All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition, a special one of the Big Ben show for July 4th week.

I have two great conversations on this episode, one with Sage Steel and another with David

Mamet. Both are very interesting and fascinating individuals, and it was a great time to

interview them. But I'd interviewed them last week, and so that means that there were some

developments of the news that I wanted to talk about that happened in the interviewing period.

When it came to Sage Steel, obviously one of the things that she is most open about in terms

of advocating for something that she truly believes in is for the case against men in girls' sports.

And an incredible thing has happened as it relates to the Penn situation regarding Leah Thomas, perhaps one of the

most prominent figures in this entire debate. What the Trump administration achieved in negotiating

a new situation where all of these different records related to Thomas would essentially be

stripped and instead given to those who should have gotten

them instead is really a phenomenal achievement, especially for Education Secretary Linda

McMahon. Obviously, I would have asked the stage about it at the time, but it hadn't happened

yet. And now I think we are going to enter a new phase of this type of thing having a domino

effect across the NCAA and other sports

as well in a way that I think really is going to shine the light on how foolish this was from the

beginning. Of course, the other great big development was the big beautiful bills passage through

the U.S. Senate. Now it heads to the House where votes are expected in the next two days, where you are fighting to try to get out in time for the July 4th holiday.

One of the things that happened within the Senate debate was that, unfortunately, for John Thune, he was unable to really convince some of the key votes who were wavering on this to come along.

Rand Paul, Tom Tillis, and Susan Collins all voted against the bill.

Because of that, he needed to convince Lisa Murkowski.

And as she has done so many times before, she extracted a pretty hefty price for what she

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