388: Riley Gaines—Swimming Against the Current

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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The 12-time NCAA All-American, 5-time SEC Champion, and 2-time Olympic qualifier who went from being one of the fastest collegiate swimmers in the world to a controversial women's rights advocate talks about what it takes to train in a pool six hours per day, why she's not going to be training to be an endodontist, and recounts the harrowing experience of being held captive on the campus of San Francisco State University. Her new book is Swimming Against the Current: Fighting For Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind.

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0:00.0	Well, hey there. It's the way I heard it, episode number 388. And this one is called
0:09.4	Swimming Against the Current. So, too, is the latest book by Riley Gaines. I say latest book,
0:16.9	Chuck, but I think it's her first book, right? It is her first book, yeah.
0:22.8	But it's both, actually.
0:24.4	Her latest and her first.
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:27.1	Yeah, I guess you only get to say that once.
0:27.4	Sure.
0:28.4	Yeah.
0:30.3	Yeah, you can only say that if you've written one.
0:32.8	And she's written a doozy.
0:38.7	Riley Gaines, of course, is the famous swimmer who became famous first for swimming really fast and winning like 12 All-American awards and accomplished swimmer.
0:45.6	And then she took Umbridge.
0:47.9	Yeah, what's SEC?
0:48.7	SETC.
0:50.5	Southern...
0:51.9	Wrong.
0:52.6	Security Exchange commissions.
0:54.4	Riley Gaines. No, Commission's. Riley games.
0:56.5	She is not a financial advisor.
0:58.8	No, it's the Southern Something Conference.
1:02.1	Call yourself a producer.
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