Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - December 06, 2023


Unwoke with Senator Ted Cruz


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Ted Cruz joins me in DC to speak on the Lady Ballers and why we should all be watching the new movie, Ladyballers. We also talk about his experience as a cameo in the Ladyball movie and why he thinks the movie is so funny.

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00:00:00.580 Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap. You're almost at the finish line, but first...
00:00:10.980 There, the last one. Enjoy a Coca-Cola for a pause that refreshes.
00:00:18.040 Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast. I'm in DC today. We have a testimony a little later on
00:00:32.320 surrounding Title IX and upholding the original intent of Title IX and urging the Biden administration
00:00:37.400 to not go through with their despicable rewrite, which would ultimately hurt women, harm women,
00:00:45.380 and take away our opportunities that Title IX ensured that we had. But being in DC, I am talking
00:00:52.100 to one of my favorite senators. This is a senator who has been on the forefront of protecting women's 0.98
00:00:58.820 sports, but really on the forefront of a lot of issues. Of course, the border crisis, what's going
00:01:04.380 on in the Middle East right now, upholding our freedom, such as the Second Amendment and the
00:01:08.240 freedom of speech. He's one of the ones who is unapologetic and really just a warrior for
00:01:15.360 truth and for sanity. Check out the interview with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:01:20.580 Senator Cruz, it is so good to see you again. I had the pleasure of seeing you recently at the
00:01:26.000 Lady Ballers premiere, which if you haven't seen it, everyone needs to go watch it. It was hilarious.
00:01:32.300 But Senator Cruz, your cameo was probably my favorite. I'll be honest, I was hesitant to join
00:01:38.720 on it first when they initially reached out and asked me if I wanted to do this because,
00:01:42.360 of course, this is an issue I take pretty seriously. And so I was kind of nervous to
00:01:47.100 poke fun at it, be lighthearted. But I will tell you after watching it, that's exactly what we needed
00:01:52.160 to do. We needed to kind of be able to mock what is already a mockery. And so I just kind of wanted
00:01:58.620 you to talk about your experience with the film and what you think about making a comedy really out
00:02:03.960 of this insanity. Well, Riley, thanks for having me on. It was great to see you last week. And
00:02:08.760 congrats on the podcast. It is terrific that you're putting out the podcast. And I appreciate
00:02:14.860 just the courage you've shown. You have been a warrior on an issue that, look, you know,
00:02:20.700 firsthand invites vilification. The left, the media, they are mean, they're hateful. They target you
00:02:27.980 personally. And, and, and I, I admire the courage that you've shown. It really makes a difference.
00:02:33.440 Look, the movie was awesome. It was a blast. You and I were both at the movie premiere. It was in
00:02:37.380 Nashville. You're right. The movie is really funny. You know, when, when they asked me to do the cameo,
00:02:43.760 I wanted to see a copy of the script. They let me read the whole script before I did it, which was
00:02:48.700 good because it, like, I was laughing out loud on the script. And once I read the script, I'm like,
00:02:52.600 all right, I'm in this, this is funny. It's well-written. And the movie is an awful lot. I
00:02:57.640 think like dodgeball and I'm a huge movie buff and I love comedies. I like to laugh, but, but I think
00:03:04.100 it was really powerful. I mean, in some ways it's, it's amazing. No one's made this movie yet because
00:03:09.380 the, the idea is, is at some level really obvious that you got a bunch of middle-aged guys that decide
00:03:15.500 to play women's basketball and, and just dominate women's basketball. And, and, and it, it is so
00:03:22.920 absurd. It cries out for laughter. And, and, and I actually think culture is, is pervasive and powerful
00:03:31.780 in a way that logical arguments and start charts, you know, you can put up numbers of, you know, body
00:03:39.460 mass index and all sorts of stats. And, and that moves people's opinions less than watching some
00:03:46.000 giant six foot eight guy plowing his elbow in, into the nose of this, this poor woman who's trying 1.00
00:03:53.000 to compete. And that, that happens in, in, in the movie to, to powerful effect. And, and, and I think
00:03:58.920 we need to be fighting in the arena of culture. As you know, I've got a brand new book that just came
00:04:05.100 out. The book is called Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. And the entire book
00:04:11.660 is about doing exactly this, doing what Lady Ballers does, doing what your podcast does,
00:04:17.320 which is fighting back in the cult to take our culture back and to take our institutions back.
00:04:24.440 Well, absolutely. Um, I think that's amazing. And you mentioned, you know, how has someone not made
00:04:30.540 this movie yet? And I'm going to give you a chance to talk about your book at the end too,
00:04:33.220 um, because it's incredibly important. Uh, and I want to ask you specifically, can we defeat
00:04:39.020 cultural Marxism? But, uh, you mentioned why has no one made this movie? And it's because it's
00:04:43.160 basically happening. I mean, it's like a documentary watching this thing. Of course it's supposed to be
00:04:46.940 comedy, but I'm watching it and I'm like, no, this is a documentary. Um, but anyways, you've been a
00:04:51.240 champion for women's sports. Uh, that's been very clear, uh, in your approach to, to the issue.
00:04:56.400 Of course, a few weeks ago, you guys had Charlie Baker, which is the NCAA president testifying before
00:05:01.960 the Senate, your committee. But what I thought was so interesting was he couldn't answer half of the
00:05:07.400 questions asked of him specifically on the issue of allowing men into women's sports and particularly
00:05:12.820 the locker room aspect and how to get back to Senator Holly and writing. And so just as you,
00:05:17.860 you talked about institutions, do you think institutional leadership is failing us all around
00:05:24.340 from the NCAA within academia, of course, in corporate America, uh, talk about, talk about what
00:05:30.040 institutional leadership looks like right now in America. Look, look, look, it's, it's, it's failing
00:05:33.960 at every level. And, and, you know, you, you look at the institutions, what my book does is it focuses
00:05:40.960 each chapter of the book focuses on a different institution. So it starts off with universities and
00:05:48.020 I call universities, the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. So, so it's where the virus was created. 0.97
00:05:55.300 It's where it mutated. It's where it spread. And it went from, from universities. It went from there
00:06:01.380 to K through 12 education, from there to journalism, to government, to big business, to big tech, to
00:06:08.460 entertainment, Hollywood, movies, television, sports, music, and from there to science. And then the final
00:06:17.340 chapter is on China, which I view as a central nexus that is intertwined with all of these. And, and if you
00:06:23.320 look at the institutions, the universities and, and, and, and the sort of transgender radicalism, look, 0.83
00:06:29.760 normal, rational people don't find it difficult to figure out what a woman is literally from the dawn
00:06:35.280 of time, humanity, that was never a trick question. And, and the truth of the matter is these idiot 1.00
00:06:41.300 leftists, they know as well. I joke all the time. Joe Biden knows exactly what a woman is. He only sniffs 1.00
00:06:47.540 the hair of girls. He hasn't once wandered up to a guy and sniffed his hair. He can figure it out.
00:06:53.320 And, and Riley, I feel 100% certain Bill Clinton knows what a woman is.
00:06:59.360 Of course.
00:07:00.560 They all do.
00:07:02.560 Of course. Uh, I mean, heck, we have a sitting Supreme court justice who can't even say what a
00:07:08.320 woman is. And, you know, her, her rationale was because she claims she's not a biologist. 0.99
00:07:13.000 Uh, but I agree with you. Maybe the litmus test should be, you know, putting, putting someone
00:07:17.940 in front of Biden. And if he sniffs their hair, they're a girl, but, but, you know, you asked,
00:07:24.600 can we defeat this? And, and, and I actually believe we can. And what you're doing is really
00:07:29.060 important because telling stories, look, the human mind, we exist based on stories, your story of 0.97
00:07:35.560 standing there next to a man with his genitalia hanging out in the locker room. That's disturbing. 0.98
00:07:41.800 And I, and I will say, you know, for, for a, for a lot of young women, they don't want to be in
00:07:46.240 that experience. I'm, I'm the father of two daughters. I don't want my girls in that position 0.92
00:07:50.320 that, that it is imagery is powerful. And what I argue for in the book on woke is basically using
00:07:59.940 three sets of tools to fight back. The first is transparency and sunshine. The ideas of the
00:08:06.680 radical left are wildly unpopular. Normal, rational people don't support abolishing the police.
00:08:13.280 Normal, rational people don't support open borders and the chaos at our Southern border. Normal,
00:08:18.540 rational people know exactly what a woman is. That's not hard for them. And normal, rational
00:08:24.120 people don't go justifying and supporting the atrocities of Hamas terrorists. None of those
00:08:30.920 are normal views. They're extreme. So the left survives number one, by keeping it secret. Number
00:08:37.680 two, through power and force and coercion, trying to cancel you. And number three, through indoctrination,
00:08:44.120 we can fight back just by shining a light. And that's what you you're doing day in, day out.
00:08:50.600 The second tool is changing the cost benefit analysis to increase the costs for individuals
00:08:57.640 or institutions to go woke, to make it riskier and more expensive for them to do so. And the third tool
00:09:03.720 is I encourage conservatives and libertarians fight in the arena of ideas and invest in the organs of
00:09:12.720 transmission of ideas. So either creating new avenues like your podcast, or I encourage conservatives
00:09:19.240 or libertarians who've been successful in business, invest, go buy a TV station, buy a radio station,
00:09:26.600 buy a movie studio, buy a book publishing house, buy a record label. And the example I use in the book
00:09:32.920 is Elon Musk's buying Twitter, which I think is the most significant step for free speech in decades.
00:09:39.800 We need to fight in those arenas and not cede them to the left. And it's why Lady Ballers is a great 1.00
00:09:45.000 example of that. It is fighting in the arena of entertainment, putting out good product and
00:09:50.280 and fighting to take back the culture. I could not agree more. And I think now more than ever,
00:09:57.400 people are hungry for those alternatives. Yes. I mean, think about what's gone on with Nike and
00:10:03.400 Adidas and all of these athleisure brands who are giving sports bra endorsements to men. And they have
00:10:11.560 these tucking bathing suits for children and all this crazy stuff. People are looking for alternatives.
00:10:16.920 I really believe that. And so I would say a good example is Jonathan Isaac, creating United, giving
00:10:22.200 people a way to spend their money in a way that matches their values, which I totally agree. I think
00:10:29.800 we need to fight back. I think for too long, we've kind of turned the other cheek because, you know,
00:10:34.280 as conservatives, we have our heads down. We're focused on our careers and our families and the things
00:10:39.000 that matter to us all the while the left, the radical left at least, is scheming and is working
00:10:45.560 behind closed doors to kind of implement what we're seeing now play out in real time.
00:10:53.560 Go ahead. Look, that is exactly right. And so we need to be, we need to have a call to action. If we
00:11:00.520 don't take these institutions back, we lose our country. And so I want to encourage your viewers,
00:11:06.120 the book on woke you can get on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever you get your books. And, and,
00:11:11.080 and, and it's the book is it's fun. It's interesting. It tells stories. It's not some
00:11:16.360 abstract academic treatise. It is real world and it's practical and hopeful. And so I want to
00:11:21.320 encourage you to go buy the book, but I also want to encourage you, listen, it's Christmas season.
00:11:25.400 So, so, so buy more than one, but buy a copy for your mom, but buy a copy for your best friend or your
00:11:31.960 crazy left-wing neighbor to knock some sense into him or, or even better buy a copy for your kids or
00:11:38.440 your grandkids. So they can understand the garbage that is being indoctrinated in them. You know, 1.00
00:11:44.040 one of the striking scenes in, in, in the movie lady ballers that, that both you and I had had the,
00:11:48.600 the joy of being a part of was the scene where the little nine-year-old girl is, is, is telling her
00:11:55.400 dad in the car about the quote girl that had a penis and like, he, you know, almost crashes his 0.98
00:12:01.560 car. He's like, what are you talking about? And, and it's, it's disturbing. And I talked with the 0.99
00:12:06.840 beautiful young actress who played the little girl. And I, and I said, look at some ways it was
00:12:10.920 like I was talking with her mom who was there also look at some ways you're like horrified to
00:12:14.600 hear a nine-year-old girl saying that, but the scene works because it's so jarring. 0.79
00:12:20.040 And, and the reason it's important is listen, that garbage is being told to our nine-year-old 0.98
00:12:25.320 children. And, and, and so just because it's disturbing to see, doesn't mean that we should 0.93
00:12:31.400 bury our heads in the sand and ignore that people are trying to indoctrinate our kids with this
00:12:36.840 nonsense. And, and, and, and we need to engage and fight back. Absolutely. Um, and I, again,
00:12:43.320 just want to reiterate everyone, where can they buy the book? Tell us that. Uh, you can get it on
00:12:47.320 Amazon, Barnes and Noble, any bookstore and, and it's, it's been a national bestseller.
00:12:52.600 And, and so go buy the book. I think you'll, you'll find it fun and interesting and, and it's
00:12:57.080 designed to inform you and educate you and empower you so that when you're talking with your friends
00:13:03.240 and they raise this nonsense, you'll have the facts to push back.
00:13:05.960 Amazing. Um, and if I can be of any encouragement to everyone, uh, we've got 11 months here. Uh,
00:13:13.400 and as you've said with the different things going on, the rise in crime,
00:13:16.760 the border crisis, of course, what's going on in the middle East that has now transpired here
00:13:21.640 in the U S, uh, on college campuses and different places. Um, we're at a, a pretty vital point,
00:13:28.600 I would say in America and the future of America. And so for these next 11 months,
00:13:34.920 this should be the hardest anyone works these next 11 months. That should be everyone's goal.
00:13:39.640 Make it your new year's resolution, uh, to, to just, as you said, spread transparency and fight
00:13:45.480 back in the arenas that we as conservatives, uh, I think have, have done a pretty poor job
00:13:51.240 of fighting back in that have allowed them to be the public square to be totally overtaken by the
00:13:56.120 left. Um, again, I appreciate you. I want to ask you really quickly because Texas is in the final four.
00:14:02.680 Uh, so I want to, I want to get a score prediction from you and we're going to come back to this and see
00:14:07.320 how close you are. All right. Look, I think Texas is going to beat Washington. I think it is going
00:14:13.000 to be 32 to 21. Thank you, Senator Cruz. I'm grateful for you. We're going to check back with
00:14:24.040 the prediction. Uh, good luck with everything today. And of course, uh, throughout the rest
00:14:27.960 of the year, we're very grateful for you. And my prediction is the Longhorns win it all. Hook them
00:14:31.880 horns. Thank you for tuning into the gains for girls podcast. Make sure you go and buy Senator
00:14:38.200 Cruz's book, unwoke how to defeat cultural Marxism in America. Uh, you can buy it at Barnes and Noble
00:14:43.960 or Amazon or anywhere where you get your books. And I loved his idea by this book for a, your,
00:14:50.120 your neighborhood leftist or your professor who is a radical Democrat, or for someone who simply
00:14:55.960 can't answer the question of what is a woman? Uh, thank you guys for tuning in. We will see you next
00:15:01.720 week.