Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Amir Odom on Leaving the LGBTQ Movement, Identity Politics, and Keeping Life Private ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:00:34.520 It's the last day of Pride Month.

00:00:37.240 Are you tired?

00:00:37.980 I'm tired.

00:00:38.840 My guest today is tired.

00:00:40.280 And he really shouldn't be because he's technically top of the oppression totem pole. 1.00

00:00:45.540 He's a black gay man. 0.92

00:00:47.140 Today we're talking to Amir. 0.65

00:00:49.120 He is just fantastic.

00:00:51.040 He's got his own YouTube channel.

00:00:52.960 Nearly a million subscribers you guys can go over and subscribe to Amir Odom.

00:00:56.880 very excited for all things blm identity politics and his hot take that would surely get him

00:01:03.460 canceled and more listen here hey guys i'm headed to dc this week for the great american state fair

00:01:10.340 i cannot wait i'm going to be doing a live podcast and a meet and greet at 3 30 p.m at the fox news

00:01:16.040 booth this is at 12th and madison please come and see me i can't wait to see you guys hopefully see

00:01:21.820 you soon well amir thanks for joining the riley gain show nonetheless on the very last day of pride

00:01:29.800 month i've got to ask you what do you make of the current state of the lgbtq plus plus plus plus

00:01:39.560 plus movement and do you associate with that community i think the current state of it is

00:01:46.140 a hot mess it's a hot mess express there's a lot of different things going on out there

00:01:49.960 a lot of things that i don't stand for hence why i don't really feel represented or stand with the

00:01:54.580 lgbtq community maybe 15 years ago if you asked me was like sure possibly but now knowing that

00:02:01.760 the community honestly just stands for trans kids trans women in sports drag queens in front of 0.96

00:02:08.020 children and just just debauchery out in the streets no i don't really stand for that um and 0.75

00:02:14.420 it's that what it's become give us a little background on you um because you're one of

00:02:19.960 these figures who honestly i admire a lot because i feel like in today's like current state of of

00:02:27.720 social media influencers if you will uh you're very much put into a box of you're either this

00:02:34.060 maga influencer or you're a crazy leftist but you're someone who represents you know you you

00:02:40.260 really don't have to be either of those things. So, so give us a little background on you and 0.53

00:02:45.640 maybe where you are on the political spectrum. Yeah. Thank you. So right now I would say I'm

00:02:50.900 pretty much center right, politically homeless. So you would say, uh, started making content

00:02:56.220 online around 2020, YouTube around 2023. We're almost at a million subs, which is just blows

00:03:01.620 my mind. Um, but yeah, I mean, growing up, obviously I'm black, but I'm also gay. And

00:03:07.340 always told that i have to be this like raging democrat that white people hate me that i'm 0.94

00:03:12.820 gonna die living in america and it wasn't until i started thinking for myself and looking at 0.53

00:03:17.120 different videos online and exploring different topics and ideas where i discovered i'm more than 0.74

00:03:22.060 that i discovered black people aren't just getting like i honestly thought like 10 000 black kids are

00:03:27.340 getting shot and armed by the cops every year 10 000 whole time any number 10 to 20 which is still

00:03:32.900 bad but like it's not to the extent of what I was told and then the whole gay side I mean

00:03:38.920 I've always known I was gay but they tried to block me in this box of I have to fit into the

00:03:45.000 LGBTQ community on top of oh I'm black I have to fit into the black community and lock myself in

00:03:49.720 this ideological box of what a black guy and a gay guy is supposed to be and the more I've grown 0.93

00:03:55.800 up the more I realize that I don't have to fall into that nobody does and you're allowed to just

00:04:00.900 be yourself. You're allowed to just have sane point of views and be chill. And I've learned

00:04:06.640 throughout making this content online on YouTube, you have the mass community out there of writing

00:04:11.380 people that feel the same way. I have a large following of Black Americans that feel like

00:04:16.000 they don't have to lock themselves into this having a Black card, being a Democrat, 0.95

00:04:20.640 and hating white people, and have a large gay audience that says, hey, I don't feel represented 0.97

00:04:25.280 in the gay community. I feel like the modern LGBTQ community is taking away our rights, 0.95

00:04:29.840 is really sending us down a dark path. 1.00

00:04:32.340 And I'm just here to highlight the perspectives

00:04:34.600 that aren't really shown the most.

00:04:36.760 You know, it feels relevant to talk about,

00:04:39.360 given that it's been national news

00:04:42.040 over the past few weeks,

00:04:43.160 is the Carmelo Anthony case.

00:04:46.020 And some of the discussion that we have seen online

00:04:48.380 from African Americans

00:04:50.160 about what the ruling was, the verdict.

00:04:54.180 What do you make of that?

00:04:55.500 I mean, it seems like to me,

00:04:57.000 obviously as a white person,

00:04:58.540 uh, you know, outside looking into, to the online discussion here, it almost appears as if there's

00:05:04.840 a faction of society that, that like wants to be oppressed, which I think is a super weird,

00:05:11.100 you know, position to be in where you almost want to be marginalized. You want to be the victim

00:05:16.760 and it, maybe it makes sense because when you're, you know, oppressed, it's better than being the

00:05:21.660 oppressor because you're actually owed something. But, but I'd love to hear your perspective

00:05:25.020 specifically surrounding the Carmelo Anthony discussion.

00:05:28.480 There's a lot of Black people out there that, you know,

00:05:31.240 if you aren't oppressed, 1.00

00:05:33.300 then your whole worldview is destructive, so to say.

00:05:35.640 So when I see the crowds of people outside that hearing

00:05:39.220 and they're crying and they're angry,

00:05:41.320 I understand it a little bit because I was there,

00:05:44.600 especially back in 2016, 2017, March and BLM.

00:05:47.060 I was crying in the streets

00:05:48.220 because I was literally under psychosis.

00:05:50.660 Like, I was brainwashed by the media, 0.99

00:05:52.620 by, you know, mainstream liberal black celebrities 0.85

00:05:56.820 that I was a victim 0.87

00:05:58.820 and that everything's to blame for white people and slavery

00:06:01.420 and that's that.

00:06:03.020 So there are people that are trapped

00:06:05.120 into this mental state of where I'm always being oppressed,

00:06:07.860 I'm always nothing,

00:06:09.340 and they locked themselves in that box.

00:06:11.260 But in regards to the whole Carmelo

00:06:13.880 and everything that happened there,

00:06:15.980 it is wrong that he got stabbed.

00:06:18.040 I'm glad the guy's going to jail. 1.00

00:06:19.740 I just think that what I've seen from the black community is they're, one, it irritates me that they have this amount of energy for this one case where a black kid stabbed a white kid and the black kid goes to jail. 1.00

00:06:37.700 They're so angry about it, but that literally happens every single day in Chicago and it's crickets. 0.99

00:06:43.020 Like they don't acknowledge any type of black on black crime ever.

00:06:46.180 but i have seen that people are more so upset at the

00:06:51.140 how he's in jail but there's other cases where they're like for example the rick chow case i

00:07:00.220 don't know if you've been familiar with that um this asian guy that chased a black guy out his

00:07:04.760 gas station shot him in the back like 150 yards down the street and he got away scot-free there's 0.83

00:07:09.980 black people that are more upset and like throwing the blame somewhere else when reality didn't seem 0.98

00:07:14.460 to lick the citrus for what it is and it was wrong you can't just go up and stab somebody no 0.98

00:07:19.380 matter what he said no matter how they're fighting what they're doing you don't do that so i don't

00:07:25.460 know it's just it's sad to see how loud they are over something that happens every single day in

00:07:30.280 our own communities yeah what do you make of i don't feel like i've heard much about you know

00:07:36.220 the current state of blm as an organization right obviously back in 2020 2021 uh this was an

00:07:44.400 organization that that you know profited i think is the right word to use off of the the death of

00:07:51.620 george floyd do you know where the organization is now do we know who's if anyone is still benefiting

00:07:57.580 from this because i i can certainly recall headlines where you know some of the the people

00:08:02.880 who head up the organization they were living in like 14 15 million dollar mansions you know so

00:08:08.420 so what's the current state of blm do you know they're out there scamming the black folk for

00:08:12.220 their money the current state of it i would say it's dormant um it came out a little bit for the

00:08:16.960 carmel anthony situation i think we're going to see it a lot more when it comes to this next

00:08:20.900 presidential race because you know they only pop up when someone's gonna be running for president

00:08:24.460 something's gonna happen they're gonna come out they'll be marching the street tearing down the

00:08:28.200 cities and it'll be interesting to see them pop out again because i do know from 2020 to now

00:08:36.640 i mean it's nine day difference within black community and how many black people have woken 0.72

00:08:42.620 up to understand and know that blm was a scam i mean the rapper little yachty talks about how

00:08:48.140 blm was a scam when they're just stealing money so i think the organization is dormant i think 0.64

00:08:52.840 people are still rooting and tooting behind this whole black lives matter we're all in they gotta 0.64

00:08:56.200 help your black car support black people but i'm very curious to see if something else major were

00:09:02.100 to happen would it have the same effect as george foy did um i don't think it would but right now

00:09:08.900 i'd say yeah it's just dormant until something happens unfortunately do you think that president

00:09:16.680 trump resonates well with with black voters especially those who you know are relatively

00:09:23.340 tuned in and they don't have to know everything that's going on politically i don't think as

00:09:27.440 human beings we were actually even designed to keep up with everything going on but they watch

00:09:32.340 the press conferences they see president trump whether you like him or not he is funny and like

00:09:37.940 he's very charismatic and he says what's on his mind like do you think that resonates

00:09:42.260 yeah and i think it always have like if you look at how many times donald trump is referenced in

00:09:48.200 rap music especially during his like when he was doing the apprentice and he was like the hot shot

00:09:53.280 man like that just so many rap songs about donald trump and the black community loving donald trump

00:09:58.980 it wasn't really until that charlottesville when they're like oh just good people on both sides 0.62

00:10:04.460 which that whole scam debacle that really took down how most black people feel about trump but

00:10:11.900 off the bat yeah there's a lot of people who resonate with them because of how real he is

00:10:15.380 how authentic and brash trump is that resonates with a lot of people in the black community and

00:10:20.480 they vibe with that nowadays i don't really know to the note that's a whole another topic of like

00:10:26.880 the support for trump but all in all yeah like that type of boss energy like don't really care

00:10:33.860 like i'm coming here say what i want to say yeah that resonates a lot i am curious being center

00:10:39.600 right what are some of the things that whether it be president trump or this administration or or

00:10:45.340 the conservative party in general what are some of the things that maybe have disappointed you or

00:10:50.420 or leave you more leaning to the center as opposed to like full-fledged conservative yeah i would say

00:10:57.280 more so honestly maybe some of the religious things like i'm all for you you know practicing

00:11:05.700 religion doing that living as you may but really enacting certain things um and then some of the

00:11:11.880 gay rights issues like i personally i'm it's a gay man i think it's okay for gay people to adopt

00:11:17.500 when there are children just sitting in a foster home.

00:11:20.720 Now, surrogacy, IVF, that's a whole other topic.

00:11:23.640 And I know there's a lot of people who are even against that for a straight couple.

00:11:26.180 So I'll leave that there.

00:11:28.120 But specifically, like, if a gay couple wants to adopt some kids

00:11:32.080 and get them out the foster care system, I think that's completely fine.

00:11:36.560 There's some ways that I think drugs have been mishandled

00:11:43.240 and the way our society looks at them.

00:11:44.960 And it's really bad.

00:11:45.460 Like, for example, weed, um, I think it's unfortunate how, like, commercialized it has become.

00:11:52.600 And I was like, oh, I'm a stoner.

00:11:53.960 When in reality, there's so many healthy benefits to it.

00:11:57.020 And if we lean down that route more, that would have been cool. 0.57

00:12:00.100 Um, being center-right mainly is more so on the religious stuff, the gay stuff. 0.68

00:12:06.480 And, yeah, that's about it.

00:12:08.620 But I feel like, for the most part, I'm just someone that, like, I want my guns,

00:12:12.940 all my freedom to raise kids and i want a border and like i'm just chilling you know it's when you

00:12:19.580 put it that way it sounds like the bare minimum you know like just let me live in peace and and

00:12:25.780 with the freedoms that our our us military members fought for the bare minimum i have a clip i want

00:12:32.180 to show you um let's play it really quick they provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing

00:12:39.200 genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.

00:12:43.620 This is abhorrent.

00:12:46.160 Okay, Loki, she kind of ate that up.

00:12:48.560 Like, did not stutter, did not look at her notes.

00:12:51.200 Like, it looked as if she had been practicing that for weeks.

00:12:55.720 Do you know, before, if you don't, I'm going to tell you,

00:12:58.260 do you know what MMIWG stands for? 0.96

00:13:03.640 M-M-mer... 0.92

00:13:05.160 I'm gay. 0.92

00:13:06.160 This is sad.

00:13:07.280 This is sad. 0.95

00:13:08.400 M-mer... 1.00

00:13:09.200 missing missing missing tell me what is it missing and murdered indigenous women and girls 0.80

00:13:18.340 when i saw this i i had to look it up because again i'm like what is mmiwg

00:13:24.160 to us like there were other letters there were two q's in there i had to look it up so it stands

00:13:29.100 for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and two spirit lesbian gay bisexual

00:13:33.920 transgender queer questioning intersex and asexual so i'm thinking about this for a second i'm like

00:13:39.980 wait why are we adding murdered people to the lgbtq community like literally why is being 0.83

00:13:48.080 murdered now a queer identity um so i guess my question for you is why do they keep adding 0.96

00:13:53.720 letters if there's a plus sign at the end like isn't that what the plus sign is for they keep 0.95

00:14:00.380 adding letters because i personally feel like they're bored and they don't want to dry up all

00:14:06.260 the money and the funds and they just need donations to keep coming in so they need need

00:14:11.480 to come up with more excuses because in large part i think gay gay rights in this country gay 0.74

00:14:16.720 people the lgb lesbian gay um buys they were fine after gay marriage we see on all the charts uh

00:14:24.560 respect for gay people was going up more people relaxed it was chill we're just like normal but 0.61

00:14:30.340 these non-profits really a goal of a non-profit is to dissolve itself you're solving a problem

00:14:34.500 and then you're dissolving like you're paying attention to it raising awareness and then boom

00:14:38.840 the end goal hopefully your mission solved complete now when you go to these lgbtq orgs

00:14:46.060 whether it's glenson glad whatever it may be you see trans issues you see queer issues you see

00:14:52.460 identity issues it has nothing to do with the gay community and that's just how there's finessing

00:14:59.720 it and getting more money and all these terms and when i read that mmi lg asia tvqv the skilled

00:15:06.900 squad community that whole acronym i'm sitting here like it's just murdered people i guess we

00:15:13.120 should be paying attention like the mission what they're trying to do is it wrong like you need to

00:15:17.320 pay attention to murdered people but why is it a hyper focus on the type of person that is murdered

00:15:21.760 yeah just focus on murdered people yeah no so many questions when i saw that um but but it seems as

00:15:30.300 if it's at a point too where even their own side can't really keep up even the people who are like

00:15:36.440 the most bought in and who really believe those things advocate for those things you know even

00:15:40.860 elected officials who represent those things it seems as if even they can't keep up uh we saw a

00:15:46.320 video actually of scott weiner who is yes i just saw that yesterday crazy right like he's one of 0.50

00:15:52.700 the most if not the most pro-trans he's openly gay like like probably the most far left state

00:16:00.040 representative in the entire country for sure now the potential you know would be pelosi uh but even

00:16:05.800 still i mean he was like eaten by his own at a a san francisco trans pride march because he wasn't

00:16:13.700 parroting enough of the pro-Palestine talking points as a Jewish man so do you feel like there's

00:16:18.840 a faction of whether it be the LGBTQ plus community or maybe just I guess the extreme far left or

00:16:26.720 maybe it exists on both sides I'd love to hear your take that is willing to eat its own if they're not

00:16:32.240 bought fully in no discrepancies no disagreements on any topic ever yeah um you definitely do see

00:16:39.360 a faction of this on both sides but it's ironic to hear it come from the left that is constantly

00:16:46.460 screaming inclusivity diversity love inclusion when that they're everything but that they're 0.93

00:16:52.960 all for diversity representation oh you're black cool you're light-skinned cool you're gay you're

00:16:58.040 queer you're trans it's awesome but when it comes to diversity of thought when it comes to different

00:17:03.420 ideas they don't stand for that this literally just happened to me on sunday on sunday

00:17:08.560 um with my friends we're researching different things about adoption and i come across these

00:17:13.800 gay dads they're very chill they seem moderate just like living their life they're like oh we

00:17:18.240 didn't want to do ivf or surrogacy we just want to adopt you know get some kids out of foster care

00:17:22.040 whatever we're talking about that um we're talking about different hobbies that we have we both live

00:17:26.600 down here in the south whatever it may be we're just chatting and then i go back to message them

00:17:31.720 rather they blocked me they blocked me on everything i was like what did i do and what

00:17:38.080 they had like three accounts i messaged one account i was like what happened they're like 0.61

00:17:41.980 oh we saw your youtube account and you're just extremely homophobic transphobic and we don't 0.96

00:17:47.000 stand for that so like homophobic as a gay man hello i'm saying you're like you're the one 0.98

00:17:52.880 talking about the country's too divided but you're actively doing the dividing you don't want to hear 0.99

00:17:56.060 me out you're a truth be told you're a white gay man telling me a black gay man that i deserve to 0.98

00:18:05.180 be silenced because of my views when it's you would think you'd be the first one to hype me up 0.97

00:18:09.820 like you're all for this diversity and stuff until I start speaking different I want to speak how you

00:18:14.000 want me to speak and literally on my gay playlist on my um YouTube where I talk all there's all

00:18:20.480 these gay videos I have an interview with Blair White who's a trans person I'm like there's trans 0.99

00:18:26.200 people that talk about these same issues but they're like well they're not the right type of 0.99

00:18:29.440 trans they're like self-hating trans you're a self-hating gay I'm like you can't win so yeah 0.98

00:18:34.540 There's this type of people on the left that eats their own constantly. 1.00

00:18:37.780 And that's what's pushing people more to the right.

00:18:41.140 Like, if you're going to tell somebody, if you're going to say somebody is in the middle,

00:18:45.940 they're moderate, they're chilling, and they say, hey, I'm cool with trans adults. 0.70

00:18:50.360 You do you. 1.00

00:18:51.120 I don't agree with it, but like, whatever.

00:18:54.160 But when it comes to the kids, maybe let's leave them alone.

00:18:57.080 And the left wants to call them transphobic for that, homophobic for that.

00:19:01.200 They're just going to stand in that. 0.94

00:19:02.140 Well, I guess, okay, I guess I am transphobic if I don't want to mutilate little children. I guess I am homophobic then. So they're actively creating the hate that they don't want. And it's so backwards to me. 0.98

00:19:13.340 i'm sitting here listening to this and i've been thinking over the past i mean i guess few years

00:19:19.860 now but it's it's almost as if like is there a solution for those people though the people who

00:19:27.080 i mean who are so quick to block you i mean to just cut off communication they don't want to

00:19:31.480 hear you out they don't want to listen to anything you have to say they're not willing to watch your

00:19:34.000 videos it's almost as if they don't want to know the truth they want to keep living in oblivion or

00:19:39.020 or you know just naive to the world around them like is there an antidote for that or do you think

00:19:44.980 like like where do we i guess go from there or i guess where we are currently where the division

00:19:50.520 is so stark i think what it's going to take is more people to get canceled by their own because

00:19:59.940 they're the ones that's being pushed over like well i have no friends let me just look up these

00:20:03.380 things what they're telling me i'm so hateful about um there's that route and more celebrities

00:20:08.380 more mainstream people coming out and like saying these types of things so when little yachty boldly

00:20:15.220 it was on the quenland blackwell cooking show and a little lot yachty was like a bill in the scam 0.62

00:20:20.440 those little things like that send more black people down like oh is it a scam little yachty

00:20:25.540 said it was a scam oh my gosh and then when you have somebody like scott weiner who just had a

00:20:31.460 rude awakening wake up call like i felt a little bad for him like he's like about to start crying

00:20:35.240 Like, he's like, oh my gosh, I've done so much for this community, and now they're canceling me. 0.97

00:20:39.920 Someone like him is going to be thinking, like, damn, this has gone too far.

00:20:43.660 I think that side of people, it's growing slowly. 0.97

00:20:48.220 It is, but I see how fast my YouTube channel is growing.

00:20:51.500 I see how, like, the comments I'm reading from these people, like, oh, I thought I was alone.

00:20:56.140 Like, you're putting thoughts to words I didn't say, or like, you know, I, yeah, I just thought I was alone.

00:21:01.380 And that whole side of people that are acknowledging how crazy the love has become, they're coming out. And it's slowly but surely, but I think it's going to need a lot of help from more mainstream outlets, mainstream celebrities, and people just having more honest conversations and more the delusion being highlighted.

00:21:20.000 no i agree with you um and and i i do think we're starting to slowly see that change right

00:21:26.860 you have like nikki minaj you had spencer pratt who ran for for mayor in la and all of these are

00:21:31.640 little things or maybe big things that can ultimately lead to to real and lasting cultural

00:21:38.000 or social change yeah one thing i wanted to ask you about something that i've noticed about your

00:21:43.640 page is correct me if i'm wrong but you tend to keep a lot of your private life you know off

00:21:49.960 of social media or your personal life more, more private. Um, I've noticed you don't show much of

00:21:56.540 your like romantic life online. Tell me about that because when I first saw this, um, well,

00:22:02.800 first of all, it's what we've kind of implemented with our daughter, um, for several, several

00:22:06.800 reasons, but I'd, I'd love to hear, you know, your thoughts on this and why you do it.

00:22:11.100 Yeah. I just think, you know, keep your private life private. Um, I try to model it just like

00:22:15.820 Beyonce a little bit in that she only, like, I feel like Beyonce and I feel like it's pretty

00:22:25.240 much her is the only celebrity that is still just her music. Like you hear maybe little tiny blips

00:22:36.840 of her political views and her concerts. For the most part, even her fan base is like, yo,

00:22:42.560 you don't post anything you don't talk to us you don't tell about your music coming out

00:22:46.120 it's only just the music so for me you're getting my content you're getting my thoughts and i'm

00:22:52.780 dipping i don't post anything on top of social media i don't talk about my vacations i don't

00:22:56.720 talk about love life i don't talk about anything because i like to keep that side of life just

00:23:00.880 private now my memberships i get a little more glimpse into my life a little bit and little

00:23:07.540 trips that i'm on little vlogs but for the most part yeah i just keep it private because the

00:23:11.980 And it's crazy. It is crazy. And I like the peace that it brings of just not having everything

00:23:20.400 online. Now, nothing is to say when I'm out in public, people don't meet who I'm with or the

00:23:24.620 friends that we don't sit here and talk. Yeah, if I'm in public, I'm all for it. But as far as

00:23:29.660 making content online and putting it out there, there's something special to me about reserving

00:23:36.460 some things of your life for your life. And it doesn't make you fake. It doesn't make you two

00:23:41.180 face is literally just that you follow me because of my thoughts you follow me because of the content

00:23:46.380 that I make yes you want to build that more personal tie to me but keyword personal I keep

00:23:52.560 it personal like in the day I ever um adopt a kid like no one's ever gonna know find out who knows

00:24:00.260 I have one now like no one would ever know I mean people still forget that they don't even think

00:24:07.000 like oh wait i'm here married oh my gosh i didn't even know that i'm like yeah and kudos to some

00:24:11.540 people some people still think i'm straight which i don't know how that happens but some people even

00:24:15.100 go to the extent of that and yeah it's just nice just having it private and just keeping some

00:24:20.980 things to yourself i feel like as someone who like creates content followers not not even speaking

00:24:30.940 for myself or maybe this isn't what you feel but just watching other people online like i don't

00:24:36.660 know if you are on tiktok and you follow um what's her name michaela neguera do you know i'm talking

00:24:41.820 about she's like the makeup girl well she's talks about her divorce and everything but i read the

00:24:46.460 comments and people feel as if they're like owed that like they feel like they're entitled to her

00:24:50.780 personal private life um and so what do you make of these like parasocial relationships nowadays 1.00

00:24:58.080 i realized that we were absolutely doomed as a society when sydney sweeney was able to sell her

00:25:04.260 bath water out in like a matter of seconds um but not just that like i feel like if you reveal

00:25:11.800 and post parts of your life that you choose on social then people demand access to all of it

00:25:17.380 there's no privacy there's nothing that's off limits everything is fair game there's just like

00:25:21.620 this sense of entitlement i feel it depends i've seen it depends on what you're posting it depends

00:25:30.560 on what you're talking about and this fear that you're in so for example if

00:25:34.580 i mean the main thing i could think about is for example beyonce has a pair of twins

00:25:42.300 the boy is always at home the boys have maybe two pictures of the boy out there

00:25:48.020 the girl she's always out at events with her big sister with her dad or her mom like they're always

00:25:52.960 out doing something and people feel like they're owed to see what the boy's up to like where's the

00:25:57.360 other twin how come he doesn't get the same spotlight and it's because he doesn't want that

00:26:00.980 um i think the parasocial relationships they're a blessing and a curse on one end is super fun

00:26:07.580 building this community um i've have youtubers that i've been watching since i was in middle

00:26:13.380 school and i'm like yo i like kind of know you like it's crazy watching grow up and watch your

00:26:18.720 path and watch you grow but on the other end you don't know them you don't know me you don't know

00:26:24.760 And so, it can get a little uncomfortable in certain spaces.

00:26:29.640 I always tell people, if you see me in public, just tell me.

00:26:31.940 Just say hi.

00:26:33.140 But when I go online, I go on my Instagram DMs,

00:26:35.480 and I get a picture of myself eating dinner or out and about,

00:26:38.680 I'm like, okay, that's, come on.

00:26:42.040 But the people that feel like they're owed something,

00:26:46.620 if I'm putting myself in their shoes,

00:26:48.580 I see it for a split second,

00:26:50.780 because at the end of the day,

00:26:52.260 day we only have an income because of the people that watch us that's right so they feel a little

00:26:58.680 power in that and like well you know I'm the one that does this but at the end of the day too you

00:27:03.520 are one follower like you could unfollow me and my whole life's not gonna crumble down so I'm not

00:27:08.440 owed to give you every little aspect about my life it's not you don't need that unless I've

00:27:15.460 been teasing it and like I've been giving you a little bit of access to my life and I feel like

00:27:21.300 you i owe you all of it no even then but it is interesting it's weird it is odd what do you make

00:27:28.160 of james charles a hot mess express i've talked about him on the show before specifically the

00:27:34.820 whole like spirit airlines like debacle that he got into with one of his followers demanding money

00:27:42.460 he went online said she was lazy whatever whatever what do you make of james charles i think his

00:27:47.400 delivery on that story we're talking about like not james charles as like the person and influence

00:27:52.540 and all his all his conspiracies but all his like all the alleged controversies just the spirit

00:27:59.580 airlines uh thing that happened his delivery was wrong but he was like kind of low-key right

00:28:06.760 but you don't know if for those that listening that aren't really familiar basically

00:28:10.040 the whole spirits airlines obviously went under a lot of people lost their jobs and this woman

00:28:15.880 that wasn't even following James Charles just hit him up and was like, hey, here's my GoFundMe 1.00

00:28:20.520 or like, I need money. Give me money, please. And James popped off because he's tired of people

00:28:25.580 coming into DMs asking for money. And as a creator, like I get them all the time.

00:28:31.620 I get GoFundMe links all the time. I get the soft stories all the time. And

00:28:35.720 if that was the case, I would just turn into GoFundMe. If you really want to give money,

00:28:41.360 you can go to GoFundMe website and you can just donate to random people.

00:28:45.880 And my page, as much as I hate telling people no and I feel bad,

00:28:49.720 I can't dedicate every single time of my life

00:28:53.500 to just promoting these GoFundMe pages

00:28:56.080 and this stop story, this stop story, help this person,

00:28:58.340 help this person, I would run dry.

00:29:01.340 I just would.

00:29:02.440 The same thing can be applied to America

00:29:06.420 as far as us having a legal border

00:29:09.300 and a legal right to becoming a citizen. 1.00

00:29:11.020 We can't be the person to take in everybody from the planet 0.89

00:29:14.760 because we'd be taking in everybody. 0.97

00:29:17.520 If you're making $30,000 in the United States,

00:29:20.680 you're in the top 1% of the entire world.

00:29:23.100 So we can't take in every single person

00:29:26.500 and give them a new life.

00:29:27.500 Otherwise, we wouldn't be who we are today.

00:29:29.380 I wouldn't be who I am today

00:29:30.600 if my only content is sitting here promoting GoFundMe links.

00:29:34.100 Like, I'm sorry.

00:29:35.120 And I get you're subscribed to me.

00:29:38.140 I get you feel like I owe you something, but I don't.

00:29:41.440 but I still give back all the time, randomly.

00:29:45.900 I'll see someone like a comment.

00:29:48.360 I'll be a little nosy.

00:29:49.120 You know, sometimes I'm bored on the couch

00:29:50.500 and I'll tap through their page.

00:29:51.960 I'm actually just had a baby.

00:29:52.860 Boom, I'm gonna buy something for their registry.

00:29:54.980 Oh, Christmas is coming up.

00:29:56.800 Oh my gosh, like this woman, her family, they're so cute.

00:29:58.960 I mean, like buy them a Switch. 0.57

00:30:00.240 I'll do stuff like that all the time,

00:30:02.080 but that's like on my account.

00:30:03.960 But if you come in my DMs,

00:30:05.840 kind of insinuating demand for something,

00:30:07.600 I don't owe you that.

00:30:08.760 What about you?

00:30:09.220 no i'm i'm right there with you i absolutely agreed with his take there and i think again

00:30:16.820 maybe it's because you and i see it all the time so maybe we have a different perspective than those

00:30:21.260 who who don't but my entire like especially if you go to instagram you go to like the spam part

00:30:26.500 yes it's just folder and it's the same thing where i would i would love it's teachers who

00:30:32.560 are reaching out about the registry they're about to start their kindergarten class like i would

00:30:35.600 love to help fulfill every dream you have but it's impossible to do but i agree his delivery

00:30:41.520 i think especially just with the platform that he has the followers that he has

00:30:45.460 yeah i was shocked that he even posted it initially what did you think was going to be

00:30:50.400 the response when you're lazy go get a job and it's like okay james calm down no i will say in

00:30:56.500 the year 2026 there's no reason to be broke i will tell you this right now i think the easiest

00:31:03.180 way to get money is go ahead. I don't care how much debt you in, credit score, nothing. Find you

00:31:09.800 a way to lease a car, lease a cheap car, preferably like lease, like maybe a Tesla Model 3. That way

00:31:17.100 you save on gas money and then boom, take that car immediately sign up for DoorDash and Uber Eats

00:31:23.060 and Postmates and do that 12 hours a day. Build your little safety in that pocket. Boom, go find

00:31:29.000 a different job but still do the side hustle then boom find another job easy like there's ways to

00:31:35.060 scale up out of a problem but like to just sit here and beg influencers no yeah no agreed okay

00:31:40.820 last thing for you what's your hot take that you feel like would get you canceled hot take that i

00:31:47.740 think would get me canceled i'll tell you mine um i said on the internet that i hated mashed potatoes

00:31:52.400 and it was like world war three pause like i love mashed potatoes and the chunky ones with the

00:31:58.280 little bit of the potatoes like i'll i'll just gag thinking about it so good i guess my hot take

00:32:03.780 would be i dip my cookies in water and oh you do do that yeah for years like i've been doing this

00:32:09.840 since i was six years old i did my cookies in water and ate my cereal with water honey bunches

00:32:13.860 of oats with a water and some crushed ice gas and if you really want to bust it down go ghetto style

00:32:19.380 you get you a bowl of hot cocoa puffs get your cocoa puffs um get it with water eat the cocoa

00:32:27.000 puffs and take that leftover water juice the chocolate juice microwave it put a little sugar

00:32:31.120 in it and they have high chocolate gas honestly it's innovative it's innovative like a little diy

00:32:38.220 hack i think i could get behind maybe the second part of that but that would force me to then like

00:32:44.100 eat cocoa puffs with water and that is a criminal offense like we need president trump to sign an

00:32:49.140 executive order right now first off you're made of water and quite literally you most of your life

00:32:56.200 been spent in water that's a good so dipping a cookie in water less calories it still tastes

00:33:03.300 good it don't there's a negative it doesn't negate any taste of the cookie it's gas i'm gonna send

00:33:08.780 you some i'm gonna get i'm gonna send you some delivery cookies to your house you know i thought

00:33:13.360 being bloated after every meal was normal uh it's not once i really focused on changing my gut

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00:33:41.840 really important to me now being what, nearly nine months postpartum. I still have a full head

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00:35:44.300 maybe they won't now. Although I'm kidding. They definitely should get a mere two million.

00:35:48.400 We're super grateful for you. So thanks for being one of those voices that's

00:35:52.000 that's just real and authentic um because in today's cultural climate uh those are really

00:36:00.200 rare so thanks for for being bold and i'll tell you i get so much love uh for you on my page like

00:36:07.800 i've commentated on you quite a bit when you come to talk about the trans issues and trans sports

00:36:11.740 and it's like oh my gosh i love her i love her get on the channel get on channel and so we'll

00:36:15.760 have to bring down the channel too and they would fall over they would kill over come on well you

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 30, 2026

Amir Odom on Leaving the LGBTQ Movement, Identity Politics, and Keeping Life Private ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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