0:01

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

0:03

at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

0:06

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong

0:09

and Getty show.

0:15

So ice

0:17

Cube and Caitlin Clark

0:19

in the news fitting into a

0:22

sports psychology story that I've got coming

0:24

up that might make you feel better

0:26

about yourself if you're a person like me. So

0:28

stay tuned for all that. The

0:31

fact that Ice Cubes in the news. We talked about Doctor

0:33

Dre earlier.

0:34

Apparently we think it's important to get every member

0:36

of NWA on. We can't do anything

0:38

about Easy E's been dead for some

0:40

time. Well, and on off

0:43

days we work p Ditty into the news.

0:45

What is it with us and the rap music?

0:49

What's the other member of NWA. There are four

0:51

members, ice Cube, Doctor

0:54

Dre, Easy and.

0:56

Wren Flavor Flave.

0:57

I always get them mixed up with and

1:00

something Hanson

1:03

you should know.

1:05

Ask me the guys in Leonard, Skinnard Ren,

1:07

what's it? What's it? Hanson? See Katie you looking

1:10

up? What ruins it? Looking at ruined it?

1:12

What?

1:13

Wow? Wow?

1:14

Somebody doesn't look it up? He yells at him. Somebody

1:16

does look it up.

1:17

He yells at him. Exactly imagine working with this monster.

1:19

Folks, if can you imagine they're sitting at the bar having

1:21

a fun trivia contest and somebody just like googled

1:24

it.

1:24

For you.

1:26

With him Wren, what Hanson,

1:30

It doesn't matter. Ren and Stimpy. He's

1:33

the one, Kilo Wren. He's the

1:35

one who didn't end up a billionaire. He's

1:38

like, he's like the members of insinct

1:40

that aren't justin Timberlake.

1:42

That just happens sometimes. But

1:44

anyway, it all fits into one sports psychology

1:46

thing.

1:47

So the only guy in zz Top who didn't

1:49

have a beard was Frank Beard. There you

1:51

go, that's the music I know. Okay,

1:53

now I need the answer, Katie.

1:56

Now you're on your own. Dude, you

1:59

I could google it with my own thumb. Here,

2:02

let me google that for you. It's mc wren. You were

2:04

Wren. I was close as

2:07

the whitest guy in America. Fascinating.

2:13

There was a tease coming up later.

2:14

Oh that's right, Yeah, the sports psychology thing. I knew

2:16

that I had something I wanted to say. I've been

2:18

watching I'm just

2:21

such a lover of

2:23

the Full Swing, which is a

2:25

Netflix documentary about the PGA

2:27

golf tour that like gets

2:30

deep into individual guys and their struggles

2:33

and their psychology and the family

2:35

or whatever, and and sports

2:37

psychology is a big part of it. And

2:39

there are guys who are just utterly lovable, but

2:41

man, their heads are not on straight.

2:44

Wow.

2:46

Anyway, I'm looking forward to that. This

2:49

is something completely different, This is

2:51

something else. I'll just play

2:53

it for you then we'll comment. But WBT

2:56

is a great radio station, Charlotte and

2:58

Mark Garrison is of their personalities

3:00

and this is getting a lot of attention. He interviewed KJP

3:04

and UH and asked

3:07

some reasonable questions in a

3:09

reasonable way, and

3:11

this is how it went.

3:12

We'll start with thirty Michael.

3:14

When I told a number of people that I was talking

3:16

to you today that it was interesting though, they

3:18

all said, would you please.

3:19

Just ask her?

3:21

Does the president have dementia? So

3:24

before I move on from that, does he Mark?

3:26

Mark, I can't even believe you're asking me this question.

3:29

That is a credibly offensive question

3:32

to ask. But you know, don't ask wait,

3:34

let me no, no, no, no, no, you Mark,

3:37

you you you're taking us down

3:39

as rabbit hole. Let me let me

3:41

uh, let me be very clear about

3:43

this. For the

3:45

past several years, the president's physician

3:48

has laid out very in

3:50

a comprehensive way of the president's

3:53

health. Uh, this is the president.

3:55

If you watch him every day, if

3:57

you really pay attention to his record and

3:59

what he has done, you will see

4:01

exactly how focus he's

4:03

been on the American people, how historic

4:06

his actions have been. And so I'm

4:08

not even going to truly truly

4:13

really you know, take take the premise

4:15

of your question. I think it is incredibly

4:18

insulting, and so

4:20

we can you know, we can move on to the next question.

4:23

Wow, she there's so much

4:25

there there is She's the worst of

4:27

that job.

4:28

Yeah, anybody has ever been.

4:30

Yeah, you know what I would like, Hanson, if

4:33

you can isolate

4:36

all of the nonsensical jabbering

4:39

she does after the question until

4:42

she starts with there's like a coherent

4:44

sentence the president over the last couple of years.

4:47

There's like fifteen to eighteen

4:49

seconds. It feels like of just no,

4:51

wait, no, I can I can't believe.

4:53

Well if you don't good on the good That's

4:56

what made me say she's the worst of that

4:58

anybody's ever been because use not

5:02

just most people say because the answers

5:04

she gives, but she gets knocked off

5:08

her game and gets into

5:10

the like, uh so easy.

5:13

I mean, that job is the term is sputtering.

5:15

She sputters for a long time.

5:17

That job is all about being able to keep

5:19

your cool and spew out an answer in the face of hard

5:21

questions.

5:22

And she gets knocked off her How

5:24

dare you? I didn't expect that guy? How dare about.

5:27

Questions that are like the most obvious

5:29

questions in America about this? I

5:31

mean, if I were the host there, I think

5:33

I would have responded with seventy five

5:35

percent of Americans think he's not mentally

5:37

capable being president, So I don't think it's

5:40

an out of bounds question. Yeah,

5:42

yeah, that was something. I

5:45

mean, how again to her ability

5:47

to do the job? How is she not like

5:51

prepared to the point of being tired of the question

5:53

right to say absolutely not.

5:55

The president is sharp as can be. He's a great

5:58

leader in America is lucky to have him.

6:00

By the way, if any president would like to hire

6:02

me, I'm pretty sure I could do that under pressure.

6:04

Not biggie, how could you? I

6:07

can't believe it? Content the very quistag

6:09

but she

6:11

had everything but a seizure.

6:14

And oh and just also

6:17

the president's physicians have in

6:19

a comprehensive way disclosed

6:22

everything.

6:22

Blah blah.

6:23

No, as we've discussed, the president gets

6:25

to decide what the president's physician disclosed.

6:27

That's nowhere in the Constitution that they put out

6:29

some sort of comprehensive health report. The

6:31

president doesn't want to the

6:34

doctor to say he has athletes foot

6:36

or dementia.

6:37

It won't come out.

6:39

It's wild that she thinks she's gonna

6:42

be able to get away with I can't believe she's doing

6:44

interviews on radio shows anyway.

6:45

How do you get her?

6:47

But if she thinks it's out of

6:49

bounds to talk about the president's

6:51

mental abilities, oh

6:54

boy.

6:55

Yeah.

6:55

Like James carbl we played that clip the other day.

6:57

He said, you do a focus group, the first

6:59

word out of everybody's mouth you ask

7:01

about Joe Biden is old.

7:03

Yes.

7:04

Yeah, it's not the elephant the room in the room.

7:06

It's like the air in the room. It's the only thing in

7:08

the room.

7:10

Right right. Michael hit us with thirty two.

7:12

This is a little just a sample what I was talking

7:14

about.

7:15

And so I'm not even going to truly

7:18

truly really

7:22

you know, take take the premise of your question

7:24

I think it is incredibly

7:26

insulting.

7:28

That's insulting.

7:30

Yes see, if we can chop up that whole sputtering

7:33

section because it was so entertaining, How the hell is

7:35

that insulting boy?

7:37

And that's the wrong way to hand and whatever, she's

7:39

bad at it, she's bad at that.

7:41

All right. Let's this is I believe how the interview

7:43

ends.

7:44

Thirty three gas prices and grocery

7:46

prices. Then big topics here in North

7:48

Carolina. How does mister

7:50

Biden win votes when people don't

7:53

have as much disposable income.

7:55

The President understands. He grew

7:57

up in a middle class family,

7:59

working class family in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

8:02

He gets it.

8:03

He understands how difficult it is for Americans

8:05

who are sitting around their kitchen table every

8:07

month trying to figure out what they're going to pay for.

8:09

You have to remember when the President walked into this

8:11

administration, there were multiple crises

8:14

happening. There was COVID was the

8:16

economy was in the tailspin because of the last

8:18

administration because of what the President

8:21

Trump left us with. Now you're asking me about

8:23

gas prices. The President took action on gas

8:25

prices. Let's not forget Russia's invasion

8:27

on Ukraine diyrocketed prices

8:30

of gas. And because the president took action, we

8:33

see we're in a different place than we were a year

8:35

ago on gas prices, eggs,

8:37

milk, seafood products, all

8:40

the important groceries. Both

8:42

costs have gone down because of

8:44

what this president has.

8:45

Been able to do.

8:46

And with that, thank you so much, Mark,

8:48

have an amazing, amazing day.

8:51

Wow. Wow, well

8:55

that's interesting.

8:57

Wow, the rate of inflation is down, the prices

8:59

aren't down.

9:00

Sweetheart, what was that? Try?

9:01

What a weird way to end the thing.

9:04

And she was still mad about the dementia

9:07

question.

9:07

Have an amazing amazing day.

9:10

Click, man,

9:13

is she bad at that? Wow?

9:19

We have my sputtering clip? Yet? Can we

9:21

get that? Do we have that? Do we have a clip? Is there a

9:23

clip? Apparently not.

9:26

It's first

9:30

of all, I want kitchen table to be banned as

9:32

a term for anything politics,

9:35

unless it's let's go, let's go to

9:37

it to eat dinner.

9:38

Right now.

9:38

I just do not want to hear it in

9:40

terms of politics. All right, we

9:43

get it. Well, we've already

9:45

banned several years ago any comparison

9:47

of Wall Street in Main Street.

9:49

Right, so in

9:52

the whole kitchen table conversation. Am

9:54

I allowed to sit on the couch or have this conversation

9:56

in the car or in bed? Am I only allowed to sit

9:58

around the kitchen table with the check book going

10:00

over the bills.

10:02

Maybe while we're walking the dog we can talk

10:04

about it.

10:07

Yeah, well again, full credit to

10:09

Mark Garrison on WBT Charlotte.

10:11

He's a he's a real pro and that was quite

10:13

an interview. Good for him. But it is like the

10:16

most obvious question to ask, Wow,

10:19

how dare you?

10:21

Like?

10:21

Here is?

10:22

I heard the president has klemytia? Does he have clementia?

10:25

Jill gets around? That's when I heard he got it from a

10:27

goat, But no, I got it from jail.

10:30

We're driving around. I mean, that is an out of

10:32

bounds question.

10:33

Asking you for the president in this current situation's

10:35

brain works is not out of bounds.

10:37

All right, here's the sputtering section I wanted.

10:40

Wait, no, no, no, no, no, you

10:42

mark you you you you're taking us

10:44

down as rabbit hole. Let me let

10:47

me h, let me.

10:48

Be very clear about this as

10:50

not much of a rabbit hole.

10:53

Wait no, wait no, wait

10:56

you

10:59

get she she gets

11:01

knocked off her feet. Easier than

11:04

like the average person, and that job

11:06

requires you're the opposite. You're

11:08

like, nobody can knock you off your feet no matter

11:10

what they bring up. Right,

11:13

she got hired for

11:15

DEI reasons? Yes, Yeah,

11:19

because she's horrible at it.

11:20

If she were good at it, you could still make that, you

11:22

could still claim that if you wanted to.

11:23

But at least she'd be good at it. But she's horrible at it.

11:26

It's terrible. Entertainingly watched them. I

11:28

mean she's so bad, it's it's kind of fun.

11:30

Yeah, speaking way do come

11:33

on?

11:34

How come on?

11:36

Speaking of brains and how they work, my brain

11:38

has never worked in a way uh

11:41

sports wise very well. And

11:43

it fits in with something I just read about Caitlin Clark

11:45

and and also ice cube.

11:47

So stay tuned for that and other stuff.

11:58

Speaking of Trump, today, he posted the video

12:00

of themselves selling a new line of sixty dollars

12:02

bibles.

12:04

He's selling bibles. Take a look at this.

12:06

All Americans need a Bible in their home,

12:08

and I have many.

12:10

It's my favorite book. Yeah.

12:19

I like how they made the Bible the exact color

12:21

of his skin.

12:21

Yeah, that's interesting. Corinthian

12:26

Corinthian leather.

12:31

You know, remember I had that pole a week or so ago

12:33

that most evangelical Christians

12:35

don't believe Trump is religious. So

12:38

I don't know why he puts on that facade.

12:41

He gets more support from the Christian community

12:44

than any president ever has, but

12:47

it ain't because they think he's religious. So why

12:50

keep on with the I have so many Bibles you

12:52

can't walk through my house without hitting a Bible.

12:54

I don't know why he keeps that up.

12:55

But anyway, this

12:59

topic, Hey Katie, I'm curious,

13:01

because you're quite a bit younger than us. Do

13:04

Doctor Dre and ice Cube and NBA

13:06

does that have any traction in your

13:08

world because.

13:09

It was so far before your time? Oh yeah,

13:11

they're huge. Okay, so they lived

13:13

on in totally. Doctor Dre brought

13:15

us eminem, I mean all of that, right.

13:17

Okay, So anyway, ice Cube is involved

13:19

in this story. It's actually a sports story. He's

13:21

got this Big three sports

13:24

league, the Basketball League that I'd never paid

13:26

any attention to. I guess it's been around for a while

13:28

and he just

13:31

offered. And this just happened a little bit ago.

13:33

It leaked out, and he wanted

13:35

this to remain private, but it leaked

13:37

out and so now he's commenting

13:39

on his Twitter page. Ice Cube

13:42

Rapper, former member of NWA.

13:44

Listen to some of his early stuff and it's

13:46

hard to believe he is the star of

13:48

children's movies. Now my kids know ice

13:50

Cube because he's on some funny kids movies

13:52

where he's like a loving dad and kind

13:55

of gets himself into some trouble with somebody

13:57

at a park or something. Do

13:59

boy listen to his early music

14:01

anyway, he's got six million followers

14:04

on Twitter, and he's also got a gazillion dollars,

14:06

and he started this basketball league that has a four

14:08

point shot and all these different things.

14:10

Big Three.

14:11

He offered Caitlin Clark, the biggest star

14:13

in the history of women's basketball all time

14:15

NCAA scoring leader men

14:17

or women. He offered her a

14:19

ton of money, five million dollars

14:21

to play in his Big three league. And

14:24

that's a lot of money because a lot of your WNBA

14:26

star mean, you could be a big giant star in college going

14:28

to the WNBA.

14:29

And make not that much money.

14:32

M Well, she's gonna make a lot of money.

14:34

And Ice Cube respond to that saying, since

14:36

it's leaked out, I'll

14:39

i wan't to deny what's already out there. Big three made

14:41

a historic offer to Kaitlin Clark. Why wouldn't

14:43

we Caitlyn is a generational athlete who can

14:45

achieve tremendous success in our league.

14:47

But he goes on to say.

14:48

America's women athletes should not be forced

14:50

to spend their off seasons playing

14:52

an often dismal and dubious foreign countries

14:54

just to make ends mate, and they should

14:57

have more than just one professional option in the US at

14:59

a time when American pro sports leagues are

15:01

being infiltrated by autocratic anti

15:03

women regimes such as Qatar. Our

15:06

path breaking offer to Caitlin Clark demonstrates a

15:08

Big Three blah blah blah blah blah. I found that interesting

15:11

from a number of different angles. One,

15:13

what's that whole Katar infiltrating our

15:15

sports league's thing?

15:17

Is that a reference to the World Cup?

15:21

I don't know what that is. I thought

15:23

he was gonna go with Saudi Arabia and golf. Actually,

15:25

as you started that and then that other part

15:28

about women should have better offers

15:30

to play, well, I'm sorry, dude.

15:33

The entertainment hungry

15:35

public, their eyeballs and earballs

15:38

just aren't that interested in women's sports,

15:41

and that's not a crime, or it's not

15:43

the fault of the government. It's not.

15:45

It's not a value judgments, not a value judgment.

15:47

It's just do I like this? You know there are

15:50

bands out there that do do banjo

15:52

folk music. They're not making near as much

15:55

money as rock and roll bands. Is that a crime?

15:57

Should somebody step in and make sure that

15:59

that that wrong gets righted? I mean I

16:01

have a su primitive action for banjo's Yes,

16:04

it just seems weird to me to have that point of view.

16:07

For what it's worth.

16:08

The average salary for a player last season as

16:10

one hundred and forty seven thousand dollars. There

16:12

are now twenty one players making two hundred

16:15

grand or more per year. But the fraction

16:17

of NBA. Yeah, well, she'll make

16:20

more than probably anybody ever has. But

16:22

he ain't gonna be the five million dollars at ice Cube

16:25

offered her. So now she's going to have that be like, man,

16:27

if you're old enough to go back to the Steve Young days or

16:29

whatever, but do you go into some league

16:31

and a lot of people don't know about and make just

16:33

tremendous amount of money. She probably will

16:36

most people actually making a reference to an old football

16:38

player. He went to the USFL

16:41

instead of the NFL.

16:42

Or eh, for so much money.

16:45

I didn't get to my sports psychology part of this, which

16:47

I'll do when I came back, which if you struggle

16:50

with athletics, maybe you'll relate to.

16:51

And it's around Caitlin Clark. Okay,

16:54

yeah, all right, ice

16:57

Cube, the savior of women's basketball.

17:00

All right.

17:00

I don't think he will be at all in

17:03

any way. He had to do something with your money. He's

17:05

got a gimmicky three on three league. He's

17:08

going to add a gimmicky player, a

17:10

talented young woman.

17:12

That's all. It is. Five

17:14

million dollars more in the way, stay with us,

17:19

Armstrong and getty.

17:23

Robert Kennedy Junior announced his twenty

17:25

twenty four running mate today in Oakland, California,

17:27

Shanahan's birthplace, signaling

17:30

a new chapter in his race for the White

17:32

House.

17:32

I want the call.

17:33

To be a champion to the

17:35

growing number of millennials and

17:38

Gen Z Americans who

17:40

have lost faith in their future and

17:42

lost their pride in our country.

17:44

RFK Junior is an interesting candidate that

17:47

he's polling as high as he is in

17:49

the high teens, which is the highest

17:52

anybody's polled as a non Republican

17:54

or Democrat going way back to Rossborough thirty

17:57

some years ago. And I

18:02

think a lot of it, maybe practically

18:04

all of it is on the fact that he was against

18:06

the vaccine, the

18:09

COVID.

18:09

Vaccine, A lot of it. What do you

18:11

think it is if.

18:12

It's not that, No, I think that that

18:14

is a lot of it. Anyway,

18:17

he followed his candidacy that closely.

18:19

He said a couple of things that I thought were pretty intriguing

18:21

good points.

18:22

Yeah, Well, the main reason I paid

18:24

attention to is I have family members and friends

18:26

who are on board. But

18:29

he announced his VP pick yesterday,

18:31

this Shanahan woman who nobody knows,

18:34

and uh, I

18:37

feel like, if he is actually going to

18:39

introduce himself to America and run practically

18:42

every speech, he's got to explain his voice

18:44

because everybody I know who hears him and doesn't

18:47

know, is like, what the.

18:48

Hell is wrong with him?

18:50

Yeah, yeah, it's a because

18:52

of a vaccine caused his vocal courts

18:54

to be ruined or something many many years ago.

18:57

Is that right?

18:58

I just heard he had a condition. I don't know, maybe

19:01

that story is wrong, but it's a medical condition. But

19:03

otherwise it's pretty distracting. Yeah,

19:07

yeah, I honestly, it doesn't matter

19:09

how it happened. It's difficult to picture

19:11

somebody who sounds like that getting elected,

19:14

which may make us stupid as a species.

19:17

It's the same thing as you know, you've got to be

19:19

tall and good looking.

19:20

I mean, it's ridiculous.

19:21

Well, remember a third of his supporters

19:23

think he's his dad, so

19:27

there's that. Anyway,

19:29

he announced this Shnhan woman as his running mate. She's

19:31

only like thirty seven, super young, and

19:35

there you go, there's that ticket and rich.

19:37

Part of the reason he had to announce somebody is the

19:39

Republicans and Democrats have done such

19:41

a good job of making sure nobody

19:44

can ever challenge their dwopoly

19:46

hold on American politics.

19:48

But anyway, you can't get on the

19:50

ballot in many, many states until

19:52

you've named a running mate. So that's part

19:54

of the reason he had to do that so early, which

19:56

is ridiculous.

20:00

They act like it would just be awful if

20:02

somebody came in and was able

20:04

to run on a different party. Wait a second,

20:07

with the results we've had from the two parties,

20:09

We've got you get away

20:11

with acting like it would be dangerous to do something

20:13

outside of that. Yeah, I would suggest the

20:16

opposite is true. We

20:18

desperately need a shakeup. So

20:20

this is kind of a sports thing I want to talk about and kind

20:22

of not.

20:25

So.

20:25

Kay Lynn Clark the famous basketball player.

20:28

Her team Iowa plays this weekend

20:30

their number one seed. They might win the NCAA championship.

20:33

Anyway, there's an interview about

20:35

her in this ESPN

20:38

magazine. I'll just read this

20:43

this reporter for ESPN magazine. Her teammates

20:46

came to understand that they were dealing with someone like

20:48

Mozart. She wasn't rude nor necessarily

20:51

nice, just a different species. At

20:53

one point that year, a sports psychologist

20:55

came in to work with the team. She

20:58

started going around the room and asking play when

21:00

they felt stressed and anxious and how they reacted

21:02

to those things. One by one, the young women described

21:05

familiar symptoms and scenarios. Sweaty

21:07

hands, fear at the free throw line, struggling

21:09

with breathing, trying to breathing right,

21:11

anxiety about the last possession. When they

21:13

asked Caitlin, she seemed a little embarrassed. I

21:16

never am she said, everyone in the room somehow

21:19

understood she was being more vulnerable than cocky.

21:22

So what is it about the people that just don't

21:24

have that thing? And

21:26

then where they get nervous? In sports situations?

21:29

And yeah, you could extend this to public

21:31

speaking, I guess, or a variety

21:33

of situations, maybe military,

21:36

because it happens in that realm

21:38

too, I know it does. And then

21:40

also because you brought up the golf thing earlier,

21:43

so there you got people who are like

21:45

really really really good athletes,

21:49

but then you get to a certain level and

21:51

that starts to sink in.

21:52

Well, actually, I know that happens in the NBA.

21:54

Larry Bird legendarily

21:56

great basketball player. He was probably like Caitlin

21:59

Clark or he would say, I don't know, I never was,

22:01

so I don't even know what that feels like. But

22:03

he'd say, anybody can take the shot

22:06

when you're behind. It's the shot to

22:08

win the game that's hard to take. So even

22:10

play, you're good enough to make it to the NBA, but

22:13

then something at that level makes you nervous

22:15

and you can't breathe and you.

22:16

Don't want to take the shot.

22:18

So what are you just like? Was she just born

22:20

that way. Is just that simple? Or do you think she got

22:22

a hold of that at some point. That's

22:25

a really interesting question. There

22:27

could be degrees of each depending

22:29

on who you're talking about.

22:31

It's funny.

22:31

My mind went immediately to a couple of pieces

22:34

I've read recently from They were

22:36

both women, interestingly enough,

22:38

but who were sociopaths.

22:41

Hmmm, so Joe Hitty says, so Caitlin

22:43

Clark's a sociopath. That's an interesting that's an interesting

22:46

that's a breaking news or sort of an

22:48

interesting angle on this that I hadn't thought we were going

22:50

to go with.

22:51

Make that the headline. No, what I'm driving at

22:53

is.

22:55

It's possible that there are people

22:58

whose brains whatever

23:00

little part of your brain deals with stress

23:03

under pressure, that don't act like

23:05

the rest of us. I mean,

23:07

like, if you're a sociopath like these women

23:09

I was reading about, if some kid got hurt

23:11

in school, they didn't care. They

23:15

wouldn't feel for that person, they wouldn't

23:17

think that must be terrible, they wouldn't want to comfort

23:19

them.

23:19

They just didn't care.

23:21

And they can actually live fairly happy lives because

23:23

they after a while they rationalize, I like

23:26

that person, I like being with them. Here's what

23:28

they need. I will give that to them. Yeah, I did,

23:30

but it's more premeditated than

23:32

natural.

23:33

Yeah.

23:33

I read that article in the New York Times from the woman who's

23:35

a sociopath talking about it, and yeah, you can

23:37

come to like, intellectually think other

23:39

people would feel this.

23:41

I should too, that that's

23:43

a good person. So I don't want bad things to happen to them,

23:45

even if they don't feel it right

23:47

exactly.

23:47

And that's not their faults. No, they're born that way.

23:50

And I just wonder whether some people their brain

23:52

just doesn't fire in the same way

23:55

that the rest of us do. Now it's possible

23:58

sports psychologists can do a

24:01

really good job. If you're at all

24:03

into golf and have Netflix, watch

24:06

season two of Full Swing. It's a

24:08

great documentary thing and deals

24:10

with a couple of guys who are head cases.

24:13

Both of them lost their moms young and

24:15

deal with anger and and

24:18

in one.

24:19

Case a lot of self doubt.

24:21

But that would that be accurate

24:23

what I said that they probably didn't have

24:25

that problem in high school. Like on high

24:27

school they just you know, went out there and killed everybody

24:30

because they were so much better.

24:31

But then you get to a certain level and then you all

24:33

the doubts creep in. Well, right, that's

24:36

why I thought it was such an interesting question. So

24:38

you can have degrees, I would say,

24:40

of uh that that feeling

24:43

nervous under pressure, depending on

24:45

the way you're made. And then there's

24:47

your training and your confidence

24:49

and your attitude that's gonna that can

24:51

be very different from one person to another. And

24:55

then I suppose then

24:57

you get to the highest level in the very little flaw

25:00

or a weakness you have and that gets

25:02

exposed inevitably.

25:03

So it's a complicated answer.

25:05

Yeah, I thought it was interesting to think that, like

25:07

in the NBA, not all of those guys

25:09

have that kind of confidence. In fact, very few

25:11

do, even though they probably certainly

25:14

did. Is like grade schoolers and junior high and

25:16

high school, maybe even college, but

25:19

at some point you think this is bigger than

25:21

I am or something, and

25:24

then some people like Caitlin Clark or Kobe

25:26

Bryant or lebron or whoever, don't

25:28

have that.

25:28

They just don't have that. Yeah.

25:33

Yeah, I suppose the only way I could relate

25:35

to it maybe would be like I've never public

25:37

speakings never bothered me, man, it

25:39

just doesn't, and I don't quite understand why

25:41

it bother's other people. But

25:44

like with sports, I super get it. I was I might

25:46

be the worst ever at sports

25:48

at that Like I can play sports enough

25:51

to not embarrass myself if

25:53

I'm in my backyard or whatever, or with just

25:55

a couple of friends. Absolutely,

25:57

But man, if there's any more people around

25:59

them that flyball in the air, all

26:01

I've got on my mind is how embarrassing

26:03

this is gonna be when I drop it, not

26:06

even if. And so that's

26:08

it just takes over my head. This

26:10

sounds like a humble brag. I swear to God

26:12

it's not. I remember. I think I was seventeen,

26:15

eighteen years old playing for a league championship

26:17

in baseball. I pitched like six

26:19

innings and I was getting tired, so I

26:21

came out as the shortstop for the seventh inning

26:24

and we had two outs or like two or three guys on

26:26

base, and guy hits a hard line

26:28

or a hard bouncer at

26:31

me at shortstop, and I remember thinking,

26:33

cool, it's coming to me, and I feeled

26:35

it and throw the guy out and the game was over. And I'm

26:37

not saying that makes me better or braver or

26:39

more courageous. The Lord knows, there are plenty of things

26:41

I'm afraid of. I

26:44

don't know if that was confidence or if

26:46

that's just the way my brain was made.

26:49

Well, I'm thinking based on this conversation

26:51

and what I just read that it's just you're just

26:53

that that just either.

26:54

Happens or or not.

26:56

I don't know, although

26:58

it must either it changes as you age,

27:00

or that was just confidence. Because if I had a three foot

27:02

pot to win some sort of big championship

27:05

right now, I might soil myself. And

27:07

I mean front and back. Oh wow,

27:10

full release. It's

27:14

a sick enough that is something like.

27:17

Oh yeah, you'd have to hose off the green for

27:19

sure, like that snaring you you gave there.

27:21

How many other players on the field do you think

27:23

we're hoping it came to them versus I hope they

27:25

don't hit I would be absolutely million

27:27

percent.

27:28

I hope it doesn't come to me. God anything,

27:30

Please don't have them hit it to me.

27:33

Yeah.

27:33

I don't know.

27:35

Yeah, And it's so complicated in sports too, because

27:37

there's a principle that you

27:39

have to the reason you practice so much and drill

27:42

so hard is you've got to get things out of your

27:44

conscious mind and get them into your unconscious

27:46

mind. How do I field this ground

27:48

ball? And then how do I throw to

27:50

first base? Because a

27:53

throw from that distance is going to curve a certain

27:55

amount and blah blah blah blah blah, and there's

27:57

the bounce and how soft is the grass and how hard

27:59

is coming.

28:00

If you're thinking about any of that, you're doomed.

28:03

And so that's why you practice

28:05

so hard to remove nervousness

28:07

and make it rote.

28:09

So that's part of it.

28:10

But Caitlin Clark is there with her

28:13

fellow really elite

28:15

athletes and had a

28:17

very different attitude than them.

28:18

So is that confidence or something you're born with or

28:20

both. I don't know.

28:22

Yeah, it's interesting. I remember a guy

28:24

I knew when

28:27

I was younger.

28:27

So he was on the

28:29

high school all star baseball team. So it was

28:32

the best players from these different towns and they

28:34

got you know, the thing that goes to the Little World Series,

28:37

and they made it a couple of rounds and he was the star player

28:39

on the team. But anyway, they ended up losing to

28:42

this team eventually, and he said,

28:44

man, I could just hear the He used the course

28:46

term for testicles. I could just hear

28:48

the testicles falling off all my teammates

28:51

when we were out there. So they were like, these

28:53

were like the best players. I'm sure they were very

28:55

confident at various levels, but at some

28:58

level that confidence went away.

29:00

His didn't, but theirs did. It's

29:03

just interesting, Well, it's.

29:04

Like guys pro football players they

29:06

walk onto the field to the Super Bowl and freak out.

29:09

Yeah.

29:11

Right, you wouldn't think that'd be possible for them

29:13

to bat sweaty hands and breathing problems

29:15

and that sort of stuff.

29:16

Right, They've played hundreds of games that are the best of the

29:18

best. They won lots of pressure field

29:20

games to get there.

29:21

Yeah.

29:22

Maybe it just has to do with the stage.

29:23

Maybe it's one of those things that at the first

29:25

three stages year calm is a cucumber.

29:27

That fourth stage start to.

29:29

Think well, and then once

29:31

you get to the fifth stage, the top stage, you're in

29:33

full you know, freak out mode.

29:34

I don't know. Interesting question. Oh, speaking of sports.

29:37

One final sports note, not that we do a sports show,

29:39

but Jack told us yesterday about the new kickoff rules

29:41

in the NFL. It's straight

29:44

out of the XFL. That's the way

29:46

they did kickoffs, and I watched a bunch of videos and

29:48

it looks really cool, awesome. See

29:50

you think it'll be more exciting than the current mostly

29:53

boring.

29:53

Yeah, I think it'll catch on. Absolutely. We

29:56

will finish strong next.

30:05

So there's gonna be obviously a huge

30:08

investigation on what happened

30:10

with that giant ship that knocked down that bridge and killed

30:12

those people, and

30:15

if they can, and then there should be to figure

30:18

out if there's any way to keep it from happening in the

30:20

future. There might be some human

30:22

error at some level, you know, the electronics

30:25

putting.

30:25

In wrong or something.

30:27

Anyway, Yeah, we got this because

30:29

there's been some talk about the gas. It's my understanding

30:31

the federal government is requiring ships to use

30:33

the new diesel that is damaging the engines

30:35

and causing stalls. There have

30:38

been written complaints from commercial and coast Guard

30:40

leadership that has been ignored. If that turns

30:42

out to be true, that will be an

30:44

explosive story if.

30:46

This was yet.

30:47

Now I'm doing the cable news thing where I present a

30:49

hypothetical and then act

30:51

like it happened, but.

30:52

It is our sacred airwaves. Yeah, and

30:54

I'm doing it in our sacred airwaves. Yeah,

30:57

what's the matter with you?

30:58

If it turns out it's another one of the green

31:01

The old diesel wooked fine, but you're trying

31:03

to make it somehow better for the environment

31:05

in tiny increments that nobody will notice.

31:07

But it works worse like the

31:09

gas in California that ruined

31:11

my kid's quad and cost me nine hundred

31:14

dollars to fix, and then everybody told me all the mechanics,

31:16

Oh no, California gas, you can't

31:18

let that sit more in like five days, or it'll ruin

31:20

your engine. If you have a carburetor. Anywhere else

31:22

in the country, the gas could sit there for months

31:25

and you'd be fine. But in California,

31:27

like a week, and the gas is gonna ruin

31:29

your engine because of the stupid

31:32

freaking environmental crap

31:34

that they put in there that's supposed to make things

31:36

better. If that happened with the diesel, which

31:38

is not a crazy possibility given what

31:40

I just said, wat is going to be quite

31:42

the scandal.

31:43

The vast majority of the media will bury that

31:46

story deeper than Jimmy Hoffa.

31:48

Most people will never hear it. You're

31:50

right, So

31:52

take that, huh

31:55

not a not an outlandish

31:58

thought though that that could be the case

32:01

came across another piece of very

32:03

thorough journalism yesterday

32:06

that stated, there is no chance in

32:08

hell, not a one, not

32:10

an ice cubes in hell chance

32:13

that the electric rids can handle

32:15

the utopian

32:18

desire for everybody driving an electric

32:20

car by the year twenty thirty five or whatever

32:22

it is. It's utterly beyond

32:25

I mean, it's like trying to power a

32:27

jet with a nine volt battery.

32:29

It can't be done. And it's multiples

32:31

worse than that.

32:32

As I just learned last night talking to somebody who

32:34

knows a lot about AI, AI

32:37

is going to take so much computing

32:39

power and so much electricity

32:42

when a lot more organizations are up and running

32:45

this sort of stuff. So

32:47

you add that demand for electricity

32:50

to the electric car stuff you just talked about, We're not even close.

32:54

It's all posturing, it's

32:57

all politics, all virtue signaling.

33:02

Final thought,

33:04

Sweet.

33:07

Geez, there's a number one song

33:09

in nineteen seventy four, so good.

33:11

All the memories huh.

33:12

Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts,

33:15

Joe Geddy. Let's get a final thought from everybody

33:17

on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There is Michael

33:19

Angelo pressing the buttons in the control room. Michael

33:21

final thought is kind of a note to my wife.

33:23

Trader Joe's Bananas have risen in costs,

33:25

So you got a decision to make either Trader Joe's

33:27

Bananas or the Hallmark Channel, but we're not having

33:30

both.

33:34

These are difficult times, Katie Green are

33:36

esteemed to Newswoman as a final thought, Katie.

33:39

Well, speaking of tech, I have a bone to pick with

33:41

Apple. I just found out that their Apple Watch

33:43

doesn't work properly if you have

33:45

tattoos.

33:46

On your wrist?

33:46

What and it keeps turning off during

33:48

my workouts because my wrist is tattooed.

33:51

So I think it's twenty twenty four and that needs

33:53

to be addressed.

33:54

That's interesting. I can't even imagine

33:56

that why that would be. Yeah, then you're

33:58

not even in MS thirteen anymore. So

34:02

Jack a final thought for us.

34:04

So I surprised you all reacted

34:06

to my Panda Express revelation

34:08

that it's not that bad. Where's Panda Express rank

34:10

as restaurants? Is it like McDonald's

34:13

Burger King below?

34:14

Above? Oh? It's above, it's above?

34:17

Okay?

34:17

Oh yeah, you think Panda Express

34:20

is better than like drive through fast

34:22

food stuff all right, oh, one hundred percent.

34:24

Yeah, you get like beef and broccoli. It's there

34:26

in the name. There's broccoli in there. For

34:28

instance.

34:29

I don't know.

34:29

You know, the only time I'd ever eaten at Panda Express

34:31

is when I was going through chemotherapy. Maybe I got a swarped

34:34

view of what the food was like since I was vomiting

34:37

all the time.

34:37

Anyway, that could

34:39

be an influence. Yes, do

34:41

you ate something in vomited?

34:43

Yes?

34:44

Yes, Armstrong

34:47

and Geeddy wpping up. But other ruling four hour

34:49

workday.

34:50

No time for my final thoughts. My final thought

34:52

is there's no time for my final thought. God to Armstrong and

34:54

Giddy dot com. The hot links are there,

34:57

the swag, the email address.

34:58

We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm

35:03

strong and getty. I expected

35:06

more. I don't give two craps. But

35:10

that's not even the point. So don't get all crazy on

35:12

me. Godchat to really

35:14

let out. That's

35:17

not I think that's

35:19

a part of it. So let's go with a buying

35:21

I.

35:22

Just went on an underwear buying spree. Some

35:24

I've got a bunch of the hot brands of underwear

35:26

right now, tell us more thought, no.

35:28

One that I know. Thanks you all very much.

35:30

Armstrong and Getty