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

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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Chapters

• 0:29 Friday Check-In And Plans
• 1:59 Gym Locker Room Controversy
• 7:09 Media Language And BBC Backlash
• 10:34 Portnoy, NYC Politics, And Relocation
• 13:35 Question Of The Day And Sign-Off

Transcript

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Well, hello, good morning. We made it to Friday. Speaking of Friday, I'm taking the week off next week, so there will be no podcast, perhaps. Not on a scheduled basis anyway. I might pop up here and there to do one, but it won't be at 5 30 in the morning sitting in my car going 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 there will not be a podcast. I'm taking a week off from everything. I might be on Twitter every once in a while, but I am taking a week off from writing, maybe probably writing too. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. If I can take it or not. Or if I'm gonna have to need something to do. But more than likely, I am tuning out for a whole week. Not that you'll miss me or anything, but just a fair warning. My downloads have gone down on my podcast. I don't think anybody's listening anymore, anyway. So to Mr. 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 it down anyway, so I understand why you why you why you're probably tuning out too. Alright, we need to get on to the stories that I have on Twitter for you. On X Twitter. Do we still calling it Twitter, aren't we? Probably. Alright, let's start with the most 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 going into a gold gem women's locker room and the black stacked lesbian woman shouting at the top of her lungs that a man went into the restroom. And then she did a video out in her car. And the reason I know she's a lesbian is because she told us. I think more lesbians need to speak out loudly about this. I tell you what, Kelly J. Keene or Posey Parker, she's the women's right campaigner that lives in the UK. She has a lot of lesbians on her side that are speaking out against this about men pretending to be women. I mean, regular women need to speak out about it too, damn it. Huh. But especially the lesbian women. Um, well, just women in general. I don't care if you're lesbian or not, you need to speak out about this. Come on. You think just because Donald Trump signed an executive order that it's gone away? No. No. In fact, it's the freaking law in California that a man can waltz right up in a woman's bathroom. Yes, that's right. Okay, let's read this thing. Now the New York Post is calling it a trans person. It's a man. Let's use the proper language. Accused of exposing self in women's locker room, was convicted of brutally beating his ex-wife before taking her name. This is a prime example of autogonophilia. Look it up. Autogonophilia. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Look it up. This is always the case with these men. I swear they are perverts. They are gross and disgusting. The transgender person man caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting their now ex-wife while living in Ohio as a man before taking the victim's first name as their own. This is what they fricking do. Alexis Black ran afoul of women at a gym in Beverly Hills, including singer-songwriter Tish Hyman, who accused them of exposing himself and harassing her in the locker room. Black, formerly Grant Freeman, pleaded guilty in 2022 to savagely beating his ex-wife, Alexis Freeman, causing a compound fractured jaw, among other serious injuries. This mother effer. Oh, it just enrages me. And there's I feel the reason it enrages me is because there's nothing I can do. There's nothing I can do. And meanwhile, this is happening everywhere, a lot, everywhere. And it just, I feel helpless. Nobody is doing anything about it. Big whoop, Donald Trump signed an executive order. Nothing has happened. The government is shut down. The Republicans haven't done anything. Oh my gosh, I'm so upset. I'm so upset. Black had been convicted of both domestic violence and drug trafficking in the past and has faced a slew of other charges, including resisting arrest. This guy, I swear Freeman, now Alexis Black, recently spoke out after Hyman, who is an out lesbian, claimed she was recently kicked out of the former Gold's gym in Beverly Hills for confronting a person with a male genitalia in their women's locker room. Yeah. Uh oh, I have words. He was recently, uh TMZ recently interviewed interviewed this guy. I hope you watch it. I hope you go find the video clip and watch it. I'll have to go to see if I can find it and I'll put it on X. This guy with his gull to do this crap is unfrickin' believable. Footage of the shouting match quickly exploded on social media after Hyman, who boasts nearly a hundred thousand monthly Spotify listeners. I never heard of her before. But let me tell you, she needs to be a fitness trainer because she is stacked. She looks good. Alright, Black, who is currently transitioning. He's not transitioning, okay? He's not. There's no such fucking thing. Has since shot down in the claims, insisting to TMZ that he was fully covered and denying that anything inappropriate unfolded ahead of the caught on camera frock. I don't care. You shouldn't be your ass shouldn't be in there. Period. Black defended the use of the female clean changing room, arguing he would feel victimized if he was forced to use a male or trans only one. Why? You're not going to put a trans woman with a trans man just because we're trans, he said non Well, but you're okay with your frickin' penis going into the women's room. You're okay with that though. You effing idiot. Oh, that seems like a whole new envelope of discrimination. Oh, don't even start with me, you asshole. Freeman, Hyman, and Alexis Freeman did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. Anyway. Oh, you can go finish reading that if you'd like. We need to move on to the next story. I am just hot over this. The next one is almost similar. This is in this is in the UK, but it'll be here too. The BBC claims Anchor broke guidelines with facial expression, replacing pregnant people with women in viral video. Here we go. Alright, so the BBC has up uh has upheld a complaint that presenter Martine Croxall broke the network's guidelines by correcting the term pregnant women to women during a live broadcast. Well, good for her. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research which says that nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in the UK. Croxell began in the June broadcast. Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that aged pregnant people, women, she said, pausing briefly with an edge in her voice, and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions. So this is what she said. That's what she said. She started off with pregnant people, paused, and then said women. And I guess she had a facial expression too. According to the BBC's executive complaints unit, God, 20 viewers. 20 viewers, y'all. We are bending the effing knee to 20 viewers. Filed complaints about Croxall's reaction and determined that she breached the BBC's editorial standards of impartiality. The phrase pregnant people was followed by a facial expression, which has been variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt, or exasperation, the BBC reported in news release Thursday. I can't take this. Oh my gosh. Can you believe it? I mean, can you believe it? Can you believe this is where we are? 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 over this. That I need a posy Parker here in the United States. I need a Kelly J. Keene here, full-time in the United States, to keep shining lights on this. Oh gosh. I Megan Kelly does an okay job. I wish that she would have a dedicated podcast in her new media group dedicated to this with fire on it. Please. Right now she has Maureen Callahan, who does cutesy pop culture things. She has Link Lauren, he does cool stuff too. She has Mark Helprin. He's a little bit more serious. She has another girl that does a later in the day thing, but she's kind of cutesy too. Let's have a more serious podcast, Megan Kelly, with your new podcast, Empire Media Group. Have somebody on there that has some fire in their belly about this topic that does it full time, because trust me, you'll have full-time content over it. Please, for the love of God. The last story, a little bit more lighthearted, I guess. I guess, compared to this other stuff. Dave Portnoy threatens to pull Barstool from New York City over communist Zoran Mamdani's win. Hate that guy. Well, Dave, let's not just threaten. Let's put some action into your words. Do it. Good heavens. Barstool sports founder Dave Portnoy is threatening to close the company's Manhattan office because of Zoran Mamdani's election, saying he hates the inexperienced communist politician and warning that the mayoral elect will wreck the business climate. Well, of course. Where have you been? Hello. Portnoy made the comments during a YouTube live stream last week amid expectations Mam Donnie would defeat the former governor Andrew Cromo in the November 4th election. I hate the guy, Portnoy said, of Mam Donnie. I can't stand the thought of him running New York City, and I can't stand it. Well, sir, if you had been paying attention, you would have pulled your company out of there a long time ago. I swear these people are stupid. 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 communist running New York City who's never had a job in his life, hates America, doesn't seem like the best. Port Noir 48 weighed the pros and cons of getting out of Manhattan during Ma'am Donnie's reign. Well, where would you go? Nashville? I guess. Oh, wait, here we go. Honestly, I've given a lot of thought. He's definitely going to win. Going to Hoboken or New Jersey or something, Port Norris said. I guess he wants to stay up north. Why don't you go to Michigan? Well no, don't go there, because that's just as bad, if not worse. I don't want to effing have an office in Manhattan. But then we have all those people who like that F up their life because I hate the guy. Like the people in the New York office have to go to New Jersey or Hoboken. So he's I guess he's worried about his employees. Still, Portnoy indicated he's seriously weighing an exit. 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 of Huntsville. Please come to Huntsville. Uh we have, I mean, you'll probably be bored here, but at least you have Nashville an hour away. You got Birmingham. Don't go to Birmingham. I mean, you got Atlanta, don't go to Atlanta either. Just come to Huntsville. Make it make it make Huntsville better. Come, well, I don't know. You might ruin it though. I don't know. Okay, maybe stay out of Huntsville. Go to Nashville. But go go somewhere. Get out of New York. Please get out of New York. I know you're a New York guy, but come on. All right, that's enough of that. We need to move on to the question of the day. Okay, the question of the day is a little bit selfish. If I had if I started a new podcast or YouTube channel, specifically geared to this whole trans cult ideology topic, what would what should I name it? That's I know a very selfish question. Other than that, maybe if you don't like that question, how about how and I know I've asked this before, so forgive me. How do you take your steak? How do you like your steak? Mine, I like to just pass it over the grill. Okay, that might be an exaggeration. I like mine medium rare. Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. And again, I'll be off this coming week. Uh the gent and I might do a podcast 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. Alright, you know I can't stay away. Okay, love y'all. Bye.