The Joe Rogan Experience - #2115 - Riley Gaines
Episode Date: March 7, 2024Riley Gaines, a former competitive swimmer, champions the preservation of women's sports and single-sex spaces by advocating for the exclusion of biological male competitors. She leads The Riley Ga...ines Center at the Leadership Institute, serves as an Independent Women's Voice ambassador, and hosts the podcast "Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines" on OutKick.com www.rileygaines.com www.rileygainescenter.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello.
Hello.
Very nice to meet you.
Yes, and you.
You've been on a wild little journey, huh?
A journey that I certainly never expected, never wanted.
Right.
Still don't want.
So yeah.
Did you ever in your wildest dreams think that you would have to be an advocate for women's sports?
For sanity.
For sanity, yeah.
No, no, never did I imagine that anyone
would have to be in the position that I'm in,
nevertheless me.
So like you said, it really has been a wild almost two years now. I graduated
college, set to be a dentist in dental school, wanting to specialize in endodontics,
which weirdly enough is root canals. So to say that this is a totally different path than I could
have ever anticipated doesn't do it justice.
Yeah, that's a minor understatement.
Yeah, right, exactly.
So walk us through the beginnings of this for you. What was your first introduction to
this insanity of biological men with gender dysphoria trying to compete
with women.
So, I'll take you through my kind of timeline here.
Okay.
Started swimming when I was four years old, right?
I come from a family of athletes.
So my dad was an NFL player, my mom, she played D1 softball. My oldest sister, she played softball.
I went to Ole Miss.
My brother, he's in college playing football now.
All my uncles won Super Bowls and all this stuff.
So come from a family of athletes.
Started swimming when I was four.
Graduated when I was 22.
So, you know, 18 years of my life,
I really dedicated to my sport.
Impossible to put in the words, you know this,
the time and the hours and the dedication
and the sacrifices that it takes to compete
and ultimately be successful at the highest level.
But of course, I was willing to do this, I knew I had to.
Right, you don't get to go to prom,
you don't get to have sleepovers with your friends
on Friday night because guess what,
practice at six a.m. on Saturday.
All of that to really say it's a lifelong journey.
College rolls around.
Truth be told, I really could have gone anywhere that I wanted to swim.
I'm absolutely biased and the SEC is the best conference, so I knew that was for me, but
went to University of Kentucky, could not have been a better place for me.
Freshman year, right?
There was a lot of adjusting.
There was a lot of time and hours.
I thought I worked hard before I was wrong.
We were in the water six hours every single day, with three of those hours being before 8 a.m.
Right?
So you practice from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.
Go to class, come back, practice again from 1.30 to 4.m. Right? So you practice from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. Go to class, come back, practice
again from 1.30 to 4.30.
At your dinner, ice your shoulders, went to bed, did it all again the next day. We swim
about 15,000 yards every single day, which is equivalent to like 10-ish miles. So lots
of adjusting. Sophomore year, still improving though, still getting better, sophomore year rolls around.
I really started having this breakout season, started doing some pretty great things, really
had finally developed a sense of consistency, I think.
And about three days before we were supposed to leave for our national championships, which
of course, the NCAA, think about basketball, the NCAA tournament, equivalent
and swimming, we are ready to go.
The meet you work all year, really all your life for.
About three days before we were supposed to leave
in March of 2020, our coaches pull us out of the water,
sit us down and say, look, you know,
if you live in the dorm rooms, pack your stuff up,
you have to leave campus tonight.
Of course, COVID had hit.
I didn't really know what this meant at the time. There's still a lot of
uncertainty around this, so I thought this meant we got a weekend off, we got to
go home, we'd quickly return, but of course that was not a correct assumption,
because upon going back home, home is Tennessee for me.
There were no pools open.
There were no gyms open, nothing like that.
And so every day I swam miles aimlessly in the lake.
I put on a wetsuit and I jumped in the boat dock and I'd swim down by Johnny Cash's house
and I came back and I did the same route every single day.
Because again, I knew that I had to if I wanted to continue this breakout season,
I was having my junior year, or my sophomore year into my junior year.
Right, and the amount of snakes that I swam by,
and like dead catfish that are floating on top of the water
that like hit you in your face while you're swimming is not pleasant.
But eventually we were able to come back junior year.
We had to deal with all the COVID theatrics, which I'll be the first person to say that
being a college athlete, really being a college student, I would argue being a human during
the time of COVID was miserable to say the least. But especially being an athlete, right?
In terms of the mask mandates and the social distancing and the contact tracing and the
mandatory vaccines, which have you ever seen a swimmer in the pool wearing a mask?
I have.
You have?
I have.
I watch videos of it.
Well, we essentially waterboarded ourselves
Isn't it it's so stupid isn't it so but this dealing with all the theatrics outside of all that
really This was the year that I
Won my first individual sec title
University of Kentucky when its first ever program title in school
history.
And ultimately I concluded my junior year placing seventh in the country, which I was
proud of, right?
You're top eight, you're an all-American, it's a pretty high honor.
But I knew right then and there that I placed seventh in the nation my junior year, that
my senior year I had a goal of winning
a national title.
So that's kind of the backstory to now kind of finding out
about all of this other stuff going on.
Senior year rolls around.
About midway through my senior year,
I'm right on pace to achieve my goal.
I'm ranked third in the nation
behind one amazing female swimmer who I knew very well
because you know, like in most sports, your top tier athletes know of each other regardless
of where you compete because you've grown up competing against each other.
So I knew this girl very well, trailing her by a few 100s, 10s of a second maybe.
But the swimmer who was leading the nation by body links,
might I add, which is a very large margin in swimming,
right, a sport that's measured down to the 100th of a second.
This summer I was leading the country by multiple seconds.
Was a swimmer that I had never heard of before.
And this is the first time that me and my teammates became
aware of a
summer named Leah Thomas. For all we knew at the time, right, keep in mind we
hadn't seen a picture of this person or else things would have been a little
more clear, for all we knew at the time, this was a senior from University of
Pennsylvania, which is not a school that historically produces fast swimmers. Now I would argue it's not
a school that historically produces really anything good.
Leading the nation by body links, ranging in events from the 100 freestyle, which is
of course a sprint, and all the freestyle events in between through the mile, which,
if you don't know swimming, right, think about this in terms of your Olympic runners, because that's like saying your best
200 meter runner is your best marathon runner.
You and I both know that that doesn't happen.
They're two totally different systems, but that's what we were saying in this person.
So I'm scratching my head, right?
I'm talking to my coaches, my teammates.
Who is this person?
We had no idea.
And we continued to stay in the dark until an article came out.
And in this article, very briefly disclosed
in a blip of a sentence, as if we were really
supposed to just read right over it,
it says, Leah Thomas is formerly Will Thomas
and swam three years on the men's team at University
of Pennsylvania before deciding to switch to the women's team.
And so when I read this,
of course I was shocked, naturally,
but really it was kind of like the sense of relief
that I felt because at this point I went to look up
who Will Thomas was because admittedly I was curious.
You know, was this a lateral movement? Someone who went
from ranking amongst the best of the men to now continuing to rank amongst the best of
the women, which is, of course, not what we saw, right? We saw that this was a mediocre
man and that's generous at best, ranking 462nd in the nation the year prior when competing against the men.
But that's why I say I felt relieved because I thought that the NCAA would see this how
I saw it and how, again, my teammates saw it, how my coaches saw it, how my family saw
it, how anyone with any amount of brain activity would probably comprehend this.
Look nothing hateful about it,
nothing even opinionated about it. The sheer facts on the paper in front of us that this was not a
lateral movement by any means. But lo and behold, the NCAA did not see it that way. They saw
absolutely nothing wrong with this. And so about three weeks before our national championships in
March of 2022, they released
a statement saying that Thomas' participation in the women's category was a non-negotiable.
Basically saying that, look, there was nothing that we could do.
As female athletes, there was no questions that we could ask or concerns that we could
raise.
We were told that we had to accept this with a smile on our face.
So that's kind of the lead up to that national championships and really how myself and my
teammates and really the nation, the world actually found out about Leah Thomas.
And I will say, I had heard of this happening in sports before, but I'd really only heard
of it going the other way, right?
So women, females who I wanted to self-identify as men, then going to compete in the men's
category, which look, I didn't ever agree with.
I never necessarily supported it, but maybe at the time I didn't see a problem with it,
right?
Because no one's, I guess, competition, the men's competition
isn't being threatened. So, you know, I thought it was dumb on the woman's behalf, but whatever.
And did you see this from biological women competing as men?
Actually in the sport of swimming, again, there was a swimmer from Harvard by the name
of Skyler Baylor, competed on the women's team and then
decided to switch to the men's team at Harvard.
But isn't there an issue though with steroids?
Because if you're going to compete as a man, that means you're biologically transitioning,
that means you're adding exogenous hormones, which would mean that you're taking steroids.
Right.
And you're allowed to do that if you're a woman transitioning to a male?
There was no, there was no, the insta-blaze policy at the time was 12 months of HRT hormone
replacement therapy and you compete, you can compete in the category that best suits you.
Right.
So with Leah Thomas, I'm sure you got into this.
What were the requirements that this 12 months? Is there an analysis of testosterone levels? It was just 12 months. That's the only standard. No threshold.
No one is actually checking to see if this person is actually taking
estrogen or
taking testosterone blockers or doing anything. You just have to say you're on this program for 12 months. I believe so
Yeah, I'm not sure what the process looked like if if they talked to Thomas's doctors
I don't know but yeah the policy that was had been in place since 2010 so obviously this is a pretty old policy 12 years at the time
That's what it stated so that policy has been intact for 12 years correct and now
NCAA and true cowardly fashion is changing course, right? They don't want to be responsible.
They don't want to be accountable for this.
So what they're doing now is a phase out approach of this policy and leaving it up to each specific
sport governing body to make their own rules, right?
So now for swimming, they would resort to looking at world aquatics or FINA,
which is the international governing body.
For soccer, they'd look at FIFA.
For rowing, they'd look at US rowing.
They don't want to blanket policy anymore.
And again, they don't want to be responsible or accountable.
So they're leaving up to the governing bodies and what decision of the
governing bodies made?
Some have taken appropriate steps.
I don't know of many sports that have been perfect, but swimming, for example, their
policy now is if you've gone through male puberty, you can't compete with women, which
they were really the first ones to take that bold first step in prioritizing
fairness over inclusion.
But the policy insinuates, if you have transitioned by the age of 12, then you can compete with
the women, which is not satisfactory.
Even taking puberty blockers before the age of 12, there are still advantages that males
possess over females.
And even if they didn't, it's the women's category.
It's not for men, so.
And then you have other sports that have gone
the total opposite way, like soccer, for example,
that leave it up to self-identification.
Basically, you just compete where you feel best.
Oh, how convenient.
Isn't it? Which, at this national championships, right, this national championships where we
had Leah Thomas, who is a male, a man, identifying, self-identifying as a woman, we were told
we fully had to treat this person as a woman, right? This same national championships, we had another athlete who was transitioning.
But this athlete is a female who was then self-identifying as a man from Yale, Izzy,
now goes by the name of Isaac.
And we were told we fully had to treat this person as a man. Optics purposes here to give you perspective
of what this looked like from our eyes. Okay, finals of the 100 freestyle. Top eight women
in the entire nation.
Aaron Powell Air quotes women.
Aaron Powell Air quotes women. Yeah, those that don't have video, air quotes women. Top eight women in the entire country.
And you've got a six foot four man
in a women's swimsuit with a bulge
next to a woman wearing only a Speedo
with nothing covering her top.
Your reaction was my reaction,
so I'm sitting there watching this.
I'm thinking to myself, it's me. I'm the crazy one. It must be this is the freaking Twilight Zone
How does the audience react to this like when Leah Thomas gets on the block when they're about to start a race?
How does the audience react to this?
As you can imagine right like there was a lot of silence.
A lot of people didn't really know what to do, what to say.
There wasn't a lot of clapping.
There was a lot of like protestors and like trans rights activists who were there who
were being loud and the posters and blah, blah, blah.
Lots of booing. Kelly J. Keen was there who is a phenomenal women's rights
activist out of England.
And she was there.
And I'll never forget, I'm standing on the pool deck.
And at this point in time, like of course, me and all
my teammates and my coaches, we all knew this was wrong.
But it's still, I didn't know how to talk about it, or what
to say, or what outlet to go to.
And I remember hearing her from the stands and she just said something that we were all
thinking and she yelled so loud, he's a cheater.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I needed to hear that.
So there was a lot of booing, as you can imagine, lots of silence. And through this, so you have the loud trans rights protesters,
and is there anyone countering that?
Are there loud pro-women sports protesters?
There were, not as loud, if I'm gonna be honest, not as loud, if I'm going to be honest, not as ugly, which I think that gets a lot
of media time when you have these men with beards and these big signs that certainly
catches a lot of cameras.
So they were definitely there.
And looking back, like I said, like being able to see them, it inspired me.
It gave me courage to be willing to kind of put my name
in face to it, because I was scared at first,
based on just kind of the silencing tactics
that were used to keep us quiet, right?
Like we were told, you know, you'll never get a job
if you speak out about this.
Your employer is gonna look you up
and see that you're a transphobe, and you don't want that. Do you? You don't want everyone to think that you're out about this. Your employer is gonna look you up and see that you're a transphobe,
and you don't want that, do you?
You don't want everyone to think that you're transphobic.
Or-
Was this a conversation that someone actually had with you?
Yeah.
I mean, we had to go to training, Joe,
to learn how, again.
How to accept that you're being cheated.
A senior in college.
Yeah.
21 years old.
Yeah.
They brought in an outside professional,
again, air quotes, because what in the world,
how can you be an outside professional
who sat us down and taught us how to use she, her pronouns?
Again, a senior in college, I'm like, am I really?
I taught you how, you, an actual she or her.
An actual she or her.
How do you use sheer problems?
We had to go through these interview questions.
They threw a question at us.
If we didn't answer their fake interview question
to their standard, we had to go through it again.
Oh my god.
Yeah.
Indoctrination.
Thomas's teammates, right?
16 of these girls, plus their parents
at the beginning of the season, signed on to a letter
expressing their discomfort in the locker room.
I kid you not, the university responded back with, and I have a screenshot of their response,
if you as women feel uncomfortable seeing male genitalia, here are some counseling resources
that you should seek in an attempt to reeducate yourselves. Reeducate yourself that that's a sheeness.
That's not a penis.
That's a sheeness.
Queeness penis.
So does Leah Thompson have sex with girls?
Leah Thomas, rather.
Yeah. At the time, again, this is what I know based off of what his teammates have told me
and what really has been public knowledge based off what they post and different things.
At the time of that national championships, he was still dating women and active with
women.
Sexually.
So, obviously, he has testosterone.
Yes.
But now, again, based off of social media, he is engaged to another man who claims to be a woman. So
two men, but they call themselves lesbians. So who knows. But yes.
But at the time. So if you're on that team, you're a woman and you have a biological male
who's intact, who's having sex with women,
walking around naked in the locker room with women, and if you're uncomfortable with that,
you should educate yourself.
You said it.
And learn how to use she, her pronouns and accept defeat.
You said it.
To this person that's not a woman.
You said it.
And the whole idea behind Title IX was supposed to be to protect women's sports.
It was supposed to be to have a place where women can compete fairly against women.
Yeah.
And because of this insane cult that 45% of the country's in or whatever it is,
you have to deal with this literal mental patient in a woman's sport dominating and everyone's cheering.
Yes.
And everyone around it that's watching it is upset.
All the parents, probably on both teams.
Of course.
All the women that are competing with this man
and the whole world's like, yay, diversity.
And you must feel like you're in a fucking movie
or something.
Well, I'll tell you, really what had thrusted me
over the edge into no longer being willing to lie,
ultimately, is he and I raced in the 200 freestyle.
This is the day after he swam the 500 freestyle
and won a national title, beat out Olympians,
beating out American record holders, right?
Keep in mind these aren't scrubs.
They're the most impressive and accomplished female swimmers
this world has ever seen.
And again, he beat them all by body links.
One second might not sound like a lot of time,
but in the sport of swimming,
again, measured down to the 100th of a second, one second is significant.
He beat the entire nation by almost, the entire nation of women by almost two full seconds.
Even the time he went last year would have beat every girl in the country this past season
by nearly two full seconds, making him the first man to win a Division I NCAA women's
title trailblazer.
But the second day of competition, the day after this, he and I race in the 200 freestyle.
So, look, we get on the blocks, dive off, swim eight laps of freestyle, touch the wall at the end.
I look up at the scoreboard and almost impossibly enough, Joe, we had gone the exact
same time, meaning of course we had tied, which is incredibly, one, it's incredibly
embarrassing for a six foot four man to not even be able to beat like a five five female. But again, going a minute and 40-ish seconds and not even 1-100th separated us.
You can't tell me that's not divine intervention. But, Tide, we get out of the water. We go...
Yeah, you can see here, we both went 143.40. Not one of us going 143.39 or 143.41 tying.
Get out of the water, go behind the awards podium.
The NCAA official looks at both Thomas and myself.
Thomas, who is towering over me, right, six foot four.
And this official looks at both of us
and says, great job, you two. Uh, but you tied and we only have one trophy.
So we're going to give the trophy to Leah. Sorry, Riley, you don't get one.
My Jesus Christ.
Heart rate was still high. Having just competed, my adrenaline was still pumping.
Um, and so the first thing that I thought ended up being the first thing that I
said and the first thought that I had was just what you had just said, right?
Like, isn't this everything that title nine was passed to prevent from happening?
What do you mean you're going to give the trophy to the man and the women's 200 freestyle?
I asked the question that no one dared ask all season and I said why, which of course,
he didn't have an answer as to why. They didn't give him a script of what to say
when someone asked you the dreaded question of why. And so his first excuse he came up with,
he's stumbling on his words and he's, well, we're actually
just doing this in chronological order, he said.
And so I said, okay, do you mean alphabetical because G comes before T?
Otherwise, I literally have no idea what you're being chronological about.
We tied.
So again, what's your rationale here? And finally, he realized that
he didn't have a justification. He didn't have an answer for this. And so, and I actually
appreciate his honesty. This is when his face changed. He looked sad. His voice changed.
I could tell he didn't even believe what he was about to say. But this official
looked at me and said, Riley, I am so sorry, but we have been advised as an organization
that when photos are being taken, it's crucial that the trophy is in Leah's hands. Again,
you can pose with this one, but you have to give yours back. Leah takes the trophy home,
you go home empty- handed end of story.
We can eventually mail you one, is what they said.
So it was kind of, it was like that moment when
I felt guilty at that point.
I felt guilty for participating in the farce.
I felt guilty for even getting in the water at this point.
And so it kind of hit me.
I won't say I was necessarily cowering because I didn't feel like that to me.
I wasn't necessarily scared to approach the topic.
I just thought someone else would.
I thought a coach would say something.
I thought some other swimmer.
I thought someone with political power, someone within the NCAA, quite honestly I thought
someone's dad would come down there and yank this man
out of our locker rooms.
But it was in that moment where we were standing
on the podium, myself included, I'm standing on the podium,
and we're clapping, and we're smiling, and we're cheering,
and it hit me, I'm like, what in the world
are we clapping for?
Because, I mean really what we're applauding
is our own erasure, our own demolition. And so, it was right then and there that, again,
like a slap across the face, I was like, how in the world can we as women, as female athletes,
expect someone to stand up for us if we aren't even willing
to stand up for us. Like this has to come from us. So again, I knew all season the unfair
competition was wrong. I knew all season that the locker room aspect was wrong. I knew that
the silencing that we were facing from our universities, I knew all of that was wrong.
We all did. But it wasn't until this official reduced everything that we had worked our entire lives
for down to a photo op to validate the feelings and the identity of a man at the expense of
our own. That's really when I decided that I couldn't continue being silent. And so what was the first thing that you did?
As you can imagine, there was a ton of reporters there, like I said, which swimming is not
a sport that garners media attention.
But this meet was unique because there was.
And so my inbox was filled with different reporters who had been reaching out to me
from all the different outlets, left-leaning, right-leaning, everything in between, who were desperately hoping to get
a quote or an interview that they could take back to their editor so they could have this
story.
Because up until this point, remember, really no one had spoken about this, at least not
with their face and their name to it.
Some people anonymously, even some of his teammates had spoken anonymously at this point.
And so we had been, this training that we went to previously I mentioned where we had
to learn how to use she, her pronouns.
We were also told that any media opportunity that came our way, we had to forward on to
our sports information director.
Now had this been the case in the past?
They had never addressed this in the past because, again, swimming is just not a sport
where this is ever.
So you had never been contacted by the media previously in your career?
I mean, I had done some stuff with ESPN and, you know, I broke the SEC record and all that
stuff, and so that was a pretty big deal.
And so there had been other stuff, but all mild softball kind of thing.
But there was nothing where you had to run it by other people before you were allowed
to have these conversations.
Correct.
So this was the first time.
Correct.
And so they told us though, we'll help you coordinate.
Can I pause there?
Come on.
Do they have the right to do that?
Is it anywhere established that they
can dictate who you're allowed to communicate with in the media?
Has this ever been an issue before where they can restrict
your ability to communicate?
Not that I know of.
I will say, and I'll be honest here,
my school, University of Kentucky,
the athletic side of the university and of this space treated
me awesome. Like my athletic director, Mitch Barnhart at Kentucky, who's been there for
20 plus years, an incredible Christian, just an incredible stand-up guy who leads with,
by example, he's a wonderful human. He's always been supportive of me. Not even necessarily
my stance, but supportive of me. Not even necessarily my stance, but
supportive of me, which means a lot. And my coach, Lars Jorgensen, who had coached there
for ten years at the time, amazing and supportive of me. But a lot of the kind of silencing
and submission stuff came from the academic, academia side, or the compliance side of things.
So my athletic side of my university was wonderful.
But yeah, the compliance side, I was even told specifically, Riley, remember,
you signed a scholarship and when you sign that scholarship, they went as far to say,
you gave away your rights to speak in your own personal capacity.
Remember, you represent us.
Remember whose name is across your chest and across your cap because it's not your own.
It's ours.
This is specifically said?
Yeah.
They said we have already taken your stance for it.
You signed away your rights to have your opinions on something that deeply affects your life's
work.
Right.
For a university that's terrified of pushback.
And understand this is not specific to just the University of Kentucky.
This is why there are so few voices really speaking out in my position, right?
Like young college age girls who have been impacted or affected by this.
This is why so few are willing to take a stand.
It's because it works.
Look at what happened at Roanoke College in Virginia.
It's the same story because it's always the same story where this mediocre man who swims
three years on the men's team decides his senior year, he wants to join the women's team
to become a record smasher.
Same thing happened there.
These girls, they're getting in contact with me saying, hey, this boy on the boys team
wants to join the women's team, but they told me that they got to vote on if they wanted
him on the team or not.
And so these girls, you know, they're talking to me, they're like, yeah, there's 17 of
us on the team, and all 17 of us are going to say no.
And I was like, that's great.
You know, we haven't seen really unity in this topic amongst the whole team, so that's
wonderful.
And so they go into their meeting where they were told they got to anonymously vote.
The coach walks in, has the boy with them.
He says, hey, I know I told you the vote was gonna be anonymous, but it's actually gonna
be by a show of hands and I'm gonna let the boy here give a speech before
So the boy gets up gives us talk and he says hey
If you don't vote yes, I will kill myself and it will be your fault. So as you can imagine
13 of those 17 girls
Changed their vote to yes, and it's because
They were told they were going to be a murderer
And three of them are like good kill yourself
But honestly like that's a crazy thing to say equating
Advocating for fair play and privacy and areas of undressing with having blood on your hands
Yeah, same thing that Leah Thomas's school you pin
Told those girls that if they do speak out in any harm whatsoever comes towards his way, right, whether it's through social media,
through, I mean, emotional harm, physical harm, self-inflicted for that matter, they told
these girls that they would solely be responsible, that would make them a potential murderer,
and you don't want to be a potential murderer, do you?
No, so I suggest you be kind and I suggest you be inclusive.
God, that is so insane.
It had to feel like a Twilight Zone.
It did.
I mean, this whole process, even looking back now and maybe at the time, like, I didn't
necessarily see it for exactly what it is.
Having really removed myself from the situation now
and looking back, it's like, whoa,
how did they get us all to, not that I ever conformed.
Again, I never thought this was right.
But I mean, we went along with it.
Right.
And how in the world did they manage to achieve that?
And I think a lot of this truly, again, being
a college athlete during the time of COVID, I think that's when they learned they could control us.
Because again, our universities told us during that time, my junior year,
the vaccines were mandatory. You had to get the vaccine. Me, look, at this point, I'd already
had COVID, right? I had the natural,
I had the antibodies, which I thought was the best natural immunity. I'm young, I'm
healthy. I'm not anti-vax or anything like that, but I just didn't really see the point
of me getting the COVID vaccine. And so I said, no, I said, I'm not getting that. They
said, Riley, remember, you're the team,
captain. You're going to be hurting your team if you don't get it. And you're supposed
to be the leader, Riley. And so I really struggled with this because I didn't want to be hurting
my team. Before my own personal success, I cared about how my teammates did. And so I
really struggled with this. But finally, I realized, you know, mandatory didn't actually mean law.
It doesn't actually mean required. And so I stood my ground. But truthfully, I think that's the first
time that I learned how to stand up for myself. And I think that incident and really the whole
COVID thing helped me stand up for myself in my year when again the same tactics the same emotional blackmail and gas lighting
Really that they were using I think it helped me my senior year too
Well, I'm sure it helped you see the world now that you're out in a different light
Definitely, it's a cult. I mean and that's really what it is
And it doesn't make sense to anybody who's not in the cult.
But the people in the cult, they'll use terms.
Like when that person said, if you don't vote for me, I'm going to kill myself.
They use these very sneaky terms like life-saving gender-affirming care in regards to castrating
children and putting them on hormone blockers and removing their breasts. They use this crazy term that seems like, well, it's got to be good.
It's life-saving, gender-affirming. But really, like, think about the message that
even just the verbiage of gender-affirming care since, whether it's to a minor or
anyone for that matter, we're telling them, especially kids, we're telling them that they're correct to
feel as if they were born in the wrong body, which what a terrible, what a
terrible message. We should be telling them that they're perfect just the way
God created them. That's what we should be telling these kids, but that's not
the message that they're being sent. No, it's one of the most bizarre things.
And even like, sorry, even this like, this verbiage of sex reassignment surgery, it sounds
harmless, but when you say it, it's as if you're subconsciously admitting that you can
in fact reassign your sex, which is so detrimental to the English language.
And we're playing into their game when we use that verb,
even the verbage of biological woman.
I've got such a problem with, and I didn't always
because again, I thought I had to make the distinction,
I am a biological female, Thomas is a biological male.
I had to take a lot of math courses, upper level math courses in college.
And so I'm staying there one day and I'm like, if this was an algebra equation, wouldn't
those words biological just like cancel each other out?
Like why are we saying that?
And then it hit me.
I'm like, how silly and redundant as if I have to add that prerequisite of biological
to declare I'm a biological being. That's so dumb quite frankly and when we say it it's as if we're
subconsciously admitting that there's an unbiological alternative to being a
man or a woman or a male or female or girl or boy and there's not.
Did you ever see that interview where that bike racer is talking to one of
the late night hosts and they were
Ivy biological women come on and she's like well. I
I am a biological human being and I am a woman so I'm a biological woman and the host is just like
Yep, yeah fucking cowards. You're not saying anything. No, that seems nuts to you totally and that's that's that's the game
That's being played here right you give an inch they take a mile
Which is why I've I've really realized now like how powerful
Language our language is and the words that we use like I'm very particular about what I say like I won't call
I'll I'll call I try and just call
say, like I won't call, I'll call, I try and just call Thomas, Thomas, but people can legally change their name and like whatever, whatever.
But that's a guy.
But I'm not calling him she, I'm not calling him her.
It's silly.
It's silly, and I won't say trans woman, because again, that's admitting that this is some
sort of subcategory of a woman.
He's just a man.
The ties have had it right forever.
They don't pretend that they're women.
They said, I'm a lady boy.
I'm a lady boy.
Yeah.
And that's like, okay, it's like an accepted category.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, exactly.
Transparency.
So yeah, um, all of that to say, to get back to the very first question, never in my short 23 years
would I have imagined that it's necessary to take the steps and the actions that we're
taking to even have to define this word woman.
But we've reached a point now where not only is it necessary, I would argue that it's urgent we define this word.
In the nearly 250-ish years we've been established
as a country, we have never struggled to define this word.
Yet here in 2024, we have a sitting Supreme Court Justice
who can't even answer what a woman is
because she claims she's not a biologist.
Well, guess what?
I'm not a veterinarian, but I know what a dog is.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
It's a very dumb conversation.
It is.
And so, a big piece of what I've been working on, I've been working with Independent Women's
Forum to develop and create a new piece of legislation that does just that, define the
word woman, another sex-based terms in
statute. It's been passed now in four different states, Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Nebraska,
both Oklahoma and Nebraska by executive order, which in great leadership by Governor Pillon
and Governor Stitt of Oklahoma. It's tracking in like 13 different states right now. So again all of that to say
It's a tell-tale sign of where we are as a nation when we have to do what we're doing
Well, it's it's requiring a lot more pushback than most people are willing to do
Yeah, because the activists on the side of promoting this nonsense are very loud
And they've made it their entire identity to get this across and they also connect themselves to the idea of promoting this nonsense are very loud and they've made it their entire identity
to get this across.
And they also connect themselves to the idea of this air quotes progress being ubiquitous,
that it spreads across the country and that this is for them a sign that the world is
moving in the right direction.
So they're like vehemently opposed
to any pushback against this.
And they're really aggressive.
But everyone on the side, it's like,
this is fucking crazy.
Most of those people have jobs,
and families, and obligations,
and they're fucking busy,
and they do not have time to sit at a council meeting
with these fucking lunatics.
12 p.m. on a Monday, right?
I know.
And have them scream into microphones,
you're committing transgenocide,
and you're like, oh, okay, what the fuck, what is this?
What is this, and how did this get started?
It's like a zombie disease that made its way
across the entire country,
and they were like, oh, who got bit first?
Exactly.
Can we figure out what the fuck happened here?
Who's doing this? How is it possible that anyone with children anyone who's a father who has
daughters is okay with this how is that possible this is nonsense at the highest
level and even though it's completely it's not like close you know it's not
like well I kind of see their point no it's not even remotely close and yet it has been taken up by a
Giant swath of the greatest country the world has ever known like that is very bizarre
What I was gonna say earlier is Douglas Murray who's the British intellectuals a brilliant guy and he said this and
When he first he started saying it years ago
He's like whenever a civilization is in collapse they become obsessed with gender
It becomes a thing it was with the Greeks and the Romans that it's like it seems to be like a symptom step in the process
Yeah, it's a thing like oh that you see those hives that you have oh you're infected oh you're sick oh
you're you're you're everyone's like changing their gender and you got 50%
of kids in some colleges or lbgtq p2 qi as what 50% this is a fucking mind
virus like what is going on here and what Douglas has said is that this you
could find this throughout history.
Of course.
And honestly, if you take all of the different little pieces
of what we're seeing, especially as it pertains
to like the cultural issues that are really plaguing
this country, right?
If you look at the denial of objective truth,
the shift in our language, like we mentioned,
the breakdown of faith.
We used to be a country that proudly said in God We Trust, in One Nation Under God.
You look at the breakdown of the nuclear family and really pinning parents and kids against
each other. You look at the breakdown of our freedoms, such as the freedom of speech. You
look at the propaganda that's being spread through the media.
I mean, the list goes on of all of these different little things.
If you put them together, it points in one direction.
And that direction, not to sound conspiracist or crazy here, is truly Marxism.
Or, right, like you talk to someone from North Korea,
or China, or Germany, or Cuba, or Brazil, or Venezuela,
or Russia, or any of these countries
that have once embraced this socialist,
communist, Marxist regime, and they will tell you
that it's a slippery slope.
And it's a slippery slope, but by the hands and feet
of our own leaders, the people in the White House,
we are actively being led down.
And like you said, sex, the most basic of truths,
the sheer essence of humanity, hate to break it to you,
myself, every single person watching and listening,
you're all here for man and woman.
So being asked to deny that is as if we're being asked to deny that the sky is blue.
Or being told to say two plus two is five.
And if anyone has read 1984 or look had a brief understanding of history, like you said, you will understand what it means when we start saying two plus two is five.
It's a pretty scary, chilling
thought really. Well, if they can get you to give up one of the most basic things. There's no limits. Yes. There's no limits. Exactly. And then look, and I agree with you that it did start during COVID,
because it started during this exercise of control
and mandating things. They realized. Yeah, and they didn't do it based on any data.
They didn't do it especially with young athletes, especially with young athletes. No. What they did
to do is do that so that if you can get compliance with absolutely everybody, so if you can get the
people who don't need this medication at all to mandate it for children,
for young, healthy athletes, for people that have zero fear of dying from COVID.
And if you can force them into doing it, you can kind of force them to do a lot of things.
If you can force them to accept the most chaotic notion like that, we shouldn't have a border and just let people run through.
And if it's terrorists, well, hey, I mean, maybe they want a
better life.
Come on.
Come on.
You're not going to vet anybody.
You're going to let them in.
And now you're saying that some of them should be allowed to
vote.
And you're going to give some of the money.
And then New York City has the scam.
Were they giving them debit cards with like up to $10,000.
And then meanwhile, poor people who live in New York City
or citizens of the United States,
they're shit out of luck, sorry.
My husband who's an immigrant,
he came over from England, but did it the right way.
We've been married for almost two years
and Joe, he still doesn't have his green card.
Yet you have people walking over the border and they obtain it with ease. Yes, it makes it harder for people like my husband and my family where
It's harder to travel. It's harder for
Job purposes when you don't have your documentation that you need. So you're right it it makes it harder on
on
Not only Americans, but the people who want to do it the right way.
Do you think about it?
Why are they doing that?
Do you think they're doing it to import voters?
Do you think they're doing it because some industries want encouraged cheap labor, that
this can break unions because if you've got a bunch of people that are undocumented, it's
legal to hire them and you could pay them less.
Why would you need a union when these people are just happy with whatever you give them?
Exactly.
Here's what I think.
Joe Biden has every, he has the power right now to secure the border.
He has that power.
But he won't do it.
So to me, what this looks like is the planned and controlled destruction of this nation.
Reasons why?
I don't know if it's to get voters.
I don't know if it's to, you know, what really the purpose is, but make no mistake.
This is planned and it's controlled.
Again, by the people leading this nation, which is a terrifying thought.
Well, it makes sense.
It sounds nuts.
And if you had said this 20 years ago, I was like, this bitch, I don't know.
Come on.
What are we doing inviting Riley here?
Control destruction of our United States.
But now you look at it and you go, well, hold on.
They learned anything from COVID.
One of the things they learned is that during a period
of destabilization, people are much more compliant.
And COVID was a massive period of destabilization to the point where they put into place illogical
laws that restricted people's ability to keep their businesses open while leaving gigantic
businesses wide open.
Walk through Target, no one gets sick there.
But if you go to mom and pops candle shop, everyone's going to die.
And none of that made any sense.
None of it made any sense.
And they got us to get through with that.
If they can destabilize the country
in the form of letting violence into the country,
and then also, by the same time, simultaneously, cracking down
on gun laws in America and imposing more gun
control on the citizens, I mean, I
don't want to flunk and secure my tinfoil hat on.
But if I was going to do it, if I was an evil person who
had this goal of the destruction of America,
that's how I would do it.
I would get everybody involved in the most nonsensical,
bullshit arguments, like use 78 different gender
pronouns and if you go and call some of the Z Zer with this conversation with
Christopher Rufo the other day I saw it the Z Zer thing like he's literally got
to go to court because he was not willing to call someone Z Zer so he's got
he's got to be charged with a crime, they have to see
whether or not he committed some hate crime. Because he didn't use a made up pronoun.
This whole new Title IX rewrite that the Biden administration is pursuing that will be, I
believe, announced in the next couple weeks.
Under this new rewrite, it is sexual harassment.
You would be guilty and charged with sexual harassment.
If you, a 17-year-old girl who's housed with a male in your dorm room, if you go to your
administration and complain expressing that you feel uncomfortable being housed with a
male, you're charged with sexual harassment.
Not the man who's parading around your locker room or your bathroom.
No, that's brave or stunning or inspiring or whatever other virtuous word they want
to use, but you calling a spade a spade is grounds for sexual harassment.
Bananas.
Bananas.
Like, not even...
Like a whole bunch of bananas.
Yeah, like if you saw it in a fucking movie, you'd be like, no way.
If there was a movie that someone put out in 2003, and this was the plot, you'd be like,
shut the fuck up, that's never gonna fly.
That's so ridiculous.
Here we are.
And here we are, and it's moving further and further in that direction.
You're seeing gaslighting on an unprecedented level. There was this
group of people that got interviewed by the New York Times that are super fans of Joe
Biden, that don't give a... It's wild. I mean, it's wild. It's wild to see these people.
I think he's amazing. I think what he's doing is the greatest, the greatest one term that any president has done more.
Karine Jean-Pierre, whatever the fuck her name is, said that the other day, she said
that this administration, they asked him why does Biden need cue cards for everything?
Why doesn't he cue cards when he sits down? Why doesn't he cue, like why does he need
those things? So it's the question. And she just rattles off how what Joe Biden has done
more in these three years than most presidents
Literally, let's open the border kill the economy fun to fucking crazy wars
That's what you'll find to when pull out of Afghanistan when you have these Biden super fans
You'll ask him okay. Well, what is it that you like that Biden has done? He's amazing. Well, I just like what he stands for yeah
They can't list anything. It's what it's just nonsense. It's like I like the 49ers. That's all it is
They're on a team and they'll fucking support that team full stop no matter what and it's that same sort of behavior
That exists in any group of people. It's ideologically captured whether you. Whether you're a fucking lifelong Red Sox fan
or you're a Democrat to the death, blue no matter who.
And there's people that just do that proudly
and they announce it on Twitter
and they get a bunch of people with 30 cats
in their comments all commenting yay.
And all these next little people, oh, 100%.
It's on both sides. Oh, yeah.
And that's what I've been, you know, I've always been my whole life, like I would say
before being conservative, I've always been a Christian.
And so my values as a Christian align more conservative.
But what I've noticed these past two years, I haven't really eye-opened to the amount of corruption,
to the amount of string pulling,
to the amount of really crazy people on both sides.
So we talk a lot about the left
because they don't try and mask theirs,
at least the very extreme radical left,
like those protestors or the people who protest me which like
Psycho I was in Milwaukee recently and I had protesters stand outside my hotel room for hours Joe hours chanting
Riley can't swim. I'm like
That's the best you got
Swim when you're so good that that swim. It is. I love that.
That's kind of good.
When you're so good that that's all they could say.
I would challenge any of them to a race.
We see the left being crazy, but there's some crazy people on our side too.
Oh, 100%.
It's a human characteristic and people, they jump into these ideologies not because they're
well thought out and because it makes sense.
It's because human beings are tribal by nature.
When we find a group, look,
I see people talk about cults sometimes.
Like in a documentary, I'm like, that seems like fun.
Like it's, and I'm a grown man.
If I was an 18 year old boy and that happened,
or a 16 year old boy and I encountered them,
I'm young and impressionable,
100% I could get sucked into it.
You can get sucked into the left, you can get sucked into the left you could get
Sucked into the right and then you're around like-minded people and the nuttiest most ambitious and most fucking
Psychotic of that group are the ones in the far outlines
It's the Patriot front on one side and it's Antifa on the other side
And this is what happens and this is what happens with human beings and those people
This is what happens, and this is what happens with human beings. And those people, they'll allow the Antifa people to fucking blow up things and light
things on fire, like, well, some violence is necessary to achieve means.
It's like the strong arm of the Democratic Party.
And then for the right, they've got to kind of ignore the really loony right-wing fucking
Confederate flag dudes.
Like you've got to kind of push those aside too.
But it's just a who's in charge? The Democrats, they're in charge. Who's
running the media? The Democrats almost universally. They've overtaken every public square. Whether it's
academia, whether it's corporate America, whether it's yeah our government, the media,
I mean every public square. Which is why now, honestly I feel
like a lot of people who maybe would have considered themselves previously as kind of
like apolitical or, you know, someone who didn't really look at what's going on around
the world.
Like you said, have jobs and families, they have their heads down, they don't look at
the outside noise.
I think it's waking a lot of people up, which is a good thing. That's the beauty of a democracy. Really, the American Republic
is having the people as the power. We do have the power. And I feel like we're engaging
those people.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think there's enough people that are realizing that this
whole system is like completely fucked and that it's really just about money and power and control.
And they use all these social issues as, you know, it's like a galvanizing force to get
whatever their financial agenda is pushed through.
That's all it is.
Like when the Biden administration is talking about DEI and all that, it's just tied into
banks.
It's how they can fund businesses and give them loans. you have more people that are this will give you more of that
It's just a way to control businesses and the whole thing is just all about money
That it's all a gigantic con game and the more like I said if I was a fucking
Kinfoil hat guy if I was thinking that this is someone trying to destroy the country. This is how I would do it
I would have people
willing to vote for their own demise not advocating for freedom if that
Freedom gives freedom to the people that are opposed to them. We're so stupid and closed-minded
We're willing to burn it all down
Just a silence people right take away everyone's freedom because I don't want that person to just agrees with me to have freedom. Crazy. When you put
it that way, it's exactly what's happening. It is exactly what's happening and it's not
the case when I was a kid. When I was a young guy, like you could, like I had friends whose
parents were conservative and my parents were hippies and they hung out together. Everybody
would go to dinner together like no one cared
Yeah, there's no more gray area. So it seems they could talk about stuff
You know like they could have agreements of what Reagan was good at like there was like conversations
Well, you know one thing Reagan really did good like my fucking dad was saying that like watching these people today
It's like you're the orcs are fighting against the Hobbits like this is crazy
Very well, Everyone is so opposed.
It's like so polarized.
And again, if I was from another country
and I was trying to ruin America,
I was like, how could I do this?
That's how I would do it.
I would do it this way.
And then I would do it through social media.
And I would have the Democrats
almost universally control social media.
Of course they do.
Except this one wild African-American.
This one wild genius dude decides to buy Twitter and an amazing amazing if he didn't do that
We would genuinely be fucked. We would be a real pickle. Honestly Twitter or X now is is
Really where I get like all my news like I don't even
Resort to a lot of the mainstream media places at at least for breaking news, like I'll find it on X.
So God bless Elon Musk.
I really think that he has almost single-handedly.
There's been, I would say, some pivotal people
or groups in this culture who have really helped
turn some things around.
I think the Babylon Bee has done a phenomenal job of-
But they were banned from Twitter.
Yeah.
And that was one of the breaking points for Elon.
Exactly.
When he found out they were banned from Twitter, he's like, okay, what the fuck?
It was a turning point.
But I mean...
And so I really think he single-handedly almost really turned this culture around.
So God bless him.
He's definitely made it take a turn.
And for anybody who thinks that's exagger exaggerating you have to take any consideration
That is not a business move that any corporation that wants to make money would have approved
No, if you're Elon Musk, you can do it
But there's like maybe five of those guys on earth that could just buy something for 44 billion dollars
That's really probably worth half that right so you can never justify it on paper
No, so he's an insane person
He is who's dedicated to free speech. It just happens to have 200 million dollars 200 billion dollars
so he can step in and do that and
When they tell him about advertising that was one of my favorite speeches ever who's like go fuck yourself
Isn't that awesome? It was amazing. It was perfect. If you're gonna blackmail me with money,
you're gonna do that, go fuck yourself.
It's amazing.
And then he goes, hi, Bob.
And that's hilarious.
But honestly, that right there is what this nation,
again, really this world is lacking,
is strong leadership, strong male leadership in particular.
We don't see a lot of these men, right?
We picture men as these like dominant,
aggressive, assertive leaders who protect and provide.
Our nation is failing because we don't have
those male leaders.
We don't have people who have backbones and a moral compass,
but Elon Musk has the perfect combination of a backbone and a moral compass
Which is sad when you think about it. Also, he's smarter than everybody
He's and he sees where all this is going. It's like you people are out of your fucking minds like what are you doing?
Exactly, literally has to step in and buy a social media platform and then upon doing so
they release all these emails to these journalists
like Michael Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi. And you find out through all this that they've
been in contact with the FBI and the FBI has been telling them to delete accounts and get
rid of posts and-
My account was deleted. Prior, I guess prior to the Elon Musk era.
What did you write that was the big offense? um, prior, I guess prior to the Elon Musk era. Um,
what did you write that was the big offense?
There are two sexes.
I know God forbid, right?
Isn't that amazing?
Put me in jail.
Biological truth.
Like, okay, can I get a review?
Can we go to a textbook, please?
Yeah.
How many sexes does it say in the textbook?
I think it says two.
Does that say two?
It says two sexes, male and female.
So I was right.
Let's span the book too.
Like what is that?
Yeah, so, but I was able to make a new account
under Elon Musk's Twitter.
Yeah, luckily.
And it's the only platform that I found
where I don't get my videos or posts removed.
Yeah, so every one of them.
I was hesitant for TikTok for a long time, for a lotiktok, right? I was hesitant for Tiktok for a long time,
for a lot of reasons, right?
Like we hear that the Chinese are spying on us
and gonna take our information and blah, blah, blah.
So I didn't wanna post on Tiktok for a long time,
but I went on my, I had a profile,
I'd sometimes view videos again, never really posting,
and then one day I go to my profile
and I have like 20,000 followers having never posted.
I'm like, this is crazy.
Like, clearly there's an audience here on TikTok.
And it's unique because it's a younger audience,
which has been a big push of mine
is to target younger people, people my age,
to really engage them and help them see what's going on.
So I was like, maybe I will start posting to TikTok.
them and help them see what's going on. So I was like, maybe I will start posting a TikTok.
My videos went viral and every single video
is like deleted now.
But I have like almost, I think 400,000 followers
having only posted like a couple of times, it's crazy.
And so they'll delete you if you talk about gender issues.
Anything.
I could report like a factual, real story that had happened saying nothing outlandish,
nothing, and it's deleted.
Now again, let's go back to my theory that someone's trying to destroy the country.
If I was the Chinese government and I was in control of a social media platform that's
the most addictive and the most used by young kids, I would have as much confusion on
there as possible. And I would have as much men with beards and lipsticks and
long nails telling you that all your kids are gonna be trans and have that shit
everywhere and never take it down. And anyone who combats this, anyone that
like starts making sense and resonates with people, get them out of here.
Just get them the fuck out of here. This is a propaganda machine.
And they're laughing the whole time.
And it is owned by China.
And it is some of the most fucking troublesome spyware that they've ever examined.
When guys have back engineered the Twitter code, the fucking coder guys who've gone over that,
they were like, oh my god, this is crazy.
This is the most invasive we've ever seen.
It has access to your keystrokes.
So like say if you're using TikTok
and then you're also like sending emails,
it's gonna know what your emails are.
It's gonna know, it's gonna be able to listen
to your voice, it's gonna be able to videotape you.
It's gonna have access to all sorts of aspects
of your phone, not necessarily saying it's gonna use those things, but it's gonna have the access to it all that's in there now
Imagine a scenario where China attacks Taiwan China attacks Taiwan and all of a sudden
We're in this weird proxy hot war with China as well as a weird proxy hot war with Russia and then China
starts as well as a weird proxy hot war with Russia. And then China starts fucking with the phones.
All these people that have TikTok on their phones.
How many accounts are there?
How many different people can they target
that have children, and then these people
are high-level political people?
How many people that are in board meetings?
How many people that are coming home on their phone,
having conversations in private with their wife
about the real problems that we have right now with corruption and the Biden laptop
is real, that kind of shit.
Right.
They're going to have all those recordings.
They're going to literally be able to listen to anybody they want.
They've paid people, what they've done is really fascinating.
They've gotten high speed internet routers and cell phone routers and they sell them
cheaper and so people buy them.
And they've already found that some of these have third party accessibility and they're
putting them near like nuclear facilities.
The Chinese people like, like, we'll sell you these cell phone towers cheaper and just
put them over there where you fucking test jets.
And we're like, wow, it saves the money.
What a great idea.
And so we buy all their shit, and their infrastructure
is everywhere.
They own farmland everywhere, all over the country.
And they own a lot of farmland that's around military bases.
Right.
Is this you saying I should delete TikTok?
I'm saying, I'm putting my fucking tinfoil foil hat on I think it's like we were like no they
would never do that if you think about all the times in history that governments
have over overthrown other countries that have invaded other countries and
they've done it with the only methods that were available then the only
methods were available then you need tanks and guns and planes and weapons and bombs and shit or
Not anymore not anymore now you need fucking cyber stuff and with that you could literally destroy
The way the morals and the ethics of an entire generation of people cast aside any ideas
They're trying to do things now where they're talking about minor attracted persons. Crazy. And you're seeing elected politicians, elected officials,
talking about being very clear that this is an identity,
that these are minor attracted persons.
It's sick.
It's really, that, right?
You have people talking about pedophiles being maps,
they'll call them.
Whether it's this video recently
that LibsTikTok posted of these children,
and I think Oklahoma may be sucking on toes.
Did you see that?
Of teachers or adults or whoever these people are?
Is that what it was?
Sick.
Yes, it was a fundraiser.
The children sucked on the toes of the adults?
No car wash, sucking toes was going to be their fundraiser. It's no big sale. No car wash. Sucking toes was going to be their fundraiser.
It's definitely adults? Yeah, definitely adults. Or whether it's now you have these men, the
CDC, that says men can produce breast milk and lactate. I got news for you. Any man, any man who forces a baby to latch on to his nipple and suck
it is using that baby as an erotic prop. And right they do this under the guise of human
rights? It is not a human right for anyone to sexually abuse a child. So all that to
say there's this big push so it it seems, whether it's the gender ideology
movement, there's this big push to seemingly normalize pedophilia, which is grotesque,
it is perverse, it's disgusting.
Parents who are okay with this, Democrats who are okay with this, who vote in favor of a
lot of this nonsense stuff, you're a sellout to your own child. And honestly, I think there's a separate
conversation that needs to be had if you are an elected official voting in favor
of this stuff with kids. I think there's a separate conversation that needs to be
had involving CPS because again, that's disgusting to say the least. And it's
always been morally reprehensible. It's always been a thing that we wanted to to kill people for and now all of a sudden we're saying that it's an identity
Again, if I was trying to destroy a country, I would throw that into the educational system
I'd make it seem
Virtuous to discuss this in an open-minded and objective way like they can't help who they identify with. Well, and honestly, right, like, again, being a Christian, the Bible tells us that we will
reach a point, and Paul says it in Acts and Romans in different places, he tells us that
we will reach a point where bitter is seen as sweet, dark is seen as light, and evil
is seen as moral. It's undeniable that that's not what we're seeing now. And look, that's
not to say that people who identify as trans are evil. I don't necessarily think that,
but what is evil is deception. Manipulation is evil. Temptation is evil. Lying and affirming
delusions, that's evil. And that's exactly how Satan works and how he operates, is in
the darkness. But now a lot of it is coming to light again, thanks to people like Elon
Musk.
It sounds loony when we start having these kind of conversations about like Satan and
evil and good and you know, and biblical stories. But I, as more as time goes on, I think that what the Bible is, is I think at one point
in time there was a very sophisticated society that got wiped out by some sort of a massive
natural disaster.
And then over time, they told the stories that they had learned since they stopped writing
things down and they probably had to live like barbarians for thousands of years
But they always had this stories
It's like literally the big bang in the beginning there was light if you told that for thousands of years
That's what that would be right
The Adam and Eve in the garden the creation that someone created this like that they were trying to tell us and that men
Can go down evil wicked ways
and it can lead to destruction
and these are some of the symptoms
that you'll see when it leads to destruction.
It's like this is like a map of civilization.
It's just so old and it's been translated so many times
from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic
and all these different languages down to Greek
and Latin and English finally.
It's like there's so much like what was really said, what was really going on because a lot of it seems
too on the money.
Like if we wanted to try to put this through some sort of a logical filter or figure out
like is someone really trying to warn us about the natural progression that all societies
and all civilizations go down if you don't have a moral compass and if you don't follow and adhere to the rules of
God. Well there's still stuff that hasn't yet, right, like what has been
prophesied that hasn't yet happened. So time will tell, right? I think Jesus' return is past due.
Like Dr. Manhattan. Yeah.
If that would be the wildest, forget about UFOs. UFOs would be pretty wild. UFOs in the
White House lawn would be wild. Jesus in the White House lawn, wow. That would be the game
changer.
I pray for that. Come back, please.
God, do you think people would even believe it? They would think, oh my God, this is Luminati. Our media would spin the game changer. I pray for that. Come back, please. Do you think people would even believe it?
They would think, oh my god, this is Luminati.
Our media would spin it some way.
Well, our fucking just people on Reddit.
Like, the people that are like,
What a platform.
What a platform.
Oh my gosh, I have seen some of the craziest stuff on Reddit.
And I don't have a Reddit account.
That's not my space. But you go in and look at things sometimes.
But people will post like other Reddit clips. And I speak a lot on these on college campuses.
Again, with the intention of really trying to garner support from the youth, but also
encouraging them to find their own voice and to be bold and to be leaders themselves.
All done through the Leadership Institute, which is just a phenomenal group,
but a lot of these college campuses I speak on, the protesters, when they hear I'm coming,
they'll go to Reddit and they'll start going off, which is hilarious to look
at.
But honestly, it's kind of scary.
Like a lot of these people, for instance, I was at San Francisco State a few months
back, which was my first mistake going to freaking San Francisco.
But I went there with the intention of talking about what you and I have talked about, at
least from
from that national champ championship standpoint, everything that we went through, why it's important.
I went there and what a naive thought to think that these people, these students would come
with an open mind and the willingness to have their hearts soften because they did not.
They came with their pitchforks and fire. And upon me delivering my speech in a classroom setting, right, so like a podium at the front,
there's seats in the class.
Upon delivering my speech afterwards, a group of protesters entered into the room, hundreds
of them, okay, turned off the lights, rushed to the front.
I'm being like shoved and hit and jostled. I'm like so confused what's going on
Punched right but fortunately for me men in dresses their punches don't hurt that bad
But ultimately these protesters ended up holding me through for ransom throughout the night
Demanding that if I wanted to make it home to see my
family safely again, I had to pay them money.
Um, all the while you might be wondering, okay, well where are the police?
Joe at San Francisco, the police are being held for ransom in the same room with me.
I'm looking at the police like pretty sure I'm being held against my will.
Pretty sure we call that kidnapping.
Isn't there something you can do to like alleviate
what's going on here to de-escalate
and get me home safely?
No, actually we can't,
it's, we're not allowed to be seen as anything
other than an ally to that community.
The same community who's on the other side of that door calling them racist pigs for
protecting a white girl like me.
Say that again.
They're not allowed to be seen as anything other than an ally.
Right.
So this is like a mandate from the police department.
So anything that involves anyone who's trans, you have to automatically support regardless
of whether or not that person's the aggressor.
Let me tell you, even-
Is that fair to say that?
Well, that's what was communicated to me.
Even now, where there is an ample amount
of video footage of this happening,
there is audio evidence, there are eyewitness testimonies.
Again, the police were in the room with me.
There's footage that I requested that they never sent me, whether it was CCTV footage or their body cam footage.
There's an ample amount of evidence to charge whoever is responsible, whether it's the
students, whether it's the university, whether it's honestly the police department at this
point. They have come back now and said that the charges are alleged. There's nothing
they can do. There's no evidence to prosecute
or press charges against anyone.
I'm looking at this.
Keep in mind, right?
The Dean of Students shows up
when I'm being held in this room
for hours and hours, four hours,
through the middle of the night in this room.
And the Dean of Students shows up.
He's negotiating with the students
how much I owe each of them to get out.
The price that I
had heard was agreed upon through the side of the door was $10 each, which I'm mad about
because I think I'm worth more than $10.
They all went $10.
Granted, there's a lot of them.
Oh my God, but how funny is that? Give us all $10. We're hungry.
Believe.
We want to go get subway But anyways the university the next day sent it out a university wide email to their I mean
I mean staff
students everybody and said we are so
Proud of our brave students for handling Riley Gaines in the manner that they did we know how deeply traumatic her presence is on this campus
And so here are some counseling resources for you guys.
Oh my God.
You know, just know we see you, we stand with you, we see you, we hear you, we love you.
Again.
Nowhere in there did they condemn violence against women for that matter.
Nowhere in there did they say we uphold our First Amendment and the freedom of speech.
No, of course not. You're right to civil discourse.
No, forget it.
So.
It's so crazy.
And that's just the...
San Francisco's fallen.
Oh, beyond.
I was in San Francisco.
I mean, that's really like, again,
if I was gonna ruin a country, that's how I would do it.
I would tell the children, everyone's amazing,
and that assault you did, that was warranted,
and I know how deeply traumatic that must have been for you.
So here's some counseling, because you need counseling.
You need to be able to talk about it.
So for further fuel your narcissism
and get involved with someone who constantly
wants to talk about you all day.
Here's some counseling.
Let's talk about you.
Great, I really need to focus on me.
And then what you'll do more about you and how amazing you are. You hit this lady who said that men shouldn't be
able to compete with women. Fucking duh.
Yeah. And then there's nothing that can be done about it.
Nothing. Zero.
So which is why it's hard, like for us, and when I say us, I really just mean sane people.
I'm not making this conservative versus, you know, Republican versus Democrat type thing
It makes it harder for us in this space to to push back when
We have district courts or our our Department of Justice that really is corrupted. It's incredibly
Too tiered yeah, this is any Willis thing is awesome though.
Yeah, right.
I love it.
Isn't it, Jess?
It's fun watching her get sassy, which is getting questioned too.
And that's so telling, right, when she starts freaking out and yelling and it's like, babe,
if you just wanted to be this, or to have this guy be your like booty call or vice versa.
Yeah, you're not supposed to hire him.
No.
What the fuck?
No.
Like, how obvious is that?
Also, you can't say that you fucking paid for everything in cash.
Like what?
Imagine that, like, this is what I'll say.
Right.
This is how I'm going to get them.
I'm going to get them right here.
Yeah, that'll work.
I'm going to tell them, I paid it all in cash.
Sorry, no records.
All in cash. Where'd you get the cash? I had cash., all in cash. Where'd you get the cash?
I had cash.
I just had it.
Where'd you get the fucking cash?
You got $50,000 later on, who does that?
But they do that because they know
there's a chance of it working.
Not really.
I think she thought the system is more rigged than it is
because I think most people have never been exposed
to national attention and you can speak to this.
Exactly. They have no idea what to national attention and you can speak to this. Exactly.
They have no idea what the pressure like that you've experienced.
Right.
Like you've experienced some at a young age of as a person who had no desire to be famous
other than be a great athlete out of nowhere you get hit with this barrage of attention
where you're on Fox News and this and that newspapers and and some people are labeling
you in the horrible most horrible way and some people are labeling you in the most
horrible way and some people are proud that she's standing up for women in sports and
you've got this conflict and you're in the fucking center of it.
And you've got crazy people who rush the stage and hit you and the cops say, we can't do
anything that doesn't show us as an ally to that community.
That's not even America.
Like where are I? That's a lot of land they're living in
the willy wonka chocolate factory those people are other fucking minds really
walk in chocolate factory sounds better than it's not way better but they'd
live they're literally out of their minds like in this is unsustainable
is at some point i realized that because
honestly truth and sanity they they always prevail yeah it's just kind of a
matter of time
unfortunately it takes unfortunate circumstances
like the Holy Atomist thing,
like the San Francisco State thing,
like the things that continue to happen,
it takes those to really see the harm
and the severity and the likelihood
that they continue at an exponential rate.
So again, I kind of look at what's going on,
or in particular what happened to me
as a lemon-celemonade thing, right?
You take something that should've never happened to anyone,
but you do good with it.
And that's certainly what I've been trying to do
over these past, again, two years.
And it has.
There's been a lot of good stuff that's been done.
We see a lot of the negative.
We see a lot of the bad.
And certainly that's what's highlighted because that's what gets attention.
That's what gets clicks.
That's what gets likes.
But now, in just two short years, 24 states have some sort of fairness in women's sports
bill when only, I think three years ago, only one state did.
So that's pretty incredible.
Lots of traction, lots of momentum.
Like I said, four states implementing a bill now that defines the word woman.
We've seen lots of pushback at the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
So there's been lots of good things that have been done. And I certainly choose to celebrate the little wins
when we get them.
Well, what you've done is very courageous,
because I know the kind of pressure
that you must have experienced.
I know the hate that's come your way.
And you handle it with class.
And that is not a learned thing.
And I think that speaks to one of the things
that I think is one of the most important things that kids can
Ever get involved in that sports definitely. I know people think of sports as being like if you're an intellectual
You think of as being like a jock or a meathead thing, but it teaches you a resolve
It teaches you when you have to swim six hours a day like you have to be strong
when you have to swim six hours a day, like you have to be strong mentally.
And it transcends beyond just your athletic achievements.
Which is my point, is how you can handle this,
the way you can handle it.
And honestly now, like, I love pressure.
I love it.
I love setting goals and achieving those goals,
which sets me up perfectly for this position.
And you're right, like, I would highly encourage,
my parents did it, my parents made me play sports.
And when my dad, being a professional football player,
I won't say he didn't,
he never really cared what sport I played,
but when I started swimming, he's like,
Riley, come on, that's not a sport.
I'm like, dad, it is a sport like it's hard like we work hard
He's like no rather. It's not sport then I started dating a swimmer and my dad was like Riley
Any sport his justification was any sport where a man has to wear panties and competes?
Like they're gay Riley. He's like you're dating someone who's gay
I'm like dad and now he's my husband and now of course. he knows he's not gay and he's the best. But it's just, but all that to say.
That sounds funny. Yeah. He's, um, I had to refrain him from going in the locker room
at that national championships. I called him and I'm like, dad, there's a man in our locker
room. Because we didn't know this was going to be the arrangement until we saw it, until
like we were actually in there with this, this again six foot four man stripping down,
fully intact, exposing himself inches away from where we were simultaneously fully undressed.
Right?
Like I can't even put into words like the feeling of having your back turned and all
of a sudden like again naked hearing a man's voice in the locker room.
It's like it was innate inherent for every girl in that changing space to cover themselves.
Like whether it was with their hands or their towels or their clothes, like it was inherent.
Um...
That's so psychonic.
So I called my dad and I'm like, dad, there's a man in this locker room.
He's like, Riley, I'm coming down there and I'm gonna handle this myself.
And I really was like, dad, like, like, Dad, like he would do that.
And I'm like, no, we already have one man in the locker room.
We don't need two.
And secondly, like you'll go to jail.
And I don't want you there.
So I got this.
I can handle it.
Which, again, the things that I think set me apart from some of my teammates or competitors
or other people in my same position. Is right playing sports?
I credit so much of my success and impact that's been had to playing sports.
Secondly, it's having a strong family foundation.
I have two parents, two amazing parents who love each other.
Everyone around me, like my grandparents, all in very healthy, loving relationships. I don't have a lot of
divorce around me or in my family or anything like that. I have got lots of siblings. We're
all so close. So I think my family foundation is a huge aspect too. Again, what kind of set me apart.
And third, again, is my faith. Just knowing the outcome like like we've just previously spoke about, like knowing
how this all ends and really trusting that and having faith in that and just knowing
the battle is already won. That's certainly what keeps me grounded and keeps, you know,
a smile on my face and an incredibly light heart even when these crazy freaks at San Francisco or like
Like running at me the first thing I do is pray for them
I'm like oh my gosh you look miserable and I can't imagine having that much hatred in my heart
So I think all of those things
Are kind of what maybe?
Made me a little different the combination of those things no one thing over the other but
Set me apart from some of my peers either right woman for the job when it came along a little different, the combination of those things. No one thing over the other, but set
me apart from some of my peers.
You're the right woman for the job when it came along. That's what it is. It's really
like the universe put you in that position, because most people wouldn't be as uniquely
disciplined about chasing this down as you are.
And it's a big task. Like, there's always always something there's always some story. There's always someone you die
Actually, I know you're similar right where like
The messages I get daily
From parents from coaches from young female athletes
Who this is happening to who they don't know what to do. Yeah, I should talk to the girl
I don't know if you saw this video
to do. I should talk to the girl. I don't know if you saw this video. It was the basketball game in Massachusetts recently where you've got this like six foot something guy who injured
three girls before half time of this game causing the team to have to forfeit because
they didn't have enough players left to play the game. Talking with this team and this
girl like she's 13 years old and she's getting pummeled to the ground with this team and this girl.
Like she's 13 years old and she's getting pummeled
to the ground by this guy and she's online
reading the comments and stuff and which I never advise
but she is and there's people calling, you know,
this girl, Wuss, and saying that she's being a baby
and she's fine and she reads that and it's really hard
for her.
Guarantee those people don't play sports. Of course not.
Right?
They're just nuts.
You know what, Cliff?
I loved.
It was on this show talking about Keith Ulberman.
That guy's the gift that keeps giving.
He's the gift that keeps giving.
And he never.
He is the Babylon B version of a Democrat.
He really is.
I want to know if he's still crying, Yuren.
Did you see all that?
What was going on with him?
The Supreme Court ruling, 9-0, in Trump's favor, of course,
and he commented back to someone on social media.
It was like someone was basically like, dude, cope,
you know, cry harder, you know, your liberal tears taste awesome.
And he said, these aren't tears, you fascist, it's pee or urine. And I'm like, what does this mean? What does this mean?
You're crying urine. I'm so confused.
It's crazy to say that's fascist too.
But I saw this clip on your show where you were highlighting, you know, how he came for
me. And I'm like, dude, who are you?
I don't even know who you are.
It's not even a complete say anything.
And I'm, yeah, that's hilarious, right?
Being, I have very proudly finished my career
as a 12-time All-American, a five-time SEC champion,
the SEC record holder, the fastest person
to ever come out of the SEC in the 200 butterfly,
making me one of the fastest Americans of all time,
SEC scholar athlete of the year,
SEC community service leader of the year.
Like, I mean, I could keep going on.
And it's like, this senior old man wants to attack me.
He still lives with his mom and her basement.
I didn't ask my dad, I'm like, who is this guy?
I don't even know who he is.
I think he has his own place,
but he's definitely insane.
Yeah, but he's insane in a very unique way.
He used to be a really good baseball broadcaster. You know, he was, you know, he's definitely insane. Yeah. But he's insane in a very unique way. He used to be a really good baseball broadcaster.
You know, he was real baseball.
But then he got really nutty during the Trump administration.
And that Trump derangement syndrome, that's a real thing.
It's a real thing.
And I think there's some people that are fragile already.
The world is just like, the anxiety and this and that, and also this position
of being the person of virtue, the angry, loud voice
of reason, that's a weird banner to carry
when you don't have your own shit together.
When your own life is chaos, your fucking mental health
is very unsteady, and you're out there preaching
and telling people what to do.
And as you start losing losing and Trump's the president
now and you're like, he's gonna get arrested, he's gonna get arrested, he never gets arrested.
And then he's kid, they're gonna take him off the ballot, take him off the ballot, he's
an interactious. Nope, Supreme Court says unanimously. No. It's like it's just like further compounds
and you never get a win. You never get a win. You get a little bit of a win when Biden won
and then the chaos after the Biden administration and all the things that we knew were true,
that he was mentally comparable, all those things come out of his feet,
and that's not a win.
So then you're just in this constant state
of anxiety and chaos and saying nonsense things.
Almost like he would want you to come after him,
because you came after him so hard, it was so funny.
When you show it, all your medals and all your shit,
the fuck are you talking about, stupid?
And my motto is like truly like,
and I feel like I for the most part,
pretty much live by this like, don't punch down.
Like don't give someone attention when,
that's clearly what they're vying for is attention,
but I literally could not resist myself
when it came to him.
And it was so tragic because I'm showing him
like all the accolades and stuff.
And as I picked one of them up, it's a glass trophy.
I drop it and I broke it.
But let me tell you, it was so cool
because the SEC saw this video that I had made
and dropping one of my all SEC first team honors
and they sent me a new one and they were like,
we're so sorry that you had to waste your time
and break a trophy over Keith Overman. we wanted to send you a new one.
Good for them.
Totally.
Good for them.
That's funny though.
Even the way you handled it when you dropped it.
Like whatever.
I've got more of them.
Who cares Keith Ulberman?
I don't care about this trophy.
I don't want this trophy.
People like him are really fascinating because it's the social media interaction.
It compounds mental illness in a way that I have never seen in my life with anything.
There's nothing like it.
It is a zombie apocalypse.
It's weird.
There's so many people that are just like deeply involved in social media interaction
all day long.
And look, social media, of course, is a blessing.
I would argue it's a bigger curse than it is a blessing.
And you're right, we see people, like on my ex feed,
who are on there posting all day long.
I'm like, what do you do?
Do you have a family?
Do you have a life?
Like, do you work?
Like, I'm so confused how you have time all day long every hour of every day to
Be posting something that's their life
It is their life
There's a lot of people like that that is their life and they sort of accumulate these
Bubbles of people that they communicate with right they stay in these echo chambers and they exist there forever and they don't go outside
And they wonder why they're depressed
It's so true. It is
and they don't go outside and they wonder why they're depressed. It's so true.
It is what it is.
It's so true.
It's what it is.
Yeah.
Human bodies, I firmly believe, have a physical requirement.
And if you don't meet that physical requirement, your body's...
Of course.
You've got to get enough sleep.
You've got to drink enough water.
You've got to exercise.
You have to.
And you're right, the people...
If you don't, you feel like shit.
...aren't doing these things.
Right.
Yeah.
They're on Twitter all day.
They're on Twitter all day. They're on Twitter all day. They're on Twitter all day. It's compounding their mental illness.
They're probably already medicated.
Definitely.
And then here they are just getting after it with strangers, getting, fuck you, you're
hit, Larry fucking Nazi.
It's like, it's so wild to see and it's all getting accentuated by algorithms specifically
to try to extend your engagement and keep you hooked.
And then when you see something like TikTok that will not let opposing viewpoints, even
viewpoints that are clearly-
Even if you question the narrative.
But meanwhile, if you go to China, their TikTok's all about scientific achievements, athletic
achievements, martial arts.
It's all about positive role models, exercise routines.
It's all like super, and you can't be on after 10 p.m.
Go to sleep.
Crazy.
Go to sleep.
Crazy.
Get ready for war.
Yeah.
No, they're laughing at us.
100%.
I'm laughing at us.
How are they not laughing at us?
Totally.
When I see Rachel Levine stand in front of everybody and give advice on health, I'm like, what the
fuck are you talking about?
It's so true, right?
Not only the fact that this is someone who is injecting themselves with foreign and unnatural
hormones and substances, Rachel LaVina is obese.
I'm like why are you our assistant secretary of health or whatever the name is when you're
quite literally overweight?
Yeah.
Like are you sure I should be listening to you on anything?
Well, the whole administration, they've stuffed some of these like very questionable people
that happen to be non-binary or trans or whatever into these roles just for optics.
That's what they did with that Sam Brinton guy, the guy that was stealing women's clothes.
The suitcase stealer.
That fucking lunatic.
The suitcase stealer.
Who is, he had some job with nuclear waste disposal.
Some, like, he looks like a doctor Manhattan character
I mean like he literally look like you look at him with his shaved head and his lips
It looks like a bad guy in a superhero movie. Yeah, no like women's clothes, and you're right
they've they've
sprinkled that throughout and all of the different departments and realms and and
Here we are suffering the consequences. It's so bizarre because again, in other wars,
you had to use weapons.
That's the way to do it.
I mean, they had espionage.
They definitely did steal information
and find out strategies and tactics.
But not like today.
Like, where you can literally infiltrate
a whole section of the country and have them believe that they have to adhere.
If you're going to be left, if you're going to be on the side of the good people that want a social safety net
and they want welfare and free education, if you're going to be on that side,
you also have to be on the side where perverts don't exist anymore. There's no more sex offenders. There's no more pedophiles.
There's minor attracted people and trans men
and gender dysphoria is just problematic and transphobic.
And what it really is, is just your identity.
And there's a spectrum of genders.
And if you don't use ZZR, we're gonna put you in a cage.
Crazy, but so true.
But that this is, it's reality.
But this is 2024, this didn't exist in 2004.
No.
What does 2044 look like?
And that's honestly what we should be asking ourselves
Yeah, I think too often we get kind of wrapped up in like the here and the now and ultimately
That's how we've gotten to this point, right? You give an inch to take a mile type thing
And we don't see the harm in it at the time, but yeah, we should be looking ahead
20 plus years five years at this matter things are so expedited we should be looking ahead 20 plus years. We don't five years at this matter things are so expedited
We should be looking ahead five years. Yes, and again if we're willing to deny man and woman
What's the next thing they're going to ask us to deny and it sounds crazy, but like age
We've seen some people who identify as trans age out of Canada and different places even some here in the States who write the story of this like 55 year old
some man competing with the 1314 girls.
Yeah, he identifies as a 15 year old girl.
Which sounds crazy.
And changed in the locker room with them.
It sounds crazy, but that denying age is the exact same premise as denying sex.
You can't deny race yet.
No, not yet.
That's the line.
Not yet. Yeah, that was- That's the line. Not yet.
Yeah, that was-
Some people have tried it with Korean.
Yeah.
And that one dude, he said that he was transracial.
He believes he's Korean.
So he got his face operated on,
so he'd look with more Korean-like features.
He's come around now.
And-
Is he not anymore?
Well, I don't know the status of surgical procedures,
but I think he has a book out now that talks about
kind of how he was totally enthralled in K-pop
and all the stuff and really believed to be a part of this,
but now is like, and all the woke gender ideology stuff,
and now he's totally like, whoa, what did I do?
Now he's gonna go to CPAC.
Now he's gonna go to CPAC. Now he's gonna go to CPAC.
That's what he's doing now.
That would be a good move for a guy like that,
strategically for a career.
If you want more attention, just go hard right.
Just all the way, no looking back.
I wanna be a man again, it says.
No, the title of the thing is done here.
Oh, his de-transitioning journey.
Yeah, but it says I wanna be a man again. Was he ever a woman?
Yeah, there's always been crazy people folks and when you give crazy people the opportunity to be
protected under the walled garden of the
LGBTQTI
Plus
You're inviting crazy people to infiltrate your organization, which will
fuck up any legitimate concerns that people have of letting people live whatever the way
they want to live. The way I look at this and the way I look at all things is I don't
ever want to tell people what to do. I don't want to tell anyone what to do. But I'm always
very concerned when people do want to tell people what do it, but I'm always very concerned when people do want
to tell people what to do because I know what that thought process is.
It sets off.
Yeah, it sets off alarms because I don't want to control people.
Why are you trying to control people?
What is your thing about?
Some people like to control people.
It's a natural inclination that human beings have had since the beginning of time.
They do it through gossip and rumor and try to destroy people's character.
They do it through subterfuge and sabotage and espionage.
They want fucking power.
It's normal and natural.
And if you just operate on that principle,
always look at the people that are trying
to restrict your rights.
And why are they doing that?
Why are they doing that?
Because people do that. That's a thing people do. you might not do that because you're a good person.
You know, maybe just a normal person wants to just live a normal life and play golf on
the weekends and have a family and be normal. There's people out there that's not their
game. Their game is a different game and you've got to be able to see that. And if you can't
see that, you're just going to go along with it because you're a good person.
And you, well, life, affirming, saving,
gender, affirming, care, you just say the words.
They don't even mean anything to you.
You're just saying what everybody in your cult says.
Totally, and I could not agree more, right?
These people who say, you know,
you're transphobic or you're anti-trans.
First of all, that doesn't hurt my feelings.
I don't really care if someone says that about me. But second of all, look, my stance isn't
anti-trans. If, just like you said, what someone else does behind closed doors, what Leah Thomas
does behind closed doors, no, I don't support it. No, I don't agree with it. But live your
life just like I'm going to live my life. Like you said I don't want someone telling me how to live. So no I don't agree or support but do as you do.
It shouldn't cost my taxpayer dollars, it shouldn't affect my rights but if it
doesn't by all means. So really the stance that I'm taking that I feel like
majority of Americans have taken is advocating for transparency
more than anything, right?
Like, if something is advertised for women, boom, it's for women.
That's not to say you can't have a co-ed team.
But it's only women that are getting harmed by this, only women.
The whole thing.
And it was always to protect women until women became less oppressed
than someone else. And that is trans women. And that's what they did. It's the Depression
Olympics. It really is. There was the regional college track and field meet where a male
runner competing on the women's team at Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, in New York. This past week
competed, broke the regional meet record, of course. The girl who got second was an African-American
female. Let's call this what this is. This is a white man standing atop the podium, left crickets.
Nothing. Nothing. So I think oppression Olympics is actually a great way to put it.
Really what it is, because no matter who you are, trans trumps that.
It's the ace.
It's the top.
It's the top.
And if you're a black trans man, or I guess what they would call, I guess a black trans
identifying male, you're the king slash queen.
Black trans woman or black trans man.
See, it's a male.
So you're biological male?
It's trans woman, but I don't like saying all that.
Oh, okay, right, right, right.
Silly stuff.
So trans.
A trans identifying male who's black,
who's a man who identifies as a woman.
You win.
You are the winner.
You are the most oppressed,
which what a odd world we live in
to where you want to be a victim.
You want to be marginalized. You want to be marginalized.
You want to be an oppressed
because what's the alternative?
An oppressor.
And we have learned as a society
that there is nothing worse than being an oppressor.
So you'll do anything and not to dilute
what it means to be trans or people
who genuinely struggle with gender dysphoria,
not to dilute this, but people
would much rather be oppressed than be an oppressor.
And the white man has always been the oppressor.
Not anymore.
They found a way to really curb that.
Just say you're a woman.
Grow out your hair.
Put some lipstick on.
And you can dominate women.
And you can get into women's prisons.
That's a big push we've seen. 47 biological males are in California prisons right now crazy
You know how many went into it? You know how many to your point? How many women went into men's prisons in California?
How many one she had three months left of first sentence so
No time, but yeah, we've seen in New Jersey, Ohio, California, Kansas, New York, and New
York they have posted placards in all women's prisons talking about pregnancy prevention.
And you know what they did in California prisons?
Over Super Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday, where everyone's distracted, right?
Like no one's paying attention.
They had supervisors come in working overtime to implement in women's
facilities women's prisons
Condom dispensers and dental dams
So not only look look sex in prisons is not allowed. It's not I mean you're not allowed to do that or not supposed to do that
anyways, but by putting condoms in all women's
But by putting condoms in all women's facilities, not only are you essentially allowing it, it's as if you're encouraging it.
Yeah.
Crazy.
It's not, but I mean, how many pregnancies did they have before they had to do that?
How many instances of STDs did they have before they had to do that?
And that's a thing I've seen in California prisons we're AIDS and HIV is running rampant in women's
prisons.
I know it.
That's crazy.
But again, to your point, even the whole language thing we talked about, we don't see
men's language being infiltrated and taken over like we have this attack on the word
woman or the word female.
There was just a bill in California again last week where it would replace female in
all state statute with the word person.
We're not seeing that go the other way.
I think for a couple reasons.
First and foremost, men wouldn't put up with it for a second.
Could you imagine, right, like women are now called cervix havers,
or uterus owners, or menstruators, or bleeders,
or chest feeders, or birthing person.
Could you imagine the equivalent to egg producer?
If we started calling men sperm producers,
or we started calling men erection havers,
could you imagine the outrage from men?
But it shows you too, like, the minute men felt threatened
with the whole Bud Light thing.
Bud Light essentially lost $27 billion overnight,
but their next commercial, which shows you how money moves
a lot of this stuff, their next commercial was a big
burly man on a motorcycle with a camo can.
Like, they're not following red or blue, they're following green, but it shows you
too. Like, we talk a lot, especially in this space that I've kind of been involved in,
of the physical differences between men and women. But I think how the whole language
scene, how I portray it, is we see the innate characteristic differences
between men and women because the same assertive dominant men who have always and will always
be men are the same men claiming to be women demanding the language that we use.
And the same apologetic, emotionally driven, empathetic women who have been and will always
be women, when they enter into a man's space,
they're not demanding anything,
because again, they're the same women they always have been.
And it shows the differences that we possess
within our characteristics almost innately.
Without a doubt.
And it's such an important point to point out
because this is the problem that a lot of feminists
are having, where these biological males
are calling themselves women and entering into these women's spaces, This is the problem that a lot of feminists are having, where these biological males are
calling themselves women and entering into these women's spaces, then dominating the
way men dominate things and behaving the way men behave.
And unfortunately, a lot of it is supported by a lot of these older liberal women, which
is really strange.
They can't see, like, this is you. This is really strange. We um, it's like they they can't see like this is you this is your group
I am for being virtuous for the sake of like
Signaling to the tribe that you're willing to be a fucking loon and buy into this where it makes no sense whatsoever
It's it's a it's a tribal thing. It's a cult thing. I testified before Congress last month or whenever it was about the importance of, or
I guess really urging the Biden administration to halt what their illegal administrative
rewrite of Title IX.
I've testified before Congress in the Senate many times and so, which it's unfathomable
to me that a 23-year-old, recent college graduate, college swimmer at that, has to
go to DC to sit in front of our members of Congress, again, the beating heart of the
American Republic, and explain to them that men and women are different.
And then to be on the other side of that table and watch as they have these super confused
looks on their faces.
And so I'm there testifying one of the Democrat witnesses.
I forget her name, but she was the president of the National Women's Law Center.
In her testimony, she says that women should just learn how to lose more gracefully.
I'm like, did you really just say that?
And you're the president of the National Women's Law Center.
What a disgrace you are.
What a crazy thing and it was it was hilarious because
Representative Lee a Democrat from Pennsylvania. She was the ranking member is supposed to be I believe Katie Porter who didn't show up
But anyways ranking member Lee
She starts reading her opening monologue
The first words that come out of her mouth and she says I can't believe that I'm forced to sit here and listen to this transphobic bigotry
And really I felt so sad when I heard that because again a sitting member of Congress and she resorts to name-calling
Not dissuading from my side with facts or logic or reasoning or common sense or science
What happened to follow the science, right? Name calling, and so it's my turn to read my testimony,
and I read it, I finish it, and I didn't even mean
to say this, but it just kind of came out of my mouth,
and I looked at her and I said,
Representative Lee, if my opening testimony
makes me transphobic, then understand,
by your own logic, your opening
monologue makes you a misogynist, which as you can imagine, sent the hearing into
a tailspin. I don't think she has ever actually heard this word misogynist
accurately used in a sentence because about 60 seconds later after her staff
ran over to her and showed her the definition, about 60 seconds later after her staff ran over to her and showed her the definition,
about 60 seconds later she raises her hand and she says,
I want her words removed from the record.
On the grounds of engaging in personalities is what she said,
which Marjorie Taylor Greene was in that hearing.
And so she buzzes in and she says, I would call a man posing as a woman,
someone who's engaging in personalities.
And then it's like, then it's really like, I'm like, oh gosh, what have I done? Um,
No, it's a Jerry Springer show.
Totally.
I'm like, oh gosh, people are about to start jumping over like tables.
But anyways, let it be known, congressional record still stands, there was no grounds
to remove my words.
She is in fact still listed as a misogynist.
Her Wikipedia page even says it because someone sent it to me the other day, which I think
is hilarious.
But anyways, all that to show, um show they hate when their own intersectional language is used
against them.
And my thinking behind that, right?
Like, if being pro-woman, because that's my stance, it's pro-reality, pro-fairness,
pro-truth, pro-comonsense, pro-woman.
If being pro-woman is seen as anti-trans, then wouldn't being pro-trans inherently be anti-woman?
And what do we call someone who's anti-woman?
I'm a misogynist.
We call them a misogynist.
Yeah.
It's just, it's so strange that the language has been twisted so far that just saying what
you were saying about protecting women's sports, this person, their first response
is to call it bigoted transphobia.
It's so strange, like if you don't agree with me, you're Hitler.
It's that far off.
It is.
It is.
The names I've been called write everything under the sun, transphobic, homophobic, racist,
white supremacist, domestic terrorist, a fascist, the list goes on. Which,
again, it makes those words lose their meaning. Like being a racist is a terrible thing, but
you're going to call me a racist for saying that women deserve equal opportunities. Not
really sure how that equates, and when you say that, the word racist loses its meaning.
Yeah, it's just people playing a game. It's whack-a-mole.
They're just, they just find a target and they think they can go after it and they throw
all their stupid words at it.
And there's a giant percentage of this country that's mentally ill and also unstable in the
sense of how they view the future.
They see what's going on in Gaza, they see what's going on in Ukraine, they see President
Biden getting tripped by ghosts and they're like, what the fuck are we doing?
Like, what is this?
And they're all terrified.
And they're engaged in all this online nonsense all day long arguing with people and they
think they're activists and they're blocking the highway for climate change.
They're just like a giant swath of our populations out of their fucking minds.
And I don't fault them. You're being
raised through this coddling university system. You're being introduced as a young, influential
person to these preposterous Marxist ideas that have never worked anywhere, that I always
equate with rabies. Because like rabies kill like 99% of the people. Imagine being someone
who's like, yeah, but it's just like no one's figured out how to do rabies right like
rabies right communism is it's really it's ruined every single fucking country it's ever
Been implemented in and we're like yeah, but we got to do it right, but we can do it
It's the dumbest fucking idea of all time, but young people are easily suggestible or easily influenced
They don't they don't have life experiences
They don't have a especially if you've never engaged in anything good, truly difficult.
One thing I noticed about like high level athletes in particular is that there's no
room for bullshit. There's no room for bullshit. If you're in the pool six hours a day, there's
no room for bullshit. There's no room for your fake talk and nonsense and this is what it is and if I don't appreciate it for what it is
Then I'm losing time then I'm then I'm fucked and I'm behind like it's like there's a level of discipline
That's involved and it's one of the reasons why high-level athletes make great leaders
Because they have the ability to discern what's real and what's not real because they've had to deal with it with themselves
to discern what's real and what's not real because they've had to deal with it with themselves.
Whereas a lot of people just don't.
And so they just find other people online
that can affirm their feelings.
And then I developed a new neo-pronoun.
And they're like, oh, you're amazing.
It's like, they get fucking cat ears
and they're on Twitch all day.
We're like, this is the future.
But it's true.
This is our future.
It is.
And I find that to be very true.
There's, I think, an Ernst & Young study that
showed, I think, 94% of female executives, so C-level executives, so like a CEO, CMO, whatever.
94% of those women were female athletes, which is to your point, like it's because they understand
leadership. They understand having a sense of self that's bigger than yourself. Like it's because they understand leadership. They understand having a sense of self
that's bigger than yourself.
Like, it's these people who haven't played sports
or really haven't been involved in anything
other than like their weird activism.
Like, they don't understand what being on a team
and working together towards a goal,
a tangible, real goal is like. And that's why they're
all selfish and narcissistic and entitled and little babies.
Well, it's a much more difficult path. And most people aren't going to be willing to
do it. They're not going to have the willpower. They're not going to have the discipline.
And they're not going to continue, especially when you think about like your athletic career
and how many accomplishments you achieved and then kept going and kept going and kept
going. It's a very different mindset, but it's a mindset that if you can acquire
at a young age and it does come with sacrifice and it comes with you're gonna
miss a lot of stuff, if you can acquire that it will be a superpower for the
rest of your life. And there's people that appreciate that and there's
people that don't understand that they're malnourished. They don't understand
they're malnourished emotionally, physically, psychologically. They're
malnourished. They haven't experienced enough truly difficult things like where
they've had to power through and develop confidence and understand themselves to
the point where they don't even know what that means. So they're just out there
screaming out the window. The lady with the beanie on the street
That fucking meme comes up so often I love that lady like it every time I bet she's a Republican now
I bet she she got red-pilled. She's been red-pilled. Yeah, she's probably started watching some YouTube clips go
Hey, wait a minute Jordan Peterson makes some really good. Yeah, honestly
No, it's all true. It's um
Crazy world crazy times. Yeah, but here we are
Yeah, at least we can talk about it
And I think there's more people that are listening now than ever before because there's outlets where you can actually have these conversations
Instead of being trapped on some fucking MSNBC bubble. It's real now. Yeah, it's real now. It's reality now.
It's not just people saying things that sound, you know, like we were mentioning, like,
I never want to sound like some big conspiracist or doomsday person who's, like, preparing
for the end of the world, right?
Like, but, but, but it's like the stuff that maybe, like we've said five years ago, 10
years ago, like, we thought, thought oh that will never happen right?
We've arrived. Yeah, we've arrived. We're here and I went off. I went off the train. I went off the roller coaster
But it's not that easy and people are realizing that like I said, so I think
Do time it's hard to experience something and not be aware that this is very unusual.
And it's just normal life for us.
It's like, God, life is so crazy.
But yeah, but if you could look at this from an overhead perspective, if you had like a
graph and showing what's happening in the world from 2004 to 2024, you'd be like, whoa.
And I honestly think about that with myself.
I was one of those people.
Again, always been Christian, always
have aligned with conservative values.
But I had my head down.
I was focused on my success, more importantly,
my team success.
I was focused on my career.
I was focused on my personal relationships,
getting married at a young age in college.
Like, I was focused on not the cultural stuff going around the world.
So I think to myself, like, it is so unfortunate that I had to be directly impacted before
I cared.
But I did.
Like I honestly did.
And if all of us have that same mindset that unfortunately I had, like, it's too late.
We're screwed, quite frankly.
That's why it's crucial that you find your voice, you speak up about stuff, you call
out an injustice when you see it, you hold their feet to the fire before you're directly
impacted.
Because again, if we all wait just like I did, and I wonder to myself, like, obviously this is not the
path I would be on if I hadn't spoken up about it at the time, but like, would I, I shouldn't
say would I care.
I think I would always care, but like, would I take action to do something about it if
it hadn't impacted me?
Probably not.
Like, being real here, like I know myself,. I know Again, I always would have seen that as wrong and something that's harmful to society for sure
But not enough harm being done that I would feel compelled to speak about it
But it took me being impacted
so if it can be of encouragement to anyone else and why it's crucial that we do find our voices and we we
to anyone else and why it's crucial that we do find our voices and we do act boldly and courageously, which I hate to say, it even requires courage to say the things that you
and I say, like, that shouldn't be courageous, that shouldn't be brave.
No, you know who's brave?
What about those three soldiers who were just transferred back from Jordan a couple weeks
ago?
Or our law enforcement officers, our first responders, or our veterans, or our active duty officers, like those people
are brave, not me for saying there are two sexes, you can't change your sex, and each
sex is deserving of equal opportunity, privacy, and safety.
But it is, I understand that it does require a sense of courage.
So if that can be of encouragement.
I agree with everything you said about soldiers, first responders, but you're being very brave
as well.
It's like there's a real social pushback that's very difficult for a lot of people to handle.
And in a time where people are so concerned with mental health, why are you not concerned
with the mental health of people that you attack?
Because you're not.
Because you treat them as non-humans.
And you're allowed to be...
And right, they do it under the guise of tolerance and acceptance.
Yeah, it's nonsense.
But that is not what I see.
It's nonsense.
And it's a trap.
It's a trap for them too.
You're not supposed to be behaving like that.
You should be embarrassed yourself if this is the way you engage with ideas.
If your ideas were strong enough to stand on their own,
they should be debated with a bunch of people
that are rational and level headed
and can talk about the pros and cons
of each one of those things.
If they did that, this trans thing
would have never gotten into women's sports,
not a single fucking time.
All the data, every single piece of data,
shows that men have an advantage.
They have an advantage in like spatial geometry. They have an advantage in lung size, heart size. They have an advantage in like spatial geometry.
They have an advantage in lung size, heart size. They have an advantage in the shape
of the hips. They have an advantage pretty much across the board in bone density except
some populations of African American women. But then some men, you know, like weight lifters
are different. Like there's a bunch of variabilities, but reaction times way faster. There's a bunch
of things. And there's also the male mind, like the hunter-gatherer faster. There's a bunch of things and there's also the male mind like the hunter-gatherer mind that's a real thing.
Right. There's something to that and it's why men win at chess. It doesn't make any
fucking sense. Right. Like why aren't women better at chess? Why do men
win at pool? What is it about like the high-level competitors in a
bunch of these different things that don't seem to require physical strength
where men still win?
Because there's some creepy advantage that men have.
And I get pushed back for this all the time,
especially on the chess thing.
Like I say, if it's a women's chess tournament,
men shouldn't play and people will come for me
to the trans rights activists and they'll say,
oh my gosh, you're saying that women
are stupider than men.
And I'm like, hold on, first of all,
it's not what I'm saying.
Second of all, I don't care if it's chess,
I don't care if it's poker, I don't care what it is.
Again, if it's for women, it's for women bottom line.
Right.
So yeah.
If it's a woman's tea party.
It's for women.
It's for women, yeah. It's like they just want a place where they get, and have no men.
Yeah. That should be okay. Yeah. It should be okay if men want to have a men's only
cigar bar. Totally. That should be okay. Yeah. And that's your business. It's a good point.
It goes both ways. Like we talk a lot about the perspective from women's privacy and
safety and different things being threatened,
but men are just as deserving as single sex spaces.
But here's the difference.
Men don't feel physically threatened if a trans man is in the locker room with me.
No.
If a trans man's in the locker room with me, I'm like, what's up, dude?
I don't care.
Right.
I'm not nervous, you're gonna rape me.
Right.
I'm not nervous that you could see my dick.
This is normal stuff
Right, but if a woman is in a locker room with a fully intact man who's six foot four is walking around pretending
He's a woman that's madness now. You're like oh my god like the no rules apply. It's like what what happened to perverts
They're still there. Yeah, they're still there. But now they're amazing. But now they're beautiful.
It's just a weird fucking thing that everyone's accepted and that to push back on it like
this is seen as so problematic.
Controversial.
It's so transphobic and so, it's just so confusing.
But I think it's shifting the other way.
I really do.
Because I see it with young kids today.
I see it with like high school kids. I see it with
Most people that I interact with on a daily basis are happy that someone is saying something about this
Instead of just what they see in the New York Times and what they see in all the mainstream
Which if you had to like make a list of all mainstream media whether it is
newspapers magazines to make a list of all mainstream media, whether it is newspapers, magazines, television channels, what's the ratio of liberal to conservative?
Is it like 10 to 1?
8 to 1?
What is it?
I mean, probably about, right?
Especially if you're looking at a lot of the local outlets, local papers, right? Like, there's a ton more liberal outlets.
I think from, you know, mainstream media, like we have CNN and we have Fox.
But in terms of who controls the media, definitely.
It's, I mean, probably 10 to 1, I don't know.
If I wanted to destroy the country, and I was some evil person from another planet or wherever
And I had my tin foil and I was looking in this like I would say well
This is a good way to do it like just control all the media and have all the media say all these things like life-saving
Saving gender-affirming care say those statements a lot and you know trans rights and this administration is committed to trans rights
Oh trans rights. That's important. Yeah, and like everybody everybody else is a Nazi, so you gotta be on board with this.
I wanna know, you know, I hear all the time, trans rights are human rights.
Literally what right do you or I possess that a trans person or someone who identifies as trans
doesn't possess? That's a good point. They, I've never heard. They have extra ones. Exactly.
But honestly, it's so true. Like the whole idea of all the DEI affirmative action stuff,
like we are living in a time the most diverse and inclusive
as a nation we have ever been, yet people are still acting
like this is the most oppressed they've ever been.
What shows you truly like these people aren't
happy with themselves. Like if you have to demand what someone else calls you to feel
affirmed, you're clearly not secure enough with yourself. And I'm not going to affirm
that. If you don't even know what you are, you expect me to know what you are? No way.
You don't even know what you are, you expect me to know what you are? No way. You don't even know what you are. Well, it's a compliance thing, but it's like, look, there's always going to be people taking
advantage of any sort of discourse, any sort of like open subject of discussion that's
hot on everybody's mind, which is whether it's race or any, when it's race, you're always gonna have race hustlers.
You're always gonna have these Al Sharpton type characters.
It's slide on in and they act as a spokesperson
and there's always going to be business behind that.
Like Jesse Jackson had like a whole business behind that.
Of course.
And you're always gonna have these folks.
They're always gonna have these folks that, maybe provide some good, but also make a
lot of money. And they're at the forefront of all these things.
And you're going to have that with trans rights. You're going to have that with
gay rights. You're going to have that with everything. You're always going to have some
people that capitalize on something and they interject themselves into it and
they use it to like stir people up. And they always call people either racist or transphobic or homophobic.
And they use all those pejoratives.
You're always going to have those people.
But we have to learn how to ignore those morons.
We have to learn how to just recognize that person.
And honestly, like what I've realized, because again, like,
initially taking that first step, it was hard for me to read a lot of the things that were written.
Again, a very natural woman, I think, thing.
I think a pretty human thing.
I don't want to ruffle feathers.
I don't want to step on toes.
I don't want to be disrespectful.
So it's hard for me to read a lot of what was being said about me online.
But I realized pretty quickly, honestly,
that the hate and the attacks that I were getting
were kind of, they kind of fell into three categories,
one of three.
One, it was calling me some sort of phobia or racism.
And like I said, those words lost their meaning
pretty quickly to me.
Two, it was some sort of personal attack,
like you're ugly or like your hair extensions look bad.
And I'm like, this is my real hair.
Thank you, question mark.
Or something to the effect of maybe you should have just
trained harder, which is development, right?
That someone eating Cheetos.
Exactly.
And once you realize, once you realize there's no substance
to anything these people are saying, really.
And understanding the profiles, because again, all of this is pretty much done through social
media.
I will tell you, other than protesters I've had at campuses or events or something, I
have never once had someone in my day-to-day life come up to me and say something negative,
but I've had thousands say something positive.
So again, most of this is done through social media.
What I've noticed about the profiles it's coming from, they don't have a profile picture
a lot of time.
They're scared to put their own face and name to it.
Two, they are someone who you can tell has never played a sport in their entire life
and who has no grasp of the importance of playing
sports and honestly the importance of winning and succeeding in your sport.
And how hard that is to do.
And how hard it is to do.
Exactly.
Once you, once I realized this conglomerate of things, I thought to myself, gosh, this
speaks a whole lot more to their own insecurities than it does my own. And now I have no problem reading these comments. And most of the time
I don't read them.
You're reading the comments of people that you would never communicate with in real life.
And also, a bunch of those burner accounts, they're probably not even American.
No.
It's probably a lot of troll farms are attached to it because it's a socially viable issue. And understanding like social media is so not representative of reality of real life.
So where you get these influx of negative comments, that's not representative of any
normal population, even in like your most liberal states.
Like this issue consistently polls at 75 plus percent of Americans disagree.
Even in San Francisco?
Ooh, I don't know about San Francisco.
San Francisco, maybe 75 the other way.
Yeah, honestly.
Everyone should be trans.
Yeah, right.
You know what I'm hoping?
I'm really genuinely hoping.
This is the cure for all this.
If genetic engineering reaches a point where someone actually can become a woman.
Okay, but what's the qualifications for that?
What would you say?
What would you say a man who fully became a woman, what would that what's the qualifications for that? What would you say? What would you say a
man who fully became a woman, what would that mean? Like a uterus? Everything. Well,
what is it? Is it like a uterus implant? Like, no, like we switched it all up. So,
you put them in a box, hit the button, you You come out Matilda
I'll wait for that woman But that's the only way it's ever gonna really work because this idea of like surgery
I don't know you're doing is art. You're doing art on a person's body
Wouldn't that be a machine that did that too? No, no, no, it's cellular. It's molecular. Oh
Okay, so you're talking about changing like chromosomes. Yeah
Well in the future
They're going to be able to do something probably pretty similar to that. They're already
Developing ways to edit genes. They're in China. These guys got arrested because they made these kids smarter. They literally
Had it that you said they were just doing it to prevent HIV. I go. Oh, we made them smarter. Whoops. Whoops. accidental. Sorry.
And this is all just, by the way, what we know about.
I'm sure there's some top secret stuff that they've tried on human beings.
There's no way they haven't. They, they, in the HIV era, they, um, in the AIDS epidemic,
they experimented on foster kids. They experimented with vaccines on foster kids and killed some of them.
It's documented. You could, you could read all about it. The idea that they wouldn't clone people, shut the fuck up. Come on. kids and killed some of them. It's documented. You could you could read all about it.
The idea that they wouldn't clone people, shut the fuck up. They will do whatever they want.
Whatever they want, whatever they, especially in China, someone they can get away with it.
So they're going to get to a point where they understand how to create a human being.
And they'll probably they'll probably say, listen, you, Riley, you know,
as you get older, wouldn't it be nice to take your 80 year old brain, brain, stick it in 20-year-old Riley's body, let's go!
I'd like that.
It would be dope, right?
And then people are going to go, well, you know it's really effective.
My aunt did it, and she's incredible now.
And you're an 80-year-old person with a 20-year-old body.
And eventually, they'll just be going to be able to turn you into whatever they want.
It's going to be very bizarre.
They're going to be able to change your height, change your intellect,
change if they find certain things that would lead you to maybe have tuberculosis, they'll
delete that, change this and edit that. Yeah, we're gonna be editing human beings.
What sounds crazy, but this what we're living through would have sounded crazy.
This is crazy. I mean, you and I could FaceTime. I could be in Hawaii and you could be on Mount
Everest and if there's surface up there, you could FaceTime. I could be in Hawaii and you could be on Mount Everest and if there's surface up there, you could FaceTime.
You could just talk to someone on the other side
of the planet instantaneously.
It's bananas.
And we just take it for granted.
We take for granted that we all have like,
we could make a movie with this stupid little thing
that sits in our pocket.
Crazy.
And we have access to any answer to any question
we can have as long as Google approves it.
As long as Google approves it.
You know one of the things that Google didn't approve?
Tell me.
That story about the trans woman who through Canadian services, so this is paid for by the
Canadian government, decides that they want a breast feed and breast feeds and develops
milk through these medication and breast feeds their nine month old baby. I tried Googling this, I couldn't find it.
I go page after page after page,
I go straight to duck duck go, bam, it's the second article.
I'm like they're hiding this, they're hiding this story
that is relevant.
No.
Maybe it's me.
Maybe it's something with my Google algorithm. No, but it's true.
No, but this is February 2018.
This is a new one.
The new one is a 50-year-old man who, there's something creepy about him.
This is a new one, Jamie.
This isn't the one.
See, this is why I couldn't find it.
Go to DuckDuckGo.
Is it right there?
Is it right there?
Oh, that's right.
They're HIV positive.
That's right.
This is an HIV positive man, but two, by the way, whose breastfeeding is baby.
Super cool.
Super.
Super cool.
Okay.
So you can find it.
I couldn't fucking find it, Jamie.
Maybe they changed after we complained about it, because I complained about it more than
once. But I found it on DuckDuckGo, like that.
Oh my gosh.
Like that. But the story is insane. And if you have a hard time, and Google does, they
curate, they curate searches. It's a fact.
Of course.
And Robert Epstein, who's a guy who's sort of documented how this affects elections, says
this is essentially election manipulation and to point where it like
Statistically you can prove that due to search engine results
You can move a candidate one way or the other that it's possible
Because if you can only if you of course right if you Google Donald Trump and you only find the most horrendous course negative things
Donald Trump's success and then you find corruption and scandal and greed that's all you can find the most horrendous negative things. Donald Trump's success and then
you find corruption and scandal and greed. That's all you can find. And it takes forever and ever.
Right. But if you say Joe Biden and you talk about the accomplishments, the up in the economy,
the three years, everything's going great. Look at the inclusiveness. Look at how many
lesbians are in the office. And when you do that, if that all you find of course a certain percentage of low information voters
Are gonna go to that and it's enough to move the needle by like 10% 13%
Probably more than honestly with how how much people rely on social media?
Yeah, honestly and when you saw what Google did with their fucking wacky AI where their wacky AI would not show white men
I don't even I I can't even.
It's so crazy, the founding fathers.
Do they realize they're creating,
like when they do stuff like that,
they create more of a divide.
Again, under the guise of unity.
I don't think they realized how nutty
they had programmed that.
Or again, maybe they want the divide.
I don't think they realized how nutty
they had programmed it,
nor do I think even though they're in the internet,
I think they're in the internet in this very leftist,
liberal bubble.
And I don't think they truly comprehend like 4chan.
And truly comprehend all the people
that are going to be very suspicious of Google's AI
and ask it trick questions.
I want to know what Google's AI says about you.
Oh, god.
It can't be good.
That's actually a good thing,. It's can't be good Good thing probably good, but I mean, you know
Fortunately if I've achieved escape I've achieved escape velocity. Yeah, it's like it's big enough for like people actually know
Whoever yeah, you can talk all the shit you want a good point
Yeah, but that's what it is
It's like but it takes a while to get there and they'll try to stop you every step of the way and
If you do achieve escape velocity, then they kind of shut up about you because then
they realize every time they talk about you, it actually makes you bigger.
It helps you, which is this whole stuff with Donald Trump.
Like everything that's going on with taking him off the ballots and, I mean, all the different
attacks they've had on him, trying to indict him and arrest him and blah, blah, blah.
It's significantly helping him.
Again, are they that stupid where they don't realize it?
Or like, are we being naive?
Is this something they're going for?
Like, I just, it's hard to, it's hard to grasp.
It's hard to fathom.
Well, it's people in a spiral and it's like, you know,
people that are really emotional,
they don't realize that what they're doing
is actually hurting it, you know? they're screaming out a car window.
It's a fuck you, no fuck you, like you're not getting anything done.
You're not getting anything done here.
But they're just caught up in it and they just want him to lose and they had hope.
They saw that he was being removed from ballots like yes justice has served.
It's all those Biden super fans the New York Times interviewed all fucking zombies warped around New York City with their little dogs, like he is the best.
They're out of their fucking minds.
No disrespect to little dogs, Carl.
I was going to say justice for Carl.
Justice for Carl.
We love Carl.
But these people are literal zombies, and there's a lot of them.
Too many. And enough people that aren't
that have to recognize that this is what you're dealing with you're dealing with
a giant percentage of the population that's literally lost its marbles so
what do we do keep talking keep talking Riley yeah because people will listen to
you something more profound because I don't think we have honestly though like it is
My numbing to a degree to have to keep saying the same thing right like
I'm sick of saying that women are different. Yeah, it blow, but it is I do I agree like
You have to understand like not everyone
Here's that so many people are deceived like it's you can't even blame them
Because they don't
Know right from wrong you can't blame them for not doing right if they don't they were never really taught right
They don't know what right is so they've probably been taught something completely different right and they've probably been taught some very skewed version of reality and
You know unfortunately probably been taught some very skewed version of reality. And unfortunately, there's no mental health test
to see if you should be raising children.
You just get to raise them.
And if you're a loon, your kids are probably
going to be loony too.
And the only thing that's going to get them out of that is-
Most of them are at least castrating themselves
or not reproducing.
I just don't know how those people get out of this.
I think for the logical sane people
There's enough of us talking that we're just going this is insane
Like what you what you're doing is you're reading leading us down this road to demise and there's no road map
no one knows what we're going and
If you're gonna change the definitions of everything and what Vivek
Wisely calls the tyranny of the oppressed.
The oppressed are forcing everyone else to comply with their desires and needs.
And he's right about that because that is what it is.
And they feel because they have that title, they're above all the tyranny of the oppressed.
Exactly. Yeah.
But if people listen to you, actually listen to you, and not just read the bullshit and the clickbait
and listen to you talk, they see a very accomplished woman
who's done amazing things in the world of athletics,
who's confronted by this very unique challenge
and you're uniquely qualified to handle it.
And so I think that's what they're gonna get out of this.
I hope so.
Because again, that's really all this is.
I just wanted to swim.
I just wanted to compete fairly.
And then, boom, that was impacted.
And here we are, just trying to make a difference when and where we can.
So, that's certainly what I hope people see me as.
You're right, getting past the headlines, anti-trans, swimmer, slams, Leah Thomas.
Like-
Well, it's all that reductionist view of a human being.
Absolutely.
That they just try to paint you in the worst possible light, the bigotry, and the transphobia.
Like, stop using those words and just talk about the reality of the facts of what we're
talking about here and you realize you don't have an argument.
No.
Your argument's based on nonsense.
Exactly.
That's what every parent needs to wake up and recognize.
That's what every person hearing this
has said.
Every person that works in the schools needs to recognize.
You're talking nonsense.
And you're likely encouraging people who are mentally ill
and maybe narcissists to dominate women's sports.
Mostly narcissists.
A lot of them.
A ton of them.
More than one. More than one. A lot of them. A ton of them. More than one.
More than one.
A ton of them.
Yeah.
And they're encouraging this and they're making this person go from being a mediocre male
swimmer to being a fucking hero.
Exactly.
And that's nonsense.
And if we want to embrace nonsense, that's the road to demise.
Because nonsense does not stop there.
If we can get away with that nonsense, it's going to go further and further and further.
Bring on the next thing.
Bring on the next thing. Minor attracted persons. And it sounds nuts if you had told
me this a long time ago, I'd have said, dude, don't bring that up. That sounds insane.
No one's really going to accept that. But when you see people openly on film who are-
This lady from Kentucky, this Democrat, representative or senator or whatever she is in Kentucky who
Was mentioning in in their state in their state legislature said something to the effect of look you know
These minor attracted
Persons
There's a lot of benefit to having child sex dolls because it can help decrease their
a lot of benefit to having child sex dolls, because it can help decrease their appeal and desires
for actually pursuing young children.
So there was a bill introduced that would do just that.
And I see this and I'm like, this lady is evil.
There's really no other word for it.
She's evil.
And then the next day she comes out after it got
national attention of what she had said
and what she was advocating for is helping, I wouldn't even say it's helping curb these
sexual predators' desires.
It's feeding into it, honestly.
Right.
Because if you've had that desire but never did it, and then you get a robot doll that's
a little boy, that's the sickest thing I've ever heard.
But she came out the next day and said, you know, I just feel like we should have room
as adults for open discussions.
There is no open discussion for pedophiles.
There is no open discussions.
I guess unless it's electric chair or life in prison, maybe we can have that discussion.
But other than that, there is no discussion
for pedophiles in this country, in this world.
I wonder if that woman has children.
Probably.
That's scary.
Isn't it?
That's scary.
And again, it's just this cult thinking,
and I don't know how it got into the education system,
and I don't know how it got into these people's mouths,
where they got so confident in saying it, that they could say it in front of cameras.
Well, it's because they're teaching it.
Even if you look at something like Scholastic, right, like they put on these big book fairs
and different things, like obviously we've seen the books that they're bringing in to
school, I mean to grades as young as kindergarten is crazy, which is why it's important to find
alternatives. Like there's an alternative for everything, whether it's skin care, okay,
don't use Dove, we just saw their Super Bowl commercial, which was, it was so funny, it was,
the protagonist was a young girl swimmer in a locker room, and the punchline of the whole
was a young girl swimmer in a locker room. And the punchline of the whole commercial
was about keeping girls in girl sports.
So I see this watching the Super Bowl,
and I'm like, oh my gosh,
this is like the first big organization
who is like standing with women
and like defending women's sports
and saying no men in women's sports.
I'm like, this is great.
So I go to their like social media profiles
because I'm like really trying to look into So I go to their like social media profiles because I'm like
really trying to look into this and see if anyone else caught onto this or if it was just me and I
was being hyper vigilant. They were hiding all the replies that had mentioned keeping men out of
women's sports. So I was like, oh my gosh, what virtue signaling fools really. So instead of using
Dove, use something like, maybe skincare. So they were hiding the replies. So instead of using Dove, use something like Neemie skincare.
They were hiding the replies.
So they made that ad, and they made that ad presumably for pro women in women's sports,
right?
Yeah, but then they were hiding-
But then their hook to it was speaking to the mental health of female athletes. But
I saw it and was like, oh, the best way to keep girls,
in girls sport, yeah, but Dove has outwardly expressed
like the last Olympics in 2020 when Laurel Hubbard,
or 2016, Laurel Hubbard, a man, power lifter from New Zealand,
they were like, we love you Laurel Hubbard,
here's our products, be an ambassador, whatever.
So they really don't, they do,
but the best way to keep girls in girl sports
is to keep boys and men out of girl sports.
So don't use stuff, use something like nemescan care,
or don't wear, don't shop at Target,
use something like Yakomaparel or Unitas,
or Scholastic, back to Scholastic, right? Don't use Scholastic.
Don't buy your books from Scholastic. Use something like Brave Books, which is a phenomenal
group and organization that produce these like pro-God, pro-country, pro-America, pro-family,
wholesome books that aren't political, they're not partisan. But again, virtuous and I think
what kids need to read. So I think there's alternatives for virtuous and I think what kids need to read.
So I think there's alternatives for everything and I think that's how we make a difference
ultimately because like we've said, this movement really is driven by dollar signs and by money.
And so while of course not everyone can give financially, what everyone can do is stop giving
your money to organizations and companies that hate you.
I think people woke up to that with Bud Light.
Definitely.
That's a real factor.
And it works.
It worked.
And then they also woke up to it with Google after Google's AI.
Their stock crashed hard.
People are like, what the fuck are you doing?
Because it was so nutty.
How could anybody invest in this?
Let's get out of this now.
Right.
And how much did Google lose from that?
It's something like nine billion dollars.
Crazy.
And that's you got lucky there.
Yeah.
Nobody trusts you ever again.
No.
If I was thinking about using a Google phone I see that I'm like what the fuck out of here.
What you've done is most importantly you become like a logical face of all this and a reasonable
face of all this and a person who can handle it
And you're really good at like confronting people that that oppose it and it's a it's an interesting thing to watch you navigate
It but you're doing it really well. Well, it's um, it's worth it
It's worth it and it's necessary. So bring it on
Bring it on bring on the the men in dresses. I'm ready for him There's a lot of things that scare me, but a man in a dress will never be one of them.
Okay. Well, listen Riley, I really enjoyed talking to you. I appreciate what you're doing and again, your courage. I know you don't like to think about it that way, but it is courageous.
It's important. It's important for people to see the real you.
Well, thank you.
I hope we did that.
Definitely.
I've got a book that has just dropped.
It is being released in May.
But believe it or not, of course, this
is the short to kind of, I guess, the how and the why.
Like the how I got here, the why I got here.
It's called Swimming Against the Current, Fighting
for Common Sense in a World that's lost its mind.
Also have a podcast of my own with Outkick
called Gains for Girls,
which has been super fun to be on the other side of things.
But really, I couldn't appreciate you more
giving the opportunity on a very large scale
and really important for me too,
like it's not just preaching to the choir.
A lot of the rooms I find myself in,
it's talking to people who agree with me, which is great.
Like, but that's not who we need to reach.
That's not who we need to persuade
because again, they already agree.
So I could not be more grateful for the opportunity
to reach some people who aren't Fox News watchers.
Pretty incredible, so very grateful.
My pleasure.
Thank you very much.
Yes, thank you.
Bye everybody.