[Griffin:] What is that music? New York City is foggy, 66, thunderstorm wait a minute attracting sharks. Isn't that what the sharks like? Columbus Circle a little damp at the moment.
[Romans:] Looking like
[Ac/dc. Griffin:] I think that they I don't know what that is.
[Romans:] Really, this is a
[Griffin:] I know it's classic something or other. Guns N'Roses are they, right.
[Romans:] I knew this one. Anyway, some people the reason why we play that song is some people stressing out about living in the big city; others, they like the noise. It's all because of how our brain works. A new study found people who live in the city have a higher activity in a part of the brain that controls stress.
[Griffin:] That compares to those living in rural areas. It's the first study linking city living with high stress levels. No word on how long you have to live where you live for the effects to kick in.
[Romans:] Well, you just walk down the street in New York City or Chicago or any big city in America and you see all of these tourists looking around and saying I could never live here. Well that's why. So we want to know, is city living worth it even if it's more stressful or possibly harmful to your health? It's our question of the day. And here are some of your responses. DNELSON1980 on e-mail say, "I was born and raised in the country on a farm. Still living there after 49 years and would not trade it for anything."
[Griffin:] Yes, Ronald Wall, "Beep no."
[Romans:] You can say that one.
[Griffin:] We can?
[Romans:] Yes.
[Griffin:] "Hell no. That is precisely why I live in the country. But then if everyone lived in the country, it would just be another big city."
[Romans:] That's very true. You keep your city, folks, you stay in the city.
[Griffin:] That's some smart dude.
[Romans:] We didn't we don't see it that often. Democrats and Republicans coming together but they did it last night for a good cause. No, not raising the debt ceiling, beating the Washington Press Corps in softball. It was the Third Annual Congressional Women's softball game. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was she's a big Yankee fan by the way, she threw out the first pitch.
[Griffin:] Yes but not like a Yankee. From there the lady lawmakers beat the press 5-4, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got the winning hit. There it was. The game drew a bipartisan part by the way. Look at this, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi with John Boehner. The game benefited the Young Survival Coalition, a group that assists young women facing breast cancer.
[Romans:] All right. Meantime, a world away. First Lady Michelle Obama was delivering her message about health and fitness in South Africa and she enlisted Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They were doing sit ups and push-ups for the group in in Cape Town, Mrs. Obama pretty good at doing real sit- ups.
[Griffin:] Great move.
[Romans:] Yes, Bishop Tutu he is just there for moral support, I think.
[Griffin:] Yes, some kind of support. All right. This guy is one of the greatest Olympians of all time, right?
[Romans:] Right.
[Griffin:] Swimmer Michael Phelps, 16 Olympic medals and 14 of them solid.
[Romans:] Gold.
[Griffin:] That's right.
[Romans:] And he's not done yet by the way. Phelps say he's going to compete in the 2012 London games and through his foundation he is helping kids find that same passion for swimming. This week, I sat down with him and asked him about his motivation to succeed. A lot of people were telling you that you couldn't do it or a lot of people were kids maybe picking on you a little bit about, what? About your ears?
[Michael Phelps, Olympic Medalist:] Ears, shaving my legs, whatever. Wearing a Speedo.
[Romans:] You've got to have some kind of self-confidence, to get over that.
[Phelps:] I just I think I got to the point where I just didn't care. You know I was happy. And and I love what I do.
[Romans:] Right.
[Phelps:] You know? It's just I have goals that I want to accomplish in the sport before I retire and I didn't care what anybody else said. And, you know, when people doubt me now, it just fires me up and gives me more motivation.
[Romans:] Can you tell me what those goals are? Because you have so much metal around your neck and I can't imagine you could even hold your neck up. And what are those goals?
[Phelps:] Everybody wants to know and you'll find out in 15 months after the Olympics if if I were successful or not and it's going to be hard, but I think it's something that's doable and something I want.
[Romans:] So his mom made sure he learned how to swim for safety reasons and then, you know, she thought it was a good thing to do as a parent.
[Griffin:] Sure.
[Romans:] She's pushed him all along the way and he brought her home 16 medals. Nice right? Much more on my conversation with Michael Phelps on "YOUR BOTTOM LINE". That's the show I do Saturday mornings, 9:30 Eastern Time right here on
[Cnn. Griffin:] Interesting guy, he looks very, very largish.
[Romans:] Yes.
[Griffin:] Like he's not huge like a football player.
[Romans:] I think the guy goes in the pool and every part of his body is made for scooping the water. I mean, he's he's one of our crew guys said that guy is like a swimming freak of nature, you know.
[Griffin:] Right. Hey, coming up on 54 minutes past the hour. We'll be right back.