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00:00:41.080 anti-woman oh my gosh we have an incredible guest today her name is kaylee ray she is

00:00:46.520 a former volleyball player female volleyball player at utah state university uh she has 0.94

00:00:52.640 recently been a critical advocate of the inclusion of men and women's sports she's been testifying

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00:01:17.360 Well, Kaylee, thank you for joining The Riley Gaines Show. I have so enjoyed getting to like

00:01:22.720 know you over the past few years and even prior to clicking record, learning more things about you.

00:01:27.500 I just admire you and your courage. Can you speak to just, I mean, just for a brief moment of,

00:01:33.900 I think it's important for viewers or listeners to understand just how much of your life,

00:01:39.040 whether that be social sacrifices, physical sacrifices, the emotional toll, the mental toll

00:01:43.780 that playing sports, especially at the high level takes on a female athlete like yourself. Can you 0.99

00:01:50.860 kind of explain your background. Yeah. Well, thanks for having me on. Of course. Um,

00:01:56.980 when I say it takes up all your time, I mean, this is the only thing I focused on doing all

00:02:03.320 growing up. It's the only way I made friends was through participating in sport and volleyball,

00:02:09.120 um, dedicated all my time. If I wasn't working on stuff for school or if I wasn't spending time

00:02:15.180 with my family I was training in the gym working out doing everything I could to prepare my body

00:02:23.080 much less than getting there to the division one level people are so quick to assume that

00:02:29.140 student athletes have it easy and I cannot emphasize enough how that is just not the case

00:02:34.260 balancing the work of college on top of training recovering lifting strength and conditioning

00:02:43.880 practicing for hours on end like it it is your whole world and it definitely becomes fused with

00:02:50.300 your identity of who you are as a person yeah 100 all of those things on top of trying to maintain

00:02:57.040 some sort of social life which as a division one athlete is is truthfully nearly impossible unless

00:03:02.520 you know the the relationships you as you just alluded to and certainly as i experience the

00:03:08.120 relationships that i think are closest to you are your teammates so people who are kind of in the

00:03:12.960 trenches with you. So you go to Utah State University. Can you talk about what you experienced

00:03:20.700 even maybe prior to finding out that you would at some point soon be competing against a team

00:03:27.580 that had a man on it? Yeah. I mean, it's really difficult, the adjustment. I thought I'm a super

00:03:34.820 independent person. College will be easy. And I will say like the living on my own, doing my own

00:03:40.460 laundry, cooking my own meals, that wasn't any trouble for me. But learning to balance the

00:03:46.700 demands of my coaches with what I actually wanted and with school and receiving an education,

00:03:54.980 it became quite a difficult juggle. On top of that, I got hit with some health challenges

00:04:02.620 pretty early on in my career that also just added another layer of stress and devoting time and

00:04:11.060 energy to things that weren't involving my sport or my social life. So sport is usually where you

00:04:19.960 get your fulfillment in those spaces. And when sport isn't going so well, it can be really

00:04:26.700 difficult, the mental toll, the emotional strain that that puts on a student athlete. And I'm sure

00:04:33.760 every college athlete out there listening to this right now is like, I know exactly what she's

00:04:38.720 talking about. Totally. Well, as you said, you place so much of your identity in your success

00:04:44.500 as an athlete. And so when that's not going well, the rest of your life tends to go down with it.

00:04:50.440 Yeah. And it's really hard navigating relationships, particularly between player and coach and then professors and strength and conditioning coaches and trainers and your teammates, leaders.

00:05:06.140 And, you know, just when we have foreigners on the team, like there's a lot that you are tasked with navigating early on. 1.00

00:05:13.380 um and so i would just say being a college athlete isn't easy much less when you have men

00:05:21.160 invading your sport talk about that talk about the first time you learned that san jose state

00:05:27.100 university a school in your conference had a man on their team and that that you guys would be

00:05:32.360 playing this team um so i had first in in 2022 um we had competed against san jose and that was

00:05:41.880 the first time that we saw the biological male named Blair originally Brayden I believe um

00:05:48.940 competing and my teammates and I immediately knew like this is not a female athlete um of course we 1.00

00:05:58.360 had why do you say that was it was it the physical of it like sheerly playing against him you could

00:06:04.280 notice a difference yes especially in volleyball I can't speak to other sports having like not

00:06:10.500 really played other sports. Um, but this person in the physicality and the way that they played

00:06:17.040 in volleyball, when you're attacking the ball, some people call it spiking, but if you play

00:06:22.320 volleyball and you just call it attacking, um, as someone is going to hit the ball on the men's

00:06:28.440 side of the game, there is so much more torque. You kind of see, it's almost like the body as

00:06:34.220 they're swinging like folds in half um in girls that's significantly less like it's there but 0.77

00:06:40.840 you can just see if you just watch clips of this player playing the torque the physicality and not

00:06:48.100 to mention the height of the vertical it was very apparent to us like that's a dude and even a men's

00:06:57.340 volleyball net is like what seven and a half inches higher than a women's net right yes so 1.00

00:07:04.760 that that right there acknowledges that biological differences exist yes and even at like the

00:07:12.420 youngest of ages like the boys high school teams play on that higher net than the women's um and

00:07:21.300 growing up having an older brother who eventually in high school went on to play volleyball

00:07:27.160 he had like a 44 inch vertical even on the men's net was jumping over the height of the men's net

00:07:34.380 very easily um so it was very apparent to me when we first saw this player like that something here

00:07:42.820 is not like the others so my teammates and I had speculations um we made comments amongst ourselves

00:07:48.860 but it was very new we were just confused couldn't possibly understand and it wasn't

00:07:56.500 confirmed to us. So then you're kind of left thinking, am I judging someone unfairly? You

00:08:02.500 know, there's a lot as women, we're kind of taught to be pleasant and pleasing and have people like 1.00

00:08:08.820 you and don't say stuff that might rock the boat. So a lot of that was just locker room talk. Like

00:08:15.060 we kept it to ourselves. Um, in 2023, um, we continued to make those same comments is very

00:08:22.620 obvious to us that player, um, was out for most of the season, um, with a thumb, allegedly a thumb

00:08:31.160 injury. Um, Brooke can speak more to what was actually going on then. But, um, again, we had

00:08:39.160 made comments and my coach, my head coach at that time, then confirmed to one of the players on the

00:08:46.480 team because he was friends with the San Jose state coach at the time. Like, no, that is,

00:08:51.760 that is a transgender player, had told us, now we're like, okay, puzzle pieces are clicking 0.84

00:08:59.520 into place here. Like, we weren't wrong. We're not dumb. And then right before they were to come

00:09:07.940 play us at our gym, administrators came into our team film room and talked to us before the match

00:09:14.960 and said, um, as you know, as you probably know by now, but at this point it wasn't public knowledge.

00:09:23.600 It was just amongst our team. And they had said any, if we hear any comments, any derogatory

00:09:30.700 comments, um, from players or fans, like you will be ejected immediately. There's no tolerance for

00:09:36.960 that. Um, and I guess San Jose state had reached out, their administration had reached out prior

00:09:42.860 to ensure that our gym would be a safe space for this athlete.

00:09:50.460 And that was when feelings started to really take root.

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00:11:45.660 efforts to censor you even in the form of self-censorship even when you feel scared for

00:11:52.520 the threats or the risk that could potentially exist that should definitely be a major red flag

00:11:58.940 what was kind of like the conversation among the team at that point like your teammates yeah

00:12:04.660 everyone was just so unsure it was such a bizarre thing that nobody knew how to handle it we hadn't

00:12:12.700 seen this before we had obviously talked to our parents and it was kind of understood amongst the

00:12:19.100 team like this isn't right but also like these people are in charge like what else can we do

00:12:25.860 about it. Can't do anything about it. Um, so we ended up playing, I, I think, um, Blair maybe

00:12:34.400 played for a second, um, but not much because they were still coming back. He was still coming

00:12:42.320 back from the injury, I guess. Um, but that was the last time, um, I played against San Jose State

00:12:50.260 And then some stirrings had happened the following spring, and then it was confirmed publicly and it became public knowledge prior to the 2024 season. And that was when kind of we realized that, oh, we were right in feeling like this was a big deal. And maybe now we're actually in a place where we can do something about it.

00:13:14.380 Talk about that. I'm sure the people watching or listening to this can recall. It seems our society has very short memories, but just not even two years ago, your team really kick-started a slew of other teams in making a bold statement and essentially boycotting, effectively forfeiting, a game against San Jose State University.

00:13:40.260 can you talk about the decision behind this and the conversations that went into this and and one

00:13:47.040 of the things that I want to know is if you had support from administration maybe your coaching

00:13:52.060 staff or even higher-ups in the decision to not play against San Jose State yeah um well obviously

00:13:59.620 we had heard that in the preseason southern Utah had refused to play San Jose and

00:14:08.040 because it's a preseason match it doesn't it doesn't really affect you know the conference

00:14:14.000 standings or anything like that so there was no penalty for southern Utah to back out of that

00:14:19.000 match um but then we started to hear and like talking to girls on other teams you know like

00:14:25.640 there's a potential here to make a really big statement and like let the country know like put

00:14:31.420 everyone on notice that like this is not something we're going to stand for anymore um I believe that

00:14:37.620 I had been talking to my parents and my dad had actually reached out to you, um, and got us in

00:14:43.700 touch. And it was such a huge support to me at that time. Um, cause you were immediately like,

00:14:49.440 I've been talking to university presidents. I've been reaching out to athletic directors. Like

00:14:54.000 I'm well aware of the situation at hand. And to just finally, it was like the first time that I

00:14:59.720 was like, Oh, like someone's on my side here. And it's not just like my team and I against the world.

00:15:06.920 So it was the first time I kind of felt like I could breathe a little bit.

00:15:10.760 I was empowered to do so.

00:15:13.520 And I began having conversations with my athletic director at the time.

00:15:18.700 Her and I had actually kind of a tumultuous relationship.

00:15:22.640 Early in the summer, she had let go of two administrators who I had grown to love dearly

00:15:28.680 in my time at Utah State.

00:15:29.840 And I was kind of outspoken against her publicly.

00:15:33.160 um but I honestly think it made her respect me a little bit more and so in conversations with her

00:15:41.080 that followed obviously she was incredibly supportive of my stance on the issue and she

00:15:47.780 I I felt the most support from her um and you know from my coaching staff the support was not

00:15:55.440 really there. Um, they didn't want to draw attention. It was a hot button topic. They

00:16:03.120 didn't want to be controversial. Um, anything to just, you know, you know, shut down, be quiet

00:16:12.060 about it. Um, but yeah, my athletic director at the time, um, she was really someone that I

00:16:18.560 grew to rely on in that, um, and have very open and plain conversations about what can the

00:16:24.740 university do? What can we do? Ultimately in my communications with her, um, they sent out an

00:16:31.960 anonymous survey to the girls on our team while we were away on a travel trip. I like want to

00:16:37.360 emphasize that, that this is taking away time and focus so much energy. It was a distraction all

00:16:47.140 season. Like nobody could focus on playing volleyball. We're away on a travel trip about

00:16:52.680 to compete against a team and here we are like dealing with the weight of this massive issue

00:16:59.680 um that they sent out an anonymous survey to let us vote on it of sorts and then based on our

00:17:06.660 responses the university president and athletic director helped us make that decision that's so

00:17:13.880 good that you at least had someone administratively in your corner as opposed to a university president

00:17:21.520 um number one lying to you as they did at san jose state university to to brooks team to the

00:17:27.340 women's volleyball team um but forcing you to play uh do you know if the result from the poll

00:17:34.760 was unanimous um i think just in conversations amongst the girls on my team it was unanimous

00:17:41.000 um we weren't like we didn't talk about it other than in the locker room everyone together i know

00:17:48.500 for some girls, it was, it was very hard issue. Um, those people that want to be very compassionate 0.95

00:17:57.280 and understanding, but like you've said a hundred times, where is the compassion for the girls?

00:18:03.240 Where's the compassion for the women actually playing? Um, so I knew some girls were divided, 1.00

00:18:08.960 but ultimately agreed, like it's wrong. It's wrong for a man to be in a woman's sport. Um, 1.00

00:18:15.720 a biological male. Um, I know that led to really difficult conversations with family members and

00:18:22.060 kind of families being torn apart from this conferences, girls, um, Wyoming's team in

00:18:28.060 particular. I knew that their whole team like split on the issue. It was really difficult.

00:18:33.840 And that's something I want people to realize because again, unless you've played a competitive

00:18:38.780 sport, it's really hard to grasp again, not just the sacrifices, but I mean, think of the seniors.

00:18:44.220 this could have been i mean it was it was their last season playing especially when we're talking

00:18:49.620 about the the conference championship like this prematurely ended their career like the fact that

00:18:56.520 this was a burden that young college girls 18 19 20 year old girls had to had to carry

00:19:03.720 there are so many fingers to be pointed here so many people to blame i remember being heartbroken

00:19:09.500 at the time because, of course, you guys doing what you did, other universities, Wyoming,

00:19:15.900 University of Nevada, Reno, these other schools, of course, it takes such boldness and courage

00:19:21.260 to do that, to effectively say, no, enough is enough. But it is so tragic that you even had to.

00:19:28.760 You're sacrificing your season. In some cases, again, especially for the seniors,

00:19:33.220 you're sacrificing your entire career. And so you mentioned that Southern Utah,

00:19:38.200 they didn't necessarily have a penalty by you guys forfeiting against San Jose State University.

00:19:42.980 What was kind of at stake there? We took a loss on our record. For us, we were only scheduled to

00:19:50.960 play San Jose once that year. So it was only one loss on our record that we had to take,

00:19:56.220 which utterly bizarre how that even came to pass Mountain West Conference, very shady in the way

00:20:05.660 they went about passing that rule under the table where by refusing to play a team, you'd have to

00:20:11.120 take a loss on your record. And that was exactly what kept Wyoming from the Mountain West Conference

00:20:19.800 tournament was because these teams were forfeiting to San Jose and San Jose was getting unfair wins

00:20:26.700 on their record. They just got to walk into the tournament as a two seed, get the first round by.

00:20:32.380 um i mean the whole thing that it's it was a farce like the mountain west conference

00:20:38.780 tournament did not reflect the best teams that season and like you said ended careers early and

00:20:46.480 for the people that strove their whole life worked endlessly to get to this level and all you are

00:20:55.480 competing for is winning a conference championship it's winning a national championship whatever it

00:21:01.300 may be. That's always been the end goal. And to have to give it up and walk away because

00:21:07.580 the Mountain West commissioner decided this was going to be the case and the San Jose

00:21:12.600 coaches and administration decided that this person's identity was more important. The fact

00:21:18.460 that those girls had to give up dreams for a sport that they had worked their whole lives for, 0.99

00:21:24.180 like it just makes you so nauseous and so sick. It does. It really is so sick and it is so

00:21:30.400 incredibly unfair. And again, they do it under the guise of being kind and being inclusive and

00:21:35.940 being compassionate and all these fantastic buzzwords that sound good on paper. But all the

00:21:41.360 while it's you all as women who were absolutely and entirely sidelined, like you were actually

00:21:48.800 being used to validate a man's feelings. Who cares about your own? He is the one that matters,

00:21:55.500 right? You even talked about how your gym had to create a safe space, which that's the stupidest 1.00

00:22:00.860 thing ever. Everyone is allowed to play volleyball, right? No one prevented him from playing sports. 0.99

00:22:06.800 He just has to compete in the adequate and accurate category, the men's category.

00:22:14.020 Right. And I also just think it's so funny to walk into an opponent's gym and expect it to be

00:22:19.200 a safe place. Are we joking? Like what is sports about? I'm sorry. Exactly. Exactly.

00:22:24.520 And so what has the last few years, I guess maybe the past year and a half, looked like for you in terms of maybe personal growth or advocacy?

00:22:35.700 I know there's been a lawsuit launch.

00:22:38.920 Of course, I saw you on the Supreme Court steps recently.

00:22:41.700 So you have clearly taken the initiative to continue to use your voice and to lend your name and your face to such a critical issue.

00:22:49.800 What has the past year and a half looked like?

00:22:51.520 Um, it's been a lot of just plain conversations with people and relentlessly working to make sure. I mean, my strongest motivation for me right now, actually, I have a little baby niece, she's about to turn a year old. And I want her to have all the same opportunities and more than I did.

00:23:13.820 And the thought of her ever having to experience the emotions, the trauma that we had to go through, much less the girls like Brooke who were in it and had to see that every single day, those feelings, which someone couldn't possibly be able to comprehend looking on the outside, I never, ever want another girl to feel like that.

00:23:41.520 like girls like Macy Petty, Peyton McNabb, Lauren Miller, like Stephanie Turner, the list goes on

00:23:49.700 and on and on. And that is exactly the problem. So I have no trouble these days standing up and

00:23:56.500 speaking out. It gets easier when you keep doing it. And I've learned that courage kind of begets

00:24:02.340 courage. And the more that I am courageous and upfront about this, the more that I find other

00:24:08.280 people are too. Uh, just amongst my teammates, I know like we have really been inspired on this

00:24:14.640 cause. Well, courage begets courage. And I think in, and that is certainly an outcome of speaking

00:24:20.440 out, but maybe an unintended outcome of speaking out is the other side throws a pie in their own

00:24:27.160 face. Oftentimes as they simply can't rebuttal this issue. They really can't in terms of fairness,

00:24:33.160 in terms of safety as it pertains to locker rooms or, you know, especially in this case,

00:24:38.400 sharing overnight accommodations in terms of privacy. You recently were testifying before

00:24:43.700 the Arizona State Senate. We have a video. We're going to play it really quick.

00:24:50.000 I mean, I have my sports hat on now. It's all about a sports mentality growing up in sports,

00:24:56.740 being a tomboy. I mean, you look pretty healthy. I've played against girls that 0.53

00:25:01.940 that look like you. You look very much in shape and strong. But it's a sports mentality when

00:25:08.540 you're growing up and how much competition that you'll take on. So it's not just a silver bullet

00:25:17.580 for one community of sports players. It's the individual person on how competitive you want

00:25:26.440 to be. So you grew up one way. I grew up a different way. I would have taken on a man 0.90

00:25:30.860 in a heartbeat i played in um i was the only girl sometimes in men's sports but to have a man on my

00:25:39.640 team i would have welcomed it but this is just my opinion so it just depends on the sports mentality

00:25:45.200 of that individual and that's why this bill is bad because you're just putting

00:25:50.320 a whole community of women's sports in one kind of category when women like me we have a different

00:25:58.440 opinion. So how competitive do you think you really are? Yeah, Kaylee playing at the division

00:26:04.640 one level, how competitive really are you? You don't want a man playing on, on the court with 1.00

00:26:10.180 you. Well, you're just simply an unserious athlete. I mean, the level of narcissism that

00:26:16.280 was exuding from this woman all while she has like this very prideful smile on her face.

00:26:23.380 there's so much I could say here. I don't know how you didn't explode in the moment listening

00:26:30.140 to this. Your response actually was beautiful. You, of course, were so composed and respectful.

00:26:36.220 What was your initial thoughts in hearing this? I mean, she starts off by commenting on my body

00:26:45.760 and then proceeds to move into how, well, we obviously grew up different ways. Well,

00:26:52.060 surely we must have, because I don't know the mental gymnastics you have to do to make the

00:26:57.880 argument the way she did. It's, it's, it was astounding. Um, I was honestly just a little

00:27:03.580 bit in shock, a lot of disbelief for her to say the words, I would have welcomed a man on my team.

00:27:12.200 I was like shaking, my hands were shaking. I just thought, and she did have that smug.

00:27:19.260 she looked down on me like here little girl let me educate you you know and that like patronizing 1.00

00:27:28.500 like that is just one thing I can never ever like stand behind I was to for someone in my position

00:27:36.740 to walk in front of a committee in the senate it can be a little daunting um I really appreciated

00:27:43.540 the senators who said thank you for sharing your testimony you know like that's it's not an easy

00:27:48.560 thing to do um but for her to just say everything she said and then be like but that's my opinion

00:27:54.960 and then when i finished my response back to her as i'm walking away she goes thanks for your

00:28:01.500 opinion and it's like it's so utterly dismissive but i can't be surprised because that's what they

00:28:09.740 do they dismiss they abandon they have to ignore basic fact to justify anything that comes out of

00:28:18.200 her mouth. Yeah. The you're right. It was so patronizing. I don't think she realized, well,

00:28:26.140 I have to imagine she didn't, uh, how deeply regressive what she's saying is how utterly

00:28:32.260 misogynistic. And you're right. She, she says she would welcome a man on her team. Cool. But guess

00:28:38.840 what? You don't get to consent on behalf of all women. I mean, it was just the most insane line

00:28:44.660 of questioning or, or I guess her thought process there. But one of the things that was remarkable

00:28:49.520 to me, and we saw Greg Gutfeld say this, uh, earlier this week on Fox was at least she is

00:28:56.120 acknowledging that, that he's a man, right? I think that's a pretty big step. And I think

00:29:00.340 it was overlooked by many, including myself. I don't think I initially came to this conclusion

00:29:04.780 because people like you and me, we've been calling them in for, I mean, because our eyes

00:29:09.220 work and we have functioning brains and a fifth grade understanding of biology. We've been calling

00:29:13.680 the men, but to see a Democrat legislator say outright, maybe indirectly, but certainly directly

00:29:20.920 saying that this was a man, that's a pretty big step in the right direction. I think so. I mean, 0.99

00:29:26.820 it came out of her mouth must be, must be true. And for her to say, you know, you look really

00:29:32.460 healthy. Like I'm, I'm baffled. I'm baffled because you can, you can tell what she's insinuating

00:29:40.840 there. It is absurd to me that anyone who claims to be a fierce defender of women's rights 1.00

00:29:47.920 supports these people in this party. Deeply regressive, utterly misogynistic.

00:29:54.100 It was so exactly what she said. Regressive. That is such a perfect word for what it was 1.00

00:30:00.720 to say is to essentially advocate for the abolition of Title IX in a women's category

00:30:08.260 altogether was so upsetting and unbelievable that the words actually came out of her mouth

00:30:15.180 and and to like you said insinuate that maybe my physical stature or how my body looks should

00:30:25.760 correlate to being able to take on a man and to then say I just like must have lacked competitive

00:30:34.160 spirit it's i have no words it truly baffles the mind that this was an argument that she has that

00:30:43.380 smug look on her face like she thinks she's doing something with it i hope that you have felt

00:30:48.280 incredibly supported online and i hope that she feels uh like the dunce that she is that's putting

00:30:55.780 it very kindly there are several things that i could call her um that come to mind but but i

00:31:01.160 think dunce is appropriate i hope she understands now maybe it takes public backlash to feel that

00:31:09.140 i hope she understands just what she was saying and just how harmful it is not just to girls like

00:31:14.960 you but you're right to girls like your niece to girls like now my daughter the next generation 1.00

00:31:18.920 i i hope and pray desperately that she doesn't have kids she doesn't have daughters because 0.97

00:31:24.160 i can't imagine one day growing up and watching a tape of my mom say that to another young girl

00:31:30.600 understanding how she's undermining and diminishing the opportunities for me as her

00:31:38.400 potential daughter to succeed and to achieve. That is crazy. And so I guess my question for you

00:31:44.320 kind of wrapping up here is, is it worth it? Have you found it to be fulfilling and satisfactory?

00:31:53.260 And do you think we're moving the needle here? I think we are. I really do. It's becoming more

00:32:00.160 of an open conversation, people are starting to recognize that this is common sense. This is a

00:32:05.880 common sense issue. This is basic biology, basic understanding, basic truth. It has been very

00:32:13.520 fulfilling to me in standing up. I have found a community of people that have no shame in standing

00:32:19.940 for what is right. And I think telling the truth is a compassionate thing. And I believe that

00:32:26.640 surrounding myself by people who are unafraid to stand for the truth, um, has definitely inspired

00:32:33.400 me to keep moving forward. I know we are certainly far from over. Obviously I'm hoping that that bill

00:32:39.120 passes in the Senate, um, and we can get that on the ballot for Arizona voters, um, to make a

00:32:45.900 decision about, um, obviously we don't want to leave it in the hands of people like Senator

00:32:50.600 Miranda. Um, but I do, I think we're moving it forward. And like you said, the fact that she

00:32:56.680 agreed it's a man, we must be getting somewhere. Um, but I know that the fight is far from over

00:33:02.780 and my energy is revamped. I'm ready to go. Well, thank God for it. And thank God for you.

00:33:10.660 Um, truthfully, I'm, I'm just so grateful, um, because you are, you are fighting for the future

00:33:15.300 of, of my daughter, your niece, and that's what it's about. So thank you, Kaylee.

00:33:18.680 thank you i wouldn't be able to do this without you first trailblazing the path so

00:33:24.420 oh please well onwards with full steam ahead yes together thank you guys for tuning in to

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - March 20, 2026

Kaylie Ray： The Truth Behind That Viral Arizona Senate Clash ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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