Ep. 389 - CBS Caught Rigging MORE Interviews, Newsom Loses It, Trans Rage, DNI Gabbard Cleans House

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Tony Kinnett Cast

Episode 389 – CBS Caught Rigging MORE Interviews, Newsom Loses It, Trans Rage, DNI Gabbard Cleans House
Date: August 20, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett
Platform: The Daily Signal / 93 WIBC

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Overview

In this episode, Tony Kinnett dives into a whirlwind of national news stories, focusing on major shakeups in the intelligence community under DNI Tulsi Gabbard, explosive revelations of CBS manipulating presidential interviews, escalating tensions over transgender issues in American education and politics, and the latest antics from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Tony and his guests provide commentary with his trademark mix of humor, skepticism, and a Hoosier’s Middle America candor. Frequent contributors join to break news, clarify the political landscape, and analyze cultural shifts.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. DNI Tulsi Gabbard “Cleans House” in Intelligence Community

[00:07–09:20]

• Unprecedented Security Clearance Revocations:
  Tony reports on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to revoke the clearances of 37 intelligence professionals. The move is described as “unprecedented," targeting those accused of politicizing or leaking intelligence, not just those linked to “Russiagate.”

  • Gabbard (statement):

    “Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right... Those in the intelligence community who betray their oath to the Constitution… undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people, and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.” [00:13]

  • Multiple individuals such as Charles A. Kupchan, Beth E. Sanner, Corinne Graff, and others are named as habitual leakers to media.
  • Laura Loomer’s reporting is cited regarding Maher Batar, a figure with controversial connections, remaining in top intelligence posts.
  • The move isn't solely about "Russiagate" but encompasses a broad pattern of leaks and breaches.

• Memorable moment:

  “The need to know basis is more like a need not to know basis in the intelligence community.” – Tony [05:40]

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2. CBS Rigged Interviews & Media Collusion

[09:21–15:00]

• Major Settlements Over Manipulated Interviews:
  CBS/Paramount settles with the Trump campaign for $16M after allegations of unlawfully editing Kamala Harris’s interview to make her appear more competent than she was, possibly violating FCC and election laws.
  • Producer Nick gives the figure:

    “The settlement from Paramount was paying out of 16 million.” [09:29]

  • Bigger Revelations:
    New York Times reports CBS also edited a 60 Minutes interview with President Biden in October 2023, omitting segments where Biden “seemed drowsy and had to be prodded.”

    • “CBS had edited not just the Kamala Harris interview… CBS had gone back and edited that interview before it had aired. Cut some stuff out.” – Tony [11:55-12:25]

  • Accusations that CBS has rigged political interviews to tip the scales for decades.
  • Local Indianapolis media shake-ups noted, with legacy channels being bought up by a single company.

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3. Escalating “Transgender Rage” & School Controversies

[15:30–28:30]

• Transgender Movement and Democratic Politics:
  Democratic leaders allegedly distancing from transgender activism as polling shows it is low-priority for voters.

  • “The Democrat community has realized the transgender issue doesn’t win. It isn’t pulling in.” – Tony [15:35]

• Loudoun County, VA Schools:
  Tony brings in Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neill to discuss another Title IX showdown:
  • Two boys suspended for objecting to a “girl using the men’s locker room,” labeled as Title IX violators.
  • DOE cuts federal funding to Loudoun and other VA school districts defying federal guidance.
    • Tyler O’Neill:

      “The boys who complained are the ones in violation of Title 9 for harassing this girl, who of course the school refers to as a boy. So much transgender insanity here.” [19:57]

  • Tony criticizes the use of "affirmation" over child safety and fiscal mismanagement over legal battles.

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4. Medical and Cultural Debates Around “Gender Affirming Care”

[26:30–32:00]

• McMaster University Health Review:
  Tony examines new systematic reviews on gender-affirming care, questioning their methodology and the academic response to backlash from LGBTQ+ circles.
  • Points out dangerous long-term effects of hormone treatments and the academic reluctance to accept evidence.

    • “Even though all of the medical research we have shows that children taking endocrine modifying treatments… do very little, if anything at all, to positively impact the person going through gender dysphoria.” – Tony [28:00]

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5. The Optics of Politics: Polls, Messaging, and Media Meltdowns

[32:00–37:30]

• Poll Analysis:
  Despite media spin, Democrats lead (42% to 37%) in generic Congressional ballot is “alarmingly low” for an opposition party in an off-year, says Tony.
• Joy Reid and “Racial Nonsense”:
  Tony plays a clip of MSNBC’s Joy Reid accusing white Americans of historical theft, particularly in music.

  • “They have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.” – Joy Reid [33:24]

  • Tony fact-checks and adds humorously:

    • “Elvis credited black artists throughout his career… the whole slavery thing also ended the slavery.” – Tony [33:39-34:01]

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6. Gavin Newsom’s Social Media Meltdown and “Rage-baiting”

[35:58–44:12]

• Discussion on Newsom’s new strategy: fake spray-tan, Trump impression tweets, and media gags.
• Elise McHugh and Producer Nick join to dissect the funding (“dark” money and Pulitzer grants) behind Newsom’s social media staff and their unsuccessful attempts to copy Trump’s online persona.

  • “You want to have fun on social media… But Elise, the gall to receive Pulitzer money and California taxpayer money to just tweet like a dyslexic child that drank eight Mountain Dews is incredible.” – Tony [39:03]

• Conclude that authenticity and humor cannot be manufactured by political consultants, cite South Park as a counter-example of genuine satire.

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7. Further “Transgender Rage” and the Problems in Therapy World

[45:30–60:49]

• Guest: Pamela Garfield Yeager (“Rogue Therapist”)
  Pamela discusses therapist bias and a recent training that declared Trump-voters part of a “cult.”

  • “If you voted for Trump and you support MAGA that you are part of a culture and that... wants to get rid of all the black and brown people.” – Pamela [51:46]

  • Pamela details two practical books:
    • A Practical Response to Gender Distress (for parents)
    • Froggy Girl (a children’s book using allegory to empower gender-nonconforming children to stay true to themselves)

      • “[Froggy Girl] gets affirmed by everybody in her life because they want to be nice... they don’t realize that they get dug deeper and deeper into it.” – Pamela [58:02]

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8. Cultural Commentary: Fatphobia, Health, and “Everything is Hitler”

[62:28–70:17]

• Viral Response to Pollster Rachel Bitecofer:
  Tony lampoons a pollster’s claim equating fitness advocacy with Hitler’s fascism, after her unhealthy grocery haul video is criticized online.

  • “Do you know who else was super focused on forcing people to be healthy?” – Rachel Bitecofer [64:25]

  • Tony and Producer Nick joke that if fitness means fascism, then most of world history is suspect.
• Republican Strategy:
  Tony closes with Senator John Kennedy’s axiom:

  • “You never interfere with your opponent when he’s kicking his own ass.” – Sen. John Kennedy [67:32]

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Notable Quotes

• Tony on the 37 intelligence firings:

  “These are the people that did the leaking... These 37 people. That’s a phenomenal move by Gabbard.” [7:30]

• On CBS & Media Corruption:

  “They’re trying to scuttle the company because CBS has been in the practice… of altering different presidential campaigns and artificially tipping the scales for years.” [12:45]

• On Dems and Trans Issues:

  “The transgender community is just roiling with rage because the Democrats have stopped caring… the Democrat community has realized the transgender issue doesn’t win.” [15:30]

• Pamela Garfield Yeager on therapy world:

  “They made $85 for the course, but they called. One of the other reasons why we're in a cult is because of toxic capitalism. Although I did have to pay for the class.” [53:23]

• Sen. Kennedy (via Tony):

  “You never interfere with your opponent when he’s kicking his own ass.” [67:32]

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:07 | Gabbard’s historic removal of 37 intelligence community clearances | | 09:21 | CBS-Paramount settlement; edited Kamala and Biden interviews | | 13:34 | Media editing double standards, local media buyouts | | 15:30 | Dems and the diminishing returns of trans activism | | 19:49 | Loudoun County school Title IX controversy, Tyler O’Neill interview | | 26:30 | Medical/academic disputes over “gender affirming” care | | 32:00 | Polls, optics, Joy Reid on white invention theft | | 35:58 | Gavin Newsom’s failed Trump parody campaign | | 45:30 | Pamela Garfield Yeager on therapist cult accusations | | 58:02 | “Froggy Girl” allegory, dangers of aggressive affirmation | | 62:28 | Fatphobia, fitness vs. fascism pollster video | | 67:32 | Sen. Kennedy: “never interfere…” Republican strategy |

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Tone and Style

The episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and openly skeptical of media narratives. Tony weaves humor, sarcasm, and cultural references into his critical analysis, bringing in guests to provide inside details or specialized knowledge. The tone is direct, occasionally combative, and peppered with regional Midwestern asides.

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Useful Links (cited or promised in episode)

• Tulsi Gabbard’s statement
• Graph on intelligence clearances (to be posted by Tony)
• Tyler O’Neill’s Daily Signal coverage on school districts
• Pamela Garfield Yeager’s books: A Practical Response to Gender Distress and Froggy Girl
• Post Millennial article on therapist trainings

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This summary captures the essential content, key arguments, memorable moments, and tone of the episode, giving non-listeners both an engaging overview and a practical reference for further inquiry.

Transcript

[A]

Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett.

[B]

Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast.

[A]

Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV, here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first out of 93 WIBC. Whether you're joining us via radio TV, our syndication partners, or of course, the live streams on x Rumble and YouTube, we're thrilled that you're with us this evening because we have got a whole host of very big news to break, some of it exclusive. Right off the top of the bat, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has decided to choose violence. Essentially, Tulsi Gabbard took to social media this afternoon and released a two page report saying, saying, and I quote, being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the intelligence community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold. In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people, and the foundational principles of our democratic republic. This is why at POTUS direction, ODNI directed the revocation of the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence professionals who have abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization and or committing intentional egregious violations of the tradecraft standards. And then she follows it up by saying the intelligence community should, you know, not be awful. So while a couple of colleagues in the pundit space, Benny Johnson being one of them, immediately said, ah, you know, Gabbard comes out and basically cuts 37 clearances because, well, it's all tied to Russiagate. And by the way, there are on screen right now, sorry, if you're joining us via radio or the podcast, alas, you'll have to settle for my word for it. 37 names, some of them familiar, some of them not, who have had their security clearances revoked. And I'm going to level with you. These 37 people, based on the early data that we have, are not all connected with Russiagate. Could I be wrong? Absolutely. But according to David Maynard, a data analyst who has way too much time and probably a little bit of the tism, he put together a huge graph on all of these individuals and whether or not they were involved with the impeachment proceedings in 2019, covering up the Biden laptop story in 2020, whether they're involved with some kind of a think tank, like a left leaning think tank, whether or not they held some kind of a Biden administration role, whether or not it's not clear if they, they were hired by media or if they regularly work by media. Uh, and then if they have previously been accused of disinformation. The long and short of it is, and I'll, I'll try to get this graph posted a little bit later. I just got ahold of this, looked through it right before the beginning of the show this evening. There isn't anything that suggests that all of these 37 individuals were directly tied with Russiagate. A lot of them were. But I bring you back to Gabbard's first statement because this is genuinely unprecedented. It is unprecedented that you would have 37 individuals in the mid levels of the intelligence community be cut off of the security clearance. Because as someone who has a little bit of, let's say, experience with certain kinds of security clearances, I can say that you get access to a whole lot that has nothing to do with you. The need to know basis is more like a need not to know basis in the intelligence community. And it just so happens that I do have the inside track on why a lot of these individuals were removed from their security clearance privileges. And the reasons has to do with some of the individuals on the list. So Charles A. Kupkin has done commentary in several media outlets before. Beth E. Sanner has done commentary for CNN as well as security and analysis reporting. Corinne Graff has done op EDS for a number of newspapers. Harry Hanna was a part of the Atlantic Council and also a lot of op EDS all over. Lauren De Jong Schulman and Luke R. Hardig performed security analysis for a number of major legacy media institutions. Samantha Vinograd also did work for CNN and cbs. Why do I go through all this list? You guys know how every time there's a major international event, every time there's a serious goings on around the world, there's some kind of a leak to Axios or NPR or the New York Times or the Washington Post? Yeah, it's these 37 people. These are the people that did the leaking. Now how do I know that? Because after all, all of the pundits have come out and said, well, it's all Russiagate. It's all tied to Russiagate. First of all, no, number two, here's why, while a couple of them are involved in Russiagate, and we'll get to those, believe Me, we're going to talk about the clapper deputy on the list. We're going to get to those. However, in the meantime, the paragraph right in the Gabbard statement. I want to make sure I get this pulled up here. She says not only abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence. That's the Russiagate stuff. Leaking classified intelligence without authorization. Here's a fun fact, boys and girls. You are not allowed to take internal investigation and negotiation, whether investigation in the intelligence community at the DOJ, or let's say Supreme Court documentation, or, you know, maybe just perhaps they are State Department filings. You're not allowed to leak those. You're not allowed to. When Marco Rubio was deciding how much to reach back and backhand the imam. You're not allowed to leak that to the New York Times. That's not free press. That's not how that works. Now, you can't really go after the free press for publishing something like that. But yeah, you're not allowed to just go out there and leak whatever. And a non disclosure agreement. An NDA is kind of inherent in a lot of these places before NDAs were a thing. And by the way, a lot of these particular leaking scenarios are objective treason. And I again, I mean the actual legal definition of treason. Not sedition, but treason. And I give the credit here as baffling to me as it is given how I'm not a huge fan of hers at all. Laura Loomer had pointed out that Maher Batar, a terrorist sympathizer tied to Palestinian Gazan Muslim terror organizations, was appointed by Joe Biden to the position of Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council. This individual still had a security clearance under the Trump administration. According to Loomer, a long history of terror associations dating back to time in college at Georgetown, where he was on the executive board of the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. You know, the group that goes around, you know, destroying campus buildings and causing a whole lot of nonsense. Documented ties to Islamic terrorist organizations including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, otherwise known as basement sucking losers. So again, in the Biden and Obama White Houses, you had individuals in the State Department like the young lady that was canned after significant political pressure during the Biden administration who is a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps working in the State Department. Gee, where are all these leaks coming from? This is a phenomenal move by Gabbard. It's not going to get the press that it deserves. Now there are individuals, for example, Paul Sperry points out that one of the individuals on here. Vin, I don't, I don't really do some of these pronunciations. Producer Nick, do you have an idea? Naguyan Nagoyan, I think Naguin Nagoyo yo. A one time McCain campaign worker and a member of the McCain Alumni Club incorporated the CrowdStrike bogus report on the Trump team into the intelligence community assessment. So the smoking gun individual. Yeah, they're one of the people that lost their security clearances here. That's not the only major problem today that has been out, that's been exposed to the public. CBS is in serious, serious trouble. Serious, serious trouble. You really want to know why the major settlement with the Trump lawsuit happened? Find out how much was that Trump settlement for the CBS brokerage with the Trump campaign. After the Kamala Harris shenanigans afoot, the left has tried to paint this up and down and all over as some kind of bizarre, what's the, what's the right word here? Some kind of bizarre capitulation in media censorship. Nick. You got it.

[C]

The settlement from Paramount was paying out of 16 million.

[A]

16 million. So there are arguments that, well, you know, this is some kind of bending of the knee to the Trump campaign and that was not the reason why. And I said it before, and I'm going to make it clear again. At the time, what the Trump administration had accused the CBS Paramount group of doing was going around editing the Kamala Harris interview, going around FCC standards and regulations and editing the interview to make Kamala Harris look really super smart. And it turns out that she was a bumbling idiot even after the editing and that CBS had violated election law. But CBS goes out on the spectrum. FCC regulated airwaves just like when I'm on the radio. Which reminds me, radio crew, we got to send you to commercial. I'm going to violate some FCC regulations. Over on the live stream, it's the Tony Kinnit cast. I just gave my grandmother in Henry County a heart attack. But alas, no, we're not going to violate any FCC regs. I'm not in that kind of a mood. The CBS crew with 60 Minutes made the decision to edit the Kamala Harris interview. Remember what they promised? Oh, it was just a one time thing. It wasn't even a really big deal. Now according to a New York Times report, by the way, buried all the frick frack halfway down the article wedged in between two ancillary paragraphs that mean nothing in this beautiful expose Like Paramount Sale, the inside details. Again, this is wedged way down in like paragraph 35A. New York Times articles are paywalled anyway, so no one was going to read this. Props to Alex Thompson over at Axios for digging this particular paragraph up. From New York Times James Stewart, quote, Ms. Redstone said CBS personnel had told her that In October of 2023, when Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes interviewed President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The president had seemed drowsy and had to be prodded by the CBS in 60 Minutes team to answer the questions at all. CBS had edited not just the Kamala Harris interview because Biden was a declared candidate for reelection in October of 2023. CBS had gone back and edited that interview before it had aired. Cut some stuff out. Now, why is this, why is this a big deal? First of all, the reason that CBS didn't do any of this is because they didn't want it popping up in discovery. For those of you who, I don't know how many of you out there, just in case any of you don't know, discovery is the part of a lawsuit in which the court orders everyone to cough up all the goods. What do you got in your pockets? What do you got in your emails? Pictures of Anthony Weiner? This kind of stuff that the courts ask you to cough up. And it just so happens that discovery usually reveals some things that are really, really bad. That's why a lot of settlements occur. You don't want things popping up in discovery that all of a sudden make you look really, really, really bad. And let me ask you a question. If in the middle of a lawsuit between the Trump campaign and Kamala Harris and cbs, or excuse me, cbs, regarding the Kamala Harris interview, edit, they find Joe Biden's interview edited in the middle of a lawsuit along the same things. That's FCC license revoking. Brendan Carr is itching like the man needs talcum powder. Itching to cut out some of this flagrant violation licensure grantees in the middle of this major selling off of Paramount. That's the reason why, the reason they settled and now they're trying to scuttle the company is because CBS has been in the practice through 60 minutes of altering different presidential campaigns and artificially tipping the scales for years. Years. I bet you, I'd bet five bucks, screw it, I bet 50 bucks, I'd bet half my mortgage that John Kerry's 60 Minute interview was edited all the way back to Al Gore. I bet Bill Clinton. And he was out there talking about Eating fries and. And playing the saxophone. I bet he was out there getting this interview edited, which they had subsisted.

[C]

All these years on by claiming that they had been editing for clarity and for the actual watching of the interview.

[A]

Oh, yeah, and by the way, when you or I go on the air and one of these goofballs transcribes an interview. One of our interviews with E.J. antony was just transcribed by NPR. And thoughts and prayers to WFYI in Indianapolis, who had to actually publish my name. I know how much that makes you furious, but they do a horrible. They do a very botched job of actually going through and editing things correctly. But for Biden, man, they're willing to do all kinds of backhand stands and alley oops and whatever kinds of nonsense. There is a high likelihood that no matter who the sale of Paramount goes to, it's not going well. Little other local news here as well, just since I'm digging on media. WTHR in Indianapolis, which used to be the MSNBC affiliate, is now being bought out by nexstar, who runs News Nation, which now means three of the legacy media channels in my home state are now owned by the Same News Company, CBS4, WTHR, Channel 13, and then Fox59. And by the way, we are dwarfing every one of those in the ratings, and we'll continue to do so. We're going to be back in a second. We've got a lot more. On breaking news side, it's the Tony Kinnit cast. Don't go anywhere. The Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. I'm told there is a slight bit of annoyance that I mispronounced a name in the last segment. Producer Nick, would you like to correct on air? My. My Nagoyan. What is it pronounced?

[C]

Actually, like, we have been told profusely that it is?

[A]

Win W I n W I n Win. Okay. My apologies to Nagoyan. A big womp.

[C]

Womp Phonics helped. Nothing there.

[A]

Yeah, no, no leading consonants and vowels there. Welcome back to the Tony Kindet cast. We're having a heck of a show already. Um, and I want to start off by pointing out that the transgender community is extra, extra, extra angry right now. The transgender community is just roiling with rage because the Democrats have stopped caring, like, at all about the trans. The Democrat community has realized the transgender issue doesn't win. It isn't pulling in. Remember the. The governor of Maine, whatever her name is, that no one cares Mills or something got out there? Janet. Yeah, of course it would be A Janet gets out there and says, I'm gonna fight for the trans students. We're gonna put boys in girls locker rooms. I'll see you in court, Mr. President. And they were expecting huge rallies of support for Maine and Democrats kind of awkwardly pulled at their collars. And the ladies scratched their Adam's apples in the Democrat Party and said, hmm, maybe we ought to not talk about this. And other than Nancy Pelosi, who's hyperventilating and again, sounds like a Shih Tzu attraction, looks like one too. To be completely frank with you, the Democrat Party has understood by and large that the trans issue, while it can be a part of the group, you know, it can be on the council, but it's not granted the rank of master. You know, you can have the trans crew together, but just, just make the coffee. All right, Again, non binary trans folks, the best baristas ever. Uh, but other than that, maybe not. The leaders of, of major campaigns for the DNC. Well, this is upset representative Tim McBride of Delaware, who goes by Sarah, um, and also wears skirts. Uh, but I'm sorry, that doesn't make him a woman any more than me standing in my garage makes me a car, uh, or standing in. Well, I'm, I'm gonna move on. But before I get off on a tangent, he, why is he very upset? Because he went out and accused Trump of all out assault against American democracy and no one cared. Now, to be fair to Tim, there's a couple of reasons why no one got all up in arms over his rather, I'm going to get emails. His rather PMS like outrageous. Yeah, we're going to get emails. Tim McBride says the things that everyone's already saying. Guys, I'm going to, I'm going to break it down for you a little bit on the political campaign optics side. The Trump's a fascist thing, it's been played out like 12, 13, 14 years at this point. We've heard on repeat, Trump's a fascist played over and over, broken record style. As in, were you in an elevator that played that for music, you'd be dead by the time you reach the top floor. So that's the first reason saying Trump's on an all out war against democracy. Okay, Yeah. I mean, Senator Alex Tortilla of California tried to tackle Kristi Noem or at least flopped like a fish in front of her when he was tackled rushing her. I mean, you've got Senator Maisie Hirono accusing Pete Hegseth of being Hitler because both Hegseth And Hitler drank water, by the way. There is another comparison from a major left wing pollster we're going to get to a little bit later in the show who says that, you know who else liked exercise? Hitler. Oh, yeah, yeah. So much brilliant optics from the Democrat side of things today. Uh, but the Democrats have gone all in on some brilliant, brilliant maneuvers regarding the transgender nonsense, not just again, at the federal level with, with Tim McBride who's out there yelling and tweeting as, as fast as his chubby thumbs can get across the screen. But the public school districts of this country have also decided to double down. A really, really wild decision, but, you know, choices. Meanwhile, things in Loudoun county public schools in Virginia, you know, the one where the school district made the decision to put girls in locker rooms with boys and then that turned into a very ugly sexual assault situation while they're at it again in the exact same fashion. The story is rapidly developing. So we now go over to Tyler o' ne Neal, my colleague over at the Daily Signal, who's been covering this brand new press briefings coming out from the doe. Tyler, what is going on in Loudoun County?

[D]

What is going on in Loudoun county is a question we keep coming back to. And I'm feeling a lot of deja vu right now. I mean, one of the aspects of this story, it happened in the very same school, Stonebridge High School, where that woman or that, that girl was, was molested, forced into a sex act with a boy who claimed to identify as non binary in the girls restroom. And now we have the school saying, the school district saying that two boys who complained about a girl using the men's locker room are themselves. The boys who complained are the ones in violation of Title 9 for harassing this girl, who of course the school refers to as a boy. So much transgender insanity here. And all this is happening today. There was a new ruling, a notice from the Department of Education, the federal one, where the Office of Civil Rights said that Loudoun county is among the five Northern Virginia counties that are found to be. You know, I think the word here is in danger of yet. High risk status is what it is. So all federal funds are cut off from these counties, these school districts, except in the case of reimbursements. I don't know exactly why, but the reimbursements have to be. There's, there's a little bit more of a, another hurdle there. But as of today, right, there's congressional.

[A]

Apportionment that is directly related to reimbursements. But, but that's a small fraction compared to what Loudoun.

[D]

All these school districts just lost it. So Loudoun's the one that really stands out. I'm here in Fairfax county, which is also on the list. I remember in the protests in 2021 and later when everybody had the signs that say Fairfax Triple X County, which I thought was, was very apt. Unfortunately, these counties are defying the Trump administration by standing with gender insan common sense.

[A]

And it's really disturbing given that the current use of school time and money, taxpayers funds are now going to providing some kind of legal defense against the federal government. I've said it before, these major law firms that are scalping school districts for millions of dollars a year so that some school board member can play Patty the activist is insane. And again, this is done. The reason that I'm so bothered is that this isn't just a case of mismanaged taxpayer dollars. There are active cases of sexual assault in the same school building. Now we have additional cases of the wrong sex in the wrong bathroom or the wrong changing room. And here we are again, some Karen clutching her pearls and saying a child's mental illness being affirmed is more important than the safety of children.

[D]

Yeah, I mean that is the message that they send over and over here. And they claim that these kids are going to commit suicide if they're not affirmed their gender insanity.

[A]

Old Trevor project argument.

[D]

Yeah, but that is the strongest argument they always use and it's so fatuous. I mean the studies we found show actually the exact opposite, which, you know, stands to reason that if you're telling a kid, you know, if you're, if you're indoctrinating them with this gnostic heresy that's been repackaged for our modern times, saying that some, you know, numinous personal identity is more important than your biological sex, than the body that God gave you. I mean this, this is such a destructive ideology and it leads these kids to hate themselves, to hate the bodies that they've been given. Their bodies are good and they should not be encouraging this utter, utterly insane rejection of the biological reality.

[A]

And they're going to find out very quickly in Loudoun county that there are potential legal and financial repercussions to suspending two students for requesting their own Title 9 rights be protected. Tyler O', Neill, we got to leave it there. Of course we'll have a link to any of your articles because they're again coming out very quickly given the changing news down in the description. Thanks for joining us this real quick time. We'll be back with a radio crew in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. Now there is quite a bit in, in the meantime that we need to dig into outside of just the, the transgender again, the weird transgender rage in various public school districts across the country. And this comes in a couple of forms. So in and I want to make sure that I get this. I want to get this right here. The McMaster University Department of Health has shown in new systematic reviews related to again, the media terminology gender affirming care. This would be on August 14, essentially. Dr. Gordon Guillot has basically thrown out all of his old, I shouldn't say old, a lot of the recent studies on these hormonal medications on the transgender community. The Faculty of health sciences at McMaster University has essentially said that the systemic, systematic, excuse me, reviews of gender affirming care, hormonal treatments and the analysis of long term health benefits, that if you don't like them, you don't have to believe them and they're greatly diminishing their publishing. So from the academic world, what does this mean? That's why I'm kind of stuttering along here. A lot of this is put in that ridiculous thesaurus hugging nonsense they posted on August 14th. Members and allies of the two SLGBTQIA plus two SL2 members and allies of the two XL. That's double, extra large, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, or questioning independent or Alabama communities. I guess that's for those who like their cousins a little much. That's part of the pride community. I don't know. I'm going to get emails. Those communities have raised concerns about recent systematic reviews related to gender affirming care. These concerns center on the funding source and specifically on the potential for the research to be misused to harm trans youth and to deny gender affirming care. So what does he move forward to point out? That even though all of the medical research that we have available shows that children taking endocrine modifying treatments, that children who either take hormonal regulators or inhibitors, children that try to stim, children that take certain stimulants for again, testosterone in women or estrogen in men, again, that kind of a series of hormonal treatments, we're not even talking about the slicing and the dicing and the mutilation of genitals here, but those alone do very little, if anything at all to positively impact the person going through gender dysphoria. And then number two, when you mess with the endocrine system, you skyrocket. Things like cancer. Gee, who called that, like, ages ago. And not to mention a series of other defects that can include the eroding of certain lymphatic vessels, as well as, of course, the cardiovascular system. And I don't know if you know, this thinner blood vessels is not exactly something you should be shooting for. The difference between a garden hose and a. Essentially a clown balloon is quite significant. So what does McMaster's university. What does the McMaster University crew now come forward and said, well, because transgender people really didn't like the findings of this study, I guess it doesn't mean anything. I guess it's just fake. I guess it doesn't matter, which is very, very, very horrible. I mean, that's just downright malpractice to say, well, I know that the evidence suggests that this could kill you, but if you really want to go for it, I mean, I. Assisted suicide is already legal in Canada, so in this particular instance, it makes a lot of sense. So from that point forward, a last point on kind of the trans rage here before we hop right back into the show, the public support. We're gonna have to bring the radio crew back. We'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Optics, optics. Optics, optics. I. I did get one last bit of information that. That I'll say tickled me just a little bit here. The transgender crews in the United States, the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Tim McBride, who want that to be the top of the ticket going into 2026. The public support among both recent Gallup and morning consult polls show that of all Americans, less than 1% believe that LGBTQ +2IA or 2SL, GBTQ, whatever, that. That particular barista crew, that's the most important issue. Less than 1%. They want to make that the front of the platform. Best of luck to you. The optics just look terrible to Americans. Why do I talk about the optics so much as I do? Well, first of all, because it's fascinating how bad things look has always been something that I could. I can never turn my head away from. It's one of the reasons I was so fascinated with critical race theory. Back when I was a teacher. I was amazed that you could look at a black child and tell them that they were dumber, that they were less ambitious, and that they were more likely to end up in prison, and there was nothing they could do about it because Ol Whitey was keeping him down. It was fascinating to watch them look at a two, two Brown children who, one being from Santa Cruz and the other being from New Delhi and being told that they're just the exact same kind of people because, you know, we all know how close Hindi and Spanish are in the linguistic context. Regardless, the optics are phenomenal because Americans are paying attention more to politics than right now than they have since the middle of the Cold War. It's hard to estimate because it's really difficult to show how Americans are tuning into politics. But some of the best estimates right now from some of the universities that are trying to come up with leveling equations for how you treat people reading the newspaper and turning on the radio and watching TV with people being engaged on social media since about 1982 to 1983, according to recent studies out of Yale. So given this, the optics matter a whole lot as we get ready to hit the midterm cycle. They matter a lot because right now you're being given all of these different polls. So, for example, a new generic ballot poll from SoCal, it's a B ranked poll, means I have Democrats at 42% in the generic ballot and Republicans at 37%. And you'll notice not a lot of people on the left are cheering this right now. There's a reason, number one, because Democrats or the opposition party in a generic congressional ballot in the first year of an administration should be 10, 15, 20 points ahead. That's pretty standard. And then they get closer. As you get closer to the midterm. Democrats are starting out only five points ahead of Republicans on average in the generic congressional ballot. I mean, forget the warning sirens. That's like all hands to battle stations. Then you look around at the hands to battle stations and it just gets worse. So, for example, here we have the racial nonsense coming back. Joy Reid now making all of her daytime rants about how white people apparently haven't invented anything. This is their strategy.

[E]

They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave, a slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got Prageru. They can lie about the history to the children. They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.

[A]

I'm sorry, just a quick note here. Originally invent. Originally invent as opposed to unoriginally invent. Are there a lot of unoriginal inventions? I'm not quite aware of many. Producer. Nick, can you help me out here?

[C]

When you reintroduce light through a light bulb instead of a candle, I think you then reinvented light.

[A]

Wow. Incredible. Yeah, take that, Thomas Edison. Probably a white supremacist nationalist guy.

[C]

Anyway, stole it from some kid.

[A]

Stole it. Yeah. Yeah, Clearly I knew it all along. So she's going to go on a rant about music and Elvis and Mama. And here we go.

[E]

We, black folk, gave y' all country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz, rock and roll they couldn't even invent. But they have to call.

[A]

She's just taking an. She's just grinding an axe with Back to the Future. We know he's. You know, Marty's playing Johnny Be Good. And they're suggesting. Yeah, it's all Marty's fault. She's just an angry critic about. Great Scott. Marty, you've stolen music from black people.

[E]

A white man, the King. Because they couldn't make rock and roll, so they have to stamp the King on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

[A]

Again, I don't know why they felt the need to point out that she was overweight.

[C]

That's never real quick jab right there.

[A]

It's really weird. Again, I'm. I'm not quite. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy when someone starts bringing in physical features. That's when, hey, you're saying it's okay. Elvis credited black artists throughout his career to the point where when he would go perform in certain places, they would tear up part of the posters in the south during the Jim Crow era because Elvis had credited the artist, he's one of the first artists, in general, that credited the origins of certain pieces of music. And by the way, not only did he do wonder for the civil rights movement, which, again, Joey Reid likes to say that white people did. The whole slavery thing also ended the slavery. Just to, you know, a little bit of a point there. He did not steal Elvis Presley, did not steal Hound Dog from Big Mama Thornton, whose name I remember because I actually know a little about music here. She recorded it first, but here's the catch. It was written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, you guessed it, two white guys. It turns out that music is shared a lot. I will always love you. Not a Whitney Houston song. It's a Dolly Parton song. One of the most beautiful renditions of it. It's Whitney Houston. It's okay. But they're gonna make every single issue the exact same thing. And this also gets over to even the stuff that Americans recognize as really bogus to lose their minds about. And this, obviously we're going to get into the Russia, Ukraine situation. We've got a clip from Abby Phillips to play in a second here, but it's time to talk a little about good old Gavin Newsom, who is having just a meltdown in front of the country, trying to kind of play off of Trump, and oh, sweet goodness, it just ain't working. Well, I really wasn't sure if this was a joke the first day they did it or the second day that they did it, but Gavin Newsom has now found his new plan for getting to the White House, which is getting himself a fake spray tan, bright orange, dyeing his hair blonde, and attempting to kind of sort of tweet, I guess, like Trump. And it's really, really cringey. So Elise McHugh, our cultural expert, she joins us. Um, and I gotta ask right off the bat, how much did this hurt you reading some of these posts?

[F]

You know, I can't seem to block Gavin Newsom's name enough on X because it keeps popping up and keeps popping up and keeps popping up. But, you know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And the Democrats know that they don't have the sauce, but Trump does.

[A]

So I gotta point out that some of these tweets are just awkward in a lot of ways. I mean, I guess he responded to Casey Desantis saying, your husband keeps poop and porn in his pockets. Kind of weird. They were trying to dunk on in that Newsom vs. DeSantis debate that, you know, DeSantis had a map of San Francisco that was where all of the poop was lying around. And I guess Newsom's dunk was, ha ha, he kept the map of my failure in his pocket. What on earth?

[F]

It is so crazy. And the Democrats are really falling for, or if they're not falling for it, they're convincing themselves that this is an epic own of Trump. And when Republicans, whether that be Fox News or commentators like CJ Pearson talk about it, they're like, haha, they don't get the joke. The joke's going over their head. And I'm like, no, it's because it's really embarrassing. It's crass. And just because you say it's funny doesn't mean it's actually funny.

[A]

And again, there's also a kind of a self derisiveness that Donald Trump has in how he posts he's an entertainer. He always has been. So when Trump gets out there and acts, you know, kind of weird on social media, you're like, yeah, I mean, it's Trump, you know, he's, he's just an older guy out there, you know, having a blast on social media. Like a local grandmother or aunt that you may love, that types in all caps, you know, comes up with funny nicknames for people. These are a series of grown adults, though, that Gavin Newsom has tasked to portray pseudo Donald Trump tweets. I guess in a way to originally it was that they said it was really funny. Like, oh, ha ha, really good comedy. Given that this is the same crew that watches Stephen Colbert about to be canceled, you know. But producer Nick found out a little bit about some of the financial backgrounds of this. It's really weird.

[F]

Oh, dude. How the dark money network behind Gavin Newsom press office.

[C]

Yeah, well, what's interesting is the money's not so dark as it's a well known organization. The head of communications for the Gavin.

[A]

Newsom cabinet is Robert Salladay. Right.

[C]

This interesting guy named Robert Salladay, who goes by Bob in the organizational structure, actually receives quite a bit of money from the Pulitzer grantee that he's receiving to work on some interesting project.

[A]

Would these interesting projects happen to be about categorizing California extremist and hate groups?

[C]

Yeah, a deep dive into the deep rich history that is going on.

[A]

I'm gonna guess that they're only on the right the ones that he is he's going after. No mention of antifa. Yes, yes, of course. So in case you're wondering, let me explain this goofball Twitter account, which again, you know, you want to have fun on social media, you want to act like an idiot, by all means, be my guest. But Elise, the gall to receive Pulitzer money and California taxpayer money to just tweet like a dyslexic child that drank eight Mountain Dew is incredible.

[F]

I cannot believe that this is attached to Pulitzer. Are you kidding me? I mean, love Kendrick Lamar, but they did give a Pulitzer to him too. So I guess I really shouldn't be expecting.

[A]

If you can give Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize, all awards are up. I'm looking, looking forward to receiving my Super Bowl 49 ring anytime in the mail. I'm looking forward to it whenever they want to throw one over here. I think that's the best design super bowl ring in ages. But I digress. As a gen zer and I as the millennial here in the chat, do you really rage baiting, it's a common thing, you know, where you post something in order to get people to react and they get angry. And whatever this is. Now how the left is trying to cover this as though the right is very angry or that they've got us because we're kind of cringing like a cold open in the office. What do you think?

[F]

I think rage baiting only works on one side. I feel like if the right rage baited the left, we have the cultural dominance right now. And that's what this is proving and exemplifying. But it doesn't really work when Gavin Newsom doesn't. And you don't have to be Gen Z to know this, even though a lot of people say it's a Gen Z attribute, to really value authenticity. And everyone can just tell that this is insane and cheap and mocking conservatism, but holding extremely anti American values. And like the things that you're trying to conserve, the values that you're trying to conserve in California and for the world when you're not authentic about it and you're trying to mimic the right and patriotism, but Trojan horse those values into the public sphere, it just doesn't work.

[A]

Again, there's. There's kind of an endearing eccentrism to Donald Trump. Oh, hold on here, radio folks. We got to let you shoot over to the commercial and we'll be back in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. Sorry, had to get a little commercial producer. Nick, did you want to chime in?

[C]

I find it interesting them trying to navigate the edginess with the PC culture. You know, you can be edgy, but true edginess is definitely not true.

[A]

Edginess throws in like slurs and like rather interesting comparisons, very big generalizations. For example, allow me to show you, you crew out there, an example of some, some good edge. Uh, Elise, you may be aware that there was a, A, a particular crime. A Harvard researcher, this is according to the New York Post, you heard this story, claimed he was pummeled by a group of teens after he told him to be quiet in a movie theater. You heard this story?

[F]

I actually am not familiar with the.

[A]

Story, so it's pretty much like it sounds. A group of teenagers who this guy told to be quiet in a movie theater. They then beat this man. Now, the article and the pictures only show the guy who was beaten. Can you take a wild guess at what the comments had to say about the group of youths?

[F]

Oh, Tony, I don't want you to get fired for what I'm going to say about this.

[A]

Oh, at least about to be based out here. Okay. So yes, it is in fact a lot of people essentially finding every way they can to creatively say that the teens are likely black. And by the way, we looked at the police report and yes, that is in fact the particular color of the group of individuals. Generally, generalizations get made. That's where the edginess comes into. But you're right, the left is adverse to being edgy. So it really doesn't fit. It's like if you're going to make a joke about some kind of, you know, historical event, but you are also simultaneously trying not to mention the event. It just doesn't land.

[F]

It doesn't land. And that's how you get jokes. Like you, Governor DeSantis, your wife has my poop map in her pocket and calling Trump tiny hands. And I'm like, who has the balls behind Gavin Newsom press office to say a slow.

[A]

Well, not, not big balls. That's for sure. He's, he's currently in Trump's camp, I.

[C]

Believe producer Nick or very likely any balls.

[A]

Okay. Boy, this is, this is taking, this is taking quite the turn here. It reminds me of the Dark Brandon meme for Biden that there was this again back when people were shouting f Joe Biden that the crew at the Biden press office said, oh, they're saying, let's go Brandon.

[C]

It was a live reporter trying to.

[A]

Cover up a racist live reporter trying to cover it up. Then the he said, I think I.

[C]

Hear them saying let's go Brandon. As she was talking to a man named Brandon who definitely heard the correct words.

[A]

Right. And so then you took Biden saying, oh, he's dark Brandon. You know, the shades lowered and it just was cringy. It didn't land. Because when you can't take yourself humorously, like J.D. vance with the face memes, where he has the baby face and look, that hurts me as well, given my close proximity to our dear good looking vice president. But not taking yourself too seriously and having fun is something the right is a lot better at South Park. That's why this is so cringy. South Park. Excellent, excellent example. Did you see those new episodes?

[F]

I saw clips from those new episodes and when Charlie Kirk and anyone who's affiliated with tpusa, anyone on the right who was like, oh, this is funny, I laughed at this. And then the left couldn't deal with the fact that we could laugh at ourselves. And they were like, they don't know that we're laughing at them. And I'm like, but it doesn't go both ways, does it?

[A]

No, it really doesn't. And again, that's why it doesn't. If you have individuals who are comedians on the left who can make jokes about themselves, it works. Alas, we're coming up on the end of commercial time. Elise McHugh, cultural expert over at the Daily Signal. Thanks as always.

[F]

See you soon.

[A]

We'll be back in a second. We got to pick the radio crew up from commercial. Don't go anywhere. The Tony Kenneth cast. Yeah, guess what? Actually, we're coming back now for like a smidgen. I got the timing off by about 30 seconds. So I'm going to share with you just one extra piece of excellence at the end of this. The Gavin Newsom team in all of their angst and anger, photoshopping Gavin Newsom onto things. At least according to a couple of new research polls, it hasn't remotely improved his standing for the 2028 presidential elections. All of that work for nothing. All right, now we're going to pick up the radio crew. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC. We, we do have one other interview to get to tonight, but before we do so, I, I have to share a couple of the worst, best and just like petulantly horrific optics that I have ever seen in my entire life because there's more transgender rage here. In a minute, we're going to get to that. And not to mention a therapist crew who is now doing trainings suggesting that anyone on the right side of the aisle is in a cult. And how does she know? She's a recovering cult member.

[C]

So takes one to no.

[A]

1. Boy, boy. I'll say. Now, before we get to that, though, the Trump Zelensky Europe situation. I was on a panel today over on NTD with Mike Leon, really great guy over on the left, and he made the point that Trump's diplomatic strategy here appears to be paying some pretty good dividends. It does. It appears that right now Trump's moves are working and Trump's approval rating is starting to surge a little bit up to its ceiling as Trump is going through this with the Europeans are coming over. They're echoing support for Trump. You have the Dutch guy, head of NATO. You've got again, the chancellor of Germany. You have Keir Starmer, you have the Finnish president, you have Meloni of Italy, when she's not giving side Eye to the German praising President Trump for essentially moving this process closer to peace than ever. And the legacy media and the Democrats, they just can't stand it. So Nancy Pelosi suggested that Trump, like, made out with Putin just like Jeffrey Epstein, which is essentially the Gavin Newsom Twitter account. But like a real person, like that kind of cringe in human form. The rest of it is this kind of pseudo mental acrobatics. Abby Phillips over on cnn, you may know her as the person dwarfed by Scott Jennings every single evening. So here's a video explaining why she's dwarfed by Scott Jennings every evening. Oh, that's not the right one. Sorry. Let me get that. That right clip.

[C]

How inappropriate. Dwarfed and then playing that video.

[A]

We'll get to her. We'll get to her.

[G]

I think it's extraordinary that this is even happening. I mean, think about the fact that you have a phalanx of European leaders getting on planes at a moment's notice to flock to Washington to give Zelensky backup in this meeting with.

[A]

Giving them backup. Ah, yes. Like, like the Backstreet Boys are in sync. It's gonna be. Maybe that's a take, Trump.

[G]

That's a level of concern that I think some people say hasn't been demonstrated since 9 11. And it reflects.

[A]

Democrats know three events in history. They know slavery, they know World War II, and they know 9 11. Those are the only three events any Democrat knows. Oh, what's fourth?

[C]

January.

[A]

January 6th. Ah, you got me. Okay. Yeah, they. Well, they. That was worse than 9 11. So if we're only listing 3, 911 gets booted off off the list there. Abby Phillips. Yes. Remember after 9 11, when all of the European leaders flew over to America? Hmm. Yeah, that's some good history there, Abby. Thanks. Stupidity is just unreal. That brings us over to a very obvious couple of polls here. So right now, Trump's approval rating is shooting up according to insider advantage. That's an A rated poll. Trump's job approval rating is currently at around 54% to a 44% disapproval. Now, those numbers go up and down depending on the pollster, because Trump has a particular ceiling with the American people. There are two other polls that are down right. Brutal for the left, just downright brutal. These would be the presidential hopefuls for 2028 for the left, Pete Buttigieg, God bless him. But it's not gonna be Gavin Newsom cringing everywhere if Kamala cackles. Harris is just writing, writing books and laughing into her glass of rose. Uh, and and then you've got Joe Biden soda and, and Hunter Biden yelling at the moon. Who else do they have at this point? I mean they're not gonna elect Shapiro from Pennsylvania because he's a Jew. So what, what do they have? Well, they've got Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, known for spending billions of dollars to build seven electric vehicle charging stations and he likes trains. And also he can breastfeed his child with a special plastic attachment which is an abomination. So Pete Buttigieg is currently the, maybe.

[G]

The front runner out there.

[A]

And here's the thing. According to another poll from SoCal on August 19, Buttigieg received 41% of likely presidential pick. You know who you would vote for? J.D. vance. Only at 37 wall. Maybe Buddha. Judge is, is the savior of the Democrats here. He's gonna come galloping in to save the Democrats. Well, according to a new Echelon poll, much bigger, much bigger pollster Pete Buttigieg finds himself with zero percent black support. Zero percent. Remember on this show a couple of weeks ago and then a couple of months ago when I said that in minority centric communities in the United States they're not going to elect some gay white dude. Exhibit A. In fact, exhibit echelon in this particular instance. My goodness, if remember, if the inner city black community is supposed to be a core part of the last remaining fragile coalition on the left, they're in deep, deep, deep, deep crap here and it's just not going to get any better. Now we are going to say good night to the radio folks and then we've got on back by popular demand, Pamela Garfield Jaeger. The the gall of some of these therapists is incredible. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kenneth Castle on 93 WIPC. Welcome back to the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal. Nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC, joined again by Pamela Garfield Yeager. And may I just say, while we're going to get to Froggy Girl and I'm looking forward to chatting about this new exclusive coming out today from the Post Millennial. Some serious shenanigans afoot in the therapist world. Break it down for us.

[B]

So I took a three hour training with these three people, two therapists and one woman who is a cult expert.

[A]

A cult expert. Like she's joined a bunch of them or she's like the first line of defense or.

[B]

What do you mean she had joined a cult? I don't know what it was called. She didn't say. But it was a left wing cult in San Francisco.

[A]

Msnbc.

[B]

That'll get you well, she's in that cult too. She actually named that as a, as a reputable source to get your information. So perhaps she's in a few. But that's the one that she was officially in and she's written several books and has been in several documentaries. I don't know how to pronounce their names. So you have it in front of you. I don't know how to pronounce all their names. However, this course taught gave me three credits to teach me that if you voted for Trump and you support MAGA that you are part of a culture and that officially and that the, the mega cult wants to get rid of all the black and brown people.

[A]

I've heard this before. We actually talked about this on the show yesterday. That again, given the, the pearl clutching and the bleeding and the crying from people like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass who were claiming that Trump is sending in the National Guard to target black and brown youth. But all of the social media, all the social media videos praising the national guard in D.C. do tend to come from that same black and brown again, brown with quotation marks around it because it doesn't mean anything. Communities in the United States. So it's really weird, it's very sad. But I guess that, you know, rather than saving individuals lives through decent medical provision and care, you know, making a couple of bucks to claim, well you're actually in a super secret cult and you need deprogrammed. Well that's, I don't know what, that's what a better moneymaker.

[B]

They made $85 for the course, but they called. One of the other reasons why we're in a cult is because of toxic capitalism. Although I did have to pay for the class.

[A]

Toxic capitalism. What? What is toxic capitalism? Oh do tell.

[B]

I honestly don't know. They didn't explain it. A lot of the things were claimed without a lot of explanations or examples.

[A]

Reminds me of my time doing professional developments in the public school sector. Someone would walk in, glue a couple of adverbs and adjectives and nouns together. You know, criminally abusive whiteness. Like what does that mean? Like it's just criminally abusive whiteness. It reminds me of this, this really overdone social media campaign called Solar Freakin Roadways from the early 2000 and tens that was advertising turning all roads in the US to solar panels. And he kept saying over and over there's solar freaking roadways. And it was just. The point was that if you just say a couple of words together over and over, it makes you sound knowledgeable about whatever it is that you're discussing. So you've got therapists claiming that Trump members are cultists or whatever. Again, really enjoy watching these particular groups go all in on not restoring relationships with the rest of the country. They're just going to go further and further in on this. I mean, is it a self eating market at this point? I mean, what do you think the long term strategy is for professional development in the therapy and the licensed social care worker communities?

[B]

Well, I always like what Dennis Prager says, that everything the left touches gets destroyed. And that is definitely what's happening here.

[A]

Yeah, like woke Midas, everything turns to mold.

[B]

Yeah, I think they're eating themselves. This was an online course, so I don't know who attended. There were certainly people because there were questions coming in from the chat and people seemed to say thank you at the end. So there were certainly people that appreciated the class. However, I know for certain as the truthful therapists that people that talk to me every day that they are not happy with this. They're not happy with the direction our profession is going in. And certainly a lot of the people who would be potential patients are not going to seek out mental health treatment because of this sort of thing.

[A]

So let's actually talk about some of the real ways to address some of the modern therapy questions. Right. Because there are a lot of parents who have concerns. What if my child starts getting into certain ideologies and I want to provide them help and care, but I don't want them to go see someone that's just going to say, yeah, cut off your genitals and then that'll make you happy. You have a new practical response for parents who might again have a child that is either being told about gender dysphoria or just in general. Tell us about it a little bit.

[B]

Yeah. The last time I was on, we talked about my other book, which is called A Practical Response to Gender Distress Tips and Tools for Families. And that book has a lot of information for anyone out there listening that's feeling lost and don't know where to start.

[A]

That's for the parents. Right. That's like, you know, you crack open a good parenting book kind of a situation.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, it's a parenting book, but it has a lot more cracks the code of all these different sayings that the trans activists say that get you all confused in a circle. So it helps you talk to your kid when you're stressed out at home and you don't know what's going on and what's up and what's down. So it really helps parents who are really in the thick of it. And then it gives you open ended questions on opening conversations. It has a trans English dictionary in it. It has a list of questions so you can screen for an appropriate therapist that won't immediately affirm your child or reinforce victim mentality and things that are harmful to their mental health.

[A]

Now the second book, it's a children's book and I really like it. This is something that I do want to talk about because it's the idea of providing quality media that does address the various issues that are going on. It's called Froggy Girl and from what I understand, the synopsis is you have a young girl, kind of like Mobley, who is in, you know, the, the jungle or in the forest or the woods and everyone is so excited about telling her that she is a frog over and over and over and over again. And Pam, I have a hunch that, you know, this little human girls are not frogs and therefore, yeah, probably can't do the kinds of things that frogs can do. So it's a really great kind of an allegory to, you know, boys can't become girls, girls can't become boys. When this just released, didn't it, it's finally just now out.

[B]

It just released July, mid July was its release date. So it's, it's fresh, fresh hot off the press. So yes, it's, it's Froggy Girl. And this little girl, she, she gets affirmed by everybody in her life because they want to be nice. So a lot of people naively think the social transition or just affirming to saying, well, using the different pronouns because they don't want to get into a big fight and they want to get along and they don't want to make it, you know, conflict. So they, they go along with it, but they don't realize that they get dug deeper and deeper into it. So this story really addresses that. So it's speaking both to the children and the parents basically and the adults at large that, you know, this can cause harm psychologically because when you tell the child that doesn't have much of a frame of reference that they can be anything they want, they can be something else, then that leads them to feel pretty sad and alone when they come to realize they can't actually do the thing that they think they can do. Or be the thing that they think they can be. So that's what this book is about. And at the end, she meets a wise turtle who teaches her and helps her appreciate that she's a beautiful little girl and that's why she's happy at the end.

[A]

Again, good. Actually, decent children's books are hard to come by. And I'm going to use this as a little bit of a soapbox here. The Dolly Parton Children's Library. It stinks. And the reason that it stinks is not because of Dolly Parton's generosity, but whoever is in charge of curating those particular children's books has decided that essentially, lukewarm trash is the best thing to distribute to kids. I mean, some of the things is like, oh, this book's called My Ice Cream Face, and it's just about a kid licking ice cream cones. And both I and my children want to slam their heads through drywall. Reading it now. Again, just saying, if you are a parent who enjoys some good literature here, I would really highly recommend Froggy Girl. I would. I would recommend you grab it because you see, the story makes sense and it's interesting and there's a good lesson from it. And I know this is also crazy. It doesn't make you want to slam your head through drywall. Crazy idea. For those of you who have kids, you know, you're out there in the studio.

[B]

That's one of my standards when I write.

[A]

It's a great standard. Pamela Garfield.

[B]

It has beautiful pictures, too. Beautiful, very colorful. And it is illustrated by a detransitioner, which is a neat thing.

[A]

Absolutely, absolutely. Illustrated by Nicholas Blooms, I think is the illustration.

[B]

Nicholas Blooms, Yes.

[A]

We're going to include a link in the description below, as well as, of course, the link to the new article over at the Post Millennial. Our friends over there, Pamela Garfield Yeager, the rogue licensed social worker. We love having on. Thanks so much for joining us.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Don't go anywhere. We'll be back in a second. For the radio crew, it's the Tony Kinnett cast. This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. Between two factor authentication, strong passwords and a VPN, you try to be in control of how your info is protected. But many other places also have it and they might not be as careful. That's why LifeLock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for threats. If your identity is stolen, they'll fix it, guaranteed, or your money back. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com podcast for 40% off terms apply. Foreign. You're listening to the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIPC. All right, just to wrap things up for the crew here this evening, there were two video clips that I could not help but play. Just could not help it. Number one, there was a particular pollster. Apparently she has what she thinks is a really big podcast. I looked all over the ratings, I couldn't find it. You can find ours in the top 20. But she has gone all about how angry she is that she was called out for her family's grocery trip. And it was really just kind of like a cultural commentary here. Her name's Rachel Beitkofer. So this other influencer individual named Katie Miller says this is how the US spent over $5 trillion on health care last year. And what she points out is that the grocery hauls that Americans are often partaking in are very unhealthy. Check it out.

[G]

Grocery haul. As a 37 year old full time working mom of three boys who also moved her parents in with her. So we have groceries today from three different places. We got groceries from Sam's Walmart, sorry, four places. Sam's Walmart, Food Line and Piggly Wiggly.

[A]

So far, nothing wrong with this video at all.

[G]

And I will tell you the totals for each at the end and then a grand total. So we got two containers of the two bite brownies. Two of those because they'll be gone so quick. We got one big thing of cinnamon toast crunch because we still had some leftover from last trip, so we didn't need as much this time. We got a big box of the oatmeal cream pies. We got some tea. We got some cereal bars. We got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 big bags of fries.

[A]

Now I'm the rest of the videos. It's like two or three minutes long and the haul is just very, very unhealthy. Now I'm gonna make this clear. I 150,000% enjoy a lot of the foods. Those two bite brownies are divine. A, you know, quick to eat brownie that is soft and doesn't, you know, taste artificial like a cosmic brownie. Although, dude, I love me some cosmic brownies. Those good? Little Debbie got that one right. Or, you know, I enjoy again fries as much as the next guy, but little, little unhealthy. And so someone made the point that since this is some left wing big pollster that, well, maybe this is one of the reasons why Americans spend so much on healthcare. And I would, you know, let that go. Whatever, you know, you make certain posts on social media, however it be the response by this particular individual. Well, it was a choice. So Rachel Beitkofer, she, she posts. I know this is becoming redundant, but do you know who else was super focused on forcing people to be healthy?

[C]

Oh.

[A]

By the way, Hitler grew these kids. For those who are listening to the podcast, it's two pictures of young Germans, like doing calisthenics and marching in the field and not doing like the Nazi sleuths, just exercising. By the way, don't look at any pictures of the United states in the 30s. I will just as an aside here. When I was at West Point for SLS and they were showing us for the very first time, we young high schoolers, what it would be like at the academy, there were all of these pictures that looked just like this of people just exercising. And by the way, you can find from Spain, from England, from the western and eastern worlds, China before it was being raped by Japan, from the Koreas, from Australia, from a lot of the Indo Pacific, crews of young people that were working out and doing calisthenics as part of the curriculum. What's up?

[C]

Consider me shocked that pictures of a bunch of humans doing workouts. Looks like the military. You know, the military's main thing other than fighting wars. Working out.

[A]

I. Well, one would, one would hope. One, one would certainly.

[C]

Ours now, not so much.

[A]

Yeah, in the Biden administration. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was, it was mostly the military was focused around, you know, talking about how important it was to be sexually true to yourself.

[C]

People who have parents of the same.

[A]

Sex, usually that's reserved for the Navy. So I, I'm again, I'm very glad to see a return to fitness. Again, just comparing everything to Hitler. She's very serious about this, by the way. She's not joking again, she's a pollster with a PhD. Mmm. This account kills fascism. Fafo. She in fact did FA and did FO on this particular post. So the, the, the people in the comments immediately started pointing out that, you know, that exercise isn't some kind of nationalist or supremacist thing. You do realize the most popular activities in for example, minority centric communities are athletics and are used to be. At one point in our country's history, the most popular cultural touchstone of every community was young athletics. It's a good thing and so it's hilarious. It was just incredible. Is a real individual who is upset that someone pointed out that she was shown a video of her again, this, this lady buying groceries for the family. Individuals who are A little heavy. No, no issue with that at all. But trying to suggest that being heavy makes you healthy and totally fine and it is not innately unhealthy. And saying that if, well, if you believe in getting healthy and losing weight, you know, again, there's genetic conditions, you know, there are things that people have to deal with. There are certain, again, things that make it harder to lose fat. Understandable. But if you go around saying that any, anyone suggesting that being fat is unhealthy makes you some kind of a white nationalist fat phobic, whatever. No, you're ridiculous. You are ridiculous. And all of these optics conversations to say, I'm going to bring it, I'm going to wrap it up with Senator Kennedy of Louisiana. Why do I bring all of this up? Because what's the Republican countermeasure right now? What do you see Republicans in the House, in the Senate doing? They're not talking. They're not talking. And it's a very, very good thing. The reason you don't see a lot of Republicans out there making a, making hay while the Democrats are embarrassing themselves is again best articulated in the classic timeless wisdom of Senator Kennedy of Louisiana. With us now, Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy. Good to see you, sir. Thank you. Are Republicans having fun these days? I wouldn't describe it as fun. I enjoy my job. But I'm not sure that fun is the right term. I think we're winning more than we're losing. Some of that is due to Republicans, but a lot of it, as you pointed out, Leland, is due to Democrats. As I've said before, you, you never interfere with your opponent when he's kicking his own ass. Senator Kennedy is a national treasure. God bless him. God bless him. And he's correct. I'm more than happy to point out that right now when Marco Rubio and President Trump are tackling major international issues and there and again, the DHS is doing what the DHS does and Trump is fixing crime. May I say, and again, again, a little last addendum here. Matthew Foldy, the good friend over from the Washington Reporter, got a text from a particularly left leaning individual this evening after a Nationals game said, quote, I'm walking around the Navy Yard post Nats game and I'm floored. Donald Trump literally solved crime and the Democrats are screaming about transgender stuff. We didn't even get to talk about the surge of them defending like Gavin Newsom defending illegal immigrants, driving really dangerous semi loads all around the country. They can't read. And killing people and killing people in the process. Not just in the incident, of course, with the three died that we talked about recently, but every day illegal immigrants are involved in horrible accidents in which results in the deaths of Americans. Why? Because they can't read the signs. They don't know the rules of the road. It's slave labor.

[C]

Do not respect them.

[A]

Anyways, so again, we'll talk about this more later. I really will cut you guys loose because with the increased indication, I have to get a lot of this stuff uploaded for stations that air it later. Have a wonderful evening. We will be back tomorrow. Same great time, same great place. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Take care.