1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:21,395 --> 00:00:25,835 Speaker 1: is Friday, January twenty six, twenty twenty four, day eleven 3 00:00:25,955 --> 00:00:30,155 Speaker 1: of Donald J. Trump's dementia crisis. And let's summarize what 4 00:00:30,195 --> 00:00:33,555 Speaker 1: we have learned about Trump's campaign strategy since he won 5 00:00:33,595 --> 00:00:37,755 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire Tuesday night and something went wrong, unprecedented 6 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:43,235 Speaker 1: even for him, wrong, really wrong in his brain. He 7 00:00:43,355 --> 00:00:47,475 Speaker 1: is now running on a campaign to trash the US economy, 8 00:00:47,715 --> 00:00:51,195 Speaker 1: keep the southern border completely open, and in a personal 9 00:00:51,235 --> 00:00:55,075 Speaker 1: pledge to expel anybody who supports NICKI Haley or any 10 00:00:55,115 --> 00:00:59,435 Speaker 1: other Republican candidates from the Republican Party. Oh, and there 11 00:00:59,475 --> 00:01:04,395 Speaker 1: is a new piece. He is officially anyway insisting he 12 00:01:04,435 --> 00:01:07,315 Speaker 1: does not want the Republican National Committee to pass a 13 00:01:07,355 --> 00:01:12,315 Speaker 1: resolution to effectively cancel all the remaining GOP primaries and 14 00:01:12,395 --> 00:01:16,555 Speaker 1: declare him the nominee today because he's already won a 15 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: total of thirty two whole delegates. Yes, it's Trump campaign 16 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:29,875 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. F U America. This is dementia. I 17 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:33,275 Speaker 1: don't think Haley's obstinates was the actual trigger, just the 18 00:01:33,355 --> 00:01:37,315 Speaker 1: last pressure applied to the very weakened spaghetti strands. That 19 00:01:37,435 --> 00:01:40,675 Speaker 1: held his vestiges of sanity together. It happens that way, 20 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:43,515 Speaker 1: especially in the brain. But when the result of a 21 00:01:43,595 --> 00:01:48,235 Speaker 1: series of events is loser j Trump insisting he will 22 00:01:48,395 --> 00:01:55,795 Speaker 1: not accept somebody else's money, something is desperately desperately wrong 23 00:01:55,835 --> 00:02:00,195 Speaker 1: with him. Wronger and more dangerous and maybe more imminently disastrous. 24 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:04,595 Speaker 1: Even than usual, Trump could get to the hannibal lector 25 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: stage of full body, straight jacket and straight pants and 26 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:11,835 Speaker 1: cage mask. And I don't think he'd ever actually turned 27 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:16,475 Speaker 1: down anybody's money or anybody's endorsement. But there is a 28 00:02:16,595 --> 00:02:20,475 Speaker 1: desperation taking over here that suggests that the gravity has 29 00:02:20,555 --> 00:02:25,595 Speaker 1: been completely turned off inside Trump world. This new thing. First, 30 00:02:26,035 --> 00:02:29,035 Speaker 1: a committee member presented a draft of a resolution to 31 00:02:29,115 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee that would declare Trump the nominee 32 00:02:33,115 --> 00:02:36,915 Speaker 1: now no Nevada, no South Carolina, no votes by no 33 00:02:37,035 --> 00:02:41,435 Speaker 1: Republican voters, no convention, no second thoughts, no vaccies if 34 00:02:41,435 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: he's convicted, and of course no refunds refunds. Last night, 35 00:02:47,595 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: Trump made a big deal out of discouraging this resolution, noting, 36 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:54,555 Speaker 1: of course they have far more votes than necessary to 37 00:02:54,635 --> 00:02:58,515 Speaker 1: do it, but that for the sake of party unity, 38 00:02:58,795 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: like he gives a rat's ass about that he quote 39 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: should do it the old fashioned way and finish the 40 00:03:04,755 --> 00:03:08,635 Speaker 1: process off at the ballot box. Here was the resolution, 41 00:03:08,795 --> 00:03:12,555 Speaker 1: in part quote resolved that the Republican National Committee hereby 42 00:03:12,635 --> 00:03:17,235 Speaker 1: declares President Trump as our presumptive twenty twenty four nominee 43 00:03:17,315 --> 00:03:19,755 Speaker 1: for the office of President of the United States, and 44 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:24,155 Speaker 1: from this moment forward moves into full general election mode, 45 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:30,355 Speaker 1: welcoming supporters of all candidates as valued members of Team 46 00:03:30,635 --> 00:03:36,555 Speaker 1: Trump twenty twenty four. Unquote. But Trump wouldn't want that, 47 00:03:37,835 --> 00:03:43,035 Speaker 1: he says. Forgive me. I know this is an outlandish 48 00:03:43,075 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: thing to suggest, but I think he's lying, especially considering 49 00:03:49,795 --> 00:03:54,995 Speaker 1: who proposed this which Trump. Lackey put his name to 50 00:03:55,035 --> 00:04:00,715 Speaker 1: this anti democratic, anti American nineteenth century style political document 51 00:04:00,755 --> 00:04:06,115 Speaker 1: of disenfranchisement. Who else but the z of fascism in 52 00:04:06,155 --> 00:04:08,995 Speaker 1: America for the last quarter century and more. He was 53 00:04:09,075 --> 00:04:12,155 Speaker 1: part of the newt Gingrich ken Starr destruction of journalism 54 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:15,555 Speaker 1: and persecution of President Clinton. He was the President of 55 00:04:15,635 --> 00:04:19,435 Speaker 1: Citizens United when it and Floyd Abrams succeeded in getting 56 00:04:19,475 --> 00:04:22,075 Speaker 1: a death sentence for democracy in America out of the 57 00:04:22,115 --> 00:04:27,315 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And now he is a Republican National Committee 58 00:04:27,315 --> 00:04:36,115 Speaker 1: man from Maryland, David Bossy. David Bossy, the guy who 59 00:04:36,115 --> 00:04:39,355 Speaker 1: looks like an evil Bob Hoskins, the guy who has 60 00:04:39,395 --> 00:04:42,355 Speaker 1: twice been exiled from Trump World for trying to skim 61 00:04:42,395 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: influence and money and now sees a road back into 62 00:04:46,635 --> 00:04:50,595 Speaker 1: the inner circle. And remember this is the Republican Party 63 00:04:50,835 --> 00:04:53,875 Speaker 1: in the nineties. It developed a template and then found 64 00:04:53,915 --> 00:04:55,875 Speaker 1: the man whose utter lack of morals made him the 65 00:04:55,915 --> 00:04:59,435 Speaker 1: perfect human embodiment of venality. The guy you needed to 66 00:04:59,475 --> 00:05:02,875 Speaker 1: make this crap work. Look like you're obeying the law, 67 00:05:03,195 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: Scream that you are a bit paying the law, use 68 00:05:06,235 --> 00:05:08,835 Speaker 1: the law to destroy the law, and on the way, 69 00:05:09,475 --> 00:05:15,275 Speaker 1: break every law you can. Ronald McDaniel still the chair 70 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:18,515 Speaker 1: of the RNC after the midterm disaster of twenty eighteen, 71 00:05:18,955 --> 00:05:22,195 Speaker 1: after Trump got his ass kicked in twenty twenty, after 72 00:05:22,235 --> 00:05:25,795 Speaker 1: the next midterm disaster in twenty twenty two, she will 73 00:05:25,835 --> 00:05:30,395 Speaker 1: do anything to retain that job. She has already insisted 74 00:05:30,475 --> 00:05:33,995 Speaker 1: Haley should get out, and she could very easily sign 75 00:05:33,995 --> 00:05:36,715 Speaker 1: on to Bossi's resolution. And make no mistake what Bossi's 76 00:05:36,755 --> 00:05:39,275 Speaker 1: resolution is designed to be a precedent for if a 77 00:05:39,315 --> 00:05:44,555 Speaker 1: bunch of cowering, simpering, amoral twerps on the Republican National 78 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:48,595 Speaker 1: Committee can vote to scrap the nominating process when forty 79 00:05:48,635 --> 00:05:52,675 Speaker 1: eight of the fifty states have yet to vote, well, 80 00:05:52,835 --> 00:05:56,435 Speaker 1: maybe they can also someday soon convince the House of 81 00:05:56,475 --> 00:06:02,195 Speaker 1: Representatives or the Senate or both to vote to scrap 82 00:06:02,355 --> 00:06:06,155 Speaker 1: some election because everybody knows Trump is going to win 83 00:06:06,435 --> 00:06:09,835 Speaker 1: and everybody wants Trump to serve a third term. It's 84 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:14,155 Speaker 1: still a long shot to do it that way. I mean, 85 00:06:14,195 --> 00:06:17,515 Speaker 1: the Martial Law Insurrection Act, threat to the Nation plot 86 00:06:17,555 --> 00:06:20,475 Speaker 1: is far more scurty. But if you don't think the 87 00:06:20,515 --> 00:06:24,195 Speaker 1: Republicans are not game planning one hundred different ways to 88 00:06:24,435 --> 00:06:28,315 Speaker 1: pretend they are legally ending elections in this country, you 89 00:06:28,395 --> 00:06:31,195 Speaker 1: must have been in a coma between November twenty twenty 90 00:06:31,195 --> 00:06:36,315 Speaker 1: and January twenty twenty one. This is one thing for Trump, 91 00:06:36,595 --> 00:06:42,395 Speaker 1: personal madness, personal lust for power, But for the Republican 92 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: Party this is existential. They cannot win a majority in 93 00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:51,435 Speaker 1: this country. They are losing majorities in purple states. The 94 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:55,835 Speaker 1: demographics are fatal for them, and for thirty years, the 95 00:06:55,955 --> 00:06:58,795 Speaker 1: smart ones have seen this coming and they have devoted 96 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:03,875 Speaker 1: themselves to shrinking the electorate. The only thing they can 97 00:07:03,955 --> 00:07:07,555 Speaker 1: do to beat the voting is to reduce the number 98 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:14,435 Speaker 1: of people who vote. And hell, what better more economical, 99 00:07:15,075 --> 00:07:17,795 Speaker 1: quicker way to shrink the electorate could there be than 100 00:07:17,835 --> 00:07:23,515 Speaker 1: to just eliminate voting. All right, that's the future. Back 101 00:07:23,555 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: to the present day. So if the RNC goes along 102 00:07:26,635 --> 00:07:29,755 Speaker 1: with David Bossi and Roni McDaniel and ends, you know, 103 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:34,195 Speaker 1: voting inside the Republican Party and just declares Trump king, 104 00:07:34,795 --> 00:07:39,755 Speaker 1: what happens? Then who will stop them? There would seem 105 00:07:39,795 --> 00:07:42,395 Speaker 1: to be a little doubt Nikki Haley could sue the 106 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:46,915 Speaker 1: RNC for this. Her response to Trump's threat to blacklist 107 00:07:46,955 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 1: her donors her MAGA was to immediately repost news of 108 00:07:50,555 --> 00:07:54,115 Speaker 1: his bullying with a link for people to donate to 109 00:07:54,155 --> 00:07:56,635 Speaker 1: her campaign. If she is willing to go that far, 110 00:07:57,595 --> 00:08:00,155 Speaker 1: is she also willing to take the official power structure 111 00:08:00,355 --> 00:08:04,475 Speaker 1: of her own party to court. The point, certainly is 112 00:08:04,515 --> 00:08:07,755 Speaker 1: that it appears that, unlike Ramaswami and Tim Scott and 113 00:08:07,755 --> 00:08:10,395 Speaker 1: the other hapless urchins who got out just before Trump 114 00:08:10,395 --> 00:08:13,675 Speaker 1: would have wished them into the cornfield. At some point 115 00:08:13,715 --> 00:08:16,555 Speaker 1: in the last month six weeks or so, both Haley 116 00:08:16,635 --> 00:08:20,195 Speaker 1: and ron DeSantis realized that the fire escape had already 117 00:08:20,235 --> 00:08:23,795 Speaker 1: closed behind them, and the only way out was to 118 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:28,435 Speaker 1: fight Trump and beat Trump. DeSantis started it too late. 119 00:08:28,795 --> 00:08:32,635 Speaker 1: He got out about half a dozen stunningly insightful jabs 120 00:08:32,675 --> 00:08:38,315 Speaker 1: at Trump before he got crushed. But Haley might not fold. 121 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: It is hard to root for her. I have said 122 00:08:42,315 --> 00:08:45,475 Speaker 1: this before, and it's true. She really is a dope. 123 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:49,795 Speaker 1: But maybe only a dope would be able to do 124 00:08:49,835 --> 00:08:54,395 Speaker 1: what she has already done. She has utterly destabilized and 125 00:08:54,555 --> 00:08:57,955 Speaker 1: already unstable Trump. She is, after all, the prototype of 126 00:08:57,955 --> 00:09:01,555 Speaker 1: the person he hates the most in this world. A woman, 127 00:09:02,395 --> 00:09:04,635 Speaker 1: a woman to whom he has lent what he sees 128 00:09:05,115 --> 00:09:10,195 Speaker 1: as his credibility, a woman he has employed, and most 129 00:09:10,235 --> 00:09:13,635 Speaker 1: of all, most meaningful to him, somebody to whom he 130 00:09:13,755 --> 00:09:19,955 Speaker 1: has given money, who has not in turn become his 131 00:09:20,075 --> 00:09:26,675 Speaker 1: eternal slave, and somebody who has gotten completely under his skin. 132 00:09:27,115 --> 00:09:28,875 Speaker 2: So we got out there and we did our thing, 133 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:31,035 Speaker 2: and we said what we had to say, and then 134 00:09:31,115 --> 00:09:34,355 Speaker 2: Donald Trump got out there and just threw a temper tantrum. 135 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:41,475 Speaker 2: He pitched a fit. He was he was insulting, he 136 00:09:41,595 --> 00:09:43,795 Speaker 2: was doing what he does. But I know that's what 137 00:09:43,835 --> 00:09:45,995 Speaker 2: he does when he's insecure. I know that's what he 138 00:09:46,035 --> 00:09:49,075 Speaker 2: does when he is threatened, and he should feel threatened 139 00:09:49,155 --> 00:09:50,275 Speaker 2: without a doubt. 140 00:09:52,115 --> 00:09:53,155 Speaker 1: And so he'll go on. 141 00:09:53,475 --> 00:09:55,155 Speaker 2: And you know, even on that day where he was 142 00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:57,915 Speaker 2: going on and on about January sixth, you know, we 143 00:09:58,035 --> 00:10:01,075 Speaker 2: talked about, Okay, he was having a moment. He was confused. 144 00:10:01,315 --> 00:10:03,515 Speaker 2: But it also goes back to why I've continue to 145 00:10:03,515 --> 00:10:05,835 Speaker 2: push for mental confidence. He tests for anyone over the 146 00:10:05,875 --> 00:10:06,915 Speaker 2: age of seventy five. 147 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:10,315 Speaker 1: Haley might or might not hold out long against Trump 148 00:10:10,315 --> 00:10:13,635 Speaker 1: in the primaries. She would be a dreadful president, although 149 00:10:13,635 --> 00:10:17,155 Speaker 1: one who would be unlikely to utterly subvert representative government. 150 00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: But she has done something to him that no other 151 00:10:20,315 --> 00:10:25,035 Speaker 1: Republican has done since twenty sixteen. She has successfully threatened 152 00:10:25,115 --> 00:10:30,755 Speaker 1: him back. She has made him make terrible mistakes. You 153 00:10:30,835 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: are going to institute a purity test. You're going to 154 00:10:34,755 --> 00:10:39,555 Speaker 1: threaten to banish anybody who supports somebody else, Banish them 155 00:10:39,595 --> 00:10:47,115 Speaker 1: from MAGA forever. Nicky Haley's donors are banned from MAGA. 156 00:10:47,155 --> 00:10:51,035 Speaker 1: You're going to deliberately throw them out. You're going to 157 00:10:51,035 --> 00:10:55,635 Speaker 1: deliberately reduce the number of them who will now support you. 158 00:10:55,635 --> 00:10:57,955 Speaker 1: You're going to deliberately reduce your own vote totals in 159 00:10:57,995 --> 00:11:00,915 Speaker 1: the swing states, and now you're going to try to 160 00:11:00,955 --> 00:11:03,595 Speaker 1: declare victory when the number of delegates needed to clinch 161 00:11:03,635 --> 00:11:06,315 Speaker 1: the nomination is one thing two hundred and fifteen, and 162 00:11:06,355 --> 00:11:13,955 Speaker 1: you have thirty two dumb even for Trump, even for fascists, 163 00:11:13,995 --> 00:11:19,235 Speaker 1: staging not a kangaroo court but a kangaroo party. Moreover, 164 00:11:20,435 --> 00:11:25,075 Speaker 1: she could have again, could have an unlikely power base 165 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:29,315 Speaker 1: inside that party. Texas Congressman Chip Roy went on Fox 166 00:11:29,395 --> 00:11:32,675 Speaker 1: last night and aptly described this as a coronation and 167 00:11:32,715 --> 00:11:35,875 Speaker 1: said he can't understand why Trump would be afraid to 168 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,275 Speaker 1: go earn it. And he said that his party should 169 00:11:39,275 --> 00:11:42,995 Speaker 1: not anoint anyone. And I despise chip Roy, but those 170 00:11:43,035 --> 00:11:47,035 Speaker 1: are the two words for it, anoint and coronation. And 171 00:11:47,075 --> 00:11:51,195 Speaker 1: then there are the Republicans in the Senate that could 172 00:11:51,275 --> 00:11:55,195 Speaker 1: be Haley's constituency in a fight against Trump inside the 173 00:11:55,235 --> 00:11:59,955 Speaker 1: GOP because they are steamed about Trump trying to kill 174 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:02,675 Speaker 1: the border deal so he can make things worse there 175 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:06,875 Speaker 1: and run on that. Because right or wrong, racist or 176 00:12:07,035 --> 00:12:11,595 Speaker 1: just stupid, Republican senators actually believe there is a crisis there. 177 00:12:12,475 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: You've probably never heard of Senator Todd Young of Indiana. 178 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:17,755 Speaker 1: But you have heard of Mitt Romney, and as much 179 00:12:17,795 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: as Romney is like the male Nikki Hayley and Romney 180 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:25,475 Speaker 1: and Young and Tom Tillis and the chief Republican negotiator, 181 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:29,955 Speaker 1: the Ash and James Langford of Oklahoma are seemingly wimpy. 182 00:12:30,315 --> 00:12:34,915 Speaker 1: They could over this and they might actually fight back. 183 00:12:35,875 --> 00:12:40,435 Speaker 1: Here is Senator Young first. Anything that interrupts that negotiation, 184 00:12:41,235 --> 00:12:44,355 Speaker 1: I think would be tragic. I hope no one is 185 00:12:44,395 --> 00:12:47,195 Speaker 1: trying to take this away for campaign purpose. 186 00:12:47,275 --> 00:12:51,475 Speaker 3: The fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and 187 00:12:51,515 --> 00:12:54,155 Speaker 3: congress people that he doesn't want us to solve the 188 00:12:54,155 --> 00:12:58,755 Speaker 3: border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it 189 00:12:57,835 --> 00:13:02,475 Speaker 3: is really appalling. But the reality is that we have 190 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:05,235 Speaker 3: a crisis at the border, the American people are suffering 191 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:08,475 Speaker 3: as a result of what's happening at the border, and 192 00:13:08,555 --> 00:13:10,355 Speaker 3: someone running for president out to try and get the 193 00:13:11,515 --> 00:13:14,755 Speaker 3: problem solved, as opposed to saying, hey, save that problem, 194 00:13:14,835 --> 00:13:17,795 Speaker 3: don't solve it, let me take credit for solving it. 195 00:13:17,875 --> 00:13:21,515 Speaker 1: Later, Senator Tillis was even blunter, quote, it's all about 196 00:13:21,515 --> 00:13:25,075 Speaker 1: politics and not having the courage to respectfully disagree with Trump. 197 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:28,035 Speaker 1: I didn't come here to have a president as a 198 00:13:28,155 --> 00:13:33,675 Speaker 1: boss or a candidate as a boss. Now, Tillis has 199 00:13:33,755 --> 00:13:36,835 Speaker 1: folded before Trump's ire before, but in this time of 200 00:13:36,875 --> 00:13:43,115 Speaker 1: the toadies, damn strong words, sir. The one other component 201 00:13:43,195 --> 00:13:45,675 Speaker 1: in the Senate is that Mitch McConnell may have deliberately 202 00:13:45,795 --> 00:13:50,875 Speaker 1: leaked his own handwringing quandary quote the day before yesterday 203 00:13:50,875 --> 00:13:53,395 Speaker 1: about Trump wanting to blow up the border deal. That's 204 00:13:53,435 --> 00:13:57,355 Speaker 1: not source, that's not confirmed. That's just me guessing, because 205 00:13:57,435 --> 00:13:59,835 Speaker 1: McConnell is not on the hook for reelection this year, 206 00:13:59,875 --> 00:14:03,515 Speaker 1: and neither is Romney. He's quitting Ah but Ted cruz 207 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:08,435 Speaker 1: Is and Rick scott Is and Josh hawley Is and 208 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,675 Speaker 1: Roger Wicker and Kevin Kramer and Deb Fisher and Pete 209 00:14:11,795 --> 00:14:15,755 Speaker 1: Ricketts and Marsha Blackburn and John Barrasso. Plus there are 210 00:14:15,835 --> 00:14:20,395 Speaker 1: Republican challengers out there trying to unseat incumbent Democrats and 211 00:14:20,435 --> 00:14:23,035 Speaker 1: independence in twenty three other states. And you tell me 212 00:14:23,115 --> 00:14:26,035 Speaker 1: how they are going to thread the needle of running 213 00:14:26,155 --> 00:14:31,675 Speaker 1: with Trump and running against those evil immigrant terrorists and 214 00:14:31,835 --> 00:14:35,715 Speaker 1: explaining that they had a deal to secure the border 215 00:14:35,995 --> 00:14:40,635 Speaker 1: in January, but they helped kill it and let in 216 00:14:41,675 --> 00:14:44,035 Speaker 1: a million of these people they think are so evil. 217 00:14:44,075 --> 00:14:46,515 Speaker 1: You think Ted Cruz, who was already on the ropes 218 00:14:46,555 --> 00:14:50,395 Speaker 1: in Texas, can walk that tight rope. He tried it 219 00:14:50,475 --> 00:14:53,635 Speaker 1: yesterday on Fox. He said, if you want to solve 220 00:14:53,675 --> 00:14:56,515 Speaker 1: this problem, Donald Trump, when he's re elected in January 221 00:14:56,555 --> 00:14:58,875 Speaker 1: of next year, will solve this problem. And the Fox 222 00:14:58,955 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: host the Fox host said, is your position that nothing 223 00:15:03,995 --> 00:15:07,275 Speaker 1: is better than something? And have you even read this bill? 224 00:15:08,715 --> 00:15:12,995 Speaker 1: If Cruz tries to sell that act in Texas, where 225 00:15:13,035 --> 00:15:16,075 Speaker 1: the border is, where the governor is out of his 226 00:15:16,275 --> 00:15:19,795 Speaker 1: mind and violating the Constitution of the United States to 227 00:15:19,875 --> 00:15:24,315 Speaker 1: try to keep immigrants legal or otherwise out, if he 228 00:15:24,475 --> 00:15:26,835 Speaker 1: tries that act in Texas for the next nine months, 229 00:15:26,915 --> 00:15:29,995 Speaker 1: he will lose bigger than one of the Texas sports 230 00:15:30,035 --> 00:15:33,515 Speaker 1: teams will when Ted Cruz is actually in the crowd. 231 00:15:37,875 --> 00:15:40,875 Speaker 1: Trump got upstaged in court yesterday by his version of 232 00:15:40,915 --> 00:15:46,155 Speaker 1: the Goldfinger Henchman odd job from James Bond. Judge Kaplan 233 00:15:46,275 --> 00:15:49,555 Speaker 1: ruled him out of order time after time. Trump basically 234 00:15:49,635 --> 00:15:52,115 Speaker 1: got to say nothing for all of four minutes on 235 00:15:52,155 --> 00:15:55,035 Speaker 1: the stand at the penalty trial for having defamed E. 236 00:15:55,195 --> 00:15:58,395 Speaker 1: Gene Carroll. On the way out, he muttered, this is 237 00:15:58,435 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 1: in America, and the headline is somebody's phone rings in 238 00:16:02,355 --> 00:16:04,355 Speaker 1: the middle of testimony, and Judge Kaplan, who is the 239 00:16:04,355 --> 00:16:08,795 Speaker 1: strict just about electronics use in all of the American judiciary, says, 240 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:13,675 Speaker 1: whose telephone is that? And this Stephen Chung idiot raises 241 00:16:13,715 --> 00:16:16,835 Speaker 1: his head and Kaplan says, take this man out of 242 00:16:16,875 --> 00:16:21,675 Speaker 1: here and out the big guy goes gets escorted like 243 00:16:21,755 --> 00:16:25,275 Speaker 1: a bad little boy. Also, I don't know what the 244 00:16:25,315 --> 00:16:30,115 Speaker 1: professional record for objections overruled is, but Alina Habba is like, 245 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:34,155 Speaker 1: well into four digits just in this trial. Hall of Famer, 246 00:16:35,475 --> 00:16:38,035 Speaker 1: speaking of trials, The bad news for former Trump gnome 247 00:16:38,235 --> 00:16:42,355 Speaker 1: Peter Navarro four months in jail for completely ignoring a 248 00:16:42,355 --> 00:16:46,315 Speaker 1: congressional subpoena, and in sentencing him to four months in jail, 249 00:16:46,395 --> 00:16:50,235 Speaker 1: Judge I'm at Meta dressed him down. Fine, he said, 250 00:16:50,275 --> 00:16:52,955 Speaker 1: you think it's a political hatchet job. It's domestic terrorists 251 00:16:53,035 --> 00:16:55,315 Speaker 1: running the committee. They had a job to do and 252 00:16:55,355 --> 00:16:57,995 Speaker 1: you made it harder. You are not a victim, You 253 00:16:58,075 --> 00:17:01,235 Speaker 1: are not the object of a political prosecution. You aren't. 254 00:17:01,435 --> 00:17:09,075 Speaker 1: You have received every process you are due. The good news, well, 255 00:17:09,115 --> 00:17:11,795 Speaker 1: if Navarro loses on appeal and does go to jail. 256 00:17:12,075 --> 00:17:14,715 Speaker 1: The woman who goes to all of his public appearances 257 00:17:14,715 --> 00:17:18,115 Speaker 1: with the noisemakers and who keeps up a running commentary 258 00:17:18,155 --> 00:17:21,155 Speaker 1: while he's trying to talk to the media. She won't 259 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:24,235 Speaker 1: be in the cell with him, I think so. 260 00:17:24,315 --> 00:17:26,595 Speaker 4: I mean his say a few words him, you have 261 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 4: several these fine attorneys behind me, say a few words. 262 00:17:33,315 --> 00:17:38,035 Speaker 4: But the top line here is that not at all. 263 00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:41,315 Speaker 5: But this is what this is what. 264 00:17:41,195 --> 00:17:45,475 Speaker 4: Has happened in this country, and it's unfortunate that they 265 00:17:45,515 --> 00:17:48,275 Speaker 4: won't respect my First Amendment rights here. 266 00:17:48,715 --> 00:17:50,995 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about their fifty ninth Amendment 267 00:17:51,075 --> 00:17:56,075 Speaker 1: rights to blow whistles? Lastly, something we all need as 268 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,515 Speaker 1: often as possible. Another opportunity to laugh out loud at 269 00:17:59,555 --> 00:18:03,955 Speaker 1: Donald dementia, Jay loser Trump. This is contained in a 270 00:18:03,995 --> 00:18:09,315 Speaker 1: disturbing revelation that Lindsey Graham has not drunk the kool aid. 271 00:18:09,795 --> 00:18:13,635 Speaker 1: He really is houring himself out to Trump and pretending 272 00:18:13,715 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: to have drunk the kool aid. Michael Isikoff has a 273 00:18:16,715 --> 00:18:19,635 Speaker 1: book coming out next week, Find Me the Votes, and 274 00:18:19,715 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: he has revealed a snippet from it from Lindsay Graham's 275 00:18:22,355 --> 00:18:26,675 Speaker 1: grand jury testimony in the Georgia elections. Subversion case, quoting 276 00:18:26,715 --> 00:18:31,115 Speaker 1: Isakoff quoting Graham to the Grand jury, if you told 277 00:18:31,155 --> 00:18:42,995 Speaker 1: Trump Martians stole the election, he'd probably believe you. Martians. 278 00:18:43,035 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: Martian Blackburn also of interest here. The last Republican candidate 279 00:18:47,755 --> 00:18:50,355 Speaker 1: for governor of New York State goes on Fox and 280 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:55,275 Speaker 1: describes a sitting congresswoman by using the R word, and 281 00:18:55,355 --> 00:18:58,595 Speaker 1: the Fox host declares that you can now say the 282 00:18:58,795 --> 00:19:02,075 Speaker 1: R word on Fox. And it never occurred to either 283 00:19:02,115 --> 00:19:05,555 Speaker 1: of them that if the R word is suddenly okay, 284 00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:09,755 Speaker 1: among the first ten people in the world who you 285 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:14,675 Speaker 1: would describe with the R word would be them. Who 286 00:19:14,715 --> 00:19:20,755 Speaker 1: are they? That's next? This is countdown. This is Countdown 287 00:19:20,995 --> 00:19:25,875 Speaker 1: with Keith Oberman. 288 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:40,675 Speaker 6: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 289 00:19:41,515 --> 00:19:47,715 Speaker 6: is Countdown with Keith Olberman. In Sports Dateline. 290 00:19:47,875 --> 00:19:54,995 Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an NFL player has been arrested for 291 00:19:55,195 --> 00:20:00,515 Speaker 1: illegally using a legal sports betting site. Kaishawn Bhute, who 292 00:20:00,555 --> 00:20:03,435 Speaker 1: played sparingly as a rookie wide receiver for the Patriots 293 00:20:03,475 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: last year, has turned himself into police on charges that 294 00:20:06,755 --> 00:20:11,035 Speaker 1: he used an alias to get around that impregnable age barrier. 295 00:20:11,115 --> 00:20:13,995 Speaker 1: You must be twenty one to gamble. He placed a 296 00:20:14,035 --> 00:20:15,955 Speaker 1: few bets on sports while he was a player at 297 00:20:15,995 --> 00:20:18,675 Speaker 1: Louisiana State, while he wasn't twenty one but just twenty 298 00:20:18,755 --> 00:20:23,315 Speaker 1: just a few bets. Only about nine thousand sports bets 299 00:20:23,475 --> 00:20:28,875 Speaker 1: over thirteen months, including on at least seventeen college football games, 300 00:20:29,395 --> 00:20:32,755 Speaker 1: including bets on at least six of his own teams 301 00:20:32,835 --> 00:20:37,675 Speaker 1: college football games. There is no indication Boutet bet against 302 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:41,315 Speaker 1: LSU or tried to negatively impact his own team's games, 303 00:20:41,715 --> 00:20:44,035 Speaker 1: But of course that's only part of the problem. If 304 00:20:44,075 --> 00:20:48,355 Speaker 1: you bet on some of your own team's games but 305 00:20:48,515 --> 00:20:52,515 Speaker 1: not all of your own team's games, are you trying 306 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:55,755 Speaker 1: as hard in the ones you didn't bet on as 307 00:20:55,755 --> 00:20:58,475 Speaker 1: you are trying in the ones you did bet on, 308 00:20:59,155 --> 00:21:02,635 Speaker 1: And even if you are, you've just raised the question 309 00:21:03,835 --> 00:21:06,595 Speaker 1: who could have ever seen this coming when they made 310 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:10,475 Speaker 1: sports gambling legal and ran a million commercials for it 311 00:21:10,555 --> 00:21:46,555 Speaker 1: every day during the games? Thank you, Nancy Faust Dateline, 312 00:21:46,595 --> 00:21:52,395 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Well it's official now. Jim Harbaugh, who just 313 00:21:52,555 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: coached Michigan to the College football Championship no idea if 314 00:21:56,155 --> 00:21:58,555 Speaker 1: boute bet on that game, has left to coach the 315 00:21:58,595 --> 00:22:02,795 Speaker 1: Los Angeles formerly San Diego originally Los Angeles Chargers of 316 00:22:02,915 --> 00:22:05,155 Speaker 1: the National Football League, because now he can shoot for 317 00:22:05,195 --> 00:22:08,075 Speaker 1: the daily double of a college title and a Super Bowl, 318 00:22:08,275 --> 00:22:11,555 Speaker 1: and he can mentor the young Charger quarterback Justin Herbert, 319 00:22:13,195 --> 00:22:16,915 Speaker 1: and so so what So this is a great excuse 320 00:22:16,955 --> 00:22:19,515 Speaker 1: to play what might be my third or fourth favorite. 321 00:22:19,635 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: This is SportsCenter commercial from back when Harbaugh was a 322 00:22:23,555 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. Harball flew into Bristol. We 323 00:22:28,155 --> 00:22:30,195 Speaker 1: got him right into the studio. We put him on 324 00:22:30,235 --> 00:22:33,795 Speaker 1: the table in a mock operating room set. Bob Lee 325 00:22:33,795 --> 00:22:37,315 Speaker 1: introduced it. Dan Patrick pretended to be covering it live 326 00:22:38,035 --> 00:22:43,275 Speaker 1: in the operating theater Harbaugh's knee surgery and the knee 327 00:22:43,315 --> 00:22:48,075 Speaker 1: surgeon was me as I recall, we got this done 328 00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:50,715 Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes. We're going to be real careful 329 00:22:50,715 --> 00:22:51,355 Speaker 1: with journalists. 330 00:22:51,435 --> 00:22:54,115 Speaker 5: We can't stiff over the line between covering a story 331 00:22:54,155 --> 00:22:55,875 Speaker 5: and possibly becoming part. 332 00:22:55,715 --> 00:22:58,115 Speaker 6: Of the story, like said Jim Harbaugh story. We might 333 00:22:58,155 --> 00:22:59,035 Speaker 6: have got over the line there. 334 00:22:59,235 --> 00:23:01,515 Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's surgery is well underway. It appears to be 335 00:23:01,555 --> 00:23:05,555 Speaker 1: going quite smoothly. Let's get an update, Keith, how's you Farren? 336 00:23:05,915 --> 00:23:09,075 Speaker 1: Very satisfactory and more suctional Please, aren't I supposed to 337 00:23:09,075 --> 00:23:10,715 Speaker 1: to sleep? Dan, You're in my way. I can't see 338 00:23:10,755 --> 00:23:11,235 Speaker 1: what I'm doing. 339 00:23:11,995 --> 00:23:13,915 Speaker 5: Yeah, well that'll happen. 340 00:23:14,115 --> 00:23:15,435 Speaker 6: It just boils down to ethics. 341 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:17,635 Speaker 3: People trust us to know where that line is, and 342 00:23:17,875 --> 00:23:19,435 Speaker 3: that's what journalism is all about. 343 00:23:19,795 --> 00:23:23,315 Speaker 1: Now. I can't verify this next part, but that day, 344 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:26,955 Speaker 1: and in fact, every time I've seen him since and 345 00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:30,555 Speaker 1: Harbaugh's name and those commercials have come up, Dan Patrick 346 00:23:30,595 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: has asked me the same question, did you see them? 347 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:37,995 Speaker 1: Did you see them? And I said as I said 348 00:23:37,995 --> 00:23:41,715 Speaker 1: that day after Harball left, see what Dan? And Dan 349 00:23:41,835 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 1: says the magazines in Harbaugh's bag he had like a sweater, 350 00:23:46,555 --> 00:23:48,635 Speaker 1: a shaving kit, a pair of jeans, and in the 351 00:23:48,715 --> 00:23:50,795 Speaker 1: bag he brought with him on the flight, he just 352 00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:53,835 Speaker 1: left it open on the floor. Didn't you see them? Sweater, 353 00:23:54,115 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 1: shaving kit, jeans, and about ten girly magazines? As I 354 00:24:01,155 --> 00:24:29,075 Speaker 1: said in the commercial, you that'll happen. Still ahead on 355 00:24:29,155 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: Countdown Fridays with Thurber, and the topic of my father 356 00:24:32,595 --> 00:24:35,395 Speaker 1: came up again yesterday in conversation, and so I instantly 357 00:24:35,435 --> 00:24:38,715 Speaker 1: thought of his favorite James Thurber story. So I will 358 00:24:38,715 --> 00:24:42,475 Speaker 1: again see if it becomes your favorite James Thurber story 359 00:24:42,755 --> 00:24:45,955 Speaker 1: of the days when if they failed, we actually left 360 00:24:46,075 --> 00:24:52,475 Speaker 1: kids back in the fourth grade for a year or two, or, 361 00:24:52,515 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: in Thurber's case, with some of his classmates twenty twenty years. 362 00:24:56,955 --> 00:25:02,075 Speaker 1: He swears, I went to Sullivant in Fridays with Thurber 363 00:25:02,115 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: next first time for the daily round up the miss Grins, 364 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:07,675 Speaker 1: Rons and Dunning, krugerffect specimens and others who were left 365 00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:12,715 Speaker 1: back in the fourth grade who constitute today's worse persons 366 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:18,595 Speaker 1: in the world. Lebron's worse. Senator Josh Hawley, the January 367 00:25:18,675 --> 00:25:25,155 Speaker 1: sixth speed demon himself. Magnitude seven Minerals, an aluminum plant 368 00:25:25,195 --> 00:25:27,795 Speaker 1: in New Madrid, Missouri, is going to lay off nearly 369 00:25:27,835 --> 00:25:32,795 Speaker 1: its entire staff because you can't smelt when it's so cold. 370 00:25:33,795 --> 00:25:37,555 Speaker 1: Senator Sprinter took to Twitter x to demand that President 371 00:25:37,595 --> 00:25:43,395 Speaker 1: Biden prevent this and nationalize Magnitude seven minerals. Quote. Some 372 00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:46,555 Speaker 1: billionaire wants to put five hundred Missourians out of work 373 00:25:46,595 --> 00:25:49,795 Speaker 1: and walk away with the prophet. Can't happen. President Biden 374 00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:52,395 Speaker 1: must invoke the Defense Production Act and keep it open. 375 00:25:53,515 --> 00:26:00,395 Speaker 1: Wait interfere with private business. Senator Holly tamper with the 376 00:26:00,475 --> 00:26:06,755 Speaker 1: free market Senator Holly put social need leez ahead of profits. 377 00:26:07,435 --> 00:26:13,195 Speaker 1: Isn't that socialism? And wasn't it Josh Hawley who in 378 00:26:13,235 --> 00:26:15,915 Speaker 1: May twenty twenty one went on Fox and said President 379 00:26:15,915 --> 00:26:20,235 Speaker 1: Biden was guilty of bringing socialism to the United States 380 00:26:20,235 --> 00:26:25,315 Speaker 1: and socialism this and socialism that. And now Josh Hawley 381 00:26:25,435 --> 00:26:32,475 Speaker 1: wants to nationalize a private business. What a guy owns himself? Well, 382 00:26:32,595 --> 00:26:37,035 Speaker 1: shut my mouth and call me Jay Guabara. Senators Socialist 383 00:26:37,075 --> 00:26:43,515 Speaker 1: of Missouri has spoken idiot the runner up Oklahoma congress 384 00:26:43,515 --> 00:26:47,195 Speaker 1: and Ralph Norman and CNN host Caitlyn Collins share this 385 00:26:47,755 --> 00:26:51,955 Speaker 1: one of their folks currently hiding in broadcaster relocation program 386 00:26:52,355 --> 00:26:56,355 Speaker 1: that is euphemistically called CNN Primetime. That's what Ms. Collins is. 387 00:26:56,955 --> 00:26:59,555 Speaker 1: She asked Norman about whether or not he regretted his 388 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:03,355 Speaker 1: infamous text to then Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows 389 00:27:03,395 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty which he urged Meadows to convince Trump 390 00:27:06,675 --> 00:27:09,555 Speaker 1: to declare martial law, but of course he spelled it 391 00:27:09,915 --> 00:27:16,755 Speaker 1: Marshall Mr Shall like Marshall Mathers or General George C. Marshall, 392 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:20,995 Speaker 1: and Norman answered Kitlyn Collins by saying he regretted only 393 00:27:21,315 --> 00:27:25,275 Speaker 1: that he had misspelled it, meaning Ralph Norman is an 394 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:30,475 Speaker 1: unrepentant insurrectionist in twenty twenty four, meaning your next question 395 00:27:30,595 --> 00:27:33,595 Speaker 1: to him has to be why are you an unrepented 396 00:27:33,715 --> 00:27:38,355 Speaker 1: insurrectionist in twenty twenty four unless you're Caitlyn Collins of CNN? 397 00:27:38,955 --> 00:27:41,635 Speaker 1: Or why are you still helping Trump push the lie 398 00:27:41,675 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: that he didn't get his ass kicked in the twenty 399 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:46,635 Speaker 1: twenty election? We're better at Your next question should be rhetorical, 400 00:27:46,995 --> 00:27:51,555 Speaker 1: Why did we bring this anti democracy, Unamerican bastard onto 401 00:27:51,675 --> 00:27:55,795 Speaker 1: my show? I'll be right back. Ralph Norman won't now 402 00:27:55,875 --> 00:28:01,355 Speaker 1: this commercial unless you're CNN. But our winners the worst 403 00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:05,675 Speaker 1: Greg Guttfeld, who Fox has designated as it's comedian even 404 00:28:05,715 --> 00:28:08,195 Speaker 1: though there is no empirical evidence that he has ever 405 00:28:08,235 --> 00:28:11,635 Speaker 1: been funny for even two consecutive minutes in his life. 406 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:17,115 Speaker 1: And Lee Zelden, the whackdoodle combover ex congressman who got 407 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:20,315 Speaker 1: smoked by an unelected Democrat in the last New York 408 00:28:20,315 --> 00:28:24,395 Speaker 1: State governor's race. And Gutterfield, and remember that the z 409 00:28:24,715 --> 00:28:28,595 Speaker 1: in Zelden stands for a last and this functionally illiterate 410 00:28:28,795 --> 00:28:36,235 Speaker 1: x boxer Fox puts on tybus typhoid Tyris in one 411 00:28:36,235 --> 00:28:40,555 Speaker 1: of the daily Fox attacks on Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 412 00:28:40,555 --> 00:28:45,235 Speaker 1: because she's I don't know she's president or she's eleven senators. 413 00:28:45,795 --> 00:28:47,515 Speaker 1: I'm not sure why they talk about her all the 414 00:28:47,555 --> 00:28:51,115 Speaker 1: time in any event. This time, when they talked about them, 415 00:28:51,475 --> 00:28:54,555 Speaker 1: the three of them decided that what is known now 416 00:28:54,675 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: as the R word, a very negative epithet for the 417 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:01,955 Speaker 1: mentally challenged, that is now okay to say on television 418 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:05,195 Speaker 1: and ex Congress and Lee Zelden said it. 419 00:29:05,315 --> 00:29:08,995 Speaker 5: You're going after me because dot dot dot whatever demographic 420 00:29:09,075 --> 00:29:11,875 Speaker 5: biographical information she wants to throw out. No, it's because 421 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,835 Speaker 5: the argument that you're making every day, all the time 422 00:29:15,115 --> 00:29:16,435 Speaker 5: is just too often retarded. 423 00:29:16,715 --> 00:29:20,715 Speaker 1: Yeah, you can say that now, it's okay. You can 424 00:29:20,755 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 1: say that. Now, wait what you can say that word? 425 00:29:23,395 --> 00:29:27,115 Speaker 1: Don't play with me on my favorite words? Now acceptable, 426 00:29:27,555 --> 00:29:31,195 Speaker 1: it's now acceptable. I met with the associations and they said, yes, 427 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:35,515 Speaker 1: well there it is. The R word is now acceptable. Saith, 428 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:41,915 Speaker 1: Greg gut gut, leave gut gut, gutter, gutter, gutter, trash, 429 00:29:42,515 --> 00:29:48,115 Speaker 1: Greg Gutfeld, Lee Zelden, and Tyrus the Fox brain Trust, gentlemen, 430 00:29:48,275 --> 00:29:51,115 Speaker 1: this note. If the R word is now acceptable. Be 431 00:29:51,155 --> 00:29:53,995 Speaker 1: careful what you have wished for, and please report Monday 432 00:29:54,035 --> 00:29:59,075 Speaker 1: morning to have it tattooed on your foreheads. Two days 433 00:29:59,915 --> 00:30:15,035 Speaker 1: worse person to the number one story on the Countdown 434 00:30:15,035 --> 00:30:18,835 Speaker 1: and Friday's with Thurber. And I don't know when I 435 00:30:19,035 --> 00:30:23,435 Speaker 1: went to Sullivan became my father's favorite Thurber story. I 436 00:30:23,475 --> 00:30:25,915 Speaker 1: suspect it was in the hospital when I was reading 437 00:30:25,915 --> 00:30:28,035 Speaker 1: to him in the last six months of his life. 438 00:30:28,235 --> 00:30:29,875 Speaker 1: I know I read it to him at least half 439 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:33,315 Speaker 1: a dozen times, the first five by his request. The 440 00:30:33,395 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: last time he did not request it, in fact, and 441 00:30:37,195 --> 00:30:40,035 Speaker 1: this is the most perverse kind of compliment I think 442 00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:44,515 Speaker 1: any restriter has ever received. I read this story to him. 443 00:30:44,875 --> 00:30:46,955 Speaker 1: It was the last thing that I read to him. 444 00:30:46,955 --> 00:30:49,115 Speaker 1: In fact, it was the last thing he did on earth, 445 00:30:49,235 --> 00:30:51,795 Speaker 1: was to listen to this story in a state of 446 00:30:51,915 --> 00:30:55,875 Speaker 1: semi consciousness. He waited till the end of it. He 447 00:30:55,915 --> 00:31:01,075 Speaker 1: took one deep, satisfied breath, and he died. I don't 448 00:31:01,115 --> 00:31:03,155 Speaker 1: recommend this, but I think it does speak to the 449 00:31:03,235 --> 00:31:08,035 Speaker 1: quality of the writing. I went to Sullivant by James Thurber. 450 00:31:09,995 --> 00:31:13,035 Speaker 1: I was reminded the other morning by what I don't remember, 451 00:31:13,075 --> 00:31:16,315 Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter of a crisp September morning last year, 452 00:31:16,355 --> 00:31:18,715 Speaker 1: when I went to the Grand Central to see a 453 00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:21,995 Speaker 1: little boy of ten get excitedly on a special coach 454 00:31:22,075 --> 00:31:25,155 Speaker 1: that was to take him to a boys' school somewhere 455 00:31:25,195 --> 00:31:28,555 Speaker 1: north of Boston. He had never been away to school before. 456 00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:32,955 Speaker 1: The coach was squirming with youngsters. You could tell after 457 00:31:32,995 --> 00:31:36,835 Speaker 1: a while the novitiates shining and tremulous, and a little 458 00:31:36,835 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: odd from the more aloof boys who had been away 459 00:31:39,995 --> 00:31:43,315 Speaker 1: to school before. But they were very much alike at 460 00:31:43,395 --> 00:31:46,955 Speaker 1: first glance. There was for me, in case you thought 461 00:31:46,955 --> 00:31:49,675 Speaker 1: I was leading up to that, no sharp feeling of 462 00:31:49,955 --> 00:31:53,795 Speaker 1: old lost years in the tense atmosphere of that coach. 463 00:31:53,835 --> 00:31:56,075 Speaker 1: Because I never went away to a private school. When 464 00:31:56,075 --> 00:31:59,595 Speaker 1: I was a little boy. I went to Sullivant School 465 00:31:59,675 --> 00:32:02,555 Speaker 1: in Columbus. I thought about it as I walked back 466 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:07,315 Speaker 1: to my hotel. Was an ordinary public school, and yet 467 00:32:07,355 --> 00:32:10,195 Speaker 1: it was not like any other I have ever known of. 468 00:32:11,155 --> 00:32:14,595 Speaker 1: In seeking an adjective to describe the Sullivant School of 469 00:32:14,635 --> 00:32:17,595 Speaker 1: my years nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and eight, I 470 00:32:17,595 --> 00:32:23,635 Speaker 1: can only think of tough. Sullivant School was tough. The 471 00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: boys of Sullivant came mostly from the region around Central Market, 472 00:32:27,315 --> 00:32:31,035 Speaker 1: a poorish district with many families of the laboring class. 473 00:32:31,835 --> 00:32:34,195 Speaker 1: The school district also included a number of homes of 474 00:32:34,235 --> 00:32:36,435 Speaker 1: the upper classes, because at the turn of the century 475 00:32:36,715 --> 00:32:40,355 Speaker 1: one or two old residential streets still lingered near the 476 00:32:40,355 --> 00:32:43,835 Speaker 1: shouting and rumbling of the market, reluctant to surrender their 477 00:32:43,915 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: fine old houses to the encroaching rabble of commerce and 478 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:52,515 Speaker 1: become as a last they now have more vulgar business streets. 479 00:32:53,955 --> 00:32:57,955 Speaker 1: I remember always first of all, the Sullivant baseball team. 480 00:32:58,675 --> 00:33:01,395 Speaker 1: Most grammar school baseball teams are made up of boys 481 00:33:01,395 --> 00:33:03,155 Speaker 1: in the seventh and eighth grades, or they were in 482 00:33:03,195 --> 00:33:06,995 Speaker 1: my day, but with it was different. Several of its 483 00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: best players were in the fourth grade, known to the 484 00:33:10,035 --> 00:33:14,115 Speaker 1: teachers of the school as the terrible fourth. In that 485 00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:23,035 Speaker 1: grade you first encountered fractions and long division, and many 486 00:33:23,115 --> 00:33:28,835 Speaker 1: pupils lodged there for years, like logs in a brook. 487 00:33:30,275 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 1: Some of the more able baseball players have been in 488 00:33:32,555 --> 00:33:36,795 Speaker 1: the fourth grade for seven or eight years. Then, too, 489 00:33:36,835 --> 00:33:39,195 Speaker 1: there were a number of boys who had not been 490 00:33:39,235 --> 00:33:41,675 Speaker 1: in the class past the normal time, but were nevertheless 491 00:33:41,715 --> 00:33:46,155 Speaker 1: deep into their teens they had avoided starting to school 492 00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:49,595 Speaker 1: by eluding the truant officer until they were ready to 493 00:33:49,595 --> 00:33:52,315 Speaker 1: go into long pants, but he always got them in 494 00:33:52,315 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: the end. One or two of these fourth graders were 495 00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen years old, but the dean of the 496 00:33:59,235 --> 00:34:03,075 Speaker 1: squad was a tall, husky young man of twenty two 497 00:34:03,795 --> 00:34:06,555 Speaker 1: who was in the film fifth grade. The teachers of 498 00:34:06,595 --> 00:34:08,515 Speaker 1: the third and fourth had got tired of having him 499 00:34:08,555 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: around as the years rolled along and had pushed him on. 500 00:34:12,195 --> 00:34:16,875 Speaker 1: His name was Dana Waaney, and he had a mustache. 501 00:34:17,515 --> 00:34:19,995 Speaker 1: Don't ask me why his parents allowed him to stay 502 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:23,075 Speaker 1: in school so long. There were many mysteries at Sullivant 503 00:34:23,315 --> 00:34:25,955 Speaker 1: that were never cleared up. All I know is why 504 00:34:26,035 --> 00:34:28,835 Speaker 1: he kept on in school and didn't go to work. 505 00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:33,075 Speaker 1: He liked playing on the baseball team, and he had 506 00:34:33,075 --> 00:34:35,595 Speaker 1: a pretty easy time in class because the teachers had 507 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:38,955 Speaker 1: given up asking him any questions at all years before. 508 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:43,075 Speaker 1: The story was that he had answered but one question 509 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:45,675 Speaker 1: in the seventeen years he had been going to classes 510 00:34:45,715 --> 00:34:49,555 Speaker 1: at Sullivant, and that was what is one use of 511 00:34:49,635 --> 00:34:55,955 Speaker 1: the comma? The kami, said Dana embarrassingly, unsnarling his long 512 00:34:56,075 --> 00:34:58,715 Speaker 1: legs from beneath a desk much too low for him, 513 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:03,195 Speaker 1: is used to shoot marbles with Commi's was our word 514 00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:05,355 Speaker 1: for those cheap ten for a scent at marbles in 515 00:35:05,395 --> 00:35:09,675 Speaker 1: case it wasn't yours. The Sulibant School baseball team of 516 00:35:09,755 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: nineteen hundred and five defeated several high school teams in 517 00:35:13,675 --> 00:35:16,555 Speaker 1: the city and claimed the high school championship of the state, 518 00:35:16,595 --> 00:35:19,115 Speaker 1: to which title it had, of course, no technical right. 519 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:22,995 Speaker 1: I believe the boys could have proved their moral right 520 00:35:23,035 --> 00:35:25,635 Speaker 1: to the championship, however, if they had been allowed to 521 00:35:25,635 --> 00:35:28,715 Speaker 1: go out of town and play all the teams they challenged, 522 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:32,595 Speaker 1: such as the powerful Dayton and Toledo Nines. But their 523 00:35:32,675 --> 00:35:36,355 Speaker 1: road season was called off after a terrific fight that 524 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:42,595 Speaker 1: occurred during one game at Mount Stirling or Picquah or Xenia, 525 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:47,755 Speaker 1: I can't remember which. Our first baseman, Dana Whaney, crowned 526 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:51,475 Speaker 1: the umpire with a bat during an altercation overcalled strike 527 00:35:51,515 --> 00:35:54,275 Speaker 1: and the fight was on. It took place in the 528 00:35:54,355 --> 00:35:56,235 Speaker 1: fourth inning, so of course the game was never finished. 529 00:35:56,715 --> 00:35:59,475 Speaker 1: The battle continued on down into the business section of 530 00:35:59,515 --> 00:36:03,155 Speaker 1: the town and raged for hours with much destruction of property. 531 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:07,315 Speaker 1: But since was ahead of the time, seventeen to nothing. 532 00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:10,035 Speaker 1: There could have been no doubt as to the outcome. 533 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: Nobody was killed. All of us boys were sure our 534 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: team could have beaten Ohio State University that year, but 535 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:23,315 Speaker 1: they wouldn't play us. They were scared. Wayney was by 536 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:25,795 Speaker 1: no means the biggest or toughest guy on the Grammar 537 00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:28,395 Speaker 1: School team. He was merely the oldest, being about a 538 00:36:28,515 --> 00:36:32,675 Speaker 1: year the senior of Floyd, the center fielder who could 539 00:36:32,755 --> 00:36:34,955 Speaker 1: jump five feet straight into the air without taking a 540 00:36:34,995 --> 00:36:39,675 Speaker 1: running start. Nobody knew, not even the Board of Education, 541 00:36:39,755 --> 00:36:44,035 Speaker 1: which once tried to find out whether Floyd was Floyd's 542 00:36:44,475 --> 00:36:51,075 Speaker 1: first name or his last name. He apparently only had one. 543 00:36:51,195 --> 00:36:54,355 Speaker 1: He didn't have any parents, and nobody, including himself, seemed 544 00:36:54,355 --> 00:36:57,595 Speaker 1: to know where he lived. When teachers insisted that he 545 00:36:57,675 --> 00:36:59,595 Speaker 1: must have another name to go with Floyd, he would 546 00:36:59,595 --> 00:37:03,955 Speaker 1: grow sullen and ominous, and they would cease questioning him 547 00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: because he was a dangerous scholar in his schoolroom brawl, 548 00:37:07,835 --> 00:37:10,555 Speaker 1: as mister Harrigan the janitor found out one morning when 549 00:37:10,555 --> 00:37:14,115 Speaker 1: he was called in by a screaming teacher. All our 550 00:37:14,195 --> 00:37:17,955 Speaker 1: teachers were women to get Floyd under control after she 551 00:37:18,075 --> 00:37:21,275 Speaker 1: had tried to whip him, and he had begun to 552 00:37:21,435 --> 00:37:26,955 Speaker 1: take the room apart, beginning with the desks. Floyd broke 553 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:29,795 Speaker 1: into small pieces the switch she had used on him. 554 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: Some said he also ate it. I don't know, because 555 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: I was home sick at the time with mumps or something. 556 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: Harrigan was a burly, iron muscle janitor, a man come 557 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:43,795 Speaker 1: from a long line of coal shovelers, but he was 558 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:46,315 Speaker 1: no match for Floyd, who had to be sure the 559 00:37:46,355 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: considerable advantage of being more aroused than mister Harrigan. When 560 00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:53,195 Speaker 1: their fight started, Floyd had him down and was sitting 561 00:37:53,195 --> 00:37:55,235 Speaker 1: on his chest in no time, and Harrigan had to 562 00:37:55,235 --> 00:37:57,635 Speaker 1: promise to be good and to say that's what I 563 00:37:57,715 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: get ten times before Floyd would let him up. I 564 00:38:03,195 --> 00:38:06,835 Speaker 1: don't suppose I would ever got through Sullivant School alive 565 00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:10,235 Speaker 1: if it hadn't been for Floyd. For some reason, he 566 00:38:10,275 --> 00:38:14,795 Speaker 1: appointed himself my protector, and I needed one. If Floyd 567 00:38:14,955 --> 00:38:17,115 Speaker 1: was known to be on your side, nobody in the 568 00:38:17,155 --> 00:38:20,315 Speaker 1: school would dare be after you and chase you home. 569 00:38:20,795 --> 00:38:23,075 Speaker 1: I was one of the ten or fifteen male pupils 570 00:38:23,115 --> 00:38:27,555 Speaker 1: in Sullivant School who always or almost always knew their lessons, 571 00:38:28,035 --> 00:38:30,955 Speaker 1: and I believe Floyd admired the mental prowess of a 572 00:38:30,995 --> 00:38:34,515 Speaker 1: youngster who knew how many continents there were and whether 573 00:38:34,595 --> 00:38:38,755 Speaker 1: or not the sun was inhabited. Also, one time, when 574 00:38:38,835 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 1: it came to be my turn to read to the class, 575 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:45,115 Speaker 1: we used to take turns reading American history aloud, I 576 00:38:45,155 --> 00:38:48,955 Speaker 1: came across the word ducane and knew how to pronounce it. 577 00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:54,115 Speaker 1: That charmed Floyd, who had been slouched in his seat 578 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:57,595 Speaker 1: idly following the printed page of his worn and penciled textbook. 579 00:38:58,675 --> 00:39:01,835 Speaker 1: How you know that was ducaine, boy, he asked me 580 00:39:01,915 --> 00:39:05,715 Speaker 1: after class. I don't know, I said, I just knew it. 581 00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:09,795 Speaker 1: He looked at me with round eyes. Oh that's something 582 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:13,195 Speaker 1: he said. After that word got around that Floyd would 583 00:39:13,195 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: beat the tar out of anybody that messed around with me. 584 00:39:16,875 --> 00:39:18,995 Speaker 1: I wore glasses from the time I was eight, and 585 00:39:19,075 --> 00:39:21,235 Speaker 1: I knew my lessons, and both of those things were 586 00:39:21,235 --> 00:39:26,435 Speaker 1: considered pretty terrible at Sullivan. Floyd had one idiosyncrasy though. 587 00:39:26,715 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 1: In the early nineteen hundred's, long, warm, furry gloves that 588 00:39:30,595 --> 00:39:34,355 Speaker 1: came almost to your elbows were popular with boys, and 589 00:39:34,475 --> 00:39:37,955 Speaker 1: Floyd had one of the biggest pears in school. He 590 00:39:38,115 --> 00:39:42,875 Speaker 1: wore them the year round. Dick Peterson was an either 591 00:39:43,155 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: greater figure on the baseball team and in the school 592 00:39:45,315 --> 00:39:47,915 Speaker 1: than Floyd was. He had a way in the classroom 593 00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:56,235 Speaker 1: of blurting out a long, deep, rolling be for no 594 00:39:56,395 --> 00:40:00,195 Speaker 1: reason at all. Once he licked three boys his own 595 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:03,915 Speaker 1: size single handed, really single handed, for he fought with 596 00:40:03,955 --> 00:40:07,115 Speaker 1: his right hand and held a mandolin in his left 597 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:11,915 Speaker 1: hand all the time. It came out uninjured. Dick and 598 00:40:11,995 --> 00:40:15,235 Speaker 1: Floyd never met in mortal combats, so nobody ever knew 599 00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:18,675 Speaker 1: which one could beat, and the scholars were about evenly 600 00:40:18,715 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: divided in their opinions. Many a fight started among them 601 00:40:22,435 --> 00:40:25,755 Speaker 1: after school when the argument came up. I think school 602 00:40:25,795 --> 00:40:28,915 Speaker 1: never let out at Sullivan without at least one fight 603 00:40:28,955 --> 00:40:30,875 Speaker 1: starting up, And sometimes there were as many as five 604 00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:33,275 Speaker 1: or six raging between the corner of Oak and sixth 605 00:40:33,315 --> 00:40:36,155 Speaker 1: Streets and the corner of Rich and Fourth Streets four 606 00:40:36,195 --> 00:40:41,315 Speaker 1: blocks away. Now and again, virtually the whole school turned 607 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:44,035 Speaker 1: out to fight the Catholic boys of the Holy Cross 608 00:40:44,075 --> 00:40:48,475 Speaker 1: Academy in Fifth Street near town for no reason at all. 609 00:40:49,035 --> 00:40:52,275 Speaker 1: In winter with snowballs and ice balls, in other seasons 610 00:40:52,315 --> 00:40:56,675 Speaker 1: with fists, brick bats, and clubs. Dick Peterson was always 611 00:40:56,675 --> 00:41:02,475 Speaker 1: in the van, yelling, singing, being whirling all the way 612 00:41:02,515 --> 00:41:04,155 Speaker 1: around when he swung with his right, or if he 613 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: hadn't brought a mandolin his left and missed. He made 614 00:41:08,355 --> 00:41:10,635 Speaker 1: himself the pitcher on the baseball team because he was 615 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:14,195 Speaker 1: the captain. He was the captain because everybody else was 616 00:41:14,235 --> 00:41:19,155 Speaker 1: afraid to challenge his self election except Floyd. Floyd was 617 00:41:19,155 --> 00:41:21,275 Speaker 1: too lazy to pitch, and he didn't care who was 618 00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:24,915 Speaker 1: captain because he didn't fully uncomprehend what that meant. On 619 00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:29,635 Speaker 1: one occasion, when Earl Baddock, a steamfitter's son, had shut 620 00:41:29,635 --> 00:41:32,275 Speaker 1: out Mound Street School for six innings without a hit, 621 00:41:32,675 --> 00:41:35,075 Speaker 1: Dick took him out of the pitcher's box and went 622 00:41:35,155 --> 00:41:38,835 Speaker 1: in himself. He was hit hard, and the other team scored, 623 00:41:38,835 --> 00:41:41,035 Speaker 1: but it didn't make much difference because the margin of 624 00:41:41,075 --> 00:41:44,955 Speaker 1: Sullivant's victory was so great. The team didn't lose a 625 00:41:44,995 --> 00:41:49,475 Speaker 1: game for five years to another grammar school. When Dick 626 00:41:49,555 --> 00:41:52,235 Speaker 1: Peterson was in the sixth grade, he got into a 627 00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:58,115 Speaker 1: saloon brawl and was killed. When I go back to Columbus, 628 00:41:58,155 --> 00:42:01,155 Speaker 1: I always walked past Sullivant's school, and I have never 629 00:42:01,195 --> 00:42:03,475 Speaker 1: happened to get there. When classes were letting out, so 630 00:42:03,515 --> 00:42:06,395 Speaker 1: I don't know what the pupils are like now. I 631 00:42:06,435 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 1: am sure there are no more Dick Peterson's and no 632 00:42:09,515 --> 00:42:15,115 Speaker 1: more Floyd's, unless Floyd is still going to school there. 633 00:42:16,515 --> 00:42:19,795 Speaker 1: The playyard is still entirely bare of grass and covered 634 00:42:19,835 --> 00:42:22,715 Speaker 1: with gravel, and the sycamore still lined the curb between 635 00:42:22,715 --> 00:42:26,075 Speaker 1: the schoolhouse fence and the Oak Street car line. A 636 00:42:26,155 --> 00:42:29,155 Speaker 1: street car line running past a schoolhouse is a dangerous 637 00:42:29,155 --> 00:42:31,475 Speaker 1: thing as a rule, but I remember no one being 638 00:42:31,515 --> 00:42:35,075 Speaker 1: injured while I was attending Sullivan. I do remember, however, 639 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:38,155 Speaker 1: one person who came very near being injured. He was 640 00:42:38,195 --> 00:42:42,195 Speaker 1: a motorman on the Oak Street line, and once when 641 00:42:42,195 --> 00:42:44,515 Speaker 1: his car stopped at the corner of six to let 642 00:42:44,555 --> 00:42:47,835 Speaker 1: off passengers, he yelled at Cheudy Davidson, who played third 643 00:42:47,835 --> 00:42:49,275 Speaker 1: base on the ball team and was a member of 644 00:42:49,315 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: the Terrible Fourth, to get out of the way. Cheudy 645 00:42:52,635 --> 00:42:55,795 Speaker 1: was fourteen years old but huge for his age, and 646 00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:58,475 Speaker 1: he was standing on the tracks taking a chew of tobacco. 647 00:43:00,155 --> 00:43:01,995 Speaker 1: Come on down off of that car and I'll not 648 00:43:02,115 --> 00:43:05,515 Speaker 1: get blocked off, said Choudy in what I can only 649 00:43:05,515 --> 00:43:09,795 Speaker 1: describe as a sullivant tone of voice. The motorman waited 650 00:43:09,875 --> 00:43:13,475 Speaker 1: until shoot. He moved slowly off the tracks. Then he 651 00:43:13,515 --> 00:43:16,635 Speaker 1: went on about his business. I think it was lucky 652 00:43:16,675 --> 00:43:22,835 Speaker 1: for him that he did. There were boys in those days. 653 00:43:23,875 --> 00:43:40,555 Speaker 1: I went to Sullivant by James Thurber. I've done all 654 00:43:40,595 --> 00:43:42,995 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. 655 00:43:43,075 --> 00:43:46,355 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle arranged, produced, 656 00:43:46,355 --> 00:43:49,755 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars, 657 00:43:49,795 --> 00:43:53,475 Speaker 1: bass and drums, Mister Shanelle handled orchestration in keyboards, and 658 00:43:53,515 --> 00:43:57,275 Speaker 1: the music was produced by TKO Brothers and TKO Brothers 659 00:43:57,355 --> 00:44:01,355 Speaker 1: or Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle and me. I'm 660 00:44:01,355 --> 00:44:04,355 Speaker 1: a music producer. Other music, including some of the Beethoven 661 00:44:04,355 --> 00:44:07,515 Speaker 1: compass posicians, arranged and performed by the group No Horns 662 00:44:07,555 --> 00:44:11,155 Speaker 1: Allowed Sports Music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 663 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:14,315 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of the SPN Inc. 664 00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:17,555 Speaker 1: By the way the Thurber story I went to Sullivant. 665 00:44:17,795 --> 00:44:20,275 Speaker 1: A guy has fact checked that story, and it seems 666 00:44:20,315 --> 00:44:22,995 Speaker 1: to be that there were students who were in the 667 00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:25,675 Speaker 1: fourth grade at Sullivant around the turn of the nineteenth 668 00:44:25,675 --> 00:44:29,275 Speaker 1: and twentieth century who were there for at least five 669 00:44:29,395 --> 00:44:32,755 Speaker 1: years in the fourth grade. There were teenagers in the 670 00:44:32,795 --> 00:44:36,875 Speaker 1: fourth grade at Sullivan. How much Thurber may have exaggerated 671 00:44:36,915 --> 00:44:41,395 Speaker 1: reality has not been determined by the historical record. Any who. 672 00:44:41,755 --> 00:44:44,755 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, 673 00:44:44,755 --> 00:44:48,035 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. My announcer today was 674 00:44:48,035 --> 00:44:50,755 Speaker 1: my friend Howard Feineman, and everything else was pretty much 675 00:44:50,835 --> 00:44:53,395 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this the two hundred 676 00:44:53,435 --> 00:44:56,075 Speaker 1: and eighty fifth day until the twenty twenty four US 677 00:44:56,075 --> 00:44:59,915 Speaker 1: presidential election, and the one one hundred and sixteenth day 678 00:45:00,235 --> 00:45:03,835 Speaker 1: since dementia J. Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 679 00:45:03,835 --> 00:45:07,595 Speaker 1: elected government the United States. Use the fourteenth Amendment, use 680 00:45:07,635 --> 00:45:11,555 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental 681 00:45:11,595 --> 00:45:15,395 Speaker 1: health system to stop him from doing it again while 682 00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:19,835 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletin 683 00:45:19,875 --> 00:45:23,155 Speaker 1: says the news warrants to land on Keith Alderman, good Morning, 684 00:45:23,195 --> 00:45:47,795 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 685 00:45:47,795 --> 00:45:52,875 Speaker 1: Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 686 00:45:53,035 --> 00:45:57,035 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 687 00:45:57,075 --> 00:45:57,995 Speaker 1: your podcasts.