Chapter 1: What sparked the criticism against Boomer?
There aren't a lot of things that you respond to when people go off like this because you say things like, oh, you know, consider the source of where this is coming from, or maybe people don't know who this guy is, or maybe it's someone on X. I mean, I do know who he is. I have listened to the Levitar show, so I'm not going to just sit here and say, like, I don't know who he is. I'm familiar.
Um, with him and some people go off and they say things and it's whatever, but it was just the inaccuracy of some of the things that he was saying that made me feel like I needed to open with it and kind of refute that stuff. Now, I don't want to sit here and go back and forth and call him a bunch of names too, because I don't think that gets us anywhere.
But what it seemed like to me, and I don't know if you agree or not, but what it seemed like to me was this is a lot of misguided anger. That this guy is very angry politically about things that are going on. Maybe there's people in his life or others that he has stayed silent about.
But then this Boomer thing comes across his plate and he all of a sudden just explodes and all the things that were bubbling up in him about whoever... annoyed with comes out in the direction of it all goes to Boomer. Because a lot of these things that he's saying, he clearly doesn't know Boomer and the show.
And what I mean by that is when he's going on, and if you haven't seen this, the guy's name is Mike Ruiz. He's a producer of the Dan Levitard show. He said to Boomer, quit being a P word. Put your name to it. Say what you effing mean.
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Chapter 2: How does the producer of Le Batard's show describe Boomer?
All right. So to Mike Ruiz, I sit next to Boomer five days a week, four hours a day. I wish he would say what he meant less.
I know.
to be honest with you. Yeah. So you don't know what you're talking about. Now, I'm never, ever going to tell boomers, stop doing this, stop doing that, whatever. But there are times where he'll jam politics into conversations that I'm like, that was unnecessary.
And taxes.
Yeah. And that was unnecessary. And I'm like, now I got to find a way out of it. But that's what he wants to do. He's earned that ability to say all of these things that he wants with this platform. But to sit here and say that he is on here giving you some sort of coded message because he's afraid to say what he wants and he's a P word is just completely misinformed.
It's wrong.
Now, I'm not going to say that it's lies because I just don't think he knows the answer. I don't think he knows and he's lying about it, Michael Ruiz. I think that he's just misguided. He just doesn't have the information. He's just screaming about whatever that he's annoyed about and is putting Boomer in a category that he's not in. So, I mean, that's really, you know, the biggest part about it.
You say it with your chest. Say what you mean.
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Chapter 3: What are the underlying emotions behind the criticism?
He does. All the time. There isn't a single time we don't know what he means. You know? And then it's just... If people get so worked up and then, you know, you do all these things in your life and then all of a sudden, like, you say one thing and then a guy like this looks at Boomer and starts calling him all these names.
And, like, I don't need to sit here and rattle off his resume of all the great things that he's done. Everybody can find that. Everybody knows that. But when you're going to start saying things about somebody like that and just minimizing them and diminishing them and calling them... Wussies with a P and chicken bleep and all of this.
Don't you have to stop and consider what the man has done in his life? And you'd be like, okay, maybe I'm allowed to and can disagree with his take, and I've got a platform to disagree with it. And you can say the reasons why you disagree with it.
But then to take it to a level of a man who should be respected and call him those names, that was the thing that put me over to the top of like, I got to say something because this is ridiculous. And I also don't want to go back and start calling him names. I don't even know much about what his life is. I know I'm on the radio. I listen to that show.
This is the difference, I think, between me listening to these shows and maybe... Michael Ruiz. I used to listen a lot when I was doing Gio and Jones to the Levitard show because that was a national radio show that I found funny. I had done just local radio, so I was curious on how they did it. I could actually listen to it on Sirius back then.
I'd get in the car and I'd listen to them and I'd go back and forth with them and Joe and Evan and whatever else. I would listen to the show and there'd be times where they would say things politically I disagreed with. You know, and those things I'd either listen to or maybe change it or whatever. But I was never like, Dan Levitard is a complete pig loser, woosh bag scum.
for saying this, you know? I mean, I was like, where do you get, like, how does that happen?
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Chapter 4: What inaccuracies were pointed out in the criticism of Boomer?
And I just, I don't know why he was so angry about it. The only thing I can guess is, like I said, it was misguided anger, and this Boomer thing comes into his sports sphere that they're talking about. And I know they go outside of that sphere a lot, like we'll go outside of that sphere, but I think it came in and he was like, all right, now's my opportunity to really slam this guy.
And he did, and I think he looked horrible for it, honestly.
This is why I hate politics. I hate politics. I hate when it crosses over into what we do. I hate this business, to be quite honest with you, in 2026, because the more you yell and scream, the more popular you get, as opposed to what I think it was... and how it began and what it was supposed to be. All of what you said, I agree with.
You know, when you first watched it yesterday, the first thought is to start yelling and screaming back at him and start calling him even worse names. I don't know him. I don't know anything about him. He comes across as someone who, my guess is, a far-left extremist. I don't know if he is or isn't. I don't know. And what I come back to is this comes from...
the comment of a skier is that it was yeah about being conflicted about being wearing the red white and blue and boomer just saying be proud of your country you got hockey players out there that are talking about what an unbelievable uh privilege it is to wear the right i i don't know where the anger comes from i don't i really i don't understand it i'll never understand it um and maybe that's why i usually sit on the sidelines when it comes to politics
Yeah, so he also, and this sort of furthers my point of this being something that was built up and then just sort of spewed at Boomer. He goes, I'm so sick of these snowflakes. They were telling me I was soft for 10 years. So this is something, like, he built this up for, like, 10 years. And I had to swallow it. Then he goes, use your platform however you want.
But if you do, I'm going to call you a wussbag. Like, I mean, yeah. So, and just to, like... This is another thing that, you know, it's the misconstruing of things. And it's a battle that it's impossible to fight every day. I mean, it really is. It's swimming upstream. It's a battle to fight.
It's an impossible battle to fight every day trying to convince people and add context to things and change somebody's mind. But there's just certain things that are just completely untrue that were taken from that clip that people then extrapolated and projected onto Boomer's take that had nothing to do with it. So Boomer doesn't care if you say something that you don't like about the country.
What he doesn't like is when you're doing it when he believes that you're wearing the flag or it's during the national anthem or you're going out of your way when you're representing your country or the country is being highlighted and then you're doing it. He doesn't like that. Now, you could disagree with that part of it. He's not saying you're not allowed to have that take.
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Chapter 5: How does the discussion shift to the role of politics in sports?
is he's had a ton of... He doesn't like when people are even asked about the political stuff when they're representing their country. So he says he's had a million of these Olympians on that game time show that he does. And he doesn't sit there and ask them what they think about the country. He asks them about... He's very much, even though his beliefs do bleed into this particular program,
When it comes to, like, you got the flag on your chest, you're representing the country or the national anthem's playing, that's where he's like, just no way am I doing that. And even on the other side of things, he would disagree with it.
Like, if there were, and people could roll their eyes at this, but I firmly believe that if there were an Olympian that stood up there who had the flag on and just went off about Biden's immigration policy, He would be like, you know, all right, I might agree with him, but that's not the time to do it when you're wearing the flag. Time and place.
So just to think that he's just targeting these guys because they disagree with what he believes is wrong. It's the place that he doesn't like. And that's something you can disagree with, too. No. Another thing that just cracked me up, and this is actually from a guy who covers the Cowboys that you know, I think. And I wasn't going to bring this up, but I'll bring it in this context.
It's Clarence Hill. So when Boomer said what he said about respect the flag and pipe down and just support what's going on, he meant like support what's going on at the Olympics, like your country, whatever. He wasn't saying support everything that's going on in the country.
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