1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:26,115 --> 00:00:33,155 Speaker 1: weekend was the reminder that without weapons, Donald Trump is nothing. 3 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:37,875 Speaker 1: No gun, Trump, who claimed to carry a gun, is nothing. 4 00:00:38,555 --> 00:00:43,795 Speaker 1: No tanks. Trump is nothing, No bombs, no bombs to 5 00:00:43,875 --> 00:00:47,995 Speaker 1: drop on Iran to assuage his sudden and obvious fomo 6 00:00:49,595 --> 00:00:52,115 Speaker 1: of somebody blowing people up and it's not him doing it. 7 00:00:53,475 --> 00:00:56,795 Speaker 1: Without that, Trump is nothing, no threat that if you 8 00:00:56,875 --> 00:01:00,075 Speaker 1: do not obey him, no matter how immoral it is, 9 00:01:00,195 --> 00:01:02,795 Speaker 1: or illogical or illegal his orders are, you will be 10 00:01:02,915 --> 00:01:06,475 Speaker 1: injured or wounded, or kill or at least metaphorically. So. 11 00:01:07,395 --> 00:01:12,635 Speaker 1: Without that, Trump is nothing. No parades, no mindlessly cheering 12 00:01:12,675 --> 00:01:17,835 Speaker 1: military grunts, no sadists cheering for blood. Without them, Trump 13 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:23,435 Speaker 1: is nothing. Hell, there was a parade and it drew 14 00:01:23,555 --> 00:01:31,955 Speaker 1: less than a minor league hockey game. This was no 15 00:01:32,155 --> 00:01:36,315 Speaker 1: Kings versus no crowds. There was a parade, and Trump 16 00:01:36,595 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 1: still was nothing. But most importantly, most tragically, most ominously 17 00:01:46,155 --> 00:01:50,595 Speaker 1: for us and for our future, no religious fanatic, no 18 00:01:50,915 --> 00:01:55,795 Speaker 1: tertiary maga disease infected fascist humanoids driving into a No 19 00:01:55,995 --> 00:01:58,755 Speaker 1: King's protest in Salt Lake City, ending with one dead. 20 00:01:59,835 --> 00:02:03,915 Speaker 1: None of them, dressed as cops to assassinate elected Minnesota 21 00:02:03,955 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: Democrats in the homes with eleven more on his Wisconsin list, 22 00:02:09,475 --> 00:02:12,835 Speaker 1: doing so on Trump's behalf because they think that will 23 00:02:12,875 --> 00:02:18,115 Speaker 1: serve him, or aid him, or just please him. A 24 00:02:18,195 --> 00:02:26,475 Speaker 1: pro life murderer, Without pro life murderers, Trump is nothing. 25 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:32,155 Speaker 1: The problem, of course, is there are weapons. There are guns, 26 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:34,555 Speaker 1: there are tanks, there are bombs, there are threats, there 27 00:02:34,595 --> 00:02:40,155 Speaker 1: are pro life murderers. It is so ingrained in our 28 00:02:40,195 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: system that it almost sounds stupid to say it aloud 29 00:02:42,555 --> 00:02:46,995 Speaker 1: and question it. For more than two centuries, our government 30 00:02:47,075 --> 00:02:50,435 Speaker 1: had operated, at least in part, at least for long 31 00:02:50,515 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: stretches on some sense of shared effort, of good faith, 32 00:02:55,915 --> 00:03:01,075 Speaker 1: of right makes might. That is as dead now as 33 00:03:01,115 --> 00:03:06,275 Speaker 1: it was during the Civil War, as bad as anywhere else. 34 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:12,235 Speaker 1: The fundamental baseline by which the governing related to the 35 00:03:12,275 --> 00:03:16,115 Speaker 1: governed is now entirely in effect. Here, you do what 36 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: we say, or we hurt you. That's what this weekend 37 00:03:22,315 --> 00:03:26,355 Speaker 1: was about. That's what happens when you spend a decade 38 00:03:26,795 --> 00:03:30,515 Speaker 1: introducing into the national consciousness the idea that violence will 39 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:35,675 Speaker 1: be supported by one political party, or at least one 40 00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:39,435 Speaker 1: political party will have a blind eye turned towards violence. 41 00:03:40,075 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: That's what happens when you spend five decades telling half 42 00:03:43,035 --> 00:03:45,435 Speaker 1: the people in this country that all the laws and 43 00:03:45,515 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: all the rules and all the precedents are unfair to 44 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:53,835 Speaker 1: them and prejudiced against them and will ultimately destroy them, 45 00:03:53,995 --> 00:03:58,275 Speaker 1: and that they, the vast majority, with all of the 46 00:03:58,315 --> 00:04:03,995 Speaker 1: wealth and the power, are actually near death's door because 47 00:04:03,995 --> 00:04:08,115 Speaker 1: that two percent could come and get them. That's what 48 00:04:08,275 --> 00:04:12,275 Speaker 1: happens when one Friday you send in troops and marines 49 00:04:12,595 --> 00:04:16,595 Speaker 1: because your terrorists attacks on southern California aren't leading to 50 00:04:16,795 --> 00:04:20,475 Speaker 1: enough Brown people being disappeared and renditioned or just left 51 00:04:20,515 --> 00:04:23,395 Speaker 1: where they are in mortal dread of it happening to them. 52 00:04:23,515 --> 00:04:26,235 Speaker 1: And then the next Thursday you tackle the brown senator 53 00:04:26,395 --> 00:04:29,635 Speaker 1: from that state because your administration cannot actually handle a 54 00:04:29,755 --> 00:04:33,555 Speaker 1: question and your play actors pretending to fill positions like 55 00:04:33,835 --> 00:04:37,155 Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security have no idea what to do 56 00:04:38,155 --> 00:04:42,355 Speaker 1: other than to shoot or threaten or promise to overthrow 57 00:04:42,395 --> 00:04:46,475 Speaker 1: the elected mayor or governor, or wear a funny hat 58 00:04:46,995 --> 00:04:49,435 Speaker 1: or have a senator from the opposite party thrown to 59 00:04:49,475 --> 00:04:52,715 Speaker 1: the floor. And if your idiot Secretary of Homeland Security 60 00:04:52,755 --> 00:04:55,195 Speaker 1: doesn't know what Habeas Corpus is. Of course she can 61 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:58,155 Speaker 1: claim nobody knew who the senator was, and she can 62 00:04:58,195 --> 00:05:04,315 Speaker 1: dismiss his existence by simply calling him that man. And 63 00:05:04,355 --> 00:05:06,435 Speaker 1: that's what what happens when two days later, a maga 64 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:09,115 Speaker 1: religious nut tries to kill all the liberals. He can 65 00:05:09,595 --> 00:05:13,875 Speaker 1: to thwart or shut down the no Kings protests because 66 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:18,275 Speaker 1: he wants kings, and he can always overrule reality, he 67 00:05:18,315 --> 00:05:22,075 Speaker 1: can always overrule the law, he can always overrule what 68 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:26,675 Speaker 1: he is right because he has a gun. And then 69 00:05:26,715 --> 00:05:29,955 Speaker 1: an idiot senator from Utah who thinks his combover works 70 00:05:30,875 --> 00:05:38,235 Speaker 1: can call the murderer a Marxist based on nothing and 71 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:42,075 Speaker 1: get applauded by a strung out, money crazed foreigner who 72 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:44,875 Speaker 1: happens to own the social media site on which the 73 00:05:44,915 --> 00:05:48,755 Speaker 1: crazy senator from Utah has made his completely slanderous and 74 00:05:49,395 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: incorrect claim. And then, of course, after it ends, even 75 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:57,875 Speaker 1: when it ends in humiliation for Trump, whose parade drew 76 00:05:57,955 --> 00:06:00,115 Speaker 1: fewer people than the Fourth of July parade used to 77 00:06:00,195 --> 00:06:02,155 Speaker 1: draw in Hastings on Hudson, New York when I was 78 00:06:02,195 --> 00:06:04,675 Speaker 1: a kid, after it ends, you look at the tear 79 00:06:04,915 --> 00:06:07,595 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and the blood in Minnesota, and the 80 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: inescapable dread of more to come in every corner of 81 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:13,995 Speaker 1: this nation. And you say violence has no place in 82 00:06:14,035 --> 00:06:19,235 Speaker 1: our democratic system, as if that has ever been true, 83 00:06:19,315 --> 00:06:21,995 Speaker 1: As if nearly a quarter of our presidents haven't been 84 00:06:22,035 --> 00:06:24,915 Speaker 1: shot and killed or just shot or just nearly shot, 85 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:29,435 Speaker 1: As if Representative Melissa Hortman and Senator John Hoffman and 86 00:06:29,475 --> 00:06:32,475 Speaker 1: their spouses hadn't been shot two days ago in Minnesota, 87 00:06:32,555 --> 00:06:37,235 Speaker 1: As if Trump himself shot at least shot at not 88 00:06:37,475 --> 00:06:41,315 Speaker 1: a year ago, did not even express sympathy for them, 89 00:06:41,715 --> 00:06:47,155 Speaker 1: just to promise for vengeance against the shooter, As if 90 00:06:47,195 --> 00:06:51,235 Speaker 1: the only legitimacy to the still growing Trump dictatorship wasn't 91 00:06:51,875 --> 00:06:56,395 Speaker 1: the still growing threat behind every move it makes that 92 00:06:56,515 --> 00:07:01,395 Speaker 1: if you do not obey, they will go and get 93 00:07:01,475 --> 00:07:09,435 Speaker 1: one of the weapons without which Donald Trump is nothing. 94 00:07:37,035 --> 00:07:40,155 Speaker 1: There is some small respite this morning, and it has 95 00:07:40,195 --> 00:07:44,475 Speaker 1: nothing to do with weapons. They got the twenty eleven 96 00:07:44,555 --> 00:07:48,795 Speaker 1: Georgia crops report apparently and printed it out or something 97 00:07:48,835 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: similar to it, and paste it in some pictures of 98 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:55,155 Speaker 1: Trump or something, and they made it brief, and they 99 00:07:55,155 --> 00:07:58,995 Speaker 1: showed it to him, and maybe they used flash cards 100 00:07:59,115 --> 00:08:02,195 Speaker 1: or finger puppets, and all of a sudden he tacoed 101 00:08:03,235 --> 00:08:06,795 Speaker 1: on the ice. Gestapo roundups of immigrants, at least the 102 00:08:06,875 --> 00:08:11,515 Speaker 1: immigrants in agriculture and hotels and restaurants, because you know, 103 00:08:13,875 --> 00:08:21,915 Speaker 1: mass starvation, while mass starvation later first, mass lower corporate 104 00:08:21,955 --> 00:08:27,755 Speaker 1: profits in agriculture, hotels, and restaurants. The Secretary of Agriculture, 105 00:08:27,875 --> 00:08:30,515 Speaker 1: who is not Julius sugar Baker from Designing Women. She 106 00:08:30,635 --> 00:08:33,915 Speaker 1: just looks like her stunt double rights that, oh no, 107 00:08:34,035 --> 00:08:37,435 Speaker 1: there's been no change in policy about deporting people. She 108 00:08:37,555 --> 00:08:41,795 Speaker 1: and Trump quote have consistently advanced a farmer's first approach, 109 00:08:42,075 --> 00:08:46,355 Speaker 1: recognizing that American households depend upon a stable and legal 110 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:52,435 Speaker 1: agricultural workforce. Severe disruptions to our food supply would harm Americans. 111 00:08:52,995 --> 00:08:55,715 Speaker 1: It took us decades to get into this mess, and 112 00:08:55,795 --> 00:08:59,115 Speaker 1: we are prioritizing deportations in a way that will get 113 00:08:59,195 --> 00:09:03,155 Speaker 1: us out. All of you people were going to rendition. 114 00:09:03,315 --> 00:09:07,235 Speaker 1: Please harvest those fields first and then get into the 115 00:09:07,275 --> 00:09:13,435 Speaker 1: back of the truck. In other words, the Secretary of Agriculture, 116 00:09:13,995 --> 00:09:17,035 Speaker 1: she saw the twenty eleven Georgia crops report and somebody 117 00:09:17,035 --> 00:09:20,995 Speaker 1: extrapolated it for her. I don't know how many times 118 00:09:21,355 --> 00:09:25,195 Speaker 1: I have cited the twenty eleven Georgia Crops Report. I 119 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:30,315 Speaker 1: think the first time I saw it was August twenty eleven. 120 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:35,395 Speaker 1: That state at that point, you're not even over with 121 00:09:35,635 --> 00:09:39,395 Speaker 1: announced eight had announced the year before a strict crackdown 122 00:09:39,515 --> 00:09:44,595 Speaker 1: on undocumented farm workers, back when this was a reasonable 123 00:09:44,635 --> 00:09:48,595 Speaker 1: thing to try or examine, and everybody said, you may 124 00:09:48,835 --> 00:09:51,795 Speaker 1: regret this, and they went, no, we don't think so. 125 00:09:51,955 --> 00:09:57,635 Speaker 1: We're smart. We're Republicans in Georgia. And shockingly enough, after 126 00:09:57,635 --> 00:10:00,235 Speaker 1: they announced that there would be raids and that they 127 00:10:00,275 --> 00:10:04,635 Speaker 1: would deport and arrest all of the migrant farm workers, 128 00:10:04,995 --> 00:10:10,315 Speaker 1: particularly the ones who did not have citizenship or other papers. 129 00:10:11,595 --> 00:10:15,955 Speaker 1: Almost none of the nation's itinerant farm workers went to 130 00:10:16,035 --> 00:10:18,915 Speaker 1: Georgia in twenty eleven. Who the hell could have seen 131 00:10:18,955 --> 00:10:22,555 Speaker 1: that coming. If you go here, we'll arrest you. Nobody 132 00:10:22,595 --> 00:10:27,275 Speaker 1: went so. In the middle of the summer, the state 133 00:10:27,275 --> 00:10:30,515 Speaker 1: Commissioner of Agriculture explained that all the Georgia onions and 134 00:10:30,555 --> 00:10:33,795 Speaker 1: the Georgia watermelons, and the Georgia blueberries and the other 135 00:10:33,835 --> 00:10:38,275 Speaker 1: Georgia produce was rotting in the Georgia fields, and the 136 00:10:38,315 --> 00:10:41,835 Speaker 1: farms were going bankrupt, and all the bribes to get 137 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:45,115 Speaker 1: all the Georgia residents to go and harvest the crops 138 00:10:45,235 --> 00:10:49,675 Speaker 1: were not working because Georgia residents were too slow, or 139 00:10:49,715 --> 00:10:56,275 Speaker 1: they quit within minutes because the work was too hard. Georgia, 140 00:10:56,555 --> 00:10:59,995 Speaker 1: said the head of agriculture there, a Republican, was at 141 00:11:00,075 --> 00:11:04,155 Speaker 1: least eleven thousand, far more short. They were forty percent 142 00:11:04,195 --> 00:11:07,755 Speaker 1: of what they needed. They were asking for volunteers. They 143 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:10,955 Speaker 1: were bringing in convicts and promising to let them go 144 00:11:11,115 --> 00:11:17,515 Speaker 1: sooner if they picked the walnuts. The state's agricultural industry 145 00:11:17,555 --> 00:11:20,555 Speaker 1: had already lost seventy five million dollars by the middle 146 00:11:20,595 --> 00:11:24,635 Speaker 1: of twenty eleven just in the spring and summer harvests, 147 00:11:26,195 --> 00:11:32,595 Speaker 1: so that times fifty states and now all of a sudden, 148 00:11:32,635 --> 00:11:42,395 Speaker 1: we are not prioritizing those in agriculture, those in hotels, 149 00:11:42,795 --> 00:11:47,075 Speaker 1: those in restaurants, those without whom the rest of us 150 00:11:47,555 --> 00:11:53,555 Speaker 1: will starve. And the message was you can keep doing this, 151 00:11:53,555 --> 00:11:56,875 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, but you personally will have to harvest all 152 00:11:56,955 --> 00:12:02,115 Speaker 1: the rude begas west of Denver. This does not mean 153 00:12:02,195 --> 00:12:04,835 Speaker 1: they are suddenly going to pivot back towards humanity. In 154 00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:08,115 Speaker 1: southern California or in the case of kilmar Abrego, Garcia 155 00:12:08,555 --> 00:12:11,875 Speaker 1: or anything else that's already in progress. In point of fact, 156 00:12:11,915 --> 00:12:14,515 Speaker 1: if anything, it looks like they are moving towards something 157 00:12:14,555 --> 00:12:17,915 Speaker 1: that might be supporting of perjury in the Abrego Garcia case, 158 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:21,355 Speaker 1: something like it. At least Adam Klassfeld reporting that one 159 00:12:21,395 --> 00:12:23,595 Speaker 1: of the new witnesses in the attempt to turn the 160 00:12:24,075 --> 00:12:26,915 Speaker 1: didn't even give him a ticket traffic stop of twenty 161 00:12:26,955 --> 00:12:31,835 Speaker 1: twenty two into life on Devil's Island or something. One 162 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 1: of the new witnesses is suddenly getting leniency on his 163 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:40,675 Speaker 1: thirty year prison term. He has been moved to a 164 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:46,035 Speaker 1: halfway house, and shock of shocks, ICE is suddenly reassessing 165 00:12:46,355 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: its immigration case against him. The judge in the newest 166 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:58,275 Speaker 1: case against our Dreyfus Abrego Garcia is also reportedly hesitating 167 00:12:58,275 --> 00:13:01,755 Speaker 1: to grant Abrego Garcia bail, not because he doesn't deserve it, 168 00:13:02,475 --> 00:13:05,715 Speaker 1: but because of ICE's continuing rage and they are acting 169 00:13:05,835 --> 00:13:08,995 Speaker 1: like just to pick something out of a hat. Ketamine 170 00:13:09,115 --> 00:13:15,515 Speaker 1: addicts who just ran out. She's worried about ICE's continuing 171 00:13:15,595 --> 00:13:18,635 Speaker 1: rage and its continuing threats to redisappear this man. The 172 00:13:18,675 --> 00:13:21,635 Speaker 1: moment he has let out of detention, the judge could 173 00:13:21,715 --> 00:13:25,555 Speaker 1: issue a bail ruling as early as today. Here is 174 00:13:25,595 --> 00:13:29,395 Speaker 1: what Trump should have done. He should have offered a 175 00:13:29,435 --> 00:13:33,515 Speaker 1: Brego Garcia a pardon if he said nice things about 176 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:39,635 Speaker 1: Christy nomes, bangs and dress up outfits, or if a 177 00:13:39,635 --> 00:13:41,675 Speaker 1: Brego Garcia had been willing to stand on a street 178 00:13:41,715 --> 00:13:44,795 Speaker 1: corner in Washington on Saturday night and watch Trump play 179 00:13:44,795 --> 00:13:48,755 Speaker 1: with his tanks and his toy soldiers. At one point, 180 00:13:49,755 --> 00:13:55,515 Speaker 1: presumably before they burned the tape, destroyed any digital machines 181 00:13:55,555 --> 00:13:59,915 Speaker 1: that recorded it, fired everybody who was involved in it. 182 00:13:59,995 --> 00:14:02,595 Speaker 1: At one point, Newsmax reported that there were ten thousand 183 00:14:02,595 --> 00:14:08,075 Speaker 1: people there. The estimates on the No Kings protests nationwide 184 00:14:08,355 --> 00:14:13,475 Speaker 1: organizers claim five million. Elliot Morris of Strength in numbers 185 00:14:13,475 --> 00:14:18,155 Speaker 1: formerly five thirty eight has taken reported individual cities and extrapolated, 186 00:14:18,475 --> 00:14:23,035 Speaker 1: and he had raised his calculation to a total all 187 00:14:23,235 --> 00:14:26,875 Speaker 1: of the protests combined, all of the marches somewhere between 188 00:14:27,035 --> 00:14:32,155 Speaker 1: four million, two hundred thousand and seven million people, about 189 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:40,235 Speaker 1: two percent of the population back at the event that 190 00:14:40,395 --> 00:14:42,315 Speaker 1: had what would have been a disappointing turnout at the 191 00:14:42,395 --> 00:14:45,195 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four July Fourth Parade down Farragut Parkway in Hastings, 192 00:14:45,235 --> 00:14:49,235 Speaker 1: on Hudson, New York. Even Stephen Chung's laugh out loud 193 00:14:49,355 --> 00:14:54,155 Speaker 1: lie was only two hundred and fifty thousand, which is 194 00:14:54,155 --> 00:14:59,835 Speaker 1: by itself pathetic. When the Washington Capitals held their parade 195 00:14:59,835 --> 00:15:03,795 Speaker 1: after winning hockey Stanley Cup in twenty eighteen, the DC 196 00:15:04,035 --> 00:15:08,155 Speaker 1: Subway reported that ridership was above average for that day 197 00:15:08,235 --> 00:15:10,795 Speaker 1: by two hundred and twenty eight thousand. So there is 198 00:15:10,835 --> 00:15:15,315 Speaker 1: no doubt that a hockey parade featuring exactly one large 199 00:15:16,355 --> 00:15:19,475 Speaker 1: not too dangerous bowl unless you drop it on your 200 00:15:19,515 --> 00:15:28,795 Speaker 1: foot drew fifty percent, fifty percent more, seventy five percent more, 201 00:15:29,715 --> 00:15:33,795 Speaker 1: ten times what Trump's dog and Pony show did. And 202 00:15:33,835 --> 00:15:35,475 Speaker 1: by the way, a dog and pony show would have 203 00:15:35,515 --> 00:15:39,635 Speaker 1: been way better by any measure. That was a terrible parade, 204 00:15:39,835 --> 00:15:45,075 Speaker 1: just terrible. When he fires Pete, Hegseth, and we all 205 00:15:45,075 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: wonder was it signal Gate? Was it the drinking? Was 206 00:15:47,795 --> 00:15:50,835 Speaker 1: it general's quitting? Was it Hegseith forgetting to wear pants 207 00:15:50,835 --> 00:15:54,115 Speaker 1: to a cabinet meeting? No, the answer will be he 208 00:15:54,275 --> 00:15:59,355 Speaker 1: was fired because Trump blamed him for the parade. No 209 00:15:59,475 --> 00:16:03,115 Speaker 1: troops marching in step, crowds so quiet you could hear 210 00:16:03,155 --> 00:16:07,875 Speaker 1: the tracks on the World War two tanks creaking and 211 00:16:07,915 --> 00:16:11,435 Speaker 1: making a noise so nails on a blackboard noisy that 212 00:16:12,515 --> 00:16:23,235 Speaker 1: it kept waking Trump up. Since it happened last Thursday, 213 00:16:23,275 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: I have been thinking almost continuously about the event involving 214 00:16:28,035 --> 00:16:33,195 Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padilla of California at the Christinoum Propaganda Conference 215 00:16:33,395 --> 00:16:38,155 Speaker 1: in southern California. I think it means much more than 216 00:16:38,835 --> 00:16:42,395 Speaker 1: we are even recognizing now. It is obviously a watershed 217 00:16:42,395 --> 00:16:46,875 Speaker 1: moment in the history of the aggressiveness, the aggression, the 218 00:16:46,995 --> 00:16:52,275 Speaker 1: violence inherent in the MAGA disease and its system, but 219 00:16:52,395 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: it may be even bigger than that. In the last 220 00:16:55,475 --> 00:16:58,515 Speaker 1: few days, it has dawned on me that in the 221 00:16:58,555 --> 00:17:01,675 Speaker 1: interpretation of what happened in that room and in that 222 00:17:01,755 --> 00:17:06,235 Speaker 1: hallway is the last four twenty to fifty years of 223 00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:11,275 Speaker 1: the brainwashing of the American right and the stupider people 224 00:17:11,315 --> 00:17:14,715 Speaker 1: in this country, and the underinformed people in this country, 225 00:17:14,955 --> 00:17:17,875 Speaker 1: and the racist people in this country. And it all 226 00:17:18,035 --> 00:17:21,675 Speaker 1: comes together. And this is not the first example, but 227 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:23,515 Speaker 1: this may be the best example, and it is the 228 00:17:23,555 --> 00:17:30,035 Speaker 1: most current example of why the far right MAGA, the Trumpists, 229 00:17:30,355 --> 00:17:34,475 Speaker 1: the Tea Party before them, the Republicans before them, why 230 00:17:34,515 --> 00:17:38,195 Speaker 1: they are so quick to be able to pass judgment 231 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:41,315 Speaker 1: on a situation like this and never let it bother 232 00:17:41,475 --> 00:17:47,075 Speaker 1: their consciences, nor never let facts interrupt their conclusions. There 233 00:17:47,115 --> 00:17:49,435 Speaker 1: have been all sorts of studies that suggest that there 234 00:17:49,475 --> 00:17:52,875 Speaker 1: is actually a difference in the modeling of the brain 235 00:17:53,395 --> 00:17:57,155 Speaker 1: of the conservative versus the liberal of all people. The 236 00:17:57,195 --> 00:18:01,555 Speaker 1: actor Colin Firth once spent money with the BBC to 237 00:18:01,795 --> 00:18:07,955 Speaker 1: conduct actual psychological and I believe some physiological studies on 238 00:18:07,995 --> 00:18:12,275 Speaker 1: whether or not there was processing issues that involved. Some 239 00:18:12,355 --> 00:18:15,195 Speaker 1: people saw this thing this way as a conservative, and 240 00:18:15,235 --> 00:18:17,955 Speaker 1: some people saw the same thing that way as a liberal. 241 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:24,075 Speaker 1: John Dene's book Conservatives Without Conscience quotes survey and after survey, 242 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:28,835 Speaker 1: and study after study, and autopsy after autopsy on the 243 00:18:28,875 --> 00:18:33,155 Speaker 1: idea that the brain of the conservative, the authoritarian is 244 00:18:33,395 --> 00:18:37,835 Speaker 1: actually different than that of the more liberal, the more egalitarian, 245 00:18:37,875 --> 00:18:42,155 Speaker 1: the more community based individual. But I'm not talking about that. 246 00:18:42,195 --> 00:18:47,235 Speaker 1: I'm talking about learned, perhaps experience learned from forty to 247 00:18:47,395 --> 00:18:52,915 Speaker 1: fifty years of listening to shit like Rush Limbaugh. And 248 00:18:52,995 --> 00:18:56,915 Speaker 1: here is what this amounts to. If you look at 249 00:18:56,915 --> 00:18:59,555 Speaker 1: the entirety of the event, and you have the entirety 250 00:18:59,595 --> 00:19:03,875 Speaker 1: of the background that Senator Padilla provided in the hours 251 00:19:04,075 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: after the event involving Secretary Nome, Secretary Garden Nome, the 252 00:19:10,595 --> 00:19:14,235 Speaker 1: dog murderer, nonme, the I would not vouch that she 253 00:19:14,315 --> 00:19:18,555 Speaker 1: could pass a sanity or a drug test. Gnome. And 254 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:23,795 Speaker 1: you analyzed the whole timeline, it's pretty clear what happened. 255 00:19:24,315 --> 00:19:27,715 Speaker 1: And there is one flaw in the Padia story, and 256 00:19:27,795 --> 00:19:30,475 Speaker 1: we would recognize it as liberals and let me go 257 00:19:30,555 --> 00:19:32,955 Speaker 1: through it quickly to make my point in terms of 258 00:19:33,235 --> 00:19:37,275 Speaker 1: how the other groups of people in this country don't 259 00:19:37,515 --> 00:19:42,595 Speaker 1: torture themselves over these details. We know he was in 260 00:19:42,635 --> 00:19:45,955 Speaker 1: that building to get a briefing from Homeland Security because 261 00:19:45,995 --> 00:19:48,675 Speaker 1: he had not been able to get anybody from Homeland 262 00:19:48,675 --> 00:19:52,755 Speaker 1: Security on the phone or by email in the preceding 263 00:19:52,795 --> 00:19:57,715 Speaker 1: week since Trump started his terrorist attacks on southern California, 264 00:19:57,755 --> 00:20:01,635 Speaker 1: since Trump started a civil war or attempted to in 265 00:20:01,715 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: which he would use the military against civilians on this 266 00:20:04,475 --> 00:20:08,075 Speaker 1: s streets of Los Angeles, he had not Padia, that is, 267 00:20:08,115 --> 00:20:10,115 Speaker 1: been able to get in touch with anybody. He'd tried 268 00:20:10,115 --> 00:20:12,155 Speaker 1: to get Secretary nom and he happened to be in 269 00:20:12,195 --> 00:20:14,275 Speaker 1: a building where he was going to get a briefing 270 00:20:14,915 --> 00:20:17,235 Speaker 1: from a military commander about what the hell they were 271 00:20:17,275 --> 00:20:19,635 Speaker 1: doing there, and hopefully what the hell they were not 272 00:20:20,115 --> 00:20:24,275 Speaker 1: going to be doing there. Somehow, either he knew in 273 00:20:24,355 --> 00:20:27,395 Speaker 1: advance or he found out as he was there that 274 00:20:27,595 --> 00:20:30,915 Speaker 1: NOME was conducting this as I called it, propaganda conference 275 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:33,915 Speaker 1: in a room in that building that they would be passing. 276 00:20:34,235 --> 00:20:38,275 Speaker 1: Now Padilla does not wander in off the street for this. 277 00:20:38,555 --> 00:20:42,955 Speaker 1: He is being escorted by I believe military people, by 278 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:46,635 Speaker 1: the official greeters in this situation, whoever they are. And 279 00:20:46,715 --> 00:20:49,555 Speaker 1: he says, we have some time before this meeting. Can 280 00:20:49,595 --> 00:20:51,875 Speaker 1: I pop in and listen to what Noame says. I 281 00:20:51,955 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 1: can't get any other answers from her. Maybe she's going 282 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:57,875 Speaker 1: to address my questions. He goes in, and course, if 283 00:20:57,915 --> 00:21:00,515 Speaker 1: you heard any of the NOME press conference, she's out 284 00:21:00,515 --> 00:21:07,315 Speaker 1: of her mind. She is either in full Trump servicing 285 00:21:08,075 --> 00:21:12,275 Speaker 1: in terms of selling each one of these hallucinatory talking 286 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:16,035 Speaker 1: of points about saving Los Angeles from the people elected 287 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:17,995 Speaker 1: to run it who are running it into the ground, 288 00:21:18,155 --> 00:21:22,155 Speaker 1: essentially offering a coup by the Department of Homeland Security 289 00:21:22,155 --> 00:21:25,035 Speaker 1: against the Governor of California, the Mayor of Los Angeles, 290 00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:27,875 Speaker 1: and anybody who gets in their way, and at some 291 00:21:28,115 --> 00:21:34,115 Speaker 1: point Padilla says, I have a question. Now. He knows 292 00:21:34,195 --> 00:21:36,355 Speaker 1: that the people who have just escorted him into that 293 00:21:36,475 --> 00:21:39,075 Speaker 1: room know that he is Senator Alex Padia. But he's 294 00:21:39,075 --> 00:21:42,875 Speaker 1: not wearing a big shirt that says I'm a senator. 295 00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:48,875 Speaker 1: He's not wearing a giant gold chain that says senator guy. 296 00:21:48,915 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: He's not wearing some sort of big id And he 297 00:21:53,275 --> 00:21:58,035 Speaker 1: has not spent ninety percent of his time on Fox News. 298 00:21:59,075 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: He's not Pam Bondi, who for a long time I 299 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:05,115 Speaker 1: thought was actually hosting the nine o'clock hour on Fox 300 00:22:05,155 --> 00:22:09,475 Speaker 1: News rather than simply appearing on it every night. He's 301 00:22:09,515 --> 00:22:13,875 Speaker 1: not wearing something that instantly identifies him to the people who, 302 00:22:13,995 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: in this equation actually matter as much as Christinome, Corey Lewandowski, 303 00:22:19,115 --> 00:22:24,275 Speaker 1: her advisor, advisor, whoever else was there on behalf of 304 00:22:24,315 --> 00:22:27,915 Speaker 1: the Gestapo. They are not as important as the people 305 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:31,035 Speaker 1: who are right there, standing next to Alex Padilla as 306 00:22:31,035 --> 00:22:34,715 Speaker 1: he comes into that room. Who are the militarized members 307 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:37,475 Speaker 1: of the FBI who have been pre chosen to be 308 00:22:37,675 --> 00:22:42,155 Speaker 1: on board with the political message. They are political policemen. 309 00:22:42,355 --> 00:22:45,715 Speaker 1: In effect, they are not just law enforcements. They are 310 00:22:46,835 --> 00:22:50,795 Speaker 1: maga enforcement. They are what we have feared. And at 311 00:22:50,835 --> 00:22:54,435 Speaker 1: this point in June of a presidency, of a new presidency, 312 00:22:54,595 --> 00:22:57,035 Speaker 1: they are already in place. They don't know who the 313 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:00,675 Speaker 1: hell that is. That's the one flaw in this equation. 314 00:23:01,355 --> 00:23:06,875 Speaker 1: Everything that happens after they decid that this man must 315 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:12,675 Speaker 1: be thrown to the floor is the fault of the FBI. 316 00:23:13,235 --> 00:23:17,355 Speaker 1: There should be mass firings, suspensions, prosecutions. Padia should sue. 317 00:23:17,475 --> 00:23:19,395 Speaker 1: There should be people who spend the rest of their 318 00:23:19,435 --> 00:23:22,475 Speaker 1: lives answering for this in court. The men who took 319 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:24,875 Speaker 1: him out of that room, who dragged him, the men 320 00:23:24,915 --> 00:23:26,995 Speaker 1: who threw him to the ground, the men who said 321 00:23:26,995 --> 00:23:29,475 Speaker 1: that the FBI has the rights here and you cannot 322 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:32,355 Speaker 1: film this, All of them in jail. If we could 323 00:23:32,355 --> 00:23:36,555 Speaker 1: get them there, it probably won't happen. Bankrupt them, wait 324 00:23:36,635 --> 00:23:41,515 Speaker 1: to make Trump pardon them. But there is one flaw 325 00:23:41,635 --> 00:23:46,755 Speaker 1: in that equation. Padia assumed people knew he was Padia. 326 00:23:47,075 --> 00:23:50,755 Speaker 1: That's the only part of this that is even remotely 327 00:23:50,835 --> 00:23:53,955 Speaker 1: his fault. And I would say, on the scale of 328 00:23:54,155 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: apportioning responsibility for the entire event, on a scale of 329 00:23:59,595 --> 00:24:02,555 Speaker 1: one to one hundred and ninety eight, is Christy Nome 330 00:24:02,595 --> 00:24:06,675 Speaker 1: not responding to calls the entirety of the Trump administration 331 00:24:07,075 --> 00:24:12,155 Speaker 1: attacking southern California. The obviously the security goons and the 332 00:24:12,155 --> 00:24:16,035 Speaker 1: Gestapo members and the FBI MAGA, and it's just one 333 00:24:16,075 --> 00:24:21,755 Speaker 1: group now, it's b IIMGA. Ninety eight percent is them 334 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:24,355 Speaker 1: and maybe two percent, maybe one and a half percent 335 00:24:24,435 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 1: is Padilla, simply because he assumed, having identify himself to 336 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:31,515 Speaker 1: the people with him, that when push came to shove, 337 00:24:31,835 --> 00:24:34,755 Speaker 1: literally one of them would say no, that Senator Alex Padilla, 338 00:24:34,915 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: leave him alone, and they didn't, leading to a, if 339 00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:41,275 Speaker 1: you want, conspiracy theory that they set him up for 340 00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:43,475 Speaker 1: this in some occasional though it doesn't seem to me 341 00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: like something this intricate could be worked out by these 342 00:24:46,475 --> 00:24:50,115 Speaker 1: MAGA idiots. It might have been a conspiracy of opportunity 343 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:53,195 Speaker 1: where they realized he was getting heated and there might 344 00:24:53,235 --> 00:24:56,115 Speaker 1: be a good photo op for the right wing here 345 00:24:56,195 --> 00:25:00,515 Speaker 1: in which, oh, guess what, the Hispanic senator from California 346 00:25:00,755 --> 00:25:07,195 Speaker 1: is thrown to the floor while defending his fellow foreigners. 347 00:25:07,915 --> 00:25:10,795 Speaker 1: In any event, we can now then analyze what happens 348 00:25:10,835 --> 00:25:14,555 Speaker 1: in the hallways and the conflicting instructions from these goons 349 00:25:15,155 --> 00:25:18,755 Speaker 1: and his Padia's attempt to respond to them, and then 350 00:25:18,795 --> 00:25:22,555 Speaker 1: as Padia added the idea that suddenly Corey Lewandowski appears 351 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:25,755 Speaker 1: and goes let him go, let him go right now, 352 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:30,395 Speaker 1: Of all people, Corey Lewandowski, possibly because he has seen 353 00:25:30,435 --> 00:25:33,595 Speaker 1: the consequences of what happens when you man handle somebody 354 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:36,275 Speaker 1: in a hallway and how that can follow you for 355 00:25:36,315 --> 00:25:38,435 Speaker 1: a few years, at least he had the presence of 356 00:25:38,475 --> 00:25:40,875 Speaker 1: mind to say, we don't need this, or he may 357 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: have said we've already got all we needed on video. 358 00:25:44,155 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: So my point in going to such length to go 359 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:51,155 Speaker 1: into ten minutes worth of just detail on a line 360 00:25:51,155 --> 00:25:54,195 Speaker 1: by line basis of what happened and where Alex Padilla 361 00:25:54,355 --> 00:25:56,635 Speaker 1: might not have done exactly what he would have done 362 00:25:56,835 --> 00:26:00,435 Speaker 1: had he planned this out, had this been perhaps a stunt, 363 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:05,635 Speaker 1: like many politicians do often to great effect of stunts 364 00:26:06,075 --> 00:26:09,075 Speaker 1: that have been for the benefit of mankind. If you 365 00:26:09,115 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: would like to stretch the definition just slightly, the emancipation 366 00:26:13,115 --> 00:26:16,555 Speaker 1: proclamation was a stunt. The timing of it certainly was 367 00:26:16,595 --> 00:26:22,875 Speaker 1: a stunt. In any event, this is the liberal interpretation 368 00:26:23,035 --> 00:26:25,955 Speaker 1: of what Padilla did, and you can see the knots 369 00:26:26,155 --> 00:26:30,475 Speaker 1: I can turn myself into while stating that Alex Padilla 370 00:26:30,635 --> 00:26:33,235 Speaker 1: is ninety eight and a half percent right, I am 371 00:26:33,275 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 1: still sitting there looking at that other one and a 372 00:26:35,995 --> 00:26:39,075 Speaker 1: half percent saying, well, see here's here's the window that 373 00:26:39,115 --> 00:26:41,395 Speaker 1: you left open for them. And now I'll give you 374 00:26:41,435 --> 00:26:47,035 Speaker 1: the mag of viewpoint on this. What happened? What happened? 375 00:26:47,555 --> 00:26:51,715 Speaker 1: Senator goes in, yells at our secretary, beautiful Christynome, and 376 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:55,235 Speaker 1: then gets thrown to the floor. It was a terrorist attack. 377 00:26:55,315 --> 00:27:00,075 Speaker 1: He tried to kill her? Or more simply, what happened? 378 00:27:00,155 --> 00:27:03,395 Speaker 1: What happened? A senator went in and attacked our beautiful 379 00:27:03,475 --> 00:27:08,235 Speaker 1: Christy Noome. Okay, whose fault is it? Is it Biden's fault? 380 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:12,235 Speaker 1: Is it? Is it George Soros's fault? Let's decide quickly 381 00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:15,635 Speaker 1: and then we'll work backwards. It's obviously his fault. He 382 00:27:15,715 --> 00:27:18,035 Speaker 1: obviously tried to attack her. He may have tried to 383 00:27:18,155 --> 00:27:21,555 Speaker 1: kill her. Now let's fill in the facts. What's on 384 00:27:21,595 --> 00:27:23,635 Speaker 1: the tape? Oh, okay, we're going to ignore that fact. 385 00:27:23,795 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: We don't have to sow what he says. He's Alex Padia. 386 00:27:26,475 --> 00:27:28,955 Speaker 1: Who the hell knows who Alex Padia is? How many 387 00:27:28,995 --> 00:27:34,275 Speaker 1: alex Padias are there in southern California. They have defeated 388 00:27:34,715 --> 00:27:39,115 Speaker 1: the scientific method. What is it five hundred, six hundred 389 00:27:39,155 --> 00:27:41,915 Speaker 1: years since Francis Bacon said no, the way to solve 390 00:27:41,955 --> 00:27:44,115 Speaker 1: most problems is to figure out what the f just 391 00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:47,675 Speaker 1: happened and then try to figure out why. No, they 392 00:27:47,675 --> 00:27:50,195 Speaker 1: have erase that go to the conclusion, what do you 393 00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:52,635 Speaker 1: want the reply to this to be? What do you 394 00:27:52,675 --> 00:27:55,195 Speaker 1: want the public perception of an event like that to be? 395 00:27:55,875 --> 00:28:03,835 Speaker 1: Senator attacks Christy Nome, Senator barges in, senator confronts Christine No, 396 00:28:04,235 --> 00:28:10,435 Speaker 1: senator violates law, Senator terror. Whatever answer you want, you 397 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:15,155 Speaker 1: reach it first and then work backwards. And there is 398 00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:19,715 Speaker 1: no one and a half percent acknowledgment that perhaps perhaps 399 00:28:19,755 --> 00:28:23,035 Speaker 1: there was an overreaction on the part of the Gestapo. 400 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:30,475 Speaker 1: Perhaps there would be a reaction that you're the senator 401 00:28:31,675 --> 00:28:34,155 Speaker 1: from California and you were one of the people who 402 00:28:34,275 --> 00:28:38,475 Speaker 1: voted on Christy Nomes's nomination. And even if she doesn't 403 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:43,235 Speaker 1: remember that many she is stupid. One hundred senators. That's 404 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:47,835 Speaker 1: a lot of senators to ask her to remember, but 405 00:28:48,195 --> 00:28:50,115 Speaker 1: she should have remembered the fact that there are two 406 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:53,275 Speaker 1: California senators and she's in California try to overthrow the 407 00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:57,115 Speaker 1: government of California. She's a terrorist in California trying to 408 00:28:57,155 --> 00:29:02,475 Speaker 1: overthrow the government, holding a news conference, a propaganda conference 409 00:29:02,595 --> 00:29:04,515 Speaker 1: at which she is explaining she's going to overthrow the 410 00:29:04,555 --> 00:29:10,475 Speaker 1: goverm of California. She could have had two pictures printed 411 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: out for her of who the two senators from California are, 412 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:18,155 Speaker 1: so if you see one of them, you can confront 413 00:29:18,235 --> 00:29:21,515 Speaker 1: him or whatever, or you can stop, you can step 414 00:29:21,555 --> 00:29:25,955 Speaker 1: in and show how you actually are a good secretary 415 00:29:25,995 --> 00:29:30,955 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. She didn't know. There's nobody on the 416 00:29:31,075 --> 00:29:33,835 Speaker 1: right of the equation. There is no one left. There 417 00:29:33,915 --> 00:29:37,195 Speaker 1: is no brain cell functioning. There is no part of 418 00:29:37,235 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: the hive mind of the fascists and the Nazis and 419 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:43,475 Speaker 1: the Magas and the other scumbags who would say, wait, 420 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:46,355 Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge that Christy f this up a 421 00:29:46,355 --> 00:29:48,995 Speaker 1: little bit one and a half percent. They won't do it. 422 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:53,035 Speaker 1: You and I would say at Alex Padi would probably say, 423 00:29:53,515 --> 00:29:58,195 Speaker 1: I wish I had been wearing my giant senatorial lanyard 424 00:29:58,915 --> 00:30:03,555 Speaker 1: or my giant sweatshirt with my picture on it that 425 00:30:03,715 --> 00:30:08,075 Speaker 1: says Senator the picture Padilla on it. I wish I 426 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:11,035 Speaker 1: had been doing that. I wish I had been there 427 00:30:11,995 --> 00:30:15,915 Speaker 1: with I don't know Bono, who could have said that's 428 00:30:16,435 --> 00:30:26,395 Speaker 1: Senator Padilla, or I don't know Lee Atwood, who the singer. 429 00:30:28,555 --> 00:30:30,515 Speaker 1: But this is where we are, and that's what's been 430 00:30:30,515 --> 00:30:33,635 Speaker 1: bothering me about the event since it happened on Thursday. 431 00:30:34,715 --> 00:30:37,675 Speaker 1: You and I would look at it and analyze where 432 00:30:38,355 --> 00:30:40,915 Speaker 1: there might be a flaw, And on the other side 433 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:43,715 Speaker 1: of the equation, there are no flaws. There is no 434 00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:47,795 Speaker 1: detail to analyze. There is simply a decision made. What 435 00:30:48,515 --> 00:30:51,955 Speaker 1: are we going to tell everybody happened here? And then 436 00:30:51,995 --> 00:30:55,675 Speaker 1: we will fill in and make up the facts as necessary, 437 00:30:57,635 --> 00:31:02,955 Speaker 1: and fixing that will take a lot longer and will 438 00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:06,515 Speaker 1: be a lot more painful and may do a lot 439 00:31:06,555 --> 00:31:11,515 Speaker 1: more towards tearing this country apart than the problem of 440 00:31:11,555 --> 00:31:14,555 Speaker 1: what they are trying to do. The terrorist attack on 441 00:31:14,595 --> 00:31:18,475 Speaker 1: southern California that the Trump administration is still intending to 442 00:31:18,515 --> 00:31:21,195 Speaker 1: conduct before they move on to the terrorist attack on 443 00:31:21,315 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: Illinois and the terrorist attack on New York, those problems 444 00:31:27,315 --> 00:31:33,315 Speaker 1: will be transcendent because I think ultimately Americans will defeat Trump. 445 00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:37,035 Speaker 1: But what do we do about a world in which 446 00:31:37,355 --> 00:31:41,675 Speaker 1: half the people in this country already know the answer 447 00:31:42,595 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: and are now just filling in the facts and making 448 00:31:44,915 --> 00:31:52,755 Speaker 1: up the facts to fit that answer. Also of interest here, 449 00:31:52,795 --> 00:31:55,555 Speaker 1: it is amazing you can know everything about politics and 450 00:31:55,595 --> 00:31:58,355 Speaker 1: when it counts, you can still make a fool out 451 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: of yourself. Or you can know nothing about politics and 452 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:04,395 Speaker 1: when it counts, you can still make a fool out 453 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:10,795 Speaker 1: of your On the same topic, the sagas of CNN's 454 00:32:10,835 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: political director David Shalian and the increasingly laugh out loud 455 00:32:15,795 --> 00:32:24,635 Speaker 1: funny stephen A. Smith. That's next. This is Countdown. This 456 00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:48,755 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith old Woman still ahead on this 457 00:32:48,915 --> 00:32:52,395 Speaker 1: editiontive Countdown. You know we haven't done in weeks and 458 00:32:52,515 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. Fridays with Thurber. I know it's not Friday. 459 00:32:59,715 --> 00:33:02,515 Speaker 1: How much did they charge you to listen to this podcast? 460 00:33:03,035 --> 00:33:04,755 Speaker 1: If we want to make it Friday for ten, but 461 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:09,555 Speaker 1: it's going to be Friday, you want to refund, refund 462 00:33:11,275 --> 00:33:14,675 Speaker 1: some Thurber and his great story about I'm just gonna 463 00:33:14,675 --> 00:33:16,635 Speaker 1: surprise you now that you put up a fight over 464 00:33:16,675 --> 00:33:20,155 Speaker 1: it first, believe it or not, There's still more new 465 00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the new miscreants, 466 00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:28,195 Speaker 1: morons and dunn in gruger effects specimens. Who constitutes the 467 00:33:28,315 --> 00:33:34,235 Speaker 1: latest other worst persons in the world, the bronze worse. 468 00:33:35,115 --> 00:33:40,195 Speaker 1: There's always a tweet. I'll just read the tweet and 469 00:33:40,315 --> 00:33:44,035 Speaker 1: then I'll tell you who it's from. The hint is 470 00:33:44,155 --> 00:33:49,715 Speaker 1: it's not Trump. It's connected to Trump. Ready. We do 471 00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:53,795 Speaker 1: not seek regime change, Trump declares as he escalates his 472 00:33:53,875 --> 00:33:59,155 Speaker 1: regime change war against Iran. Neocons like Graham Bolton are 473 00:33:59,275 --> 00:34:02,155 Speaker 1: cheering to all who voted for Trump because of his 474 00:34:02,235 --> 00:34:06,635 Speaker 1: anti war rhetoric. It's time to reel he lied to you. 475 00:34:07,555 --> 00:34:13,835 Speaker 1: Stand with me against Trump's Iran war hashtag Trump's War. 476 00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:19,475 Speaker 1: Three forty one PM January three, twenty twenty, written by 477 00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:32,835 Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabber, the director of National Hypocrisy No Information Information 478 00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:40,315 Speaker 1: about hypocrisy. What an absolute bubblehead runner up, Speaking of 479 00:34:40,355 --> 00:34:46,755 Speaker 1: which worser Stephen A. Smith. I thought, because he'd been 480 00:34:46,875 --> 00:34:50,555 Speaker 1: quiet lately, that he'd got in a hint that covering 481 00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:55,395 Speaker 1: a burgeoning dictatorship is not just doing whatever your pal 482 00:34:55,555 --> 00:34:59,755 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity says is a good idea. It's not the 483 00:34:59,795 --> 00:35:02,195 Speaker 1: same as trying to turn a rumor you made up 484 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:06,075 Speaker 1: about an NBA free agent changing teams maybe in three 485 00:35:06,235 --> 00:35:10,435 Speaker 1: years into eleven hours of programming today and then going 486 00:35:10,515 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: wall to wall with it tomorrow. It's not like that, Steve. 487 00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:18,635 Speaker 1: This is Stephen A. Smith on the beating up of 488 00:35:18,835 --> 00:35:23,395 Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padilla. Here you have this Senator Alex Padilla. 489 00:35:23,755 --> 00:35:27,315 Speaker 1: Can Christy Nomes speak? Could you have waited till she 490 00:35:27,435 --> 00:35:31,515 Speaker 1: finished to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You 491 00:35:31,515 --> 00:35:34,235 Speaker 1: are a senator, right, you couldn't wait? So that was 492 00:35:34,395 --> 00:35:37,755 Speaker 1: just you out of control because you were just losing it. Huh, 493 00:35:37,915 --> 00:35:41,915 Speaker 1: You a United States senator, couldn't compose yourself and let 494 00:35:41,955 --> 00:35:44,915 Speaker 1: the head of Homeland Security finish her thoughts before you 495 00:35:44,995 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: ask the question. Couldn't do that? Huh? Couldn't do it? 496 00:35:48,195 --> 00:35:49,955 Speaker 2: Huh. 497 00:35:50,475 --> 00:35:56,835 Speaker 1: First clue, Steven does not know what senators are. Second, 498 00:35:57,235 --> 00:36:00,995 Speaker 1: Stephen does not know that Christy Nome is one of 499 00:36:01,035 --> 00:36:05,915 Speaker 1: the batties. Third, Stephen does not really that Christy Nome 500 00:36:05,995 --> 00:36:09,515 Speaker 1: has been avoiding the questions of that senator and other 501 00:36:09,635 --> 00:36:12,515 Speaker 1: senators since she lied to all the senators in her 502 00:36:12,515 --> 00:36:16,355 Speaker 1: confirmation hearing. But the best part here is Stephen A. 503 00:36:16,435 --> 00:36:21,355 Speaker 1: Smith does not know what a Stephen A. Smith is. 504 00:36:21,995 --> 00:36:26,555 Speaker 1: Let me reread this a little bit more appropriately, this 505 00:36:26,675 --> 00:36:30,115 Speaker 1: is a revision of what Steven A. Smith said about 506 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:34,195 Speaker 1: Alex Padia. Here you have this, Stephen A Smith. Can 507 00:36:34,395 --> 00:36:37,195 Speaker 1: somebody else speak? Could you have waited till they finished 508 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:39,915 Speaker 1: to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You're a 509 00:36:39,955 --> 00:36:42,635 Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith, right, You couldn't wait? So that was 510 00:36:42,715 --> 00:36:46,235 Speaker 1: just you out of control because you were just losing it. Huh, You, 511 00:36:46,675 --> 00:36:49,955 Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith, couldn't compose yourself and let the other 512 00:36:49,995 --> 00:36:53,235 Speaker 1: person finish their thoughts before you ask the question. Couldn't 513 00:36:53,235 --> 00:36:54,675 Speaker 1: do that? Huh? Couldn't do it? 514 00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,635 Speaker 2: Huh. 515 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:02,675 Speaker 1: I sometimes think if Stephen A. Smith's image actually did 516 00:37:02,715 --> 00:37:05,835 Speaker 1: appear when he looked in a mirror, and he looked 517 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:09,675 Speaker 1: in a mirror, he wouldn't know who that was. Stephen 518 00:37:10,675 --> 00:37:15,275 Speaker 1: Interrupting people, shouting them down and being disrespectful to them. 519 00:37:15,875 --> 00:37:18,635 Speaker 1: That's your job. You do it well. They pay you 520 00:37:18,715 --> 00:37:22,435 Speaker 1: millions for it. I hate the phrase stay in your lane, 521 00:37:23,475 --> 00:37:26,395 Speaker 1: Stay in your goddamn lane. You're making a fool out 522 00:37:26,395 --> 00:37:30,235 Speaker 1: of yourself, and eventually sooner rather than later with this 523 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: level of lack of sophistication and the facts, by the way, 524 00:37:33,915 --> 00:37:36,555 Speaker 1: that the right wingers will never believe you for very 525 00:37:36,595 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: many reasons that should also be obvious to you. Eventually 526 00:37:40,995 --> 00:37:45,475 Speaker 1: you will begin to destroy your sports brand. Stop stop. 527 00:37:46,275 --> 00:37:51,355 Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that, no, wait, stop, come back, but 528 00:37:51,555 --> 00:37:55,075 Speaker 1: the winner. Just emphasizing what I mentioned before that you 529 00:37:55,115 --> 00:37:58,435 Speaker 1: don't have to be an amateur to act amateurish. On 530 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:04,635 Speaker 1: the subject of Senator Padilla, David Shalien CNN Political direct 531 00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,875 Speaker 1: and I sometimes think that there is no such role 532 00:38:08,075 --> 00:38:12,675 Speaker 1: or such person, and this is a brilliant comedic performance. 533 00:38:13,155 --> 00:38:17,355 Speaker 1: Maybe it could be Patton Oswalt done up in like 534 00:38:18,115 --> 00:38:24,515 Speaker 1: extra jowls, extra prosthetic jowls put on to him to 535 00:38:24,595 --> 00:38:29,475 Speaker 1: make him look look like a thumb with eyes and 536 00:38:29,515 --> 00:38:33,395 Speaker 1: glasses drawn on it. I think that may be the explanation. 537 00:38:33,715 --> 00:38:37,075 Speaker 1: But until we are able to confirm that David Shalian 538 00:38:37,195 --> 00:38:42,675 Speaker 1: is just Paton Oswalt dressed up to look ridiculous, we're 539 00:38:42,715 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: going to have to assume that he really is the 540 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:47,235 Speaker 1: political director of CNN. He really is the idiot who 541 00:38:47,235 --> 00:38:51,275 Speaker 1: insisted that not fact checking either candidate in a presidential 542 00:38:51,275 --> 00:38:55,275 Speaker 1: debate when one of them was lying and apparently strung 543 00:38:55,315 --> 00:38:58,675 Speaker 1: out on something and the other was making a huge 544 00:38:58,755 --> 00:39:02,555 Speaker 1: number of mistakes because of some sort of perceptual problems. 545 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:06,115 Speaker 1: Not fact checking either of them was the only fair thing. 546 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:10,235 Speaker 1: This is the man who portrays himself as a neutral 547 00:39:10,355 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: in the field, and yet he dined with Trump horrors, 548 00:39:13,995 --> 00:39:17,955 Speaker 1: Jason Miller, Stephen Chung, and Chris Lassivit, all of them 549 00:39:18,115 --> 00:39:21,355 Speaker 1: the night before a Republican debate. Oh but he's a neutral. 550 00:39:21,915 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: This is what he said about the Padilla assault. I 551 00:39:26,995 --> 00:39:29,915 Speaker 1: mean she was holding a press conference and delivering a 552 00:39:29,955 --> 00:39:32,915 Speaker 1: statement to the press. He's not a member of the press. 553 00:39:33,235 --> 00:39:38,435 Speaker 1: The astonishment, I cannot recreate it, the astonishment in Shalian's voice. 554 00:39:38,515 --> 00:39:43,155 Speaker 1: You're not a member of the press. You know. Senators 555 00:39:43,155 --> 00:39:47,155 Speaker 1: often ask questions too, sir, you're not a member of 556 00:39:47,235 --> 00:39:50,395 Speaker 1: the press. You work for CNN. You're no longer a 557 00:39:50,395 --> 00:39:56,035 Speaker 1: member of the press either. It's a whorehouse. Anyway, back 558 00:39:56,035 --> 00:39:58,795 Speaker 1: to the quote, this wasn't a hearing or an open 559 00:39:58,875 --> 00:40:01,755 Speaker 1: form for senators to ask questions. Well, no, of course not, 560 00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:03,395 Speaker 1: because no one would have lied to them at that 561 00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:07,195 Speaker 1: if she'd even to answer any of those questions. He 562 00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:09,955 Speaker 1: clearly showed up at a public event just to create 563 00:40:09,995 --> 00:40:13,235 Speaker 1: a moment and do exactly what you're describing, to show 564 00:40:13,235 --> 00:40:17,395 Speaker 1: his constituents, not just Democrats, that he's fighting from his perspective. 565 00:40:17,835 --> 00:40:22,435 Speaker 1: David Shealey and CNN political director, bullshit. You have no 566 00:40:22,715 --> 00:40:26,155 Speaker 1: earthly clue what you're talking about. If I had ever 567 00:40:26,195 --> 00:40:30,115 Speaker 1: said anything quite that stupid, even if I was misinformed 568 00:40:30,195 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: by reliable sources who got it completely wrong and it 569 00:40:33,195 --> 00:40:36,555 Speaker 1: was their fault, if I had ever said anything approaching that, 570 00:40:36,635 --> 00:40:40,115 Speaker 1: I would have resigned. I would have resigned somewhere between 571 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:43,675 Speaker 1: the he's fighting and then the from his perspective, and 572 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:46,475 Speaker 1: then I would have gone, oh no, I'm I've misspent 573 00:40:46,555 --> 00:40:51,395 Speaker 1: my entire life. I resign. Gnome had been avoiding his 574 00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:54,195 Speaker 1: questions and the questions of all Democrats. She had just 575 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:57,875 Speaker 1: finished explaining how she and Trump were going to overthrow 576 00:40:57,915 --> 00:41:02,955 Speaker 1: the socialist mayor and governor in Los Angeles and California. 577 00:41:04,475 --> 00:41:10,195 Speaker 1: He's in not a public place, an open forum, but 578 00:41:10,435 --> 00:41:13,515 Speaker 1: he showed up at a public event. This is in 579 00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:16,875 Speaker 1: the federal building. He is a senator, He's a member 580 00:41:16,875 --> 00:41:19,835 Speaker 1: of the federal government. Did you not know that political 581 00:41:19,875 --> 00:41:23,235 Speaker 1: director of CNN he was on his way to a 582 00:41:23,315 --> 00:41:29,755 Speaker 1: briefing about the incursion, the terrorist attack by Trump using 583 00:41:29,795 --> 00:41:33,795 Speaker 1: the National Guard and the fing Marines on the streets 584 00:41:33,795 --> 00:41:36,755 Speaker 1: of southern California. He's on his way to a briefing. 585 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:42,075 Speaker 1: He entered that room with the cooperation and consent of 586 00:41:42,395 --> 00:41:46,075 Speaker 1: his escorts, one an FBI agent and the other a 587 00:41:46,195 --> 00:41:50,915 Speaker 1: National Guard officer. He clearly showed up at a public 588 00:41:50,955 --> 00:41:57,475 Speaker 1: event just to create a moment. Unbelievable, create a moment. 589 00:41:57,595 --> 00:42:01,435 Speaker 1: And by the way, David Chillyan, you and CNN are 590 00:42:01,515 --> 00:42:05,955 Speaker 1: opposed to the creation of moments. Is this the CNN 591 00:42:06,035 --> 00:42:08,875 Speaker 1: that last weekend, not this past one, but the week before, 592 00:42:09,395 --> 00:42:13,355 Speaker 1: postponed the news for three hours to show a Broadway show. 593 00:42:14,355 --> 00:42:17,475 Speaker 1: I'm all with that, except for the fact that while 594 00:42:17,475 --> 00:42:20,435 Speaker 1: that was happening, there was mayhem on the streets of 595 00:42:20,475 --> 00:42:23,155 Speaker 1: Los Angeles caused by the government of the United States. 596 00:42:23,355 --> 00:42:26,315 Speaker 1: And you, instead, instead of showing news, you showed a 597 00:42:26,395 --> 00:42:29,915 Speaker 1: play about the news. In nineteen fifty four, This just 598 00:42:30,035 --> 00:42:37,995 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. Create a moment. That's all CNN does, 599 00:42:38,075 --> 00:42:40,715 Speaker 1: That's all the modern media is doing. That's the Washington 600 00:42:40,835 --> 00:42:44,115 Speaker 1: that the Washington posts new phrase, create a moment, or 601 00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:52,035 Speaker 1: it's vivid storytelling for all America, which is consultants, speaker, 602 00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:56,475 Speaker 1: create a moment. He clearly showed up at a public event. 603 00:42:56,715 --> 00:42:59,275 Speaker 1: He was being escorted by the FBI and a National 604 00:42:59,275 --> 00:43:03,435 Speaker 1: Guard officer to a briefing on the attempt to overthrow 605 00:43:03,475 --> 00:43:08,955 Speaker 1: the democracy, just to create a moment. Listen, pal, if 606 00:43:08,995 --> 00:43:11,075 Speaker 1: you were any good at creating moments, if you were, 607 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:13,115 Speaker 1: if you knew how to create a moment, if you 608 00:43:13,195 --> 00:43:16,475 Speaker 1: knew what a moment was, you wouldn't be at Effing's 609 00:43:16,475 --> 00:43:20,475 Speaker 1: CNN watching the place melt around you, like the opening 610 00:43:20,555 --> 00:43:26,475 Speaker 1: animation from the TV series mad Men. David I actually 611 00:43:26,555 --> 00:43:29,835 Speaker 1: would fire him before I fired Jake Tappert. Worse than that, 612 00:43:30,115 --> 00:43:34,955 Speaker 1: I would make him do a primetime CNN show every night. Shalien, 613 00:43:35,435 --> 00:43:42,435 Speaker 1: CNN's political director and today's other worst person in the movement. 614 00:43:58,955 --> 00:44:02,515 Speaker 1: Some years ago, I did an audiobook of Theber stories, 615 00:44:03,115 --> 00:44:06,755 Speaker 1: with the proceeds going to the Literary Estate, on the 616 00:44:06,835 --> 00:44:10,555 Speaker 1: idea that the more people heard Thurber, the better. And 617 00:44:10,595 --> 00:44:12,915 Speaker 1: one of the great compliments, one of the greatest compliments 618 00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:16,315 Speaker 1: I have ever received, was that when the thing was published, 619 00:44:16,475 --> 00:44:21,795 Speaker 1: it did not say Thurber Audios collection or whatever read 620 00:44:22,275 --> 00:44:28,555 Speaker 1: by me. It said performed by me. I guess that's 621 00:44:28,595 --> 00:44:31,435 Speaker 1: because they did a lot of different voices, or because 622 00:44:31,435 --> 00:44:35,395 Speaker 1: we included in it one particular story that really does 623 00:44:36,075 --> 00:44:39,035 Speaker 1: kind of need a cast of a few different people 624 00:44:39,395 --> 00:44:42,715 Speaker 1: for one sub scene in the middle of it. I 625 00:44:42,755 --> 00:44:45,115 Speaker 1: think you will recognize it when we get there. The 626 00:44:45,195 --> 00:44:50,235 Speaker 1: story is from his epic Tale of his youth, somewhat 627 00:44:50,275 --> 00:44:54,115 Speaker 1: exaggerated my life in hard times. The Car we had 628 00:44:54,155 --> 00:45:00,915 Speaker 1: to Push by James Thurber. Many autobiographers, among them Lincoln 629 00:45:00,955 --> 00:45:06,555 Speaker 1: Stephens and Gertrude Atherton, describe earthqua their families have been in. 630 00:45:07,635 --> 00:45:10,515 Speaker 1: I am unable to do this because my family was 631 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:14,115 Speaker 1: never in an earthquake, but we went through a number 632 00:45:14,115 --> 00:45:17,195 Speaker 1: of things in Columbus that were a great deal like earthquakes. 633 00:45:17,755 --> 00:45:21,395 Speaker 1: I remember, in particular some of the repercussions of an 634 00:45:21,435 --> 00:45:26,275 Speaker 1: old Rio we had that would not go unless you 635 00:45:26,315 --> 00:45:28,515 Speaker 1: pushed it for quite a way and suddenly let your 636 00:45:28,555 --> 00:45:32,475 Speaker 1: clutch out. The brand does not sound familiar. A Rio 637 00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:37,395 Speaker 1: was an early automobile. Once we had been able to 638 00:45:37,435 --> 00:45:40,195 Speaker 1: start the engine easily by cranking it, but we had 639 00:45:40,235 --> 00:45:42,595 Speaker 1: had the car for so many years that finally it 640 00:45:42,635 --> 00:45:47,155 Speaker 1: wouldn't go unless you pushed it and let your clutch out. 641 00:45:48,275 --> 00:45:50,235 Speaker 1: Of course, it took more than one person to do this, 642 00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:53,355 Speaker 1: took sometimes as many as five or six, depending on 643 00:45:53,395 --> 00:45:57,115 Speaker 1: the grade of the roadway and conditions underfoot the car 644 00:45:57,275 --> 00:46:00,115 Speaker 1: was unusual, and that the clutch and brake were on 645 00:46:00,195 --> 00:46:03,235 Speaker 1: the same pedal, making it quite easy to stall the 646 00:46:03,315 --> 00:46:05,995 Speaker 1: engine after it got started, so that the car would 647 00:46:05,995 --> 00:46:10,595 Speaker 1: have to be pushed again. My father used to get 648 00:46:10,635 --> 00:46:14,275 Speaker 1: sick at his stomach pushing the car, and very often 649 00:46:14,355 --> 00:46:16,875 Speaker 1: was unable to go to work. He had never liked 650 00:46:16,875 --> 00:46:20,755 Speaker 1: the machine, even when it was good. Sharing my ignorance 651 00:46:20,915 --> 00:46:25,955 Speaker 1: and suspicion of all automobiles of that time and longer ago, 652 00:46:27,155 --> 00:46:29,555 Speaker 1: the boys I went to school, we used to be 653 00:46:29,555 --> 00:46:40,115 Speaker 1: able to identify every car as it passed by Thomas Flyer, Firestone, Columbus, Stevens, Dryer, Rambler, Winton, White, Steamer, etc. 654 00:46:41,875 --> 00:46:45,675 Speaker 1: I never could. The only car I was really interested 655 00:46:45,715 --> 00:46:48,755 Speaker 1: in was one that the get Ready Man, as we 656 00:46:48,835 --> 00:46:52,435 Speaker 1: called him, rode around town in a big red devil 657 00:46:52,475 --> 00:46:56,995 Speaker 1: with a door in the back. The get Ready Man 658 00:46:58,275 --> 00:47:03,275 Speaker 1: was a lank, unkept, elderly gentleman with wild eyes and 659 00:47:03,355 --> 00:47:06,435 Speaker 1: a deep voice who used to go about shouting at 660 00:47:06,435 --> 00:47:11,195 Speaker 1: people through a megaphone to prepare for the end of 661 00:47:11,275 --> 00:47:12,035 Speaker 1: the world. 662 00:47:13,355 --> 00:47:19,115 Speaker 2: Get Ready, get Ready. 663 00:47:18,715 --> 00:47:23,475 Speaker 1: He would bellow, the world is coming to an end. 664 00:47:25,595 --> 00:47:29,355 Speaker 1: His startling exhortations would come up like summer thunder at 665 00:47:29,395 --> 00:47:32,795 Speaker 1: the most unexpected time and in the most surprising places. 666 00:47:33,235 --> 00:47:36,435 Speaker 1: I remember once during Mantell's production of King Lear at 667 00:47:36,435 --> 00:47:40,235 Speaker 1: the Colonial Theater, that the get ready man added his 668 00:47:40,435 --> 00:47:43,595 Speaker 1: bawlings to the squealing of Edgar and the ranting of 669 00:47:43,595 --> 00:47:47,275 Speaker 1: the King, and the mouthing of the fool, rising from 670 00:47:47,315 --> 00:47:51,195 Speaker 1: somewhere in the balcony to join in. The theater was 671 00:47:51,235 --> 00:47:54,955 Speaker 1: in absolute darkness, and there were rumblings of thunder and 672 00:47:55,035 --> 00:47:59,195 Speaker 1: flashes of lightning off stage. Neither Father nor I, who 673 00:47:59,195 --> 00:48:02,595 Speaker 1: were there, ever completely got over the scene, which went 674 00:48:02,675 --> 00:48:07,515 Speaker 1: something like this, Edgar, Tom's a cold? Oh did o 675 00:48:07,835 --> 00:48:13,035 Speaker 1: do de do de? Bless thee from whirlwinds star blasting 676 00:48:13,195 --> 00:48:19,475 Speaker 1: and talking. The foul fiendbexes thunder off stage. What have 677 00:48:19,595 --> 00:48:25,035 Speaker 1: his daughters brought him to this pass? Get Ready? Get ready? 678 00:48:26,435 --> 00:48:31,355 Speaker 1: Edgar Pillocock sat on Pillocock Hill. Hello, Hello, Lou Lou. 679 00:48:31,835 --> 00:48:39,235 Speaker 1: Lightning flashes. The world is coming to an end. This 680 00:48:39,355 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 1: cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. 681 00:48:43,235 --> 00:48:49,755 Speaker 1: Take here, the foul fiend, obey thy, get ready, Tom's 682 00:48:49,795 --> 00:48:56,915 Speaker 1: a cold. The well is coming to an end. They 683 00:48:56,955 --> 00:49:02,595 Speaker 1: found him finally, and dejected him, still shouting. The theater 684 00:49:02,875 --> 00:49:07,715 Speaker 1: in our time has known few such moments. But to 685 00:49:07,715 --> 00:49:11,315 Speaker 1: get back to the automobile, One of my happiest memories 686 00:49:11,355 --> 00:49:14,595 Speaker 1: of it was when in its eighth year, my brother 687 00:49:14,795 --> 00:49:17,315 Speaker 1: Roy got together a great many articles from the kitchen, 688 00:49:17,675 --> 00:49:20,435 Speaker 1: placed them in a square of canvas, and swung this 689 00:49:20,755 --> 00:49:23,715 Speaker 1: under the car with a string attached to it, so 690 00:49:23,795 --> 00:49:27,555 Speaker 1: that at a twitch, the canvas would give way and 691 00:49:27,635 --> 00:49:31,555 Speaker 1: the steel and tin things would clatter to the street. 692 00:49:31,915 --> 00:49:34,635 Speaker 1: This was a little scheme of Roy's to frighten father, 693 00:49:34,715 --> 00:49:39,835 Speaker 1: who had always expected the car might explode. It worked perfectly. 694 00:49:40,555 --> 00:49:43,795 Speaker 1: That was twenty five years ago, but it is one 695 00:49:43,795 --> 00:49:46,035 Speaker 1: of the few things in my life I would like 696 00:49:46,155 --> 00:49:50,075 Speaker 1: to live over again if I could. I don't suppose 697 00:49:50,075 --> 00:49:53,395 Speaker 1: that I can now. Roy twitched the string in the 698 00:49:53,395 --> 00:49:56,955 Speaker 1: middle of a lovely afternoon on Bridon Road near Eighteenth Street. 699 00:49:57,555 --> 00:49:59,715 Speaker 1: Father had closed his eyes and with his hat off, 700 00:49:59,795 --> 00:50:02,755 Speaker 1: was enjoying a cool breeze. The clatter on the asphalt 701 00:50:02,835 --> 00:50:08,435 Speaker 1: was tremendously effective. Forks, can openers, pie pans, pot lids, 702 00:50:08,795 --> 00:50:14,075 Speaker 1: biscuit cutters, ladles, egg beaters fell beautifully together in a 703 00:50:14,235 --> 00:50:20,275 Speaker 1: lingering clement crash stop the car, shouted Father. I can't, 704 00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:24,595 Speaker 1: Roy said, the engine fell out. God Almighty, said Father, 705 00:50:24,835 --> 00:50:28,155 Speaker 1: who knew what that meant, or knew what it sounded 706 00:50:28,235 --> 00:50:32,755 Speaker 1: as if it might mean. It ended unhappily, of course, 707 00:50:32,795 --> 00:50:35,155 Speaker 1: because we finally had to drive back and pick up 708 00:50:35,195 --> 00:50:37,835 Speaker 1: the stuff. And even Father knew the difference between the 709 00:50:37,875 --> 00:50:41,195 Speaker 1: works of an automobile and the equipment of a pantry. 710 00:50:42,315 --> 00:50:46,595 Speaker 1: My mother wouldn't have known, however, nor her mother. My mother, 711 00:50:46,755 --> 00:50:49,635 Speaker 1: for instance, thought, or rather knew, that it was dangerous 712 00:50:49,675 --> 00:50:54,235 Speaker 1: to drive an automobile without gasoline. It it fried the 713 00:50:54,355 --> 00:50:58,035 Speaker 1: valves or something. Now, don't you dare drive all over 714 00:50:58,115 --> 00:51:01,075 Speaker 1: town with that gasoline, she would say to us when 715 00:51:01,075 --> 00:51:05,275 Speaker 1: we started it off. Gasoline, oil, and water were much 716 00:51:05,315 --> 00:51:07,555 Speaker 1: the same to her, a fact that made her life 717 00:51:07,555 --> 00:51:13,235 Speaker 1: both confusing and perilous. Her greatest dread, however, was the Victrola. 718 00:51:13,635 --> 00:51:15,635 Speaker 1: We had a very early one back in the Come 719 00:51:15,755 --> 00:51:19,235 Speaker 1: Josephine in my flying machine days. She had an idea 720 00:51:19,235 --> 00:51:23,955 Speaker 1: that the Victrola might blow up. It alarmed her, rather 721 00:51:23,995 --> 00:51:27,355 Speaker 1: than reassured her to explain that the phonograph was run 722 00:51:27,435 --> 00:51:31,795 Speaker 1: neither by gasoline nor by electricity. She could only suppose 723 00:51:31,795 --> 00:51:35,035 Speaker 1: that it was propelled by some new fangled and untested 724 00:51:35,035 --> 00:51:38,275 Speaker 1: apparatus which was likely to let go at any minute, 725 00:51:38,515 --> 00:51:41,955 Speaker 1: making us all the victims and martyrs of the wild 726 00:51:42,195 --> 00:51:48,795 Speaker 1: eyed Edison's dangerous experiments. The telephone she was comparatively at 727 00:51:48,795 --> 00:51:51,955 Speaker 1: peace with, except of course, during storms, when for some 728 00:51:51,995 --> 00:51:54,315 Speaker 1: reason or other she always took the receiver off the 729 00:51:54,315 --> 00:51:57,835 Speaker 1: hook and let it hang. She came naturally by her 730 00:51:57,875 --> 00:52:01,555 Speaker 1: confused and groundless fears for her own. Mother lived the 731 00:52:01,635 --> 00:52:04,475 Speaker 1: latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that 732 00:52:04,675 --> 00:52:11,035 Speaker 1: electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked. 733 00:52:11,355 --> 00:52:15,075 Speaker 1: She contended out of empty sockets. If the wall switch 734 00:52:15,075 --> 00:52:19,315 Speaker 1: had been left on, she would go around screwing in bulbs, 735 00:52:19,435 --> 00:52:21,715 Speaker 1: and if they lighted up, she would hastily and fearfully 736 00:52:21,755 --> 00:52:23,955 Speaker 1: turn off the wall switch and go back to her 737 00:52:23,995 --> 00:52:29,475 Speaker 1: Piersons or Everybody's magazine, happy and the satisfaction that she 738 00:52:29,715 --> 00:52:34,755 Speaker 1: had stopped not only a costly but a dangerous leakage. 739 00:52:34,795 --> 00:52:43,435 Speaker 1: Nothing could ever clear this up for her. Our poor 740 00:52:43,555 --> 00:52:47,075 Speaker 1: old rio came to a horrible end. Finally, we had 741 00:52:47,115 --> 00:52:49,515 Speaker 1: parked it too far from the curb on a street 742 00:52:49,555 --> 00:52:52,755 Speaker 1: with a trolley car line. It was late at night 743 00:52:52,795 --> 00:52:55,395 Speaker 1: and the street was dark. The first street car that 744 00:52:55,475 --> 00:52:59,155 Speaker 1: came along couldn't get by. It picked up the tired 745 00:52:59,195 --> 00:53:02,355 Speaker 1: old automobile as a terrier might seize a rabbit, and 746 00:53:02,475 --> 00:53:06,715 Speaker 1: drubbed it unmercifully, losing its hold now and then, but 747 00:53:06,835 --> 00:53:12,195 Speaker 1: catching a new grip a second later. Tires booped and whoosh, 748 00:53:12,555 --> 00:53:17,155 Speaker 1: the fenders coeled and graped. The steering wheel rose up 749 00:53:17,355 --> 00:53:20,395 Speaker 1: like a specter and disappeared in the direction of Franklin 750 00:53:20,395 --> 00:53:25,675 Speaker 1: Avenue with a melancholy whistling sound. Bolts and gadgets flew 751 00:53:25,835 --> 00:53:30,235 Speaker 1: like sparks from a Catherine wheel. It was a splendid spectacle, 752 00:53:30,275 --> 00:53:34,595 Speaker 1: but of course saddening to everybody except the motorman of 753 00:53:34,635 --> 00:53:38,115 Speaker 1: the street car, who was sore. I think some of 754 00:53:38,195 --> 00:53:41,515 Speaker 1: us broke down and wept. It must have been the 755 00:53:41,515 --> 00:53:46,195 Speaker 1: weeping that caused grandfather to take on so terribly. Time 756 00:53:46,355 --> 00:53:49,395 Speaker 1: was all mixed up in his mind. Automobiles and the 757 00:53:49,515 --> 00:53:54,755 Speaker 1: like he never remembered having seen. He apparently gathered from 758 00:53:54,795 --> 00:53:57,395 Speaker 1: the talk and the excitement and the weeping that somebody 759 00:53:57,395 --> 00:54:00,755 Speaker 1: had died. Nor did he let go of this delusion. 760 00:54:01,035 --> 00:54:03,475 Speaker 1: He insisted. In fact, after almost a week in which 761 00:54:03,515 --> 00:54:06,115 Speaker 1: we strove mightily to divert him that it was a 762 00:54:06,155 --> 00:54:09,795 Speaker 1: sin and a shame and a disgrace to the family 763 00:54:10,435 --> 00:54:15,315 Speaker 1: to put the funeral off any longer. Nobody is dead. 764 00:54:15,715 --> 00:54:21,075 Speaker 1: The automobile is smashed, shouted my father, trying for the 765 00:54:21,275 --> 00:54:25,035 Speaker 1: thirtieth time to explain the situation to the old man. 766 00:54:25,955 --> 00:54:30,915 Speaker 1: Why was he drunk, demanded grandfather. Sternly was who drunk? 767 00:54:31,475 --> 00:54:36,915 Speaker 1: Asked father? Zenus said grandfather, he had a name for 768 00:54:36,995 --> 00:54:40,955 Speaker 1: the corpse. Now it was his brother's Zenus, who, as 769 00:54:40,995 --> 00:54:45,235 Speaker 1: it happened, was dead, but not from driving an automobile 770 00:54:45,275 --> 00:54:50,675 Speaker 1: while intoxicated. Zenus had died in eighteen sixty six, the sensitive, 771 00:54:50,795 --> 00:54:53,075 Speaker 1: rather poetical boy of twenty one. When the Civil War 772 00:54:53,195 --> 00:54:56,915 Speaker 1: broke out, Zenis had gone to South America, just as 773 00:54:56,915 --> 00:55:01,795 Speaker 1: he wrote, back until it blows over. Returning after the 774 00:55:01,795 --> 00:55:04,315 Speaker 1: war had blown over, he caught the same disease that 775 00:55:04,435 --> 00:55:07,115 Speaker 1: was going off the chestnut trees in those years, and 776 00:55:07,155 --> 00:55:09,555 Speaker 1: passed away. It was the only case in history where 777 00:55:09,595 --> 00:55:12,235 Speaker 1: a tree doctor had to be called in to spray 778 00:55:12,315 --> 00:55:15,315 Speaker 1: a person, and our family had felt it very keenly. 779 00:55:15,995 --> 00:55:18,795 Speaker 1: Nobody else in the United States caught the blight. Some 780 00:55:18,835 --> 00:55:21,275 Speaker 1: of us had looked upon Zenus's fate as a kind 781 00:55:21,315 --> 00:55:26,915 Speaker 1: of poetic justice. Now that Grandfather knew, so to speak, 782 00:55:27,715 --> 00:55:31,515 Speaker 1: who was dead, it became increasingly awkward to go on 783 00:55:31,755 --> 00:55:34,515 Speaker 1: living in the same house with him, as if nothing 784 00:55:34,555 --> 00:55:38,755 Speaker 1: had happened. He would go into towering rages in which 785 00:55:38,755 --> 00:55:40,875 Speaker 1: he threatened to write to the Board of Health unless 786 00:55:40,915 --> 00:55:45,315 Speaker 1: the funeral were held. At once we realized that something 787 00:55:45,315 --> 00:55:48,515 Speaker 1: had to be done. Eventually, we persuaded a friend of 788 00:55:48,555 --> 00:55:51,475 Speaker 1: father's named George Martin to dress up in the manner 789 00:55:51,515 --> 00:55:53,915 Speaker 1: and costume of the eighteen sixties and pretend to be 790 00:55:54,195 --> 00:55:58,795 Speaker 1: Uncle Zenus in order to set Grandfather's mind at rest. 791 00:55:59,075 --> 00:56:02,635 Speaker 1: The impostor looked fine and impressive, inside burns and a 792 00:56:02,675 --> 00:56:05,835 Speaker 1: high beaver hat, and not unlike the dagera types of 793 00:56:05,955 --> 00:56:09,155 Speaker 1: Zenis in our album I Shall Never Forget. The night 794 00:56:09,235 --> 00:56:12,515 Speaker 1: just after dinner, when this Zenis walked into the living room, 795 00:56:12,875 --> 00:56:18,515 Speaker 1: Grandfather was stomping up and down, tall hawk nosed round oathed. 796 00:56:19,395 --> 00:56:24,595 Speaker 1: The newcomer held out both hands. Clem, he cried to Grandfather. 797 00:56:26,355 --> 00:56:32,475 Speaker 1: Grandfather turned slowly, looked at the intruder and snorted, hurry you, 798 00:56:33,555 --> 00:56:38,355 Speaker 1: he demanded in his deep, resonant voice. I'm Zenis, cried Martin. 799 00:56:38,555 --> 00:56:41,355 Speaker 1: Your brother Zenus, fit is a fiddle and sound is 800 00:56:41,395 --> 00:56:47,515 Speaker 1: a dollar. Zenus my foot said. Grandfather. Zenus died in 801 00:56:47,595 --> 00:56:54,715 Speaker 1: a chestnut light in sixty six. Grandfather was given to 802 00:56:54,755 --> 00:56:59,075 Speaker 1: these sudden, unexpected, and extremely lucid moments. They were generally 803 00:56:59,115 --> 00:57:02,395 Speaker 1: more embarrassing than his other moments. He comprehended before he 804 00:57:02,435 --> 00:57:04,675 Speaker 1: went to bed that night that the old automobile had 805 00:57:04,755 --> 00:57:07,555 Speaker 1: been destroyed, and that its destruction had caused all the 806 00:57:07,555 --> 00:57:10,915 Speaker 1: turmoil in the house. It flew all the pieces. Pa, 807 00:57:11,635 --> 00:57:15,515 Speaker 1: my mother told him, in graphically describing the accident, I 808 00:57:15,875 --> 00:57:20,235 Speaker 1: new toward growled, Grandfather. I always told you to get 809 00:57:20,235 --> 00:57:27,915 Speaker 1: a poop Toledo the car we had to push by 810 00:57:28,075 --> 00:57:28,915 Speaker 1: James Thurber. 811 00:57:29,435 --> 00:57:49,035 Speaker 2: Get run ah some Thurber. 812 00:57:50,195 --> 00:57:52,035 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 813 00:57:52,035 --> 00:57:55,795 Speaker 1: you for listening. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced, 814 00:57:55,795 --> 00:57:59,315 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel, our 815 00:57:59,435 --> 00:58:03,275 Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 816 00:58:03,635 --> 00:58:05,795 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the good titars, based and drums. 817 00:58:05,835 --> 00:58:10,475 Speaker 1: Mister Chanel handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy 818 00:58:10,595 --> 00:58:13,475 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 819 00:58:13,675 --> 00:58:17,835 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by 820 00:58:17,835 --> 00:58:22,315 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music. 821 00:58:22,795 --> 00:58:25,875 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 822 00:58:26,315 --> 00:58:29,235 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad, 823 00:58:29,275 --> 00:58:35,115 Speaker 1: and everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown 824 00:58:35,155 --> 00:58:38,155 Speaker 1: for today, day one hundred and forty eight of America 825 00:58:38,195 --> 00:58:41,875 Speaker 1: held hostage just one three hundred and sixteen days until 826 00:58:41,875 --> 00:58:44,995 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck, lame brained term 827 00:58:45,595 --> 00:58:50,435 Speaker 1: unless Putin or Musk remove him sooner, or Millenia does, 828 00:58:51,395 --> 00:58:56,235 Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables do, or we do. The next 829 00:58:56,235 --> 00:58:59,115 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Thursday, and until that next one, I'm 830 00:58:59,195 --> 00:59:05,635 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 831 00:59:24,515 --> 00:59:28,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 832 00:59:28,635 --> 00:59:33,715 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 833 00:59:33,835 --> 00:59:35,755 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.