Red Gerard, Olympic gold medalist and Cool Teen™, has had quite a week. After oversleeping from a late-night Netflix sesh (shout out to Brooklyn Nine-Nine), losing his coat, and going into his third run of the slopestyle competition in last place, he won the gold medal. And then, naturally, he dropped an f-bomb on TV and added a "holy shit" for good measure, because if you can't completely dismantle the FCC from the slopes of a South Korean mountain, what good is winning?
After setting the world on fire and making moms across the country yell "earmuffs!" when other teenagers win Olympic gold, he stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to catch up about the biggest weekend ever.
Being the first Olympian born in this millennium to score a gold medal, he's just been doing his normal teenage routine: watching Netflix, checking Snapchat, and winning.
Of course, when he showed up to Kimmel, he was wearing some bonkers-looking hat to talk about his medal, what's ahead, and the phrase on his parents' sign—"WE'RE HERE TO GET GERARDED"—which apparently goes back to his cousin getting sloshed in college. Clearly this energy runs in the family, as Gerard described his 18-man army of family members, “They were shotgunning beers at 8:30 in the morning.”
Ok, Gerard family, we see you.
He admitted to Kimmel that he's been able to stay relatively calm about the Olympics because he didn't really watch the games growing up. He was more invested in the X-Games, so just being at the Olympics is enough for him. Of course, the gold medal bonus isn't a bad perk.
Gerard's quick trip home for a visit with Kimmel happened to take place the same night Shaun White locked in the gold for halfpipe, which Gerard doesn't compete in. His next competition will be Big Air, to be completed later this week.
