Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Michael Moynihan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, even though you're in a blue state, this is a pretty clear issue for people when they have girls. I mean, I have a girl who has just turned 14 years old, is... you shockingly, when you look at me, an exceptional athlete and a very competitive athlete, I was just in Florida for, for a gymnastics meet. I'm all over the country for them.
And, you know, it was funny when we were in Florida, we went to the meet and it was the only meet we'd ever been to where there were men in doing male gymnastics, which is a different thing, by the way. They do rings and they do pommel horse. The girls don't do that because there's a strength issue, right? Those are very strength-oriented things.
And that's the basic thing that do, are we even having that argument still that men and women are fundamentally different? That was, by the way, an argument we had, you know, four or five years ago that I just had my head in my hands and I couldn't believe that This was actually an argument that was being proffered by the people on the other side of this issue.
But there are two things, as you point out, is one of them is a fairness issue in one of them is a safety issue because there are different sports. You point out hockey. No one ever talks about that. Leah Thomas is going to beat you in the pool. because of obvious biological differences. On the hockey rink, my daughter and I are both obsessive hockey fans. We go to NHL games all the time.
And I would love for her to play hockey when she gets into high school. But that's a different story because people are hitting each other all the time. That is the point of hockey. Like losing a race. I mean, you saw the Four Nations game against the Canadians in the US. They fought. There were three fights for the first nine seconds of the game. This is what the game is. It's a physical game.
And then all of a sudden you're like, wait a second. This is why you saw that with the boxing and the Moroccan boxer. Yeah. Yeah. That like that stuff is terrifying. I mean, to watch that. And if you have a girl that's out there who's 15, 16 years old, that doesn't matter if you're in a blue state or a red state.
That's an issue that Donald Trump is obviously right to bring up tonight because it's a winning issue. And immigration is obviously a winning issue too, that he has the public on his side in those things.
And it's amazing to me the Democrats just are caught in the same ideology of culture war because like you mentioned Title IX, Title IX is where people have been fighting culture war stuff for the past decade. And it's time that it stops. It's kind of insane because most of the American people are on the side of sanity on this issue.
It's a, you're, I literally have no idea who that is, Megan. And I, what do you mean?
I know exactly who she is. I'm lying to you. I have a tattoo of her in my shoulder blade. I know my daughter, she listens to the show sometimes. I don't want her to know that's true. I'm there only in a sort of academic way. That's it. It took me a minute.
But will they? I think that one final point on this for me is that it's not really an ideological issue. The reason it became an issue nominally of the right was because people on the right were fighting these kind of woke wars and they stopped caring.
The number of people you talk to that are not on the right that live in New York City who will quietly tell you that they agree with this stuff but are afraid of voicing it publicly is enormous. I mean, you know, we saw today... Martina Navratilova, the famous tennis player who's gay and a very left wing woman, if you follow her on Twitter, was excoriating Democrats for voting against this. J.K.
Rowling is a left winger. People might think differently because they think she is this. issue. She's a liberal person. There's a lot of liberals on the side. That's why it's an 80-20 issue. And one of the gaslighting things is to make people think that this is a right-wing issue.
It might be handled differently by people on the right, but it is an 80-20 issue because it does go beyond kind of ideological boundaries. And I think people are kind of becoming a little more comfortable talking about it because maybe the administration made it that way, maybe the culture made it that way, but people are less afraid of it.
Can I try to take their joy away right now? I love that this guy's like, you all just got fired. Do you have joy? No, I just got fucking fired. What are you talking about? I'm going to sing your job back. It's like, no, please don't. Lord.
Yeah.
Like modern.
I mean, you learn things from TikTok, Megan.
Serious tone. Very serious tone. I want to say that it's an amazing thing because I am weirdly probably on Rachel Maddow's side on this one when it comes to I didn't like how it was handled. We talked about it in our podcast. I think Zelensky probably shouldn't been baited in that way and actually said he expressed regret today because of the situation that that resulted in.
But I absolutely would never say and you didn't hear us say in the two hour podcast that we did about this at any point. that this was a result of some conspiratorial Donald Trump is under the control of the FSB. This stuff has been debunked time and again.
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