Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: weekend was the reminder that without weapons, Donald Trump is nothing.
Speaker 1: No gun, Trump, who claimed to carry a gun, is nothing.
Speaker 1: No tanks. Trump is nothing, No bombs, no bombs to
Speaker 1: drop on Iran to assuage his sudden and obvious fomo
Speaker 1: of somebody blowing people up and it's not him doing it.
Speaker 1: Without that, Trump is nothing, no threat that if you
Speaker 1: do not obey him, no matter how immoral it is,
Speaker 1: or illogical or illegal his orders are, you will be
Speaker 1: injured or wounded, or kill or at least metaphorically. So.
Speaker 1: Without that, Trump is nothing. No parades, no mindlessly cheering
Speaker 1: military grunts, no sadists cheering for blood. Without them, Trump
Speaker 1: is nothing. Hell, there was a parade and it drew
Speaker 1: less than a minor league hockey game. This was no
Speaker 1: Kings versus no crowds. There was a parade, and Trump
Speaker 1: still was nothing. But most importantly, most tragically, most ominously
Speaker 1: for us and for our future, no religious fanatic, no
Speaker 1: tertiary maga disease infected fascist humanoids driving into a No
Speaker 1: King's protest in Salt Lake City, ending with one dead.
Speaker 1: None of them, dressed as cops to assassinate elected Minnesota
Speaker 1: Democrats in the homes with eleven more on his Wisconsin list,
Speaker 1: doing so on Trump's behalf because they think that will
Speaker 1: serve him, or aid him, or just please him. A
Speaker 1: pro life murderer, Without pro life murderers, Trump is nothing.
Speaker 1: The problem, of course, is there are weapons. There are guns,
Speaker 1: there are tanks, there are bombs, there are threats, there
Speaker 1: are pro life murderers. It is so ingrained in our
Speaker 1: system that it almost sounds stupid to say it aloud
Speaker 1: and question it. For more than two centuries, our government
Speaker 1: had operated, at least in part, at least for long
Speaker 1: stretches on some sense of shared effort, of good faith,
Speaker 1: of right makes might. That is as dead now as
Speaker 1: it was during the Civil War, as bad as anywhere else.
Speaker 1: The fundamental baseline by which the governing related to the
Speaker 1: governed is now entirely in effect. Here, you do what
Speaker 1: we say, or we hurt you. That's what this weekend
Speaker 1: was about. That's what happens when you spend a decade
Speaker 1: introducing into the national consciousness the idea that violence will
Speaker 1: be supported by one political party, or at least one
Speaker 1: political party will have a blind eye turned towards violence.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you spend five decades telling half
Speaker 1: the people in this country that all the laws and
Speaker 1: all the rules and all the precedents are unfair to
Speaker 1: them and prejudiced against them and will ultimately destroy them,
Speaker 1: and that they, the vast majority, with all of the
Speaker 1: wealth and the power, are actually near death's door because
Speaker 1: that two percent could come and get them. That's what
Speaker 1: happens when one Friday you send in troops and marines
Speaker 1: because your terrorists attacks on southern California aren't leading to
Speaker 1: enough Brown people being disappeared and renditioned or just left
Speaker 1: where they are in mortal dread of it happening to them.
Speaker 1: And then the next Thursday you tackle the brown senator
Speaker 1: from that state because your administration cannot actually handle a
Speaker 1: question and your play actors pretending to fill positions like
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security have no idea what to do
Speaker 1: other than to shoot or threaten or promise to overthrow
Speaker 1: the elected mayor or governor, or wear a funny hat
Speaker 1: or have a senator from the opposite party thrown to
Speaker 1: the floor. And if your idiot Secretary of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: doesn't know what Habeas Corpus is. Of course she can
Speaker 1: claim nobody knew who the senator was, and she can
Speaker 1: dismiss his existence by simply calling him that man. And
Speaker 1: that's what what happens when two days later, a maga
Speaker 1: religious nut tries to kill all the liberals. He can
Speaker 1: to thwart or shut down the no Kings protests because
Speaker 1: he wants kings, and he can always overrule reality, he
Speaker 1: can always overrule the law, he can always overrule what
Speaker 1: he is right because he has a gun. And then
Speaker 1: an idiot senator from Utah who thinks his combover works
Speaker 1: can call the murderer a Marxist based on nothing and
Speaker 1: get applauded by a strung out, money crazed foreigner who
Speaker 1: happens to own the social media site on which the
Speaker 1: crazy senator from Utah has made his completely slanderous and
Speaker 1: incorrect claim. And then, of course, after it ends, even
Speaker 1: when it ends in humiliation for Trump, whose parade drew
Speaker 1: fewer people than the Fourth of July parade used to
Speaker 1: draw in Hastings on Hudson, New York when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, after it ends, you look at the tear
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and the blood in Minnesota, and the
Speaker 1: inescapable dread of more to come in every corner of
Speaker 1: this nation. And you say violence has no place in
Speaker 1: our democratic system, as if that has ever been true,
Speaker 1: As if nearly a quarter of our presidents haven't been
Speaker 1: shot and killed or just shot or just nearly shot,
Speaker 1: As if Representative Melissa Hortman and Senator John Hoffman and
Speaker 1: their spouses hadn't been shot two days ago in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: As if Trump himself shot at least shot at not
Speaker 1: a year ago, did not even express sympathy for them,
Speaker 1: just to promise for vengeance against the shooter, As if
Speaker 1: the only legitimacy to the still growing Trump dictatorship wasn't
Speaker 1: the still growing threat behind every move it makes that
Speaker 1: if you do not obey, they will go and get
Speaker 1: one of the weapons without which Donald Trump is nothing.
Speaker 1: There is some small respite this morning, and it has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with weapons. They got the twenty eleven
Speaker 1: Georgia crops report apparently and printed it out or something
Speaker 1: similar to it, and paste it in some pictures of
Speaker 1: Trump or something, and they made it brief, and they
Speaker 1: showed it to him, and maybe they used flash cards
Speaker 1: or finger puppets, and all of a sudden he tacoed
Speaker 1: on the ice. Gestapo roundups of immigrants, at least the
Speaker 1: immigrants in agriculture and hotels and restaurants, because you know,
Speaker 1: mass starvation, while mass starvation later first, mass lower corporate
Speaker 1: profits in agriculture, hotels, and restaurants. The Secretary of Agriculture,
Speaker 1: who is not Julius sugar Baker from Designing Women. She
Speaker 1: just looks like her stunt double rights that, oh no,
Speaker 1: there's been no change in policy about deporting people. She
Speaker 1: and Trump quote have consistently advanced a farmer's first approach,
Speaker 1: recognizing that American households depend upon a stable and legal
Speaker 1: agricultural workforce. Severe disruptions to our food supply would harm Americans.
Speaker 1: It took us decades to get into this mess, and
Speaker 1: we are prioritizing deportations in a way that will get
Speaker 1: us out. All of you people were going to rendition.
Speaker 1: Please harvest those fields first and then get into the
Speaker 1: back of the truck. In other words, the Secretary of Agriculture,
Speaker 1: she saw the twenty eleven Georgia crops report and somebody
Speaker 1: extrapolated it for her. I don't know how many times
Speaker 1: I have cited the twenty eleven Georgia Crops Report. I
Speaker 1: think the first time I saw it was August twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: That state at that point, you're not even over with
Speaker 1: announced eight had announced the year before a strict crackdown
Speaker 1: on undocumented farm workers, back when this was a reasonable
Speaker 1: thing to try or examine, and everybody said, you may
Speaker 1: regret this, and they went, no, we don't think so.
Speaker 1: We're smart. We're Republicans in Georgia. And shockingly enough, after
Speaker 1: they announced that there would be raids and that they
Speaker 1: would deport and arrest all of the migrant farm workers,
Speaker 1: particularly the ones who did not have citizenship or other papers.
Speaker 1: Almost none of the nation's itinerant farm workers went to
Speaker 1: Georgia in twenty eleven. Who the hell could have seen
Speaker 1: that coming. If you go here, we'll arrest you. Nobody
Speaker 1: went so. In the middle of the summer, the state
Speaker 1: Commissioner of Agriculture explained that all the Georgia onions and
Speaker 1: the Georgia watermelons, and the Georgia blueberries and the other
Speaker 1: Georgia produce was rotting in the Georgia fields, and the
Speaker 1: farms were going bankrupt, and all the bribes to get
Speaker 1: all the Georgia residents to go and harvest the crops
Speaker 1: were not working because Georgia residents were too slow, or
Speaker 1: they quit within minutes because the work was too hard. Georgia,
Speaker 1: said the head of agriculture there, a Republican, was at
Speaker 1: least eleven thousand, far more short. They were forty percent
Speaker 1: of what they needed. They were asking for volunteers. They
Speaker 1: were bringing in convicts and promising to let them go
Speaker 1: sooner if they picked the walnuts. The state's agricultural industry
Speaker 1: had already lost seventy five million dollars by the middle
Speaker 1: of twenty eleven just in the spring and summer harvests,
Speaker 1: so that times fifty states and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we are not prioritizing those in agriculture, those in hotels,
Speaker 1: those in restaurants, those without whom the rest of us
Speaker 1: will starve. And the message was you can keep doing this,
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, but you personally will have to harvest all
Speaker 1: the rude begas west of Denver. This does not mean
Speaker 1: they are suddenly going to pivot back towards humanity. In
Speaker 1: southern California or in the case of kilmar Abrego, Garcia
Speaker 1: or anything else that's already in progress. In point of fact,
Speaker 1: if anything, it looks like they are moving towards something
Speaker 1: that might be supporting of perjury in the Abrego Garcia case,
Speaker 1: something like it. At least Adam Klassfeld reporting that one
Speaker 1: of the new witnesses in the attempt to turn the
Speaker 1: didn't even give him a ticket traffic stop of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two into life on Devil's Island or something. One
Speaker 1: of the new witnesses is suddenly getting leniency on his
Speaker 1: thirty year prison term. He has been moved to a
Speaker 1: halfway house, and shock of shocks, ICE is suddenly reassessing
Speaker 1: its immigration case against him. The judge in the newest
Speaker 1: case against our Dreyfus Abrego Garcia is also reportedly hesitating
Speaker 1: to grant Abrego Garcia bail, not because he doesn't deserve it,
Speaker 1: but because of ICE's continuing rage and they are acting
Speaker 1: like just to pick something out of a hat. Ketamine
Speaker 1: addicts who just ran out. She's worried about ICE's continuing
Speaker 1: rage and its continuing threats to redisappear this man. The
Speaker 1: moment he has let out of detention, the judge could
Speaker 1: issue a bail ruling as early as today. Here is
Speaker 1: what Trump should have done. He should have offered a
Speaker 1: Brego Garcia a pardon if he said nice things about
Speaker 1: Christy nomes, bangs and dress up outfits, or if a
Speaker 1: Brego Garcia had been willing to stand on a street
Speaker 1: corner in Washington on Saturday night and watch Trump play
Speaker 1: with his tanks and his toy soldiers. At one point,
Speaker 1: presumably before they burned the tape, destroyed any digital machines
Speaker 1: that recorded it, fired everybody who was involved in it.
Speaker 1: At one point, Newsmax reported that there were ten thousand
Speaker 1: people there. The estimates on the No Kings protests nationwide
Speaker 1: organizers claim five million. Elliot Morris of Strength in numbers
Speaker 1: formerly five thirty eight has taken reported individual cities and extrapolated,
Speaker 1: and he had raised his calculation to a total all
Speaker 1: of the protests combined, all of the marches somewhere between
Speaker 1: four million, two hundred thousand and seven million people, about
Speaker 1: two percent of the population back at the event that
Speaker 1: had what would have been a disappointing turnout at the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four July Fourth Parade down Farragut Parkway in Hastings,
Speaker 1: on Hudson, New York. Even Stephen Chung's laugh out loud
Speaker 1: lie was only two hundred and fifty thousand, which is
Speaker 1: by itself pathetic. When the Washington Capitals held their parade
Speaker 1: after winning hockey Stanley Cup in twenty eighteen, the DC
Speaker 1: Subway reported that ridership was above average for that day
Speaker 1: by two hundred and twenty eight thousand. So there is
Speaker 1: no doubt that a hockey parade featuring exactly one large
Speaker 1: not too dangerous bowl unless you drop it on your
Speaker 1: foot drew fifty percent, fifty percent more, seventy five percent more,
Speaker 1: ten times what Trump's dog and Pony show did. And
Speaker 1: by the way, a dog and pony show would have
Speaker 1: been way better by any measure. That was a terrible parade,
Speaker 1: just terrible. When he fires Pete, Hegseth, and we all
Speaker 1: wonder was it signal Gate? Was it the drinking? Was
Speaker 1: it general's quitting? Was it Hegseith forgetting to wear pants
Speaker 1: to a cabinet meeting? No, the answer will be he
Speaker 1: was fired because Trump blamed him for the parade. No
Speaker 1: troops marching in step, crowds so quiet you could hear
Speaker 1: the tracks on the World War two tanks creaking and
Speaker 1: making a noise so nails on a blackboard noisy that
Speaker 1: it kept waking Trump up. Since it happened last Thursday,
Speaker 1: I have been thinking almost continuously about the event involving
Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padilla of California at the Christinoum Propaganda Conference
Speaker 1: in southern California. I think it means much more than
Speaker 1: we are even recognizing now. It is obviously a watershed
Speaker 1: moment in the history of the aggressiveness, the aggression, the
Speaker 1: violence inherent in the MAGA disease and its system, but
Speaker 1: it may be even bigger than that. In the last
Speaker 1: few days, it has dawned on me that in the
Speaker 1: interpretation of what happened in that room and in that
Speaker 1: hallway is the last four twenty to fifty years of
Speaker 1: the brainwashing of the American right and the stupider people
Speaker 1: in this country, and the underinformed people in this country,
Speaker 1: and the racist people in this country. And it all
Speaker 1: comes together. And this is not the first example, but
Speaker 1: this may be the best example, and it is the
Speaker 1: most current example of why the far right MAGA, the Trumpists,
Speaker 1: the Tea Party before them, the Republicans before them, why
Speaker 1: they are so quick to be able to pass judgment
Speaker 1: on a situation like this and never let it bother
Speaker 1: their consciences, nor never let facts interrupt their conclusions. There
Speaker 1: have been all sorts of studies that suggest that there
Speaker 1: is actually a difference in the modeling of the brain
Speaker 1: of the conservative versus the liberal of all people. The
Speaker 1: actor Colin Firth once spent money with the BBC to
Speaker 1: conduct actual psychological and I believe some physiological studies on
Speaker 1: whether or not there was processing issues that involved. Some
Speaker 1: people saw this thing this way as a conservative, and
Speaker 1: some people saw the same thing that way as a liberal.
Speaker 1: John Dene's book Conservatives Without Conscience quotes survey and after survey,
Speaker 1: and study after study, and autopsy after autopsy on the
Speaker 1: idea that the brain of the conservative, the authoritarian is
Speaker 1: actually different than that of the more liberal, the more egalitarian,
Speaker 1: the more community based individual. But I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about learned, perhaps experience learned from forty to
Speaker 1: fifty years of listening to shit like Rush Limbaugh. And
Speaker 1: here is what this amounts to. If you look at
Speaker 1: the entirety of the event, and you have the entirety
Speaker 1: of the background that Senator Padilla provided in the hours
Speaker 1: after the event involving Secretary Nome, Secretary Garden Nome, the
Speaker 1: dog murderer, nonme, the I would not vouch that she
Speaker 1: could pass a sanity or a drug test. Gnome. And
Speaker 1: you analyzed the whole timeline, it's pretty clear what happened.
Speaker 1: And there is one flaw in the Padia story, and
Speaker 1: we would recognize it as liberals and let me go
Speaker 1: through it quickly to make my point in terms of
Speaker 1: how the other groups of people in this country don't
Speaker 1: torture themselves over these details. We know he was in
Speaker 1: that building to get a briefing from Homeland Security because
Speaker 1: he had not been able to get anybody from Homeland
Speaker 1: Security on the phone or by email in the preceding
Speaker 1: week since Trump started his terrorist attacks on southern California,
Speaker 1: since Trump started a civil war or attempted to in
Speaker 1: which he would use the military against civilians on this
Speaker 1: s streets of Los Angeles, he had not Padia, that is,
Speaker 1: been able to get in touch with anybody. He'd tried
Speaker 1: to get Secretary nom and he happened to be in
Speaker 1: a building where he was going to get a briefing
Speaker 1: from a military commander about what the hell they were
Speaker 1: doing there, and hopefully what the hell they were not
Speaker 1: going to be doing there. Somehow, either he knew in
Speaker 1: advance or he found out as he was there that
Speaker 1: NOME was conducting this as I called it, propaganda conference
Speaker 1: in a room in that building that they would be passing.
Speaker 1: Now Padilla does not wander in off the street for this.
Speaker 1: He is being escorted by I believe military people, by
Speaker 1: the official greeters in this situation, whoever they are. And
Speaker 1: he says, we have some time before this meeting. Can
Speaker 1: I pop in and listen to what Noame says. I
Speaker 1: can't get any other answers from her. Maybe she's going
Speaker 1: to address my questions. He goes in, and course, if
Speaker 1: you heard any of the NOME press conference, she's out
Speaker 1: of her mind. She is either in full Trump servicing
Speaker 1: in terms of selling each one of these hallucinatory talking
Speaker 1: of points about saving Los Angeles from the people elected
Speaker 1: to run it who are running it into the ground,
Speaker 1: essentially offering a coup by the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: against the Governor of California, the Mayor of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and anybody who gets in their way, and at some
Speaker 1: point Padilla says, I have a question. Now. He knows
Speaker 1: that the people who have just escorted him into that
Speaker 1: room know that he is Senator Alex Padia. But he's
Speaker 1: not wearing a big shirt that says I'm a senator.
Speaker 1: He's not wearing a giant gold chain that says senator guy.
Speaker 1: He's not wearing some sort of big id And he
Speaker 1: has not spent ninety percent of his time on Fox News.
Speaker 1: He's not Pam Bondi, who for a long time I
Speaker 1: thought was actually hosting the nine o'clock hour on Fox
Speaker 1: News rather than simply appearing on it every night. He's
Speaker 1: not wearing something that instantly identifies him to the people who,
Speaker 1: in this equation actually matter as much as Christinome, Corey Lewandowski,
Speaker 1: her advisor, advisor, whoever else was there on behalf of
Speaker 1: the Gestapo. They are not as important as the people
Speaker 1: who are right there, standing next to Alex Padilla as
Speaker 1: he comes into that room. Who are the militarized members
Speaker 1: of the FBI who have been pre chosen to be
Speaker 1: on board with the political message. They are political policemen.
Speaker 1: In effect, they are not just law enforcements. They are
Speaker 1: maga enforcement. They are what we have feared. And at
Speaker 1: this point in June of a presidency, of a new presidency,
Speaker 1: they are already in place. They don't know who the
Speaker 1: hell that is. That's the one flaw in this equation.
Speaker 1: Everything that happens after they decid that this man must
Speaker 1: be thrown to the floor is the fault of the FBI.
Speaker 1: There should be mass firings, suspensions, prosecutions. Padia should sue.
Speaker 1: There should be people who spend the rest of their
Speaker 1: lives answering for this in court. The men who took
Speaker 1: him out of that room, who dragged him, the men
Speaker 1: who threw him to the ground, the men who said
Speaker 1: that the FBI has the rights here and you cannot
Speaker 1: film this, All of them in jail. If we could
Speaker 1: get them there, it probably won't happen. Bankrupt them, wait
Speaker 1: to make Trump pardon them. But there is one flaw
Speaker 1: in that equation. Padia assumed people knew he was Padia.
Speaker 1: That's the only part of this that is even remotely
Speaker 1: his fault. And I would say, on the scale of
Speaker 1: apportioning responsibility for the entire event, on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to one hundred and ninety eight, is Christy Nome
Speaker 1: not responding to calls the entirety of the Trump administration
Speaker 1: attacking southern California. The obviously the security goons and the
Speaker 1: Gestapo members and the FBI MAGA, and it's just one
Speaker 1: group now, it's b IIMGA. Ninety eight percent is them
Speaker 1: and maybe two percent, maybe one and a half percent
Speaker 1: is Padilla, simply because he assumed, having identify himself to
Speaker 1: the people with him, that when push came to shove,
Speaker 1: literally one of them would say no, that Senator Alex Padilla,
Speaker 1: leave him alone, and they didn't, leading to a, if
Speaker 1: you want, conspiracy theory that they set him up for
Speaker 1: this in some occasional though it doesn't seem to me
Speaker 1: like something this intricate could be worked out by these
Speaker 1: MAGA idiots. It might have been a conspiracy of opportunity
Speaker 1: where they realized he was getting heated and there might
Speaker 1: be a good photo op for the right wing here
Speaker 1: in which, oh, guess what, the Hispanic senator from California
Speaker 1: is thrown to the floor while defending his fellow foreigners.
Speaker 1: In any event, we can now then analyze what happens
Speaker 1: in the hallways and the conflicting instructions from these goons
Speaker 1: and his Padia's attempt to respond to them, and then
Speaker 1: as Padia added the idea that suddenly Corey Lewandowski appears
Speaker 1: and goes let him go, let him go right now,
Speaker 1: Of all people, Corey Lewandowski, possibly because he has seen
Speaker 1: the consequences of what happens when you man handle somebody
Speaker 1: in a hallway and how that can follow you for
Speaker 1: a few years, at least he had the presence of
Speaker 1: mind to say, we don't need this, or he may
Speaker 1: have said we've already got all we needed on video.
Speaker 1: So my point in going to such length to go
Speaker 1: into ten minutes worth of just detail on a line
Speaker 1: by line basis of what happened and where Alex Padilla
Speaker 1: might not have done exactly what he would have done
Speaker 1: had he planned this out, had this been perhaps a stunt,
Speaker 1: like many politicians do often to great effect of stunts
Speaker 1: that have been for the benefit of mankind. If you
Speaker 1: would like to stretch the definition just slightly, the emancipation
Speaker 1: proclamation was a stunt. The timing of it certainly was
Speaker 1: a stunt. In any event, this is the liberal interpretation
Speaker 1: of what Padilla did, and you can see the knots
Speaker 1: I can turn myself into while stating that Alex Padilla
Speaker 1: is ninety eight and a half percent right, I am
Speaker 1: still sitting there looking at that other one and a
Speaker 1: half percent saying, well, see here's here's the window that
Speaker 1: you left open for them. And now I'll give you
Speaker 1: the mag of viewpoint on this. What happened? What happened?
Speaker 1: Senator goes in, yells at our secretary, beautiful Christynome, and
Speaker 1: then gets thrown to the floor. It was a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: He tried to kill her? Or more simply, what happened?
Speaker 1: What happened? A senator went in and attacked our beautiful
Speaker 1: Christy Noome. Okay, whose fault is it? Is it Biden's fault?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it George Soros's fault? Let's decide quickly
Speaker 1: and then we'll work backwards. It's obviously his fault. He
Speaker 1: obviously tried to attack her. He may have tried to
Speaker 1: kill her. Now let's fill in the facts. What's on
Speaker 1: the tape? Oh, okay, we're going to ignore that fact.
Speaker 1: We don't have to sow what he says. He's Alex Padia.
Speaker 1: Who the hell knows who Alex Padia is? How many
Speaker 1: alex Padias are there in southern California. They have defeated
Speaker 1: the scientific method. What is it five hundred, six hundred
Speaker 1: years since Francis Bacon said no, the way to solve
Speaker 1: most problems is to figure out what the f just
Speaker 1: happened and then try to figure out why. No, they
Speaker 1: have erase that go to the conclusion, what do you
Speaker 1: want the reply to this to be? What do you
Speaker 1: want the public perception of an event like that to be?
Speaker 1: Senator attacks Christy Nome, Senator barges in, senator confronts Christine No,
Speaker 1: senator violates law, Senator terror. Whatever answer you want, you
Speaker 1: reach it first and then work backwards. And there is
Speaker 1: no one and a half percent acknowledgment that perhaps perhaps
Speaker 1: there was an overreaction on the part of the Gestapo.
Speaker 1: Perhaps there would be a reaction that you're the senator
Speaker 1: from California and you were one of the people who
Speaker 1: voted on Christy Nomes's nomination. And even if she doesn't
Speaker 1: remember that many she is stupid. One hundred senators. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of senators to ask her to remember, but
Speaker 1: she should have remembered the fact that there are two
Speaker 1: California senators and she's in California try to overthrow the
Speaker 1: government of California. She's a terrorist in California trying to
Speaker 1: overthrow the government, holding a news conference, a propaganda conference
Speaker 1: at which she is explaining she's going to overthrow the
Speaker 1: goverm of California. She could have had two pictures printed
Speaker 1: out for her of who the two senators from California are,
Speaker 1: so if you see one of them, you can confront
Speaker 1: him or whatever, or you can stop, you can step
Speaker 1: in and show how you actually are a good secretary
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. She didn't know. There's nobody on the
Speaker 1: right of the equation. There is no one left. There
Speaker 1: is no brain cell functioning. There is no part of
Speaker 1: the hive mind of the fascists and the Nazis and
Speaker 1: the Magas and the other scumbags who would say, wait,
Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge that Christy f this up a
Speaker 1: little bit one and a half percent. They won't do it.
Speaker 1: You and I would say at Alex Padi would probably say,
Speaker 1: I wish I had been wearing my giant senatorial lanyard
Speaker 1: or my giant sweatshirt with my picture on it that
Speaker 1: says Senator the picture Padilla on it. I wish I
Speaker 1: had been doing that. I wish I had been there
Speaker 1: with I don't know Bono, who could have said that's
Speaker 1: Senator Padilla, or I don't know Lee Atwood, who the singer.
Speaker 1: But this is where we are, and that's what's been
Speaker 1: bothering me about the event since it happened on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You and I would look at it and analyze where
Speaker 1: there might be a flaw, And on the other side
Speaker 1: of the equation, there are no flaws. There is no
Speaker 1: detail to analyze. There is simply a decision made. What
Speaker 1: are we going to tell everybody happened here? And then
Speaker 1: we will fill in and make up the facts as necessary,
Speaker 1: and fixing that will take a lot longer and will
Speaker 1: be a lot more painful and may do a lot
Speaker 1: more towards tearing this country apart than the problem of
Speaker 1: what they are trying to do. The terrorist attack on
Speaker 1: southern California that the Trump administration is still intending to
Speaker 1: conduct before they move on to the terrorist attack on
Speaker 1: Illinois and the terrorist attack on New York, those problems
Speaker 1: will be transcendent because I think ultimately Americans will defeat Trump.
Speaker 1: But what do we do about a world in which
Speaker 1: half the people in this country already know the answer
Speaker 1: and are now just filling in the facts and making
Speaker 1: up the facts to fit that answer. Also of interest here,
Speaker 1: it is amazing you can know everything about politics and
Speaker 1: when it counts, you can still make a fool out
Speaker 1: of yourself. Or you can know nothing about politics and
Speaker 1: when it counts, you can still make a fool out
Speaker 1: of your On the same topic, the sagas of CNN's
Speaker 1: political director David Shalian and the increasingly laugh out loud
Speaker 1: funny stephen A. Smith. That's next. This is Countdown. This
Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith old Woman still ahead on this
Speaker 1: editiontive Countdown. You know we haven't done in weeks and
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. Fridays with Thurber. I know it's not Friday.
Speaker 1: How much did they charge you to listen to this podcast?
Speaker 1: If we want to make it Friday for ten, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be Friday, you want to refund, refund
Speaker 1: some Thurber and his great story about I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: surprise you now that you put up a fight over
Speaker 1: it first, believe it or not, There's still more new
Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the new miscreants,
Speaker 1: morons and dunn in gruger effects specimens. Who constitutes the
Speaker 1: latest other worst persons in the world, the bronze worse.
Speaker 1: There's always a tweet. I'll just read the tweet and
Speaker 1: then I'll tell you who it's from. The hint is
Speaker 1: it's not Trump. It's connected to Trump. Ready. We do
Speaker 1: not seek regime change, Trump declares as he escalates his
Speaker 1: regime change war against Iran. Neocons like Graham Bolton are
Speaker 1: cheering to all who voted for Trump because of his
Speaker 1: anti war rhetoric. It's time to reel he lied to you.
Speaker 1: Stand with me against Trump's Iran war hashtag Trump's War.
Speaker 1: Three forty one PM January three, twenty twenty, written by
Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabber, the director of National Hypocrisy No Information Information
Speaker 1: about hypocrisy. What an absolute bubblehead runner up, Speaking of
Speaker 1: which worser Stephen A. Smith. I thought, because he'd been
Speaker 1: quiet lately, that he'd got in a hint that covering
Speaker 1: a burgeoning dictatorship is not just doing whatever your pal
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity says is a good idea. It's not the
Speaker 1: same as trying to turn a rumor you made up
Speaker 1: about an NBA free agent changing teams maybe in three
Speaker 1: years into eleven hours of programming today and then going
Speaker 1: wall to wall with it tomorrow. It's not like that, Steve.
Speaker 1: This is Stephen A. Smith on the beating up of
Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padilla. Here you have this Senator Alex Padilla.
Speaker 1: Can Christy Nomes speak? Could you have waited till she
Speaker 1: finished to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You
Speaker 1: are a senator, right, you couldn't wait? So that was
Speaker 1: just you out of control because you were just losing it. Huh,
Speaker 1: You a United States senator, couldn't compose yourself and let
Speaker 1: the head of Homeland Security finish her thoughts before you
Speaker 1: ask the question. Couldn't do that? Huh? Couldn't do it?
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: First clue, Steven does not know what senators are. Second,
Speaker 1: Stephen does not know that Christy Nome is one of
Speaker 1: the batties. Third, Stephen does not really that Christy Nome
Speaker 1: has been avoiding the questions of that senator and other
Speaker 1: senators since she lied to all the senators in her
Speaker 1: confirmation hearing. But the best part here is Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith does not know what a Stephen A. Smith is.
Speaker 1: Let me reread this a little bit more appropriately, this
Speaker 1: is a revision of what Steven A. Smith said about
Speaker 1: Alex Padia. Here you have this, Stephen A Smith. Can
Speaker 1: somebody else speak? Could you have waited till they finished
Speaker 1: to ask your questions? To shout your questions? You're a
Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith, right, You couldn't wait? So that was
Speaker 1: just you out of control because you were just losing it. Huh, You,
Speaker 1: Stephen A Smith, couldn't compose yourself and let the other
Speaker 1: person finish their thoughts before you ask the question. Couldn't
Speaker 1: do that? Huh? Couldn't do it?
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: I sometimes think if Stephen A. Smith's image actually did
Speaker 1: appear when he looked in a mirror, and he looked
Speaker 1: in a mirror, he wouldn't know who that was. Stephen
Speaker 1: Interrupting people, shouting them down and being disrespectful to them.
Speaker 1: That's your job. You do it well. They pay you
Speaker 1: millions for it. I hate the phrase stay in your lane,
Speaker 1: Stay in your goddamn lane. You're making a fool out
Speaker 1: of yourself, and eventually sooner rather than later with this
Speaker 1: level of lack of sophistication and the facts, by the way,
Speaker 1: that the right wingers will never believe you for very
Speaker 1: many reasons that should also be obvious to you. Eventually
Speaker 1: you will begin to destroy your sports brand. Stop stop.
Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that, no, wait, stop, come back, but
Speaker 1: the winner. Just emphasizing what I mentioned before that you
Speaker 1: don't have to be an amateur to act amateurish. On
Speaker 1: the subject of Senator Padilla, David Shalien CNN Political direct
Speaker 1: and I sometimes think that there is no such role
Speaker 1: or such person, and this is a brilliant comedic performance.
Speaker 1: Maybe it could be Patton Oswalt done up in like
Speaker 1: extra jowls, extra prosthetic jowls put on to him to
Speaker 1: make him look look like a thumb with eyes and
Speaker 1: glasses drawn on it. I think that may be the explanation.
Speaker 1: But until we are able to confirm that David Shalian
Speaker 1: is just Paton Oswalt dressed up to look ridiculous, we're
Speaker 1: going to have to assume that he really is the
Speaker 1: political director of CNN. He really is the idiot who
Speaker 1: insisted that not fact checking either candidate in a presidential
Speaker 1: debate when one of them was lying and apparently strung
Speaker 1: out on something and the other was making a huge
Speaker 1: number of mistakes because of some sort of perceptual problems.
Speaker 1: Not fact checking either of them was the only fair thing.
Speaker 1: This is the man who portrays himself as a neutral
Speaker 1: in the field, and yet he dined with Trump horrors,
Speaker 1: Jason Miller, Stephen Chung, and Chris Lassivit, all of them
Speaker 1: the night before a Republican debate. Oh but he's a neutral.
Speaker 1: This is what he said about the Padilla assault. I
Speaker 1: mean she was holding a press conference and delivering a
Speaker 1: statement to the press. He's not a member of the press.
Speaker 1: The astonishment, I cannot recreate it, the astonishment in Shalian's voice.
Speaker 1: You're not a member of the press. You know. Senators
Speaker 1: often ask questions too, sir, you're not a member of
Speaker 1: the press. You work for CNN. You're no longer a
Speaker 1: member of the press either. It's a whorehouse. Anyway, back
Speaker 1: to the quote, this wasn't a hearing or an open
Speaker 1: form for senators to ask questions. Well, no, of course not,
Speaker 1: because no one would have lied to them at that
Speaker 1: if she'd even to answer any of those questions. He
Speaker 1: clearly showed up at a public event just to create
Speaker 1: a moment and do exactly what you're describing, to show
Speaker 1: his constituents, not just Democrats, that he's fighting from his perspective.
Speaker 1: David Shealey and CNN political director, bullshit. You have no
Speaker 1: earthly clue what you're talking about. If I had ever
Speaker 1: said anything quite that stupid, even if I was misinformed
Speaker 1: by reliable sources who got it completely wrong and it
Speaker 1: was their fault, if I had ever said anything approaching that,
Speaker 1: I would have resigned. I would have resigned somewhere between
Speaker 1: the he's fighting and then the from his perspective, and
Speaker 1: then I would have gone, oh no, I'm I've misspent
Speaker 1: my entire life. I resign. Gnome had been avoiding his
Speaker 1: questions and the questions of all Democrats. She had just
Speaker 1: finished explaining how she and Trump were going to overthrow
Speaker 1: the socialist mayor and governor in Los Angeles and California.
Speaker 1: He's in not a public place, an open forum, but
Speaker 1: he showed up at a public event. This is in
Speaker 1: the federal building. He is a senator, He's a member
Speaker 1: of the federal government. Did you not know that political
Speaker 1: director of CNN he was on his way to a
Speaker 1: briefing about the incursion, the terrorist attack by Trump using
Speaker 1: the National Guard and the fing Marines on the streets
Speaker 1: of southern California. He's on his way to a briefing.
Speaker 1: He entered that room with the cooperation and consent of
Speaker 1: his escorts, one an FBI agent and the other a
Speaker 1: National Guard officer. He clearly showed up at a public
Speaker 1: event just to create a moment. Unbelievable, create a moment.
Speaker 1: And by the way, David Chillyan, you and CNN are
Speaker 1: opposed to the creation of moments. Is this the CNN
Speaker 1: that last weekend, not this past one, but the week before,
Speaker 1: postponed the news for three hours to show a Broadway show.
Speaker 1: I'm all with that, except for the fact that while
Speaker 1: that was happening, there was mayhem on the streets of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles caused by the government of the United States.
Speaker 1: And you, instead, instead of showing news, you showed a
Speaker 1: play about the news. In nineteen fifty four, This just
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. Create a moment. That's all CNN does,
Speaker 1: That's all the modern media is doing. That's the Washington
Speaker 1: that the Washington posts new phrase, create a moment, or
Speaker 1: it's vivid storytelling for all America, which is consultants, speaker,
Speaker 1: create a moment. He clearly showed up at a public event.
Speaker 1: He was being escorted by the FBI and a National
Speaker 1: Guard officer to a briefing on the attempt to overthrow
Speaker 1: the democracy, just to create a moment. Listen, pal, if
Speaker 1: you were any good at creating moments, if you were,
Speaker 1: if you knew how to create a moment, if you
Speaker 1: knew what a moment was, you wouldn't be at Effing's
Speaker 1: CNN watching the place melt around you, like the opening
Speaker 1: animation from the TV series mad Men. David I actually
Speaker 1: would fire him before I fired Jake Tappert. Worse than that,
Speaker 1: I would make him do a primetime CNN show every night. Shalien,
Speaker 1: CNN's political director and today's other worst person in the movement.
Speaker 1: Some years ago, I did an audiobook of Theber stories,
Speaker 1: with the proceeds going to the Literary Estate, on the
Speaker 1: idea that the more people heard Thurber, the better. And
Speaker 1: one of the great compliments, one of the greatest compliments
Speaker 1: I have ever received, was that when the thing was published,
Speaker 1: it did not say Thurber Audios collection or whatever read
Speaker 1: by me. It said performed by me. I guess that's
Speaker 1: because they did a lot of different voices, or because
Speaker 1: we included in it one particular story that really does
Speaker 1: kind of need a cast of a few different people
Speaker 1: for one sub scene in the middle of it. I
Speaker 1: think you will recognize it when we get there. The
Speaker 1: story is from his epic Tale of his youth, somewhat
Speaker 1: exaggerated my life in hard times. The Car we had
Speaker 1: to Push by James Thurber. Many autobiographers, among them Lincoln
Speaker 1: Stephens and Gertrude Atherton, describe earthqua their families have been in.
Speaker 1: I am unable to do this because my family was
Speaker 1: never in an earthquake, but we went through a number
Speaker 1: of things in Columbus that were a great deal like earthquakes.
Speaker 1: I remember, in particular some of the repercussions of an
Speaker 1: old Rio we had that would not go unless you
Speaker 1: pushed it for quite a way and suddenly let your
Speaker 1: clutch out. The brand does not sound familiar. A Rio
Speaker 1: was an early automobile. Once we had been able to
Speaker 1: start the engine easily by cranking it, but we had
Speaker 1: had the car for so many years that finally it
Speaker 1: wouldn't go unless you pushed it and let your clutch out.
Speaker 1: Of course, it took more than one person to do this,
Speaker 1: took sometimes as many as five or six, depending on
Speaker 1: the grade of the roadway and conditions underfoot the car
Speaker 1: was unusual, and that the clutch and brake were on
Speaker 1: the same pedal, making it quite easy to stall the
Speaker 1: engine after it got started, so that the car would
Speaker 1: have to be pushed again. My father used to get
Speaker 1: sick at his stomach pushing the car, and very often
Speaker 1: was unable to go to work. He had never liked
Speaker 1: the machine, even when it was good. Sharing my ignorance
Speaker 1: and suspicion of all automobiles of that time and longer ago,
Speaker 1: the boys I went to school, we used to be
Speaker 1: able to identify every car as it passed by Thomas Flyer, Firestone, Columbus, Stevens, Dryer, Rambler, Winton, White, Steamer, etc.
Speaker 1: I never could. The only car I was really interested
Speaker 1: in was one that the get Ready Man, as we
Speaker 1: called him, rode around town in a big red devil
Speaker 1: with a door in the back. The get Ready Man
Speaker 1: was a lank, unkept, elderly gentleman with wild eyes and
Speaker 1: a deep voice who used to go about shouting at
Speaker 1: people through a megaphone to prepare for the end of
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: Get Ready, get Ready.
Speaker 1: He would bellow, the world is coming to an end.
Speaker 1: His startling exhortations would come up like summer thunder at
Speaker 1: the most unexpected time and in the most surprising places.
Speaker 1: I remember once during Mantell's production of King Lear at
Speaker 1: the Colonial Theater, that the get ready man added his
Speaker 1: bawlings to the squealing of Edgar and the ranting of
Speaker 1: the King, and the mouthing of the fool, rising from
Speaker 1: somewhere in the balcony to join in. The theater was
Speaker 1: in absolute darkness, and there were rumblings of thunder and
Speaker 1: flashes of lightning off stage. Neither Father nor I, who
Speaker 1: were there, ever completely got over the scene, which went
Speaker 1: something like this, Edgar, Tom's a cold? Oh did o
Speaker 1: do de do de? Bless thee from whirlwinds star blasting
Speaker 1: and talking. The foul fiendbexes thunder off stage. What have
Speaker 1: his daughters brought him to this pass? Get Ready? Get ready?
Speaker 1: Edgar Pillocock sat on Pillocock Hill. Hello, Hello, Lou Lou.
Speaker 1: Lightning flashes. The world is coming to an end. This
Speaker 1: cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
Speaker 1: Take here, the foul fiend, obey thy, get ready, Tom's
Speaker 1: a cold. The well is coming to an end. They
Speaker 1: found him finally, and dejected him, still shouting. The theater
Speaker 1: in our time has known few such moments. But to
Speaker 1: get back to the automobile, One of my happiest memories
Speaker 1: of it was when in its eighth year, my brother
Speaker 1: Roy got together a great many articles from the kitchen,
Speaker 1: placed them in a square of canvas, and swung this
Speaker 1: under the car with a string attached to it, so
Speaker 1: that at a twitch, the canvas would give way and
Speaker 1: the steel and tin things would clatter to the street.
Speaker 1: This was a little scheme of Roy's to frighten father,
Speaker 1: who had always expected the car might explode. It worked perfectly.
Speaker 1: That was twenty five years ago, but it is one
Speaker 1: of the few things in my life I would like
Speaker 1: to live over again if I could. I don't suppose
Speaker 1: that I can now. Roy twitched the string in the
Speaker 1: middle of a lovely afternoon on Bridon Road near Eighteenth Street.
Speaker 1: Father had closed his eyes and with his hat off,
Speaker 1: was enjoying a cool breeze. The clatter on the asphalt
Speaker 1: was tremendously effective. Forks, can openers, pie pans, pot lids,
Speaker 1: biscuit cutters, ladles, egg beaters fell beautifully together in a
Speaker 1: lingering clement crash stop the car, shouted Father. I can't,
Speaker 1: Roy said, the engine fell out. God Almighty, said Father,
Speaker 1: who knew what that meant, or knew what it sounded
Speaker 1: as if it might mean. It ended unhappily, of course,
Speaker 1: because we finally had to drive back and pick up
Speaker 1: the stuff. And even Father knew the difference between the
Speaker 1: works of an automobile and the equipment of a pantry.
Speaker 1: My mother wouldn't have known, however, nor her mother. My mother,
Speaker 1: for instance, thought, or rather knew, that it was dangerous
Speaker 1: to drive an automobile without gasoline. It it fried the
Speaker 1: valves or something. Now, don't you dare drive all over
Speaker 1: town with that gasoline, she would say to us when
Speaker 1: we started it off. Gasoline, oil, and water were much
Speaker 1: the same to her, a fact that made her life
Speaker 1: both confusing and perilous. Her greatest dread, however, was the Victrola.
Speaker 1: We had a very early one back in the Come
Speaker 1: Josephine in my flying machine days. She had an idea
Speaker 1: that the Victrola might blow up. It alarmed her, rather
Speaker 1: than reassured her to explain that the phonograph was run
Speaker 1: neither by gasoline nor by electricity. She could only suppose
Speaker 1: that it was propelled by some new fangled and untested
Speaker 1: apparatus which was likely to let go at any minute,
Speaker 1: making us all the victims and martyrs of the wild
Speaker 1: eyed Edison's dangerous experiments. The telephone she was comparatively at
Speaker 1: peace with, except of course, during storms, when for some
Speaker 1: reason or other she always took the receiver off the
Speaker 1: hook and let it hang. She came naturally by her
Speaker 1: confused and groundless fears for her own. Mother lived the
Speaker 1: latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that
Speaker 1: electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked.
Speaker 1: She contended out of empty sockets. If the wall switch
Speaker 1: had been left on, she would go around screwing in bulbs,
Speaker 1: and if they lighted up, she would hastily and fearfully
Speaker 1: turn off the wall switch and go back to her
Speaker 1: Piersons or Everybody's magazine, happy and the satisfaction that she
Speaker 1: had stopped not only a costly but a dangerous leakage.
Speaker 1: Nothing could ever clear this up for her. Our poor
Speaker 1: old rio came to a horrible end. Finally, we had
Speaker 1: parked it too far from the curb on a street
Speaker 1: with a trolley car line. It was late at night
Speaker 1: and the street was dark. The first street car that
Speaker 1: came along couldn't get by. It picked up the tired
Speaker 1: old automobile as a terrier might seize a rabbit, and
Speaker 1: drubbed it unmercifully, losing its hold now and then, but
Speaker 1: catching a new grip a second later. Tires booped and whoosh,
Speaker 1: the fenders coeled and graped. The steering wheel rose up
Speaker 1: like a specter and disappeared in the direction of Franklin
Speaker 1: Avenue with a melancholy whistling sound. Bolts and gadgets flew
Speaker 1: like sparks from a Catherine wheel. It was a splendid spectacle,
Speaker 1: but of course saddening to everybody except the motorman of
Speaker 1: the street car, who was sore. I think some of
Speaker 1: us broke down and wept. It must have been the
Speaker 1: weeping that caused grandfather to take on so terribly. Time
Speaker 1: was all mixed up in his mind. Automobiles and the
Speaker 1: like he never remembered having seen. He apparently gathered from
Speaker 1: the talk and the excitement and the weeping that somebody
Speaker 1: had died. Nor did he let go of this delusion.
Speaker 1: He insisted. In fact, after almost a week in which
Speaker 1: we strove mightily to divert him that it was a
Speaker 1: sin and a shame and a disgrace to the family
Speaker 1: to put the funeral off any longer. Nobody is dead.
Speaker 1: The automobile is smashed, shouted my father, trying for the
Speaker 1: thirtieth time to explain the situation to the old man.
Speaker 1: Why was he drunk, demanded grandfather. Sternly was who drunk?
Speaker 1: Asked father? Zenus said grandfather, he had a name for
Speaker 1: the corpse. Now it was his brother's Zenus, who, as
Speaker 1: it happened, was dead, but not from driving an automobile
Speaker 1: while intoxicated. Zenus had died in eighteen sixty six, the sensitive,
Speaker 1: rather poetical boy of twenty one. When the Civil War
Speaker 1: broke out, Zenis had gone to South America, just as
Speaker 1: he wrote, back until it blows over. Returning after the
Speaker 1: war had blown over, he caught the same disease that
Speaker 1: was going off the chestnut trees in those years, and
Speaker 1: passed away. It was the only case in history where
Speaker 1: a tree doctor had to be called in to spray
Speaker 1: a person, and our family had felt it very keenly.
Speaker 1: Nobody else in the United States caught the blight. Some
Speaker 1: of us had looked upon Zenus's fate as a kind
Speaker 1: of poetic justice. Now that Grandfather knew, so to speak,
Speaker 1: who was dead, it became increasingly awkward to go on
Speaker 1: living in the same house with him, as if nothing
Speaker 1: had happened. He would go into towering rages in which
Speaker 1: he threatened to write to the Board of Health unless
Speaker 1: the funeral were held. At once we realized that something
Speaker 1: had to be done. Eventually, we persuaded a friend of
Speaker 1: father's named George Martin to dress up in the manner
Speaker 1: and costume of the eighteen sixties and pretend to be
Speaker 1: Uncle Zenus in order to set Grandfather's mind at rest.
Speaker 1: The impostor looked fine and impressive, inside burns and a
Speaker 1: high beaver hat, and not unlike the dagera types of
Speaker 1: Zenis in our album I Shall Never Forget. The night
Speaker 1: just after dinner, when this Zenis walked into the living room,
Speaker 1: Grandfather was stomping up and down, tall hawk nosed round oathed.
Speaker 1: The newcomer held out both hands. Clem, he cried to Grandfather.
Speaker 1: Grandfather turned slowly, looked at the intruder and snorted, hurry you,
Speaker 1: he demanded in his deep, resonant voice. I'm Zenis, cried Martin.
Speaker 1: Your brother Zenus, fit is a fiddle and sound is
Speaker 1: a dollar. Zenus my foot said. Grandfather. Zenus died in
Speaker 1: a chestnut light in sixty six. Grandfather was given to
Speaker 1: these sudden, unexpected, and extremely lucid moments. They were generally
Speaker 1: more embarrassing than his other moments. He comprehended before he
Speaker 1: went to bed that night that the old automobile had
Speaker 1: been destroyed, and that its destruction had caused all the
Speaker 1: turmoil in the house. It flew all the pieces. Pa,
Speaker 1: my mother told him, in graphically describing the accident, I
Speaker 1: new toward growled, Grandfather. I always told you to get
Speaker 1: a poop Toledo the car we had to push by
Speaker 1: James Thurber.
Speaker 2: Get run ah some Thurber.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
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Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad,
Speaker 1: and everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown
Speaker 1: for today, day one hundred and forty eight of America
Speaker 1: held hostage just one three hundred and sixteen days until
Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck, lame brained term
Speaker 1: unless Putin or Musk remove him sooner, or Millenia does,
Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables do, or we do. The next
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