December 14, 2022 • 33 mins
EPISODE 95: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: You'll be happy to know that Kevin McCarthy, whose only gift is making up excuses for the violent, insane, anti-democracy, murderous, treacherous, traitorous, seditious mob otherwise known as "The Republican Party," has reassured us that when Marjorie Taylor Greene said SHE would've "won" the January 6th Coup, she was just being "facetious." (2:11) So now, what rationalization will he come up with Rep. Ralph Norman and his text of 1/17/21 urging that Trump get busy "invoking Marshall (sic) Law!?" There's quite a few of these McCarthy needs to excuse: the Republicans who want to hang Democrats, who want to hang them from cranes, or put them before firing squads. What words might he choose? (7:05) And how would he describe what Trailer Park Greene asked Laura Loomer to find out about McCarthy's own "affairs"? (8:19) And what word would we use if McCarthy grew a pair and acted to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene under the Rebellion Clause of the 14th Amendment?
B-Block (11:55) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Zenith in New York (13:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Senate progress to close the coup loophole? Commutations in Oregon. And the Drag Show Must Go On. (14:46) IN SPORTS: The NBA does an odd job in suddenly naming all its awards after its greatest players. How is a guy who played in nine finals and lost eight of them, to be the face of the "Clutch" Award? And this raises the question of re-naming hockey awards. If the people for whom they are named are not worthy, you should find new faces, yes? That means the racist Conn Smythe. Does it also mean the colonialist anti-native Lord Stanley? (19:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Brittney Griner's situation is original but not unique as The Wall Street Journal claims; many ex-prisoner athletes have played again - including one who played in the country that imprisoned him! Plus Rudy Giuliani changes the Hunter Biden laptop story AGAIN. But can they compete with Elon "I Might Be Elizabeth Holmes Only With A Higher Voice" Musk and his new scheme to cut costs by not paying his debts.
C-Block (24:42) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I went past my first New York Apartment the other day. It was a great place for $483 a month. Until that night I noticed that the light peeking in around my shades was way too bright because somebody had thrown a Molotov Cocktail into our lobby!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio.
You will be relieved to here that Marjorie Taylor Green
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quote was being facetious about how she would have won
the coup on January six, or at least Speaker presumptive
Kevin McCarthy now says he thinks so wow, he doesn't
actually go that far. McCarthy doesn't think so he quote
thinks she said she was being facetious. And Congressman Ralph
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Norman of North Carolina, when he texted Mark Meadows on
January one, quote, we are at a point of no
return in saving our republic. Our last hope is invoking
martial law. Please President to do so well at now
that that text is out, that was just frustration. I
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guess McCarthy thought Norman was being metaphorical. And when Green
texted Meadows the same day that the only way to
save our republic is for Trump to call for martial law,
I guess McCarthy thought Green was being sardonic. And then
Congressman Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania when he texted Meadows that
he was ready to do anything I can do to
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fight these m efforts. I guess McCarthy thought Kelly was
just describing Democrats euphemistically. And when Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole
issued a press release insisting Nancy Pelosi was running the
House by martial law, and he used the phrase martial
laws six times in the press release, I guess Kevin
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McCarthy thought Cole was just being hyperbolock. Oh, and when
Trump wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution and people
noticed he wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution, I
guess McCarthy agreed with Trump that the thing was just
a hoax. And when Congressman Paul goes Are said he
supported Trump on terminating the Constitution but that only low
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i Q people could possibly have interpreted that as meaning
he supported terminating the constitutional, I guess McCarthy thought Gozar
was being witty. And when Lauren Boberd tweeted in July,
we must terminate this presidency, I guess McCarthy thought Bobert
was just being whimsical. And when Boberd tweeted while inside
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the Capitol during the coup, today is seventeen seventy six,
I guess McCarthy just thought she got her dates mixed up.
And then when she tweeted, Nancy Pelosi has left the chamber.
I guess McCarthy thought Bobert was just being oh a paradist.
You know, Elvis has left the building. Nancy Pelosi has
left the chamber. And when Sigal Chatta, the Republican any
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to replace him, said the Democratic Attorney General Nevada should
be hanging from an effing crane, I guess McCarthy agreed
with her that chat I was just being tongue in cheek.
And when Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett said we
should try Anthony Fauci and put him in front of
a firing squad, I guess McCarthy thought Bennett was just
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being colorful. And when Carl Palladino said Merrick Garland should
be executed after the search of Marilago, I guess McCarthy
thought Palladino was just joking. And that same month, the
majority leader of the New Hampshire House, Jason Osborne, when
he said that instead of buying Independence Day hot dogs,
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you should grab a few more rounds for your a
K forty seven, I guess McCarthy thought Osborne was just
offering money saving advice and being prudential. And when Colorado
Conservative Joe Oltman called for hanging the governor there two
inches off the ground, so they choked to death. And
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Colorado Assemblyman Patrick nebl been nominated Oltman for governor and
said that was a joke. It was said in jess
he's been mischaracterized. We need more humor. And Oltman came
back and said I did call for the hanging. I
guess McCarthy thought Altman and nevill were just engaging in repartee.
And when Ohio Republican Tom Zawistowski took a full page
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ad in the Washington Times threatening that if Trump didn't
declare martial law, we will have no other choice but
to take matters into our own hands, I guess McCarthy
thought Zawastowski was being satirical. But I have to admit,
even after all of this evidence, I am stumped about
what word Kevin McCarthy, a man who's only evident gift
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is making up excuses for the violent, insane, anti democratic, murderous, treacherous, traitorous,
seditious mob otherwise known as the Republican Party. I am
dumped about which word Kevin McCarthy would pull out of
his bottomless pit of rationalizations. Which word jesting, flippant, drool, jocular, irreverent, wise, cracking, dutching,
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leg pulling, rye salty? If he used facetious for what
Marjorie Taylor Green said about winning January six, which word
of all of those would Kevin McCarthy use for what
Laura Loomer quoted Taylor Green four days ago as asking
her about Kevin McCarthy. I have text messages with Marjorie
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Taylor Green on my cell phone where she talks about
how she thinks Kevin McCarthy is so stupid and how
she wants me to dig up all the dirt eye
canon on him and his extra marital affairs so that
we can prevent Kevin McCarthy from being speaker. What do
you think, Evan, Is Marjorie Taylor Green also being facetious there?
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Or is she sardonic? Or what do you think of
this option? Could it be that Marjorie Taylor Green is
just being psychopathic and unsuitable to serve in the House
of Representatives? And if you, Kevin had any balls on
you whatsoever, you would take every ounce of your power
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and get her expelled from Congress Now by invoking the
rebellion clause of the fourteenth Amendment and expel her fellow
vermin with her. And you would do it even if
it's not for the sake of the nation. You remember
the nation, right, Kevin? You could do it just to
secure your own speakership and only inadvertently help the country.
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What word would describe that, Kevin, besides a typical? Would
that make you facetious or shrewd? Would it make you perspicacious?
Or might it even make you Dare I use a
word that you, Kevin would probably have to look up
in the dictionary? Might actually standing up to this dangerous
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cave woman make you patriotic? Still ahead? Elon Musk's tips
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on how to become a billionaire like him. First, stop
paying Rent oh Man. The National Basketball Association assigns names
of famous players to its annual awards. Some of them
don't make any sense at all, but they do trigger
a debate in hockey should those awards be renamed, especially
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the one for the playoff m v P, which is
named in honor of a noted racist who stopped integration
in his own sport. Worst Person's Rudy Giuliani goes to
war against Sean Hannity. Popcorn, get you popcorn? Here? Popcorn?
Stipend hot And have you ever been an apartment building
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when the lobby catches on fire? I have I walked
past that apartment building the other day. The story of
the Night of the Molotov Cocktail of East fifty Street,
and things I promised not to tell. That's next. This
is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead
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on countdown, Elon Musk reveals the key to becoming the
world's ex richest man. Stop paying the rent on your office.
Anybody wondering if he's just Elizabeth Holmes with a higher
voice coming up first. Each traditional countdown, we feature a
dog in need you can help. Every dog has its
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day once again. A pound can turn a good dog
bad in amount of hours, and it can then become
a self fulfilling prophecy that ends in the dog's death.
Like Zenith at the New York Pound. Upon arrival just
eleven days ago, she was wiggly and social. Today her
paws are raw and bloodied from pacing and jumping and
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trying to get out of her jail. So naturally they
planned to kill her. Thursday, She's a big, light tan
and brindle dog with an eager, friendly look, and she
needs either somebody to adopt her or all of us
to pledge to help a rescue group pull her out
of there. And don't forget Elaine Boozer's offer to cover
ordinary expenses for an adopter for a year. You can
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find Zenith on my Twitter feeds. Please retweet her and
pledge if you can. I thank you, and Zenith thanks you.
Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks,
some prediction. State line, Washington, what do you mean we
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might actually do something to prevent the next coup? I
expect an omnibus bill will contain priorities both sides want
to see passed into law, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,
and he says he thinks the omnibus bill will pass.
Included among those more funding for Ukraine and the Electoral
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count Act. Dateline Salem. Governor Kate Brown of Oregon last
night commuted the sentences of the seventeen prisoners remaining on
death row in that state. They will now serve life
without the chance of parole. She says the death penalty
is immoral as Clarence Darrow once put it at the
state in which I live is not kinder, more humane,
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and more considerate than the mad act of these two boys,
the murderers, Leopold and Loebe. I am sorry, I have
lived so long and dateline San Antonio. A drag Queen
Christmas went on as scheduled at the Aztec Theater last night.
Are members of the This Is Texas Freedom Force group
of fascists showed up, So did two members of the
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Patriot Front militia, and so did armed groups defending the
l g B t Q community. First drag performance ever,
where the real dressing up was on the street outside
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This Is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This
is countdown with Keith in sports. The National Basketball Association,
which has lived in a hybrid world in which some
of its awards, like the Bill Russell All Star Game
m v P, were named for its most famous players
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of all time but most of them were not named
for players, has now changed that, but with some problems.
The m v P will now be the Michael Jordan Trophy,
Naturally Defensive Player of the Year, achiem La Juan Trophy,
Okay Clutch Player of the Year, the Jerry West Trophy,
which is odd given that West's clutch record in the
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NBA Finals was one win and eight losses. Sixth Man
of the Year the John Habltcheck Trophy also strange because
not once in his career was John hablet Check less
than fifth on his team in minutes played. The sixth
man is supposed to be, you know, like six Rookie
of the Year the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy, And he did
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have a great rookie year. But maybe the Scoring Championship
Awards should have been named after him. He did win
it seven times, and he once scored a hundred points
in one game. But the weirdest of them the George
Mike and Most Improved Trophy. George Mike in was such
an immediate star, the first truly big man at center.
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After just twenty five games as a professional basketball player,
the owner of his team pulled the franchise out of
the league in which it played, and he created an
entire new twenty four team league marketed on the premise
that only its fans would be able to see Mike
and play. When exactly did George Mike and Improve? The
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NBA awards namings brought back to the four a discussion
of naming or renaming hockey's awards, which have long and
famously been named for players or executives. This discussion principally
centers on the Con Smythe Trophy, given since to the
most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs and named
for the former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. But
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Smith was a racist who famously kept an African Canadian
prospect named Herb Carnegie out of the NHL in the
thirties and forties and infamously mocked him by offering ten
thousand dollars to anybody who could quote turned Carnegie white unquote. Obviously,
the Smythe Trophy needs to be renamed and before next
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year's playoffs. But once you talk about renaming hockey awards,
people wanna change all the other awards. Somebody proposed making
the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals scored in a
season into the Wayne Gretzky Trophy, even though the Rocket
Rochard Trophy was only established in and my friend Jeff Merrick,
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one of the boys and girls at Hockey Night in Canada,
wondered if the Art Ross Trophy for top scorer should
be renamed given that, well, Art Ross was a defenseman
who only played in three NHL games in his life
and only had one goal and no assists. Of course,
it's the Art Ross Trophy because it was donated by
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Art Ross when he was the general manager of the
Boston Bruins. If that's no longer good enough, donating the
trophy and naming it after yourself, what do you do with?
You know that other trophy they give out in hockey,
the Stanley Cup. It is named for Lord Stanley of
Preston because he bought it and donated it and named it. Plus,
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there is the increasingly difficult reality that Lord Stanley was
Governor General of Canada when Canada was still a British
possession and when the government's avowed policy was to dispossess
the native populations the First Nations and either put them
on reservations or assimilate them into European culture and generally
mistreat them. So you want to rename all the hockey trophies,
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don't We kind of have to start with the Stanley Cup. Ahead.
For an apartment that costs four and eight three dollars
a month, it was pretty nice, especially the view until
that one night when somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into
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our lobby. Tales of fires at my place coming up
in Fuego. First, the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons
and Donning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons
in the world. The Bronze The Wall Street Journal with
a curious piece about Brittney Griner. Doesn't have anything to
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do with her, really, but it writes that she has
a quote unprecedented choice how or whether to return to
basketball after being a prisoner in a Russian jail for
ten months. Phil Marshall Don was a start, top starting
pitcher for the Philadelphia A's in ninety one and nineteen
forty two, and then went into the Royal Canadian Air Force,
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served in World War Two, was shot down captured by
the Germans. It was a pow. He got back to
Canada and the US in late nineteen forty five, and
he went out and won nineteen games for the Philadelphia
Is in nineteen forty seven. That's kind of a comeback.
If that's not quite enough of a tough choice for you,
it was baronhard Bert Troutman, who was a top amateur
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soccer goalie in Germany. In the late nineteen thirties, he
became a Nazi paratrooper. He was captured by the Soviets, escaped,
then the French escaped, then finally the English in nineteen
forty five. And when the war ended, they offered to
send him home and he said, uh, no thanks, and
instead he joined a small professional English soccer team. And
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he was so good as a goalie that in ninety
nine was signed by Manchester City, for whom he was
the star goaltender until nineteen sixty four. In the country
that captured him during the war. Now that's an unprecedented choice.
The bronze Rudy Giuliani. Rudy has changed the Hunter Biden
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laptop story again. Now he says he had the story,
or at least most of it, in two thousand nineteen
and gave the story to Sean Hannity and Mike Pompeo
and the then Attorney General William Are, but they all
buried it. Now, apart from the hilarity here this is
would he Woody jiuli Anni versus Sean Hannity. Apart from that,
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if Rudy had the story in two thousand nineteen, and
The New York Post did not publish it until October.
Why did the Post and the right wing echo chamber
do such a lousy job of making it look like
it was a story even though it wasn't had all
that time? Somebody asked the other day, what would happen
if the story had been about Donald Trump Junior's laptop
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and there was evidence in it that he used crack
cocaine and might have been guilty of influence peddling. And
the answer to the cur to me was, I mean,
just like Junior's Twitter feed and he given Wednesday. But
our winner is Elon Musk. Do you ever see Steve
Martin when he was still a stand up comic in
a white suit with an arrow through his head, playing
a banjo in front of arena crowds. I did Binghamton,
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New York, the Broom County Arena. He was outstanding. I
surreptitiously recorded it to I'm sorry Steve. He did one
bit in which he said, you can be a millionaire
and never pay taxes. You can be a millionaire and
never pay taxes. First get a million dollars, then don't
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pay taxes. And when the I R s comes to
your house and says you made a million dollars and
didn't pay taxes. You say two simple words I forgot
from the New York Times quote to cut costs. Twitter
has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or
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any of its global offices for weeks, three people close
to the company said, to which David Corn asks con
Tesla owners cut costs by refusing to make their car payments. Ellen, first,
Kanye West, then Sam Bankman freed, then me, you can't
be a millionaire and never pay Texas musque two days
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worst person in the world to the number one story
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on the Countdown in my favorite topic, me and Things
I promised not to tell and circumstances the other day
took me past my first New York City apartment, and
as always I stood and stared and shook my head,
and I saw the flames and the glow and the
blackened lobby because one night somebody threw a Molotov cocktail
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into the building in which I had my first New
York City apartment. You can't make memories like that. The
address was and is two forty East fifty Street, Apartment
ten f It was two to wars west of Second Avenue,
south side of the street. It was the center apartment
on the street side of the building, and I was
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directly above the front entrance, and the only thing of
note in the entire place a full fledged New York
City apartment canopy. You don't know how valuable this is
until you have lived somewhere without one. You could get
out of a cab in a rainstorm and under the
canopy in two seconds and not get drenched. No doorman,
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no amenities, or rather dubious live in super but it
had that blessed canopy. It figures in this story. I
moved in June. It was a big studio apartment. The
view was of a big video warehouse across the street,
though if you leaned out the westernmost window you could
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see the City Corps Center, which was always an impressive
site on a foggy night. The neighborhood and the building
were quiet. A fifteen minute walk from my first job
and then a five minute walk from my second job.
When I first rented there, it was are you ready
four three dollars a month, which sounds unbelievable, but that
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was about a third of my salary at United Press. International,
and I think when I moved out in it had
gone up to five dollars a month, and the price
might have had something to do with the fact that
one night somebody threw the moltop cocktail into the building.
You know how, once you've been in any place for
any length of time, you get used to the physics
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of it, not just someplace you live, any place you
spend a lot of time in an office, classroom, a theater,
or an apartment, you know what it sounds like. You
know what it feels like in the summer or in
the winter. You know what it looks like, the building, noise,
the smells, if it's too hot, too cold, and especially
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and think about this for a section, especially what it
looks like, just based on the light, what the light
itself looks like in your apartment. You would know the
difference in the light if while you were asleep somebody
knocked you out, kidnapped you and put you in an
identical apartment but didn't get the light quite right. I
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don't know if there was a day when I could
have said, this is what the light looks like in
apartment ten f to forty East fifty fifth Street during
the snowstorm, or what the light looks like coming in
through the shades at eight in the morning or eight
at night. But it probably didn't take long. June was
when I moved in. I bet I knew the various
lights of the place. By September it was a good price.
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It wasn't that bigger place, So by New Year's nineteen
eighty three, I knew it instinctively, exactly reflexively. I would
go to bed in the southeast corner of my apartment,
get in sleeping north south, but with my head at
the south end, and as I lay on my back,
I could look out the windows and see the faint
orange glow from a couple of street lights that shone
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through the four windows that and two on either side
of a kind of small picture window in the middle
that did not open. The light would be brightest from
the window on the far right, the one closest to
Second Avenue. So as Sunday, January nine three turned into Monday,
January Tree, I hit the sack around midnight. Because I
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actually had one of those rare nine to five jobs
in television. I was a field reporter for CNN. I
shut off the light on the night stand. I laid
down on my back, stared out my right hand window,
and immediately thought, by the light is slightly more orange
than it should be, isn't it? What the hells are
on out there? I'm guessing it was no more than
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five or ten percent different from usual. But as I've
gone to such lengths to point out, if you see
the same light through the same window in all conceivable
conditions almost every night for more than two years, five
or ten percent different is a lot of different. I think.
I lay there trying to figure it out for a
minute or so when I realized, say, it's now ten
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or fifteen percent different, it's getting more different. I got
up and went to the window and rolled up the
shade and looked down to the canopy ten flows floors below,
and I must say, to my credit, I quickly discerned
that the canopy was on fire. I reacted as almost
everybody does, matter of fact. We're thinking, maybe even saying
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out loud, hey, the canopy is on fire, and then
registering that the fire had already burned through the building
end of the canopy and was moving quickly towards the street,
suggesting again, I must say, I figured this out for myself,
suggesting that there was probably a fire in the lobby
of the building. It was burning out towards the street. Well.
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I felt clever, Then I felt something else. I put
a robe on over my pajamas, I put on some shoes,
I grabbed my wallet and keys, and ventured into the hallway.
No smell of smoke good sign. The two elevators were
staring me in the face. I knew better than to
try them. I opened the stairwell, and that's when I
smelled the smoke. Faint, but it was there. I went
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down two floors, and the smell became stronger and stronger.
So I went back up. I went back into my apartment.
I did not really know what I was going to
do next. Ten floors. Need was to say was not jumpable.
Even when I was less than twenty four years old,
I would not have made that jump. There was no
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fire escape. That's what the stairwells were for. And even
if I went down the elevator or the stairwell or
the side of the damn building, I would wind up,
you know, right in the middle of the fire in
the lobby. For a few seconds, I really did not
know what to do next, Me, the grandson of a
man who was not only a firefighter, but who was
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the guy who drove the hook and ladder for a
fire company irony. That is, when a blessed sound appeared
around the corner fire engines that broke me out of
self absorption and cheered me considerably. They parked right near
where that convenient canopy used to be, but was now
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pretty much a charred hunk of the metal framing and
a little burned fabric left over. I'm sure you've seen
a fire. Maybe you've seen firefighters arrive at one and
get going with amazing speed. But there is something different
in seeing all that from the vantage point of being
above the fire. First there is an extraordinary amount of water,
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and then a lot of smoke, and then an almost
unstoppable instinct to say cool. And then you go and
check the stairwell again and joyfully inhale the smell of
stuff that had been on fire but was now just
inundated with water. I waited until after they left before
I decided to go back to my bed. I did
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not feel the need to add to whatever loud chaos
was unfolding in our lobby, nor to get any details
about the fire, other than the most important one. It's out.
But in the morning I had to go to work anyway,
and so I saw the elevator door open onto the
little linoleum covered landing in the lobby, and I saw
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that everything else in the lobby except that linoleum landing
was jet black. They were still hosing some of it down.
They were pulling up burned carpet. They were already installing
new windows and doors and carting away what was left
of the canopy. And it was evident that nothing else
in the building had burned, nothing but the canopy and
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about the lobby. In the days and weeks to come,
the other residents, knowing I worked in news, clued me
in on the rumors and asked me to check them out.
There was a dispute involving the owner. There was something
about a woman. No, there was nothing about a woman.
But all of them, every story included the obvious somebody
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had thrown a Molotov cocktail into or against our front door.
That was not spontaneous combustion. Canopies just don't suddenly have,
you know, electrical fires. And then there was the best
of the stories borne out or at least lent plausibility
by the rapidity with which the firefighters arrived, which thinking
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back on it was no more than three or four
minutes tops after I first saw the extra rang glow.
The best of all the stories was that the fire
department had been called by somebody before anybody in the
building had called. The implication was somebody called in a
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fire at two Street and then went over there and
started a fire to For forty years I have been
unable to find the truth. The fire, doing superficial but
ultimately not serious damage, did not make any of the
New York newspapers. Hell that year, I took a subway
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to work in the morning and there was a guy
sprawled over three seats. And when I went home that night,
I happen to get on the exact same train car
and there was the exact same guy sprawled over the
exact same three seats because he was dead. And that
didn't make any of the New York newspapers either. We
old time New Yorkers, we lived on the edge, baby
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headless body in topless bar era folks. All I know
is that within weeks a doorman was hired. His name
was Gene and He was still there as of two
thousand two, and then the building suddenly went co op.
All of us renters were offered the chance to buy
our apartments. I wondered if that had something to do
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with the Molotov cocktail. In any event, I did not
want to take out a loan. I expected to be
moving to Boston within the year, and I kept thinking
about that Molotov cocktail. So I turned down my little
apartment at the price of once again, I asked, are
you ready thirty six thousand five dollars, because yeah, there
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was a fire and loan and Boston. But ultimately I
turned it down even just to have kept it as
a storage unit, because when it comes to investments, as
previously annotated here, I'm a moron. I've done all the
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damage I can do here, including to my investment portfolio.
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You will be relieved to here that Marjorie Taylor Green
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quote was being facetious about how she would have won
the coup on January six, or at least Speaker presumptive
Kevin McCarthy now says he thinks so wow, he doesn't
actually go that far. McCarthy doesn't think so he quote
thinks she said she was being facetious. And Congressman Ralph
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Norman of North Carolina, when he texted Mark Meadows on
January one, quote, we are at a point of no
return in saving our republic. Our last hope is invoking
martial law. Please President to do so well at now
that that text is out, that was just frustration. I
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guess McCarthy thought Norman was being metaphorical. And when Green
texted Meadows the same day that the only way to
save our republic is for Trump to call for martial law,
I guess McCarthy thought Green was being sardonic. And then
Congressman Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania when he texted Meadows that
he was ready to do anything I can do to
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fight these m efforts. I guess McCarthy thought Kelly was
just describing Democrats euphemistically. And when Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole
issued a press release insisting Nancy Pelosi was running the
House by martial law, and he used the phrase martial
laws six times in the press release, I guess Kevin
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McCarthy thought Cole was just being hyperbolock. Oh, and when
Trump wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution and people
noticed he wrote about wanting to terminate the Constitution, I
guess McCarthy agreed with Trump that the thing was just
a hoax. And when Congressman Paul goes Are said he
supported Trump on terminating the Constitution but that only low
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i Q people could possibly have interpreted that as meaning
he supported terminating the constitutional, I guess McCarthy thought Gozar
was being witty. And when Lauren Boberd tweeted in July,
we must terminate this presidency, I guess McCarthy thought Bobert
was just being whimsical. And when Boberd tweeted while inside
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the Capitol during the coup, today is seventeen seventy six,
I guess McCarthy just thought she got her dates mixed up.
And then when she tweeted, Nancy Pelosi has left the chamber.
I guess McCarthy thought Bobert was just being oh a paradist.
You know, Elvis has left the building. Nancy Pelosi has
left the chamber. And when Sigal Chatta, the Republican any
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to replace him, said the Democratic Attorney General Nevada should
be hanging from an effing crane, I guess McCarthy agreed
with her that chat I was just being tongue in cheek.
And when Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett said we
should try Anthony Fauci and put him in front of
a firing squad, I guess McCarthy thought Bennett was just
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being colorful. And when Carl Palladino said Merrick Garland should
be executed after the search of Marilago, I guess McCarthy
thought Palladino was just joking. And that same month, the
majority leader of the New Hampshire House, Jason Osborne, when
he said that instead of buying Independence Day hot dogs,
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you should grab a few more rounds for your a
K forty seven, I guess McCarthy thought Osborne was just
offering money saving advice and being prudential. And when Colorado
Conservative Joe Oltman called for hanging the governor there two
inches off the ground, so they choked to death. And
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Colorado Assemblyman Patrick nebl been nominated Oltman for governor and
said that was a joke. It was said in jess
he's been mischaracterized. We need more humor. And Oltman came
back and said I did call for the hanging. I
guess McCarthy thought Altman and nevill were just engaging in repartee.
And when Ohio Republican Tom Zawistowski took a full page
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ad in the Washington Times threatening that if Trump didn't
declare martial law, we will have no other choice but
to take matters into our own hands, I guess McCarthy
thought Zawastowski was being satirical. But I have to admit,
even after all of this evidence, I am stumped about
what word Kevin McCarthy, a man who's only evident gift
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is making up excuses for the violent, insane, anti democratic, murderous, treacherous, traitorous,
seditious mob otherwise known as the Republican Party. I am
dumped about which word Kevin McCarthy would pull out of
his bottomless pit of rationalizations. Which word jesting, flippant, drool, jocular, irreverent, wise, cracking, dutching,
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leg pulling, rye salty? If he used facetious for what
Marjorie Taylor Green said about winning January six, which word
of all of those would Kevin McCarthy use for what
Laura Loomer quoted Taylor Green four days ago as asking
her about Kevin McCarthy. I have text messages with Marjorie
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Taylor Green on my cell phone where she talks about
how she thinks Kevin McCarthy is so stupid and how
she wants me to dig up all the dirt eye
canon on him and his extra marital affairs so that
we can prevent Kevin McCarthy from being speaker. What do
you think, Evan, Is Marjorie Taylor Green also being facetious there?
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Or is she sardonic? Or what do you think of
this option? Could it be that Marjorie Taylor Green is
just being psychopathic and unsuitable to serve in the House
of Representatives? And if you, Kevin had any balls on
you whatsoever, you would take every ounce of your power
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and get her expelled from Congress Now by invoking the
rebellion clause of the fourteenth Amendment and expel her fellow
vermin with her. And you would do it even if
it's not for the sake of the nation. You remember
the nation, right, Kevin? You could do it just to
secure your own speakership and only inadvertently help the country.
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What word would describe that, Kevin, besides a typical? Would
that make you facetious or shrewd? Would it make you perspicacious?
Or might it even make you Dare I use a
word that you, Kevin would probably have to look up
in the dictionary? Might actually standing up to this dangerous
(07:13):
cave woman make you patriotic? Still ahead? Elon Musk's tips
(07:35):
on how to become a billionaire like him. First, stop
paying Rent oh Man. The National Basketball Association assigns names
of famous players to its annual awards. Some of them
don't make any sense at all, but they do trigger
a debate in hockey should those awards be renamed, especially
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the one for the playoff m v P, which is
named in honor of a noted racist who stopped integration
in his own sport. Worst Person's Rudy Giuliani goes to
war against Sean Hannity. Popcorn, get you popcorn? Here? Popcorn?
Stipend hot And have you ever been an apartment building
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when the lobby catches on fire? I have I walked
past that apartment building the other day. The story of
the Night of the Molotov Cocktail of East fifty Street,
and things I promised not to tell. That's next. This
is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead
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on countdown, Elon Musk reveals the key to becoming the
world's ex richest man. Stop paying the rent on your office.
Anybody wondering if he's just Elizabeth Holmes with a higher
voice coming up first. Each traditional countdown, we feature a
dog in need you can help. Every dog has its
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day once again. A pound can turn a good dog
bad in amount of hours, and it can then become
a self fulfilling prophecy that ends in the dog's death.
Like Zenith at the New York Pound. Upon arrival just
eleven days ago, she was wiggly and social. Today her
paws are raw and bloodied from pacing and jumping and
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trying to get out of her jail. So naturally they
planned to kill her. Thursday, She's a big, light tan
and brindle dog with an eager, friendly look, and she
needs either somebody to adopt her or all of us
to pledge to help a rescue group pull her out
of there. And don't forget Elaine Boozer's offer to cover
ordinary expenses for an adopter for a year. You can
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find Zenith on my Twitter feeds. Please retweet her and
pledge if you can. I thank you, and Zenith thanks you.
Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks,
some prediction. State line, Washington, what do you mean we
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might actually do something to prevent the next coup? I
expect an omnibus bill will contain priorities both sides want
to see passed into law, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,
and he says he thinks the omnibus bill will pass.
Included among those more funding for Ukraine and the Electoral
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count Act. Dateline Salem. Governor Kate Brown of Oregon last
night commuted the sentences of the seventeen prisoners remaining on
death row in that state. They will now serve life
without the chance of parole. She says the death penalty
is immoral as Clarence Darrow once put it at the
state in which I live is not kinder, more humane,
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and more considerate than the mad act of these two boys,
the murderers, Leopold and Loebe. I am sorry, I have
lived so long and dateline San Antonio. A drag Queen
Christmas went on as scheduled at the Aztec Theater last night.
Are members of the This Is Texas Freedom Force group
of fascists showed up, So did two members of the
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Patriot Front militia, and so did armed groups defending the
l g B t Q community. First drag performance ever,
where the real dressing up was on the street outside
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This Is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This
is countdown with Keith in sports. The National Basketball Association,
which has lived in a hybrid world in which some
of its awards, like the Bill Russell All Star Game
m v P, were named for its most famous players
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of all time but most of them were not named
for players, has now changed that, but with some problems.
The m v P will now be the Michael Jordan Trophy,
Naturally Defensive Player of the Year, achiem La Juan Trophy,
Okay Clutch Player of the Year, the Jerry West Trophy,
which is odd given that West's clutch record in the
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NBA Finals was one win and eight losses. Sixth Man
of the Year the John Habltcheck Trophy also strange because
not once in his career was John hablet Check less
than fifth on his team in minutes played. The sixth
man is supposed to be, you know, like six Rookie
of the Year the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy, And he did
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have a great rookie year. But maybe the Scoring Championship
Awards should have been named after him. He did win
it seven times, and he once scored a hundred points
in one game. But the weirdest of them the George
Mike and Most Improved Trophy. George Mike in was such
an immediate star, the first truly big man at center.
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After just twenty five games as a professional basketball player,
the owner of his team pulled the franchise out of
the league in which it played, and he created an
entire new twenty four team league marketed on the premise
that only its fans would be able to see Mike
and play. When exactly did George Mike and Improve? The
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NBA awards namings brought back to the four a discussion
of naming or renaming hockey's awards, which have long and
famously been named for players or executives. This discussion principally
centers on the Con Smythe Trophy, given since to the
most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs and named
for the former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. But
(13:53):
Smith was a racist who famously kept an African Canadian
prospect named Herb Carnegie out of the NHL in the
thirties and forties and infamously mocked him by offering ten
thousand dollars to anybody who could quote turned Carnegie white unquote. Obviously,
the Smythe Trophy needs to be renamed and before next
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year's playoffs. But once you talk about renaming hockey awards,
people wanna change all the other awards. Somebody proposed making
the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals scored in a
season into the Wayne Gretzky Trophy, even though the Rocket
Rochard Trophy was only established in and my friend Jeff Merrick,
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one of the boys and girls at Hockey Night in Canada,
wondered if the Art Ross Trophy for top scorer should
be renamed given that, well, Art Ross was a defenseman
who only played in three NHL games in his life
and only had one goal and no assists. Of course,
it's the Art Ross Trophy because it was donated by
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Art Ross when he was the general manager of the
Boston Bruins. If that's no longer good enough, donating the
trophy and naming it after yourself, what do you do with?
You know that other trophy they give out in hockey,
the Stanley Cup. It is named for Lord Stanley of
Preston because he bought it and donated it and named it. Plus,
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there is the increasingly difficult reality that Lord Stanley was
Governor General of Canada when Canada was still a British
possession and when the government's avowed policy was to dispossess
the native populations the First Nations and either put them
on reservations or assimilate them into European culture and generally
mistreat them. So you want to rename all the hockey trophies,
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don't We kind of have to start with the Stanley Cup. Ahead.
For an apartment that costs four and eight three dollars
a month, it was pretty nice, especially the view until
that one night when somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into
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our lobby. Tales of fires at my place coming up
in Fuego. First, the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons
and Donning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons
in the world. The Bronze The Wall Street Journal with
a curious piece about Brittney Griner. Doesn't have anything to
(16:24):
do with her, really, but it writes that she has
a quote unprecedented choice how or whether to return to
basketball after being a prisoner in a Russian jail for
ten months. Phil Marshall Don was a start, top starting
pitcher for the Philadelphia A's in ninety one and nineteen
forty two, and then went into the Royal Canadian Air Force,
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served in World War Two, was shot down captured by
the Germans. It was a pow. He got back to
Canada and the US in late nineteen forty five, and
he went out and won nineteen games for the Philadelphia
Is in nineteen forty seven. That's kind of a comeback.
If that's not quite enough of a tough choice for you,
it was baronhard Bert Troutman, who was a top amateur
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soccer goalie in Germany. In the late nineteen thirties, he
became a Nazi paratrooper. He was captured by the Soviets, escaped,
then the French escaped, then finally the English in nineteen
forty five. And when the war ended, they offered to
send him home and he said, uh, no thanks, and
instead he joined a small professional English soccer team. And
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he was so good as a goalie that in ninety
nine was signed by Manchester City, for whom he was
the star goaltender until nineteen sixty four. In the country
that captured him during the war. Now that's an unprecedented choice.
The bronze Rudy Giuliani. Rudy has changed the Hunter Biden
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laptop story again. Now he says he had the story,
or at least most of it, in two thousand nineteen
and gave the story to Sean Hannity and Mike Pompeo
and the then Attorney General William Are, but they all
buried it. Now, apart from the hilarity here this is
would he Woody jiuli Anni versus Sean Hannity. Apart from that,
(18:16):
if Rudy had the story in two thousand nineteen, and
The New York Post did not publish it until October.
Why did the Post and the right wing echo chamber
do such a lousy job of making it look like
it was a story even though it wasn't had all
that time? Somebody asked the other day, what would happen
if the story had been about Donald Trump Junior's laptop
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and there was evidence in it that he used crack
cocaine and might have been guilty of influence peddling. And
the answer to the cur to me was, I mean,
just like Junior's Twitter feed and he given Wednesday. But
our winner is Elon Musk. Do you ever see Steve
Martin when he was still a stand up comic in
a white suit with an arrow through his head, playing
a banjo in front of arena crowds. I did Binghamton,
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New York, the Broom County Arena. He was outstanding. I
surreptitiously recorded it to I'm sorry Steve. He did one
bit in which he said, you can be a millionaire
and never pay taxes. You can be a millionaire and
never pay taxes. First get a million dollars, then don't
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pay taxes. And when the I R s comes to
your house and says you made a million dollars and
didn't pay taxes. You say two simple words I forgot
from the New York Times quote to cut costs. Twitter
has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or
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any of its global offices for weeks, three people close
to the company said, to which David Corn asks con
Tesla owners cut costs by refusing to make their car payments. Ellen, first,
Kanye West, then Sam Bankman freed, then me, you can't
be a millionaire and never pay Texas musque two days
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worst person in the world to the number one story
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on the Countdown in my favorite topic, me and Things
I promised not to tell and circumstances the other day
took me past my first New York City apartment, and
as always I stood and stared and shook my head,
and I saw the flames and the glow and the
blackened lobby because one night somebody threw a Molotov cocktail
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into the building in which I had my first New
York City apartment. You can't make memories like that. The
address was and is two forty East fifty Street, Apartment
ten f It was two to wars west of Second Avenue,
south side of the street. It was the center apartment
on the street side of the building, and I was
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directly above the front entrance, and the only thing of
note in the entire place a full fledged New York
City apartment canopy. You don't know how valuable this is
until you have lived somewhere without one. You could get
out of a cab in a rainstorm and under the
canopy in two seconds and not get drenched. No doorman,
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no amenities, or rather dubious live in super but it
had that blessed canopy. It figures in this story. I
moved in June. It was a big studio apartment. The
view was of a big video warehouse across the street,
though if you leaned out the westernmost window you could
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see the City Corps Center, which was always an impressive
site on a foggy night. The neighborhood and the building
were quiet. A fifteen minute walk from my first job
and then a five minute walk from my second job.
When I first rented there, it was are you ready
four three dollars a month, which sounds unbelievable, but that
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was about a third of my salary at United Press. International,
and I think when I moved out in it had
gone up to five dollars a month, and the price
might have had something to do with the fact that
one night somebody threw the moltop cocktail into the building.
You know how, once you've been in any place for
any length of time, you get used to the physics
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of it, not just someplace you live, any place you
spend a lot of time in an office, classroom, a theater,
or an apartment, you know what it sounds like. You
know what it feels like in the summer or in
the winter. You know what it looks like, the building, noise,
the smells, if it's too hot, too cold, and especially
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and think about this for a section, especially what it
looks like, just based on the light, what the light
itself looks like in your apartment. You would know the
difference in the light if while you were asleep somebody
knocked you out, kidnapped you and put you in an
identical apartment but didn't get the light quite right. I
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don't know if there was a day when I could
have said, this is what the light looks like in
apartment ten f to forty East fifty fifth Street during
the snowstorm, or what the light looks like coming in
through the shades at eight in the morning or eight
at night. But it probably didn't take long. June was
when I moved in. I bet I knew the various
lights of the place. By September it was a good price.
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It wasn't that bigger place, So by New Year's nineteen
eighty three, I knew it instinctively, exactly reflexively. I would
go to bed in the southeast corner of my apartment,
get in sleeping north south, but with my head at
the south end, and as I lay on my back,
I could look out the windows and see the faint
orange glow from a couple of street lights that shone
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through the four windows that and two on either side
of a kind of small picture window in the middle
that did not open. The light would be brightest from
the window on the far right, the one closest to
Second Avenue. So as Sunday, January nine three turned into Monday,
January Tree, I hit the sack around midnight. Because I
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actually had one of those rare nine to five jobs
in television. I was a field reporter for CNN. I
shut off the light on the night stand. I laid
down on my back, stared out my right hand window,
and immediately thought, by the light is slightly more orange
than it should be, isn't it? What the hells are
on out there? I'm guessing it was no more than
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five or ten percent different from usual. But as I've
gone to such lengths to point out, if you see
the same light through the same window in all conceivable
conditions almost every night for more than two years, five
or ten percent different is a lot of different. I think.
I lay there trying to figure it out for a
minute or so when I realized, say, it's now ten
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or fifteen percent different, it's getting more different. I got
up and went to the window and rolled up the
shade and looked down to the canopy ten flows floors below,
and I must say, to my credit, I quickly discerned
that the canopy was on fire. I reacted as almost
everybody does, matter of fact. We're thinking, maybe even saying
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out loud, hey, the canopy is on fire, and then
registering that the fire had already burned through the building
end of the canopy and was moving quickly towards the street,
suggesting again, I must say, I figured this out for myself,
suggesting that there was probably a fire in the lobby
of the building. It was burning out towards the street. Well.
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I felt clever, Then I felt something else. I put
a robe on over my pajamas, I put on some shoes,
I grabbed my wallet and keys, and ventured into the hallway.
No smell of smoke good sign. The two elevators were
staring me in the face. I knew better than to
try them. I opened the stairwell, and that's when I
smelled the smoke. Faint, but it was there. I went
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down two floors, and the smell became stronger and stronger.
So I went back up. I went back into my apartment.
I did not really know what I was going to
do next. Ten floors. Need was to say was not jumpable.
Even when I was less than twenty four years old,
I would not have made that jump. There was no
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fire escape. That's what the stairwells were for. And even
if I went down the elevator or the stairwell or
the side of the damn building, I would wind up,
you know, right in the middle of the fire in
the lobby. For a few seconds, I really did not
know what to do next, Me, the grandson of a
man who was not only a firefighter, but who was
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the guy who drove the hook and ladder for a
fire company irony. That is, when a blessed sound appeared
around the corner fire engines that broke me out of
self absorption and cheered me considerably. They parked right near
where that convenient canopy used to be, but was now
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pretty much a charred hunk of the metal framing and
a little burned fabric left over. I'm sure you've seen
a fire. Maybe you've seen firefighters arrive at one and
get going with amazing speed. But there is something different
in seeing all that from the vantage point of being
above the fire. First there is an extraordinary amount of water,
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and then a lot of smoke, and then an almost
unstoppable instinct to say cool. And then you go and
check the stairwell again and joyfully inhale the smell of
stuff that had been on fire but was now just
inundated with water. I waited until after they left before
I decided to go back to my bed. I did
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not feel the need to add to whatever loud chaos
was unfolding in our lobby, nor to get any details
about the fire, other than the most important one. It's out.
But in the morning I had to go to work anyway,
and so I saw the elevator door open onto the
little linoleum covered landing in the lobby, and I saw
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that everything else in the lobby except that linoleum landing
was jet black. They were still hosing some of it down.
They were pulling up burned carpet. They were already installing
new windows and doors and carting away what was left
of the canopy. And it was evident that nothing else
in the building had burned, nothing but the canopy and
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about the lobby. In the days and weeks to come,
the other residents, knowing I worked in news, clued me
in on the rumors and asked me to check them out.
There was a dispute involving the owner. There was something
about a woman. No, there was nothing about a woman.
But all of them, every story included the obvious somebody
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had thrown a Molotov cocktail into or against our front door.
That was not spontaneous combustion. Canopies just don't suddenly have,
you know, electrical fires. And then there was the best
of the stories borne out or at least lent plausibility
by the rapidity with which the firefighters arrived, which thinking
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back on it was no more than three or four
minutes tops after I first saw the extra rang glow.
The best of all the stories was that the fire
department had been called by somebody before anybody in the
building had called. The implication was somebody called in a
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fire at two Street and then went over there and
started a fire to For forty years I have been
unable to find the truth. The fire, doing superficial but
ultimately not serious damage, did not make any of the
New York newspapers. Hell that year, I took a subway
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to work in the morning and there was a guy
sprawled over three seats. And when I went home that night,
I happen to get on the exact same train car
and there was the exact same guy sprawled over the
exact same three seats because he was dead. And that
didn't make any of the New York newspapers either. We
old time New Yorkers, we lived on the edge, baby
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headless body in topless bar era folks. All I know
is that within weeks a doorman was hired. His name
was Gene and He was still there as of two
thousand two, and then the building suddenly went co op.
All of us renters were offered the chance to buy
our apartments. I wondered if that had something to do
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with the Molotov cocktail. In any event, I did not
want to take out a loan. I expected to be
moving to Boston within the year, and I kept thinking
about that Molotov cocktail. So I turned down my little
apartment at the price of once again, I asked, are
you ready thirty six thousand five dollars, because yeah, there
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was a fire and loan and Boston. But ultimately I
turned it down even just to have kept it as
a storage unit, because when it comes to investments, as
previously annotated here, I'm a moron. I've done all the
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damage I can do here, including to my investment portfolio.
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Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments from Nancy
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Fauch's the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today
from our vast roster of celebrity announcers was Kenny Maine.
Everything else was pretty much my fault. So let's countdown
for this, the seven and eighth day since Donald Trump's
first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the
United States. Arrest him now while we still can more,
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countdown tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith all Reman. Good morning,
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