Liberals Are Going to Therapy Over the Olympics | Episode 140
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What were the highlights of Team USA in the Winter Olympics?
So the 2026 Winter Olympics just wrapped up about 48 hours ago, and the last week of the games was pretty remarkable for the United States if you guys are following along, but par for the course. Some liberals are literally having to consult their therapists on how to cope with their feelings about the Olympics. And no, I am not joking. Before we dive into this story, I want to tell you guys that I am doing another show at Zany's on March 1st. So if you are in the Nashville area, the Tennessee area at large, come see the show. It is super fun. We basically just do a live version of the show. You can find tickets at brettcooper.com. If you want to see behind the scenes content and farm vlogs and butter that my mom and I are making in her kitchen, you can go to cooperconfidential.com.
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Why are some liberals seeking therapy over the Olympics?
Okay, deep breath, I made it through that. All right, so there have been some pretty massive standouts in the last week of the Olympics, but possibly, I would say objectively, the most viral and most universally loved has been American skater Alyssa Liu having an incredible, just momentous comeback in winning gold in women's ice skating. For a little backstory, in 2022, right after the Beijing Winter Olympics, Alyssa retired. She was only 16 years old and she was one of the best female ice skaters in the world, but she said that she was burned out. She had just lost her love of the sport. But then two years later, when she was 18 years old, she called up her coaches and she said, you know what? I am ready to come back.
But if she was gonna come back, She was going to do it on her own terms. She did an interview that now has gone viral. And she said, you know, I'm not going to be starving myself. I'm going to be setting my own practice times. I want to be doing the music that I want to dance to. I want to do this my own way. I'm not going to try to fit into these conventional ice skating molds anymore. I'm just going to be Alyssa. You can love it or you can hate it, but I want to skate just because I love it. And apparently that was the winning strategy. What people have loved even more than her just bringing home a gold medal is her radiant joy that she was showing throughout this entire Olympic Games. She came back onto the ice now, four years later, as a completely different skater, a completely different person, and that was infectious.
She has become so well-loved, which is why people are now playing politics and they are trying to fight over her. We will get to that, but for now, just watch her free skate routine from the finals.
It was so awesome.
It was so much fun. It was incredible. And the best part was, to me at least, like not only was she having so much fun, but she finished that looking so proud and so confident. Like she knew that she crushed it. And people loved her even more when she ran right up to the cameras after that routine and she said this. That's what I'm fucking talking about!
What is Alyssa Liu's story and comeback in figure skating?
So she said, that's what I'm effing talking about. And obviously you can be like, oh, Brett, she shouldn't be swearing, whatever. But like she had so much joy, like after retiring because she had fallen out of love with the sport, coming back on her own term saying, I'm not going to fit into your mold. I'm not going to starve myself. I'm not going to prioritize this over just being a young person and having friends and pursuing other things. I just want to do this because I love it. And then crushing that routine like this, like she hadn't even received her scores yet. She had not won a gold medal. She was just so happy to be on the ice doing what she loves. Like, how can you not root? For that, like again, it's just infectious, but she is not the only one who has evoked that feeling.
Like people are already pointing to how she primarily, but also other skaters like Quad God are completely changing the sport. One person posted and said, four years ago, figure skating looked like a sport where you won by driving literal children to the point of mental breakdowns.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What were the highlights of Team USA in the Winter Olympics?
0:00–0:37
2
Why are some liberals seeking therapy over the Olympics?
0:37–2:50
3
What is Alyssa Liu's story and comeback in figure skating?
2:50–6:12
4
How did Alyssa Liu's performance resonate with the audience?
6:12–7:03
5
What political implications are being drawn from Alyssa Liu's success?
7:03–15:37
6
How do Alyssa Liu's actions contrast with other athletes?
15:37–22:49