WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.560 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.400 i AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.200 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.080 Gary and Shannon kfi AM six forty Live everywhere on 5 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:11.000 the iHeart Radio app. 6 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:13.320 Did you see the Donald Trump interview with Fox? 7 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.760 So Laura Ingram clearly listens to our show because I said, hey, 8 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:20.320 somebody just asked him about it. Ask him what he 9 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.519 meant when he said, Christians vote now, you won't have 10 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.519 to vote in four years. And you know what, he said, nothing, 11 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.879 He made zero sense. When she asked him to clarify 12 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.039 those comments, I did not hear that part. 13 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.560 I did hear the part though, when she asked him 14 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.000 what Mulania thought about the assassination attempt. Oh, and he said, 15 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:41.719 she can't talk about it. That means she likes me, 16 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.799 Oh yeah, or maybe she loves me. I don't know, 17 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:46.920 she likes me or she loves me. It was such 18 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.560 a it was such a real moment for him for 19 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.039 who he is, you know, like that's the kind of 20 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:56.240 marriage he has where it's just I don't know, definitely 21 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:56.960 not traditional. 22 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.159 Yeah, where you have to where do you take that 23 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.920 as the clue that your wife might have an interest 24 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:02.960 in your well being. 25 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.200 Like, do you ever question whether your wife likes you 26 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.400 or loves you? Yes? 27 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:07.200 Likes me. 28 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.000 Yes, I don't question whether she loves me. There are 29 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.079 times when I'm like, she probably doesn't like me right now. 30 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.680 Yeah, that's true. I do feel that way. That's the 31 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.280 part that comes and goes. Yeah, that's true. I think 32 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.640 right like is a visitor. Ronald L. 33 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:25.159 Rowe Junior, This is the guy you want in charge 34 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:26.400 of your Secret Service. 35 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:29.480 The critical part of the Secret Service mission is protecting 36 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:34.799 our nation's current and former government leaders. The attempted assassination 37 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.920 of former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, July thirteenth, 38 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:43.920 twenty twenty four in Butler, Pennsylvania was a failure on 39 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:45.400 multiple levels. 40 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.000 And he pulls no punches. Now he has the benefit 41 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.879 of being able to say, listen, I wasn't the guy 42 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:53.719 in charge. I wasn't the gal in charge at that time. 43 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.480 So I know that the bucks stops with Kimberly Cheatle. 44 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.280 But when I take over. Now that I I am 45 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.079 taking over as the acting director, here are some changes that. 46 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.120 We're immediately going to make. 47 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:08.080 Among other things, one of the things that happened since 48 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.199 this wasn't a sitting president or vice president. They don't 49 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:17.840 record the radio traffic between Secret Service agents. If it 50 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.240 was sitting president's sitting vice president, they record all of 51 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.879 that radio traffic for those security events that they do. 52 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.360 But he said in this case it wasn't. Now, local 53 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.439 police on a regular basis do record. So that's why 54 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.159 we do have some of the Butler County and Beaver 55 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.520 County officials or law enforcement officials talking to each other 56 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:38.159 from that net. 57 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.919 Well, and he laid out the Beaver people. Oh my gosh. 58 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.560 So the other thing that he said he did. One 59 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:45.800 of the first things he said he did was he 60 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.080 went to let me see if I can make sure 61 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:52.000 I get the right one. He went to the roof 62 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:56.800 and sat laid literally in the same place that the 63 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:57.439 shooter lafe. 64 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.400 I went to the roof of the AGR building were 65 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.120 they assailant fired shots, and I lay it in a 66 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.879 prone position to evaluate his line of sight. What I 67 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:13.639 saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer 68 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.159 and a twenty five year veteran with his Secret Service, 69 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:20.280 I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured. 70 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.439 Now, one of the things that he did was in 71 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.039 that same line of questioning that he was responding to, 72 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.800 he posted a big picture, or put up a big poster, 73 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.400 which was a blown up picture of the view from 74 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.080 the local snipers. The local snipers were on the second 75 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.159 floor of that building, looking in the same direction as 76 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:41.960 the shooter was, but the shooter was a little bit 77 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.520 off to the left. But within that picture you could 78 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.360 see an arrow pointing to the roof where the shooter was. 79 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:54.159 And he went, I mean, this was no bones about it. 80 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.319 He's laying the blame on that sniper team, that local 81 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:58.000 sniper team. 82 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.360 This is from the second floor of the AGR building. 83 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.680 This point of view is the point of view where 84 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:10.319 the counter sniper team locally was posted. The gold arrow 85 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:21.800 indicates where the shooter fired from, looking left. Why was 86 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:27.439 the assailant not seen when we were told that building 87 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.879 was going to be covered, that there had been a 88 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:35.920 face to face that afternoon that our team leads met. 89 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:40.920 Here, Here's what I'm hearing, a lot of people covering 90 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:44.199 their own ass because yesterday we heard from the local 91 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.120 sniper team and they said they saw the guy. They 92 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:52.439 tipped off the higher ups ninety minutes before the shots 93 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:53.040 were fired. 94 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:57.480 Yeah, So explain to me that, sir, the description here 95 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.839 is now that there's a con alluded. The way he 96 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:02.959 was describing it, again, this is the acting Director of 97 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.480 the Secret Service, Ronald Road Junior. He was describing local 98 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.519 law enforcement and Secret Service agents. Secret Service obviously has 99 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.439 the lead on a situation like that. The local law 100 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:17.279 enforcement officers were communicating with each other a lot text 101 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:19.759 messages that were going back and forth, pictures going back 102 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.839 and forth, and then it would rise to the level 103 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.040 of somebody sending information to the Secret Service channel. And 104 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.399 he even used the term silos like that, there are 105 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.319 silos of information that were not that weren't breached, they 106 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:34.160 weren't connected. 107 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.839 I believe it was after nine to eleven when you 108 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:42.040 had multiple agencies responding to a mass casualty event and 109 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.240 they were on different radio frequencies, and it led to 110 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.439 mass confusion, and it led to mass changes across the 111 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.560 country in terms of how different agencies communicate when they 112 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:57.240 respond to something like this. A presidential rally or a 113 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.120 former president holding a rally should be one of those 114 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.920 incidents where you are on the same frequency local, national, 115 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:04.639 all of it. 116 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.040 Well, there's a couple more pieces of sound. We're going 117 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:08.600 to play for this again. This is from the Joint 118 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.360 Congressional hearing that's going on this morning. The Secret Service, 119 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.319 Acting Director Ronald Rowe, and then a deputy director of 120 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.600 the FBI, A Paul abb eight or Abata. 121 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.000 You tell me, I don't care, but that's his name. 122 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:25.560 He both of these guys still talking about what's going 123 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.759 on and their continued investigation and look back at the 124 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.120 assassination of time. The Olympic triathlon race set to take 125 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.720 place this morning, has been delayed because of the unsafe 126 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.439 water poo lootion levels in the River sin. The International 127 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.000 Olympic Committee and World Triathlon, the governing body of the sport, 128 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.920 said that tests taken this morning revealed water quality levels 129 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.639 that did not provide sufficient guarantees to allow the event 130 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.000 to be held. Just imagine swimming is the first thing 131 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:55.399 you do in a triathlet You swim and then you 132 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.319 bike and then you run. It doesn't hit that fast, no, 133 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:05.040 but I mean just imagine if some sort of it'll 134 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:06.079 be the following day. 135 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.800 Yeah, yeah, take it from a questionable taco at the 136 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:13.480 stadium in Mexico City. Look at the Olympics, Look at 137 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.720 Simon Biles getting ready for this this final round. That 138 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.000 it's palpable, isn't it? The pressure, the weight on her 139 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.800 shoulders palpable. She seems pretty cool, she seems she seems 140 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:31.319 dialed in. Yeah, but wow, that that's so much pressure 141 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.680 to put on yourself and her lower extremity. 142 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:37.120 Oh good, is still taped, but but it's different. The 143 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:42.560 tape the other night was ankle centric. This is calf centric. 144 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.560 It doesn't even in fact cover her ankle. She had 145 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:45.279 a tear there. 146 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.079 Ah, yeah, yeah, that sounds awful. 147 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.439 Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, people play injured all 148 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:54.920 the time. It's it's it's what athletes do. 149 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.839 That's what they do. That's why they're athletes. But we 150 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:00.240 will not spoil any of what's going on line, No, 151 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:02.959 but we are going to be totally distracted by it. 152 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.199 The women's team final just started a few minutes ago, 153 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.160 so we're watching the American athletes and they'll be out 154 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:09.720 of the background. 155 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.360 So yesterday when we were watching the Olympics and it 156 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.680 was the men's gymnastics team, and. 157 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.399 You said, what's up with that guy? 158 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.480 You said it right away, and by yesterday evening the 159 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:24.439 entire world was going. 160 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.519 What's up with that guy? Yeah? That guy. 161 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.800 We'll tell you about Steven Ataroschik. I think that's how 162 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:31.920 you say his name. Sure coming up in the next 163 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.679 seven and we're talking about the Secret Service Acting Director 164 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.679 Ronald Rowe and a deputy director of the FBI, who 165 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.120 are testifying again today, this one in front of a 166 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:47.000 joint congressional hearing about the assassination attempt on former President Trump, 167 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.879 and the FBI deputy director talked a little bit about 168 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.519 about some new information that he had regarding this guy's 169 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.559 online presence, because again, the shooter, twenty years old, had 170 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.320 a very very small, at least as far as we know, 171 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:04.080 online presence. 172 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.799 Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share 173 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.519 is a social media account which is believed to be 174 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.399 associated with the shooter. In about the twenty nineteen twenty 175 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:17.559 twenty timeframe, there were over seven hundred comments posted from 176 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.879 this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to 177 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:27.000 the shooter, appear to reflect anti Semitic and anti immigration themes, 178 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.720 to espouse political violence, and are described as extreme in nature. 179 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:34.120 Now, it was funny because he was very careful to 180 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.399 say if these posts could be attributed to this guy, 181 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.279 because there's still the question of how does it. I mean, 182 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.240 he would have been fifteen sixteen years old at the 183 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.960 time that he made these social media posts, and he 184 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.879 didn't describe what platform they were on specifically, So this 185 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:55.080 continues to go on. We talked about the acting Director 186 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:59.000 Ronald Rowe of the US Secret Service and what kind 187 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.720 of information went into whether or not. 188 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.559 The suspect that they knew. 189 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.480 They knew that this guy was suspicious, they were tracking 190 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:12.480 him for almost ninety minutes before the actual shooting, and 191 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:17.120 California Senator of Lafonse Butler asked, Okay, well, if we 192 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.200 know this guy is out there, how come how come 193 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:23.120 the former president was allowed to take the stage in 194 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.000 the first world to help. 195 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.360 Us understand the communication that either was or was not 196 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:31.840 happening directly with the president former President's detail to make 197 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.399 the call to delay ten minutes when we've all been 198 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.919 to these events they never happened on time, but to 199 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.960 delay while this was being investigated. 200 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.399 So the detail all they you know, they were were 201 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.120 operating on their net, which our security room was monitoring, 202 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:56.399 but again having information of a suspicious individual. There were 203 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.879 other calls that day of individuals that came to the 204 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:04.000 tension of law enforcement of people that needed medical attention. 205 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:11.360 So it really that particular regarding the assailant, that never 206 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.799 really rose to a level of we should we should 207 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.960 not put them out there. Had we known that there 208 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.799 was a dangerous individual out there, we would never let 209 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.879 a protectee go out on stage again. 210 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.840 And the difference between suspicious and dangerous or a specific threat, 211 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.120 all of that is I mean, he's got it in 212 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.360 his mind. It's probably hard for us to recognize what's 213 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:32.039 the different. 214 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.720 Levels of suspicion. We were talking about it in the office. 215 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.639 There is a false sense of security at this point. 216 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:42.320 With the number of rallies Trump has held, it's always 217 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.519 been just fine. You know, most of the time people 218 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.679 see security and they decide that they are not going 219 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.600 to take action. But there was definitely a false sense 220 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.440 of security there among the Secret Service and the local guys. 221 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.679 And you described it as a failure of imagination. 222 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:05.080 I think this was a failure of imagination, a failure 223 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.799 to imagine that we actually do live in a very 224 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:11.480 dangerous world where people do actually want to do You 225 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:12.120 should know that. 226 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.720 I want the Secret Service to think everybody is a 227 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:19.200 potential to be a shooter, right, don't they shouldn't they 228 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.399 be the last Pollyanna people in the country. 229 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.120 Yeah, I'm okay with them being. 230 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.720 Constantly just be thinking about the worst in human nature. 231 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:28.879 And the thing is, it's funny. 232 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.879 I mean, we're talking about going to the Democratic National 233 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:32.679 Convention in a couple of weeks and you have to 234 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:38.279 go through a very very secure Secret Service checkpoint before 235 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:42.120 you're allowed anywhere. We were, but we were all detained 236 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.600 at one point. The thing is, I'm okay with that. 237 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:46.559 I'm okay with them being comfortable. I know that I'm 238 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.000 not a threat, so I feel okay with that. There 239 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.080 was an article in the Washington Post today just to 240 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.559 wrap this up in terms of this topic. The shooter 241 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.480 stopped shooting. He got eight rounds off, but he stopped 242 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:08.639 shooting after a local law enforcement officer returned fire, so 243 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.879 he was able to get at least one shot off 244 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:14.480 at the bad guy, and the bad guy stopped shooting, 245 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.080 didn't pull the trigger again until a Secret Service agent 246 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.840 put one through his through his meat box or whatever 247 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:21.759 part of his head. 248 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:25.559 Meat box that's a new one. That's the right meat box, 249 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.720 seems like it would be in another part of the body. Yeah, 250 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.759 you're right, I'll say through his spaghetti bowl. 251 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:32.919 I'll ca all right. 252 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:38.279 So but yes, they said that his retreat coincided with 253 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.399 a ten second pause in the shooting, according to some 254 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:45.039 audio people who have examined the gunshots that appear on 255 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:47.960 different videos. We watched dead Pool Wolverine last night and 256 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.559 there was a scene where they have these cameos come in, 257 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.480 and it's very funny because it's such an it's such 258 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.759 a weird like, Okay, who's going to come through the doorway? 259 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.279 So somebody comes in and you're like, whoa, I haven't 260 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.519 seen that person in a long time. And then the 261 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.879 next one comes in, You're like, oh my gosh, they brought. 262 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:07.279 That one back. 263 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:09.399 And then you keep waiting for who's going to come 264 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.000 through the doorway, And it was really funny. 265 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:12.600 I feel like this is going to be when I 266 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.320 read Ready Player one where I understood or I grasped 267 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.559 probably about seventeen percent of it. 268 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:19.960 I still enjoyed it. 269 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.919 It was still a great story, but I knew what 270 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.360 I was not understanding. 271 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:26.600 You knew that was a joke for someone. I didn't 272 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:27.639 get it, but you hear. 273 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.919 Yes, there were some funny lines where I think I 274 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.720 know what the joke was but other people in the 275 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.480 back would laugh or somebody would applaud when some they 276 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:39.799 referenced some other character or something like that. 277 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:40.600 It was pretty cool. 278 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:42.440 It was good, but it was a lot of fun, 279 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.919 and I understand why people hate it because it was 280 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:45.639 not serious. 281 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.159 Stephen Netaro sick can solve a Rubik's Cube in eight 282 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.240 point six eight seconds. He's exactly what he looks like. 283 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.960 What you saw on the telly when you saw Steven 284 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.440 was exactly who he is. He does enjoy playing video games. 285 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.440 He gets all of the jokes and Ready Player one 286 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.440 totally and he's only twenty five years old. 287 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.720 His coach says, Stephen is quirky, is funny, his goofy, 288 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.559 He dances to his own tune, and he. 289 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.000 Also happens to be better than everyone on the planet 290 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.759 when it comes to swinging his body around that pommel horse. 291 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.440 That's why he was placed on the team. And the 292 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.960 story gets better when you hear about all the people 293 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:24.559 that doubted that placement. 294 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:30.240 Yeah, he had nothing to do until he had everything 295 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.120 to do. Pommel Horse was the final event for the 296 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.480 US and he was the final competitor. 297 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.799 He was the cleanup hitter. He waited in his sweatsuit, cupped. 298 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.240 His hand to his face, screaming through his teammate's routines, 299 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.120 and at one point Netterosik left the arena to practice 300 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:45.960 pommel horse set up in the gym that's hidden from 301 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.600 the public. Though through all of this, they said he 302 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.720 delivered one fantastic performance after another and said he visualized 303 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.679 his routine about one hundred times. 304 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.000 Yeah, they said he visualized it while the other guys 305 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.320 were doing their stuff, and he just kept going through 306 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.320 his over and over and over again. He said, sometimes 307 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:03.840 I think I do it too much, but what else 308 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:05.519 am I going to do with those empty spaces. 309 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.639 Here's the thing about him and the reason that I 310 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:09.960 when we were talking about it yesterday, was on the 311 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:12.320 TV when we were doing the show, and they won 312 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:15.000 the big celebration because they won the bronze and it 313 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.120 was the first time I think in sixteen years that 314 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.039 American men had meddled, and so it was a good 315 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.639 moment for them. I mean, it looked like, since we 316 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.720 weren't listening, it looked like they had won the gold 317 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.240 because of the amount of celebration. 318 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.960 But this one guy kind. 319 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.080 Of off to the corner like it was one of 320 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.000 the one of these kids is doing his own thing. 321 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:34.720 He stuck out. 322 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.679 He's a littler guy, seems like ye and he has 323 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.559 these giant Clark Kent glasses on, and it was just 324 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.919 it just did not fit the vibe of the rest 325 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:49.799 of the team. So we asked, who's that guy? And 326 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.200 it turns out everybody was asking the same question. 327 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:52.720 He became. 328 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.159 I mean, there's multiple articles about Steven Ettarosik today. 329 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.960 Yesterday. You wouldn't have had no idea who he was. 330 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.960 It was when he was placed on the team, and 331 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.200 he knew it, He says, I was completely aware of it. 332 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:05.880 I really wanted to make the Olympic team, and I 333 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.039 knew there was going to be backlash to it. I 334 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.559 do one event compared to these guys that are phenomenal 335 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:13.920 all arounders, and I'm a phenomenal horse guy, but it's 336 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.400 hard to fit on a five guy team. He was 337 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:20.880 in parised to do this forty second routine three times. 338 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.519 On Saturday, he'll have a chance to win an individual 339 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.799 gold in the apparatus final. 340 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.720 How fun is that going to be to watch. 341 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:33.759 Ps Those leotards on the women, they feature thousands of crystals. 342 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.960 You know how much they cost a piece? Three thousand dollars? 343 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:41.720 Wow, what are they going to do with them when 344 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:42.119 they're done? 345 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.400 I mean, how much was Mary lou Retten's leotard? Like 346 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.079 seven bucks? It's come a long way. 347 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.720 Well, there were no jewels on it. There were no jewels. 348 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.240 I don't remember. I'm actually surprised that they allowed that much. 349 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:54.519 Uh. 350 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:58.440 Bling. It's a lot of blinging, isn't it? And would 351 00:17:58.440 --> 00:17:59.079 you want that? 352 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.640 I mean, I assume there's that's like tiny little pebbles 353 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.240 all over your suit or your what do you call it? 354 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:09.079 Well, it's the same as figure skaters. They're used to it. 355 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:11.559 They go to competitions in it all the time. 356 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:12.440 I guess that's true. 357 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.599 But would I would assume that there's a better chance 358 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.440 that you're going to fall or something and cause significant damage. 359 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:21.839 To your handle crystals than fine, don't be a gymnast. 360 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:23.480 You are absolutely right. 361 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:31.240 Netterosic, hardly recruited while in high school, eventually went to 362 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:35.599 Penn State, prominent elite gymnasts since the since the last 363 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.759 Olympics in Tokyo. Initially known as the goggles Guy because 364 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.480 he wore sport glasses like Bill Lambier, when he competed, 365 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:47.160 he said he has ditched the glasses at least during competition, 366 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.519 and he said, I don't think I actually use my 367 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:52.119 eyes on the pommel horse. It's all feeling I see 368 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:56.079 with my hands. He did have a chance to compete 369 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:59.000 at Tokyo, partly because of an atypical format, of course 370 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:03.599 because of cod but a single event specialist was perfect 371 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:06.880 for an individual role, he said. He fell at the trials, though, 372 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:09.240 and the squad brought a different pommel horse guy to 373 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.319 Tokyo instead. He did eventually that later that year in 374 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:15.240 twenty one, went to the World Championships, won the gold 375 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.920 medal on the pommel horse and the world's held immediately 376 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.519 after an Olympic feature, just individual competition, and when Atosik 377 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.759 earned the spot on the US squad and twenty two, 378 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.839 he failed to deliver in the team final, So he's 379 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:29.960 got some they'll keep their eyes on this guy. And 380 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.079 like you said, Saturday is when he gets to go 381 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:35.839 for the individual gold. On the individual apparatus, He's. 382 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.839 Going to be totally known as the pommel horse guy, right, 383 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:40.519 the goggle pommel horse guy. 384 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.279 Goggle goggle, got it you you're trying to get in 385 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:47.440 on something that you've got no business getting in on. 386 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:48.880 Okay, really right, relax. 387 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:51.799 I was talking to miss Patricia this morning during ballet. 388 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.839 Stop laughing, she's real. You've met her. It's not an 389 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:57.880 imaginary friend. 390 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.839 Even Jacob shaking his head, he knows. Whatever. You guys 391 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.319 were talking. Who do you think you've met? Then? Do 392 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.400 you think I hire that person? Yes, we've already established this. 393 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:11.599 You hire this beautiful, nice woman to come and pretend 394 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:13.960 to be your ballet teacher. 395 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:16.960 You think of how crazy it sounds. 396 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.720 It sounds right freaking okay, Yeah, I mean we. 397 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.039 Don't actually I don't actually go to ballet. What do 398 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:23.839 you call a studio? 399 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.319 I just do it on a zoom call so that 400 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.920 you know it's easier. Oh okay, so you don't actually 401 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.000