Episode #104 of the Countdown podcast is up.
A-Block
- (1:14) Of course, in the spirit of the candidate, and the entire Republican Party, when I say “I know who the secret candidate for Speaker is,” I might be lying. I am, however, telling the truth about the inevitability of the farce that must result if you run endless Political Purity Tests and try to use The Universal Solvent as a political tool.
- Also ruining the Republicans’ day, the George Santos saga. More lies — about Covid and Brain Tumors — and the Brazilians reviving their prosecution of Santos for fraud.
- And were that not enough to spoil the coronation or schlock-blocking of McCarthy, there are the final Farewell Gifts from The House January 6th Committee, from Steve Bannon’s plan for a January 21st Coup to Hope Hicks’s breathless worry about her resume leading to the rhetorical question “Whaddya mean, NOW?”
B-Block
- (15:56) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Polo in New York
- (17:21) IN SPORTS: The health of Martina Navratilova, the self-defeating success of Outdoor Hockey games, Jim Harbaugh’s latest NFL dalliance and the day I operated on his knee, and how in the hell was Trump claiming a 2015 tax deduction for a football team he bankrupted in 1985?
- (21:40) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: two New York politicos, one [Donna Lupardo] blocking measures to save shelter dogs, the other resigning for Election Fraud (guess his party?) compete with Sean Spicer who can’t spell, Period.
C-Block
- (29:01) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Next Monday it’ll be exactly 40 years since I looked out my apartment window just before bed, and looked down to the street and got a big surprise. The saga of Keith and the Molotov Cocktail.
Well, that’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.