1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,035 --> 00:00:28,395 Speaker 1: The FBI is preparing to search Trump Tower or the 3 00:00:28,435 --> 00:00:32,195 Speaker 1: Trump golf club and cemetery at Bedminster, New Jersey, for 4 00:00:32,395 --> 00:00:37,115 Speaker 1: more missing government documents and presumably more missing classified government documents. 5 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:40,155 Speaker 1: That is not what The New York Times is reporting, 6 00:00:40,515 --> 00:00:44,275 Speaker 1: but it is the clear implication and seemingly the inevitable conclusion, 7 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:47,915 Speaker 1: and it was only one of two desperately bad pieces 8 00:00:47,915 --> 00:00:50,915 Speaker 1: of news for Trump that got buried under coverage of 9 00:00:51,115 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: Dark Brandon's pot pardons, the weird leak about federal agents 10 00:00:55,155 --> 00:00:57,635 Speaker 1: not prosecutors, but agents who think they can charge Hunter 11 00:00:57,675 --> 00:01:00,915 Speaker 1: Biden with something even though agents don't charge people prosecutors do, 12 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:05,515 Speaker 1: and other stories yesterday. What the Times reports is that 13 00:01:05,635 --> 00:01:09,035 Speaker 1: in the last few weeks, the Justice Departments Counter Intelligence 14 00:01:09,075 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: chief j Bratt reached out to Trump lawyers and said 15 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: that even after the search at Mari Lago, the d 16 00:01:15,595 --> 00:01:18,955 Speaker 1: o J is still not convinced all the documents Trump 17 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:23,435 Speaker 1: stole have been returned. CNN went a little further, claiming 18 00:01:23,435 --> 00:01:25,795 Speaker 1: it as a source who says Justice officials quote have 19 00:01:25,995 --> 00:01:29,315 Speaker 1: demanded in recent weeks to Trump's attorneys that he returned 20 00:01:29,475 --> 00:01:33,875 Speaker 1: any outstanding documents marked as classified. There had been hints 21 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:39,035 Speaker 1: about this. Folders marked classified that don't have any documents 22 00:01:39,035 --> 00:01:42,595 Speaker 1: in them might have been a tip off. Also, the 23 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:46,955 Speaker 1: Justice Department told Trump's handpicked judge Eileen Cannon that among 24 00:01:46,995 --> 00:01:50,115 Speaker 1: the other problems caused by keeping them from looking through 25 00:01:50,155 --> 00:01:52,915 Speaker 1: what they seized at Mari Lago was that they then 26 00:01:52,915 --> 00:01:55,635 Speaker 1: could not be sure what, if anything, was still missing. 27 00:01:56,475 --> 00:01:59,955 Speaker 1: The Times reports Trump's three million dollars in advanced lawyer 28 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:04,115 Speaker 1: Christopher Kiss, advised him to be cooperative to hire an 29 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:07,995 Speaker 1: outside firm to voluntarily search for more documents, but that 30 00:02:08,035 --> 00:02:10,555 Speaker 1: Trump was then talked out of that by his more 31 00:02:10,715 --> 00:02:14,635 Speaker 1: militant mouthpieces. The Times article reads, quote, it is unclear 32 00:02:14,675 --> 00:02:17,755 Speaker 1: at which property kais wanted a voluntary search by an 33 00:02:17,755 --> 00:02:21,195 Speaker 1: outside group to be conducted, And, most relevantly, it adds, 34 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:24,315 Speaker 1: quoting again, it is not clear what steps the Justice 35 00:02:24,355 --> 00:02:27,835 Speaker 1: Department might take to retrieve any material. It thinks Mr 36 00:02:27,835 --> 00:02:31,395 Speaker 1: Trump still holds unquote, but then quotes a national security 37 00:02:31,435 --> 00:02:34,395 Speaker 1: lawyer who suggests, quote One would be to file a 38 00:02:34,555 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: motion in the ongoing court fight over the documents, seeking 39 00:02:38,275 --> 00:02:41,315 Speaker 1: either return of the documents or a statement under oath 40 00:02:41,435 --> 00:02:45,115 Speaker 1: from Trump that he has returned all the documents, which 41 00:02:45,155 --> 00:02:49,155 Speaker 1: would quote back Mr Trump into a corner, which sounds 42 00:02:49,235 --> 00:02:53,275 Speaker 1: nice but ignores the reality that Trump lives in a 43 00:02:53,275 --> 00:02:57,875 Speaker 1: corner and functions surprisingly well there. The d o J, 44 00:02:58,155 --> 00:03:00,835 Speaker 1: of course, tried all these half measures at Mari Lago 45 00:03:01,075 --> 00:03:02,795 Speaker 1: and got nothing out of it but the loss of 46 00:03:02,835 --> 00:03:06,635 Speaker 1: months they could have spent investigating and prosecuting. This newest 47 00:03:06,715 --> 00:03:10,195 Speaker 1: story is in fact a sort of recapitulation of what 48 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:13,155 Speaker 1: happened at Marilacco. The government god J. Bratt reaching out 49 00:03:13,155 --> 00:03:17,795 Speaker 1: to the lawyers, voluntary searches, voluntary returns, the realization that 50 00:03:17,835 --> 00:03:20,475 Speaker 1: he had not returned everything, warnings that they would have 51 00:03:20,515 --> 00:03:23,995 Speaker 1: to act than a search warrant than a search. In fact, 52 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:27,235 Speaker 1: the league to the Times might even be part of 53 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:29,715 Speaker 1: the d o J strategy. Now to make it clear 54 00:03:29,755 --> 00:03:32,955 Speaker 1: in public, we were willing to search Mari Lago, we 55 00:03:32,995 --> 00:03:35,475 Speaker 1: would be happy to search Trump Tower or the golf 56 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: club where you buried your first wife, and oh, by 57 00:03:38,155 --> 00:03:40,115 Speaker 1: the way, where is she again? Will need to check 58 00:03:40,155 --> 00:03:44,875 Speaker 1: in there too. It doesn't take great insight to analyze 59 00:03:44,915 --> 00:03:48,955 Speaker 1: why Trumps still having more classified documents matters. It would 60 00:03:48,955 --> 00:03:53,835 Speaker 1: mean he still has more classified documents but there are 61 00:03:53,915 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: other implications around the edges of the thing. If after 62 00:03:57,555 --> 00:04:01,395 Speaker 1: all this he is still illegally holding classified documents, that 63 00:04:01,515 --> 00:04:05,355 Speaker 1: is powerful evidence of criminal intent to steal and keep 64 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: them and also of consciousness of guilt. This was no accident. 65 00:04:11,435 --> 00:04:13,835 Speaker 1: It could also mean something even worse that the government 66 00:04:13,835 --> 00:04:17,235 Speaker 1: doesn't have the documents, and Trump doesn't have the documents, 67 00:04:17,515 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: and Trump sold them, gave them away, lost them, or 68 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:24,275 Speaker 1: had them stolen by anybody who could butter them up 69 00:04:24,275 --> 00:04:26,235 Speaker 1: well enough to get him to produce them in their 70 00:04:26,275 --> 00:04:30,635 Speaker 1: presence at Mari Lago. And again the prospect of the 71 00:04:30,675 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: Feds rummaging through Trump Tower, and please, if you're gonna 72 00:04:35,075 --> 00:04:36,715 Speaker 1: do it, let me know. I'm around the corner. I'll 73 00:04:36,715 --> 00:04:39,875 Speaker 1: bring the coffee. This is just one of two bad 74 00:04:39,995 --> 00:04:43,555 Speaker 1: legal headlines for l. Douche. The Secret Service is now 75 00:04:43,595 --> 00:04:47,395 Speaker 1: acknowledging that testimony yesterday at the oath Keeper's seditious conspiracy 76 00:04:47,435 --> 00:04:52,115 Speaker 1: trial is at least partially correct. Quoting a spokesperson for 77 00:04:52,155 --> 00:04:55,755 Speaker 1: the Service, we are aware that individuals from the oath 78 00:04:55,835 --> 00:05:00,275 Speaker 1: Keepers have contacted us in the past to make inquiries. 79 00:05:01,075 --> 00:05:04,395 Speaker 1: The Secret Service is dismissing this as something ordinary, something 80 00:05:04,675 --> 00:05:07,475 Speaker 1: all the fascist militias do to find out what the 81 00:05:07,635 --> 00:05:12,115 Speaker 1: security procedures might be for events protected by the Secret Service, 82 00:05:12,635 --> 00:05:14,595 Speaker 1: But that is not the way it was portrayed. At 83 00:05:14,595 --> 00:05:18,195 Speaker 1: the trial, former Oathkeeper John Zimmerman testified that the head 84 00:05:18,235 --> 00:05:21,795 Speaker 1: of the gang, Elmer's Stewart, You'll shoot your eye out. Rhodes, 85 00:05:22,315 --> 00:05:24,995 Speaker 1: told him he had a contact in the Secret Service, 86 00:05:25,235 --> 00:05:28,395 Speaker 1: and Zimmerman thought that this was how his stormtroopers would 87 00:05:28,435 --> 00:05:31,915 Speaker 1: find out if and when Trump actually invoked the Insurrection Act. 88 00:05:32,555 --> 00:05:35,755 Speaker 1: In May, another oath keeper had pleaded guilty, and as 89 00:05:35,795 --> 00:05:38,955 Speaker 1: part of his plea deal said he heard Rhodes call 90 00:05:39,075 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: somebody Rhodes identified as a Trump intermediary on the night 91 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:45,955 Speaker 1: of January six, trying to get through to Trump himself. 92 00:05:46,195 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: Then we know the oath Keepers also exchanged texts with 93 00:05:49,155 --> 00:05:54,155 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani's Nitwit son in late but a secret Service 94 00:05:54,275 --> 00:05:58,395 Speaker 1: oathkeeper connection is especially explosive because of the little matter 95 00:05:58,475 --> 00:06:02,315 Speaker 1: of all the Secret Service texts that were erased and 96 00:06:02,355 --> 00:06:05,235 Speaker 1: the phones that were wiped, and what was posedly a 97 00:06:05,315 --> 00:06:08,635 Speaker 1: system change that does not seem to have resulted from 98 00:06:08,635 --> 00:06:11,195 Speaker 1: a really good deal offered by Lily from a T 99 00:06:11,395 --> 00:06:15,035 Speaker 1: and T. There is also the small matter of Tony Ornado, 100 00:06:15,475 --> 00:06:19,075 Speaker 1: the shady figure who was a Secret Service agent one day, 101 00:06:19,155 --> 00:06:21,555 Speaker 1: then was Trump's deputy chief of Staff in charge of 102 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:24,475 Speaker 1: logistics the next. Then when Trump was thrown out, went 103 00:06:24,595 --> 00:06:27,435 Speaker 1: right back to the Service as head of training. And 104 00:06:27,515 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 1: of course there remains Mike Pence's reported reluctance to get 105 00:06:30,715 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: into a Secret Service vehicle with Secret Service agents while 106 00:06:34,315 --> 00:06:38,715 Speaker 1: the coup attempt was unfolding. We still don't know exactly 107 00:06:38,915 --> 00:06:42,755 Speaker 1: what was crooked about Trump's relationship with the Secret Service, 108 00:06:42,875 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: but something was amiss, and thanks to yesterday's testimony, that's 109 00:06:46,435 --> 00:06:49,715 Speaker 1: something now has an oath keeper's element to it. And 110 00:06:49,795 --> 00:06:53,395 Speaker 1: in that fuzzy big picture, there are now faint images 111 00:06:53,435 --> 00:06:56,035 Speaker 1: that look like they might someday connect the oath Keepers 112 00:06:56,115 --> 00:07:00,515 Speaker 1: on one end all the way to Trump on the other. Meanwhile, 113 00:07:00,915 --> 00:07:03,955 Speaker 1: in another Washington courtroom, yesterday, one of the leaders of 114 00:07:03,995 --> 00:07:07,275 Speaker 1: one of the other fascist pro Trump gangs, the Proud Boys, 115 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:13,155 Speaker 1: flipped Jeremy Bertino, deputy to Proud Boys leader Enrique Terrio, 116 00:07:13,355 --> 00:07:18,115 Speaker 1: pleaded guilty suit seditious conspiracy and will now testify against Terrio. 117 00:07:18,555 --> 00:07:21,675 Speaker 1: And this is serious enough that the government revealed that 118 00:07:21,755 --> 00:07:25,075 Speaker 1: after it is all over, Bertino will go into the 119 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:31,195 Speaker 1: witness protection program like he's saw Freakin Goodman. The only 120 00:07:31,355 --> 00:07:33,715 Speaker 1: bright spot in all this, I suppose, is that so 121 00:07:33,795 --> 00:07:37,235 Speaker 1: far nobody involved in the latest developments attempted the Herschel 122 00:07:37,275 --> 00:07:40,875 Speaker 1: walker defense, which, if you hadn't heard it, amounts to 123 00:07:41,155 --> 00:07:44,995 Speaker 1: telling them, just as Herschel did yesterday, that you didn't 124 00:07:45,035 --> 00:07:48,235 Speaker 1: do it, and it never happened, and you didn't deny it, 125 00:07:48,555 --> 00:07:51,595 Speaker 1: and you wouldn't confirm it, and you've already talked about it, 126 00:07:51,835 --> 00:07:55,235 Speaker 1: and you have never talked about it, and anyway, you've 127 00:07:55,235 --> 00:08:07,275 Speaker 1: been forgiven for it. Still ahead on countdown, here we 128 00:08:07,315 --> 00:08:10,075 Speaker 1: go again. Another right wing candidate for governor makes a 129 00:08:10,115 --> 00:08:14,515 Speaker 1: commercial praises the American Military Show's video of the Russian 130 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:18,435 Speaker 1: military Worst Persons Ahead. It's Friday's with Theurber. His hilarious 131 00:08:18,435 --> 00:08:21,875 Speaker 1: story of mass stupidity and the refusal to trust science. 132 00:08:22,315 --> 00:08:25,875 Speaker 1: No not ripped from today's headlines. It's called the Day 133 00:08:25,915 --> 00:08:29,515 Speaker 1: the Damn Broke and forty seven years ago tonight, I 134 00:08:29,595 --> 00:08:33,875 Speaker 1: made my radio debut. I was sixteen. They didn't tell 135 00:08:33,915 --> 00:08:36,515 Speaker 1: me it was going to happen. The results were not 136 00:08:36,555 --> 00:08:40,035 Speaker 1: only what you might expect, but they still exist. I 137 00:08:40,115 --> 00:08:43,235 Speaker 1: will play you part of a sportscast from October seven, 138 00:08:44,075 --> 00:08:56,715 Speaker 1: nine seventy five. That's next this Discountdown. This is Countdown 139 00:08:56,795 --> 00:09:04,035 Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman still ahead on Countdown. James Thurber's the 140 00:09:04,115 --> 00:09:08,035 Speaker 1: Day the Day Am broke, speaking of which the day 141 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:12,435 Speaker 1: I first inflicted myself on an unsuspecting radio audience. It's 142 00:09:12,435 --> 00:09:17,955 Speaker 1: the anniversary something that happened in first. In each edition 143 00:09:17,955 --> 00:09:19,795 Speaker 1: of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom you 144 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:22,555 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day here in New 145 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:25,755 Speaker 1: York City, the crisis continues at the pound. They are 146 00:09:25,835 --> 00:09:30,835 Speaker 1: killing big, exuberant, happy puppies because the owner decided they 147 00:09:30,835 --> 00:09:34,235 Speaker 1: were too big. Theodore is a year old looks like 148 00:09:34,275 --> 00:09:38,195 Speaker 1: a German Shepherd mix of some kind with official sweet 149 00:09:38,355 --> 00:09:41,715 Speaker 1: puppy eyes. He bounces around. He likes kids, he likes cats, 150 00:09:41,755 --> 00:09:45,115 Speaker 1: he likes bats, He likes most dogs. If we can't 151 00:09:45,115 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: find him a home or pledges to help defray the 152 00:09:47,235 --> 00:09:51,155 Speaker 1: expenses of a rescue that will go and pull him, 153 00:09:51,315 --> 00:09:54,675 Speaker 1: they could kill him as early as Saturday. My tweet 154 00:09:54,675 --> 00:09:57,435 Speaker 1: about Theodore will be pinned at my account for Dogs 155 00:09:57,515 --> 00:10:01,315 Speaker 1: in Need at tom Jumbo Grumbo. If you can't pledge, 156 00:10:01,675 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: just retweeting it will help and thank you very much. 157 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:35,675 Speaker 1: We're doing so. This is Sports Center. Wait check that 158 00:10:36,755 --> 00:10:44,755 Speaker 1: not anymore. This is countdown with Keith in sports. Baseball 159 00:10:44,795 --> 00:10:48,395 Speaker 1: playoffs start today. Only Baseball could undercut that by announcing 160 00:10:48,395 --> 00:10:52,955 Speaker 1: a bait and switch. Some international subscribers to the streaming 161 00:10:53,035 --> 00:10:55,875 Speaker 1: service for all of the baseball games for the season 162 00:10:55,955 --> 00:10:58,835 Speaker 1: of two thousand two, including those in the UK, were 163 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:02,395 Speaker 1: promised they could watch the postseason on that streaming service. 164 00:11:02,755 --> 00:11:05,035 Speaker 1: Now they are being told there is a black out 165 00:11:05,355 --> 00:11:08,955 Speaker 1: they can't watch it. This while Commissioner Rob Manfred tries 166 00:11:09,035 --> 00:11:14,355 Speaker 1: to grow the game internationally, he's just not bright. There 167 00:11:14,355 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: are still bright lights though. Before the Mets Padres series begins, 168 00:11:18,235 --> 00:11:21,315 Speaker 1: they asked New York manager Buck Showalter if outfielder Darren 169 00:11:21,395 --> 00:11:25,075 Speaker 1: Roff might make the Mets postseason roster. Acquired from San 170 00:11:25,115 --> 00:11:30,075 Speaker 1: Francisco on August nine, Rough hit one fifty two. There 171 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:34,355 Speaker 1: is a meta offensive stat called ops plus. One hundred 172 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:40,835 Speaker 1: is the league average. Rough's ops plus was twenty. Buck 173 00:11:40,875 --> 00:11:44,155 Speaker 1: show Walter's answer about Rough maybe making the roster quote, 174 00:11:44,715 --> 00:11:48,195 Speaker 1: everyone here today has a shot. All of God's children 175 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:53,195 Speaker 1: have a chance. They're all somebody's son. The hockey scandal 176 00:11:53,235 --> 00:11:54,875 Speaker 1: continues to get worse. This is the case of a 177 00:11:54,915 --> 00:11:59,155 Speaker 1: woman who claimed assault by eight players and sued. Among 178 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:02,955 Speaker 1: those players members of Canada's national under twenty teams several 179 00:12:03,035 --> 00:12:06,435 Speaker 1: years ago. Turns out Hockey Nada reportedly paid settlement money 180 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:10,995 Speaker 1: out of membership fees. Its upper management is insisting it 181 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:14,435 Speaker 1: is not to blame and nobody will resign. So far, 182 00:12:14,555 --> 00:12:18,435 Speaker 1: Hockey Canada has lost its sponsori strips from the Keg 183 00:12:18,755 --> 00:12:23,875 Speaker 1: series of restaurants, Tim Horton's Chevrolet, Canada, Scotia Bank, and 184 00:12:23,915 --> 00:12:28,355 Speaker 1: Canadian Tire, and yesterday Hockey Nova Scotia announced it will 185 00:12:28,435 --> 00:12:31,475 Speaker 1: not pay some of its scheduled fees as long as 186 00:12:31,475 --> 00:12:49,195 Speaker 1: Senior Hockey Canada management remains in place. Fridays with Thurber 187 00:12:49,275 --> 00:12:53,835 Speaker 1: and the anniversary of my first professional broadcast. Next first, 188 00:12:53,835 --> 00:12:56,395 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants morons. I'm Donnan Krueger 189 00:12:56,395 --> 00:12:59,395 Speaker 1: Effe specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 190 00:12:59,915 --> 00:13:04,195 Speaker 1: Le Bronze Turner TV hockey analyst Paul Bissonette, also known 191 00:13:04,235 --> 00:13:08,075 Speaker 1: as Paul Cognitive Dissonance. He has not apologized nor been 192 00:13:08,115 --> 00:13:12,075 Speaker 1: suspended for insulting the NHL's women fans making a quote 193 00:13:12,155 --> 00:13:14,555 Speaker 1: joke about a Dallas player. He said, half the reason 194 00:13:14,555 --> 00:13:17,755 Speaker 1: women watch hockey anyway is that they find the players 195 00:13:17,795 --> 00:13:21,675 Speaker 1: are attractive. Busin It does something like this once a month, 196 00:13:22,075 --> 00:13:26,355 Speaker 1: then smiles desperately for approval to the camera turner apparently 197 00:13:26,395 --> 00:13:29,515 Speaker 1: likes it. They had no comment. Runner up, Arizona's fascist 198 00:13:29,595 --> 00:13:33,195 Speaker 1: candidate for governor, Carry Lake the epidemic of Republican campaign 199 00:13:33,315 --> 00:13:36,555 Speaker 1: ads highlighting the American military. Only turns out the video 200 00:13:36,635 --> 00:13:40,755 Speaker 1: is not of the American military. Continues. Lake's newest spot 201 00:13:40,875 --> 00:13:44,915 Speaker 1: claims she will deploy the Arizona National Guard to secure 202 00:13:44,995 --> 00:13:47,955 Speaker 1: the border, but the troops shown during that part of 203 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:53,275 Speaker 1: the ad are actually Russian soldiers. Knitwit but the winner. 204 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:57,555 Speaker 1: Right wing troll Matt Walsh Blog critics found old broadcasts 205 00:13:57,555 --> 00:14:00,195 Speaker 1: of a Delaware radio show that Mr. Walsh Blog once 206 00:14:00,235 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: co hosted, in which he defended impregnating sixteen year old 207 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:07,115 Speaker 1: girls or maybe younger, quoting him at about sixteen, you're 208 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:10,435 Speaker 1: an adult who is mature and can make decisions. Asked 209 00:14:10,435 --> 00:14:13,235 Speaker 1: for an apology, Walsh Blog put out a video demanding 210 00:14:13,235 --> 00:14:16,635 Speaker 1: that his critics apologized to him, and he added quote 211 00:14:16,755 --> 00:14:19,795 Speaker 1: kiss my ass. He did not say if the person 212 00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: he wanted to do that was sixteen or younger or older. Matt, No, 213 00:14:24,715 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: this spirit is real. I swear Walsh blog Today's worse 214 00:14:30,355 --> 00:14:48,275 Speaker 1: Person and no world to what is the number two 215 00:14:48,315 --> 00:14:51,795 Speaker 1: story on the countdown? This time with Friday's with Thurber 216 00:14:51,915 --> 00:14:54,795 Speaker 1: still ahead of us in this occasion and my favorite topic, 217 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:58,075 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. Although this 218 00:14:58,115 --> 00:15:00,275 Speaker 1: doesn't really count as that because I not only promised 219 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:02,875 Speaker 1: to tell this, but I did tell this. When I 220 00:15:02,955 --> 00:15:07,795 Speaker 1: made my debut in professional radio forty seven years ago tonight, 221 00:15:08,755 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old. I was in my seventh 222 00:15:11,155 --> 00:15:13,755 Speaker 1: or eighth week at Cornell University and in my second 223 00:15:13,795 --> 00:15:15,995 Speaker 1: week or so of training at the student owned radio 224 00:15:16,075 --> 00:15:20,875 Speaker 1: station w v b r FM, and they all played me. 225 00:15:21,075 --> 00:15:25,635 Speaker 1: They all had a big joke on Keith sixpence. The 226 00:15:25,675 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: premise of that evening of October seventh, ninety five was 227 00:15:30,635 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: that I was going to shadow a senior sportscaster named 228 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:35,195 Speaker 1: Gary Davis, and I would sit with him in Studio 229 00:15:35,315 --> 00:15:39,515 Speaker 1: B at Linden Avenue during his sports cast, and he 230 00:15:39,515 --> 00:15:41,755 Speaker 1: would give me one, maybe two stories that I would 231 00:15:41,755 --> 00:15:44,595 Speaker 1: read so that my first real broadcast would not be 232 00:15:44,715 --> 00:15:47,995 Speaker 1: quite so traumatic. It was all a lie. It was 233 00:15:48,035 --> 00:15:52,195 Speaker 1: a damned lie. I was standing at the edges of 234 00:15:52,195 --> 00:15:55,995 Speaker 1: the newsroom, periodically summoning the courage to look at the 235 00:15:56,035 --> 00:16:00,275 Speaker 1: copy continually and furiously and noisily disgorging itself from the 236 00:16:00,315 --> 00:16:04,075 Speaker 1: United Press International teletype machine, wondering where this Gary Davis 237 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:07,795 Speaker 1: guy was is when somebody I did not know, and 238 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:10,035 Speaker 1: they were all somebody I did not know there that 239 00:16:10,195 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: night came over and asked you, Keith, and I nodded 240 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:18,395 Speaker 1: phone for you. Hey, kid, it's Jerry Goldberg. Jerry was 241 00:16:18,435 --> 00:16:20,795 Speaker 1: the sports director of the commercial radio station run by 242 00:16:20,835 --> 00:16:24,875 Speaker 1: Cornell students. He sounded exactly that laconic. He was one 243 00:16:24,915 --> 00:16:26,995 Speaker 1: of the ten seniors on the staff. I was one 244 00:16:26,995 --> 00:16:29,915 Speaker 1: of the two freshmen. Listen, he said, find the newscaster 245 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:32,515 Speaker 1: Kathy and get her to give you all the sports 246 00:16:32,555 --> 00:16:34,675 Speaker 1: stories from the u p I wire, and start picking 247 00:16:34,715 --> 00:16:37,475 Speaker 1: which ones you're going to do it eleven fifteen. Gary 248 00:16:37,555 --> 00:16:40,835 Speaker 1: Davis will be there around quarter to eleven. Now, I 249 00:16:40,875 --> 00:16:42,755 Speaker 1: know I told you that Gary was going to do 250 00:16:42,795 --> 00:16:44,835 Speaker 1: the sportscast and you were only going to do a 251 00:16:44,875 --> 00:16:47,755 Speaker 1: story or two. But that was just because I didn't 252 00:16:47,755 --> 00:16:52,275 Speaker 1: want you to get all nervous, so I lied it 253 00:16:52,435 --> 00:16:56,275 Speaker 1: was all a lie, a damned lie. I didn't want 254 00:16:56,315 --> 00:16:59,715 Speaker 1: you to get all nervous. I wondered what Jerry Goldberg 255 00:16:59,755 --> 00:17:02,515 Speaker 1: thought I would be now, as the clock swept towards 256 00:17:02,555 --> 00:17:04,595 Speaker 1: ten PM, and I had about seventy five minutes to 257 00:17:04,675 --> 00:17:07,035 Speaker 1: at the wire copy I had not seen from the 258 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:09,995 Speaker 1: newscaster I had not met, turn it into a five 259 00:17:09,995 --> 00:17:13,075 Speaker 1: minute sportscast in a manner I did not know, find 260 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:15,355 Speaker 1: the studio, the whereabouts of which I did not know, 261 00:17:15,715 --> 00:17:17,675 Speaker 1: with the help of a guy named Gary Davis, whom 262 00:17:17,715 --> 00:17:21,155 Speaker 1: I would not recognize when he came in. Oh And 263 00:17:21,235 --> 00:17:23,235 Speaker 1: although my voice was pretty deep, and I had been 264 00:17:23,315 --> 00:17:27,075 Speaker 1: on my high school's radio station with my mentor, Chris Berman, 265 00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:30,355 Speaker 1: I was still only sixteen, and I was the youngest 266 00:17:30,555 --> 00:17:34,275 Speaker 1: of the twenty thousand or so students at Cornell University 267 00:17:34,355 --> 00:17:37,595 Speaker 1: right that night, and my voice was still periodically breaking, 268 00:17:37,995 --> 00:17:40,955 Speaker 1: and it would continue to periodically break through my senior year, 269 00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:45,395 Speaker 1: often with disastrous and hilarious consequences. And now I had 270 00:17:45,435 --> 00:17:48,635 Speaker 1: been that we did not use that term. Then played 271 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:52,675 Speaker 1: it was a lie, a damned lie. I was prepared 272 00:17:52,715 --> 00:17:55,195 Speaker 1: to watch, to learn to make a cameo even maybe 273 00:17:55,195 --> 00:17:58,715 Speaker 1: thirty maybe forty five seconds of terror reading something this 274 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:01,475 Speaker 1: guy Davis had selected for me. Instead, I was at 275 00:18:01,555 --> 00:18:05,035 Speaker 1: the deep end of the pool. This news asked that 276 00:18:05,075 --> 00:18:08,515 Speaker 1: the sports cast was part of late edition, had listeners 277 00:18:09,075 --> 00:18:12,755 Speaker 1: and not just commercials. It had a sponsor. The sponsor 278 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: was a prominent local insurance agency, the Robertos Boothroyd Agency. 279 00:18:17,795 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 1: Your protection is their profession. This was a hybrid, this 280 00:18:22,355 --> 00:18:25,195 Speaker 1: w vvv R. It was training station for students, but 281 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:28,115 Speaker 1: it was also one of the eight experimental licenses granted 282 00:18:28,155 --> 00:18:30,435 Speaker 1: by the FCC in the nineteen thirties. We were not 283 00:18:30,555 --> 00:18:34,235 Speaker 1: public radio, We were not non commercial. We sold, produced, 284 00:18:34,275 --> 00:18:37,595 Speaker 1: and ran advertising. Before I was done there, I did 285 00:18:37,595 --> 00:18:42,235 Speaker 1: the local commercials for the J. C. Pennett Penny Department. Stories. Anyway, 286 00:18:42,275 --> 00:18:44,835 Speaker 1: I remember little of the rest of that night. Gary 287 00:18:44,915 --> 00:18:47,955 Speaker 1: Davis finally showed up, said I had made good story selections. 288 00:18:48,355 --> 00:18:51,595 Speaker 1: Another veteran sportscaster showed up, and they escorted me into 289 00:18:51,595 --> 00:18:54,835 Speaker 1: the studio exactly like I'd seen them escort every prisoner 290 00:18:54,875 --> 00:18:58,755 Speaker 1: down every final mile in every prison movie. The room 291 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:01,355 Speaker 1: was so quiet that I could literally hear the second 292 00:19:01,355 --> 00:19:05,355 Speaker 1: hand moving on the big clock. I think I had 293 00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:07,755 Speaker 1: an out of body experience. I think I could see 294 00:19:07,795 --> 00:19:11,275 Speaker 1: myself from about the perspective of that big clock up 295 00:19:11,275 --> 00:19:14,475 Speaker 1: on the wall. I know for certain that Gary Davis 296 00:19:14,475 --> 00:19:17,515 Speaker 1: had encouraged me to place one arm around the microphone 297 00:19:17,555 --> 00:19:20,955 Speaker 1: stand and hold the ten small pieces of canary yellow 298 00:19:20,955 --> 00:19:24,235 Speaker 1: wire copy with the thumb and forefinger of both hands, 299 00:19:24,435 --> 00:19:26,635 Speaker 1: so that when I was finished reading the first page. 300 00:19:26,875 --> 00:19:29,275 Speaker 1: Only then did it occur to me that I had 301 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:32,875 Speaker 1: to move my hands, which were frozen with fright removed 302 00:19:32,955 --> 00:19:35,595 Speaker 1: the top page out of that stack of ten pages, 303 00:19:35,995 --> 00:19:39,675 Speaker 1: not drop the other ones, and not knocked the microphone over. 304 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:43,955 Speaker 1: And while I was thinking of this, a red light 305 00:19:44,035 --> 00:19:48,955 Speaker 1: went on and light edition sports Can Grippy has scored 306 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:50,875 Speaker 1: the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly on the 307 00:19:50,915 --> 00:19:53,195 Speaker 1: top of the tenth thanning to give Cincinnati a d 308 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:56,075 Speaker 1: three way over Pittsburgh. A red victory would quench the 309 00:19:56,155 --> 00:19:58,995 Speaker 1: National League Pennant. Tonight, Pete Rose had a two run 310 00:19:59,035 --> 00:20:02,675 Speaker 1: homer in the eighth inning off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, 311 00:20:02,755 --> 00:20:05,315 Speaker 1: a rookie, had allowed only one hit and struck out 312 00:20:05,355 --> 00:20:08,435 Speaker 1: fourteen through seven. I mentioned some names that any fan 313 00:20:08,515 --> 00:20:12,115 Speaker 1: would recognize even now. Ken Griffy Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, 314 00:20:12,195 --> 00:20:15,795 Speaker 1: Tom Siever, Terry Bradshaw. But the first non baseball story 315 00:20:15,875 --> 00:20:19,595 Speaker 1: was about last ditch efforts to save the World Football League. 316 00:20:20,195 --> 00:20:22,955 Speaker 1: I did not write a word of it except my 317 00:20:23,035 --> 00:20:25,435 Speaker 1: own name at the beginning and the end, and I 318 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,275 Speaker 1: was so scared that when it came to my own name, 319 00:20:30,235 --> 00:20:35,755 Speaker 1: I mispronounced it twice. Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the 320 00:20:35,795 --> 00:20:38,515 Speaker 1: top small college football teams in the nation, and the 321 00:20:38,555 --> 00:20:42,315 Speaker 1: latest NC double a pole that's late edition sports. I'm 322 00:20:42,395 --> 00:20:47,995 Speaker 1: Keith Overman. Goodnight, Yes, older man. That's what it said 323 00:20:48,035 --> 00:20:51,075 Speaker 1: on the paper. If it had said I'm Keith green Cheese, 324 00:20:51,275 --> 00:20:55,515 Speaker 1: I would have said I'm Keith green Cheese. Now, obviously 325 00:20:55,555 --> 00:20:57,835 Speaker 1: I still have this tape, but basically it's sixteen year 326 00:20:57,875 --> 00:21:00,795 Speaker 1: old Keith whispers like that for nearly five minutes. The 327 00:21:00,795 --> 00:21:02,715 Speaker 1: guy in the next dorm room was good enough to 328 00:21:02,755 --> 00:21:05,035 Speaker 1: record it to me or for me. Jeff Hollo said, 329 00:21:06,115 --> 00:21:08,275 Speaker 1: I'm not going to subject you to it here, but 330 00:21:08,315 --> 00:21:10,355 Speaker 1: since I have it, I will play the whole thing 331 00:21:10,355 --> 00:21:12,595 Speaker 1: at the end of this program, literally after the credits. 332 00:21:12,595 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 1: I mean, why not. What amazes me in retrospect is 333 00:21:15,955 --> 00:21:19,795 Speaker 1: that nearly four years and certainly two thousand sports casts later. 334 00:21:20,075 --> 00:21:23,555 Speaker 1: On July tenth, nine seventy nine, I fell victim to 335 00:21:23,635 --> 00:21:27,795 Speaker 1: the exact same trick again when I got my first 336 00:21:27,835 --> 00:21:30,995 Speaker 1: full time job at United Press International's radio network in 337 00:21:31,075 --> 00:21:33,875 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. My boss, Sam Rosen, the one who 338 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:36,235 Speaker 1: still does the New York Rangers hockey games on TV, 339 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:38,995 Speaker 1: told me to come in at five AM one morning 340 00:21:38,995 --> 00:21:41,555 Speaker 1: to watch him do the morning shift. I sat in 341 00:21:41,595 --> 00:21:44,555 Speaker 1: the studio as he barked out the sports cast at 342 00:21:44,075 --> 00:21:46,955 Speaker 1: six and seven forty five and eight forty five, and 343 00:21:46,995 --> 00:21:49,315 Speaker 1: as soon as he signed off with round the sparts 344 00:21:49,355 --> 00:21:52,755 Speaker 1: desk of United Press International, I'm Sam Rosen. He looked 345 00:21:52,755 --> 00:21:54,955 Speaker 1: at me and said, you got it. I sure hope 346 00:21:54,995 --> 00:21:58,755 Speaker 1: you do, because you're doing then it was all a lie. 347 00:21:58,795 --> 00:22:02,755 Speaker 1: Another Dan lie back at my college station, one of 348 00:22:02,795 --> 00:22:05,675 Speaker 1: my former trainees doing the midday shift, who had had 349 00:22:05,715 --> 00:22:07,995 Speaker 1: no idea I had even gotten the job. At UP, 350 00:22:08,155 --> 00:22:10,675 Speaker 1: I went over to check the wire machine and saw 351 00:22:10,715 --> 00:22:13,915 Speaker 1: an advisory from u p I Audio which read, keith 352 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:17,875 Speaker 1: old woman will do the am sports cast today. She 353 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:21,835 Speaker 1: let out a scream and so that ancient artifact, that 354 00:22:21,955 --> 00:22:24,355 Speaker 1: piece of yellow wire copy printed out on the same 355 00:22:24,395 --> 00:22:26,435 Speaker 1: machine from which I pulled. The stories from my first 356 00:22:26,475 --> 00:22:31,195 Speaker 1: sports cast four years before still exists framed on my wall. 357 00:22:31,755 --> 00:22:33,635 Speaker 1: It was yellow when it was new, so you can't 358 00:22:33,635 --> 00:22:36,315 Speaker 1: really say it's yellowed with age. I may have yellowed 359 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:39,515 Speaker 1: with age. U p I has basically gone now. W 360 00:22:39,675 --> 00:22:41,955 Speaker 1: VBR is still going strong. I mean, I'm proud to 361 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:46,435 Speaker 1: say the Alderman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York, and 362 00:22:46,555 --> 00:22:50,675 Speaker 1: in an oddity that I still enjoy. My college debut 363 00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:55,515 Speaker 1: was on ten seven, and my network debut was on 364 00:22:55,635 --> 00:23:03,995 Speaker 1: seven ten Fridays with James Thurber. And the latest in 365 00:23:04,075 --> 00:23:07,355 Speaker 1: Sports New was from forty seven years ago tonight before 366 00:23:07,395 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: my voice fully changed next. Not every James Thurber's story 367 00:23:18,395 --> 00:23:22,315 Speaker 1: still holds up, but for a surprisingly large percentage of them, 368 00:23:22,395 --> 00:23:25,195 Speaker 1: the point of the story is as topical now as 369 00:23:25,235 --> 00:23:27,835 Speaker 1: it was when he wrote it, or when it happened. 370 00:23:28,235 --> 00:23:30,715 Speaker 1: When it happened, which in this case is the year 371 00:23:30,835 --> 00:23:34,715 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen, the day the Damn broke is from his 372 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:37,875 Speaker 1: essential masterpiece, My Life and Hard Times, And if it 373 00:23:37,955 --> 00:23:41,315 Speaker 1: is about anything, it is about people believing and acting 374 00:23:41,395 --> 00:23:44,835 Speaker 1: upon nonsense in the face of science and the face 375 00:23:44,835 --> 00:23:46,635 Speaker 1: of common sense and the face of you could just 376 00:23:46,755 --> 00:23:50,875 Speaker 1: ask somebody, they will almost always avoid those solutions and 377 00:23:50,955 --> 00:23:54,795 Speaker 1: choose instead to believe whatever the hell they want to believe, 378 00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:58,995 Speaker 1: which results in things like The Day the Damn Broke 379 00:23:59,715 --> 00:24:03,795 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. My memories of what my family and 380 00:24:03,835 --> 00:24:08,515 Speaker 1: I went through in flood in Ohio I would gladly forget. 381 00:24:09,155 --> 00:24:12,595 Speaker 1: And yet neither the hardships we endured, nor the turmoil 382 00:24:12,635 --> 00:24:15,675 Speaker 1: and confusion we experienced, can alter my feeling toward my 383 00:24:15,795 --> 00:24:18,915 Speaker 1: native state and city. I am having a fine time 384 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:22,115 Speaker 1: now and wish Columbus were here. But if anyone ever 385 00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:25,035 Speaker 1: wished the city was in hell, it was during that 386 00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:29,595 Speaker 1: frightful and perilous afternoon in when the Damn broke, or, 387 00:24:30,035 --> 00:24:33,955 Speaker 1: to be more exact, when everybody in town thought the 388 00:24:34,075 --> 00:24:38,915 Speaker 1: Damn broke. We were both ennobled and demoralized by the experience. 389 00:24:39,355 --> 00:24:43,155 Speaker 1: Grandfather especially rose to magnificent heights, which can never lose 390 00:24:43,155 --> 00:24:45,955 Speaker 1: their splendor for me, even though his reactions to the 391 00:24:45,955 --> 00:24:50,155 Speaker 1: flood were based upon a profound misconception, namely that Nathan 392 00:24:50,235 --> 00:24:53,435 Speaker 1: Bedford Forest's cavalry was the menace we were called upon 393 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:56,955 Speaker 1: to face. The only possible means of escape for us 394 00:24:56,995 --> 00:25:00,875 Speaker 1: was to flee the house, a step which Grandfather sternly forbade, 395 00:25:01,035 --> 00:25:05,315 Speaker 1: brandishing his old army saber in his hand that destung 396 00:25:06,755 --> 00:25:11,595 Speaker 1: come he roared. Meanwhile, hundreds of people were streaming by 397 00:25:11,675 --> 00:25:15,155 Speaker 1: our house in wild panic, screaming, go east, Go east. 398 00:25:15,995 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: We had to stun Grandfather with the ironing board, impeded 399 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:21,995 Speaker 1: as we were by the inert form of the old gentleman. 400 00:25:22,075 --> 00:25:24,235 Speaker 1: He was taller than six feet and weighed almost a 401 00:25:24,275 --> 00:25:27,955 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds. We were passed in the first 402 00:25:27,995 --> 00:25:32,435 Speaker 1: half mile by practically everybody else in the city. Had 403 00:25:32,475 --> 00:25:35,435 Speaker 1: Grandfather not come too at the corner of Parsons Avenue 404 00:25:35,435 --> 00:25:38,915 Speaker 1: in Town Street, we would unquestionably have been overtaken and 405 00:25:38,995 --> 00:25:43,715 Speaker 1: engulfed by the roaring waters, that is, if there had 406 00:25:43,795 --> 00:25:47,955 Speaker 1: been any roaring waters. Later, when the panic had died 407 00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:50,595 Speaker 1: down and people had gone rather sheepishly back to their 408 00:25:50,595 --> 00:25:53,955 Speaker 1: homes and their offices, minimizing the distances they had run 409 00:25:53,955 --> 00:25:57,635 Speaker 1: and offering various reasons for running, city engineers pointed out 410 00:25:58,115 --> 00:26:01,915 Speaker 1: that even if the damn had broken, the water level 411 00:26:01,955 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: would not have risen more than two additional inches in 412 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:09,195 Speaker 1: the west side. The west side was at the time 413 00:26:09,195 --> 00:26:13,715 Speaker 1: of the damn scare under thirty feet of water, as 414 00:26:13,755 --> 00:26:16,755 Speaker 1: indeed were all Ohio River towns during the great Spring 415 00:26:16,795 --> 00:26:20,835 Speaker 1: floods of twenty years ago. The east side, where we 416 00:26:20,955 --> 00:26:23,795 Speaker 1: lived and where all the running occurred, had never been 417 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:27,515 Speaker 1: in any danger at all. Only a rise of some 418 00:26:27,715 --> 00:26:31,115 Speaker 1: ninety five feet could have caused the floodwaters to flow 419 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:34,235 Speaker 1: over High Street, the thoroughfare that divided the east side 420 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:36,595 Speaker 1: of town from the west and engulfed the east side. 421 00:26:37,395 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: The fact that we were all as safe as kittens 422 00:26:39,755 --> 00:26:43,395 Speaker 1: under a cook stove did not, however, a suage in 423 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:48,795 Speaker 1: the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which 424 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: seized upon the residents of the east Side when the 425 00:26:51,715 --> 00:26:55,355 Speaker 1: cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had 426 00:26:55,795 --> 00:27:00,755 Speaker 1: given way. Some of the most dignified stayed cynical and 427 00:27:00,835 --> 00:27:04,555 Speaker 1: clear thinking men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, 428 00:27:04,675 --> 00:27:08,355 Speaker 1: in offices, and ran east. There are few alarms in 429 00:27:08,355 --> 00:27:12,635 Speaker 1: the world more terrifying than the dam has broken. There 430 00:27:12,635 --> 00:27:15,315 Speaker 1: are a few persons capable of stopping to reason when 431 00:27:15,315 --> 00:27:18,795 Speaker 1: that clarion cry strikes upon their ears, even persons who 432 00:27:18,875 --> 00:27:21,275 Speaker 1: live in towns no nearer than five hundred miles to 433 00:27:21,355 --> 00:27:26,755 Speaker 1: a damn. The Columbus, Ohio broken damn rumor began, as 434 00:27:26,755 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: I recalled, about noon of March twelfth. High Street, the 435 00:27:30,995 --> 00:27:34,595 Speaker 1: main canyon of trade was loud, with the Placid home 436 00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:41,515 Speaker 1: of business and the buzzing of Placid business men arguing, computing, wheedling, offering, refusing, compromising. 437 00:27:42,315 --> 00:27:45,995 Speaker 1: Darius cunning Way, one of the foremost corporational lawyers in 438 00:27:46,035 --> 00:27:48,835 Speaker 1: the Middle West, was telling the Public Utilities Commission in 439 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:52,075 Speaker 1: the language of Julius Caesar, that they might as well 440 00:27:52,115 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: try to move the northern stars to move him. Other 441 00:27:57,555 --> 00:28:00,315 Speaker 1: men were making their little boasts and their little gestures. 442 00:28:00,675 --> 00:28:05,035 Speaker 1: Suddenly somebody began to run. It may be that he 443 00:28:05,075 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: had simply remembered, all of a moment an engagement to 444 00:28:07,515 --> 00:28:10,035 Speaker 1: meet his wife, for which he was now frightfully late. 445 00:28:10,755 --> 00:28:14,555 Speaker 1: Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street, probably 446 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:17,075 Speaker 1: towards the Marramoor Restaurant, a favorite place for a man 447 00:28:17,115 --> 00:28:20,275 Speaker 1: to meet his wife. Somebody else began to run, perhaps 448 00:28:20,275 --> 00:28:24,395 Speaker 1: a newsboy in high spirits, another man, a portly gentleman 449 00:28:24,395 --> 00:28:28,035 Speaker 1: of affairs, broken to a trot. Inside of ten minutes, 450 00:28:28,115 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 1: everybody on High Street from the Union Depot to the 451 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: courthouse was running. Allowed mumble gradually crystallized into the dread 452 00:28:35,635 --> 00:28:41,315 Speaker 1: word damn. The damn has broke. The fear was put 453 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:43,715 Speaker 1: into words by a little old lady in an electric 454 00:28:43,795 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: or by a traffic cop, or by a small boy. 455 00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:51,315 Speaker 1: Nobody knows who, nor does it now really matter. Two 456 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:55,195 Speaker 1: thousand people were abruptly in full flight. Go east was 457 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:58,115 Speaker 1: the cry that rose east away from the river, east 458 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:04,035 Speaker 1: to safety. Go east, Go east, Go east. Black streams 459 00:29:04,075 --> 00:29:06,835 Speaker 1: of people load eastward down all the streets leading in 460 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:10,315 Speaker 1: that direction. These streams, whose headwaters were in the dry 461 00:29:10,355 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: goods stores, office buildings, harness shops, movie theaters, were fed 462 00:29:14,595 --> 00:29:18,555 Speaker 1: by trickles of housewives, children's cripples, servants, dogs, and cats 463 00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:21,555 Speaker 1: slipping out of the houses past which the main streams flowed, 464 00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:26,235 Speaker 1: shouting and screaming. People ran out of homes, leaving fires 465 00:29:26,275 --> 00:29:30,675 Speaker 1: burning and food cooking, and doors wide open. I remember, however, 466 00:29:31,035 --> 00:29:33,955 Speaker 1: that my mother turned out all the fires, and that 467 00:29:34,035 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: she took with her a dozen eggs and two loaves 468 00:29:36,555 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: of bread. It was her plan to make Memorial Hall 469 00:29:40,835 --> 00:29:43,235 Speaker 1: just two blocks away and take refuge somewhere in the 470 00:29:43,275 --> 00:29:45,475 Speaker 1: top of it, in one of the dusty rooms where 471 00:29:45,475 --> 00:29:48,955 Speaker 1: war veterans met and where old battle flags and stage 472 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:53,435 Speaker 1: scenery were stored. But the seething throngs shouting go east, 473 00:29:53,995 --> 00:29:56,155 Speaker 1: drew her along, and the rest of us with her. 474 00:29:56,675 --> 00:30:00,595 Speaker 1: When Grandfather regained full consciousness at Parsons Avenue, he turned 475 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:04,155 Speaker 1: upon the retreating mob like a vengeful profit and exhorted 476 00:30:04,155 --> 00:30:07,315 Speaker 1: the men to warm ranks and stand off the rebel dogs. 477 00:30:07,955 --> 00:30:10,035 Speaker 1: But at length he too got the idea that the 478 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:13,955 Speaker 1: damn had broken, and roaring go east in his powerful voice, 479 00:30:14,195 --> 00:30:17,115 Speaker 1: he caught up in one arm a small child, and 480 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:21,115 Speaker 1: in the other a slight clerkish man of perhaps forty two, 481 00:30:21,555 --> 00:30:24,395 Speaker 1: and we slowly began to gain on those ahead of us. 482 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:28,355 Speaker 1: A scattering of firemen, policeman and army officers in dress 483 00:30:28,475 --> 00:30:30,715 Speaker 1: uniforms there had been a review at Fort Hayes in 484 00:30:30,715 --> 00:30:33,555 Speaker 1: the northern part of town, added color to the surging 485 00:30:33,715 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: billows of people. Go east, cried a little child in 486 00:30:37,955 --> 00:30:40,675 Speaker 1: a piping voice as she ran past a porch on 487 00:30:40,715 --> 00:30:44,675 Speaker 1: which drowsed a lieutenant colonel of infantry. Used to quick decisions, 488 00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:47,795 Speaker 1: trained to immediate obedience, the officer bounded off the porch, and, 489 00:30:47,875 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: running at full tilt, soon passed the child balling, Go east. 490 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:55,555 Speaker 1: The two of them emptied rapidly the houses of the 491 00:30:55,595 --> 00:30:57,795 Speaker 1: little street they were on. What is it? What is it? 492 00:30:57,835 --> 00:31:00,955 Speaker 1: Demanded a fat, waddling man, who intercepted the colonel. The 493 00:31:01,035 --> 00:31:04,275 Speaker 1: officer dropped behind and asked the little child what it 494 00:31:04,395 --> 00:31:08,955 Speaker 1: was That damn has broke? Gasped the girl. The damn 495 00:31:08,995 --> 00:31:13,275 Speaker 1: has broke, roared the colonel. Go east, Go east, Go east. 496 00:31:15,235 --> 00:31:18,595 Speaker 1: He was soon leading, with the exhausted child in his arms, 497 00:31:18,875 --> 00:31:21,995 Speaker 1: a fleeing company of three hundred persons who had gathered 498 00:31:21,995 --> 00:31:27,395 Speaker 1: around him from living rooms, shops, garages, backyards and basements. 499 00:31:27,395 --> 00:31:30,595 Speaker 1: Nobody has ever been able to compute with any exactness 500 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:33,235 Speaker 1: how many people took part in the Great Route of 501 00:31:33,355 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen. For the panic, which extended from the windslow 502 00:31:36,835 --> 00:31:41,315 Speaker 1: bottling works in the south end to Clintonville, six miles north, 503 00:31:42,035 --> 00:31:45,635 Speaker 1: ended as abruptly as it began, and the bobtail and 504 00:31:45,795 --> 00:31:49,515 Speaker 1: rag tag and velvet gown groups of refugees melted away 505 00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:55,715 Speaker 1: and slunk home, leaving the streets peaceful and deserted. The shouting, weeping, 506 00:31:55,835 --> 00:31:59,315 Speaker 1: tangled evacuation of the city lasted not more than two hours. 507 00:31:59,315 --> 00:32:02,995 Speaker 1: In all, some few people got as far east as Reynoldsburg, 508 00:32:03,075 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: twelve miles away. Fifty or more reached the country Club 509 00:32:06,915 --> 00:32:10,075 Speaker 1: eight miles away. Most of the others gave up, exhausted 510 00:32:10,555 --> 00:32:15,315 Speaker 1: or climbed trees in Franklin Park four miles out. Order 511 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:18,595 Speaker 1: was restored and fear dispelled finally by means of militiamen 512 00:32:19,035 --> 00:32:23,395 Speaker 1: writing about in motor lorries bawling through megaphones. The damn 513 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:28,195 Speaker 1: has not broken. At first, this tended only to add 514 00:32:28,235 --> 00:32:30,995 Speaker 1: to the confusion and increase the panic from many stampeders 515 00:32:31,355 --> 00:32:35,755 Speaker 1: thought the soldiers were bellowing. The dam has now broken, 516 00:32:36,755 --> 00:32:40,355 Speaker 1: thus setting an official seal of authentication on the calamity. 517 00:32:41,995 --> 00:32:44,835 Speaker 1: All the time, the sun shone quietly, and there was 518 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:48,395 Speaker 1: nowhere any sign of oncoming waters. A visitor in an 519 00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:52,435 Speaker 1: airplane looking down on the straggling, agitated masses of people below, 520 00:32:52,635 --> 00:32:54,835 Speaker 1: would have been hard put to it. To divine a 521 00:32:54,875 --> 00:32:58,315 Speaker 1: reason for the phenomenon, it must have inspired in such 522 00:32:58,355 --> 00:33:01,675 Speaker 1: an observer a peculiar kind of terror, like the sight 523 00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:05,515 Speaker 1: of the Marie Celeste, abandoned at sea, its galley fires 524 00:33:05,555 --> 00:33:10,915 Speaker 1: peacefully burning, its tranquil decks bright in the sunlight. An 525 00:33:10,955 --> 00:33:13,715 Speaker 1: aunt of mine, Aunt Edith Taylor, was in a movie 526 00:33:13,755 --> 00:33:16,195 Speaker 1: theater on High Street went over and above the sound 527 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:19,235 Speaker 1: of the piano in the pit, a william S Hart 528 00:33:19,315 --> 00:33:23,235 Speaker 1: Cowboy picture was being shown. There rose the steadily increasing 529 00:33:23,315 --> 00:33:28,075 Speaker 1: trump of running feet. Persistent shouts rose above the trumping. 530 00:33:28,395 --> 00:33:32,115 Speaker 1: An elderly man sitting near my aunt mumbled something, got 531 00:33:32,115 --> 00:33:33,715 Speaker 1: out of his seat and went up the aisle at 532 00:33:33,755 --> 00:33:38,355 Speaker 1: a dog trot. This started everybody. In an instant. The 533 00:33:38,355 --> 00:33:41,235 Speaker 1: audience was jamming the aisles. Fire shouted a woman who 534 00:33:41,315 --> 00:33:43,795 Speaker 1: always expected to be burned up in a theater, But 535 00:33:43,875 --> 00:33:47,235 Speaker 1: now the shouts outside were louder and coherent. The damn 536 00:33:47,355 --> 00:33:52,235 Speaker 1: has broke, cried somebody, go east, screamed a small woman 537 00:33:52,275 --> 00:33:55,355 Speaker 1: in front of my aunt. And east they went, pushing 538 00:33:55,395 --> 00:33:59,915 Speaker 1: and shoving and clawing, knocking women and children down, emerging 539 00:34:00,035 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: finally into the street, torn and sprawling. Inside the theater, 540 00:34:04,675 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: ill heart was calmly calling some Desperado's bluff, and the 541 00:34:08,035 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: brave girl at the piano played Row Row row loudly, 542 00:34:11,035 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: and then in my harem. Outside, men were streaming across 543 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:19,675 Speaker 1: the State House yard. Others were climbing trees. A woman 544 00:34:19,755 --> 00:34:22,595 Speaker 1: managed to get up onto the These are My Jewels 545 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:27,395 Speaker 1: statue whose bronze figures of Sherman Stanton Grant Sheridan watched 546 00:34:27,395 --> 00:34:32,555 Speaker 1: with cold, unconcerned the going to pieces of the capital city. 547 00:34:33,475 --> 00:34:36,715 Speaker 1: I ran south to State Street, east on State to Third, 548 00:34:36,835 --> 00:34:39,355 Speaker 1: south on Third to Town, and out east on Town. 549 00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:42,915 Speaker 1: My aunt Edith has written me. A tall, spare woman 550 00:34:42,915 --> 00:34:46,075 Speaker 1: with grim eyes and a determined chin ran past me 551 00:34:46,155 --> 00:34:48,755 Speaker 1: down the middle of the street. That was still uncertain 552 00:34:48,755 --> 00:34:50,435 Speaker 1: as to what was the matter. In spite of all 553 00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:53,755 Speaker 1: the shouting, I drew up alongside the woman with some effort, 554 00:34:53,835 --> 00:34:55,635 Speaker 1: for although she was in her late fifties, she had 555 00:34:55,675 --> 00:34:58,315 Speaker 1: a beautiful, easy running form and seemed to be an 556 00:34:58,355 --> 00:35:01,915 Speaker 1: excellent condition. What is it? I puffed. She gave me 557 00:35:01,955 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: a quick glance and then looked ahead again, stepping up 558 00:35:04,395 --> 00:35:08,715 Speaker 1: her a sad trifle. Don't ask me, ask God, she said. 559 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:11,795 Speaker 1: When I reached Grant Avenue, I was so spent that 560 00:35:11,915 --> 00:35:15,275 Speaker 1: Dr hr Mallory, remember Dr Mallory, the man with the 561 00:35:15,275 --> 00:35:18,355 Speaker 1: white beard. It looks like Robert Browning. While Dr Mallory, 562 00:35:18,355 --> 00:35:19,995 Speaker 1: whom I had drawn away from at the corner of 563 00:35:19,995 --> 00:35:23,795 Speaker 1: Fifth and Town, passed me. It's got us, he shouted, 564 00:35:24,115 --> 00:35:26,835 Speaker 1: and I felt sure that whatever it was, it did 565 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:29,515 Speaker 1: have us for you know what conviction. Dr mallory statements 566 00:35:29,555 --> 00:35:31,955 Speaker 1: always carried. I didn't know at the time what he meant, 567 00:35:31,995 --> 00:35:34,355 Speaker 1: but I found out later. There was a boy behind 568 00:35:34,475 --> 00:35:37,275 Speaker 1: him on roller skates, and Dr Mallory mistook the swishing 569 00:35:37,315 --> 00:35:41,555 Speaker 1: of the skates for the sound of rushing water. He 570 00:35:41,635 --> 00:35:44,515 Speaker 1: eventually reached the Columbus School for Girls at the corner 571 00:35:44,555 --> 00:35:47,795 Speaker 1: of Parsons Avenue in Town Street, where he collapsed, expecting 572 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 1: the cold, frothing waters of the Sciota to sweep him 573 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:55,115 Speaker 1: into oblivion. The boy on skates swirled past him, and 574 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:57,555 Speaker 1: Dr Mallory realized for the first time what he had 575 00:35:57,595 --> 00:36:00,715 Speaker 1: been running from. Looking back up the street, he could 576 00:36:00,715 --> 00:36:03,555 Speaker 1: see no signs of water, but nevertheless, after resting a 577 00:36:03,635 --> 00:36:06,715 Speaker 1: few minutes, he jogged on east again. He caught up 578 00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:09,875 Speaker 1: with me at Ohio Avenue, where we rested together. I 579 00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:13,555 Speaker 1: should say that about seven people past us. A funny 580 00:36:13,595 --> 00:36:17,355 Speaker 1: thing was that all of them were on foot. Nobody 581 00:36:17,395 --> 00:36:19,555 Speaker 1: seemed to have had the courage to stop and start 582 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:23,675 Speaker 1: his car. But as I remember it, all cars had 583 00:36:23,715 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: to be cranked in those days, which is probably the reason. 584 00:36:27,995 --> 00:36:30,355 Speaker 1: The next day the city went about its business as 585 00:36:30,395 --> 00:36:34,275 Speaker 1: if nothing had happened, but there was no joking. It 586 00:36:34,355 --> 00:36:38,155 Speaker 1: was two years or more before you dare to treat 587 00:36:38,195 --> 00:36:41,995 Speaker 1: the breaking of the damn lightly, and even now, twenty 588 00:36:42,115 --> 00:36:45,355 Speaker 1: years after, there are a few persons like Dr Mallory 589 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,555 Speaker 1: who will shut up like a clam if you mentioned 590 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:54,795 Speaker 1: the afternoon of the Great Run, the day the dam 591 00:36:54,955 --> 00:37:08,235 Speaker 1: broke by James Thurber. I've done all of the damage 592 00:37:08,235 --> 00:37:10,675 Speaker 1: I can do here. Help me out. Subscribe to this podcast, 593 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:12,995 Speaker 1: or give it five stars, or tell a random passer 594 00:37:13,075 --> 00:37:16,395 Speaker 1: by while you're running east. Most of the music, including 595 00:37:16,395 --> 00:37:19,435 Speaker 1: our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced and performed 596 00:37:19,435 --> 00:37:21,715 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are the 597 00:37:21,715 --> 00:37:26,435 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, 598 00:37:26,475 --> 00:37:29,635 Speaker 1: guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, produced by t 599 00:37:29,755 --> 00:37:32,995 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 600 00:37:32,995 --> 00:37:36,435 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the 601 00:37:36,435 --> 00:37:39,515 Speaker 1: Olberman theme from ESPN two and it was written by 602 00:37:39,555 --> 00:37:43,435 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical 603 00:37:43,435 --> 00:37:46,635 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 604 00:37:47,075 --> 00:37:50,235 Speaker 1: our announcer today was Richard Lewis. Everything else was pretty 605 00:37:50,315 --> 00:37:53,875 Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for this the sixty 606 00:37:54,115 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 607 00:37:57,355 --> 00:38:00,555 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him now while 608 00:38:00,675 --> 00:38:04,475 Speaker 1: we still can a new episode Monday till then, I'm 609 00:38:04,515 --> 00:38:07,875 Speaker 1: key bull rooman good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 610 00:38:07,955 --> 00:38:14,235 Speaker 1: good luck. And now has threatened promised the complete recording 611 00:38:14,515 --> 00:38:16,995 Speaker 1: except for the first line, which Jeff forgot to record 612 00:38:17,235 --> 00:38:22,875 Speaker 1: of my first ever sportscast eleven fifteen pm Eastern Time, Tuesday, 613 00:38:22,915 --> 00:38:28,555 Speaker 1: October seventh, on w v b r FM, Ittaca, New York. 614 00:38:29,755 --> 00:38:34,355 Speaker 1: You have been warned late edition sports. Ken Griffy has 615 00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:36,395 Speaker 1: scored the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly on 616 00:38:36,475 --> 00:38:38,635 Speaker 1: the top of the tenth thing to give Cincinnati at 617 00:38:38,635 --> 00:38:41,635 Speaker 1: border free win over Pittsburgh. A Red victory would clinch 618 00:38:41,675 --> 00:38:44,395 Speaker 1: the National Egue Pennant. Tonight, Pete Rose had a two 619 00:38:44,475 --> 00:38:48,315 Speaker 1: run homer in the eighth inning off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, 620 00:38:48,395 --> 00:38:50,915 Speaker 1: a rookie, had allowed only one hit and struck out 621 00:38:50,955 --> 00:38:54,995 Speaker 1: fourteen through seven innings. Cincinnati has just added another run 622 00:38:54,995 --> 00:38:58,435 Speaker 1: in the tenth. The scoring outstands Cincinnati five, Pittsburgh three. 623 00:38:59,755 --> 00:39:01,835 Speaker 1: Dick Drago came on in the eighth inning to get 624 00:39:01,875 --> 00:39:04,435 Speaker 1: an inning ending double play to secure the Boston Red 625 00:39:04,435 --> 00:39:07,315 Speaker 1: Sock their first American League pennant since nineteen sixty seven. 626 00:39:07,955 --> 00:39:10,035 Speaker 1: Oakland scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth, 627 00:39:10,275 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: but Drago, we're leaving starter Rick Wise induced Joe Rudy 628 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:15,515 Speaker 1: to hit into a double play with two men on 629 00:39:16,435 --> 00:39:19,155 Speaker 1: the Red Sox five Oakland three. The Red Sox go 630 00:39:19,355 --> 00:39:23,475 Speaker 1: to the World Series. Joe Morgan of Cincinnati and Tom 631 00:39:23,475 --> 00:39:25,435 Speaker 1: Siever of the New York Mets have been voted National 632 00:39:25,515 --> 00:39:27,195 Speaker 1: League Player and Pitcher of the Year in a poll 633 00:39:27,475 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 1: of National League players by The Sporting News. It's the 634 00:39:30,555 --> 00:39:32,355 Speaker 1: third such honor for Sever, who was Pitcher of the 635 00:39:32,435 --> 00:39:35,435 Speaker 1: Year in nineteen sixty nine and nineteen seventy three. He 636 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:37,995 Speaker 1: led the league this season with twenty two victories and 637 00:39:38,115 --> 00:39:42,115 Speaker 1: with strikeouts with two forty three. Morgan, a second baseman, 638 00:39:42,195 --> 00:39:45,235 Speaker 1: was so honored for the first time. He batted with 639 00:39:45,315 --> 00:39:49,235 Speaker 1: seventeen home runs, runs batted in, and sixty seven stolen bases. 640 00:39:50,275 --> 00:39:53,395 Speaker 1: Returning to football, Chris Hammetur says the World Football League 641 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:55,915 Speaker 1: will begin a national marketing program in an effort to 642 00:39:55,955 --> 00:40:00,435 Speaker 1: boost sagging attendance figures in the ten franchise cities. Hamiler says, quote, 643 00:40:00,435 --> 00:40:03,035 Speaker 1: we're going to try something new. Up until this point, 644 00:40:03,075 --> 00:40:05,155 Speaker 1: the ultimate responsibility for a ten it has been at 645 00:40:05,155 --> 00:40:07,555 Speaker 1: the franchise level. The league will now act as a 646 00:40:07,595 --> 00:40:11,355 Speaker 1: coordinator unquote. Hamatur met yesterday with John Bassett, the owner 647 00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:13,675 Speaker 1: of the Memphis Southman, and John Basaco, owner of the 648 00:40:13,675 --> 00:40:17,475 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Belt. Hamateur says attendance is quote the most challenging 649 00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: question in our minds unquote. Quarterback Joe William is listed 650 00:40:22,115 --> 00:40:25,195 Speaker 1: as a doubtful starter for Pittsburgh's game on Sunday against Denver, 651 00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:28,075 Speaker 1: but Terry Bradshaw feels he'll be able to throw again 652 00:40:28,115 --> 00:40:32,115 Speaker 1: by then. Both quarterbacks were injured in Sunday's victory over Cleveland. 653 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:34,875 Speaker 1: Bradshaw received a deep cut on his right hand, while 654 00:40:34,915 --> 00:40:38,995 Speaker 1: Gilliam dislocated the index finger on his throwing hand. Bradshaw 655 00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:41,435 Speaker 1: worked out for fifteen minutes today admitted there was a 656 00:40:41,435 --> 00:40:43,555 Speaker 1: little pain, but he said he'll be able to hold 657 00:40:43,555 --> 00:40:46,835 Speaker 1: the ball normally with a smaller bandage. William and brad 658 00:40:46,835 --> 00:40:48,595 Speaker 1: Shah are ranked as the a f C s Number 659 00:40:48,635 --> 00:40:53,235 Speaker 1: two and three passers behind Cincinnati's Ken Anderson. Also in football, 660 00:40:53,275 --> 00:40:56,675 Speaker 1: defensive back Ken Stone of the Washington Redskins underwent knee 661 00:40:56,675 --> 00:40:59,835 Speaker 1: surgery today for torn ligaments. The club's physician says it 662 00:40:59,835 --> 00:41:01,795 Speaker 1: will be at least six weeks before the fourth year 663 00:41:01,835 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: pro from Vanderbult we'll be able to run again. On 664 00:41:05,875 --> 00:41:08,675 Speaker 1: the eve of the new season, the NHL Players Association 665 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:10,995 Speaker 1: and the club owners agreed on a new five year 666 00:41:10,995 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: collective bargaining agreement. The contract gives a team the right 667 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:16,635 Speaker 1: to gain compensation for a player who plays out his 668 00:41:16,715 --> 00:41:20,275 Speaker 1: option and signs with another club. The same regulation, called 669 00:41:20,275 --> 00:41:22,555 Speaker 1: the result rule in the NFL, has been the major 670 00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:26,755 Speaker 1: stumbling block to a labor settlement in Pro football. Third 671 00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: period goals by Colin Campbell and Still Apps gave the 672 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:32,075 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Penguins a ford to two victory over the Washington 673 00:41:32,115 --> 00:41:34,235 Speaker 1: Capitals tonight in the opening game of the National Hockey 674 00:41:34,315 --> 00:41:38,315 Speaker 1: League season. Campbell's thirty five foot slap shot snap day 675 00:41:38,315 --> 00:41:40,515 Speaker 1: two to two tie at the one mark of the 676 00:41:40,515 --> 00:41:43,475 Speaker 1: final period, and Apps quenched the tribe with his with 677 00:41:43,555 --> 00:41:46,875 Speaker 1: US tally with eighty four seconds left. Rookie goalie Gord 678 00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:49,315 Speaker 1: Waxton went the distance for Pittsburgh to collect his first 679 00:41:49,395 --> 00:41:53,395 Speaker 1: NHL victory. The United States is expected to dominate the 680 00:41:53,435 --> 00:41:55,515 Speaker 1: track and field program at the Pan American Games in 681 00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:58,875 Speaker 1: Mexico City next week, despite a number of notable absentees. 682 00:41:59,435 --> 00:42:02,555 Speaker 1: Among the headliners skipping the event are Olympic Marathon champion 683 00:42:02,635 --> 00:42:06,595 Speaker 1: Frank Shorter and world record holder Steve Williams, Rick Wallhuter, 684 00:42:06,755 --> 00:42:10,755 Speaker 1: Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, and Al Fearback. The n C 685 00:42:10,915 --> 00:42:13,395 Speaker 1: Double A announced today it will send eight of America's 686 00:42:13,435 --> 00:42:16,315 Speaker 1: top college golfers to Tokyo later this year to compete 687 00:42:16,355 --> 00:42:22,195 Speaker 1: against Japan's best collegiance, Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the 688 00:42:22,195 --> 00:42:24,915 Speaker 1: top small college football teams in the nation and the 689 00:42:24,995 --> 00:42:28,435 Speaker 1: latest n C Double A pole that's late edition Sports. 690 00:42:28,555 --> 00:42:32,195 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Overman. Goodnight Countdown with Keith Olderman is a 691 00:42:32,235 --> 00:42:35,795 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from I 692 00:42:35,915 --> 00:42:39,395 Speaker 1: heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 693 00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:41,635 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.