The following are actual quotes from the interview followed by his true, inner, Brain Twinkey thoughts:
BRAIN TWINKEY PHELPS: When I kick my dope habit I’ll try and swim again…when I swim I can’t do anything wrong because I’m swimming. It’s hard to smoke pot or drive drunk while doing that!MATT LAUER: I have to ask you, were you smoking pot?
MICHAEL PHELPS: It was a bad mistake. I mean, we all know what, you know, what you and I are talking about. It's a stupid mistake. You know, bad judgment. And it's something that, you know, I have to, and I want to teach other people not to make that mistake
BRAIN TWINKEY PHELPS – No Matt – I like to place my mouth on all cylinder objects with dirty, smelly water. Then I like to watch other people put their mouth on it too. It’s cool.MATT LAUER: We're living in a world right now, Michael, where people have a cell phone and it was a camera. Were you aware that anyone had taken a photo that night? That anyone was taking pictures? Is that, maybe, a lesson to be learned here? That not everybody's your friend?
MICHAEL PHELPS: Yeah. You know, people think, you know, it's funny at times. Take a picture with a cell phone... I'll say that there are a lot of people out there who want to take advantage of any situation they have.... I trusted my friends who were there about who they were. And clearly they weren't trusted people... Sometimes you learn the hard way.
BRAIN TWINKEY PHELPS: The asshole with the camera better not walk down any dark ally’s. The money he made from selling that picture will barley cover his hospital bill.MATT LAUER:But when you first saw the picture, when you first laid eyes on it and realized what it was a picture of, did you calculate at that point the fallout? Did you start to think how damaging this could be to you personally and your career?
MICHAEL PHELPS:It's not about money to me. So, you know, the-- the contract side of things, yeah, I was disappointed. But, you know, I think the biggest thing is-- is who I hurt the most. Like, if I lost money, okay. It's not an issue with me.
BRAIN TWINKEY PHELPS: I thought the picture was cool. I printed it out and put it on my fridge. Then I sent the link to a bunch of my buds! I don’t do math so I wouldn’t know how to calculate much.Read more...






