Lara Trump on Faith, Family, Fitness, and Raising Kids Without Screens ｜ The Riley Gaines Show
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Fox News anchor Laura Trump joins Riley on the Riley Gains show to discuss her thoughts on the World Cup, the Super Bowl halftime show, and how she's able to be a part of the First Family while being a mom.
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Today we are talking to Laura Trump. She is so incredible, right? Outside of her show on Fox
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News or her political beliefs and how she is able to stand beside the president, be a part of the
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first family, how she's able to do all that while being a mom. The thing, honestly, that I'm most
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excited to ask her about is her workout routine, right? Come on. If you're watching on youtube.com,
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we have a picture of her on screen. How does she look like this while doing all that she does
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and doing it all so well? Well, we're going to find out.
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Well, Laura, thank you for joining the Riley Gaines show. Oh my gosh. Thank you. I'm so
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honored. Thanks for having me, Riley. First and foremost, I want to ask you about the
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world cup because I, my understanding is you were there yesterday. Tell us about the experience.
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Oh my gosh. Well, it was so cool. First of all, I've loved so much how into sports the whole
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world kind of has become. And especially I feel like this world cup, it brought us all closer
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together. I feel like it, it really has been like such a great connector of people. I've loved all
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of the foreign people coming into the United States, all of these people from all over the
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world, loving our country, loving things like, you know, going to Walmart or Bass Pro, things that I
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feel like we take for granted here in America. They're really loving it. And I think that the
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end of this is that kind of Americans maybe have a newfound love for soccer. You know, I go to my
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kids' soccer games, Riley, on like Saturday mornings, and it's kind of a tradition. I played
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soccer when I was a kid. I feel like a lot of Americans of, you know, my generation did, but
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then it kind of like dies out and americans don't watch it that much i think maybe we turned a
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corner because i gotta tell you that stadium yesterday was packed full of people i think
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they said it was over 80 000 people there i was saying saying to eric before the game started i
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was like look at look around here there was not one single empty seat it was so much fun uh to be
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honest both of my kids were cheering for argentina but spain deserved to win they played an amazing
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game um and it was so incredible to be there what an honor and something that our family obviously
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we'll never forget. Yeah. Now, what about the halftime show? I didn't really know what the,
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I guess, what the plan was for it prior to watching it. And it was like a conglomerate of
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so many different people. How was that? It was a hodgepodge. It was a hodgepodge for sure. You
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know, in my mind, we could have had a really kind of epic show. If you took all the performers who
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in their own right are amazing performers, and maybe they all collabed together or something,
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that's in my mind like what was going to happen but my understanding is they've never really done
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a halftime show traditionally in these soccer games and so i guess given that it was in america
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given we like a big halftime show we know how the super bowl usually goes i guess they decided
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maybe last minute to put this together i don't know i i was okay with it i know some people got
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upset with it i saw a lot of commentary online about it um but to be honest it was kind of hard
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to appreciate being in the stands you know i feel like the folks at home probably got a better view
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of it you know it was all good we got we got up for it you know a time or two and got a snack and
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went to the bathroom but what i saw was fine i wasn't offended by it there's going to be comments
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online regardless what the thing is you could be debating whether you like chocolate ice cream or
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vanilla ice cream and there's going to be like a a faction of online that hates you for whatever
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your choices yeah um i watched justin bieber perform and i thought it was so cool because
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he sang a song everything hallelujah and it was just cool to see someone with the platform that
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he does on that stage right in front of i mean tens of thousands of people there but millions
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and millions online talking about the lord um so yes no i i thought of that too and i appreciated
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that he had the opportunity to kind of have all the bells and whistles and it was just him
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with a guitar like you know what that's kind of that's kind of cool that's that's a little uh
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that's a little gutsy to get out there in front of all those people to your point only have the
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guitar to help you out so I thought it was great I was okay with that too now the president was
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there and he got to present the trophy to Spain how well was he received because again you see
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different things circulating online how did the the team I think specifically receive him and maybe
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the people in the stadium? Well, I wasn't physically on the field with him. We were
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kind of like backstage. What I could tell, I feel like it was all good. I know there was some
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chatter prior to the game as to whether or not some people were going to engage with him or
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shake his hand or whatever. I think at that point, to be honest, these athletes were just so thrilled
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and elated to have won and have been able to be there on that field together. I kind of think
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that hopefully they they left all the politics aside so from my vantage point i felt like it was
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okay um and i felt like everybody was probably just on the high of a win um but i'm sure to
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your point riley that there were a lot of people online who had a lot of hot takes on it as they
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do and as they will continue to do um i told a couple people that you and i were going to have
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the opportunity to chat today and every single one before they said anything about the president
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or your your role in media or in politics they told me to ask you what is your fitness routine
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so that's like the pressing question of the day we gotta know like is it cardio is it lifting
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what's the split that's so funny well thank you that that is so nice to hear um you know i do a
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little bit of everything and i feel like that's first of all let me let me start by saying i love
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that people are getting more and more into health and fitness i think it's so great i'm i'm a big
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fan of the Maha movement. I love all that we're doing with transparency on that front. And I love
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that people are really focusing on making sure that they feel better and they're healthier and
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they're not turning to pharmaceuticals for that rally. They're realizing that the food you eat
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and what you put in your body and how you move your body can actually do all of that for you.
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And you don't need to put any foreign substance in there. So this has kind of been my life,
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my entire life, I have always worked out, I've always kind of prioritized that for myself. And
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even if it's, you know, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, sometimes is all I get, sometimes very early in
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the morning, I try to take it because not only is it something that is physically good for me,
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but it's also mentally good for me. And I think a lot of people who have a consistent workout
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routine know what I'm talking about, you need that time to just like settle yourself and do
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something for you. And so I do, I do a little bit of everything. Like I said, I train for triathlons.
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I try to stay kind of ready in case something comes along. So I do a lot of biking. I do less
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running than I used to, but I still, I love to go for a run if I can. I try to get weightlifting in.
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I love CrossFit. I'm also into Pilates whenever my schedule allows, but I just try to do a little
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bit of everything. And I think that keeping your body guessing is always the key. So once your body
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gets used to some workout, I mean, I know I don't have to tell you, you're the athlete here between
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the two of us, truly. But once your body gets used to something, it stops responding. So people
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might go to the gym and they get on the elliptical. And for the first like two months, they're like,
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oh my gosh, yeah, I'm seeing changes. They might lose some weight or they might gain some muscle
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here or there. But ultimately, your body's going to get used to that. So you got to switch it up.
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So I try to kind of keep my body guessing as best I can.
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You talk about, you know, kind of making those sacrifices and, you know, setting time aside.
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Sometimes I'm like, I know anyone who sees me going to the gym or like going out for
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a run right now thinks I'm a total lunatic, but I need that time.
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I mean, you know, most days I wake up in the five o'clock hour, but there are times if
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I have an early flight, if I need to wake up at like 345, four o'clock in the morning, I'm going
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to do it just to get that in, get it done. Because I, you know, I think all parents out there
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appreciate this. If I tried to wait to the end of the day to do any of this, forget it. I got my
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kids. I got my dogs. I got my husband. I got work stuff going on. It's not going to happen. So my
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goal is to get it in the first thing in the morning. And then I don't have to think about
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it the rest of the day. A hundred percent. I have always urged this audience because I find it to be
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the same way. And I think to your point, especially once you become a mom, um, setting that time
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aside for yourself in the morning, gosh, it's the best way to start your day. Um, now I just
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watched, um, you and Griff Jenkins, your bike ride. Uh, what's your like favorite distance
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try? Uh, I like an Olympic distance try. So that's like a mile swim. It's around a 27 mile
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bike ride and a 10 K run at the end. And I feel like that is a manageable training regimen. You
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know, you go more than that. You go into like the half Ironman distance and it starts to be
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like a lot of training, which I honestly just don't have time for right now. Um, so that that's
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my perfect, perfect distance try. What about your diet? Like, is that something that you're
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hyper-focused on or do you kind of work out so you can eat whatever you want? I feel like we all do
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that to a certain extent. You know, it's really hard when you travel. And I think people who
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travel regularly will tell you like the airports, it's like no man's land. You have a very hard time
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when you're traveling and you're on the road to maintain some quality of eating. But I really try
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to prioritize protein. So I'm not traditionally like a breakfast person, but I kind of force
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myself in the mornings to eat at least egg whites, eggs, something like that with high protein.
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Sometimes it's like a protein shake because I feel like that at least starts me off. Right.
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And then if I end up, you know, traveling and I'm like not really eating perfectly, it's okay.
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Cause I've gotten that in and protein also fills you up. This is, I feel like a lot of women out
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there have this notion that if you eat protein and you lift weights, you're going to bulk up.
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You're not bulking up unless you're like on something, unless you are injecting yourself
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with something, you're not bulking up. You're not going to look crazy, but it's great for your
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body. The more protein you have and the more muscle you build, the more calories you burn
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just existing. And so I want to urge everybody out there, get the protein in, lift some weights.
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Cause that's, I mean, that's really what's going to actually change your body.
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Like, do you do cold tubs, sauna, red light therapy?
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Well, I have gotten very much, my husband and I have both gotten into sauna and cold
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plunge, and I wish I had so much more time to do it.
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I find that it's usually weekends that I can get it in, but I think it's great.
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You know, you look at the studies, you look at the research, you look at places like the
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Scandinavian countries where they've been living like this for so long.
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The cold plunge stuff I find really interesting though
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or something that doesn't feel totally comfortable, then guess what? I'm going to be prepared for it
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because mentally I've already prepared myself by getting in this cold plunge. So that's another
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thing that I kind of think people don't realize the benefit of those things goes far beyond
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physical. But yeah, I, Eric and I both get into a, to a sauna cold plunge. We're both into that.
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It's so funny. You say that about the cold plunge, because I have this vivid memory of my dad,
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which my dad was a professional football player. Very, very big guy played for the Eagles. Maybe
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I think a couple other teams. Anyways, when I was younger, he had a work trip and I went with him.
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We stayed at this hotel. It was the middle of winter and we go down to the lobby
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and he pulls back the cover on the pool. You know, it was one of those outdoor pools. Again,
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it's like December, maybe January pulls back the cover of the pool. And he says, jump in.
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I'm probably like eight years old at the time. I'm like, dad, this is child abuse. I'm not
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jumping in. He says, no, you are. And you're not going to chatter your, your teeth. And you're not
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going to say I'm cold. You can get out of the pool when, when I say, and so I did this of course.
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And I remember being so confused at the time. And I, of course, eventually get out. And I said,
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dad, like, what was that about? He said, it was a, it was a test of your mental toughness. He said,
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there is no such thing as cold. There's absence of heat. Sure. But there's no such thing as cold.
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And it has stuck with me. I mean, here I am 26 years, years old now. So it's, by the way,
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your dad and my dad would have been really tight. This sounds like something my dad would have
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have done. My dad, I credit for so much of my mental toughness and my kind of work ethic,
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because the quick story, I, I tried out for the JV cheerleading team. This is in high school
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and I got cut and I was so devastated. This is in like ninth grade, maybe 10th grade.
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And I was so devastated by it. And I remember my dad being like, all right, well, you can have a pity party or you can work on what you didn't have to make the team for next year.
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And I stood in my backyard working on getting a back handspring with my dad. I mean, hours on end. And he was not easy on me and he wouldn't, you know, baby me.
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And I worked so hard that I got a back handspring and I got so much more than when I tried out the next year, I made the varsity team.
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And I was like, you know what? Had my dad not pushed me in that way, had he not encouraged me in that way and been like, stop feeling sorry for yourself, get up and do something about it, then I wouldn't have made the varsity team.
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And I think of that story all the time. It's similar to yours because it created a level of mental toughness and kind of work ethic and understanding that, look, your life is basically what you make of it.
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And I think we have a culture that teaches kids that kind of things are owed to them
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It sounds like your dad taught you and my dad taught me because I think it creates great
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Well, now I feel like at least what you see on social media is you see this whole gentle
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And our child, again, she's nine months old now.
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but i can't imagine that neither myself nor my husband will have the approach of you know this
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this super duper soft voice and you baby them until they're 18 years old like i just i just
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can't really imagine never telling my child no and that seems to be the new parenting model so i guess
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maybe a good question for you is between you and eric who is like the more strict
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parent like who do your kids go to if they want a yes answer you've been looking forward to this
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i think i would say we're probably both pretty tough parents and i would say i am more regularly
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with the kids and so i think oftentimes they're like let's try dad first and then if dad and then
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of course they get in trouble because i'm like oh dad said no that i'm i'm obviously a no we got
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to be on the same page. Other advice to parents out there, stay on the same page. You got to have
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each other's backs. But it's easy to say yes to kids. It's easy to give your kids too much. It's
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easy to let them off the hook for acting like brats. It's easy to hand them an iPhone or an
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iPad. It's much harder to do the other things. It's much harder to discipline kids. It's much
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harder to see your kids upset, but it's teaching them a lesson. Eric and I don't give our kids
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any devices, nothing ever. We go to dinner, they have to sit and talk to us or they come up with
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their own games and play with each other and use their imagination. And I go to a restaurant and I
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see all of these kids, Riley, on phones or on tablets. And I'm sorry, I cannot condone that.
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It just, to me, you're setting your kid up for failure. They're getting this dopamine hit
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from looking at a screen at three years old or whatever it is. They're never going to be able
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to get that same feeling from interpersonal communication if you don't teach it to them.
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So it's much harder to say no to your kids than it is to say yes to your kids.
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We owe to them to be great human beings when they grow up, great adults.
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You know, we're raising who will ultimately guide our country whenever we're all old and
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Um, I had my phone just sitting on the, the little coffee table the other day and our
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daughter, she just sort of walking this weekend.
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It's the cutest best phase, but anyway, she's over at the coffee table and she grabs the
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phone and she picks it up and I'm just watching her and she starts like scrolling.
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And it was a big, you know, that moment like hit me in my face.
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I'm like, Oh my gosh, she's watching what I'm doing.
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So not only do I not need to give her a screen or of course, that's the route of parenting.
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that my husband and I, at least thus far, are choosing to go. But not only that, I need to
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watch how I am around her because she's picking up everything. So being more intentional in the
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time that I spend with her, it was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe she's so young. She's so
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little, but she's soaking it all in. It was wild to me. Okay. So what about, I guess, another kind
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of controversial parenting thing now is vaccines. Where do things stand there for you and your
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family? And maybe your approach now, maybe it was different than when your kids were born
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with RFK in President Trump's administration. I got to say, I'm so grateful for Bobby Kennedy.
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If you really kind of take a step back and look at what this man did, his name is synonymous
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with Democrat politics. And yet he went out and not only endorsed President Trump in the 2024
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election, but then put all his eggs in this basket that he could help, that he could do something
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as HHS secretary that really, Raleigh, we've never seen before. We've never seen such transparency.
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We've never seen what feels like somebody finally giving us the truth about so many things. I mean,
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my gosh, you look at the old food pyramid. What a joke. What a complete joke. And what a horrible
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way to try to guide our country, to guide the citizens of America. We're just doing everybody
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such a disservice. So, yeah, I think he's been incredible. I am such a fan of so much of what he
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does and not the least of which is also doing the right things for animals, which I could talk about
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all day long. But when you talk about vaccines, I think it's I at least love that parents have
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the choice now, because when my kids were born, they're six and eight now, I really didn't have
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a choice. And my kids were both born in Manhattan in New York City. I remember very vividly taking
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our son, who's our older child, to the pediatrician for his first visit. I don't know, two weeks old
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or something, a baby baby. And I remember this doctor laying out for me all the vaccines and
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the schedule that he had to be on. And when I even kind of asked a question about, okay, but can I
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come back, you know, and spread these out, I was, it was like crazy. Like I was some lunatic
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asking a question like that. And so I'm, I'm almost embarrassed to say, but I feel like I
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got bullied a little bit into giving my son these vaccines early on that I, I kind of inherently as
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a parent felt like maybe was wrong. This is a little baby. You're just injecting them with all
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of this stuff. Um, and I am so happy that kids now do not have to have that path if their parents
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choose differently, right? We have an administration who really, I feel like wants to give people the
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truth and wants to give people the choice. And that's really key here because that's what our
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country is all about. We as Americans should have a choice in terms of how we do so much
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with living our lives, but especially as parents, when we're talking about vaccines, you should have
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a choice. If you want to spread it out, if you feel like what they're offering you doesn't feel
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right, then you can make that decision as a parent. And so I personally am really grateful
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yeah well you trusted your health care professionals as we should be able to but
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i think covet opened a lot of people's eyes certainly mine at least i'll speak personally
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you know that's when you started to ask questions and now i do think we have this
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this new younger generation that that's now having kids that is starting to push back and
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kind of go against the status quo which i find to be optimistic leaves me hopeful for the future
00:24:36.280
do you think your kids like do they realize who their family is who their mom who their dad who
00:24:43.800
their grandpa is it's a funny question i i kind of think they're they're starting to appreciate it
00:24:50.480
but i'll tell you i go so far out of my way to try to raise my kids like normal kids to try to raise
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them as close to how i was raised as possible and you know they they play on all these sports teams
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during the school year and it's you know just like the rec leagues near our house and it's it's very
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normal and they have you know play dates with friends and we try to keep things as normal as
00:25:14.300
possible but then yeah then we go to the white house or they're flying on air force one or these
00:25:19.660
things and they realize that grandpa is president now the gravity of all that i don't know that you
00:25:25.040
grasp you know when you're in first and second grade or i guess they're going into second and
00:25:28.400
third now. But they're starting to appreciate it. And it is kind of cool because both of my kids
00:25:34.400
were born during my father-in-law's first administration. And I remember Eric and I
00:25:38.440
having the conversation like they'll never really get to experience this stuff and have these
00:25:43.900
memories. And yet it's incredible what God does, because I truly feel like he put President Trump
00:25:50.900
in the White House for his second term in this time and in this moment right now. I don't think
00:25:55.980
he ever intended him to have the two consecutive terms. And you look at so much that the president's
00:26:00.280
been able to do. And it's actually amazing because he wouldn't be able to do all of these things
00:26:04.140
had he had those two consecutive terms and just the way he operates. But certainly for us,
00:26:09.000
it's a gift because our kids get to experience these things. They'll have the memories of going
00:26:14.240
to the White House for the UFC fight, flying on Air Force One, spending time with grandpa
00:26:18.620
in the Oval Office. And I know that had he had the eight years straight, it wouldn't have been
00:26:24.640
the same thing. So it is very cool to see that. I was at the RNC convention, uh, of course,
00:26:30.400
back in, you know, leading up to the 2024 election. And if I can recall, right,
00:26:34.740
you were sat next to the president. I think your kids were there. Um, but this was right after
00:26:40.060
president Trump had an assassination attempt on his life. Actually the bullet, I mean, it hit him
00:26:45.800
in Butler, Pennsylvania. Is there a part of you that's fearful that you're going to get a phone
00:26:51.800
call that President Trump has been assassinated? Every day. I mean, if I'm being really honest,
00:26:58.420
I think all of us in our family, unfortunately, think that way. You know, to have seen the number
00:27:05.300
of times that people have tried to do this to one person, you kind of feel like at what point
00:27:12.760
do you run out of all your chances, you know? And I think that it's very clear that this is a
00:27:20.380
different time. We're in a different space. People, everything is heightened and people have
00:27:26.520
used really horrific terminology to describe this one person in particular. But yeah, of course we
00:27:33.540
think about it, but I don't think any of us dwell on it because I always take a page from my father
00:27:40.520
in law. And, you know, if you ask him, you know, do you think about these things? Are you ever worried?
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He'll say, yeah, I can't think about that because I think the reality is if you start letting that
00:27:50.100
get in your head i mean this is again this is kind of like an athlete mindset you start thinking
00:27:54.420
about the what ifs what if i lose this race what if i you know my team doesn't win what if i mess
00:27:59.940
up and i and i i the goalie and i i you know they score the final goal and on my watch you start
00:28:05.960
thinking that way it takes you down the wrong path and i think he's very focused on the job
00:28:11.180
at hand and understanding that he's got a finite amount of time to execute exactly what the
00:28:15.240
american people sent him to the white house to do and i think he just kind of puts it out of his
00:28:19.720
head. I mean, I call him a political athlete because I truly believe that I've never seen
00:28:23.640
somebody like this man in my entire life. And so he, when he's not dwelling on it and he's not
00:28:29.240
overly focused on it, I think the rest of us look at that and we're like, you know what,
00:28:32.780
we have to live our lives the same way. But I mean, yes, we all think about it all the time.
00:28:37.720
And, and unfortunately I think that's just kind of the world we're in now.
00:28:42.820
It is amazing. Just how, and the word fearless gets tossed around a lot, but,
00:28:49.180
but I don't think that's, I mean, maybe it's a good way to describe President Trump, but I'm
00:28:53.000
sure he has fears. I mean, you just mentioned some of yours, it would certainly be a fear of mine.
00:28:57.680
So I guess, you know, someone who has fears, but is willing to do the right thing, the just thing,
00:29:03.240
in this case, the thing he was elected to do, I guess he would describe that person as,
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as courageous. And he certainly is one of your whole family is one of the most courageous families.
00:29:13.780
He's one of the most courageous people. I think any of us will ever encounter or be able,
00:29:18.940
even to witness from afar in our lifetime uh one thing i was actually watching your show
00:29:23.980
recently and i saw you kind of come out swinging against the charlie kirk assassin conspiracy
00:29:31.020
things which i will say i'm right there with you i think the treatment that erica kirk has received
00:29:37.960
from this online that is so not real let's just be very clear like whatever you know portion of
00:29:46.580
online chatter that has things to disparaging things to say about Erica Kirk or Turning Point
00:29:51.540
USA. It's not real life. Like it doesn't exist in real life. Hardly. It seems so much bigger
00:29:57.300
online than it really is in person, but you came out swinging and I'm so glad you did.
00:30:02.220
Can you, can you talk about that a little bit and maybe some of the, the insane theories that
00:30:08.200
are out there and why you, you decided now to say something about it? I mean, from the beginning,
00:30:14.000
it's it's kind of disgusted me it was it was hours after charlie was murdered in cold blood in front
00:30:19.420
of the world that some of these people started coming out with the conspiracy theories with the
00:30:24.460
crazy stuff and you know for our family it it probably hits a little closer to home than others
00:30:30.520
as you just noted my father-in-law has been you know the people have been trying to kill him
00:30:36.160
constantly for years it feels like and whenever that happened in butler pennsylvania i'll tell
00:30:43.580
you rally the next week as you said was the rnc convention i had reporters asking me to my face
00:30:50.800
well what do you think about the fact that there are a group of people out there who are suggesting
00:30:56.440
that this was staged what do you think about people suggesting that president trump made all
00:31:01.000
this up that this was some sort of a publicity stunt for him ketchup packet on his ear no exactly
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00:31:06.200
that is how crazy some of this stuff is but there are people out there as crazy as you can put it
00:31:11.620
out. There are people out there who will buy it because it's a clickbait culture because we've
00:31:16.040
lost touch with reality. You're right. In the real world, this stuff doesn't make sense,
00:31:20.120
but online you get enough people to say, Oh, I don't know. Maybe, did you see it from this angle?
00:31:25.480
It might, it's, it's nuts. And this stuff catches fire and it grows out of proportion and it's
00:31:30.700
total insanity. So when I saw what was happening for Erica Kirk, a woman who I cannot imagine
00:31:37.540
being in her shoes with two young children, having to go through this, endure watching her husband
00:31:43.120
murdered, and then figuring out life forever on the other side of that with her kids. She deserves
00:31:49.640
respect. She deserves people to help prop her up and try to support her during what I can imagine
00:31:56.740
is probably the most awful year of her entire life. And instead of that, she got people who
00:32:01.280
I think at one time she probably considered friends coming after her in such an aggressive
00:32:07.040
way that I just, you know, for us in our family, it hit very close to home, like I said. And so
00:32:13.580
I just felt like with this trial coming up, I think it's so important that all the information
00:32:21.020
is disseminated, that there's full transparency, because I think people out there need to
00:32:25.860
appreciate that what you read online, as you said, Riley, is not real life. Check your sources.
00:32:32.700
Go seek out more information because some crazy podcaster out there is not giving you the full
00:32:39.460
picture in terms of what's going on. And I would say that for a whole host of things,
00:32:43.200
but specifically with this stuff, I think Erica Kirk is an incredible woman. I hope God gives
00:32:50.040
her the strength to see her through this upcoming trial. I cannot imagine again what this must be
00:32:55.660
like for her, but we should all be supporting her. We should all be praying for her and we should
00:33:00.880
all be praying that justice is served and that all the information comes out. You know, I think
00:33:06.540
people are so critical of her because God has given her the strength and it is like, it's a
00:33:11.140
relatively unnatural thing when you see someone who is so strong in their faith. Like I try and
00:33:16.680
put myself in her shoes, which is impossible to do. And I recognize that, but watching that
00:33:21.660
memorial service and what was it like 10 11 days after charlie had been murdered in front of
00:33:28.580
thousands there on campus but millions online where this video will live on the internet forever
00:33:33.000
erica chose to get up there and forgive her husband's assassin like only through god can a
00:33:38.720
grieving widow do that and so i think normal people even people who call themselves christians
00:33:43.400
they they look at that and they see it as unnatural but guess what it's because it is
00:33:47.600
unnatural. Like, like only supernatural. It is. Oh my gosh. It is. It is. Um, yeah,
00:33:54.180
she is one of the, the strongest, most compassionate, most, most, I mean, just
00:34:00.020
what's, what's even a good word. Like, I think what she displayed was serene. It was total
00:34:05.520
serenity and strength. So I'm right there with you. Uh, you've alluded to like trusting in God
00:34:11.280
and your faith, uh, several times now, what does it mean to you? Like, like, how does your faith
00:34:16.700
guide you in all that you do in your marriage, in your political career, in your media career,
00:34:24.020
being a mom? What does your faith mean to you? It's funny because I think back to the moment
00:34:31.140
I drove out of my parents' driveway in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to move to New
00:34:35.480
York City, my gosh, 18, 19 years ago. Honestly, Riley, I had no idea what was in store for me,
00:34:44.300
but I prayed about it. And I feel like I have done that in every moment of my life that has
00:34:51.540
mattered. I've prayed and asked God to guide me. And look, every person out there can do the same
00:34:57.700
thing. You have to listen. You have to be open to receiving what kind of God's direction. And
00:35:04.060
I feel like it has led me to some of the most incredible places imaginable. I never in my
00:35:10.420
wildest dreams would have imagined I'd be part of a first family. I would have a show on Fox News.
00:35:16.700
I would have these two incredible children and an amazing husband. It's just, God is so great,
00:35:22.580
but he has guided me down this path. And I feel like he will continue to guide me. And so
00:35:28.540
in everything I do, whether it's being a mom, a wife, in my career, before I go on TV,
00:35:34.240
before any television hit, I say a prayer to God to, to make my word smart and strong and serve
00:35:40.660
his will. And I do it every single time. And I feel like that that is the foundation of, of
00:35:47.820
everything. And I wish more people understood the power that exists there that, you know, it is,
00:35:55.040
it's endless and we should all be able to tap into that. And it doesn't matter where you are.
00:36:00.880
And that's the thing I'm trying to teach my kids right now too. It's funny because
00:36:03.640
they ask about praying. We say prayers with them before bed at night. And my daughter asked me
00:36:09.300
something the other day. She was like, but when can I talk to God, mom? And I said, you can talk
00:36:13.060
to God whenever you want. All you have to do is stop what you're doing. And she was like, do I
00:36:16.820
have to say it out loud? I said, no, you can say it. You can be quiet about it, or you can say it
00:36:21.060
in your head. He's going to hear you and he's going to answer you. And it's amazing to see my
00:36:26.040
kids now kind of picking up. As you say, they're watching everything we do. They're absorbing so
00:36:32.420
much more than we ever anticipate them doing. This space is a space where I'm really proud of
00:36:37.820
where we've led our kids for sure. That's so awesome. And yeah, it's true. Even if those
00:36:44.720
listening or watching this aren't necessarily strong in their faith, maybe they're tinkering
00:36:48.680
with the idea of going to church. It's never too late or never too early. There's never the right
00:36:54.780
moment or wrong moment. It's now. It's do it now. What do you have to lose? Just try it.
00:36:59.420
And you lose nothing by trying, especially in prayer.
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It's not like it requires time out of your day or extra thought.
00:37:06.420
It's literally just having a personal conversation.
00:37:10.640
Recently, our company's softball team lost the big game by one run.
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Then Dale tried to console us with the quote, winning isn't everything.
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If my team goes up big, I get paid out instantly, even if they blow the lead later.
00:37:29.420
sound familiar dale thanks beth 365 must be 19 or older ontario only please play responsibly if
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you have questions or concerns about your gambling or the gambling of someone close to you please go
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to connects ontario.ca tnc supply to god um so that's amazing okay rapid fire for you last
00:37:45.180
last thing you ready ready okay irrational fear that you have spiders and cockroaches i can't do
00:37:52.980
it i i am so so courageous you used the word earlier and so many different things you throw
00:37:58.600
a spider or cockroach. It means not happening. A spider web in my face. I'm done. Okay. Hidden
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talent. Oh my gosh. Well, I am a pastry chef, which not a lot of people know. I moved to New
00:38:09.280
York to go to culinary school. Now my husband would argue that I haven't baked him a cake in
00:38:13.920
ages, but maybe this is the week I'm going to do it. Maybe this will be my inspo. So yeah,
00:38:18.280
I'm a pastry chef. Okay. Last time you cried. Oh my gosh. Probably. You know what? We,
00:38:26.780
we went to, we, we did a trip to Camp David and our son got up, you know, speaking of, of religion
00:38:33.820
and the power of it, our son got up. They have a chapel there at Camp David. Our son got up and
00:38:39.460
wanted to read a prayer. The, um, the pastor there said, did any of the kids want to come up?
00:38:43.980
Our son got up and read a prayer and it was a waterworks. Forget it. Like not, not even close.
00:38:48.340
Yeah. Good. Guilty pleasure, like comfort food, I guess. Peanut butter. If you just like, yeah,
00:38:54.780
as much as I can get. And if it had no calories, I would just eat it all the time.
00:38:58.720
Okay. Morning person or night owl. We kind of morning, morning person. Yeah. Coffee in the
00:39:03.600
morning. I'm ready to go. Okay. Luxury item that is worth the money. Ooh, great sheets. I mean,
00:39:11.200
you're sleeping in these things, right? Yeah. It's gotta be good sheets. Okay. Uh, something
00:39:16.260
you've changed your mind about in the past few years, John Fetterman. Yeah, I know random,
00:39:22.600
right but i think i just i think he's so common sense who would have thought not not me but he is
00:39:29.640
it is like when john fetterman is is the most sane person in the democratic party at any level by the
00:39:35.360
way like local state and federal then yeah that that's a incredible respect for him yeah yeah
00:39:41.060
okay what's one thing one opinion you have that would get you canceled oh my gosh well we've
00:39:48.660
talked about not gentle parenting. Yeah, I can't do it. Um, I don't know that it would get me
00:39:54.300
canceled, but it might get me arrested. If I ever see someone out there being abusive in any way to
00:39:59.400
an animal, I told my husband time and time again, you're probably going to come and have to bail me
00:40:03.700
out of jail. Cause I might kill that person. You know, there it, it's so true. Uh, there is
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nothing like an animal's love your love for an animal. I have three dogs. We've got alpacas and
00:40:15.240
donkeys and cows and a horse and all the things. And it really is like an unconditional kind of
00:40:21.640
love. And I love my husband and I love my child, of course. But their trust in you is so, it's so
00:40:27.860
different and it's just so great. I mean, dog spelled backwards is God, as they say. I don't
00:40:33.760
know what's going on there, but they're a gift and they're so special. And any animal out there
00:40:39.100
I ever see, watch out because if you see me, I'm coming for you. I love that. Okay. Last,
00:40:44.560
last thing, one piece of marriage advice. Never stop dating your spouse. Whenever people get
00:40:52.540
married, I think they have this idea that it's just sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows the whole
00:40:57.400
time. And I'll be the first one to tell you, you got to work at it. You got to do maintenance on
00:41:02.020
a car. You got to do maintenance on a house. You have to do maintenance on everything. You have to
00:41:06.460
do maintenance on your relationship and you got to check in with your spouse. And I think the best
00:41:10.580
way to do that. Set aside a date night every week. Eric and I do this. It doesn't matter who shows up
00:41:16.620
in town and they're like, Hey, want to grab dinner? We're like, no, because we set this date night up
00:41:21.280
for ourselves. You have to keep dating your spouse. And I promise you it's worth it. Get
00:41:26.940
through the tough times and your relationship is even stronger on the other end. It's like building
00:41:30.900
a muscle, Riley, you know, put a little, put the work in. Maybe it hurts a little bit. You're going
00:41:36.320
to get through it and it's going to be so much better on the other side, even stronger.
00:41:40.200
I love it. I love it. Well, thank you so much for joining the Riley Gaines show. And hopefully next
00:41:44.820
time we'll get to do it in person. Yes. We'll see you in person. You're the best Riley. Thank you
00:41:48.720
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