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, straight 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.
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Everyone has their own destiny.
Everyone.
I would kick an orphan in the head too.
You would kick an orphan in the head?
This is the clip.
Riley says, I would kick an orphan in the head the head.
headline, Riley Gaines would kick Orphan in the head for money.
Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
My guest today is Riley Gaines.
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.
And it's Riley's turn.
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 so excited.
Hold on.
You have a glass of water.
I do.
I know.
So you already are 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?
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 business where I Yeah.
But the thing I didn't know, Riley, is that you're like seven months pregnant, whatever it is.
Yeah.
You look, this is not flattery.
You look like you're two weeks pregnant.
I don't.
Very sweet.
Is this what happens when you're an athlete?
You know, I really do think there's truth to that.
Yeah.
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, no anything.
Like I have felt the exact same as I did pre-gnancy.
So hopefully it means something for postpartum too and we can bounce back quick and get back into my jeans because they certainly don't fit anymore.
It must be only slightly tight.
Well, if you're all good without aversions and no tiredness or whatever, then you should have a drink.
I would appreciate it.
I think she wants one.
As long as you, I find with pregnancy, I'm not a medical doctor, but I'm an honorary doctor, and I find that as long as you balance out the booze in pregnancy with a few cigarettes to get an upper, you're totally good.
The kid will thank you for it.
That's, I mean, if people in the 1500s survived like the bubonic plague.
Yeah.
I mean, what's a little alcohol going to do?
I know.
I drank a lot during my wife's pregnancy.
Yeah, balance things out.
Okay.
My husband says it all the time.
He's like, so what are we craving today?
What's our cravings?
So.
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.
You're a lady, so you go first.
You can take the prompt.
So I'm going to ask you this.
Yes.
And I'm going to guess how, I'm going to guess what you think 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.
Wow.
Say the first part of the prompt again.
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, how do you know you got it wrong?
Because he told me in my ear.
Ah.
This is a billion dollars?
Wait, so I was correct?
I was correct.
Oh, good.
What did you put?
Hold on.
Ben, speak, please speak English to me.
Am I correct or incorrect?
Suspense.
Oh, she got it incorrect.
How did I get it incorrect?
That's great.
Because I'm guessing how I think you would answer.
And now here's why you were wrong about what I think you would do.
Okay, 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.
It's, you know, I guess everyone has a right to the principle of this.
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.
Yeah.
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 solidarity.
Even being seven months pregnant now, my fitness has, I think, remained.
I think, of course, I've lost, like, muscle mass and strength.
Naturally, still running, swimming Alcatraz next week.
I still very much amend to my fitness.
I think I could totally take him.
And if I had a billion dollars to give to the charity of my choosing, I'd 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.
Truth, pro-reality, pro-science, pro-woman charity out there.
So then it's a billion dollars to a good cause.
That was my logic.
I truthfully think I could take him.
But now, because he's out of shape.
Yeah, yeah, he's out of shape and you're in shape.
That's why you could take him.
That's what we're saying.
But it's still wrong.
In general, women should not be expected to come out of shape.
But you're saying you could take him for all sorts of reasons, including the SNAP.
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.
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.
We'd have it.
Billion dollars.
I'm sorry, let me change it.
$10 billion if you just kick a little orphan die.
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.
I think that's a little utilitarian.
would kick an orphan in the head to...
But think of the orphans, let's say it goes back to a...
This is the clip.
Riley Gaines.
I would kick an orphan in the head.
Media 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.
Total killer.
Yeah, no, just totally honed up.
Psycho, okay, all right.
Well, I would rematch him.
And I think there's other men too, like people like Keith Olbermann.
This is a guy who constantly is on X coming after me.
He has a super weird, unhealthy obsession with me.
Even Grock admitted it.
We were talking about Grock prior to filming and how Grock is 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.
He's the Gaucon Fuhrer now.
So 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 confusing ideology.
Yeah, I can't keep up.
Anyways, I would challenge Keith Olbermann, too.
Okay.
And 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 in the head.
That's fair.
It's not promoting violence.
Now, I am guessing how you would answer.
Deportations should not stop with Satan worshipping 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.
Definitely.
There aren't that many with face tattoos.
I think I have, um...
Was he Trende Aragua or MS13?
MS13.
MS13, I figured.
It was really hard getting him here.
Trump really pulled through.
We're so glad that he was president.
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, granit, my husband was here legally the entire time, of course.
I say, hey, did you know about this, 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.
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, Ecuadorian peasants who come over here and they think it's going to be fine and they're saying no actually we have laws you know and you just you can't just do that so i feel a little bit bad but sorry yeah that's that's how i feel too yeah 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 want 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 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.
Eleven, 58, 55, 6, 7, 8.
No, wow.
Hmm.
What was that about?
Just a full minute.
Hmm.
And a frame change.
Are you more than 50% sure?
Wait, a frame change.
I don't know if I noticed that.
That's interesting.
Play it again.
That's interesting.
And it would change.
Look at that.
So you see it 58.
So is he in this cell 46?
Isn't that kind of funny, 46?
It feels like a little hidden easter egg.
Ooh.
If you squint really closely, you can see Hillary pop it.
See that frame change?
You see that?
How it zoomed out a little bit?
I can see.
Okay, okay.
Are you more than 50% sure you know what happened during this missing 60 seconds?
I'm guessing what you would say.
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 something funny here.
Well, it might be funny.
But I'm going to be quite serious about it.
I hate losing.
Yeah, you're quite Okay.
Yeah.
Did I get it right?
You did.
So you said no.
I said no.
I'm more than 50% confident of what didn't happen.
I think what didn't happen is he But I don't know what happened.
What logistically can happen in 60 seconds.
It's not a lot of time.
It might be nighttime.
And it's certainly suspicious, but 60 seconds isn't...
For $10 billion.
Easily.
And you could do it in 10 seconds.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
You get a...
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 60 seconds.
But in the manner that he died...
Right, but then how is he then hanging from the ceiling or wherever he was?
It was from the bed post.
So you come in with the little sheet or whatever, you wrap it around his ne 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.
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.
That's true.
So it could be that he was allowed to kill himself.
It could be that he was allowed to kill himself because he was a super spy.
It could be allowed, he was allowed to kill himself because he was a total creep who had people gunning for him and he was at his wit's end.
It could have been any of those reasons.
The 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, who was friends with the richest and most powerful people in the entire world, but the those two facts had nothing to do with each other.
Interesting.
It was all just, and speaking of prisons, Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison right now for trafficking underage girls to nobody.
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 contextual information at this point.
Can I tell you, look, I was not surprised.
Yeah.
Little, you know, I mean, I can't even say I was disappointed 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 invitation?
Yeah, no.
Then after the fallout, I'm kind of really glad they didn't call me about the binder day.
But I actually sympathize with Trump when that reporter asked him, what about the list?
And he goes, enough about Epstein.
I'm sick about talking about it.
I want to talk about the border.
I want to talk about this.
Because you know what my theory is?
If the official story is not true.
If The official story being Right, right, right.
If there if he belonged to intelligence as Alex Acosta reportedly said, U.S. attorney on the case when he was for Labor Secretary, you you were never going to get any more.
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.
Right.
Statecraft, broadly.
But then I guess the question is, why do you have Alina Abba going on Piers Morgan saying, oh, we have the files.
I'm looking at them.
They're on the desk.
Or Pambani.
Exactly.
for Panbondi.
But maybe Trump would want to release it too.
The one thing I'm confident of, I don't think Trump is having a problem with that.
I agree with him.
I think that would have been released ages ago.
They set the stage for the guy to be murdered, okay?
And they tried to imprison him four times or whatever.
So that's not it.
I think Trump is expressing a frustration that he wants to do these things.
He loves transparency.
He loves tweeting all his policies out.
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.
The world order would collapse.
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 do it.
Let'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.
But I agree.
I don't think he is in the files in any of that way.
Well, maybe he was, I don't know.
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 Harvard University.
Trust me, if it were a serious connection, that would have been the fifth prosecucution 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?
Yeah, right?
I'm up.
Here is a video prompt.
Ooh, two in a row.
You want healing and unity?
This guy!
the greatest threat to healing and unity in American history.
Get Donald Trump out of office and we don't give a good...
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 is in a straitjacket.
Yeah.
So this is a little better.
As he should be.
Yeah.
So like many old libs, Keith Olberman should get a pass for his New York subway vagrant behavior due to the obvious side effects of multiple booster shots.
Wow, this is a 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 libs, Olberman should get a pass for his crazy vagrant behavior due to the obvious side effects of multiple booster shots in conjunction with TDS.
I think those things go kind of hand in hand though.
Well, you would pay to kick him in the head, so you couldn't give him a pass.
Yeah.
I can't give him a pass.
Yeah, you can.
No, there's not.
Do you remember, you are so young and vibrant?
Me, I'm an old man.
Younger than Keith Oberman, 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 lib, huge lid and he loved him so many yankee game ones he yelled oh i love you keith you keep me sane i love i mean the guy was a couple and this was long before the booster shots and he was as crazy as he is today well so as you alluded to uh didn't know much about keith olberman uh prior to 2022, 2023.
I don't think I was overly involved or immersed in the political sphere.
I more so knew who Keith Olberman was from my dad, who is one of those, oh.
ESPN.
watchers until ESPN went like fully, fully insufferable.
Like they've always been like, like, yeah.
You know, but now it's it's beyond the peril.
So I knew who Keith Oberman was from my dad.
My dad loved him like a lot of like sports people did.
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 from me.
So I drink.
You drink.
I drink my water.
I drink guzzle that.
Kind of feeling it.
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 the biggest sports guy.
What's your sport if you have to pick?
I do have a sport that I actually play or to watch?
To watch.
Okay, okay.
Sweet Riley.
You're like a pickleball guy.
I play history pickleball.
I love a good game of gin rummy.
Does that go?
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, I would lean into pitches.
So you're getting hit in the elbow.
Yeah, elbow ribs, wherever.
Give you a little like a stitch mark.
Yeah, you look cool.
Yeah, 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.
And I, so I, but I, I've channeled all my sports love.
Okay.
Into.
trans male swimming no i'm kidding you know i've trans 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 espn i don't need espn i'll listen to paul o'niel on ds network do you want to know who my um celebrity crush is who dansby swanson he plays for the cubs you know who he is wow i know he's my celebrity crush he is i don't Yeah, I don't know.
I love him.
Wow.
He played at Vanderbilt.
And then he went to the Braves.
Now he's with the Cubs.
What does your husband think about this?
Well, my husband kind of looks like him.
So it's so good.
Yeah, hopefully that makes him feel good.
That's like my wife's celebrity crush is Denzel.
Oh, you guys are totally fine.
No, y'all are like twins.
If he was sitting here, I'd say, who's the real Michael?
Who do I?
Yeah, that's good.
Okay.
You're up.
Okay.
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.
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 cheapskate, the way they get away with it is they have you file for short-term disability.
Okay.
And so you get some of your salary, but you wouldn't really call that maternity leave.
Like in France, you get 16 years or something, I think.
It really is crazy.
Switzerland, I do think it's like a full year.
Yeah.
You don't have to work.
Even paternity leave.
the dads get.
Should there be Okay, wait.
So I'm guessing how you feel.
She got it wrong.
You know why?
You would have gotten it right.
I thought you were going to be of the mind that...
These companies got to take...
Like, why would the American people pay for that?
I'll tell you why.
Okay.
One, yeah, I think there were a bunch of problems with the Federal.
maternity leave policy.
It would violate subsidiarity.
It would create all sorts of moral hazards.
It would be a big problem.
So there are other better ways to do it.
Now, I do sort of support about 18 years of maternity leave for women.
I think it's probably, that'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.
Definitely.
Well, considering he has like 15 or 14, whatever the number it is.
That's great.
That's great.
We should also have, you know, marriage incentives 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.
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.
we I would be willing 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 pronatal, 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're the global empire.
find the money.
It is so 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.
Whatever the boxes are, people need to spit out kids.
And that's why, Riley, I want to thank you for doing your patriotic work.
My service to America.
That's so funny.
Can you tell the people, it's not so bad.
Have you had 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 super fit.
That's the only reason.
I don't know about super fit anymore.
think at one point.
I'm hoping it all bounces back.
How far can you run?
You know one of the things that I'm This morning, I ran eight miles.
I watched it one time.
That's the closest I ever came to.
Did you?
I 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 hopefully that sets me up well for for motherhood that will 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 Me and my, I'm like have the coolest family ever.
Like I'm so blessed to have the family that I do.
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 it's 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 i worked out the last time such like a dopamine release no it was i want to say the obama administration there's a chance it was early trump one yeah i know like the
administration.
Your grandma...
She's a beast.
A lady doesn't say.
She's 70?
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.
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 your great-grandmother.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, that's true.
If I were pregnant, if I could become pregnant, if I were a seahorse, I would be on bedrest 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 a little more efficient with it?
I'm like, yeah.
Yeah, sorry, let me just try a little harder.
Wow, okay.
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 big tooth.
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 be part of?
You need to take on Big Tooth.
There's like a big everything.
Big grocery.
Mm-hmm.
And he felt it was the tooth of a giant.
Okay.
That's the only big tooth I had considered.
Big tooth?
Yes.
It's like Bigfoot.
Big tooth.
Do you trust your dentist?
I know my answer.
Yes.
I said yes.
Yeah, of course.
Wow.
That was you trying to psych me out there.
Did I?
Yeah, that works.
I am...
That's right.
Yeah.
I remember that.
Yes, so maybe this will make some of the crunchy people and some of the, you know, like super maha people angry.
But I mean, we've been using toothpaste with fluoride, mouthwash with fluoride.
When you go to the dentist, they put that stuff in 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.
Only...
Appropriately sized tooth.
Yeah.
I don't believe in big tooth.
I don't believe in big tooth, Riley Gaines.
Wow.
And I will kick an orphan.
Yeah, in the head.
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 southern.
It could be anyone in Nashville.
But, you know, gentlemen of a certain age.
Do you know Riley Gaines?
I was like, yeah, I do.
He 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 was like, okay, well, hold on.
Now, hold on.
I'm not a I don't know if I'm introducing you at any point to Riley again.
But I remember I thought, that's so funny.
You were on this path.
You were gonna, 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?
Who knows?
They come up.
Hold on.
It feels like new things every single day.
But the Florida thing, like, 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.
present but just a little receded gum and they put fluoride on it feels better and I got I'm not of the mind to necessarily question that or believe it's giving me bad health I'm seven months pregnant I feel great yeah so you ran you ran eight miles with M ⁇ M this morning exactly yeah that's true exactly well what about hold on you hedged on the root canal I just heard about I never I luckily haven't had one yet but I think I'm close on on a tooth and I'd never heard that root canals,
you know, turn the frog's gay or whatever.
Well, I think anytime 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 it's I should have all four of them all of them Wow and they're all kind of crowding my mouth and 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 your 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 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.
Plastic?
I don't know.
Dermis?
Wait.
Hold on.
Can I get away with only getting like two of my teeth out?
I guess.
I did.
Yeah.
I should have my bottom ones.
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.
You'd be puffy.
I think you could do it though.
Thanks.
Yeah.
Because all those years of Little League, it prepared you.
It did.
It prepared me to be mocked and made fun of.
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That's all I want.
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That's pretty good.
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No, I don't.
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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 red lights that feels like okay so i'm gonna read these All at once is that what's happening?
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 Davies to tell me to shut up.
He says, shut up.
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.
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.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yes or no on that.
But...
He's definitely done weird stuff with girls, too.
Did you see he has a new song out?
It's called Pretty Girls.
I saw that.
You should watch the video.
I know I did.
I'm going to insert a clip of the video right here?
It's kind of like the will doth protest too much, me thinks.
Yeah, definitely.
It's true.
Is there a concerted effort in the expert community to discredit historical evidence of a world flood to delegitimize the biblical account?
I need to read that again.
Do you want me to read that again?
Please.
Is there a concerted effort in the expert, it's in quotes, community to discredit 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, it's just the miasma of liberalism and materialism is just impelling all of these people to deny what obviously occurred.
But I don't think it's, I don't think they talk to each other.
I just think it kind of happens.
So you were hung up on that word conservative.
Conservative.
I didn't even really look at that word.
I was just like, yes, I do think there are people doing this.
Okay, interesting.
Okay.
Is sunscreen to blame for the spike in skin cancer that began in the 1970s when it became popular in the United States?
Got it wrong.
Yes, it is.
You know why I think that?
I wouldn't have said that a year ago.
Okay.
Because sweet little Elisa, my beloved bride, is, she got into all this stuff.
Okay.
And now she makes us get the chalk sunscreen, and she makes me wear the beef tallow deodorant, which is $22 a can or jar or whatever it is.
And I thought it was all ridiculous.
I don't know, man, that aluminum.
But what changed your mind?
Like, do you know someone who got skin cancer because of sunscreen?
my wife has just propagandized me so much now.
And I'll tell you what, she got me a little bit.
No.
No, there's no direct evidence of.
any of this it's all kind of like the crunchy gobbled together but but big sunscreen this is big sunscreen big skin big dermis yeah 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 Elisa cuts out the seed oils.
I don't really get sunburns anymore.
I thought, okay, well, if the seed oils have fallen, I don't know.
I think so.
Yeah, sure.
I have a hard time even looking into all that stuff, truthfully, because I think it's more so I don't want it.
Ignorance is bliss for me.
It's the red pill and the blue pill.
It's really, really hard to implement.
It's so expensive that I need to do a podcast so that I can be sponsored by Vandy Crisps so that I can get delicious potato chips without seed oils.
I hope they're watching this.
I know.
I hope they're as a freebie.
You get as a freebie, but I'll evangelize that product all day.
It, you have to.
Yeah.
But this is why.
And this is how the whole society.
has collapsed.
We say, well, it's a little cheaper.
Oh, we'll drive.
Okay, we'll import the gas.
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.
That's cheaper and this and that.
But my thing 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.
Yeah.
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...
I use the whatever goop she gives me.
That's why you smell bad.
That's why I smell.
I'm kidding.
You know why I smell bad?
Because of the flip side.
I actually think it's a great smell but some disagree i own a cigar company i own so i won't put the d 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 yeah i love them yeah i drink at least one a day.
What's your poison?
What do you drink?
Alani.
Have you ever heard of that?
Never even heard of that.
It's like a total marketing.
No, not really.
It's like, I mean, you can get it at a gas station.
It's just a total marketing thing, I think that especially appeals to women because the cans are so cute.
And they get me.
Like I understand, like I'm an influencer's dream.
I'm basically begging you to influence me.
Like I will buy that product.
Does your kid want a second-hand cigar?
That's what she's been saying to me.
A mother knows.
Yes.
A mother knows.
So everyone has a vice.
Yeah.
I'm not going to let mine be sunscreen.
Aluminum.
Aluminum.
Give me a box of Mayflower so I can get to ride it.
This is the rapid fire round.
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, 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.
feel pretty torn on this.
Do you have an answer?
Yes.
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 Skivetty 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 OnlyFans.
No.
Okay.
Well, she's incredibly fit, very fit.
She's beautiful.
She's done a fantastic job of marketing herself and her abilities and profiting off that, which I can respect.
I think there are some things that she does that I'm like, mm, maybe questionable.
What is it?
I don't care that this is rapid fire.
I want the tea.
I don't care if 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 the time.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, to me, a man in a speedo, like, it's, I'm not talking about San Francisco Pride, though, that's a little different, especially when kids are around, but like, it's, I think I'm a little more desensitized or, 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.
How, who, who is Paul?
I don't think Paul.
Who is Paul Skeens?
You're the baseball guy.
He's the Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they're, he played baseball.
at LSU.
Yeah, yeah.
Now he's in the big leagues and All this, rookie of the year, all this stuff.
Interesting, 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.
Wow.
But I think as a whole, she's done a pretty good job of maintaining her image and being sort of a role model to young girls.
Yeah.
That's good.
I'm glad to hear it.
Mostly because I wear a speedo around the Daily Wire.
Yeah.
So I'm glad that.
No, like, it would be, if I saw that, I would just be like, oh, there's Denzel.
There is.
My cow, there he is.
What's he doing here?
Yeah, I loved you in Training Day.
Okay, the second rapid fire question.
We're moving too fast is homosexuality more nature than nurture more nature than nurture 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 uh you're gonna say yes I say no.
I got it wrong.
I mean, I thought you were going to be a little more moderate and live on it.
No.
Yeah, you say it's a nerd.
No, I'm very much of the mindset of...
And 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 little kids who super, duper, duper feminine.
Little liberaches.
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 nurture than it is.
And then guys in prison, you know, do weird stuff.
And so obviously that's true.
The only thing that has 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 a little light in the loafers.
is have you there's some study that says if you got it you got your hand right here like this right so you see my my finger okay is and yours is the ring to index finger ratio.
So you see how we pass the straight to the right.
We're a straight because your ring is notably bigger than your index.
It goes up higher.
For homosexuals, what would you do if you said this and mine were the same size?
Well, I don't know if it applies to chicks.
That'd be crazy.
We found it.
We'd be like, you are a gay man.
We'd talk about it.
Will Thomas was right.
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 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.
Okay.
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 a hair part really natural?
You can change your hair part.
There's a natural aspect to your part.
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?
Yeah, I had the side part.
Did you do the thing those girls did that was so annoying?
Were they, Okay.
You remember that thing?
Me in sixth grade was definitely not doing that, 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 a thing.
It was like that was like the Tumblr era.
Yeah.
Like the, yeah, definitely.
Like the aesthetic of it.
You know, I was a VSCO guy.
I'm a VSCO guy.
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.
And this, she said something about VSCO, 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 because I'm a big fanouk.
No, I'm k'm kidding.
It is on the left, but it's a little bit more, it's a little more center.
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.
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, you know.
Okay, okay.
So my question is for the people who wear their fingers or whatever, you know, it's like they've got the even fingers and the part on the right.
There's got to be a nature aspect.
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.
Yeah.
Which is standard for, I think, most people.
Like Egyptian is very much slanted all the way.
Something is like, yeah.
So I thought it was more so of like your descent.
I want to get into phrenology.
Like head sizes as they pertain to.
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.
We're in the rapid fire round.
Okay.
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 right were you in that one yes and it was the biggest mistake i've ever made in my life wait oh all right then i want elda now that actually gives me good information about this okay so the only thing is there is you're gonna say no yes i'm gonna say no okay okay i remember that but i didn't i didn't have no problem like 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.
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 wasn't like Playboy.
No, it wasn't like Playboy.
But it still is not a good representation of myself.
And this even is, like, looping back in with the whole Libby Dunn thing.
This still is not a good representation of just me in general, how I conduct myself, 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.
Because this guy did a beer too.
He's like a kind of cool guy.
Even not being pregnant.
Like I just am not a drinker.
Like I don't.
Like I'm just, I just am not.
Yeah.
Whatever.
I kind of got sucked into this.
So you're saying you were, 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.
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.
This is something that you're rehired, by the way.
wow yeah okay um so they were all defending it they were all like defending it and i was the only one to for the most part i just stayed pretty like silent about it and they were trying to loot me in on their side and defend it i'm like i can't even defend myself here like i i deserve to i deserve the slander look is this is that's a great attitude dad because look in the grand scheme of things You're a very nice looking young lady.
You were not a mother.
You were in a swimsuit.
Like to me, that wasn't that bad.
But 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 that they regret.
No, I regret this.
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.
Very self-aware person.
Yeah, yeah.
And I knew it at the time, too.
It didn't come.
Was it that salacious?
No.
No, it wasn't.
I mean, no, it wasn't.
You just think the whole, yeah, I agree that whenever people try to make conservatism cool, like, it's like, you know, I'm not a regular mom.
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.
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, I'm going to be cool.
Because I'm going to be like a cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But we're not cool.
The only way to 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 a hip conservative.
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.
I would still strike at all the time.
I was invited to do a celebrity...
That was the one.
Yeah.
What were you doing?
I was there.
I know.
I thought, hold on.
My, I said, I don't, what?
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.
And I thought I'm going to have horrifying flashbacks to that when I'm there.
So it's like, what's the movie?
Sandlot.
It'll be Sandlot.
No, Benchwarmer.
It would be the natural because I'd get shot probably.
It would be Major League.
Yeah.
Because I would become Charlie Sheen.
Do a bunch of drugs beforehand.
Yeah.
OK, so now It's the final round.
I feel 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 Riley could still win, but the score is set.
A lot to a little?
It's a lot to a little.
It's Michael 4, Riley negative 2.
Well, if I get both these right, then you win.
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, and then you're going to m 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 is because all the worst Democrats claim to be Catholic.
Okay.
So I put mine on where I think.
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 would answer.
Well, that just gave it away.
I did.
So you locked in what you said.
Yeah.
I was tricking you because I know the rules the whole time.
No.
No.
All right, hold on.
We're going to see how devious Riley is.
Well, okay.
Hold on, you haven't locked it yet.
I don't even know if I fully read the question.
You got to lock it.
Don't you change your answer now?
Don't you?
That would be so devious.
It'd be like kicking an orphan in the head.
I would never do that.
No.
Except for $10 million.
Yeah.
Million now?
No, billion.
Billion, okay.
Well, and million.
I would do it for $10 million.
And $10.
And $10.
You know what?
I'm changing the rules of this game because we said we got to do that do that.
The winner is who has the least amount of points.
Actually.
So I win.
I love winning.
No, I do.
Okay, it's the old thing.
You just answered.
Oh, no, you got to move mine 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.
One is the mainline going, because there are a bunch of damn Catholics, 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 bishopric's stuff.
And divorced Catholics.
Divorced Catholics become evangelical.
Interesting.
Yeah.
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 and they become evangelical.
Because they still want a religious thing.
You know, there's a connection.
But I think the main driver for evangelicalism is people who want to be Protestant, but are just like, I can't be Episcopalian.
No one's been an Episcopalian since like 1948.
Right.
It's ridiculous.
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 Queenie.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, so we both got him 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.
You make it great.
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?
It is disorderly and sets up near occasions of sin to have a bunch of hormone-filled dudes train for hours in a pool alongside females in swimsuits.
Hold on.
This is a point of information.
Okay.
Because I wasn't on the swim team.
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 there were only women at that meet except for one.
But you mean like in practice?
It's not 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.
Yeah, no, I'm not saying, I'm just talking about in the pool.
You guys are...
But yes, yes.
You would.
Wow, okay.
So the premise is fair.
It is disorderly and sets up near occasions of sin of a bunch of hormone-filled dudes trained for hours.
Hormone-filled as in?
Like, variety.
No, natural hormones not artificial hormones not like will-tom stuff so like testosterone like men tea high tea okay okay read it one more time it is disorderly okay and sets up near occasions of sin okay to have a bunch of high tea gigachads in speedo train for hours in a pool alongside slinky little ladies wearing bikinis I
gotta answer how you would answer.
Okay.
Well, I locked in my answer.
Thank you.
He says you gotta lock in your answer.
I, as if I didn't do it.
He could have seen it on camera.
So I need to move yours.
Yes.
To where?
What would you answer?
I had a little bit of a tell.
So it felt like you were putting some of the things in the background.
It's disordered and sets up your occasions of sin.
Now you've got experience.
You've been there.
For me, I've just been to the beach.
Yeah, obviously, right?
It's crazy.
This is the one, you know, in the 400s, they were arresting women for wearing bikinis.
Right.
And a somewhat unpopular view I have?
They were probably right.
No, men should wear...
Men should wear, like, I'm only 3% joking.
Men should wear those 1920s swimsuits where it's like a shirt with pants and a top hat.
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 no I know it's crazy no I know right 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 that's often the case not be wearing that's often true so it's it's more of like a repulsion yes I would say That's true.
Most people, I think is fair to say, don't really look good on naturelle.
But this is actually.
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 about women wearing veils and stuff.
Or the burkini.
The burkini at the beach.
It's like a burka 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 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.
Bit of.
Yeah, a bit of flab.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I answered yes.
You answered yes.
Oh, yes.
We called it swimcest.
Like it's a thing.
Like it's a known thing.
Of course.
Where swimmers, you just, I don't know if it's more so like, again, 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 cests.
Yeah.
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 cests.
You are.
And I swore I wasn't.
Which is legal in Tennessee.
It's legal, not in other states, but in Tennessee.
Yeah, no.
That's why he came here.
He wanted to swim cests.
You know what's funny?
Even in college, I was buddies in high school.
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 swimmers.
I wasn't six hours a day.
So it was like, you don't really have time to meet other people.
Like if you're swimming 5 a.m.
to 8 a.m., you go to class, you come back to the pool, 1.30 to 4.30, you eat dinner with the swimmers.
Like it's kind of all you know.
So I think it's more so the schedule thing, but...
You're all in good shape at least.
Yeah.
You're wearing You're all brimming with testosterone, the blood's flowing, you're just, right?
How do you?
stake which would be a topic for another time so I think that means I got I got many more points so therefore you won yeah I love this very impressive my favorite game I've ever played you need to go check out Riley's content on Instagram at Riley G Barker not gains that was your old name that was the old name it's called the maiden name because Riley is a conservative normal sane woman Riley G Barker And you got to go watch her show on Outkick,
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I love a good pun.
Check out this teaser.
In just two tweets, Simone Biles basically tarnished her reputation.
to anyone with a shred of honesty, to anyone with a moral compass, and to anyone with an inherent, innate desire to protect women, to fight for equal opportunity for both men and women, especially as it pertains to sports.
Congratulations, Simone Biles.
It looks great.
I like that name.
She, um...
It was awesome because the time of this filming, there were two girls in Oregon who filed a suit 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.
So her...
Simone Biles had to walk it back.
Yeah, but what good does that do when you've already, at that point, it's like a total Gavinusa move where you've just pissed off everyone.
Yeah, yeah.
But to me, though, I thought that was such a white bill because I thought, look, Simone Biles almost certainly did not change her opinion.
That was written by some PR team.
It's almost right.
I know what that dash means.
Yeah, it wasn't written by Grot because it wasn't in German, 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 an imposing enough patrofamilius, he'll say it anyway, even though he doesn't believe it.
And that's half good.
That gets you halfway there.
It's good enough.
It's good enough.
And that's how I felt with Simone Biles.
She made the apology, 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 all the other people.
I take all credit for it.
Walsh did nothing.
I think it was all me.
It was.
Yeah.
You had nothing to do with it.
No.
Your activism had nothing to do with it.
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 it was suddenly trans movement done.
Riley, congratulations on your improbable and impressive victory.
