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00:00:30.000 who is ethel cain and why is instagram showing me his junk like i'm talking full bush and beans

00:00:41.420 boy do we have an episode for y'all today a few days ago on instagram i posted a poll and i asked

00:00:48.600 you guys if you had seen this instagram post made by singer ethel cain and to my surprise so many

00:00:55.320 of you said that it also came up on your feed and you were curious about the lore behind all of

00:01:01.880 this. Well, as much as I really did not want to, I did the research and shocker, this is very clearly

00:01:08.620 a disturbed person. I'm talking background of trauma and incest and autogynophilia. If you

00:01:15.380 don't know what that is, we're going to get into that today. Controversy with Lana Del Rey

00:01:20.380 killing CEOs and more, all of which, which led to this nude fetish concoction that showed up on my 0.66

00:01:29.480 Instagram feed. And a final point I want to make in this very brief introduction is how in the world 0.69

00:01:36.720 does Meta allow for a post like this to stay up? Pornography, to be very frank with you,

00:01:43.040 uh, but censor people like me. Okay. I'm going to do my best to describe the visual that I saw

00:01:52.560 on my Instagram. You can picture it now. Innocent little Riley over Easter weekend,

00:01:57.620 sitting at home on my couch. I'm just scrolling through Instagram again during Holy Week,

00:02:02.040 mind you. And this post pops up from an account with the handled username being mother cane.

00:02:08.620 Admittedly, I'd never heard of this person.

00:02:10.620 So this person is sitting on a bed wearing like a corset top.

00:02:15.380 In the first photo, he's wearing no pants. 0.94

00:02:17.920 And in the center of this photo, as I described, is a man wearing a corset with his smushed up junk hanging out of the bottom of this corset. 0.76

00:02:27.840 I almost tripped running to the comment section to see what other people were saying.

00:02:33.380 And unsurprisingly, the comment section was filled with virtues signaling social justice warriors who were very quick to affirm Ethel Cain by telling him how beautiful and how brave and iconic and stunning this post was.

00:02:50.860 Let's just read a few. 0.99

00:02:52.380 This one says, I love women. 1.00

00:02:54.040 Wow.

00:02:54.920 This person says, as a trans individual, seeing someone with my type of body makes me happy in a way that's hard to describe.

00:03:01.480 It's validating my transgender-ness in a way that I never knew I needed.

00:03:05.280 Weird to be crying so much because of a picture of someone's pants parts. 0.99

00:03:09.560 Feeling very silly and wonderful.

00:03:11.720 I am so sorry, but are we really going to keep acting like this is not a mental illness? 0.86

00:03:16.400 He just called it someone's pants parts. 0.96

00:03:19.020 If you cry when you see a photo of another man's junk because it makes you feel validated, 0.98

00:03:26.360 then there is something deeply wrong with you. 0.98

00:03:28.540 So, who is Ethel Kane?

00:03:31.160 Afflecane is the stage name, or I guess artistic persona, if you will, of Hayden Silas and Adonia.

00:03:37.960 He is an American singer-songwriter, a record producer, I think even sometimes a model.

00:03:45.180 He was born in 1998 in Florida, so what does that make him?

00:03:49.100 28-ish years old.

00:03:51.160 uh, like I said, known for that Southern Gothic style music that includes some pretty dark themes

00:03:57.800 like, uh, religious trauma and incest and abuse and substance abuse. He creates like immersive

00:04:05.440 narrative driven music, which is something I think someone like Taylor Swift does actually,

00:04:11.860 uh, maybe the two aren't overly comparable, but I do think the narrative driven style of music is

00:04:17.260 where Swifties, which I'll kind of give some context, I'm not necessarily a Swifty. I think

00:04:24.660 it's honestly pretty impressive. The brand, the business that she has been able to build,

00:04:30.100 she does have kind of like a cult-like following. I think same thing with Ethel Cain. A lot of that

00:04:35.100 is the lyrics that these artists are using. People, listeners feel like they can relate to that. For

00:04:40.380 Taylor Swift, that has historically been for breakups, but for Ethel Cain, based on what I've

00:04:45.600 been able to see and to listen to. It's kind of like the raw introspective style that really

00:04:51.500 resonates with fans dealing with similar themes of identity or faith or Southern roots. I watched

00:04:57.840 an interview of why Hayden is his real name. Again, Ethel Kane is a stage name, why he goes

00:05:03.340 by that name. He said Ethel is a womanly matronly old American name that feels prim. It feels proper.

00:05:10.600 it evokes nostalgia, small town Southern tradition, kind of like a faded old fashioned 0.85

00:05:17.620 femininity. That's what he was going for by using the name Ethel. Cain, of course, comes straight

00:05:23.700 from the Bible, the biblical story of Cain and Abel. This is the firstborn son of Adam and Eve

00:05:30.320 who murders his brother and is marked by God to then wander the earth. It perfectly fits 0.97

00:05:38.900 what he describes as his core themes, which is, again, generational trauma, sin, family betrayal,

00:05:46.360 wandering and exile, violence and religious guilt. Hayden describes Ethel Cain, his alter ego,

00:05:53.680 his stage name, as the dark evil twin. So he could externalize these heavy personal material,

00:06:01.660 things that he's dealt with in his life without having to put it directly on himself. So I guess

00:06:06.800 in short, like the name Ethel Cain is like this perfect microcosm of the whole project. So

00:06:13.140 old school Southern colliding with biblical curses, violence, and escape. His music and

00:06:20.680 aesthetics have been compared to the likes of Lana Del Rey, which there was a big feud there.

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00:07:42.540 tell them that Riley Gaines sent you. But actually his debut album in 2022, the album titled

00:07:50.880 Preacher's Daughter, it made the billboard charts in April of 2025. It debuted at number 10 on the

00:07:57.960 U.S. Billboard 200. Clearly an incredible achievement. This was driven by a vinyl release.

00:08:04.740 It made Cain the first trans artist to secure a top 10 album on the Billboard 200, with the album

00:08:12.140 also reaching number one on the top album sales chart. More on his family here, he grew up in a

00:08:18.240 very conservative Southern Baptist family. His dad was a deacon and a truck driver. Actually, Cain,

00:08:23.980 He sang in the church choir. I think in an interview, he said he left the church around age 16.

00:08:28.980 So that's kind of the ecosystem that he has created and honestly been successful in, which the success is unsurprising to me.

00:08:36.280 I believe when you have someone who is transgender, a trans woman, really a man who identifies as a woman speaking about the difficulty of growing up queer or gender nonconforming in this strictly religious home, southern environment in the state of Florida.

00:08:53.980 Young people, I think people a part of the LGBTQ community are drawn to that. I think they view his music as like a cathartic processing of the experiences that he has had, or maybe this fictional character of Ethel Cain, or maybe that they're experiencing in their own lives. So the success isn't really surprising.

00:09:14.280 Now, growing up in a conservative household is not looked upon very kindly by Hollywood, especially when some of those old posts and tweets, your old social media activity is resurfaced online. That's exactly what happened last summer. Some old tweets from Cain's teenage years generated lots of controversies. Primarily, these were from, I think, 2017, 2018. He was about 19 or 20 years old at the time.

00:09:42.260 I think they were posted initially to like Tumblr or Reddit, but they were amplified on X.

00:09:49.060 Some of these posts showed what is described as edgelord behavior.

00:09:54.740 It's kind of typical of certain online subcultures, especially at the time, that were dedicated to just receiving attention.

00:10:01.980 And what any way, whatever way you could receive attention, whether good, bad, that appears to be what this is.

00:10:07.580 You have Cain, who had admitted to using the N-word to racial slurs.

00:10:13.140 He made one post mocking Hispanic individuals, saying,

00:10:16.400 build that wall, an ode to President Trump. 0.99

00:10:18.660 He had made several rape jokes and fat-shaming comments.

00:10:22.940 Look at the screen here if you're watching on YouTube.com.

00:10:26.160 You can see him wearing a T-shirt that says, legalize incest.

00:10:31.960 He had made other pretty dismissive comments about pronouns, using pronouns.

00:10:37.580 Criticuling people who use pronouns other than he or she. I think this is actually pretty 1.00

00:10:43.820 disturbing. He used a real flyer of a real missing child, which he edited and adapted to promote his

00:10:52.980 album and to sell his merch. Just feels kind of twisted. My gosh, and one more controversy I almost

00:10:59.260 forgot to mention. Likely the most deranged, I think, of them all. I'm sure you guys remember

00:11:04.840 Luigi Mangione and the healthcare CEO, the United healthcare CEO that was shot and murdered in cold

00:11:12.580 blood outside of that hotel in New York city. That's what kind of started like the Luigi

00:11:17.160 Mangione effect. Maybe not the start of it, but at least in modern times, like the romantization

00:11:23.460 of stone cold killers writing on the casings, the bullet casing. What did he write? He was,

00:11:29.420 it was like depose, defend, deny something to that effect. We saw where Charlie Kirk's assassin

00:11:34.840 also wrote on the bullets. And so besides the point, you guys, you know the situation I'm

00:11:40.520 talking about. Well, following this, Ethel Cain wrote a statement saying that he found it funny

00:11:44.680 that calling for the death and destruction of multi-billionaire CEOs was being painted as a

00:11:50.620 radical, woke, liberal position. He argued that actually it has nothing to do with left, right,

00:11:56.920 blue, red, conservative, Democrat politics at all and compared it to that nonpartisan issues like

00:12:03.200 climate change. He pushed back on the idea that defending traditional values should include

00:12:09.880 protecting corrupt lawmakers and old tycoons. He even went as far to say that, you know,

00:12:17.040 people are wrong when they say violence is never the answer, because sometimes violence is the

00:12:23.040 answer. Hashtag kill more CEOs. Mind you, this was right after a real CEO had just been killed,

00:12:31.940 murdered. This was a father. This was a husband who was prematurely taken from this earth. So to

00:12:37.440 say kill more CEOs, of course, it's irresponsible. It's dangerous. It's tone deaf and it's glorifying

00:12:44.860 murder. All while I would bet if you ask, this person believes themselves to be morally superior

00:12:51.420 to people like you and me. And are we really living in an influencers cancel culture? If

00:12:56.580 these outed posts aren't followed immediately with a lengthy apology, in his case, a 2000 word,

00:13:04.760 an essay, a 2000 word apology, forget this being white in his apologies. He says at the end of the

00:13:12.500 day, I am white. So while I can take accountability for my actions, there's no way for me to fully

00:13:17.540 understand the way it feels to be on the receiving end of them let's watch this clip here i was young

00:13:24.220 and angry and lashing out of the world it is deeply shameful and embarrassing um to see that

00:13:31.700 dredged back up so that video we just watched was him sat down with the new york times who is the

00:13:37.380 canceler of all cancelers by the way uh they i guess saw fit to excuse his racist rants why

00:13:44.600 because he is trans. On the other hand, you have Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. Maybe had he

00:13:50.400 declared himself a woman towards the end of his life prior to passing away earlier this year,

00:13:55.100 his past comments would have been forgiven or excused as well by the New York Times. But no,

00:14:00.340 of course not. He was a conservative. And so this was the headline from the New York Times when he

00:14:06.800 passed away. It says Scott Adams, whose comic strip Dilbert was a sensation until he made

00:14:11.600 racist comments on his podcast has died at 68. So I guess accountability or forgiveness, it depends

00:14:18.000 on who you are, not really what you did. And I know I've alluded to this controversy with Lana

00:14:22.540 Del Rey, but I want to spend a second on it because I think it's interesting because I think

00:14:26.540 it's telling of a true narcissist. Okay. Ethel Kane started as, or Hayden started as a fan of

00:14:35.060 Lana Del Rey. If you don't know who Lana Del Rey is, there's very obvious like stylistic parallels

00:14:41.440 between the two and their music. The melancholy and the kind of weird femininity, but it's like

00:14:48.500 this all Americana imagery and small town vibes and trauma. It's kind of dark, right? Well, over

00:14:55.540 time, people, listeners, began to draw constant comparisons between the two. And that made Ethel

00:15:03.960 mad or Hayden Kane. Let's say Kane. Kane started feeling overshadowed by Lana Del Rey. And so

00:15:12.360 fans have now dug up old posts from Kane throwing shade at Lana Del Rey. Sly comments about like

00:15:20.560 pushing Lana Del Rey over when someone said Lana walked so Ethel could run. Deleting,

00:15:27.400 even going as far to delete or edit references on Wikipedia, Lana Del Rey's Wikipedia page,

00:15:33.960 the just general irritation of being called the new Lana. He didn't like it. Well, this is funny

00:15:40.860 and kind of shows true fan behavior because Lana Del Rey went on to say, I don't even know who this

00:15:45.320 person was. I don't know who Ethel Kane was when these comparisons were being drawn. She then went

00:15:50.860 on, Lana did, which this is such petty internet drama. I know that. Okay. Stay with me. I'm

00:15:56.900 intrigued. She then went on to name drop him and lyrics of her song, a diss track, if you will,

00:16:03.080 saying, Ethel Kane hated my Instagram post, thinks it's cute reenacting my Chicago pose.

00:16:09.160 This referred to a very specific photo that Lana had posted with musician Jack Donahue,

00:16:14.080 which was her ex at one point outside of a Chicago jail, actually. Well, guess what? Ethel

00:16:19.360 later posted a very similar style outdoor photo with the same guy, which fans, of course,

00:16:26.400 interpreted as copying or inserting himself. Then Ethel went on to mock Lana Del Rey's weight 0.97

00:16:34.040 and her body and these fat shaming comments. He talked negatively behind her back to mutual

00:16:40.140 friends that they shared. And Lana said that Ethel started like inserting himself into her

00:16:44.900 personal life, which was incredibly disturbing to her. There's more, but honestly, it just boils

00:16:49.260 down to this is like classic celebrity internet beef, like pretty petty and pretty surface level.

00:16:55.640 but I mentioned it for a couple of reasons. Number one, I think it shows true narcissism

00:16:59.960 on Ethel Kane's side where he didn't like being compared to one of the greatest in this,

00:17:04.640 this niche genre to ever do it. He didn't like that. Okay. And secondly, this is like a total

00:17:10.700 hunch and I don't like making hunches. Um, I quite often make fun of people who say things

00:17:16.480 based off of hunches or dreams or vibes or feelings or any of that stuff. Okay. So I'm

00:17:21.360 not trying to do that. Uh, Lana's political affiliation, her beliefs aren't, I don't think

00:17:27.880 they're widely known, but what we do know, actually she's been known to support like BLM

00:17:32.820 and women's marches in the past. Uh, but she just married someone not too, too long ago who is

00:17:38.520 religious, uh, from what it appears to be pretty devout. Uh, and he is thought to be a Trump

00:17:44.080 supporter. I think he's like a, like alligator hunter, like Louisiana. Okay. Uh, she is a

00:17:51.340 now seen as someone who is, uh, leaning into like conservative trad wife aesthetics, uh, and

00:17:59.680 possibly maybe even likes Trump, which is like, no, a no-go in, uh, Hollywood, in the music world.

00:18:09.040 Uh, and I think total hunch, uh, but what could have underscored this feud between the two,

00:18:16.040 which all leads me back to the post that I saw on my Instagram feed, seeing Ethel Cain in all of

00:18:23.720 his glory or really lack thereof. Here's my thoughts on this. Here's my, my take. I think

00:18:30.300 he put his fetish on full display for the world to see. Uh, I'm not going to act like I understand

00:18:36.800 what is going on inside of his mind because clearly I don't, I don't understand the trauma

00:18:41.820 or the abuse, quite frankly, I don't want to. I imagine it's pretty horrible for you to be in

00:18:47.180 the position that he's in, for you to feel as if there's validation or there's a necessity to post 0.99

00:18:52.840 your genitalia online. I don't want to be in that headspace. So I'm not going to act like I fully 0.99

00:18:59.040 understand what he's going through, what his intentions are. Just my take. Let's talk about

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00:20:56.220 Gaines show. Now you might be wondering why, Riley, do you think this is a fetish as opposed

00:21:03.760 to someone who really believes that they were born in the wrong body? The lie that young people 0.97

00:21:09.860 or adults for that matter are constantly and consistently told by society and culture and

00:21:14.960 people who call themselves healthcare professionals, right? The lie that they were born in the wrong

00:21:19.400 body. Why don't I think that's the case for Ethel Kane? Why do I think it's a fetish? 0.99

00:21:23.220 I'm going to ask you, have you ever heard of autogynophilia, AGP? Let's call it AGP in this

00:21:31.280 conversation. I had never heard of this prior to being immersed in the gender ideology movement.

00:21:38.060 I have now grown to understand that autogynophilia or AGP is the most likely driver for any man

00:21:46.820 pretending to be a woman, including, by the way, this isn't just, uh, you know, crazy woke people

00:21:53.340 on the left, even Christine Ome's husband. Okay. I believe to be an autogynophiliac. Okay. So what

00:21:59.360 is autogynophilia? Um, it is a paraphilia really it's, it's a male's propensity to be sexually

00:22:05.580 aroused, either dressing as a woman, the thought or the image of himself as a female. Let's break

00:22:13.420 the word down. Auto, right? It's like Greek root. Auto means self. Gein means woman. Philia means

00:22:21.880 love or attraction. So literally the word autogonophilia is love of oneself as a woman.

00:22:30.040 So I guess in this case, like the primary erotic target, it's not another person. Again, it is one

00:22:36.100 self transformed into a woman. It's men who are aroused, like sexually aroused from either 0.92

00:22:41.700 dressing as a woman, from acting or behaving in a feminine way, or I see this on Reddit actually

00:22:48.640 all the time, men who are aroused from imagining female bodily functions like menstruation or

00:22:56.660 pregnancy. Oftentimes it's accompanied by a deep-seated jealousy of women because they do

00:23:03.060 things that men cannot do. And I think that explains a little bit of the feud between Lana

00:23:08.460 Del Rey and Kane. They are the object of their own sexual attraction. They are fixated sexually 1.00

00:23:14.420 on themselves, desolated as like a misogynistic. It is oftentimes misogynistic stereotype of a

00:23:23.280 woman. The pigtails and the schoolgirl outfits. It's erotic target fixation gone wrong. It is a 0.98

00:23:33.360 paraphilia. There have been several videos online even of like planet fitnesses or other community

00:23:39.980 gyms of men relieving themselves. If you're picking up what I'm putting down in women's 1.00

00:23:46.380 bathrooms or locker rooms, that is an AGP. I don't even like talking about this. Okay. It's 0.99

00:23:52.140 uncomfortable for me, someone who is like grown married with a child. It is still even uncomfortable

00:23:57.940 for me to talk about, but I think it's important to know and to recognize the patterns that we're

00:24:02.500 seeing. And this is largely the problem with, well, there's a lot of problems with the gender

00:24:07.540 ideology movement. One of those being cutting off healthy body parts for profit, the lack of

00:24:12.760 parental rights, the lack of safeguarding of children, of course, women's rights, but largely 0.99

00:24:17.700 this, okay? It's happening. Men, opportunistic men, fetishistic men with impunity are getting 0.96

00:24:26.900 access to all of our spaces, to our sports, to our locker rooms, to our bathrooms, to our prisons,

00:24:31.540 to our domestic violence shelters. Okay. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? These are spaces

00:24:36.720 that women have fought for decades to have as their own, uh, free from men, just like the one

00:24:43.540 in the video that I just showed you a man who I don't even think he believes himself to be trans.

00:24:48.740 This is a man, or maybe he believes it, but end of the day, this is a man with a fetish. Okay. 0.80

00:24:55.340 That is my take on this issue. I encourage you to Google autogynophilia. If you want to spend

00:25:00.800 more time doing a really deep dive on it. I would encourage you to look up, he's a sexologist,

00:25:07.920 a doctor, I guess he's from Canada. His name is Ray Blanchard. Okay. He was one of the ones to

00:25:13.360 kind of create the core ideas or the framework behind AGP to first define it and recognize it. 1.00

00:25:20.440 And one more point to make here, women don't do this. Okay. Women and men are, of course, 1.00

00:25:26.620 we're physically different. Anyone with eyeballs can see that, but we're genetically encoded to be

00:25:32.080 different in our characteristics and the way that our brain works. Women on average, generally, 1.00

00:25:37.000 of course, there are exceptions, but generally women are more apologetic and emotionally driven

00:25:41.880 and empathetic and compassionate. And guess what? These are good things. They really are. And their

00:25:45.820 true essence and the true connotation of these words, it is a good thing because it's what makes

00:25:50.080 us good wives and good mothers and good nurturers. Men, on the other hand, on average, are typically

00:25:57.020 more assertive. They are more dominant. They are more aggressive, which that's also a good thing.

00:26:02.260 That's what makes men the protectors and the providers. Again, what is genetically encoded

00:26:07.080 in men? Well, guess what? Those same aggressive, assertive, dominant men who, even if they begin

00:26:14.500 to claim the identity of a woman, they're still the same aggressive, dominant, assertive man

00:26:19.220 that they once were. They're not acting in a ladylike manner when they insist their way into

00:26:26.140 our spaces, when they demand the language by which we call them. We don't see this happening

00:26:30.580 the other way. You don't see women who identify as men posting their genitals online because it's 0.53

00:26:37.640 the same docile, submissive woman that it was previously, even with taking testosterone. Are 0.97

00:26:44.440 are you guys understanding what I'm saying? Is it making sense? I really hope it is.

00:26:48.660 The in your faceness is kind of the entire point of this. It's very man centric. It's very male.

00:26:56.420 That's the toxic kind of masculinity. If we're going to talk about toxic masculinity,

00:27:00.680 it's that right there. Men who are posting their genitalia online, wanting you to acknowledge 0.89

00:27:07.600 that they have male genitalia all while wearing a corset and saying, you know, I'm the submissive 0.99

00:27:13.680 one, you must accept it. And if you don't, then you're the bigot. Normalize my fetish or else. 0.99

00:27:19.900 That is what we call toxic masculinity. And I made the point in the intro that Instagram or

00:27:26.500 Meta has allowed this to stay up. Despite the fact that it is pornography, whether they want

00:27:31.640 to say that it's artistic nudity, whatever, I non-consensually saw genitals, male genitals on 0.98

00:27:39.240 my screen. Um, I attempted to report the post, um, more so just to see what Instagram would do,

00:27:45.820 what meta would do. Uh, and I got a notification that says we did not remove mother Kane's content

00:27:50.680 to keep our preview process as fair as possible. We use the same set of community standards to

00:27:55.600 review all reports. Our team, our team reviewed the content. They found that it does not go

00:27:59.880 against our community standards on nudity or sexual activity, despite the fact that he was

00:28:04.620 nude. I just don't understand it. Even more so, I don't get it. When they censor people like me,

00:28:12.080 platforms like mine, and companies like XXXY Athletics, Jen Say is the owner of the brand,

00:28:21.260 the CEO, the former CEO or CMO of Levi's, ended up getting let go, fired, resigned,

00:28:29.920 one of those situations, right? Um, from Levi's during COVID, this is like a traditional San

00:28:34.960 Francisco liberal lefty, his, I mean, lifelong liberal, um, but really started to question

00:28:40.220 things during COVID. Uh, and when she did out loud to her company, uh, guess what? She had

00:28:46.980 the veil lifted when she was let go from her job. It was only a few weeks ago that I had posted on

00:28:53.320 X, an animated image of me wearing an XXXY Athletics shirt. Elon Musk ended up quote

00:29:00.780 tweeting this. We was going back and forth. Well, guess what? We got mass reported XXXY Athletics

00:29:06.480 did after Elon Musk drew attention to the brand. And the result of this was meta shadow banning

00:29:13.100 or censoring, removing XXXY Athletics ads from Facebook and Instagram for a few days.

00:29:21.900 And why did Meta do that? Because XXXY Athletics enforces the idea, the fact, that there are only two sexes and that biological reality matters. It's real. It cannot be ignored, especially when we're talking about sports. And for that, Meta censored XXXY Athletics. 0.99

00:29:43.240 but left up ethel canes smushed and shriveled fruit cup i don't know like i i'm i'm at a loss

00:29:54.080 for words i really am anyways um what a doozy of an episode i don't know if you guys enjoy

00:30:02.600 things like this i would be very curious to know that if you did just in general what kind of

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00:30:13.400 takes? Is it more solo episodes like this? Is it interviewing political or, you know, pop culture

00:30:20.440 figures? Is it the farm content? Is it motherhood? I want to hear from you guys. I want to make

00:30:27.040 myself available and really lean in to this and to you all. So you guys have given me so much

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00:30:40.480 You can follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, anywhere where you get your podcast.

00:30:45.980 It means so much, and I am so grateful for your support. So I want to be able to offer

00:30:50.040 what you guys want to hear from The Riley Gaines Show. But in the meantime, refrain

00:30:56.380 from posting your junk online, please, for my sake, for humanity's sake. We'll see you guys 0.76

00:31:03.620 again next week thank you guys for watching today's episode of the riley gain show i hope

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - April 10, 2026

How Is Ethel Cain Allowed to Post This？｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - April 10, 2026

How Is Ethel Cain Allowed to Post This？ ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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How Is Ethel Cain Allowed to Post This？｜ The Riley Gaines Show