Riley Gaines: Happy No Snakes Day

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Do you have the launch of your first book? How is it so dramatically different from when you were swimming, looking to finish out, and you told me, I think, that you were going to be a dentist or a dental hygienist. Yeah, what I wanted to specialize in actually was endodontics, which is like root canals.

I'd already put my deposit down, accepted my seat in the dental school, taken the DAT and scored in the top percentile nationally, could have gone anywhere I wanted for dental school. But now here we are, and man, this is never a position that you could imagine yourself in or that you could really even be prepared for. And truthfully, almost kind of ashamedly, I didn't have any sort of background in understanding our government or civil process or civics in general.

I knew we had three branches. That's quite literally it. And so I've been so eye-opened this past year and a half, really, in understanding how our government works, the political sphere, the media. I mean, gosh, I've just been eye-opened, and once you are eye-opened, it's really hard to turn away.

And you didn't. No. You dug in.

Absolutely. And so that's really what I've dedicated myself to now is fighting back, pushing against, again, the media, corporate America, academia even. It's been super fun, I'll say, to watch kind of the dismantling of even these institutions that once would be called prestigious, Harvard, UPenn, MIT. There's many more to expose. It's infiltrated into every realm. The left has seemingly overtaken the public square. And so we need people who are, I won't say unafraid because there are fears, but we need people who are courageous who, despite being afraid, stand up for what is true and what is right and what is fair and what is just. Yeah, between what's happened in sports, and we'll get into that, but also what's happened since the October 7th attacks. Right. It's exposing you. I mean, you're smart enough and athletic enough to play division one, to swim division one, and again, the University of Pennsylvania, and excel.

So all those things are extremely rare. But were you aware of the left wing bias that was taking place? I knew media bias in general existed. But oh my gosh, I did not understand to the extent, even, yes, speaking of what's going on, what has gone on since October 7th, if you watch the two main media outlets, Fox versus CNN, one will say the war in Israel and one will say the war on Israel. And it's such a small, subtle difference, but those things matter.

And so now that I've noticed it, yeah, it's just impossible not to notice. And I feel compelled, really, I feel responsible in sharing this kind of knowledge to people my age, especially, being 23, you know, college age, Gen Z people, they're not keeping up, which they need to be, because ultimately, we're going to be left with this country. We are the future. And the thing that I think is so alarming is, okay, not so much me and you disagree, but I want to destroy you for disagreeing with me. Excuse me?

What are you trying to do? I'm literally canceled. You know, the governor of North Carolina was just on, now he's with no labels.

And he said, you know, I literally was one of the first canceled because he believed that men and women should use separate bathrooms. Yeah. How crazy is that?

No, I know. We've reached that point. And they'll really stop it.

There's no links they won't go to in my own personal experience. I have had, I've been spit on. I've had drink support on me. I've had glass bottles thrown at me. I've been punched by men who are wearing dresses, which fortunately for me, their punches don't actually hurt that bad. I've been held for ransom for over four hours, where these protesters demanded that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money.

And all for saying men and women are different. I've had people show up at my house. I mean, I've had people stake outside my hotel rooms saying the most obscene, awful, profane things you could possibly imagine.

It's wild. And your thought was, instead of backing up, I'm doubling down. Yeah, it's really kind of reassuring, truthfully.

And it took me a while to get to that point where I could understand this, but when they're so desperate to keep you quiet, it means you're right over the target and they don't waste ammunition on targets that they don't want to hit. Riley Gaines is with me now. Her children's book is out with a great message, Happy No Snakes Day. And it's really for kids to show some courage in school, to stand up for what they believe in and not be bullied. But this whole transgender thing, people try to say, well, there's a lack of tolerance for people. You don't understand what people are going through when they want to have their gender identity. And once they go through it, why can't they play sports like you? What is your answer to that?

Well, first of all, women should not be just reduced down to merely a testosterone level. That's what we're seeing. A lot of these governing bodies, like USA Boxing, what the hell is that?

I'm still trying to figure that one out. I mean, that's that's the most crazy thing in the name of progress, weirdly enough. We are glorifying men for punching women in the face, giving them prize money and titles and championship belts.

I mean, that's that's that's just it would be objectively funny if there weren't real consequences because it's like a Saturday Night Live. Because these are trained fighters, right? So you learn to be a trained fighter as a man, you become a woman, vice versa. Because you spend eight hours a day learning to hit other people.

Yep, yep, yep. So but anyways, despite that, men and women are inherently and innately different, more than just the testosterone level. You have things like lung size or heart size or, of course, height, limb length. I mean, the list goes on of these differences, even in swimming, my sport. It might not seem like a big deal, but men have, on average, a 40 percent larger throat than women. And that matters when you're grasping for air. And that's not going to change with testosterone suppression. So these these differences, they are there.

They are real. God, when he created man and woman, that should be really the only distinction that we need. So today, I just picked up this story at Rikers Island, a former prisoner in a women's jail is suing New York City for allegedly and their jail staff for ignoring her warnings back last year that a transgender woman housed among females was actually a man pretending to be a woman. According to the suit, the victim was not only believed that the alleged not only believed that the alleged perpetrator was lying about their gender identity, but the prison was purposely instructed to claim that he was transgender by the D.O.C. staff so they could stay in the female dorm where he would have access to female inmates.

And you said to me what when I told you this story? Well, first of all, this is not unique to just New York and New York prisons alone. They have posted placards and they're all women's prisons about pregnancy prevention and they're all women's prisons.

It's happening in New Jersey, Ohio, Kansas and California. Of course, in California in recent weeks, there was over, I believe, 1600 men in the state of California apply to be in women's prisons. And yeah, these are men who are convicted of heinous things such as kidnapping, child pornography, rape, and they're getting into these women's prisons and they are raping these inmates, these female inmates. But I mean, truthfully, can we even be surprised by this when these are the systems that we have in place? How can they, how do they not think people are going to take advantage? They're already prisoners. They'll do anything to cheat the system. Yeah.

Why would they say, well, let my incarceration be something more enjoyable? Absolutely. Right.

And that's what's going to continue to happen. And you know how many women who have now suddenly identified as men to get into men's prisons? How many? Yeah, zero. Absolutely zero. Zero. No kidding.

So that's what we're seeing now. Are you still swimming? Here and there. Yeah, not necessarily competitively, but I'm doing some running and marathons and triathlons and I still love competing. I really, I love to win. Right. So yeah, here and there. So you got out of the water, but you're still competing.

Absolutely. Triathlon should be right up your alley. The hardest thing is to swim.

Well, I beg to differ. That bike, it gets me. Does the bike get you?

The bike gets me. I know. I know. I thought the bike would be the easiest for you. I know. I know.

What is it? Two and a half miles for an average triathlon? Well, it depends. I have different distances and so a sprint triathlon is 400 meters swimming. I think it's 12 miles biking and then a 5k, but I prefer the Olympic distance, which is 800, half a mile swim.

I think 25 ish miles on a bike and then a six mile run. Are you even winded after a half mile swim? No, that takes me like less than 10 minutes maybe.

Oh my goodness. Yeah. And did you ever get burnt out from swimming?

Yeah, which is very common. You know, I swam from the time I was four till 22. So that's 18 years of your life you dedicate to your sport, which it's two times a day every day.

In college, we swam six hours every day, I think it was 15,000 yards plus, which is 10 miles every day. And it's solemn, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That's one word to describe it. Well, you got to be self-motivated and that's going to work in your life.

It got that toughness. Do you have a few more minutes? Absolutely.

All right. So listen, Riley Gaines is here. You can go out today. It is publishing day.

So Happy No Snakes Day is it. If you're thinking about getting a book for your kids with a great message, that's where to get it. At Riley G. Barker is where to find you, right? Yeah. Yeah. And you can look up www.bravebooks.com.

If you subscribe to their Freedom Island Book Club, you can get my book for free. All right. There you go. Thanks Riley. Thank you.

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For parents listening right now, you're driving, just remember this name, Happy No Snakes Day. You could go to Brave Books or do you have it on your website too, I imagine? Yeah. Yeah. I'm on my Twitter, which is Riley underscore Gaines underscore. There's a link there.

You can buy the book on its own or you can subscribe to the subscription service and get my book for free. All right. So you're, you've been in a tornado really for about the last 18 months. We were just going over who, as you'd go to fight for women in sports, which I thought we would, you know, I thought it was a done deal with Title Nine. That used to be controversial.

Title Nine. Men's sports in order to get the numbers equal to women were cutting different sports. That was once the controversy.

Now where all those women that work so hard to get here, you're almost divided. You mentioned that Billie Jean King is fighting for the trans men. And you have Martina Navratilova, who is firmly in your corner. She's a lesbian. Yeah.

Yeah. She's a part of this community. And so they call it the LGBTQ community and, and really it's kind of crazy cause we don't agree on, on much else outside of this talking about political issues, but she's totally on board because she was an athlete.

She knows that she wouldn't have had the opportunities and success that she had, had she not, had she had to compete against men. But yeah, you think of someone like Billie Jean King, who is really who we have to accredit Title Nine to. Yeah.

You think about it. She played in the battle of the sexes. It was this huge thing. And, and now Billie Jean King, along with the National Organization of Women, which is just mind blowing, they're leading the charge and totally undermining everything that they once fought for. And they're actively fighting for male inclusion in women's sports. People, I mean, women must be really confused because they used to know exactly who to follow and who's setting the pace and now they aren't. But do you find that you're winning people over because your argument's so solid? Definitely.

Not only is the argument solid, it is the most basic of arguments. It's we're at this point now where it's kind of like this whole emperor wears no clothes thing. So many of us are thinking it.

So many athletes and coaches and parents and medical professionals, the list goes on. So many of us are thinking it, but people are terrified to say it. So yes, we're definitely winning people over. I don't think it's, you know, you look at the media and you look at how our government officials, elected officials are voting. And you would think this is a very partisan issue that falls on party lines, but it's not.

Every poll shows there's a recent Gallup poll that showed over 70 percent of Americans agree that men should be, should not be in women's sports or women's bathrooms. So Lea Thomas in particular, she's the one we always see you famously, you're behind her be when no one really knew who you were like, what the hell? She had won a, she had won a meet, I guess. Yeah. Do you know the picture I'm talking about?

I do. What is that? What was that meet? It was our national championships of 2022, which is of course, I mean, it's the meet you work not just all year for, but all your life for.

It's comparatively, it's more, it's faster and more competitive than the Olympics because of the depth that the US has. So the fastest meet in the world. Yeah. Thomas won a national title, swimming three years on the men's team previously at UPenn, drinking in the 400s and 500s, mediocre at best, to then dominating the entire country of women. Right. And your husband, then I guess fiance or boyfriend, swam on the same team, right?

He's on the men's team. Yeah. Yeah. So my husband competed against Will Thomas. And so to now kind of have this come full circle and I've, I've also had to compete against Will, Lea, Thomas just as we said before the break here, like it's like a South Park episode or like a Babylon B headline, but it's, it's real life now. Right. It is. And now what kind of life that Lea, Will, Lea Thomas has graduated and is I guess in law school. Right. And that's the, this is the thing that kills me because we hear people all the time.

I hear it all the time when I travel state to state. We hear people say, look, they just want to be happy. They just want to live their life. First of all, Thomas was invited fully to undress in our locker rooms, exposing his mail parts, all of the things. But Thomas now, and this is all through social media, it's all public through social media, openly a Satanist, openly a communist, openly a part of Antifa. Which I mean, how I feel and how majority of us felt is we were being forced to buy the NCAA to basically participate in this person's fetish because now he's dating another trans identifying person who is a male who identifies as a woman. So two men actually pretending to be women, pretending to be women. So two men who call themselves lesbians and look, I don't want to police what people do behind closed doors. Of course not, but don't infringe upon me. Don't come in my locker room exposing your mail parts.

It affects it. You're swimming two times a day since the time you were four. You won a shot at a national championship, thank you, going against other women. Steroids used to be a big controversy. And lastly, the guy finally had his, this guy finally had his surgery and he keeps his testicles in a jar. That's, that's, yeah, again, through social media, it's, it's, it's on there.

They have their testicles pickled in a jar on their mantle at their house. Yeah. Hard to imagine. And I'd rather not, but I mean, that's what you're dealing with and that's what you worked your way through.

And that's why you're out. Kick show is so valuable, uh, games for girls because I have my, both my daughters are college athletes too. And we could, I worry, especially soccer.

If a man pretending to be a woman goes out there, you're talking about head balls, crushing physical game, let alone boxing, which is insanity. Uh, I don't know if she would play if actually she saw that no, um, pick up happy no snakes day. Thanks so much for stopping by on day one. Hopefully you'll be a regular guest. Of course. Thank you, Brian. And pick up out and don't forget to watch her on out kick. Keep it here, Brian. Kill me. Joe. Listen to the show and free on Fox news podcast plus on Apple podcast, Amazon music with your prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.