John Bolton - August 09, 2026


The Nashville Balls WNBA Team - It's Absurd, But Likely True


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9 minutes

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1,546

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96

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11

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00:00:00.080 It's hard to know these days what is and isn't true.
00:00:04.540 To the best of my knowledge, what I'm about to tell you is the absolute truth,
00:00:09.320 and this could be the most entertaining video you've seen all day.
00:00:16.720 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.
00:00:19.140 It is 3.16 a.m. Sunday, August the 9th. Great to have you here.
00:00:24.020 Hope you're having a great Sunday and a fantastic weekend.
00:00:26.680 I'm going outside my regular scope, regular subject matter today.
00:00:33.220 You know, we can leave Canada, Alberta politics, some American politics behind for a day.
00:00:39.120 But I wanted to talk about this today.
00:00:41.160 I was first alerted to this yesterday morning and I thought it was a joke.
00:00:45.080 And as I said off the top of this video, it's hard to know what is and isn't a joke these days.
00:00:49.560 This story may be true.
00:00:51.740 But it doesn't even matter if it is true because of the absurdity of the subject matter here today.
00:00:57.400 And as a matter of fact, Canada lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to this subject matter.
00:01:02.100 It's a disgrace.
00:01:03.700 Now, just to get around the YouTube algorithm today, for a specific word to the best of my ability,
00:01:12.600 I'm going to try to say men who think they're women.
00:01:15.640 You know what I'm talking about, right?
00:01:17.220 and i'm going to do that as much as possible through this video but the actual word might
00:01:23.780 slip through so what am i talking about here yesterday morning when i saw this post on small
00:01:28.560 dead animals and if you don't go to small dead animals if you're a conservative you'll love it
00:01:33.660 no political correctness here if you're a liberal you will lose your mind but go to small dead
00:01:39.300 animals and this is the story i saw yesterday morning is from august the 8th which is which
00:01:43.140 as yesterday. The Nashville Balls, prospective new franchise for the WNBA is quickly growing,
00:01:53.260 featuring star players Enos Cantor-Freedom and Royce White and team manager Clay Travis.
00:01:58.660 Soon the WNBA will have the 100% trends team they've been telling us all they so desperately 0.61
00:02:04.660 want in their league. Now you're thinking this is a joke, right? And by the way, here's a blow
00:02:10.660 up of the picture so you can see this. There they are, the Nashville Balls. Clay Travis, by the way,
00:02:16.760 is a broadcaster. He used to own Outkick, a sports broadcasting channel. He's a co-host
00:02:23.640 of the Buck Sexton Clay Travis show, which was Rush Limbaugh's former spot. But this story,
00:02:30.400 folks, could be true. I'm not sure about the name of the WNBA team, the Balls, but it's absurd.
00:02:38.920 but this could be true. Now, why am I talking about this today? Well, if you don't follow 0.98
00:02:43.480 along with what's been going on in the Women's Basketball Association, here's a little background
00:02:49.460 for you. Things are heating up in the WNBA right now, largely off the court after Indiana Fever
00:02:57.620 guard Sophie Cunningham voiced support for banning girls and women in female sports in a recent ESPN
00:03:05.100 interview, then doubling down. When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in
00:03:10.940 sport, I feel very strongly about that. Protests popped up outside her next game against the 0.99
00:03:16.540 Seattle Storm, both in support and against her. Other fans wore t-shirts printed with
00:03:22.220 XX and XY chromosomes on them. Cunningham and the Fever went on to win that game,
00:03:27.880 but not before Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton got into it with fans who were holding
00:03:35.100 later Keaton was suspended from going to the team's next five home games and fined an undisclosed
00:03:41.180 amount by the league. The team apologizing to fans for the confrontation. Then at Sunday's game
00:03:47.280 in Minnesota, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve let her shirt do the talking with fans kids belong written 1.00
00:03:53.800 on it. So there's the background for you and you notice I had to bleep out the word I said I
00:03:58.820 wouldn't say right off the top. It's hard. This is so absurd. But honestly, this, what you're
00:04:05.460 seeing on the screen right here, this might be true. Although the Nashville balls, I'm not sure 0.84
00:04:12.300 that that's the actual name of the team, because this is what I saw when I went to bed last night
00:04:18.600 on X. Now, I thought this was a joke, but folks, this is absurd. And this
00:04:24.740 is likely true. More in just a moment. Hold on here. So, Pauly Market, just in.
00:04:32.320 WNBA commissioner announces the league is meeting to review what a woman is
00:04:36.440 after multiple former NBA stars announced plans to join the league. 0.98
00:04:41.300 Okay. Now, I thought, what is Pauly Market? Pauly Market is legit, the world's largest
00:04:47.120 prediction market. This is legit. Now, I'm still thinking this can't be true. Look at the picture
00:04:52.640 somebody put on here too. Enos Cantor freed a most dominant season in herstory and look at the
00:04:59.160 numbers. That's unbelievable. But this is possibly true because if we go over here, here's a story
00:05:07.180 that's on Fox News. Let me read this to you. Former NBA first round pick Royce White says he's
00:05:14.520 declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft, claiming he now identifies as a man who thinks he's a woman
00:05:21.780 for the purpose of playing professional basketball here is Royce White oh earlier this week I made
00:05:27.560 the announcement I'm a gender I'm a woman I'm I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman
00:05:33.840 for purposes of of basketball professional basketball so I'll be declaring for the WNBA
00:05:39.680 draft in 2027 as well I mean I think I'd be unstoppable um you know but I'm a team first
00:05:46.560 guy you know I'm a pass first kind of player I do the little things you know I led my team in all
00:05:52.880 five major stat categories at Iowa State University so I do a little bit of everything I'll do whatever
00:05:58.000 the coach needs me to do I'll do whatever the the girls need me to do I think the WNBA could come
00:06:03.640 out and make a definitive statement about about guys with with a pair of balls playing in the in 0.72
00:06:08.420 the women's association but you know hey that that that'd be that'd be probably too much like right
00:06:14.420 So, I can't get the smirk off my face, but I have no doubt you're sitting there thinking, 1.00
00:06:20.220 come on, John, this is absurd. This is a joke. This isn't true. Folks, here's another story on
00:06:25.800 it right here. A second ex-NBA first round pick eyes WNBA draft. I'm a man who thinks I'm a woman.
00:06:32.380 No doubt they're doing this to stick up for Ms. Cunningham, who's heroic for doing what she's
00:06:37.040 doing in the WNBA, and she's getting attacked. The absurd part here is that the WNBA, the Women's 0.87
00:06:43.160 National Basketball Association has to discuss what a woman is. Can you imagine if a bunch of 0.99
00:06:48.620 men got into the WNBA? Those women would lose their jobs. And the other absurdity is that 1.00
00:06:54.700 there's actually politicians and political parties and social activists who think this is fine.
00:06:59.700 There are still women in the WNBA who aren't as heroic as Ms. Cunningham saying, oh, I'd welcome 0.54
00:07:06.060 men who think they're women into the basketball league. Can you imagine if these guys got loose
00:07:11.260 in the WNBA, they would kill the women, not only on the scoreboard, but on the court as well. I 1.00
00:07:18.500 would argue with you that a bunch of retired WNBA players in their 70s, provided they're still in
00:07:24.360 pretty good shape and put up a basketball every once in a while towards a net, guys like Larry 1.00
00:07:29.020 Bird and Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would destroy the best women in the WNBA. I would 0.99
00:07:34.860 argue that with you. And I'd probably be right. You see all kinds of stories like this. FC Dallas
00:07:41.340 under 15 boys squad beat the US women's national team in a scrimmage. Story like this. I think
00:07:47.480 this is out of Switzerland. You 15 boys dominate women's national soccer team. This one from
00:07:52.080 Australia, women's national team lose seven, nothing to team of 15 year old boys. You know,
00:07:58.840 I said, I think maybe on this channel a long time ago, all it would take is for a team of
00:08:05.280 basketball players, boys, to all declare that they're girls and play in the other league
00:08:10.760 and dominate, that this would all come to an end. And this is pointing out the absurdity
00:08:15.080 and how much of a joke this really is. And I thought this was a joke. I hope they continue
00:08:19.900 to move forward with it with the Nashville Bulls basketball team. It sounds absurd, but I love it.
00:08:27.880 Now, here we're going to end with this.
00:08:30.440 Here is a woman in the Women's National Basketball Association saying,
00:08:34.060 I'd be happy to have guys like this playing in my league.
00:08:41.220 Good luck with that, darling.
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00:08:47.960 I'll see you in the next one. 1.00
00:08:50.260 I would welcome a Shia Zafi on my team or against my team anytime. 0.97
00:08:53.820 I don't think it's a problem in the world.
00:08:57.880 Thank you.