The Charlie Kirk Show - January 02, 2026


Motherhood, Meaning, and the Road Ahead ft. Riley Gaines


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Riley Gaines is a former all-American swimmer and now an advocate for women's rights. She has been involved with Turning Point USA for the past three years, and has been on the front row at many Turning Point events.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:00:33.000 Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter.
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00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord, use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:09.000 Oh, hey, Riley.
00:01:11.000 I was going to give you a formal introduction.
00:01:13.000 Go back, go back.
00:01:13.000 No, you can come in.
00:01:16.000 Is everybody having a good time?
00:01:19.000 Are we excited about Riley Gaines, the Riley Gaines?
00:01:24.000 Formerly known as an all-American swimmer and now known as just an all-around amazing person, an amazing American, an advocate for women's rights.
00:01:32.000 What aren't you known for now?
00:01:35.000 Being a man.
00:01:40.000 And she's quick on her feet, too.
00:01:41.000 I don't know about that.
00:01:42.000 Not just in the swimming pool.
00:01:43.000 No, that was like, yeah, well, that's why I went to swimming is because I didn't have to be quick on my feet.
00:01:49.000 You don't have to be very like agile.
00:01:51.000 It's all in the water.
00:01:53.000 It's all in the water.
00:01:53.000 Swimmers were typically not that good at land sports.
00:01:56.000 You just get like bad balancers.
00:01:58.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:59.000 So, Riley Gaines, you have had a front row seat to Charlie Kirk to Turning Point for, I think, like three years now, basically.
00:02:09.000 Is it three years?
00:02:10.000 Yeah.
00:02:10.000 Two and a half.
00:02:11.000 Yeah, something like that.
00:02:11.000 Three.
00:02:11.000 Yeah, almost, yeah, I guess.
00:02:14.000 I spoke out in March of 2022.
00:02:19.000 So gosh, three and a half.
00:02:20.000 Turning point was very quick to offer me guidance and resources and encouragement in a time where I knew nothing, honestly, nothing about the political sphere, nothing about our government.
00:02:34.000 I'm ashamed to say it.
00:02:35.000 Like, never took a government course.
00:02:37.000 I mean, I literally knew we had three branches, and that was the extent of my knowledge.
00:02:42.000 Didn't know what they did.
00:02:43.000 I still don't know what they do.
00:02:44.000 I don't even think they know what they do half the time.
00:02:46.000 What was that to say?
00:02:47.000 Yeah.
00:02:48.000 This is why they all retire before failing.
00:02:49.000 Exactly.
00:02:50.000 But Turning Point, and Charlie specifically was very quick to reach out in a way that was different than other people who were reaching out.
00:02:57.000 And I feel like I have a fairly decent amount of discernment and very self-aware and can pick things out.
00:03:05.000 In a time where it was, I guess, politically expedient, the topic of keeping men out of women's sports, there were lots of people who claimed the slogans of faith, family, and freedom who were quick to reach out.
00:03:18.000 But I could see it as they were using our experience as an opportunity to capitalize, which I even appreciated at the time because anyone talking about it was a good thing in my eyes.
00:03:27.000 But when Charlie and Turning Point reached out, it was different.
00:03:30.000 It was in a way in an effort to make sure that I was okay as a human being because Charlie understood, like, I know it's hard to read these things that are being said online about you.
00:03:40.000 We just want to make sure you're okay.
00:03:41.000 We're here for you.
00:03:42.000 Different than anyone else who had reached out.
00:03:45.000 So it was a very quick, I think, relationship that had been developed between myself and Turning Point and one that has really fostered and grown over the past three years.
00:03:56.000 Well, you've been an amazing advocate for not only turning point, but for, and not only women's rights and, you know, obviously for protecting women's sports and all of these things, but you have become a political powerhouse.
00:04:11.000 You have become somebody that a lot of politicians want to bring to Washington, D.C. and testify at their committee hearings or get behind their campaign.
00:04:20.000 And what's fascinating to me is that despite all of these things that you could do with your time, I have seen you more and more and more at college campuses.
00:04:32.000 You had that terrifying experience at San Francisco State University, which was speaking at a turning point chapter.
00:04:38.000 You had every excuse to not double and triple down on the campus activism and doing the things that Charlie was doing.
00:04:44.000 I remember you were at, you went back to San Francisco State, right?
00:04:47.000 And you did a prove me wrong with Charlie.
00:04:50.000 It was last year?
00:04:51.000 Yeah.
00:04:52.000 It was, and so you have not shied away.
00:04:56.000 You have not shrunk back.
00:04:58.000 You have gone even harder.
00:05:00.000 Well, we can't, right?
00:05:02.000 Otherwise, I mean, you think about it.
00:05:04.000 You think about all of the different spheres that the left has acquired and runs.
00:05:11.000 Certainly media, mainstream media, these academic institutions, healthcare even, which is supposed to be a place that is totally not biased or have anything to do with the polarization and the politicization that we've seen even in healthcare, our government.
00:05:26.000 The list goes on.
00:05:28.000 They've acquired all of these spheres.
00:05:30.000 So, of course, anything that I can do as just a one person, as a, now I don't know if I can call myself a recent graduate.
00:05:39.000 I'm getting kind of old.
00:05:41.000 But a, yeah, I know me at the ripe age of 25.
00:05:44.000 I'm like married with children now.
00:05:46.000 I'm getting up there.
00:05:48.000 But anything that I can do, goodness gracious, I'm willing to do it.
00:05:52.000 We, my husband and I, we welcomed our daughter into this world about 10 weeks ago, which is super cool.
00:06:02.000 But even in those 10 weeks, seeing the necessity and the urgency of getting on campuses, high school campuses, college campuses, and so she went with me to 10 different campuses even this semester.
00:06:15.000 She's traveled to 15 states.
00:06:17.000 She's met the president.
00:06:19.000 She's been to the White House.
00:06:20.000 She's been to Mar-a-Lago.
00:06:22.000 She's going to be really dangerous at Two Truths and a Lie one day. 0.99
00:06:26.000 So all that to say, to speak to the importance, of course, of campus activism and reaching the youth, but also to speak to motherhood as well, and how I think the best way to describe our little baby girl, Margo, at this point in her life is portable and adaptable.
00:06:47.000 And your life doesn't end when you have children.
00:06:50.000 What I have found to be the case, and certainly what Charlie spoke to, is your life really begins when you have kids, especially a little girl.
00:06:57.000 Gosh, I look at her.
00:06:59.000 And it's just the most magical, transformative thing I think that as a woman, you could possibly go through is being a mom.
00:07:06.000 Yeah, and I remember when we had our first, our daughter, she's seven now, but we were like, you know, you're kind of like a accessory.
00:07:13.000 We can just sort of like a handbag.
00:07:16.000 We can take you wherever you want.
00:07:17.000 Well, it gets trickier with two, I will say, because then you got to play a little man-on-man defense.
00:07:21.000 The third, then it's like zone.
00:07:23.000 Yeah, you're outnumbered at that point.
00:07:24.000 You're outnumbered.
00:07:26.000 But it's so true.
00:07:27.000 You'll figure it out, you know?
00:07:28.000 I've realized, like, it's pretty hard to kill them.
00:07:31.000 Like, she doesn't want to die, and I don't want her to die, therefore, like...
00:07:35.000 I'm not convinced they don't want to die.
00:07:36.000 I feel like they just say, oh, it's like a, you know, like the, you know, let's put our finger in the socket.
00:07:42.000 Yeah.
00:07:42.000 Or let's run downhill when we can barely walk.
00:07:46.000 Lots of different things.
00:07:47.000 But yeah, they are pretty resilient creatures.
00:07:50.000 Yes.
00:07:50.000 They are.
00:07:51.000 So she rocks. 0.99
00:07:51.000 She's here. 0.99
00:07:52.000 She's an amphest. 1.00
00:07:53.000 So she can now say, I don't know.
00:07:55.000 She might be the youngest person at Amfest.
00:07:57.000 We have a lot of people.
00:07:59.000 I know, I know.
00:07:59.000 I've seen a bunch of little things.
00:08:01.000 We have a, I think this is a weird way to say it.
00:08:03.000 We have a nursing room because there are nursing mothers here at Amfest, and we want to make sure they have a place too. 0.57
00:08:08.000 So, but yeah, we encourage families.
00:08:10.000 We're very pro-family, pro-family even in the workplace.
00:08:13.000 Daisy's about to have a baby. 0.98
00:08:15.000 So give it up for Daisy.
00:08:17.000 She's around here somewhere.
00:08:19.000 Marina, our CMO, is about to have a baby, and I'm terrified of both of them going on maternity leave. 0.93
00:08:25.000 So pray for us.
00:08:27.000 Which is Turning Point now.
00:08:28.000 I actually spoke to this on stage.
00:08:31.000 And I think this is important in the context of understanding how, yes, of course, the values that Charlie and Turning Point stands for are pro-life, but so much so that in pro-life, it is not just the baby in the womb.
00:08:44.000 It's supporting moms before, during, and after pregnancy.
00:08:47.000 And so one of the super awesome things about Turning Point and what they've implemented, what Charlie was working on prior to his assassination, his murder, but what they've implemented after is a six-month maternity leave policy for Turning Point employees if you've been at the company for a certain amount of time.
00:09:02.000 And so you'd be really hard pressed to find that sort of policy anywhere else in any realm, any career.
00:09:11.000 And so again, it shows how it's not just words or a slogan.
00:09:15.000 Like these are things they really mean and they really live by.
00:09:19.000 So I think that's super awesome.
00:09:20.000 If you're going to go as hard in the paint as Turning Point and Charlie have about having babies and getting married, you probably should put your money where you want this.
00:09:27.000 I think that's only fair.
00:09:28.000 People would start calling out the logical inconsistencies.
00:09:30.000 But no, we are super, you know, and it's fun having those conversations with Daisy and Marina.
00:09:35.000 It's like, listen, whatever you got to do, like that is the most important thing.
00:09:39.000 And keeping the first things the first things.
00:09:40.000 Blake, you know all about this topic.
00:09:42.000 Nope.
00:09:44.000 You don't know about being a mom? 0.94
00:09:45.000 Yeah.
00:09:45.000 Not in the slightest.
00:09:46.000 No maternity leave for you, Blake. 1.00
00:09:48.000 That's not how we roll around here.
00:09:50.000 That would raise even more eyebrows.
00:09:52.000 Yeah, exactly.
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00:10:57.000 So talk about, because one of the things, I mean, when Charlie was assassinated, you know, I think Blake and I were so close to it that, I mean, it was, I saw all this media and I could barely look at it.
00:11:10.000 Honestly, I barely opened my phone for the first couple of days.
00:11:14.000 And as a matter of fact, Mike, I got so many phone calls and texts that my phone stopped working.
00:11:18.000 And I was kind of huddled in this, I felt like a bunker, you know, just trying to do the, every 15 minutes, just get through every 15 minutes.
00:11:29.000 And, you know, you were one of those people that I noticed in the immediate aftermath that you just stepped up and you did more things.
00:11:38.000 It felt like I saw you more vocal.
00:11:40.000 I saw you more defend.
00:11:43.000 You were defending Charlie.
00:11:44.000 You were advocating on behalf of the organization, on behalf of the country.
00:11:47.000 You were speaking out.
00:11:49.000 Tell me what it was like for you to be in your position in the immediate aftermath.
00:11:54.000 What was the reaction and where's your headspace now?
00:11:58.000 It's one of those moments where, of course, you'll never forget where you were, which being 25, I don't think I have too many of those in my life.
00:12:05.000 First, when President Trump was shot and now this.
00:12:11.000 I was actually in line at Chick-fil-A.
00:12:13.000 I was in the Chick-fil-A line.
00:12:14.000 Don't tell Alex Clark.
00:12:16.000 And I was inside the building and I was waiting in line and actually it was, I was getting a call from my boss at Fox and.
00:12:23.000 And I didn't think anything of it.
00:12:25.000 I was out doing stuff, about to order, didn't answer my phone.
00:12:27.000 I get another call.
00:12:28.000 He called right back, still didn't answer.
00:12:29.000 And I get a text and it said, hey, are you okay?
00:12:31.000 Are you in Utah?
00:12:32.000 And I knew, of course, about Charlie's campus stops.
00:12:34.000 And I'd been following online, very excited.
00:12:36.000 Bear in mind, at this point, I was 38 weeks pregnant or so, right?
00:12:41.000 And so, you know, by all means, and the chaotic and unconventional schedule and career, I guess, that I have, like maternity leave, whatever that means.
00:12:53.000 Anyways, inline, are you okay or are you in Utah?
00:12:57.000 Didn't cross my mind.
00:12:58.000 And so at this point, I call him back.
00:12:59.000 I'm like, hey, what's up?
00:13:00.000 He's like, I'm so sorry.
00:13:03.000 And at this point, I had no idea what he was talking about.
00:13:05.000 I'm like, what's going on?
00:13:07.000 He says, Charlie's been shot and it doesn't look good.
00:13:09.000 And it was at that point, you know, even still saying that out loud, it gives you just chills over your body.
00:13:14.000 It was at that point I went to X and I opened X, which I wish desperately I never did, because you're immediately met with a video.
00:13:23.000 And I had convinced myself that it was AI, honestly.
00:13:28.000 I'm like, oh, that's not real.
00:13:29.000 Like, that can't be real.
00:13:32.000 I turn off my phone.
00:13:34.000 It was in the, you know, few hours following that you hear the news that his life was prematurely ended by a coward.
00:13:44.000 Initially, it's total shock, right?
00:13:47.000 And just disbelief.
00:13:49.000 Disbelief that something like that could happen, that he's really gone.
00:13:54.000 Disbelief that in the immediate, you're seeing people online who are celebrating, like total disbelief.
00:14:00.000 And then that night you go to bed and you really can't go to bed.
00:14:03.000 And you just think of Erica and you're thinking of his children.
00:14:07.000 You're thinking of the future of the company.
00:14:08.000 There are so many questions.
00:14:09.000 How, you know, what does this mean for the nation?
00:14:12.000 He was such a profound and important and influential, the most effective of voices for our time.
00:14:19.000 And he's gone.
00:14:20.000 What does this mean?
00:14:21.000 And so it was kind of like eight hours of like, you're in and out of sleep.
00:14:25.000 You're kind of like in this constant state of prayer.
00:14:27.000 It was really weird.
00:14:29.000 And then it turns to grief and tearfulness in the next few days.
00:14:33.000 And then it turns to anger, honestly, and rage.
00:14:38.000 Again, when you see the things that were being said online by peers, even, knowing what they thought about Charlie and his assassination, it makes you think, well, gosh, what would they say if I was assassinated?
00:14:51.000 These are people who I know in my life.
00:14:53.000 And they're celebrating this.
00:14:54.000 Healthcare workers, government employees, school teachers, the people who are trusted to educate your children celebrating this, who you trust to save your life.
00:15:04.000 If you were in a dire medical situation, they're celebrating death.
00:15:11.000 But I will say, I went to the memorial service, which it was on my due date.
00:15:16.000 So you can imagine my OBGYN when I tell him, hey, I've got to get on a plane actually at 40 weeks pregnant.
00:15:25.000 He honestly totally understood.
00:15:27.000 He's like, look, Riley, this is like, it's our nation's loss.
00:15:31.000 I'm going to print out your paperwork for you.
00:15:33.000 God forbid you give birth in Arizona. 1.00
00:15:35.000 Here's your papers.
00:15:36.000 Go to a hospital.
00:15:36.000 They'll know what to do.
00:15:38.000 If you give birth on the plane, tell your husband to watch YouTube videos before you take off. 0.90
00:15:45.000 I still remember being angry though, honestly, walking into the memorial service, but watching as Erica, well, first of all, it was so cool to see so many publicly elected officials proclaim the name of the Lord in front of, I mean, tens of thousands who were there, but millions who were watching online.
00:16:01.000 That was amazing.
00:16:02.000 But to see Erica, in what you have to imagine is the hardest moment of her life, forgive her husband's assassin 11 days, I think it was, after he was murdered.
00:16:13.000 Like, what a beautiful display of forgiveness, of strength, of compassion that I think only God can provide a grieving widow so soon after her husband had been killed.
00:16:25.000 And so it was, that was kind of like a pivotal point where it wasn't really anger anymore.
00:16:31.000 Of course, there's still the level of disbelief and grief, of course, but it was feelings of hope and optimism and inspiration for the future.
00:16:41.000 And that's where I'm at now, of course, being here at Amfest, seeing so many people, young people especially, in the audience, smiling ear to ear.
00:16:49.000 We just did the student meet and greet, and they estimated there were 2,000 kids lined up to say hi to me, which is like the craziest thing ever.
00:16:57.000 I've literally only said there are two sexes. 0.83
00:17:00.000 Like, I don't know.
00:17:01.000 I'm really not that cool.
00:17:02.000 Did you do that when you were in third grade?
00:17:04.000 They're like, what do you want to be when you grow up?
00:17:06.000 I want to be famous for saying there are boys and girls.
00:17:10.000 Actually, really cute, Riley.
00:17:11.000 Did that in kindergarten.
00:17:12.000 So third grade was way too late.
00:17:16.000 Then you had your baby.
00:17:17.000 Then we had the baby, which that whole process was and is still just the coolest, most fulfilling, purposeful, satisfactory thing.
00:17:31.000 I will say, I honestly, of course, one of Charlie's messages that he gave on campuses and beyond was to have kids, get married, have kids as young as you possibly can in your married life and as many as you possibly can.
00:17:49.000 I was scared to get pregnant.
00:17:52.000 I think a lot of women really are because you hear all these awful horror stories of pregnancy and the delivery, and then you'll be sleep deprived for the rest of your life to infinity once you have a newborn. 1.00
00:18:03.000 I'm here to say none of those things happened to me.
00:18:07.000 None of them.
00:18:08.000 I had the best pregnancy ever.
00:18:10.000 No morning sickness, no tire, no fatigue, no aversions, no nothing.
00:18:13.000 I literally lived my life as I did prior to conception.
00:18:16.000 The labor and delivery process, a breeze.
00:18:19.000 She was here in like 10 minutes, easy peasy. 1.00
00:18:22.000 And now, I know there's like so many moms who are like, shut up, I hate you. 1.00
00:18:27.000 But I think it's important.
00:18:29.000 Do we have a security barrier right here?
00:18:30.000 Because we're about to get the stage rushed.
00:18:33.000 I think, honestly, it's important for women to hear that there are good stories too.
00:18:37.000 I totally agree.
00:18:38.000 And we live in this, and that's not to discount the things that can potentially happen and do happen to women. 1.00
00:18:43.000 I'm not here to discount that, but I am here to say my experience was not like that at all.
00:18:49.000 And my baby, I think we just gave birth to a perfect little human.
00:18:52.000 She has slept fully through the night since day one.
00:18:54.000 Never one time.
00:18:55.000 I know I need to like knock on wood.
00:18:58.000 Seriously, security.
00:19:00.000 Everyone says, just wait until the second, which I'm a second child.
00:19:03.000 So if karma is real, it's coming after me hard.
00:19:08.000 But it's been a dream, honestly.
00:19:11.000 I totally agree with what you're saying.
00:19:13.000 I definitely had so many people warn me and they're like, oh, you know, and they would just wait.
00:19:18.000 By the way, they would do this with marriage too, by the way.
00:19:21.000 Did you notice this?
00:19:21.000 Like, just you got to tell the wife what to, you know, they would, there's like culturally, we've built into the vernacular just a constant degradation of the institution of marriage.
00:19:32.000 We just, you know what I mean?
00:19:34.000 It's like we just downgrade it.
00:19:35.000 We downplay it.
00:19:36.000 We mock it.
00:19:37.000 We laugh about it.
00:19:38.000 And like, okay, some of that's fine, sure.
00:19:41.000 But that's why it's so important to have strong voices like Charlie, like you.
00:19:44.000 Hopefully, like this show that say, these are the best things.
00:19:48.000 These are the best things in life.
00:19:49.000 And I can tell you, I mean, after Charlie was assassinated, I didn't see my family for weeks on end because I was traveling around.
00:19:56.000 I was, you know, they were living in a different place.
00:19:58.000 I had to worry about security.
00:20:01.000 And when I finally got to just like see them, like, and have my three little ones tackle me, literally tackle me.
00:20:08.000 And just, they had no idea what I had been through.
00:20:10.000 They had no idea what we had been through and just tackled me, smiling, tears.
00:20:15.000 They started crying because they missed me and I miss them.
00:20:18.000 They're just like, why would you downplay how wonderful that is?
00:20:22.000 Why would you try and warn people against that experience?
00:20:26.000 And we do need to do a better job just as a culture.
00:20:28.000 And I think that is changing about, hey, have kids, have them as young as you can.
00:20:33.000 I mean, I'll never forget the interview with Tucker that's gone viral like 48 times with Charlie.
00:20:37.000 He goes, you know, take a job you're not qualified for.
00:20:40.000 You know, have more kids than you can afford.
00:20:42.000 Live boldly.
00:20:43.000 Don't waste time.
00:20:44.000 And I think just that message is powerfully transformative to our culture.
00:20:49.000 And now you can actually be a living embodiment of that because, you know, 25, I mean, I was living in LA at the time.
00:20:56.000 And I don't think any of my friends had kids at 25.
00:20:59.000 And I think it's really important to get started younger than you think because you'll wake up and you'll blink and you'll be 30 and you'll have no children.
00:21:07.000 And then all of a sudden, you're not married.
00:21:09.000 Did you ever hear anything like that from people who even would say, oh, you should wait to have kids because it'll mess with your incipient media career or any of that?
00:21:17.000 100%.
00:21:18.000 100%.
00:21:18.000 Or people who just say, even friends in my life, friends who I love very dearly, who would classify themselves as conservative, even, who say that, you know, well, we just need to find the right time.
00:21:30.000 Let me tell you, there is no like right time to have kids.
00:21:35.000 You'll never reach that point.
00:21:37.000 No, no, you'll never reach that point.
00:21:39.000 There isn't a right time.
00:21:40.000 There's a limited time.
00:21:41.000 Exactly.
00:21:42.000 Precisely.
00:21:43.000 But yes, you do have people who tell you those things.
00:21:47.000 Which my husband and I, we were married for, we got married in 2022, which is even that in and of itself.
00:21:54.000 Like you don't hear of people who are engaged at 21 years old anymore.
00:21:58.000 We were engaged and married at 21, waited a few years to start trying to have kids.
00:22:05.000 And maybe this is TMI, but I had delivered the baby.
00:22:09.000 My legs are still in the syrup.
00:22:10.000 I'm like, okay, I'm ready for another one.
00:22:12.000 And my doctor's like, Riley, I've never heard someone in the state that you're currently in say that.
00:22:19.000 I'm like, no, we'll sue you in.
00:22:21.000 So Irish twins.
00:22:22.000 Yeah.
00:22:22.000 Oh, my God.
00:22:23.000 Yeah.
00:22:24.000 The last appointment, though, he was, because, you know, you go back for follow-ups and they're, you know, just making sure you're good.
00:22:28.000 And he says, Riley, like, you really should wait as timeline.
00:22:31.000 He said, you need to wait until April.
00:22:33.000 I said, we'll see about that.
00:22:34.000 I've never been very great at following directions.
00:22:38.000 You're good at one thing, speed.
00:22:39.000 Yeah.
00:22:40.000 Yeah.
00:22:41.000 Unless it's against a man.
00:22:47.000 Oh, there's some inappropriate jokes in there somewhere, but we're going to skip them.
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00:24:04.000 Got a few questions.
00:24:05.000 Yeah, let's do some QA with Riley.
00:24:06.000 We have another interview coming up.
00:24:08.000 Emma should be out there.
00:24:10.000 We've got a first question over here.
00:24:12.000 Emma?
00:24:14.000 Okay.
00:24:15.000 Hi, I have a question for Riley, which, by the way, I'm a huge fan.
00:24:18.000 And I know you say you shouldn't be famous for just saying there are two genders, but I think that's really important in this day and age, especially for young women as myself.
00:24:26.000 And I want to ask you: as a Christian woman, I've heard a lot of different opinions on this from my peers and from older women.
00:24:34.000 And I know this is a little bit of a personal question, and I apologize for that right off the bat.
00:24:38.000 But what is your opinion on birth control?
00:24:40.000 Because I know that it's quite controversial, especially in the groups that I circulate in.
00:24:44.000 And I know that there's a lot of different types for women, and I just don't know what to think or who to believe.
00:24:50.000 So I wanted to ask your opinion on that.
00:24:52.000 100%.
00:24:54.000 You could approach this conversation in two ways, and I'll answer in two ways.
00:24:57.000 Number one, in the position of being pro-life, how do I feel about birth control?
00:25:04.000 Actually, I'll be totally transparent here.
00:25:08.000 I was on birth control in college, not for anything other than the fact that when you're competing at the level of which I was competing at, it was really just to regulate your menstrual cycle.
00:25:20.000 When you have big competitions and you can have some sort of hand in controlling that, like to be totally transparent.
00:25:27.000 I regretted it, though, after the fact.
00:25:30.000 More so because of how it affects your hormones.
00:25:34.000 Someone who speaks really well to this, of course, is Alex Clark and the effects of the birth control pill on your hormonal cycle.
00:25:44.000 And so I wouldn't do it again.
00:25:47.000 Obviously, now I'm in a marriage and would have no problem having more kids.
00:25:52.000 So on that front, but I have a lot of friends who feel the exact same way.
00:25:57.000 And I will say, I think it's super duper cool now that we have a whole generation of people, like our generation, who are willing to question these things, right?
00:26:06.000 I would imagine some of you, you know, moms who are out there, maybe grandmoms who are out there, maybe you were on birth control and you didn't think anything of it because your healthcare provider said, oh, if you don't want to have kids, take this.
00:26:16.000 And you didn't question it because you trust that your healthcare provider has your best interest at heart, right?
00:26:21.000 We are seeing a whole new generation of people who are willing to push back and question things.
00:26:27.000 And I saw that when we were talking about vaccines for our daughter.
00:26:31.000 Super cool to see some of the stuff come out of HHS surrounding the HEP B vaccine and the correlation between children or infants, newborns who receive that, and different allergies or allergens that they have.
00:26:44.000 We're seeing a whole new generation of kids, really.
00:26:48.000 At least I feel like a kid.
00:26:49.000 Maybe I'm not a kid anymore.
00:26:50.000 I feel like a kid.
00:26:51.000 Who are willing to question things like birth control?
00:26:55.000 And I think it's super duper cool.
00:26:57.000 I also just want to say I think it's weird that women, young girls as young as like 13 get just automatically prescribed birth control to help with like, I don't know, cramps or something.
00:27:08.000 And they do.
00:27:08.000 It's weird, actually.
00:27:10.000 It's been normal for a long time.
00:27:12.000 But then when you take a step back and you're like, wait, why do we do this for little young girls?
00:27:17.000 Like, that's weird.
00:27:17.000 I think it's culturally weird and we need to call it out.
00:27:20.000 It doesn't mean that, I mean, I'm not going to give you the opinions that Riley or I'm not going to be able to do.
00:27:25.000 No, you're going to risk no opinion.
00:27:26.000 Yeah.
00:27:28.000 I could just tell you, from a common sense perspective, it seems very weird.
00:27:32.000 Okay.
00:27:33.000 Where do you want to go next, Blake?
00:27:36.000 We got one right here.
00:27:37.000 Oh, there we go.
00:27:38.000 All right.
00:27:39.000 We're on the side you want.
00:27:42.000 So I was wondering, as I was a college athlete and I know you were big in your athletic career, I feel like the world is very big around trying to make your schedule as busy as possible.
00:27:51.000 And I think that poses as a big threat to our faith and also to developing families. 1.00
00:27:56.000 I was wondering how you like just managed that when you were done with your sport and what that transition was like for you.
00:28:03.000 Well, of course, I mean, faith is central to my life.
00:28:06.000 I think there's opportunities in every sphere to highlight your faith and to live by your faith.
00:28:14.000 And so while we have these demanding crazy schedules, if you make living a Christ-like life the priority, it's actually kind of cool to have a crazy schedule and do that.
00:28:25.000 I've been so inspired recently.
00:28:27.000 We talk about this cultural revival that's happening that has been happening, I think intensified in the last three months following Charlie's assassination.
00:28:35.000 But even on the football field, you know, of course, with college football playoffs and different things, to see so many players proclaim the name of the Lord.
00:28:45.000 Like it's the coolest thing ever.
00:28:47.000 So I think in every sphere and sector of life, there's an opportunity to speak to God's goodness, to his grace, to how he sent his son to live on this earth, who died on the cross for our sins, who rose again three days later with the hope and the promise of eternal life.
00:29:07.000 That's a really cool thing.
00:29:09.000 And if you can have the opportunity to say that on every stage, there's lots of people who can have their hearts and minds changed and brought to the Lord.
00:29:18.000 But in my personal life now, it's been cool, I think, especially being married young, because being tested in the way that I feel like I've personally been tested in, it gives you the opportunity to grow spiritually, individually, but also being married, it gives you the opportunity to grow in your faith together.
00:29:39.000 And so that's been the biggest blessing as well as kind of having an accountability partner in your spouse.
00:29:46.000 So that's kind of my take there is faith first and foremost.
00:29:51.000 Which Charlie said this, one of the things he would say is God, family, country in that order.
00:29:56.000 And I think that's a fantastic mantra to live by.
00:29:58.000 Well, and, you know, Charlie's book that just came out, Stop in the Name of God, you know, take a Sabbath, take a rest.
00:30:05.000 And it's not a negative thing.
00:30:10.000 It's a blessing.
00:30:11.000 It's a, you know, cease, cease your action so you can focus on your faith.
00:30:15.000 So you can reflect on what God is doing in your life and doing it in your heart.
00:30:19.000 So definitely make it a discipline like Charlie did.
00:30:23.000 If you find yourself so busy that you're spinning out of control and losing kind of your grounding, especially, it's a gift to you.
00:30:28.000 It's designed to be a gift to you.
00:30:30.000 I think we have time for one more.
00:30:34.000 Hi, Riley.
00:30:35.000 I'm Stacey from Alabama.
00:30:36.000 I want to say thank you because you encouraged me because I was actually supposed to go against someone who said they were a female but they weren't in a jiu-jitsu competition.
00:30:44.000 And you actually gave me the courage to stand up and I did not have to do that.
00:30:48.000 So thank you very much.
00:30:50.000 Jiu-Jitsu, please.
00:30:53.000 My second question as a mom of four is how do we keep the momentum going for our children to not have to deal with this if Democrats get elected again, God forbid, but just to keep the momentum going.
00:31:03.000 Well, first of all, I hate that the onus is placed on you to have to make that decision where ultimately you're in like this impossible spot where what do you do?
00:31:15.000 Like do you not do the sport that you love or do you compromise on what you know to be true and right and fair and just?
00:31:21.000 And so I applaud you.
00:31:23.000 We've dubbed that at Turning Point.
00:31:25.000 One of the initiatives that we've been working on is called Project Boycott with emphasis on the word boy and really encouraging those girls in whether it's team sports, whether it's something as like physical as jiu-jitsu.
00:31:40.000 Gosh, like I can't imagine grappling.
00:31:42.000 Is that the verb that you would use?
00:31:44.000 Grappling on a mat with like smashing schools.
00:31:47.000 Yeah, with a man.
00:31:48.000 That's insane.
00:31:50.000 And anyone with eyeballs and a shred of honesty and integrity or common sense would be able to see it that way.
00:31:56.000 But secondly, okay, how do we keep the momentum if Democrats get back in charge?
00:32:01.000 First and foremost, understand it starts in your house, not the White House.
00:32:05.000 There is so much performance and theatrics in Washington, D.C.
00:32:12.000 And praise God that we have Donald Trump in the Oval Office and we have a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate.
00:32:18.000 Those are great things.
00:32:20.000 But let's be real, in terms of longevity, the things that they're accomplishing or not really accomplishing, you have far more influence on your children and how they live their life as parents than who is in the Oval Office, who is the president of the United States.
00:32:38.000 So with that responsibility, really an obligation, I believe, as parents, number one, lead by example, but two, be willing to defend your kids against any harm, any threat, any risk that could possibly present itself.
00:32:51.000 I have so many parents who reach out to me on a daily basis who say, you know, this is happening in my daughter's school.
00:32:56.000 Can you talk about it?
00:32:57.000 I can't because I'll lose my job.
00:32:59.000 And of course, right?
00:33:01.000 Anything I can do, I'm willing to do it because this is my passion.
00:33:03.000 It's what I care so deeply about.
00:33:05.000 But do I have to care more about your kids than you do?
00:33:08.000 You know?
00:33:09.000 Be willing to take that risk.
00:33:11.000 I saw a video yesterday of this little girl.
00:33:14.000 I don't know how old she was or where even in the world she was, but we've seen so many of these videos of girls at school board meetings, right? 1.00
00:33:22.000 And they're standing and there's a podium.
00:33:24.000 I posted on my ex account.
00:33:25.000 This girl, she was so short she couldn't even see above the podium. 1.00
00:33:29.000 I think she's eight years old.
00:33:30.000 I don't know.
00:33:32.000 How many people failed that little?
00:33:33.000 She was there to speak about how she didn't want boys in her bathroom. 1.00
00:33:35.000 Think of how many people failed that little girl to be there saying those words, defending herself in that way.
00:33:42.000 She's so short she couldn't even see over the podium.
00:33:45.000 That's not Joe Biden's fault.
00:33:47.000 I mean, I guess you could point a finger at Joe Biden.
00:33:50.000 You mean autopen?
00:33:51.000 Yeah, autopen.
00:33:52.000 The Democratic Party.
00:33:53.000 You could point a finger at the principal, but I think at that point there's a finger to be pointed back at parents as well.
00:33:59.000 Defend your kids against any harm, any threat, any risk that presents itself.
00:34:05.000 Yeah.
00:34:06.000 You've got to go.
00:34:07.000 It's always something.
00:34:08.000 All right.
00:34:09.000 The great Riley Gaines, everybody.
00:34:11.000 Thank you, guys.
00:34:11.000 Thank you for joining us.
00:34:12.000 Thank you, guys.
00:34:13.000 And thank you, everyone who was here throughout the day.
00:34:15.000 Yeah.
00:34:15.000 Thank you guys.
00:34:16.000 We appreciate all of you.