 1: instantly awakened my mother in the next room, who came 489 00:33:11,795 --> 00:33:15,435 Speaker 1: to the immediate conclusion that her worst dread was realized. 490 00:33:15,475 --> 00:33:18,955 Speaker 1: The big wooden bed upstairs had fallen on father. She 491 00:33:19,115 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: therefore screamed, let's go to your poor father. It was 492 00:33:24,395 --> 00:33:27,675 Speaker 1: this shout, rather than the noise of my cot falling, 493 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:30,275 Speaker 1: that awakened Herman in the same room with her, he 494 00:33:30,395 --> 00:33:33,595 Speaker 1: thought that mother had become, for no apparent reason, hysterical. 495 00:33:34,155 --> 00:33:36,795 Speaker 1: You're all right, Mama, he shouted, trying to calm her. 496 00:33:37,395 --> 00:33:42,115 Speaker 1: They exchanged shout for shout for perhaps ten seconds. Let's 497 00:33:42,155 --> 00:33:46,675 Speaker 1: go to your poor father, and you're all right. That 498 00:33:46,995 --> 00:33:50,595 Speaker 1: woke up Briggs. By this time I was conscious of 499 00:33:50,675 --> 00:33:53,755 Speaker 1: what was going on in a vague way, but did 500 00:33:53,795 --> 00:33:57,155 Speaker 1: not yet realize that I was under my bed instead 501 00:33:57,155 --> 00:34:00,955 Speaker 1: of on it. Briggs, awakening in the midst of loud 502 00:34:00,995 --> 00:34:03,555 Speaker 1: shouts of fear and apprehension, came to the quick conclusion 503 00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:06,355 Speaker 1: that he was suffolting, and that we were all trying 504 00:34:06,355 --> 00:34:11,475 Speaker 1: to bring him out. With a low moan, he grasped 505 00:34:11,515 --> 00:34:13,515 Speaker 1: the glass of camphor at the head of his bed, 506 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:18,395 Speaker 1: and instead of sniffing it, he poured it over himself. 507 00:34:18,675 --> 00:34:23,355 Speaker 1: The room reeked of camphor. Ugh ah choked Briggs like 508 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:26,315 Speaker 1: a drowning man, for he had almost succeeded in stopping 509 00:34:26,315 --> 00:34:31,115 Speaker 1: his breath under the deluge of pungent spirits. He leaped 510 00:34:31,115 --> 00:34:33,315 Speaker 1: out of bed and groped toward the open window, but 511 00:34:33,355 --> 00:34:36,475 Speaker 1: he came up against one that was closed. With his hand, 512 00:34:36,915 --> 00:34:39,595 Speaker 1: he beat out the glass, and I could hear it 513 00:34:39,675 --> 00:34:43,435 Speaker 1: crash and tinkle on the alleyway below. It was at 514 00:34:43,475 --> 00:34:45,635 Speaker 1: this juncture that I, in trying to get up, had 515 00:34:45,635 --> 00:34:50,875 Speaker 1: the uncanny sensation of feeling my bed above me foggy 516 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:53,875 Speaker 1: with sleep. I now suspected, in my turn that the 517 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:56,955 Speaker 1: whole uproar was being made in a frantic endeavor to 518 00:34:57,115 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: extricate me from what must be an unheard of and 519 00:34:59,635 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: perilous situation. Get me out of this, I bawled, Get 520 00:35:02,675 --> 00:35:05,275 Speaker 1: me out. I think I had the night irish belief 521 00:35:05,275 --> 00:35:11,355 Speaker 1: that I was entombed in a mine. Gas Briggs floundering 522 00:35:11,355 --> 00:35:15,115 Speaker 1: in his camphor by this time, my mother, still shouting, 523 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:18,715 Speaker 1: pursued by Hermann, still shouting, was trying to open the 524 00:35:18,755 --> 00:35:20,475 Speaker 1: door to the attic in order to go up and 525 00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:25,395 Speaker 1: get my father's body out of the wreckage. The door 526 00:35:26,195 --> 00:35:30,835 Speaker 1: was stuck, however, and would not yield. Her frantic pulls 527 00:35:30,915 --> 00:35:33,595 Speaker 1: on it only added to the general banging and confusion. 528 00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:36,675 Speaker 1: Roy and the dog were now up, the one shouting questions, 529 00:35:36,715 --> 00:35:41,595 Speaker 1: the other barking. Father, farthest away and soundest sleeper of all, 530 00:35:41,675 --> 00:35:43,875 Speaker 1: had by this time been awakened by the battering on 531 00:35:43,915 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: the attic door. He decided that the house was on fire. 532 00:35:49,795 --> 00:35:54,875 Speaker 1: Oh comeing, okay, he wailed in a slow, sleepy voice. 533 00:35:55,035 --> 00:35:58,155 Speaker 1: It took him many minutes to regain full consciousness. My mother, 534 00:35:58,235 --> 00:36:01,235 Speaker 1: still believing he was caught under the bed, detected in 535 00:36:01,315 --> 00:36:05,115 Speaker 1: his I'm coming, the mournful, resigned note of one who 536 00:36:05,195 --> 00:36:09,195 Speaker 1: was preparing to meet his maker. He's dying, she shouted. 537 00:36:09,915 --> 00:36:13,355 Speaker 1: I'm all right, Briggs yelled to reassure her, I'm all right. 538 00:36:13,955 --> 00:36:16,395 Speaker 1: He still believed that it was his own closeness to 539 00:36:16,515 --> 00:36:20,875 Speaker 1: death that was worrying Mother. I found at last the 540 00:36:20,955 --> 00:36:23,275 Speaker 1: light switch in my room, unlocked the door, and Briggs 541 00:36:23,275 --> 00:36:25,715 Speaker 1: and I joined the others at the attic door. The dog, 542 00:36:26,395 --> 00:36:29,955 Speaker 1: who never did like Briggs, jumped for him, assuming that 543 00:36:30,035 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: he was the culprit in whatever was going on, and 544 00:36:32,755 --> 00:36:36,555 Speaker 1: Roy had to throw Rex and hold him. We could 545 00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:39,555 Speaker 1: hear Father crawling out of the bed upstairs. Roy pulled 546 00:36:39,595 --> 00:36:41,795 Speaker 1: the attic door open with a mighty jerk, and Father 547 00:36:41,875 --> 00:36:45,555 Speaker 1: came down the stairs, sleepy and irritable, but safe and sound. 548 00:36:46,435 --> 00:36:49,355 Speaker 1: My mother began to weep when she saw him. Rex 549 00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:55,155 Speaker 1: began to howl. What in the name of God is 550 00:36:55,235 --> 00:37:01,235 Speaker 1: going on here? Asked father. The situation was finally put 551 00:37:01,275 --> 00:37:06,035 Speaker 1: together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Father caught a cold 552 00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:08,235 Speaker 1: from prowling around in his bare feet, but there were 553 00:37:08,275 --> 00:37:13,235 Speaker 1: no other bad results. I'm glad, said Mother, who always 554 00:37:13,235 --> 00:37:17,075 Speaker 1: looked on the bright side of things, that your grandfather 555 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:33,115 Speaker 1: wasn't here. I've done all the damage. I can do here. 556 00:37:33,915 --> 00:37:36,955 Speaker 1: I just was talking to Coach Smith at halftime and 557 00:37:37,915 --> 00:37:39,715 Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Countdown has come to you from 558 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:42,755 Speaker 1: the Vin Scully Studios at the Old Women Broadcasting Empire 559 00:37:42,835 --> 00:37:46,315 Speaker 1: in New York. 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And we call it the 569 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:20,115 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two. Now, the reason I say 570 00:38:20,155 --> 00:38:22,355 Speaker 1: we call it the Olderman theme from ESPN two is 571 00:38:22,435 --> 00:38:25,515 Speaker 1: it really didn't have a title. Our satirical and fifthy 572 00:38:25,595 --> 00:38:29,075 Speaker 1: musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium 573 00:38:29,155 --> 00:38:32,155 Speaker 1: organist ever. Debatable, but if you say that's not true, 574 00:38:32,155 --> 00:38:35,355 Speaker 1: you're wrong. Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis, 575 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:37,955 Speaker 1: and he is a dear friend, so that's true. And 576 00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:41,035 Speaker 1: everything else was pretty much my fault, which has been 577 00:38:41,035 --> 00:38:44,395 Speaker 1: true about me since more or less nineteen sixty one. 578 00:38:44,515 --> 00:38:47,155 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this, the one thy forty sixth day 579 00:38:47,275 --> 00:38:50,435 Speaker 1: since dementia J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 580 00:38:50,435 --> 00:38:54,115 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Convict him now while 581 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:58,035 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletins 582 00:38:58,075 --> 00:39:00,955 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, 583 00:39:01,035 --> 00:39:17,475 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 584 00:39:17,515 --> 00:39:22,555 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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