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Fearless with Jason Whitlock

Ep 456 | ESPN Personality Speaks Out Against Trans People in Women's Sports | Pippen Trashes Michael Jordan

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

Blaze Media

Sports News, Politics, News, Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

USA Today recently published an article referring to ESPN’s Samantha Ponder as a “bigot” for having the sane opinion that men shouldn’t compete in women's sports. Ponder’s tweet in support of NCAA swim champion Riley Gaines, who has been outspoken about her experiences competing against William “Lia” Thomas, reignited the smear campaign against anyone speaking out against trans women in women's sports. Of all the women and former male athletes with ESPN, Samantha Ponder and Sage Steele remain the only two personalities to speak publicly about what Jason believes is one of the biggest issues plaguing sports today. Why are athletes who know men are physically superior to women not speaking up? Where are the men of ESPN on this issue? “Every male ex-jock at ESPN knows it’s unfair for biological boys to compete against girls. They’re experts on the topic. They know far more about competing in athletics than they do about law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and American history. They can’t wait to hop on television to second-guess law enforcement. They can’t wait to offer bold opinions about subjects they know very little about. But boys competing against girls? Silence.” Steve Kim and Shemeka Michelle join “Fearless” to discuss the madness. Plus, Steve and Jason discuss Scottie Pippen’s recent remarks burying his teammate, Michael Jordan. What’s got Pippen tripping? And Shemeka tries to make sense of the viral trend of prank videos and the dangers of trying to punk complete strangers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Fearless for Jason Whitlock. I am Jason Whitlock, your host. Happy Tuesday,

0:22.4

after the Memorial Day. Happy, happy, happy. We got a four day work week and we're looking

0:28.1

forward to it. We have an awesome show player for you today. Big round of applause to

0:33.0

me and Michelle in studio with us today and we'll be here for the next three days.

0:39.1

Is that right? Yes. And so, let's make a what you do for Memorial Day weekend. Did you

0:44.8

anything fun? Yes, we had our family reunion and we sang the song Family Reunion. I think

0:52.4

it's by the OJs maybe. Yeah. And first of all, that was long and dull and boring. The entire

0:59.4

song going through the talking part, which I had never noticed that he actually said exactly

1:05.1

what we talked about though on the show. Oh, really? Yeah, that the father is the head of

1:10.3

the family. Oh, they don't allow music like that no more. Yeah, they cut that off too. I

1:15.0

had never heard that part on the radio, but he talks about the father being the head of

1:19.7

the family and the woman standing next to the father and how the kids are under them. So,

1:26.9

that was my first time here in the entire version, but the rest of the family, it was just

1:36.8

a really long drawn out song, but it was great to get together with my people. Oh, yeah,

1:41.9

I remember this. Yeah. So, my cousin insisted that we sang this, but if you go all the way

1:49.0

to the end, it's fearless. Like, that's exactly what we talked about. And it was my first time,

1:54.5

I guess the radio probably cuts all that talking off, but that was my first time hearing. And I

2:00.6

said, oh, looking at the lyrics because they had it in our program, oh, he's right. That's what we

2:07.5

talk about. We need to get back to this. We don't even make music like that anymore. I can't wait

2:12.7

to, when we get to commercial break or when we get to a break, I'm going to listen to the whole

2:17.0

song again just refresh my memory. But anyway, Steve Kim is going to join us as well. We will start

2:24.6

the show as we always do with a fire starter. So, let's get this party rolling. A time comes when

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