5-31-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Five Years Ago “Mostly Peaceful Protests” From George Floyd Death

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So this past Sunday, the twenty fifth, a forty six
year old man by the name of George Floyd died
in custody of some cops in Minneapolis. That much we know.
That's pretty much it. What is not widely admitted, at

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least not in polite society anyway, is that George Floyd's
death was not a case of state sponsored execution, but instead,
according to all of the medical records, it was a
tragic overdose, emit and arrest. He died with a fatal

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dose of fentanyl in his system. He had an enlarged heart,
he had methamphetamines in his blood. But despite all of
that being in all of the medical records doesn't make
any difference for certain ideological contingent. George Floyd was not

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just another man. George Floyd was a symbol and symbols,
unlike men, cannot die. In fact, symbols in modern American
society become weaponized. So when you strip Floyd's death of

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any medical nuance, I was just thinking to myself, as
I said, the word nuance, nuance is something else that's
dead in our society. We don't seem to be able
to nuance anything. It's either black or white, there's no gray,
there's no in between. It's either laughter or right. There's
no middle, there's no Oh well, maybe a little bit

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of this and a little bit of that and a
little bit of this. It's no longer a recipe. It's
just a single ingredient, and it's your ingredient that you
choose to the exclusion of all other ingredients. It's funny
how just one single word in my notes, when I
go back and look at it sends me off on

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a tirade. But it really is true. If you take
George Floyd's death and you strip it of any medical nuance,
his death rapidly and astronomically represented or presented to the
American people a confirmation of an old and a double slander,

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and that is that police routinely un wantonly killed black men.
The media gave it a narrative, the activist gave it
a mission, the mob gave it a fire, and it
resulted in probably one of the most destructive periods of
civil unrest in modern US history. So let's just deal

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with some facts and some facts. It may make some
people uncomfortable, Guys just want to deal in the facts.
The medical examiner for Hennepin County, Minnesota, which is where
Minneapolis is located them the medical examiner for that county,
Hennepin County, doctor Andrew Baker, stated that the levels of

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fentanyl in Floyd's system were potentially fatal on their own.
For example, had George Floyd been found dead at home
with those levels this is according to the testimony from
the medical examiner, he would have ruled it an overdose.
Even the medical examiner for the Armed Forces, who ultimately

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attributed Floyd's death to a combination of restraint, heart disease,
and drug intoxication, did not point to asphyxiation alone as
the cause of George Floyd's death. Doctor David Fowler, former
Maryland Chief Medical Examiner. He testified under oath that Floyd

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died of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia compounded by fentanyl and myth.
Now the officer that we all saw kneeling, Derek Chauvin,
became the canvas on which Progressive America painted its moral furies.

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For me, the medical record is stubborn. The medical record
is inconvenient. The facts about policing also fail to support
the narrative. Every year cops in this country fatally shoot

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one thousand people. One thousand, maybe twenty five percent are black.
The vast majority of individuals that the cops shoot are
armed or they pose an immediate threat. You know, we
do on my local program every Friday. Everyone to tune

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in and listen every Friday at nine o'clock Mountain Time
for an hour we do nothing but what are called
taxpayer relief shots. They are stories about the defensive use
of weapons to protect yourself, either from a that's trying
to break into your home, somebody that's engaged in road

(06:04):
raids that's trying to run you off the road. Someone
that's trying to rob your business, or cops cops who
are trying to talk somebody down who is who are
trying to serve a search warrant, or trying to enter
into and break up a domestic fight. Those cops are

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usually facing someone that is armed and that poses an
immediate threat. When you look at the FBI statistics, don't
look at activist group tallies, but when you look at
FBI statistics, it confirms that cops do fatally shoot about
a thousand people a year, and only about a quarter

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of those are blacks. Now and start, contrast to the
narrative of unprovoked cop aggression. Do you know how many
cops are assaulted every year in this country? About sixty thousand,
six zero Comma zero zero zero. Sixty thousand are assaulted
every single year, and between fifty and seventy are shot

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or killed in the line of duty every single year,
again according to the FBI and the National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial Fund data. So the real disparate impact is
not in fatal police shootings, but in the death toll
of fentanyl overdoses. How desparate is the impact Fifty thousand

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Americans die every year from fentanyl. Black Americans are nearly
twice as likely as white Americans to be among those fatalities.
So the popular refrain that police hunt down black men
is not supported by any credible empirical analysis. But the

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problem is oftentimes ideology hardens into dogma, then any data
becomes irrelevant. So from that single overdose was born in
American mythology. The martyrdom of George Floyd ignited a revolutionary frenzy.

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Have you ever thought about what happened over the course
of that long, hot summer. It really did change the country.
More than eight thousand, seven hundred demonstrations took place across
the country. Now may seem small when I give you
the number, but out of eighty seven hundred demonstrations, five

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hundred and seventy four turned into riots. That's according to
data from the Major Cities Association, and those five hundred
and seventy four riots injured more than two thousand law
enforcement officers, caused billions in damages. We know that because

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there was at least two billion dollars in insured property damage,
highest in American history, highest in American history. Twenty five
Americans were killed in protest linked violence you remember, cities
were burning, Police stations were attacked, they were abandoned, Federal

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courthouses were firebombed, firebomb armed mos mobs seized territory in
places like Seattle and declared those those autonomous no go zones.
That you might have expected those events to be condemned,
to be vociferously condemned. Instead we found that they started

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to rationalize them. The press declared them, you know, the
phrase mostly peaceful CNN among the worst. So how did
this actually, this anniversary that occurred back on Sunday, how
did it affect America? Is the weekend with Michael Brown?

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in May twenty that that day changed so many things

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in the country. And yet it's one of those times
I'm talking about the death of George Floyd and it's
one of those topics that I'll tell you, well, he
came up because the cabal on that day last Sunday,
several news reports that I watched went back to Minneapolis,

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and I remember, and I forget which I think it
was one of the networks. It may be it may
have been CBS that I was watching at the time.
They were interviewing a well young to me, but he's
probably in his mid thirties or forties, black man who

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owned a garage and he normally would talk about and
I forget the numbers, so I'm paraphrasing here, but he
had two cars in for repair, and now we're talking
about five years later and he still hasn't recovered. And
his garage was one of the ones that was heavily damaged.

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I don't think it was completely destroyed, but damaged. And
he said, I would normally have a dozen cars in here,
and I'm barely making enough money to keep the garage open.
Five years on from that fateful day. And as they
were interviewing him, the sister and by the way, this

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garage is located very close to that grocery store in
that corner where George Floyd died, and the reporter, to
my surprise, recognized George Floyd. A relative of George Floyd.
I forget whether it was a sister or a cousin,
but it was somebody in the immediate family, somebody that
had received the millions of dollars that the taxpayers of

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Minnesota had paid out the George Floyd family. And the
reporter walked up to her and introduced her to this
garage owner, and his emotions immediately overcame him because he
talked about the tens of millions of dollars that you received,

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that you said you were going to spend helping us
rebuild our community, and none of it has seen any
of that money. And again, to the reporter's credit, considering
it was a network news show, really pressed her. Now.

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She acted surprise like, Oh, I'd never heard this, which
I found completely unbelievable. But then they actually pressed her,
So where'd the money go? What happened to it? He
was supposed to help me, you know, rebuild my you know,
rebuild everything, because these mostly peaceful protests virtually destroyed my business.

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The media, and what can only be described as a
masterclass in euphemism, labeled that arson that almost completely destroyed
his garage as simply activism. In fact, CNN famously ran
that chiron I know you remember it, fiery but mostly

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peaceful protests As the reporter sat with the background of
buildings burning on the screen. MSNBC instists of the riots
were quote not generally speaking unruly, I shouldn't laugh. But
even as the flaming rubble lit the background, it was Orwellian.

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They weren't just bad headlines. They were ideological lies, and
they were designed to numb the public to the scale
of what was taking place. I think the reason that
I stopped as I was channel surfing was that this
is reason I believe it was CBS, because I happened
to be at my end disclosed location in New Mexico,

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and we can only get other than if we're streaming.
We can only get the three networks. So I do
believe it was probably CBS, the little well the network
CBS being carried on the local affiliate, and I stopped
because I really wanted to see what is what's what's
this reporter.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Going to do?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Because it was a heart wrenching story about how this
young black man had lost his business was doing everything
he could to survive. And then, and I don't think
it was planned. I think that George Floyd's relative was
just passing by and he recognized her because she apparently
lives in the neighborhood Where's the money. But that euphemism

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about a mostly peaceful protest really did serve a purpose
because the George Floyd protests, that was the Marxist great
leap forward. They were not engaging in civil civil disobedience.
This was nothing in the tradition of Martin Luther King Junior.

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It was an insurrection, and in the tradition of the
French Revolution is what was going on. The radicals saw
their opportunity and they seized that opportunity. They were, in
their own words, trained Marxist Patrese Colores, Alicia Garza, the
founders of Black Lives Matter, They openly admit that they

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were trained and believe in Marxism. Coolers had studied under
Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground member, and she explicitly
praised figures like Lennon and Mau as her intellectual load stars.
They were not hiding their radicalism. The media, just like

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they refused to report on the cognitive decline of Joe Biden,
simply refused to report on the Marxist background of all
the organizers that were burning down Minneapolis. The Black Lives
Matter platform, Where do you think defund the cops came
from defund the police, from BOM, the dissolution of prisons,

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the disruption of the nuclear family. Those aren't reform proposals.
Those are revolutionary fantasies. But then what happened. Corporate America
saw their opportunity. Well, I actually let me rephrase that.
Corporate America saw the extortion coming, and they leaped to

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beat the extortionists. I'll explain why. Next, it's the Weekend
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
Talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
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The Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Hey, the Weekend with Michael Brown. Thanks for tuning in.
I appreciate you listening to the program. The text line
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Michael go follow me on except Michael Brown USA. So Sunday,
May twenty fifth was the five year anniversary of the
death of George Floyd and the mostly peaceful riots that

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occurred after that. The official platform of Black Lives Matter
included defund the cops, the dissolution of prisons, and of
course the complete disruption of the nuclear family. And those
are revolutionary fantasies, that's truly. If you don't believe me,

(18:52):
I mean they say in their own words. But if
you don't believe me. About Patricia Klures and Alicia guards
of the two founders of BLM, there's some great you
can probably find them on YouTube, but there are some
great documentaries about the radicalization of the Black Lives Matter movement,

(19:15):
and well you can learn about Marxism and communism and
how it infected the civil rights movement through a couple
of movies called Uncle Tom one and Uncle Tom two,
and I'd encourage you. You may still have to pay
for those movies. I'm not sure, but it's a great
objective history lesson about the influence of Marxism in the

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civil rights movement. And it's just the Patrice Klueurs and
Alicia Garza took it to its logical conclusion. So their
whole mission statement was a mission statement of revolution. And
that's when fortune five hundred companies, having learned from the

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experience of Jesse Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, moved in and
they sent millions of dollars to Black Lives Matters coffers.
Remember celebrities kneeling, politicians crying. Remember the mayor of Minneapolis
leaning at the casket of George Floyd in what appeared
to me to be crocodile tears, just wailing at the

(20:26):
death of this person that he didn't know. Why was
he kneeling and what were the crocodile tears about? It
was more about the mostly peaceful protests. Remember Nancy Pelosi
and Chuck Schumer, all dressed in those in the in
the African garb, kneeling and pretending to pray or bow

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or do something. And in Minneapolis, the city council voted
to dismantle the police force entirely. And then when they
started thinking about it, crime spike, murder, sword, and then
they quietly walked away from that idea. The only saving
grace in that malstrom was the greed in the malfeasance

(21:10):
of Black Lives Matters leadership, because instead of taking their
newfound wealth and using that to further destabilization of society.
They just squandered millions of donated dollars on personal luxuries.
They bought huge homes, cars, high end amenities. The corruption
blunted the movement of Black Lives Matter, turning what could

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have been maybe a prolonged cultural revolution into a farcical grift.
And any revolution can be complete unless you've got an
abdication of law enforcement and an abdication of the prosecutors.
So progressive district attorneys, often backed by George Soros's Justice

(21:56):
and Public Safety Pack, they chose not to prosecute those
but don't focus on Minneapolis. In Portland, there was a
story I was going to do today, but I haven't
gotten to it of a video those of you live
in the Portland area. I forget the name of the mall,

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but there's a mall in which the parking garage is
below and you are or at least ground level, and
you walk up several flights of stairs. It looks the
stairwell looks like a third world country. Urine feces, needles, clothes,
abandoned clothes. As the people are filming it talk about

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the smell of fresh and dried urine, human feces, graffiti everywhere.
I mean, it looks like you're walking through a war zone.
And then you just open up, you get to the
to the entrance to the mall, and it's like you've
gone from the Third World to the First World. Portland, Portland, Oregon.

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More than five hundred protests related arrests were made. How
many more than five hundred arrests. How many of those
arrests led to charges? Less than fifty In New York
you had looting assault charges that were dropped by both
the Manhattan and the Brooklyn district attorneys. In Philly, Chicago,

(23:25):
same thing here was the messies those das were sending.
The law is pliable. The law does not apply equally.
Justice is not blind when the politics are correct. Now
I may not think the politics were correct, but those
district attorneys did. And then you contrast that with the leniency.

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You contrast that leniency with the Maximus prosecutions of the
January sixth defendants. One riot a national emergency, the other, oh,
it's the summer of progress. The discrepancy is not in
the law. The discrepancy is in the ideology the state.

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The government has a preferred mob. Oh, we like this mob.
We don't like that mob. And when that mob burns
your city, then you have to understand, you have to sympathize,
you might even have to stand up and give a
standing ovation. And all of that sprang from a single
falsehood that George Floyd was murdered because he was black,

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and then that lie got repeated so often that calcified
into some sort of truth. But the real cause of
Floyd's death was far more plain and truthfully, far more tragic.
But no one wants to think about the tragedy. A
lethal cocktail of fentanyl heart does stress really stupid and

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poor decisions. That is the story of tens of thousands
of Americans who die quietly every year, unfilmed, uncanonized, who,
as somebody on the text line said, had he died
in his home, it had just been another evening news
story of bet an overdose. I guess you could say

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that we were told that you must burn the village
to save the village. We were told that justice required arson,
that peace requires riots, that equity required the evisceration of
law and order. What we witnessed five years ago and
afterwards was not justice. It was a political seizure, and

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I think to this day we remained scarred from it.
I give you MSNBC Joe Scarborough.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Got so much to get to. But Rev, I really
want to hear your thoughts. After spending earlier this week
out in Houston commemorating the five year anniversary of George
Floyd's tragic death, obviously a lot of things happened that summer.

(26:23):
I'm wondering where are we five years later. What was
the general feeling, the general attitude inside inside of the
church and the other events talking about George Floyd and
talking about where America has gone since then.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, the general feeling, of course was being there with
the family and we literally went to the grade. Was
the reminding them of the pain. But then the feeling
of how far people have tried to come backwards on
what was committed. If you remember that time five years
ago feels like fifty. There was everyone saying we need

(27:02):
to come with a reckoning of race and a reckoning
of policing. And we saw things being offered like the
George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, consent to Creese, with
cities like the city he was killed in Minneapolis, and
the City, Breanna Taylor was killed in Louisville, all of
that being rescinded.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Now, no, not being rescinded. Facts are starting to finally
rise up. Facts are finally being exposed. And that's where
the nuance comes in. This is not in any way
to justify any unlawful killing by law enforcement of anybody

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regardless of their skin color. But instead it's a moment
to step back and go, wait a minute, but what
are the facts? What is the data show? I think
that what we ought to law is that the cabal
will take one incident, particularly when you have a white

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or an Asian cop and a black victim, and they
will amplify it. But when it's a cop shooting whites,
now just another day ending and why nuance, nuance and facts.

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But that's not exactly that's not at all. But either
Joe Starborough or Reverend Sharpton I want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
And what I was saying all weekend at the churches
and rallies we had is there's always a backlash. When
you go forward, you go backwards. I mean, two months
after the March on Washington in sixty three, when King
made this great speech, average dream, a guy bombed the
church in Birmingham.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
There's going to be backlash.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
We've got to keep going, and I think that we're
at this he's now trying to hold on to whatever
we can be sustained from what happened five years ago
and move forward and not overreact to the fact that
there's some temporary losses. We should expect that and move
on and fight on because with George Floyd represented, I
think will last and keep this country going on the

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right course if we're determined.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Well, there certainly are setbacks, and as you said in
the nineteen sixties, there were setbacks and then you know,
one step back, two steps forward, and so again. For
those of us who do believe the long arc of
history beens towards justice, that doesn't mean it is a
continuous line towards justice. It's about you know, last week

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we had Martin mooreel on and he asked the question
whether what happened five years ago is a moment or
a movement and only time will tell, and that's really
it's not up to these untold forces of history.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
That's up to the people. I think there is a
long arc, not just of history, there's a long arc
in which facts and truth are eventually revealed. Our responsibility
is to understand the nuance in that truth. It's The
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The Weekend with Michael Brown. I certainly appreciate everybody to
an end. I know on Satday you have other things
to do, and in fact you take out time to
either listen live or on the podcast. I greatly appreciate

(30:40):
everybody in this audience that does that. So one last
thought about something that, again kind of going back to
the beginning of the program, in threatening on truth social
Trump's social media equivalent of X his threat to withhold
federal funding to California for allowing biological met to compete

(31:00):
against women. What's Trump doing. I think he's just simply
trying to restore fairness to amateur athletics. But I think
there's something else going on, and I find it fascinating,
and this shows how he is willing to push the envelope,
but maybe not push the envelope in the way that

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she would expect, because I think what he's doing he's
setting the scene for a huge showdown for the twenty
twenty eight Olympics that are going to be held, of
all places, in Los Angeles, where the current governor, Gavin
Newsom so badly wants to be president, he's about to

(31:43):
pee his pants. So this past Tuesday, the President cited
a transition male athlete who had won everything as he
warned Governor Newsom that he would cut off funds if
his executive order. Trump's executive Order this aim at protecting
women's sports wasn't implemented, But in trying to make the

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state comply with his director, he's also applying pressure to
the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, which just this past
week signaled it would sidestep the order. Now, I don't
know about you. You know, over the years, I've kind
of lost interest in the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
I just have portions of it. If there's something really
unique going on, you know, like a hockey game between
the Russia and the US, my watch that or you
know what. But problem is, so many professional athletes get
involved in that kind of takes away some of the
fun of it. But at the first board meeting, this year,

(32:51):
the CEO of the Olympics tried to completely wash her
hands of the matter. She said that the international federations
would decide if trans athletes could represent their countries. What
do you think if we went back, well, I don't
know one hundred years and ask, hey, you think we

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ought to let men who think they're women compete in
women's sports, Because interestingly, the Olympics still divides. You know,
you've got men figure skating, you've got women's figure skating.
We're going to allow someone who just think they're a
woman go over and compete in that. Today, the majority

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of Olympic pipeline competition really happens outside the reach of
Title nine, which obviously prohibits discrimination for the federally funded programs.
More dollars are now spent in the private youth sports
market in this country that all the professional sports combined.

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Analysts estimate that it's in the billions of dollars. So
any athlete competing and training for a private club within
the Olympic movement remains outside Title nine protections. Those again
just dealing in facts. Those are the facts. I don't
think Title nine applies to the Olympics. So Trump's executive
order doesn't have any real direct impact, but it has

(34:22):
a huge impact politically, because when you think of the Olympics,
you think of purity, you think of you know, male athletes,
female athletes, all competing at the highest level in their
particular sport. And now you're going to throw in this

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stupid thing that we're doing here in this country allowing
people who think men who think they're women or women
who think they're men compete in those other sports, which
is filtering all the way down into public schools, high
school athletics. And now we're going to push that onto
the USOC, to the US Olympic Committee, and for that matter,
of the IOC two and all in a state governed

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by a potential Democrat nominee for president in twenty twenty eight,
Gavin Newsom. So the truth is this, the governing bodies
are choosing corporate sponsorships and institutional image over the safety
and the dignity of female athletes. Why because they're afraid
of losing money from those woke companies. So they're going

(35:28):
to refuse, just like they do in this country, They're
going to refuse to take a stand for women, apparently
to them. Protecting your reputation among the woke crowd is
more important than actually protecting the athletes. They're doing the
competition and for the first time ever, flag football is
going to be an Olympic sport. And the NF owners
just voted to allow NFL players to participate in the

(35:51):
twenty eight games. Now, that's really big news for the
NFL players because the International Federation of American Football will
let them play as women.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
First, now, I know it's flag football, but there are
the inevitable crashes. There are the inevitable crashes between bodies.
How's that gonna look? What's that going to look like?
I think Trump's being brilliant in this regard, and he's
he's putting, of all people, Gavin Newsom in a really

(36:24):
tough spot. So we'll see watch it. Congress, you ought
to act now. You ought to act right now and
do something about it. It's the weekend with Michael Brown.
Thanks for tuning in. Everybody, have a great weekend. I'll
see you next Saturday.