Podbit · The Megyn Kelly Show
Madison Kenyon described waiting six years for the Supreme Court's ruling after being forced to compete against male athlete June Eastwood at Idaho State University. She credited her athletic scholarship — which led to her nursing degree, her career, and meeting her husband — as proof that these opportunities cannot be handed to male athletes.
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Kelly begins the second major segment of the episode with visible emotion, describing how she 'teared up' reading the girls' sports ruling. She walks through the key lines: Kavanaugh's majority opinion stating the Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women's sports, and Thomas's powerful concurrence [1] — Megyn Kelly "A man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes that he is a woman, because gender dysphoria is a mutab…" 59:40 declaring that gender dysphoria is a mutable mental state that does not warrant heightened scrutiny. She emphasizes Thomas's statement [2] — Megyn Kelly "To use language to obscure reality, to show indifference regarding the truth, is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizen…" 1:00:35 that using language to obscure biological reality is lying to the public. Kelly explains the case involves laws in West Virginia and Idaho but has implications for all 27 states with similar bans. She previews the guests — Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom and Madison Kenyon, a former Idaho State athlete who competed against a male — before the segment formally begins.
In a unanimous 6-0 conservative ruling, the Supreme Court held that states may ban biological males from girls' and women's sports. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion affirming the constitutionality of such bans, while Justice Thomas's concurrence explicitly stated that gender dysphoria is a mutable, not immutable, mental condition.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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