of a song, i would start to sing that song. that happened a lot on our mission. fortunately gene then would join in. we would have a brief duet. not a very good one. i admit. a brief one. neil: gene cernan mentioned that when i chatted with him. i want to hear you react to this. over the hill, dah, dah, dah, dah. dah, dah, dah. hipetty, hopping along. could have been introduced a number of different ways. neil: that is my favorite. you can be a hero and not a singer. great stuff. such iconic stuff that will be a memory. you go there, you work hard. people ask about the risk. you decide it s worth taking. you only get it once. you have to enjoy it.
well, first of all, i think if nbc is smart they re going to make her part of the coverage team. she s an expert. she s very foet genic. she will still bring eyeballs but she was the biggest star of the u.s. team. it is a loss. i will say this. nbc, of course, now they have all of these platforms that they show live coverage, plus you can stream mobilely a lot of the content as well. so it won t hurt as much as it would have maybe ten years ago. okay. so what about this $6 million annually in endorsements and of course a number of companies that were backing her in the lead up to the games, running pr promos, expecting commercials were going to be a home run during the games. now what? will they still run the commercials or the campaigns? i believe they will. certainly they are disappointed. it s an interesting situation because she s 29 years old and by the time the next olympics comes around she s going to be 33, which god forbid that s old in the skier world. that s sad. ove
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online. the lincoln memorial is closed until further notice after an act of vandalism. someone splashed green paint at the base of lincoln s statue overnight. president george h.w. bush is talking about shaving his head for a good cause. the reason for his new look the 2-year-old son of one of his secret service agents who s battling leukemia. the bushes lost their own daughter robin to leukemia at the age of 4 some 60 years ago. he talked to his granddaughter jenna earlier on today. does it surprise you that people still are so attracted to the way that everything you do i mean i am but i m biased. well, yeah, it does come as a surprise. i think of myself as kind of over the hill. and speaking of the bushes, if hillary clinton and jeb bush end up running for president, 2016 could shape up to be a battle of american political dine stiz. we re already seeing candidates with political name recognition throw their names into the 2014