1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,515 --> 00:00:32,675 Speaker 1: Some of the material Trump stole and was hiding and 3 00:00:32,795 --> 00:00:35,955 Speaker 1: was refusing to return and was recovered sixteen days ago 4 00:00:36,035 --> 00:00:42,515 Speaker 1: from Mari Lago is quote among the most sensitive secrets 5 00:00:42,915 --> 00:00:47,315 Speaker 1: we hold unquote. That quote is from one of two 6 00:00:47,315 --> 00:00:51,555 Speaker 1: Washington Post sources. Both The paper says, familiar with the search. 7 00:00:52,235 --> 00:00:54,355 Speaker 1: What the FBI removed on the eighth of this month, 8 00:00:54,395 --> 00:00:58,395 Speaker 1: what Trump held illegally, immorally, anti constitutionally is, as the 9 00:00:58,435 --> 00:01:03,435 Speaker 1: Post writers phrased it, quote considered extraordinarily sensitive because it 10 00:01:03,515 --> 00:01:08,315 Speaker 1: could reveal care fully guarded secrets about US intelligence gathering methods. 11 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:12,115 Speaker 1: We must now view Donald Trump for what he is, 12 00:01:12,155 --> 00:01:18,395 Speaker 1: at least in effect, possibly in literal reality, a spy. 13 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:22,235 Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty one, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted 14 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:26,395 Speaker 1: of helping to pass stolen nuclear documents and information to 15 00:01:26,555 --> 00:01:30,595 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union. Two years later, they were executed. In 16 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:34,435 Speaker 1: two thousand four, Sandy Berger, a national security advisor under 17 00:01:34,475 --> 00:01:38,035 Speaker 1: President Clinton, stole five copies of one report on the 18 00:01:38,075 --> 00:01:41,675 Speaker 1: so called Millennium bomber from a National Archives reading room. 19 00:01:41,955 --> 00:01:45,195 Speaker 1: He destroyed those reports. He pleaded guilty to doing so 20 00:01:45,555 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: he was fined fifty thousand dollars, sentenced to two years probation, 21 00:01:49,475 --> 00:01:53,475 Speaker 1: one hours of community service, had his security clearance suspended, 22 00:01:53,595 --> 00:01:56,235 Speaker 1: and he gave up his license to practice law, five 23 00:01:56,275 --> 00:02:01,155 Speaker 1: copies of one document. In two thousand eighteen, Reality Lee 24 00:02:01,235 --> 00:02:06,755 Speaker 1: Winner accessed and leaked one classified document about Russian operatives 25 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:11,555 Speaker 1: accessing American voting registration records before the two thousand sixteen elections. 26 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:14,195 Speaker 1: She believed she was trying to warn this country about 27 00:02:14,195 --> 00:02:18,115 Speaker 1: a cyber attack from an enemy nation. She was sentenced 28 00:02:18,115 --> 00:02:20,595 Speaker 1: to five years in prison. She was only released to 29 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:25,435 Speaker 1: a halfway house this June upon her conviction. In two 30 00:02:25,475 --> 00:02:29,355 Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, an American politician tweeted, quote, x N s 31 00:02:29,395 --> 00:02:32,675 Speaker 1: a contractor to spend sixty three months in jail over 32 00:02:32,755 --> 00:02:36,835 Speaker 1: classified information. Gee, this is small potatoes compared to what 33 00:02:37,155 --> 00:02:41,835 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton did. Addressing then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the 34 00:02:41,875 --> 00:02:47,475 Speaker 1: tweeter added, so unfair, Jeff, double standard. You already know 35 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:51,755 Speaker 1: who tweeted that. It was Trump, and as outlined yesterday here, 36 00:02:52,315 --> 00:02:55,035 Speaker 1: as detailed in the letter to his lawyers from the 37 00:02:55,115 --> 00:02:59,115 Speaker 1: National Archives, which was inexplicably published by one of Trump's lackeys, 38 00:02:59,395 --> 00:03:06,355 Speaker 1: Trump took more than seven hundred pages of classified documents 39 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,515 Speaker 1: out of the White House. Trump stole more than three 40 00:03:10,075 --> 00:03:17,435 Speaker 1: hundred separate classified documents. If one classified document in the 41 00:03:17,475 --> 00:03:21,795 Speaker 1: hands of Reality Winner merited a sixty three month prison term, 42 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:26,555 Speaker 1: Trump is facing a sentence of one thousand, five hundred 43 00:03:26,555 --> 00:03:30,715 Speaker 1: and seventy five years. Or perhaps it should be harsher. 44 00:03:31,355 --> 00:03:33,755 Speaker 1: Listen to that phrase again from the source quoted by 45 00:03:33,755 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: the Washington Post. On August eight, FBI agents recovered documents 46 00:03:38,195 --> 00:03:44,475 Speaker 1: containing quote, among the most sensitive secrets we hold unquote 47 00:03:44,675 --> 00:03:49,515 Speaker 1: material considered extraordinarily sensitive because it could reveal carefully guarded 48 00:03:49,555 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: secrets about US intelligence gathering methods. Seventy five years in 49 00:03:56,635 --> 00:04:01,115 Speaker 1: prison for such mass perfecty, such brazen deceit, such cold disloyalty, 50 00:04:01,195 --> 00:04:07,715 Speaker 1: such arrogant treachery, is that sufficient. Tuesday brought more and 51 00:04:07,795 --> 00:04:11,275 Speaker 1: more details of the government's almost inexplicable patients with this cheap, 52 00:04:11,355 --> 00:04:15,355 Speaker 1: thieving bastard Donald Trump. Those shattering quotes from the Washington 53 00:04:15,435 --> 00:04:17,875 Speaker 1: Post were part of a report revealing that Trump lawyers 54 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:20,035 Speaker 1: were warned not in June nor in May, but on 55 00:04:20,115 --> 00:04:23,755 Speaker 1: April twelve via email that the FBI would soon be 56 00:04:23,835 --> 00:04:27,315 Speaker 1: examining all the stolen documents Trump had returned in January. 57 00:04:27,955 --> 00:04:30,595 Speaker 1: It is possible that when that email was sent by 58 00:04:30,595 --> 00:04:33,275 Speaker 1: the National Archives, there might still have been a belief, 59 00:04:33,755 --> 00:04:37,955 Speaker 1: a hope perhaps that Trump acted mistakenly and slovenly, but 60 00:04:38,035 --> 00:04:42,355 Speaker 1: not criminally nor intentionally. But one sentence from Monday's New 61 00:04:42,435 --> 00:04:46,155 Speaker 1: York Times report keeps turning over and over in my mind, 62 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:51,995 Speaker 1: quoting that Mr Trump went through the boxes himself in 63 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:56,635 Speaker 1: late according to multiple people briefed on his efforts before 64 00:04:56,715 --> 00:05:01,595 Speaker 1: turning them over, told he must return them, He instead 65 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:06,755 Speaker 1: went through them. He returns some, he returned others in June. 66 00:05:07,355 --> 00:05:10,795 Speaker 1: The FBI recovered others on August eight. There may yet 67 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:15,235 Speaker 1: be more to get back from this thief. The Tuesday 68 00:05:15,275 --> 00:05:18,955 Speaker 1: Washington Post report underscored the who done it? Part two, 69 00:05:19,395 --> 00:05:22,435 Speaker 1: quoting it could not be determined who was involved with 70 00:05:22,475 --> 00:05:25,675 Speaker 1: packing the boxes at Marilago or why some White House 71 00:05:25,715 --> 00:05:29,035 Speaker 1: documents were not sent to the Archives, though people familiar 72 00:05:29,035 --> 00:05:33,675 Speaker 1: with the episode said Trump oversaw the process himself and 73 00:05:33,755 --> 00:05:37,715 Speaker 1: did so with great secrecy, declining to show some items 74 00:05:37,795 --> 00:05:42,195 Speaker 1: even to top aids. As the issue of the mission 75 00:05:42,275 --> 00:05:45,875 Speaker 1: documents moved from possible clerical mistakes to grave matters, of 76 00:05:45,955 --> 00:05:49,275 Speaker 1: national security quote. FBI agents were told that Trump was 77 00:05:49,315 --> 00:05:53,635 Speaker 1: a pack rat who had been personally overseeing his collection 78 00:05:53,835 --> 00:05:57,075 Speaker 1: of White House records since even before leaving Washington, had 79 00:05:57,115 --> 00:06:03,355 Speaker 1: been reluctant to return anything. None of this was mistaken 80 00:06:03,795 --> 00:06:11,235 Speaker 1: or slovenly conduct. All of this was crime. It is 81 00:06:11,315 --> 00:06:14,355 Speaker 1: so obvious that this is the direction that this story 82 00:06:14,635 --> 00:06:18,595 Speaker 1: is going that when Trump's twenty seven page lawsuit demanding 83 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:22,235 Speaker 1: the appointment of a special Master got to the Florida 84 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,875 Speaker 1: courtroom of the presiding judge on Tuesday, she had to 85 00:06:25,955 --> 00:06:29,715 Speaker 1: inform his out of state lawyers, as The Times put it, quote, 86 00:06:29,755 --> 00:06:33,995 Speaker 1: that they had bungled routine paperwork unquote that was required 87 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:37,795 Speaker 1: before they were eligible to take part in Trump's suit 88 00:06:37,915 --> 00:06:41,195 Speaker 1: in Florida. A sample motion can be found on the 89 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:46,515 Speaker 1: court's website. The judge added helpfully after that judicial equivalent 90 00:06:46,515 --> 00:06:49,475 Speaker 1: of telling the lawyers that their flies were unzipped. The 91 00:06:49,595 --> 00:06:54,195 Speaker 1: judge then read the twenty seven pages formally, politely, dispassionately. 92 00:06:54,555 --> 00:06:57,395 Speaker 1: She then asked what made them think that she even 93 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:00,595 Speaker 1: had the jurisdiction to hear the case, And she asked 94 00:07:00,595 --> 00:07:02,675 Speaker 1: them why they thought the judge, who had already handled 95 00:07:02,675 --> 00:07:04,715 Speaker 1: the affidavit and the search warrant and the affida of 96 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:08,115 Speaker 1: an unsealing moment, why that judge should not hear their 97 00:07:08,195 --> 00:07:10,915 Speaker 1: new case? And she asked them finally, as embarrassing a 98 00:07:11,075 --> 00:07:14,995 Speaker 1: question as a lawyer could ever hear, in essence, I 99 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:17,355 Speaker 1: can't tell from your motion what the hell it is 100 00:07:17,435 --> 00:07:20,075 Speaker 1: you want me to do. And I can't tell from 101 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:22,195 Speaker 1: your motion what the hell it is you want this 102 00:07:22,515 --> 00:07:28,475 Speaker 1: special master of yours to do. The judge is named 103 00:07:28,475 --> 00:07:32,955 Speaker 1: Eileen Cannon, and she was appointed by Donald Trump. And 104 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:36,155 Speaker 1: whatever Trump or his attorneys expected that she would do, 105 00:07:36,515 --> 00:07:38,955 Speaker 1: whether it was to snap a salute and make a 106 00:07:38,995 --> 00:07:41,515 Speaker 1: curtsey and say thank you for making me a judge 107 00:07:41,515 --> 00:07:46,355 Speaker 1: your hero ship, she didn't do anything like it. Trump 108 00:07:47,315 --> 00:07:51,435 Speaker 1: is in a world of hurt, and those around him 109 00:07:51,795 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: are not helping. The same Washington Post piece that quoted 110 00:07:54,955 --> 00:07:57,475 Speaker 1: the source saying that these are among the most sensitive 111 00:07:57,475 --> 00:08:01,835 Speaker 1: secrets we hold added quote in Trump's inner circle. Concern 112 00:08:01,915 --> 00:08:04,755 Speaker 1: has been rising since June that the former president has 113 00:08:04,755 --> 00:08:08,275 Speaker 1: created legal jeopardy for himself. According to multiple people in 114 00:08:08,315 --> 00:08:12,075 Speaker 1: his orbit quote, Mari Lago is a big problem. Unquote. 115 00:08:12,195 --> 00:08:15,595 Speaker 1: One of the people said, I mentioned yesterday that the 116 00:08:15,675 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: publication of the May letter from the National Archives. Whether 117 00:08:18,755 --> 00:08:22,155 Speaker 1: the decision to reveal it was Trump's own or John Solomon's, 118 00:08:22,395 --> 00:08:26,075 Speaker 1: was the worst tactical mistake in an espionage case since 119 00:08:26,115 --> 00:08:29,675 Speaker 1: Alger Hits denied that he had ever known Whittaker Chambers. Well. Now, 120 00:08:29,715 --> 00:08:32,155 Speaker 1: Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, was on Fox at 121 00:08:32,195 --> 00:08:35,795 Speaker 1: least twice yesterday. He was actually asked a serious question 122 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:40,795 Speaker 1: by Steve Doocey, quoting, apparently there were three hundred classified 123 00:08:40,795 --> 00:08:44,155 Speaker 1: documents at Mari Lago. Why would the former president have 124 00:08:44,315 --> 00:08:48,715 Speaker 1: that many classified things at Mari Lago. Kushner could have 125 00:08:48,755 --> 00:08:52,915 Speaker 1: pushed the he declassified them. Lie. He could have said 126 00:08:52,995 --> 00:08:59,515 Speaker 1: something anything that defended Trump. He did not. He said, 127 00:08:59,835 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with what exactly the contents were. Then 128 00:09:03,515 --> 00:09:06,115 Speaker 1: he attacked the New York Time that he concluded, be 129 00:09:06,275 --> 00:09:09,955 Speaker 1: very careful with what you read. You should have told 130 00:09:09,995 --> 00:09:13,515 Speaker 1: your father in law that. Later in the day, Kushner 131 00:09:13,555 --> 00:09:15,635 Speaker 1: was asked about his reaction to all of this and said, 132 00:09:15,675 --> 00:09:19,115 Speaker 1: simply quote to the Fox host, hopefully it's something that 133 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: has aroused a lot of people. Despite Kushner's creepy help. 134 00:09:26,355 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: As always, Trump's biggest enemy, remains. Trump His claimed that 135 00:09:32,075 --> 00:09:35,795 Speaker 1: he did declassify everything, or had a standing order to 136 00:09:35,915 --> 00:09:40,715 Speaker 1: declassify everything, or could retroactively declassify everything just by looking 137 00:09:40,755 --> 00:09:44,675 Speaker 1: at it has led to the inevitable FBI agents are 138 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:47,955 Speaker 1: now interviewing people from his administration looking for somebody to 139 00:09:47,995 --> 00:09:52,395 Speaker 1: back up any part of those claims. So far, reporting 140 00:09:52,515 --> 00:09:56,075 Speaker 1: his universal on this from a series of news outlets, 141 00:09:56,075 --> 00:09:59,835 Speaker 1: nobody is backing up any part of those claims, and 142 00:09:59,955 --> 00:10:04,315 Speaker 1: all his claim has done has forced Trump cronies to 143 00:10:04,755 --> 00:10:09,035 Speaker 1: end their money on lawyers. And lastly, there was late 144 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: reporting Tuesday night by Rolling Stone magazine that Trump has 145 00:10:12,675 --> 00:10:15,395 Speaker 1: told his latest set of lawyers, the ones who did 146 00:10:15,435 --> 00:10:17,555 Speaker 1: not know they had to fill out Florida paperwork to 147 00:10:17,595 --> 00:10:20,915 Speaker 1: appear before a court in Florida, that he has told them, quote, 148 00:10:21,515 --> 00:10:25,155 Speaker 1: get my documents back from federal law enforcement. Trump wasn't 149 00:10:25,155 --> 00:10:28,035 Speaker 1: merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney client material 150 00:10:28,235 --> 00:10:30,515 Speaker 1: that he insists was scooped up by the FEDS during 151 00:10:30,515 --> 00:10:32,995 Speaker 1: the raid. Two people familiar with the padderned to tell 152 00:10:33,155 --> 00:10:36,155 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone the ex president has been demanding that his 153 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:40,995 Speaker 1: team find a way to recover all of the official 154 00:10:41,035 --> 00:10:45,155 Speaker 1: documents that Trump has long referred to as mine, including 155 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:50,075 Speaker 1: the highly sensitive and top secret ones and the quotation 156 00:10:50,115 --> 00:10:56,075 Speaker 1: from the article trump wants what he believes he should get. 157 00:10:57,515 --> 00:11:02,435 Speaker 1: These crimes, these traitorous treacheries against the safety and security 158 00:11:02,435 --> 00:11:05,075 Speaker 1: of the United States of America, could get him something 159 00:11:05,155 --> 00:11:09,635 Speaker 1: very different, indeed, like one thousand, five and seventy five 160 00:11:09,715 --> 00:11:15,675 Speaker 1: years in prison or worse, because, as the lyrics to 161 00:11:15,835 --> 00:11:18,915 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones song he has for so long and 162 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:24,515 Speaker 1: so incongruously played at his rallies goes, you can't always 163 00:11:24,555 --> 00:11:37,195 Speaker 1: get what you want. Still ahead, uncountdown some late results 164 00:11:37,195 --> 00:11:40,515 Speaker 1: from primary night, including a Republican claiming there is Republican 165 00:11:40,595 --> 00:11:45,195 Speaker 1: voter fraud, plus what is killing dozens of dogs? In Michigan? 166 00:11:46,115 --> 00:11:50,275 Speaker 1: Baseball's Fernando Tatti Jr. Apologizes but sticks to his story 167 00:11:50,315 --> 00:11:53,755 Speaker 1: that he only took steroids originally used by East German 168 00:11:53,795 --> 00:11:58,955 Speaker 1: Olympians in order to treat ring worm. Tucker Carlson competes 169 00:11:58,995 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: for worst Person's honors and have you ever run head 170 00:12:01,995 --> 00:12:06,555 Speaker 1: first into a train? I have, of let me recommend 171 00:12:07,195 --> 00:12:11,115 Speaker 1: against it. It's the anniversary. It's also how I met 172 00:12:11,235 --> 00:12:22,835 Speaker 1: Dr Renee Richards. That's next. Let's just countdown this is 173 00:12:22,915 --> 00:12:33,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith coming up. You are on mement Oz's campaign. 174 00:12:33,595 --> 00:12:36,755 Speaker 1: What is the last thing you want to rekindle? How 175 00:12:36,795 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: about the laughter after your candidate made that video and 176 00:12:39,555 --> 00:12:43,355 Speaker 1: called a veggie tray a crude totey. Well they did 177 00:12:43,395 --> 00:12:46,235 Speaker 1: it first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature a 178 00:12:46,275 --> 00:12:48,315 Speaker 1: dog in need whom you can help. Every dog has 179 00:12:48,355 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 1: its day. Sunny Boy could use your help. Thirteen years old, 180 00:12:51,955 --> 00:12:55,075 Speaker 1: left to wander the streets of Thousand Palms in California, 181 00:12:55,515 --> 00:12:59,195 Speaker 1: just a gorgeous seventy three pound Lab Retriever mix. Looks 182 00:12:59,355 --> 00:13:02,675 Speaker 1: very sad, very lost, very confused. As of today, he 183 00:13:02,795 --> 00:13:06,155 Speaker 1: is no longer considered a lost dog. He'll be available 184 00:13:06,155 --> 00:13:08,915 Speaker 1: for adoption. It also means he could be euthanized. I 185 00:13:09,035 --> 00:13:11,275 Speaker 1: just brought a fifteen year old dog who outlived his 186 00:13:11,475 --> 00:13:14,475 Speaker 1: entire family into my home. My experience with him is 187 00:13:14,515 --> 00:13:17,555 Speaker 1: rewarding beyond words, and he seems to like it too. 188 00:13:18,115 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: I expect Sunny Boy would feel that way about you. 189 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:22,515 Speaker 1: To find out about him, go to my Twitter feed 190 00:13:22,515 --> 00:13:26,475 Speaker 1: for dogs in need, Tom Jumbo Grumbo. I'll have photos, email, addresses, 191 00:13:26,515 --> 00:13:29,395 Speaker 1: links all you need. Look for sunny Boy at Tom 192 00:13:29,515 --> 00:13:32,315 Speaker 1: Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter, and you can also really help 193 00:13:32,555 --> 00:13:47,995 Speaker 1: just by retweeting him. Thank you very much. Coming up 194 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:50,235 Speaker 1: on countdown, the President had a lot of nerve going 195 00:13:50,275 --> 00:13:53,155 Speaker 1: on vacation, said the Republican senator who was on vacation 196 00:13:53,315 --> 00:13:57,155 Speaker 1: in Italy. So they're complaining about the video of fooling 197 00:13:57,195 --> 00:14:00,595 Speaker 1: around by two fans at the Oakland A's game. My god, 198 00:14:00,635 --> 00:14:03,555 Speaker 1: the news here is there were two fans at the 199 00:14:03,555 --> 00:14:07,755 Speaker 1: Oakland A's game. That's ahead. First postscripts to the news, 200 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:19,115 Speaker 1: some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. This just in dateline, 201 00:14:19,115 --> 00:14:22,515 Speaker 1: the voting booth. Some results from Tuesday's primaries and the 202 00:14:22,555 --> 00:14:27,195 Speaker 1: Florida House primaries. Matt Gates was renominated that eighteen year 203 00:14:27,195 --> 00:14:30,115 Speaker 1: old vote coming into play Looney Tunes. Laura Loomer was 204 00:14:30,155 --> 00:14:32,995 Speaker 1: poised to fall to Daniel Webster, making a comeback after 205 00:14:32,995 --> 00:14:35,555 Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty years out of the campaign trail. 206 00:14:35,795 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: That's in the eleventh and Anthony arrests the FBI. Sabbatini 207 00:14:39,715 --> 00:14:42,555 Speaker 1: was falling in the Florida seventh to Corey Mills. Loomer 208 00:14:42,635 --> 00:14:46,555 Speaker 1: says she won't concede. She's claiming voter fraud by Florida 209 00:14:46,595 --> 00:14:50,755 Speaker 1: Republicans and Charlie Chris defeated Nikki Freed for the Democratic 210 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:53,315 Speaker 1: birth to take on Ron de Santis. De Santis had 211 00:14:53,355 --> 00:14:57,235 Speaker 1: led them both in the polls by about seven In February, 212 00:14:57,315 --> 00:15:00,155 Speaker 1: he had led them both by about twenty and in 213 00:15:00,195 --> 00:15:04,355 Speaker 1: the facacta New York primary pitting to sitting Democratic House 214 00:15:04,795 --> 00:15:09,835 Speaker 1: Committee chairs, Jerry Nadler was cleaning Caroline Maloney's clock. Dateline, 215 00:15:09,875 --> 00:15:12,315 Speaker 1: highly of Florida. It's happened again, third time in the 216 00:15:12,395 --> 00:15:15,595 Speaker 1: last month. Rhn De Santis completed his speech by telling 217 00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:18,955 Speaker 1: his audience put on the full armor of God. It 218 00:15:19,115 --> 00:15:22,675 Speaker 1: is clear that the cynical fascist Florida would be dictator 219 00:15:23,155 --> 00:15:28,675 Speaker 1: is fully invested in trying to exploit these powerfully deluded evangelicals. Dateline, 220 00:15:28,715 --> 00:15:32,675 Speaker 1: New Jersey, thank you draws for reigniting the crude dete 221 00:15:32,955 --> 00:15:37,835 Speaker 1: veggie plate story. The aptly named spokesperson for mements Oz 222 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:42,435 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania's Senate campaign, Rachel Tripp, takes a shot at the 223 00:15:42,435 --> 00:15:46,355 Speaker 1: Democrat quote, if John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable 224 00:15:46,435 --> 00:15:49,595 Speaker 1: in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a 225 00:15:49,635 --> 00:15:54,795 Speaker 1: major stroke eating a vegetable. Did you say, well, now 226 00:15:54,835 --> 00:15:58,595 Speaker 1: you've combined them both A crude dete and crude Day. 227 00:15:59,115 --> 00:16:02,635 Speaker 1: I thought it isn't grocery shopping, and my wife less 228 00:16:02,675 --> 00:16:08,235 Speaker 1: some vegetables for Crudday. So is it broccoli? That's two bucks? 229 00:16:08,275 --> 00:16:11,955 Speaker 1: Also left out of that equation A broccoli and more 230 00:16:12,075 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 1: draws Dateline, Pittsburgh. Asked about extending health care for veterans, 231 00:16:15,715 --> 00:16:18,155 Speaker 1: OZ said they deserve the best quote. I actually think 232 00:16:18,195 --> 00:16:20,635 Speaker 1: they should get the same insurance I get if I'm 233 00:16:20,635 --> 00:16:23,555 Speaker 1: serving in the US Senate. OZ clearly does not know 234 00:16:23,675 --> 00:16:26,155 Speaker 1: that veterans get most health care for free from the 235 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:30,355 Speaker 1: Veterans Administration, but senators have to get private insurance purchased 236 00:16:30,395 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: from the health exchanges. In other words, OZ wants veterans 237 00:16:33,995 --> 00:16:38,035 Speaker 1: to have to pay Dateline, Montpelier, Vermont. Amid a gathering 238 00:16:38,115 --> 00:16:42,595 Speaker 1: storm in Brazil in which Strongman Jare Balsonnaro has warned 239 00:16:42,635 --> 00:16:45,995 Speaker 1: he may not step down even if he loses October's election, 240 00:16:46,315 --> 00:16:49,955 Speaker 1: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has drafted a resolution that the 241 00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:55,115 Speaker 1: US will immediately recognize the election outcome which international monitors 242 00:16:55,155 --> 00:16:58,195 Speaker 1: deem to have been free and fair. This is a 243 00:16:58,235 --> 00:17:02,035 Speaker 1: great idea, my friend. Now, Bernie, do the same resolution 244 00:17:02,115 --> 00:17:06,235 Speaker 1: for this country's elections. Dateline gail Ard, Michigan. Humans are 245 00:17:06,235 --> 00:17:09,395 Speaker 1: being warned not to even take their dogs for walks 246 00:17:09,475 --> 00:17:13,035 Speaker 1: there because veterinarians still are not sure what has killed 247 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:17,355 Speaker 1: several dozen dogs in the Michigan Lower Peninsula. Same symptoms 248 00:17:17,395 --> 00:17:21,955 Speaker 1: as parbo canine parbo virus, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, and it 249 00:17:21,995 --> 00:17:26,235 Speaker 1: can be fatal within days only. Some early postmortems have 250 00:17:26,355 --> 00:17:30,315 Speaker 1: showed positive tests for parvo. Dr Ann hohen House of 251 00:17:30,435 --> 00:17:33,995 Speaker 1: the Schwartzman Animal Medical Center in New York suspects and 252 00:17:34,075 --> 00:17:37,395 Speaker 1: sadly is hoping this may be a new strain of 253 00:17:37,475 --> 00:17:40,955 Speaker 1: parvo that just is not showing up on those initial tests. 254 00:17:54,115 --> 00:18:00,435 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center, Wait, check that not anymore. This 255 00:18:01,435 --> 00:18:06,795 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Alberman from the World of Wide Sports. 256 00:18:06,795 --> 00:18:10,235 Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis Jr. A year ago, the face of baseball, 257 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:12,715 Speaker 1: faced the media in San Diego, a week and a 258 00:18:12,715 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: half after he was suspended until next May for using steroids. 259 00:18:16,235 --> 00:18:18,915 Speaker 1: He didn't say much, a lot of use of sorry 260 00:18:18,955 --> 00:18:22,235 Speaker 1: and I let people down. Padres, fans and much of 261 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:24,795 Speaker 1: the media seem obsessed with the fact that Tatis, who 262 00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:27,435 Speaker 1: is not going to play for the next eleven months anyway, 263 00:18:27,555 --> 00:18:31,075 Speaker 1: has now agreed to have the shoulder surgery he had resisted. 264 00:18:31,435 --> 00:18:34,675 Speaker 1: Lost In all this, Tattis is sticking to his story 265 00:18:34,715 --> 00:18:36,755 Speaker 1: that he took the steroid that turned up in a 266 00:18:36,835 --> 00:18:40,355 Speaker 1: test last month clost to bowl in medication for a 267 00:18:40,475 --> 00:18:43,755 Speaker 1: skin infection, medication he says he did not get from 268 00:18:43,755 --> 00:18:47,315 Speaker 1: the Padres. Unfortunately, we really do not know enough to 269 00:18:47,395 --> 00:18:50,395 Speaker 1: know whether or not to believe him. Obviously, he cannot 270 00:18:50,435 --> 00:18:53,755 Speaker 1: say he took the steroid deliberately. That might subject him 271 00:18:53,755 --> 00:18:56,635 Speaker 1: to additional penalties, maybe even the voiding of his three 272 00:18:56,955 --> 00:19:01,075 Speaker 1: and forty million dollar contract. Still there are doubts. Tweeted 273 00:19:01,155 --> 00:19:05,675 Speaker 1: yesterday a redesigned San Diego Padre's logo with the swinging 274 00:19:05,795 --> 00:19:08,955 Speaker 1: friar holding not a bat but a needle, and the 275 00:19:08,995 --> 00:19:13,955 Speaker 1: team name spelled pe d Raise up the road in Anaheim. 276 00:19:14,035 --> 00:19:16,635 Speaker 1: Well owner Artie Moreno has tried everything else since he 277 00:19:16,675 --> 00:19:19,915 Speaker 1: bought the defending world champion l A Angels on May fifteen, 278 00:19:20,035 --> 00:19:24,075 Speaker 1: two thousand three. They drafted baseball's top star Mike Trout. 279 00:19:24,315 --> 00:19:26,755 Speaker 1: They signed an All Star pitcher who was also an 280 00:19:26,755 --> 00:19:29,955 Speaker 1: All Star hitter in show Hey Otani. They've signed over 281 00:19:29,995 --> 00:19:32,475 Speaker 1: the hill future Hall of famers. They've signed a future 282 00:19:32,515 --> 00:19:34,955 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame manager, They fired a future Hall of 283 00:19:34,955 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: Fame manager. They run a front office so lacks that 284 00:19:37,915 --> 00:19:40,395 Speaker 1: one of his players died from drugs supplied by a 285 00:19:40,395 --> 00:19:44,435 Speaker 1: team executive. Results, the Angels have lost twenty two of 286 00:19:44,475 --> 00:19:46,635 Speaker 1: the thirty two playoff games they have played in the 287 00:19:46,635 --> 00:19:50,835 Speaker 1: Morino era. Trout has played in exactly three postseason games 288 00:19:50,955 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: Otani in none. Marino now announces he's going to quote 289 00:19:55,395 --> 00:20:00,875 Speaker 1: evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the Angels 290 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:04,875 Speaker 1: and completing our tour of California baseball. The Oakland As 291 00:20:04,915 --> 00:20:09,195 Speaker 1: have played in the same old football stadium since Sewage 292 00:20:09,235 --> 00:20:12,195 Speaker 1: has backed up and filled the dugouts. The owners have 293 00:20:12,355 --> 00:20:15,795 Speaker 1: traded eight players now starring in Atlanta and New York 294 00:20:15,795 --> 00:20:20,195 Speaker 1: and Chicago just this year alone, and those owners are 295 00:20:20,195 --> 00:20:25,235 Speaker 1: trying to build momentum towards moving the franchise to Las Vegas. Sunday, 296 00:20:25,395 --> 00:20:28,275 Speaker 1: a couple in the uppermost regions of the near empty 297 00:20:28,315 --> 00:20:33,075 Speaker 1: Oakland Coliseum were caught engaging willy Nilly and hanky panky. 298 00:20:33,475 --> 00:20:45,675 Speaker 1: Police are reportedly investigating Thank you, Nancy Faust. Wait, are 299 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:48,955 Speaker 1: they investigating the hanky panky or are they investigating the 300 00:20:48,955 --> 00:20:52,315 Speaker 1: fact that they are actually fans in an Oakland A's game. Well, 301 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: it gets worse. Monday night, a group of A's fans 302 00:20:54,675 --> 00:20:57,475 Speaker 1: who have named themselves after the team's all time greatest player, 303 00:20:57,555 --> 00:21:00,995 Speaker 1: the Ricky Henderson of blogs, went to the same seats 304 00:21:00,995 --> 00:21:07,235 Speaker 1: and held up homemade signs commemorating Sunday these festivities. Among 305 00:21:07,275 --> 00:21:10,955 Speaker 1: the signs don't blow it, keep your head in the game, 306 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:17,635 Speaker 1: and these seats suck, the fans, say. Colisseum Security confiscated 307 00:21:17,635 --> 00:21:20,915 Speaker 1: the signs and scolded the fans, saying, you agreed to 308 00:21:20,955 --> 00:21:24,395 Speaker 1: a code of conduct when you bought this ticket. Too bad, 309 00:21:24,435 --> 00:21:26,955 Speaker 1: as management didn't agree to a code of conduct when 310 00:21:26,955 --> 00:21:43,755 Speaker 1: they sold that ticket. Still ahead on countdown, Never run 311 00:21:43,795 --> 00:21:47,235 Speaker 1: for a train, there will always be another one. Forty 312 00:21:47,275 --> 00:21:52,035 Speaker 1: two years ago today I ran for a train. Run 313 00:21:52,075 --> 00:21:56,915 Speaker 1: around and find out first the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons, 314 00:21:56,955 --> 00:22:02,075 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 315 00:22:02,115 --> 00:22:05,835 Speaker 1: in the world. The bronze to Moron to Santas's Lieutenant 316 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:11,035 Speaker 1: Governor Janette Nunyez with Republican caused playing politicians in a 317 00:22:11,155 --> 00:22:15,195 Speaker 1: frenzy to ship immigrants to other states. Lieutenant Governor Nunez 318 00:22:15,235 --> 00:22:18,275 Speaker 1: told a loyal local radio station that she supports sending 319 00:22:18,595 --> 00:22:24,555 Speaker 1: newly arrived Cuban migrants from Florida to Delaware. Then somebody 320 00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:28,515 Speaker 1: reminded the Lieutenant governor that she is the descendant of 321 00:22:28,595 --> 00:22:31,275 Speaker 1: Cuban migrants who came to Florida. So she said no, 322 00:22:31,395 --> 00:22:35,635 Speaker 1: She actually meant quote, entering the country illegally and fleeing 323 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:40,115 Speaker 1: a dictatorship to seek asylum are two different things. She 324 00:22:40,195 --> 00:22:44,275 Speaker 1: said her remarks were misrepresented since many non Cuban migrants 325 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:47,995 Speaker 1: were fleeing dictatorship. Maybe her remarks were misrepresented and she 326 00:22:48,115 --> 00:22:50,635 Speaker 1: meant to say, I'm so full of Republican crap, i 327 00:22:50,675 --> 00:22:53,515 Speaker 1: have turned against my own people. The Silver to the 328 00:22:53,555 --> 00:22:56,875 Speaker 1: good old Tucker Carlson, or as the Russian state TV 329 00:22:56,995 --> 00:23:01,635 Speaker 1: network that rebroadcasts his Fox show calls him Tucks and Carlson. 330 00:23:02,395 --> 00:23:05,275 Speaker 1: Last week, the Jiminy Glick sound alike told these viewers 331 00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:08,155 Speaker 1: that the attempt to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, 332 00:23:08,195 --> 00:23:10,915 Speaker 1: in hopes of starting a second civil war, was a 333 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:13,555 Speaker 1: set up by the government to make a group of 334 00:23:13,635 --> 00:23:20,795 Speaker 1: ordinary people in Michigan look like terrifying right wing extremists. Tuesday, 335 00:23:20,835 --> 00:23:23,795 Speaker 1: a federal grand jury found Barry Croft and Adam Fox 336 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:28,555 Speaker 1: guilty of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer and conspiring 337 00:23:28,595 --> 00:23:31,995 Speaker 1: to use weapons of mass destruction. Each man faces a 338 00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:34,675 Speaker 1: maximum sentence of life in the Big House. And what 339 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:38,595 Speaker 1: a shock. The kidnapping terrorist not named Barry Croft is 340 00:23:38,675 --> 00:23:45,075 Speaker 1: named Fox, but our winner Florida Senator Rick Scott. He's 341 00:23:45,075 --> 00:23:48,355 Speaker 1: the Voldemort look alike. The Republican Senate campaign committee chair, 342 00:23:48,435 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 1: and some Republicans are calling for him to be investigated 343 00:23:51,235 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: because it seems his committee has run out of money 344 00:23:53,595 --> 00:23:57,715 Speaker 1: in August for elections that don't happen until November. At 345 00:23:57,715 --> 00:24:01,315 Speaker 1: four p m. Monday, his Twitter account sent this out 346 00:24:01,475 --> 00:24:06,075 Speaker 1: quote another week of President Biden vacation in Delaware versus 347 00:24:06,115 --> 00:24:08,675 Speaker 1: working at the White House. If he loves to travel 348 00:24:08,755 --> 00:24:11,315 Speaker 1: so much, I've got some suggestions as to where he 349 00:24:11,355 --> 00:24:14,515 Speaker 1: should go next. And there followed a Twitter vote. All 350 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:17,555 Speaker 1: three of the voting options were quote the Southern Border. 351 00:24:18,115 --> 00:24:21,395 Speaker 1: You'll notice I was careful how I phrased this, I said. 352 00:24:21,475 --> 00:24:24,715 Speaker 1: At four fifty p m. Monday, his Twitter account sent 353 00:24:25,635 --> 00:24:29,395 Speaker 1: Because it turns out that at that precise moment, Senator 354 00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:32,635 Speaker 1: Scott thought he was scoring political points against the President 355 00:24:32,675 --> 00:24:36,115 Speaker 1: for being on vacation in Delaware while Senator Scott was 356 00:24:36,795 --> 00:24:42,915 Speaker 1: on vacation in Italy on a luxury yacht. Like I 357 00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:45,115 Speaker 1: say about moment, oz Rick, Scott has got to be 358 00:24:45,155 --> 00:24:50,755 Speaker 1: a Democratic plant, right, Senator Rick? Why Italy because that's 359 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:56,635 Speaker 1: where my hard crux is Scott two days worse person 360 00:24:57,995 --> 00:25:23,355 Speaker 1: in the world. So finally to our number one story 361 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:26,635 Speaker 1: on the countdown on my favorite topic, Me and things 362 00:25:26,675 --> 00:25:29,755 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell, although truth be told, I 363 00:25:29,755 --> 00:25:32,675 Speaker 1: have been telling this story now for her forty two years. 364 00:25:33,875 --> 00:25:40,275 Speaker 1: On Sunday, August night, I learned what Mom meant when 365 00:25:40,355 --> 00:25:42,555 Speaker 1: she had said, never run for a train. There will 366 00:25:42,595 --> 00:25:45,995 Speaker 1: always be another one. Because I didn't know what it meant, 367 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:50,075 Speaker 1: I nearly killed myself. I permanently altered my health, and 368 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:52,355 Speaker 1: I put myself on a path towards meeting the great 369 00:25:52,475 --> 00:25:56,435 Speaker 1: doctor Renee Richards. I was sleeping late in my relatively 370 00:25:56,475 --> 00:25:59,515 Speaker 1: new and tiny studio apartment on fifty Street in Manhattan, 371 00:25:59,555 --> 00:26:03,475 Speaker 1: Apartment ten F, when above me, eleven F started making 372 00:26:03,555 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: noise like owning on the floor. And now it's eight 373 00:26:07,315 --> 00:26:09,555 Speaker 1: thirty Sunday morning and I'm awake and I'm not doing 374 00:26:09,675 --> 00:26:12,675 Speaker 1: my job as a radio sportscaster until about two, and 375 00:26:12,715 --> 00:26:15,395 Speaker 1: I think, well, I'm up. Oh, the Dodgers are at 376 00:26:15,395 --> 00:26:17,235 Speaker 1: playing the Mets at Shay. I can go to my 377 00:26:17,235 --> 00:26:20,795 Speaker 1: other job as a semi professional photographer and go shoot 378 00:26:20,795 --> 00:26:22,835 Speaker 1: the Dodgers and still make it to work on time. 379 00:26:23,395 --> 00:26:26,875 Speaker 1: So I packed my semi professional emphasis on the semi 380 00:26:26,955 --> 00:26:30,075 Speaker 1: photographer's bag and drag myself out on the subway and 381 00:26:30,115 --> 00:26:33,555 Speaker 1: get to SHA Stadium around eleven thirty am. And there's 382 00:26:33,595 --> 00:26:37,675 Speaker 1: nobody there. No Dodgers players, no Mets players, nobody but 383 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:40,995 Speaker 1: the groundskeepers. And as the minutes passed, I'm beginning to 384 00:26:41,035 --> 00:26:43,835 Speaker 1: calculate when I have to leave in order to not 385 00:26:43,955 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: be late to my job back in Manhattan. Weekend life 386 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: in New York City in nineteen eighty might as well 387 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:54,395 Speaker 1: have been. I tell people this they do not believe me. 388 00:26:54,475 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: But when I worked weekends the next year in Times Square, 389 00:26:58,515 --> 00:27:01,475 Speaker 1: I used to call into my newsroom from a pay 390 00:27:01,515 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: phone on Fifth Avenue and say, OK, I'm going to 391 00:27:05,155 --> 00:27:08,155 Speaker 1: Arby's today. Who wants what? Or McDonald's or Burger King 392 00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:11,355 Speaker 1: or wherever. Because our office was in Times Square and 393 00:27:11,395 --> 00:27:15,835 Speaker 1: on weekends, there were no restaurants open in Times Square. 394 00:27:16,835 --> 00:27:21,435 Speaker 1: You could not get food in Times Square on weekends. Today, 395 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: the same four square block area probably has fifty restaurants 396 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:29,195 Speaker 1: and fast food places. So the train back to Manhattan 397 00:27:29,195 --> 00:27:32,195 Speaker 1: from Shaye Stadium in Queens ran once every half an 398 00:27:32,195 --> 00:27:35,075 Speaker 1: hour on that Sunday in August of nine, And as 399 00:27:35,075 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: I looked at my watch, I realized I should have 400 00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:38,995 Speaker 1: left the field three or four minutes ago. If you 401 00:27:39,075 --> 00:27:42,835 Speaker 1: went out the press entrance and exit at Chase Stadium, 402 00:27:42,915 --> 00:27:47,195 Speaker 1: you could see the train approaching the elevated station out 403 00:27:47,235 --> 00:27:49,995 Speaker 1: behind right field, And if you had just seen it, 404 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:52,475 Speaker 1: if it had just become visible, and if you then 405 00:27:52,715 --> 00:27:56,195 Speaker 1: ran your fastest, you could make it to the viaduct 406 00:27:56,555 --> 00:27:58,995 Speaker 1: that crossed the parking lot and lad you up towards 407 00:27:58,995 --> 00:28:01,355 Speaker 1: the station platform. And if you could get your subway 408 00:28:01,395 --> 00:28:03,955 Speaker 1: token out and into the turnstyle slot with one flew 409 00:28:04,035 --> 00:28:06,235 Speaker 1: it over and motion, and if you kept running all 410 00:28:06,235 --> 00:28:11,315 Speaker 1: the time, you could just make the train. If you didn't, 411 00:28:11,715 --> 00:28:15,235 Speaker 1: you would be waiting half an hour, unless maybe the 412 00:28:15,315 --> 00:28:20,955 Speaker 1: next train was late or on fire somewhere. Sure enough, 413 00:28:21,075 --> 00:28:22,955 Speaker 1: as I got out of the ballpark, I could see 414 00:28:22,995 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 1: the Manhattan bound train just appearing at the horizon. I 415 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:29,875 Speaker 1: was twenty one. My knees still worked, and I ran, 416 00:28:30,515 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: and I got into the viaduct, and I got the 417 00:28:32,235 --> 00:28:34,115 Speaker 1: token out of my pocket and I got it into 418 00:28:34,155 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: the slot like Darryl Dawkins doing a Tomahawks slam. And 419 00:28:37,995 --> 00:28:40,195 Speaker 1: I not only made the train, but I made it 420 00:28:40,235 --> 00:28:45,075 Speaker 1: by so much that I styled, I celebrated, I congratulated myself. 421 00:28:45,075 --> 00:28:50,355 Speaker 1: I was guilty of premature jocularity. I could have just 422 00:28:50,515 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: slowed to a triumphant jog and gotten a seat, huffing 423 00:28:54,675 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: and sweaty, but eminently satisfied and on time for work. 424 00:28:57,915 --> 00:29:03,395 Speaker 1: But no, I decided to make an exultant, joyful leap. 425 00:29:04,835 --> 00:29:07,915 Speaker 1: The next thing I registered was the loudest sound I 426 00:29:07,995 --> 00:29:12,115 Speaker 1: had ever or have since ever heard, as if six 427 00:29:12,195 --> 00:29:16,395 Speaker 1: hundred gongs had gone off simultaneously, or a dozen church bells, 428 00:29:16,675 --> 00:29:19,875 Speaker 1: or every alarm clock that had ever awakened me from 429 00:29:19,915 --> 00:29:25,275 Speaker 1: the deepest of sleeps, something like this, But inside your head, Bam, 430 00:29:28,075 --> 00:29:30,435 Speaker 1: what had happened was forgetting that I was no longer 431 00:29:30,475 --> 00:29:33,155 Speaker 1: six ft tall as I had been even two years before, 432 00:29:33,195 --> 00:29:36,035 Speaker 1: but was now just under six four. My leap had 433 00:29:36,195 --> 00:29:39,555 Speaker 1: ended with me slamming my forehead on the flat metal 434 00:29:39,635 --> 00:29:43,155 Speaker 1: bar just above the train doorway an inch higher, I 435 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:47,355 Speaker 1: might have blinded myself. The bar an inch above the 436 00:29:47,395 --> 00:29:50,155 Speaker 1: doorway is, in fact, as I found out later, the 437 00:29:50,235 --> 00:29:53,435 Speaker 1: thickest piece of metal on a New York City subway train. 438 00:29:54,635 --> 00:29:57,835 Speaker 1: As it was, my momentum carried me safely into the train. 439 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:00,995 Speaker 1: I hit the floor. I saw my sunglasses go flying 440 00:30:01,035 --> 00:30:03,475 Speaker 1: off and rattling down towards the back of the train 441 00:30:03,555 --> 00:30:07,035 Speaker 1: like a plastic rat. I heard the train doors close, 442 00:30:07,195 --> 00:30:09,355 Speaker 1: I felt the blood on my head and in my hair, 443 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: and I crawled up onto the plastic bench seating behind me. 444 00:30:12,715 --> 00:30:16,355 Speaker 1: The mass gong sound continued in my head, and my 445 00:30:16,435 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: first cogent thought was to see the blood on the 446 00:30:18,715 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: train floor and think, oh, I have spelled blood all 447 00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:26,235 Speaker 1: over their train, and I don't have anything to clean 448 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:31,075 Speaker 1: it up with. Similar nonsense continued to bounce around my 449 00:30:31,195 --> 00:30:35,635 Speaker 1: concussted size eight noggin for seconds, maybe minutes. It was 450 00:30:35,675 --> 00:30:38,155 Speaker 1: beginning to really hurt, and of more practical import the 451 00:30:38,195 --> 00:30:41,675 Speaker 1: bleeding had not really stopped. At this point. An older 452 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:44,195 Speaker 1: woman sitting more or less across from me handed me 453 00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:49,195 Speaker 1: a small packet. It was a wet wipe. I mumbled, thanks, 454 00:30:49,555 --> 00:30:52,075 Speaker 1: opened it, dabbed it on my forehead for a second, 455 00:30:52,115 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: and was surprised to find it instantly inundated with blood. 456 00:30:55,955 --> 00:30:57,795 Speaker 1: This was the first time it occurred to me that 457 00:30:57,835 --> 00:31:00,035 Speaker 1: I might be in real trouble on the Number seven 458 00:31:00,075 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 1: local train to Grand Central and Times Square. Apparently, this 459 00:31:03,635 --> 00:31:05,995 Speaker 1: thought occurred simults annously to the woman with the wet 460 00:31:06,035 --> 00:31:09,115 Speaker 1: wipes and to her friend, I think you're kind of hurt. 461 00:31:09,315 --> 00:31:11,075 Speaker 1: One of them said to me, let's get you to 462 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:13,395 Speaker 1: the hospital. There's one a couple of blocks from the 463 00:31:13,435 --> 00:31:18,435 Speaker 1: next stop. Now understand this situation. The New York of 464 00:31:18,515 --> 00:31:21,635 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, and particularly the subways of nineteen eighty were 465 00:31:21,675 --> 00:31:25,915 Speaker 1: not nice places. Two years later, I took a rush 466 00:31:25,915 --> 00:31:27,835 Speaker 1: hour train to my job at CNN at the World 467 00:31:27,835 --> 00:31:30,675 Speaker 1: Trade Center and was annoyed to find one guy who 468 00:31:30,675 --> 00:31:33,835 Speaker 1: had sprawled himself over three seats with a newspaper covering 469 00:31:33,875 --> 00:31:36,635 Speaker 1: his face. Nine hours later, when I went home, I 470 00:31:36,675 --> 00:31:40,475 Speaker 1: got onto a train and saw the same guy with 471 00:31:40,555 --> 00:31:43,555 Speaker 1: the same newspaper on the same seats. Because it was 472 00:31:43,595 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: the same train, and more importantly, because he was dead anyway. 473 00:31:48,995 --> 00:31:51,915 Speaker 1: It was now around twelve forty five of a Sunday afternoon. 474 00:31:52,275 --> 00:31:54,595 Speaker 1: If it had been night, or indeed certain other times 475 00:31:54,595 --> 00:31:56,555 Speaker 1: of the day or on other train lines, I would 476 00:31:56,555 --> 00:31:59,395 Speaker 1: have simply been the easiest mugging victim in New York history. 477 00:31:59,715 --> 00:32:01,915 Speaker 1: Somebody could have knocked me over and taken my wallet 478 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: with next to no effort. Hell, they could have asked 479 00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:06,475 Speaker 1: me for my wallet, and I was so dazed I 480 00:32:06,475 --> 00:32:10,555 Speaker 1: probably would have said, sure, I'm a nice day, got 481 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,795 Speaker 1: any wet wipes? Instead, I met not one, but two 482 00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: good Samaritans who knew where the hospitals were in a 483 00:32:17,315 --> 00:32:19,475 Speaker 1: part of town I could barely find on a map. 484 00:32:21,435 --> 00:32:23,595 Speaker 1: Sure enough, they helped me to my feet, walked me 485 00:32:23,635 --> 00:32:25,795 Speaker 1: down the steps and to the two blocks or so 486 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:29,915 Speaker 1: that separated us from Elmhurst Hospital, And when I reassured 487 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:31,875 Speaker 1: them I was clear headed enough to get into the 488 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:34,875 Speaker 1: emergency room by myself, they wished me luck, and they 489 00:32:34,915 --> 00:32:38,395 Speaker 1: would not even accept my offer of two tokens to 490 00:32:38,515 --> 00:32:41,195 Speaker 1: get them back on the subway. There should be a 491 00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:45,555 Speaker 1: monument to these two women somewhere. If the New York 492 00:32:45,595 --> 00:32:49,235 Speaker 1: City subways of nineteen eighty were scary, the emergency rooms 493 00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:51,515 Speaker 1: of its hospitals were something out of a Brian de 494 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:54,635 Speaker 1: Palma film. I think there were a couple of dozen 495 00:32:54,675 --> 00:32:56,755 Speaker 1: people in the e R. I remember one of them 496 00:32:56,795 --> 00:32:59,195 Speaker 1: asking me how I got so bloody, and I explained, 497 00:32:59,195 --> 00:33:01,555 Speaker 1: and he said you should go ahead of me, and 498 00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:04,355 Speaker 1: he opened his windbreaker to show a blood covered shirt, 499 00:33:04,395 --> 00:33:08,435 Speaker 1: and he added the bullet only crazed me. I know. 500 00:33:08,515 --> 00:33:12,395 Speaker 1: I waited about two hours. During that time I had 501 00:33:12,395 --> 00:33:16,515 Speaker 1: a singular experience which has informed my understanding of concussions 502 00:33:16,555 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: and traumatic brain injury ever since. The desk nurse asked 503 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: me for the name of a contact, preferably a family member. 504 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:26,755 Speaker 1: I gave my father's name, Theodore. Then she asked me 505 00:33:26,795 --> 00:33:28,675 Speaker 1: for my full name, and when I went to say it, 506 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:33,715 Speaker 1: I could not remember my middle name. Could not remember 507 00:33:33,755 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: my middle name Keith I got Alderman, I got, that 508 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:42,995 Speaker 1: was it. My middle name is also Theodore. I could 509 00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:49,315 Speaker 1: remember Theodore my dad, but not Theodore my middle name. 510 00:33:50,315 --> 00:33:54,115 Speaker 1: That is how fragile your brain really is. Think of 511 00:33:54,155 --> 00:33:56,315 Speaker 1: that the next time you see somebody get clocked in 512 00:33:56,355 --> 00:34:00,475 Speaker 1: a sporting event. There was some comic relief. I called 513 00:34:00,475 --> 00:34:03,755 Speaker 1: into my office at United Press International's Audio network and 514 00:34:03,835 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: explained to the news editor. A veteran named Ed Karen's 515 00:34:06,515 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: the most dapper man in radio history, who looked like 516 00:34:08,835 --> 00:34:12,035 Speaker 1: the actor Ray Collins from Citizen Kane. I told Ed, 517 00:34:12,075 --> 00:34:15,835 Speaker 1: I had just sort of almost, you know, killed myself 518 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:18,915 Speaker 1: on the subway coming in from Queens, and I really 519 00:34:18,995 --> 00:34:20,995 Speaker 1: didn't know when or if I would be at work. 520 00:34:21,995 --> 00:34:24,835 Speaker 1: About forty five minutes after that conversation, the desk nurse 521 00:34:24,875 --> 00:34:26,995 Speaker 1: started shouting my name, and I thought, Okay, I'm finally 522 00:34:26,995 --> 00:34:28,435 Speaker 1: going to be brought in to see a doctor. No, 523 00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:32,395 Speaker 1: it was Ed Karen's calling from u P I. My 524 00:34:32,515 --> 00:34:35,555 Speaker 1: bosses were all very sorry that I was wounded, he said, 525 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:37,435 Speaker 1: but there was nobody available to fill in for me. 526 00:34:37,515 --> 00:34:40,075 Speaker 1: So when could they expect me to be in the office, 527 00:34:40,635 --> 00:34:43,035 Speaker 1: I explained, I did not know that since I was 528 00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:48,315 Speaker 1: technically still bleeding to death. Forty five minutes more passed, 529 00:34:48,355 --> 00:34:50,275 Speaker 1: and again the nurse summoned me and said there was 530 00:34:50,315 --> 00:34:51,875 Speaker 1: a phone calling. This time I was sure it was 531 00:34:51,915 --> 00:34:54,835 Speaker 1: my dad, Keith Ed Karen's again at r P I. 532 00:34:55,515 --> 00:34:58,195 Speaker 1: He explained that my boss now said that they would 533 00:34:58,195 --> 00:35:00,235 Speaker 1: bring in the guy who was supposed to do the 534 00:35:00,275 --> 00:35:04,875 Speaker 1: next morning sportscast, my college friend Peter shack Now, but 535 00:35:04,955 --> 00:35:07,475 Speaker 1: they expected me to do his shift starting at four 536 00:35:07,555 --> 00:35:10,035 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. I explained to ED that I 537 00:35:10,075 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: would try, but honestly I didn't know where I was 538 00:35:13,555 --> 00:35:16,515 Speaker 1: or what time it was. Now. Two nice ladies had 539 00:35:16,555 --> 00:35:18,595 Speaker 1: mentioned the name of the hospital, but I really wasn't 540 00:35:18,635 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: remembering too well. Plus I was still bleeding to death. 541 00:35:24,195 --> 00:35:26,675 Speaker 1: Needless to say, I did not bleed to death. I survived. 542 00:35:26,715 --> 00:35:28,555 Speaker 1: It was a severe concussion, but it only took a 543 00:35:28,555 --> 00:35:30,555 Speaker 1: stitch and a half to actually close that wound. And 544 00:35:30,595 --> 00:35:33,155 Speaker 1: the e R doctor and the nurses were outstanding, and 545 00:35:33,195 --> 00:35:35,795 Speaker 1: they gave me easy to remember instructions, plus a note 546 00:35:36,115 --> 00:35:38,475 Speaker 1: indicating that I should rest for at least forty eight 547 00:35:38,475 --> 00:35:42,155 Speaker 1: hours just in case ED Karen showed up at my apartment. 548 00:35:43,995 --> 00:35:47,315 Speaker 1: No offense to ED. They told me what symptoms to expect, 549 00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,555 Speaker 1: how to prepare for them, and when they would stop. 550 00:35:49,675 --> 00:35:52,235 Speaker 1: And they stopped like one day earlier. It was a 551 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:57,075 Speaker 1: potential disaster that turned into a nothing burger, or so 552 00:35:57,355 --> 00:36:00,555 Speaker 1: I thought. Two years later, I was at the original 553 00:36:00,595 --> 00:36:04,115 Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong Stadium covering the nine two US tennis open 554 00:36:04,835 --> 00:36:08,235 Speaker 1: on the other side of the same elevated subway station 555 00:36:08,275 --> 00:36:12,555 Speaker 1: where I had run into the train going there. Always 556 00:36:12,555 --> 00:36:17,275 Speaker 1: actually made me laugh. Until the afternoon of Saturday, September two. 557 00:36:17,315 --> 00:36:20,195 Speaker 1: I was watching the women's final, covering it for CNN 558 00:36:20,275 --> 00:36:23,475 Speaker 1: Chris Everett over Hannah and Lakova, and swinging my head 559 00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:25,795 Speaker 1: from side to side, as one does to follow the 560 00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: tennis action from over here, too over there, too over here, 561 00:36:30,915 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: too over there, as I had swung my head from 562 00:36:33,835 --> 00:36:36,595 Speaker 1: side to side for the preceding twelve days of the tournament. 563 00:36:37,715 --> 00:36:39,835 Speaker 1: Then I swung to the right, but my left eye 564 00:36:40,275 --> 00:36:43,715 Speaker 1: kept looking to the left. The old Marty Feldman thing 565 00:36:43,915 --> 00:36:50,435 Speaker 1: reversed crossed eyes that hurt worse than hitting the train had. 566 00:36:50,995 --> 00:36:53,795 Speaker 1: I could barely stand any light. I often had to 567 00:36:53,875 --> 00:36:56,115 Speaker 1: keep my hand in front of my eyes. I rushed 568 00:36:56,115 --> 00:36:58,715 Speaker 1: to my optometrist Monday morning and he started to laugh. 569 00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:02,035 Speaker 1: This happened to you during the US Open. I said, yes, 570 00:37:02,075 --> 00:37:05,035 Speaker 1: Why are you laughing at me? He said, I'm gonna 571 00:37:05,075 --> 00:37:07,635 Speaker 1: send you to the best muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met. 572 00:37:08,115 --> 00:37:10,715 Speaker 1: I said, so, why are you laughing at me? He said, 573 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:13,275 Speaker 1: you don't know who that is. I said, no, I 574 00:37:13,355 --> 00:37:16,635 Speaker 1: lent my knowledge of the muscle ophthalmology ranking slip. Why 575 00:37:16,675 --> 00:37:19,195 Speaker 1: are you laughing at me? He said, The best muscle 576 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,355 Speaker 1: ophthomologist I've ever met is doctor Renee Richards, the transsexual 577 00:37:22,435 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: tennis player. I said, I don't care who you're sending 578 00:37:25,875 --> 00:37:27,875 Speaker 1: me to. I'm in trouble here. If they can fix this, 579 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,035 Speaker 1: I don't care who you're sending me. My train accident 580 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:33,275 Speaker 1: was so far in my past that when I got 581 00:37:33,275 --> 00:37:35,795 Speaker 1: in to see Dr Richards the next morning, I didn't 582 00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:38,795 Speaker 1: even think to mention it in my patient history didn't matter. 583 00:37:39,395 --> 00:37:41,835 Speaker 1: Thirty seconds of staring into my eyes to a wall 584 00:37:41,915 --> 00:37:46,155 Speaker 1: sized for opt and Renee Richards said, when exactly did 585 00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:50,435 Speaker 1: you hit your head August or September of night? I 586 00:37:50,555 --> 00:37:55,635 Speaker 1: was stunned. Uh, I did hit my head in August. 587 00:37:57,075 --> 00:38:00,075 Speaker 1: She made a clicking noise of satisfaction. I've heard of 588 00:38:00,075 --> 00:38:02,515 Speaker 1: this before, but I've never seen it. You couldn't do 589 00:38:02,555 --> 00:38:05,395 Speaker 1: this again in a million years. The good news is 590 00:38:05,435 --> 00:38:08,915 Speaker 1: that muscle problem with the eyes, that's just muscle exhaustion. 591 00:38:08,955 --> 00:38:11,075 Speaker 1: We can fix that with a thing that costs to buck. 592 00:38:11,715 --> 00:38:14,195 Speaker 1: The bad news is when you hit your head, most 593 00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:16,635 Speaker 1: of the damage must have been absorbed by your inner ear. 594 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:19,555 Speaker 1: If you want to fix that, you'll need brain surgery. 595 00:38:19,995 --> 00:38:24,755 Speaker 1: I don't recommend brain surgery doctor and A Richards showed 596 00:38:24,755 --> 00:38:27,435 Speaker 1: me the muscle exercises that cost a dollar ninety eight 597 00:38:27,515 --> 00:38:31,035 Speaker 1: that fixed my reverse cross eyes. They felt better immediately. 598 00:38:31,355 --> 00:38:34,475 Speaker 1: I still do the exercises I did them earlier today. 599 00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:39,195 Speaker 1: Then Renee Richards said, so you're a sports reporter. It 600 00:38:39,235 --> 00:38:42,115 Speaker 1: says here, listen, my next patient isn't due for half 601 00:38:42,155 --> 00:38:45,395 Speaker 1: an hour. You should rest anyway after my exam. Let's 602 00:38:45,635 --> 00:38:52,195 Speaker 1: talk about sports reporting. Renee Richards was an expert. Her 603 00:38:52,275 --> 00:38:57,275 Speaker 1: transition had been outed by a sportscaster, Tucker Carlson's father. 604 00:38:58,115 --> 00:39:02,115 Speaker 1: If you can believe that, I can believe it, because 605 00:39:02,155 --> 00:39:04,555 Speaker 1: she had been a man when she played in the 606 00:39:04,715 --> 00:39:08,435 Speaker 1: US Open. As a woman, she had become almost instantaneously 607 00:39:08,555 --> 00:39:12,075 Speaker 1: the most famous tennis player in the world. Then she 608 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:17,675 Speaker 1: became Martina Navratolova's coach. I learned more from her in 609 00:39:17,715 --> 00:39:20,755 Speaker 1: that first half hour of conversation about the ethics of 610 00:39:20,835 --> 00:39:24,235 Speaker 1: reporting than I had in all of my previous life 611 00:39:24,275 --> 00:39:30,595 Speaker 1: experiences combined. Plus she was a gas. Renee Richards was hilarious, 612 00:39:30,635 --> 00:39:32,675 Speaker 1: she was self effacing, She was a great doctor, and 613 00:39:32,715 --> 00:39:35,115 Speaker 1: to me, she was the definition of courage. And she 614 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:39,555 Speaker 1: I am proud to say is still my friend, all 615 00:39:39,595 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 1: because I did not know what Mom meant when she said, 616 00:39:43,075 --> 00:39:45,355 Speaker 1: don't run for a train. There will always be another one. 617 00:39:46,075 --> 00:39:48,235 Speaker 1: The other phrase I never really understood till then was 618 00:39:48,355 --> 00:39:54,035 Speaker 1: breakneck speed. Oh when there is one more punchline here. 619 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:56,755 Speaker 1: If the name of that hospital that the two good 620 00:39:56,755 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: Samaritans took me to, Elmhurst Hospital, sounds vaguely familiar, it should. 621 00:40:01,475 --> 00:40:04,795 Speaker 1: It was ground zero when COVID nineteen hit, when the 622 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,915 Speaker 1: pandemic had its hand around New York City's throat. The 623 00:40:07,955 --> 00:40:11,395 Speaker 1: worst hit community was Elmhurst in Queens, and the worst 624 00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: hit hospital was Elmhurst Hospital. They were in desperate need 625 00:40:15,835 --> 00:40:18,395 Speaker 1: at that point of ventilators, so I knew what I 626 00:40:18,435 --> 00:40:21,675 Speaker 1: had to do. You could buy them for cash legally, 627 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:26,235 Speaker 1: So I got two ventilators. I had them delivered, one 628 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:28,635 Speaker 1: for each of the ladies who helped me to get 629 00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:40,155 Speaker 1: off the damn train that day. I've done all the 630 00:40:40,235 --> 00:40:43,435 Speaker 1: damage I can do here and in this story that 631 00:40:43,515 --> 00:40:45,915 Speaker 1: was meant literally. This is where I ask you to 632 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:49,595 Speaker 1: please rate and review this podcast. Tell them it's outstanding. 633 00:40:50,515 --> 00:40:53,795 Speaker 1: You listen to it several times it felt like a 634 00:40:53,835 --> 00:40:56,195 Speaker 1: smack in the head. No, don't tell them that the 635 00:40:56,235 --> 00:40:59,515 Speaker 1: countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth arranged, produced and performed by 636 00:40:59,515 --> 00:41:03,755 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Philip. Channel All 637 00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:07,235 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, guitars, bass and 638 00:41:07,315 --> 00:41:10,635 Speaker 1: drums by Brian Ray, produced by T k O Brothers. 639 00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:14,035 Speaker 1: The other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by 640 00:41:14,075 --> 00:41:19,235 Speaker 1: No horns allowed. Our sports music the Alderman ESPN two theme, 641 00:41:19,675 --> 00:41:23,755 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, incorporated musical 642 00:41:23,795 --> 00:41:27,155 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 643 00:41:27,715 --> 00:41:32,275 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Larry David. Let's countdown for this 644 00:41:33,635 --> 00:41:37,155 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 645 00:41:37,195 --> 00:41:41,875 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. A new episode tomorrow. 646 00:41:42,115 --> 00:41:45,795 Speaker 1: Till then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 647 00:41:46,435 --> 00:41:59,515 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production 648 00:41:59,675 --> 00:42:03,315 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. 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