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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Course.

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Speaker 1: I'm respectable, says John Houston as Noah Cross in the

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Speaker 1: movie Chinatown to Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittis, I'm old. Politicians,

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Speaker 1: ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last

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Speaker 1: long enough. And then there is what happens when you

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Speaker 1: are all three of those things. As the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: is all three of those things, politicians pretending to be

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Speaker 1: justices working in an ugly building, and as Trump relied

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Speaker 1: upon and yesterday was proven correct, they are all whores.

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Speaker 1: And I have lots to say about the Supreme Whares

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Speaker 1: and what they have done and what they might yet do,

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Speaker 1: which probably enough includes making Joe Biden into an instant

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Speaker 1: American king. Yet they are not the lead story, because

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Speaker 1: the lead story is after a weekend plus in which

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Speaker 1: he made more than two dozen astonishing verbal mistakes in

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Speaker 1: just two speeches and struggled through all the rest of

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Speaker 1: the speeches. The evidence is mounting that what Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is suffering from is something called fluent aphasia. There are

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Speaker 1: two million Americans with aphasia, a kind of catch all

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Speaker 1: for a series of communication disorders ranging from the most

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Speaker 1: familiar in which the ability to speak or to understand

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Speaker 1: speech is eliminated or severely impaired, usually by a stroke

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Speaker 1: or a head injury, but fluent aphasia technically Wernicke's aphasia

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Speaker 1: may be the most terrifying, may be the most heartbreaking

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Speaker 1: of them all, because while the patient's ability to understand

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Speaker 1: speech and to make himself understood ya a speech may

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Speaker 1: be severely or totally limited, their ability to speak easily

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Speaker 1: and smoothly is not. The cadence is right, the grammar

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Speaker 1: is usually right. Long sentences are, at least at first,

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Speaker 1: no problem. Things that sound like answers to your questions

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Speaker 1: are there, except they are all with the wrong words.

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Speaker 1: It's Trump, That's what Trump has been doing that. And

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Speaker 1: obviously this is a layman asserting this. I could be

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Speaker 1: wildly wrong, but it is clear is something like this

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Speaker 1: that is what he's been doing. Wernicke's aphasia. Fluent aphasia

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Speaker 1: with growing frequency and an increasing tendency to bail out

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Speaker 1: of things when he gets lost. Byron Peterson is now

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Speaker 1: nearly eighty four years old. He lives in Nevada. He

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Speaker 1: has fluent aphasia, and he made a video for his therapists,

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Speaker 1: and it is still used to raise awareness for this condition,

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Speaker 1: which befell him not long after he hit his head

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Speaker 1: after a fall. The first tape is Byron Peterson. The

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Speaker 1: second tape is Donald Trump. Hi, Byron, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm happy? Are you pretty? You look? Hutton?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing today?

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Speaker 3: We stayed with the water over here at the moment

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Speaker 2: They're diving for them at the moment.

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Speaker 3: They will save in the moment he held water soon

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Speaker 3: for him with luck for him.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a cruise and we're about to we

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Speaker 1: will start it right here and they'll save their hands

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Speaker 1: right there for them.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Richmond, I'm thrilled to be back in the beautiful Virginia.

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Speaker 3: We love Virginia, and perhaps most importantly, we are a

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Speaker 3: nation that is no longer admired, respected or listened to

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Speaker 3: on the world stage in the United States. So we

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Speaker 3: call it migrant time.

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Speaker 2: I come.

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Speaker 3: I came up with that name because I come up

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Speaker 3: with a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of good names, don't I.

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Speaker 3: And Putin, you know, has so little respect for Obama

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Speaker 2: You heard that nuclear?

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Speaker 3: Did you just see Maduro Venezuelough.

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Speaker 2: It's aid unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: We will demolish the deep state.

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Speaker 3: We will expel the Wallmongreves ding boom.

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Speaker 2: This is me, I hear being.

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Speaker 3: The red lights are starting to go off anytime I

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Speaker 4: They typed the red light off.

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Speaker 2: Biden borderwheel.

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Speaker 3: Well you know this right, the Biden border bill. Look,

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Speaker 3: he can't campaign, he can't campaign, he can't speak, he

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Speaker 2: He looks like hell.

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Speaker 1: Adding on to the last two total it last Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: They have pupils from foreign countries, from countries where they

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Speaker 1: Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee and presumptive fluent aphasia victim

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Speaker 1: cannot serve as president of the United States like that,

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Speaker 1: decade ago, his brain does not work correctly. He should

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Speaker 1: receive our empathy. We are not monsters here, and the

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Speaker 1: therapies that can improve quality of life as his fluent

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Speaker 1: or disease. He has progresses, but he cannot serve as

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Speaker 1: candidacy immediately. And if this needed to be more dangerous

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Speaker 1: that proved he had an IQ of three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand, may not just be him lying his way

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Speaker 1: through yet more reality. He may have no idea that

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Speaker 1: because he's also been showing signs for years of another

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Speaker 1: brain injury or illness called annosagnosia, and Trump would not

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Speaker 1: be the first at this level of government to suffer

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Speaker 1: from it anno sugnosia, As the legendary David Dunning of

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Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger's Syndrome once wrote, an anosagnosic patient who is

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Speaker 1: paralyzed simply does not know that he is paralyzed. If

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Speaker 1: you put a pencil in front of them and ask

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Speaker 1: and they'll say, while I'm tired or I don't need

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Speaker 1: a pencil. That pencil reference is not random. It mainlines

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Speaker 1: back to the president, who in his lifetime was credited

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Speaker 1: with saving the American pencil industry. Woodrow Wilson, and as

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Speaker 1: America over the heads of a disapproving Senate. The conclusion

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Speaker 1: he had it earlier, after that stroke, President Wilson showed

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Speaker 1: all the signs of annosognosia. In the nineteen seventies, neuropsychiatrist

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Speaker 1: Edwin Weinstein was granted access to Woodrow Wilson's papers to

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Speaker 1: diagnose what happened to him, and he wrote quote following

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Speaker 1: Doctors who challenged Wilson were dismissed. People who knew him

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Speaker 1: So when you hear this and you realize Trump thinks

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I am indebted to the nation's leading authority on George Santos,

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Speaker 1: the reporter Jacqueline's Sweet were putting the topic of fluent

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Speaker 1: aphasia under my sometimes stuffed and incompetent knows, because God knows.

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Speaker 1: With Trump, we don't have enough to worry about with

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Speaker 1: him being crazy and evil and demented. We also need

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Speaker 1: may not have control of his own brain anymore, but

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Speaker 1: the Court betrayed democracy yesterday again, this time by going

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Speaker 1: going slower to help Trump. It's a versatile set of

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Speaker 1: whoores its members, including Jackson and Kagan and Sodomayor, who,

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Speaker 1: bye to representative government in this country, overruled one of

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Speaker 1: so for the benefit of one corrupt politician. Individually and

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Speaker 1: reading comprehension. They have proved themselves to be corrupt and illegitimate.

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Speaker 1: The Court's usefulness and relevance is at an end, and

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Speaker 1: whatever replaces it, the immediate need is obvious. The Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court must be dissolved. Because the Supreme Court is not

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Speaker 1: just made up of whores, It's made up of incompetent whores. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Because the Constitution makes Congress rather than the States, responsible

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Speaker 1: Nine nothing except it doesn't do that. Section three, as

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Speaker 1: Constitution says nothing about an enforcement responsibility. It's not given

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Speaker 1: not given to me. The unsigned court decision, and of

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Speaker 1: course it's unsigned. Who wants to go into history as

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Speaker 1: Trump's primary whore. Reads in part, quote an evolving electoral map,

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Speaker 1: map case quote could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties,

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Speaker 1: different times. Also, not your goddamn business. What the Constitution says,

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Speaker 1: that's your business, not whether you're worried about reactions to it.

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Speaker 1: The disruption would be all the more acute and could

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Speaker 1: if Section three enforcement were attempted after the nation has voted. Again,

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Speaker 1: Justice X, not asking you to do that. Nothing to

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Speaker 1: at it. It's reading the constitution. You're corrupt, You're stupid.

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Speaker 1: You should have just said Trump told us to do

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Speaker 1: it that way. Least show some self respect. Quote. Nothing

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Speaker 1: of two thousand and one. What was that case called?

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is full of shit and fullest of

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Speaker 1: all is Amy Coney Barrett in my judgment. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: a bad start in my judgment, this is not the

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Speaker 1: time to amplify disagreement with stridency. She writes. That has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with your job, ma'am. The Court has

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Speaker 1: say that in the preface when they gave you your

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Speaker 1: copy of So you're a Supreme Court justice, what the

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Speaker 1: hell do you do now? Quote, particularly in this circumstances,

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Speaker 1: he himself had confirmed to Chris Mortenson. And he called

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Speaker 1: Chris Mortenson out by name, and he insulted him. And

433
00:29:27,355 --> 00:29:31,355
Speaker 1: then they put mort on the air, and mort did

434
00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:34,555
Speaker 1: not do what I would have done, what almost anybody

435
00:29:34,595 --> 00:29:37,435
Speaker 1: in our professor would have done, and with good reason,

436
00:29:37,955 --> 00:29:39,675
Speaker 1: and explained what the truth was.

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00:29:39,755 --> 00:29:39,995
Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: Later, I was in the hallway and I saw Mort

439
00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:47,035
Speaker 1: and I just put my hands out, palms up, wordlessly

440
00:29:47,075 --> 00:29:49,435
Speaker 1: in a gesture of astonishment. And Mort knew what I meant,

441
00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:53,115
Speaker 1: and he said just because he didn't live up to

442
00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:57,955
Speaker 1: his word, doesn't give me the right to not live

443
00:29:58,075 --> 00:30:03,515
Speaker 1: up to mine. That's who died Sunday. Chris Mortenson was

444
00:30:03,555 --> 00:30:27,795
Speaker 1: seventy two years old, still ahead of us on this

445
00:30:27,875 --> 00:30:29,635
Speaker 1: all new edition of Countdown. You ever heard of the

446
00:30:29,675 --> 00:30:34,955
Speaker 1: auto train? I've heard of the auto train. I survived

447
00:30:34,995 --> 00:30:38,395
Speaker 1: the auto train when I was thirteen years old, and

448
00:30:38,475 --> 00:30:41,315
Speaker 1: I've had a vendetta in for the auto train ever since.

449
00:30:41,475 --> 00:30:43,675
Speaker 1: And I read something in the eighties about how the

450
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:45,355
Speaker 1: auto train didn't exist anymore.

451
00:30:45,355 --> 00:30:46,915
Speaker 2: I'll guess what it was. A lie.

452
00:30:47,275 --> 00:30:50,475
Speaker 1: The auto train is still running. It's running at this moment,

453
00:30:50,555 --> 00:30:54,275
Speaker 1: and somewhere on one of the auto trains, all of

454
00:30:54,315 --> 00:30:57,635
Speaker 1: the toilets are backing up. Coming up in things I

455
00:30:57,675 --> 00:31:01,475
Speaker 1: promised not to tell first, Yes, still more idiots to

456
00:31:01,475 --> 00:31:03,675
Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons

457
00:31:03,675 --> 00:31:08,875
Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons

458
00:31:08,915 --> 00:31:12,475
Speaker 1: in the world, The smell like backed up pilots, the

459
00:31:12,515 --> 00:31:17,315
Speaker 1: Bronze worse Jesse Waters, the one time Bill O'Reilly thug

460
00:31:17,635 --> 00:31:20,675
Speaker 1: who now continues the tradition of racism and stupidity that

461
00:31:20,715 --> 00:31:24,755
Speaker 1: Bill set on Fox after the Joe Biden Seth Meyers

462
00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:29,475
Speaker 1: ice cream viral video. Waters went on Fox and said

463
00:31:29,515 --> 00:31:33,195
Speaker 1: it wasn't manly to lick an ice cream cone in public.

464
00:31:33,835 --> 00:31:36,955
Speaker 1: Worse yet, he tried to imply that doing so was

465
00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:40,315
Speaker 1: evidence that Biden is impaired. Quote, you know who lights

466
00:31:40,395 --> 00:31:43,115
Speaker 1: up for ice cream? Children and the elderly. According to

467
00:31:43,155 --> 00:31:46,235
Speaker 1: the Alzheimer's Association, ice cream is a favorite for people

468
00:31:46,275 --> 00:31:49,955
Speaker 1: with diminished faculties. That's when The Daily Beast dug up

469
00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:53,515
Speaker 1: a Facebook post from August twenty nineteen with photos of

470
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Speaker 1: two employees at a place on the Jersey Shore called

471
00:31:56,875 --> 00:32:03,915
Speaker 1: Iceberg ice Cream posing with Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters holding

472
00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:08,475
Speaker 1: an ice cream cone. Caption, I'm Waters and this is

473
00:32:08,555 --> 00:32:12,075
Speaker 1: my world. Shout out to Jesse Waters for stopping in tonight.

474
00:32:13,475 --> 00:32:16,755
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying Jesse Waters has Alzheimer's, but if

475
00:32:16,755 --> 00:32:19,595
Speaker 1: you're only forty five and you've already forgotten when you

476
00:32:19,675 --> 00:32:22,355
Speaker 1: got photographed in public licking some ice cream, you might

477
00:32:22,395 --> 00:32:25,795
Speaker 1: want to see a specialist. Happily, it's probably not an illist.

478
00:32:25,915 --> 00:32:30,555
Speaker 1: It's just that Jesse is a fricking moron. The runner

479
00:32:30,675 --> 00:32:34,875
Speaker 1: up worser Daryl Leon McClanahan, the third Now he is

480
00:32:34,915 --> 00:32:37,555
Speaker 1: hardly the favorite among the candidates in the primary for

481
00:32:37,595 --> 00:32:40,995
Speaker 1: the Republican nomination for the governor of Missouri, but he's

482
00:32:41,035 --> 00:32:44,555
Speaker 1: one of them, and a Missouri Republican reposted a twenty

483
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Speaker 1: nineteen photo of him found by the Anti Defamation League,

484
00:32:48,755 --> 00:32:51,995
Speaker 1: in which would be Missouri Governor McClanahan the third is

485
00:32:52,035 --> 00:32:55,195
Speaker 1: shown standing next to a guy who's in full Ku

486
00:32:55,315 --> 00:32:59,075
Speaker 1: Klux Klan hood and robe, and they are both giving

487
00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:03,035
Speaker 1: the Hitler Nazi salute and oh, by the way, just

488
00:33:03,115 --> 00:33:09,195
Speaker 1: to complete the image, standing in front of a burning cross. Now,

489
00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:11,995
Speaker 1: McClanahan has told a Saint Louis newspaper that he sued

490
00:33:12,035 --> 00:33:15,355
Speaker 1: the ADL because it said or implied that he was

491
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Speaker 1: a member of the Klan.

492
00:33:16,435 --> 00:33:16,875
Speaker 2: Not true.

493
00:33:17,035 --> 00:33:19,635
Speaker 1: Darrell Leon the third says in the lawsuit he only

494
00:33:19,675 --> 00:33:23,355
Speaker 1: had quote honorary memberships in the Ku Klux Klan.

495
00:33:24,555 --> 00:33:25,395
Speaker 2: Wow, that's better.

496
00:33:25,995 --> 00:33:28,035
Speaker 1: Plus I assume that way you don't have to buy

497
00:33:28,075 --> 00:33:30,395
Speaker 1: your own hood and robe. You can just rent them

498
00:33:30,795 --> 00:33:34,315
Speaker 1: like shoes at a bowling alley. Bowling alley that happens

499
00:33:34,355 --> 00:33:37,595
Speaker 1: to be in front of a burning cross. But our winner,

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00:33:37,715 --> 00:33:41,835
Speaker 1: the worst, Kristin Welker, I would like to say, as

501
00:33:41,835 --> 00:33:43,395
Speaker 1: an aside that there is a report in the New

502
00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:46,515
Speaker 1: York Post from last night that a series of bedbugs

503
00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:49,955
Speaker 1: have been found at NBC News World headquarters.

504
00:33:49,475 --> 00:33:50,075
Speaker 2: In New York.

505
00:33:51,315 --> 00:33:54,835
Speaker 1: I assume that is a coincidence. We've been through all

506
00:33:54,955 --> 00:33:57,915
Speaker 1: this before. Of course, it's more evident than ever that

507
00:33:57,915 --> 00:34:00,915
Speaker 1: there was some kind of grand compromise at NBC News.

508
00:34:01,315 --> 00:34:04,715
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd would indeed leave meet the press claim it

509
00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:07,315
Speaker 1: was his own decision, but only if he was allowed

510
00:34:07,315 --> 00:34:10,755
Speaker 1: to choose his successor. And the successor that Chuck would

511
00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:14,235
Speaker 1: choose would be the one who would make everybody say, God,

512
00:34:14,355 --> 00:34:17,915
Speaker 1: we missed Chuck Todd, won't you please bring him back?

513
00:34:18,355 --> 00:34:20,435
Speaker 2: The new one is unbelievably worse.

514
00:34:21,675 --> 00:34:24,555
Speaker 1: There is no way of knowing if Kristin Welker wrote

515
00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:27,875
Speaker 1: this line herself. When I did NBC Nightly News a

516
00:34:27,915 --> 00:34:30,035
Speaker 1: couple of times, it was a half an hour show

517
00:34:30,035 --> 00:34:32,955
Speaker 1: with about three minutes of actual copy in it. They

518
00:34:32,995 --> 00:34:36,875
Speaker 1: had four writers, and the four writers were arguing over

519
00:34:36,915 --> 00:34:40,075
Speaker 1: whether to start one sentence with and two votes for

520
00:34:40,155 --> 00:34:43,675
Speaker 1: and and there were two votes for but they gave

521
00:34:43,755 --> 00:34:48,635
Speaker 1: me the decisive vote, and I said, it doesn't matter.

522
00:34:48,915 --> 00:34:51,835
Speaker 1: And I thought one of them would start crying, But

523
00:34:51,955 --> 00:34:54,875
Speaker 1: back to the point. I mean, even Chuck Todd covered

524
00:34:54,995 --> 00:34:57,835
Speaker 1: politics before he got his job with NBC News and

525
00:34:57,875 --> 00:35:01,395
Speaker 1: screwed up Meet the Press. Kristen Welker majored in history,

526
00:35:01,715 --> 00:35:05,515
Speaker 1: became a local newscaster in Providence and in Ready, California,

527
00:35:05,715 --> 00:35:08,995
Speaker 1: and was a weekend anchor in Philly when they started

528
00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:12,275
Speaker 1: bringing her in to do fill ins on like ninety

529
00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:16,355
Speaker 1: second newscasts that ran late nights at MSNBC and then boom,

530
00:35:16,475 --> 00:35:20,595
Speaker 1: White House carspotted. That is her training. One year at

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Speaker 1: NBC News and then twelve years as a White House correspondent,

532
00:35:24,715 --> 00:35:28,035
Speaker 1: So that means thirteen years of doing whatever her boss

533
00:35:28,075 --> 00:35:30,755
Speaker 1: has told her to do. So who knows if she

534
00:35:30,835 --> 00:35:33,915
Speaker 1: even understood what she was saying when she said on

535
00:35:33,995 --> 00:35:37,075
Speaker 1: Meet the Press in a voice perfectly suited to voice

536
00:35:37,115 --> 00:35:39,995
Speaker 1: over one of those smarmy lead in pieces on Dateline

537
00:35:40,315 --> 00:35:43,955
Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court was considering quote mister Trump's claim

538
00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:49,155
Speaker 1: that he's immune from criminal prosecution for allegedly trying to

539
00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:54,315
Speaker 1: overturn the twenty twenty election. Well, with a language like that,

540
00:35:54,355 --> 00:35:58,155
Speaker 1: she's got a Supreme Court job in her future, don't.

541
00:35:58,155 --> 00:36:03,035
Speaker 1: She allegedly allegedly tried to overturn the twenty twenty election.

542
00:36:03,195 --> 00:36:06,715
Speaker 1: He admits he did it. There's no allegedly, there's no

543
00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:09,795
Speaker 1: crime in this sentence. There's no reason to put it.

544
00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:14,315
Speaker 1: Allegedly he did it. He boasts about it, Allegedly like

545
00:36:14,475 --> 00:36:17,915
Speaker 1: allegedly the sun rises in the east, or allegedly Kristin

546
00:36:17,955 --> 00:36:20,115
Speaker 1: Welker and her bosses have all decided that they're going

547
00:36:20,195 --> 00:36:22,275
Speaker 1: to be damned if they lose their jobs if Trump

548
00:36:22,315 --> 00:36:26,235
Speaker 1: regains power, or allegedly Kristin Welker is an idiot. No

549
00:36:26,355 --> 00:36:31,835
Speaker 1: need for Allegedly Kristin Welker. The NBC president in charge

550
00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:34,835
Speaker 1: of Meet the Press is named Rebecca Blumenstein, the chairman

551
00:36:34,875 --> 00:36:37,555
Speaker 1: of NBC News is says our comde and the three

552
00:36:37,555 --> 00:36:43,515
Speaker 1: of them should all be fired. Allegedly two days worse person.

553
00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:57,755
Speaker 2: Hello, here's the number.

554
00:36:57,555 --> 00:36:59,755
Speaker 1: One story on the countdown and things I promise not

555
00:36:59,835 --> 00:37:01,835
Speaker 1: to tell. And every once in a while something will

556
00:37:01,875 --> 00:37:04,675
Speaker 1: suddenly appear in the newspaper that you actually do not accept.

557
00:37:05,635 --> 00:37:07,955
Speaker 1: I find the number of these things has been diminishing

558
00:37:07,995 --> 00:37:11,395
Speaker 1: steadily since I started reading newspapers about nineteen sixty six.

559
00:37:12,075 --> 00:37:16,075
Speaker 1: But every once in a while something is utterly shocking.

560
00:37:17,715 --> 00:37:23,715
Speaker 1: I quote the Washington Post. Amtrak has thirty seven routes

561
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:28,635
Speaker 1: that criss crossed the United States. Three of them are profitable.

562
00:37:30,075 --> 00:37:33,075
Speaker 1: Two of those, the Northeast Regional and the high speed

563
00:37:33,115 --> 00:37:37,195
Speaker 1: of Sella Traverse, the heavily populated territory between Boston and

564
00:37:37,235 --> 00:37:41,195
Speaker 1: the mid Atlantic. Like those trains, the third, according to

565
00:37:41,235 --> 00:37:49,835
Speaker 1: an Amtrak representative, is the auto train, which carries passengers

566
00:37:50,475 --> 00:37:58,675
Speaker 1: and their motor vehicles between Lorton, Virginia and Sanford, Florida.

567
00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:08,635
Speaker 1: Oo ooh oo, my earliest enemy.

568
00:38:10,635 --> 00:38:16,235
Speaker 4: I thought you were dead, Auto Train. I thought you

569
00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:22,395
Speaker 4: were dead. Now you may wish you had been.

570
00:38:24,915 --> 00:38:27,795
Speaker 1: The auto train might seem like an unlikely contender, the

571
00:38:27,875 --> 00:38:31,475
Speaker 1: post continues to be a money maker for Amtrak. It

572
00:38:31,515 --> 00:38:35,155
Speaker 1: operates on one single route in the Southeast region, not

573
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Speaker 1: known for a reliance on trains. It makes no true

574
00:38:39,555 --> 00:38:47,475
Speaker 1: stops on its approximately nine hundred mile journey. I thought

575
00:38:47,555 --> 00:38:49,715
Speaker 1: the auto train had gone out of business and the

576
00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:53,795
Speaker 1: rest of us were all safe, particularly me. And it

577
00:38:53,875 --> 00:38:56,235
Speaker 1: turns out, in reading the rest of the Washington Post article,

578
00:38:56,235 --> 00:39:01,035
Speaker 1: that in fact, sometime in the eighties, this bizarre train

579
00:39:02,035 --> 00:39:04,995
Speaker 1: did in fact stop running. It was no longer pro fitable.

580
00:39:05,075 --> 00:39:07,115
Speaker 1: It was run by a private company, and they went

581
00:39:07,235 --> 00:39:11,915
Speaker 1: out of business, and then they brought it back and

582
00:39:11,955 --> 00:39:16,475
Speaker 1: now it's the third most profitable of the three profitable

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00:39:16,515 --> 00:39:20,515
Speaker 1: Amtrak routes in the country. And as I read this article,

584
00:39:20,555 --> 00:39:23,915
Speaker 1: I was flashed back to March of nineteen seventy two,

585
00:39:23,915 --> 00:39:27,515
Speaker 1: when I was thirteen years old and Dad announced, guess what, Keith,

586
00:39:27,595 --> 00:39:31,915
Speaker 1: we are going to Florida for spring training. I have

587
00:39:32,035 --> 00:39:35,395
Speaker 1: to go see my dad for something, and he lives

588
00:39:35,435 --> 00:39:40,155
Speaker 1: in Naples, Florida. So We're going to go down there

589
00:39:40,195 --> 00:39:42,675
Speaker 1: by train, and I'm going to take our car with us.

590
00:39:44,035 --> 00:39:47,875
Speaker 1: And I said, I heard nothing beyond the phrase we're

591
00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:50,235
Speaker 1: going to spring training. We would wind up eventually in

592
00:39:50,275 --> 00:39:52,915
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the then home of the New York Yankees,

593
00:39:53,155 --> 00:39:55,555
Speaker 1: the team of my youth, and the rest of it

594
00:39:55,595 --> 00:40:01,755
Speaker 1: was just detail. We drove from Westchester County, outside of

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00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:05,995
Speaker 1: New York City to Lorton, Virginia, although I think it

596
00:40:06,035 --> 00:40:09,755
Speaker 1: was called something else then, or the actual destination point

597
00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:12,115
Speaker 1: where the auto train left from in Virginia was a

598
00:40:12,155 --> 00:40:16,035
Speaker 1: different city than Lorton. Because I would have thought of Horton,

599
00:40:16,075 --> 00:40:17,555
Speaker 1: and I would have thought of doctor Seuss, and then

600
00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:20,875
Speaker 1: I would have hated Doctor Seuss all these years. In

601
00:40:20,915 --> 00:40:23,595
Speaker 1: any way, a case, we were in Virginia somewhere and

602
00:40:24,195 --> 00:40:28,515
Speaker 1: it rained the whole trip five six thirty eighty hours

603
00:40:28,515 --> 00:40:32,355
Speaker 1: in the car, but Dad wanted to bring the car.

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Speaker 1: The car was a Cadillac, A big Cadillac. I would say,

605
00:40:37,795 --> 00:40:42,595
Speaker 1: it's the size of eight or ten SUVs. If you

606
00:40:42,675 --> 00:40:44,555
Speaker 1: sat in the back and wanted to talk to Dad,

607
00:40:44,595 --> 00:40:47,515
Speaker 1: you had to lean forward and yell. It was a

608
00:40:47,515 --> 00:40:51,315
Speaker 1: big car. And moreover, it meant everything to my dad,

609
00:40:51,315 --> 00:40:54,235
Speaker 1: and not because he was a car fanatic. My dad

610
00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:56,515
Speaker 1: grew up with his father, who we were going to

611
00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:01,715
Speaker 1: see via auto train in the Bronx in the nineteen thirties,

612
00:41:02,435 --> 00:41:05,035
Speaker 1: and often, as he said, they went a couple of

613
00:41:05,115 --> 00:41:10,235
Speaker 1: years without consistent hot water in their apartment. My grandfather,

614
00:41:10,275 --> 00:41:12,515
Speaker 1: who I may have mentioned once, had a city job,

615
00:41:12,795 --> 00:41:15,635
Speaker 1: got a promotion, came into work in his usual attire

616
00:41:15,715 --> 00:41:18,675
Speaker 1: of a open necked what we would now call a

617
00:41:19,275 --> 00:41:23,235
Speaker 1: kind of a soft shirt or a polo shirt. He

618
00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:24,555
Speaker 1: was told he had to wear a shirt and tie,

619
00:41:24,595 --> 00:41:26,875
Speaker 1: so he quit on the spot. And as Dad said,

620
00:41:27,155 --> 00:41:29,435
Speaker 1: they went from making about two thousand dollars a year

621
00:41:29,515 --> 00:41:31,675
Speaker 1: during the depression to making one hundred and eighty dollars

622
00:41:31,675 --> 00:41:34,915
Speaker 1: the next year from recycling comic books. Every once in

623
00:41:34,915 --> 00:41:37,755
Speaker 1: a while, either my grandmother or grandfather would show up

624
00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:40,555
Speaker 1: at school to pick my dad up and walk him

625
00:41:40,715 --> 00:41:42,995
Speaker 1: to their new apartment because they had moved out of

626
00:41:42,995 --> 00:41:45,235
Speaker 1: their apartment in his absence because they didn't have the

627
00:41:45,275 --> 00:41:48,115
Speaker 1: money to pay the rent. It was that kind of childhood.

628
00:41:48,475 --> 00:41:51,315
Speaker 1: My dad was offered a scholarship to Cornell Architecture. He

629
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Speaker 1: couldn't go because his father said, if you go, your

630
00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:57,195
Speaker 1: younger brother has to quit high school and go to work. Also,

631
00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:59,155
Speaker 1: I don't have the money to send you to Ethica,

632
00:41:59,195 --> 00:42:02,475
Speaker 1: New York on the bus. You'll have to hitchhike. That

633
00:42:02,675 --> 00:42:06,075
Speaker 1: was my father's childhood. He somehow managed to become an

634
00:42:06,155 --> 00:42:09,355
Speaker 1: architect without going to college. He had licenses in forty

635
00:42:09,395 --> 00:42:11,595
Speaker 1: states by nineteen seventy two, and he had a Cadillac,

636
00:42:11,635 --> 00:42:13,675
Speaker 1: and not only that, he leased it, So he had

637
00:42:13,675 --> 00:42:16,995
Speaker 1: a new Cadillac every other year and eventually every year.

638
00:42:17,555 --> 00:42:20,595
Speaker 1: And he loved that car and he wanted to show

639
00:42:20,635 --> 00:42:24,915
Speaker 1: it to his father, And so we took the auto train.

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00:42:26,795 --> 00:42:30,235
Speaker 1: As we got into the car to go to wherever,

641
00:42:30,355 --> 00:42:33,315
Speaker 1: Virginia to get on the auto train, which you just

642
00:42:33,475 --> 00:42:36,475
Speaker 1: got out of your car and drove it up onto

643
00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:38,915
Speaker 1: a rack of some sort, and it got loaded into

644
00:42:38,915 --> 00:42:40,595
Speaker 1: the back of the train, and then you walked half

645
00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:42,435
Speaker 1: a mile to the front of the train where the

646
00:42:42,475 --> 00:42:46,395
Speaker 1: sleeping quarters and the cars the coaches were. As we

647
00:42:46,475 --> 00:42:51,955
Speaker 1: got into our car, our Cadillac, his Cadillac, Dad made

648
00:42:51,955 --> 00:42:55,075
Speaker 1: the big reveal. Now I couldn't get any sleeping compartments

649
00:42:55,075 --> 00:42:58,875
Speaker 1: on the way down, only on the way back. Yeah,

650
00:42:58,875 --> 00:43:01,595
Speaker 1: we'll be sleeping in coach. It's all right. Well, it

651
00:43:01,635 --> 00:43:03,315
Speaker 1: gets there very early in the morning. It's only a

652
00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:06,595
Speaker 1: couple of hours.

653
00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:08,235
Speaker 2: Huh.

654
00:43:08,315 --> 00:43:10,115
Speaker 1: Well, again, I was only thinking about the going to

655
00:43:10,115 --> 00:43:12,115
Speaker 1: see the Yankees in spring training for the first time

656
00:43:12,155 --> 00:43:14,715
Speaker 1: in my life. Part. I did not hear that part.

657
00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:17,395
Speaker 1: So I had brought with me a couple of editions

658
00:43:17,435 --> 00:43:20,035
Speaker 1: of the Sporting News. I can still see the cover.

659
00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:22,555
Speaker 1: It was an article about fighting in hockey with a

660
00:43:22,555 --> 00:43:26,235
Speaker 1: picture of Dale Hoganson of the Montreal Canadian on the cover.

661
00:43:27,475 --> 00:43:30,675
Speaker 1: I brought my favorite pillow and we got on the

662
00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:35,715
Speaker 1: train and enjoyed the late March sits such as they

663
00:43:35,755 --> 00:43:41,955
Speaker 1: were in Virginia. And then it got dark, and then

664
00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:45,595
Speaker 1: we ate and then only as nine nine thirty ten

665
00:43:45,635 --> 00:43:47,915
Speaker 1: pm hit and we decided to go to sleep, did

666
00:43:47,955 --> 00:43:51,835
Speaker 1: I find out that A They did not turn all

667
00:43:51,875 --> 00:43:54,875
Speaker 1: the lights off on trains just because Keith wanted to

668
00:43:54,875 --> 00:43:59,315
Speaker 1: go to sleep. B People did not stop using the

669
00:43:59,355 --> 00:44:02,395
Speaker 1: aisle in the train just because I was trying to sleep,

670
00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:06,155
Speaker 1: and se I had no memory of ever trying to

671
00:44:06,235 --> 00:44:11,195
Speaker 1: sleep sitting up before. After a couple of hours of

672
00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:14,235
Speaker 1: not sleeping, my dad and I went and played cards

673
00:44:14,395 --> 00:44:19,195
Speaker 1: in the food car, and then we went to try

674
00:44:19,235 --> 00:44:21,155
Speaker 1: it again. And of course first I said, let me

675
00:44:21,315 --> 00:44:23,115
Speaker 1: use the bathroom before we go, And I went to

676
00:44:23,155 --> 00:44:25,795
Speaker 1: the toilet and it had been locked because it was broken.

677
00:44:26,355 --> 00:44:29,155
Speaker 1: So we went to the next car and that toilet

678
00:44:29,155 --> 00:44:31,675
Speaker 1: had overflowed and was broken. And we went to the

679
00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:34,995
Speaker 1: next car and that one was broken. There were no

680
00:44:35,115 --> 00:44:39,515
Speaker 1: operative toilets after ten pm. And guess what else? That

681
00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:44,075
Speaker 1: produced a very very nice smell throughout all of the cars.

682
00:44:45,955 --> 00:44:48,755
Speaker 1: I have no memory whatsoever of sleeping that night, just

683
00:44:48,795 --> 00:44:52,595
Speaker 1: getting angrier and angrier at the auto train, and my

684
00:44:52,675 --> 00:44:54,715
Speaker 1: dad said, it'll be entirely different on the way back.

685
00:44:54,755 --> 00:44:56,355
Speaker 1: We are going to have our own compartment. You will

686
00:44:56,395 --> 00:44:58,475
Speaker 1: have never noticed that just the way. All those people

687
00:44:58,475 --> 00:45:01,195
Speaker 1: sleeping in those compartments over there never noticed it, And

688
00:45:01,195 --> 00:45:02,715
Speaker 1: I said, why didn't we get one? He said they

689
00:45:02,715 --> 00:45:05,315
Speaker 1: didn't have any available. I said, how about some other year.

690
00:45:06,915 --> 00:45:08,875
Speaker 1: I was kind of upset. But Dad had his car

691
00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:12,195
Speaker 1: with him, so that was the important part. Well, I

692
00:45:12,235 --> 00:45:14,915
Speaker 1: don't remember many of the tales of getting off the train.

693
00:45:15,595 --> 00:45:17,675
Speaker 1: I like to think in retrospect, I may have waited

694
00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:19,755
Speaker 1: for it to slow down and I just jumped and

695
00:45:19,835 --> 00:45:23,115
Speaker 1: walked to Florida, but I don't think that happened. We

696
00:45:23,155 --> 00:45:27,395
Speaker 1: got to the area near Orlando Sanford, Florida, a place

697
00:45:27,555 --> 00:45:31,315
Speaker 1: I once went to again about nineteen ninety five or

698
00:45:31,315 --> 00:45:33,915
Speaker 1: so for ESPN, and I got cold, and it was

699
00:45:33,995 --> 00:45:36,115
Speaker 1: ninety degrees there, and I still got cold from the

700
00:45:36,115 --> 00:45:39,995
Speaker 1: memory of the auto train. And it turned out that

701
00:45:40,675 --> 00:45:44,035
Speaker 1: Dad had also not been completely transparent about why we

702
00:45:44,035 --> 00:45:47,635
Speaker 1: were going to see his father. It turned out the

703
00:45:47,715 --> 00:45:50,315
Speaker 1: trip was not really about spring training. It was about

704
00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:54,955
Speaker 1: showing the Cadillac to his father, and also being there

705
00:45:54,995 --> 00:45:59,675
Speaker 1: because my grandfather, my dad's father, was undergoing a serious

706
00:45:59,755 --> 00:46:03,315
Speaker 1: kidney operation that really was something of a risk to

707
00:46:03,395 --> 00:46:07,515
Speaker 1: his life. We went to this rather small hospital which

708
00:46:07,555 --> 00:46:09,675
Speaker 1: surprised me, and I can't remember if it was in

709
00:46:09,755 --> 00:46:12,915
Speaker 1: Naples or North Naples, which is where I think he lived,

710
00:46:13,475 --> 00:46:18,795
Speaker 1: in a parked truck of some kind with his second wife, Winnie,

711
00:46:19,675 --> 00:46:24,835
Speaker 1: who was appalling. Maybe it was a motor home. I

712
00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:29,155
Speaker 1: don't remember. It was not very impressive. Dad's Cadillac had

713
00:46:29,195 --> 00:46:32,275
Speaker 1: more room in it. It was, however, more impressive than

714
00:46:32,315 --> 00:46:34,235
Speaker 1: the auto train, and it took me two or three

715
00:46:34,315 --> 00:46:36,635
Speaker 1: days to stop making remarks about the auto train to

716
00:46:36,715 --> 00:46:39,195
Speaker 1: my father. In any event, we went there and it

717
00:46:39,235 --> 00:46:41,675
Speaker 1: was the day of my grandfather's surgery, and we were

718
00:46:41,715 --> 00:46:44,755
Speaker 1: waiting in the waiting room in this small hospital that

719
00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:48,075
Speaker 1: was small enough that the waiting room was on the

720
00:46:48,115 --> 00:46:52,675
Speaker 1: floor of the operating theaters. In fact, it was separated

721
00:46:52,715 --> 00:46:57,235
Speaker 1: only by swinging double doors, I think wooden swinging double

722
00:46:57,275 --> 00:47:01,755
Speaker 1: doors like wood paneling in somebody's basement from nineteen sixty two,

723
00:47:02,915 --> 00:47:07,915
Speaker 1: with big windows in them. So at one point my

724
00:47:08,035 --> 00:47:10,875
Speaker 1: father said, here he comes, and it wasn't my grandfather

725
00:47:10,915 --> 00:47:13,635
Speaker 1: he was referring to, It was the surgeon. The surgeon

726
00:47:14,195 --> 00:47:17,235
Speaker 1: came out and we stood to greet him and looked

727
00:47:17,235 --> 00:47:20,635
Speaker 1: through the windows of these swinging doors down towards the

728
00:47:20,675 --> 00:47:25,475
Speaker 1: operating theaters. I don't know, fifty yards away, forty yards away,

729
00:47:25,515 --> 00:47:29,395
Speaker 1: something distant but still visible. So we're all standing there,

730
00:47:29,395 --> 00:47:33,115
Speaker 1: and out comes the surgeon and he has still most

731
00:47:33,155 --> 00:47:36,435
Speaker 1: of his surgical attire on. I remember it bloodied. I

732
00:47:36,435 --> 00:47:38,995
Speaker 1: don't think it really was bloodied. But he came out

733
00:47:39,035 --> 00:47:43,395
Speaker 1: and he started with mister Alderman, and I'm very sorry

734
00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:47,995
Speaker 1: to tell you. There was an interesting series of reactions then.

735
00:47:49,515 --> 00:47:51,435
Speaker 1: I don't remember my sister, who then would have been

736
00:47:51,475 --> 00:47:55,195
Speaker 1: about four, having much of a reaction to this. I

737
00:47:55,235 --> 00:48:00,595
Speaker 1: think I saw a suppressed smile crossing my mother's face.

738
00:48:01,555 --> 00:48:05,475
Speaker 1: My father was impassive. The surgeon went on and I

739
00:48:05,555 --> 00:48:08,395
Speaker 1: went into shock to explain that my grandfather had died

740
00:48:08,435 --> 00:48:11,395
Speaker 1: on the operating table. So far, this was the best

741
00:48:11,435 --> 00:48:14,875
Speaker 1: trip we'd ever been on, right, And as he's going

742
00:48:14,915 --> 00:48:17,195
Speaker 1: on as to what happened and how they tried and

743
00:48:17,195 --> 00:48:22,075
Speaker 1: they were resuscitating, I was drawn to something I saw

744
00:48:22,115 --> 00:48:26,275
Speaker 1: in the distance over the surgeon's shoulder, through the windows

745
00:48:26,315 --> 00:48:30,675
Speaker 1: of those swinging double doors down towards the actual surgical theaters.

746
00:48:31,315 --> 00:48:35,275
Speaker 1: It was a nurse running towards us as fast as

747
00:48:35,275 --> 00:48:39,275
Speaker 1: she possibly could, And as the surgeon was solemnly saying

748
00:48:39,355 --> 00:48:42,195
Speaker 1: we were very sorry. On behalf of the hospital week,

749
00:48:42,675 --> 00:48:45,555
Speaker 1: provide you with a priest, or a minister, or a

750
00:48:45,675 --> 00:48:47,555
Speaker 1: rabbi or whatever your choice.

751
00:48:47,715 --> 00:48:53,275
Speaker 5: The doors swing open and the nurse says, doctor, there's

752
00:48:53,315 --> 00:48:57,275
Speaker 5: a pulse, and he says he looks at her, looks

753
00:48:57,315 --> 00:49:01,315
Speaker 5: back at us, looks at her again, and goes, excuse me,

754
00:49:01,755 --> 00:49:04,915
Speaker 5: and runs down the hall with her.

755
00:49:06,635 --> 00:49:09,795
Speaker 1: Two hours later, I was in my grandfather's room and

756
00:49:09,835 --> 00:49:11,835
Speaker 1: he was sitting there, and of course, being from the

757
00:49:11,835 --> 00:49:15,955
Speaker 1: Bronx from the early nineteen hundreds, he could not say

758
00:49:15,995 --> 00:49:19,395
Speaker 1: my name correctly. Neither of my grandfathers could pronounce thh

759
00:49:19,555 --> 00:49:23,035
Speaker 1: as an individual sound thh? Was it just another t

760
00:49:24,275 --> 00:49:27,235
Speaker 1: How you doing, Keith? And I said how are you doing?

761
00:49:27,635 --> 00:49:31,955
Speaker 1: He said, I'm all right, I'm a little foggy. I said,

762
00:49:32,675 --> 00:49:36,155
Speaker 1: so you were dead, that's good, they tell me. I said,

763
00:49:36,955 --> 00:49:40,035
Speaker 1: so what was it like? I think a lot of

764
00:49:40,035 --> 00:49:43,155
Speaker 1: people would like to know? And he said, what the

765
00:49:43,235 --> 00:49:48,155
Speaker 1: hell are you talking about? I was dead? We would

766
00:49:48,155 --> 00:49:50,195
Speaker 1: I know what it was like. I was dead. It

767
00:49:50,275 --> 00:49:53,075
Speaker 1: was nothing. They put me out, They wake me up,

768
00:49:53,115 --> 00:49:56,435
Speaker 1: and they tell me I was dead. Go ask your father.

769
00:49:56,515 --> 00:49:57,955
Speaker 1: You want to know what it's like when you're dead.

770
00:49:58,715 --> 00:50:02,555
Speaker 1: I never found out what that meant. So I did

771
00:50:02,635 --> 00:50:05,835
Speaker 1: go ask my father and I said, listen, what happened here.

772
00:50:05,875 --> 00:50:09,155
Speaker 1: He said, well, this is what they're telling us. They

773
00:50:09,235 --> 00:50:11,835
Speaker 1: tried to resuscitate him, and the surgeon came out and

774
00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:13,595
Speaker 1: they were about to put the sheet over him, and

775
00:50:13,595 --> 00:50:15,955
Speaker 1: they'd already put down the time of death. When that

776
00:50:16,035 --> 00:50:19,235
Speaker 1: nurse that we all saw, who I think. I appreciate

777
00:50:19,235 --> 00:50:21,155
Speaker 1: her enthusiasm, but maybe she could have handled it a

778
00:50:21,195 --> 00:50:23,635
Speaker 1: little differently because she just took five years off my life.

779
00:50:23,675 --> 00:50:30,355
Speaker 1: My father said, the nurse saw a pulse on the

780
00:50:30,355 --> 00:50:34,675
Speaker 1: blipper there, as he called it, and sure enough he

781
00:50:34,795 --> 00:50:39,315
Speaker 1: was back. Now, it's probable that they had been trying

782
00:50:39,355 --> 00:50:43,155
Speaker 1: to resuscitate him, and as they decided they had failed

783
00:50:43,195 --> 00:50:46,035
Speaker 1: and gave up, that was the moment it all clicked in,

784
00:50:46,395 --> 00:50:49,395
Speaker 1: and within a few seconds his heartbeat was visible. I

785
00:50:49,475 --> 00:50:52,075
Speaker 1: don't think what happened is what you think happened. And

786
00:50:52,115 --> 00:50:54,275
Speaker 1: I went, well, what I think happened the last time?

787
00:50:54,595 --> 00:50:56,475
Speaker 1: They gave the guy who did it his own religion.

788
00:50:57,715 --> 00:51:00,235
Speaker 1: And my father looked at me and he said, let's

789
00:51:00,275 --> 00:51:03,435
Speaker 1: just get out of here. He's fine. He saw my Cadillac,

790
00:51:04,835 --> 00:51:09,235
Speaker 1: and we don't want him having his own religion. The

791
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:12,395
Speaker 1: rest of the trip was fairly uneventful, considering that I'd

792
00:51:12,435 --> 00:51:14,795
Speaker 1: just seen my own grandfather come back from the dead,

793
00:51:15,155 --> 00:51:20,595
Speaker 1: apparently without any help. We went to many spring training

794
00:51:20,635 --> 00:51:22,955
Speaker 1: games and got to see a lot of old ballparks

795
00:51:22,995 --> 00:51:24,835
Speaker 1: that don't exist anymore, like the old one in Saint

796
00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:28,195
Speaker 1: Petersburg where we saw the Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds.

797
00:51:28,755 --> 00:51:36,635
Speaker 1: And then we went cross state via the Okie Finoch Trails,

798
00:51:36,915 --> 00:51:40,115
Speaker 1: watt Nabi, the Wassada whatever the road is that goes

799
00:51:40,155 --> 00:51:42,555
Speaker 1: through that has all the alligators on it, the Alligator

800
00:51:42,595 --> 00:51:45,835
Speaker 1: Alley thing. So we're in the other side of Florida,

801
00:51:45,915 --> 00:51:48,075
Speaker 1: and we went to what was then beautiful Fort Lauderdale

802
00:51:48,155 --> 00:51:50,995
Speaker 1: Stadium Fort Lauderdale Yankee Stadium and saw about half a

803
00:51:51,035 --> 00:51:53,795
Speaker 1: dozen games, and I had been to spring training for

804
00:51:53,835 --> 00:51:56,475
Speaker 1: the first time in my life. And Jens, just to

805
00:51:56,475 --> 00:51:58,595
Speaker 1: top it off, we go back to the hotel and

806
00:51:58,675 --> 00:52:01,155
Speaker 1: my dad says, got a surprise for you. I bought

807
00:52:01,155 --> 00:52:06,915
Speaker 1: season tickets for the Yankee games this year, four tickets

808
00:52:06,955 --> 00:52:09,795
Speaker 1: to each Yankee home game in the year nineteen seventy two.

809
00:52:10,875 --> 00:52:14,715
Speaker 1: I was a happy guy. I had forgotten the nightmares

810
00:52:15,155 --> 00:52:22,195
Speaker 1: of death and even worse the auto train. By the way,

811
00:52:22,235 --> 00:52:25,275
Speaker 1: the tickets, four of them for eighty one Yankee home games,

812
00:52:25,475 --> 00:52:29,395
Speaker 1: many double headers, probably about seventy different days, maybe sixty

813
00:52:29,435 --> 00:52:33,955
Speaker 1: eight seventy different days, four tickets every game, one thousand

814
00:52:33,995 --> 00:52:38,035
Speaker 1: dollars parking, Well that was a little more. That was

815
00:52:38,075 --> 00:52:41,955
Speaker 1: another one hundred dollars for the whole season, reserved parking

816
00:52:42,755 --> 00:52:48,195
Speaker 1: right across the street from the stadium, in the front row.

817
00:52:48,275 --> 00:52:52,315
Speaker 1: A different world half a century ago. Well, now, all

818
00:52:52,395 --> 00:52:55,275
Speaker 1: the adventures of my first trip to Florida and my

819
00:52:55,315 --> 00:52:58,075
Speaker 1: first trip to baseball spring training, and my first and

820
00:52:58,275 --> 00:53:03,395
Speaker 1: last trip on the auto train were complete except for

821
00:53:03,515 --> 00:53:09,355
Speaker 1: the return trip. We drove back to Sandford, Florida, and

822
00:53:09,955 --> 00:53:12,675
Speaker 1: we had those sleeping compartments, and they made all the

823
00:53:12,715 --> 00:53:15,395
Speaker 1: difference in the world. We had a nice dinner on

824
00:53:15,395 --> 00:53:18,475
Speaker 1: the train. We checked all the bathrooms. We had a

825
00:53:18,475 --> 00:53:21,235
Speaker 1: little private bathroom in the two rooms sweet my father

826
00:53:21,275 --> 00:53:24,075
Speaker 1: had gotten for the occasion, so we didn't even need

827
00:53:24,115 --> 00:53:26,395
Speaker 1: to worry about whether or not the toilets would completely

828
00:53:26,435 --> 00:53:29,875
Speaker 1: fail and fill the cars with a combination of chemical

829
00:53:29,915 --> 00:53:34,435
Speaker 1: smell and the other smell you associate with bathrooms, and

830
00:53:34,515 --> 00:53:37,875
Speaker 1: everything was fine. We went to bed early, and then

831
00:53:38,035 --> 00:53:43,675
Speaker 1: I woke up around dawn freezing, and I mean freezing.

832
00:53:44,635 --> 00:53:48,835
Speaker 1: We had transported ourselves from Florida into Georgia and the

833
00:53:48,875 --> 00:53:52,795
Speaker 1: heat did not come on, and it did not come

834
00:53:52,835 --> 00:53:58,155
Speaker 1: on all the way to I don't think it was Lorton, Virginia.

835
00:53:58,795 --> 00:54:01,275
Speaker 1: I like to think of it as auto train Virginia,

836
00:54:01,315 --> 00:54:02,795
Speaker 1: and I like to think of it as a place

837
00:54:02,995 --> 00:54:07,795
Speaker 1: that has no permanent residence. But apparently that's where the

838
00:54:07,835 --> 00:54:16,795
Speaker 1: auto train still lives, waiting, waiting for me, waiting happily.

839
00:54:16,835 --> 00:54:21,115
Speaker 1: I don't drive, so screw you, auto train.

840
00:54:37,235 --> 00:54:40,795
Speaker 2: The auto train is still running. Scroll your auto train.

841
00:54:43,995 --> 00:54:47,875
Speaker 1: I can still smell the smell. I've done all the

842
00:54:47,915 --> 00:54:50,035
Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown

843
00:54:50,115 --> 00:54:53,755
Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced,

844
00:54:53,795 --> 00:54:57,315
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars,

845
00:54:57,355 --> 00:55:01,075
Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Chaneale handled orchestration and keyboards,

846
00:55:01,195 --> 00:55:04,995
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, some

847
00:55:04,995 --> 00:55:08,235
Speaker 1: of the Beethoven compositions were arranged and performed by the

848
00:55:08,235 --> 00:55:11,555
Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman

849
00:55:11,635 --> 00:55:15,075
Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

850
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Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are

851
00:55:19,475 --> 00:55:22,515
Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our

852
00:55:22,595 --> 00:55:25,795
Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was

853
00:55:25,875 --> 00:55:29,915
Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today eight months

854
00:55:30,035 --> 00:55:34,355
Speaker 1: exactly until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one

855
00:55:35,315 --> 00:55:38,635
Speaker 1: and fifty fifth day since dementia J Trump's first attempted

856
00:55:38,635 --> 00:55:41,275
Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.

857
00:55:42,115 --> 00:55:45,115
Speaker 1: Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, the justice system,

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Speaker 1: to stop him from doing it again while we still can.

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Speaker 1: Bulletins is the news warrants until next time. I'm Keith Alremman.

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