In this episode of the Riley Gains Show, host, Rylee Gains, talks about the controversy surrounding Frida Baby and their postpartum care products, and why they will never get another dime from her again.
00:07:47.540Asking for uncensored success photos after sticking one of their products up a baby's butt is insane behavior.
00:07:57.480And then to follow it with blur not necessary.
00:08:00.140I found this next one that I'm about to read to be the most obscene and vulgar and quite frankly criminal of all of their different ads.
00:08:11.240They posted this picture to their Instagram.
00:08:14.020It's a congested baby with mucus on the baby's face.
00:08:17.580Now, I have the baby's face blurred out because I would never exploit a child like Frida Baby has done.
00:08:26.060If you're watching on YouTube.com, you can see how the mucus or like the snot or the booger, whatever it is, has been excreted from the baby's nose and somehow got on the baby's forehead.
00:08:36.640The caption that Frida Baby put on this photo of a newborn with mucus on his face says, what happens when you pull out too early?
00:08:55.080But secondly, again, how in the world has this gone unnoticed for so long?
00:08:59.860Back in 2021, Frida Baby posted this on their Instagram saying, hey, moms, what's nightstand top drawer worthy, battery operated, and comes in clutch when things are hot and steamy?
00:09:25.460The first ad I saw, the three-in-one thermometer, where they made reference to the threesome, I thought truthfully like that was maybe just some sort of rogue intern posting this.
00:10:06.080I was so curious when I saw these posts, like who in the world are the brains behind such a hyper-sexualized, vulgar marketing strategy?
00:10:15.720And I really wasn't too shocked to see that much of their team consisted of men.
00:10:21.500This is Brian Bird, the director of packaging.
00:10:24.180His bio on the Meet the Team website says, the hardest thing about being a parent are the kids.
00:10:29.600So that's not sexual, of course, but it's just really bizarre to see someone who leads a company promoting and selling baby products to speak poorly of having babies.
00:10:42.500This is the VP of marketing strategy, another man.
00:10:47.920The package design production manager, another man.
00:10:50.780Another thing I found to be super odd is a lot of them in their bios mention that they don't even have children.
00:10:58.400This guy here says, I don't have kids, but I've stepped on enough Legos in life to understand.
00:11:03.920Parenting is so much more than stepping on Legos.
00:11:06.160This guy says, I love being an uncle to my many nieces and nephews.
00:11:09.200This woman's graphic picture is a photo of her and her dog.
00:13:42.680And we're never trying to offend, push boundaries for shock value or make anyone uncomfortable.
00:13:47.040Importantly, our tone is never separate from our product.
00:13:49.740The humor we use is always grounded in a specific feature, benefit or innovation, a reflection of the real problem we are solving for families.
00:13:56.500Frida was built to support families through some of the most vulnerable and transformative chapters of their lives.
00:14:03.360We will continue to show up with honesty, empathy and courage.
00:14:05.640With each decision we make, we will continue to evaluate how we express our voice so that our commitment to families is unmistakable and our tone always meets the moment.
00:14:14.540Yeah, so not an apology at all, which I'm glad, right?
00:14:19.260Like I would rather them not apologize if they aren't truthfully remorseful than to apologize just because they feel like that's what their customers or their target audience wants.
00:14:30.120But they have revealed themselves at this point.
00:14:35.880I will say I have been encouraged to see the unity that we've seen online in the days following a lot of this being exposed from both sides of the political aisle.
00:14:46.280You guys know, I certainly know, there are very few things that seem to unite us nowadays, but this actually appeared to be one of them.
00:15:24.840So, there's real power in where we choose to spend our dollars.
00:15:29.720We get often caught up in this conversation of people feel like they only have a chance to make, you know, consequential impact once every four years when they go to the ballot box to vote for the president.
00:15:41.420You have the opportunity every single day to vote, but you vote with your dollars, your money.
00:15:47.100I've come to realize that every single economic choice is, in fact, a moral one.
00:15:52.120So, in my household, we are boycotting Frida baby and Frida mom products.
00:15:58.180Now, on to the second story of the day.
00:16:00.440You guys know that the Winter Olympics is going on, and I will say there are very few things that leave me feeling, as an American, that leave me feeling as patriotic and prideful and grateful and, like, with this beaming smile on my face than watching a U.S. Olympian win an Olympic gold medal and stand atop the podium with an American flag draped over their back.
00:16:23.800Right? Like, that visual, it just gives you kind of, like, this warm feeling.
00:16:28.920I'm a little less enthused when I see an American-born citizen win an Olympic medal and stand with a Chinese flag on their back.
00:16:38.440But that's exactly what Eileen Gu has done.
00:16:41.560Eileen Gu, she is an American-born Olympic freestyle skier who has trained her whole entire life in America, but renounced her U.S. citizenship to compete for China in the Olympics.
00:16:53.980Reports actually indicate that she's received direct financial support from the Chinese sports system tied to her representing China internationally, like, millions and millions and millions of dollars.
00:17:06.000And in doing my research for this episode, I was, you know, looking up Eileen Gu a little bit about her, and these are some of the stats that I found about her, because regardless of if you like her or not, she really is undoubtedly impressive.
00:18:10.280She currently even still lives in America.
00:18:12.160She studies in America, yet still chose to compete against her own country, that very country that has given her every opportunity in her sport that she has.
00:18:22.440She's competing against that country for the worst human rights abuser on the planet, that being China, choosing to represent an authoritarian regime while cashing in on endorsements that are linked to watchdog groups, to mass detentions, and forced labor camps.
00:18:43.940She's technically, I mean, followed all the official rules to be able to compete for China, the country that I guess she identifies with.
00:18:53.000And I do believe that she has inspired, you know, millions of girls across the country in their sport.
00:18:59.040And I don't think that should be overlooked, but to be born in the USA, raised in the USA, had every opportunity in the USA, and then to sell out to the CCP for cash.
00:19:09.420I guess at the end of the day, like athletes, they make career decisions.
00:19:14.780Maybe it's government officials who make political ones.
00:19:18.380And scouring the Internet, I found a Charlie Kirk tweet because there is a Charlie Kirk tweet for everything I have realized following his assassination.
00:19:26.040His tweet says Eileen Gu, a Chinese-American Olympic freestyle skier who trained her whole life in America, renounced her U.S. citizenship to compete for China in the Olympics.
00:19:35.420Eileen Gu is a traitor, and this is akin to treason.
00:19:37.640She should never be able to enter the U.S. again.
00:19:40.940Let's watch this clip here of her responding to a reporter earlier this week.
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00:21:29.840Now, this reporter, he didn't necessarily ask a hyper-political question, but I would be remiss in this conversation if I didn't mention the reporters who have been doing that.
00:21:40.220Since when did it become the norm to bait U.S. Olympic athletes into giving us their political opinions or to saying that ice is bad or that America is oppressive or that Donald Trump is an orange mean man, right?
00:21:54.080Like, why don't these reporters ask them about their hard work or the sacrifices that they've had to make or their skill set or their talents that they have?
00:22:03.360Like, I'm not saying these people shouldn't have political opinions.
00:22:07.320Actually, I think it's a great thing for everyone to be civically engaged, but it feels like the wrong time to ask them their political opinions.
00:22:17.020If you watch the episode we did following the Grammys, I had the same viewpoints then as I do now.
00:22:22.720You have all these celebrities standing on stage talking about ice and how they're the Gestapo or whatever talking points they'd been handed that day.
00:22:32.120I said in that episode, I'm not saying these people shouldn't have political opinions.
00:22:41.360I think it's good when you are engaged and you know what's happening around the world, but it's the wrong time to ask them about their political opinions.
00:22:50.880They're competing at the most elite level, the highest stage in their sport.
00:22:55.920So the reporter's baiting them into saying something bad about America.
00:23:00.520Those people, they really aren't reporters at all.
00:23:04.560And one more thing, here's a pretty interesting contrast for you between two American-born athletes at the Winter Olympics.
00:23:12.540You have Aileen Gu on one hand, I'll say it again, despite living her entire life in America, competes for China, gets paid millions of dollars to do it.
00:23:20.420Compare that to figure skater Alyssa Liu, who just won a gold medal for the United States.
00:23:26.180She's the daughter of a Chinese immigrant who participated in the Tiananmen Square protests.
00:23:30.160China actually attempted to recruit her, but she refused, resulting in her needing enhanced security from the State Department at the 22 games in Beijing because of it.
00:24:49.200Eventually, he received approval for assisted death under a provision that allows euthanasia, even when natural death is not imminent.
00:24:59.380His parents say that he became fixated just on the thought of dying.
00:25:04.520It was something that was very appealing to him.
00:25:06.700He actually attempted to go through this process multiple times the first time his doctors actually rejected his applications because he wasn't terminally ill, but he was then later approved under MAID rules because that doesn't necessarily require death to be reasonably foreseeable.
00:25:24.980It says, really terrifying here, actually, earlier this week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, she signed an assisted suicide bill into law, making New York the 13th state in the United States, plus Washington, D.C., to legalize allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults into dying by suicide.
00:25:46.640So in New York, this law will go into effect in six months.
00:25:50.400Laws like this that just open the door wide to assisted death, maybe in theory, they sound compassionate, especially when we're talking about people who are in pain, right?
00:26:16.320One of the reasons cited for this assisted suicide was seasonal depression.
00:26:22.100How about rather than killing people who have clearly mental health issues, why don't we demand better care or better mental health services and support or better medical oversight and true compassion that never views death as the first or easiest answer?
00:26:41.460And I think the really concerning thing about laws like this is that this is very clearly to me, as I view it as a Christian, very clearly an attempt to play God, right?
00:26:54.500Like choosing the timing and the manner of death is assuming divine authority.
00:27:00.280And that's a really, really slippery slope.
00:27:02.560The creation of life and the end of life, that authority belongs to God alone, not people like Governor Kathy Hochul.
00:27:12.660But I'm really not surprised that this is a policy that the left, the Democrat Party supports.
00:27:25.340Remember, at the DNC in summer of 2024, when they had that mobile abortion van posted outside the convention center, a big band, they were boasting on social media.
00:27:37.260Like you could go into the van, get an abortion performed or done.
00:27:49.260That is neither safe, legal, nor rare.
00:27:51.960They're celebrating in the fact that they are terminating life.
00:27:56.020On-demand abortions is one of the most sinister things I've ever seen.
00:28:00.940The left seemingly loves and celebrates destruction and harm and death, or at least the prevention of creation of life, as made very clear by abortion and even the medicalization of adults and, of course, minors.