Episode #194 of the Countdown podcast is up.
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Preview:
A-Block
- (1:29) SPECIAL COMMENT: TRUMP’S GLITCH SNITCH: Putting together scoops by CNN and The New York Times it sure looks like somebody — maybe Trump — is going to be charged with destroying or altering security video of the Mar-a-Lago storage room and the boxes of classified documents kept there. That could be a how-to-manual on breaking 18 US Code 1519 and when it’s video or digital evidence, it often really does become a jail sentence of 20 years. And The Times says prosecutors have a cooperating witness from inside Mar-a-Lago and we don’t know if that’s the same snitch from last August, or a new one.
Uh-oh. The walls of Mar-A-Lago are going to run red … with ketchup.
Al Capone didn’t go to jail for murder. He went for tax evasion.
B-Block
- (19:47) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: The inaptly named Venom, on death row in NYC
- (21:12) IN SPORTS, PART ONE: Saturday, May 6, the sports world will do what it always does on May 6: celebrate the most remarkable track and field milestone of the 20th Century (and maybe of all time). It is now 69 years since Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in four minutes or less. It was an accomplishment as unbelievable as the Moon Landing; so unbelievable that an editorial in The New York Times asked if it would ever be accomplished again.
Wikipedia states that 1,664 athletes have broken the four-minute barrier as of April 13, 2021.
No woman has broken the four-minute barrier; Sifan Hassan holds the record with a 4:12.33 mile.
- Roger Bannister won immortal praise, for the rest of his long life and beyond, despite racism and controversy and one minor detail.
- He could not POSSIBLY have been the first man to run a mile in four minutes or less. There is ample evidence of runners — other British runners in fact — performing the feat as early as 1770. And yet the history of these earlier athletes has been forgotten or erased — or deliberately purged. Why?
C-Block
- (39:13) IN SPORTS, PART TWO: The erasure of the runners who “broke” the four-minute mile barrier in the 18th Century (or earlier) was no accident. It was the deliberate result of the flourishing of the fetishization of amateurism, first in Great Britain in the 1800s, and then throughout the world through the Olympic movement. And it also involved something even worse: blatant, obvious racism. It's an extraordinary story and you should learn the details so you can yell at everybody who tells you about the “great” Roger Bannister.
And Mom says, “How can you talk about sports this weekend without mentioning The Kentucky Derby?”
That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
