Why is USA booed, and what does it reveal about the tangled web of sports, politics, and national identity?" Join us as we get into the complexities of an event that goes beyond hockey, challenging cultural stereotypes and examining the historical tensions between Canada and the United States. We question how sportsmanship ties into political expression, and how figures like Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau influence perceptions on both sides of the border. Brace yourself for a fiery exploration of sports fan behavior and national pride, where historical military alliances and national identities are laid bare.
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00:00:20.112 --> 00:00:31.129 Three people stuffed themselves into the bell center on saturday and, um, if you were watching, even on wednesday night, fans were booing austin matthews.
00:00:31.129 --> 00:00:42.067 Now, if you're a hockey fan, you know that austin matthews is a toronto maple leaf, born and raised in arizona and is the captain of team usa and fans in montreal, the.
00:00:42.067 --> 00:00:55.048 You know the fans that don't represent 40 million Canadians but stood there and booed the crap out of Auston Matthews, including my son, who can't stand the player, and of course it was taken offensively.
00:00:55.048 --> 00:01:11.115 What was not talked about was that the gentleman standing next to him, mike Richter, well-decorated and respected hockey player, won the Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers, got an applause.
00:01:11.115 --> 00:01:24.373 So today, americans are noses bent out of joint because a bunch of passionate hockey fans decided to express their discontent with a certain president.
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00:01:27.668 --> 00:01:28.962 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Rent Network.
00:01:28.962 --> 00:01:30.808 I'm David Solomon, he is Stuart Briscoe.
00:01:30.808 --> 00:01:40.183 I did this on purpose, because yesterday, stuart and I had this wonderful conversation about how crazy we can be about a national anthem.
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00:01:54.152 --> 00:01:56.540 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Rant Network.
00:01:56.540 --> 00:02:23.610 So look, while Stuart will tell you that Canadians are such nice people, let me remind everybody that, sure that the reputation of Canadians is being nice, apologetic, but, as hopefully the future prime minister of Canada, pierre Poiliev, said on Saturday, do not confuse nice with weak.
00:02:23.610 --> 00:02:27.786 Stuart, you seem to feel differently this morning.
00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:32.293 So, please, well, you know, let's start out with.
00:02:32.293 --> 00:02:49.992 The only successful military action Canada's had in its entire existence was pre-Canada, the War of 1812, where the United States actually came in, which was the British into Canada, and, lo and behold, they were defeated.
00:02:49.992 --> 00:03:02.866 And just so that people understand, the US National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, was inspired specifically of the War of 1812, but more specifically the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
00:03:02.866 --> 00:03:17.247 But that was a very iconic year, probably the only year that you ever heard Canada or North American come up as a leader in military action.
00:03:17.247 --> 00:03:28.801 In fact, canada has been a follower and been an under-provider on the world stage in its entire history, though it did enter World War II in advance to the United States.
00:03:28.801 --> 00:03:38.775 It unfortunately doesn't have the capacity, fortitude or ability to be a superpower in the world, yet it tries to hold its head as one.
00:03:39.376 --> 00:03:40.939 Where I found disdain?
00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:56.242 Where you had 21,000 people in the well former Gillette Center, now the Bell Center booing at a national anthem is the most disgraceful thing any country can do to any other visiting group of athletes.
00:03:56.242 --> 00:04:20.023 And what I find even more ironic and David, you touched upon it is the asinine structure of the national teams whereby this guy is my father, third generation, born in Canada but really is an American wasn't chosen for the US team, but Canada needed a player because they just sucked and had to take an American player to bring them on, but that didn't help.
00:04:20.023 --> 00:04:34.458 The funny thing about this is that this whole National Hockey League, which is now international, is a farce and it is not as genuine as we would all like to hope it would be.
00:04:34.458 --> 00:04:54.120 Where it's Canada versus the US, because the amount of players that are truly Canadian, that truly educated in Canada, truly grew up in Canada, truly born in Canada, is actually a minor percentage of the team, no different than in the United States, no different in Finland, no different in any of these international teams.
00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.795 It is actually a joke.
00:04:55.795 --> 00:05:17.336 It's how you take one country to go against another country by title, nonetheless the classlessness, while the prime minister of Canada who, though, is duly elected and stands to be the head of the party until March, stood there and laughed, and stands to be the head of the party until March Stood there and laughed.
00:05:17.737 --> 00:05:30.067 You know Donald Trump is probably the most controversial leader in history and you know what His tactics, his antics are not necessarily supported by 330 million people.
00:05:30.067 --> 00:05:37.290 Yes, that's over 10 times the amount of people living in Canada, because we have about 20,000 undocumented workers here.
00:05:37.290 --> 00:05:41.000 So you know, we're probably about 350, almost 400 million today.
00:05:41.000 --> 00:06:01.372 But let's be honest, are really just dumbass Democrats portraying and projecting this innocent personality which doesn't exist?
00:06:01.372 --> 00:06:20.242 If there was any common sense at this game, they would never have booed, they would have stopped the ants and would have stopped the game, because that was very much unsportsmanlike in a game that is a national heritage in Canada.
00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:27.100 Hockey is Canada's hall of fame that it hasn't seen a podium since, I believe, 1993.
00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:34.038 Now, is it because Canada has lost its famous Stanley Cup for possibly an eternity?
00:06:34.038 --> 00:06:41.319 Or is it because Canada's lost its way in the woke and in the broke and in the retarded?
00:06:41.319 --> 00:07:15.490 And yes, david, I'm using that R word because graceful at all levels, it doesn't matter what I'm saying, because even his closest people know that what he is saying was just to piss Trudeau off, to call him, belittle him, because the little child who's trying to play world leader supports terrorism, supports terrorists, supports terrorist countries, doesn't stand up for freedom, doesn't care about the border.
00:07:15.490 --> 00:07:34.403 In fact, if it wasn't for Donald Trump and his illustrious campaign against Trudeau, you would not have put 10,000 troops on the US border to actually start protecting lives, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of lives dying of fentanyl?
00:07:34.711 --> 00:08:01.642 The Canadian government is in denial and, as a massive contributor not the most contributor, but a contributor none the less for that person that dies because the pill was one of, let's say, three out of 10 that came in from the North versus the South, does that change the life that's lost because of the gross incompetence of a country being an ostrich acting like a moron?
00:08:01.642 --> 00:08:09.230 David, I'm not taking up this whole rant because I know you're salivating in the corner while you try and pull up some facts on your phone.
00:08:09.230 --> 00:08:17.904 But, david, can you tell me you are not embarrassed to see what happened at the Bell Stadium?
00:08:17.904 --> 00:08:30.016 You're going to tell me you're proud to be Canadian, you're proud to have gone to Ottawa to stand up, with fellow conservatives Standing up and now trying to find a scapegoat.
00:08:30.016 --> 00:08:32.241 The reason why conservatives may lose?
00:08:32.241 --> 00:08:36.219 Conservatives may lose in Canada because conservatives don't have a platform.
00:08:36.318 --> 00:08:37.201 Okay, here we go.
00:08:37.201 --> 00:08:40.018 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, stuart, stuart, stuart.
00:08:40.018 --> 00:08:43.837 I let Stuart go for six minutes and let me tell you something about Stuart.
00:08:43.837 --> 00:08:55.717 My friend, my dear friend, who grew up in Montreal, believes that it's still 1996 whenever he left Canada and he still thinks that he knows everything.
00:08:55.717 --> 00:09:04.282 And while he controls the sound and he'll pretend to be funny, on a lot of things Stewart displays American ignorance, because what he just did is perfect.
00:09:04.282 --> 00:09:12.190 He decided that fans the hockey fans who booed the US National Anthem represents 40 million Canadians.
00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:20.578 So let me give you a parallel If you live in the city of Philadelphia, because Stuart is so well-versed in sports, let me see Stuart.
00:09:20.578 --> 00:09:24.120 What is Philadelphia's fan base known for?
00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:24.541 Stuart?
00:09:24.541 --> 00:09:26.436 Ah, ping pong.
00:09:26.436 --> 00:09:29.559 Well, stuart is going to look it up because he has no clue.
00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:37.490 This is the fan base that was well-versed, well-known to be pelting, you know, snowballs, ice balls at football players in the stadium.
00:09:37.490 --> 00:09:45.115 There's also well known to be throwing D-sized batteries at the field, also booing Santa.
00:09:45.115 --> 00:09:48.738 Whatever Is this representing the United States?
00:09:50.134 --> 00:09:57.341 Oh, throwing rats on a floor Is this a typical American throwing rats on a floor.
00:09:57.361 --> 00:09:58.484 Is this a typical American?
00:09:58.484 --> 00:10:07.057 So well, stewart wants to try to once again use bluster and an absolute, incredible amount of ignorance.
00:10:07.057 --> 00:10:07.519 It's good, good.
00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.470 Please continue to do so, because this is how Canadians and the rest of the world view Americans Ignorant.
00:10:10.470 --> 00:10:17.014 And the ignorance is amazing because, once again, if it wasn't for Donald Trump, trudeau would be out of power.
00:10:17.014 --> 00:10:20.871 That's false, beyond false, because you don't even follow Canadian politics.
00:10:20.871 --> 00:10:23.519 Americans wouldn't even know where Canada is on the map.
00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.416 It's just amazing to me to just show the arrogance of Americans.
00:10:27.817 --> 00:10:30.643 Now let me answer the question Was I proud?
00:10:30.643 --> 00:10:34.417 No, but I'm also not proud of my Canadian anthem.
00:10:34.417 --> 00:10:36.422 My friend, I'm not proud of them right now.
00:10:36.422 --> 00:10:38.956 I was not proud of the United States for four years.
00:10:38.956 --> 00:10:41.549 I don't think it's right to boo anybody's anthem.
00:10:41.549 --> 00:10:43.774 I think it's wrong to boo everybody's anthem.
00:10:43.774 --> 00:10:57.631 In fact, maybe you weren't paying attention which wouldn't be the first time you've heard that he was not paying attention to the announcer in the arena, who actually asked people not to boo any anthems.
00:10:57.740 --> 00:11:07.419 Now, this wasn't exclusive to just the American national anthem, but at one o'clock earlier that day, finland and Sweden played each other.
00:11:07.419 --> 00:11:12.965 Now, once again, finland and Sweden hate each other almost as much as the Canada-US rivalry.
00:11:12.965 --> 00:11:23.009 There is a centuries-old hatred between these two countries and the same arena announcer begged Finnish and Swedish fans not to boo the other's anthem.
00:11:23.009 --> 00:11:33.885 This is not abnormal, because if you go to stadiums around the world and believe you me, I follow sports this isn't the first time a national anthem is booed and people asked not to boo it.
00:11:33.885 --> 00:11:35.109 Irrelevant.
00:11:35.109 --> 00:11:39.623 The irrelevance here is this this is what sport is all about.
00:11:39.623 --> 00:11:41.986 Okay, now to sit there.
00:11:41.986 --> 00:11:48.022 View justin trudeau smiling and thinking that this is what canada represents.
00:11:49.124 --> 00:11:57.086 This is beyond wrong, canadians as a whole have said all along, america has been our friend, the United States is our friend.
00:11:57.086 --> 00:11:59.720 The United States and Canada have to fight together.
00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.868 Now Stuart likes to degrade Canada.
00:12:01.868 --> 00:12:28.745 But let me ask you, stuart, while the United States sat out in World War I until 1917, canada had no choice, as being part of the British Kingdom at the time, to join World War I, and there were tremendous deaths, vimy Ridge, to name one, and many others in which Canada lost significant lives, while the US took what position?
00:12:28.745 --> 00:12:34.047 Isolationism Refused to join the war in 1917.
00:12:34.047 --> 00:12:37.403 Oh, but you know Canada's done nothing on the battlefield.
00:12:37.403 --> 00:12:47.447 Let me remind you about World War II, in which Canada voluntarily joined the British in 1939 after Poland was invaded by the Germans.
00:12:47.447 --> 00:12:56.284 And, by the way, where was the United States On the sidelines until December 7th 1941, when it was attacked by Japan?
00:12:56.284 --> 00:12:57.206 Why?
00:12:57.206 --> 00:13:12.070 Isolationism and Canada stood side by side in Korea, vietnam, afghanistan and now, while Canada does not want to be a military power, no one can compare to the United States, except for China and Russia.
00:13:13.221 --> 00:13:14.245 Canada can do its part.
00:13:14.245 --> 00:13:15.708 Has it done its part?
00:13:15.708 --> 00:13:16.072 Hold on.
00:13:16.072 --> 00:13:17.803 Has it done its part lately?
00:13:17.803 --> 00:13:21.248 The answer is no, and that is because of woke politics.
00:13:21.248 --> 00:13:30.922 And woke politics is this If you go to Britain, go to France, go to all these other countries, they've taken the same stance, to use a sports expression.
00:13:30.922 --> 00:13:36.768 They've taken the same stance, to use a sports expression, they've taken a knee and they've let the United States go out and be the world's policeman.
00:13:36.768 --> 00:13:39.466 Now here's what you don't know.
00:13:40.658 --> 00:13:48.927 Our future Prime Minister, god willing, pierre Pauliev, announced that he will be re-increasing the Canadian budget for a few reasons.
00:13:48.927 --> 00:13:56.125 Number one, without being dependent on the United States, for all military to to be part of NATO in fairness.
00:13:56.125 --> 00:13:58.932 And three, protect their own borders.
00:13:58.932 --> 00:14:04.971 And so, right now, canada has lost nine years of Trudeau.
00:14:04.971 --> 00:14:07.124 We've become crap.
00:14:07.124 --> 00:14:20.672 And to sit here today and to say, oh well, you know you guys are, you know you guys are a bunch of wussies just like you've just described in your monologue, stuart, it is a reflection on the lack of understanding of how Canada works.
00:14:20.672 --> 00:14:28.860 Now to sit here to tell me that we're blaming Trump for loss actually, trump is impacting our election, stuart.
00:14:28.860 --> 00:14:30.607 That's called election interference.
00:14:30.607 --> 00:14:35.004 Remember how you didn't like when Putin made remarks.
00:14:35.004 --> 00:14:39.472 Just remember how you didn't like how other governments made remarks.
00:14:39.472 --> 00:14:41.985 And yet your own president is doing it.
00:14:41.985 --> 00:14:44.530 And that's okay, because if Trump does it.
00:14:44.530 --> 00:14:45.961 It's okay, stuart.
00:14:45.961 --> 00:14:57.291 All I'm saying is, if you want to have world order, you need allies, all right, now I'll let you rattle on.
00:14:58.019 --> 00:15:06.690 And because Canada is such an iconic Canadian group of athletes, you know they have to put spy drones up in the 2024,.
00:15:06.690 --> 00:15:20.066 Got barred in financing because their soccer team had to spy on another team I mean FIFA below their routine bans against different players disgraced Olympians.
00:15:20.066 --> 00:15:23.048 You're right, canada is no shiny penny.
00:15:23.048 --> 00:15:31.019 I agree, many Canadians are shocked and embarrassed over these scandals because they don't want to admit that they actually happened.
00:15:31.019 --> 00:15:34.722 But Canada is just as stained as the united states.
00:15:34.722 --> 00:15:44.663 However, stephen harper didn't increase the budgets for any of the un fund.
00:15:44.682 --> 00:15:50.370 Why, why, why, why because you're, because you're such a genius, tell me why.
00:15:50.370 --> 00:15:55.995 What was going on during Harper's time that he couldn't raise the military budget?
00:15:55.995 --> 00:16:01.091 Could you please explain it to me, because reading Wikipedia doesn't do anything.
00:16:02.181 --> 00:16:04.426 For Afghanistan mission in 26,.
00:16:04.426 --> 00:16:07.712 The Ontario 20s, the correct national motion.
00:16:07.712 --> 00:16:09.086 What do you want to know about them?
00:16:09.086 --> 00:16:12.605 The parliamentary contempt was drawn from the Cato Protocol.
00:16:12.605 --> 00:16:14.205 I bless you.
00:16:14.205 --> 00:16:14.888 I bless you.
00:16:15.551 --> 00:16:22.756 I bless you, but I too can read Wikipedia and I too can ramble off a whole bunch of things, and I can point the finger at Stuart.
00:16:22.756 --> 00:16:32.524 You could continue your rant, but I can also point out to you.
00:16:32.524 --> 00:16:39.254 Listen, stuart, if you want to tell me that America is great, fine, I'm going to tell you something.
00:16:39.254 --> 00:16:43.995 Your own government is right now exposing the fallacies of the past.
00:16:43.995 --> 00:16:51.476 Okay, your own government is talking about how you know, chelsea Clinton's wedding was paid for by the US government.
00:16:51.476 --> 00:16:55.854 You've got all kinds of bad things that are happening.
00:16:56.053 --> 00:17:01.884 I am not going to sit here today and tell you everything every previous prime minister has done here was right, wrong.
00:17:01.884 --> 00:17:14.306 But in 2008, when Prime Minister Harper was trying to save a country from bankruptcy okay, in one of the worst recession, possible recessions ever okay, what did he do?
00:17:14.306 --> 00:17:24.464 He had to take austerity measures, but he did commit in his final run for government to reinstate military budgets.
00:17:24.464 --> 00:17:29.642 But, stuart, it doesn't matter to you, because you just want to degrade Canada.
00:17:30.892 --> 00:17:33.436 No, not at all, David, Not at all.
00:17:33.436 --> 00:17:41.830 I want to illustrate how dumb the liberals have been, not once, not twice but the entire history dumb.
00:17:41.830 --> 00:17:44.635 The liberals have been not once, not twice, but they've done it.
00:17:44.635 --> 00:17:45.417 You started this rant.
00:17:45.417 --> 00:17:48.002 Have a single chance, stewart.
00:17:48.063 --> 00:17:54.232 You just started this rant by saying that canadians are bad people because we booed the american national.
00:17:54.492 --> 00:17:55.653 That's what they want to hear.
00:17:55.653 --> 00:18:09.717 No here, no at that arena demonstrated on how poor sportsmen like they could actually be visiting foreign country in a farcical.
00:18:09.717 --> 00:18:16.737 In a farcical canada versus us game farcical yes stewart, my friend, I want to explain to you.
00:18:16.998 --> 00:18:18.000 Do me all, do me a favor.
00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:18.821 I'm going to quote.
00:18:18.821 --> 00:18:21.115 I'm going to quote somebody who I really respect.
00:18:21.115 --> 00:18:24.201 Whatever, stay in your lane with what you know.
00:18:24.201 --> 00:18:27.078 Wow, don't pretend you know everything.
00:18:27.078 --> 00:18:28.404 What farcical.
00:18:28.404 --> 00:18:29.430 Let's repeat the time.
00:18:29.430 --> 00:18:32.038 Name one Canadian player, stop.
00:18:32.038 --> 00:18:32.534 Name me.
00:18:32.534 --> 00:18:37.060 One Canadian player who played on Team Canada, who wasn't born in Canada.
00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:41.451 And Canada.
00:18:41.451 --> 00:18:42.074 Who wasn't?
00:18:42.094 --> 00:18:44.260 born in Canada and maybe one of you guys from Arizona, the guy that filled that Arizona.
00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:44.963 Stewart is playing on Team USA.
00:18:44.963 --> 00:18:46.147 You see, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:18:46.147 --> 00:18:46.670 Who was the guy that?
00:18:49.798 --> 00:18:52.508 I love you, man, but you still don't know what you're talking about right now.
00:18:52.508 --> 00:18:59.291 The Canadian Canadian players in the National Hockey League do not represent the majority of players, but Canadian born players.
00:18:59.291 --> 00:18:59.972 Yes, we know.
00:18:59.972 --> 00:19:04.742 Austin Matthews was born in Arizona, plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs yippee-ki-yay.
00:19:04.742 --> 00:19:08.944 Okay, look at basketball and you tell me.
00:19:08.944 --> 00:19:10.329 Can you tell me the number one?
00:19:13.298 --> 00:19:17.576 countries against countries it's not a farcical.
00:19:17.576 --> 00:19:19.098 You don't understand.
00:19:19.098 --> 00:19:20.201 I don't understand.
00:19:20.201 --> 00:19:21.263 I'm sorry.
00:19:21.263 --> 00:19:25.176 You do not understand what this tournament is all about.
00:19:25.176 --> 00:19:27.029 You sit there as a genius.
00:19:27.029 --> 00:19:29.499 This tournament is not just about this tournament.
00:19:29.589 --> 00:19:32.736 It's about all of these tournaments and how they've become.
00:19:33.069 --> 00:19:35.819 My great-great-great-grandmother was born in Jamaica.
00:19:36.171 --> 00:19:38.136 That makes me for the Jamaican bobsled.
00:19:38.520 --> 00:19:43.336 It's ridiculous at this point.
00:19:43.336 --> 00:19:43.978 I love you, man.
00:19:43.978 --> 00:19:51.096 Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, stuart Briscoe represents I hate to say it, if this is the American education system, god bless us.
00:19:51.096 --> 00:19:55.644 So let's finish this up, because we're at 20 minutes and you've already put your foot in your mouth.
00:19:55.644 --> 00:20:00.217 So please finish this rant, my friend, because I can't wait to see the comments from the people.
00:20:00.217 --> 00:20:04.122 How would you like to end this rant, my friend?
00:20:04.122 --> 00:20:04.782 You know?
00:20:04.823 --> 00:20:06.346 David, it's very simple.
00:20:06.346 --> 00:20:12.201 They started off thinking that they can be arrogant in the bell center.
00:20:12.201 --> 00:20:14.471 They ended up being a bunch of losers.
00:20:14.471 --> 00:20:19.320 And you know what, on Thursday in Massachusetts I'm going to laugh.
00:20:19.320 --> 00:20:46.141 And you know, I hope that the American audience that's in Massachusetts, who are some of the most wildly intense sports fans, don't go to the level that your Canadian compatriots did and I pray that they don't, because that would be wrong and maybe on Friday we get to discuss how many boos or how many applause actually occurred while the national anthem played.
00:20:49.462 --> 00:21:01.537 As I end this rant, ladies and gentlemen, let me just show you how Stuart is being infantile and ignorant, because you know who the most, some of the most racist fans in American history are from.
00:21:01.537 --> 00:21:05.317 You can guess folks Boston, massachusetts.
00:21:05.317 --> 00:21:08.396 With that folks, let's end this rant because Stuart just played the music.
00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:09.291 He doesn't want to.
00:21:09.291 --> 00:21:12.934 Let me finish On that note have yourself a great day.
00:21:12.954 --> 00:21:13.898 We'll see you next time.
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