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Video from the country of jamaica about, of course, the olympics, their bobsledding team. take a look at this. ♪ run the track ♪ run the track ♪ make room on the ice ♪ start out feeling nice ♪ you do we do it right ♪ to the right >> now, any country that puts out that as their official video gets big ups, obviously. and yet some of the articles in scientific america, you talk about how bobsledding is also one of the most dangerous sports. you talk about how speed is one of the key is...

Ever seen. as many people know, the u.s. women have never won gold at the games since, i think, its 98 now. and in canada has essentially -- canada hasnt lost a hockey game in 12 years at the olympics. >> wow. before we let you go, we have to ask about your gold medal winning cousin. >> wait a minute. let me go? i just got here, jonathan. go ahead. >> talk about your cousin. >> youve given me a free promotion, david wise, my second cousin whom im much closer to now than before he won the gold me...

About what youre doing with your life. >> kevin, it seems like every generation were reading that, you know, this generations new batch of wall street recruits are somehow different than the generation that came before it. yet we keep seeing generation after generation making the same mistakes that the generation before it had made. so is it possible for change to come to an institution when its clear that change can only come from really nibbling at the very edges of that institution? >> i thin...

Where does that fearlessness come from? >> you look at the athletes. theyre going up in crazy twists and turns in the air, the do downhill skiers, lindsey vonn types. theyre going 90 miles an hour. ly lindsey has done a lot of sport in her life. its the process of working through fear that draws them to the sport. its not that they get up on the hill and their heart isnt pounding like the rest of us. they know how to deal with it and work through it. thats what they enjoy about the sport so much...

We have edited that out. thats the place where this is coming from. i think some of the skepticism against the war on drugs is born of the fact it was sold in this incredibly cynical way. >> theres a lot of cultural baggage with this. >> its a nixon phrase. >> so instead of figuring out this cultural stuff, look at today, the health, the data and not make -- i know a lot of people have baggage from vietnam, anti-nixon. its a lot of baggage. its time americans grow up and have a real conversation...