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Boomer & Gio

Illegal Racing, Plus Eileen Gu Caller Prompts Boomer Reaction

24 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent trends in illegal racing are being observed?

0.031 - 24.998 Boomer

Another thing that I'm seeing way more now than ever is the racing. Over the last two years, the racing, especially overnight with cars, is out of control. Oh, that's where the cops come in. I'm telling you, if there's one thing... I'm not someone who has a lot of phobias or scared of a lot of things. Gina's scared of sharks. She won't go in the water for very long. I don't have any of those.

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25.578 - 45.9 Boomer

The one thing that frightens me is getting caught in a wrong situation with one of those racing cars because I see how quickly they're going in and out and flying by over 100 miles an hour. There's nothing you're going to be able to do if they clip you. That's the thing that every morning I'm like, these sons of bitches. If I could do something about that, I would do something about that.

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46.15 - 52.635 Boomer

Let's go to Justin in Patterson, New Jersey. What's going on, Justin? Boomer and Gio. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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52.655 - 53.657 Gio

What's happening, Justin?

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54.378 - 70.942 Unknown

Yeah, I've been thinking about this. The fact that Canadians are complaining is absurd. They had an opportunity President Trump gave them to become the 51st state, and they'd have gold medals right now, too. Instead, we stole their sport, and we sold our soul. USA all the way.

71.262 - 75.909 Gio

All right, Justin. The problem is that most of the Canadians would have been on the American team.

Chapter 2: Why are overnight racing incidents becoming a public safety concern?

76.77 - 100.296 Gio

True. Wouldn't have had the same team. We would have had some of the guys, of course, yes. Connor Hellebuck would have been one of them. Yes, indeed. The interesting thing is they named Connor McDavid MVP of the Olympics. Now, the reason they did that is because the votes had to be in after the first period of the gold medal game for some reason. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It is.

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100.356 - 121.939 Gio

I remember when I would do the Super Bowl for Westwood 1 and for ABC, I would have a vote for the Super Bowl MVP. And I would want to wait until the last possible moment, especially if the games were close, as to who I thought should have won the MVP because I know how important it is to the player. I would imagine that Conor McDavid is probably, of course –

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122.054 - 127.986 Gio

appreciative of the award, but probably because they won the silver medal, probably doesn't want the award.

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128.006 - 142.476 Boomer

Oh, of course not. None of those guys won any. They didn't want a silver medal. They didn't want the stuffed animal. They didn't want any of it. Like I said, that was one of the more embarrassing things that they had to go through, and I understand. I give them respect because nobody left the ice. Everybody sat there, and they looked disappointed.

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142.456 - 145.182 Boomer

But nobody did anything dumb or stupid or disrespectful.

145.202 - 150.934 Gio

It was the same thing for the women. The Canadian women had to stand there and go through the same thing. But, I mean, that's tough, man.

Chapter 3: What are the implications of police chase policies on street racing?

150.954 - 163.08 Gio

And the Canadian women had the lead until about two minutes left in the game when the American captain, Hillary Knight, scores on a deflection six on five empty net by the USA. And by the way.

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163.06 - 182.47 Boomer

I just want to bring – I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah. Because of all the people I was seeing with the reaction of, oh, wow, you know, the U.S. men's team was laughing at the Trump joke where they said that he had to invite the women too. One of the first things that Jack Hughes said after he scored that goal is, I was thinking about Hillary Knight. Yeah. So – What do you mean?

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182.731 - 194.688 Gio

Those teams love each other, man. Come on. It's USA Hockey. It's a brotherhood on the men's side, of course. I'm sure it's a sisterhood on the women's side. But they're all under the same blanket.

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194.708 - 209.25 Boomer

Yeah, and there was also someone in the background who yelled two for two during that phone call, too. So if you're going to be mad at anybody, don't be mad at the team. For God's sakes, you crackheads. Ray in Westchester. What's going on, Ray?

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210.378 - 215.284 Caller Ray

Hey, what's up, guys? Yeah, I'm just calling about the speeding and speeding problem on the L.A. or in the city.

215.664 - 215.764 Unknown

Yeah.

Chapter 4: How does Eileen Gu's situation reflect on athlete representation?

215.785 - 230.682 Caller Ray

It's because I'm a retired detective from NYPD, and all the perps out there know they can speed because there's a thing in each borough called a duty captain. So the duty captain hears you're trying to chase after a speeding vehicle. They'll call it the chase.

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230.783 - 251.467 Caller Ray

And the reason why is because, like, the city council in New York has made it very difficult for cops to chase these criminals speeding at such a high rate. They think it's more dangerous. to the, to the public. So if you go over, you know, pursuing this vehicle, the duty captain of the Brooklyn South or Brooklyn North, we'll call it off automatically, especially if it's a motorcycle.

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251.828 - 260.844 Caller Ray

If you guys notice motorcycles out there, all they're missing license plates or their license plates are covered up. So it's very difficult for cops to do these vehicle pursuits now.

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261.024 - 280.191 Gio

Yeah, just another level of BS fraud that we all have to deal with. It's the same thing when my car got ripped off in Manhasset, and you ask the Nassau County cops, They know cars are getting ripped off, but they can't chase them, especially when they get to the Queens line for exactly what Ray just said.

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281.334 - 288.833 Gio

You know, and there's so much crap going on and nobody wants, you know, some people want something to do about it, but others, they just don't seem to care.

289.96 - 305.877 Boomer

Yeah, it's an issue. I mean, and I know that when you have a high-speed chase, that's dangerous as well. But, I mean, there's just got to be some way to limit this overnight racing of like 120 miles an hour with these cars weaving in and out of traffic with innocent people on their way to work.

305.857 - 330.152 Gio

I would think the only way that you could do something, and again, maybe Suffolk County or Nassau County would do it. I don't know if the five boroughs, especially under this current mayor and the district attorney, would end up doing this, but taking the cars away. Just take the cars away. That's it. It's done. You go over a certain amount of miles per hour. You're racing.

330.732 - 338.943 Gio

The cops see that you're racing. If they catch you, if they're able to get you somehow, then just basically take the cars away.

Chapter 5: What are the financial incentives for athletes representing foreign countries?

339.604 - 341.787 Gio

Dean in Port Washington. What's going on, Dean?

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342.458 - 359.006 Caller Dean

Yeah, how you guys doing? Quick question for you. The American skier, freestyle skier that skis for China and won the gold, she lived in America her whole life. Don't you have to be a citizen of Chinese culture to be part of the Chinese team?

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359.046 - 380.068 Gio

Well, her mother's Chinese, and her mother obviously came here, and I guess there's some loophole that allows her to participate for China, and the Chinese government paid her a lot of money. It's kind of funny that a communist country would pay a woman to be propaganda as a capitalist.

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381.75 - 390.725 Caller Dean

And I heard she got $6 million for going there, and I heard her sponsorship Over the last year, she got $23 million from different Chinese sponsors.

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390.745 - 416.597 Gio

Well, it's not just that. I mean, so she's a very, very attractive woman, and she's extremely bright. She went to Stanford. But if you listen to her post, I guess, participation interviews, she's insufferable. She is. It's hard to listen to.

416.617 - 424.629 Gio

But then again, it's an individual sport by an individual person talking about herself as opposed to talking about her teammates or the support that she receives.

425.23 - 435.325 Boomer

I mean, yeah. I said you won yesterday. Yeah, I mean, I can't argue it. I mean, how about that question that that woman asked, by the way?

435.305 - 443.701 Unknown

She's like, how much do you think – and this was like – she's like, I'm not – this is out of respect. She's like, I'm not being disrespectful, but how much do you think before you speak?

443.781 - 455.703 Unknown

Because, I mean, you just have these such eloquent answers with anything that you're asked, whether it has to do with the geopolitical climate or something that happened out there on the slopes or whatever it is.

Chapter 6: Why do some athletes face criticism for their choices in representation?

455.763 - 457.526 Unknown

I mean, you just have the right answer for everything.

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457.546 - 467.304 Gio

I'm like – They didn't ask her about the communist government of China. Well, of course not. But the thing about her is that I will say that she's exceptionally bright.

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467.705 - 468.566 Boomer

Yeah.

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468.586 - 479.065 Gio

And she does. She has her answer. She knows how she's going to answer things. That's for sure. But nobody's really asked her a tough question. But that answer that she gave was just insufferable.

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479.045 - 480.549 Boomer

It was tough.

480.569 - 482.614 Gio

Her answer. Forget the question. It was, yeah.

482.634 - 497.588 Boomer

She's like, I'm just a really bright person. If Game Time says you got to interview her, are you saying no? Are you going to want to hammer her with the questions?

497.889 - 509.49 Gio

I think you'd have to ask her the questions about representing communist China as opposed to the United States of America where you were born and where you went to college, where you went to high school.

510.297 - 515.866 Boomer

Yeah, I mean, and also she's like the face of a gazillion different brands over there, too.

Chapter 7: What is the public's reaction to Eileen Gu's performance and persona?

535.957 - 561.241 Gio

So she's not a dual citizen, though. It doesn't seem like it. But somehow there's a loophole where she can represent where her mother came from. Now, the other girl that I did interview, Alyssa Liu, her father was in the middle of Tiananmen Square. And he left China because he was going to be persecuted. And she obviously skated for the United States of America.

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561.261 - 564.047 Gio

She would never skate for China out of respect of her father.

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