Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Riley Gaines & Joe Kennedy ｜ 3⧸17⧸23
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Biden is suing a computer company for invasion of privacy, and the House Oversight Committee is getting closer to getting the evidence thrown out of the case. Dr. Andrew Fox joins the show to talk about why women should not be allowed to compete in sports.
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Hey, today's podcast is great. We want to start by giving you an update on Hunter Biden.
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Apparently, he's suing Jason Buttrell, our chief researcher and head writer of the program is here.
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So he's suing the computer company for what? Invasion of privacy?
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Invasion of privacy. So, yeah, I mean, he's suing over Russian disinformation or is this actually his laptop?
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Isn't that weird? They've always said that it wasn't his laptop. Now it is his laptop.
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I'm imagining that this case, I'd like to see where the case was filed. Bet you it was in.
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Well, I don't know if they would have jurisdiction to be able to do it in Washington, D.C., but they do it in Delaware.
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But that's trying to get all of the evidence on the laptop thrown out.
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And it's getting pretty. They're getting close.
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They're getting close. Yeah, definitely. Do not look at what the House Oversight Committee was revealing yesterday.
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Right. And so that's right at the beginning of the podcast.
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There's a lot of stuff and some really good news.
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We had Riley Gaines on just to just at the end of the podcast.
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I just wanted to check in with her and see what was going on in her world.
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She's the woman who was standing up, you know, against men coming in and swimming.
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And she's the 12 time champion women's American women's swimming champion.
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She's remarkable. There's there's a lot on today's podcast you're going to really enjoy and learn from.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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So Riley Gaines has been one of the people who have really stood up and just taken a beating for it.
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Joe is the Bremerton High School assistant coach that won the Supreme Court case for the right to play.
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I can't believe he wanted his job back, but he did, and they gave it to him.
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He's back at his old job after seven years of fighting.
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It's an amazing story, and he is just happy as ever.
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Joe Kennedy is going to be joining us in a few minutes.
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And I wanted to stop down, and I kind of wanted our next guest to actually hear those interviews because he's in the throes of it right now.
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He is a former Austin, Texas Fire Department chaplain, and he wrote a blog post explaining why he believes males should not compete in female sports, and they fired him.
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Hmm, that seems like freedom of speech and religion, but maybe that's just me.
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No, I was an immigrant from the United Kingdom in 1999, and now a citizen with my family.
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I came to be a pastor in Washington State, and so, you know, the die was cast.
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That's who I am, and that's what I'm known for.
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So, you know, when you came here, it was a different country than it is now.
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Oh, my goodness, 23 years ago, the welcome to the United States to live here, work here, raise my family, is now completely different in my mind 23 years later.
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So, you were working for the fire department, and you were counseling families, and, you know, what else did you do for the fire department?
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Well, the role of a chaplain is a resource for crisis, especially for those in uniform, men and women.
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I didn't care how they identified or who they associated with.
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When you see death, be it a car accident or a fire or something else, and then you have to give death notices to those families.
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You're dealing with extreme situations that most people don't face regularly.
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So, when there's a knock on the door, I didn't know we did this.
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But, yeah, that walk from the sidewalk to the front door, you're about to change somebody's trajectory forever.
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Well, as a Christian man, I, you know, I live in the grace of God to say the right thing and do the right thing and be a support to that family, no matter what their beliefs are.
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So, you were writing on your own personal blog, correct?
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The blog is called Willie Woke and the Chocolate Factory.
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And I questioned biological men competing against women as a woman, that it was yet another attack on the beauty of what it is to be a woman.
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And I offered arguments from all sides, citing athletes that are heterosexual, not heterosexual, but identified differently.
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So, a comprehensive view, not just a singular view.
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Well, the chief, the fire chief, first of all, told me that it wasn't his business to censor me in a private blog.
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Weeks later, I met with the representative of LBGTQ to find out what offended them.
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And they couldn't tell me, but they were just offended.
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But they couldn't tell me what was wrong precisely.
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And shortly after that, I received a phone call telling me I was fired, unless I wrote an open letter of apology for my Christian beliefs.
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Good heavens, we have just, we've slipped into madness.
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So, you probably, at least I hope, immediately called an attorney?
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And as soon as the city of Austin was mentioned, they backed off until one very old, very, very old attorney.
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He recommended the Alliance Defending Freedom, who are, I wouldn't be where I'm at today without them.
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So, they took on the case, and where does it stand?
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Right now, it is, the case is continuing to move forward.
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I believe next month we're going to deposition.
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It's a ridiculous situation that I find myself in.
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I find it terrifying that you couldn't find an attorney to take that case quickly.
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As soon as they found out the details, they backed off.
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And if it wasn't for the old boy that recommended Alliance Defending Freedom, I'd have my head in my hands.
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But I'm grateful for those who fight for freedom.
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It is, it's remarkable that, you know, I had the best freedom of speech attorneys in the country.
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A firm in Washington, D.C., they, that's what they were known for.
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And at one point about, I don't know, three, four years ago, they, we were in the middle of a case.
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And they said, we can't take your case anymore.
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And it was, you know, they said, we just have to kind of keep the peace in the firm.
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And, you know, but they were representing people like Google.
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And they just didn't want to have my name associated with their firm.
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Is the spirit of John Adams completely dead now?
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People, you know, attorneys are afraid for their own career.
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If you don't have a government that respects the Bill of Rights or attorneys that will stand for the Bill of Rights, you don't, you don't have a country of freedom anymore.
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I was asked to write a letter of apology or I'd be fired.
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But I, you know, when you move to another country, you put everything on the line.
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And I've been blessed in the work that I'm doing and that I've done, but I was not prepared to put my character, my beliefs on the line and sell them short.
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And I think we need more voices that stand up and say, no, I am not going to do this.
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And I wanted to encourage you to continue to stand.
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And I'd be shocked if your case wasn't, wasn't overturned here.
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What, what is, do you want to go back to the fire department?
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I still have many, many, many friends in the fire department.
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And again, I never asked about people's private lives.
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If they're wearing a badge and they need a chaplain, I serve them inclusively.
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Uh, I get calls still from battalion chiefs, captains, lieutenants, asking me to, uh, come and visit their men and women.
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Um, not at the fire station, cause that's government property, but in their homes.
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So as a private citizen, I'm still in hospitals, homes, and, uh, different places, uh, public places.
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If you were living in England, um, you'd probably be facing the same thing over in England.
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You know, I just got back from England from lecturing over there and, uh, you're exactly, absolutely right.
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I didn't move to the United States to, uh, uh, get a job.
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It's my contribution to the country that welcomed me in.
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And, uh, for me, that is the United States of America.
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And, uh, uh, when a government agency does this to you in such a short time, 23 years,
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You know, and I, I guess we've had Ryan on the phone the whole time.
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Um, but, uh, Ryan is with the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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The best thing you can do is go to adflegal.org, which is our website.
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We have profiles of all of our cases, including Dr. Fox's case, where we're
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fighting for his right to believe and his right not to be coerced by the government
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So all of our cases are there, uh, adflegal.org, best place to access all of our resources.
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You might also want to contribute now because you might need that at some point.
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Um, I, I appreciate all of the hard work that you guys do in the cases you do take
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This seems Ryan to be a pretty open and shut case, or have we really fallen even further
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Well, you would think when it is an open and shut case, uh, this is a situation where the
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government, in this case, the city of Austin is telling a citizen what to believe, how to
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think the shocking thing about this case is the government demanded that Dr. Fox apologize
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for believing Christian orthodoxy and publishing that on his own private blog.
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And that was the condition of him keeping his job.
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And if a government can force Dr. Fox to do that, he can force anyone to do that.
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If the government can instruct one citizen of their right for the first amendment to believe
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them to speak as they will, then no one is safe.
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And so this case is tremendously important for that reason.
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We'll be watching, uh, this as it, uh, develops.
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Sincerely, um, you might want to contribute because you might be on the receiving end of
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this at some point and sincerely write this down because you may need them at some point.
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Go there now, help them see all of their cases, adflegal.org.
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Uh, uh, Joe Kennedy is the, uh, high school assistant coach, uh, from Bremerton high school.
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And, and he was fired because he was praying and he wasn't, you know, he wasn't indoctrinating
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I mean, I love schools telling us about indoctrination, um, but, uh, he wasn't indoctrinating.
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He was just praying and, uh, they fired him for it and, uh, he's fought for seven years.
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We're going into the ninth football season now.
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So for seven years, he fought this, uh, and, um, he won in the Supreme court and now you
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And I'm, I'm really shocked, Joe, that you, you wanted your job back.
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Um, yeah, well, you know, that's a tough decision, but, but it really is the principle of it.
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You know, um, they drug their feet and, you know, made this go on for so long that, you
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know, it's kind of the principle that I have to go back at least one more time to take one
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more knee on that 50 yard line and thank God for everything we've been through.
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So, um, you're coming up now, this will be the next year.
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Well, I wish I could say it was all warm and fuzzy.
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Uh, some of the people that I've met, um, that I, I used to know up at the school when
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I was doing my paperwork, they were very cordial, but kind of standoffish.
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Um, everybody else is like walking on eggshells.
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Uh, I wish they would just open their arms and say, Hey, welcome back night.
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And we could all just move on and, you know, focus on our football program.
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But yeah, I haven't got that warm, fuzzy feeling yet.
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You know, I, I wish people could talk more often instead of just, you know, taking work
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combat the superintendent and myself, we always said we were not going to take it personal.
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Well, this is going to be something that was left up to the judges to figure out what our
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So him and I are great, but everybody else seemed to have just taken a sign and dig their
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heels in and, and feel like they just lost something.
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And I'm like, you just gained your, your first amendment rights.
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You have more freedom of speech now more than ever in your lifetime.
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It's really crazy when the people win against the King and the King is, uh, uh, celebrated,
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I just wanted to check in and just hear some good news, um, and, uh, and wish you all the
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best of luck, but thanks for checking in with me, Joe.
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And, uh, hopefully I'll get you a book here real soon and, uh, have you sign it, buddy.
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Hey, Joe, let me ask you, um, the, um, uh, if you had to do it all over again, would you
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You know, going through it sucked and, you know, I never want anybody or myself to go
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through something like it, but, you know, fighting for the first amendment, some things are just
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And I will take shots all day long for years, the rest of my life, just to make sure freedom
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You're not like a guy who can quote the Bible and everything else.
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So you're, I mean, you're, you're like a normal person that just wanted to pray and, uh, found
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It's crazy, but glad you came out the other side.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Yesterday, uh, we had Missy Robinson on, uh, and she was talking about something that
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she had, uh, experienced in Tennessee and she mentioned that Riley Gaines was there.
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Uh, and this is the, um, this is the 12 time NCAA all American swimmer who's been speaking
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out against, you know, guys competing as women in women's sports.
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It's just, it's ridiculous what we're doing to women in the name of women.
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Um, and I was thinking about Riley and I don't know if we've ever had her on Riley.
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Um, I just wanted to, I just, I wanted some good news at the end of the week and some
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people who are standing up and, uh, and you were brought up yesterday and I thought I wanted
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Well, you know, what's actually so funny is it's, um, it's been one year exactly since
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Leah Thomas competed against the women at our NCAA championships.
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And so this week I'm actually at the NCAA championships watching, um, my teammates, my
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And let me tell you, I have had so many female swimmers, parents, coaches come up to me and
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say the exact same thing, which I think is really important because it shows how the true
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majority of people, especially the ones who are directly impacted feel about this.
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It's so crazy that it requires courage to speak up about this insanity, but I appreciate your
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Well, so let me ask you, um, where are these people?
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Cause I am convinced every day that people know the truth.
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They know they may not, you know, they, they may not be right on the truth, but pretty much
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And this stuff that's going on in almost all fronts, people are not for, but they won't
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Um, coming from my experience and talking to other athletes again, who were directly impacted
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their universities, the links, these universities are going to silence their voices.
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Well, based off my conversations with Leah Thomas's teammates who dealt with this every
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day, um, when they were concerned about sharing a locker room with someone who possessed and
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was exposing male genitalia and they sent an email to their school, you know, expressing
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their concern, their administration responded back with, if you feel uncomfortable seeing
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male genitalia, here are some counseling resources that you should seek.
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They were forced to go to mandatory LGBTQ meetings every week.
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They were told that their school, that they were not allowed to, to use their voice because
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their school has already taken their stance for them.
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They were told that they were responsible if any harm comes towards Leah Thomas's way.
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And so they're emotionally blackmailing and threatening and intimidating their swimmers.
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Um, which is, which, like I said, it's terrifying.
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Um, this is a country that thrives because we have so many freedoms, one of which being the
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And we, I'm seeing that being taken away from these swimmers, from the parents, from people
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within the administration, from medical professionals, even.
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The medical professionals that are being silenced now, it's absolutely horrifying what is going
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That is, that is the way to get groupthink, uh, in your medical profession.
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And when groupthink happens, we've seen it happen, uh, in the past before, and it never
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It's almost as if I feel like we're living in this George Orwell dystopian novel where
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they're trying to make us say two plus two is five, but we know two plus two is not five,
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but yet we have a sitting Supreme Court justice who can't even say what a woman is, um, because
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Neither am I, neither are you, but we still know what a woman is.
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We know the differences between men and women, and to deny that is denying science.
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It's denying common sense and logic and all the things.
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So how do you feel about, um, I think it wasn't at a Catholic school where, uh, they said they
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didn't want to be in a, in a locker room with, uh, boys.
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And so they, the game was canceled and now they're, they're not allowed to compete.
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That right there shows you why more people aren't speaking up because this, this team,
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they were very straightforward about how this goes against what they think the women's
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Um, there's another girl in Vermont actually who spoke out.
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She had a transgender individual on her volleyball team and she spoke out and she was immediately
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Um, they tried to force her to write an apology to allow her back into school to which she refused
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and then announced, of course, she's filing a lawsuit to which the school quickly let her
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I have to tell you, um, Riley, you, you don't know this, um, now, but you're young enough
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to where you will live to the other side of this.
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Um, you, you and people like you are going to be remembered as real heroes in this time.
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Uh, depending on how it goes, um, how bad it has to get before we wake up, the, the bigger
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of the statue they'll make of people like you, but it happens every time you, you hold to
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your values while the country loses its mind and goes over a cliff.
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It eventually comes back and it's usually not in, in that person's lifetime.
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Um, but, uh, they are remembered as leaders and well, I think what you said is perfect.
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A perfect analogy of what's happening is, is we've swung too far the pendulum.
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Um, and I believe we're in the process of hopefully restoring that pendulum to normalcy.
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Um, but I get told all the time, you know, you will be on the wrong side of history because
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you're not inclusive, you're not being kind, but guess what?
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Affirming these people, um, these, these males who want to identify as women and infiltrate
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into our one sex protected spaces, that is not kind.
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We are harming them with women being the collateral damage in the process.
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So if you had advice to give to somebody to stand up, uh, cause I, you know, I, if I were
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leading a, uh, uh, if I were a coach, I'd be a very bad coach, but if I, if I were a coach,
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I would, um, I would make the case girls, this is much more important than any award we could
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Um, what, what is, what would you, what advice would you give to, uh, you know, anybody who
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Um, first and foremost, I think it's crucial that parents, coaches, the people who are
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supposed to be protecting us, um, even me last year in the situation, I was 21 when all
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this happened, I was adult, an adult, but I felt like someone was supposed to be protecting
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us in which there were, you know, like I said, parents, coaches, people within the NCAA, these
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Um, then of course it comes to the female athletes, just like you said, and it took me
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a while to realize this, there is so much at stake when we're denying the sheer essence
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of humanity, man and woman, we have got to be willing to stand firm and what that is and
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what our differences are and how we deserve to be recognized and celebrated because when
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we allow one man, one man into our spaces, this is a slippery slope.
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It's only a matter of time before one male national champion becomes three and then five
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And people will take advantage of the system that we have in place.
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Um, just in California in the recent weeks, there's been 1200 men applied to be in women's
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prisons because of course you get to be housed with women.
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And these women are, these men are convicted of heinous things like rape and child pornography
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and kidnapping, but yet they're going to live with women because they say they are one.
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And I hate saying that because it makes me sound like some sort of advocate or activist.
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We have to know that this is happening to believe the narrative that this is a non-issue that cannot
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If I could list off examples for the next hour of the radio show, but I don't want to,
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Um, but it's important to stay educated and to use your voice, be bold, stand firm and your
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values, because like I said previously, this is the majority who feels the exact way I'm
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Um, I don't know if you know this, but I collect history and, um, uh, I've learned one
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thing and that is there's been people in my life, uh, during, during my life that have
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And I have missed the opportunity to record, uh, that, um, and, uh, I, I don't want to miss
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You are one of those people I think that are important to our history.
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Um, I would love for you to, if you could just even a page, uh, just handwrite out your
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thoughts of why you stood and what you were standing for.
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Um, so I could, I could include it in our museum and I'd love to have you come down at
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And I, I really appreciate you having me on and just continuing to shed light on this