Birthday Steak, Big Opinions

Headlines feel different when they sit next to a birthday steak and a laugh about turning 59. We start with that honest moment and then pull you into the week’s most polarizing stories, not to inflame but to clarify. A federal judge orders the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after a mistaken deportation; we trace what habeas actually does, what “release” means in practice, and how one person becomes a political symbol for a sprawling immigration system. It’s a case study in how courts, agencies, and public opinion collide—and how the facts under the headlines can get lost in the noise.

From there, we step into Florida’s lawsuit against major medical organizations over youth gender medicine. We unpack the claims of deception, the stakes of informed consent for adolescents, and the question that keeps coming up: what evidence is strong enough to shape care for minors? You’ll hear clear, specific questions about safety, standards, and oversight, plus the legal strategy pushing those questions into daylight. The conversation continues with New York’s guidance for school boards on gender identity, where the fault line runs between protecting students and protecting speech. We talk public forums, viewpoint discrimination, and whether officials can police comments without chilling debate in the very rooms where communities make decisions.

A different lens arrives with a Wendy Williams health update that challenges an earlier dementia narrative. We look at how diagnoses travel through media, how conservatorships should adapt when evidence shifts, and why second opinions matter for public figures and private families alike. Then we lighten the mood with a holiday lightning round: when did you stop believing in Santa, which reindeer are you, and can you name all nine without peeking? It’s a reminder that big issues land in real lives—around dinner tables, at school board mics, and during late-night news scrolls.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Birthday Joy And Steak Talk
• 2:03 Immigration Case And Judge’s Order
• 5:24 Release Fallout And Political Blame
• 7:10 Florida’s Lawsuit On Youth Trans Care
• 10:36 School Speech Fights In New York

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:29

Well, hello, good morning, happy Friday. I had a wonderful birthday yesterday. Thank you to everyone who went online and wished me a happy birthday. It is nice, I'm going to admit, to be acknowledged once in a while. And if it's on my birthday, then so be it. Um, you know, women of a certain age kind of get overlooked and and become invisible almost, but I'm not gonna let myself become invisible never ever. Although sometimes I do want to be invisible. And, you know, this is the great thing about being 59. You can go in and out. Okay, whatever. We need to move on. It was a great birthday, wonderful, fantastic. I had that great steak dinner. I don't know if you saw it on X last night. Oh, such a we're gonna do it again tonight. We're gonna have another steak, but we're gonna have french fries with it. Okay. Um, he bought the gent bought two steaks, and then after he got them home, he realized these are way too big for each of us to eat one. So yesterday, you know, he just cooked the one and we split it, and it was plenty. So now we have another one for tonight. Okay, moving on. I do have some things to talk about today. Some, oh, some, well, we'll get to it. Let's see over here on my X file. They let Kilmar Obrego Garcia leave ice after a federal judge ordered his release. We've got to, I mean, how do you can you impeach a federal judge? How do you how do you fire a federal judge? I guess you impeach him. I don't know. I don't know how to do it, but this is all Biden's doing, by the way. I am sure of it. Well, Biden and his people, not necessarily Joe Biden, because he had no idea what he was doing. He was in this big, beautiful house and he ate ice cream and he rode his bike. Well, he fell off his bike. All right, moving on. This is it. Washington, Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to his Maryland home Thursday night after a judge ordered the immediate release of the Salvadorian national illegal, who was mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year. How was he mistakenly deported? How is this guy being singled out? Why has he become so famous? Um, Abrego Garcia, because we've we're deporting a lot of people. All right, Abrego Garcia's attorney, Simon Sandoval Moshenberg, Moshenberg, told CBS News on Thursday that he was officially out of immigration and customs enforcement custody in Pennsylvania hours after he was spotted arriving at his Maryland home. So now what happens? I mean, is he a free man? Is he free to live here now to move around and about? What's the deal, yo? Um, does he still have to go to court? Does he still have what's the deal? I want to know. Um, Christy Noam, can you let me know, please? Earlier this Thursday, U.S. District uh judge, Judge Paula Zinus, granted Garcia's habeas corpus petition seeking release from custody. It's a signif it's a significant victory for Garcia, whose immigration case became a major flashpoint in President Trump's mass deportation campaign when he was removed to El Salvador earlier this year. So why did we go rescue him? Why did we get him out of there? I can't remember. Can somebody refresh my memory? Um, let's see. Assistant Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security, uh, Trisha McLaughlin called the judge's decision naked judicial activism, yes, by an Obama-appointed judge. Oh, excuse me, Obama-appointed. This order lacks any okay, whatever, we need to move on. Um, in October, however, his and this administration the administration informed the court that Liberia had agreed to take Albre Garcia and was making final necessary arrangements for his deportation there. So is he going to leave? Please? I don't know. I don't know what's happening. And I'm don't have time to finish reading the rest of the article. You can go check that out. It is on my X file. All right, moving on to the next story. I have a bunch of them, so we'll try to go through them quickly. Florida sues top medical groups for reprensible oh my repre oh my gosh, I can't say this word. Reprehensible promotion of child gender transitions. You mean sex changes. That's what you mean when you say gender. Uh let's see, because gender is a made-up word, and we need to stop using it. It is male and female are the sexes. And so when you want to change something, you're cutting something off, you're changing it, you're changing from female sex to a male sex or male sex to a female sex. Tallahassee, Florida Republican Attorney General James Utmeyer. Utmeyer has filed a lawsuit against the American Academy for Pediatrics, the so-called World Professional Association for Transger Transgender Health WPATH, and the I can't, I don't know this word, endocrine society, accusing them of deceiving the public on the safety of gender transition practices on confused minors. Good. Sew the pants off of them. The suit alleges that the sake of their ideology and financial incentives, the named organizations developed a treatment protocol that irreversibly alters children's bodies to conform to their anxieties rather than attempting to resolve the underlying causes of psychological distress, which they justified with a coordinated campaign to develop clinical guidelines recommending sex intervention for pediatric gender dysphoria. Y'all, I was a tomboy growing up. If I was a young kid in today's age, who knows what would have happened to me. I hopefully I would have been smart enough to think, hmm, you know, I've done a I've done a few smart things in my youthful thing, in my youth too. I I have to give myself credit sometimes. I'm usually always down on myself. But I've done some tremendous things too. I can't talk about them right now, but you know, whatever. Um, so good for them. They're suing. Uh I'll go finish reading that. Maybe I'll write about that on my blog today. I think I will. So uh that will be more researched later. Bravo to schools, fight against Leticia James, trans tyranny, more trans stuff. What is it with the Democrats and the liberals wanting to harm children? I guess if they can't kill them, then they will use them as political weapons, like that damn Sarah Stalker in Kentucky saying that children should be ashamed of being white. And now we've got more trans stuff. Letitia James, get this. Oh gosh. Okay, we're gonna start with all right. I gotta put this on pause because hold on, I'll tell you why. Yeah, I had to put it on pause so I could back out of the application I was in because the advertisements kept popping up on me, and so I had to go over here to the actual app to open it up. All right, bravo to school's fight against Letitia James Trans tyranny. This is incredible. A group of parents and school board members are standing up to State Attorney General Letitia James and Education Commissioner Betty Roses, bullying of New Yorkers who won't toe the line on gendered insanity. Yes, the Deadly Duo have ordered a de facto ban on dissent on trans issues from school board meetings. I don't know what uh de facto means. On Tuesday, the Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of four Long Islanders, two school board officials, and two parents over that state guidance. In May, get this. James and Rosa sent out a letter threatening to remove local officials who misgender a student or even allow public comments suggesting that trans students' identities and experiences are illegitimate, or that their presence in school spaces and participation in school activities is harmful to other students. Well, it is harmful. It's harmful to everyone involved, not just the regular kids who are know who they are, but the it's it's harmful to trans too because you are not helping them. You are only encouraging their mental distress, as the one article said. No matter that, most adults oppose, for example, forcing born males into girls' locker rooms and bathrooms and into female sports leagues. This is not going away. Just because Donald Trump got elected and signed a couple of executive orders, this is not going away. I wish people cared more about this. Um, nor that the growing consensus of experts is that the science supporting gender transitions for minors is bunk. Shut up, argued James and Rosa. Adults with gripes and kids with perfectly well-grounded fears must be shushed or run out of school board meetings. What the F public meetings, mind you, no free speech in these democratic institutions. This is disgusting. It's disgusting that New York's top law enforcement official and its number one educat would push such an obvious violation of basic American rights. We expect the federal courts to slap them both down in short order. Let's hope so. Moving on to my last topic here. It's one of my favorites. That's my favorite. I don't even know what that's from. Um, gosh, get over here to my thing. Wendy Williams. We have an update on Wendy Williams. Y'all, she's fine. She does not have that Bruce Willis frontal dem front lobal front lobe dementia or whatever. Guess what? Alcohol is involved. Okay. Attorneys claim former talk show host actually had alcohol-induced dementia. Hmm. Wendy Williams could exit her court. That's a lot of drinking, y'all. Wendy Williams could exit her court-appointed conservatorship within weeks, her lawyer says, following what he claims was a misdiagnosis. In a nightline segment aired Tuesday, attorney Joe Tacopina said Dr. Samuel E. Gandy, a New York neurologist who specializes in Alzheimer's disease, had concluded that the 61-year-old Williams does not have frontemporal dementia or aphasia, despite the 2023 diagnosis per USA today. So there you go. Wendy's fine. Release her. Release Wendy. Free Wendy. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm getting a little carried away here. We need to move on to the Christmas question of the day. Okay, I have actually a bunch of questions I have for you. Fun, fun, fun. Children, if you are in the room, parents, if you have children listening, which I'm sure you do not, please cover their ears. My first question is at what age did you stop believing in Santa? Or did you believe in it? Did you believe there was a Santa Claus at all? Other questions are uh if you could be one of Santa's reindeers, which one would you be? And can you name all of his reindeer right now without looking them up? All right, that's it. That's what I've got for you today. I hope you've enjoyed it. Happy Friday, have a great weekend. The gent and I will be back on Sunday with our brood awakening episode. Okay, gotta go. Thanks. Bye.