Tsunami Clickbait and Podium Protests: What's Really Happening?

Have you noticed how news headlines seem designed to scare rather than inform? This morning's conversation dives into a perfect example: a New York Post article warning about a "thousand-foot-tall mega tsunami" threatening three US regions. Yet buried in the fearmongering is the actual science: there's only a 15% chance of the triggering earthquake happening within the next 50 years. We unpack why media outlets resort to these tactics and what it says about our information landscape.

The heart of today's discussion focuses on a powerful moment in women's sports that deserves more attention. When high school track athlete Reese Hogan finished second to a male-born transgender competitor despite setting a personal record, she later stepped onto the first-place podium after the official ceremony concluded. This symbolic act represents a growing movement of female athletes refusing to silently accept what many view as fundamentally unfair competition policies.

Beyond the headlines, we explore what's truly at stake when girls are pushed out of fair athletic competition. Sports teach crucial life skills: discipline, resilience after disappointment, confidence in physical abilities, and effective teamwork. These benefits extend far beyond the playing field, shaping young women's developmental journeys. Instead of telling girls to simply quit competing, we need to address the policies and leadership that have created this situation. Our daughters deserve spaces where they can experience all the benefits sports offer without being disadvantaged by biological differences no competitor can train to overcome.

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Chapters

• 0:29 Morning Intro and Tsunami Fearmongering
• 3:29 Maureen Callahan Appreciation Tangent
• 5:18 Girls in Sports: Trans Athlete Controversy
• 9:15 Final Thoughts and Question of the Day

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Hello, good morning, happy Tuesday. Let's get right to it. Okay, a thousand foot tall mega tsunami threatens US across three regions. Experts warn Well, we've got that going for us, wow, okay, let's see what it says. Experts have issued a warning about a potential potential mega. These people like do they not have anything else to write about today? So let's, let's think of a disaster that we can write about and then let's see if it's true. Do they do any kind of research over it? We're going to find out, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 0:51

Okay, potential mega tsunami, not just a regular tsunami, but a mega tsunami that could sweep away entire communities with its massive waves. Alaska, hawaii and the west coast of the. Well, the west coast of the mainland us face an ongoing threat due to how close they are to disaster zones, and the west coast just received a renewed warning. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences you know, because you, I'm sure you have a subscription to that revealed that an earthquake could erupt along the Cascadia subduction Zone, a fault that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mondesino, california. So I mean, we've all known they're very vulnerable to earthquakes out there, so this really is not anything new Researchers from Virginia Tech found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels this sounds like climate change could lead to a mega tsunami most severely impacting residents and properties of northern california, northern oregon and southern washington. A mega tsunami is a disastrous wave caused by the displacement of ocean water, which can be triggered by earthquakes, landslides or volcanic eruptions. The experts stressed that the fault line has a 15% chance Of creating an earthquake With a magnitude 8.0 or greater Within the next 50 years, not 50 days, 50 years.

Speaker 1: 2:40

So, yeah, these people were bored. They needed something to write about. Okay, uh, you can go finish reading that. Come on now. What do y'all think about that? That is not the question of the day. Just tell me your thoughts. Are they trying to scare people? What, what? What's the deal? What's the deal behind that story on the New York Post today?

Speaker 1: 3:03

Speaking of New York Post, I do have to say something. Uh, I have discovered Maureen Callahan. She has been on Megyn Kelly a few times Now. Megyn Kelly has started a um, uh, hold on for a minute, okay. So Megan Kelly has started this podcast network Megan Kelly podcast network, whatever and in it right now she has Maureen Callahan and Link Lauren. I'm sure y'all know who Link Lauren is, but Maureen Callahan, her YouTube podcast channel now is called the Nerve and if you are not subscribed to it, please go subscribe to it.

Speaker 1: 3:51

I love this one. I have a girl crush, I know. I know Fangirling over here over Maureen Callahan. She is a journalist who wrote for the New York Post, I believe, and she's an author. Anyway, I am just in awe of her. I wish I could be just like her. But then I'm thinking you know what, see, when I see her YouTube channel and watch her, I'm like she kind of reminds me of what I think I would like to be like. But then I'm like, no, just be yourself. And then I'm like, well, what is myself? I don't know what myself is. That makes no sense whatever. I hope I'm trying to get my point across here. Go subscribe to marine callahan, the nerve channel.

Speaker 1: 4:32

All right, we need to move on to the next story. Uh, because I wrote a big old, long blog post which I'm kind of proud of. I know I shouldn't be proud, forgive me, but I think it's a very important topic that we are not talking about in this whole trans cult ideology, with boys uh getting into girls sports and what happens to girls when they are pushed out, and why this is important, why this is a very important topic that we need to talk about more. But you've heard about this track star. This track person, high school female track star, poses on first place podium after finishing second to trans athlete. She's a real champ. So you've heard about this California thing going on, I'm sure, where a boy competed and he won, and of course he won because he's faster, stronger, bigger, you know. So at California, and then they had their ceremony. The boy was on top of the first podium, but after the ceremony was done and everybody left, the girl stepped up on the first place podium, I guess, so her parents could take pictures. But now that's making the story. So a California high school female athlete didn't let coming in second to a male-born transgender competitor how about just calling him a guy, a boy competitor, prevent her from standing in the top spot on the podium during placement at a state track and field meet, reese Hogan, 16 years old. So she's competing against another probably 16 year old underage teenager boy who thinks he's a girl, and I'm sure his parents are giving him all kinds of hormone. I don't know if I see this is. This should be against the law. It's child abuse. All right anyway.

Speaker 1: 6:31

Reese hogan, 16, was crowned second place in a triple jump at the cif southern section finals on saturday, despite setting a new personal record for herself and the kareen luther lutheran high school at 37 feet two inches. Wow, that's big. That's long. All right, that's big, all right. Uh. Standing in first place oh my gosh, hold on for a minute. All right, sorry, I didn't get a drink of water. All right.

Speaker 1: 6:58

Standing in first place junior trans athlete AB Hernandez of Harupa Valley. He's a boy, not a trans. He's a boy who won titles in the girls long jump and triple jump, posed with competitors to take pictures on the podium. However, as the athletes cleared off, hogan, the real girl, seized the moment, walked on top of the first spot, smiled and proudly posed for picture. Her actions received praise from former NCAA swimmer and conservative influence, riley Gaines, who dubbed Hogan the real champion. Well, of course she's the real champion. When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion. The crowd erupts with applause. Gaines posted on X. This is the way. Congrats to Reese Hogan the real champ. No, that's not the way. I mean it is the way, but we shouldn't be in this situation. To begin with. We need to get these people who are sitting on boards of these athletic events get them off of them, change the rules. I just, you know, change the rules of all of this back to where it's supposed to be. That's what I think, all right. So I'm going to go over to my.

Speaker 1: 8:13

Also, while I'm on the topic of Maureen Callahan. I know I'm jumping around a lot. I really can't find much about her. So if you sleuths out there can go find some stuff out about her. I would love to know more about her. She's an author, so I'm probably going to get all of her books to read. Uh, I just love this woman. She is fantastic because she's I mean, she's real. And let me tell you, page six has nothing. If you are interested at all in any kind of celebrity gossip, page six has nothing. Maureen Callahan knows it all. So if you want that kind of thing, it interests you. I just like the way she presents things because it reminds me of me, but she's better than me. She's way better than me Because she's got a college education. I'm sure she's been doing this for a living, so that makes her way better. So, anyway, I'm just doing this for fun, okay, uh, I mean sure I'd like to do it for a living, why not? But you know, I don't know anything about it. I just get on here and rant Okay, this is my anamericanistcom blog post.

Speaker 1: 9:22

I'm not going to read it all to you because I'm already close to my time up what happens to girls in sports when they're pushed out? So you know, sports teaches a lot of things. It teaches discipline, it teaches how to handle disappointment when you lose and to get back up again. It teaches confidence, it teaches teamwork. It teaches all kinds of things. So if we're pushing girls out of sports like this and I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about collegiate level or Olympian, you know level I'm talking about regular girls like my daughter or like me, who you know, we know we don't really have the, we really don't have the talent or the skills to go further in any kind of sports that we do. But we still want to play and learn. But if we're going to be up there and a boy's going to be, no, we don't know. Girls are going to quit, and even conservatives are saying well, girls should quit competing. I don't think we should. I mean, yeah, I'm not going to compete against, I'm not going to compete against a boy, but I think, again, we need to change the rules at the top and get these people out of power.

Speaker 1: 10:30

Okay, I need to move on to the question of the day. All right, if you could afford it and it was, money was no issue would you buy an electric car, whether it be a Tesla or some other brand? Would you buy one and make that your only vehicle that you have? All right, I got to go Me. My answer is no. All right, I got to go. Love y'all. Thanks for listening, bye.