June 2, 2025 • 27 mins
A man has been charged with multiple felonies after allegedly using a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary devices to attack a crowd of people raising awareness for Israeli hostages in Gaza, injuring eight individuals. Additionally, there have been discussions about the ingenious way Ukraine executed its remarkable "Pearl Harbor" attack against Russia. In youth sports, a former MLB player advocates for change, emphasizing the importance of allowing kids to enjoy the game without excessive involvement from adults, reminding parents that the primary goal is for children to have fun and learn, not to achieve perfection.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We start with this terrorist attack that took place, suspected
terrorist attack, at least that's the way that the Attorney
General in Colorado is talking about it. This suspected terrorist
attack at a pro Israeli march that was going on
just yesterday. The Boulder County Sheriff's Office said Mohammed Sabri Soliman,
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forty five, lives in El Paso County, Colorado, is going
to be charged with a couple of counts to first
degree murder, also being charged with one count of attempted murder,
count of first degree assault, count of causing serious injury
at an at risk adult or someone over seventy one
kunt of using explosives or incendiary devices. This guy was
yelling free Palestine and anti Israeli epithets and used a
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makeshift flamethrower and molotov cocktails on demonstrators who were marching
in support of of all things.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The release of his Israeli hostages by himask.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Heat against any of us must be treated against hate
against all of us. That's a moral stand that's imperative
for us to take. That's what America needs to stand
for in this moment. We need to make sure that
we keep people safe, that we make clear there's no
place for hate, and that in America people can peacefully
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demonstrate whatever they believe.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The FBI Special Agent in charge, a guy named Michael Mahalak,
said this was very clearly a targeted attack.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It is clear that this is a targeted act of
violence in the FBI is investigating this as an act
of terrorism. Sadly, attacks like this are becoming too common
across the country. This is an example of how perpetrators
of violence continue to threaten communities across our nations.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The FBI head FBI Sorry Director of the FBI, Cash Buttel,
did say last night that the bureau is already investigating
this as a targeted terror attack. Boulder Police said four
men and four women were injured between the ages of
fifty two and eighty eight. Some things about what this was.
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This group is called Run for their Lives and Run
for their Lives Bolder and the group itself puts together
five ks, ten k runs and walks to bring attention
to different events and in this case, they had been
holding these demonstrations pretty regularly, just about weekly for the
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most part, whether permitting after the October seventh terrorist attacks
by Hamas on Israel. The idea that this was targeted
towards older people, because that was what struck me yesterday
is when they were talking about who it was that
was hit or injured, I should say between the ages
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of fifty two and eighty eight. We also found out,
without a specific identity, the rabbi for the eighty eight
year old said that woman is a survivor of the
Holocaust and was injured in this attack. Now, the videos
that you've seen from the protest, you can clearly see
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this guy walking around no shirt on. He's got two
bottles what appear to be Molotov cocktails that he hadn't
used yet, and he's still screaming at people while others
are literally putting the flames out on their fellow demonstrators.
The cops come, they are able to get this guy
on the ground and take him into custoding, And like
I said, he's supposed to be in court today for
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all of these different charges. He could be charged with
two counts of first degree murder, although at this point
there have been no confirmed deaths from the attack there
in Boulder, Colorado, as far as any other connection that
this guy might have to anybody else.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Now the subject is in custody, but this will be
a thorough and complete investigation. From everything we know in
the witness briefing, in interviews that we've done, at this point,
we do not believe that there is an additional suspect
at large.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So that was the FBI Special Agent in charge and
also the head of the Boulder Police Department in terms
of their investigation. The White House is saying and Homeland
Security has apparently confirmed that the suspect in this case
is a guy who is in the country illegally. Stephen
Miller is Deputy chief of Staff. He wrote on x
that the suspect was granted a tourist visa and then
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illegally overstayed that visa, and he said in response, the
Biden administration gave him a work permit, and Miller went
on to say suicidal migration must be fully reversed. Again,
the senior law enforcement officials say this is still very
early in its investigation. Where did this guy get the
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materials for this attack, Why did he specifically choose that
group other than they were pretty regular with their demonstrations,
and why it is that when he should have been
somewhere else after his visa expired supposedly back in March.
So any news updates on that, obviously, we'll bring him
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to you and see if in fact the guy does
show up in court. Internationally, we had an event over
the weekend that was man I want to say the
word brilliant in that it was a sneak attack the
likes of which we have not seen in some time,
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and it doesn't necessarily change the course of the war
between Russia and Ukraine, but it is a major, major
black guy for Vladimir Putin. We'll talk about what happened,
and what they're referring to is Russia's pearl harbor and
how Ukraine was able to do that. We'll talk about
it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
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Speaker 2 (05:55):
Some very high value targets within Russia. This is argue
will be the most devastating blow Russia has suffered argument
since World War Two.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That was one headline I saw this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't know enough about warfare to suggest that that's
accurate or not, but it gives you an idea of
the scope and magnitude of this attack. General Jack Keen,
of former Vice Chief to Chief of Staff to the Army,
said that this attack, which was coordinated drone attacks on
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several different air bases around Russia. And I'm not just
talking about the ones that are close to the Ukrainian border.
Some of these were in Siberia thousands of miles away.
To give you an idea just how coordinated and widespread
this attack actually was. Here is a General Jack Keene
describing it.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
They say it's brilliant, may be a little bit of
an understatement. Five air fields were targeted, four were successful.
Two of those airfields one was in Siberia to the
et then another one was actually close to China. Three
of them were in the western part of Russia, one
really quite north close to the Arctic. All of them
were targeting bombers that are used either in the strikes
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against civilians and also against ground troops in Ukraine, and
they deliver conventional bombs or air launched cruise missiles.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
This is.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
This is an amazing ability that drones now provide in
modern warfare. The description of this. Even Russia is now
admitting that Kiev hit forty one airplanes, including Tu ninety
five and TU twenty two strategic bombers. These are long
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range bombers and missile platforms. Ukraine also hit an A
to fifty spy plane. It is a surveillance aircraft, very expensive.
Russia doesn't have a lot of those, so they didn't
have lot to spare. A lot of these different images
that we have seen show several aircraft in flames or damaged,
and official with Ukraine's National Security Defense Council said at
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least thirteen Russian aircraft were destroyed. What we don't know
is how many bombers Russia actually has left. One of
the top commanders in Europe top US commanders in Europe
set in April last year that Russia had lost ten
percent of its air force.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's not very much.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Ukraine to this point had not been able to hit
them where they needed to be hit, which was in
those strategic bombers. So this whole plan took a very
long time to develop. At the bottom of the hour,
I'm going to talk more about the planning that goes
into this and the actual execution of getting that many drones.
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First of all, you got to get them into Russia.
Drones don't fly three thousand miles. So they got these
drones into Russia somehow and were able to deploy them
from the trucks that they were shipped in on. And
again General Jack Keene, former Vice Chief of Staff to Army,
he says, this may not necessarily be a game changer,
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but it is a huge, huge win for Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I don't think it turns the war around, but it
certainly it indicates Ukraine's resolve to defend this nation, the
nation and what Russia is doing to them in the
horror they've inflicted on this regime, that they're going to
fight back with everything that they can, and at times
when they don't have all the means, they don't have
all the weapons that Russia has. What they do have
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is brain power and innovation and creativity, and they took
actually kind of low technology copp the drones that you
see all over the place in the United States that
youngsters are playing with themselves, to deliver such a vital
blow to bombers that are inflicting so many casualties on
the Ukrainians truly.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Remarkable to begin this discussion where everybody else left off,
which was we thought Ukraine was getting down to it.
Russia lately, despite all of the talk from the White House,
from European leaders that they want to get a ceasefire deal,
it seems like Russia has just shifted into fifth gear
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when it comes to the recent attacks that they have
been able to perpetrate. This is a massive, massive blow
to Russia at the very least in terms of public relations.
That they were so vulnerable or arrogant that they allowed
forty plus of their most important platforms, their most important
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strategic bombers, to allow them to be damaged in this
way is pretty amazing. There's a guy named Frederick Mertens
who is a strategic analyst at a research organization over
in the Netherlands, and he said he's described it this way.
He says Russia has suffered a serious loss in striking
power just visa v Ukraine, but also towards NATO as
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a whole, and that you cannot replace those airplanes, the
t U ninety five's, the TU twenty twos, they don't
make them anymore. So the ability of Russia to launch
any sort of long range or precision strikes has taken
a real blow, and that makes us safer. By us,
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I mean the United States and Europe and NATO members,
we are all a little bit safer today because of
the degradation of the Russian bombers. So we come back,
we'll talk more about exactly how they did this. Operation
Spiderweb took several months, approximately a year and a half
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apparently to plan and execute, So we'll go through some
of the details on that. Because this is one of
those I know that that General Jack Keane said that
this may not necessarily be the game changer, but I
keep saying it is a massive blow to the attitude
perhaps that Russia has had. Oh and in the background
of all of this, yes, Russia and Ukraine met in
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Istanbul Turkey for more ceasefire talks. I don't think that's
going to go very well. We will continue with more
details on this when we come back. Also coming up,
how a former Major League Baseball player wants to change
youth sports it's gotten out of hand. And if you
have stories about youth sports getting out of hand, how
much money you've had to spend, how many weekends you've
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had to spend away because of Joey or Suzi's baseball
or softball or soccer, volleyball, whatever it is, I'd love
to hear it. Leave us a talkback message on the app.
Just hit that little button and we get the messages
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Speaker 1 (12:46):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Quick Chess News because everybody's looking for hot chess news.
Magnus Carlson, the top ranked chess player in the world,
lost for the first time in the classical format, really
long complex in the classical format to Gookesh dam A Raju,
the current world champ who at nineteen years old, is
seen as the among the brightest young stars in the
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world of chess, which I didn't know was a bright
young world star thing to.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Have, figurey. I did miss the show on Friday, but
you start the show with hard news and no mention
Shamon so puting this all right, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
There, Shannon's just taking the day off. There could be
other reasons, like the weekend Fixed podcast. If you didn't
hear that, we can. I'm not saying this is what happened,
but I am saying we could still be suspended for
things that we do technically on the Weekend Fixed podcast,
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just like we could stuff we said on the air.
I'm not saying again, I'm not saying that's exactly what happened,
but i am saying that that is possible.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Heiy Gary and Shannon Gary quick question, Why is it
so important that you have to mention that that terrorist
that tried to burn all those people alive was here illegally.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Why do you have to mention that? What does that
have to do with anything?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
How does that affect you?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
That doesn't affect you, not one fing bit. Why do
you have to mention it?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Why does it matter?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll say it this way. It does matter to the
eight people he tried to kill. And if you use
this analogy, if someone is supposed to be in jail
and they escaped and commit a crime, they were supposed
to be in jail, so there was some failure somewhere
that allowed that person to get out of jail. Think
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of the prison escape out of New Orleans recently. They
had help on the inside. Somebody helped them get out
of where they were supposed to be. If someone is
here illegally, we know that they don't commit crimes secondary
crimes at a rate that's out of proportion to who
they are. I mean, they commit the same percentage of
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crimes as the rest of the population. But the fact
that they should not be here legally in the first
place is what frustrates people, and it is what angers people,
because if this guy had self deported, had paid attention
to his visa expiration and gone back to Egypt, he
wouldn't be in Boulder, Colorado, he wouldn't have access to
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molotov cocktails, and he wouldn't have tried to kill eight
people yesterday outside that protest.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Hey Gary, so do you think maybe Russia suffered from
a bad case of complacency and didn't think they could
be hit and that's where they got hit.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
How could they not be complacent?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They for the last couple of weeks, since since talk
about ceasefire has ramped up, they have been launching more
and more and more devas dating blows against Ukraine. So yeah,
I do believe that they probably got a little bit
complacent because they didn't think that anybody was going to
do anything. They're pretty certain that no NATO country is
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going to attack Russia because that's full blown world War III,
So if all they have to do is try to
tamp down the aggression perhaps from Ukraine or retaliation for
the original attack. Now again, this drone attack that we're
talking about was called Operation Spiderweb, and it targeted four
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different air bases and other types of military installations in Russia.
The Secret Services they call them the SBU in Ukraine,
stashed attack drones. I mean, you know, medium size, not
the tiny ones, but medium sized drones that you might
be able to buy off the shelf. Oh and then
add you know, a couple pounds of explosives to They
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hid these drones inside the roofs of sheds. Those sheds
were then loaded onto trucks that were driven near each
of these bases. The roof panels are then lifted off
by a remote activated device, so the drones just fly
out and then target those airplanes, many of them the
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long range bombers. There apparently were some other infrastructure pieces
that were also hit, although this one is not quite
as clear. These were ones that were closer to Ukraine.
They said Russia was hit by a string of mystery
explosions two bridges. There was a deadly train crash as
a result of it several heavy trucks and cars came
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crashing down on a moving passenger train after a bridge
collapsed on the rail tracks in the Bryansk region of Russia.
So back to the drone attacks, they said thirty four
percent of the t U ninety five bomber fleet was
wiped out in those raids. Four percent. The t U
ninety five specifically is equipped to carry nuclear payloads. There
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were a total of forty one Russian warplanes hit in
these strikes, according to Kiev. They believe that that's about
a seven billion dollar strike to Russia's air force. The
attack involved a base, the Belaya Air Base, which is
almost four thousand miles away from the Ukrainian border. This is,
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like I said earlier, had been called Russia's Pearl harbor
by some pro Moscow military bloggers. President Zelenski Ukraine said
this is an absolutely brilliant outcome, the longest range operation
to date. He wrote that on the messaging app Telegram.
And the expectation is, or the belief is that this
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thing took about a year and a half to plan
and execute. I mean just literally getting a truck that's
got these drones secretly hidden in it. From anywhere near
Ukraine to that Malaya airbase out in Siberia thirty four
to thirty five hundred miles away.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That takes a long time, just an in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So the talks continue. By the way, there is a
Russian delegation that is meeting with the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, Turkey,
trying to take part in the next round of peace
talks that have been brokered by the United States. The
last meeting between these two was mid May. It was
the first direct contact between the two sides in the
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spring of twenty twenty two. Apparently Russia came and didn't
have its homework done. Russia came to the table in
Istanbul Turkey today and had basically a one sheet of
demands that they handed over to the Ukrainians, and the
Ukrainians had no idea what to do with it other
than to say, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
None of these demands make any sense.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So no progress is what we'll say out of those
talks between Ukraine and Russia today in Istanbul.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
All Right, you've had kids, you may currently have kids.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
In this travel world of youth sports that is so
much crazier than it ever was. There is a former
former Major League baseball player, a guy played with the
Blue Jays, the Pirates, the Orioles, Travis Snyder, and he
wants to change youth sports. We'll talk about his plan
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
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Speaker 2 (20:23):
Travis Snyder played Major League Baseball, Blue Jays, Pirates, Orioles.
He saw this game at its highest level, and he
saw it at a high level from an early age.
He was the top little leaguer in the state when
he was playing for Mill Creek Little League up in Washington,
late nineties early two thousand's one of the top ranked
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high school players in the nation. In two thousand and six,
his high school team won the Class four A state
title there in Washington, and he was picked number fourteen
overall by the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
This guy knows.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
This guy knows success when it comes to professional sports,
and he knows the youth side of that. The fact
that he got to where he was first round draft
pick comes with a lot of pressure. He said that
as a result of the pressure that he felt, not
just from his parents or the pressure he's adding on himself,
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but from coaches, other players, et cetera. He was later
diagnosed with complex post traumatic stress disorder and now he's
trying to keep other kids from going through that same experience.
So he has started a company called three A Athletics
with a life coach named Seth Taylor, and these two
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offer resources. They say that educates parents and coaches about
how intense and overbearing they can be. And if you've
ever coached youth sports, it's hard not to get involved.
For me, it was hard not to get competitive, especially
later on. I mean, you know, you're coaching five and
six year olds in soccer. There's very low expectations in
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terms of their ability.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
To win at all.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Sorry sorry, there's very low expectations in terms of their
skill level. They're just doing it to have fun, and
you should, as a parent slash coach, also be there
to have fun and watch them run around and eat
the orange slices in the middle of at halftime and
things like that. But Travis Snyder says he sees youth
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sports as a system that sets kids up for failure
because when the only priority is success and intense almost
NonStop practice and training to play at a high level.
It's going to lead to burnout. Your kids are going
to want to quit before they reach their full potential.
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He talks specifically about the times in the car on
the way home from a game, or perhaps even worse,
the reaction to an on field mistake can determine whether
a kid develops a love the game or has a
negative experience. One of the worst things that I ever
saw happen. I didn't do this because I, again had
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low expectations for my kids in terms of athleticism. I
wanted them to enjoy sports, so I tried to keep
all of those immediate natural reactions inside.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But if a.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Kid blew a play a ground ball at second base,
something like that easy ground ball should have been an
easy out. When they make the mistake, one of the
first things they do is they look into the stands
at the faces of their parents. That's heartbreaking because they
know the mom or dad or both are going to
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be really upset in many cases, So what they're trying
to do now. Travis Snyder and Seth Taylor is former
baseball player and the life coach, said he wanted to
come alongside parents and help them start to understand what
really is driving the INDO is doing a lot of damage,
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and that it starts with parents, and more so the
parents than even the coaches, because the parents are the
ones who are going to drive you to practice, drive
you home from practice, pay for your glove, pay for
your soccer kit, say whatever it is. One example of
the teachings from this group is called the car ride
home and why it's such a big deal, and they
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emphasize that you're supposed to turn those moments from an
experience filled with critiques about the child's performance into listen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't like the term, but a sanctuary of love.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I fell for this trap many times where I would
ask my kids, trying to be nice, hey, what'd you
think about that game? Or you know, how did you do?
Or how do you feel that you did? Is there
anything you could have done better? As opposed to wasn't
that fun? It's hard. It was hard for me to
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not ask the questions. But this, this plan now to
kind of take the pressure off of these sports. Parents
can choose words and actions that prioritize their well being
over their desire to coach or critique. Simple conversations can
clarify the kids often do not want postgame analysis, and
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all they want is emotional support. And another of these
talking points say is that young athletes need coaches and
parents who value effort over outcome and understand that failure
is part of growth, not something to be feared or avoided.
I think my kid was on three or four different
baseball teams, my son, and of all of those kids,
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I am assuming, say, let's say twelve kids per team,
that's fifty kids that I had the opportunity to coach.
And I can tell you that from those fifty kids,
maybe two of them had the right attitude about whatever
sport do they do. I should say, had the right
work ethic about whatever sport that they wanted to play.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
They wanted to get better.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
They showed up excited about learning, they showed up ready
to practice. And those kids are probably very successful right now,
even in their young mid twenties or whatever however old
they might be. When Travis Snyder was an All Star
for the Mill Creek Little League team, he was nine
years old.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
They won two Little League state championships.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He pitched a no hitter and hit two home runs
in the state semi final. He's nine, His travel ball
team won three national championships and then won the state
title in his senior year at high school, and he
said the stress to keep winning continued to build at
each level. For example, he said, one game he's eleven
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years old, Travis Nyder has an on field panic attack
when he was unable to throw a strike, one of
two panic attacks that an eleven year old boy had
in one weekend, and he said it was because of
the enormous pressure that he felt to succeed even at
such a young age. We'll talk a little bit more
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about this a little bit later in the show, because
it's pretty interesting, and I'd love to know if you
experienced it, or you saw it, or you had ideas
about what you've seen in youth sports and what it
is that you would do to change it. When you're
listening on the iHeart app, just hit that talkback button
and leave us a message about thirty seconds whatever it
is that you got to say, and we'll get to
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this a little bit later in the show. Again, we
had an absolute tragedy over the weekend of the loss
of a young police officer in Baldwin Park. We'll talk
about this officer, Samuel Riveros when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We start with this terrorist attack that took place, suspected
terrorist attack, at least that's the way that the Attorney
General in Colorado is talking about it. This suspected terrorist
attack at a pro Israeli march that was going on
just yesterday. The Boulder County Sheriff's Office said Mohammed Sabri Soliman,
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forty five, lives in El Paso County, Colorado, is going
to be charged with a couple of counts to first
degree murder, also being charged with one count of attempted murder,
count of first degree assault, count of causing serious injury
at an at risk adult or someone over seventy one
kunt of using explosives or incendiary devices. This guy was
yelling free Palestine and anti Israeli epithets and used a
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makeshift flamethrower and molotov cocktails on demonstrators who were marching
in support of of all things.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The release of his Israeli hostages by himask.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Heat against any of us must be treated against hate
against all of us. That's a moral stand that's imperative
for us to take. That's what America needs to stand
for in this moment. We need to make sure that
we keep people safe, that we make clear there's no
place for hate, and that in America people can peacefully
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demonstrate whatever they believe.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The FBI Special Agent in charge, a guy named Michael Mahalak,
said this was very clearly a targeted attack.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It is clear that this is a targeted act of
violence in the FBI is investigating this as an act
of terrorism. Sadly, attacks like this are becoming too common
across the country. This is an example of how perpetrators
of violence continue to threaten communities across our nations.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
The FBI head FBI Sorry Director of the FBI, Cash Buttel,
did say last night that the bureau is already investigating
this as a targeted terror attack. Boulder Police said four
men and four women were injured between the ages of
fifty two and eighty eight. Some things about what this was.
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This group is called Run for their Lives and Run
for their Lives Bolder and the group itself puts together
five ks, ten k runs and walks to bring attention
to different events and in this case, they had been
holding these demonstrations pretty regularly, just about weekly for the
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most part, whether permitting after the October seventh terrorist attacks
by Hamas on Israel. The idea that this was targeted
towards older people, because that was what struck me yesterday
is when they were talking about who it was that
was hit or injured, I should say between the ages
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of fifty two and eighty eight. We also found out,
without a specific identity, the rabbi for the eighty eight
year old said that woman is a survivor of the
Holocaust and was injured in this attack. Now, the videos
that you've seen from the protest, you can clearly see
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this guy walking around no shirt on. He's got two
bottles what appear to be Molotov cocktails that he hadn't
used yet, and he's still screaming at people while others
are literally putting the flames out on their fellow demonstrators.
The cops come, they are able to get this guy
on the ground and take him into custoding, And like
I said, he's supposed to be in court today for
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all of these different charges. He could be charged with
two counts of first degree murder, although at this point
there have been no confirmed deaths from the attack there
in Boulder, Colorado, as far as any other connection that
this guy might have to anybody else.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Now the subject is in custody, but this will be
a thorough and complete investigation. From everything we know in
the witness briefing, in interviews that we've done, at this point,
we do not believe that there is an additional suspect
at large.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So that was the FBI Special Agent in charge and
also the head of the Boulder Police Department in terms
of their investigation. The White House is saying and Homeland
Security has apparently confirmed that the suspect in this case
is a guy who is in the country illegally. Stephen
Miller is Deputy chief of Staff. He wrote on x
that the suspect was granted a tourist visa and then
(04:28):
illegally overstayed that visa, and he said in response, the
Biden administration gave him a work permit, and Miller went
on to say suicidal migration must be fully reversed. Again,
the senior law enforcement officials say this is still very
early in its investigation. Where did this guy get the
(04:49):
materials for this attack, Why did he specifically choose that
group other than they were pretty regular with their demonstrations,
and why it is that when he should have been
somewhere else after his visa expired supposedly back in March.
So any news updates on that, obviously, we'll bring him
(05:11):
to you and see if in fact the guy does
show up in court. Internationally, we had an event over
the weekend that was man I want to say the
word brilliant in that it was a sneak attack the
likes of which we have not seen in some time,
(05:32):
and it doesn't necessarily change the course of the war
between Russia and Ukraine, but it is a major, major
black guy for Vladimir Putin. We'll talk about what happened,
and what they're referring to is Russia's pearl harbor and
how Ukraine was able to do that. We'll talk about
it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (05:55):
Some very high value targets within Russia. This is argue
will be the most devastating blow Russia has suffered argument
since World War Two.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That was one headline I saw this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't know enough about warfare to suggest that that's
accurate or not, but it gives you an idea of
the scope and magnitude of this attack. General Jack Keen,
of former Vice Chief to Chief of Staff to the Army,
said that this attack, which was coordinated drone attacks on
(06:30):
several different air bases around Russia. And I'm not just
talking about the ones that are close to the Ukrainian border.
Some of these were in Siberia thousands of miles away.
To give you an idea just how coordinated and widespread
this attack actually was. Here is a General Jack Keene
describing it.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
They say it's brilliant, may be a little bit of
an understatement. Five air fields were targeted, four were successful.
Two of those airfields one was in Siberia to the
et then another one was actually close to China. Three
of them were in the western part of Russia, one
really quite north close to the Arctic. All of them
were targeting bombers that are used either in the strikes
(07:13):
against civilians and also against ground troops in Ukraine, and
they deliver conventional bombs or air launched cruise missiles.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
This is.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
This is an amazing ability that drones now provide in
modern warfare. The description of this. Even Russia is now
admitting that Kiev hit forty one airplanes, including Tu ninety
five and TU twenty two strategic bombers. These are long
(07:48):
range bombers and missile platforms. Ukraine also hit an A
to fifty spy plane. It is a surveillance aircraft, very expensive.
Russia doesn't have a lot of those, so they didn't
have lot to spare. A lot of these different images
that we have seen show several aircraft in flames or damaged,
and official with Ukraine's National Security Defense Council said at
(08:10):
least thirteen Russian aircraft were destroyed. What we don't know
is how many bombers Russia actually has left. One of
the top commanders in Europe top US commanders in Europe
set in April last year that Russia had lost ten
percent of its air force.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's not very much.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Ukraine to this point had not been able to hit
them where they needed to be hit, which was in
those strategic bombers. So this whole plan took a very
long time to develop. At the bottom of the hour,
I'm going to talk more about the planning that goes
into this and the actual execution of getting that many drones.
(08:49):
First of all, you got to get them into Russia.
Drones don't fly three thousand miles. So they got these
drones into Russia somehow and were able to deploy them
from the trucks that they were shipped in on. And
again General Jack Keene, former Vice Chief of Staff to Army,
he says, this may not necessarily be a game changer,
(09:11):
but it is a huge, huge win for Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I don't think it turns the war around, but it
certainly it indicates Ukraine's resolve to defend this nation, the
nation and what Russia is doing to them in the
horror they've inflicted on this regime, that they're going to
fight back with everything that they can, and at times
when they don't have all the means, they don't have
all the weapons that Russia has. What they do have
(09:37):
is brain power and innovation and creativity, and they took
actually kind of low technology copp the drones that you
see all over the place in the United States that
youngsters are playing with themselves, to deliver such a vital
blow to bombers that are inflicting so many casualties on
the Ukrainians truly.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Remarkable to begin this discussion where everybody else left off,
which was we thought Ukraine was getting down to it.
Russia lately, despite all of the talk from the White House,
from European leaders that they want to get a ceasefire deal,
it seems like Russia has just shifted into fifth gear
(10:20):
when it comes to the recent attacks that they have
been able to perpetrate. This is a massive, massive blow
to Russia at the very least in terms of public relations.
That they were so vulnerable or arrogant that they allowed
forty plus of their most important platforms, their most important
(10:42):
strategic bombers, to allow them to be damaged in this
way is pretty amazing. There's a guy named Frederick Mertens
who is a strategic analyst at a research organization over
in the Netherlands, and he said he's described it this way.
He says Russia has suffered a serious loss in striking
power just visa v Ukraine, but also towards NATO as
(11:03):
a whole, and that you cannot replace those airplanes, the
t U ninety five's, the TU twenty twos, they don't
make them anymore. So the ability of Russia to launch
any sort of long range or precision strikes has taken
a real blow, and that makes us safer. By us,
(11:25):
I mean the United States and Europe and NATO members,
we are all a little bit safer today because of
the degradation of the Russian bombers. So we come back,
we'll talk more about exactly how they did this. Operation
Spiderweb took several months, approximately a year and a half
(11:47):
apparently to plan and execute, So we'll go through some
of the details on that. Because this is one of
those I know that that General Jack Keane said that
this may not necessarily be the game changer, but I
keep saying it is a massive blow to the attitude
perhaps that Russia has had. Oh and in the background
of all of this, yes, Russia and Ukraine met in
(12:11):
Istanbul Turkey for more ceasefire talks. I don't think that's
going to go very well. We will continue with more
details on this when we come back. Also coming up,
how a former Major League Baseball player wants to change
youth sports it's gotten out of hand. And if you
have stories about youth sports getting out of hand, how
much money you've had to spend, how many weekends you've
(12:33):
had to spend away because of Joey or Suzi's baseball
or softball or soccer, volleyball, whatever it is, I'd love
to hear it. Leave us a talkback message on the app.
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You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Quick Chess News because everybody's looking for hot chess news.
Magnus Carlson, the top ranked chess player in the world,
lost for the first time in the classical format, really
long complex in the classical format to Gookesh dam A Raju,
the current world champ who at nineteen years old, is
seen as the among the brightest young stars in the
(13:14):
world of chess, which I didn't know was a bright
young world star thing to.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Have, figurey. I did miss the show on Friday, but
you start the show with hard news and no mention
Shamon so puting this all right, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
There, Shannon's just taking the day off. There could be
other reasons, like the weekend Fixed podcast. If you didn't
hear that, we can. I'm not saying this is what happened,
but I am saying we could still be suspended for
things that we do technically on the Weekend Fixed podcast,
(13:52):
just like we could stuff we said on the air.
I'm not saying again, I'm not saying that's exactly what happened,
but i am saying that that is possible.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Heiy Gary and Shannon Gary quick question, Why is it
so important that you have to mention that that terrorist
that tried to burn all those people alive was here illegally.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Why do you have to mention that? What does that
have to do with anything?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
How does that affect you?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
That doesn't affect you, not one fing bit. Why do
you have to mention it?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Why does it matter?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll say it this way. It does matter to the
eight people he tried to kill. And if you use
this analogy, if someone is supposed to be in jail
and they escaped and commit a crime, they were supposed
to be in jail, so there was some failure somewhere
that allowed that person to get out of jail. Think
(14:46):
of the prison escape out of New Orleans recently. They
had help on the inside. Somebody helped them get out
of where they were supposed to be. If someone is
here illegally, we know that they don't commit crimes secondary
crimes at a rate that's out of proportion to who
they are. I mean, they commit the same percentage of
(15:07):
crimes as the rest of the population. But the fact
that they should not be here legally in the first
place is what frustrates people, and it is what angers people,
because if this guy had self deported, had paid attention
to his visa expiration and gone back to Egypt, he
wouldn't be in Boulder, Colorado, he wouldn't have access to
(15:31):
molotov cocktails, and he wouldn't have tried to kill eight
people yesterday outside that protest.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Hey Gary, so do you think maybe Russia suffered from
a bad case of complacency and didn't think they could
be hit and that's where they got hit.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
How could they not be complacent?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
They for the last couple of weeks, since since talk
about ceasefire has ramped up, they have been launching more
and more and more devas dating blows against Ukraine. So yeah,
I do believe that they probably got a little bit
complacent because they didn't think that anybody was going to
do anything. They're pretty certain that no NATO country is
(16:10):
going to attack Russia because that's full blown world War III,
So if all they have to do is try to
tamp down the aggression perhaps from Ukraine or retaliation for
the original attack. Now again, this drone attack that we're
talking about was called Operation Spiderweb, and it targeted four
(16:34):
different air bases and other types of military installations in Russia.
The Secret Services they call them the SBU in Ukraine,
stashed attack drones. I mean, you know, medium size, not
the tiny ones, but medium sized drones that you might
be able to buy off the shelf. Oh and then
add you know, a couple pounds of explosives to They
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hid these drones inside the roofs of sheds. Those sheds
were then loaded onto trucks that were driven near each
of these bases. The roof panels are then lifted off
by a remote activated device, so the drones just fly
out and then target those airplanes, many of them the
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long range bombers. There apparently were some other infrastructure pieces
that were also hit, although this one is not quite
as clear. These were ones that were closer to Ukraine.
They said Russia was hit by a string of mystery
explosions two bridges. There was a deadly train crash as
a result of it several heavy trucks and cars came
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crashing down on a moving passenger train after a bridge
collapsed on the rail tracks in the Bryansk region of Russia.
So back to the drone attacks, they said thirty four
percent of the t U ninety five bomber fleet was
wiped out in those raids. Four percent. The t U
ninety five specifically is equipped to carry nuclear payloads. There
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were a total of forty one Russian warplanes hit in
these strikes, according to Kiev. They believe that that's about
a seven billion dollar strike to Russia's air force. The
attack involved a base, the Belaya Air Base, which is
almost four thousand miles away from the Ukrainian border. This is,
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like I said earlier, had been called Russia's Pearl harbor
by some pro Moscow military bloggers. President Zelenski Ukraine said
this is an absolutely brilliant outcome, the longest range operation
to date. He wrote that on the messaging app Telegram.
And the expectation is, or the belief is that this
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thing took about a year and a half to plan
and execute. I mean just literally getting a truck that's
got these drones secretly hidden in it. From anywhere near
Ukraine to that Malaya airbase out in Siberia thirty four
to thirty five hundred miles away.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That takes a long time, just an in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So the talks continue. By the way, there is a
Russian delegation that is meeting with the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, Turkey,
trying to take part in the next round of peace
talks that have been brokered by the United States. The
last meeting between these two was mid May. It was
the first direct contact between the two sides in the
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spring of twenty twenty two. Apparently Russia came and didn't
have its homework done. Russia came to the table in
Istanbul Turkey today and had basically a one sheet of
demands that they handed over to the Ukrainians, and the
Ukrainians had no idea what to do with it other
than to say, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
None of these demands make any sense.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So no progress is what we'll say out of those
talks between Ukraine and Russia today in Istanbul.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
All Right, you've had kids, you may currently have kids.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
In this travel world of youth sports that is so
much crazier than it ever was. There is a former
former Major League baseball player, a guy played with the
Blue Jays, the Pirates, the Orioles, Travis Snyder, and he
wants to change youth sports. We'll talk about his plan
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Travis Snyder played Major League Baseball, Blue Jays, Pirates, Orioles.
He saw this game at its highest level, and he
saw it at a high level from an early age.
He was the top little leaguer in the state when
he was playing for Mill Creek Little League up in Washington,
late nineties early two thousand's one of the top ranked
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high school players in the nation. In two thousand and six,
his high school team won the Class four A state
title there in Washington, and he was picked number fourteen
overall by the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
This guy knows.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
This guy knows success when it comes to professional sports,
and he knows the youth side of that. The fact
that he got to where he was first round draft
pick comes with a lot of pressure. He said that
as a result of the pressure that he felt, not
just from his parents or the pressure he's adding on himself,
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but from coaches, other players, et cetera. He was later
diagnosed with complex post traumatic stress disorder and now he's
trying to keep other kids from going through that same experience.
So he has started a company called three A Athletics
with a life coach named Seth Taylor, and these two
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offer resources. They say that educates parents and coaches about
how intense and overbearing they can be. And if you've
ever coached youth sports, it's hard not to get involved.
For me, it was hard not to get competitive, especially
later on. I mean, you know, you're coaching five and
six year olds in soccer. There's very low expectations in
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terms of their ability.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
To win at all.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Sorry sorry, there's very low expectations in terms of their
skill level. They're just doing it to have fun, and
you should, as a parent slash coach, also be there
to have fun and watch them run around and eat
the orange slices in the middle of at halftime and
things like that. But Travis Snyder says he sees youth
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sports as a system that sets kids up for failure
because when the only priority is success and intense almost
NonStop practice and training to play at a high level.
It's going to lead to burnout. Your kids are going
to want to quit before they reach their full potential.
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He talks specifically about the times in the car on
the way home from a game, or perhaps even worse,
the reaction to an on field mistake can determine whether
a kid develops a love the game or has a
negative experience. One of the worst things that I ever
saw happen. I didn't do this because I, again had
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low expectations for my kids in terms of athleticism. I
wanted them to enjoy sports, so I tried to keep
all of those immediate natural reactions inside.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But if a.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Kid blew a play a ground ball at second base,
something like that easy ground ball should have been an
easy out. When they make the mistake, one of the
first things they do is they look into the stands
at the faces of their parents. That's heartbreaking because they
know the mom or dad or both are going to
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be really upset in many cases, So what they're trying
to do now. Travis Snyder and Seth Taylor is former
baseball player and the life coach, said he wanted to
come alongside parents and help them start to understand what
really is driving the INDO is doing a lot of damage,
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and that it starts with parents, and more so the
parents than even the coaches, because the parents are the
ones who are going to drive you to practice, drive
you home from practice, pay for your glove, pay for
your soccer kit, say whatever it is. One example of
the teachings from this group is called the car ride
home and why it's such a big deal, and they
(24:23):
emphasize that you're supposed to turn those moments from an
experience filled with critiques about the child's performance into listen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't like the term, but a sanctuary of love.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I fell for this trap many times where I would
ask my kids, trying to be nice, hey, what'd you
think about that game? Or you know, how did you do?
Or how do you feel that you did? Is there
anything you could have done better? As opposed to wasn't
that fun? It's hard. It was hard for me to
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not ask the questions. But this, this plan now to
kind of take the pressure off of these sports. Parents
can choose words and actions that prioritize their well being
over their desire to coach or critique. Simple conversations can
clarify the kids often do not want postgame analysis, and
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all they want is emotional support. And another of these
talking points say is that young athletes need coaches and
parents who value effort over outcome and understand that failure
is part of growth, not something to be feared or avoided.
I think my kid was on three or four different
baseball teams, my son, and of all of those kids,
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I am assuming, say, let's say twelve kids per team,
that's fifty kids that I had the opportunity to coach.
And I can tell you that from those fifty kids,
maybe two of them had the right attitude about whatever
sport do they do. I should say, had the right
work ethic about whatever sport that they wanted to play.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
They wanted to get better.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
They showed up excited about learning, they showed up ready
to practice. And those kids are probably very successful right now,
even in their young mid twenties or whatever however old
they might be. When Travis Snyder was an All Star
for the Mill Creek Little League team, he was nine
years old.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
They won two Little League state championships.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He pitched a no hitter and hit two home runs
in the state semi final. He's nine, His travel ball
team won three national championships and then won the state
title in his senior year at high school, and he
said the stress to keep winning continued to build at
each level. For example, he said, one game he's eleven
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years old, Travis Nyder has an on field panic attack
when he was unable to throw a strike, one of
two panic attacks that an eleven year old boy had
in one weekend, and he said it was because of
the enormous pressure that he felt to succeed even at
such a young age. We'll talk a little bit more
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about this a little bit later in the show, because
it's pretty interesting, and I'd love to know if you
experienced it, or you saw it, or you had ideas
about what you've seen in youth sports and what it
is that you would do to change it. When you're
listening on the iHeart app, just hit that talkback button
and leave us a message about thirty seconds whatever it
is that you got to say, and we'll get to
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this a little bit later in the show. Again, we
had an absolute tragedy over the weekend of the loss
of a young police officer in Baldwin Park. We'll talk
about this officer, Samuel Riveros when we come back.
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