1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. There 2 00:00:21,995 --> 00:00:25,315 Speaker 1: is no question now that Clarence Thomas has broken the law. 3 00:00:26,035 --> 00:00:29,795 Speaker 1: Letting him continue to degrade the Supreme Court. He is indefensible. 4 00:00:29,875 --> 00:00:32,475 Speaker 1: We need to see him in a courtroom, not in 5 00:00:32,515 --> 00:00:35,395 Speaker 1: the robes he has figuratively soiled, but in a suit 6 00:00:36,115 --> 00:00:39,995 Speaker 1: at the defense table. He is a criminal. He is 7 00:00:40,595 --> 00:00:45,875 Speaker 1: a political prostitute. Quoting state tax and property documents pro 8 00:00:45,995 --> 00:00:49,795 Speaker 1: publica our reports and the buyer confirms that in October 9 00:00:49,875 --> 00:00:53,955 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Clarence Thomas sold his mother's home in Savannah, 10 00:00:53,955 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: Georgia to a company owned by the same Texas billionaire 11 00:00:58,075 --> 00:01:02,435 Speaker 1: Hitler standing submitting to the Supreme Court distributor of corruption, 12 00:01:02,555 --> 00:01:06,995 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe, the how and two nearby empty lots for 13 00:01:07,075 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three thousand dollars, and Crowe promptly 14 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: made tens of thousands of dollars worth of improvements to 15 00:01:13,195 --> 00:01:15,755 Speaker 1: the building, and he made a statement saying all this 16 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: is true. He bought Thomas's mother's home in order to 17 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:22,195 Speaker 1: turn it into a museum, and eight and a half 18 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:25,635 Speaker 1: years later the only exhibit in this museum is Thomas's 19 00:01:25,675 --> 00:01:28,595 Speaker 1: mother and if it is a museum, it's the Clarence 20 00:01:28,635 --> 00:01:32,555 Speaker 1: Thomas Museum of Crime. Because Clarence Thomas never disclosed any 21 00:01:32,595 --> 00:01:36,555 Speaker 1: of this in clear violation of the statutes requiring justices 22 00:01:36,675 --> 00:01:40,435 Speaker 1: and other officials to file documents relating to almost every 23 00:01:40,515 --> 00:01:43,035 Speaker 1: real estate sale worth more than a thousand dollars. And 24 00:01:43,075 --> 00:01:45,315 Speaker 1: if you fail to do that, as Clarence Thomas has 25 00:01:45,355 --> 00:01:48,795 Speaker 1: failed to do that, under Code section five USC one 26 00:01:48,915 --> 00:01:51,275 Speaker 1: three one oh four, you can be fined, and in 27 00:01:51,315 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: some cases you can be sent to jail for up 28 00:01:53,835 --> 00:02:01,835 Speaker 1: to a year. October two, fourteen and Clarence Thomas's signature 29 00:02:02,035 --> 00:02:04,995 Speaker 1: is on the paperwork of the sale, and he had 30 00:02:05,035 --> 00:02:10,515 Speaker 1: a Supreme Court administrator notarize it, and he still hasn't 31 00:02:10,555 --> 00:02:13,475 Speaker 1: reported the sale in Savannah, and he still hasn't amended 32 00:02:13,475 --> 00:02:16,635 Speaker 1: his twenty fourteen disclosure form to include the sale. And 33 00:02:16,715 --> 00:02:19,795 Speaker 1: as pro Public have put it, quote, the disclosure form 34 00:02:19,875 --> 00:02:22,115 Speaker 1: Thomas filed for that year also had a space to 35 00:02:22,155 --> 00:02:26,875 Speaker 1: report the identity of the buyer in any private transaction 36 00:02:27,235 --> 00:02:33,755 Speaker 1: such as a real estate deal. That space is blank unquote, 37 00:02:34,955 --> 00:02:39,275 Speaker 1: as blank as Clarence Thomas's ethics, or his conscience, or 38 00:02:39,355 --> 00:02:44,955 Speaker 1: his respect for the law Wells, this lunatic Crow's explanation 39 00:02:45,075 --> 00:02:48,595 Speaker 1: is wildly unbelievable. Quote. My intention is to one day 40 00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:52,515 Speaker 1: create a public museum at the Thomas Home dedicated to 41 00:02:52,515 --> 00:02:56,795 Speaker 1: telling the story of our nation's second black Supreme Court justice, 42 00:02:56,835 --> 00:03:00,075 Speaker 1: which I guess could happen if Thomas's mother weren't still 43 00:03:00,115 --> 00:03:03,315 Speaker 1: living there, and if the first thing that Crowe did 44 00:03:03,355 --> 00:03:05,955 Speaker 1: to the place had not been to build a car port. 45 00:03:07,395 --> 00:03:10,635 Speaker 1: Improvements were also made to the Thomas property, Crow explained, 46 00:03:10,875 --> 00:03:15,475 Speaker 1: to preserve its long term viability and accessibility to the public, 47 00:03:15,755 --> 00:03:20,795 Speaker 1: like a car port. Every good museum needs a car port. 48 00:03:23,595 --> 00:03:27,755 Speaker 1: Harland Crowe, the guy regularly doling out vacations to Clarence 49 00:03:27,755 --> 00:03:30,115 Speaker 1: and Jenny Thomas worth half a million dollars, The guy 50 00:03:30,115 --> 00:03:33,275 Speaker 1: who apparently does live in a museum, only it's a 51 00:03:33,355 --> 00:03:37,035 Speaker 1: museum for people who want to see paintings Hitler did, 52 00:03:37,075 --> 00:03:40,155 Speaker 1: and the tea pot Hitler made, tea in and the 53 00:03:40,235 --> 00:03:44,555 Speaker 1: Lenin's Hitler used. Harland Crowe says he paid full market 54 00:03:44,635 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: value for the Thomas Home, and no, he didn't provide 55 00:03:47,435 --> 00:03:49,995 Speaker 1: any documents to verify that. We'll just have to take 56 00:03:50,115 --> 00:03:53,675 Speaker 1: his word for it. Oh and when pro publica broke 57 00:03:53,715 --> 00:03:57,915 Speaker 1: the original Harland Crow vacation and statues and private jet 58 00:03:57,915 --> 00:04:02,035 Speaker 1: trip stories. Just a week ago. It knew nothing of this, 59 00:04:03,115 --> 00:04:05,755 Speaker 1: So we have no idea if the ruption goes further 60 00:04:05,835 --> 00:04:10,835 Speaker 1: than this. It has gone far enough. Clarence Thomas must 61 00:04:10,875 --> 00:04:14,435 Speaker 1: resign from the Supreme Court, and if he refuses, five USC. 62 00:04:14,555 --> 00:04:17,435 Speaker 1: One three one oh six should be invoked. And the 63 00:04:17,435 --> 00:04:20,395 Speaker 1: head of the Traditional Conference should refer this case to 64 00:04:20,435 --> 00:04:23,955 Speaker 1: the Attorney General, and he has to prosecute Clarence Thomas. 65 00:04:24,035 --> 00:04:25,675 Speaker 1: And I don't care if he's still sitting there in 66 00:04:25,715 --> 00:04:29,515 Speaker 1: the robes claiming he is the Supreme Court justice. The 67 00:04:29,595 --> 00:04:32,755 Speaker 1: man is a crook, the man is a whore. The 68 00:04:32,835 --> 00:04:35,315 Speaker 1: man is the definition of everything a Supreme Court justice 69 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:40,755 Speaker 1: should not be, cannot be, must not be. And Clarence 70 00:04:40,795 --> 00:04:44,275 Speaker 1: Thomas has been at the center of the culture of 71 00:04:44,395 --> 00:04:48,995 Speaker 1: corruption of the Supreme Court, ranging from Neil Gorsuch's web 72 00:04:49,115 --> 00:04:51,915 Speaker 1: of ties, as The New York Times put it, to 73 00:04:51,995 --> 00:04:55,955 Speaker 1: the Colorado billionaire and Federalist Society funder Philip Anschutz, to 74 00:04:56,115 --> 00:04:59,915 Speaker 1: the stock shares John Roberts owned or had owned in 75 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:03,715 Speaker 1: two companies as he ruled on cases involving them, to 76 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:07,235 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's own one and a half million dollar book deal, 77 00:05:07,595 --> 00:05:10,675 Speaker 1: to Amy Coney Barrett's two million dollar book deal, to 78 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:14,355 Speaker 1: Sonya Sotomayor's three million dollar book deal. And as the 79 00:05:14,395 --> 00:05:17,675 Speaker 1: money spirals up and up and the ethics spiral down 80 00:05:17,755 --> 00:05:21,635 Speaker 1: and down, we are ruled over by an unelected elite 81 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:26,275 Speaker 1: with lifetime appointments, and suddenly the potential for countless multimillion 82 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:30,035 Speaker 1: dollar revenue streams and nothing holding them back from greed 83 00:05:30,315 --> 00:05:33,355 Speaker 1: and avarice and corruption except their own mortality. And we 84 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:37,115 Speaker 1: better fix this goddamn fast, and we're gonna need a 85 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:40,595 Speaker 1: lot of luck. Astonishing, wrote the Chairman of the Senate 86 00:05:40,635 --> 00:05:43,635 Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee yesterday, Dick Durbin, to the news of the 87 00:05:43,675 --> 00:05:48,595 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas My Mother the Museum story. The Chief Justice 88 00:05:48,675 --> 00:05:51,315 Speaker 1: must investigate how such conduct could take place at the 89 00:05:51,355 --> 00:05:53,915 Speaker 1: Court under his watch. And if the Court does not 90 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 1: fix these clear abuses, Congress must. Yes, Senator Derby, you 91 00:05:59,595 --> 00:06:02,955 Speaker 1: don't have to know anybody in Congress, do you, Because 92 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:06,555 Speaker 1: it's clear the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is 93 00:06:06,555 --> 00:06:13,675 Speaker 1: just going to sit there on his hands. One speck 94 00:06:13,835 --> 00:06:19,835 Speaker 1: of comic relief in this courtesy Liz Charbonneau, Vice president 95 00:06:20,515 --> 00:06:26,475 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party's advocacy arm American Bridge. Quote. Actually 96 00:06:26,995 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: Harland Crowe collects property from Supreme Court justices just to 97 00:06:30,915 --> 00:06:38,795 Speaker 1: remind him of the evil they perpetrated. Oh, and what 98 00:06:39,035 --> 00:06:43,995 Speaker 1: is this secret real estate transaction? Theme week? As the 99 00:06:44,075 --> 00:06:46,835 Speaker 1: vast pit of corruption that is the Tennessee State House 100 00:06:46,915 --> 00:06:50,115 Speaker 1: continues to get hoist on its own petard after the 101 00:06:50,155 --> 00:06:54,515 Speaker 1: failed expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the website 102 00:06:54,595 --> 00:06:59,955 Speaker 1: Popular Information reports that House Speaker Cameron Sexton secretly bought 103 00:06:59,995 --> 00:07:03,355 Speaker 1: a six hundred thousand dollars home in Nashville, Tennessee, hid 104 00:07:03,395 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: the purchase behind to trust, made sure there was an 105 00:07:06,475 --> 00:07:10,035 Speaker 1: illegible signature on the warranty deed. The signature turned out 106 00:07:10,075 --> 00:07:15,795 Speaker 1: to be his wife's. Cameron's wife's name is Lacey Lacey 107 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:24,435 Speaker 1: Sexton Cameron and Lacey Sexton. This is further evidence that 108 00:07:24,515 --> 00:07:27,475 Speaker 1: Speaker Sexton is serving illegally because he's got this house 109 00:07:27,515 --> 00:07:30,915 Speaker 1: in Nashville, but he represents a place called Crossville, which 110 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:34,275 Speaker 1: is two hours away and where he already sold his home, 111 00:07:34,915 --> 00:07:37,355 Speaker 1: but still puts in for tens of thousands of dollars 112 00:07:37,355 --> 00:07:40,355 Speaker 1: worth of per diem for travel that he is evidently 113 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: not making to the district he evidently does not live in. 114 00:07:44,475 --> 00:07:47,715 Speaker 1: And by the way, that spark of humanity from Tennessee's 115 00:07:47,755 --> 00:07:51,675 Speaker 1: governor after the Covenant School shooting there, the strengthened red 116 00:07:51,675 --> 00:07:54,635 Speaker 1: flag laws and background checks before he could buy a gun. 117 00:07:55,955 --> 00:07:58,875 Speaker 1: The first bill in the Tennessee House to enact legislation 118 00:07:58,955 --> 00:08:03,675 Speaker 1: for that has died in committee. Keeper Republican talking long 119 00:08:03,755 --> 00:08:11,395 Speaker 1: enough and he will and ate himself about something, which 120 00:08:11,475 --> 00:08:14,715 Speaker 1: is why the defendant's choice in the deposition before New 121 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: York State Attorney General Letitia James yesterday was such a 122 00:08:18,635 --> 00:08:22,515 Speaker 1: wild one. Trump was in a unique position talk and 123 00:08:22,675 --> 00:08:25,915 Speaker 1: he could prove her fraud case, her claim that he 124 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:32,035 Speaker 1: and Fredo and Junior and Girl Junior overvalued Trump's assets 125 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:35,875 Speaker 1: by billions of dollars. Don't talk about that. Since it 126 00:08:35,995 --> 00:08:39,275 Speaker 1: is a civil suit, his silence could be used against him. 127 00:08:40,115 --> 00:08:43,635 Speaker 1: James is suing for a quarter of a billion, the 128 00:08:43,675 --> 00:08:47,075 Speaker 1: amount she says he illegally made because of that overvaluation. 129 00:08:47,515 --> 00:08:50,315 Speaker 1: She also wants the defendants and all the little defendants 130 00:08:50,915 --> 00:08:53,995 Speaker 1: to be barred from conducting business in New York State. 131 00:08:55,595 --> 00:08:58,235 Speaker 1: The defendant answered every question. He was there from ten 132 00:08:58,275 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: am to six PM, and with an hour off, that's 133 00:09:01,035 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: seven hours of questions, and so hats off to the 134 00:09:03,555 --> 00:09:05,795 Speaker 1: attorneys who had to listen to him talk that long. 135 00:09:05,915 --> 00:09:09,355 Speaker 1: My record since the year twenty sixteen is like three minutes. 136 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:13,675 Speaker 1: There was incidentally, a vast maggot crowd outside the Attorney 137 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:17,955 Speaker 1: General's office here in New York yesterday, four or five people. 138 00:09:18,715 --> 00:09:22,515 Speaker 1: Big banner, though, draped over the scaffolding which blooms here 139 00:09:22,555 --> 00:09:25,875 Speaker 1: in the spring, just like the daffodils. The banner read 140 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:29,835 Speaker 1: Trump or death. One of the guys who put it, 141 00:09:29,875 --> 00:09:35,075 Speaker 1: They're emphasized to reporters quote not my death. As we 142 00:09:35,115 --> 00:09:38,515 Speaker 1: approached that moment in which every case in every courtroom 143 00:09:38,675 --> 00:09:42,195 Speaker 1: is about Trump, his half billion dollars lawsuit against his 144 00:09:42,235 --> 00:09:46,395 Speaker 1: former lawyer Michael Cohen has been assigned to an Obama 145 00:09:46,435 --> 00:09:51,035 Speaker 1: appointee named Judge Darren Gals. The suit is only days old, 146 00:09:51,075 --> 00:09:53,915 Speaker 1: and Judge Gals has already threatened to dismiss it. He 147 00:09:53,955 --> 00:09:56,395 Speaker 1: has notified Trump's lawyers that if they do not start 148 00:09:56,875 --> 00:10:02,315 Speaker 1: double spacing their submissions, he may toss their suit. And 149 00:10:02,515 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: the other New York case, you remember, the one they've 150 00:10:05,515 --> 00:10:09,635 Speaker 1: already arrested him for, is at stasis But on Monday 151 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:12,035 Speaker 1: it will take a political turn. When Jim Jordan brings 152 00:10:12,075 --> 00:10:16,075 Speaker 1: his Green Acres road Show field hearing to Manhattan to 153 00:10:16,235 --> 00:10:19,955 Speaker 1: try to smear Attorney Alvin Bragg on Trump's behalf. The 154 00:10:20,035 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: Democrats plan a counter field hearing, at which they will 155 00:10:23,755 --> 00:10:28,555 Speaker 1: fall head first into the Republican's trap. The editor in 156 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:32,955 Speaker 1: chief of Crooked Media, Brian Boutler, raised this inarguable point yesterday. 157 00:10:33,115 --> 00:10:36,395 Speaker 1: When Jordan and Trump's other lackeys bray which hunt, Why 158 00:10:36,395 --> 00:10:38,555 Speaker 1: aren't you focusing on the street crime here in New 159 00:10:38,595 --> 00:10:41,275 Speaker 1: York City? The Democrats will answer with a flood of 160 00:10:41,315 --> 00:10:44,955 Speaker 1: statistics showing that it's far more dangerous in Jim Jordan's 161 00:10:44,995 --> 00:10:48,875 Speaker 1: hometown or on his wrestling team, and they'll be really 162 00:10:48,915 --> 00:10:52,475 Speaker 1: happy about it, or or when, in fact, their only 163 00:10:52,515 --> 00:10:55,595 Speaker 1: answer should be yeah, about crime in New York. Donald 164 00:10:55,595 --> 00:10:59,475 Speaker 1: Trump is a criminal. That's why he was indicted. That's 165 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:02,195 Speaker 1: what they should start with. Then they should say, that's 166 00:11:02,235 --> 00:11:05,435 Speaker 1: why he was arrested. He's a criminal. Trump's criminal, That's 167 00:11:05,435 --> 00:11:07,675 Speaker 1: why he's being sued by the state. Trump's a criminal. 168 00:11:07,915 --> 00:11:10,875 Speaker 1: That's why his company already lost in court. Trump's a criminal, 169 00:11:11,195 --> 00:11:14,075 Speaker 1: That's why he's being sued for rape. Trump is a criminal. 170 00:11:14,275 --> 00:11:16,875 Speaker 1: That's why there's a special council prepared to indict him 171 00:11:16,955 --> 00:11:20,235 Speaker 1: for espionage, for fundraising fraud for January sixth, for trying 172 00:11:20,235 --> 00:11:23,995 Speaker 1: to overturn the election. Because he is a criminal. Crime 173 00:11:24,035 --> 00:11:28,955 Speaker 1: in New York, its name is Trump. That is what 174 00:11:28,995 --> 00:11:32,315 Speaker 1: the Democrats should say on Monday. Don't play their game 175 00:11:33,075 --> 00:11:37,315 Speaker 1: jiu jitsu them. The story isn't about how many subway 176 00:11:37,395 --> 00:11:39,635 Speaker 1: hold ups there were last month. It's about how many 177 00:11:39,635 --> 00:11:45,515 Speaker 1: times Trump tried to overthrow democracy. And speaking of that, 178 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:49,995 Speaker 1: his former Director of National Lack of Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, 179 00:11:49,995 --> 00:11:52,635 Speaker 1: testified to a Jack Smith grand jury yesterday and the 180 00:11:52,715 --> 00:11:55,995 Speaker 1: loathsome Rick Grennell testified to whichever Jack Smith grand jury 181 00:11:56,475 --> 00:11:59,275 Speaker 1: is probing the classified documents he stole, and the New 182 00:11:59,355 --> 00:12:02,115 Speaker 1: York Times does hit the nail on the head here. 183 00:12:02,395 --> 00:12:06,355 Speaker 1: The point of the Ratcliffe testimony is quote. While questions 184 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:09,235 Speaker 1: linger over pending appeals and potential efforts by some of 185 00:12:09,235 --> 00:12:12,955 Speaker 1: the witnesses to delay things further by invoking the Fifth Amendment, 186 00:12:13,435 --> 00:12:17,035 Speaker 1: the development suggests mister Smith is close to finishing the 187 00:12:17,075 --> 00:12:20,475 Speaker 1: fact finding phase of his work and is moving closer 188 00:12:20,515 --> 00:12:24,155 Speaker 1: to a decision about seeking charges against mister Trump. And 189 00:12:24,315 --> 00:12:29,675 Speaker 1: others unquote, which is virtually exactly what we heard yesterday 190 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:33,115 Speaker 1: about Jack Smith having heard from virtually everybody he could 191 00:12:33,115 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: have heard from about the classified docs. And that reminds 192 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:41,835 Speaker 1: me that there is that supposed final focus of Jack 193 00:12:41,875 --> 00:12:46,315 Speaker 1: Smith's probe on the Marilago documents, the map Trump supposedly 194 00:12:46,355 --> 00:12:49,115 Speaker 1: stole and showed off to somebody on a plane, and 195 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:52,395 Speaker 1: somebody else writing a book, and somebody else making a donation. 196 00:12:52,435 --> 00:12:55,155 Speaker 1: And I knew I'd heard the story somewhere before, and 197 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:59,155 Speaker 1: sure enough, there it is kind of some of all 198 00:12:59,395 --> 00:13:05,835 Speaker 1: fears conflation. From a Tucker Carlson interview from March twenty 199 00:13:05,955 --> 00:13:10,235 Speaker 1: twenty two, and Carlson, who also last night defended the racist, 200 00:13:10,275 --> 00:13:12,995 Speaker 1: anti Semite kid who leaked all the military documents to 201 00:13:13,075 --> 00:13:16,195 Speaker 1: impress his gamer buddies. Carlson called him a whistleblower. Carlson 202 00:13:16,315 --> 00:13:20,075 Speaker 1: is not loyal to this country. In March twenty twenty two, 203 00:13:20,115 --> 00:13:23,155 Speaker 1: Carlson's guests said he was in the White House with 204 00:13:23,235 --> 00:13:26,955 Speaker 1: Trump one day in twenty seventeen when Trump started asking 205 00:13:27,155 --> 00:13:32,155 Speaker 1: him his thoughts on ISIS and North Korea and then 206 00:13:32,475 --> 00:13:37,995 Speaker 1: quoting Carlson's guest, we're looking at maps and bleep. I'm like, 207 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:40,555 Speaker 1: you know, am I supposed to be in on this bleep? 208 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:46,875 Speaker 1: The Carlson guest to whom Trump in twenty seventeen showed 209 00:13:46,875 --> 00:14:00,395 Speaker 1: the presumably classified maps kid Rock check Please. Lastly, since 210 00:14:00,395 --> 00:14:04,035 Speaker 1: the classified Kleptomania story broke, I have been saying it 211 00:14:04,035 --> 00:14:08,115 Speaker 1: will prove are worse than our worst guesses, and so 212 00:14:08,155 --> 00:14:11,595 Speaker 1: as funny as this next detail might sound, by god, 213 00:14:11,755 --> 00:14:15,035 Speaker 1: I actually find myself wondering if this is not a 214 00:14:15,075 --> 00:14:21,955 Speaker 1: wacky coincidence. Victor Boot, the arms dealer resident Biden traded 215 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: to the Kremlin in exchange for the basketball star Poutin 216 00:14:24,555 --> 00:14:28,715 Speaker 1: had taken prisoner Britney Griner. Victor Boot went on Russian 217 00:14:28,715 --> 00:14:31,715 Speaker 1: TV yesterday and said he had sent Trump a telegram 218 00:14:32,595 --> 00:14:35,035 Speaker 1: warning Trump that his life is in danger in New 219 00:14:35,115 --> 00:14:38,035 Speaker 1: York and he should flee to Russia and ask for 220 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:42,155 Speaker 1: political asylum and from there lead. What Boots says is 221 00:14:42,195 --> 00:14:47,075 Speaker 1: the battle against the globalists. And so in conclusion, I 222 00:14:47,195 --> 00:14:51,395 Speaker 1: have only two observations. For yes, this is exactly what 223 00:14:51,435 --> 00:14:56,195 Speaker 1: I've been saying since twenty seventeen to Trump, defect, flee, 224 00:14:56,635 --> 00:15:05,595 Speaker 1: run wattle, do it now. And the second observation is wait, 225 00:15:05,635 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: you can still send a telegram stell ahead. On this 226 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:24,595 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown. They were sure the secrets leak owed 227 00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: to the woke military. Then it turned out the culprit 228 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:31,115 Speaker 1: was a pasty white guy who liked to videotape himself 229 00:15:31,115 --> 00:15:36,275 Speaker 1: shouting anti minority slurs and then shooting guns looking at you, 230 00:15:36,515 --> 00:15:41,115 Speaker 1: Senator Tommy Tubberville. And they were sure the murderer of 231 00:15:41,155 --> 00:15:44,555 Speaker 1: a tech kingpin owed to the liberal destruction of the 232 00:15:44,595 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: city of Sun and Francisco. Then it turned out that 233 00:15:47,795 --> 00:15:54,395 Speaker 1: culprit was another tech kingpin looking at you, Elon Muskrat, 234 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:58,275 Speaker 1: And he is one of the most disreputable people I 235 00:15:58,355 --> 00:16:02,435 Speaker 1: have ever met in television. And guess what, he's the 236 00:16:02,515 --> 00:16:06,715 Speaker 1: new commissioner of the Big ten On Fritz, that's next. 237 00:16:06,755 --> 00:16:29,595 Speaker 1: This cis Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman changing 238 00:16:29,675 --> 00:16:32,515 Speaker 1: up the format today because worst is way better than 239 00:16:32,555 --> 00:16:35,315 Speaker 1: the sports segment. Though the sports world has finally exercised 240 00:16:35,315 --> 00:16:39,395 Speaker 1: one of its worst people Football under Dan Snyder, while 241 00:16:39,395 --> 00:16:42,355 Speaker 1: readmitting one of its other worst people, former TV executive 242 00:16:42,395 --> 00:16:47,675 Speaker 1: Tony Pettiti. It's a Worst Person's Festival, first time for 243 00:16:47,675 --> 00:16:49,795 Speaker 1: the daily round of the Misgreates, Morons and dunning Ruger 244 00:16:49,835 --> 00:16:54,555 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today's official worst persons in the world. 245 00:16:55,995 --> 00:17:00,675 Speaker 1: The bronze Governor Ronda Santis of Florida tweeting a video 246 00:17:00,755 --> 00:17:04,555 Speaker 1: of himself yesterday at Hillsdale College in Michigan and then 247 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:07,475 Speaker 1: stopping off in Ohio and going on this book tour 248 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:09,955 Speaker 1: that is in a book tour for a presidential campaign, 249 00:17:09,995 --> 00:17:13,195 Speaker 1: that is in a presidential campaign. And there's this book 250 00:17:13,275 --> 00:17:15,795 Speaker 1: and nobody's bought the book. All this while one of 251 00:17:15,835 --> 00:17:20,555 Speaker 1: his better cities, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is under freaking water 252 00:17:21,035 --> 00:17:24,715 Speaker 1: after flooding. Hey, Ronda, how about you go back and 253 00:17:24,755 --> 00:17:27,675 Speaker 1: do your raffing job. By the way, that video he 254 00:17:27,715 --> 00:17:30,635 Speaker 1: tweeted starts with Ronda in an arms on the shoulders 255 00:17:30,715 --> 00:17:37,955 Speaker 1: embrace of college girls. Not great, ron not great. The 256 00:17:38,035 --> 00:17:41,635 Speaker 1: runners up everybody from Senator Tommy Tuberville, I never know 257 00:17:41,675 --> 00:17:45,035 Speaker 1: if I'm pronouncing it right. Is it Tommy Tuberville or 258 00:17:45,115 --> 00:17:50,155 Speaker 1: Tubby Tomerville? Anyway? From the Senator to Thomas spor of 259 00:17:50,195 --> 00:17:53,275 Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation, they've all been whining and moaning about 260 00:17:53,275 --> 00:17:56,035 Speaker 1: the woke military. And then who do the authorities arrest 261 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,435 Speaker 1: outside Providence, Rhode Island for the biggest leak of American 262 00:17:59,475 --> 00:18:03,235 Speaker 1: military secrets in a decade. A twenty one year old, 263 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: straight white, paced gamer who makes videos of himself shooting 264 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:11,355 Speaker 1: guns and shouting anti Semitic and racist crap. Yeah, it's 265 00:18:11,395 --> 00:18:16,595 Speaker 1: the woke military Freakin Tubby Tomerville can't even spell woke. 266 00:18:18,675 --> 00:18:22,195 Speaker 1: But our winners, same kind of theme. Tucker Carlson and 267 00:18:22,235 --> 00:18:26,435 Speaker 1: Elon Musk. When big tech mogul Bob Lee, the founder 268 00:18:26,475 --> 00:18:29,795 Speaker 1: of cash app, was murdered in a seed section of 269 00:18:29,835 --> 00:18:32,915 Speaker 1: San Francisco, Musk and Carlson and the rest of the 270 00:18:32,995 --> 00:18:37,315 Speaker 1: right wing Blamo's sphere immediately concluded that this was just 271 00:18:37,355 --> 00:18:40,195 Speaker 1: another moment in the rise and fall that heathen city, 272 00:18:40,235 --> 00:18:44,475 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Many people I know, Musk tweeted, have been 273 00:18:44,555 --> 00:18:47,555 Speaker 1: severely assaulted. Oh bull crap, you don't know anybody. If 274 00:18:47,555 --> 00:18:49,795 Speaker 1: you knew anybody, who wouldn't be sleeping in your library 275 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:54,195 Speaker 1: quoting again, violent frim in f F is horrific And 276 00:18:54,315 --> 00:18:58,155 Speaker 1: even if attackers are caught, they're often released. Is the 277 00:18:58,155 --> 00:19:01,275 Speaker 1: city taking strong direction to incostrate repeat offenders? Then he 278 00:19:01,355 --> 00:19:05,435 Speaker 1: tagged the new DA of San Francisco. Then yesterday police 279 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:08,995 Speaker 1: arrested the only suspect in the Lee murder Nima Momeni, 280 00:19:09,595 --> 00:19:14,715 Speaker 1: another tech entrepreneur. Momeni and Lee knew each other, and 281 00:19:14,835 --> 00:19:17,275 Speaker 1: police contend that after a dispute in a car, Lee 282 00:19:17,315 --> 00:19:20,355 Speaker 1: got out and Momeni stabbed him to death. And of 283 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:25,195 Speaker 1: course Carlson and Musk and all the other frauds said nothing, Tucker, 284 00:19:25,315 --> 00:19:29,275 Speaker 1: It's a random attack, Carlson and Elon. Is the city 285 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:32,635 Speaker 1: taking strong direction to address the risk of tech pros 286 00:19:33,115 --> 00:19:58,995 Speaker 1: Musk two days worse persons? And this is Sports Center 287 00:19:59,435 --> 00:20:06,875 Speaker 1: Wait check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith 288 00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:11,915 Speaker 1: Alberman in Sports NFL Exorcism. The most hated of owners 289 00:20:11,995 --> 00:20:15,395 Speaker 1: in the game out of many candidates, Dan Snyder has 290 00:20:15,395 --> 00:20:19,275 Speaker 1: agreed to sell the Washington Commanders for six billion dollars 291 00:20:19,315 --> 00:20:23,235 Speaker 1: to Josh Harris, who already owns much of basketball's Philadelphia 292 00:20:23,315 --> 00:20:26,235 Speaker 1: seventy six ers and hockey's New Jersey Devils. The six 293 00:20:26,315 --> 00:20:29,795 Speaker 1: billion will allow Snyder to focus on his hobbies, humiliating 294 00:20:29,795 --> 00:20:54,795 Speaker 1: employees and making special videotapes of cheerleaders. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 295 00:20:54,915 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: So now it's thirteen and oh. The Tampa Bay Rays 296 00:20:58,595 --> 00:21:01,435 Speaker 1: beat Boston nine three yesterday to become only the third 297 00:21:01,435 --> 00:21:05,395 Speaker 1: team since eighteen eighty four to win its first thirteen 298 00:21:05,475 --> 00:21:08,075 Speaker 1: games of the season, nineteen eighty two Braves, nineteen eighty 299 00:21:08,115 --> 00:21:11,915 Speaker 1: seven Brewers, two twenty three Rays. They have played one 300 00:21:11,955 --> 00:21:15,635 Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen innings this year. They have trailed during 301 00:21:15,835 --> 00:21:18,475 Speaker 1: six of them. Tampa Bay goes for the modern record 302 00:21:18,515 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: in Toronto now the all time record. The eighteen eighty 303 00:21:20,955 --> 00:21:23,875 Speaker 1: four Saint Louis Maroons getting more publicity than they have 304 00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:27,435 Speaker 1: gotten since eighteen eighty four. Twenty and oh to start 305 00:21:27,475 --> 00:21:30,795 Speaker 1: that season. And once upon a time, the Big Ten 306 00:21:31,075 --> 00:21:35,755 Speaker 1: was probably the pre eminent conference in college sports. Recently, 307 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:37,955 Speaker 1: it's had a few rocky years and it has, of 308 00:21:37,995 --> 00:21:42,475 Speaker 1: course an existential problem. The Big Ten consists of fourteen 309 00:21:42,515 --> 00:21:45,955 Speaker 1: different schools. Next year it will add USC and UCLA. 310 00:21:45,995 --> 00:21:50,115 Speaker 1: That'll make sixteen. Now. To go with this numerical oddity, 311 00:21:50,555 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: it has one of the most disreputable people I have 312 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:56,795 Speaker 1: ever known as its new commissioner. It is named Tony 313 00:21:56,875 --> 00:22:01,315 Speaker 1: Pettiti to run the conference. On November twenty six, twenty twelve, 314 00:22:01,875 --> 00:22:04,515 Speaker 1: my agent followed the instructions of the then president of 315 00:22:04,515 --> 00:22:08,675 Speaker 1: the TV publicity channel owned by Major League Baseball MLB network, 316 00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:11,515 Speaker 1: and called that president to finalize a deal by which 317 00:22:11,515 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: I would join the channel to do a daily show, 318 00:22:14,075 --> 00:22:16,395 Speaker 1: probably at five thirty at night. It was going to 319 00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:20,515 Speaker 1: be strange. MLB Network and its sister hockey channel, NHL 320 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 1: Network originate in the same studios in Secaucus, New Jersey, 321 00:22:24,995 --> 00:22:28,915 Speaker 1: which MSNBC used every day from the day I started 322 00:22:28,915 --> 00:22:31,155 Speaker 1: there in October nineteen ninety seven through the day in 323 00:22:31,195 --> 00:22:34,395 Speaker 1: October two thousand and seven when NBC had all of 324 00:22:34,435 --> 00:22:37,795 Speaker 1: us moved to New York City. I had been asked 325 00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:40,755 Speaker 1: to do something for MLB Network in two thousand and 326 00:22:40,795 --> 00:22:42,635 Speaker 1: eight and two thousand nine, before it ever got on 327 00:22:42,675 --> 00:22:45,475 Speaker 1: the air. The request came from the then Commissioner of 328 00:22:45,475 --> 00:22:49,355 Speaker 1: Baseball directly, Bud Selig. Bud asked me also to write 329 00:22:49,355 --> 00:22:52,155 Speaker 1: for Baseball's website, MLB dot com. We got that done, 330 00:22:52,155 --> 00:22:54,955 Speaker 1: but the TV show was impossible until I became a 331 00:22:55,035 --> 00:22:57,395 Speaker 1: TV free agent in the fall of two thousand twelve, 332 00:22:57,915 --> 00:22:59,795 Speaker 1: and I was invited to do a couple of guest 333 00:22:59,835 --> 00:23:03,155 Speaker 1: appearances and they went well except for this really crazy 334 00:23:03,235 --> 00:23:05,955 Speaker 1: deja vous thing that at me when I went into 335 00:23:05,995 --> 00:23:08,435 Speaker 1: the building and found that while Baseball had spent sixty 336 00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:10,995 Speaker 1: million dollars to upgrade all the technical stuff there, and 337 00:23:11,035 --> 00:23:14,275 Speaker 1: the studio designs and such. They had not touched anything 338 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:19,155 Speaker 1: else from the MSNBC days. I mean, the carpet tiles 339 00:23:19,435 --> 00:23:21,915 Speaker 1: were the same, the ping pong table in the break 340 00:23:22,035 --> 00:23:25,075 Speaker 1: room was the same. The signs on the back of 341 00:23:25,115 --> 00:23:27,555 Speaker 1: the bathroom door telling you who to call the john 342 00:23:27,715 --> 00:23:31,395 Speaker 1: overflowed were the same. It was like having a dream 343 00:23:31,795 --> 00:23:34,035 Speaker 1: where you're back in your childhood home and everything is 344 00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:36,515 Speaker 1: exactly the way it was, except you know, there's this 345 00:23:36,675 --> 00:23:38,795 Speaker 1: nuclear reactor in the middle of your den and you 346 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: keep saying, no, where did that come from? Anyway? This 347 00:23:43,115 --> 00:23:44,915 Speaker 1: gets us back to the guy an output in charge 348 00:23:44,955 --> 00:23:47,955 Speaker 1: of the Big Ten. The guest appearances on MLB network 349 00:23:47,995 --> 00:23:51,195 Speaker 1: had been personally arranged by the president of that network, 350 00:23:51,595 --> 00:23:55,675 Speaker 1: Tony Pettiti, the new commissioner of the Big Ten. Petiti 351 00:23:55,755 --> 00:23:57,555 Speaker 1: asked if I would fill in for two days on 352 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:00,555 Speaker 1: their then new morning show the week of Thanksgiving, and 353 00:24:00,555 --> 00:24:02,955 Speaker 1: I certainly knew how to get to the building. I 354 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:05,635 Speaker 1: did the shows with Brian Kenny and Ken Rosenthal and 355 00:24:05,675 --> 00:24:07,875 Speaker 1: Bob Costas, his son Keith, and a line of Rizzo, 356 00:24:07,915 --> 00:24:11,075 Speaker 1: and we had a great time. Patiti attended the meetings 357 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:13,755 Speaker 1: we had before and after each show, and I mean 358 00:24:13,835 --> 00:24:17,315 Speaker 1: full staff meetings, fifteen or so people just standing around 359 00:24:17,355 --> 00:24:20,115 Speaker 1: a bunch of cubicles. In front of all of them. 360 00:24:20,675 --> 00:24:22,715 Speaker 1: Fatiti began to ask me if I thought my new 361 00:24:22,715 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: show would be doing better at five o'clock or at 362 00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:26,995 Speaker 1: five thirty, and if I agreed with him that I 363 00:24:26,995 --> 00:24:30,075 Speaker 1: should only work during the baseball season and spring training, 364 00:24:30,075 --> 00:24:32,475 Speaker 1: in the playoffs and the winter meetings, and stay fresh 365 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:34,875 Speaker 1: by taking the rest of the year off. And he 366 00:24:34,875 --> 00:24:37,475 Speaker 1: asked me if there were people on the staff of 367 00:24:37,595 --> 00:24:40,115 Speaker 1: that morning show who I would like to work with. 368 00:24:40,235 --> 00:24:42,435 Speaker 1: I mean, this is in front of the staff of 369 00:24:42,475 --> 00:24:45,595 Speaker 1: the morning show. Patiti warned me in front of them 370 00:24:45,595 --> 00:24:47,155 Speaker 1: that he couldn't pay me the kind of salary I 371 00:24:47,195 --> 00:24:49,435 Speaker 1: was used to, and I said that happily, the kind 372 00:24:49,475 --> 00:24:51,035 Speaker 1: of salary I was used to meant I didn't need 373 00:24:51,075 --> 00:24:53,115 Speaker 1: the kind of salary I was used to. He then 374 00:24:53,155 --> 00:24:55,395 Speaker 1: told me to remind my agent to call him the 375 00:24:55,435 --> 00:24:58,155 Speaker 1: monday after Thanksgiving. He wished me a happy holiday, and 376 00:24:58,195 --> 00:25:00,875 Speaker 1: everybody left. A couple of the producers asked if I 377 00:25:00,915 --> 00:25:04,595 Speaker 1: was recommending them to be on my new show, probably 378 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:07,635 Speaker 1: because it wasn't in the morning. So on the Monday 379 00:25:07,635 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: afternoon after Thanksgiving, my agent calls me and says he's 380 00:25:10,515 --> 00:25:12,995 Speaker 1: just gotten off the phone with this Tony Petiti and 381 00:25:13,115 --> 00:25:16,435 Speaker 1: it was the strangest conversation he had had since he 382 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:20,515 Speaker 1: had become an agent. No, let me rephrase that. He said, 383 00:25:20,875 --> 00:25:24,075 Speaker 1: it wasn't a conversation, it was an attempted conversation. I 384 00:25:24,155 --> 00:25:26,395 Speaker 1: kept asking him what he told me to ask him, 385 00:25:26,675 --> 00:25:30,635 Speaker 1: and then he'd say nothing. Initially I did not understand 386 00:25:30,635 --> 00:25:32,595 Speaker 1: what my agent meant. What do you mean he said nothing? 387 00:25:33,515 --> 00:25:36,875 Speaker 1: My agent said he meant literally that. I said, so, Tony, 388 00:25:36,915 --> 00:25:40,115 Speaker 1: what's your offer to Keith? And then there was just silence, 389 00:25:40,555 --> 00:25:43,315 Speaker 1: and I thought the phone call had dropped. So I said, Tony, 390 00:25:43,355 --> 00:25:45,595 Speaker 1: are you there? And he said yeah, sure am so 391 00:25:45,635 --> 00:25:49,075 Speaker 1: again I asked him what's his offer? And again, literally 392 00:25:49,115 --> 00:25:53,235 Speaker 1: it's silence. I can hear him breathing. I tried, like 393 00:25:53,315 --> 00:25:56,715 Speaker 1: ten different ways. Are we talking about Keith now, Tony silence? 394 00:25:57,315 --> 00:26:00,475 Speaker 1: Is there a reason you're being silent about Keith? Tony silence? 395 00:26:01,035 --> 00:26:03,635 Speaker 1: If I changed the subject, my agent said, if I 396 00:26:03,675 --> 00:26:05,915 Speaker 1: talked about somebody else else, there's something else. He was 397 00:26:05,995 --> 00:26:08,995 Speaker 1: his normal self. When I mentioned your name, he went silent. 398 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:13,755 Speaker 1: The next day, my agent called me back. Petiti just 399 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:16,155 Speaker 1: did this again with me on the phone. He wouldn't speak, literally, 400 00:26:16,155 --> 00:26:20,315 Speaker 1: would not say any words in any language. It took 401 00:26:20,355 --> 00:26:22,555 Speaker 1: me a long time to find out what had happened. 402 00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:25,235 Speaker 1: The next baseball season, after I'd gone back to work 403 00:26:25,275 --> 00:26:28,395 Speaker 1: at ESPN, I'm at a game. There's one of the 404 00:26:28,515 --> 00:26:31,035 Speaker 1: MLB Network officials who I had met on my two 405 00:26:31,155 --> 00:26:35,195 Speaker 1: days working there before Thanksgiving twenty twenty twelve, and this 406 00:26:35,235 --> 00:26:40,075 Speaker 1: person comes up and apologizes, Oh, we all heard what happened. 407 00:26:40,195 --> 00:26:43,755 Speaker 1: They said, it's so embarrassing. Petitis such a coward. The 408 00:26:43,835 --> 00:26:46,715 Speaker 1: Yankees got to him and another club, I never found 409 00:26:46,715 --> 00:26:49,115 Speaker 1: out which one. There was some kind of conference call 410 00:26:49,475 --> 00:26:52,235 Speaker 1: the Monday after Thanksgiving to tell the teams about your 411 00:26:52,275 --> 00:26:54,315 Speaker 1: new show, and whoever was on the call for the 412 00:26:54,355 --> 00:26:57,275 Speaker 1: Yankees went nuts. If you put him on MLB Network, 413 00:26:57,315 --> 00:27:00,035 Speaker 1: we will disable your cameras at Yankee Stadium and we 414 00:27:00,075 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: will never let any of you inside the building again. 415 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:05,995 Speaker 1: Now I knew why the Yankees would have done that. 416 00:27:06,595 --> 00:27:09,835 Speaker 1: I was a season ticket holder, my folks before me, 417 00:27:09,915 --> 00:27:13,075 Speaker 1: before I had a checkbook for forty two years. For 418 00:27:13,195 --> 00:27:15,275 Speaker 1: ten of those years, I was one of the two 419 00:27:15,275 --> 00:27:17,355 Speaker 1: announcers who did a kind of play by play over 420 00:27:17,395 --> 00:27:20,595 Speaker 1: the public address system at Yankee Stadium on Old Timer's Day. 421 00:27:20,595 --> 00:27:23,635 Speaker 1: And one day in twenty eleven, I had tweeted this 422 00:27:23,715 --> 00:27:27,035 Speaker 1: photo of a Yankee employee in the stands giving some 423 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:30,515 Speaker 1: kind of signals to Alex Rodriguez, who was any Yankee 424 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:33,315 Speaker 1: player in the on deck circle. I mean, the tweets 425 00:27:33,315 --> 00:27:36,875 Speaker 1: are still up. The guy was clearly telling a Rod 426 00:27:37,315 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: what the last pitch had been, fastball, curveball, slider, whatever. 427 00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:45,835 Speaker 1: It wasn't cheating. It happened after the play, not before 428 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:48,475 Speaker 1: the play. It was helping a supposed superstar who could 429 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:51,915 Speaker 1: not figure him out for himself from his position on 430 00:27:51,955 --> 00:27:55,515 Speaker 1: the field what kind of pitch the last pitch had been. 431 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,595 Speaker 1: I tweeted the photo. Major League Baseball called the Yankees 432 00:27:59,635 --> 00:28:01,795 Speaker 1: and told them cut it out. The Yankees and a 433 00:28:01,915 --> 00:28:04,115 Speaker 1: Rod looked dumb in the papers, and the Yankees management 434 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: said they were not mad at me. And then three 435 00:28:05,955 --> 00:28:08,715 Speaker 1: months later, days before this Old Timer's Day, they leaked 436 00:28:08,715 --> 00:28:11,475 Speaker 1: to the papers that I had been fired as Old 437 00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:14,715 Speaker 1: Timer's Day play by play man because I had tweeted 438 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:18,555 Speaker 1: the photo. So my response to that was to, you know, 439 00:28:18,675 --> 00:28:22,195 Speaker 1: not renew my season tickets and my tickets were right 440 00:28:22,235 --> 00:28:24,475 Speaker 1: behind home plate and it cost four hundred thousand dollars 441 00:28:24,475 --> 00:28:27,475 Speaker 1: a year, and relax, I gave like seventy percent of 442 00:28:27,515 --> 00:28:31,475 Speaker 1: them to make a wish. But the Yankees, being the Yankees, 443 00:28:31,835 --> 00:28:35,115 Speaker 1: were furious that after they did that to me, I 444 00:28:35,155 --> 00:28:37,915 Speaker 1: would still refuse to give them four hundred thousand dollars 445 00:28:37,915 --> 00:28:41,195 Speaker 1: a year. So they told MLB Network if MLB Network 446 00:28:41,235 --> 00:28:43,675 Speaker 1: gave me a show, they would unplug MLB Network cameras. 447 00:28:45,755 --> 00:28:48,115 Speaker 1: Actually they did more than that. I asked my friend, 448 00:28:48,115 --> 00:28:51,075 Speaker 1: the MLB network official, the real puzzler of the saga, 449 00:28:51,115 --> 00:28:54,435 Speaker 1: why the MLB Network president Tony Petiti literally would not 450 00:28:54,675 --> 00:29:00,155 Speaker 1: say anything, even just deals off sorry to my agent 451 00:29:00,235 --> 00:29:02,515 Speaker 1: on the phone. Why they went through this dance in 452 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:04,955 Speaker 1: which he literally went silent every time my age brought 453 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:10,075 Speaker 1: up by name. Oh, the officials said, the Yankees were 454 00:29:10,155 --> 00:29:12,955 Speaker 1: very specific about that if you say anything to him 455 00:29:13,035 --> 00:29:17,195 Speaker 1: or his people anything, we will get you fired. So 456 00:29:18,275 --> 00:29:23,155 Speaker 1: Tony Pettiti took that literally. He said, if you called 457 00:29:23,275 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: or your agent called, to just give you the silent treatment, 458 00:29:26,915 --> 00:29:30,595 Speaker 1: which is what he was going to do. These are adults, 459 00:29:30,715 --> 00:29:34,195 Speaker 1: mind you, adults you often say that the on air 460 00:29:34,275 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: talent are the prima donnas in broadcasting. Well, Tony Pettiti 461 00:29:38,835 --> 00:29:41,955 Speaker 1: got his. He was promoted not long after to chief 462 00:29:42,035 --> 00:29:44,955 Speaker 1: operating officer of Major League Baseball, and then a couple 463 00:29:44,955 --> 00:29:48,515 Speaker 1: of years later, the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob Manfred, squeezed 464 00:29:48,595 --> 00:29:52,235 Speaker 1: him out. He drifted to an e sports company, and 465 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:55,435 Speaker 1: then a football consulting job with something called the thirty 466 00:29:55,515 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: third Team. And now he's the new commissioner of the 467 00:29:58,995 --> 00:30:04,035 Speaker 1: Big Ten. The Big Ten, which has sixteen members. And 468 00:30:04,115 --> 00:30:06,795 Speaker 1: if they're when Tony Petiti is done with them, they'll 469 00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:21,715 Speaker 1: still have five or six of them left still Ahead 470 00:30:21,755 --> 00:30:25,355 Speaker 1: on Countdown Fridays with Thurber and the story of intrigue 471 00:30:25,395 --> 00:30:30,715 Speaker 1: and spies and trains worthy of murder on the Orient Express, 472 00:30:30,755 --> 00:30:36,235 Speaker 1: except it's all happening only inside James Thurber's own head 473 00:30:36,875 --> 00:30:41,195 Speaker 1: The Lady on one, four two next, First, in each 474 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:43,355 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need you 475 00:30:43,395 --> 00:30:47,875 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day to Martinez, California 476 00:30:47,955 --> 00:30:51,515 Speaker 1: and Cookie and Cookie is about to go on death row. There. 477 00:30:51,555 --> 00:30:54,155 Speaker 1: She was found on the street. She was chipped. They 478 00:30:54,235 --> 00:30:58,475 Speaker 1: called her human, and her human never called back. Cookiees 479 00:30:58,475 --> 00:31:01,995 Speaker 1: also had tumors and some paralysis, but she's responding well 480 00:31:02,035 --> 00:31:06,715 Speaker 1: to simple treatment. Antibiotics are clearing these things up. She's gentle, 481 00:31:06,835 --> 00:31:09,075 Speaker 1: she's sweet. They all love her there, But she is 482 00:31:09,515 --> 00:31:12,635 Speaker 1: a gray pity, A tiny one. Looks to be about 483 00:31:12,675 --> 00:31:15,955 Speaker 1: forty pounds maybe, But it's so hard to overcome the 484 00:31:15,995 --> 00:31:19,275 Speaker 1: assumptions about these dogs that they wind up first on 485 00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:21,995 Speaker 1: death row. Cookie needs our pledges to help a rescue 486 00:31:21,995 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: pull her out and save her. Look for Cook Cookie 487 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:28,515 Speaker 1: in my Twitter feeds, I thank you and Cookie thanks you. 488 00:31:42,675 --> 00:31:45,155 Speaker 1: To the number one story on the countdown, and it 489 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:47,555 Speaker 1: is Friday's with Thurber. And thus the number one story 490 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:51,315 Speaker 1: on the Countdown is Friday's with James Thurber. Many of 491 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:55,195 Speaker 1: the great writers great stories, the short stories, the fables, 492 00:31:55,395 --> 00:31:58,115 Speaker 1: have great meaning or symbolism, and some of them are 493 00:31:58,155 --> 00:32:00,475 Speaker 1: just great fun. Let me give you one of the 494 00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:04,915 Speaker 1: latter from the Thurber Carnival. It will explain it self 495 00:32:04,955 --> 00:32:10,435 Speaker 1: fairly quickly. The Lady on one four two by James Thurber. 496 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:15,435 Speaker 1: The train was twenty minutes late, we found out when 497 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:17,595 Speaker 1: we bought our tickets, so we sat down on a 498 00:32:17,635 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: bench in the little waiting room of the Cornwall Bridge station. 499 00:32:21,675 --> 00:32:25,275 Speaker 1: It was too hot outside in the sun. This Midsummer 500 00:32:25,355 --> 00:32:28,115 Speaker 1: Saturday had got off to a sulky start, and now, 501 00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:32,395 Speaker 1: at three in the afternoon, it sat sticky and restive. 502 00:32:32,915 --> 00:32:38,275 Speaker 1: In our laps. There were several others besides Sylvia and myself, 503 00:32:38,355 --> 00:32:41,315 Speaker 1: waiting for the train to get in from Pittsfield. An 504 00:32:41,355 --> 00:32:44,835 Speaker 1: older woman who fanned herself with a daily news, a 505 00:32:44,955 --> 00:32:47,955 Speaker 1: young lady in her twenties reading a book, A slender, 506 00:32:48,155 --> 00:32:52,475 Speaker 1: tanned man sucking dreamily on the stem of an unlighted pipe. 507 00:32:53,315 --> 00:32:55,755 Speaker 1: In the center of the room, leaning against a high 508 00:32:55,835 --> 00:32:59,435 Speaker 1: iron radiator, a small girl stared at each of us 509 00:32:59,435 --> 00:33:03,235 Speaker 1: in turn, her mouth open, as if she had never 510 00:33:03,235 --> 00:33:08,115 Speaker 1: seen people before. The place had the familiar pleasant smell 511 00:33:08,155 --> 00:33:12,315 Speaker 1: of railroad stations in the country, something compounded of wood 512 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:15,875 Speaker 1: and leather and smoke. In the cramped space behind the 513 00:33:15,915 --> 00:33:20,315 Speaker 1: ticket window, a telegraph instrument clicked intermittently, and once or 514 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:23,755 Speaker 1: twice a phone rang, and the station master answered it briefly. 515 00:33:24,395 --> 00:33:27,515 Speaker 1: I couldn't hear what he said. I was glad on 516 00:33:27,555 --> 00:33:29,235 Speaker 1: such a day that we were going only as far 517 00:33:29,275 --> 00:33:32,835 Speaker 1: as gay Lordsville. The third stopped down the line twenty 518 00:33:32,875 --> 00:33:36,195 Speaker 1: two minutes away. The station master had told us that 519 00:33:36,235 --> 00:33:38,755 Speaker 1: our tickets were the first tickets to gay Lordsville he 520 00:33:38,795 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: had ever sold. I was idly pondering this small distinction 521 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:46,715 Speaker 1: when a train whistle blew in the distance. We all 522 00:33:46,755 --> 00:33:49,355 Speaker 1: got to our feet, but the station master came out 523 00:33:49,355 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: of his cubby hole and told us it was not 524 00:33:51,155 --> 00:33:56,275 Speaker 1: our train, but the twelve forty five from New York northbound. Presently, 525 00:33:56,275 --> 00:33:59,435 Speaker 1: the train thundered in like a hurricane and signed ponderously 526 00:33:59,475 --> 00:34:02,195 Speaker 1: to a stop. The station master went out into the 527 00:34:02,235 --> 00:34:04,955 Speaker 1: platform and came back. After a minute or two, the 528 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:09,155 Speaker 1: train got heavily under way again for Canaan. I was 529 00:34:09,235 --> 00:34:11,835 Speaker 1: opening a pack of cigarettes when I heard the station 530 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:16,555 Speaker 1: master talking on the phone again. This time his words 531 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:22,555 Speaker 1: came out clearly. He kept repeating one sentence. He was saying, 532 00:34:23,435 --> 00:34:27,795 Speaker 1: Conductor Reagan on one four two. As the lady the 533 00:34:28,035 --> 00:34:32,355 Speaker 1: office was talking about. The person on the other end 534 00:34:32,395 --> 00:34:34,075 Speaker 1: of the line did not appear to get the meaning 535 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:37,795 Speaker 1: of the sentence. The station master repeated it and hung up. 536 00:34:38,475 --> 00:34:41,715 Speaker 1: For some reason. I figured that he did not understand 537 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:46,675 Speaker 1: it either. Sylvia's eyes had the lost reflective look they 538 00:34:46,715 --> 00:34:48,835 Speaker 1: wear when she's trying to remember in what box she 539 00:34:49,315 --> 00:34:53,035 Speaker 1: packed the Christmas tree ornaments. The expressions on the faces 540 00:34:53,075 --> 00:34:55,715 Speaker 1: of the older woman, the young lady, and the man 541 00:34:55,795 --> 00:34:59,315 Speaker 1: with the pipe had not changed. The little staring girl 542 00:34:59,395 --> 00:35:02,955 Speaker 1: had gone away. Our train was not due for another 543 00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:05,075 Speaker 1: five minutes, and I sat back and began trying to 544 00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:09,515 Speaker 1: reconstruct the lady on one four two the lady Conductor 545 00:35:09,555 --> 00:35:14,675 Speaker 1: Reagan had the lady the office was asking about. I 546 00:35:14,875 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 1: moved nearer to Sylvia and whispered, see if the trains 547 00:35:20,275 --> 00:35:24,235 Speaker 1: are numbered in your time table. She got the timetable 548 00:35:24,235 --> 00:35:27,875 Speaker 1: out of her handbag and looked at it. One forty two, 549 00:35:28,235 --> 00:35:30,875 Speaker 1: she said, is the twelve forty five from New York. 550 00:35:32,355 --> 00:35:33,915 Speaker 1: This was the train that had gone by a few 551 00:35:33,915 --> 00:35:37,715 Speaker 1: minutes before. The woman was taken sick, said Sylvia. They're 552 00:35:37,715 --> 00:35:40,355 Speaker 1: probably arranging to have a doctor or her family meet her. 553 00:35:41,755 --> 00:35:44,555 Speaker 1: The older woman looked around at her briefly. The young woman, 554 00:35:44,555 --> 00:35:47,035 Speaker 1: who had been chewing gum stopped chewing. The man with 555 00:35:47,075 --> 00:35:52,035 Speaker 1: the pipe seemed oblivious. I lighted a cigarette and sat thinking. 556 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:56,875 Speaker 1: The woman on one four two, I said to Sylvia flatly, 557 00:35:57,275 --> 00:36:02,315 Speaker 1: might be almost anything, but she is definitely not sick. 558 00:36:04,115 --> 00:36:05,995 Speaker 1: The only who did not stare at me was the 559 00:36:05,995 --> 00:36:10,115 Speaker 1: man with the pipe. Sylvia gave me her temperature taking 560 00:36:10,155 --> 00:36:14,235 Speaker 1: look across between anxiety and vexation. Just then our train 561 00:36:14,315 --> 00:36:16,795 Speaker 1: whistled and we all stood up. I picked up our 562 00:36:16,835 --> 00:36:19,515 Speaker 1: two bags, and Sylvia took the sack of string beans 563 00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:22,955 Speaker 1: we had picked up for the connals. When the train 564 00:36:23,035 --> 00:36:26,955 Speaker 1: came clanking in, I said in Sylvia's ear, he'll sit 565 00:36:27,115 --> 00:36:33,875 Speaker 1: near us. You watch who will she said, the stranger? 566 00:36:34,155 --> 00:36:38,355 Speaker 1: I told her, the man with the pipe. Sylvia laughed, 567 00:36:38,515 --> 00:36:41,875 Speaker 1: He's not a stranger. She said, he works for the breeds. 568 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:45,875 Speaker 1: I was certainly that he did not work for the breeds. 569 00:36:46,635 --> 00:36:51,315 Speaker 1: Women liked to place people. Every stranger reminds him of somebody. 570 00:36:51,435 --> 00:36:53,995 Speaker 1: The man with the pipe was sitting three seats in 571 00:36:54,035 --> 00:36:56,635 Speaker 1: front of us, across the aisle. When we got settled, 572 00:36:57,075 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: I indicated him with a nod of my head. Sylvia 573 00:37:00,955 --> 00:37:02,915 Speaker 1: took a book out of the top of her overnight 574 00:37:02,915 --> 00:37:05,355 Speaker 1: bag and opened it. Watch the man her with you, 575 00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:10,715 Speaker 1: she demanded. I looked around before replying. A sleepy man 576 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:13,795 Speaker 1: and woman sat across from us. Two middle aged women 577 00:37:13,835 --> 00:37:15,675 Speaker 1: in the seat in front of us were discussing the 578 00:37:15,795 --> 00:37:19,595 Speaker 1: severe griping pain one of them had experienced as a 579 00:37:19,795 --> 00:37:26,675 Speaker 1: result of inflamed diverticulitis, A slim, dark eyed young woman 580 00:37:26,715 --> 00:37:31,035 Speaker 1: sat in the seat behind us. She was alone. The 581 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: trouble with women, I began, is that they explain everything 582 00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:38,075 Speaker 1: by illness. I have a theory that we could be 583 00:37:38,075 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: celebrating the twelfth of May, or even the sixteenth of 584 00:37:40,995 --> 00:37:45,195 Speaker 1: April as Independence Day, if missus Jefferson hadn't got the idea. 585 00:37:45,275 --> 00:37:47,755 Speaker 1: Her husband had a fever and put him to bed. 586 00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:52,355 Speaker 1: Sylvia found her place in the book. We've been all 587 00:37:52,475 --> 00:37:56,955 Speaker 1: through that before. She said, why couldn't the woman on 588 00:37:56,955 --> 00:38:01,595 Speaker 1: one forty two be sick? That was easy, I told her. 589 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:05,875 Speaker 1: Conductor Reagan, I said, got off the train at Cornwall 590 00:38:05,915 --> 00:38:09,555 Speaker 1: Bridge and spoke to the station master. I've got the 591 00:38:09,635 --> 00:38:14,475 Speaker 1: woman the Office was asking about, he said. Sylvia cut in. 592 00:38:14,835 --> 00:38:18,995 Speaker 1: He said, Lady I gave the little laugh that annoys her. 593 00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:23,915 Speaker 1: All conductors, say, lady, I explained. Now, if a woman 594 00:38:23,955 --> 00:38:26,515 Speaker 1: had got sick on the train, Reagan would have said, 595 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:29,635 Speaker 1: a woman got sick on my train. Tell the office. 596 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:33,995 Speaker 1: What must have happened is that Reagan found somewhere between 597 00:38:34,075 --> 00:38:37,835 Speaker 1: Kent and Cornwall Bridge a woman the Office had been 598 00:38:37,835 --> 00:38:42,355 Speaker 1: looking for. Sylvia did not close her book, but she 599 00:38:42,515 --> 00:38:46,035 Speaker 1: looked up. Maybe she got sick before she got on 600 00:38:46,075 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: the train, and the office was worried, said Sylvia. She 601 00:38:50,595 --> 00:38:54,035 Speaker 1: was not giving the problem close attention. If the office 602 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:58,115 Speaker 1: knew she got on the train, I said patiently, they 603 00:38:58,155 --> 00:39:01,355 Speaker 1: wouldn't have asked Regan to let them know if he 604 00:39:01,555 --> 00:39:06,035 Speaker 1: found her. They would have told him about her when 605 00:39:06,155 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: she got on. Sylvia resumed her reading. Let's stay out 606 00:39:11,195 --> 00:39:14,115 Speaker 1: of it, she said, it isn't any of our business. 607 00:39:15,035 --> 00:39:18,835 Speaker 1: I hunted for my chicklets but couldn't find them. It 608 00:39:18,915 --> 00:39:26,435 Speaker 1: might be everybody's business, I said, every patriots I know. 609 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:30,635 Speaker 1: I know, said Sylvia. You think she's a spy, Well, 610 00:39:30,675 --> 00:39:36,435 Speaker 1: I think she's sick. I ignored that every conductor on 611 00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:38,915 Speaker 1: the line has been asked to look out for her. 612 00:39:39,035 --> 00:39:43,355 Speaker 1: I said, Reagan found her. She won't be met by 613 00:39:43,355 --> 00:39:49,995 Speaker 1: her family. She'll be met by the FBI or the OPA, 614 00:39:50,195 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: said Sylvia. Alfred Hitchcock. Things don't happen on the New York, 615 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:58,875 Speaker 1: New Haven and Hartford Railroad. I saw the conductor coming 616 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: from the other end of the couch. I'm going to 617 00:40:00,835 --> 00:40:03,595 Speaker 1: tell a conductor, I said that Reagan on one four 618 00:40:03,715 --> 00:40:06,235 Speaker 1: two has got the woman. No, you're not, said Sylvia, 619 00:40:06,395 --> 00:40:08,195 Speaker 1: You're not gonna get us and mixed up in this. 620 00:40:08,435 --> 00:40:14,475 Speaker 1: He probably knows anyway. The conductor, short, stocky, silver haired, 621 00:40:14,475 --> 00:40:17,555 Speaker 1: and silent, took up our tickets. He looked like a 622 00:40:17,795 --> 00:40:23,075 Speaker 1: kindly Ikey's Sylvia, who had stiffened, relaxed when I let 623 00:40:23,155 --> 00:40:25,395 Speaker 1: him go by without a word about the woman on 624 00:40:25,395 --> 00:40:28,915 Speaker 1: one four two. He looks exactly as if he knew 625 00:40:28,915 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: where the Maltese falcon is hidden, doesn't, he said Sylvia, 626 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:36,675 Speaker 1: with a laugh that annoys me. Nevertheless, I pointed out 627 00:40:36,995 --> 00:40:38,995 Speaker 1: you said a little while ago that he probably knows 628 00:40:38,995 --> 00:40:41,835 Speaker 1: about the woman on one four two. If she's just sick, 629 00:40:42,595 --> 00:40:47,035 Speaker 1: why should they tell the conductor on this train. I'll 630 00:40:47,115 --> 00:40:50,915 Speaker 1: rest more easily when I know that they've actually got her. 631 00:40:52,475 --> 00:40:55,795 Speaker 1: Sylvia kept reading as if she hadn't heard me. I 632 00:40:55,915 --> 00:40:57,835 Speaker 1: leaned my head against the back of the seat and 633 00:40:57,915 --> 00:41:02,515 Speaker 1: closed my eyes. The train was slowing down noisily, and 634 00:41:02,555 --> 00:41:07,995 Speaker 1: a brakeman was yelling can't, can't. When I felt a 635 00:41:08,035 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: small cold pressure against my shoulder. Oh, the voice of 636 00:41:14,395 --> 00:41:16,995 Speaker 1: the woman in the seat behind me said, I've dropped 637 00:41:16,995 --> 00:41:20,795 Speaker 1: my copy of Coronet under your seat. She leaned closer, 638 00:41:20,795 --> 00:41:24,635 Speaker 1: and her voice became low and hard. Get off here, mister, 639 00:41:25,115 --> 00:41:29,395 Speaker 1: she said, we're going to Gaylordsville. I said, you and 640 00:41:29,475 --> 00:41:34,395 Speaker 1: your wife are getting off here, mister, she said. I 641 00:41:34,515 --> 00:41:36,875 Speaker 1: reached for the suitcases on the rack. Why do you 642 00:41:36,875 --> 00:41:41,235 Speaker 1: want for Heaven's sake, asked Sylvia, we're getting off here. 643 00:41:41,475 --> 00:41:45,035 Speaker 1: I told her, are you really crazy? She demanded, This 644 00:41:45,115 --> 00:41:49,595 Speaker 1: is only can't come on, sister, said the woman's voice. 645 00:41:49,995 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: You take the overnight bag and the beans. You take 646 00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:57,355 Speaker 1: the big bag. Mister. Sylvia was furious. I knew you'd 647 00:41:57,355 --> 00:42:00,195 Speaker 1: get us into this, She said to me, shouting about 648 00:42:00,235 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: spies at the top of your voice. That made me angry. 649 00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:08,275 Speaker 1: You're the one who mentioned spies. I told her I didn't. 650 00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:12,675 Speaker 1: He kept talking about it and talking about it, said Sylvia, 651 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:15,155 Speaker 1: come on, get off. The two of you, said the cold, 652 00:42:15,275 --> 00:42:19,395 Speaker 1: hard voice. We got off. As I helped Sylvia down 653 00:42:19,435 --> 00:42:23,515 Speaker 1: the steps, I said, we know too much. I'll shut up. 654 00:42:23,995 --> 00:42:27,795 Speaker 1: She said. We didn't have far to go. The big 655 00:42:27,875 --> 00:42:31,435 Speaker 1: black limousine waited a few steps away. Behind the wheel 656 00:42:31,515 --> 00:42:36,035 Speaker 1: sat a heavy set foreigner with cruel lips and small eyes. 657 00:42:36,875 --> 00:42:40,755 Speaker 1: He scowled when he saw us. The boss don't want 658 00:42:40,755 --> 00:42:44,915 Speaker 1: nobody up there, he said. It's all right. Carl said, 659 00:42:44,955 --> 00:42:48,115 Speaker 1: the woman get in, she told us. We climbed into 660 00:42:48,115 --> 00:42:50,355 Speaker 1: the back seat. She sat between us with the gun 661 00:42:50,435 --> 00:42:55,595 Speaker 1: in her hand. It was a handsome jeweled derringer. Alice 662 00:42:55,595 --> 00:42:58,395 Speaker 1: will be waiting for us at gaylord's bell, said Sylvia. 663 00:42:58,795 --> 00:43:03,315 Speaker 1: In all this heat, the house was a long, low, 664 00:43:03,435 --> 00:43:06,635 Speaker 1: rambling building reached the end of a poplar lined drive. 665 00:43:07,595 --> 00:43:10,555 Speaker 1: Never mind the bags, said the woman. Sylvia took the 666 00:43:10,595 --> 00:43:13,795 Speaker 1: string beans and her book and we got out. Two 667 00:43:13,915 --> 00:43:19,275 Speaker 1: huge matstiffs came bounding off the terrace, snarling. Down Mata, 668 00:43:19,755 --> 00:43:25,275 Speaker 1: said the woman. Down pedro They slunk away, still snarling. 669 00:43:26,795 --> 00:43:29,435 Speaker 1: Sylvia and I sat side by side on a sofa 670 00:43:29,475 --> 00:43:32,835 Speaker 1: in a large, handsomely appointed living room. Across from us, 671 00:43:32,835 --> 00:43:35,715 Speaker 1: in a chair lounged a tall man with heavily lidded 672 00:43:35,795 --> 00:43:39,715 Speaker 1: black eyes and long sensitive fingers. Against the door through 673 00:43:39,755 --> 00:43:43,115 Speaker 1: which we had entered the room leaned a thin, undersized 674 00:43:43,155 --> 00:43:45,555 Speaker 1: young man with his hands in the pockets of his 675 00:43:45,635 --> 00:43:48,715 Speaker 1: coat and a cigarette hanging from his lower lip. He 676 00:43:48,755 --> 00:43:51,955 Speaker 1: had a drawn, sallow face, and his small, half closed 677 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:56,675 Speaker 1: eyes stared at us incuriously. In a corner of the room, 678 00:43:56,675 --> 00:43:59,635 Speaker 1: a squat, swarthy man twiddled with the dials of a radio. 679 00:44:00,115 --> 00:44:04,475 Speaker 1: The woman paced up and down, smoking a cigarette in 680 00:44:04,795 --> 00:44:09,355 Speaker 1: long holder. Well, Gail said the lounging man in a 681 00:44:09,395 --> 00:44:13,035 Speaker 1: soft voice, to what do we owe this unexpected visit? 682 00:44:13,875 --> 00:44:20,475 Speaker 1: Gail kept pacing. They got Sandra, she said. Finally, the 683 00:44:20,595 --> 00:44:24,915 Speaker 1: lounging man did not change expression. Who got Sandra, Gail? 684 00:44:25,515 --> 00:44:30,995 Speaker 1: He asked softly. Reagan on one for two, said Gail. 685 00:44:31,835 --> 00:44:35,675 Speaker 1: The squat swarthy man jumped to his feet. All the time, 686 00:44:35,715 --> 00:44:39,235 Speaker 1: Egypt say killed Thee's Reagan, he shouted, all the time, 687 00:44:39,275 --> 00:44:43,635 Speaker 1: Egypt say, bomb off Thee's Reagan. The lounging man did 688 00:44:43,675 --> 00:44:47,275 Speaker 1: not look at him. Sit down, Egypt, he said quietly. 689 00:44:47,875 --> 00:44:51,875 Speaker 1: The swarthy man sat down. Gail went on talking. The 690 00:44:51,995 --> 00:44:56,115 Speaker 1: punk here shot off his mouth. He said, he was wise. 691 00:44:57,555 --> 00:45:00,595 Speaker 1: I looked at the man leaning against the door. She 692 00:45:00,835 --> 00:45:07,595 Speaker 1: means you, said Sylvia, who laughed, Dame was dumb. Gail 693 00:45:07,635 --> 00:45:11,275 Speaker 1: went on. She thought the lady on the train was sick. Now, 694 00:45:11,315 --> 00:45:16,435 Speaker 1: I laughed, she means you, I said to Sylvia. The 695 00:45:16,555 --> 00:45:19,395 Speaker 1: punk was blowing his top all over the train, said Gail. 696 00:45:19,955 --> 00:45:23,635 Speaker 1: I had to bring him along. Sylvia, who had the 697 00:45:23,635 --> 00:45:28,075 Speaker 1: beans on her lap, began breaking and stringing them. Well, 698 00:45:28,155 --> 00:45:32,275 Speaker 1: my dear lady said the lounging man a most homely 699 00:45:32,275 --> 00:45:38,475 Speaker 1: little Touch's a touch, demanded Egypt, touch, I told him. 700 00:45:38,835 --> 00:45:41,835 Speaker 1: Gail sat down in a chair. Who's going to rub 701 00:45:41,915 --> 00:45:46,515 Speaker 1: him out? She asked. Fred Day said the lounging man. 702 00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:50,635 Speaker 1: Egypt was on his feet again. Na, na, he shouted, 703 00:45:50,875 --> 00:45:54,035 Speaker 1: not the punk, the punk, bomp off. They last seek 704 00:45:54,155 --> 00:45:59,075 Speaker 1: seven people. The lounging man looked at him. Egypt paled 705 00:45:59,115 --> 00:46:04,635 Speaker 1: and sat down. I thought you were the punk, said Sylvia. 706 00:46:04,955 --> 00:46:09,395 Speaker 1: I looked at her coldly. I know where I have 707 00:46:09,515 --> 00:46:12,195 Speaker 1: seen you before, I said to the lounging man. It 708 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:15,955 Speaker 1: was at Zagreb in nineteen twenty seven. Tilden took you 709 00:46:16,035 --> 00:46:20,835 Speaker 1: in straight sets six love six love six love. The 710 00:46:20,915 --> 00:46:25,555 Speaker 1: man's eyes glittered. I think I bump off this man myself, 711 00:46:25,875 --> 00:46:30,715 Speaker 1: he said. Freddie walked over and handed the lounging man 712 00:46:31,195 --> 00:46:34,635 Speaker 1: an automatic. At this moment, the door Freddie had been 713 00:46:34,715 --> 00:46:38,315 Speaker 1: leaning against burst open, and in rushed the man with 714 00:46:38,395 --> 00:46:48,715 Speaker 1: the pipe, shouting, Gail Gaiale, Gail Gaylordsville, Gaylordsville bawled the brakeman. 715 00:46:49,475 --> 00:46:53,035 Speaker 1: Sylvia was shaking me by the arm. Quit mounting, she said, 716 00:46:53,235 --> 00:46:57,435 Speaker 1: everybody's looking at you. I rubbed my forehead with a handkerchief. 717 00:46:57,555 --> 00:47:01,155 Speaker 1: Hurry up, she said. Sylvia said, they don't stop here long. 718 00:47:02,315 --> 00:47:06,075 Speaker 1: I pulled the bags down and we got off. Have 719 00:47:06,195 --> 00:47:11,075 Speaker 1: you got the beans? I asked Sylvia. Alice Connell was 720 00:47:11,115 --> 00:47:13,395 Speaker 1: waiting for us on the way to their home. In 721 00:47:13,435 --> 00:47:15,795 Speaker 1: the car, Sylvia began to tell Alice about the woman 722 00:47:15,875 --> 00:47:19,795 Speaker 1: on one for two. I didn't say anything. Ain't thought 723 00:47:19,955 --> 00:47:25,755 Speaker 1: you as a spy, said Sylvia. They both laughed. She'll 724 00:47:25,795 --> 00:47:28,755 Speaker 1: probably got sick on the train, said Alice. They're probably 725 00:47:28,835 --> 00:47:30,675 Speaker 1: arranging for a doctor to meet her at the station. 726 00:47:31,035 --> 00:47:36,155 Speaker 1: That's just what I told him, said Sylvia. I lighted 727 00:47:36,155 --> 00:47:42,075 Speaker 1: a cigarette. The lady on one four two, I said firmly, 728 00:47:42,715 --> 00:47:51,355 Speaker 1: was definitely not sick. Oh Lord, said Sylvia. Here we 729 00:47:51,555 --> 00:47:58,875 Speaker 1: go again. The Lady on one four two by James Thurber. 730 00:48:12,755 --> 00:48:14,435 Speaker 1: First time I ever read that one. I was on 731 00:48:14,475 --> 00:48:18,515 Speaker 1: a train outside Philadelphia. It was perfect. I've done all 732 00:48:18,515 --> 00:48:20,395 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 733 00:48:20,395 --> 00:48:22,475 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arrange produced 734 00:48:22,475 --> 00:48:25,435 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel the 735 00:48:25,475 --> 00:48:29,595 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip 736 00:48:29,635 --> 00:48:32,995 Speaker 1: Channel guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, produced by 737 00:48:33,035 --> 00:48:36,875 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed 738 00:48:36,875 --> 00:48:39,955 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 739 00:48:39,995 --> 00:48:42,955 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, and it was written 740 00:48:42,995 --> 00:48:46,995 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of the ESPN Inc. Musical 741 00:48:47,035 --> 00:48:50,035 Speaker 1: comments from Nancy Fauss the best baseball stadium organist ever 742 00:48:50,075 --> 00:48:53,715 Speaker 1: and our announcer today was Larry David. Everything else pretty 743 00:48:53,835 --> 00:48:56,355 Speaker 1: much my fault. So let's countdown for this the eight 744 00:48:56,435 --> 00:48:59,555 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty ninth day since Donald Trump's first attempted 745 00:48:59,595 --> 00:49:02,435 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 746 00:49:02,475 --> 00:49:06,995 Speaker 1: Don't forget. Keep arresting him while we still can. The 747 00:49:07,115 --> 00:49:09,995 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Monday. Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. 748 00:49:10,075 --> 00:49:26,675 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 749 00:49:26,795 --> 00:49:31,075 Speaker 1: Keith Alerman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 750 00:49:31,115 --> 00:49:35,835 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 751 00:49:35,875 --> 00:49:37,235 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.