1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:20,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,835 --> 00:00:30,075 Speaker 1: Liz Trusts is Kevin McCarthy. Liz Trust is Kevin Stitt, 3 00:00:30,595 --> 00:00:35,755 Speaker 1: Liz Trust is Carrie Lake. Liz Trust is Jim Banks. 4 00:00:36,555 --> 00:00:42,195 Speaker 1: Liz Trusts is every Republican economist. It is easy to 5 00:00:42,315 --> 00:00:46,475 Speaker 1: dismiss Liz Trust as a foreign punch line and oversees 6 00:00:46,595 --> 00:00:48,955 Speaker 1: irrelevancy in her own words, a fight or not a 7 00:00:49,035 --> 00:00:52,035 Speaker 1: quitter who twenty four hours later than quit. It is 8 00:00:52,115 --> 00:00:55,475 Speaker 1: fun to note that she's not just the shortest serving 9 00:00:55,515 --> 00:00:58,315 Speaker 1: prime minister in British history, but she did not last 10 00:00:58,355 --> 00:01:01,635 Speaker 1: half as long as the now runners up to nineteen 11 00:01:01,755 --> 00:01:05,835 Speaker 1: century guys who died in office. It is like primal 12 00:01:05,955 --> 00:01:10,195 Speaker 1: scream therapy to register that, Wow, she really did outlast 13 00:01:10,275 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: the thirty one days of our ninth president, William Henry. 14 00:01:13,235 --> 00:01:16,915 Speaker 1: It's just a cold Harrison, but she did not outlast 15 00:01:16,955 --> 00:01:21,355 Speaker 1: the brutal contest concocted by a brutal British tabloid. Her 16 00:01:21,395 --> 00:01:26,275 Speaker 1: premiership went rotten sooner than did its unrefrigerated head of Lettuce. 17 00:01:27,315 --> 00:01:35,475 Speaker 1: But Liz Trust is every arrogant, headstrong, right wing, reactionary, conservative, fascist, 18 00:01:35,635 --> 00:01:40,395 Speaker 1: magical thinking politician. In her country, in our country, in 19 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:45,235 Speaker 1: other countries now and for all time. Her demise on 20 00:01:45,275 --> 00:01:49,195 Speaker 1: her forty fifth day as Prime Minister is simple to explain. 21 00:01:49,595 --> 00:01:52,435 Speaker 1: In the middle of her country's cost of living crisis, 22 00:01:52,475 --> 00:01:55,555 Speaker 1: she took office pledging one hundred billion pounds a year 23 00:01:55,595 --> 00:02:00,275 Speaker 1: to control runaway consumer energy prices, and pledging the largest 24 00:02:00,315 --> 00:02:03,515 Speaker 1: tax cut in half a century, to taxes for the rich, 25 00:02:03,795 --> 00:02:07,715 Speaker 1: cut taxes for corporations too, and to raise taxes on 26 00:02:07,795 --> 00:02:11,755 Speaker 1: nobody and nothing, and pledging to cut no public services, 27 00:02:11,835 --> 00:02:15,115 Speaker 1: and pledging to run the government on billions of borrowed pounds. 28 00:02:15,515 --> 00:02:17,475 Speaker 1: And when she was asked how she was going to 29 00:02:17,515 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: pay for all of it, she actually said, not by 30 00:02:20,475 --> 00:02:25,915 Speaker 1: cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money. Well, 31 00:02:27,875 --> 00:02:32,875 Speaker 1: the fight between mathematics and Liz Trusts was not a 32 00:02:32,915 --> 00:02:37,515 Speaker 1: pretty site. Mathematics brought the immutable rules of economy and 33 00:02:37,555 --> 00:02:41,875 Speaker 1: you know, addition and subtraction and crashing the British pound 34 00:02:42,315 --> 00:02:44,795 Speaker 1: and when you didn't notice that, then crashing the entire 35 00:02:44,835 --> 00:02:48,955 Speaker 1: British economy. And Liz trust brought a series of memorized 36 00:02:49,115 --> 00:02:53,755 Speaker 1: sound bites. Watching or listening to any one of her 37 00:02:53,955 --> 00:02:58,235 Speaker 1: anguished interviews, it became immediately apparent that it had never 38 00:02:58,515 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: previously occurred to her that the job of running a 39 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:06,955 Speaker 1: government consisted of anything are complicated than managing to remember 40 00:03:06,995 --> 00:03:10,715 Speaker 1: which series of cliches you were supposed to say when 41 00:03:10,795 --> 00:03:14,835 Speaker 1: somebody asked you a question. The interviewer would ask one 42 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:17,915 Speaker 1: of these questions, there would be a pause while the 43 00:03:17,955 --> 00:03:21,475 Speaker 1: Prime Minister's eyes fluttered and flashed, and she would then 44 00:03:21,515 --> 00:03:24,715 Speaker 1: say something that might or might not have anything to 45 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: do with the question, but which invariably recounted that she 46 00:03:28,115 --> 00:03:33,155 Speaker 1: had principles and policies and mandates and freedoms, and plans 47 00:03:33,315 --> 00:03:37,755 Speaker 1: and visions and bold visions and mandates for bold plans 48 00:03:37,795 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: to deliver principal policies, visions, and freedoms, And for forty 49 00:03:43,035 --> 00:03:47,555 Speaker 1: four days she seemed shocked that the mere invoking of 50 00:03:47,595 --> 00:03:50,835 Speaker 1: those words did not fix everything, as if she were 51 00:03:50,915 --> 00:03:55,035 Speaker 1: a Hogwarts professor in a Harry Potter movie. One of 52 00:03:55,075 --> 00:04:01,235 Speaker 1: the early good Ones, and Liz Trust is Kevin McCarthy 53 00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:05,595 Speaker 1: and every Republican. Sometimes if she's Carrie Lake or Laura Ingram, 54 00:04:05,595 --> 00:04:08,435 Speaker 1: she is in address or a pants suit. Sometimes if 55 00:04:08,475 --> 00:04:11,555 Speaker 1: she's Larry Cudlow, she is in a tie with two 56 00:04:11,715 --> 00:04:16,235 Speaker 1: vodka stains on it. The new British Prime Minister said 57 00:04:16,275 --> 00:04:20,595 Speaker 1: Trump's Director of National Economic Council Cudlow, has laid out 58 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:24,115 Speaker 1: a terrific supply side economic growth plan which looks a 59 00:04:24,115 --> 00:04:27,915 Speaker 1: lot like the basic thrust of Kevin McCarthy's commitment to 60 00:04:27,955 --> 00:04:32,835 Speaker 1: America Plan. Larry Cudlow said this twenty nine days ago 61 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:39,355 Speaker 1: on Fox News twenty nine. I'm very supportive of what 62 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:43,195 Speaker 1: they're doing, said Trump's nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, 63 00:04:43,315 --> 00:04:47,395 Speaker 1: Stephen Moore. This is exactly what we should be doing 64 00:04:47,475 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: in the US. I'm surprised the market has not reacted positively, 65 00:04:52,675 --> 00:04:55,915 Speaker 1: but I think that's going to reverse course. Stephen Moore 66 00:04:56,035 --> 00:05:03,235 Speaker 1: said this twenties six days ago twenty six. Two weeks 67 00:05:03,315 --> 00:05:06,795 Speaker 1: from next Tuesday, Kevi and McCarthy could become Speaker of 68 00:05:06,835 --> 00:05:11,875 Speaker 1: the House and these economic illiterates like Stephen Moore and 69 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:15,995 Speaker 1: Larry Cudlow could be rounded up from whatever bar stools 70 00:05:16,035 --> 00:05:19,675 Speaker 1: they have fallen under and made relevant and powerful again. 71 00:05:20,515 --> 00:05:24,955 Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Kevin McCarthy told punch Bowl News he is 72 00:05:24,995 --> 00:05:28,715 Speaker 1: ready to foment another debt ceiling crisis to force Joe 73 00:05:28,755 --> 00:05:31,435 Speaker 1: Biden and the Democrats to agree to cut in social 74 00:05:31,475 --> 00:05:36,275 Speaker 1: security and Medicare. He is ready to accomplish internationally and 75 00:05:36,435 --> 00:05:41,755 Speaker 1: intentionally what Liz Trust did out of stupidity. He is 76 00:05:41,795 --> 00:05:46,035 Speaker 1: ready to crash the world economy to make sure billionaires 77 00:05:46,035 --> 00:05:49,195 Speaker 1: in this country pay lower taxes. And the Democrats have 78 00:05:49,235 --> 00:05:52,875 Speaker 1: been so timid about screaming this fact in advertising every 79 00:05:52,955 --> 00:05:56,275 Speaker 1: day and screaming about how Saudi Arabia and Russia and 80 00:05:56,315 --> 00:05:59,915 Speaker 1: the Republicans have caused the gas price increases, that the 81 00:05:59,995 --> 00:06:02,995 Speaker 1: millions of damn fools that the rest of us carry 82 00:06:03,035 --> 00:06:08,475 Speaker 1: through this life may actually give these fascist bloodsuckers more power. 83 00:06:10,315 --> 00:06:16,075 Speaker 1: McCarthy's threat was so bald faced and so self destructive 84 00:06:16,235 --> 00:06:19,715 Speaker 1: that even he noticed it. McCarthy tried to walk it 85 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:22,715 Speaker 1: back Wednesday. He tried to walk it back yesterday, And 86 00:06:22,795 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: while he was walking backwards, his fellow Liz Trust, in 87 00:06:26,475 --> 00:06:30,715 Speaker 1: a suit, Indiana Congressman Jim Banks would be majority whip 88 00:06:30,715 --> 00:06:34,395 Speaker 1: and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, took to 89 00:06:34,435 --> 00:06:38,235 Speaker 1: a platform handed to him by Paramount and CBS News 90 00:06:38,515 --> 00:06:44,235 Speaker 1: and completely undermine McCarthy's efforts to walk this back. He 91 00:06:44,395 --> 00:06:47,995 Speaker 1: called the threat to crash the world economy to Liz Trust, 92 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:51,795 Speaker 1: the world economy a quote major leverage point for the 93 00:06:51,795 --> 00:06:56,395 Speaker 1: House Republican majority to use to control spending. Banks went 94 00:06:56,395 --> 00:06:59,355 Speaker 1: on to say, we've seen the national debt now surpassed 95 00:06:59,435 --> 00:07:02,715 Speaker 1: thirty one trillion. It is a key driver of inflation. 96 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:08,115 Speaker 1: Did the CBS news guy interviewing Jim Banks say, yeah, 97 00:07:08,315 --> 00:07:11,155 Speaker 1: seven trillion of that thirty one chillion was rung up 98 00:07:11,155 --> 00:07:15,555 Speaker 1: in just four years by you guys and Liz Trust Trump. No, 99 00:07:15,675 --> 00:07:20,355 Speaker 1: he did not say that to him. Liz Trust is 100 00:07:20,395 --> 00:07:23,515 Speaker 1: not a British politician or a brand new joke that 101 00:07:23,555 --> 00:07:30,235 Speaker 1: will last centuries. She is a franchise. She is every 102 00:07:30,435 --> 00:07:33,635 Speaker 1: unthinking student who signed up for all the tough courses 103 00:07:33,675 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: at seven am or eight am and boasted about her 104 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:40,195 Speaker 1: four point oh to come without every thinking she's gonna 105 00:07:40,235 --> 00:07:42,355 Speaker 1: have to show up for the classes at that hour 106 00:07:42,715 --> 00:07:47,155 Speaker 1: and do the homework. She's every conservative politician in every 107 00:07:47,195 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 1: country in the last two decades. You might have facts, 108 00:07:50,795 --> 00:07:55,755 Speaker 1: but we have principles and policies and mandates and freedoms 109 00:07:55,755 --> 00:07:57,715 Speaker 1: and plans and visions, and if they don't work, we 110 00:07:57,795 --> 00:08:00,995 Speaker 1: have minorities to blame for it, and conspiracy theories to 111 00:08:01,035 --> 00:08:02,955 Speaker 1: throw against the wall. And if they don't work. We 112 00:08:03,115 --> 00:08:06,555 Speaker 1: just shout fraud and rig and decertified and conspiracy and 113 00:08:06,595 --> 00:08:10,875 Speaker 1: no boost the gauze filter setting on Carrie Lake's camera 114 00:08:10,955 --> 00:08:17,195 Speaker 1: from a seven to a forty three. Liz Trust is 115 00:08:17,395 --> 00:08:22,835 Speaker 1: Larry Cudlow, is Kevin McCarthy is, Jim Banks, is Kevin Stitt. 116 00:08:23,515 --> 00:08:25,875 Speaker 1: They have lied so long that they have not only 117 00:08:25,915 --> 00:08:29,475 Speaker 1: gotten their own idiot supporters to believe the lies, they 118 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:32,955 Speaker 1: have gotten their own idiot supporters to believe only the lies. 119 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: And even they believe the lies themselves as they live them. 120 00:08:40,955 --> 00:08:44,275 Speaker 1: You have heard of Kevin Stitt. He is the governor 121 00:08:44,475 --> 00:08:50,155 Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. Nobody knows how. And his Democratic opponent Joy 122 00:08:50,235 --> 00:08:55,395 Speaker 1: Hoffmeister pointed out in their debate how crime ridden Oklahoma is. 123 00:08:56,475 --> 00:09:00,195 Speaker 1: There were four point two murders per hundred thousand residents 124 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:03,875 Speaker 1: in New York State for the last completed year of statistics. 125 00:09:05,275 --> 00:09:09,195 Speaker 1: There were seven point four murders per hundred thousand in Oklahoma. 126 00:09:09,355 --> 00:09:12,835 Speaker 1: Seven point four is a lot more than four point two. 127 00:09:13,355 --> 00:09:16,475 Speaker 1: There were three d sixty four violent crimes per hundred 128 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:19,915 Speaker 1: thousand residents in New York State were four hundred fifty 129 00:09:20,235 --> 00:09:24,355 Speaker 1: violent crimes per hundred thousand in Oklahoma. Therefore, Oklahoma is 130 00:09:24,795 --> 00:09:29,155 Speaker 1: either the twelve or the sixteenth most dangerous state in 131 00:09:29,195 --> 00:09:34,035 Speaker 1: our country, and New York is either then or the 132 00:09:34,115 --> 00:09:40,755 Speaker 1: thirty second. When at their debate, joy Hoffmeister referenced these facts, 133 00:09:40,795 --> 00:09:45,555 Speaker 1: these mathematical proven Hey, you know, addition doesn't give a 134 00:09:45,595 --> 00:09:50,995 Speaker 1: good god damn about your Liz Trusts facts. Governor Kevin 135 00:09:51,315 --> 00:10:00,315 Speaker 1: frat boys Stitt laughed, The moderators laughed, the audience laughed. 136 00:10:00,635 --> 00:10:04,115 Speaker 1: So let's talk about the facts. The fact is the 137 00:10:04,235 --> 00:10:07,835 Speaker 1: rates of violent crime are higher in Oklahoma under your 138 00:10:07,915 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: watch than in New York in California. That's a fact. Well, 139 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:17,075 Speaker 1: we'll have that fact checked by the Frontier superintendent. It's 140 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:21,875 Speaker 1: a fact. Do you believe we have higher crime than 141 00:10:21,875 --> 00:10:26,355 Speaker 1: New York or California? That's what she just said. Safety 142 00:10:26,355 --> 00:10:30,075 Speaker 1: and security is my top priority and it will be 143 00:10:30,115 --> 00:10:35,595 Speaker 1: as Governor Oklahoman's live in hell. They don't know it. 144 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:39,915 Speaker 1: And when the grinning frat boy governor is taught it, 145 00:10:41,155 --> 00:10:47,475 Speaker 1: he laughs and they laugh. Governor Kevin Stitt is Liz 146 00:10:47,595 --> 00:10:51,915 Speaker 1: trust And sooner or later, as we have just seen, 147 00:10:52,835 --> 00:10:57,155 Speaker 1: Thank you, England, reality comes for at least some of 148 00:10:57,195 --> 00:11:00,275 Speaker 1: the Liz Trusses of this world. Some of the Kevin 149 00:11:00,395 --> 00:11:05,155 Speaker 1: Stits and the Donald Trust Trumps, and the Larry ud Lows, 150 00:11:05,315 --> 00:11:10,715 Speaker 1: and the Stephen Moore's, and the Kevin McCarthy's, and reality 151 00:11:10,715 --> 00:11:15,995 Speaker 1: eats them alive, slowly, painfully, and in a way that 152 00:11:16,035 --> 00:11:20,115 Speaker 1: the part that dies last is the cliche controls center, 153 00:11:20,355 --> 00:11:23,355 Speaker 1: so that though they are muffled from inside the belly 154 00:11:23,435 --> 00:11:27,635 Speaker 1: of the beast, you can still hear them, astonished, insisting, 155 00:11:28,235 --> 00:11:34,955 Speaker 1: but of principles and policies and mandates and freedoms and plans. 156 00:11:35,315 --> 00:11:38,955 Speaker 1: I have visions and bold visions and mandates for bold 157 00:11:39,035 --> 00:11:44,035 Speaker 1: plans and visions to deliver principal policies and freedoms. You 158 00:11:44,155 --> 00:11:50,195 Speaker 1: are not allowed to eat me alive. We have until 159 00:11:50,395 --> 00:12:07,915 Speaker 1: two weeks from Tuesday. Where are the commercials? Jesus H 160 00:12:08,115 --> 00:12:15,355 Speaker 1: Carist still ahead on countdown, Surprise, Cash Patel, former Senator 161 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:20,795 Speaker 1: Kelly Lefler, and pats Sipoloni, Patsy Bologna to you, all 162 00:12:20,835 --> 00:12:24,275 Speaker 1: of them testifying in front of Grand Juries investigating Trump. 163 00:12:25,315 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: Ron de santis Is, Surgeon General, suggests Kvid the vaccines 164 00:12:29,035 --> 00:12:32,915 Speaker 1: are not safe. He does this on an avowed Q 165 00:12:33,075 --> 00:12:37,315 Speaker 1: and on show and the epic and ever topical James 166 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:40,675 Speaker 1: Thurber story of when the most popular individual in the 167 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:45,355 Speaker 1: country is also the worst individual in the country sounds 168 00:12:45,395 --> 00:12:48,675 Speaker 1: familiar for some reason. The greatest man in the World 169 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: on Friday's with Thurber coming up. That's next, This is Countdown. 170 00:12:58,635 --> 00:13:05,195 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still a head on 171 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: Countdown even if Cash Patel took the fifth that he 172 00:13:08,835 --> 00:13:11,835 Speaker 1: was at the Trump Documents grand jury and that it 173 00:13:12,075 --> 00:13:16,595 Speaker 1: met in Washington is a huge story. Next, And how 174 00:13:16,635 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 1: can you get blown out by CBS News, then Sinclair, 175 00:13:20,635 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: then Fox News and now get blown out by news 176 00:13:23,915 --> 00:13:27,955 Speaker 1: Max last night? Let's ask Lara they drink baby's blood 177 00:13:28,195 --> 00:13:32,235 Speaker 1: logan worst person's ahead first. In each edition of Countdown, 178 00:13:32,275 --> 00:13:34,115 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 179 00:13:34,155 --> 00:13:36,955 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day, well, you know me and 180 00:13:36,995 --> 00:13:41,955 Speaker 1: the Maltese and other little smart white dogs. Series is 181 00:13:41,995 --> 00:13:44,675 Speaker 1: in Pope Valley in California. Seven years old. She looks 182 00:13:44,675 --> 00:13:47,915 Speaker 1: like a malt mix. She suddenly started peeing blood. It 183 00:13:48,035 --> 00:13:50,635 Speaker 1: was a bladderstone. The human was desperate, could not afford 184 00:13:50,635 --> 00:13:54,355 Speaker 1: a bed, turned series over to Soft PAW's rescue. It 185 00:13:54,435 --> 00:13:57,275 Speaker 1: was a bladderstone. They got her treatment for that, and 186 00:13:57,315 --> 00:14:00,955 Speaker 1: suddenly she started to have seizures. Treatment for that is working, 187 00:14:00,995 --> 00:14:03,555 Speaker 1: but she'll need more of it, and she'll need some donations. 188 00:14:03,555 --> 00:14:06,195 Speaker 1: If you'd like to help, Sarah's will be the pinned 189 00:14:06,235 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: tweet at my account for dogs in Need at tom 190 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:12,715 Speaker 1: Jumbo Grumbo, and retweeting her story will also help greatly, 191 00:14:13,035 --> 00:14:27,355 Speaker 1: So thank you for doing so. Postscripts to the news 192 00:14:27,395 --> 00:14:30,955 Speaker 1: some headlines, some insight, and some snark. Dateline Washington a 193 00:14:31,075 --> 00:14:35,915 Speaker 1: big scoop in the Trump documents case from CNN. Cash Patel, 194 00:14:36,515 --> 00:14:39,995 Speaker 1: the not so stable guy with the crazy stair, whom 195 00:14:39,995 --> 00:14:42,635 Speaker 1: Trump wanted to send to the National Archives to take 196 00:14:42,675 --> 00:14:46,635 Speaker 1: all those classified Russia investigation documents and release them on 197 00:14:46,675 --> 00:14:50,715 Speaker 1: the internet. He testified a week ago yesterday to the 198 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:56,315 Speaker 1: d C Grand jury investigating Trump's nuclear kleptomania as just securities. 199 00:14:56,395 --> 00:15:00,235 Speaker 1: Ryan Goodman has noted this underscores that Trump is the 200 00:15:00,235 --> 00:15:03,795 Speaker 1: target of that grand jury. Also, Patel has previously claimed 201 00:15:03,795 --> 00:15:06,275 Speaker 1: that he had access to those documents. Trump had a 202 00:15:06,395 --> 00:15:09,235 Speaker 1: mari lago, and he knew what they were, and he 203 00:15:09,315 --> 00:15:12,795 Speaker 1: knew Trump had declassified them by the mere uttering a 204 00:15:12,835 --> 00:15:16,315 Speaker 1: few you know, magic incantations or whatever, which would mean 205 00:15:16,355 --> 00:15:20,795 Speaker 1: Trump let others improperly see classified materials, which would be 206 00:15:20,835 --> 00:15:24,635 Speaker 1: another charge. Unclear weather or not, Patel took the fifth 207 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:28,355 Speaker 1: Dateline Atlanta. Meanwhile, now we know why all those texts 208 00:15:28,355 --> 00:15:32,395 Speaker 1: from Georgia's Senator Kelly Leffler making Marjorie Trailer Park green 209 00:15:32,555 --> 00:15:36,555 Speaker 1: looks so bad leaked out via the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 210 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:39,835 Speaker 1: The former senator has testified in the Fulton County District 211 00:15:39,835 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: Attorney's case against Trump and Eastman and everybody else who 212 00:15:43,115 --> 00:15:46,435 Speaker 1: tried to tamper with the Georgia presidential vote in and 213 00:15:46,515 --> 00:15:50,115 Speaker 1: so has former White House Council Pat Sippoloni, or as 214 00:15:50,155 --> 00:15:55,515 Speaker 1: he's known in the lettering on the broadcasts Patsy Bologney 215 00:15:56,275 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: and Dateline London. I'm sorry, that's what breaking breaking news. 216 00:16:01,235 --> 00:16:05,915 Speaker 1: Liz Truss is not yet elected successor as UK Prime 217 00:16:05,955 --> 00:16:12,675 Speaker 1: Minister has just pre resigned. Wow, unusual, but I had 218 00:16:12,715 --> 00:16:29,875 Speaker 1: to say, excellent time management. This is Sports Center. Wait 219 00:16:30,035 --> 00:16:37,635 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 220 00:16:38,075 --> 00:16:41,515 Speaker 1: In sports, the rule of home runs continues to apply. 221 00:16:41,635 --> 00:16:45,355 Speaker 1: Astro's one home run Yankees no home runs. Houston beats 222 00:16:45,355 --> 00:16:46,755 Speaker 1: New York three to two in Game two of the 223 00:16:46,795 --> 00:16:50,435 Speaker 1: American League Championship Series. The home run by Alex Bregman 224 00:16:50,515 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: drove in all three runs. The Yankees, eliminated four times 225 00:16:54,395 --> 00:16:57,035 Speaker 1: by the Astros since two thousand fifteen, are now behind 226 00:16:57,075 --> 00:16:59,395 Speaker 1: two games to none in this series. And if they're 227 00:16:59,475 --> 00:17:01,955 Speaker 1: late owner George Steinbrenner were still alive, he would by 228 00:17:01,955 --> 00:17:05,515 Speaker 1: now have fired manager Aaron Boone, general manager Brian Cashman, 229 00:17:05,835 --> 00:17:09,355 Speaker 1: and the Yankee Stadium organists. National League Playoff Series resumes 230 00:17:09,355 --> 00:17:12,835 Speaker 1: tonight in Philadelphia. Padres and Phillies tied at a game apiece, 231 00:17:13,195 --> 00:17:16,435 Speaker 1: and as baseball priticts faster games because of pitch clocks 232 00:17:16,715 --> 00:17:19,355 Speaker 1: and stay in the batter's box rules next year, did 233 00:17:19,395 --> 00:17:22,755 Speaker 1: you hear anybody mention anything about something called the a 234 00:17:22,915 --> 00:17:27,595 Speaker 1: B S System? The A B S System Automated Ball 235 00:17:27,875 --> 00:17:34,635 Speaker 1: Strike System allows batters to challenge called strikes. You heard 236 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:39,715 Speaker 1: me replay for individual pitches. They are experimenting with it 237 00:17:39,795 --> 00:17:43,875 Speaker 1: now in the Arizona Fall League, And yesterday baseball started 238 00:17:43,915 --> 00:17:47,915 Speaker 1: circulating video of a three one pitch to Yankee prospect 239 00:17:47,995 --> 00:17:53,195 Speaker 1: Jason Dominguez of Mesa. The living breathing human umpire called 240 00:17:53,195 --> 00:17:56,235 Speaker 1: it a strike. Dominguez signal he was challenging the call 241 00:17:56,475 --> 00:18:00,355 Speaker 1: by tapping himself on the helmet and the automated Ball 242 00:18:00,395 --> 00:18:03,595 Speaker 1: Strike system then recreated the pitch in a computerized three 243 00:18:03,675 --> 00:18:07,475 Speaker 1: D visualization, which they let the crowd watch on the scoreboard, 244 00:18:07,475 --> 00:18:10,795 Speaker 1: and sure enough Dominguez was right. They changed the pitch 245 00:18:10,835 --> 00:18:12,755 Speaker 1: from a strike to a ball and he got a walk. 246 00:18:12,755 --> 00:18:15,755 Speaker 1: And this one bit of technology could buy itself extend 247 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:18,035 Speaker 1: the average length of a baseball game from three hours 248 00:18:18,035 --> 00:18:21,635 Speaker 1: three minutes to like a month. It's just an experiment. 249 00:18:21,675 --> 00:18:24,595 Speaker 1: It's not part of the rules, but it's like the 250 00:18:24,635 --> 00:18:27,835 Speaker 1: atomic bomb. They did not invent it, just to keep 251 00:18:27,915 --> 00:18:32,435 Speaker 1: scientists busy. And hats off to my Vancouver Canucks of 252 00:18:32,515 --> 00:18:36,075 Speaker 1: the National Hockey League. Last Wednesday, they opened their season 253 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:39,395 Speaker 1: by taking a three ZIP lead on Edmonton. The Canucks 254 00:18:39,435 --> 00:18:43,555 Speaker 1: lost the game five to three. Last Saturday, in Game two, 255 00:18:43,595 --> 00:18:47,555 Speaker 1: they went up to nothing at Philadelphia and lost three two. 256 00:18:48,355 --> 00:18:51,355 Speaker 1: Game three was Monday in Washington. They trailed that one 257 00:18:51,395 --> 00:18:53,435 Speaker 1: one nothing and two to one, but they were up 258 00:18:53,475 --> 00:18:56,395 Speaker 1: four to one and a great rally and they lost 259 00:18:56,515 --> 00:19:00,075 Speaker 1: that game six to four. Tuesday in Columbus they led 260 00:19:00,115 --> 00:19:02,475 Speaker 1: the Blue Jackets to zip and then three too, and 261 00:19:02,595 --> 00:19:06,515 Speaker 1: in overtime they lost four to three. And last night 262 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:10,075 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, Game five of the season, they led the 263 00:19:10,115 --> 00:19:13,155 Speaker 1: Wild two to one, and then again they led the 264 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:17,235 Speaker 1: Wild three to two, and yes they lost that game 265 00:19:17,235 --> 00:19:22,955 Speaker 1: in overtime. Four three five games five leads, five losses. 266 00:19:23,235 --> 00:19:26,995 Speaker 1: So for their impeccable play by play man, my friend 267 00:19:27,075 --> 00:19:29,955 Speaker 1: John Shorthouse, I have only this to say to you, 268 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:46,875 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. Coming up Thurber's story of the 269 00:19:46,915 --> 00:19:50,275 Speaker 1: Inevitable Day when the hero turned out to be a 270 00:19:50,315 --> 00:19:54,035 Speaker 1: complete ass hat. I don't know that he used that 271 00:19:54,115 --> 00:19:56,515 Speaker 1: word at any point in the Thurber cannon, but it's 272 00:19:56,555 --> 00:20:00,115 Speaker 1: the greatest man in the world. Coming up first, the 273 00:20:00,155 --> 00:20:02,675 Speaker 1: daily round up of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger 274 00:20:02,675 --> 00:20:08,555 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today is worse persons in the world. 275 00:20:09,795 --> 00:20:14,755 Speaker 1: Lebronze Doctor Joseph Laudapo is back Surgeon General of Florida. 276 00:20:14,955 --> 00:20:18,715 Speaker 1: Somehow I need to see his license spending his time 277 00:20:18,755 --> 00:20:22,155 Speaker 1: attacking the safety of COVID vaccines. But something new this time. 278 00:20:22,755 --> 00:20:26,715 Speaker 1: Uh Drldappo did this attack on COVID vaccine safety on 279 00:20:26,755 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: the podcast X twenty two Report, which is a Q 280 00:20:30,075 --> 00:20:34,115 Speaker 1: and on podcast. That's the Governor of Florida, Rhonda Santis, 281 00:20:34,155 --> 00:20:37,875 Speaker 1: directly connected to Q and on the runner up, How 282 00:20:37,915 --> 00:20:42,235 Speaker 1: tired is this story? Adam Laxalt, the Nevada Republicans seeking 283 00:20:42,275 --> 00:20:46,595 Speaker 1: to unseat Senator Catherine Cortes Masto, is hardlining against not 284 00:20:46,675 --> 00:20:51,715 Speaker 1: just undocumented immigration, but also dreamers and other immigrants. Surprise, 285 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:58,475 Speaker 1: Axios reports lack salts grandmother was an undocumented immigrant. It 286 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,795 Speaker 1: unearthed the two thousand six speech by La salts father, 287 00:21:01,955 --> 00:21:04,955 Speaker 1: Senator Pete Domenici, who told of the day in the 288 00:21:04,955 --> 00:21:07,835 Speaker 1: early nineteen forties when the authorities drove up to their 289 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:12,315 Speaker 1: home in New Mexico and took his mother, Laxalts grandmother 290 00:21:12,515 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: away in a black car because she quote unknowingly was 291 00:21:16,995 --> 00:21:21,555 Speaker 1: an illegal alien unquote demnic. She said, Laxalts grandmother came 292 00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:24,115 Speaker 1: to this country from Italy at age three, and that 293 00:21:24,275 --> 00:21:28,195 Speaker 1: might make her undocumented. But it certainly makes Adam Laxalt 294 00:21:28,355 --> 00:21:33,275 Speaker 1: a self hating hypocrite. But our winner, Lara Logan, congrats 295 00:21:33,315 --> 00:21:37,195 Speaker 1: on this hat trick. Lara four years ago. Four years ago, 296 00:21:37,235 --> 00:21:40,435 Speaker 1: she was the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News. 297 00:21:40,835 --> 00:21:44,515 Speaker 1: Then she made up the Benghazi story and they fired her. 298 00:21:44,915 --> 00:21:48,355 Speaker 1: She drifted to Sinclair, then to Fox where she made 299 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:52,555 Speaker 1: up the Antifa riot instructional manual story and the Palates 300 00:21:52,595 --> 00:21:56,035 Speaker 1: of Bricks story. Then this March she wound up on 301 00:21:56,115 --> 00:21:58,995 Speaker 1: news Max as a regular on the show of Eric Bowling, 302 00:21:59,195 --> 00:22:02,755 Speaker 1: who was also fired by Fox. And now they've fired 303 00:22:02,755 --> 00:22:07,555 Speaker 1: her because here's part one of why they fired her. 304 00:22:07,635 --> 00:22:09,995 Speaker 1: I spent to a man who was actually holding the 305 00:22:10,075 --> 00:22:12,955 Speaker 1: documents in his hand. He told me about it, right, 306 00:22:13,275 --> 00:22:17,435 Speaker 1: he said he was he infiltrated the global cabal at 307 00:22:17,435 --> 00:22:19,995 Speaker 1: the un level, right. And one of the things that 308 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:24,115 Speaker 1: he was able to um to to tell me about 309 00:22:24,155 --> 00:22:28,395 Speaker 1: from his own personal experience when he witnessed himself, was 310 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:31,995 Speaker 1: these documents that showed that the plan. There is a plan, 311 00:22:32,475 --> 00:22:35,395 Speaker 1: and this was several years ago, right. The plan was 312 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:39,275 Speaker 1: to infiltrate a hundred million illegal immigrants. And at that 313 00:22:39,315 --> 00:22:42,435 Speaker 1: point they were already at forty million, and these people 314 00:22:42,475 --> 00:22:45,155 Speaker 1: would dilute what they called the pool of patriots do 315 00:22:45,355 --> 00:22:49,555 Speaker 1: with their words, right, right, the global cabal wrote all 316 00:22:49,595 --> 00:22:54,995 Speaker 1: this down for you, did they, Lara? Right? As an aside, 317 00:22:55,115 --> 00:22:58,675 Speaker 1: Lara Logan is an immigrant. Now she would have survived 318 00:22:58,715 --> 00:23:02,435 Speaker 1: that version of the dipsy Great Replacement delusion. It is 319 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:05,915 Speaker 1: news Max after all. But then, and listen carefully to 320 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:07,955 Speaker 1: the end of it. It gets a little obscured by 321 00:23:07,995 --> 00:23:11,195 Speaker 1: cross talk, as they say, she moved on to the 322 00:23:11,275 --> 00:23:16,555 Speaker 1: old they're drinking children's blood delusion. He knows that the 323 00:23:16,595 --> 00:23:19,835 Speaker 1: open border is Satan's way of taking control of the 324 00:23:19,875 --> 00:23:23,595 Speaker 1: world through all of these people who are his stooges 325 00:23:23,675 --> 00:23:27,035 Speaker 1: and his and his assertments. And they may think that 326 00:23:27,075 --> 00:23:29,115 Speaker 1: they're going to become God's that's what they tell us. You. 327 00:23:29,195 --> 00:23:31,675 Speaker 1: I'll know Harari and and all the rest of them 328 00:23:31,675 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 1: at the World Economic Forum. You know, the ones who 329 00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:36,955 Speaker 1: want us eating insects, cockroaches, and that while they dine 330 00:23:37,555 --> 00:23:40,395 Speaker 1: on the drug children. Those are the people, right, They're 331 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:44,235 Speaker 1: not gonna win while they dine on the blood of children. Yeah, 332 00:23:44,275 --> 00:23:46,995 Speaker 1: that's called the blood libel in several of your well 333 00:23:47,035 --> 00:23:51,115 Speaker 1: known popular religions. Oh and she was the lead guest 334 00:23:51,195 --> 00:23:53,795 Speaker 1: on Eric Bowling's show. And you know who was in 335 00:23:53,835 --> 00:24:01,195 Speaker 1: the B slot on that show? Bill O'Reilly, Lara. I'm 336 00:24:01,195 --> 00:24:06,075 Speaker 1: not crazy. It's them the children's blood, because who are crazy? 337 00:24:06,075 --> 00:24:26,275 Speaker 1: Logan Today's worst person hell the world. Friday's with Thurber 338 00:24:26,395 --> 00:24:30,035 Speaker 1: Now and looking to our other back of the book feature, 339 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:33,195 Speaker 1: as they call it, Big Week next week, I'll tell 340 00:24:33,235 --> 00:24:35,955 Speaker 1: you the day I suppressed a video of a star 341 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:39,275 Speaker 1: baseball player nearly getting into a fist fight with a 342 00:24:39,275 --> 00:24:41,355 Speaker 1: fan in the middle of the World Series, and was 343 00:24:41,395 --> 00:24:44,315 Speaker 1: proud that I did so. Also the day I lived 344 00:24:44,595 --> 00:24:47,635 Speaker 1: the Ralphie goes crazy on the Bully scene from a 345 00:24:47,755 --> 00:24:50,395 Speaker 1: Christmas story. Lots of good things I promised not to tell. 346 00:24:51,395 --> 00:24:54,755 Speaker 1: But now it being Friday and the weekend to the 347 00:24:54,795 --> 00:24:57,915 Speaker 1: master the work of James Thurber. There is a short 348 00:24:58,035 --> 00:25:01,395 Speaker 1: film of this story. I don't think it really does 349 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: it justice, and I don't think anything does it justice. Ok. 350 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: Aasionally real life does do it justice. I've thought I've 351 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:11,435 Speaker 1: seen this story playing out in real time in this 352 00:25:11,515 --> 00:25:17,275 Speaker 1: country almost every day for about seven years. Sit back 353 00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:22,755 Speaker 1: and relax, if relaxes the right word for it, for 354 00:25:23,075 --> 00:25:29,955 Speaker 1: the Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber. Looking 355 00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:32,675 Speaker 1: back on it now from the vantage point of ninety 356 00:25:32,955 --> 00:25:35,395 Speaker 1: one can only marvel that it had not happened. Long 357 00:25:35,475 --> 00:25:38,555 Speaker 1: before it did. The United States of America had been 358 00:25:39,035 --> 00:25:44,395 Speaker 1: ever since Kittie Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate Petard by which, 359 00:25:44,435 --> 00:25:50,075 Speaker 1: sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable 360 00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:52,315 Speaker 1: that someday there would come roaring out of the skies, 361 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:57,435 Speaker 1: a national hero of insufficient intelligence, background and character successfully 362 00:25:57,515 --> 00:26:00,875 Speaker 1: to endure the mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators 363 00:26:01,235 --> 00:26:04,355 Speaker 1: who stayed up for a long time or flew a 364 00:26:04,395 --> 00:26:09,915 Speaker 1: great distance. Both Lindberg and Bird, fortunately for national decorum 365 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:14,115 Speaker 1: and international amity, had been gentlemen, So had our other 366 00:26:14,195 --> 00:26:18,715 Speaker 1: famous aviators. They wore their laurels, gracefully, withstood the awful 367 00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:23,075 Speaker 1: weather of publicity, married excellent women, usually fine family, and 368 00:26:23,275 --> 00:26:26,155 Speaker 1: quietly retired to private life and the enjoyment of their 369 00:26:26,275 --> 00:26:32,155 Speaker 1: varying fortunes. No untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred 370 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:35,235 Speaker 1: the perfection of their conduct on the perilous heights of fame. 371 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:41,635 Speaker 1: The exception to the rule was, however, bound to occur, 372 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:48,555 Speaker 1: and it did in July seven when Jack pal smirch 373 00:26:48,955 --> 00:26:53,155 Speaker 1: erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa, 374 00:26:53,555 --> 00:26:58,315 Speaker 1: flew a second hand, single noted breast Haven Dragonfly three 375 00:26:58,395 --> 00:27:06,235 Speaker 1: monoplane all the way around the world without stopping. Never 376 00:27:06,315 --> 00:27:08,555 Speaker 1: before in the history of aviation had such a flight 377 00:27:08,595 --> 00:27:11,915 Speaker 1: as Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even 378 00:27:11,995 --> 00:27:16,475 Speaker 1: taken seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks, invention of 379 00:27:16,475 --> 00:27:20,755 Speaker 1: the mad New Hampshire professor of Astronomy, Dr Charles Lewis Gresham, 380 00:27:20,835 --> 00:27:25,235 Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker 381 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:30,795 Speaker 1: slightly built, surly unprepossessing young men of twenty two appeared 382 00:27:30,795 --> 00:27:35,635 Speaker 1: at Roosevelt Field early in July n slowly chewing a 383 00:27:35,675 --> 00:27:40,355 Speaker 1: great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced, nobody ain't seen 384 00:27:40,395 --> 00:27:45,235 Speaker 1: no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly and satirically upon 385 00:27:45,435 --> 00:27:51,275 Speaker 1: his projected twenty five thousand mile flight. Aeronauticle and automotive 386 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:54,555 Speaker 1: experts dismissed the idea, curtly, implying that it was a hoax, 387 00:27:54,955 --> 00:28:00,755 Speaker 1: the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered second hand plane wouldn't go, 388 00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:08,075 Speaker 1: The Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work. It was simply a 389 00:28:08,195 --> 00:28:13,755 Speaker 1: cheap joke. Smirch, however, after calling on a girl in 390 00:28:13,835 --> 00:28:16,715 Speaker 1: Brooklyn who worked in the flap folding department of a 391 00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:20,435 Speaker 1: large paper box factory, a girl whom he later described 392 00:28:20,475 --> 00:28:25,595 Speaker 1: as his sweet but duty climbed nonchalantly into his ridiculous 393 00:28:25,635 --> 00:28:30,515 Speaker 1: plane at dawn the memorable seventh of July N spit 394 00:28:30,595 --> 00:28:33,675 Speaker 1: a curve of tobacco juice into the still air, and 395 00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:37,475 Speaker 1: took off, carrying with him only a gallon of bootleg 396 00:28:37,555 --> 00:28:43,755 Speaker 1: gin and six pounds of salami. When the garage boy 397 00:28:43,835 --> 00:28:46,235 Speaker 1: thundered out over the ocean, the papers were forced to 398 00:28:46,275 --> 00:28:50,035 Speaker 1: record in all seriousness that a mad, unknown young man 399 00:28:50,475 --> 00:28:54,555 Speaker 1: his name was variously misspelled, had actually set out upon 400 00:28:54,595 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: a preposterous attempt to span the world in a rickety 401 00:28:57,915 --> 00:29:02,075 Speaker 1: one engine contraption, trusting to the long distance refueling device 402 00:29:02,075 --> 00:29:06,635 Speaker 1: of a crazy school master. And nine days later, without 403 00:29:06,675 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: having stopped once, the tiny plane appeared above San Francisco Bay, 404 00:29:10,995 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: headed for New York, spluttering and choking, to be sure, 405 00:29:14,035 --> 00:29:18,435 Speaker 1: but still magnificently and miraculously aloft the headlines, which long 406 00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:21,635 Speaker 1: since had crowded everything else off the front page, Even 407 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:24,795 Speaker 1: the shooting of the Governor of Illinois by the Valetti Gang, 408 00:29:25,275 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: swelled to unprecedented size, and the news stories began to 409 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: run to twenty five and thirty columns. It was noticeable, however, 410 00:29:36,995 --> 00:29:41,195 Speaker 1: that the accounts of the epoch making flight touched rather 411 00:29:41,395 --> 00:29:46,355 Speaker 1: lightly upon the aviator himself. This was not because the 412 00:29:46,435 --> 00:29:48,915 Speaker 1: facts about the hero as a man were too meager, 413 00:29:49,115 --> 00:29:54,915 Speaker 1: but because they were too complete. Reporters who had been 414 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:57,995 Speaker 1: rushed out to Iowa when Smirch's plane was first sighted 415 00:29:57,995 --> 00:30:00,435 Speaker 1: over the ledge Lord French coast town of sair Lee 416 00:30:00,515 --> 00:30:03,435 Speaker 1: Lemaire to dig up the story of the great man's life, 417 00:30:03,555 --> 00:30:06,875 Speaker 1: had promptly discovered that the story of his life could 418 00:30:06,915 --> 00:30:11,155 Speaker 1: not be printed. His mother, a sullen short order cook 419 00:30:11,195 --> 00:30:13,355 Speaker 1: in a shack restaurant on the edge of a tourist's 420 00:30:13,435 --> 00:30:16,915 Speaker 1: camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries as to her 421 00:30:16,955 --> 00:30:19,875 Speaker 1: son with an angry and the hell with him help 422 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:24,115 Speaker 1: he drowns. His father appeared to be in jail somewhere 423 00:30:24,235 --> 00:30:29,435 Speaker 1: for stealing spotlights and lap robes from tourists automobiles. His 424 00:30:29,555 --> 00:30:33,155 Speaker 1: young brother, a weak minded lad, had but recently escaped 425 00:30:33,155 --> 00:30:35,995 Speaker 1: from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory and was already wanted in 426 00:30:36,115 --> 00:30:39,235 Speaker 1: several western towns where the theft of money order blanks 427 00:30:39,235 --> 00:30:44,235 Speaker 1: from post offices. These alarming discoveries were still piling up 428 00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:47,395 Speaker 1: at the very time that Pal Smirch, the greatest hero 429 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:52,195 Speaker 1: of the twentieth century, blear eyed, dead for sleep, half starved, 430 00:30:52,595 --> 00:30:55,555 Speaker 1: was piloting his crazy junk heap high above the region 431 00:30:55,595 --> 00:30:57,955 Speaker 1: in which the lamentable story of his private life was 432 00:30:57,995 --> 00:31:01,435 Speaker 1: being unearthed, headed for New York, and a greater glory 433 00:31:01,475 --> 00:31:07,235 Speaker 1: than any man of his time had ever known. The 434 00:31:07,515 --> 00:31:11,275 Speaker 1: necessity for printing some account in the papers of the 435 00:31:11,315 --> 00:31:15,395 Speaker 1: young man's career and personality had led to a remarkable predicament. 436 00:31:15,795 --> 00:31:19,075 Speaker 1: It was, of course, impossible to reveal the facts, for 437 00:31:19,115 --> 00:31:22,435 Speaker 1: a tremendous popular feeling in favor of the young hero 438 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:25,075 Speaker 1: had sprung up like a grass fire when he was 439 00:31:25,115 --> 00:31:28,515 Speaker 1: halfway across Europe on his flight around the globe. He 440 00:31:28,675 --> 00:31:33,875 Speaker 1: was therefore described as a modest, chap taciturn blonde, popular 441 00:31:33,955 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: with his friends, popular with girls. The only available snapshot 442 00:31:38,915 --> 00:31:41,835 Speaker 1: of Smirch, taken at the wheel of a phony automobile 443 00:31:42,075 --> 00:31:44,675 Speaker 1: in a cheap photo studio at an amusement park, was 444 00:31:44,755 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: touched up so that the little vulgarian looked quite handsome. 445 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:54,115 Speaker 1: His twisted leer was smoothed into a pleasant smile. The 446 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:58,155 Speaker 1: truth was, in this way kept from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. 447 00:31:58,475 --> 00:32:01,755 Speaker 1: They did not dream that the Smirch family was despised 448 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:05,395 Speaker 1: and feared by its neighbors in the obscure Iowa town, 449 00:32:05,635 --> 00:32:10,075 Speaker 1: nor that the hero himself because if numerous unsavory exploits 450 00:32:10,235 --> 00:32:12,795 Speaker 1: had come to be regarded in Westfield as a nuisance 451 00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: and a menace, pal Smirch had the reporters discovered once 452 00:32:18,475 --> 00:32:22,275 Speaker 1: knife the principle of his high school, not mortally, to 453 00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:25,555 Speaker 1: be sure, but he had knifed him, and on another occasion, 454 00:32:25,795 --> 00:32:30,315 Speaker 1: surprised in the act of an stealing altarcloth from a church, 455 00:32:30,595 --> 00:32:33,115 Speaker 1: he had bashed the sexton over the head with a 456 00:32:33,195 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: pot of Easter lilies. For each of these offenses he 457 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:43,075 Speaker 1: had served a sentence in the reformatory. Inwardly, the authorities, 458 00:32:43,115 --> 00:32:45,515 Speaker 1: both in New York and in Washington, prayed that an 459 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: understanding providence might, however awful, such a thing seemed, bring 460 00:32:51,355 --> 00:32:55,075 Speaker 1: disaster to the rusty, battered plane and its illustrious pilot, 461 00:32:55,155 --> 00:32:58,555 Speaker 1: who's unheard of flight had aroused the civilized world to 462 00:32:58,715 --> 00:33:03,475 Speaker 1: hosannas of hysterical praise. The authorities were convinced that the 463 00:33:03,555 --> 00:33:06,475 Speaker 1: character of the renowned, owned aviator was such that the 464 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:10,235 Speaker 1: limelight of adulation was bound to reveal him to all 465 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:15,955 Speaker 1: the world as a congenital hooligan, mentally and morally unequipped 466 00:33:15,995 --> 00:33:20,915 Speaker 1: to cope with his own prodigious fame. Trust, said the 467 00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:24,035 Speaker 1: Secretary of State, at one of the many secret cabinet meetings, 468 00:33:24,195 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: called to consider the national dilemma, A trust that his 469 00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:33,275 Speaker 1: mother's prayer will be answered, by which he referred to 470 00:33:33,435 --> 00:33:36,515 Speaker 1: Mrs Emma's smirch's wish that her son might be drowned. 471 00:33:38,435 --> 00:33:41,275 Speaker 1: Was however, too late for that spurch had leaked the 472 00:33:41,315 --> 00:33:44,275 Speaker 1: Atlantic and then the Pacific as if they were mill ponds. 473 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:46,915 Speaker 1: At three minutes after two o'clock on the afternoon of 474 00:33:46,995 --> 00:33:52,155 Speaker 1: July seven, the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into 475 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: Roosevelt Field for a perfect three point landing. It had, 476 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:00,355 Speaker 1: of course been out of the question to arrange a 477 00:34:00,395 --> 00:34:03,555 Speaker 1: modest little reception for the greatest flyer in the history 478 00:34:03,555 --> 00:34:06,515 Speaker 1: of the world. He was received at Roosevelt Field with 479 00:34:06,555 --> 00:34:12,275 Speaker 1: such elaborate and pretentious ceremonies has rocked the world. Fortunately, however, 480 00:34:12,595 --> 00:34:16,235 Speaker 1: the warren and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be 481 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:19,195 Speaker 1: removed bodily from his plane, and was spirited from the 482 00:34:19,235 --> 00:34:22,555 Speaker 1: field without having opened his mouth once. Thus he did 483 00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:26,475 Speaker 1: not jeopardize the dignity of his first reception, a reception 484 00:34:26,595 --> 00:34:30,115 Speaker 1: illumined by the presence of the secretaries of War and 485 00:34:30,155 --> 00:34:33,075 Speaker 1: the Navy, Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the 486 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:37,235 Speaker 1: Premier of Canada, Governor's fanomen grows mcpheeley, and Critchfield in 487 00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:41,355 Speaker 1: a brilliant array of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in 488 00:34:41,395 --> 00:34:44,155 Speaker 1: fact come to in time to take part in the 489 00:34:44,195 --> 00:34:47,315 Speaker 1: gigantic hullabaloo arranged at City Hall for the next day. 490 00:34:47,555 --> 00:34:51,195 Speaker 1: He was rushed to a secluded nursing home and confined 491 00:34:51,235 --> 00:34:54,435 Speaker 1: in bed. It was nine days before he was able 492 00:34:54,475 --> 00:34:56,875 Speaker 1: to get up, or, to be more exact, before he 493 00:34:56,995 --> 00:35:02,395 Speaker 1: was permitted to get up. Meanwhile, the greatest minds in 494 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:06,195 Speaker 1: the country and Solemn Assembly had arranged a secret conference 495 00:35:06,475 --> 00:35:09,635 Speaker 1: of city, state and government officials, which Smirch was to 496 00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:14,195 Speaker 1: attend for the purpose of being instructed in the ethics 497 00:35:14,275 --> 00:35:19,355 Speaker 1: and behavior of heroism. On the day that the little 498 00:35:19,395 --> 00:35:21,955 Speaker 1: mechanic was finally allowed to get up and dress, and 499 00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:23,595 Speaker 1: for the first time in two weeks, took a great 500 00:35:23,675 --> 00:35:27,115 Speaker 1: chew of tobacco, he was permitted to receive the newspaper 501 00:35:27,195 --> 00:35:31,675 Speaker 1: men this by way of testing him out. Smirch did 502 00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: not wait for questions. Use guys, he said, and the 503 00:35:35,995 --> 00:35:39,835 Speaker 1: Times man winced use guys. Can tell a cock eyed 504 00:35:39,875 --> 00:35:43,555 Speaker 1: world that I put it over on Lindbergh. See yeah, 505 00:35:43,795 --> 00:35:48,795 Speaker 1: man an as said, I'm two frogs. The two frogs. 506 00:35:49,475 --> 00:35:51,955 Speaker 1: It was a reference to a pair of gallant French 507 00:35:52,035 --> 00:35:55,675 Speaker 1: flyers who, in attempting to flight only halfway round the world, 508 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:59,195 Speaker 1: had two weeks before unhappily been lost at sea. The 509 00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:01,915 Speaker 1: Times man was bold enough at this point to sketch 510 00:36:01,955 --> 00:36:05,755 Speaker 1: out for Smirch the accepted formula for interviews in cases 511 00:36:05,755 --> 00:36:08,195 Speaker 1: of this kind. He explained that there should be no 512 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:13,595 Speaker 1: arrogant statements belittling the achievements of other heroes, particularly heroes 513 00:36:13,635 --> 00:36:17,435 Speaker 1: of foreign nations. Ah to hell with that, said Smirch. 514 00:36:18,275 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: I did it. See I did it, and I'm talking 515 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:26,235 Speaker 1: about it. And he did talk about it. None of 516 00:36:26,275 --> 00:36:30,675 Speaker 1: this extraordinary interview was, of course printed. On the contrary, 517 00:36:30,715 --> 00:36:33,875 Speaker 1: the newspapers, already under the discipline direction of a secret 518 00:36:33,915 --> 00:36:37,195 Speaker 1: director it created for the occasion, and composed of statesmen 519 00:36:37,235 --> 00:36:40,235 Speaker 1: and editors, gave out to a panting and restless world 520 00:36:40,235 --> 00:36:44,995 Speaker 1: that Jackie, as he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent 521 00:36:45,075 --> 00:36:48,075 Speaker 1: to say only that he was very happy, and that 522 00:36:48,195 --> 00:36:51,595 Speaker 1: anyone could have done what he did. My achievement has 523 00:36:51,635 --> 00:36:55,915 Speaker 1: been I fear slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article had 524 00:36:55,995 --> 00:37:00,195 Speaker 1: him protest with a modest smile. These newspaper stories were 525 00:37:00,275 --> 00:37:03,515 Speaker 1: kept from the hero, a restriction which did not serve 526 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:07,675 Speaker 1: to abate the rise ing malevolence of his temper. The 527 00:37:07,755 --> 00:37:13,675 Speaker 1: situation was indeed extremely grave for pal Smirch was, as 528 00:37:13,675 --> 00:37:17,835 Speaker 1: he kept insisting, rare and to go. He could not 529 00:37:17,995 --> 00:37:21,235 Speaker 1: much longer be kept from a nation clamorous to lionize him. 530 00:37:21,275 --> 00:37:24,115 Speaker 1: It was the most desperate crisis the United States of 531 00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:30,115 Speaker 1: America had faced since the sinking of the Lusitania. On 532 00:37:30,195 --> 00:37:33,355 Speaker 1: the afternoon of the twenty seven of July, Smirch was 533 00:37:33,435 --> 00:37:36,835 Speaker 1: spirited away to a conference room in which were gathered mayors, governors, 534 00:37:36,835 --> 00:37:41,795 Speaker 1: government officials, behaviorist, psychologists, and editors. He gave them each 535 00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:47,395 Speaker 1: a limp moist paw, and a brief, unlovely grin, hi 536 00:37:48,235 --> 00:37:51,555 Speaker 1: he said. When Smirch was seated, the Mayor of New 537 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: York arose, and, with obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what 538 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:58,275 Speaker 1: he must say and how he must act when presented 539 00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:01,475 Speaker 1: to the world, Ending his talk with a high tribute 540 00:38:01,475 --> 00:38:04,635 Speaker 1: to the hero's courage and integrity, the mayor was faul 541 00:38:04,795 --> 00:38:07,595 Speaker 1: by Governor Phantoman of New York, who, after a touching 542 00:38:07,635 --> 00:38:12,555 Speaker 1: declaration of faith, introduced Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the 543 00:38:12,555 --> 00:38:16,435 Speaker 1: American Embassy in Paris, the gentleman selected to coach Smirch 544 00:38:17,035 --> 00:38:21,395 Speaker 1: in the amenities of public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair 545 00:38:21,515 --> 00:38:24,235 Speaker 1: with a soiled yellow tie in his hand and his 546 00:38:24,275 --> 00:38:28,795 Speaker 1: shirt open at the throat, unshaved, smoking a rolled cigarette, 547 00:38:29,235 --> 00:38:32,555 Speaker 1: Jack Smirch listened with a leer on his lips. I 548 00:38:32,915 --> 00:38:37,075 Speaker 1: get you, I get you, He cut in nastily. You 549 00:38:37,075 --> 00:38:39,875 Speaker 1: want me to act like a softy huh? You want 550 00:38:39,875 --> 00:38:43,755 Speaker 1: me to act like that memony, memny baby face lind 551 00:38:43,795 --> 00:38:48,235 Speaker 1: big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone took in 552 00:38:48,355 --> 00:38:51,635 Speaker 1: his breath sharply. It was a sigh and a hiss. 553 00:38:53,315 --> 00:38:57,795 Speaker 1: Mr Lindbergh began a United States Senator purple with rage, 554 00:38:57,995 --> 00:39:02,155 Speaker 1: and Mr Bird Smirch, who was pairing his nails with 555 00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:06,435 Speaker 1: a jackknife, cut in again. Boyd. He exclaimed, for God's 556 00:39:06,475 --> 00:39:09,955 Speaker 1: sake that pick somebody shut off the blasphemies with a 557 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:13,675 Speaker 1: sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word the room. 558 00:39:13,755 --> 00:39:16,195 Speaker 1: Everyone stood up, except Smirch, who was still busy with 559 00:39:16,275 --> 00:39:20,115 Speaker 1: his nails, and he did not even glance up. Mr Smirch, 560 00:39:20,155 --> 00:39:24,235 Speaker 1: said someone sternly. The President of the United States. It 561 00:39:24,355 --> 00:39:26,555 Speaker 1: had been thought that the presence of the Chief Executive 562 00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:29,635 Speaker 1: might have a chastening effect on the young hero, and 563 00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:32,395 Speaker 1: the former had been, thanks to the remarkable co operation 564 00:39:32,475 --> 00:39:37,155 Speaker 1: of the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room. 565 00:39:37,155 --> 00:39:46,835 Speaker 1: A great painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a 566 00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:50,835 Speaker 1: hand at the President. How are you coming, he asked, 567 00:39:51,755 --> 00:40:00,515 Speaker 1: and began rolling a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone 568 00:40:00,675 --> 00:40:06,235 Speaker 1: coughed in a strained way. Jesus, ain't it, said Smirch. 569 00:40:07,915 --> 00:40:11,835 Speaker 1: He loosened two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest 570 00:40:11,915 --> 00:40:16,555 Speaker 1: and the tattooed word Sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart. 571 00:40:17,875 --> 00:40:21,075 Speaker 1: The great and important men in the room, faced by 572 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:25,675 Speaker 1: the most serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns. 573 00:40:26,515 --> 00:40:30,475 Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to know how to proceed. Come on, come on, 574 00:40:30,875 --> 00:40:33,955 Speaker 1: said Smirch. Let's get the hell outta here. Why do 575 00:40:34,035 --> 00:40:37,075 Speaker 1: I start cutting in on the party's uh? And when 576 00:40:38,075 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: is there gonna be this in it? He rubbed a 577 00:40:41,755 --> 00:40:48,235 Speaker 1: thumb and forefinger together meaningly, money, exclaimed a state senator shocked. Pale, 578 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:52,995 Speaker 1: Yeah money, said pal, flipping his cigarette out of the window. 579 00:40:53,275 --> 00:40:59,195 Speaker 1: And big money. He began rolling a fresh cigarette. Big money, 580 00:40:59,275 --> 00:41:03,355 Speaker 1: he repeated, frowning over the rice paper. He tilted back 581 00:41:03,355 --> 00:41:06,915 Speaker 1: in his chair and lee at each gentleman separately, the 582 00:41:07,115 --> 00:41:10,795 Speaker 1: leer of an animal that knows its power, the leer 583 00:41:10,995 --> 00:41:14,515 Speaker 1: of a leopard loose in a bird and dog shop. 584 00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:19,115 Speaker 1: For God's sake, Let's get someplace where it's cool, he said. 585 00:41:19,675 --> 00:41:24,075 Speaker 1: I've been cooped up plenty for three weeks. Smurch stood 586 00:41:24,115 --> 00:41:26,795 Speaker 1: up and walked over to an open window, where he 587 00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:31,435 Speaker 1: stood staring down into the street nine floors below. The 588 00:41:31,515 --> 00:41:35,115 Speaker 1: faint shouting of newsboys floated up to him. He made 589 00:41:35,155 --> 00:41:39,875 Speaker 1: out his name, Hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He 590 00:41:40,075 --> 00:41:45,675 Speaker 1: leaned out over the sill Yo talent babies. He shouted down, 591 00:41:46,195 --> 00:41:50,235 Speaker 1: hot Diggity Dog. In the tense little knot of men 592 00:41:50,355 --> 00:41:54,395 Speaker 1: standing behind him, a quick, mad impulse flared up. An 593 00:41:54,475 --> 00:41:58,635 Speaker 1: unspoken word of appeal of command seemed to ring through 594 00:41:58,635 --> 00:42:02,795 Speaker 1: the room, yet it was deadly silent. Charles K. L Brand, 595 00:42:02,915 --> 00:42:05,235 Speaker 1: secretary to the Mayor of New York City, happened to 596 00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:08,955 Speaker 1: be standing nearest smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President 597 00:42:08,995 --> 00:42:13,875 Speaker 1: of the United States. The President, pale grim nodded shortly. 598 00:42:14,475 --> 00:42:17,675 Speaker 1: Brand a tall, powerfully built man wants to tackle at 599 00:42:17,715 --> 00:42:21,915 Speaker 1: Rutgers University, stepped forward, seized the greatest man in the 600 00:42:21,915 --> 00:42:24,235 Speaker 1: world by his left shoulder and the seat of his pants, 601 00:42:24,355 --> 00:42:27,955 Speaker 1: and pushed him out the window. My god, he's fallen 602 00:42:27,995 --> 00:42:30,875 Speaker 1: out the window, cried a quick witted editor. Get me 603 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:33,275 Speaker 1: out of here, cried the President. Several men sprang to 604 00:42:33,315 --> 00:42:35,115 Speaker 1: his side, and he was hurriedly escorted out of a 605 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:37,555 Speaker 1: door toward a side entrance of the building. The editor 606 00:42:37,595 --> 00:42:39,955 Speaker 1: of the Associated Press took charge. Being used to such 607 00:42:39,995 --> 00:42:44,075 Speaker 1: things crisply, he ordered certain men to leave, others to stay. Quickly. 608 00:42:44,075 --> 00:42:46,315 Speaker 1: He outlined a story which all the papers were to 609 00:42:46,355 --> 00:42:48,755 Speaker 1: agree on, sent two men to the street to handle 610 00:42:48,795 --> 00:42:51,435 Speaker 1: that end of the tragedy, commanded a senator to sob 611 00:42:51,755 --> 00:42:56,115 Speaker 1: and two congressmen to go to pieces nervously. In a word, 612 00:42:56,395 --> 00:42:59,875 Speaker 1: he skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that 613 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:03,155 Speaker 1: was to follow, the task of breaking to a grief 614 00:43:03,195 --> 00:43:08,675 Speaker 1: stricken world the sad story of the untimely accidental death 615 00:43:08,835 --> 00:43:15,115 Speaker 1: of its most illustrious and spectacular figure. The funeral was, 616 00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:20,315 Speaker 1: as you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnist, 617 00:43:20,995 --> 00:43:23,635 Speaker 1: and the saddest ever held in the United States of America. 618 00:43:24,555 --> 00:43:28,635 Speaker 1: The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft 619 00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:32,755 Speaker 1: of marble and the simple device of a tiny plane 620 00:43:32,795 --> 00:43:38,235 Speaker 1: carved on its base, is a place for pilgrims in 621 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:42,915 Speaker 1: deep reverence to visit. The nations of the world paid 622 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:49,275 Speaker 1: lofty tributes to Little Jackie Smirch, America's greatest hero. At 623 00:43:49,315 --> 00:43:52,355 Speaker 1: a given hour, there were two minutes of silence throughout 624 00:43:52,395 --> 00:43:56,275 Speaker 1: the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town 625 00:43:56,315 --> 00:44:01,235 Speaker 1: of Westfield, Iowa, observed this touching ceremony. Agents of the 626 00:44:01,275 --> 00:44:05,315 Speaker 1: Department of Justice sought to that one of them was 627 00:44:05,435 --> 00:44:08,235 Speaker 1: especially assigned to stand grimly in the doorway of a 628 00:44:08,275 --> 00:44:12,235 Speaker 1: little Shock restaurant on the edge of the tourist's camping 629 00:44:12,315 --> 00:44:17,555 Speaker 1: ground just outside the town. There, under his stern scrutiny, 630 00:44:18,195 --> 00:44:21,915 Speaker 1: Mrs Emma Smirch bowed her head over to hamburger stakes 631 00:44:21,955 --> 00:44:25,675 Speaker 1: sizzling on her grill. Bowed her head and turned away 632 00:44:26,835 --> 00:44:30,275 Speaker 1: so that the secret serviceman could not see the twisted 633 00:44:31,035 --> 00:44:38,915 Speaker 1: strangely familiar leer on her lips. The Greatest Man in 634 00:44:38,955 --> 00:44:59,315 Speaker 1: the World by James Thurber. I love that one, even 635 00:44:59,315 --> 00:45:03,155 Speaker 1: though the Lindberg references became outdated shortly after Thurber published 636 00:45:03,155 --> 00:45:07,475 Speaker 1: it in Been. I believe in any event, I've done 637 00:45:07,515 --> 00:45:09,275 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Since you've listened 638 00:45:09,275 --> 00:45:11,835 Speaker 1: this far, help me out spread the word. Tell somebody 639 00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:14,195 Speaker 1: else about this podcast, get them to subscribe to it. 640 00:45:14,515 --> 00:45:16,635 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 641 00:45:16,675 --> 00:45:20,275 Speaker 1: theme from Beethobin's ninth, was arranged, produced and performed by 642 00:45:20,275 --> 00:45:22,715 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle, who are the Countdown 643 00:45:22,795 --> 00:45:26,715 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. 644 00:45:26,875 --> 00:45:29,955 Speaker 1: Guitars based on drums by Brian Ray, produced by t 645 00:45:30,115 --> 00:45:33,315 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 646 00:45:33,315 --> 00:45:36,715 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music 647 00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:39,315 Speaker 1: is the Oberman theme from ESPN two, and it was 648 00:45:39,355 --> 00:45:43,675 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 649 00:45:43,755 --> 00:45:47,115 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 650 00:45:47,475 --> 00:45:50,195 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Kenny Maine, and everything else was 651 00:45:50,235 --> 00:45:53,115 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault, so let's countdown for this the 652 00:45:53,155 --> 00:45:56,475 Speaker 1: six fifty fourth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 653 00:45:56,515 --> 00:45:59,595 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest 654 00:45:59,715 --> 00:46:03,595 Speaker 1: him now while we still can. A new episode Monday. 655 00:46:03,835 --> 00:46:06,995 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm keith ol Woman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 656 00:46:07,515 --> 00:46:16,475 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith ol Woman is a 657 00:46:16,515 --> 00:46:20,115 Speaker 1: production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I 658 00:46:20,235 --> 00:46:23,675 Speaker 1: heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 659 00:46:23,955 --> 00:46:25,955 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.