Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Riley Gaines' First Christmas as a Mom!

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00:00:30.140 This Christmas is special for our family because it's our first Christmas as a family of three.

00:00:36.200 I really think we had Margo at the best time of year.

00:00:38.880 Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.

00:00:41.580 I really think we had her at the best time.

00:00:43.440 We've experienced kind of like all of the first, which she also just had her first belly laugh.

00:00:48.520 There aren't many things that will make a grown man cry, but that'll do it. 0.85

00:00:56.360 Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast, which will not be called that much longer.

00:01:05.000 We just announced we have some very exciting news for the future of the show.

00:01:08.800 A total rebrand, we are revamping it, is now going to be called the Riley Gaines Show.

00:01:14.100 The first episode drops January 7th, but until then, we're still rocking and rolling on the Gains for Girls podcast.

00:01:20.360 And if you're watching at youtube.com slash Outkick, which I hope you are, that's where you can subscribe to the new show.

00:01:27.600 Like, comment, engage in that way.

00:01:29.760 We always appreciate it when you do.

00:01:31.220 But if you're watching on youtube.com, then you see.

00:01:34.020 I'm joined by my favorite co-host, my amazing husband, which I think the last time you came on was after Margo?

00:01:43.380 Yeah, right after Margo was born.

00:01:45.600 And there were so many comments talking about your accent.

00:01:48.780 Oh, it's all messed up. I'll own that one. It is.

00:01:52.360 It's like halfway over the Atlantic, is what we say.

00:01:56.020 So, always just a joy to be joined by him and to share our conversations with you guys.

00:02:03.720 And Merry Christmas, by the way, the best time of year.

00:02:07.020 I hope you guys are spending some time with your families, with your friends, honoring the Sabbath, taking time off,

00:02:13.040 and just resting, recovering, enjoying, and recognizing the reason for the season.

00:02:17.520 That's one thing we do say. We say Merry Christmas around to you.

00:02:20.620 Absolutely.

00:02:21.180 No happy holidays in this household.

00:02:23.080 None of that.

00:02:23.960 We just got back from AmFest, which I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast, you know what AmFest is.

00:02:30.620 AmFest is turning points like Super Bowl, if you will.

00:02:34.980 So, always around this time of year, this is my, I think, third AmFest I attended.

00:02:40.500 But, of course, it's the first AmFest where Charlie Kirk was not in attendance, at least not here on this earth.

00:02:47.640 I have to imagine that he's watching down from heaven, smiling ear to ear.

00:02:52.120 They sold – how many people were there?

00:02:54.580 It was either 20,000 or 25,000 tickets.

00:02:57.080 It was slammed.

00:02:59.720 Slammed.

00:03:00.560 But they sold so many tickets.

00:03:02.520 And naturally, I think you do this, where you oversell tickets because you – inevitably, some people can't be there.

00:03:10.100 And so you want to be able to fill every single seat.

00:03:13.260 Every single person was there.

00:03:14.880 And so they oversold.

00:03:16.100 And so you had people who were lined up outside, waiting in the lobby, who were naturally frustrated that they couldn't get in.

00:03:23.920 But it speaks to the movement that Charlie was building and had developed, the impact that he had with his time here on this earth,

00:03:30.720 and how that – his mission really has now turned into his legacy, which I believe is, if you can believe it, more powerful in death than it was in life.

00:03:40.040 Lots of amazing speakers.

00:03:41.820 I had the opportunity to take the stage, which I was talking with Louis.

00:03:46.780 You know, what do I want to talk about?

00:03:47.980 I could talk about – I mean, there's 100 things I could talk about.

00:03:50.480 We could talk about the wins that we've seen surrounding gender ideology and parental rights and the safeguarding of children, especially.

00:03:57.340 Thank you to President Donald J. Trump, the most pro-life, pro-woman, pro-child president in modern history.

00:04:05.420 I could talk about some of the work that is still necessary.

00:04:09.540 I've talked about it on here.

00:04:10.460 There's a big Supreme Court case coming up, heard in just a few weeks.

00:04:14.480 That will be incredibly monumental for the fight of keeping men out of women's sports. 0.76

00:04:19.420 But I was listening to the different speakers.

00:04:21.380 Some of those speakers touched on the trans stuff.

00:04:24.400 I took it a different route.

00:04:25.560 I spoke to the value and the inherent purpose of life.

00:04:31.720 And I think that felt especially relevant after having our baby girl just 12 weeks ago now.

00:04:38.380 You did a great job, might I say.

00:04:41.020 You're obligated to say that.

00:04:42.900 I'll tell you.

00:04:43.680 I'll be honest with you if you didn't do good.

00:04:46.340 No, but it was nice to hear that because I think across a lot of the speakers, there were very similar messages.

00:04:52.760 You know, with it being the first AmFest that Charlie wasn't with us, there was definitely a theme.

00:04:59.880 And so I think a lot of the audience as well, I think they enjoyed that it was just a little bit different from what they'd been hearing.

00:05:07.160 And it was super cool because when you're looking at the audience and you're kind of observing the different demographics that were there,

00:05:13.740 there were so many young people.

00:05:16.620 I'm talking like high schoolers, college-age kids, especially young women. 1.00

00:05:22.720 And so reaching out to that demographic, I think there's a lot of confusing messages, even within our own party,

00:05:29.820 that are being put out there for young women to really hold on to right now.

00:05:34.080 So I really wanted to try and reach those people.

00:05:36.620 I forget what the stat was, but the number of students compared to previous years to this year was,

00:05:43.860 it was either two-thirds of the tickets sold or 50% more or something.

00:05:48.060 The number of students that was there was, I'm sure the NS go and fact-check me on that one,

00:05:51.640 but there was a huge increase in students there, which was amazing to see.

00:05:56.440 And when I was on stage, you're looking out, that's what you see are the young faces.

00:06:02.340 And so it was really special.

00:06:03.700 On the last day of AmFest, we saw, of course, the vice president was there,

00:06:07.720 but there was a surprise that we had been keeping for a while.

00:06:10.880 We hadn't told the public that Nicki Minaj was going to take the stage at AmFest.

00:06:17.760 Yeah, no, it was, I wish you could have been there in the room to hear the audience

00:06:24.020 when Nicki Minaj walks out on stage hand-in-hand with Erika Kirk.

00:06:28.940 It was one of the most amazing spectacles I've ever seen.

00:06:33.000 I think that, Hulk Hogan, that was another one at Madison Square Garden.

00:06:37.420 These were moments where I'm like, what in the world is politics in 2025?

00:06:43.480 I guess Hulk Hogan was in 2024, but you have Hulk Hogan, Madison Square Garden,

00:06:47.260 he's ripping off his shirt, following him was Dr. Phil.

00:06:50.720 I'm like, okay, I think we just need a factory reset on all politics.

00:06:55.800 You want to know who my favorite guest appearance was?

00:06:59.300 Jeannie, the target lady. 0.75

00:07:01.020 Oh, yeah.

00:07:01.720 She came out with Benny Johnson and Jack Posobiec, and that was awesome to see.

00:07:09.580 It was just cool because she's just a normal person.

00:07:12.420 She said that on stage.

00:07:13.320 I think she came out again with Glenn Beck, and he was asking her,

00:07:16.340 like, tell the audience some of what you told me backstage.

00:07:19.940 She was like, I don't feel like I deserve this because I'm just normal.

00:07:22.780 And he reinforced her.

00:07:24.460 He's like, Jeannie, that's exactly why you deserve this because you're normal.

00:07:29.740 You speak for the rest of us here.

00:07:31.400 And I think that's what was powerful about Nicki Minaj as well.

00:07:34.160 But now AmFest is over.

00:07:36.000 We are rolling into Christmas.

00:07:38.620 This Christmas is special for our family because it's our first Christmas as a family of three.

00:07:45.080 Or really, I should say seven with our three dogs and horse.

00:07:52.420 First Christmas as a family of seven, which I really think we had Margo at the best time of year.

00:07:59.260 Her birthday is September 29th, so that's a month until Halloween,

00:08:03.620 which she dressed up as the cutest little bumblebee you've ever seen for Halloween. 1.00

00:08:07.960 Those wings were three times the size of her at that point.

00:08:11.140 It was so cute.

00:08:12.800 And then you go into Thanksgiving, and then now Christmas, New Year's.

00:08:17.400 I really think we had her at the best time.

00:08:19.400 We've experienced kind of like all of the first.

00:08:22.400 That's right.

00:08:23.040 Which she also just had her first belly laugh. 0.96

00:08:26.960 There aren't many things that will make a grown man cry, but that'll do it. 0.85

00:08:30.920 That was really sweet.

00:08:32.980 Should we explain the context of this first, or should we watch the video first?

00:08:36.880 Let's watch the video.

00:08:37.960 No, let's do the context.

00:08:39.660 Let's kind of preface everything that was going on there.

00:08:44.240 So we had just traveled to...

00:08:47.460 Indiana.

00:08:48.280 South Bend, Indiana.

00:08:50.260 And little girl was in her car seat.

00:08:53.200 She was happy as could be.

00:08:54.380 She was so content.

00:08:56.340 And then we started to, I guess, just smell something.

00:08:59.980 We're like, oh dear, that's not good.

00:09:02.040 We're checking into the hotel in the lobby, and we're like, okay, she's fine.

00:09:04.940 We can wait.

00:09:05.560 We're going up to the room now.

00:09:06.720 So we get up to the room, go to pick her up, and everything is just like wet.

00:09:16.740 And yellow.

00:09:17.940 And yellow.

00:09:18.520 Which, of course, she's wearing white too.

00:09:20.520 Why would she not be wearing white?

00:09:22.680 Yep.

00:09:23.680 This little girl, she probably lost a third of her body weight. 0.97

00:09:27.820 She had the Moab.

00:09:29.120 It was the mother of all blowouts. 0.99

00:09:30.940 It, like, I don't smoke, but I needed a cigarette after that one.

00:09:33.940 It was traumatizing.

00:09:36.260 But yeah, so little girl decided that, you know, well, she...

00:09:40.260 Newborns go through that kind of poop regression stage.

00:09:45.160 She was very...

00:09:45.920 She's past that.

00:09:48.420 Whatever that was, she literally opened the gates of hell when that thing came flowing out.

00:09:53.600 She must have felt so much better.

00:09:55.260 But yeah, she had the mother of all blowouts. 1.00

00:09:57.560 So yeah, I guess the next part I'll let you explain.

00:10:02.600 Well, because she hadn't pooped in, like, several days at this point, which, again, we didn't really know that was normal.

00:10:08.040 Our pediatrician says, look, babies go through that.

00:10:10.580 Don't worry.

00:10:11.660 This was, like, her fourth poop of the day.

00:10:14.340 And so we brought, you know, a certain amount of wet wipes.

00:10:17.460 We weren't home.

00:10:18.020 We were traveling.

00:10:19.340 Because she had used the bathroom, gone number two in her diaper four times after not going for several days, we ran out of wet wipes.

00:10:29.600 That was, like, the cherry on top here.

00:10:32.260 We had no more wet wipes.

00:10:33.560 So we have this huge blowout, little baby, no wet wipes.

00:10:36.940 What do you do when you're in a hotel that doesn't have a bathtub, by the way?

00:10:40.680 You put her in the sink. 0.88

00:10:41.500 You put her in the sink, which now we're going to play the video, which ended up being a very special moment.

00:10:48.880 Caught on camera.

00:10:49.460 Let's watch.

00:11:06.620 What?

00:11:09.860 That is so...

00:11:11.100 She was probably laughing at me gagging in the hotel room. 0.98

00:11:19.560 I mean, she must have felt so much better.

00:11:22.020 But I think we just show that to show, number one, how special it is to witness all the first, but I think especially that first laugh, that first belly laugh.

00:11:31.840 Like, she could not get a grip.

00:11:32.680 Like, it probably went on for two minutes straight of her just giggling, cracking up.

00:11:37.680 She thought the situation that we were in, me and you, like, poop everywhere.

00:11:41.880 Her just in a warm sink, living the life.

00:11:44.640 She thought that was pretty funny.

00:11:46.840 But now we're in this dilemma going into her first Christmas as, I guess she'll be three months old, almost three months old at the time.

00:11:53.880 What do you get a three-month-old baby?

00:11:57.640 That's been tough.

00:11:58.880 Trying to Christmas shop for her because, I mean, she's at the stage where she's not really playing with anything.

00:12:05.220 And so, you know, what, do we just go to more pacifiras and, I don't know, a couple blankets, which we have 200 of already?

00:12:14.860 Like, I don't know.

00:12:15.960 It's been tough trying to think of what to shop for a three-month-old for Christmas.

00:12:19.580 She's got plenty of outfits. 0.99

00:12:21.400 You know what she loves, though?

00:12:22.860 We found this out, which swore we weren't going to have screen kids, which I'm telling myself that at the age she's at, it's good for her development to see, you know, bright colors and slowly moving objects on a screen for her eye focus and different things.

00:12:41.080 She loves Dancing Fruit on YouTube.

00:12:44.620 Sounds insane.

00:12:45.880 She loves this.

00:12:47.340 Like, when it is on the TV, I don't even know how we discover this, but when it's on the TV screen,

00:12:51.620 oh, she's, like, fully locked in, and you can see her eyes, like, following the pineapple going across the screen.

00:13:00.320 It's a whole, like, it's live.

00:13:02.520 It is a live stream of these Dancing Fruit on repeat.

00:13:05.860 We've got to the point now where, based on the song that's playing, we know which fruit is coming out next.

00:13:12.240 Yeah, it's a problem.

00:13:13.620 It is a problem.

00:13:14.520 And we'll walk around the house, and we'll be dancing to it, and I feel like I'm losing brain cells.

00:13:19.100 So after you finish this episode on YouTube, go over to the search bar and type in Dancing Fruit,

00:13:27.700 and you will be able to perfectly visualize me and Louie dancing in our kitchen to this watermelon that's, like, dancing across the screen.

00:13:37.180 Are there any traditions that we want to start with our family going into Christmas?

00:13:43.120 So I think you started one this year.

00:13:45.240 I don't know if it was intentionally or not, but I was very much of the mindset, Christmas tree goes up day after Thanksgiving.

00:13:53.580 I came home from work November 1st.

00:13:56.100 Christmas tree was up.

00:13:57.200 First off, I don't even know how you got the Christmas tree up.

00:13:59.080 I don't either.

00:13:59.620 That thing's, like, 10 feet tall.

00:14:00.940 Yeah, kudos to you.

00:14:02.720 But, yeah, I guess I think that November 1st Christmas tree, I've enjoyed having the Christmas tree up.

00:14:09.780 If you'd have asked my opinion about it, I would have said not a chance you're out of your mind.

00:14:14.660 Now, are we going to be real Christmas tree people or fake Christmas tree people?

00:14:21.100 I love the smell of a real Christmas tree.

00:14:25.480 You can't beat it.

00:14:26.300 But we have three domestic terrorists of dogs that will probably, I mean, they never pee inside. 1.00

00:14:34.920 But if we put a Christmas tree, that might entice one of them, too.

00:14:40.020 So I think just for practicality reasons, and we've got a beautiful fake tree this year.

00:14:46.080 So I think for practicality reasons, we'll probably stick with the fake.

00:14:50.180 I do love decorating early, though, because, like, do you think of the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas?

00:14:56.280 It's so short.

00:14:57.640 We need Christmas longer than that.

00:15:00.440 One of the things that I want to do, I actually saw someone talking about this online, but something they do with their family,

00:15:08.300 is before opening gifts on Christmas morning, they read the story of Jesus together as a family.

00:15:14.440 And I think this is a fantastic idea to reinforce what this season is about.

00:15:20.520 Yes, of course, we're getting gifts.

00:15:22.280 We're receiving gifts.

00:15:23.640 We're giving gifts.

00:15:25.320 But none of that would be possible without the gift of Jesus Christ, who walked this earth, who died on the cross for our sins,

00:15:34.660 who rose again three days later with the hope and the promise of eternal life.

00:15:38.540 So I think that's something that I want to start.

00:15:41.880 And obviously, Margot, this Christmas, she's three months, she won't remember a single thing of it.

00:15:45.780 But the idea of starting the tradition now, and it's something that we can do with her as she grows up,

00:15:51.220 hopefully one day she can continue on with her family.

00:15:54.620 And it would probably be neat.

00:15:56.300 Hopefully we can get to a point once there's a few more babies where they can start reading it to each other as well.

00:16:04.120 I like that.

00:16:04.960 What about, again, Margot now, she's not old enough to really understand the concept of the elf on the shelf or go looking for the elf.

00:16:13.320 Would you be opposed to maybe next year or the year after getting a little devious elf?

00:16:19.900 I could get behind it.

00:16:21.160 I could have some fun with that.

00:16:22.620 You'll probably hate me for it.

00:16:23.640 You would be really good at it.

00:16:24.860 But yeah, my brain is all kinds of that stuff.

00:16:30.140 I could find some fun places to hide that thing.

00:16:32.760 Fun storylines behind it.

00:16:34.260 Oh, yes.

00:16:35.600 Okay, cookies and milk.

00:16:37.900 We're definitely doing that.

00:16:39.520 Because Santa, in our household, loves cookies.

00:16:43.420 I think when we grew up, we used to, every now and then we'd leave a beer out for him.

00:16:48.260 And so hoping Santa doesn't get a DUI.

00:16:50.560 Your Santa's going to get, yeah, he's going to get pulled over.

00:16:53.700 Yeah.

00:16:54.340 I think that was more for my dad to enjoy.

00:16:57.840 What is Christmas like in England, by the way?

00:17:01.180 Like being here now, this is your seventh Christmas in the U.S.?

00:17:05.820 How does Christmas in the U.S. differ from Christmas in England?

00:17:10.100 So, okay.

00:17:10.760 I don't know if this is just your family or whatever, but you guys do like presents on Christmas Eve.

00:17:17.860 We do presents on Christmas Eve with my grandparents, which my family, we have a very large family, and we're all super duper close.

00:17:29.120 And so on both sides of my family, my mom's and my dad's, my mom's side, grandparents, so my mom's parents, we're like this.

00:17:38.920 It's like my grandma, feels like my sister, my grandpa's like one of his best friends.

00:17:44.680 Pawpaw.

00:17:45.260 Yeah, Pawpaw and Gammy.

00:17:46.740 Yeah.

00:17:47.020 And so we do gifts and presents with them, which is like this extravagant event because, again, our grandparents are like, I don't know, like mom.

00:17:56.560 Yeah, like just the best.

00:17:57.920 I've been so fortunate to have the best grandparents.

00:18:00.020 So we do presents with them on Christmas Eve.

00:18:03.280 Yeah.

00:18:03.860 I guess in England, kind of how we would do Christmas would be wake up early, go downstairs.

00:18:12.600 Santa would have been, and so the stockings were full.

00:18:16.760 All the presents were under the tree.

00:18:18.640 Santa's gifts were out.

00:18:19.780 So there was usually a trail of carrots and, you know, where the reindeer had come in and they'd just left some little crumbs as they were on their way out.

00:18:33.260 And, you know, the milk or the beer would be half gone.

00:18:37.640 And you guys don't have mince pies here, do you?

00:18:41.220 I don't even know what that is.

00:18:42.360 Okay.

00:18:43.080 So mince pies, British thing. 0.95

00:18:45.980 This will blow everyone's minds.

00:18:47.600 It's a mince pie.

00:18:48.480 There is no, like, mince meat in it.

00:18:51.980 Like, it's dried fruit and something else, and it's just known as mince meat.

00:18:56.160 You'll have to look them up.

00:18:57.420 It's, I can't stand them, but they're very British, Christmassy thing.

00:19:02.020 So what do you do with it?

00:19:02.840 It's just out on Christmas Day?

00:19:04.220 Yeah, it's just like a thing you eat.

00:19:05.520 It's like a little, almost like a little pie thing, I guess, minced pie.

00:19:10.820 Yeah.

00:19:11.800 We'll have to put a picture in of a mince pie somewhere.

00:19:14.560 Sounds.

00:19:15.140 Yeah, they're weird.

00:19:15.620 If it's anything like black pudding that you guys eat over in England, which is disgusting.

00:19:21.380 You want to explain that one?

00:19:23.880 Or blood pudding.

00:19:24.860 What is it called?

00:19:25.620 It depends where you're at in the country.

00:19:28.020 Most people call it black pudding.

00:19:29.760 The good Lord himself doesn't even know what's in that, so I'm not even going to attempt to.

00:19:33.960 Ew.

00:19:34.220 Yeah, it's pretty rough.

00:19:36.680 Very northern British thing, though.

00:19:39.120 You go down, you know, towards London, you don't see it as much.

00:19:44.240 But yeah, Christmas Day, carrots and everything left everywhere, presents under the tree.

00:19:49.220 We'll come downstairs and then see what Santa brought for us.

00:19:54.220 And the king gives a speech in England.

00:19:57.580 Yes.

00:19:58.260 When I was there, it used to be the queen. 0.80

00:20:01.240 Better love Lizzie. 0.83

00:20:03.440 So there's always a debate in England.

00:20:06.140 Do you have Christmas lunch before the speech or after?

00:20:10.400 In our family, we would eat before the speech.

00:20:15.820 The speech is usually around 3 o'clock.

00:20:17.820 So we would eat before the speech, so somewhere between 1.30 and 2, eat,

00:20:21.860 and then everybody goes to sit down to watch the king's now or queen's speech.

00:20:28.700 And is it kind of just like an address to the nation?

00:20:31.180 Yeah, pretty much.

00:20:32.280 Like just discussing?

00:20:34.460 Yeah, it's just traditional.

00:20:36.280 Yeah.

00:20:37.040 I think Trump should do that on Christmas Day here.

00:20:39.160 Okay, let's do a this or that.

00:20:42.840 Let's do it.

00:20:43.660 A lot of these are going to be like British Christmas versus American Christmas.

00:20:49.540 First and foremost, are we going to lie in, sleep in on Christmas Day,

00:20:55.420 or wake up early for presents?

00:20:57.120 Well, you're still a child at heart.

00:20:59.740 I'm such a child.

00:21:00.320 You'll be up at 3 o'clock trying to figure out what Santa brought.

00:21:03.520 Yeah.

00:21:03.700 Me, I wouldn't say lie in, but I would say don't wake up extra early.

00:21:10.940 Okay, what's the ideal time?

00:21:12.800 I don't know, 7, something like that.

00:21:14.420 That's far too late.

00:21:15.460 Yeah.

00:21:15.800 My siblings and I growing up, we would set an alarm for like 2.30 in the morning.

00:21:21.520 That's crazy.

00:21:21.980 Yeah, we couldn't sleep.

00:21:23.340 It was like that childlike excitement of Santa coming to your house.

00:21:27.140 Yeah, you're still there.

00:21:27.940 Yeah, I am still there.

00:21:30.060 Okay, Santa Claus or Father Christmas?

00:21:33.640 All right, I'm halfway over the Atlantic.

00:21:36.340 Father Christmas is, I guess, it's a British thing.

00:21:39.460 But yeah, now I'm kind of interchangeable.

00:21:42.380 I'm one of those good immigrants where I'm like assimilating a little bit,

00:21:45.240 so I'll say Santa.

00:21:46.760 Okay, good immigrant.

00:21:48.580 What are you going to do?

00:21:49.580 Oh, Santa.

00:21:50.540 I don't even know who Father Christmas is.

00:21:52.260 He's the father of Christmas.

00:21:54.080 Eggnog or mulled wine?

00:21:55.300 I hate eggnog, but I also, I'm not a fan of the spices for mulled wine.

00:22:02.020 Again, a very British thing. 0.72

00:22:03.320 Yeah, I'm going to, I'm just going to have to be Switzerland and neutral on that one.

00:22:10.140 I'm neither.

00:22:10.740 He doesn't like eggs.

00:22:12.000 Can't stand them.

00:22:12.800 Which, who, eggs are like in, I feel like everything, first of all.

00:22:17.640 I don't mind egg in stuff, but scrambled eggs, fried eggs, hard boiled eggs.

00:22:24.080 You get so grossed out when I eat a hard boiled egg.

00:22:27.100 Okay, but it's the bit that really does it.

00:22:29.820 You made these hard boiled eggs not too long ago, and in the bottom of the bag, I can only

00:22:34.760 describe it as egg juice.

00:22:36.440 Okay.

00:22:37.280 Ooh, like stomach churning.

00:22:39.620 So no, egg, anything to do with egg is a hard pass for me.

00:22:44.180 So we can't get chickens?

00:22:45.660 No, no, no chickens.

00:22:47.440 Lame.

00:22:47.960 No, not at all. 0.98

00:22:48.700 The only thing worse than chicken poop is pig poop.

00:22:51.360 So no, they're both off the list.

00:22:52.920 Sorry, Brett Cooper.

00:22:53.980 They're all off the list.

00:22:54.880 Good to know.

00:22:55.560 Yeah.

00:22:55.920 I'm writing that down mentally.

00:22:58.360 But y'all heard him say there are other things that aren't off the list.

00:23:02.740 Just pigs and chicken. 1.00

00:23:03.880 That's all I heard.

00:23:04.380 Okay, on to the next.

00:23:05.780 Stockings on the mantle or at the foot of the bed?

00:23:09.580 Which, again, no one in the U.S. puts stockings at the foot of their bed.

00:23:13.720 Well, here's the thing.

00:23:14.640 I think this was more for the parents to be like Mission Impossible, to try and get in while you're asleep, fill the stocking up, and sneak out without getting caught.

00:23:27.520 That's what I think.

00:23:28.420 So the stocking, okay, so Santa does the stocking.

00:23:33.000 In my family, which I think this is different for some families in America, but my family, your parents fill up your stocking.

00:23:43.480 And then Santa, my family, okay, so Santa would do presents, and we were able to differentiate what Santa brought versus my parents because Santa didn't wrap his gifts.

00:23:53.900 What are all the hells for?

00:23:55.560 They make the gifts.

00:23:56.460 They don't wrap them.

00:23:58.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:58.700 Think of how many boxes they would use.

00:24:00.600 So much waste.

00:24:01.700 No more than Amazon.

00:24:02.840 That's so true.

00:24:04.300 So Santa doesn't wrap the gifts.

00:24:05.740 My parents wrapped their gifts, and my parents do the stockings.

00:24:08.640 But y'all have them on the foot of the bed, and I think that's very bizarre.

00:24:10.780 I don't know.

00:24:11.440 There's two thought processes there.

00:24:13.180 Some, you know, I guess the Mission Impossible challenge of trying to not wake the child up while you fill the stocking up.

00:24:18.860 It's like the tooth fairy.

00:24:19.880 A little bit.

00:24:22.000 Or, you know, Santa comes down the chimney.

00:24:24.100 So some people will put them by the fireplace because that's where Santa comes down, and you want to make it easy for him, so he puts more stuff in your stocking.

00:24:33.800 Heck yeah.

00:24:34.340 Yeah.

00:24:34.940 Okay, gingerbread houses or Christmas pudding set on fire?

00:24:38.660 I've got to go with my roots here.

00:24:40.400 Christmas pudding set on fire.

00:24:41.820 Absolutely.

00:24:42.560 Okay, explain that because, again, foreign concept to us Americans.

00:24:46.700 A British Christmas pudding is probably one of the greatest creations on earth.

00:24:53.160 That's probably a British hot take.

00:24:55.260 It's one of those love, you either love it or you hate it.

00:24:58.720 It's like dried fruits.

00:25:00.080 It's like a cake with a bunch of dried fruit in it.

00:25:02.180 Like fruitcake kind of?

00:25:02.940 Almost, but more so like raisins and...

00:25:09.400 Kind of like a fruitcake.

00:25:10.500 Is it in like a Bundt cake shape?

00:25:12.540 Yeah.

00:25:13.200 Okay.

00:25:13.860 Yeah.

00:25:14.060 But then the fire part, you take, typically it's brandy, some people use whiskey, and you take a ladle, fill it with a couple teaspoons of brandy, you warm it up, and then you light the alcohol in the ladle, and then you pour it on top, and then your little Christmas cake is on fire.

00:25:33.760 Another very British tradition with Christmas cakes, you should take a sixpence, and then it goes in the cake somewhere.

00:25:42.540 You don't know where.

00:25:44.300 And if it's your piece of cake that gets it, it's supposed to bring you good luck.

00:25:48.700 I think we do something like that around Mardi Gras.

00:25:52.840 It's like the baby cake.

00:25:54.680 And there's like a little plastic baby baked somewhere in the cake.

00:25:59.280 And you keep cutting slices, and whoever gets the slice with the baby, I think it's good luck.

00:26:04.680 Well, I'm surprised that like RFK doesn't have anything to say about baking a plastic doll in a cake.

00:26:11.720 Yeah.

00:26:12.260 Just disregard.

00:26:13.480 Yeah.

00:26:13.860 Okay.

00:26:14.280 Black Friday or Boxing Day?

00:26:17.380 You don't have Boxing Day here.

00:26:18.820 I don't even know what Boxing Day is, but I know that's a thing in England.

00:26:21.860 Yeah.

00:26:22.100 So Boxing Day, the history behind it was it's December 26th, so the day after Christmas.

00:26:29.280 It goes back to like old England when people would have house workers, and it's almost like the public servant day of gratitude is probably the best way to put it,

00:26:42.200 where you would take boxes, and you would give them to the groundsman, the house workers, the milkman, the mailman, all things like that.

00:26:55.160 Um, so yeah, and it was there, it was, it was, you would give them, that's when they would get their gifts.

00:27:02.060 Um, so yeah, that's where the kind of Boxing Day comes from.

00:27:05.540 Um, in England, there's Boxing Day sales.

00:27:08.520 Uh, I think over the last, I mean, as long as I've known, Black Friday has, has taken off in England.

00:27:18.420 So now, being a good immigrant, I would probably say Black Friday. 0.93

00:27:22.060 A good immigrant.

00:27:23.020 I love Black Friday.

00:27:24.380 Yeah.

00:27:24.800 Black Friday is like...

00:27:26.300 That is your Super Bowl.

00:27:27.320 It is my Super Bowl.

00:27:28.300 We talked about AmFest being Charlie and Turning Point Super Bowl.

00:27:31.260 Uh, Black Friday is my Super Bowl.

00:27:33.420 Yeah.

00:27:33.560 I don't, I don't feel like I have very, like many, like, stereotypical, like, girl things.

00:27:38.680 But I really do like shopping.

00:27:40.300 Can't even lie.

00:27:40.920 Yeah, that's what you go to the gym for all year, is to carry those bags and...

00:27:44.480 You get it.

00:27:44.980 ...to run into the stores.

00:27:46.100 You're one of those.

00:27:46.960 She, they leave obnoxiously early in the morning, and now, there's not even lines.

00:27:52.260 It's the tradition now, though.

00:27:53.700 Yeah, now, uh-oh.

00:27:54.960 Pass on that.

00:27:55.580 I usually go hunting on Black Friday.

00:27:57.200 Yeah, he does.

00:27:57.840 Yeah, took Margo hunting, which we talked about, I think, on this podcast.

00:28:02.040 Did you?

00:28:02.480 Yeah, you did.

00:28:02.840 Yes, how you took our, who knows how old, maybe, like, eight or nine-week-old baby in

00:28:08.740 a deer blind...

00:28:10.260 Sure did.

00:28:10.760 ...in the freezing cold and shot a deer.

00:28:12.640 Yeah.

00:28:12.980 But it was actually really sweet.

00:28:14.260 She did awesome.

00:28:15.100 She didn't even flinch.

00:28:16.200 I was petrified, though, when I didn't know what they were doing, and I get a text that

00:28:18.760 says, shots fired at 6.30 in the morning.

00:28:21.240 I was working out, and I get that text, and I'm like, what do you mean, shots fired?

00:28:23.740 Um, okay, going into the new year, any New Year's resolutions, which I will say I have

00:28:31.880 always, or at least the past four or so years, been really, really big on New Year's resolutions.

00:28:38.380 I think there is real value in sitting down with either your spouse, your friends, your

00:28:43.780 family, um, and talking about your goals.

00:28:46.520 I don't know if it's, like, the athlete in me, but even when, when I was competing, like,

00:28:51.240 I just really loved having and setting tangible goals, um, that you can work to achieve.

00:28:57.460 You tell other people your goals, they can help hold you accountable.

00:29:00.800 You, I always wanted to know their goals, so I could do what I could to help them achieve

00:29:04.440 that.

00:29:05.180 Um, so, big goal-setter here.

00:29:08.300 Um, I'm not much into, like, the whole, like, manifest thing, but I do think there's value

00:29:14.180 in having a vision for yourself, and you, you remind yourself of that, like, writing

00:29:19.260 on your mirror, whatever it is, however, every single day you can set your sight forward to

00:29:25.020 achieving those goals, uh, I, I really buy into those things.

00:29:28.880 So, that being said, do you have any New Year's resolutions?

00:29:34.960 Yeah.

00:29:35.320 Well, do you want to talk about kind of how we break them down?

00:29:40.180 Because, you know, it's not, we don't just have, like, two resolutions, there's different

00:29:45.120 categories in which we kind of plan them out.

00:29:47.420 You want us to talk about that?

00:29:48.260 Yeah.

00:29:48.600 Yeah.

00:29:48.840 Well, first, I use the, well, we use the SMART method to set our goals, which, acronym,

00:29:55.340 S-M-A-R-T, S is for, so for each goal, it has to be specific, it has to be measurable, 0.80

00:30:02.460 it has to be achievable, it has to be relevant, and it has to be time-bound.

00:30:07.100 All of those things, so you could set a goal to, like, be kind, that doesn't fit the SMART

00:30:12.540 acronym here.

00:30:13.860 It has to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

00:30:17.720 So, for example, and here are the, kind of, the different sectors we break our New Year's

00:30:22.500 resolutions or our goals into.

00:30:24.400 First and foremost is health and wellness.

00:30:26.800 So, think of, like, your physical goals for yourself.

00:30:30.160 Our second sector is spiritual goals, how you can grow individually and also simultaneously

00:30:38.520 together in your spiritual journey, your relationship with Christ.

00:30:44.700 Our third sector is personal goals or relational goals.

00:30:49.820 And the fourth sector is career goals.

00:30:51.800 So, those are kind of the four sectors, which we, every year, try to have, like, a New Year's

00:30:58.520 resolution party, if you will.

00:31:01.100 So, us, some of our other friends, family, will come over and, like, sit down and make,

00:31:05.140 like, a vision board.

00:31:06.380 So, I haven't really, really sat down and thought about my goals, but I have a few in mind.

00:31:13.740 What's your health and wellness one?

00:31:15.000 So, one of the things that I would love to do, and this is kind of, like, health and

00:31:21.320 wellness mixed with career, is I would love to be able to talk more about fitness on this

00:31:27.180 platform, on Instagram, on TikTok, with you guys.

00:31:29.960 Obviously, I think, you know, the platform I have was awarded to me for my takes on political

00:31:39.840 topics and for using my voice on these, the cultural stuff that's happening around the

00:31:45.120 world, but I feel really passionate about fitness.

00:31:48.040 And so, one of my health and wellness slash career goals is to be able to speak more to

00:31:53.580 that with you guys and influence in that way.

00:31:57.380 I think, in terms of physical fitness, if that is something you prioritize, you will live,

00:32:04.960 obviously, a healthier life in terms of how long you live, how good you feel, but you're

00:32:11.100 happier.

00:32:12.000 I think fitness is such a fantastic outlet for stress, for anxiety, for anything that is

00:32:18.360 taking up space in your mind, at least for me.

00:32:21.240 And it wasn't always this way, but you work for it to be this way.

00:32:24.520 Now, I use fitness and going to the gym and running and lifting as an outlet to kind of

00:32:31.020 compartmentalize those things.

00:32:33.880 What about you?

00:32:35.540 Well, I have definitely been working.

00:32:39.100 I'm not going to call it a dad bod.

00:32:41.500 We're going to call it a father figure.

00:32:43.200 Okay.

00:32:43.680 Definitely been working on the father figure for the last few months.

00:32:49.020 I need something to work towards.

00:32:50.580 I haven't had anything to work towards fitness-wise in probably way too long.

00:32:54.580 You know, I was in the post-athlete career.

00:32:57.480 There's two boats.

00:32:58.820 One of them does absolutely nothing, and the other one goes and signs up for my

00:33:04.680 marathons and Ironmans, which you're in.

00:33:10.000 And, you know, running to me sounds awful.

00:33:14.260 I'm sorry.

00:33:14.620 It does.

00:33:15.520 You get past it, though.

00:33:17.700 And he's a good runner.

00:33:19.300 He's a good runner.

00:33:20.240 Yeah.

00:33:20.460 No, that's one of the things I'm not a big fan of.

00:33:22.420 But something I've been thinking about, and I've mentioned it to you a few times, is something

00:33:30.720 that I kind of want to look to sign up for, and I guess I'm going to shoot myself in the

00:33:34.180 foot by saying that on here, is signing up for one of the tactical games.

00:33:37.700 And it's a cross between CrossFit and shooting, kind of all compiled together.

00:33:45.960 I love shooting.

00:33:47.080 I know. 0.78

00:33:47.520 Surprise, surprise from a Brit.

00:33:50.500 Good immigrant. 1.00

00:33:51.180 Yeah.

00:33:51.480 Good immigrant. 1.00

00:33:52.560 He's a really, really sharp shot, too.

00:33:56.100 Well, thank you, dude.

00:33:56.920 That was very sweet of you.

00:33:57.260 No, you really are.

00:33:58.420 Yeah. 0.88

00:33:58.760 No, I really like shooting.

00:34:00.120 And so it's a combination of fitness and shooting, lots of running, lifting heavy objects in awkward

00:34:06.140 ways, getting your heart rate up, and then still having to shoot accurately to score well

00:34:14.040 in it.

00:34:14.380 So I think that's something that I'll have fun doing.

00:34:18.180 Also going to have to start getting rid of the father figure.

00:34:22.240 So yeah, I think that'd be one of my health and wellness ones, is just getting my backside

00:34:27.080 in gear again.

00:34:28.400 Yeah.

00:34:28.680 Any others you want to share?

00:34:32.120 Personal, relational, I think we've been bad about this since Margot's been here, but going

00:34:41.600 on dates, I don't know if we've really been on one since she's been here, and she's maybe

00:34:48.340 one or two.

00:34:48.960 Well, it's hard because I feel like we go on dates, as in like we'll go eat or whatever,

00:34:54.460 but we'll be on our phone or occupied by other things.

00:34:58.040 Yeah.

00:34:58.200 So what I'm hearing you say is just being more intentional about our dates.

00:35:03.480 Yeah.

00:35:03.620 And having someone look after the baby so it's just us to get some time.

00:35:09.080 And I'd like to do that time bound.

00:35:11.740 Like to do one every two weeks.

00:35:13.360 I think every week would be ideal, but with all the travel and schedules, I think that

00:35:21.200 might be a little unrealistic.

00:35:23.060 But I think once every two weeks is something that we can definitely commit to.

00:35:27.980 It's like twice a month.

00:35:28.980 It's like twice a month.

00:35:29.160 Mm-hmm.

00:35:29.700 Yeah.

00:35:31.000 Um, a New Year's resolution for me is to have another kid by this time next year.

00:35:37.900 I'm happy to do my part.

00:35:40.640 I don't know if I can say that, just did.

00:35:43.240 Happy to do my bit.

00:35:44.300 Maybe there will be another, another Barker baby running around our household this time 1.00

00:35:50.500 next year.

00:35:50.940 That's right.

00:35:51.320 Mm-hmm.

00:35:51.560 It's so funny because, um, to like speak a little bit to the, the pregnancy and like

00:35:59.140 conception journey that we had, we were able to conceive Margo in the first month of us

00:36:04.780 like really trying.

00:36:07.380 Um, so I didn't find out until later, which nowadays you can find out at like three weeks

00:36:13.180 if you're pregnant or something crazy.

00:36:14.480 I didn't find out till later because I felt fine.

00:36:16.400 It just didn't cross my mind.

00:36:18.420 Um, found out, uh, we go to the doctor and he,

00:36:21.560 he was like, so, you know, they're getting all your information and they ask you, you

00:36:25.760 know, when was your last menstrual cycle?

00:36:27.800 Uh, they put in all this and he came out and he said, so, you know, um, she was conceived

00:36:32.000 on January 6th.

00:36:34.600 Not planned.

00:36:36.400 We have an insurrection baby.

00:36:38.120 We have an insurrection baby.

00:36:39.220 Sure do.

00:36:40.180 Um, yeah, that wasn't, we didn't mark the calendar and think, wow, today's a celebration.

00:36:45.720 So.

00:36:46.820 Insurrection baby.

00:36:47.880 Yep.

00:36:48.420 Um, no, well, we appreciate you guys.

00:36:51.840 Again, what a, what a year it has been.

00:36:55.520 Uh, thank you all who have tuned into the gains for girls podcast over the past, gosh, I guess

00:37:01.140 like two years at this point.

00:37:03.240 Um, your support, it means the world to me personally, um, to our family.

00:37:08.700 Um, so thank you guys.

00:37:10.640 We have lots to look forward to in the new year, but today, uh, the rest of this week,

00:37:15.120 I hope you guys enjoy.

00:37:16.820 I hope you spend some time in the word.

00:37:18.980 I hope you remember, uh, why we are gathered in the way that, that we do for Christmas.

00:37:26.080 Um, hey, he's the reason for the season.

00:37:29.160 Don't forget it.

00:37:29.800 That's it.

00:37:30.300 That's it.

00:37:30.940 Well, we appreciate you guys and we will see you guys soon on the rally gain show, but

00:37:34.920 we'll see you next week on the gains for girls podcast.

00:37:37.320 We'll see you next week.

00:37:46.600 We'll see you next week.

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - December 23, 2025

Riley Gaines' First Christmas as a Mom!

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