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00:00:34.720 Can we all agree that Sarah Paulson looked so dumb at the Met Gala with a dollar bill covering her eyes when her net worth is over $12 million? 0.69

00:00:43.720 You may not agree, but me and Emily Austin do. 0.97

00:00:46.660 We are discussing that.

00:00:47.560 We're talking Spencer Pratt.

00:00:48.580 We're talking sports broadcasting in today's world.

00:00:51.280 All of that and more.

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00:00:52.980 well Emily thank you for joining the Riley Gaines show I imagine all of my listeners and viewers and

00:01:00.940 my audience both on Instagram the people who are watching this they know who you are but can you

00:01:06.340 give a little background and and maybe what you would call yourself because I was I was you know

00:01:11.320 doing my research trying to like craft together an introduction but you really do have so many

00:01:15.680 titles and so I wasn't sure I'm like do I say sports broadcaster do I say personality give us

00:01:22.000 a little background on you yeah well I know honestly same I get you I by day I'm a sports 0.93

00:01:28.420 broadcaster but you know we live in times where if you're not naive and ignorant you have to kind

00:01:34.180 of speak up for things that matter so with the sports broadcasting platform that I've gotten

00:01:38.280 over the years and you know I was a Miss Universe judge so I kind of like really made my waves on

00:01:43.180 social media I decided to publicly state in a time where you were being crucified for doing so that

00:01:50.120 i would be voting for trump and then i became this maggot they call us and uh extreme right-wing

00:01:57.340 republican and just all these labels slammed on me when in reality like i'm actually a very strong

00:02:02.360 policy person so i stand up for like policies that i think are right and i obviously resonate

00:02:07.240 with what trump does so i became a political commentator i always say unwillingly but i still

00:02:12.860 do sports broadcasting literally five days a week i travel the world for it so i just say sports

00:02:19.340 broadcaster with a very strong opinion. I love that. What do you make? I think we're living in

00:02:27.200 a totally different cultural and political and social moment now in 2026, even compared to,

00:02:34.580 let's say five years ago, kind of peak COVID. What do you make of, of celebrities now? Do you

00:02:40.880 think there are more or personalities, if you will, do you think there are more and even athletes

00:02:45.580 actually, for that matter, which I know you have kind of like the inside source on.

00:02:50.320 Do you think there are more that are Trump supporters or Trump voters than actually portrayed?

00:02:57.100 Oh, I thought you were going to say more than Democrats, in which I would have said no,

00:03:00.560 but more than portrayed publicly, of course. I mean, I remember even when it was taboo to say

00:03:06.260 that you support Trump, I had a handful of NBA players. Some are still on the Knicks,

00:03:10.700 some had left the Knicks now, but they were like, yeah, I'm voting for Trump, of course.

00:03:14.300 And then one Knicks player, I think he's going to murder me for this, but we'll do a little expose.

00:03:20.040 Fully just came out MAGA.

00:03:21.900 Like, I don't know why people pretend he's not, but Mitch Robinson is a center on the Knicks.

00:03:28.220 And hold on, I'm downloading these photos.

00:03:30.340 I asked him to, like, condemn Mom Donnie.

00:03:33.100 But, like, he fully supports Donald Trump.

00:03:35.780 And, you know, Knicks are in the second round of the playoffs.

00:03:38.360 And he's just one of many.

00:03:39.940 the problem is and they've changed and i'll give credit where it's due but the nba when it was

00:03:46.000 popular sent out like vote boxes with a very strong i guess persuasion to vote blue it's not

00:03:54.640 like hey vote for who you think it's like vote blue and a lot of players just became very repulsed

00:03:59.280 by that so i see like very subtly a lot of nba players specifically like will post um trump quotes

00:04:06.900 on their story or like ice things on their story. And I'm like, whoa, this is something I would not

00:04:11.920 have seen, like in that COVID era, whenever it was just taboo. Yeah, you know, I see that

00:04:18.440 specifically with male athletes, right? I watched some of these people playing, right? These are

00:04:23.980 like big, especially in the NFL. And yeah, you're right, the NBA. These are like big, strong,

00:04:30.100 masculine men with money. Yeah. And by the way, those people who are fiscally responsible,

00:04:36.320 tend to be conservative i'm looking at these people uh i'm like do we really think they would

00:04:42.980 vote for kamala harris over president trump no way them yes so much so like i've lost personal

00:04:50.000 friendships with basketball players um whether they've been on my podcast or whether like at

00:04:54.760 nbs summer league like hanging out so many people were just like you support this racist guy i can't

00:05:01.500 even be publicly associated with you anymore and i'm just like and you're voting for a girl that 0.99

00:05:06.660 can't even say a sentence without slurring like she embarrasses black people in my opinion like 0.61

00:05:11.320 how do you even draw any comparisons and i would say probably only two or three really took it to

00:05:16.220 the next level and like unfollowed me or just like stopped communicating with me entirely but

00:05:21.940 majority of them actually don't care but the ones who are blue to them it's about like kind of goes

00:05:29.040 back to like black lives matter where it's because i'm black i have to vote for the black woman 0.99

00:05:33.060 and it's like that's very dei and i will die on the hill that dei is the most racist thing that 0.97

00:05:39.320 ever happened to society but a lot of black athletes just like feel the need to support 0.99

00:05:46.000 another black woman because she's black and that's it where it's like we had a black president not 0.91

00:05:52.480 once but twice so it's like you can't really say we're a racist country if a black man held the 0.82

00:05:58.580 office for eight years so that's where i kind of disagreed with them and honestly no one really

00:06:04.140 had a good response to like the obama argument um and deep down i want to believe that they

00:06:11.580 recognize kamala is not a great president it's just trump derangement syndrome yeah they feel

00:06:18.480 the need to support a black woman and the fact that they've been fed the lie as you said that 0.98

00:06:23.120 trump is this racist who hates black people it's the same lie that was told about charlie kirk 0.97

00:06:27.660 uh what do you find in the ufc compared to other sports i think from a a viewer's perspective 0.99

00:06:35.180 this seems to be a much more like patriotic conservative organization and brand what do you

00:06:42.120 find right so i work in boxing and combat sports and i it's like literally night and day first of

00:06:49.020 all i think the franchise has a lot to do with it to be honest like i genuinely believe if the nfl

00:06:53.440 NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, all just became very hands off, two things would happen. A lot of more

00:07:00.200 crazy Kyrie Irvings would sprout, which I don't think is a great thing. But you'd also see a lot

00:07:06.440 of people more politically opinionated on both sides. And I think that's healthy because I'm a

00:07:12.620 Republican, so we don't kill our opponents like the Democrats do. But I think that you just see

00:07:16.560 more discourse and dialogue, which I don't think is a bad thing. Now, the UFC and boxing, and I

00:07:21.480 really believe just because it's such a masculine testosterone filled sport it's like there's no

00:07:28.260 democrats in that arena donald trump walked into the ufc fight in miami and contrary to harry

00:07:34.040 sisson's tweet not that he was there like got a roaring you know applause standing ovation and

00:07:39.940 it's just like i get stopped there for photos whereas sometimes i'm like the maga girl in the

00:07:45.820 other sports sphere so it's like really you can't even believe that they're both u.s sports

00:07:51.800 franchises because of how different the social scene is 100 uh you mentioned some of like these

00:07:58.680 dei practices um and how they affect athletes and their stances on things especially who's in the

00:08:05.680 oval office what have you seen pertaining to dei and sports reporting or sports journalism

00:08:12.780 is that something that affects the role that you're in oh my god i don't know how much i

00:08:20.860 should say because i actually like my job and it worked so hard to get here but let's just say

00:08:25.780 for a very long time especially under biden i was how do i not get canceled right now

00:08:34.740 i kept telling my mom jokingly i'm like i'm too white and attractive to be hired by

00:08:41.580 a major sports network like i'm not poor like we come from a very working class like successful

00:08:48.440 family i i don't apologize for that like my family did everything to get to where i am today

00:08:54.640 so i definitely you know like embrace that um very vocal about my political opinions and like

00:09:00.960 honestly yeah like there was not many white women in the nba broadcasting and i was just like well

00:09:07.460 this is like looking at the talent. I'm like, I don't fit in here. But it's like, I'm all about

00:09:14.020 representation. But here's what I tell black people to their face. I've said this to Abby 0.99

00:09:18.600 Phillips a million times on CNN. I said, Are you sitting in your seat because you are black 1.00

00:09:22.840 or because you are talented? Doesn't it feel better knowing you're here because of your merit 0.88

00:09:28.280 and your qualifications and not because of the color of your skin? Do you want a pity job?

00:09:32.180 and nobody will say yes i want a pity job so i will say like there's very few broadcasters that

00:09:40.900 are broadcasters and um at least that i watch on television that are not talented but you could

00:09:46.460 tell that they really really engage deeply in this dei because there are a handful of people

00:09:51.340 especially women that you just turn on the tv and you're like what are you doing here like nobody

00:09:55.900 likes you you have horrible takes you're not cute like nobody wants to turn on the tv and see you 0.99

00:10:01.220 but you check all the boxes of DEI. So it was unfortunate under Biden for people like myself.

00:10:07.180 And by the way, I don't want a DEI hire. It's like, oh, we have too many black people. So let's 0.97

00:10:10.520 get a white girl. But like, can we just look at the qualification? And I think we're slowly, 1.00

00:10:16.540 but surely getting back there. You know, I think of people like Jamel Hill, who I find to be

00:10:24.180 one of just the most insufferable human beings on this entire planet. And honestly, over the

00:10:30.700 past few years. And I agree with you. I do think we're starting to see a shift, uh, likely because

00:10:35.360 ratings and viewerships are tanking, uh, through outlets who prop up people like Jamel Hill.

00:10:41.440 So we're starting to see a shift anyways. I find that sports media has become the most liberal arm

00:10:48.160 of legacy media, which again is crazy when you really think about it. Um, for you, it's gotta

00:10:56.020 be hard though, even kind of watching your internal debate of like, how do I say this

00:10:59.360 without being canceled. It's got to be hard to, to find the line because I understand like there

00:11:05.080 are real threats and there are risk that exists for saying your opinions, regardless of whatever

00:11:11.260 the opinion may be. But especially if you're a Trump voter, how do you kind of decide what

00:11:17.360 crosses over from sports into broader entertainment, maybe even on your social platforms?

00:11:23.540 yeah well i really struggled with you know defending israel after october 7th because

00:11:30.040 obviously it's not the popular side to take and i like i'm not stupid i recognize that and

00:11:35.260 for me as a sports broadcaster like yeah a lot of people who turn on the tv don't want to see

00:11:40.300 the girl that defends israel and i almost understood but at the same time it's like

00:11:44.820 how could i watch a knicks game when there are children in gaza being held captive from israel

00:11:49.740 it's like how could i sleep at night knowing that i have a platform to do something about it and i

00:11:54.640 didn't now fortunately cancel culture is canceled at least for the most part and i truly believe

00:11:59.720 it's a choice whether or not you get canceled like a great example i always say is dave portnoy

00:12:04.160 this man gets canceled every day but clearly he's not because he just keeps speaking and we have

00:12:09.260 platforms and thank god we're not under the biden regime where we get shadow banned for having

00:12:13.440 opinion so so long as I'm alive and verbal like I won't be silenced but I also try and it's very

00:12:22.760 hard and Riley I'm sure you can relate to some extent I try to not become Candace Owens like I

00:12:27.480 have my opinions and I'm very unapologetic about it but I try to like stay away from personal

00:12:35.580 attacks and I failed literally two days ago and I I tweeted the next word like hey guys I touched

00:12:39.980 grass you know I'm better because that's when I lose my credibility and my reputation like I don't

00:12:45.920 like you and that's clear because we disagree on like very moral principles in my opinion but I 0.99

00:12:50.860 don't need to call you ugly or I don't need to like call your husband gay I guess but it really 0.95

00:12:57.380 feels good in the moment but I need to like remember I'm someone that people watch for 0.98

00:13:02.260 certain reasons and like not everyone appreciates my political take so I try to really speak out

00:13:06.980 when it counts. You know, this is such good advice. And it's something that honestly, I had

00:13:11.820 to learn pretty early on too. And like, like you just said, like, I certainly fall short sometimes,

00:13:16.760 especially when it comes to people. I know you'll appreciate this, like Keith Olbermann.

00:13:20.760 I like sometimes just can't help but send on that tweet when I see him on my ex feed. Like I just,

00:13:26.800 I can't, it's like a visceral reaction. But I told myself very early on, don't punch down

00:13:33.220 because oftentimes that person only has something to gain and you have everything to lose.

00:13:38.620 So I think that's fantastic advice. I want to ask you about, you mentioned being pro-Israel,

00:13:44.860 the anti-Semitism that we have seen. Honestly, I don't even really understand it. Like,

00:13:51.400 do you find it coming more from the right side of the aisle now or the left side?

00:13:57.520 or is it like a different type of anti-semitism exactly exactly so the right side for me is very

00:14:04.860 rage bait anti-semitism it's very clickbait i want attention i'm attention seeking and i could

00:14:10.940 live with that because half of the people that are spewing anti-semitism have also spewed such

00:14:16.240 disgusting rhetoric on so many other demographics of people that i feel like their opinion is

00:14:20.600 immediately discounted. I also noticed Republicans, there's very few that hold any ounce of power. So

00:14:27.720 say congressmen or senators that are like blatantly anti-Semitic. But on the Democrat side,

00:14:33.400 it's the public figures, it's the leaders, it's the congressmen, it's the senators, it's

00:14:37.480 the potential presidential candidates that are blatantly anti-Semitic. And for me, that's a lot

00:14:42.340 more harmful than like Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson, where it's like, I think they're losers,

00:14:48.260 Whereas these people can vote and, you know, Mayor Mamdani, like normalized anti-Semitism in Manhattan. So the Democrats' anti-Semitism is a dangerous one, whereas the Republicans is just clearly meant to enrage people and they're monetizing off of it.

00:15:05.900 And I really like Riley. I don't believe it's funny. I get accused of receiving money. I can't wait for the day that everybody gets subpoenaed and we see who's paying these right wing people to just blatantly be anti-Semitic because I don't think it's organic at all. I think it's heavily manufactured and I think it's heavily funded. Like none of it feels real.

00:15:24.860 well moral conviction is just a foreign concept to some and so there are some things i say online

00:15:31.260 where people are so quick to say like oh like how does that seven thousand dollar check fill you

00:15:36.840 shill and again like i'm like where is this even coming from like where is this number fabricated

00:15:42.740 from i i just think they don't understand what it means to feel morally convicted again regardless

00:15:48.620 of what the topic is i hate this word right grifter it gets thrown around all the time i

00:15:54.060 get called a grifter like it's it's in my comments like like crazy more than transphobic more than

00:15:59.320 anything is grifter and i'm like don't you understand just doing something or saying

00:16:03.800 something or acting a certain way because you think it's or really deep down you know it's the

00:16:08.580 right thing to do like i think moral conviction is just like a foreign concept that's the problem

00:16:13.360 too it's like you you're you remind me of myself in like a lot of ways i mean like you're super

00:16:19.500 younger you're doing so much like i personally like in college i looked up to you a lot because

00:16:24.760 my professor made us write about leah thomas as espn's female of the month and i was like i'm

00:16:29.440 gonna write about riley gains like this is an abomination you didn't even know who i was at

00:16:32.920 the time but like for me i always respected you and i feel like you go off of policy not party

00:16:40.280 which i can respect a lot like you know this is right this is wrong and the politics of it don't

00:16:45.300 matter. Whereas Democrats, I feel like are so blindly loyal to the party that they don't even

00:16:50.040 look at the policy. Like we've gotten to a point where Democrats are so pro illegal immigration,

00:16:55.460 knowing that they are committing like human rights violations on this country and murdering 0.98

00:17:01.120 people and raping people. And they will defend it because it goes with their party's agenda

00:17:04.680 instead of having like any moral conviction and admitting like, hey, this is wrong.

00:17:09.660 where you and I like not everything we do necessarily aligns with what the party wants

00:17:15.180 to hear, but we know that it's the right thing to do. Yeah. Democrats, uh, especially those in

00:17:20.520 elected roles. Uh, I think if you were to press them even still, actually, I don't think they

00:17:27.020 would understand how hypocritical their takes really are. Even them, them calling themselves

00:17:31.060 the party of, of women, you know, they're so pro woman, they care about women's rights,

00:17:35.560 uh their their access and their opportunities and their safety first of all you can't even define

00:17:40.900 what a woman is if you really cared about women's safety why are you letting tens of millions of 0.96

00:17:45.460 illegals cross the southern border where they're raping women where they're doing these horrible 0.66

00:17:49.780 acts to children yet you claim to care about children again their their stances i think are 0.97

00:17:54.840 filled with hypocrisy uh what do you make of the label in in talking about anti-semitism and your

00:18:02.120 stance there what do you make of the label islamophobic well i don't like any of the 0.66

00:18:09.620 phobics or the anti-semitism like i hate the labels with it personally and i really get so

00:18:15.580 much heat from the republican party on it like i'm very biased i work in muslim countries i work

00:18:21.380 with arabs all the time and my thing is like there's too many good eggs to dismiss an entire

00:18:27.940 group of people. Another thing, and Laura Loomer attacked me multiple times for this, is that 1.00

00:18:32.680 anything where they say Muslims, I change the word to Jews. And if that makes me uncomfortable,

00:18:40.600 I don't use that. Now, I will say, yes, most terror attacks are committed by Muslims. Yes, 1.00

00:18:46.780 Muslims are the most radicalized demographic. Today, Sneeko tweeted, like, I want to die. In 1.00

00:18:51.220 my mind, I'm like, he's going to do a suicide bombing because he's been radicalized. So radical 0.87

00:18:55.660 islam is more what i try to make an awareness of and try to attack because islamophobia is like 0.76

00:19:04.820 i'm scared of muslims but then if you come with me to saudi arabia and you come with me to egypt 0.87

00:19:10.180 and you come with me where was i the other day nigeria is actually half a muslim country 0.98

00:19:13.680 it's like maybe i'm just surrounded by good people but like i i don't like generalizations

00:19:20.080 because hitler did that so i can't do that and it's also just not fair to the good eggs out there

00:19:26.180 and i also feel like it's dangerous it's like very dehumanizing and i sound so liberal right now

00:19:30.340 but again like anything that you sound like a you you sound like a normal person who has the ability

00:19:39.120 to think for themselves and i think that's that's the lost trait and i i i get hate for it too but

00:19:46.000 it does exist on both sides kind of this blindly following one person or one party mentality it

00:19:52.860 does exist on both sides and certainly i i normally don't like the whole both sides thing

00:19:57.260 because it appears as if when you say that you're sitting on the fence uh certainly i believe the

00:20:02.200 left is is much much worse and in circumstances where it's much much more dangerous uh but even

00:20:08.680 still it does exist so you sound like a normal person who like can think for themselves but

00:20:13.660 that's not as common as I think either of us wishes it would be. Mother's Day is coming up,

00:20:22.040 and it's not too late to get your mom, or maybe the mother of your children, a sweet, amazing,

00:20:27.440 thoughtful, intentional gift. It's actually my first Mother's Day. And I've been kind of relishing

00:20:33.160 in this and what it really means. And I've realized that that kind of comfort, the comfort that gets

00:20:39.460 the joy, the purpose that you get from being a mom. Uh, it's intentional. Like I said,

00:20:44.640 that's why I love cozy earth. I've got their blanket right here. I've got their comforter

00:20:48.140 on my bed. Actually. I wear their socks all the time. I have two of these one downstairs,

00:20:52.460 one up here in my studio. Um, I actually got my mom, this classic cozy cuddle blanket.

00:20:58.300 Look at the alliteration for Christmas, uh, this past year. And she loves it. Uh, the comforter,

00:21:03.860 it is super breathable. It is very soft. It somehow just helps you like fully settle in the

00:21:09.120 night, which matters to me, especially being now seven months postpartum. Margo has just moved over

00:21:14.560 to her crib. They actually even have baby crib sheets. Uh, so, uh, that's what makes it such a 0.99

00:21:21.440 really great mother's day gift. Uh, it's not flashy. It's not super expensive. It's something

00:21:26.900 that she will use every single day and it makes her life better. Uh, if you're looking for

00:21:31.780 something thoughtful, go to cozy earth.com. You can use my code gains for 20% off. Uh, they have

00:21:37.160 a 100 night sleep trial and a 10 year risk-free warranty. Oh my gosh. You're not going to need

00:21:43.000 it though. Uh, it's a simple way to take care of someone who's always taking care of you again,

00:21:47.260 cozy earth.com use my code gains. I want to ask you about, um, first and foremost, you kind of

00:21:54.700 had a viral reaction at the 2026 Grammys to Billy Eilish's, uh, F ice and immigration speech that

00:22:06.360 went super mega viral, uh, saying, you know, no one is illegal on stolen land, which that doesn't

00:22:11.420 even really make sense when you actually think about it. Um, you stayed seated and you kind of

00:22:18.060 made a face on camera. You called it painful. You got slammed for it, but you also got praised

00:22:24.100 by the people who love America. Can you kind of walk us through that night and why you decided

00:22:29.560 to post that clip? Yeah. So I love music. I love the Grammys and I don't have a genre. Like I

00:22:35.960 listen to somber and then the 80s and then afrobeats and r&b and rarely rap but i have a

00:22:41.720 few songs so like the grammys for me more than the oscars or the emmys was the event i was most

00:22:46.800 looking forward to especially there's a young artist named somber and he was nominated for

00:22:51.800 a grammy i could have sworn he would have won so anyway i was very excited and i started doing

00:22:55.840 vlogs on my channel like i just uploaded my africa vlog but i was recording myself basically most of

00:23:02.100 the night which is funny because then i heard after the fact no cameras were allowed oops

00:23:05.240 and when billy came i remember i recorded myself during somber's nomination bad bunnies because i

00:23:12.300 love him and i got a lot of heat for that and then billy eilish because i knew she'd say some

00:23:16.540 stupid things i just had a gut feeling because she never fails to disappoint another thing i will

00:23:22.120 say before i finish the billy story is um there was a red carpet and as you approached the red 0.99

00:23:29.640 carpet a woman was handing out ice out pins so it wasn't really something that was premeditated

00:23:35.140 on a lot of people's end it was more like social pressure to wear it it's so many factors and

00:23:40.320 yeah hailey and justin did not pre-plan that i don't even think they knew what it meant i bet

00:23:44.700 you justin thought it was like ice chips you know and they wore that thing on the carpet so billy i 0.99

00:23:50.660 guess maybe heard from her stupid brother or something like hey this this really eats you 0.99

00:23:56.100 should say like no one's illegal on stolen land and everybody will clap because everyone's a sheep 0.99

00:23:59.940 in the audience but she said that and i kind of like looked around me i remember caitlin collins

00:24:06.600 was sitting right in front of me and a lot of like execs in the music industry were around me

00:24:11.800 out of my entire section maybe three people remained seated and not even because it was

00:24:17.020 like a deliberate decision just because they were on their phone or something and i looked around

00:24:21.020 and i remember asking when they sat down like do you really think that deserved a standing ovation

00:24:28.240 and a lot of them were like yeah like that was no one's illegal on stolen land and i was wearing

00:24:33.140 a usa clutch and they'd point at him like that's racist and it's like oh my god so why do you live

00:24:37.460 here go to the uk you know you don't have to go so far and they just kind of like

00:24:42.940 it's really sheep the word is sheep like they really just follow what the other one's doing

00:24:50.040 but when the wolf or the leader is billy eilish that's when you know you have a problem so people

00:24:56.780 attacked me for it but it's like if no one's illegal on stolen land why are we illegal like

00:25:02.600 why can't we why are we bad for being here if the borders were open we could just all come in and

00:25:07.460 take land because that's what we did so like why are we the bad guys and then also i mean billy

00:25:12.400 eilish also got heat for that where it's like why do you have gates in your home and why did you

00:25:16.400 call 911 when someone broke into your home if nobody's illegal you should have given it given

00:25:20.040 them your bed how dare you no it was like the cherry on top it was like the cherry on top

00:25:25.520 following this interaction where they found out that her land was on some tribe uh and the the

00:25:30.720 tribe leader came out and said okay well we'll take your 14 million dollar mansion you know no

00:25:35.820 big deal like you can just actually give it back to us and of course she wasn't willing to do that

00:25:40.680 you know i really thought she would because i thought she'd be afraid of being canceled that's

00:25:46.600 how like diluted and bought in they are i thought she would to be honest but it's always um

00:25:53.260 socialism for the not for me like billy eilish is a full capitalist she has a fragrance line

00:25:58.780 she charges an arm and a leg for concerts like there's nothing socialist about billy eilish and

00:26:04.320 if you're so socialist and no one's illegal then why don't you live by it why don't you make your

00:26:10.220 concerts free why don't you welcome illegals into your home or why don't you give your land back to

00:26:14.420 the native americans and then her followers attack me on twitter uh tiktok and i have all the time in

00:26:19.360 the world to answer and every time they comment like billy has whatever many grammys what do you

00:26:25.320 have i wrote did she give her house back yet to the native americans boom comment deleted and i'm

00:26:29.300 like you can't even argue you know the whole socialism for for thee but not for me even we

00:26:36.580 saw it at the met gala uh this past week i think it was actors or actress sarah paulson uh she was

00:26:43.180 wearing like a dollar bill over her face to call out the one percent as being blinded by money

00:26:49.040 uh her net worth is over 12 million dollars so would she not qualify for that top one percent 0.98

00:26:55.440 oh my god and then all the boycotting for bezos they all sell products on amazon it's just so 0.93

00:27:01.800 hypocritical. It's like, I'm okay if you have a difference of opinion, but live by it. Don't be

00:27:06.600 a hypocrite. That's it. Uh, what do you make of some celebrities now kind of jumping into politics? 1.00

00:27:13.380 Uh, one of those people being Spencer Pratt, of course he is running for mayor of LA. Do you find

00:27:20.860 that these celebrities or, or personalities who otherwise weren't previously involved in politics,

00:27:26.920 do you find them to actually help really move the needle or do you think it it causes some

00:27:32.400 sort of chaos and and distractions to what's actually being done my answer is donald trump

00:27:39.760 donald trump was a celebrity you know and i first of all the bar became so low and i'm not talking

00:27:48.080 about spencer pratt i like spencer pratt but the bar for politicians in the u.s became so low we 0.64

00:27:53.900 have rashida elon omar we had jamal bowman we have such clowns in our administration in our 0.79

00:28:00.480 cabinet uh not our cabinet excuse me i mean we did have clowns in our cabinet um in our 0.81

00:28:05.260 i thought about the other day and it's just like i thought about the other day the suitcase stealer

00:28:11.020 do you remember that like this man who like dressed as a woman with a bald head

00:28:16.540 like what is he doing now where's he i hope in jail should no yeah clowns is like a kind word

00:28:25.840 to describe i think a lot of people especially in the previous administration it's like gotten

00:28:31.580 to the point that i was having a conversation with my parents and like again there are many

00:28:35.280 great congressmen so don't take it the wrong way like god bless you you serve your country i guess

00:28:39.260 but um my dad's like why don't you run for office and i remember i was like what should i do he's

00:28:44.060 like run for Congress. And I was like, you don't think I'm above that? And then it took a minute

00:28:48.220 to like sit back and think about what I just said, because I was like, wait, am I being arrogant

00:28:52.020 right now? But then I was like, no, it really just became a joke. Like the people that represent us

00:28:58.200 in Congress are not the sharpest tools in the shed, which is being very generous. So it's like,

00:29:03.620 I almost felt like, like they don't deserve my time. Like I could be doing better things for

00:29:08.780 this country, not sitting in Congress. But then if all the smart people think that way,

00:29:13.100 we're left with the morons like ilan omar so it's just like man i don't know like i don't care what 0.99

00:29:20.260 your background is like i don't care that spencer is a celebrity um we just really need to raise the 0.99

00:29:25.720 bar higher and guess what karen basura was not a celebrity and she's run los angeles somehow deeper 1.00

00:29:31.140 into a deeper hole excuse my french like so maybe she should have been a celebrity and then she'd 1.00

00:29:37.480 care more about her reputation to do such an abominable failure you know we actually have a 0.99

00:29:42.200 clip i want to play really quick uh this was at their debate earlier this week talking about

00:29:47.240 non-citizens so illegal immigrants being able to vote let's play it really quick

00:29:51.880 non-citizens should they be allowed to vote in local elections is this a yes or no mr pratt

00:29:58.180 no mayor bass it depends it's not a yes or no depends on what well first of all when you say

00:30:04.940 non-citizens it doesn't mean they're here illegal it doesn't mean they're undocumented they could

00:30:09.260 have green cards they could be here perfectly legal and there's a lot of states and cities

00:30:13.820 that do that on very very local elections we have to see what the councilman is proposing

00:30:18.940 council member bremen yeah i would say again it it does depend in other places school boards have

00:30:25.060 non-citizens i have a question for you isn't it so telling that they can't just say yes or no it

00:30:35.360 has to be it depends well what about this exception and we find this on on again virtually

00:30:40.780 every issue they want to rule off of the exceptions and in the process they're forgetting about your

00:30:47.780 common sense every day working tax-paying american yeah by the way i don't think there

00:30:54.540 are exceptions when it comes to voting for the president or anyone as a matter of fact like 0.99

00:30:58.480 most of the people the reason why mom donnie's in office is because those on visas were able to vote

00:31:04.480 And like all the college students that are from China and Russia and all these like adversary countries to the U.S. were voting in this election in Manhattan.

00:31:12.400 And we're like a college city. There's so many universities in Manhattan and the five boroughs.

00:31:17.240 So like that's also really dangerous. But it's telling to me, like, forget this.

00:31:22.880 At the State of the Union, the president posed such a simple question.

00:31:27.860 Like, do you serve the American people first? And the Democrats couldn't stand.

00:31:31.980 And it's like, what are you doing? You are embarrassing. Riley, I think about other countries watching that clip and sitting, eating popcorn and laughing at us. And it's like, we're a joke. We're really a joke. Like people who hate this country shouldn't be allowed to live here. But unfortunately, we don't have a dictator who's going to enforce that. So we're stuck with morons representing our country publicly.

00:31:52.480 Yeah. Again, morons is, is kind, I believe. I guess kind of last thing for you. I imagine there's tons of young women and girls who really look up to you being so young, being so beautiful, being so bold, having the job and the different titles that you get to wear. 1.00

00:32:12.800 What's your advice to young girls?

00:32:15.380 I think young girls, especially who want to pursue sports journalism or sports broadcasting,

00:32:20.100 because it tends to be a male dominated field.

00:32:22.720 What have you found that helped you be successful?

00:32:25.520 And what advice would you give those young girls?

00:32:29.320 Wow.

00:32:31.140 You know, I don't know if people would believe me if I told them I was like a super insecure

00:32:35.200 young girl.

00:32:36.480 And I'm talking all the way until college.

00:32:38.120 Like I cared so much about other people thought and I was always insecure about my looks and

00:32:42.860 I was like, Oh my God, does he like me back? Like it was always just so much insecurity. And it's

00:32:48.220 always because I valued other people's opinions, but not in a healthy way, like in a, it dictated

00:32:54.500 my life type of way. And it wasn't really until I had like a health scare in high school where my

00:33:00.040 priorities became aligned. And like, of course, God forbid, I'd never wish a health scare upon

00:33:04.800 anyone or anything life-changing like that upon anyone but in a way it was like the best thing

00:33:10.360 that happened to me because i was able to realign what i cared about and i i need everyone even i

00:33:17.240 guess at an older age to like really think about like if you had six months to live what would

00:33:22.600 matter to you and i think about this all the time riley because you never actually know when your

00:33:27.020 last day on earth is like only god knows so i always try to live my life as if there was a

00:33:32.360 clock and maybe it's not healthy but i guess that's just how i roll where it's like my advice

00:33:37.340 to everyone young girls old girls men women whatever see i didn't say third gender but

00:33:42.300 it's like really at the end of the day what matters is your faith your family and like your soul which

00:33:51.360 is your peace and if you're not doing all three of those things if you're not taking care of all

00:33:56.760 three you're very you're living a meaningless life like you're gonna die nobody's gonna remember you

00:34:01.680 anyway so what did you do for your soul or and for your faith so it's like do what you know is

00:34:08.040 right now because you're getting paid to do it not because it's popular not because you're going to

00:34:11.180 monetize it but do what's going to feed your soul and that's like eternal so that's how i try to live

00:34:17.320 my life and i feel like everyone needs to have that click because it's so easy to get carried

00:34:22.640 away by the money and the the cloud and the attention and it's it means nothing how about

00:34:28.560 this, forget when you die, like everyone has a wave, your wave is going to end, you know, so

00:34:33.860 do what's good for you, not what's good for everyone else. All right, I want to talk to

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00:35:48.320 Do you almost feel like a sense of serenity, even in the midst of,

00:35:54.940 because you found yourself like even the Billie Eilish thing, for example, like when you're in

00:35:59.880 the midst of a very public and national controversy, do you, is there a part of you that like even still

00:36:07.420 feels calm? I don't know if that's a good word, but, but maybe level-headed and like able to

00:36:13.020 continue going forward without stressing or worrying or feeling anxious. Yeah. Well, that

00:36:20.100 also has to do a lot with like my faith i guess we can end with like a nice lesson i learned last

00:36:25.620 week i take these classes they're called kabbalah classes actually marla maples really like signed

00:36:30.680 me up for it and she's awesome when you think this way your life changes completely okay

00:36:35.320 everything and every person in your life god put them there so if someone said something you

00:36:42.000 disagree with or someone's challenging you or something didn't go your way if you're getting

00:36:45.820 mad at that whether a person or instance you're getting mad at god for doing what was intended for

00:36:51.260 you so seeing that like things blow up in a good way things blow up in a bad way like i try to sit

00:36:57.180 back and evaluate well what is it teaching me so in the billy eilish case it taught me that i am

00:37:03.400 amongst sheep and i have to just stay strong in my conviction with the epstein binder thing it taught

00:37:09.960 me don't be so gullible so like there's always a lesson in everything and when you believe so

00:37:14.780 strongly in your faith, like nothing in this physical realm can really bother you. So to

00:37:21.680 answer your question short, um, I always have that sense of peace because if I've done something I

00:37:26.980 regret, I will come out and apologize. If I don't regret it, I double down and I feel great about

00:37:32.200 myself. So it's like win-win, you know? See, I love that. And it's, it's very similar to how I

00:37:38.120 feel. And I wasn't always this way, but I had a perspective shift pretty early on. And a lot of

00:37:43.880 it has to do with my faith too where it's like look you're fighting for eternal life and that

00:37:48.460 matters far more that hope and that promise of living eternally i hope to live eternally in

00:37:55.440 heaven uh knowing that and thinking about that it makes nothing of this world matter so i very much

00:38:01.460 i'm the very i'm the same way where even the controversy with the president over the past

00:38:06.000 few weeks or whatever it is i just feel you can't so calm i feel so calm oh well thank you but again

00:38:12.820 And it's when you know you're doing the thing that feels right to you, it's like, who cares?

00:38:19.120 Who cares what the outcome really is?

00:38:21.620 Again, so long as you're saying true to not just yourself, but also to the principles that you try to live your life by.

00:38:29.220 And for me, it is.

00:38:30.000 It's that biblical worldview.

00:38:32.120 Absolutely.

00:38:33.020 So thank you for joining.

00:38:34.560 This is, I think, really insightful.

00:38:37.120 And just being so bold. 1.00

00:38:38.460 We need more bold voices, especially bold women. 1.00

00:38:41.360 oftentimes I think it's weaponized. You're good. I know. I need to have babies and the world will

00:38:49.320 be a better place. That's how we change the culture. Um, well, thank you very, very much,

00:38:54.220 Emily. We'll see you. Bye. Thank you guys for watching the Riley Gaines show. You can subscribe

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