Episode 55: Gwen Berry and the Monetization of Anti-American Sentiment

Can't Cancel Rob Smith

The First TV

News, Politics

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Chances are you never heard of track and field athlete Gwen Berry before this week. But now that she's tried creating a viral moment of disrespecting America by turning her back on the flag during the national anthem, you have heard her name. For this podcast, Rob spells out how her stunt is all part of a marketing plan for her to make money, why she's failed, and why Team USA will succeed with or without her at this year's Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.6	Athlete Gwen Berry is making all kinds of headlines this week for turning her back on the
1:07.4	national anthem after placing third in the hammer-throwing event at the Olympic Trials
1:12.0	with a t-shirt that said activist athlete slumped over her head.
1:16.6	So she will be representing team USA at the Olympics, but what does this say about how
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1:23.4	Well, she hates it.
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