Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Was Trump’s Viral AI Image Blasphemy？ PLUS Nick Freitas on ＂The Manbook＂｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:00:30.000 if you've seen his viral floor speeches or his no holds barred commentary then you already know

00:00:39.440 why he cuts through the noise like almost nobody else does uh nick nick freitas he's effective

00:00:45.380 because he's real and he's truthful and yes the man is actually really funny while he's doing it

00:00:51.360 no scripted corporate talking points or no fake outrage it is just straight talk from a green

00:00:57.900 beret combat veteran who refuses to play the game today we are diving into everything that's

00:01:02.960 blowing up right now uh the trump tweet uh if you don't know the one i'm talking about it's

00:01:08.540 understandable because there's a lot of them the trump posting that wild jesus image on true social

00:01:13.100 the brutal attack on journalist savannah hernandez while she was just doing her job filming at an

00:01:18.920 anti-ice protest and the sudden collapse of eric swalwell's gubernatorial campaign amid some pretty

00:01:26.540 wild and serious misconduct allegations all of that and more on today's episode

00:01:31.960 well nick thanks for joining the riley gain show uh one of my favorite online internet voices but

00:01:40.660 of course really you're much more than that can you give a little background on yourself sure sure

00:01:46.420 well it's an honor to be on um yeah i i first and foremost i i married my high school sweetheart at

00:01:52.720 19 right out of high school when I was a young paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.

00:01:58.100 And, you know, I was in the military for about 10 years in the 82nd, 25th Infantry, then

00:02:03.400 went over to Army Special Forces, kind of better known as Green Berets, did a couple

00:02:06.960 of combat tours in Iraq.

00:02:08.880 The time I was in the military, my wife and I had three beautiful children who are all

00:02:12.400 now fully grown.

00:02:13.840 My youngest just turned 18.

00:02:16.860 And, you know, we homeschooled all of our kids.

00:02:19.160 And after serving in the military, served in the Virginia legislature, was in the Virginia House of Delegates for 10 years, which is actually the first time I met you was when I was chairing a subcommittee down there.

00:02:33.060 And now we've just my wife and I both have been talking a lot about faith, about family, about biblical masculinity, about restoring the family in America.

00:02:42.140 And that's kind of our full time job at this point.

00:02:45.120 And we love it.

00:02:46.100 Oh, well, how amazing.

00:02:47.660 You've been out of the legislature now for a few months.

00:02:51.020 Can you kind of compare those two lifestyles?

00:02:53.300 Because I think being involved in the political landscape, especially in the capacity of serving,

00:02:58.860 it's just something that most people can't grasp.

00:03:01.240 And so now that you're out, can you talk about some of the factors you had to consider in making that decision?

00:03:08.360 Yeah.

00:03:08.780 I mean, the biggest thing is when we first, I actually challenged a Republican incumbent when I first ran for office.

00:03:14.400 I challenged him in the primary.

00:03:15.600 he decided to retire. And when we first went into elected office, we went in with

00:03:20.880 a lot of confidence. We had prayed a lot about it. We really felt like it was,

00:03:24.000 it was what we were supposed to do because my mom, especially had always raised me with this

00:03:27.620 idea that it is a privilege to live in the United States. She took me on missionary trips all over

00:03:32.680 the world. And she was very big on saying, you know, when you come home, you need to appreciate

00:03:36.600 that you have something special here and it's not by accident. It was fought for, it was built up

00:03:40.980 and you have an obligation to want to protect and preserve and send it on for your children

00:03:46.020 to be able to do the same.

00:03:47.740 And so I never thought I'd run for elected office.

00:03:49.960 I just thought I would do my civic duty, and I liked being a soldier.

00:03:54.400 But it was an interesting experience.

00:03:56.460 Ten years in the General Assembly, I learned a lot.

00:04:00.260 It is frustrating in part because there's a lot of expectations for what people think

00:04:06.160 you can accomplish by serving in the legislature.

00:04:08.860 The end result is, is you have one vote. You can carry legislation. You have one vote in Virginia. I had one vote out of 100 delegates, one vote, you know, the 40 senators and the governor's got to sign it. So you're working very, very hard to try to get things done. But, you know, our government is set up to not work fast for a reason. And it's because we're trying to avoid the centralization of power.

00:04:28.120 um but 10 years i i i fought the good fight i think i can safely say that i kept my word to

00:04:34.560 my constituents with what i believed and now that i'm out uh i consider it a great honor but

00:04:40.160 just as confident as we were that it was time to get in we were all so confident it was time to get

00:04:44.380 out you feel like you ever experienced any sort of like i don't know the best way to put it maybe

00:04:50.020 like political fatigue if you will yeah no here's where the political fatigue i'll never forget this

00:04:57.240 conversation my mom had with me when I first ran for office. And she goes, Nick, I have no doubt

00:05:02.460 you're going to be honorable in this position. She goes, the opposition is going to frustrate

00:05:08.600 you, but your own side will break your heart. And that was true. That was true. I was used to the

00:05:14.600 other side coming after me, the media coming after me. That was normal stuff. But it did get

00:05:19.760 frustrated when you would watch your own side say one thing on the campaign trail and do something

00:05:23.780 very differently when they were in office. And it's not because they were all just weak or

00:05:27.960 cowards. It's because the, the, the incentive to get reelected and to kind of allow opinion polls 0.95

00:05:35.520 to drive what that should look like is, is overwhelming. And to be quite frankly, it's

00:05:40.500 rewarded by the electorate. And so part of it was frustration with some of my own colleagues at

00:05:45.600 times, but also part of it was frustration with, with voters where I would look at them and be

00:05:50.360 like, why did you sit this one out? Well, I just wasn't happy with any of the candidates and

00:05:54.620 they're all the same. Well, in Virginia, we're learning the hard way that no, they're not all

00:05:58.500 the same. And so I think it's so important for people to be not just engaged in the fact that

00:06:04.220 they're talking about it on social media or voting, but really understanding how our process

00:06:08.860 works. And one of the most important things, and this was, you know, again, my capacity as

00:06:13.000 subcommittee chairman on higher education, when you came to speak, one of the biggest things

00:06:17.040 people need to understand is that the reason why we're in the problems that we are right now

00:06:21.600 is because the government has way too much control over our children's education,

00:06:26.400 whether it's in elementary school, middle, high school, higher education. And if we want better

00:06:32.640 elected representatives that are willing to stand strong, well, that starts in the home.

00:06:36.580 And so I got very fatigued with politics because I felt like I was arguing with people that are

00:06:41.320 already made up their minds. But the more I had an opportunity to actually speak with people like

00:06:45.580 students that were curious about these things and wanted to understand them the more i felt like i

00:06:49.860 was having a greater impact yeah 100 and and i agree i'm right there with you in speaking to

00:06:55.760 education and having kids of your own you mentioned you guys homeschool which i find to be such a

00:07:01.840 sacrifice on on your part as parents as well and now my husband and i we have our little baby

00:07:06.540 uh granted she's only you know six months old now so we have time but you start to consider what

00:07:11.740 what sort of route do you want to go down and there's so many different options now

00:07:15.240 does virginia you guys don't have school choice passed am i correct in saying that yeah that's

00:07:20.960 correct can you kind of explain what school choice is and maybe some some of the benefits that you

00:07:25.800 have seen from homeschooling yeah um well i i think our journey into homeschooling was an

00:07:32.140 interesting one because it started off we did it out of necessity i was leaving the military we

00:07:36.520 weren't sure where we're going to live next we had a couple different options the school year

00:07:40.340 was starting and so we just you know we don't want there to be this big gap so my wife started

00:07:44.460 homeschooling um and then when we got to where we did in virginia we put our kids back in and

00:07:49.660 within a year we had them back out because we thought oh we'll move to this nice conservative

00:07:54.060 district and our values will be represented and that was not the case what happened to her from

00:07:59.960 the studio that brought you weapons and producers james one and blumhouse what was our daughter

00:08:05.900 doing in a 3000 year old sarcophagus comes a terrifying new vision katie was meant to stay

00:08:11.900 buried what really happened to her she's different i just want my daughter back

00:08:20.460 lee crumens the mummy only in theaters april 17th

00:08:26.460 and um and it wasn't we had some great teachers but they weren't the ones selecting the curriculum

00:08:32.420 them. They weren't the ones calling the shots. And so we pulled them out because we were concerned

00:08:37.300 about what was going on within the government run school system. But if you asked my wife and I

00:08:41.740 today, why did we homeschool? It's because we loved it. Um, is it a sacrifice? Yeah. And in

00:08:47.360 some ways, but you know, what's also a sacrifice sending your kids to public school, you will

00:08:52.080 sacrifice thousands of hours that you would otherwise would have had with them. You will

00:08:56.700 sacrifice them getting exposed to things and concepts and ideas. And I don't mean good ones.

00:09:01.660 I mean, what some other kid at school is showing them on their smartphone, you will sacrifice a lot about your kids innocence, you will sacrifice, again, that core relationship that you can build with your kids. So I will say that as much as it might be a sacrifice some ways with financially or things of that nature, it was an absolute blessing. And I love the relationship we have with all three of my adult children.

00:09:25.660 They're all well-adjusted, productive members of society that I love hanging out with.

00:09:31.000 And so I think we can't just look at homeschooling as a sacrifice.

00:09:35.060 It's a sacrifice either way.

00:09:36.300 You're going to choose your sacrifice.

00:09:38.160 But I encourage people to choose the one that gives them the most time with their kids to

00:09:41.540 build that important relationship.

00:09:43.480 When it comes to school choice, some states have really good laws.

00:09:46.720 Some states have really restrictive ones.

00:09:48.640 Typically, school choice is associated with how much control or authority or options do

00:09:53.900 the parents have over their children's education. And a good school choice state might look like

00:09:59.060 one where it's very easy to homeschool with minimal restrictions. It might look like one

00:10:03.380 where dollars follow students, where now we can say that, okay, the state is going to participate

00:10:08.080 in helping educate, but it's going to do so through financing options, not through trying

00:10:13.360 to control the curriculum or the classroom. In other states, it shows up in the form of tax

00:10:18.640 credits where it says, look, the government's not going to tell you what to do, and we're not going

00:10:22.380 to give you money because we're not going to control it, but we're going to, we're going to

00:10:25.820 relieve your tax burden since you're assuming personal responsibility for educating your

00:10:30.140 children. So there's a lot of different ways that, that, um, a state can encourage parents

00:10:35.980 to take more of an active role in the education of their children. Uh, but whenever the state

00:10:40.380 is really trying to control it, whether whatever they're really trying to say, no, no, the

00:10:44.100 government is going to dictate what your child's education looks like. I think you need to be

00:10:48.740 concerned about that because having served four years on an education committee in a state that

00:10:53.940 was not especially woke or progressive certainly not concerned compared to like california or

00:10:59.120 massachusetts or illinois i can tell you the things that were going on in deep rural school

00:11:05.040 districts would blow parents minds and it was hard to get them to accept that no this is happening

00:11:10.340 and you have to be involved and you're going to have to make some hard decisions about what you

00:11:15.300 want for your child because if you if you're not in control somebody is and you saw firsthand in

00:11:21.020 the way you got treated at a subcommittee where i had to tell my democrat colleagues you will treat

00:11:26.040 all witnesses with respect it's amazing how they feel like they feel like they are perfectly morally

00:11:31.680 justified and not only pushing their agenda in the classroom but denigrating and being disrespectful

00:11:38.600 to anybody that has a different perspective or worldview. 0.97

00:11:42.740 It is so true.

00:11:44.320 I'll never forget that delegate's name,

00:11:46.560 even delegate Jeff Bourne.

00:11:48.240 I don't know if he still serves.

00:11:49.700 I don't know what he's doing now,

00:11:50.800 but testifying in Virginia for the first time,

00:11:54.160 it was my first public testimony.

00:11:56.700 And so just the nerves and the anxiety

00:11:58.760 and I'd never done something like that before.

00:12:01.360 I didn't know what I was doing or what I was gonna say

00:12:03.500 or who you're even really speaking to.

00:12:05.740 And so I'll never forget that.

00:12:07.120 And just you're right, the hostility that you're met with and, quite frankly, the hypocrisy of it.

00:12:12.220 And you spoke to it. It exists on both sides of the political aisle.

00:12:15.240 I think on our side, you have like the campaign taglines of faith, family and freedom that people run on.

00:12:22.260 Yet you have some people who I mean, their families are in disarray.

00:12:27.460 Members of Congress who are having affairs on their wives.

00:12:30.480 Tony Gonzalez being one on our side or shall I say a person with an R by his name.

00:12:35.480 But then you also have people like Eric Swalwell on the other side of the aisle, who just recently suspended his campaign for California governor.

00:12:45.940 Of course, this is amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, really horrible, horrific things.

00:12:54.400 I wanted to ask you about the timing of these allegations and how they have surfaced in the media.

00:13:00.600 Do you think this is like strategic?

00:13:03.680 Oh, 100 percent.

00:13:05.480 There is there is nobody that was confused that Eric Swalwell had these allegations against him.

00:13:10.540 This is not the first time people spoke up about it.

00:13:13.360 It's just the difference was, is that he was on their side and they looked at him as an effective foil to go after Donald Trump.

00:13:19.440 And then as he started to get within shot of winning the Democratic primary in California, then the concern was, is that if the Republicans actually launch a halfway decent campaign and he's the nominee, we could potentially lose the governorship of California, as bizarre as that sounds to people.

00:13:34.440 so there's a reason why every other investigative journalist every other mainstream news network

00:13:40.220 everybody nobody was interested in this they were all willing to defend eric swalwell i mean when

00:13:44.940 the whole thing came down with him sleeping with chinese spies it was like just sweeping under the

00:13:49.400 rug it's not a big deal it wasn't until that he his presence on the ticket could potentially

00:13:54.180 hurt democrats then all of a sudden it was important to them because what's important

00:13:59.100 is the maintenance of power it's not about women's issues if they cared about women's issues

00:14:04.200 delegate born would have been a lot more respectful to you when you testified but he wasn't he was

00:14:08.860 incredibly rude and that's how we see this if if democrats really cared about women if they cared

00:14:13.800 about the me too movement well then they would police their own ranks better but they don't 0.91

00:14:18.060 until it can cost them politically then it becomes a primary issue so no the the timing of all of

00:14:23.380 this is is very strategic and intentional yeah and i think concerning uh prior to this the options

00:14:29.140 were Swalwell, again, again, a man who has multiple sexual misconduct allegations, you're

00:14:35.500 right, sleeping with the Chinese spy, and Katie Porter, who's like accused of throwing a pot of

00:14:42.480 boiling hot potatoes on her husband, quite the state of affairs in the state of California.

00:14:49.940 One more kind of current event I wanted to ask you about that I saw you comment on online was

00:14:54.840 what happened to independent journalist savannah hernandez uh she is i believe a turning point

00:15:00.580 contributor she was filming an anti-ice uh or filming an anti-ice protest outside of

00:15:07.460 an ice facility i believe in minneapolis when she was physically assaulted by multiple protesters

00:15:13.600 this girl we'll have the b-roll playing on screen she's like what appears to be like 100 pounds wet 1.00

00:15:19.860 through. And you've got this big man who shoves her into a fence. Quite the coward, wouldn't you 1.00

00:15:27.540 say? Oh yeah, no. And here's the problem. My wife, when she saw that, she goes, doesn't surprise me 1.00

00:15:33.420 at all. Because my wife actually ran for office once as well, and she was shocked at the outright 0.99

00:15:38.340 hostility that liberal men treated her with. They had no problem calling her the C word in public.

00:15:44.700 They had no problem trying to threaten her online. I mean, as her husband, it was a very

00:15:49.240 interesting experience. Nobody ever laid hands on my wife. That would have been very detrimental,

00:15:54.320 but it was that overwhelming hostility where Tina would say, I understand why women don't trust men

00:16:00.520 because when you hang out with liberal men, when you see them in action, you recognize how much

00:16:04.780 hostility and hatred they actually harbor for women because the moment they find one where

00:16:10.500 they think it's morally justified for them to abuse her physically or verbally, they take it.

00:16:15.700 and this was a perfect example of this this guy runs over here you notice again when they're

00:16:20.160 hurting when they when they go after republican men they use a rifle because they like a little

00:16:23.940 offset right but when it's 120 pounds soaking wet female there they don't mind shoving her down to

00:16:29.380 the ground and this is all part of how leftism has this is all about how leftism has developed

00:16:34.500 for years they would inappropriately and inaccurately call anybody that disagreed with

00:16:39.700 them a racist a sexist a misogynist and that was to rob us of our moral legitimacy but the language

00:16:45.360 has now changed now they accuse us of being threats to democracy of being fascist of being 0.99

00:16:50.260 nazis of promoting genocide whatever ridiculous claim they're not doing that to moral to rob us 0.56

00:16:56.460 of moral legitimacy they're doing that to create moral justification for them to use violence 0.64

00:17:02.080 against us to include a young woman who wasn't engaging in violence herself she was sitting

00:17:07.440 there she was reporting they came over they were hitting her in the face with various items and

00:17:12.000 toys. They were pushing, they were spitting. And the moment she moved her hand to push them out of

00:17:17.180 the way because they were obstructing her and assaulting her, right? This guy runs over and

00:17:21.900 thinks he's perfectly justified to knock her to the ground and then threaten her with further

00:17:26.200 physical violence. Now, what I said online was if local law enforcement doesn't prosecute this,

00:17:31.840 what they are doing is encouraging citizens to start to take justice into their own hands.

00:17:36.400 Because when you refuse to have equal protection before the law, when these left-wing mayors and

00:17:41.560 police chiefs or sheriffs or whatever it is, when they refuse to prosecute, when they refuse to go

00:17:46.240 after them, what you're saying is, is that you are giving the left the ability and the freedom to

00:17:51.640 continue to engage in violence. And that is going to be met with a reaction at some point. Now I

00:17:56.320 don't want it to be that way. I do not, I do not support any sort of anybody engaging in aggressive

00:18:02.360 violence to achieve a political objective, but defending yourself. Oh yeah, that's absolutely

00:18:07.240 justified. So the good news is, is from what I've heard, the sheriff's department is going to

00:18:11.200 actively prosecute the people that assaulted savannah but the rest of blue america needs to

00:18:17.920 take note of this because conservatives are not going to continue to put up with this no and and

00:18:22.820 we shouldn't have to quite frankly but you're right again in a city like minneapolis a state

00:18:27.620 like minnesota where you don't see arrests or you don't see people i guess jailed for for proper

00:18:34.480 amount of times for the crimes that they're committing uh of course it creates these issues

00:18:38.920 And like you said, I think the FBI is now investigating. I know that Savannah has said

00:18:44.040 that she wants to press charges. And so hopefully we see some success there. Last kind of news of

00:18:51.580 the day story I wanted to ask you about is this Trump tweet or maybe Trump truth social post that

00:18:57.900 he put up over the weekend in like the obscure hours of the night as President Trump does.

00:19:02.860 he posted this AI generated image. I think it's very clear what is happening here. It's

00:19:09.880 a depiction, I believe, of himself as Jesus Christ. He's wearing, you know, the robe and

00:19:14.800 the sash and he's got, you know, there's a person in the hospital bed, a sick person.

00:19:19.880 He's got his hand out. It's assumed that he's healing this person with onlookers. So, you

00:19:24.700 know, nurses and soldiers. What do you make of this? And very quickly, I'll just insert my

00:19:30.480 Thoughts, which I posted online, and it's already met with so much pushback, mostly from the MAGA

00:19:36.320 base and just saying, I think two things, multiple things really can be true here. Number one,

00:19:42.060 I do believe humility would serve President Trump. Number two, God shall not be mocked,

00:19:47.520 and blasphemy is not something to take lightly. And three, I don't regret my vote at all.

00:19:52.000 But this online base, the discourse that exists there, it makes you feel like you're the crazy

00:19:57.820 person for saying those things. And so what's your take on this? Yeah, I think there's three

00:20:02.200 categories that people fall into. There's the people that are using this to bash Trump because

00:20:06.460 that's what they do. They bash Trump. Then there's the people that are defending this as if this is

00:20:11.680 just, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's perfectly okay. How dare you? You're just

00:20:15.680 distracting. You're just joining the liberals. And then there's the category, which I consider

00:20:20.420 to be the common sense one, to be quite blunt, which is he shouldn't have posted this.

00:20:24.660 um it it it is it's not offensive in the sense that liberals get offended about everything

00:20:30.180 it's that anybody that is depicting themselves in a picture where they're obviously making some

00:20:34.700 sort of comparison between themselves and christ it is not a good idea right this is christ is

00:20:41.160 someone to be venerated he's certainly someone that we should look up to and he's certainly

00:20:44.520 someone whose actions and behaviors that we should um that we should attempt to emulate in our life

00:20:49.940 But to draw some sort of image, which makes it looks like we are that person is wrong and offensive and it shouldn't have been done.

00:20:57.460 And I'm glad he took it down by the same token. Do I still support Donald Trump? Yeah, I still support Donald Trump.

00:21:03.380 Right. I still want him to have a successful presidency. I don't think this means that he's a horrible president.

00:21:08.980 I think it was bad judgment. And the thing that I would tell the people on the left is I don't care about their concern because they don't they don't venerate Jesus anyways.

00:21:16.500 right? They're, they're only using this. My wife, my wife once said it best. She goes, you know,

00:21:22.040 the left, the left holds up, uh, you know, the constitution or Jesus, the same way atheists

00:21:28.380 hold up the Bible, right? It's not because they venerated it's because we do. And so I don't care

00:21:33.140 what their concerns were with this. I'm not, I'm not the least bit interested to the people that

00:21:37.540 are eager to defend Trump. I get that. I get the kind of mentality that we've all kind of fostered

00:21:42.180 at this point where we're so used to Trump being attacked for literally everything that we want to

00:21:46.000 defend him. By the same token, there has to be a standard for truth. That's one of the things that

00:21:50.300 has to distinguish the right from the left. The left has adopted this whole critical theory,

00:21:55.180 tribalism, postmodern view of the world where there's no such thing as truth. There's just

00:21:59.700 your tribe and you defend them at all costs and you attack everybody else at all costs.

00:22:03.860 I'm never going to be that. I will never be that. If my own side does something that I think was

00:22:09.720 incorrect, wrong, or immoral, that needs to be called out. That doesn't mean I'm going to throw

00:22:13.900 off everybody or abandon them or completely get rid of them, right? But it does need to be called

00:22:18.580 out because the ultimate standard for what the right should stand for is the belief in truth

00:22:23.840 and the dedication to that. And insofar as it's within our power, we need to be constantly taking

00:22:30.540 our viewpoints and aligning them with truth. And for me, Christianity is the formation of my

00:22:35.420 worldview. There is only one person that has ever walked the earth that gets absolute, complete,

00:22:40.280 and total loyalty from me, and that's Jesus Christ.

00:22:43.500 And he needs to hold that special position

00:22:46.460 of honor and veneration,

00:22:47.940 and that should be included in our politics.

00:22:49.620 And we should expect that of the people

00:22:51.340 who claim to be Christian and claim to be on our side. 0.97

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00:24:39.100 Yeah, I love that.

00:24:40.560 It was really so perfectly put.

00:24:43.100 I imagine we'll hopefully see some similar points in your new book.

00:24:48.300 It is called The Man Book, a point-by-point guide to sucking it up and getting the job done.

00:24:52.360 It has just dropped.

00:24:53.900 Okay, tell us what made you decide to write this and who it's really for.

00:24:58.360 Sure.

00:24:58.960 I had a couple people ask me if I would consider writing a book.

00:25:01.820 And a lot of it was based off kind of the, I call it the, what do I get stopped in an

00:25:07.080 airport over?

00:25:08.180 So if somebody sees me at an airport, they recognize me and they come up and they say,

00:25:11.560 Hey, I love your content.

00:25:13.020 And then they elaborate.

00:25:14.240 What I found was a lot of what they liked is some, some of it was the political.

00:25:18.680 Um, but the ones that a lot of the stuff that meant the most to me was when people would

00:25:22.260 say, Hey, you know, I, I love the argument that you made for Christianity, or I love

00:25:26.800 the story you shared about walking your daughter down the aisle or how you and your wife argue and

00:25:32.740 settle disputes while still remaining respectful and loving toward one another. And so I decided

00:25:38.020 what I was going to do is, okay, I'm just going to write out like 50 or so things that I think is

00:25:42.960 good for men to know. And these are things that I learned oftentimes the hard way. One of the

00:25:47.920 things I try to emphasize in this book is I'm trying to live up to everything I talk about in

00:25:53.660 this? Because I do believe there's a standard. I believe that standard is biblical masculinity.

00:25:57.980 I believe that God has given us a template for how we as men are supposed to be strong,

00:26:02.400 supposed to be capable, supposed to be honorable. But what for? What isn't just to get everything

00:26:07.540 that we want. It's so that we can serve God. It's so that we can be good men, good husbands,

00:26:12.520 good fathers. And so I share a lot of stories and some of the stories are things I got right.

00:26:17.240 A lot of the stories are things that I got wrong, but I learned from. And so I figured,

00:26:21.360 Well, you know, this would be kind of a good, you know, and somewhat humorous thing in there.

00:26:26.040 You'll see, you know, there'll be a chapter there on how do you defend your faith intellectually?

00:26:30.180 There'll be a chapter in there on how do you pick a good home defense weapon?

00:26:33.200 Because I think men should be able to protect.

00:26:35.660 How should you cook a steak?

00:26:37.320 Because let's face it, if you cook a steak, well done.

00:26:40.380 We need to have a talk.

00:26:41.560 We need to have a serious talk about where you are in life right now and some of the decisions you've made.

00:26:46.880 And then there's also chapters on how do you properly kick in a door?

00:26:49.820 and every once in a while people like why do you need a chapter on that well okay from a from a

00:26:54.380 funny standpoint because it looks cool right from a serious from a serious standpoint i want you to

00:27:00.100 imagine that you had to get your kid out of a house that was on fire and and the door is locked

00:27:05.660 or there's something else and you need to get through that thing well i want you to i had to

00:27:09.420 do it in iraq i want you to do how to how to do it properly so you can look cool and you can protect

00:27:14.240 the people that you care about so it's kind of an eclectic look at the things that that men should

00:27:18.940 know to be good men. Yeah, but it's all encompassing and it's holistic. And of course, this is

00:27:23.740 necessary for especially the younger generation, my generation, Gen Z. And I would argue urgent,

00:27:30.800 quite frankly, because being 25 years old now, this is the point where they're finding their

00:27:36.000 life partner, the person that's going to be the mother of their child. And women now, I truthfully

00:27:40.920 believe, despite the online discourse, the videos that go viral, I think young women are desperately

00:27:47.300 seeking for real men. And it sounds like a fantastic gift to get for someone who is graduating

00:27:55.080 either high school or college. It's graduation season. So if you're listening to this, you know

00:27:59.220 a young man in your life who is about to graduate, get them this book. I promise you it will be

00:28:05.420 useful. Again, it is called The Man Book, Point-by-Point Guide to Sucking It Up and Getting 0.84

00:28:11.020 the Job Done. Nick, we appreciate you a whole bunch, your service for this country and the

00:28:16.580 legislature and even now uh still continuing to be a voice for common sense uh which is it's

00:28:23.560 seemingly few and far between uh so thank you very very much well and and thank you riley for uh for

00:28:30.440 displaying genuine courage uh because courage is is what you display when you have other options

00:28:34.940 and you you could have chosen to sit down and be quiet and go along with the flow but you chose to

00:28:40.080 stand up for something and it, and, um, it costs you. Uh, but I think in that process, you, you

00:28:46.100 not just, you didn't just find your voice, you found your people. And I got to say, it's a,

00:28:49.680 it's an honor to, to fight alongside you. Yeah, we'll bring it on. There's more to fight.

00:28:54.460 That's right. Well, thank you, Nick. Thank you guys for watching today's episode of the Riley

00:29:00.840 Gaines show. I hope you loved it. And if you did make sure you subscribe, you can do that right

00:29:04.620 here. So you never miss an episode. We'll see you guys next week.

00:29:10.080 We'll be right back.

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - April 14, 2026

Was Trump’s Viral AI Image Blasphemy？ PLUS Nick Freitas on ＂The Manbook＂｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - April 14, 2026

Was Trump’s Viral AI Image Blasphemy？ PLUS Nick Freitas on ＂The Manbook＂ ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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Was Trump’s Viral AI Image Blasphemy？ PLUS Nick Freitas on ＂The Manbook＂｜ The Riley Gaines Show