1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operate seven days a week. The Kooner Report 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston. 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Woke Olympics and does anybody even care anymore? 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 2: Good morning Cooner Contry. Okay, my friends, I've been meaning 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 2: to talk about this story. 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: It's a very big story. There's been so much going 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 3: on here on the domestic front. Internationally, we are waiting 8 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 3: to see if we are going to start a war 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 3: with Iran. That looks like it's gonna probably, if it 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 3: does happen, will happen sometime next week. So this is 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 3: the perfect time to discuss this story the Olympics. The 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 3: Olympics will officially be over Sunday night, so there's basically 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 3: one weekend left. Yesterday was an incredible day for Team USA. 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: I was pumping my fist up and down for joy. 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 3: Our US women's hockey team have brought glory to the country. 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 3: There's no other way to put it. They played a 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 3: spectacular tournament. They were the best team. They played with 18 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 3: tremendous skill ability and above all, patriotism and pride. And 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 3: they played against Team Canada in the gold medal, their 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 3: arch rival, and it was one of the I'm telling you, 21 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 3: as a hockey game, both men or women, it was 22 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 3: one of the best hockey games I have ever seen. 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: In fact, Sandy, Mike and I were just talking about 24 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 3: that before we got on the air. Just as a 25 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: hockey game. It had everything you wanted. It was fast, 26 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 3: it was competitive, it was back and forth, it was exciting. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 3: It was no holds barred. It was two teams, I 28 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 3: mean absolutely giving their best, and the Canadians were leading 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 3: late into the third period. I honestly thought Canada was 30 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 3: gonna win. I was depressed. I was, as I told 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 3: Mike and Sandy, I was so freaking worried, and then boom, 32 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 3: Team USA came back with an incredible goal late in 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: the third period. It went into overtime, it went back 34 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: and forth. Anybody could have won, and then Team USA. 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen the game winning goal 36 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 3: in overtime. That was filthy. That was whoa. That was 37 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: a beauty of a goal. I mean, one of the 38 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: most beautiful goals you'll ever see, so, you know, and 39 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 3: it's a wonderful thing to watch and to see the 40 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: pride on all these women waving the flag talking about 41 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: how great it is to represent the United States, the 42 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: pride that they have in each other as a team, 43 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 3: but also as Americans, and compete for the United States 44 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 3: on the biggest stage in the world. So there's been 45 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: so much to me that has impressed me about the 46 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 3: Olympics and about our athletes competing in the Olympics. But 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 3: there's another side, and it's a dark side, and it's 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 3: not getting better, it's getting worse. And that's why now 49 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 3: people are saying for the United States, this is becoming 50 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 3: now the woke Olympics. Now, the first point I want 51 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 3: to stress is that this is only the Americans that 52 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: are doing this. We We're the only ones that are 53 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 3: doing this. Other athletes from other countries. I don't care 54 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 3: if it's Britain, France, Italy which is the host country, Germany, China, Japan, whatever, 55 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 3: to Canada, take your pick. We're the only ones in 56 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 3: which athlete after athlete after athlete. It's not a majority, 57 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 3: but it's a considerable amount of athletes that keep either 58 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: running down their country abroad as they're giving interviews to 59 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: the media or they're going on about how I have 60 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: such mixed emotions about representing the United States and they're 61 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 3: going on about freaking Minnesota and Ice and Donald Trump, 62 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 3: sometimes even going on about abortion. It doesn't matter what 63 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: the cause is. They keep interjecting not just politics, but 64 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: radical far left, left wing politics into their sport, into 65 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 3: their interviews on social media. And to put it in 66 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 3: the jargon that these athletes put it in, they are 67 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: using their quote unquote platform to speak out. And so 68 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: you've had freestyle skiers, You've had curlers, male curlers. These 69 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: are Americans who keep going on about what's happening in Minnesota. 70 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 3: And I'm so ambivalent about representing the United States because 71 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 3: what Donald Trump is doing, what Ice is doing, this 72 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: is not who I am. This is not who we are. 73 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 3: And so the conversation is no longer about about winning 74 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: a medal, competing, representing your country, enjoying the whole Olympic experience. No, 75 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: it's another woke fest. It's another they're turning even the 76 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 3: Olympics into politics and into cheap woke politics. And so 77 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 3: you have a curler, rich Ruhonan who in a press 78 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 3: conference who you know, team essays done okay in men's curling, okay, 79 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,559 Speaker 3: but it's not you know, even after they win a game. 80 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 3: It's we have to mention what's going on in Minnesota. 81 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: My god, this is it's an atrocity and as an American, 82 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 3: I'm ashamed. Or you have these idiot national these idiot 83 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 3: freestyle skiers, one after another, Hunter Hess Chris Lillis, both 84 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: of them saying, you know, I really, I mean, I 85 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 3: wear the flag, but it doesn't represent everything for me 86 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 3: what it should because I don't like a lot of 87 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 3: things that are going on in the United States. And 88 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 3: I listen to these people. I could play you the clips. 89 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 3: I don't even want to bore you. Honestly, I don't 90 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 3: want to bore you. And I listen to these people 91 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 3: and I think, do you think I don't know? Here? 92 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 3: Great Britain, Okay, they've got a very good curling team. 93 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 3: Do you think the curlers of Great Britain, the female 94 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 3: curlers of Great Britain, you think they agree with everything 95 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,679 Speaker 3: that Kars Starmer is doing to Britain Right now, he's 96 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: one of the lowest rated prime ministers in British history. 97 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: His popularity is in the dumpster. I guarantee you most 98 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: of the British athletes think the guy's a loser and 99 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 3: driving his country into the ground. Do they hold press conferences. Oh, 100 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 3: I'm embarrassed to be British. I have the British flag, 101 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 3: But my God cares Tarmer what he's doing to Britain. 102 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 3: Nobody cares what your political views are. And more importantly, 103 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 3: it's not appropriate for you at the Olympics to use 104 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 3: your platform and to turn it into a political rant 105 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: or to attack your country's government. Because most people around 106 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 3: the world have criticisms of their own government, but when 107 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 3: they go to the Olympics, they understand one fundamental fact. 108 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 3: You're representing your country. You're representing the flag, You're representing 109 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 3: your homeland. That transcends politics, that transcends the current or 110 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: whatever government is in power. We used to understand that. 111 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 3: We don't. It's as I said to someone yesterday we 112 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 3: were talking about this. I said, you know, it's like 113 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: going to someone's wedding and then all of a sudden 114 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 3: going on and getting up there, and you know, instead 115 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 3: of giving a speech about the bride and the groom, 116 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 3: you start going on a political rant. Oh, I'd be 117 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 3: remiss if we didn't talk about ice. What they're doing 118 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 3: in Minnesota. Trump Trump, I hate them now the left 119 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 3: in this country keeps saying, well, they have a right 120 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 3: to do that. They have a right to do that, 121 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 3: they have a right to speak their mind. Yeah, yeah, 122 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 3: you have the right. No one says you don't have 123 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 3: the right. But don't get surprised when you get massive blowback. Again, 124 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 3: if you got up at someone's wedding and you turned 125 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 3: it into a political rant or a political screed, someone's 126 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 3: going to walk up to you and say, listen, this 127 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 3: is not appropriate. You're ruining the wedding for everybody. We 128 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 3: didn't come here to talk politics. We didn't come here 129 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: to hear it. You know. This is not the Democratic 130 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 3: National Convention. We didn't come here to This is not 131 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 3: a Kamala Harris rally. So if you can't talk about 132 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 3: the couple, get off the stage. Get off the stage. 133 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 3: That's exactly what I say to these Olympians, these woke 134 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 3: leftist Olympians, We don't care what you think about politics. 135 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: Shut up and skate, shut up and ski, shut up 136 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 3: and compete. Everyone else in the world seems able to 137 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 3: do that except for you. Now it's gotten to the point, okay, 138 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 3: it's gotten to the point where there is so much 139 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 3: criticism by our own athletes. And again I want to 140 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: stress this, These aren't other athletes from other countries denouncing 141 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: the United States. These are our athletes denouncing their own country, 142 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 3: and in particular ice or Tromp or some political issue 143 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 3: that they're all upset about. That the United States is 144 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 3: now being portrayed by the media in this country as 145 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 3: the new Russia, the new villain in sports. Listen, now, 146 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 3: these are two moonbats. Okay, two journalists. This is a 147 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 3: New York magazine reporter will like lights or leech and 148 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 3: see an host Audie Audi cornish Okay, I don't have time. 149 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 3: I want to play it on the other side. But 150 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 3: basically they're saying, now America is becoming a super villain 151 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 3: like Russia when it comes to the Olympics. We are hated. 152 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 3: We're hated by our own athletes, and we're encouraging the 153 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: world to hate our country. 154 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: You're locked into Boston's Bulldozer, The Kuner Report weekend edition, 155 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: The Voice of Boston WRKO