Ep. 257: Riley Gaines Lied About Everything

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4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the recent expose on Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer who has become the face of the anti-trans women in sports political agenda. While Gaines is no doubt a talented swimmer, the story that she told of victimization at the hands of U Penn's Lia Thomas was largely fabricated. However, this story became a divisive issue that helped propel Donald Trump to a second presidential term.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/riley-gaines-anti-trans-lia-thomas-ncaa-trump/

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion. There'll be no pollution. i'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:30.3	welcome welcome welcome welcome in sadie carpenter is here she is is your host. Cult expert, cult survivor, Sadie,
0:39.3	cult expert, cult survivor, Sadie Carpenter, the pride of Mobile Alabama. Hello.
0:45.4	My name's Gavi. How is your Thanksgiving, Sadie?
0:50.0	My Thanksgiving was really great. I just, I wanted to say if anybody is listening to this episode
0:56.6	in the Atlanta airport, past security, on, what is it going to be the day? Monday, December 1st,
1:06.0	2025, leave a message on our, our Instagram or Facebook or something like comment on a public
1:15.5	facing post somewhere and see if we're in the same concourse because I'm recording
1:20.4	this from out of town got to hang out with my family for Thanksgiving. It was really great
1:25.2	and I will be in the Atlanta airport on that
1:28.8	Monday, December 1st. So if anybody just so happens to be in the concourse, let me know.
1:33.8	I mean, there's at any one time, there's about four million people in the Atlanta airport.
1:39.7	I know. Like, that's why I'm like, that's why I'm not saying, especially because it's not like
1:43.4	where I fly from. Right. Like, I don why I'm, like, that's why I'm not saying, especially because it's not, like, where I fly from.
1:45.1	Right.
1:45.6	Like, I don't really want to encourage people to come have a long conversation with me at the Portland airport.
1:52.3	But, like, I'm rarely in the Atlanta airport. I'm going to be there on the day this releases.
1:58.7	So I figure, I figure if, if like the coincidence happened enough that people,
2:03.7	somebody happens to be there,
2:04.8	that we should try to meet up.
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