A morning where Pride loses sponsors, YouTube pays Trump, and a mom strips to make a point

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A rough Tuesday turns into a sharp tour through culture’s pressure points—money, speech, and protest—told through three stories that won’t sit quietly. We start with major Florida cities canceling Pride events after sponsor dollars dry up, then trace how DEI rollbacks and reduced grants ripple through organizers, budgets, and community life. From there, we examine YouTube’s $24.5M settlement following Trump’s 2021 account suspension, unpacking what platform enforcement, viewpoint claims, and legal risk mean for creators, campaigns, and the broader public square.

The final act moves into a California school board room, where a parent strips to a bikini to challenge locker room policies. It’s a moment that tests norms around free speech, decorum, and safety while raising hard questions about privacy, inclusion, and how institutions balance competing rights for students. We talk tactics—what makes a protest persuasive versus polarizing—and look for practical policy answers: clearer rules, better facilities, and transparent processes that reduce heat and build trust.

Threading these stories is a single theme: concentrated power shapes what we see, hear, and accept as normal. Corporate sponsorships recalibrate public celebrations. Platform policies filter political speech. Local boards define everyday experiences for kids. We keep it candid and grounded, and we end with a challenge: define your line. Would you protest? How far would you go, and what outcome are you aiming for? If this conversation hit a nerve, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—it helps more curious people find us and keeps these debates honest.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Good morning.
It's Tuesday.
Hopefully, today will be betterthan it was yesterday.
I tell you what, I got into workyesterday, and it was definitely
a Monday.
I had one issue after another.
But and then I forgot to hitpublish on my damn podcast, and
I could have sworn I had donethat.
Alright, we need I've got threestories for you.

(00:23):
We're gonna get right to it.
I hope they're interesting foryou.
I don't know.
Let's start with major Floridacities cancel LGBTQ Pride events
due to loss of sponsor dollars.
Hey, maybe some people andcorporations are finally getting
it.
Alright, come on, open up.

(00:44):
This is from the Life Site Newssite.
And it's dated September 29th.
I realize we are well past June.
You know, June is normally theirPride month for the LGBTQ
people.
So Tampa and Fort Myers won't beholding their yearly LGBTQ Pride
events this year due to lack ofdonor funding, reflecting a

(01:09):
national trend of decliningcorporate support for the
celebration of perversion.
Again, this is from Life SightNews, so of course it's gonna it
is perversion, though.
All right.
The board of Tampa Pride, theLGBTQ event in the largest city
on Florida's west coast,announced in a letter to its

(01:31):
president that it would take ayear-long hiatus due to a
funding shortfall and that itwas unable to renew his
contract.
His contract?
Okay.
Um, let's see.
I wish it would tell us whichcorporations or which donors are

(01:51):
no longer giving money to this.
The current political andeconomic climate, including
challenges and corporatesponsorships, reductions in
county, state, and federal grantfunding, mm-hmm, and the dis
discontinuation of DEI programsunder Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis has made itincreasingly difficult for our

(02:13):
organization to sustain ongoingoperations in 2026.
Good stated the board in theletter posted to Facebook.
Good, good, good reduction incounty, state, and federal grant
funding.
How about that?
The pause in funding, the boardsaid, is needed for the group to

(02:36):
regroup, reassess our long-termstrategy, uh oh, and identify
additional avenues of funding tosecure the future stability of
Tampa Pride events.
Y'all, this is not going away,so just be careful.
They're just gonna go out in thehallway and do some push-ups and
get stronger.
Alright, so you can uh that's onthe live site news if you'd like

(02:59):
to go read more about that.
Because it goes on to talk aboutNew York.
Uh, they lost a reported$750,000in corporate sponsors.
Austin Pride lost funding forits festival, and Oklahoma's
Bartlett'sville Equality hasbeen canceled entirely as a few

(03:20):
examples.
Hallelujah and praise the Lord,and I mean it.
Oh, this is good news.
This is good news.
Alright, again, you can gofinish reading that if you'd
like over at the live site news.
I know how many times did I saythat?
5,000 times already.
Okay, we let's move on to oh,this is good.

(03:42):
I I didn't know Trump suedYouTube.
Trump likes to sue people, doeshe not?
Well, apparently he sued him andthey have to pay him.
Uh so start shining the dancefloor.
This starts off at the New YorkPost.
YouTube to pay$24.5 million tosettle Trump's lawsuit over 2021

(04:07):
account suspension.
How about that?
Good.
These people are starting tohave to fork out some money and
re redo these people's accounts.
Good.
Good.
Well, I mean, I can't evenbelieve we went through that
period of time.
Joe Biden, what an asshole.

(04:27):
Okay, YouTube on Monday agreedto pay.
I already read that.
Alright, sorry.
Trump sued the alphabet-ownedvideo sharing platform in July
of 2021, alleging that YouTubeunlawfully silenced
conservatives' viewpoints afterthe company suspended his
account in the wake of theJanuary 6, 2021 riot in the US

(04:49):
Capitol.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
The Trust for the National Mall,the nonprofit group, raising
private donations to build the$200 million ballroom.
Oh wait, did I skip something?
So I guess this money is gonethat he won that he won is going
to go to the to to build the theballroom at the White House.

(05:13):
That's good.
I'm just happy that he suedanyone.
He I think he sued on behalf ofus.
Alright, so let's see.
Next up, this next story is kindof amazing to me.
I don't know.
This is crazy.
I don't know that I could dothis.
I am not this brave.
Okay.
Woman disrobes at a Californiaschool board meeting in protest

(05:38):
of locker room policies.
Good for this woman.
Good.
Now she didn't strip down naked.
She had a bathing suit onunderneath of her clothes.
So I'll just state that right upfront.
It is so funny to watch thisvideo too.
Local California woman's rightsactivist Beth Bourne, I'm gonna
have to go follow her, protestedthe policy allowing transgender

(06:01):
students access to girls' lockerrooms by stripping down to
Bikini at a school boardmeeting.
Bourne, who chairs the Moms forLiberty in YOLO County, took
part in the Davis Joint UnifiedSchool Board meeting on
September 18th, where shehighlighted school policies on
locker room access.

(06:22):
So this shit is still happening.
Of course it's California.
Of course it's happening inCalifornia.
She says, I'm a parent in theDavis Unified School District,
and I'm here today to talk aboutthe policies you have for the
locker rooms in the junior highschools.
So Emerson Holmes Harper JuniorHigh, right now, we require our

(06:43):
students to undress for PEclass.
So I'm just going to give you anidea what that looks like when I
undress, Bourne said beforetaking off her clothes to reveal
at bikini.
She continued, so right now thisschool district is saying that,
depending on a child'stransgender identity, that they

(07:04):
can pick which bathrooms theywant.
So we have right now at thisschool district, we have
children self-identifying intodifferent bathrooms just based
off there and then it cuts off.
Bourne was interrupted bymembers of the board who ordered
her to stop.
Huh.
I wonder why.
I've got to finish my comments.

(07:26):
You are violating my FirstAmendment right, Bourne said.
When she pushed back, schoolboard vice president Hiram
Jackson called for a recess.
After about five minutes, themeeting resumed, and the board
allowed Bourne to finish hercomments.
Bourne again began strippingdown to a bikini.

(07:48):
Good for her.
The board ordered another recessand resumed more than 30 minutes
later, moving to a new topic.
Fox News Digital reached out toBourne and said the day
whatever.
Bourne told CBS News onSeptember 19th that she has
attended the school boardmeetings every month.

(08:10):
Good.
Good for her.
Every month for the past threeyears to address the let locker
room issue and felt she neededto take drastic measures to make
her point.
Yes, you do.
If the adults don't feelcomfortable watching someone,
and I'm a 50-year-old woman, howcan they expect girls to feel

(08:31):
comfortable doing that in thelocker room?
Born said.
Yes, ma'am, you did.
Good for you.
Thank you for doing it for allof us.
Trustee Cecilia Oh good I can'teven pronounce his name.
Cecilia Eskamilla Greenwald toldlocal news publication, the

(08:53):
Vanguard, that the police werecalled after the second recess
and that the board isconsidering next steps.
What are you gonna consider?
Tell me.
What are you gonna do?
Press charges for her strippingdown to a bikini?
Well, if that's the case, thenyou need to take another look at
your locker room policy.
We are going to be meeting aboutthis, about what to do in such

(09:16):
situations.
And we're going to, I know thatour superintendent is going to
be speaking with counsel to seewhat can be done because it's
very inappropriate for anybodyto be coming before the board
and behaving in such a manner.
Oh fuck off.
It's very inappropriate.
Well, change your policies andyou won't have that.
How about that?

(09:36):
Okay, we need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Okay, we'll stay on that topic.
Have you ever done anything inprotest?
And if so, what was it?
And would you, if not, would youconsider now doing something in
protest?
And how far would you go to dothat?
What what uh what would be yourline in the sand that said, no,

(10:01):
I'm not gonna cross over that.
I could not do what that ladydid.
There's no way I could do that.
I'd be so scared to do that.
I mean, I know she had a bathingsuit on underneath, but good for
her.
I was so glad she did that, andI wish it would get more
national attention.
All right.
All right, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.