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Gold for Team USA, Media Pushes Anti-Trump Angle

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Jack Hughes says, "I'm so proud to be American today" after the U.S. wins men's hockey gold.

1. Three Martini Lunch uses the U.S. men's hockey gold medal to frame an argument about American pride. 2. Greg Karambas hosts with Scott Bertram, who teaches journalism at Hillsdale College, directs the Hillsdale College Podcast Network, and runs the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. 3. The episode asks whether Team USA's Olympic success should be celebrated even when some media outlets link it to shame about the federal government. 4. Jack Hughes's NBC interview gives the episode its opening sports moment, with Hughes saying, "I love the USA" and praising Connor Hellebuyck. 5. Greg compares the U.S. win over Canada to the 1980 "miracle on ice," while noting that Canada was the favorite. 6. The hosts say the women's hockey gold over Canada and a social-media post from Maryland governor Wes Moore added to the postgame argument. 7. Huffington Post is quoted saying Americans feel "whiplash" between pride in Olympic athletes and national shame, and therapist Amy Monterosa is cited on guilt, despair, shame, and anger. 8. Jamel Hill's Atlantic headline, "How do you represent a country that presently doesn't represent you?" is used to illustrate that viewpoint. 9. Greg says he saw a cheer go up at JFK when the winning goal went in, which he treats as evidence of a mainstream reaction. 10. Scott says college-age students at a radio convention asked questions shaped by identity and ideology, and professionals answered that people still have to work with different views. 11. The hosts argue that judging athletes first by politics means people Google a medal winner before deciding whether they are allowed to celebrate. 12. They use Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, and the 2023 Michigan Wolverines as examples of teams they supported without sharing every player's beliefs. 13. The SAVE Act segment shifts to proof of citizenship for voter registration, with Greg saying Democrats have long treated ID requirements as racist. 14. Gavin Newsom and Bernie Sanders are both played trying to answer basic questions about passports and birth certificates. 15. The hosts contrast that posture with New York City requiring five forms of ID for paid snow shoveling under Zohran Mamdani. 16. Greg jokes that married women may be disadvantaged by documentation rules, and Scott says the same paperwork is used for work, pay, and taxes. 17. Scott Bertram's travel story adds a separate tense thread, because a planned early flight from Ithaca to JFK kept sliding later as snow disrupted the schedule. 18. He says the team stayed flexible, stayed at the airport, and finally got off the ground about 1:30 after the Ithaca plane was delayed but did arrive. 19. The tone is conversational, politically combative, and full of back-and-forth banter between Greg and Scott. 20. Listeners who want conservative political commentary with sports and media criticism will fit this episode, while people avoiding partisan talk about Democrats and Trump probably will not.

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A snowstorm backdrop frames a partisan riff on IDs and city bureaucracy.

Greg Karambas and Scott Bertram use a snowstorm backdrop to set up a familiar political riff: the hosts say many people know where important documents are, or can get replacements, and they contrast that with Democrats being out of touch on the issue.

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