Outrage, Headlines, And Hard Questions About Women’s Spaces

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A Friday check-in turns into a bracing tour through three flashpoints shaping culture, policy, and everyday life. First, we unpack a viral clash at a Los Angeles gym where a man entered the women’s locker room and a lesbian artist says she was penalized for speaking up. The discussion follows the facts that resurfaced—past convictions, a legal name change, and the press defaulting to transgender language—and asks a hard question: who protects women’s spaces when institutions dodge clear terms. You’ll hear the frustration, but also the case for bright lines that keep everyone safer.

Next, we examine a small moment with big stakes: a BBC presenter corrected “pregnant people” to “women” on air and faced an impartiality ruling after viewer complaints about her expression. It may sound trivial until you remember that language directs policy. When we blur words, we blur accountability—across healthcare, law, and single-sex protections. We break down why clarity isn’t cruelty and how editorial choices shape public trust.

Finally, we pivot to business realism with Dave Portnoy’s threat to move Barstool out of New York after a socialist-leaning mayor-elect’s rise. Is this posturing or a prudent shift. We weigh the costs: taxes, talent, culture, and employee upheaval, and talk about what leadership demands when values collide with logistics. If you’ve ever wondered whether to stay put or vote with your feet, this segment brings the tradeoffs into focus.

Before signing off for a short break next week, we leave you with a pair of prompts: help name a dedicated show tackling the trans ideology debate, and tell us how you take your steak. Subscribe, share with a friend who cares about women’s safety and media honesty, and leave a review with your title ideas—we’re reading them all.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning.
We made it to Friday.
Speaking of Friday, I'm takingthe week off next week, so there
will be no podcast, perhaps.
Not on a scheduled basis anyway.
I might pop up here and there todo one, but it won't be at 5 30

(00:20):
in the morning sitting in my cargoing into work.
It will not be then.
It might be later in the day.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We'll see.
But right now, I'm saying therewill not be a podcast.
I'm taking a week off fromeverything.
I might be on Twitter every oncein a while, but I am taking a
week off from writing, maybeprobably writing too.

(00:44):
I don't know.
We'll see how it goes.
If I can take it or not.
Or if I'm gonna have to needsomething to do.
But more than likely, I amtuning out for a whole week.
Not that you'll miss me oranything, but just a fair
warning.
My downloads have gone down onmy podcast.
I don't think anybody'slistening anymore, anyway.
So to Mr.

(01:06):
Sean's and Mr.
Giblets, when you do listen,thank you so much for listening
and quoting me and stuff.
But you know, I'm winding itdown anyway, so I understand why
you why you why you're probablytuning out too.
Alright, we need to get on tothe stories that I have on
Twitter for you.
On X Twitter.

(01:27):
Do we still calling it Twitter,aren't we?
Probably.
Alright, let's start with themost egregious with this New
York Post article.
Is egregious the right word?
I heard it somewhere.
I'm hoping it's the right word.
You heard about this man goinginto a gold gem women's locker

(01:48):
room and the black stackedlesbian woman shouting at the
top of her lungs that a man wentinto the restroom.
And then she did a video out inher car.
And the reason I know she's alesbian is because she told us.
I think more lesbians need tospeak out loudly about this.
I tell you what, Kelly J.
Keene or Posey Parker, she's thewomen's right campaigner that

(02:10):
lives in the UK.
She has a lot of lesbians on herside that are speaking out
against this about menpretending to be women.
I mean, regular women need tospeak out about it too, damn it.
Huh.
But especially the lesbianwomen.
Um, well, just women in general.
I don't care if you're lesbianor not, you need to speak out

(02:31):
about this.
Come on.
You think just because DonaldTrump signed an executive order
that it's gone away?
No.
No.
In fact, it's the freaking lawin California that a man can
waltz right up in a woman'sbathroom.
Yes, that's right.
Okay, let's read this thing.
Now the New York Post is callingit a trans person.

(02:54):
It's a man.
Let's use the proper language.
Accused of exposing self inwomen's locker room, was
convicted of brutally beatinghis ex-wife before taking her
name.
This is a prime example ofautogonophilia.
Look it up.
Autogonophilia.
I don't know if I'm pronouncingthat right.

(03:15):
Look it up.
This is always the case withthese men.
I swear they are perverts.
They are gross and disgusting.
The transgender person mancaught up in a viral Los Angeles
gym bathroom row had beenconvicted of assaulting their
now ex-wife while living in Ohioas a man before taking the

(03:36):
victim's first name as theirown.
This is what they fricking do.
Alexis Black ran afoul of womenat a gym in Beverly Hills,
including singer-songwriter TishHyman, who accused them of
exposing himself and harassingher in the locker room.
Black, formerly Grant Freeman,pleaded guilty in 2022 to

(03:59):
savagely beating his ex-wife,Alexis Freeman, causing a
compound fractured jaw, amongother serious injuries.
This mother effer.
Oh, it just enrages me.
And there's I feel the reason itenrages me is because there's
nothing I can do.
There's nothing I can do.

(04:22):
And meanwhile, this is happeningeverywhere, a lot, everywhere.
And it just, I feel helpless.
Nobody is doing anything aboutit.
Big whoop, Donald Trump signedan executive order.
Nothing has happened.
The government is shut down.
The Republicans haven't doneanything.

(04:43):
Oh my gosh, I'm so upset.
I'm so upset.
Black had been convicted of bothdomestic violence and drug
trafficking in the past and hasfaced a slew of other charges,
including resisting arrest.
This guy, I swear Freeman, nowAlexis Black, recently spoke out
after Hyman, who is an outlesbian, claimed she was

(05:05):
recently kicked out of theformer Gold's gym in Beverly
Hills for confronting a personwith a male genitalia in their
women's locker room.
Yeah.
Uh oh, I have words.
He was recently, uh TMZ recentlyinterviewed interviewed this
guy.
I hope you watch it.
I hope you go find the videoclip and watch it.
I'll have to go to see if I canfind it and I'll put it on X.
This guy with his gull to dothis crap is unfrickin'

(05:30):
believable.
Footage of the shouting matchquickly exploded on social media
after Hyman, who boasts nearly ahundred thousand monthly Spotify
listeners.
I never heard of her before.
But let me tell you, she needsto be a fitness trainer because
she is stacked.
She looks good.
Alright, Black, who is currentlytransitioning.
He's not transitioning, okay?

(05:50):
He's not.
There's no such fucking thing.
Has since shot down in theclaims, insisting to TMZ that he
was fully covered and denyingthat anything inappropriate
unfolded ahead of the caught oncamera frock.
I don't care.
You shouldn't be your assshouldn't be in there.
Period.
Black defended the use of thefemale clean changing room,

(06:12):
arguing he would feel victimizedif he was forced to use a male
or trans only one.
Why?
You're not going to put a transwoman with a trans man just
because we're trans, he said nonWell, but you're okay with your
frickin' penis going into thewomen's room.
You're okay with that though.

(06:32):
You effing idiot.
Oh, that seems like a whole newenvelope of discrimination.
Oh, don't even start with me,you asshole.
Freeman, Hyman, and AlexisFreeman did not respond to a
request for comment on Thursday.
Anyway.
Oh, you can go finish readingthat if you'd like.
We need to move on to the nextstory.
I am just hot over this.

(06:54):
The next one is almost similar.
This is in this is in the UK,but it'll be here too.
The BBC claims Anchor brokeguidelines with facial
expression, replacing pregnantpeople with women in viral
video.
Here we go.
Alright, so the BBC has up uhhas upheld a complaint that

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presenter Martine Croxall brokethe network's guidelines by
correcting the term pregnantwomen to women during a live
broadcast.
Well, good for her.
London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine has released
research which says that nearly600 heat-related deaths are
expected in the UK.
Croxell began in the Junebroadcast.

(07:39):
Malcolm Mistry, who was involvedin the research, says that aged
pregnant people, women, shesaid, pausing briefly with an
edge in her voice, and thosewith pre-existing health
conditions need to takeprecautions.
So this is what she said.
That's what she said.
She started off with pregnantpeople, paused, and then said
women.
And I guess she had a facialexpression too.

(08:02):
According to the BBC's executivecomplaints unit, God, 20
viewers.
20 viewers, y'all.
We are bending the effing kneeto 20 viewers.
Filed complaints about Croxall'sreaction and determined that she
breached the BBC's editorialstandards of impartiality.

(08:25):
The phrase pregnant people wasfollowed by a facial expression,
which has been variouslyinterpreted by complainants as
showing disgust, ridicule,contempt, or exasperation, the
BBC reported in news releaseThursday.
I can't take this.
Oh my gosh.
Can you believe it?
I mean, can you believe it?

(08:46):
Can you believe this is where weare?
It is continuing, you guys.
It is continuing to go on.
Now I know that's over there,but it's gonna be it's here too.
It's here as well.
I am just beside myself overthis.
That I need a posy Parker herein the United States.
I need a Kelly J.
Keene here, full-time in theUnited States, to keep shining

(09:10):
lights on this.
Oh gosh.
I Megan Kelly does an okay job.
I wish that she would have adedicated podcast in her new
media group dedicated to thiswith fire on it.
Please.
Right now she has MaureenCallahan, who does cutesy pop
culture things.

(09:30):
She has Link Lauren, he doescool stuff too.
She has Mark Helprin.
He's a little bit more serious.
She has another girl that does alater in the day thing, but
she's kind of cutesy too.
Let's have a more seriouspodcast, Megan Kelly, with your
new podcast, Empire Media Group.

(09:51):
Have somebody on there that hassome fire in their belly about
this topic that does it fulltime, because trust me, you'll
have full-time content over it.
Please, for the love of God.
The last story, a little bitmore lighthearted, I guess.
I guess, compared to this otherstuff.

(10:11):
Dave Portnoy threatens to pullBarstool from New York City over
communist Zoran Mamdani's win.
Hate that guy.
Well, Dave, let's not justthreaten.
Let's put some action into yourwords.
Do it.
Good heavens.
Barstool sports founder DavePortnoy is threatening to close

(10:31):
the company's Manhattan officebecause of Zoran Mamdani's
election, saying he hates theinexperienced communist
politician and warning that themayoral elect will wreck the
business climate.
Well, of course.
Where have you been?
Hello.
Portnoy made the comments duringa YouTube live stream last week
amid expectations Mam Donniewould defeat the former governor

(10:52):
Andrew Cromo in the November 4thelection.
I hate the guy, Portnoy said, ofMam Donnie.
I can't stand the thought of himrunning New York City, and I
can't stand it.
Well, sir, if you had beenpaying attention, you would have
pulled your company out of therea long time ago.
I swear these people are stupid.

(11:13):
I know.
I'm sorry, I need to calm down.
Calm down, Carol.
Where's your husband?
Right?
I love that saying, though.
Oh God, it cracks me up.
Where's your ma'am?
Where's your husband?
I love that saying.
I can't help it.
I love it.
All right.
30-something year old communistrunning New York City who's
never had a job in his life,hates America, doesn't seem like

(11:34):
the best.
Port Noir 48 weighed the prosand cons of getting out of
Manhattan during Ma'am Donnie'sreign.
Well, where would you go?
Nashville?
I guess.
Oh, wait, here we go.
Honestly, I've given a lot ofthought.
He's definitely going to win.
Going to Hoboken or New Jerseyor something, Port Norris said.
I guess he wants to stay upnorth.
Why don't you go to Michigan?
Well no, don't go there, becausethat's just as bad, if not

(11:56):
worse.
I don't want to effing have anoffice in Manhattan.
But then we have all thosepeople who like that F up their
life because I hate the guy.
Like the people in the New Yorkoffice have to go to New Jersey
or Hoboken.
So he's I guess he's worriedabout his employees.
Still, Portnoy indicated he'sseriously weighing an exit.

(12:17):
Well, do it.
You're a billionaire,gazillionaire, whatever.
Pay for your people to move.
You can afford it.
Pick up your office.
Move it to Nashville.
I'll even come to Huntsville.
You'll like it here.
I promise.
You can change the landscape ofHuntsville.
Please come to Huntsville.
Uh we have, I mean, you'llprobably be bored here, but at

(12:41):
least you have Nashville an houraway.
You got Birmingham.
Don't go to Birmingham.
I mean, you got Atlanta, don'tgo to Atlanta either.
Just come to Huntsville.
Make it make it make Huntsvillebetter.
Come, well, I don't know.
You might ruin it though.
I don't know.
Okay, maybe stay out ofHuntsville.
Go to Nashville.
But go go somewhere.
Get out of New York.

(13:02):
Please get out of New York.
I know you're a New York guy,but come on.
All right, that's enough ofthat.
We need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Okay, the question of the day isa little bit selfish.
If I had if I started a newpodcast or YouTube channel,
specifically geared to thiswhole trans cult ideology topic,

(13:24):
what would what should I nameit?
That's I know a very selfishquestion.
Other than that, maybe if youdon't like that question, how
about how and I know I've askedthis before, so forgive me.
How do you take your steak?
How do you like your steak?
Mine, I like to just pass itover the grill.
Okay, that might be anexaggeration.
I like mine medium rare.

(13:45):
Okay, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
And again, I'll be off thiscoming week.
Uh the gent and I might do apodcast on Sunday, though, for
Brood Awakening.
We'll see.
All right.
Have a great week, y'all.
Have a great weekend.
Have a great week.
I'll be around.
I'll pop up on X every so often.

(14:07):
Alright, you know I can't stayaway.
Okay, love y'all.
Bye.