AM Show Hr 2 | Men in Women’s Sports, Texas Senate Stakes & The Battle for the GOP

is on the air. Why do you say you feel trapped in a man's body? Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard. For me, sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, I'm big on that just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity. I've been in those, you shouldn't belong here many times. And for me, I don't want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I'm all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that includes trans women. There's a lot of discourse around trans athletes and where they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team any time. I don't think it's a problem in the world. It's just another way to kind of attack trans people. I am strong.

If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WMBA. My team and I have carefully examined the WMB's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WMBA draft in May 2027. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices. I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone. The rules that represent the very values many WMBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for me. My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently and without exception. And I look forward to the WMBA honoring its stated principles. I've always trusted the science, and I thought I was a man my entire life, but after further review, I, you know, a strong look at my personal preferences. It would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as a transgender woman, and I think it's only fair I get a chance to play with some of my queens here in the twilight of my career, my athletic prime. We embrace justice equity, diversity, and inclusion. The players union said those are the values that unite this union and allow it to protect women's sports while... creating transformational change, hate, abuse, and demonization of in-person a group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations, but we will not be used as political problems.

And, of course, Sophie Cunningham, the enforcer for Caitlin Clark, came out and said that men should not be in women's sports. The coach of one of the women's teams, I don't know which city or which mascot. Who does? I think it was in Seattle, but I'm not sure of that, wore a shirt about that. As you know, there are some black lesbian players in the league. who have basically mauled and accosted violently, Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham's job is to give it back when they do that. With all this talk about Sophie Cunningham bearing the brunt of saying, hey, I thought we were about women's empowerment here. If you're going to let men, boys to men, from the earliest to the professional leagues, If you're going to let them come in and be women, you're going to destroy the strides that we've made. Martina Navratilova a couple of months ago said. And she's been a big, big advocate for, you know, this feminazi philosophy, women, strength, whatever. She came out and said, what are we doing, ladies? If we allow men to declare themselves to be women, they're going to come into women's sports and dominate it. There's a reason we don't play the men. There's a reason women don't play in the NFL or the NBA. Because they're not as strong. They don't have the bone density. They don't have the size. Everyone knows this. I mean, you realize what we're arguing now. Give the left credit. Give Soros credit. He's got us arguing over whether capitalism works, sitting in the wealthiest country in the world, in history. He's got us arguing over whether a man can be a woman because he decides it would be advantageous to him. And we're actually having to argue these sorts of things. It's crazy. So President Trump would go back to 2022. Four years ago, said, I'd be the greatest women's coach in history because he'd get men like LeBron to just declare they were women. I'd be the greatest woman's basketball coach at history. Because I don't like LeBron James. I like Michael Jim Jordan much better. But I'd go up to LeBron James. It doesn't matter. I say, LeBron, did you ever have any desire to be a woman? Because what I'd love you to do is star on my team that I'm building up. I will have the greatest team in history. They'll never lose. Nobody will come within 70 points of this team. Now we have to change that, and we have to make it okay to talk about it. Do you know the young lady I was talking about is afraid to talk about it? She's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it. This is crazy. It is crazy. We were imagining Milo Hamilton and Charles Barkley calling a WNBA game with a bunch of guys on the court.

Hello again everybody, this is Milo Hamilton, and as we come to the end of the third quarter here at the Climate Pledge Arena, my broadcast partner Charles Barkley will get you scores from around the league. But first, stepping in for the storm, it's Enos Cantor Freedom. Eleven years in the NBA, and tonight she's listed in your program at 5'8. Holy Toledo. That woman looks a lot taller than that, Charles. Yeah, something don't add up here, Molo. There are more beards on this court than a lumberjack convention. Freedom takes the inbound, turns and slams it home. Oh, baby. You can put a blue star all over that one. Dang, Molo, this defense has no answer for Enos. They look terrible. Now, folks, I had lunch with Venus Cantor Freedom this afternoon. Chicken fried steak, cream gravy, and she ordered three. Reminds me of a fellow I broadcast with back in 51, Whitey Pinkerton. Oh, Whitey could eat, but Whitey could not jump. Oh, I got to tell you, Charles, it's hotter than a depot's stove in this building. While the grounds crew wiped sweat off the court. I want to tell you about my friends at Trader Joe's. They've got a sale going on Adams Apples. Speaking of Adams Apples, this lady Enos Cantor Freedom has an Adam's apple on her. You can hang a lantern from. Bob's like a cork in a rain barrel. But these are the fruit. These are the eating kind, crisp, sweet, red as a Cardinals cap, and they're on sale this week at your Trader Joe's. Holy Toledo, that's a good apple. I had four of them with my lunch today. Had a chicken salad sandwich, too. Arlene would have said that's too much apple for one man, and Arlene would have been right. So go see them. Tell him Milo sent you, Trader Joe's, and put a blue star all over that produce section. Hey, Milo, it says here next Tuesday's Dollar Dog Night. I didn't think sausage was that popular with this crowd. Definitely seems to be gaining traction.

Snowflakes. Did I trigger you? Did I trigger you? Prepare for a complete meltdown. With more of the Michael Bari Weiss Show. I got a text and a photo from a buddy of mine who's Popo. And he sent a picture of the Bonanza and he said, Right now I'm sitting across from the old Pasadena Bonanza. I miss the old times. Yes, I sent him back. Are you on a stakeout? And I was so proud of myself. I thought that was so clever. He got a good laugh out of it. John, you're on the Michael Bari Weiss show. What say you, sir? I've been trying to figure out, will you play an issue by the stones? I was going to tell you about the weekend I had, and I've been trying to hear out which aspect of it you'll discuss first. I took a long but brief road trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and spent a weekend with a much time 60, with a 43-year-old Puerto Rican woman and had a blast. A 43-year-old Puerto Rican woman, and what happened? And I had a blast. It was a fantastic weekend. You think she had a good time? Oh, I would say so. She'd been texting me quite a bit. But Gettysburg was, I had no idea that it was as tourist as it was. How do you meet a 43-year-old Puerto Rican woman in Alabama? Online, like you do everything else. We've been up like online acquaintances for over a year, and everything just clicked, and that's quite a good time. I think I'm pretty sure I had a better time than Gettysburg than Lee did. Now we're making Robert Lee jokes? Too soon, John. Too soon. I can't hear you for some movies. I don't know what to tell you. What does your profile say? What about your profile would I find funny? What profile are you talking about here? The profile that she saw you on, she has one and you have one y'all met online.

I don't know. I think I mentioned the fact that I have a deep voice. I haven't checked out my profile in years. So you haven't changed your photo either, have you? Oh, man, have I called you passive, aggressive lately. Yeah, that's your thing now. The last three calls or so, you've been on that. Oh, my profile picture. My brother used to do that. He'd get something in his head that he thought was really, really clever. And he'd say it. And I'd chuckle just to acknowledge so we could move past it. But he had kind of really thought it through, and he was real proud of it. So he'd just keep bringing it up again and again. And I'd finally have to tell him, Chris, it's not that. complex a theory. You've said it. It's not that good. Uh, anyone who knows me knows that I am extraordinarily passive aggressive. It's my deliveries. It's how I get away with saying things. It's intentional. You're not surprising me. So, yeah, but that's, I guess in that sense, it's a good thing. But back to it. So you haven't changed the photo. Uh, no, but was her photo updated? Was her photo current? Oh, yeah, very, very kind of. Very nice-looking Puerto Rican woman. And she was just proud of being Puerto Rican. She mentioned it at a time or two, and you mentioned Puerto Rican this morning. Is she a big girl? Three. That's not the one. Is that wide or tall? That's hype, Michael. She's from Pennsylvania. I don't know why I say in Pennsylvania. Like, they don't have half people. What was that about? Hey, have you ever been to a Buckees? I've passed a bunch of them, but I've never been in one. I've never wanted to buy a canoe while I was driving. Yeah, well, you could probably, yeah, good point. But we stopped into Buggies and Bastrop yesterday coming back from Austin. And I don't, I don't know if they. If they have a sign out front that says, you know, fat people will love this place or if they don't let, you know, because they don't let 18 wheelers park there because they don't want. you know, sex in the toilets and the drug culture. And they say it's because of the space. But the fact is, there is a certain drug culture among some in the 18 Wheeler community. And I have to say some, John, because if I point out that there is, in fact, a drug culture within a subculture within the 18 Wheeler community, then I have to hear from the guys says, I don't do no drugs. Okay, I didn't say you did, but you and I both know. that there are lizard lots for people who are sleeping overnight, and there is a rather rampant drug problem among everybody but you. I didn't say you did it. But in any case, I wonder if Buckees, how Buckees does this? Because, you know, Bucky's big promo is clean toilets.

But now, you know, they do all sorts of other stuff as well. And there's a lot of, there's peanut breadel and brownies and fudge and glades of almonds. Yeah. And all sorts of little stuff that you have, you didn't realize you needed until you went in there. But you're sitting in the car with nothing to do. Why wouldn't you consume some, you know, yogurt covered pretzels? glazed pecans or any number of other delectables. But I saw something, John, yesterday I've never seen before. I went in the restroom. The men's restroom had a line all, they're all built the same way. So it makes an L, and then it comes back like a chair, a reverse-sized chair. And it was all the way out to the dispensers, to the slurping machines, was the line. And I couldn't understand how this line was this long because they have so many urinals. And so I kind of, you know, did that little, nobody wants to talk when you're in a line like that. You know, you're looking down. And so I said, this line's kind of long. And he said, yeah, I said, but. They got a bunch of urinals. He said, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. So now that I was on record, I go walking up. Well, every urinal was open. Every single, every single toilet, the cans, the stalls was taken. You know, because they got the red light, green light, like a parking lot. Every, all the one of them had green and it was red. So the progressive guy would have told me not to, I went to see if it was open, but it was. I feel compelled to say every time I hear a Bob Seeger song that he is underrated. Incredibly, incredibly underrated. As a writer, first and foremost as a writer, and secondly, as a singer. Because it's distinctive voice and delivery and time. And he has a real identity. You know, ZZ tops that little band from Texas. He has a real identity that's tied to his Motor City persona. Roger, you're on the Michael Bari Weiss show. Go ahead, sir. Hello, Michael. My wife and I have just been laying in the weeds and watching all the political advertising, and we see James Talarico every day, all over the place. on lots of television channels and lots of apps that we watch. And it goes on and on and on. And we're looking for Ken Paxton. We don't see him anywhere. I mean, we just don't see any commercials. Does he realize that Election Day is in November? He does not. He's been... distracted and he's not aware. I'm going to text him this morning and let him know. Well, I think it's time to start trying to score because it's late in the game and you need some points. How do you score? Get people's attention. How do you do that? The usual way, Michael, you tell people that you're running.

for Senate and that they ought to vote for you. How do you tell him? And not the other guy. What? Roger, calm down. Okay, calm down. You called up with a point. I'm asking you questions. How do you tell them? How do you tell him? The Michael Bari Weiss show is a good mouthpiece. Maybe he'll get back to him. He's going to be on the show tomorrow. Okay. No, no. How do you tell people you're running and the other guy's a bad guy? How do you do that? You spend some of your campaign money. You do? How much money does he have? I don't know, but I hear he has a lot. Do you? Maybe more than, other than Soros money, a lot more than James Talarico. Not true. But James Talarico's, really? No. Okay. No. And so this is the great frustration. For you, this is an election that will come and go. For him, it's his whole life. He could have been Attorney General until the day he died. So he put it all on the line. It's the first time I ever recall a four-term sitting U.S. Senator who's part of the triumvirate of evil that is the Senate Republican leadership that was Lindsey Gramnesty, Mitch McConnell, and him. And he beat him in his own primary. They spent more than $100 million. Everything he raised he had to spend, which was pennies on the dollar against John Cornyn, pennies on a dollar. And the base wanted John Cornyn beaten. That's what happened. The base did not want John Cornyn. Right? Well, there's a lot of people that are not part of the base. and what our people forget again and again and again. That's why they trust Anthony Fauci and take a shot. That's why they don't send their kid to school. That's why they... That's why they didn't believe that there was fraud on January 6th. That's why they thought that Trump somehow manifested a revolution, a riot, a takeover. It's why they voted for Obama because they were so keen to vote for a black guy that'd feel better about themselves. That would convince them that they weren't a racist. Our people are easily duped. And our people were told. By people who want Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani and Gavin Newsom, those people handpicked James Talarico. He was a lowly state rep. What was the last time you've seen a lowly state rep when a primary in a major state to be a U.S. Senator? He was handpicked because he hadn't been out there as much as some of the other folks. This was an Obama strategy. So they ran him. He had token resistance. She happened to be black, but she didn't mobilize black voters. And she couldn't decide whether she wanted to be the fancy talking black woman. Whether she wanted to keep it real. And so she went back and forth and it freaked everybody out. So that was his big win. And then the money poured in. And he is flush with cash.

Every one of those ads takes money. A lot of money. And so what happened was John Cornyn still won't say he's supporting Tolerico. That ought to be what, that's the only thing anybody should ever need to know. How do you behave when you lose? John Cornyn has come after Trump. That's why you couldn't get the AG over the finish line until a couple of days ago is John Cornyn did all that and John Cornyn's people. And then you've got a very, very, very powerful group in the state of Texas that owns the Republican Party. And that's the group who brought the impeachment charges. I'll tell you something. You get bored this weekend or anytime. Go look at the cross-examination by Tony Busby of the chief deputy in the Attorney General's office. I'll get his name in a minute. And he goes through case and point. That guy resigns on, I think it's August 30th a couple years ago. He resigns on, I believe it's August 31st and on August 31st. And on September 1st, that morning, George W. Bush renews his law license, which had been expired like mine for years. Well, that's odd. Nobody even knew he had resigned. It hadn't been reported in the press. The whole thing was orchestrated by a small cabal of the most powerful force in Republican politics and usually a force for good. But they didn't like Ken Paxton. They haven't liked Ken Paxton for almost 15 years. He beat Dan Branch. He beat their candidates. And they wanted George W. Bush because they love him some Bush family. And they wanted George W. Bush in there, George, George, George. What's his name? What's the little George? What's the little Bush? It's not George. George H. How am I forgetting this? Good grief, Michael. Anyway, they wanted him in there. And they ran him, and he got trounced. And this group is very, very, very mad. And this group, frankly, is what? George P. Bush, yes. This group is prepared to write off this Senate seat. to prove their point. And this group is very aligned with Carl Rove. And this is what Carl Rove has done again and again and again. Carl Rove wants Republicans to win elections and win power. But only if they're his Republicans. And if they're not his Republicans, then he will actively work to defeat them because a Democrat, you can run a Republican against a Democrat in the next election. Because he'll be fine. He makes his money off this. So those groups came after Ken Paxton. So Ken Paxton won a bruising primary and came out of it, frankly, beat to hell. You watch this TV show on Netflix called Quarterbacks. And you see how after a game those guys are beat to hell. And, you know, I didn't know you had an AC. Apparently called an AC in the shoulder. They separate these shoulders out. Anyway. Ken Paxton's campaign is getting rolling now. There's a big announcement I thought it was going to be made on Saturday. It didn't get made. It's our job to tell the story. It's our Senate seat. Let me take a different approach to Roger's comment. Upon reflection, Roger's not the problem. Roger just tweaked something that has irritated me for a little while.

And so I took it out on Roger, not his fault. Roger shares with me and you a desire that we hold on to the Senate. I'm going to get into that on a deeper level here shortly. We are supposedly at a 53-47 split in the U.S. Senate right now. But that's not really the full picture because you've got Susan Collins in Maine. She voted against President Trump's Attorney General candidate last week. So she's not a reliable Republican. You've got Lisa Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. She's not a reliable Republican. So you really got 5149. And when you're 5149, one senator, any one senator, which of course could be Mitch McConnell or whoever's his power of attorney now. I'm pretty sure he's dead, or whatever condition he's in. And I honestly say this. I honestly mean this. He may be dead. But whatever condition he's in, he makes it a point to vote against the president. So now you're at 50-50, which is why JD Vance has been having to... cast tie-breaking votes. That also gives a Republican senator an incredible amount of power that they would not otherwise have as a member of one of 100. You know, if you join a group that you're one of 100, you don't have much influence over the direction of it. But if it's a majority vote and it gets to be 50-50, You could literally walk across to the other team and go, hey guys, I'll sell out my guys if you'll give me this thing I want. And it happens every day. So it makes it very, very, very difficult. Now, you've got the Republicans trying to flip a couple of seats. And let's talk about, well, it's not the right time because it's a full segment. I'll get to it in a moment. They're leading right now in North Carolina, where you had a Republican Thom Tillis, who's now just declared war on Trump. Thom Tillis is replacement, and I'll get into these details. And we're going to spend a lot of time this evening on this issue. I didn't plan to get to it this morning. But the point is, this Senate race is very, very important. It's probably going to be the most important Senate race. The Michigan race... has taken up a lot of interest right now because Abdul El-Sayed beat the establishment Democrat candidate. And his big buddy campaign manager is Hasan Piker. And Hasan Piker has said things like, We're going to send felons into the colleges to rape all the white girls. He just said some awful, I mean, horrible, horrible things about whites and Christians and Americans. And this Abdul El-Sayed is horrible. Well, I posted the other day, and I heard from a lot of people within my industry do what I do.

commenting on, you know, you're right, we need to push this more. And that is, James Talarico is Francesca Hong. He is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He is Abdul El-Sayed. He is no different than them. He will vote with Bernie Sanders on every single issue. He will vote, and he has. He has not only voted with the far left in the state of, in the state house of Texas. He has voted, he has led to charge. I'm going to tell you, we're going to find out something on his interest in trans children. It is unnatural. He's not a father. We're going to find out, we're going to find things out about his personal childhood, and we're going to find out things. I'm certain of it. I don't know for sure. I don't know for sure. I have a sneaking suspicion. I have a knack for these things from a moment. But. To Roger's point, which is fair, there is a frustration over what seems to be James Talarico's momentum or coverage in his voice. Now, let me explain what's going on. The Houston Chronicle every day does a pro-Taleroico anti-Paxon piece. That's the fact. So as much as we hate the Chronicle, as much as people say, I don't subscribe it, I only use it for the litter to line the bottom of my bird case. The Houston Chronicle is still the primary print, sorry, the primary print news in the greater Houston area. When I say primary, when you hear that somebody's been arrested, when you hear there's been a shooting, when you hear McCullors has been released from the Astros or your Don's going on the injured reserve, you most likely hear that from a, you only hear that, from a primary news source. You don't get that from the Astros press box. You don't get that from the candidate typically themselves. So you go to a news aggregator, to a primary news source that writes up the story. And then people like me, and there's a lot of us who comment on the news, we then comment on what we read. But they've provided the primary news. Primary news gathering and delivery is extraordinarily expensive, and that's why everybody's gotten out of it. Cities like Houston had the Post and the Chronicle. Most major cities had Chicago, New York. New York had more than that. New York's like London, a big newspaper city. But all these major cities had two competing... rival newspapers. Now you're down to one, and they are a shell of themselves. They're a skeleton of what they used to be. So they're doing James Talarico every day. So you're hearing James Talarico, James Talarico, James Talarico. All right. Number two, there are the paid campaign ads. They are spending a fortune. And that money is coming in from people like Reid Hoffman, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein. These people want to control the Senate. They don't have any particular affinity for this little trans fetish weirdo, Talefriko. They don't care about him. He's a useful idiot. He's a quarterback that if he can get us to the Super Bowl, we put him in there. But the minute he can't, he's out, right? You saw that with Deshaun. Nobody cares about these people. He is a means to an end. He's a horse that going to ride.

And this seat, when they pull their chessboard out, this is the one they want. If they can put a Democrat in the Senate from Texas, they have broke the back of everyday Americans in MAGA. So they're pouring a ton of cash into it. MAGA was supposed to put money into Ken Paxton. They haven't yet. The Republican National Committee, the people who just lost their buddy John Cornyn, they won't put any money in it. It's not Ken Paxton's fault he doesn't have money. It's the establishment. You have reached the Michael Bari Weiss podcast, and I'm honored to have you here. If I could just take a few seconds to tell you a little bit about our show, how we do it, why we do it. We are big believers in American excellence. We are big believers in old-fashioned culture, treating a woman properly, being respectful to your parents, being attentive parents to our own kids. Those are the values that underpin more than party or anything else, everything that we do. And hopefully you hear that in every show that we put on. And in the process, hopefully we make you laugh a little bit as well. I want to say thanks to our show sponsor, Ray Breyer's, at The Pipeyard Inc. He buys and sells pipe. So if you've got a pipeline that you're abandoning, they'll come and rip it out and sell it. If you need to buy or sell pipe, this is my guy, you will talk to the top guy, and they will buy everything you have and loads of it. Thepipyard Inc.com. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Did you know that most... Insurance companies will pay for a man to have testosterone replacement if he's below 350? Isn't that interesting? You've probably heard that testosterone will, well, invigorate you. Your wife may enjoy that, or she may want to be left alone, but your wife may enjoy that. You may enjoy that. But there's so much more. Let me tell you. More energy, more strength, you feel better. Synergenics. Go get your blood tested. Our newest show sponsor here on the podcast, and it is enterprise foundry.com. They pour all grades of ductile and gray iron. Don't you love saying that, Ramon? Casting's up to a thousand pounds. Nobody does this on American soil anymore, but they do. They specialize in low to medium volume, in-house pattern shop for fast, low-cost tooling, and they love the Michael Bari Weiss Show, and they share our values, and you want to do business with people like that. EnterpriseFoundry.com.