Ever wondered how a coaching change could alter the course of a football team? Join us on a journey through the world of Wyoming sports, as we bid farewell to Craig Bohl, the retiring head coach of Wyoming's football team, and contemplate the team's future under the new coach, Jay Sawvel. We also delve into the ongoing controversial dialogue around the Barstool Sports Bowl and the much-debated issue of fairness for women athletes. Hold your breath as you hear Representative Lisa McClain's rousing defense of women's rights in sports at a congressional hearing.
We then switch gears and dive into the socio-political climate of Minneapolis. Our discussion navigates around Liz Collen's riveting documentary, "The Fall of Minneapolis," which dissects the events following George Floyd's death. As we head towards the uncertainty of the 2024 elections, we pause to commemorate a significant historical event - the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tune in for a thought-provoking episode filled with valuable insights and engaging analysis.
Ever wondered how a coaching change could alter the course of a football team? Join us on a journey through the world of Wyoming sports, as we bid farewell to Craig Bohl, the retiring head coach of Wyoming's football team, and contemplate the team's future under the new coach, Jay Sawvel. We also delve into the ongoing controversial dialogue around the Barstool Sports Bowl and the much-debated issue of fairness for women athletes. Hold your breath as you hear Representative Lisa McClain's rousing defense of women's rights in sports at a congressional hearing.
We then switch gears and dive into the socio-political climate of Minneapolis. Our discussion navigates around Liz Collen's riveting documentary, "The Fall of Minneapolis," which dissects the events following George Floyd's death. As we head towards the uncertainty of the 2024 elections, we pause to commemorate a significant historical event - the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tune in for a thought-provoking episode filled with valuable insights and engaging analysis.
Good morning and welcome to let's Talk Wyoming. I'm Mark Hamilton, your host, and today we'll be taking a look at our Wyoming winter weather. We'll also be talking about a new Wyoming head football coach. We'll talk about fairness in women's sports. We'll have a little bit of this and a little bit of that and maybe take a little closer look at what we need to look at and finally we'll talk about Pearl Harbor, an important bay that lives in infamy. Thanks for joining us. Hope you enjoyed the show. Take a look at Wyoming sports.
Mark:The big news here in the state of Wyoming on the sixth day of December this Wednesday came forward today that Craig Bohl will be retiring. After the Arizona Bowl it was kind of a question that was out there whether Coach Bohl would continue on. He'd been asked during the season whether he'd be returning. So a lot of speculation and he, just looking at his record and stuff, he's done a great job for the Cowboys At least we've had somewhat of a semblance of a football team. He's put out a lot of effort and I guess you really can't complain when it's all done with. But Coach Bohl said it was time to go and he wanted to go out on his own accord, which a lot of coaches don't get to go out on their own accord. They get fired. With the appointment, new coach Jay Sawvel is the defensive coordinator for the Cowboys and on board for a couple years. He thought that he would be a younger person in the locker room and felt really good about where the program was.
Mark:Of course, when Craig Bohl came in from North Dakota State, the program was in disarray, had gone through quite a few different coaches. He did get the ship back and upright through the years. He's just one of those older coaches Just did it his way. That caused some issues for some of the fans. We're not happy with the way we were handing the ball off and running the ball Just never had a passing game, had a lot of ups and downs, but I guess, looking back on it, coach Bowell had a winning record. I think Coach Bohl meant a lot for the university. He gave some good years, 10 years for the Cowboys, and now he's off in retirement. So we wish him all the best.
Mark:As we said, he'll coach in the Arizona Bowl. The Cowboys found out last Sunday that they were going to the Arizona Bowl Kind I wish it was a little different bowl for Coach Bohl to go out on. The Cowboys are in the Arizona Bowl, the Barstool Sports Bowl, and I don't know if anybody watched that's listening to the podcast. It was almost unbearable. It really was unbearable. I actually turned off the game in the third quarter. Just couldn't watch it any longer. They have a lot of theatrics and such. The game will be on the CW channel, the Country Western Music channel. It's a little what I call sophomoric with some of the stuff. We'll see what they do this year and what they build from last year's game. But that'll be the last coaching game of Coach Bohl's career. I'm waiting to see if anybody drops out or what happens after Bohl leaves, but I think they should be pretty well set with their incoming recruits Most of the kids they do want to come in and play for the Cowboys. So big news here in the state of Wyoming didn't take long to find our new coach. That was one of the concerns I had where they were going to look and find the coach. But a lot of times you look within the building and you found a coach and they felt Tom Burman felt comfortable with him and we wish him nothing but the best for our Wyoming Cowboys.
Mark:And finally, today it's a subject that's been out and about in the sporting world. I've had a show or two on fairness and women's sports. We have, as I said before being a coach and I've had daughters and coach girls basketball and girls sports. I was always against this idea. Just because some guy wanted to say that he was a girl just to play the sport that we were going to let him play. I thought it was this totally ludicrous that anybody was even considering and it is still being pushed.
Mark:Title IX was one that was coming forward and I happen to hear this recording from the Congress today and Mrs Lisa McClain, the congressional representative from the state of Michigan of all places, she chairs the subcommittee that guest, there are people to testify and Riley Gaines was one of them and they were talking about women's sports and it's just unbelievable when you hear some of the comments. The one lady said that girls just need to learn how to lose to men and this lady supposedly she was some educated, professional person and just an absolute asinine comment. But I had to play this. I had to record this, so we're going to listen to Representative McClain here as we go out into sports.
Speaker 2:What have we lost our minds? I sat here and listened to every, every label imaginable. I I am here to protect women, girls. My god, why do I have to apologize for that? We spent decades Trying to protect women and you know what we won? We won. So I will not apologize now or ever for trying to protect my daughters and Women in sports, and that's what this hearing was about Protecting women. So you know what. I am a woman and let me tell you hear me roar because I will not stop Protecting women. You want to know why? Because we have rights to, women have rights to to, and our daughters have rights to. Let me be Explicitly clear on that and I will never stop protecting our daughters. I will never stop protecting women. That is my job as a mother and it is the right thing to do.
Speaker 2:This hearing today has been extremely informative and heartbreaking. Frankly, I am mystified by the Biden administration's shameless Failures to protect women's rights. We talk about protecting women's rights like that's such a bad thing, that that's so evil to protect women's rights. Have we lost our mind? The administration's proposed title nine rule will rewind decades of progress in women's rights. The Biden administration is weakening title nine by allowing all males who identify as women To participate in women's sports. Okay, identify as women? How about just be a woman? Why can't I protect my women? Why can't I protect my daughters? Title nine was implemented by Congress to give women equal educational opportunities, including within federally funded school athletic programs. No, we're not there. Do we have a lot of work to do? Your dog on right, we do. But if this language gets in by the Biden administration, it will definitely not help women. I can assure you that it will not help us on the progress route.
Speaker 2:The Biden administration's rule would would eliminate women's sports as we know it. That's a fact, and you know how it starts. It starts little, by little by little by little. All you got to do is look at it. It's called the salami mentality Little by little by little, it starts by just a little, and then, before you know it, look at our tax system, right, as we have discussed today. The Biden administration has no legal grounds to support this rule. Congress is the nation's lawmaking body, body, not unelected bureaucrats in the Biden administration.
Speaker 2:In this world, in a world where biological males compete in women's sports, women lose access to roster spots. It's true, it's not about your feelings. It is the fact. Women lose Championships, records and scholarships. That's just a fact. I'm sorry if it doesn't fit your narrative, but it's the fact.
Speaker 2:Women face serious injuries from contact sports with physically biological or larger biological males. Again, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. Women face emotional trauma of exposure to biological males in spaces that should be safe and private for women, like the locker room. And why should women have to change all the time? What about nice? We got a little heads up, riley. Huh about? Hey, we got, we got a biological male competing. What have been nice to have a heads up? Then maybe we could have put the curtain up, but we don't even bother to tell anybody. What about defending our women? What about defending my daughters? Don't I have a right? You know what I say? Yes, I do.
Speaker 2:The proposed Department of Education rules will do nothing to preserve the safety or fairness of women's sports. This is about protecting girls and women. This is about protecting our daughters, our sisters, our nieces and our granddaughters. And you know what Lisa McClain is here to fight for them. That's why I've drafted a bill save women's sports act, the, the to protect sports and fair competition Across the nation. Remember title nine that we fought so hard for. My bill prohibits any school or University that receives federal funding from allowing biological males from participating in women's sports. So you can do it, we're just not funding it. If schools violate the present provision of this bill, they lose access to all federal funding. You can be who you want to be, but the American people don't have to fund it, especially since about 70% of them actually agree with me. Simply put, this bill will stop the pattern of Unremarkable male athletes that switch to women's sports and suddenly come in first place. Men like those we have heard stories about, men like the ones that we've heard stories about today. I asked my colleagues to join me in protecting women's sports by signing this bill.
Speaker 2:In Closing, again, I want to thank our panelists once again for your brave and important testimony today. I'm sure you're gonna get canceled. I'm sure I'm gonna get canceled, but you know what that tells me. My ladder is on the right wall and I'm doing the right thing. Thank you for sharing your stories. I do appreciate it. And with that, without objection, all members have five left, five legislative days within which to submit materials and Additional written questions for the witnesses, which will be forwarded to the witnesses. If there is no further business without objective Objection, the subcommittee stands adjourned.
Mark:Taking a look at other things that are Important in my world right now. I have had the opportunity to kind of learn a few things this week and Sometimes what you first see or hear may not be the truth, and that took place when I took in the movie the fall of Minneapolis. I should say it's an investigative documentary and it is by Liz Cullen. She also wrote the book of their lying and it's pertaining to the period of time of George Floyd and Everything that happened after the George Floyd incident. Liz was a reporter or news person at a Station in Minneapolis. Her husband was the head of the police union and Of course, we all know that what we heard about and what was reported by the networks, that what happened, and I probably was just one of the people that was kind of questioning about the police and what happened and what Officer Chavin did. It looked like that he of course had his knee on his throat. After the trial he was found guilty, but it all along it did sound her had some kind of peculiar Sides to it, but I had saw some interviews with Liz on some different Podcasts and different shows and so I saw I got to watch this and I will tell you this was not done as a Republican Hit piece type. It isn't a political one, I would say it. What I liked about it is the way that she presented it. She presented the facts. A lot of those facts were never weren't allowed in the trial.
Mark:I after watching this. It starts out with the Body cam footage of that day when the officers Arrested George Floyd and what happened after that. And then it goes through and we're talking about the with the police situation in Minneapolis and with the riots that were going on, and we're talking about when they burned down the police station, how bad that was, and then, of course, the court case and how that was a travesty. There are some questions on the autopsy and what information was provided or allowed to be provided to the jury in the trial. And the more you watch it, the more your stomach turns. It just makes you wonder what's happened to our country. Of course this was during COVID and everything fell apart then. If we, it seems like it didn't happen with the way our country was back then. We all remember Minneapolis and Portland and what happened across the country with riots, washington DC, new York, everything that happened. They were mostly peaceful protests that news media always told us I don't think that many people were even charged on any of the peaceful protests they talked there was over a billion dollars of damage in Minneapolis, all the businesses that were destroyed. How many people were killed during that period of time? And nothing happened. And I kind of wonder.
Mark:We're going into a 2024 ahead of us. It's just right around the corner and, with the election coming up, president Trump was running. Looks like he's going to be the nominee, unless somehow the Democrats can figure out how to throw him in prison and to get rid of him. But I can only imagine the next year is going to be just full of twists and turns. What's going to be our next pandemic or pandemic? What's going to happen with everything that's going on in the world, within our country? So I think it's really going to be important for all of us going forward that we don't jump to conclusions, no matter whose side it's from.
Mark:Gather the facts, find out what really happened. Then start making your own conclusions. All I can tell you is the news media is not very truthful. They want to feed you what they want you to know, and that's the part that's really troublesome to me. But please take in that this documentary. It's free. Just type in in your search engine the fall of Minneapolis and it's about an hour and 30 minutes. But I was concerned about it. It might be too long but it keeps you riveted, just watching this thing and seeing where we are with our justice system and where we are as a country. And also Liz has a channel, alpha Network, where she has just lots of reports, a lot of stuff about Minneapolis and Minnesota but on other things happening in the country, and she does a great job and I admire her work. She's doing this course. She does not work for the news station. She was fired from that news station mainly because her husband being in a policeman, it wasn't a good time for the police force.
Mark:I think we all need to learn a lesson sometimes what we see initially, or we see it, might not be the absolute truth and maybe it's time that we all this Took a little extra time and see what really is happening out there. Reading from Proverbs Five through nine get wisdom, get understanding, do not forget my word or Swear from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you. Love her and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme. Therefore, get wisdom, though it cost all you have. Get understanding. Esteem her and she will exalt you. Embrace her and she will honor you. She will set a garland of grace on your head and present you with a crown of splendor. December 7th is the Remembrance Day for Pearl Harbor. Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an event that just changed our Society, changed our world.
Speaker 3:This program to bring you a special news bulletin. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, hawaii, by air. President Roosevelt has just announced the attack also was made on all naval and military activities on the principal island of Oahu. We take you now to Washington.
Speaker 4:The details are not available. They will be in a few minutes. The White House is now giving out a statement. The attack apparently was made on all naval and on Naval and military activities on the principal island of Oahu. The president's brief statement was read to reporters by Stephen early, the president secretary.
Speaker 4:A Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor naturally would mean war. Such an attack would naturally bring a counterattack and Hostilities of this kind would naturally mean that the president would ask Congress for a declaration of war. There is no doubt from the temper of Congress that such a declaration would be granted. This morning secretary Hull talked with the secretaries of war and of the Navy. Now the two special Japanese envoys, admiral Nomura and special envoy Karusu, are at the State Department engaged in conference with Secretary of State Hull. Their appearance at the State Department on this Sunday afternoon emphasizes the gravity of the far eastern situation where hostilities now seem to be actually opening over the whole South Pacific. And Just now comes the word from the president's office that a second-air attack has been reported on Army and Navy bases in Manila. Thus we have official announcements from the White House that Japanese airplanes have attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and have now attacked Army and Navy bases in Manila. We return you now to New York and we'll give you later information as it comes along from the White House.
Speaker 5:We turn you now to New York the Speaker, members of the Senate of the House of Representatives, yesterday, december 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I Regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, american ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Speaker 5:As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always Will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the other most, but we'll make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again end. Dangerous Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us, god. I Asked that the Congress declare that, since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7th 1941, a state of war has existed Between the United States and the Japanese Empire you.
Mark:Thanks for joining us today and we hope you enjoy our podcast. As per the Code of the West, we ride for the brand and we ride for Wyoming. Thanks for joining us today and we hope you enjoy our podcast. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you you. December 7th is the Remembrance Day for Pearl Harbor. Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and event that just changed our society, changed our world.
Speaker 3:We take you now to Washington.
Speaker 4:The details are not available. They will be in a few minutes. The White House is now giving out a statement. The attack apparently was made on all naval and on naval and military activities on the principal island of Oahu. The president's brief statement was read to reporters by Stephen early, the president's secretary.
Speaker 4:A Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor naturally would mean war. Such an attack would naturally bring a counter attack and Hostilities of this kind would naturally mean that the president would ask Congress for a declaration of war. There is no doubt from the temper of Congress that such a declaration would be granted. This morning secretary Hull talked with the secretaries of war and of the Navy. Now the two special Japanese envoys, admiral Nomura and special envoy Karusu, are at the State Department, engaged in conference with Secretary of State Hull.
Speaker 4:Their appearance at the State Department on this Sunday afternoon emphasizes the gravity of the far eastern situation where hostilities now seem to be actually opening over the whole South Pacific. And Just now comes the word from the president's office that a second-air attack has been reported on Army and Navy bases in Manila. Thus we have official announcements from the White House that Japanese airplanes have attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and have now attacked army and Navy bases in Manila. We return you now to New York and we'll give you later information as it comes along from the White House. We turn you now to New York.
Speaker 5:Mr Speaker, members of the Senate of the House of Representatives, yesterday, december 7th 1941, a date which will live in in Infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I Regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, american ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Speaker 5:As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always Will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the other most, but we'll make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again end. Dangerous Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us, god. I asked that the Congress declare that, since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7th 1941, a state of war has existed Between the United States and the Japanese Empire.