The Michael Knowles Show - YES or NO: Riley Gaines

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

Athlete, activist, and outspoken women's rights activist Riley Gaines steps into the hot seat for Michael Knowles’ hit internet game show: YES or NO. No filibusters. No spin. Just stiff drinks, s...traight answers, and uncomfortable questions. From sports fairness and woke policies to the battles she’s fought on college campuses, Michael and Riley pull no punches as they tackle rapid-fire questions with nowhere to hide.  - - - Today’s Sponsor: Balance of Nature - Start learning today. Go to https://hillsdale.edu/knowles to sign up for over 40 free online courses - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:18 This is the clip. This is it. I would kick an orphan in the head. Mediaite headline Riley Gaines would kick orphan in the head for money. Welcome to yes or no. The Bibulous Battle to Discliffe. discover who knows whom better. My guest today is Riley Gaines.
Starting point is 00:00:47 How do we play? I will ask Riley a yes or no question. She will select her answer away from my prying eyes. Then I will guess how she answered. If I guess correctly, I get a point. If I guess incorrectly, I lose a point. No matter what, I will probably end up drinking. Then it's Riley's turn.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand. Whoever has the most points at the end wins, the stakes could be higher. Let's get started. Riley, good to see you. Good to see you. Now, I'm excited. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:01:16 You have a glass of water. I do. I know. So already you're at an advantage, because I have a martini. Could be a disadvantage, depending how you look at it. Depending how you look at it. Why the?
Starting point is 00:01:28 Exciting news. I am rounding out my pregnancy. Pregnant with a little girl, super duper excited. I'm due in September, which is crazy. I knew that, by the way. I knew. That was a setup, like in show. show business where I, but the thing I didn't know, Riley, is that you're like seven months pregnant,
Starting point is 00:01:47 whatever it is. Yeah. You look, this is not flattery, you look like you're two weeks pregnant. That's very sweet. Is this what happens when you're an athlete? You know, I really do think there's truth to that. Being fit prior to pregnancy, prior to conception, it has made my entire pregnancy feel like a breeze, no fatigue, no tired, no aversions, no anything.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Like, I have felt the exact same as I did pre-pregnancy. So hopefully it means something for postpartum, too, and we can bounce back quick and get back into my genes because they certainly don't fit anymore. It must be only slightly tight. Well, if you're all good with no aversions and no tiredness or whatever, then you should have a drink. I think the kid would appreciate it. I think she wants one, right? As long as you, I find with pregnancy, I'm not a medical doctor, but I am an honorary doctor. And I find that as long as you balance out the booze in pregnancy with a few cigarettes to get,
Starting point is 00:02:41 get an upper, you're totally good. The kid will thank you for it. That's, I mean, if people in the 1500 survived like the bubonic plague. Yeah. I mean, what's, what's a little, what's a little alcohol going to do? I know. I drink a lot during my wife's pregnancy. Yeah. I balance things out. My husband says it all the time. He's like, so what are we craving today? What's our cravings? Now, do you know the rules? I know the rules. Good. I don't. I don't know them. And if I, well, if neither of us do, we can make them up. Yeah, I like that. Even more fun. I like that. I like that. You're a lady. So you go first. You take the prompt. So I'm going. So I'm going to ask you this. Yes. And I'm going to guess how, I'm going to guess what you think.
Starting point is 00:03:16 If you would put yes or no. Correct. Okay. I, Riley Gaines, would be willing to rematch Leah Thomas in a charity 200 yard freestyle, but it likely won't happen because Leah no longer has the balls to do it. Say the first part of the prompt you can? I, Riley Gaines, would be willing to rematch Leah Thomas in a charity 200 yard freestyle, eight laps, but it likely won't happen because Leah no longer has the balls to do it. I got it wrong. What do you mean? I got it wrong. Well, uh, how do you know you got it wrong? Because he told me in my ear.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Ah. This is, a billion dollars? Wait, so I was correct? I was correct. Oh, good. What did you put? Hold on. Ben, please speak English to me. Am I correct or incorrect?
Starting point is 00:04:09 Suspense. Oh, she got it incorrect. How did I get it incorrect? That's great. Because you're guessing how you go. You're guessing how you would answer. And now here's why you got, you were wrong about what I think you would do. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Okay. So you put no. I put no. Because. I thought you would say yes. We're talking a billion dollars. Yeah, but listen, it's not about the money. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:34 You know, I guess everyone has a price. Well, if it's a charity. It's the principle of it. Okay, okay. It's wrong to race against this guy. But I think I could beat him. Because he got the snip. He got the snip.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Even being seven months pregnant now and very much out of shape. I think I'm supposed to drink. You're not supposed to drink, but you're just doing it for fun. Oh, I'm doing solidarity. Yeah. Even being seven months pregnant now, my fitness has, I think, remained. I think, of course, I've lost, like, muscle mass and- But you're still running.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Naturally. Still running, swimming Alcatraz next week. Like, I still very much am into my fitness. I think I could totally take them. and if I had a billion dollars to give to the charity of my choosing, I would need to think about what that charity would be. It would be totally like a slap in the face to him. It would go to like the most pro-pro-truth,
Starting point is 00:05:31 pro-reality, pro-science, pro-woman charity out there. So then it's a billion dollars to a good cause. That was my logic. Because I truthfully think I could take him. But now. Which goes against my entire argument, by the way. He's at his shape and you're in shape. That's why you could take him now.
Starting point is 00:05:46 That's what we're saying. But it's still wrong. In general, women should not be expected to compete against the men. But you're saying you could take him for all sorts of reasons, including the SNAP. Of course. But I guess my argument is there are plenty of things you wouldn't do for no amount of money. But it's not personal gain. It's for a greater cause.
Starting point is 00:06:01 I'm saying, let's say someone said, I'll give you a billion dollars to the charity of your choice if you kick an orphan in the head. Would you do it? Billion dollars. I'm sorry, let me change it. $10 billion if you just kick an orphan. Not that hard. No, an orphan wouldn't die. We'd just have a bruise. A bruise for $10 billion for a greater good. That's where we're at. Some little utilitarian by my... I think I would kick an orphan in the head to...
Starting point is 00:06:26 But think of the orphans, let's say it goes back to a... You would kick an orphan in a head? This is the clip. Riley Gaines... I would kick an orphan in the head. Mediaite headline Riley Gaines would kick orphan in the head. For money. For $10 billion, I would kick an orphan in the head. Great, wow. That's the clip. This is why she's such a killer athlete.
Starting point is 00:06:46 The clip. Total killer. Yeah, no, just totally honed in. Psycho. Okay, all right. Well, I would rematch him. And I think there's other men, too. Like, people like Keith Oberman.
Starting point is 00:06:55 This is a guy who, like, constantly is, like, on X coming after me. He has, like, a super weird, unhealthy, like, obsession with me. Even Grock admitted it. We were talking about Grock prior to filming and how Grock is, is, uh, actually, I think, super woke and whatever. But also, as of the time of this filming, Grock endorsed Hitler last night. So, I don't know if you caught that one.
Starting point is 00:07:22 He's the Glock and Fuhrer now. So on the very far left, on the one hand, very, a little bit far right on the other. Is being pro-Hitler far right anymore, though? I don't even know. It might be a horseshoe thing. It's a little, it's a confusing ideology. Yeah, I can't keep up.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Yeah. Anyways, I would challenge Keith Olberman, too. Okay. I think I've made this public. I would challenge him to a charity race and I would beat him. Yes. And then I would have money to a charity of my choosing. Would you kick him in the head? Happily for free. I would pay him to kick him at the head.
Starting point is 00:07:53 That's fair. This is not promoting violence. Now, I am guessing how you would answer. Deportations should not stop with Satan worshiping gang members. They should also include the illegal abuela selling empanadas. For sure. For sure. Obviously, it has to. Definitely. There's like 16 million illegal.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Definitely. There aren't that many with face tattoos. I think I have given the fact that I'm married to an immigrant, of course a legal immigrant. Was he Trend Deiragua or MS-13? MS-13. It was really hard getting him here. Trump really pulled through. We're so glad that he was president.
Starting point is 00:08:33 He issued him his green card. It's good to have friends in high places. Totally. But no, really, it is Trump that made it easier for my immigrant husband to be here. We've been married over three years, and of course, with the previous administration, got married in 2022, applied for a green card, but Biden would not give my husband a green card because he wasn't willing to get the COVID shot. So when Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president gave it 24 hours before I pick up the phone and I say, hey, granted, my husband was here legally the entire time, of course.
Starting point is 00:09:12 I say, hey, did you know about this mandate, this rule that I would deem illegal? He says, no, give me two hours. And within two hours, he had vacated nationwide the mandate requiring legal immigrants to get the COVID vaccine. So all that to say, my husband now has a green card. But knowing that process, what it's like, of course, the struggles with it, but also how it can be done correctly, of course, how it should be done correctly. I don't really have a ton of sympathy for those who don't do it the right way.
Starting point is 00:09:46 No, no, of course. Yeah. Yeah, like, I mean, I feel a little bad. Only in that the Democrats, Biden in particular, said, hey, come here. Of course. And then you have these, you know, Ecuadoran peasants who come over here and they think it's going to be fine. And then we say, no, actually, we have laws, you know, and you can't just, you can't just do that. So I feel a little bit bad, but I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Yeah, that's. Adios. That's how I. I feel too. And it's an ongoing debate at the national level with the whole amnesty thing and everything going on there. So we shall see. A lot of entrenched interests. One, they say they don't want amnesty for everyone, just like their people. Yeah. You know, it's never, you want to deport everyone except your gardener or whatever. Okay. That's how it goes. You're up. Clear my card. Okay. Ooh, this is a video or photo prompt. I don't really know what that means. I hope it means
Starting point is 00:10:40 there's a video or photo. I would infer that that's a... Epstein's cell video clip from Megan Kelly's Monday show. So we watch this? Yes. Okay. Okay. Oh, I saw this.
Starting point is 00:10:54 1158, 55, 8. Wow. Hmm. What's that about? Just a full minute. Hmm. And a frame change. Are you more than 50% sure?
Starting point is 00:11:10 Wait, a frame change. I don't know if I noticed that. Play it again. Play it again. That's interesting. And it would change. Look at that. Let's see. So you see it 58.
Starting point is 00:11:21 So is he in this cell 46? Isn't that kind of funny? 46? It feels like a little hidden Easter egg there. If you squint really closely, you can see Hillary Popper. See that frame change? You see that? How it zoomed out a little bit?
Starting point is 00:11:35 Interesting. Okay, okay. Are you more than 50% sure you know what happened during this missing 60 seconds? I'm guessing what you would say. Kayak gets my flight, hotel, and rental car right, so I can tune out travel advice that's just plain wrong. Bro, Skycoin, way better than points. Never fly during a Scorpio full moon.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Just tell the manager you'll sue. Instant room upgrade. Stop taking bad travel advice. Start comparing hundreds of sites with kayak and get your trip right. Kayak, got that right. Okay, but like, are you going to be serious about this? or are you going to have some funny theory? No, I'm not going to have some funny.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Well, it might be funny, but I don't, I'm going to be quite serious about this. I hate losing. Yeah. You're quite competitive. This feels stressful to me. Yeah. Did I get it right? You did.
Starting point is 00:12:37 So you said no. I said no. I'm not, I'm confident, I'm more than 50% confident of what didn't happen. Okay, so? I think what didn't happen is he was just kind of hanging out in his cell and no one. and no one came to bother him. But I don't know what happened. What logistically can happen in 60 seconds?
Starting point is 00:12:59 It's not a lot of time. It might be enough time. Yeah. And it's certainly suspicious, but 60 seconds isn't... Could you kick an orphan in 60 seconds? For $10 billion. Easily. And you could do it in 10 seconds.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Yeah. That's what I'm saying. If he were murdered, I'm not saying he was murdered, but if he were murdered, a trained hitman could easily kill Jeffrey Epstein within 60s. But in the main...
Starting point is 00:13:21 the manner that he died, but then how... It cracked his neck, basically, right? Right, but then how is he then hanging from the ceiling or wherever he was... It was from the bedpost. So, you know, whatever, you come in with the little sheet or whatever, wrap it around his neck. I bet I could do it. In 60 seconds. Yeah, yeah. Maybe for me it would take 70, but I'm not a trained killer.
Starting point is 00:13:43 No, I don't know that he was murdered. He might have killed himself. Right. And also, I don't really necessarily believe that's only one minute. Right. I think the jump cut allows it to be... It could be two hours. It's true. So it could be that he was allowed to kill himself.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Could be that he was allowed to kill himself because he was a super spy. Could be allowed to, he was allowed to kill himself because he was a total creep who had people gunning for him and he was at his wits. It could have been any of those reasons. One thing I'm pretty sure about, though, one thing I'm pretty calm is that the official story, which is he was a super rich sex freak. Right. Who was friends with the richest and most powerful people in the entire world. But those two facts had nothing to do with each other. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:14:22 It was all just, and speaking of prisons, you know, Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison right now for trafficking underage girls to nobody. Yeah. That's, yeah, that to me, I was super shocked by kind of the just dismissiveness that we saw from the administration about this issue, because not only, of course, was this something that he campaigned on and promised, it was the manner of which he responded to now. what has been proven, like the abuse and the harm and the mistreatment and the exploitation of minors or whatever it was by him and his cohort, again, it's like factual information at this point. Can I tell you, look, I was not surprised. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Little, you know, I can't even say I was disappointing because I never thought we were going to get the Epstein list or whatever. Even when the influencers went to the White House and had the binders? What did you think was in the binders? At first, I was so irritated. I said, why didn't I get the invite to them? And then after the fallout, I said, I'm kind of really glad they didn't call me about the binder day. But I actually sympathize with Trump in his, when that reporter asked him, what about the list? And he goes, enough about Epstein. I'm sick about talking about.
Starting point is 00:15:34 I want to talk about the border. I want to talk about this. I want to say, I totally sympathize. Because you know what my theory is? If the official story is not true. If the official story being. Being that Jeffrey Epstein just like coincidentally was friends with all these really rich and he was filming them. But it all had nothing to do with anything and move along with it.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Right, right. If he belonged to intelligence, as Alex Acosta reportedly said, U.S. attorney in the case when he left for Labor Secretary, you were never going to get anymore. And it kind of makes sense because governments are not radically transparent. They can't be. No institution can be, certainly not governments. Espionage requires secrecy.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Right. Statecraft broadly requires secrets. But then I guess the question is, why do you have Alina Abba going on Pierce-Morgan saying, oh, we have the files. I'm looking at them. They're on the desk. Or Pam Bondi. Exactly. Or Pam Bondi. So part of it is people got a little out ahead of their skis, I think. And maybe Trump would want to release it too. The one thing I'm confident of, I don't think Trump is heavily. I agree with that. I think that would have been released ages ago. Agree. They set the stage for the guy to be murdered, okay, and they tried to imprison it four times or whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:43 So that's not it. I think Trump is expressing a frustration that he wants to do these things. He loves transparency. He's He loves tweeting all his policies out. All caps. All caps. He's quite transparent. And I think he's probably doing the responsible thing because if just what we know turns out to be true and taken to its logical conclusion that royalty, heads of state, billionaires are all involved in this thing, if you start to just willy-nilly expose the whole thing, you would be unraveling the global order. Yeah, it's a lot of... The world order would collapse.
Starting point is 00:17:21 There would be revolutions in countries. So I'm sure, again, this is pure speculation, but I'm sure part of Trump is like, whatever, let's do it. It's prove that Prince so-and-so or Prime Minister so-and-so. But part of him, I think he is kind of doing the responsible thing, but that's going to be deeply unsatisfying to a lot of people. Me being one of them, I think it's unsatisfying. I think just again, given the way that it was campaigned on.
Starting point is 00:17:45 But I agree. I don't think he is in the files in any of that. Or maybe he was, I don't know. Like, Epstein was a member of the Mar-a-Lago Club until Trump kicked him out. So that's the Democrats say, well, they had a connection. He had a connection with any. He had a connection with Harvard University. I think it's a, trust me, if it were a serious connection,
Starting point is 00:18:06 that would have been the fifth prosecution of Trump. Right. That would, okay. Well, look, the one thing I think we can all agree on is the government would never lie or conceal anything. Never. They never have. Never. So why would they start now? When are we going to get the JFK files?
Starting point is 00:18:21 Yeah, right. I'm up. Here is a video prompt. Ooh, two in a row. You want healing in unity? This guy. We're not the greatest threat to healing in unity in American history. Get Donald Trump out of office and we don't give a good how you do it.
Starting point is 00:18:40 So this is the guy I said I would kick in the head for free. Actually, I would pay to kick him in the head. Yeah, yeah. That's actually better than most videos. Most of his clips, especially if it's like one he's just filmed on his phone to post. to X. He's standing like he literally isn't a straight jacket. Yeah. So this is a little better. As he should be. Yeah. So like many old lives, Keith Oberman should get a pass for his New York subway vagrant behavior due to the obvious side effects of multiple booster shots. Well, this is a
Starting point is 00:19:11 double callback to what we were talking about earlier. Okay. Like many old libs, I have to guess how you would answer. Like many old lives, Oberman should get a pass for his crazy vagrant behavior due to the obvious side effects of multiple booster shots. Okay. I got to clear mine. Multiple booster shots. In conjunction with TDS. I think those things go kind of hand in hand, though.
Starting point is 00:19:36 Well, you would pay to kick him in head. So you couldn't give him a pass. Yeah. I can't give him a pass. Yeah, you can't. There's not. Also, do you remember you are so young and vibrant? Me, I'm an old man.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Younger than Keith Overman, but I'm an old man. I remember as a boy when that lunatic had a show on MSNBC. And one of my closest friends in high school is a big lid, huge lid. And he loved him. So I'm in a Yankee game once. He yelled, oh, I love you, Keith. You keep me sane. I mean, I was a couple.
Starting point is 00:20:11 And this was long before the booster shots. And he was as crazy as he is today. Well, so as you alluded to, didn't know much about Keith Oberman. prior to 2020 to 2023. I just didn't, I don't think I was overly involved or immersed in the political sphere. I'm more so knew who Keith Olberman was from my dad, who is one of those, oh, ESPN.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Yes. Radical ESPN watchers. Until ESPN went like fully, fully insufferable. Like they've always been like, like, eh, you know. But now it's beyond the peril. So I know who Keith Oberman was from my dad. My dad loved him. Like a lot of sports people did.
Starting point is 00:21:05 Like he was the guy. And so to now hear my dad's perspective of like how this man has just totally gone off the rails clearly. Yeah, he doesn't get a pass for me. So I drink. You drink. I drink my water. You drink. Guzzle that water.
Starting point is 00:21:20 Riley. Yeah, I know. I was never been the biggest ESPN viewer in the world. You're gonna be shocked to believe. I'm not like the biggest sports guy. What's your sport if you have to pick? I have a sport. I do have a sport that I actually do.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Okay. To play or to watch? To watch. Okay, okay. Sweet Riley. It's like a pickleball guy. I play the history pickleball. I love a good game of gin rummy.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Yeah, yeah. I did play a sport. Okay. For eight years. I played Little League Baseball. That's intense. And now I did not hit, the ball a lot. But I had a very good on-base percentage because, like Don Baylor in the 70s,
Starting point is 00:21:58 I would lean into pitches. So you're getting hit on the elbow. Yeah, elbow ribs, wherever. It was all right. You'll be a little like a stitch mark. Yeah, it's cool. I'll look cool, man. I'd get on base. I wasn't a good base runner, though, so it was pointless. You look fast. You look like you'd be like the quick one they, like your like pinch runner they put out there. Looks are sometimes deceiving. But I've channeled all my sports love Into Transmale swimming No, I'm kidding
Starting point is 00:22:28 It makes sense It's all into baseball and it's all into the Yankees Okay That's all I have a normal amount of sports love But it's all channeled into one So I never watched DSPN I don't need DSPN I'll listen to Paul O'Neill on the ES Network Do you want to know who my celebrity crushes?
Starting point is 00:22:43 Who? Dansby Swanson He plays for the Cubs Do you know who he is? Wow, no He's my celebrity crush He is? I don't, yeah, I don't know. I love him.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Wow. He played at Vanderbilt. And then he went to the Braves, and now he's with the Cubs. What is your husband thinking about this? Well, my husband kind of looks like him. So, yeah, hopefully that makes him feel good. It's like my wife's celebrity crush is Denzel. Oh, you guys look just like.
Starting point is 00:23:08 No, y'all are like twins. If y'all, if he was sitting here, I'd say, who's the real Michael? Exactly. Yeah, that's good. Okay. My turn. You're up. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Should the federal government pay for? maternity leave. Ooh, this feels testy. How does it work now? I guess companies, obviously, your employer pays? Yeah. Right? You know, this is something I truthfully don't feel like I know a ton about, which is funny given I'm seven months pregnant. You better figure it out. When you go on maternity leave, is it like a national policy or is it a policy that your workplace, I guess obviously it's a policy your employer puts into place of how much time you get off. But if your employer is a cheap skate, the way they go away with it, is they have you file
Starting point is 00:23:54 for short-term disability. Okay. And so you get some of your salary, but it's not, you wouldn't really call that maternity leave. Like in France, you get 16 years or something, I think, off. It really is crazy. Switzerland, I do think it's like a full year. Yeah. You don't have to work.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Even paternity leave. Like the dads get... Should there be... ...time off. Okay, wait. So I'm guessing how you feel. She got it wrong. You know why? You would have gotten a right.
Starting point is 00:24:22 I thought you were going to be of the mind that... These companies got to take out for themselves, right? Like, why would the American people pay for that? I'll tell you why. Okay. One, yeah, I think there are a bunch of problems with a federal maternity leave policy. It would violate subsidiarity. It would create all sorts of moral hazards.
Starting point is 00:24:40 It would be a big problem. So there are other better ways to do it. Okay. Now, I do sort of support about 18 years of maternity leave for women. I think it's probably, it's like generally a better lifestyle. But the reason that I would support a family policy at the national level like this is because basically the only policy that matters right now is getting people to have more kids. That's fully in line with the messaging of Elon and... Definitely, Elon.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Well, considering he has like 15 or 14, whatever it is. That's great. That's great. We should also have, you know, marriage incentive. and things like that too. But don't you think that creates a lot of room for people to totally abuse? If they get married, look, I don't want some welfare queen with 15 baby daddies. Well, that's...
Starting point is 00:25:30 They should get married. We should redefine marriage to be what it is, which is not like three dudes and a billy goat. It's like a man and a woman. Really? And it's very confusing. I know, I know. But I would be willing.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Every dollar that we waste on, I don't know, the NIH or... give to, you know, some foreign country. If we just paid that to women to get married and spit out as many kids as possible, I would be all for it. That would require the cutting of those funds, though, and there's no chance. But yes, yes, in a perfect world. We've got to get Elon back in, who's very pro-natal, so he might come back for this cause, cut out all that waste, fraud and abuse, whatever. But look, there's always more money in the banana stand. We can, we're the global empire, we can find the money. It is so many of the problems that we deal with. Migration.
Starting point is 00:26:22 The excuse for mass migration is, well, we need Americans to fill these jobs. We need people to sustain the entitlement programs. We need all these excuses. You just have to get people to have kids. So any way that you do that, promoting religion publicly, limiting contraception, banning abortion, turning porn off, banning porn, redefining marriage, making divorce hard. Like, check, whatever the boxes are, people need to spit out kids. And that's why, Riley, I want to thank you for doing your patriotic duty to our country. I'm doing my service to America. That's so funny.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Can you tell the people, it's not so bad, having a kid? No, I've had, I really have, truthfully. Maybe I'm one of those annoying people that, like, I mean, most women I talk to, they're like, you're so lucky. But truthfully, bottom of my heart, it has been, like, a breeze thus far. That's because you're a super fit. That's the only reason. I don't know about super fit anymore. I think at one point.
Starting point is 00:27:20 I'm hoping it all mounts up back. How far can you run? How far do you run in the morning? This morning, I ran eight miles. I watched a mile one time. That's the closest I ever came to running eight miles. Did you? I watched it once.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Started at like 4.45 this morning because I try and beat the heat. I'm so used to waking up so early because of swimming. We practice it, you know. You're in the water at 5 a.m. So I'm like classically conditioned at this point, and I think for the rest of my life, which is actually incredibly frustrating, to wake up like ridiculously early.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Hopefully that sets me up well for motherhood as well. Yeah, that will. So started running round 445, ran about eight miles, tried to get out in front of it before the sun, before the heat. You can't beat it here in Nashville, unfortunately. So did that, then I went and lifted. Um, me and my, I'm, like, have the coolest family ever. Like, I'm so blessed to have the family that I do.
Starting point is 00:28:18 We all live here. We all are super close to each other. All my siblings. So it's super fun because me, my mom, my dad, my older sister, my younger sister, my grandma, we work out together every single day. Your grandma? Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:32 So, I hate to make it all about me. Uh, that makes me feel so bad. Well. That your grand, do you know the last time I worked out? It's such like a dopamine release, no? It was, I want to say the Obama administration. There's a chance it was early Trump won. Yeah, I know, like the Ford administration.
Starting point is 00:28:53 Your grandma, she's a beast. A lady doesn't say it. She's 70, yeah. And she's just out there. Yeah, she is. We just went to Denver, you know, 7,000-ish feet up, and we're hiking together, and she's just a rock star. So I'm very fortunate to have the family I do.
Starting point is 00:29:11 So we'll work out all that to say. Typically we work out in the mornings, but I think tonight, me, my little sister and my dad are going to work out together. And your great-grandmother. And my great-grandmother. And my great-grandmother. Yeah, that's true. If I were pregnant, if I could become pregnant, if I were a seahorse, I would be on bed rest from the first trimester. Well, this is why I'm undercutting my pronatalist. My husband said to me, actually, the other day, he was like, women are just so inefficient. Like, if I was pregnant, I would pop this baby out in two months. Like, can't you just be little more efficient with it. I'm like, yeah. Sorry, let me just try a little harder. Wow. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:45 So do you trust your dentist when he says root canals and fluoride are safe or do you think he's part of big tooth? Big tooth. I like this. You got to take on the- So I'm guessing what you say. No, I'm guessing what you would say. Oh. Do you trust your dentist when he says root canals are part of what you need to take on big tooth? There's like a big everything, big grocery. Mm-hmm. Big. You know, Saint-A-Gou. Justin writes about, I think in City of God, that he was walking along the beach and came across a molar tooth, the size of some 50 or 100 human molar tooths. And he felt it was the tooth of a giant. Okay.
Starting point is 00:30:28 That's the only big tooth I had considered. The big tooth. Yes. It's like Bigfoot. Big tooth. Do you trust your dentist? I know my answer. Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:42 I said yes. Yeah, of course. Wow. That was you trying to psych me up. Did I? Yeah, that was. I, um, so prior to the infamous race with the man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:54 I was in dental school to be an endodontas. That's right. Yes. I remember that. Yes. So, maybe this will make some of the crunchy people and some of the, you know, like super maha people, uh, angry. But I mean, we've been using toothpaste with fluoride, mouthwash with fluoride,
Starting point is 00:31:16 When you go to the dentist, they put that stuff on your teeth, they put fluoride on your teeth. Like we've been doing that for, I mean, years. I'm of the mind that I don't believe in big tooth. No. No. These are the clips, okay. Appropriately sized tooth. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:31 I don't believe in big tooth. Mediite. I don't believe in big tooth. Riley Gaines. Wow. And I will kick an orphan. Yeah. In the head.
Starting point is 00:31:38 In the head. Knock out his tooth, maybe. Yes. Wow. I remember that you were in dental school because I have a very good friend here. who saw you when you first came to prominence and said, Michael, do you know Riley Gaines? I said, yeah. I didn't know whose accent this is. Yeah, it's very, it's very Southern. It could be anyone in Nashville.
Starting point is 00:31:57 But, you know, a gentleman of a certain age. Do you know Riley Gaines? Yeah, I do. She goes, well, she, I was listening to her speak. And she said she was going to be a dentist, but she should not be a dentist. She's doing something much more important, and she's on her own path, and she's very, very beautiful. I said, okay, well, hold on. Hold on, hold on, I'm not, I don't know if I'm introducing you at any point to Riley again. But I remember, I thought, that's so funny.
Starting point is 00:32:24 You were on this path. You were going to, and then it was a complete 90. Yeah. So I can get a root canal. I just recently heard about this. The root canals give you the plague. All sorts of. Is that true?
Starting point is 00:32:38 Who knows? They come out. Hold on. It feels like new things every single day. But the fluoride thing, like, like, what? What has the amount of times that I've gone to the dentist because I have a gum that is a little exposed on my back molar, whatever it is, no cavity present, but just a little receded gum, and they put fluoride on it, it feels better. And I'm not of the mind to necessarily question that or believe it's giving me bad health. I'm seven-month pregnant.
Starting point is 00:33:09 I feel great. Yeah. So, you ran eight miles with Eminem this morning. Exactly. Yeah, that's true. Exactly. Hold on. You hedged on the root canal.
Starting point is 00:33:17 I just heard about it. I luckily haven't had one yet, but I think I'm close on a tooth. And I never heard that root canals turn the frogs gay or whatever. Well, I think any time you're getting to the nerve, which has, of course, connections with your bloodstream and all the stuff you're risking disease, infection. Is it okay if I get my wisdom teeth out? Do you still have them? I know. I should have gotten... All four of them? All of them?
Starting point is 00:33:46 Wow. They're all kind of crowd in my mouth. Do you feel like your teeth are shifting? They are shifting. And I wear my retainer every night. I'm giving a lot of juice right now. I know. They are. They're shifting and it was annoying. Like one kind of moved a little and I said, I got to get them out. Do you feel it will not be as fun to recover now if you did it when you were like 14? Yeah, they told me that. I, yeah. I got my bottom two out. Okay. But I didn't get my top two.
Starting point is 00:34:10 I heard you got it. If you get the one done, then you don't want tooth on. skin or whatever. That's fake news. Do you have skin in your mouth? I don't know or whatever. I don't know what gums are made of. I don't like. Dermis. Plastic? I don't. Dermis. Wait. So hold on. Can I get away with only getting like two of my teeth out? I guess. I did. Yeah. I should my bottom ones. Wow. I didn't need my top ones. I said I'm going to get my teeth out on a Friday. I'm going to do my show on a Monday. You'd be puffy. I'll be puffy. I'll be I think you could do it though. Thanks.
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Starting point is 00:36:15 Yeah, that's pretty good. Crush them up. No, don't crush it. You're not supposed to crush it. You know what it is right now, Riley? You know what this is right now? Huh. The rapid fire round. Is it? So it's just like quick now.
Starting point is 00:36:30 Red lights. That feels like, okay, so I'm going to read these all at once. Is that what's happening? I think. You're going to read them? Then we're going to answer. Then you're going to keep reading. We're not going to talk. Basically, it's just a way for Dave.
Starting point is 00:36:45 to tell me to shut up. He says, and we're going to do it really fast. Okay, I'm thinking about my answer before I'm reading it. Okay, ready? Well, I need to think about your answer. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Ready. Is Will Smith a closet homosexual? Correct. No, he's probably, like, he might have done weird. He slapped Chris Rock in the face, right? Yeah. No, he might have done weird stuff with guys.
Starting point is 00:37:14 I don't know. I don't know yes or no on that. But he's definitely done weird stuff with girls, too. Do you see it has a new song out? It's called Pretty Girls. I saw that. You should watch the video. Yeah, I know I did watch it.
Starting point is 00:37:25 We should insert a clip of the video right here. It's kind of like the will doth protest too much, we think. Yeah, definitely. Straight. Is there a concerted effort in the expert community to discredit historical evidence of a world flood to de-legitimize the biblical account? I need to read that again. Do you want me to read that? Please.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Is there a concerted effort in the expert, it's in quotes, community to discredit his, historical evidence of a world flood to delegitimize the biblical account. Wrong, but this is a little bit of a cute answer. Wrong as in I got your answer wrong. You got my answer wrong. It's not a concerted effort. Okay. In the sense that there's no grand conspiracy to keep it down.
Starting point is 00:38:08 It's just the myasma of liberalism and materialism is just impelling all of these people to deny what obviously occurred. But I don't think they talk to each other. I just think it kind of happens. So you were hung up on that word concert. Concerned. I didn't even really look at that word. I was just like, yes, I do think there are people doing this.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Okay, interesting. Okay. Is sunscreen to blame for the spike and skin cancer that began in the 1970s when it became popular in the United States? Eh, got it wrong. Yes, it is. You know why I think that? I wouldn't have said that a year ago. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:45 Because sweet little Alisa, my beloved bride. Okay. Is she got into all this stuff. And now she makes us get the chalk sunscreen, and she makes me wear the beef tallow deodorant, which is $22 a can or a jar or whatever it is. And I thought it was all ridiculous. I don't know, man, that alumina.
Starting point is 00:39:06 But what changed your mind? Like, do you know someone who got skin cancer because of sunscreen? No, my wife has just propagandized me so much now. And, and I'll tell you what, she got me. But does she know someone? No. No, there's no. like direct evidence of any of this. It's all kind of like crunchy gobbledy goo.
Starting point is 00:39:24 But this is big sunscreen. Big skin. Big skin. Big dermis. Yeah. It, it, the thing that convinced me. Okay. Was the first, the first crunchy shot across the bow was the seed oils. Okay. And she said, if you stop eating seed oils, you won't get as much of a sunburn. Now, I'm a rather dark guy for a white guy. But I would burn. I'd burn a lot, especially as a teenager in my 20s, I burned a lot, even though I'd get dark. And then a lot, then a lot, least it cuts out the seed oils, I don't really get sunburns anymore. I thought, okay, well, if the seed oils have fallen, if the crunchy weirdos are right about the seed oils, they could be right about other stuff. About the aluminum. Okay. In the deodorant and the sunscreen.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Interesting. Is there aluminum in sunscreen? I don't know. I think so. Yeah, sure. I have a hard time, like even looking into all that stuff truthfully, because I think it's more so I don't want it. Like, it's ignorance is bliss for me. It's like the, it's the red pill and the blue pill. Yeah, it's like. Because if you take the red pill on this stuff, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Your household costs are going to increase about eightfold. It seems really, really hard to implement. It's so, it's so expensive. Yeah. That I need to do a podcast so that I can be sponsored by Vandy Crisps so that I can get delicious potential. potato chips without seed oils. I hope they're watching this.
Starting point is 00:40:51 I know. That's a freebie. That's a freebie, but I'll evangelize that product all day. You have to... Yeah. But this is why. And this is how the whole society has collapsed. And he said, well, it's a little cheaper.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Oh, we'll drive. Okay, we'll import the games. I do fall victim to that. Yeah, of course. I do. I'll tick GDP up. Oh, we won't have kids because we can spend money on this and that, and that's cheaper and this.
Starting point is 00:41:18 And then what happens? is like if that's the mindset you have, everything could cause cancer. Everything. Like if you're going to go there, you would live a pretty, what I would believe, to be a pretty miserable life. If you restrict yourself from everything, which that's effectively what you would be doing. I don't wear the, well, if I'm with my wife, I don't wear the modern sunscreen. I wear whatever goop she gives me. I don't use the modern deodorants. I use the whatever goop she gives me. I don't use the whatever group she gets. That's why you smell bad. I'm kidding. Do you know why I smell bad? Because of the flip side. And I actually think it's a great smell, but some disagree. I own a
Starting point is 00:41:59 cigar company. I own. So I won't put the, or whatever, the sunscreen on because of the risks of cancer. I own a cigar company. I smoke a billion cigars a day. Like everyone has their vice. If my vice is going to be... I don't think cigars are a vice, by the way, but that's a conversation for another time. If my vice is energy drinks, I love them. Yeah. I drink at least one a day. What's your poison?
Starting point is 00:42:25 What do you drink? Alani, have you ever heard of that? I've never even heard of that. It's like a total marketing. No, not really. It's like, I mean, you can get at a gas station. It's just a total marketing thing. I think that especially appeals to women because the cans are so cute.
Starting point is 00:42:41 And they get me. Like, I understand. Like, I'm an influencer's dream. Yeah. I'm basically begging you to influence me. Yeah, yeah. Like, I will buy that product. Do you smoke cigars?
Starting point is 00:42:51 Does your kid want? A second-hand cigar right? That's what she's been saying to me. A mother knows. Yes, exactly. So, everyone has advice. Yeah. I'm not going to let mine be sunscreen.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Aluminum. Aluminium. Give me a box of Mayflowers so I can give you right there. This is the rapid fire around. That's why the red light is on. As long as Libby Dunn doesn't join OnlyFans, she's a good example of how female athletes should conduct themselves. Well, as long as,
Starting point is 00:43:20 like given what she's already done, or is it just like that's the only standard? Read it one more time. As long as Libby Dunn does not join Onlyfans, she is a good example of how female athletes should conduct themselves. I feel pretty torn on this. You ever answered? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:43:41 I said yes. Yeah, because you weren't going to throw shade. I've only heard of Livy Dunn in the context of the TikTok Riz party and Skibbitty toilet, and I didn't know who she was until today. And she popped up on my Twitter, and I didn't know she was even a real person. But, and she's not on only fans. No.
Starting point is 00:43:57 Okay. Well, it's rapidly fit, very fit. She's beautiful. She's done a fantastic job of marketing herself and her abilities and and profiting off that, which I can respect. I think there are some things that she does that I'm like, maybe questionable. What is it? I don't care that this is rapid fire.
Starting point is 00:44:16 I want the tea. I don't care it's rapid fire. Well, I think a lot of her content is very, like, revealing. But I think, again, I approach that a little different than most conservatives do, given that I played a sport where, I mean, you're essentially half naked all of the time. Yeah, yeah. Like, to me, a man in a speedo, like, it's, I'm not talking about San Francisco Pride, though,
Starting point is 00:44:37 that's a little different, especially when kids are around. But, like, it's, I think I'm a little more desensitized or, yeah, like, to me, that's, like, whatever, kind of standard. But I do think she's a bit, can be a bit revealing. She's, like, dating this guy now. My speculation is they don't actually like each other at all. Paul Skeens. Paul Skeens?
Starting point is 00:44:59 Who would not know Paul? You're the baseball guy. He's the... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he played baseball at LSU. Yeah, yeah. Now he's in the big leagues and all this. Rookie of the Year, all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:45:12 Oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think they actually like each other. How old is she? My age, maybe? She is, okay. Maybe younger than me, a year younger. Okay, wow. But I think as a whole,
Starting point is 00:45:23 she's done a pretty good job of maintaining her image and being somewhat of a role model to young girls. Yeah. I'm glad to hear it. Mostly because I wear a speedo around the Daily Wire. Yeah. So I'm glad that that's not appropriate. No, like, if I saw that, I would just be like, oh, there's Denzel. There is. Like, how, there he is. What's he doing here? I loved you in training day. Okay, the second rapid fire question. We're moving too fast. Is homosexuality more nature than nurture?
Starting point is 00:45:53 More nature than nurture? What would you say? Wait, more? More nature than nurture. They're born this way, more than, you know, they had an absent father and an overbearing mother. This is a Bose moment. You've been there.
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Starting point is 00:46:36 I got it wrong. I mean, I thought you were going to be a little more moderate and live on it. No. Yeah, you'd say it's nerdy. No. I'm very much of the mindset of... It is interesting, this conversation. And I...
Starting point is 00:46:48 Like, I've allowed my brain to go there several times of thinking, you know, what does this really look like? Because you can't deny. There are some, like, little kids who super duper, duper, duper. Little Liberacees. Like little, like young, like, you can just tell they're going to be gay when they're older. Yeah, yeah. That was like when Ben Davies was a kid. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Is that the guy who messed up these questions? It is. That's him, actually. Yeah. So, like, it would be an interesting conversation to like to really look into and understand. But I'm more of the mindset, I think especially today, seeing the social contagion of it, that aspect of it, I'm way more of the mindset that it is more of the mindset that it is more of. of nurture than nature. Yeah, there's a huge social contagion without question,
Starting point is 00:47:35 and then guys in prison do weird stuff. So obviously that's true. The only thing that is kind of, I'm not saying there's a gay gene necessarily or anything, but that has kind of nature pilled me on those who are little light in the loafers is have you, there's some study that says, if you got your hand right here like this, right?
Starting point is 00:47:56 So you see my finger is, and yours too. is the ring to index finger ratio. So you see how- We passed the straight test? We're straight, because your ring is bigger, is notably bigger than your index. It goes up higher.
Starting point is 00:48:13 For homosexuals, apparently- What would you do if you said this and mine were the same size? Oh, I don't know if it applies to chicks, that'd be crazy. We found it, be like, you are a gay man. We diagnosed it. Will Thomas was right.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Right here. Yeah. So for a gay guy, if it's like, if it's more, let's, put it like this, if it's, if they're eating, Even, apparently, that's more likely for gay guys. The other thing is, for most guys, their part is like my part, which is on the left side of your head.
Starting point is 00:48:38 And it goes down. For gay guys, they're much more likely to be on the right side of the head. Now, again, this doesn't mean that if you have these natural dispositions or something. But is the hair part really natural? You can change your hair part. There's a natural aspect to your part.
Starting point is 00:48:54 Yeah, but like, I think back to me in sixth grade when the side part was everything. Did you have, did you do that thing? Duh, I had the side part. Did you do the thing those girls did that was so annoying, where they, like there was just one year, I think it was 2013, where every girl decided to just shave off half their head. Okay. You remember that thing? Me in sixth grade was definitely not doing that.
Starting point is 00:49:14 But there were some people, even at my, I mean, I would say it's a pretty conservative public school here in Tennessee. Yeah. Who definitely did. Wow. It was the thing. It was like that was like the Tumblr era. Yes. You know, like the, yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:49:30 Like the aesthetic of it. I was a disco guy. I'm a visco. I heard about that. You say were and then am. So are you currently? I found out about that word. I had a babysitter, not like it was for my kids.
Starting point is 00:49:42 And she said some of a visco, I guess, or whatever. I don't know what that was. I still don't really know what that is. But I'm that. I don't want to be that. It seems hip and cool. Yeah, it is. I found out my natural part is over here
Starting point is 00:49:54 because I'm a big finook. No, I'm kidding. It's not, it is on the left, but it's a little bit more, it's a little more center. because so if I were left to my own natural devices, I'd look more like a guy from the 90s. Okay. You know that kind of, yeah. But if you got your part over here.
Starting point is 00:50:10 See, so you can change your part. Yeah, but not. I can change it from like, you know, Gary Cooper to Dean Martin. I can't change it from Gary Cooper to Rock Hudson. Okay, okay. So my question is for the people who wear their fingers or whatever, you know, it's like they're, they got the even fingers and the part on the right. There's got to be a nature aspect.
Starting point is 00:50:31 I thought that was more so of like where you descended from. Like Romans have more of a certain type of, I think it's more specifically like feet and toes. Like Egyptian, you're much more like. What did the Roman toes look like? I think the second one is longer. Which is standard for most people. But like Egyptian is very much slanted all the way. Something is like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:56 So I thought it was more so of like your descent. I want to get into phrenology, like head sizes as they pertain to intelligence. But that, I don't know if we're allowed to do that on YouTube. We'll get maybe a later. Okay, so we're in the rapid fire round. You know that right. We're in the rapid fire round. Okay.
Starting point is 00:51:12 The only thing conservatives should ever infight about is which month is the best in the conservative dads real women of America calendar? I'm so excited to talk about this, even though it's rapid fire. Were you in that one? Yes, and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made my life. All right, then I want, that actually gives me good information about this. Okay, so the only thing is there she ever, you're going to say no. Yes, I'm going to say no.
Starting point is 00:51:36 Okay. I remember that, but I didn't, I actually did not buy it again. I have no problem, like I'm a very self-aware person in general. The way this was approached to me, actually, this is kind of like a full circle moment, going back to that first question about the charity. The way this was approached to me were the proceeds of this, it was going to be a very family-friendly thing. Wow, this is a full circle. Like, full circle.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Wow. And the proceeds of this would go to a charity, like, of my choosing. First of all, for those who haven't seen it, it's not, it wasn't, like, Playboy. No, no. It wasn't a penthouse. But it still is not a good representation of myself. And this even is, like, looping back in with the whole Lively Dunn thing. This still is not a good representation of just me in general how I conduct myself,
Starting point is 00:52:22 whether it is on a public platform, whether it's in my personal life. Like, it just wasn't. But, again, think back, this was probably. in, I don't know what year. I mean... It was a while ago. A while ago. This guy did a beer, too.
Starting point is 00:52:35 It was like I'm a cool guy conservative. Even not being pregnant. Like, I just am not a drinker. Like, I don't... Like, I'm just... I'm not. Whatever. I kind of got sucked into this.
Starting point is 00:52:46 So you're saying you regret... Because, look... And everyone was... Like, the people who were in this were, like, totally, like, defending it. People like Ashley St. Clair, which we've seen now how that has all turned out. That's also full circle on the Elon.
Starting point is 00:53:00 No, like, this is all, like, it's all making sense. So the people don't even have to watch the full thing, just listen to this. This was actually very well written, Mr. Davies. You're re-hire, by the way. Wow, yeah. Okay. So they were all defending. They were all, like, defending it.
Starting point is 00:53:14 And I was the only one to, for the most part, I'd just say pretty, like, silent about it. And they were trying to loop me in on their side and defend it. I'm like, I can't even defend myself here. Like, I deserve to, I deserve the slander. Look, it's, I take it. This is, that's a great attitude, Deb. Because, look, in the grand scheme of things, you're a very nice-looking young lady. You were not a mother.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Well, it was a swimmer in a swimsuit. Like, to me, that wasn't that bad. It's not, it wasn't, you weren't on only fans. No. But people can't, people really struggle to admit that they have done anything that they regret. Not even anything wrong necessarily. Even just anything they wrong. No, I regret this.
Starting point is 00:53:53 And people struggle with that. And people will form whole ideologies. to justify a thing that they deep down do actually kind of regret. And it takes a lot of maturity and humility. Very self-aware person. Yeah, yeah. And I knew it at the time, too. That was like...
Starting point is 00:54:12 But it didn't come up. Was it that salacious? No. No. I mean, no. It wasn't. You just think the whole, yeah, I agree that whenever people try to make conservatism, like, cool. It's like, you know, I'm not a regular mom.
Starting point is 00:54:26 I'm a cool mom. You know, I'm a cool conservative. I just think, no. No. There's nothing. Conservatism is not cool. In fact... That's why we've, like, lost every inch of the public square.
Starting point is 00:54:35 Yeah, yeah. I mean, think, like, media, entertainment, Hollywood, academia. I mean, like, virtually every inch of the public square. Because we're trying to... Because we're like, oh, man, I'm going to be cool. Because they're cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:50 But we're not cool. The only way to gain cultural currency is to just kind of know what you are and do that very well. Totally. Do that in a rational, excellent, virtuous way. But to just be like, hey, hey, I'm not one of those stodgy conservatives. I'm the, I'm a hip conservative.
Starting point is 00:55:09 Just like, shy. Yeah, no. No, I'm not. And for you, your thing you'd do really well is Little League. Little League. That's the thing. You should start a Little League for adults. I would still, you know, the sad thing.
Starting point is 00:55:22 I would still strike at all the time. They invited me. I was invited to do like a, a, Celebrity. The Folds of Honor. That was the one. Yeah. What were you doing?
Starting point is 00:55:31 I was there. I know. I thought, hold on. Am I, I, is, what, am I, what's the crazier part? That I'm a celebrity or that I'm a baseball player? I don't know what would be less, but they invited me. They said, well, you love baseball. You should go.
Starting point is 00:55:45 And I thought, I'm going to have horrifying flashbacks to that when I'm there. No, it's like, what's the movie? Sandlot. It would be Sanlet. What is the, no, benchwarmers? It would be the natural, because I'd get shanlots. shot probably. Yeah. It would be, what's my, it would be major league. Yeah. Because I would become Charlie Sheen, do a bunch of drugs beforehand. Yeah. Okay. So now, no, you're up. It's the final
Starting point is 00:56:10 round. I feel intimidated. The prompt will be read. We'll both lock in our answers and we'll move our glasses to yes or no to see if we can read each other's minds. The round is worth double points. It could change everything. The score. right now. Oh no. Oh no. I get no, Riley could still win, but the score is a lot to a little. It's a lot to a little. It's Michael for Riley negative two. Well, if I get both these right. Then you went. Okay. But you would have to get both wrong. That's true. Could happen. I'm clearing mine. Okay. So I will move my glass. You're going to pick your answer on your pad and then you're going to move my glass to how you think I would answer. You're going to pick your answer for what you think on your pad,
Starting point is 00:57:00 and then you're going to move my glass to how you think I would answer. And you're going to lock it in? Same thing. Okay. The main reason evangelicals have grown their numbers, and non-denominational churches keep growing by attracting those leaving mainline denominations,
Starting point is 00:57:16 is because all the worst Democrats claim to be Catholic. Okay, so I put mine on where I think. You put your, no, hold on. But that was great. Did I ruin this? No, you made it. It was great. You need to lock in your answer, and then I'm going to guess with your cup how you answer. And then you have to move my cup on how you think I was.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Well, that just gave it away. Well, I mean. Did you already lock in? I did. So you locked in what you said. Yeah. I was tricking you because I know that the rules the whole time. No.
Starting point is 00:57:48 All right, hold time. We're going to see how devious Riley is. Well, okay. Hold on. You haven't locked it. I don't even know if I fully read the question. You've got to lock. Don't you change your answer now? Don't you?
Starting point is 00:57:58 That would be so devious. It would be like kicking an orphan in the head. I would never do that. No. Except for $10 million. Yeah. Million now? No, billion.
Starting point is 00:58:07 Billion. Well, and million. I would do it for $10 million. And $10. You know what? I'm changing the rules of this game because we said we got to do that. The winner is who has the least amount of points. Actually, so.
Starting point is 00:58:22 I win. I love winning. Okay, so hold on you just answered. Oh, now you got to move. to how you think I would answer. That same prompt. I think you're saying no. Correct, correct. Okay. Yes, I say no. The surge in evangelicalism. I actually don't know if there is a surge right now, but the surge is driven by two things. Okay.
Starting point is 00:58:46 One is the main line going, because there are a bunch of Dem Catholics. There's like Biden and all those guys. Well, I mean, I think there's bad conservative Catholics. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, that's true. That's also true. That's a separate issue. But I think what's driven it is the mainline Protestants went completely lib, you know, like trans, lesbian, bishoprises stuff. And divorced Catholics. Divorced Catholics become evangelical. Interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:18 Because you can. And there's a lot of that in the Catholic Church? There are divorce. Because you're not allowed to divorce. So if you get divorced and civilly remarried, you can't have the sacraments. And so I know, I've seen Catholics get divorced and remarried. they become evangelical. Because they want, they still want a religious thing. You know, there's a public connection. But I think the main driver for evangelicalism is people who want to be
Starting point is 00:59:41 Protestant, but are just like, I can't be Episcopalian. No one's been an Episcopalian since like 1948. Right. Right, right. So I think that's it. Who knows? Maybe King Charles. Maybe you'll get King Charles. That's what it is. Yeah. The queen. Long live Queen. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so we both got them right. So that's just net zero then. That's a net zero. So no matter what happens here, I win. Because you'll have the least points here. You make a great...
Starting point is 01:00:08 I love this. Yeah, wow. This is so fun. It doesn't even matter. We could throw this. You're right. You're right. Why am I even playing anymore?
Starting point is 01:00:14 It is disorderly and sets up near occasions of sin to have a bunch of hormone-filled dudes trained for hours in a pool alongside females and swimsuits. Hold on. This is a point of information. Okay. Because I wasn't on the swim team.
Starting point is 01:00:35 Do the boys and the girls swim together? So it depends. At this meet, this national championship, it was only a women's meet. So it was only, there were only women at that meet except for one. So. So this is a fictional. But you mean like in practice and stuff?
Starting point is 01:00:55 In practice. We swam together in the mornings, but very much. separate teams. Like even in terms of national ranking, like our women's team was always top 10, top 15 in the nation. Yeah, no, I'm not saying, I'm just talking about in the pool. You guys are... We would, yes, but sometimes we would have different practices. But yes, yes. You would. Wow, okay. So, okay, so the premise is fair. It is disorderly and sets up near occasions of sin of a bunch of hormone-filled dudes. Train for hours.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Hormone-filled as in... Just brimming. Like, virility. Like, with... No, natural hormones. Not artificial hormones. Not like Will Thomas does. So like testosterone? Like men? Tea. High tea. Okay, okay. Read it again. One more time. It is disorderly and sets up near occasions of sin to have a bunch of high tea gigacads in speedos
Starting point is 01:01:47 trained for hours in a pool alongside slinky little ladies wearing bikinis. Ooh. You put it like that. Mm-hmm. I gotta answer how you would answer. Okay. Well, I locked in my answer. Thank you. He says you got to lock in your anything. As if I didn't do it. He could have seen it on camera. So I need to move yours. Yes. To where I'm doing that based on the words. I did I get I had a little bit of a tell. So it felt like you were yeah putting some infliction. It's disordered and sets up your occasions of sin and you've got experience you've seen I, I know you were there you were there me for me for me.
Starting point is 01:02:37 I've just been to the beach. Yeah, obviously, right? It's crazy. This is the one, you know, in the 40s, they were, like, arresting women for wearing bikinis. Right. And a somewhat unpopular view I have, they were probably right.
Starting point is 01:02:55 I can't. Women can wear bikinis. No. But men can... No, men should wear... No, you're right. Men should wear, like... I'm only 3% joking.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Men should wear those 1920s, like, swimsuits, where it's like a shirt with a pants. and a top hat, you know, like they should, because it is crazy. It is crazy that I go to the beach. And I actually, in my old age now, I try to avoid, you know, sins of the eyes and things. For sure. And so, and then I go to the beach. And I'm looking at, I mean, it's crazy.
Starting point is 01:03:34 No, I know. It is. But most of the time, like, at least, I mean, I guess I approach this a little different as a woman. but most of the time it's not like attractive women wearing, revealing things. It's women who should absolutely not be wearing. That's often the case. So it's more of like a repulsion, I would say. That's true.
Starting point is 01:03:56 Most people, well, you know, I'm not a man. Most people, I think, is fair to say, don't really look good on natural. But this is actually, this is the premise of lingerie and also, of swimsuits and stuff, is actually if you conceal a little bit, strategic concealment actually makes one more attractive than if you were completely in your birthday suit. So, like, I don't know. I don't want to, in France, there's a big issue
Starting point is 01:04:27 about women wearing veils and stuff. Or the burkini, the burkini at the beach. It's like a burqa bikini. Right. And I have plenty of criticisms of the Muslims and Islam. But you also have, on the other hand, in France, when they have these liberation rallies, totally topless women. Yeah. Like.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Who are often not the most scintillating? No. Some of them are, but many of them are. You see these videos and it's like. Yeah. Bit of a shirt on. Yeah. A bit of flab.
Starting point is 01:05:01 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I answered yes. You answered yes. So you, so you, oh, yes. We called it swim cess.
Starting point is 01:05:09 Like it's a thing Of course Like it's a known thing Of course Where swimmers You just I don't know if it's more so Like again
Starting point is 01:05:19 Maybe being around them In that environment Maybe it's the way Your schedules line up I don't know what it is Yeah But It's called swim sest
Starting point is 01:05:29 Where swimmers just date Other swimmers Of course, yeah I mean me My husband swam at University of Kentucky I'm a victim to swim sest You are
Starting point is 01:05:39 And I swore I wasn't like what to be. It's legal, not in other states, but in Tennessee. Yeah, no, that's why he came here. Yeah, yeah. That's true. It's true. You know, it's funny. Even in college, I was buddies in high school.
Starting point is 01:05:52 I was buddies with athletes, a bunch of athletes, but not swimmers. Because it might be the schedule thing. I wasn't really that tight with swimming. I mean, we trained six hours a day. Yeah. So it was like you don't really have time to meet other people. Yeah. Like if you're swimming 5 a.m. to 8 a.
Starting point is 01:06:09 You go to class, you come back to the pool, 1.30 to 4.30. You eat dinner with the swimmers. It's kind of all you know. So I think it's more so the schedule thing, but... And you're just in... Yeah, you're in... You're all good looking, I would assume. You're in good shape, at least. Yeah. You're wearing slinky little garments. You're all, you know, brimming with testosterone. The blood's flowing. Right. How do you... Yeah. This is why co-education was a huge, huge mistake. which would be a topic for another time. So I think that means I got many more points, so therefore you won. Yay!
Starting point is 01:06:45 I'm the winner. I love this game. Very impressive. This is my favorite game I've ever played. You need to go check out Riley's content on Instagram at Riley G. Barker. Not G. That was your old name. That was the old name.
Starting point is 01:06:59 That's called the maiden name. Because Riley is a conservative, normal, sane woman. Riley G. Barker. And you got to go watch your show on Outkick. Gaines for girls. I love a good pun. Check out this teaser. In just two tweets, Simone Biles basically tarnish her reputation. To anyone with a shred of honesty, to anyone with a moral compass, and to anyone with an inherent,
Starting point is 01:07:26 innate desire to protect women, to fight for equal opportunity for both men and women, especially as it pertains to sport. So congratulations, Simone Biles. It looks quite. I like that name. She, it was awesome because the time of this filming. There were two girls in Oregon who filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon for their laws that allow boys to play in their sports. And their reason for doing it, they said this in a video that was posted today, was because of Simone Biles disparaging comments to female athletes. They were like, that was kind of the final straw for us. Wow.
Starting point is 01:08:12 So her whole... And she walked it back. Simone Biles had to walk her back. Yeah, but what good does that do when you've already... At that point, it's like a total Gavin Newsom move where you've just pissed off everyone. Yeah, yeah. But to me, though, I thought there was such a white pill
Starting point is 01:08:24 because I thought, look, Simone Biles almost certainly did not change her opinion. It was written by some PR team. Chagipeteen. It was really, yeah, almost certainly. I saw that little dash in there. I know what that dash means. Yeah, it wasn't written by Grock because it wasn't in German. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:08:38 Yes. But it doesn't matter. Like when you have kids and the kid smacks the other kid and you say, hey, you say you're sorry. And the kid isn't sorry. But if you are imposing enough, Pater Familius, he'll say it anyway, even though he doesn't believe it. And that's half good. That gets you halfway there. Good enough. It's good enough. And that's how I felt with Simone Biles. She made the apology, not almost certainly not because she believed it. But because the culture now says the trans stuff is done. It's done. as far as I'm concerned. We won. Largely to thank you and that. I take all credit for it. Walsh did nothing. I think it was all me. It was. You had nothing to do with it.
Starting point is 01:09:19 No. Your activism had nothing. It was because girls didn't want to play you in Little League. They would have destroyed me in Little League. It would have been awful. So suddenly, trans movement done. Riley, congratulations on your improbable and impressive victory. Thank you. See you next time on Yes or No.
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