The Josh Innes Show - Ridiculous News Coverage Of Transgender Athlete

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

This is a segment from the radio show. I want to share it for multiple reasons. First off, some of you may not listen and I want you to download that show as well. Second, I thought it was good and interesting. Why is Outkick sending a "reporter" to a high school girls volleyball game? It's weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now, I'm going to preface this story by saying I have, I'm not, this is not meant to be a political story. Not at all. But I am fascinated by the fact that a news outlet has sent a dude, and I say a news outlet, it's outkick. It's the Clay Travis website. And I really despise, for the most part, what those guys do, just like I despise what a lot of, you know, your other side of the fence, like your wackos like Keith Olberman do. I really hate political zealots. Like, I've got a buddy who's in the political talk world. And he's been talking to me about, you know, his job.

And he's like, dude, you'd be great doing this kind of stuff. I'm like, oh, listen, I can talk for hours about things. But I'm not some political zealot, and I don't fall on one side. Like most humans, whenever there's a political story, I think your opinion of it varies. Like, normal people, it would vary based on the details of the story. Some people are lunatics one way or the other way. Like, that's what they do and that's who they are. They're on Facebook.

That's their identity. There's loonies on both sides of the fence. Correct. And they seem to be the ones that get the most attention. Correct. And I think most people like you or I or the majority of America look at each individual thing for what it is and base their opinion on that. But the loudest people have the biggest megaphone and those are the people to get the attention. Fine. Just to be clear, this is not meant to be some sort of hardcore political stance. I am fascinated by this story because a quote unquote news outlet sent someone, well, look, we'll just play some of the audio and you can learn it from the audio.

So this is from Fox. Another big story we're following tonight. New drama in Ann Arbor, reaching a boiling point and now resulting in claims of harassment and involvement from Lansing lawmakers, the controversy all surrounding high school sports and gender identity.

Let's send things over to Fox's Dave's Dave live in Ann Arbor with the latest on this story, Dave. And mind you, they have sent a reporter to do a live shot outside of a high school because a website has been following a story about one of the players, basically, but they'll break that down. Even evening to you. This is the school behind me. I'll step out of the way. Skyline High School,

a gigantic high school here in Ann Arbor is what we're talking about. A pop culture sports writer says he was on the job investigating a story when he was harassed by the school principal and a parent. Dan. Well, here's the thing, friend. There's a guy who's on campus following a bunch of high schoolers around. High school girls. So I can imagine that parents and the principal would be like, what the hell are you doing here, Chief? Zexaski writes for the conservative-leaning sports and pop culture website Outkick, which is owned by Fox Corporation, our parent company. He says he's been investigating a player on the Skyline High School Girls Volleyball team

who he believes to be transgender. Zach Sheckesky says, I also want to know how he believes this. Like, did he get tipped off by some parent that's like, yeah, there's a transgender on the team? And then this guy flies to Michigan. You got to fly across state. To go do weird, like watching of high school girls' sports. To do an investigation. An investigation.

For an online news outlet. Like, what are we doing here? He was covering a big game they played earlier in the week when the principal of the school and a parent allegedly harassed him. Meantime, the situation has prompted several Republican state house members to send a letter to the Michigan High School Athletic Association. But, like, what would you do? Like, say that's your kid, right?

Put politics out of it, right? If that's your kid, and there's some dude from a website, following high schoolers around filming a high school volleyball game, like, what are you going to do? I'd have issues, too. I'd say something to the guy. Like, the guy's lucky he didn't get his ass kicked. Yeah.

You cross the wrong parent. You'll get punched right in the face. Or worse. Or worse. Like, so like, oh, my God, they harassed you for being on campus trying to unearth some horrible thing about their kid. Of course they're going to be upset. Asking for proof that the student in question

is eligible to play. Also, how would you get this proof? Like, listen, here's my request. That's Bill Smitherson from Outkick. Listen, I need proof that this person actually is a female. Well, how are you going to get that proof? Get you and your crew to the big shows

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group pass offers the same weekday travel flexibility from $30 for two people and up to $60 for five. Buy yours at go transit.com slash tickets. Well, I set up a curtain over here, and we're going to bring them in the back. I'm going to pull their pants down. I'm going to perform a physical just to make sure that this is actually a girl. Like, give me proof. I need the details. On the Skyline girls volleyball team. The GOP members say it's about, quote, preserving fair and safe competition. We spoke to that reporter about the alleged harassment as well as the Democratic state rep from Ann Arbor, who says kids should be allowed to be kids. End of story. I'm genuinely curious to see what kind of harassment, this poor guy who traveled across the country to unearth the details of

the girls volleyball, this hot breaking story. Let's see what kind of harassment he faced. He would follow me around. He would scream in my ear. No matter where I went in the gym, he followed. So eventually, another woman sort of accosted me a bit and made sort of very similar claims to this guy. What are you doing

here? Why are you here? You don't have a girl in the team. You shouldn't be here. This is federally I mean, that sounds pretty fair. Those are all legitimate questions, especially if you're trying to keep your student body safe from a potential predator or, you know, other things. Like, what are we doing here? What are you doing here?

What are you doing here? He's like, then they accosted me. Well, can you describe how they accosted you? They asked me what I was doing here. Filming the girls' volleyball game. Hey, sir, why are you filming these girls playing volleyball? Oh, God. So, like, I'm guessing then that, like, let's say, like, he has one of these moments, like, where he thinks he's got the big reveal.

Like, how do you unearth this? Like, what is the end game, I guess, would be my question. I will almost imagine, like, the parents tease him on the bleachers with his phone. He's videoing. the crotches of all these players you're going to look like a pedal dude like I mean dude like

he's like what are we doing that ain't no woman it's a man man that's what he's done he's basically Austin Powers he actually went up there and punched the girl in the face and tried to take off the wig he's like that ain't your mother it's not your mother it's a man baby

he's like pulling the wig why won't this thing come off like what are we doing protected privacy information and every student athlete that played in this tournament was MHSAA eligible, and that's all the information that really needs to be released. And it's really kind of shocking to me that lawmakers would be asking a statewide agency to violate federal privacy laws.

I think it's discussing that a right-wing influencer, middle-aged man, flew across multiple states to record a girls' volleyball team in their short shorts and post videos and things online. I mean, is she wrong? She sounds exactly like what I just said. Like, I don't care what her politics are at all. Just put yourself in the place of being a parent or whatever. Not just the parent of the person in question that the guy's trying to just, you know, reveal to be transgender. A parent of anybody of a student that's on this team that the guy is filming.

There is a creeper in the stands filming the girls volleyball game, allegedly, according to this woman, filming the girls volleyball game. Like, how would you feel? Not just if that's your kid. There's all, how many girls are in a volleyball game? game at once. 12 girls, 10 girls? It's got to be at least a dozen. I think they're six. I used to be a volleyball team manager in high school. Gotcha. I know a little bit about

three. Three in the front. Three in the back. Correct. So at a given time, there are 12 high school girls that are on the court at once and then girls on the bench and everything else. So all of their parents got to be like, what is this guy doing? Right? So it's not just the alleged transgender

person in question, but For the atsteenth time, Republicans need to stop. being obsessed with girls and kids. Look at her. Singer there. She's coming in like, is this like her one-liners?

At the 16th time, Republicans need to stop being obsessed with girls and kids. Yeah, I heard Chad, GPT, read me a couple of zingers. I'm going to nail this news report. She's like, listen, guys, I need to come out with a real banger here. Like, I need to end on a high. I've got the news here. We're doing the story.

I need to do something that's going to have me go viral. And she's like, hmm, what is this thing? We got penthouse? Oh, we got Epstein. For the upteenth. Oh, hold on. I'm chat, GBT, BT. For the Epsteinth time.

Chad, GPD, you rule. For the Epsteinth time, Republicans need to stop being obsessed with girls and kids. They like her like choppy delivery. Like she knows, like she paused. And she's like, watch this. She's like, this is going to be a pool quote for the news story. Epstein time. She's like, this is my mom.

This is the one that's going to get me elected to city council. This is the one. At the 16th time, Republicans need to stop being obsessed with girls and kids. And because of this, I will now announce my entrance into local politics. That ain't no woman. It's a man, man. I do want to know the end game. I just want to know, like, if you're this guy from Outkick, right, that comes to Ann Arbor,

and I don't know if he's actually filming this or not the way they made it sound like. It sounds like he's on his phone. Or someone is filming this, which, again, I don't really, I guess they would have to to try to confirm that the transgender person that's out there, the high schooler, like, bigger than everybody, taller than everybody. Again, as you said, zooming in on the crotch, we're looking for a bulge. He's like, look at that.

Look at that Adams Apple. Like, I don't know what the deal is or what the end game is in all of this, but... This doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand. Like, they said, all the students were eligible according to what, the National High School Sports Association or whatever that is, NHS. I think it was the Michigan High School.

Yeah, the NHSA. Okay, that should answer all the questions that you need answered right there. I just, to me, Now, if you're doing this in college or in whatever, then that's one thing. But you're effing around with high school people. These games mean nothing. They do not. They mean nothing.

They do not. Like, who cares? And you're messing with some, like, in this case, like, I don't, like, I don't know that I could roll up to a campus of a high school, be a grown man, like, well, I'm here to bring down this girl, boy, whatever. Like, I couldn't do that. Like, how do you, like, I guess that would be my thing. And this is no compliment to the other side of things or anything.

Like, everybody, these people are all nuts. I want to be very clear. Everybody that's involved in anything like this, there's a lot of crazy people on both sides, just to be clear. However, as an adult man, when you get this assignment from Clay Travis or whoever assigns us to you, are you like, boy, I can't wait to go down to that high school in Ann Arbor and try to unearth at this person who may be going through some stuff. Yeah. I'm like, this person may be going through it when they're 16, 17 years old, doing whatever it is, transgender, whatever, transitioning. and you're over here like in their mind they think it's some nefarious thing where like some high school boy is like

wasn't good enough to play football so hey I'm a girl now like and maybe it is maybe it's a joanna man and there's just a dude out there in a wig maybe that's possible but I think what happens is these people conflate multiple things and it goes from like hey random dudes and dresses shouldn't be in girls bathrooms which is fair to this transgender person's cheated in the girls volleyball game And you're like, what are we doing? And again, how do you solve this at the end of it? Like, what's the end game of this story? Is it like a Scooby-Doo reveal where, like, no. We would have got away with it in the Word for you, conservative blog writers.

That ain't no woman. It's a man, man. Like, what is the end game? Like, all it's going to do is just cause more issues for this student and the family. Real talk, what if this kid kills themselves or something? Like, what if they do harm to themselves? Because you're doing something that at the end of the day means nothing. At the end of the day, what's the point?

Would be my question. And then he's trying to become the victim in the whole situation. To me, it sounds like the principal and the parent. I'm just trying to protect the kids. Correct. Nothing to do exactly with whatever the gender is. There's a creeper in the room filming these kids. Why are you here?

Get out of here. You know, like to me, I don't see any issues with the situation that played out. And I think this guy is just a creep. Yep, exactly. At the esteemed time, Republicans need to stop being obsessed with girls and kids. when you're using her chat, GBT, to rate such a zinger. I know. So there you go.

So that's in Ann Arbor. That's what's going on down there. Look, again, I'm not taking sides politically because I don't care politically. Again, I'm apolitical. I think a lot of people have opinions of what they think I think. Casey thinks that I'm basically Rush Limbaugh, so whatever. But like, when I see a story like this, I'm like, why? What's the point?

Like, what are we trying to do here? Like, when you're doing an investigative report like this, You're trying to kind of unearth, like, some nefarious activity, right? Yeah, absolutely. So, like, do you think that there was, like, I don't know, a high school volleyball coach that was involved in some scam where that she's like, listen, Timmy. Like, like, ladybugs. I was going to say ladybugs. Ladybugs.

He thinks they got a ladybugs happening. Well, you know, I put, I got my son, and I took my girlfriend's son and I put a dress on him and I called, I asked him to play with me. Like, maybe he thinks we're having a ladybugs. What if it is, though? Like, what if we actually see the picture of this person? And it's literally just like an eight-foot-tall boy in a wig. And they're like, hey, what's your name? And he's like, my name is Sarah.

And they're like, oh, damn it. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. He was like just scratching his crotch out there on the court. He's like adjusting his package. I'm like, I don't know. And honestly, if that was the case, again, they were eligible to play.

So I could care less. I couldn't care less. So, and again, no sides being taken. If you want to get in, you can text and give us your. thoughts, text the word Josh and your message to 5181. I think once you start getting into people being adults, I think it's a different world. I think that the world you're

in now's kids are screwed up because of the internet and adults. Adults have screwed people up so much. These kids are screwed up because of the adults. Because the adults are chasing clout on social media and they're saying things like, well, your kids should be able to choose their own names when they're of

age and your kids should be able to choose their gender whenever they're old enough to decide. Look, a bunch of dumb people that are ruining kids. See, when we were kids, being a kid was easy for the most part because there was really no internet and everything else. So like, yeah, the girl maybe didn't like you.

You were mad at yourself or you missed the shot in the basketball game. But you didn't have to go to the internet and question if you were a boy or a girl. And your parents weren't also on the internet on Twitter saying, hey, I've got a son who thinks he's a girl. What do I do? So these, like I feel legitimately bad

for kids now. Because they didn't have it like we had it, which was fantastic. When you look back on our days. Those were the salad days. Right before the internet, like, you knew that there were people who didn't like you, but you didn't have to read about it on the internet. Not everybody had a platform to voice their opinion. Exactly. And all your friends didn't get together in group chats to talk trash about you. You know what group chats were? Sleepovers. You got together and you told you who was hot, who was ugly. You pulled pranks on people. Yeah. You tried to make your buddy pee the bed.

Exactly. Put his hand in some water. And see if you put a little whipped cream on his hand and tickle his I'd have itching powder. I'd sprinkle on, you know, sleeping bags. And now these high school kids have to deal with wackos from websites trying to unearth that they're actually boys portraying girls. That's not your mother. It's a man, baby. Like, it sucks to be a kid right now. Like, what was the guy expecting? Like, the ending of the Ace Ventura Pet Detective movie? They're all going to vomit when they saw. Take a look at these.

That's the worst case of hemorrhoids I've ever seen. Like what? I don't understand. Like, it just doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't. Like, and that's the biggest question. I have for this story out of Ann Arbor is what are you trying to get to? So, like, let's just say that you find out that the person playing is, in fact, transgender. Like, are you trying to bring down the school? Are you trying to bring down the Michigan High School Athletic Association? Like, what is the end game here?

What are you trying to accomplish by doing this? Because at the end of the day, all you're doing is terrorizing someone who's in high school. And if you want to do that to some college person or whatever, I'm with you on that. That's a different universe. but you're talking about high school people at this point. Legitimate children is who you're talking about. So that's who you are now. Congratulations.

You've Ace Ventura at it. Like you're pointing to the crotch of a high school person. Anyway, so if you want to get in, shoot a text, text the word Josh. Is this the song I was playing when he realized, like, he put it all together and he's getting in the shower and stuff crying. The crying game. It's boy, George. Anyway, so there you go. If you want to get in, text the word Josh and your message to,

5-1-881. I'm legit curious to know what people think of this. It's going on down in Ann Arbor. You can also call 877-988-1067-8-8-1067. Like, do you even care? Like, to me, I hear these stories and I'm like, bro, why? What is the reason behind this? Now, if I see this person and this person's eight and a half feet tall and, like, jumping over the net,

and I'll be like, okay, I can see where some parents are like, there's a little cheat. But it just sounds like you're a creep, like, whether it's true or not, you're just a creep at a high school volleyball game. That's all. All right, 877, 988, 1067. I was a victim. I was harassed. I got to ask why I was here.

Yeah. Why are you here filming high school girls? Because it's my job. Because I got nowhere else to go.