Left MELTS DOWN Over US Hockey Beating CANADA | Timcast NOON LIVE
Tate Brown and Johnny Root mock Canada’s emotional hockey meltdown after the U.S. victory in the 2026 Winter Olympics, contrasting it with leftist overreactions to Eileen Gu’s "traitor" Olympic switch—$1M+ from China’s CCP—and her anthem singing, while ignoring Alyssa Liu’s patriotism despite past political critiques. Root, canceled by Fanatics in 2020 for refusing masks, joins Outkick to fight left-wing sports media dominance, like ESPN’s "race baiting," arguing conservatives must engage to preserve sports’ unifying role and counter China’s NBA/MLB soft power influence. Their goal: reclaim apolitical athletics amid cultural wars. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Tate Brown here holding it down on this beautiful, beautiful Monday morning, Monday afternoon here outside of our nation's capital.
We got hit with the snow.
We got a little snow hit us last night.
Not too bad.
I hear Boston's gone.
I think Boston doesn't exist anymore.
It was hit by a snow hurricane from what I was seeing on Twitter.
So I'm not sure all the asking.
I think Boston is gone, unfortunately.
So if you're watching from Boston, maybe put that in chat if you survived.
But by all accounts, it looks like the entire state of Massachusetts is gone, which should play well for us in the midterm.
So this isn't the worst situation in the world, but very unfortunate to see.
That being said, we have some massive stories.
Oh my gosh.
America, you just can't, you really just can't hold us down.
You can't.
The thing I love about America above all else is that we can't stay out of the headlines for very long.
Like we are consistently always going to be at the top of the headlines.
As you saw, Winter Olympics, we're just doing our thing, right?
We're just, we're theatric, a very theatrical country, right?
Where, you know, there's always some cinematic elements coming out of the United States.
And man, these Milan Olympics, Winter Olympics.
No exception.
No exception.
So as I said, I'm your host, Tate Brown, here holding it down, taking you into the afternoon of the Rumble Daily lineup.
I am very happy to be back with you.
And as I let it slip already, you know, as little Freudian slip, we will be covering a few different elements at the Olympics.
There was a lot going on.
Of course, the term political.
I mean, should that surprise you, really?
I mean, it's 2026.
Everything's political now, including the Winter Olympics.
The funny thing is, from the athletes' perspective, they weren't being particularly political.
It was mainly the people watching that are at home, miserable, that had to turn up political.
Mostly left-wing people, I will say.
So we have all of that.
We have a few different stories.
Obviously, the hockey game.
We have the snowboarder who's like a traitor.
She's like snowing or skiing or whatever for China.
Crazy.
Figure skating.
I mean, really, just some action.
We also have this interesting story we'll probably get to if we have time at the BAFTA awards.
I know.
Bear with me.
Michael B. Jordan and another guy.
What's his name?
Delroy Lindo.
I don't know anything about these people, but they were on stage and a guy with Tourette's yelled the N-word at him.
So that's a really exciting story.
That one really gets me going.
You know, I saw it.
I didn't even know the guy Tourette's at first.
I was like, wow, this guy's getting bold.
You know, I knew Woke was dead, but geez.
But it turns out he is Tourette's.
And of course, people are just pretending to not understand what Tourette's syndrome is.
So we'll get into that.
I think we'll be able to get to it.
We should have time.
And then at the half hour mark, we will be joined by the great John Root to discuss all things Olympics and then some.
So it'll be very good.
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This is the part where all the left is completely.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
I mean, it's actually kind of true.
We do have to bring them, unfortunately.
No, the women's team, they played well.
You know, I got to hand it to them.
Very well.
Well done to the ladies.
We love our American ladies hockey team.
So Trump, you know, just cracking the joke.
It's funny.
It's the squad, the boys.
I don't even know if this was supposed to be recorded.
This was, I don't know what happened here, but you know, this is a moment between the squad, between Don, Uncle T weighing in, saying, you know, we'll invite the, you know, the dames.
If we have to bring them in, we'll bring them in.
We'll give them a few medals and whatever, give them glitter.
Who knows?
Maybe medals of glitter on it.
I don't know.
But, you know, he's saying I might get impeached about it.
It's so true.
But now everyone's coming and glued over this over a joke.
It just shows you the moment we're in, really.
This was funny.
This the Canadians just, I'm just skimming through everything I saw, like literally crying.
They couldn't believe it.
This feels really good to see after all the mouthing off they did, just to see these maple monkeys crying.
It's a very beautiful thing.
Howling Mutant weighed in.
Oh, hockey, is that a big deal over there?
Because this is the funny thing.
This is the great thing about being American.
I think the majority of Americans didn't even know the game was going on.
I think the majority of Americans didn't even know we were in the final or anything.
Meanwhile, in Canada, this is like their thing.
This is like the one thing that's keeping a lot of them from MAID, from using their MAID program up in Canada.
And we just casually on a Sunday morning, everyone's hearing the reports like, oh, we won the gold medal in hockey.
Oh, it's great.
I didn't even know we were there.
So it's a really beautiful thing to see that.
The Canadians are crashing out.
They're War of 1812 posting, but this is a really good point here by JNY the Human.
The men and women of your nation are incapable of defeat, so you must look so far back to find anything.
The lineage to those who performed those acts of determination has long been broken.
They are as alien to you as the English are to us.
Your fate is dissolution into minor territories.
It's so true.
Like, they didn't even do that.
The War of 1812 brought in the White House.
That was the British.
That was the British.
Like, okay, they occupied Canada.
They controlled Canada at the time.
It was a colony.
It wasn't the Canadians doing that.
It was the British.
So I don't even know why they're even LARPing.
This is beautiful.
The Redditors are coming unglued.
Reddit looks like if therapists could disclose everything a schizophrenic person says to them, that is what you're seeing on Reddit right now.
This is a beautiful thing.
Bald Eagle on a half-mast, Canadian flag in Vancouver is not the symbol I needed this morning.
This is an excellent point here by ZXY.
This poster here, he says, the Romans would have taken this as an omen and launched a full-scale invasion.
And I absolutely agree.
I think now is time to strike.
They're demoralized.
I think this is where we can go.
Comrade Stunt made a good point.
The Canadian euthanasia website has crashed.
I missed this picture.
Yeah, so I don't know what's going to happen.
You know, like, you know, you would get those stories back in the day when the North Koreans would go and they play in the World Cup or they'd be in the Olympics or something and they would lose.
And the story was they would go back and get executed.
I wonder if that's going to happen to the Canadian, the Canadian hockey team.
If they go back and they get euthanized by the Canadian government, I think that's a realistic scenario we could be looking at here.
And actually, I do feel a little bad for the Canadian men's players.
I didn't realize their lives are quite literally on the line.
It is Canada.
They euthanize.
Lauren Chen made a good point here.
Canada and America have this rivalry where Americans dislike Canada, like a big brother dislikes his younger siblings.
And Canadians dislike Americans like Bruder Brutus disliked Caesar.
Very salient point.
Liptard's coming unglued over Kash Patel squad just partying with the boys again.
I don't have too big of an issue with this.
I know some people are saying, like, ah, has Cash earned a joyride to Milan?
Okay, that's a good question.
But I'm not going to, like, I'm not going to pearl clutch over this.
And this guy makes a good point here.
This is D Trophy is his name, I guess.
I won't lie.
If Joe Biden was slamming beers of the USA hockey team after they won gold, I would have loved every second of it.
If your politics consume you to this point, to the point that this enrages you, you are beyond repair.
I agree.
And this sort of point here, we're going to kind of see this is a common theme between all these other stories that we're going to be covering.
I have a few more here.
This one is just funny.
Again, these libs are just can't handle it.
These Canadians, which are just synonymous libs at this point, they feel so tough teaming up on everyone.
I want to throw up.
This guy, Jay, weighs in here.
Yeah, get these pronoun people away from my sport.
So true.
I don't know what's going on with these Canadians.
They're getting really soft.
They used to not be this way.
The Canadians used to not be the soft.
I'm not going to be one of these people that, you know, is like Canadians have always been gay or whatever.
There's a lot of great Canadians out there.
It's just, it is what it is, you know.
It's the Tockey.
The No More Brother Wars thing goes out the window when the Olympics start.
I'm sorry.
It's just true.
The Canadians, you know, maybe if it weren't the Olympics, I'd be a little bit more gracious.
I've been gracious in the past towards the Canadians, but now is not the time.
We settled this and we're going to chest beat a little bit.
It is what it is.
This is a great point.
This is a really great video.
The squad, the boys, it's just a good thing to see.
It's a good thing to see.
This is a great point.
And then they want to replace these men with Indians and Somalis.
So, because you're seeing a lot of these politicians, you know, I don't name a lot of names here, but you see names like Vivet Graham Swami, you know, getting hyped up over the results.
Literally a year ago, he was advocating for mass replacement migration with H-1BV.
He says, it's like, dude, sometimes it's like they want to celebrate America, but they don't want to celebrate.
They want to celebrate Americans when we're victorious.
They hop on the winning team, but they won't actually go to bat for us when it comes to policy.
That's where it gets a little annoying.
Wes Moore, same thing.
Governor Marilyn put a tweet up, you know, chest beating.
And it's like, well, the policies that you advocate for don't reflect this sort of love for Americans and our culture and these sorts of things.
And so it's really annoying when they decide to be on the team when it matters most.
So with that, I have a few more stories I want to get to.
I guess let's go on this, kind of on the theme of people getting their brains fried by the internet.
This was this Evan Loves Wharf guy.
He's just like literally pound for pound, one of the worst people I've ever seen in my entire life.
Says, do you not, in this, this video, this figure skater kind of captured America's heart.
Alyssa Liu, I think I pronounced her name correctly, Alyssa Liu.
You know, she's fun.
She's got a fun haircut.
Her figure skating routines are a lot of fun.
Everyone's loving it.
She's kind of, you know, really captured the country, captivated the country rather.
And like no one, no one was sitting there watching her figure skating routine, which is fantastic.
No one's sitting there thinking, hmm, I wonder what her position is on gay marriage.
I wonder what her position is on like a refugee admission cap.
Hmm.
I wonder what her position is on, you know, affirmative action.
No one's sitting there thinking it.
They're thinking, wow, this is a figure skater who's really good and she seems to be pretty happy being American.
You know, she's singing the anthem loudly.
She's clearly like moved during the national anthem, like after she's won or whatever.
So no one's sitting there like thinking, no normal person's sitting there thinking, I wonder what her policy is.
You know who is doing that though?
It's these like, again, these, for lack of a better word, like just mentally cooked left-wing people.
I mean, do you people not know she's woke?
Kimberly Ross from the DC Examiner puts it perfectly.
Here's the thing.
I don't care.
She proudly represented her country.
I couldn't care less about her politics, truly.
That's how all of us feel.
I don't really care what a 20-year-old's take is really going to be.
A 20-year-old figure skater's take is going to be on politics.
Who cares?
That's not the point.
She's not rubbing in my face.
She's not making, she's not using, you know, the platform, the American Olympic platform, as an opportunity to stump for something.
That's one thing if she did that, but she didn't.
She just came and she did her job and she had a lot of fun.
And I think everyone had fun watching her.
It was a really beautiful thing.
Bacha Ungar Sargon said, the right is so stupid.
They're cheering on an athlete who loves her country but doesn't agree with them politically.
A lot of leftists are telling themselves it's so true.
This is really just like shows how miserable these people are is that they're trying to like, I guess, claim these athletes.
Evan loves Wharf.
She went to pro-Palestine protests.
If she hadn't won gold, Republicans would be calling her a terrorist.
Okay.
If she hadn't won gold, no one would know who she is.
If she had one gold, no one would know who she is.
I mean, let's be honest, she's a figure skater.
Like, let's be honest here.
The reason she's all over the news, all over the headlines, is because she's really good and it's like undeniable and she's a lot of fun.
So everyone is tuning in.
She's box office.
If she won silver or bronze, how many other figure skaters can you name?
So the fact that we know who she is tells you she did something great.
That's why she, if she hadn't won gold, her punis be calling her terror.
She had one.
Romans wouldn't know who she is.
So who cares?
Sean Fitzgerald way is in here.
We love him, friend of the show.
The reason these lefties don't understand why we don't hate this girl is because for them, politics equals religion.
For us, coming from a family that risked everything to fight communism to the U.S. and then winning for us is more important than her generic liberal beliefs at age 20.
That's absolutely correct.
Again, politics is religion.
Politics, this revolution is the only identity that people like Evan Loves Wharf has.
That's really the only thing that keeps him going every day is, again, this like Libtar revolution.
For us, we have like better things going on.
So, when we see a figure skater that's, again, excellent, unbelievable world-class figure skater, and as fun, it's like enjoyable personality, et cetera, we just say, great, that's great.
You know, congratulations.
And I guess her background, too, I guess her dad was like Taiwan aligned or something like that.
So, she kind of has this like anti-communist background.
Even then, I don't even really care about that.
I mean, I know like that's supposed to be a big deal.
I don't even really care about that.
She's American, so like, whatever.
She's great at her job.
Like, it's like, let's not even get too bad, too much in the week.
I digress.
You know, this person says, Oh, hot chicks going viral because they're not political is becoming one of my favorite internet topics, by the way.
Again, whatever.
Alyssa Liu is political, you moron.
How?
No one would have known her politics if you didn't like just harp on every little thing she's ever said because she doesn't really make a point to make it political.
That's like her thing.
She's trying to, it's a fairly uniting thing, actually.
The fact that, again, it's pretty unclear to figure out what her politics are.
This Libtardi says, the far right, whatever that means, has been defeated in the cultural zeitgeist so completely that they have resorted to pretending that a woke child of immigrants is somehow a Groyper like them, playing with dolls to pretend that normal people don't find them utterly repulsive.
I know the American flag for them is like what's garlic for vampires or whatever.
I guess sunlight for vampires.
The American flag, they say it all the time.
They're like, oh, you know, when I walk by, when I walk by a house and they have an American flag, I just walk quickly because I know it's going to be a chud in there, an evil right-wing chud.
So the American flag is already very right-wing-coated, which is a good thing, by the way.
I don't know why people on the right fight that.
That's a great thing that, like, the American flag is right-wing-coded.
That's a good thing.
So, when they see this, they immediately clock it.
If this girl is left-wing, why is she so proud to be American?
Something's off.
And so, they have to, again, get very defensive and like start shadow boxing against right-wing people attempting to claim that she's right-wing, which is not happening.
I didn't see a single conservative seriously actually saying she was conservative.
This is obviously tongue-in-cheek.
She's a patriot.
She is a patriot.
I guess, yeah, she's waved a flag around, etc.
It's a great thing.
So, let's try to get through this next story pretty quickly.
You guys know all about it.
This lady's literally a traitor.
The NBC Bay Area puts this up to all Bay Area athletes who traveled to Italy to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics.
You did the Bay Area Proud.
So, what do we got here?
We got a few athletes, obviously, Alyssa Liu, we just discussed, you know, Austin Matthews, who was, you know, he's born in the Bay Area, you know, a few of these other American assets.
You have these guys, you know, they're in international jerseys.
Well, they play for the San Jose Shark, so they're considered locals.
But then you see this girl.
Okay, what's her deal?
Elaine Gu.
Well, she's from the Bay Area.
She grew up in San Francisco, but she competes for China.
Hmm.
That doesn't sound right.
Okay, let me crunch some numbers here.
I'm not an athlete, so you might guys have to walk with me here, walk me through this.
So she's born and raised in the United States.
She's born in San Raised in San Francisco, the Bay Area.
I know it's a left-wing place, it's still America for now.
But she competes for China, our global adversary, like our actual top opponent, globally speaking, or kind of her mortal enemy.
What does that say about her character?
You know, I'm just asking questions here.
That's all I'm asking.
All I'm asking is questions here.
I know I have labeled the tab your traitor.
This is the weird part.
So you see the Bay Area NBC, you know, Rhett Conninger is like she's being American or whatever.
Then you see this from NBC.
Elaine Gu didn't just defend.
She defined.
Logan Dobson, he weighs in here.
He makes a good point.
I remain totally perplexed why an American broadcaster has been so vehement in pushing an athlete competing against us.
It's a little strange, right?
What's going on here?
And then this, she starts crying these crocodile tears, claiming that she's getting bullied or whatever, you know, the death threats, bowling, etc.
Her grandmother died, which is sad.
But this is obviously a pro-China poster.
Trolls like JD Vance, the most despicable Magoids, they attacked her, but she stayed strong and won medals at every.
We attacked her because she's a traitor.
We attacked her because she grew up in America.
Her family came from China and then stabbed us in the back and competed for China, who's our global adversary.
She's so anxious to represent and attach her name to not just, again, not just a foreign country.
It's not like she's competing for Britain or something.
Literally our global adversary, like quite literally, enemy number one, China.
I think she's sort of picked her side herself.
I don't think she should be allowed back in the United States.
Who knows?
I mean, if she's willing to be disloyal to us at the highest level in front of everyone, how do we know she's going to be loyal to us at the lowest level?
How do we know she's, again, like trustworthy with information?
How do we know she, I mean, she's clearly, there are affinities for China, a global adversary.
I would say our immigration policy at large should be anyone that's loyal to China, a foreign country, should have a look taken at them.
They should get a second look taken at them.
That's all I'm going to say there.
So we're going to bring John Rooden in a little bit to talk about this.
Before we do, I want to get to this clip real quick.
This is hilarious.
We can get through this really quickly.
I don't know if I could play the clip because it's going to go on YouTube.
But Michael B. Jordan and Del Roy Lindo were giving a presentation at the BAFTA Film Awards.
And there's an activist.
There was a movie that came out about Tourette's syndrome, a documentary, et cetera.
And so they brought one of the guys from the documentary, John Davidson, who's beloved in Scotland, by the way.
John Davidson, if you ask anybody from Scotland, they all know who he is.
He's beloved.
So the Scottish are getting a little fired up about this whole story.
He has Tourette's syndrome.
If you know, I mean, I don't need to explain what Tourette's syndrome is.
You just, you have these uncontrollable outbursts, verbal outbursts.
Like you can't, like, it's like a, it's a sort of like neurodivergence, I guess you would say, for lack of a better word.
It's for the same reason someone with Alzheimer's can't not forget stuff.
Like this just, it is what it is.
It's a disability.
You know, it's unfortunate, but it's a, it's a disability.
So that's why they're trying to raise awareness for it.
So they bring John Davidson.
Very unfortunate for him.
It's kind of an ultimate nightmare, I would say, for someone with Tourette's syndrome.
Michael B. Jordan and Del Roy Lindo are giving their presentation on stage and he just screams the N-word at him.
Which is, it's funny.
It's a funny moment.
Like it's shocking.
But it's really unfortunate for John here because a lot of people don't know what Tourette's syndrome is.
Jamie Fox being one of them.
Look at this.
He's completely crashing out.
Out of all the words you could have said, Tourette's made you say that.
Nah, he meant that.
Unacceptable.
So, all of a sudden, Jamie Foxx, you know, the arbiter of self-control, the guy that's like sexually assaulted a ton of women, all of a sudden, he's the arbiter of self-control all of a sudden.
What is going on here?
This is a plot twist.
You know, Jamie Foxx, Mr. Hansy, all of a sudden is like, you know, Mr., I'm all about self-control.
How dare you say something like that?
He's the last guy I think should be mouthing off here, Jamie Foxx.
Again, he just doesn't, he maybe doesn't even know what Tourette's is.
Out of all things you could have said, Tourette's made you say that.
Yeah, actually, that's kind of how it works.
It's not like it's not a great thing to have.
This person, Henry Good, you just have these boneheads.
There are no ticks of a racial slur.
Racial slurs are learned.
Why didn't he yell pizza or burger?
Those words are used literally every day.
He chose the N-word because he saw two black men, and that's how he feels about them.
It's not Tourette's, it's racism.
Americans finding a way to be horribly able.
So imagine a burger.
These people, man.
It's really, it's unfortunate, it's black people.
They're just they get so tribal about these things.
It is what it is.
This is Dr. Baron here.
It says, makes a movie about a disabled inclusivity, gets a real-life disabled person to play the part.
Complain when his disability plays out in public.
That's what's going on here.
Why didn't they censor it?
You know, they apparently censored like a free Palestine rant or something like that.
I can think of two strong reasons because it's this guy's disability.
It would be wrong to censor him.
And because they wanted to show black people looking aggrieved at the end of the nuke.
Worked for Turning Point for two and a half years.
I've been independent for about a little over two years now.
And now I cover how sports and culture intersects.
I try trashing on ESPN as much as possible and kind of covering the things that people won't cover, especially like we're talking about today, the Olympics.
A lot of mainstream left-wing media won't cover the things or say the things that I can't really get canceled for.
But I was wondering because obviously a fellow Bay Area native, Elaine Gu, representing China.
You know, I thought that was a little interesting.
The NBC Bay Area page puts up a graphic showing all the local athletes, people that either play for the Sharks or, you know, they're from, born there, grew up there, et cetera.
And then they throw her in.
What is the deal with the mainstream media just trying to shove this woman down her throat who clearly doesn't want to like represent us in any way, shape, or form?
And maybe you can, if there's any sort of Bay Area insights on what her deal is specifically.
Yeah, I mean, basically, NBC is bought and paid for by China in a lot of ways too.
So people have to remember that.
I mean, it doesn't make an excuse, but I mean, Eileen Gu has been like the poster child for left-wing mainstream sports media throughout the Olympics.
Like the New York Times, their sports section, which is basically the athletic, has put out a bunch of puff pieces because we can come together as sports fans and say Eileen Gu is an amazing athlete.
She's incredible.
She's incredible what she does.
There's a reason that she's the most decorated free skier ever, but she's also proudly representing the communist Chinese government.
She took millions of dollars to compete for them, even though in case people don't know, she was American born, American raised.
And the other Bay Area connection is she goes to Stanford University and does international relations, which is pretty interesting.
I mean, I would have this problem if we had an athlete born and raised in America that competed for Britain.
And I love Britain.
I think it's a great place.
I think they're similar to us.
I don't think there's too much of a discrepancy between our two countries as far as, you know, like, we're pretty aligned globally, I would say.
Even then, I would have a huge problem.
I would still think, wow, this person's like a traitor.
So the fact that we have this woman literally like gaslighting the American public on what China's, she's really what she's trying to do is kind of launder the reputation of China to the American people.
From the Chinese, from the CCP's perspective, excellent work.
From a marketing perspective, great work.
Like they got their money's worth because there's a lot of young men and young women in America, mostly young women, I would say, that are looking up to this girl and they're saying, wow, okay, maybe my parents are just kooks about China.
I don't know what the problem is.
Elaine Gu seems great, you know, and they don't even realize what's happened here.
They don't realize that she's quite literally a turncoat.
She's quite literally, again, laundering, you know, CCP rhetoric, CCP policy to the American people, really the Western audience at large.
And it's just honestly the most egregious, disgusting thing ever.
A few people said, and I think we should consider it, is really considering, you know, taking a look at her like status in the United States.
Yeah, because I was trying to look up some of that stuff yesterday.
And I think it takes a people have said, let's just say this.
Donald Trump can't sign some sort of executive order and say that, yes.
Eileen Goo has been treasonous.
She's a traitor of the United States.
And I'm going to sign this piece of paper and revoke her citizenship.
That can't be done by the president of the United States for everything that I've looked up.
That would have to be quite the process to go through denaturalization since she was born here and has lived here.
But I think it's something that should be looked into.
I mean, especially if we're going to have Congress look at Bad Bunny's lyrics and his performance during the Super Bowl halftime show.
And I think rightfully so.
They said the FCC should look at this in case people weren't aware.
There's a lot of pretty vile, egregiously disgusting innuendos and lyrics.
Yes, they were bleeped out during the halftime show.
So that's why they pushed that.
But if they're going to do that, at very least, you got to look into Eileen Gu that's proudly singing their national anthem, taking plenty of money from them.
And they're trying to hide it.
So in case people don't and aren't aware of that, there was a basic budget that came out and it was Eileen Gu and then one other, I think it was a figure skater that there was something around $14 million that was spent on both of them.
And that was all of a sudden taken off public platforms.
You can't really see exactly what that budget is.
And we're rightfully so figuring that Eileen Goo probably got the vast majority of that alleged and reported $14 million.
I think I would say the reaction to Eileen Gu, I think there's broad consensus.
This is wrong, that she's seriously made an infraction here.
But you still see mostly leftists.
You do see some people that are clearly like CCP aligned, but you still see some leftists that are going to bat for her, et cetera.
It's just such a terminally online thing because you can only come to the conclusion that she hasn't done something wrong if you have like some weird online justification for it.
Because every normal American sees that and they go, wow, that's terrible.
Why would she do that?
So kind of on the same note, as far as like the online discourse breaking people's brains is Alyssa Liu, the figure skater, who I think everyone in America loved watching.
She was, you know, excellent, excellent performances, gold medal, et cetera.
Again, no one was watching her perform and thinking, hmm, I wonder what her take is on transgender bathrooms or I wonder what her take is on, you know, like immigration.
We were just saying, wow, she's a great figure skater and she clearly is proud to represent the country.
This is great.
I love her.
You know, whatever.
And then you have an onslaught of leftists online saying, how dare you celebrate her?
She actually went to a pro-Palestine rally once.
How dare you?
So you're seeing this like almost insecurity from people on the left to like, we're not allowed to look at an athlete and say, wow, she did a good job.
You know, she's proud to be American.
It's a great work.
It's like, we're not really too concerned with her politics.
What is going on there?
What is your take there?
Because it's just, again, it's like almost like the internet is just completely breaking these people's brains.
Maybe a little bit more wild than Alyssa Goo's hair, but it is a very fun place and has been a fun place over the last few weeks.
Yeah.
Because it's so funny.
The left, no one creates a straw man better than the left.
They are angry at conservatives for things that they think conservatives are and what they think and what they feel and what they do.
That's not actually who conservatives are.
Like you and I and a lot of people watching here, we are happy to see Alyssa Liu represent the United States and proudly represent the United States.
We don't have to cheer for them just because they align with us politically.
I guarantee you, probably the vast majority of our Olympians are left wing and we wouldn't agree with them politically.
But a lot of people like Alyssa Liu, she has an amazing story of how the CCP tried to get her to join, but her dad fled communist China.
And Alyssa Liu and her dad said, no, we're not going to join you.
We're not taking your money.
And spies were sent after them.
And then Alyssa Liu is, though she is a leftist, and it's not that crazy to see a leftist female in figure skating.
Figure skating is probably like 99% liberal.
We were happy to see her be proud to be an American, thankful for the federal government that helped protect her and her family against spies from the Communist Party of China.
And in general, it's just, it's great to see.
But what we will draw the line on is Hunter Hess saying, I have mixed emotions about representing the red, white, and blue.
Amber Glenn is basically saying, I'm a pansexual and it's a tough time for the LGBTQ community under Trump.
People don't like that.
They don't like Eileen Gu.
They don't like a lot of these athletes that are purposely being divisive.
Yes, they're fielding questions from a bunch of that left-wing media that loves the Eileen Goos that we've just talked about, but you don't have to trash on America.
You don't have to answer those questions.
And I think they need to realize that this, just like Mike Chorico, if people have not seen Mike Torico's closing comments after the U.S. men's hockey team beat Canada for the gold medal, first gold medal since 1980, he said sports bring us together.
And I think athletes need to realize that we don't need to agree on your politics in order to root for you wearing the red, white, and blue in the Olympics.
We need to realize that sports has the ability to bring us together.
And I don't think there's any better example of Mike Chorico, another guy that's probably leftist himself, I'd imagine, ended up saying the best example of this is our men's hockey team and what we just saw right now.
And Alyssa Liu, I mean, to your point, you know, before we get off, it's like, that's a great example of something bringing the country together.
It's kind of nice to have these cultural touch points because it really does feel like everyone's becoming siloed.
Everyone's becoming atomized in a lot of ways.
So it's nice that everywhere you go, you could say, did you see that figure skater with the crazy hair?
Yeah, she's really good.
And you can have that moment with Americans again.
It feels like it's been a while since we had something like that, that we can all come together and at least have a conversation.
And then I think the hockey team's a shining example of that because, you know, a couple people made the point is for Canada.
This was like everything for him, right?
This was like all the marbles.
I think a lot of Americans didn't even know the game was happening yesterday until like they started getting alerts and they're like, oh, this is hilarious.
But I'm not like a diehard hockey fan or anything.
I mean, I have a general idea.
Like I know who Austin Matthews is, these sorts of things.
But I would assume that's probably the vast majority of Americans.
But again, it's just when it comes down to something that unites Americans, that's where the magic comes in because you don't need to be a die-hard hockey fan to root for Team USA in this situation.
And that's what made it so beautiful, obviously, coming out of Canada.
Because I think, you know, there would have been a general rallying around if we played like Finland in the final or something.
The fact that it was Canada, that's what made it so vindicating.
I've been a proponent of, I don't know if you'll agree with this take, but I'm like, I don't know if we should be roughing up on like, you know, our like.
Western civilizational compatriots.
I mean, there's some plenty of rebbing to go on with Canada, but it's like, you know, sometimes you don't want to kick them while they're down.
It's like, look, they have a bad government.
There's a lot of good Canadians out there.
But man, when it comes to the Olympics or the World Cup or whatever, all bets are off.
Like Canada are sworn enemy.
We should probably invade right now, I think, while they're demoralized.
But I was wondering what your take was, because I mean, we're going to have a similar take here.
It just fired you up.
Like, it really fired you up.
It was great to see, like, again, just normal, a bunch of normal people.
Like, the American hockey team was just a bunch of like normal guys.
And you could tell afterwards, like, none of them are wanting to get very political.
None of them were wanting to do this, that, or the other.
Well, what's interesting, and I hate to have to do this, but it's a political show.
So we got to go there.
As we had Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland.
And by the way, I'm bleeding red, white, and blue a lot right now.
I might need to get it checked out, actually.
It seems like a medical issue, but uh, Wes Moore, governor of Maryland Democrat, obviously, uh, tweeted after the game, you know, the picture of the eagle pinning down the goose or whatever.
It's hilarious.
You see that and you're like, that's funny.
It's glad.
I'm glad to see that like Democrats enjoyed that as well.
Like, that's again, it's about uniting.
You know, it's a rare moment where we can all like, all right, come together.
You know, we're not going to have a civil war tomorrow.
Great.
Wes more tweets this.
And then in the replies, he's just dogged on, not by Canadians.
They don't care.
They're like drinking already.
It was American liberals are like, wow, governor, very disappointed in this.
This seems very chauvinistic.
You know, da, da, da, da.
Some of them are like, I was cheering for Canada.
I can't cheer for a country that has like Orange Hitler in charge, Cheeto Hitler in charge or whatever.
So you're seeing that and you're like, are we really at that moment where even just like light chest beating is considered beyond the pale for, again, Wes Moore, you know, for what it's worth, he isn't like a crazy like Mamdani style leftist.
I would say he's like a pretty conventional Democrat.
The fact that his constituents are horrified by, again, just a little light American patriotism.
Like they get to a place where it's like, oh, I think it's totally fine that Eileen Gu is competing for communist China because I don't know if I was an athlete, I would want to represent the United States.
I mean, obviously, that's the way left-wing brains work.
They are so mush over the past eight, 10 years that when you see someone like a Democrat say, I am happy that our nation's men's hockey team beat the best hockey team maybe ever compiled in the history of hockey.
They beat Canada.
And this is a funny meme.
And it was probably the White House post that he ended up quote-to-eating.
But again, leftists, again, you have like Joe Scarborough, Pablo Torre, and then like the online community that are like, well, conservatives are celebrating an immigrant in Alyssa Loo?
Like they can't, they cannot wrap their mind around that.
Like, this is a legal immigrant.
This is someone proudly representing the United States.
This is a meme.
We're excited.
And that what they try blaming us for, that we can only support conservative athletes.
Right.
And, you know, it just comes back to bite them in the butt.
And it's a double standard.
They can't think clearly about it.
And I would just hope maybe Tuesday they can recognize the men's team and the women's team, the hockey teams coming together for the state of the union that, oh, wait, like maybe I need to like just be proud to be an American.
And that's what it comes down to again is like, how long have people been saying this?
Like probably pretty heavily since 2020 that you shouldn't be proud to sing the national anthem.
I mean, I remember getting crapped on for wearing, I was holding a big old American flag.
And I think it was 4th of July.
I think it was 4th of July weekend in 2020.
And, you know, this is during a time where people's brains are so broken that they just can't be proud to be an American anymore.
They think that law enforcement is attacking black people as soon as they leave their door because they're listening to what LeBron James has to say.
He said that during the NBA bubble.
They're fine with the black national anthem and they hate, they think that, you know, they hate and think that Trump is Hitler and conservatives are basically, you know, Nazi adjacent.
You know, these are the kind of things that people legitimately think this way.
They think that I can't be proud to be an American, but they can't find anywhere else where they would actually want to move to.
And I'm always coming back to, and I know it's kind of an uphill battle for me in these conservative circles to get people to care about sports.
Because again, I go back to Mike Chirico, and I'm glad that he said it.
I've been saying it for a long time.
A lot of people have Jason Whitlock, Clay Travis, you know, a lot of people on the conservative side say sports has the ability to bring us together.
Liberals have to start realizing that.
That I grew up in the Bay Area.
Steph Curry's politics suck.
I don't believe, I really don't believe he bears the fruit of a Christian, though he calls himself a Christian.
But I love watching that guy play basketball.
And I will never apologize for rooting for him on the court and turning on the TV or spending my hard-earned money to go watch him play basketball.
That's what people need to realize.
There's certain things that you can't separate the art, I guess, in the sport from someone's politics.
I get there's times where lines are crossed, but I think we need to figure out more and more that this isn't just, oh, I'm telling you to support bread and circus.
There is art that we can actually really enjoy, specifically with the Olympics that you can cheer on your country and you can separate the politics from that.
There's other times where we will draw the line.
Again, Hunter Hess, Amber Glenn, Eileen Goog, those other things.
A line can be drawn.
But in general, leftists need to find some joy in sports and it's being Americans because a lot of times you'll show up to a game and you're rooting for a team and someone to your right and your left may be voting crazy different than you.
They might think that men can become women, but you're hugging each other because your team just made a great play.
You're high fiving each other.
That's what America is all about.
And we should be able to go into bars like we were yesterday way too early, high five people, hug people, shout until we lose our voices.
And we have no idea about the person to our left or right, how they voted, what they identify as religiously or sexually, whatever.
I mean, yeah, I've always been because there's this tendency on the right, especially like kind of some of these new like ascendant figures and that sort of thing, is they really just have an axe ground of sports.
And I really do understand it to a degree, especially when it comes to pro sports, just with the like the way that these things are evolving, especially with like sports, but it's just things are changing.
I think that would be fair to say.
But like, again, to your point, I mean, so much of it, especially for people that are just trying to get food on the table, like a football game is a big deal to them, especially like college sports.
I mean, people, it becomes like the pride of your state, the pride of your region, these sorts of things.
And it's like, those are massive.
That's massive for people.
So I actually share that.
And maybe I don't know if that's a departure from a lot of sort of both of our contemporaries for sure in the conservative space.
But I think even Matt Walsh has made this point.
Like there actually is a lot of utility to sport.
And I think the solution would be taking back the institutions rather than just like withdrawing because sports has always been around.
Baseball has been a big deal for 100 years plus professional baseball.
So it's like, it's not going anywhere.
You're not going to like topple the NFL by not watching it.
You're spot on with that because that was something that as much as I appreciated my time at Turning Point USA, like I said before, it felt like I was swimming just upstream.
And I was trying to get people to realize sports matter.
Like if we dip out, if we say I am completely boycotting and I'm leaving the fight, sports are going to be taken over by left-wing media and left-wing propagandists like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapino.
And if we're not properly pushing back against that stuff to get sports back to being as apolitical as humanly possible, we've lost an outlet that has the, again, the ability to bring us together better than anything else.
And then we don't have the ability to make a fuss years later when it is so overrun by leftism.
And I think you're spot on because I preach that to people so often.
Sports is worth fighting for.
Yes, sports as a Christian should not become an idol.
I don't think people should have skipped church to watch the hockey game yesterday.
But, you know, sometimes with me, it's like, hey, it worked out pretty good with the schedule here in Phoenix, Arizona.
And I was still able to go.
But sports and people like Matt Walsh, like he watched the hockey game.
I think he said that was his first hockey game he's ever watched.
He needs to go down the street.
And if Matt Walsh, if this is getting to you, go to a Nashville Predators game.
You will go and you'll be like, this is dope.
Like, this is so fun.
We got country music blasting and this is a fun experience.
And, you know, take your family.
Sports are worth fighting for.
And I think we see people in sports like Jack Hughes.
He was the golden goal.
He got the golden goal in yesterday's game to beat Canada.
And I love my teammates.
I love my country.
I'm proud to represent the red, white, and blue.
There's countless Christian athletes in sports too.
I try to use my platform to make sure that their voices are out there and they are recognizing Jesus Christ, not just some like deity God figure.
Sports are worth fighting for.
It can bring us together.
It's a fun place to bring your kids.
But there is times where pride nights are involved.
Leftism is integrated and flooding into sports over the last five, six years, especially.
So we should fight it back against those things, but we can't withdraw.
Hopefully, create a little bit more content for them that gets more mainstream, gets a little bit more virality, and we're able to fight back against the establishment and mainstream sports media that falls way too far left.
And obviously, with him joining Outkik, it worked out pretty well.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I mean, from a soft power, if you are a political person, if you don't buy any of the arguments we were making about why you should be care about sports, the one thing you should care about sports is it's a soft power projection.
Like, if you go to China, they're all wearing like NBA team jerseys.
The MLB is increasing in popularity internationally, but the NBA is becoming like a serious global institution.
So, from a soft power projection standpoint, it'd be very beneficial if we were able to put pressure on the NBA in various ways, probably using the Trump administration's tools that they have at their disposal.
Because that would be really useful is if we can just truly weaponize the NBA as a form of soft power.
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