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Speaker 1: we wait to see if if any Progosian accidentally falls

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Speaker 1: it is clear that Jack Smith is again in the

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Speaker 1: end game for more Trump indictments, this time about the

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Speaker 1: fake electors, and that he and his team are also

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Speaker 1: really shockingly confident that they will get a quick conviction

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Speaker 1: of Trump in the document's case. First the fake Electors.

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Speaker 1: It was obscured because TV News and even most big

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Speaker 1: effectively cover simultaneously one and we had Russia and the

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Speaker 1: Titanic sub But Jack Smith has bought the testimony of

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Speaker 1: two Nevada fakes, and may have already bought the testimony

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Speaker 1: in essence fake Electors. Smith is also locking in testimony,

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Speaker 1: almost certainly that will include the deplorable Justice Department hatchetman

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Speaker 1: college slates in from swing states and to artificially manufacture

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Speaker 1: the kind of chaos that happened organically after the eighteen

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Speaker 1: mister Roman did much of the legwork in putting together

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Speaker 1: in the effort to put together fake slates from, among others, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,

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Speaker 1: and Nevada. The lid on the Nevada scheme has clearly

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Speaker 1: already blown off. While The Times was talking about Michael

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Speaker 1: Michael McDonald and Nevada GOP National Committee member Jim Degraffenreid.

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Speaker 1: They were both actual fake electors. They were both forced

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Speaker 1: to testify in exchange for limited immunity. They were both

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Speaker 1: was being indicted in Miami. The CNN reporting offered a

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Speaker 1: procedural detail that's just as interesting as the flipping of

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Speaker 1: with no chance for delay. Prosecutors have played hardball with

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Speaker 1: some of the witnesses in recent weeks, demanding they testify

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Speaker 1: before the end of this month. Unquote. CNN's has at

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Speaker 1: least six witnesses testified last week and the week before

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Speaker 1: one of those eight witnesses is Michael Roman's deputy in

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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign election day office, quoting again Gary Michael Brown,

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Speaker 1: who had told campaign staff he delivered fake elector votes

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Speaker 1: And again, where this is leading cnn' sources duplicate those

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Speaker 1: on Trump is Jenna Ellis. Past March, Jenna Ellis was

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Speaker 1: Back to the Michael Roman part of this story and

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Speaker 1: one vignette from the Times that underscores how helpfully stupid

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Speaker 1: man named Jack Willnchick was good enough to write to

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Speaker 1: the quote fake unquote votes should be counted unquote. That's

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Speaker 1: how the Times quotes Willnchick's email to Boris Epstein. As

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Speaker 1: do a Google image search for him, you will see

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Speaker 1: been smacked in the face with a shovel. Will Enchik,

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Speaker 1: the two Nevada electors are now likely to get out

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Speaker 1: to get indicted? That's unclear. But Jack Smith picked up

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Speaker 1: on the document's prong. National security lawyer Brandon Van Grack

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Speaker 1: Smith's team thinks it has such a damning case against

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Speaker 1: the defendant continues to confess in public at every opportunity.

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Speaker 1: than a good, fake martyrdom story. That quote obviously grabbed

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Speaker 1: But all Trump has heard in these three different stories

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Speaker 1: that image. That word is socks.

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Speaker 2: It has something to do with sucks and taking things

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Speaker 1: After leaving the White House, Bill Clinton kept seventy nine

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Speaker 1: Socks by the way, there is photographic evidence that as

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Speaker 1: Trump gave that speech, Mike Huckabee up on the dais

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Speaker 1: In Sports Baseball. Cardinals beat the Cubs seven to five yesterday,

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Speaker 1: in the morning. I'd be afraid to put on my

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Speaker 1: shoes before they blew up. Stu Peters, you want a

430
00:29:39,555 --> 00:29:44,075
Speaker 1: real conspiracy, please remember the first two syllables of the

431
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Speaker 1: name Stu Peters form the sound Stu Pete. Two days

432
00:29:51,155 --> 00:30:10,155
Speaker 1: worse person and the to the number one story on

433
00:30:10,195 --> 00:30:12,835
Speaker 1: the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I

434
00:30:12,955 --> 00:30:16,275
Speaker 1: promised not to tell and circumstances the other day took

435
00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:20,155
Speaker 1: me past my first New York City apartment. I stopped

436
00:30:20,155 --> 00:30:23,595
Speaker 1: and stood and stared, and I shook my head, and

437
00:30:23,675 --> 00:30:27,515
Speaker 1: again I saw in my mind the flames and the

438
00:30:27,555 --> 00:30:32,475
Speaker 1: glow and the blackened lobby because one night somebody threw

439
00:30:32,515 --> 00:30:35,475
Speaker 1: a Molotov cocktail into the building in which I had

440
00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:39,235
Speaker 1: my first New York City apartment. While I was in

441
00:30:39,355 --> 00:30:43,195
Speaker 1: my first New York City apartment, the address was it

442
00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:46,955
Speaker 1: is two hundred and forty East fifty fifth Street, Apartment

443
00:30:47,075 --> 00:30:50,475
Speaker 1: ten F. It was two doors west of Second Avenue,

444
00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:53,155
Speaker 1: south side of the street. It was the center apartment

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00:30:53,195 --> 00:30:55,435
Speaker 1: on the street side of the building, and I was

446
00:30:55,475 --> 00:30:58,675
Speaker 1: directly above the front entrance and above the only thing

447
00:30:58,715 --> 00:31:01,675
Speaker 1: of note in the whole place, a full fledged old

448
00:31:01,715 --> 00:31:05,635
Speaker 1: fashioned New York City apartment building canopy. You could get

449
00:31:05,635 --> 00:31:07,435
Speaker 1: out of a cab and a rain storm and under

450
00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:09,715
Speaker 1: that canopy in like a second and a half and

451
00:31:09,835 --> 00:31:14,315
Speaker 1: pretty much not get wet. No doorman, no amenities, rather

452
00:31:14,435 --> 00:31:18,435
Speaker 1: dubious live in super but it had that canopy. I

453
00:31:18,595 --> 00:31:21,995
Speaker 1: moved in on June seventeenth, nineteen eighty. It was a

454
00:31:21,995 --> 00:31:25,875
Speaker 1: big studio apartment. The view was of a big video

455
00:31:25,955 --> 00:31:28,995
Speaker 1: warehouse across the street, though if you leaned out the

456
00:31:29,035 --> 00:31:32,035
Speaker 1: westernmost window you could see the City Corps Center, which

457
00:31:32,115 --> 00:31:34,555
Speaker 1: was always an impressive sight on a foggy night. The

458
00:31:34,595 --> 00:31:37,395
Speaker 1: neighborhood and the building were safe and quiet, at least

459
00:31:37,395 --> 00:31:39,835
Speaker 1: I thought they were safe. It was a fifteen minute

460
00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:41,595
Speaker 1: walk from my first job, and then a twenty five

461
00:31:41,635 --> 00:31:44,195
Speaker 1: minute walk from my second job. And when I first

462
00:31:44,195 --> 00:31:47,555
Speaker 1: rented there, it was are you ready four hundred and

463
00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:53,115
Speaker 1: eighty three dollars a month, which sounds unbelievable except that

464
00:31:53,235 --> 00:31:55,915
Speaker 1: was about a third of my salary. And I think

465
00:31:55,955 --> 00:31:58,115
Speaker 1: when I moved out in nineteen eighty four the rent

466
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Speaker 1: had gone up to five hundred and ten dollars a month,

467
00:32:00,755 --> 00:32:03,195
Speaker 1: And that low price might have had something to do

468
00:32:03,235 --> 00:32:05,275
Speaker 1: with the fact that one night somebody threw them all

469
00:32:05,315 --> 00:32:09,635
Speaker 1: a tough cocktail into the building. You know how, once

470
00:32:09,675 --> 00:32:12,355
Speaker 1: you've been in any place for any length of time,

471
00:32:12,355 --> 00:32:15,675
Speaker 1: you get used to the physics of it, the feel

472
00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:20,235
Speaker 1: of it. Not just someplace you live, any place you

473
00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:23,635
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in an office, a classroom,

474
00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:27,355
Speaker 1: a theater, or an apartment. You know what it sounds like.

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00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:30,675
Speaker 1: You know what it feels like in the summer or

476
00:32:30,675 --> 00:32:32,715
Speaker 1: how it feels differently in the winter. You know what

477
00:32:32,755 --> 00:32:36,475
Speaker 1: it looks like, the building, noise, the smells, if it's

478
00:32:36,475 --> 00:32:39,475
Speaker 1: too hot, if it's too cold, and especially and think

479
00:32:39,475 --> 00:32:43,235
Speaker 1: about this for a second, especially what the light looks

480
00:32:43,355 --> 00:32:48,035
Speaker 1: like at every hour of the day. I don't know

481
00:32:48,115 --> 00:32:49,995
Speaker 1: if there was a day when I could have said,

482
00:32:50,075 --> 00:32:52,155
Speaker 1: this is what the light looks like in Apartment ten

483
00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:54,955
Speaker 1: f two forty East fifty fifth Street during a snowstorm,

484
00:32:55,475 --> 00:32:57,755
Speaker 1: or what the light looks like coming in through the

485
00:32:57,795 --> 00:33:00,155
Speaker 1: shades at eight in the morning or eight at night.

486
00:33:00,715 --> 00:33:04,115
Speaker 1: But it probably didn't take long. June nineteen eighty was

487
00:33:04,115 --> 00:33:05,715
Speaker 1: when I moved in. I bet I knew the various

488
00:33:05,835 --> 00:33:09,595
Speaker 1: lights of the place by September, so by New Years

489
00:33:09,635 --> 00:33:16,195
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three, I knew it all instinctively, exactly, reflexingly, boringly.

490
00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:19,115
Speaker 1: I would go to my bed in the southeast corner

491
00:33:19,195 --> 00:33:22,115
Speaker 1: of my studio apartment. I'd get in sleeping north south,

492
00:33:22,195 --> 00:33:24,555
Speaker 1: but with my head at the south end, and as

493
00:33:24,595 --> 00:33:26,275
Speaker 1: I lay on my back, I could look out the

494
00:33:26,275 --> 00:33:29,475
Speaker 1: windows and see the faint orangey glow from a couple

495
00:33:29,515 --> 00:33:32,235
Speaker 1: of street lights that shone through the four windows that

496
00:33:32,355 --> 00:33:34,755
Speaker 1: opened to on either side of a kind of small

497
00:33:34,795 --> 00:33:37,915
Speaker 1: picture window in the middle. The light would be brightest

498
00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:39,955
Speaker 1: from the window on the farthest right, which was the

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00:33:39,995 --> 00:33:42,835
Speaker 1: one closest to Second Avenue and the closest to one

500
00:33:42,835 --> 00:33:47,915
Speaker 1: of those street lights. So on Sunday, January ninth, nineteen

501
00:33:47,955 --> 00:33:51,955
Speaker 1: eighty three, as that night turned into Monday, January tenth,

502
00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:54,875
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, I hit the sack around midnight because

503
00:33:54,875 --> 00:33:56,995
Speaker 1: I actually had one of those rare nine to five

504
00:33:57,115 --> 00:34:00,995
Speaker 1: jobs in television as a field reporter for CNN. I

505
00:34:01,035 --> 00:34:03,435
Speaker 1: shut off the light on my nightstand. I laid down

506
00:34:03,475 --> 00:34:05,875
Speaker 1: on my back. I stared at my right hand window,

507
00:34:06,195 --> 00:34:10,755
Speaker 1: and immediately I thought, boy, the light is slightly more

508
00:34:10,875 --> 00:34:15,715
Speaker 1: orange than it should be. What the hell's wrong? I'm

509
00:34:15,755 --> 00:34:17,675
Speaker 1: guessing it was no more than five or ten percent

510
00:34:17,795 --> 00:34:20,515
Speaker 1: different from usual. But as I've gone to such lengths

511
00:34:20,515 --> 00:34:22,995
Speaker 1: to point out, if you see the same light through

512
00:34:23,035 --> 00:34:27,515
Speaker 1: the same window in all conceivable conditions almost every night

513
00:34:27,555 --> 00:34:31,275
Speaker 1: for more than two years, five or ten percent difference

514
00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:34,155
Speaker 1: is a lot. I think. I lay there trying to

515
00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:35,675
Speaker 1: figure it out for a minute or so when I

516
00:34:35,755 --> 00:34:41,515
Speaker 1: realized it was now ten or fifteen percent different. Cleverly,

517
00:34:42,355 --> 00:34:44,915
Speaker 1: I got up and went to the window and rolled

518
00:34:44,955 --> 00:34:47,315
Speaker 1: up the shade and looked down to that canopy ten

519
00:34:47,395 --> 00:34:50,195
Speaker 1: floors below, and I must say, to my credit, I

520
00:34:50,475 --> 00:34:56,955
Speaker 1: quickly discerned that the canopy was on fire. I reacted

521
00:34:56,995 --> 00:35:00,675
Speaker 1: as almost everybody does, matter of factly thinking, maybe even

522
00:35:00,715 --> 00:35:05,075
Speaker 1: saying out loud, hey, the canopy is on fire, and

523
00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:08,395
Speaker 1: then registering the fact that the fire had already burned

524
00:35:08,435 --> 00:35:11,155
Speaker 1: through the building end of that canopy, and it was

525
00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:16,795
Speaker 1: moving quickly outwards towards the street, suggesting again, I must say,

526
00:35:16,835 --> 00:35:20,275
Speaker 1: I figured this out for myself, suggesting that there was

527
00:35:20,355 --> 00:35:24,755
Speaker 1: probably a fire in the lobby. I put a robe

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00:35:24,755 --> 00:35:27,155
Speaker 1: on over my pajamas, I put on some shoes. I

529
00:35:27,195 --> 00:35:29,835
Speaker 1: grabbed my wallet and my keys, and I ventured into

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00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:33,715
Speaker 1: the hallway. No smell of smoke, which I took again intelligently,

531
00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:36,755
Speaker 1: is a good sign. Two elevators were staring me in

532
00:35:36,755 --> 00:35:38,835
Speaker 1: the face, but I knew better than to try them.

533
00:35:39,395 --> 00:35:42,915
Speaker 1: I was, after all, the grandson of a firefighter. So

534
00:35:42,995 --> 00:35:46,875
Speaker 1: I opened the stairwell and then I smelled the smoke. Faint,

535
00:35:47,075 --> 00:35:50,675
Speaker 1: but it was there. I went down two floors, and

536
00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:53,195
Speaker 1: every step I took the smell got a little stronger.

537
00:35:53,715 --> 00:35:56,435
Speaker 1: I went back up. I went back into my apartment.

538
00:35:56,995 --> 00:35:59,595
Speaker 1: I did not really know what I was going to do.

539
00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:04,915
Speaker 1: Needless to say, ten floors is not jumpable. There was

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00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:07,555
Speaker 1: no outdoor fire escape, like in many of the New

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00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:10,155
Speaker 1: York city, older apartment buildings, and even if I went

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00:36:10,195 --> 00:36:12,675
Speaker 1: down the elevator or the stairs or the side of

543
00:36:12,675 --> 00:36:15,435
Speaker 1: the damned building, I would wind up right in the

544
00:36:15,475 --> 00:36:19,235
Speaker 1: middle of the fire. For a few seconds, I really

545
00:36:19,275 --> 00:36:21,915
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do next. Me, the grandson of

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00:36:21,955 --> 00:36:24,155
Speaker 1: the man who was not only a firefighter but who

547
00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:30,995
Speaker 1: drove the hook and ladder irony also fire. That's when

548
00:36:30,995 --> 00:36:33,115
Speaker 1: the sound of the fire engines broke me out of

549
00:36:33,155 --> 00:36:37,435
Speaker 1: self absorption and cheered me, I must say considerably. They

550
00:36:37,515 --> 00:36:40,955
Speaker 1: parked right near where that convenient canopy used to be,

551
00:36:41,555 --> 00:36:43,515
Speaker 1: but was now pretty much a charred hunk of the

552
00:36:43,555 --> 00:36:47,915
Speaker 1: metal framing in a little burned fabric. I'm sure you've

553
00:36:47,915 --> 00:36:51,875
Speaker 1: seen a fire. Maybe you've seen firefighters arrive at one

554
00:36:51,915 --> 00:36:54,635
Speaker 1: and get going with their amazing speed. But there is

555
00:36:54,675 --> 00:36:58,115
Speaker 1: something different in seeing it from the vantage point of

556
00:36:58,155 --> 00:37:02,955
Speaker 1: being above the fire. First there is an extraordinary amount

557
00:37:02,955 --> 00:37:06,995
Speaker 1: of water, then a lot of then an almost unstoppable

558
00:37:07,035 --> 00:37:10,195
Speaker 1: instinct to say cool. And then you go and check

559
00:37:10,235 --> 00:37:13,315
Speaker 1: the stairwell again and joyfully inhale the smell of stuff

560
00:37:13,355 --> 00:37:16,275
Speaker 1: that had been on fire but was now no longer

561
00:37:16,315 --> 00:37:21,075
Speaker 1: on fire and just inundated with water. Hallelujah. I waited

562
00:37:21,155 --> 00:37:23,315
Speaker 1: until after they left before I decided to go back

563
00:37:23,315 --> 00:37:25,875
Speaker 1: to my bed. I did not feel the need to

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00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,875
Speaker 1: add to whatever loud chaos was going on in the

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00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:32,195
Speaker 1: lobby or what had been the lobby, nor to get

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00:37:32,195 --> 00:37:34,755
Speaker 1: any details about the fire other than the key one,

567
00:37:34,755 --> 00:37:38,995
Speaker 1: which was it's out. But in the morning, since I

568
00:37:38,995 --> 00:37:42,355
Speaker 1: had to go to work anyway, I saw the elevator

569
00:37:42,395 --> 00:37:45,595
Speaker 1: door open onto the little linoleum covered landing in the lobby,

570
00:37:45,635 --> 00:37:48,075
Speaker 1: and saw that everything else but it in the lobby

571
00:37:48,195 --> 00:37:52,915
Speaker 1: was jet black. They were still hosing some of it down.

572
00:37:53,715 --> 00:37:58,075
Speaker 1: They were already pulling up burned carpet, installing new windows

573
00:37:58,115 --> 00:38:01,515
Speaker 1: and doors, and carting away what was left of the canopy.

574
00:38:01,995 --> 00:38:05,515
Speaker 1: And it was evident that as thorough a job as

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00:38:05,515 --> 00:38:08,835
Speaker 1: had been done there, nothing else in the building had burned. Nothing.

576
00:38:10,795 --> 00:38:13,315
Speaker 1: In the days and weeks to come, the other residents,

577
00:38:13,315 --> 00:38:16,155
Speaker 1: knowing I worked in news, clued me in on the

578
00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:19,235
Speaker 1: rumors and asked me to check them out. There was

579
00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:23,115
Speaker 1: a dispute, somebody said, involving the owner. There was something

580
00:38:23,115 --> 00:38:25,275
Speaker 1: about a woman. No, there was nothing about a woman.

581
00:38:25,515 --> 00:38:29,515
Speaker 1: But all of them, every story, every rumor, included the

582
00:38:29,555 --> 00:38:33,795
Speaker 1: obvious that was no boating accident. Somebody had thrown a

583
00:38:33,835 --> 00:38:38,395
Speaker 1: mile't off cocktail into or against our front door. And

584
00:38:38,435 --> 00:38:41,435
Speaker 1: then there was the best of the stories, born out

585
00:38:41,635 --> 00:38:45,035
Speaker 1: or at least lent plausibility by the rapidity with which

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00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:48,435
Speaker 1: the firefighters arrived, which thinking back on it was no

587
00:38:48,555 --> 00:38:51,675
Speaker 1: more than three or four minutes after I first saw

588
00:38:51,915 --> 00:38:56,315
Speaker 1: the extra orange glow. The best rumor was that the

589
00:38:56,355 --> 00:39:01,395
Speaker 1: fire department had been called by somebody before anybody in

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00:39:01,435 --> 00:39:06,235
Speaker 1: the building had called. The implication was was somebody called

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00:39:06,235 --> 00:39:11,315
Speaker 1: in a fire and then started the fire. For forty

592
00:39:11,395 --> 00:39:14,875
Speaker 1: years plus I have been unable to find the truth.

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00:39:15,875 --> 00:39:19,555
Speaker 1: The fire, doing superficial but ultimately not serious damage did

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00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:22,795
Speaker 1: not make the New York newspapers. Hell that year, I

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00:39:22,835 --> 00:39:24,555
Speaker 1: took a subway to work in the morning and there

596
00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:27,075
Speaker 1: was a guy sprawled over three seats. And when I

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00:39:27,075 --> 00:39:28,635
Speaker 1: went home that night, I happened to get on the

598
00:39:28,675 --> 00:39:31,595
Speaker 1: exact same train car and there was the exact same

599
00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,395
Speaker 1: guy sprawled over the exact same three seats because he

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00:39:34,555 --> 00:39:37,995
Speaker 1: was dead. And that didn't make the New York newspapers

601
00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:42,475
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three either. We old timey New Yorkers,

602
00:39:42,515 --> 00:39:47,315
Speaker 1: we lived on the edge. Baby. All I know is

603
00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:50,195
Speaker 1: that Within weeks, a doorman was hired. His name was

604
00:39:50,275 --> 00:39:54,355
Speaker 1: Jane and he had a strong Irish accent, and he

605
00:39:54,435 --> 00:39:57,075
Speaker 1: was still there as of two thousand and two. And

606
00:39:57,115 --> 00:40:00,595
Speaker 1: then the building suddenly went co op. All of us

607
00:40:00,595 --> 00:40:03,955
Speaker 1: renters were suddenly offered the chance to buy our apartments.

608
00:40:04,715 --> 00:40:06,395
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to take out a loan, and

609
00:40:06,435 --> 00:40:08,995
Speaker 1: I expected to be moving to Boston in the near future,

610
00:40:09,195 --> 00:40:12,035
Speaker 1: and I kept thinking about that Molotov cocktail. So I

611
00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:15,955
Speaker 1: turned down that apartment at the price of are you

612
00:40:16,115 --> 00:40:23,555
Speaker 1: lying down? Thirty six five hundred dollars. Turned it down

613
00:40:24,075 --> 00:40:28,595
Speaker 1: because yeah, there was the fire and the loan and Boston.

614
00:40:29,675 --> 00:40:33,115
Speaker 1: But ultimately I turned it down, even just to keep

615
00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:36,715
Speaker 1: as a a storage unit. I turned that apartment down

616
00:40:36,755 --> 00:40:55,275
Speaker 1: because when it comes to investments, I'm a moron, you know.

617
00:40:55,355 --> 00:40:58,675
Speaker 1: And it still shows up in my dream sometimes too,

618
00:40:58,875 --> 00:41:01,755
Speaker 1: not often, though, I'm sure I'll be over it anytime.

619
00:41:01,795 --> 00:41:03,635
Speaker 1: Now it's only been forty two and a half years.

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00:41:04,955 --> 00:41:06,635
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do. Here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the

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00:41:08,795 --> 00:41:11,395
Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and

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Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanel. They are the countdown musical directors. Guitars

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Speaker 1: based and drums by Brian ray All, Orchestration and keyboards

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00:41:18,115 --> 00:41:22,595
Speaker 1: by John Phillip Chanel. The producers Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven

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00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:25,835
Speaker 1: selections arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two.

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Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever.

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Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine, and everything

631
00:41:39,515 --> 00:41:42,315
Speaker 1: else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for

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00:41:42,355 --> 00:41:44,995
Speaker 1: this the nine hundred and second day since Donald Trump's

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00:41:44,995 --> 00:41:48,275
Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the

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00:41:48,355 --> 00:41:53,355
Speaker 1: United States. Arrest him again while we still can you

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00:41:53,395 --> 00:41:56,195
Speaker 1: think Jack Smith listens to this podcast because he sure

636
00:41:56,235 --> 00:42:00,315
Speaker 1: has been busy arresting him while he still can. Thank you, Jack.

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Speaker 1: The next Tedital Countdown is tomorrow. Till then. I'm Keith Olberman.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with

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