Have you ever tried to watch tennis lately? Used to be my favorite game but then the rackets kept getting better and better. So the technology of the rackets kept improving to the point where if you have a good enough racket, the racket is so strong that the other player can barely hit the ball back. So if you got rid of the serve, tennis could be fun again because the serve just ruins everything. It makes everything boring. The first serve is almost always out and it's boring to watch.

Then take baseball. Baseball's got a problem because it's sort of a long attention span kind of a game. Need to do something to make baseball more interesting or shorter or more action or something going on there.

And then soccer. How easy would it be to fix soccer? The biggest problem of soccer is there's not enough scoring, right? So all you do is make the goals bigger. So for soccer you should make the goals bigger and maybe get rid of offsides because that just makes everything less fun.

Do not touch baseball. Somebody says yeah, I think probably baseball is held up the best of all the sports. That's the one that still makes a little bit of sense.

Then let's talk about golf. The biggest problem with golf if you're a new player is that the clubs are all different lengths. So even if you're really good at one club that doesn't make you good at the other club. And do you know why the clubs are different lengths? You know why? If you put them in the ground, you know one of them would be longer than the other? No good reason apparently. There's really no compelling reason that your clubs can't all be the same length. And in fact there's a famous story of somebody who had custom clubs made. They were all the same length and worked great.

So I think I probably won't get back into golf unless you can get rid of the people who are in front of you and behind you because they ruin it. I hate it when there are people behind me. And a lot of the clubs are different shape. Yeah, there should be maybe two clubs, something like a wedge and something like a putter. That's all you need.

I'm on vacation and I have not had enough time to watch "Hoaxed" yet. I said I was but that's on the top of my list and I'll talk about it after I watch it.

So I was gonna say something. I don't want to say what does everybody's prediction on this Smollett story. Smollett, the actor who claims to have been attacked by people wearing MAGA hats. Is anybody believing that story? I would say the credibility of that story approaches zero. But that said, you know, we cannot say with certainty what happened in a place where we weren't there and there were no video cameras capturing anything. But I would say if I had to bet on it, maybe there is betting, I doubt you could have a betting pool on this, but if you had to bet on it you would definitely bet it didn't happen.

The part that's weird is that they put a rope around his neck. I mean none of it really makes sense. It just all doesn't make sense.

Oh and then apparently Governor Northam, somebody said he walked back his apology. Well I don't think that's exactly the way to say it. I think it would be more accurate to say he moonwalked back his apology. Has anybody used that yet? Feel free to use that. Governor Northam moonwalked back his apology.

I just before I turned this on I watched the video clip of somebody asking him to moonwalk and his wife says, "Inappropriate situation." The best part about it was that Northam's wife has so little respect for his judgment that she felt she needed to tell him not to moonwalk. She felt she needed to tell him, "Don't moonwalk." And she knows him best. So if she thought he might moonwalk, the fact that his wife thought he might just like, "Yeah, but get out from behind the lectern." This is the best thing ever.

And then it gets even better because apparently he is not entirely sure how many times he's been in blackface. Apparently this has happened enough he wasn't sure if that picture was him.

All right, now here's my opinion. Although I do believe it would have been inappropriate for him to moonwalk, wouldn't it be fair to say he's so toast that I kind of want to see it? Personally I would like to see him moonwalk now because he might as well. He might as well change the conversation, right? You might as well at least, because if he moonwalks that's all we're going to be talking about.

If you could give me a video of the governor moonwalking doing a Michael Jackson tribute, think about this. The first thing that would happen is that you would see that he's probably a fan, right? Suppose he moonwalked. I'm just gonna put this out here just for fun. Suppose he moonwalked and we get that on video and of course it would be the headline. It would be all you saw on television. The news channels could not stop running that if he moonwalks.

But here's the thing. If he moonwalks really well and maybe he has some other moves, you know, other Michael Jackson moves, if he could pull off, if Northam could pull off 10 seconds of credible Michael Jackson imitation and also sell to us that he was a genuine fan, let's say he has an old record of Michael Jackson, let's say he produces a "Thriller" album from 1984 or something, whatever "Thriller" came out, would that change what you thought about that old photo?

Because if he could actually moonwalk and we could verify that he was a huge Michael Jackson fan, doesn't that make you feel different about the costume? Now I'm not going to say it was ever a good idea and I'm not gonna say that people wouldn't be offended but it would definitely change your opinion. Because if you're dressing, I mean think about a big part of why people are so angry with him is that we assume his internal thoughts were as bad as what we saw. So in other words we're looking at the picture of him dressed as apparently Michael Jackson or something and we're thinking, oh my God, big old racist, he's making fun of Michael Jackson.

But if he could actually moonwalk and he actually had some Michael Jackson moves and he had an old "Thriller" album, just pick one, and he could prove that he was a huge Michael Jackson fan, it kind of looks different, doesn't it? Doesn't it look different if he could demonstrate he was like a super fan of Michael Jackson?

Now I'm not going to say that would save his career because I don't think that could be done but he has nothing to lose at this point. He has nothing to lose at this point. And as far as that nickname, he had the nickname "Coonman." He could explain it away by saying that's what other people called him and it wasn't his nickname. If he could prove he never called himself that and that it just makes his friends look like racists because that was the nickname for him.

Now I'm not saying any of that would be good enough to save his career. I'm just saying it would be hilarious and we couldn't stop watching it.

Yeah, you jumped assuming he was the Michael Jackson look-alike. Well I think that was the question, wasn't it? I'm not predicting any of that should happen but it would be hilarious.

How do you get a nickname like Coonman? Somebody is asking me. Unless you're a racist. Simple. You once wore a Michael Jackson costume and your friends are racist. If the people who gave him the nickname were racist that would explain it.

The other possibility is he liked to hunt. Now I haven't heard anybody say this but where I grew up, if somebody used that nickname it actually wouldn't have been a racist nickname. I hate to even say this because it's going to look like I'm defending him. So let me say as clearly as possible I am not defending Northam. I'm just giving you some context.

Where I grew up in upstate New York, shooting raccoons was a fairly common thing and we called it hunting and people used the coon word to talk about raccoons. So where I grew up if you had that nickname it would more likely refer to some hunting situation or the fact that you once shot one in some famous situation or something like that.

And I'm not in the least suggesting that that explains Northam's situation. I'm just saying that if you're asking yourself how else can it be explained, and by the way one of the things I write about in my upcoming book "Loserthink" is that if your argument is based on "you can't imagine any other explanation," you have a weak argument. Doesn't matter what the situation is. If you're saying the only thing I can imagine to explain these variables is just this one thing, it probably is a failure of imagination.

So I just gave you an example of how you could easily imagine that it was a hunting-related nickname or it was given to him by other people and it was not a nickname he embraced. So those are two explanations that probably did not occur to you. And I'm not saying that they explain the situation at all. I'm just saying that you have to be careful that you assume you know the explanation for things.

Remember the Covington Catholic school situation? What did I do wrong in interpreting that initial video as being the kids surrounding the Native American guy? Well what I did wrong is that I could not imagine there was an alternative explanation. Now it turns out the alternative explanation is selective editing, which should have been right at the top of my mind but I couldn't look at that picture and imagine how that could have been selectively edited. Like my imagination was not big enough to incorporate any other possibility than what I was seeing was exactly what was happening.

So somebody just offered a third explanation for his nickname. Again not saying that this is likely but that if he was wearing a raccoon skin hat like Davy Crockett for any reason, if he'd been in a play or somebody had one as a joke or something, you could imagine him getting a nickname.

I will tell you that my college nickname was based on a sweatshirt I wore once. So I had a nickname for four years in college that was my primary name. People didn't even use my regular first name. They called me the letter W. So for four years my college friends called me W because one day I wore a sweatshirt that had a big letter W on it for the town that I went to school in.

So could he have worn a hat one time and that could cause him a nickname for the rest of his school days? Yes, because that's exactly what happened to me. I wore one shirt one time and I got a nickname that lasted me for years and I did not give that nickname to myself. It was assigned by other people as nicknames often are.

Before W. Bush you traitor. Who was a traitor?

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