Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Why Gen Z Women are FINALLY Waking Up ft. Isabel Brown ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:00:30.000 Well, Isabel, thank you for joining the Riley Gaines Show.

00:00:38.000 And it looks like we have another little guest.

00:00:40.000 We do. My sweet sidekick, bestie Liberty had some FOMO today.

00:00:45.000 So she wanted to be on the Riley Gaines Show.

00:00:48.000 I am so excited, Riley. We've known each other for years.

00:00:50.000 You've been on my show a couple of times.

00:00:52.000 And it's just really exciting to see you launch this incredibly new adventure

00:00:56.000 with the podcast and bring some more Riley light to the world.

00:01:00.000 So very happy. Oh, my God.

00:01:02.000 Well, please, of course, prior to clicking the record button,

00:01:05.000 you got to witness all of the different audio and video problems,

00:01:09.000 which is kind of just story of I'll speak personally, but probably for both of us.

00:01:13.000 It's kind of like story of our lives.

00:01:15.000 Like you kind of figure it out as it goes, right?

00:01:18.000 Like you adapt, you roll with the punches and you smile every step of the way.

00:01:22.000 You know, I love that about you and I both because we both kind of accidentally fell into this world.

00:01:27.000 We didn't set out with a background in videography or commentary or anything.

00:01:32.000 We just accidentally happened to find ourselves needing to edit videos and do podcasts one day.

00:01:37.000 And I love sharing stories with you and swapping stories with you about,

00:01:41.000 oh, my gosh, I just learned that you could do this thing on Adobe Premiere

00:01:44.000 or who knew it was that easy to add captions to something like I never anticipated that.

00:01:49.000 But we had to learn the hard way through watching lots of YouTube videos and figuring it out day by day.

00:01:54.000 And it's incredible to see what God has been able to do through our journey the last couple of months.

00:01:59.000 No, 100 percent.

00:02:00.000 I think it's a misconception that people, you know, we have large followings on our social media, whatever it is.

00:02:05.000 But I think in with that, people assume that you've got it all figured out.

00:02:10.000 We definitely don't.

00:02:12.000 I wasn't going to ask you about your background, but you bring it up.

00:02:14.000 Will you kind of just allude to how you found yourself here?

00:02:17.000 Yeah.

00:02:18.000 Because, again, I think it's inspiring to other people who think I'm just one person.

00:02:22.000 I wasn't cut out for this.

00:02:23.000 I can't really make a difference.

00:02:24.000 You're I mean, you break that mold.

00:02:27.000 Oh, well, thank you.

00:02:28.000 I can give you the very, very spark notes version of it because I've said it many times,

00:02:32.000 but we'll take a long time to do the full version.

00:02:34.000 Generally speaking, I never thought that I was going to be a political commentator

00:02:38.000 or host a podcast or social media influencer for my job.

00:02:42.000 I went to college with a huge passion for science and wanted to use that passion to try to help as many people as possible and was pre-med.

00:02:49.000 So my educational background is in the biomedical sciences for undergrad and grad school.

00:02:54.000 But I found myself, like most people in our generation, just completely surrounded by rampant indoctrination and left wing propaganda.

00:03:02.000 Even in my classes like biology and physiology and anatomy, sitting there over a cadaver, not necessarily just learning about objective reality and biological truth,

00:03:13.000 but constantly being told the same parroted talking points from my crazy professors over and over again.

00:03:18.000 And that just didn't sit very well with me. I've never been one to sit down and shut up. 0.84

00:03:23.000 I was a speech and debate champion in high school and I decided to try to do something about it.

00:03:28.000 And whether that was just raising my hand in my big lecture classes to tell my professors that they were wrong about something or running for student government.

00:03:35.000 I got a bit of an itch to get involved in activism in some capacity.

00:03:39.000 And right around that time was served a random Facebook ad for this organization I had never heard of before called Turning Point USA.

00:03:47.000 And the headline speaker for a conference they were putting on for young women was some 19, 20 year old kid in ill fitting suits and dad sneakers who had no idea how to dress himself, but seemed interesting to listen to named Charlie Kirk.

00:04:00.000 And in 2017 went to my first TPSA conference back when it was a few hundred students in a hotel ballroom somewhere attached to the airport in a random city in America and listened to speakers like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk and some of our elected officials.

00:04:17.000 And it was such an interesting opportunity to realize that I wasn't alone and there were thousands of other young women out there on college campuses just like me who were feeling completely isolated and shut out of their university communities, but wanted that same pursuit of truth and the pursuit of what is good and true and beautiful in what we believe in as conservatives.

00:04:36.000 So I went back to school and started a TPSA chapter and really got the bug for activism and brought some speakers to my campus.

00:04:43.000 We organized lots of events.

00:04:44.000 I ended up having to do a lot of media when I got quite a reputation for being that conservative girl on my college campus and was regularly targeted by the extreme left wing clubs on campus and lots of professors.

00:04:57.000 I can't tell you how many death threats and people threatening to rape me I got on the regular basis from people I sat next to in class.

00:05:04.000 My one bedroom apartment was my address was doxxed online, which was really scary when I was spending most of my evenings until like three in the morning on my college campus studying marathon study sessions for O chem then walking home by myself.

00:05:16.000 But none of that ever dissuaded me it just created a bigger fire in me to want to do more and I developed a really close relationship throughout that journey with Charlie Kirk who became a very close friend and mentor to my life and he encouraged me hey, I don't think you should go to medical school.

00:05:32.000 I don't think that's what God is intending for your life.

00:05:35.000 You should really think about doing something else like more of what I'm doing and become a louder voice for more students who need an example that they're not the only people out there that have their beliefs.

00:05:45.000 So I sat my parents down on the couch and said I don't think I want to be a doctor.

00:05:49.000 I think I want to post videos on Instagram for a living.

00:05:52.000 I'm sure they took that.

00:05:53.000 Well, it was a great conversation.

00:05:55.000 And as always, my parents are so unbelievably supportive of their children achieving their dreams and building their own American dreams.

00:06:02.000 So they said, well, if you can figure out a way to pay for it, we are very, very, very supportive of you.

00:06:07.000 Lo and behold, that was 2019 when I graduated from undergrad.

00:06:10.000 I started posting publicly on social media the day after my college graduation.

00:06:14.000 I just turned my Instagram public.

00:06:16.000 And here we are in 2026.

00:06:18.000 I've worked with pretty much every conservative media organization in the movement in some capacity.

00:06:23.000 I have done so much incredible activism with the pro life world as well.

00:06:27.000 I do more TV interviews and radio than I could ever imagine.

00:06:30.000 I got to work for the president for a short while through an internship at the White House in 2018.

00:06:36.000 And now my husband is working for the president.

00:06:38.000 We're back in Washington, D.C. all these years later.

00:06:41.000 And it's just been so incredible to see what happens when you have the courage to abandon all of your own plans for life and listen to what God has planned for you instead.

00:06:50.000 How amazing is that?

00:06:52.000 And really, all it took was like willingness to put yourself out there initially and all the opportunities that you've had, all the amazing people that you met, your husband being one of them, all of the relationships that you've developed, the places you've been able to go.

00:07:05.000 It's really, really powerful, the impact you've been able to have and think of how much debt you saved yourself from going into by not going to medical school.

00:07:14.000 Amen. I'm watching my siblings have to navigate that in real time.

00:07:17.000 So it hurt at the time feeling like you were as successful as the other kids going to medical school.

00:07:22.000 But I'm very, very grateful now.

00:07:23.000 And, you know, I do want to say one more thing based on what the beautiful characterization you just gave was, is that there wasn't anything like special about me.

00:07:32.000 And I think people are surprised to know that there wasn't some dramatic event that happened in my life as to where I got today in 2026.

00:07:41.000 But I say all the time to college students who ask me, how on earth do you get to do this for a living?

00:07:46.000 You have my absolute dream job.

00:07:47.000 I want to do something like this.

00:07:48.000 Literally, I just started posting videos on Instagram like that's it.

00:07:52.000 I was a normal college student.

00:07:53.000 There was no hugely defining moment in my journey as a student that launched me into activism.

00:07:59.000 I just was uncomfortable with what I was seeing on my college campus and wanted to do something about it.

00:08:04.000 So there is no secret ingredient.

00:08:06.000 There is no secret sauce to get to do what you and I do every day.

00:08:09.000 I know your journey was a little bit different with a specific event that launched you into activism.

00:08:13.000 But I think there's something really powerful in reminding young people that you don't need some sort of secret membership card or a special qualifying thing happening to you in order to really impact people's lives and to tell the truth to the world.

00:08:26.000 That's it. It's merely speaking the truth.

00:08:29.000 You mentioned you go from like speech and debate to now sharing a stage with incredible leaders like our press secretary, Caroline Levitt, Cheryl Hines, which is RFK's wife.

00:08:41.000 You recently did that in talking about the new Trump accounts.

00:08:45.000 What can you tell us about this initiative and I think how specifically it is an investment into our daughter's future?

00:08:52.000 It is, Riley. I am so excited about this.

00:08:55.000 This might be one of my favorite things.

00:08:56.000 The Trump administration has introduced their entire return to this term here.

00:09:01.000 And that's saying a lot because there's been some amazing initiatives championed by this president and our cabinet.

00:09:06.000 But just a few days ago, I was invited by the administration to help launch the Trump accounts, which are investment accounts for our babies in this quest to revive the American family.

00:09:15.000 And I shared the stage on a new moms panel with Caroline Levitt and some folks from Moms for America, as well as Cheryl Hines, who is the wife, of course, of Secretary Kennedy.

00:09:24.000 And we got to chat about what these accounts are going to mean for our children and how American families can take advantage of this.

00:09:31.000 For those that may not have been paying attention or maybe the media didn't cover it as well as they should have this last week or so.

00:09:37.000 These Trump accounts are essentially a free opportunity available to you because of our Treasury Department to start a trust, a trust fund for your baby right now if they are born during this presidential administration.

00:09:49.000 So if you give birth to a baby between January 1st of 2025 and the end of 2028 during this Trump term, you have an option to start a new investment account that already has one thousand dollars put into it by the United States.

00:10:03.000 The United States Treasury Department that is a trust account and will grow with the stock market over time.

00:10:08.000 And then every year you and your spouse can put in five thousand dollars of your own money that is then deferred out of your taxes every year to help grow that and continue investing in your child's education.

00:10:19.000 We also know that there are several companies that are also paying into these Trump accounts and trying to honor that for a company incentive for their employees.

00:10:27.000 So many, many companies around the country, including Turning Point USA, announced recently that they will be matching that one thousand dollar grant that the Treasury Department has already put into these accounts as well.

00:10:37.000 Basically, when you shake all of the math out of this thing, if you put all of the maximum contributions into this account from the time your child is born until the time they turn 28 years old, they will have over a million dollars based on stock market averages waiting for them to launch their life and kind of like a 529 college savings plan.

00:10:56.000 You can use this for educational expenses.

00:10:59.000 Our kids can use this to buy a house someday, which is an advantage we never had access to growing up.

00:11:04.000 And now here we are at 28 wishing we had something like that.

00:11:07.000 And also you can use these to start your own business, which I know so many families are really excited about.

00:11:12.000 One more caveat I'll explain as well is that you don't have to have a brand new baby to open one of these Trump accounts.

00:11:18.000 Any child under 18 can have one open for them as soon as they're launching this summer and you can learn more about them at Trump accounts dot gov.

00:11:25.000 It's just the one thousand dollars that goes in from the Treasury Department if it is a new baby during these four years.

00:11:30.000 So both baby Isla and baby Margo are eligible for these, which I'm so excited about.

00:11:35.000 But just to know that this is a huge seismic shift in Washington, I think is important for people to wrap their heads around because typically the status quo financially and from an economic perspective is that our politicians are constantly selling young people out to keep bailing themselves out and keep investing in failing programs that are completely bankrupting our country like Social Security for one.

00:11:56.000 And really stealing from the financial futures of children and the next generation over and over and over again.

00:12:03.000 This is the first time really that we've seen a market shift in Washington where we are actually investing money into our kids, not into ourselves or those who came before us.

00:12:13.000 So I love it. Yeah, it's pro life and pro family in every sense of the word and policy and in practice.

00:12:19.000 And you mentioned some of these companies like Turning Point that is pouring back into their employees as well.

00:12:24.000 I think Steak and Shake is doing the same thing.

00:12:26.000 But you had Nicki Minaj that was there who also pledged.

00:12:30.000 I don't know how much I saw. I mean, I what I believe to have heard was hundreds of thousands of dollars into this investment as well.

00:12:37.000 And so I want to ask you how impactful is it to the movement to the broader conservative movement and having someone like Nicki Minaj champion these policies?

00:12:46.000 Well, I'll tell you a cute story about that before I answer the question.

00:12:49.000 I was backstage with my daughter and I'm bouncing on my hip and feeding her from the little snack tray that they had out next to Caroline Levin.

00:12:57.000 We're chatting away about mom things and how her pregnancy is going.

00:13:00.000 We've been friends for a long time. We actually interned together in 2018 in the same intern class at the White House.

00:13:06.000 So now it's crazy to see where a circle propelled us now.

00:13:10.000 But we're chatting, chatting, chatting. And then we kind of glance over to the monitor where the president is speaking on stage right on the other side of the wall.

00:13:16.000 And she goes, oh, my gosh, hang on and whips out her phone and takes a picture. 0.99

00:13:19.000 Because in that moment, President Trump and Nicki Minaj started holding hands just totally random.

00:13:25.000 It was so precious, just absolutely very, very sweet.

00:13:28.000 And everyone in the room loved seeing that. But there is a like metaphorical hand holding in building this larger conservative movement that I think a lot of people fail to give credit to.

00:13:38.000 And this unity party concept that we've seen from the campaign trail from President Trump and now into action as they continue to lead our country through this administration is probably the most underrated part of this president's leadership that he's bringing together.

00:13:51.000 Classical liberals, people who would consider themselves to be very, very liberal in the last several years, pop stars, rap rappers, movie stars, everybody you can possibly imagine all coming together to want to pitch in to revive the American dream and revive the American family.

00:14:06.000 That speaks volumes to me that that is a compass and a north star from our elected officials right now and our cabinet secretaries, whether that's preventing fraud from continuing to happen in all of these departments that the cabinet secretaries are in charge of or making it happen.

00:14:20.000 Or making America healthy again and making sure our kids have access to healthy food or these Trump accounts.

00:14:25.000 Everyone seems to be so laser focused on our children and the next generation and putting the family back at the cornerstone of American society again, probably because so many of our elected officials and cabinet secretaries have young families themselves, certainly as we're seeing with the vice president and they're expecting their next baby, which is so exciting.

00:14:43.000 Seeing Nicki Minaj on stage with the president was incredibly surreal, certainly cooler than watching Cardi B try to support Kamala Harris, if you remember that fun.

00:14:52.000 Oh, yes.

00:14:53.000 But it's cool to know that we're watching people with massive spheres of influence global phenomenons like Nicki Minaj realize the need to get involved on offense and not just to agree here and there with some of these ideas, but to actually pitch in and do what we can to help.

00:15:10.000 So she wasn't the only one financially contributing a lot of money to this program.

00:15:15.000 Obviously, Michael Dell and his beautiful wife were hugely instrumental in launching the program.

00:15:19.000 Mr. Wonderful Kevin O'Leary was there speaking on stage from an investor's perspective as well.

00:15:24.000 And I'm really excited to see others pitch in and put their money where their mouth is literally and not just agreeing with and supporting President Trump, but lifting a hand to help this initiative.

00:15:34.000 Let me tell you, when I saw that photo, like the zoomed in photo of President Trump and Nicki Minaj holding hands, it like sent me into orbit because you have Nicki Minaj and these nails that are like eight inches long. 0.95

00:15:47.000 Honestly, the first thing I thought was, how in the world does she wipe her butt when she goes babies? 1.00

00:15:54.000 She has a baby. 0.99

00:15:55.000 And I'm like, sorry, I what?

00:15:57.000 Yes, no, I know.

00:15:58.000 But the visual of it, it really was the visual of unity.

00:16:02.000 And I think back to several pivotal moments, especially leading up to the election back in 2024, where you've got President Trump and he welcomes RFK on stage.

00:16:11.000 I never in my life thought I would see a Kennedy join the Republican camp, especially under President Trump.

00:16:18.000 You've got people like Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat.

00:16:21.000 So I absolutely agree with that.

00:16:23.000 And again, it's ironic because the other side, they claim to be the ones that embrace diversity and all of the baloney, the malarkey that we know is certainly not the case because they don't embrace diverse thought.

00:16:34.000 So that's pretty special.

00:16:36.000 You got to see to see that and witness it be there in person in talking about affordability, whether it's our future generation for our kids or for I think more specifically for our generation.

00:16:50.000 How big of an issue do you think that is, especially coming up into 2026?

00:16:54.000 Yeah, I think it is easily one of, if not the top issue that Gen Z is paying attention to, especially as we get closer to midterms and will play a huge factor in the 2028 elections.

00:17:05.000 Interestingly, the Democrats are also correctly diagnosing the problem, I think.

00:17:11.000 And that's kind of a new shift because we've really seen us all living in two different Americas for the last several election cycles where our priorities are completely different.

00:17:20.000 What candidates are running on are completely different. And yet you watched Abigail Spanberger here in Virginia, who is now the governor here where I'm living currently, as well as Zoran Mamdani become elected into their new positions because of this crisis of affordability and correctly diagnosing the problem that we are really struggling as young Americans to afford our groceries, to go out on a date night with our significant others, to buy a home, to start our own business, to pay off our student loans.

00:17:46.000 This has been kind of a mounting problem in the snowball down the hill throughout our entire childhood.

00:17:51.000 And now that we've arrived here into our adult years, we're all kind of thinking, OK, everyone's been warning about how bad this was going to get.

00:17:56.000 And then we didn't do anything about it. So now what? Unlike the Democrats, though, I think Republicans have a really interesting opportunity to correctly prescribe the right solution as well as diagnosing the problem.

00:18:07.000 Diagnosing the problem, because while Zoran Mamdani might suggest state owned housing and apprehending all of the apartment buildings to just be owned by the government or Abigail Spanberger lied to you about affordability and now is trying to tax you every single time you watch Netflix or have Uber Eats delivered to your house or walk your dog, walk your dog.

00:18:25.000 I had to say to my dog who's sitting on my lap, I'm sorry, you're about to get really obese because I'm not paying a tax to the government to take you on a walk. That is absurd.

00:18:33.000 We have an opportunity to actually create solutions for all of this.

00:18:37.000 So just a few days ago, I sat down with Secretary Scott Turner at the White House New Media Row, who is our Housing and Urban Development Secretary.

00:18:44.000 They're working on tons of different policy proposals right now from inside the administration for expanding new options for first time home buyers and making it easier for Gen Zers to buy their own homes and expanding production of new homes, especially as so many single family homes have been purchased by large corporations.

00:19:01.000 We know they're trying to ban these companies like Blackstone from buying up all of the single family homes across the country.

00:19:07.000 That is huge. And they're floating all kinds of other ideas right now.

00:19:10.000 Secretary Kennedy is hugely passionate about making groceries more affordable as we're eating real food.

00:19:16.000 How can we help incentivize making real food the affordable option, not going to McDonald's for the dollar value meal, but making sure that you can be spending less money on actual real nutritious food that can help you.

00:19:28.000 And those are just a few examples. But I think young people are looking for not just a diagnosis that, yes, we are in an affordability crisis, so to speak, to borrow the term from Zoran Mamdani.

00:19:37.000 But now what are we going to do about it if you just promised me the moon of socialism and the government will step in and take care of all of it?

00:19:44.000 We know that that's not going to work. The messaging of Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk has been so effective with this generation that socialism sucks. 0.96

00:19:52.000 I don't think that's really going to work outside of the microcosm of New York City or a place like Washington, D.C. or San Francisco.

00:19:59.000 Now we have to come up with our own solutions that are truly conservative and help revive the American family.

00:20:05.000 Yeah, you mentioned we know you're right people in cities like New York or L.A. who have proven themselves to be so out of touch with reality.

00:20:14.000 I think especially after the Grammys, right, the microcosm of L.A. this past week.

00:20:20.000 So what do we do about it? You mentioned being pro-family. You've been outspoken on kind of the declining birth rates and fertility rate.

00:20:29.000 What's your take on that and how it affects the prosperity of America?

00:20:34.000 This is probably the dark horse, Riley, of what's going to cripple our country if we can't deal with it right now.

00:20:41.000 I know you believe this as well, and you dedicate a lot of your platform to it.

00:20:44.000 But very few people are talking about this because the indoctrination has been so effective and so loud throughout our lifetime that America and the world at large are so overpopulated.

00:20:56.000 We're running out of space on the planet. We all need to stop having children.

00:20:59.000 We should all adopt things like the China one child policy, because otherwise the Earth is going to literally end in six years because of climate change.

00:21:07.000 I'm pretty sure it's been like 18 rounds of the Earth is going to end in six years.

00:21:11.000 And here we are in 2026. I wonder how AOC feels about that now.

00:21:15.000 But obviously that's not true. Actually, in reality, the world is facing a underpopulation crisis, which is crazy to think about.

00:21:24.000 And no one in the mainstream media is covering this appropriately.

00:21:27.000 But virtually every single developed country on the planet and approaching underdeveloped countries as well in the third world.

00:21:34.000 No one has a population replacement rate with their fertility rate.

00:21:38.000 We are all in rampant decline.

00:21:40.000 And the only way that you are seeing populations in almost every country around the world is through mass migration, not through increasing the fertility rate and having children.

00:21:49.000 And there's a lot of reasons for that, one of which is really alarming that people are just having such a hard time conceiving children.

00:21:55.000 I think it's one in six or one in seven couples in America right now are diagnosed with unexplained infertility, which is total BS.

00:22:03.000 There is no such thing. Actually, there's always an explanation.

00:22:06.000 But I have many friends who are walking through this journey right now, and then they are just shoved into the IVF pipeline where they'll pay 30,000 plus dollars every single round to try to build a baby in a laboratory instead of figure out what's going on in their body and try to be healthier.

00:22:21.000 But even more than just the fertility crisis that we've seen in the wake of the covid crisis side of things, I'll be careful about how I say that so we don't get you censored on the Internet, the food that we're eating, all the toxins that we see in the world.

00:22:34.000 The bigger problem is that our fertility rate is so low because people just aren't having kids.

00:22:38.000 Nearly half of women between 18 and 45 in America say they just don't want kids ever.

00:22:44.000 It's not on their radar. They don't think it would be interesting. It would ruin their life forever.

00:22:48.000 They won't have friends. Their career won't continue to prosper.

00:22:51.000 And that's a really severe problem, especially when men feel the exact opposite way for young men right now under 45.

00:22:58.000 It is their number one or number two political priority to get married and have children.

00:23:03.000 So this gender divide is getting so, so substantial in the political world, but beyond politics, right? 1.00

00:23:08.000 This isn't a policy thing. This isn't about if you're a liberal or a conservative.

00:23:11.000 What you've watched is several generations experience successful brainwashing that family is not important and that your life should be all about you.

00:23:21.000 It is malignant narcissism at its finest. And ultimately, you can't take any of that with you, right?

00:23:27.000 The legacy that you leave behind in the world will be your family, will be your children and hopefully your children's children and the numerous people that owe their existence.

00:23:35.000 Thanks to your bravery and your courage.

00:23:37.000 Now, we've convinced people that the opposite is true, that your children don't give you purpose, a cubicle and a computer screen do.

00:23:44.000 And it's incredibly ironic because we call that empowering and say work is your family and your job is your identity.

00:23:50.000 And all of these things are so important, yet we've removed the meaning from entire generations all at once.

00:23:56.000 And I'm so heartbroken about it, but excited that we're at least starting to have a conversation for how to reverse it.

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00:24:27.000 And to that point, do you think that the conservative or I guess the Republican Party, whether that's elected officials or mainstream media, right leaning mainstream media,

00:24:37.000 do you think they're finally learning how to talk to young women as opposed to, I believe, talking at them? 0.72

00:24:44.000 Because I will say, being at the March for Life, I thought, especially the Vice President, I thought he did such a fantastic job of speaking with clarity and with confidence,

00:24:53.000 especially on the issue of, you know, being pro-life, which previous administrations, they want to like hide under the bed when it's the March for Life.

00:25:01.000 They don't want to come out, even a Republican administration, they don't want to touch this topic at all.

00:25:04.000 But I actually thought how Vice President Vance, how he didn't mince his words, I actually think that's appealing to young women.

00:25:11.000 I totally agree with you.

00:25:12.000 And I'm probably the Vice President's biggest stan.

00:25:14.000 I love him.

00:25:15.000 I want him to be our next president so badly.

00:25:17.000 And that speech that you're referencing actually that he gave at the March for Life, I thought was the most presidential he's ever sounded because he wasn't holding anything back.

00:25:26.000 There was no playing politics.

00:25:28.000 He was incredibly clear about a crisis and maybe the biggest human rights crisis that any generation in our country has ever faced and what we need to do about it.

00:25:36.000 In particular, one spot really jumped out at me where he said, look, abortion is no different from how the Mayan Empire used to sacrifice children in their temples.

00:25:44.000 It's no different from how ancient civilizations in the Middle East used to sacrifice their children.

00:25:49.000 And until we can figure out the root cause of the destruction of human dignity, we will never get rid of abortion in our society. 0.93

00:25:56.000 That was so poignantly said.

00:25:59.000 It was absolutely beautiful.

00:26:00.000 I think there is an interesting journey that the right is going on right now.

00:26:05.000 And I'm hopeful that they are learning how to talk to young women.

00:26:08.000 But I worry that so many of those who are older than us have said that they should just write off young women like it's too late.

00:26:14.000 Everybody's extremely leftist.

00:26:15.000 You all have 37 genders and purple hair, and there's no way that we're going to change your mind.

00:26:19.000 Interestingly, what I see with young women right now, and I know you interact with so many online as well, is maybe the single greatest generational opportunity to make an entire generation of young women more based than they ever have been.

00:26:32.000 Right.

00:26:33.000 If you're just willing to talk about what they're going through stuff like dating and the fact that dating has become a completely transactional experience through your screen instead of actually building a relationship with someone birth control, which is probably the most common conversation.

00:26:47.000 I see people having across the aisle young women on social media right now that they woke up one day and realized I'm depressed.

00:26:53.000 I'm fat.

00:26:54.000 I'm sick all the time.

00:26:55.000 I've been fed slow release poison since I was 15 years old because of acne like most young women in our generation have. 1.00

00:27:02.000 And there's something really wrong here.

00:27:05.000 But why is every single trusted institution telling me I need to keep taking this thing?

00:27:09.000 Maybe I should start questioning some things.

00:27:11.000 Certainly, abortion has been marketed to young women as the single greatest defining issue of our generation and of our womanhood.

00:27:19.000 Last election cycle, young women were told if you don't vote for someone who shares your genitalia and promotes your ability to kill your own child as you are giving birth to them, then you're not a real woman. 0.99

00:27:29.000 You're a cell. It's so crazy when you phrase it like that. 0.99

00:27:32.000 But that's exactly what happened.

00:27:34.000 It's exactly what happened.

00:27:35.000 And it happens every election cycle.

00:27:37.000 It happens with every major influencer.

00:27:39.000 If I have to see Alex Cooper, the most powerful female podcaster, host of Call Her Daddy, in between sex episodes, scream at young women about how women don't have the same rights as men in society with net with never giving you an example, by the way, because there is no right that a man has that a woman doesn't have. 1.00

00:27:56.000 I will blow my brains out. I mean, it is so exhausting to constantly be lectured to and indoctrinated and brainwashed by these people who have no substance to what they are actually talking about.

00:28:07.000 They are just preying on your raw emotion and hoping to tug at your heartstrings into societal change, creating this toxic empathy, empathy cycle that Ali Beth Stuckey talks so beautifully about.

00:28:17.000 So I think the right, again, has a chance and an opportunity to just go a centimeter deeper than the left is going and probe at some of these things to get into the logical conversations about all of them and to tap into our emotions appropriately, too.

00:28:30.000 For example, the the one the one issue that the left always throws out related to being pro life or pro choice, what I call pro abortion, and I think we need to label it as such is what about the proverbial case of a 10 year old girl who was raped by her father?

00:28:44.000 Are you really going to force this kid to carry a baby to term and raise that child?

00:28:49.000 I think if we can back up as the right and say, OK, I am heartbroken for this beautiful young woman who never should have experienced something like this for this little girl who is going through the deepest trauma of her life.

00:28:59.000 If we really care about her and we truly feel for her, why would we ever put her through more trauma that could kill her or at the very least will make her six times more likely to want to kill herself later throughout her lifetime?

00:29:13.000 When we can channel our feelings to marry facts, not divorce them with saying facts don't care about your feelings, but marry them together and use empathy for good in the pursuit of what is true.

00:29:24.000 I think that's when we can tap into raising this whole generation of young women to start being skeptical about the trusted institutions and take our destiny into our own hands.

00:29:33.000 Mm hmm. That's good. And yeah, Alex Cooper, if I have to hear her say that one more time, too, about women losing rights. 0.97

00:29:39.000 I think she signed her her new deal with, I think, Spotify or iHeart or whoever.

00:29:45.000 I think it's Sirius XM now, maybe. Yes, yes. But like for one hundred and twenty five million dollars.

00:29:50.000 Oh, yeah. So what do you what do you mean women don't have rights as you sit behind your screen, your camera raking in the cash? 1.00

00:29:59.000 Yeah. Because she also put herself out there just as you did, just as I've done.

00:30:03.000 That speaks to how America is this wonderful, fantastic place, why so many people want to be here, because you can achieve those things just for being willing to.

00:30:12.000 So enough with that, Alex Cooper. We have this awesome little group chat with me and you and Brett Cooper, who is also a new mom.

00:30:21.000 And you sent a video the other day of your sweet little baby Isla now is mobile.

00:30:26.000 Oh, she is crawling is like each stage just better than the last or what it is.

00:30:31.000 It is so beyond anything you've ever emotionally experienced.

00:30:35.000 And I know you can speak to that, too. Riley, you guys are just a couple of months behind us on all these milestones.

00:30:40.000 But the time that you have your baby placed on your chest for the first time and your first time mom, there is no feeling in the world that ever remotely could come comparable to that.

00:30:50.000 It is a depth of love that you have never experienced before. And then you feel that all over again when you feed your baby for the first time.

00:30:56.000 And then you feel that all over again when they smile at you for the first time and when they say mama for the first time.

00:31:01.000 Now my daughter crawled for one day and now has decided she wants to walk everywhere. 1.00

00:31:05.000 So she's pulling herself up on every piece of furniture and holds my hands and walks across the room already. 1.00

00:31:10.000 So that went really fast. Thank you. Crawling stage. But she's going to be a little athlete. 1.00

00:31:14.000 She absolutely is taking after her dad that way, which is good.

00:31:18.000 But to see the wheels turning in her brain and her observing the world, to see her laugh at her dog when her dog starts doing something silly.

00:31:25.000 It is a greater sense of purpose than anything I've ever experienced in my life.

00:31:29.000 And I think there's been such a beautiful journey in all three of us in this group chat as we share videos and photos of our babies every day and are constantly checking in.

00:31:37.000 It's a realization that we could have 20 million subscribers on YouTube.

00:31:42.000 We could be the president of the United States. We could do all these amazing things.

00:31:45.000 But ultimately, if our biggest legacy is what we can teach Isla and George and Margo and the values that we can pass on to them, that'll certainly be the most important thing we ever do.

00:31:55.000 It is so true. That's kind of this place I found myself in. Margo's now four months.

00:32:00.000 And so these past four months, like you almost feel and I don't think this is a good thing.

00:32:05.000 I'll again speak for myself. I almost feel like obligated to be online or to be posting on X or checking what's going on in the world.

00:32:12.000 But then I take a step back and I'm like, actually, I would rather just be staring at my baby right now.

00:32:17.000 Everything else can wait. This is the pressing thing is this beautiful little impressionable, vulnerable, small, fragile, but resilient little human being in front of me.

00:32:27.000 So that's really beautiful. And is well, I just love you to death.

00:32:31.000 I think you're so inspiring for me.

00:32:33.000 Truthfully, how you speak, how eloquent you are, how articulate is just is inspiring.

00:32:40.000 And I think that we should soon we've been talking about this.

00:32:44.000 We need to do it. Me, you and Brett sit down, have like a mommy and me conversation.

00:32:51.000 I'm so excited about this, Riley. And before I before I give into that, I will also say, truly, if our daughters can grow up to have half the bravery that you do, our world is going to be a much, much, much better place.

00:33:01.000 It is an honor to call you a friend and an even bigger honor to help support your work in the voice that God has given you.

00:33:06.000 So thank you for what you're doing to fight for our daughters.

00:33:08.000 But yes, to answer all the burning questions, I know lots of you have reached out to all three of us, respectively, of, hey, you guys should do something fun.

00:33:16.000 And like, I'll sit down as new moms over coffee and talk about everything you're learning as new moms.

00:33:21.000 We're working on it. The schedule has been put off by weather many, many, many times, but we are working on it.

00:33:27.000 And I can't wait to be back in Nashville and see all of you again so, so very soon.

00:33:31.000 You rock. Thank you, Isabel.

00:33:33.000 Thank you, guys.

00:33:38.000 Thank you.

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - February 06, 2026

Why Gen Z Women are FINALLY Waking Up ft. Isabel Brown ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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