The SCOTUS Sent Out Their Final Decisions Before Leaving For The Summer

Every week on the Moth podcast, real people tell their stories live on stage. I burst into tears. And I wasn't sure if I was crying because I hadn't been kissed in a really long time or if I had just never been kissed like that before. To hear fascinating, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious stories from astronauts, teachers, farmers, and people just like you, follow and listen to the Moth wherever you get your podcasts. All right, good morning, everybody. It's 704 here on Richmond's Morning News. It's News Radio WRVA. It's Wednesday, July 1st. All right, I do want to bring up something on the program. If we ever had a, if I ever had a Hall of Fame or a wall of recognition of great Americans, the one great American that I would pick right now in this day and age is we get ready to celebrate 250. Dave, do you know who I think one of the greatest Americans are right now? If we had like a current Mount Rushmore, who I think I'd nominate to put on there? No, who? Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines, the NCAA swimmer, University of Kentucky. I think she could be one of the great Americans in living today. And I don't say that tongue in cheek. It's not poking fun. I sincerely believe that Riley Gaines is one of the great Americans. And Riley Gaines will go down in history as a wonderful American who stood up for American principles and freedom, not because of her swimming, but because of what she did after her swimming career. And that's where I want to start right now on Richmond's Morning News. So Riley Gaines was a swimmer at the University of Kentucky. Riley Gaines competed against... an athlete named Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas was a transgender man that swam for the University of Pennsylvania, was an okay swimmer in the men's ranks, didn't really win anything, went to the women's ranks, and dominated. And Riley Gaines stood up and said, wait a minute. Women's sports are for women. Women's sports are for women. And she stood up and she said, no. And she said, I will not stand for this political correctness and I will not stand for the DEI and will not stand for this. And Riley Gaines put herself out there on an island by herself and stood up for her principles. And that's why I think she is a tremendous American that we should all salute and look up to. Why? Because she remembered her voice matters. That's one thing that I keep telling people left and right, and I need to give you examples so you understand your voice matters. See, Riley Gaines was not a politician. Riley Gaines was not a national name. Riley Gaines didn't have a huge platform. He simply stood up and spoke out and made her voice known. You know, they always say that speak truth to power. Well, she really did. And what happened to Riley Gaines? She was vilified. She was made fun of. She was marginalized. She was attacked. She was verbally attacked. She was physically attacked. She was speaking at San Francisco State University on men and women's sports. The crowd became so unruly. They chased her down the hallway, and she had to barricade herself for hours in a classroom to keep the angry mob from getting to her physically assaulting her. Did she back down? No.

Did she turn her cheek and run the other way? No. She stood there and stood her ground while people called her all kinds of filthy, horrible, awful names, while people marginalized, while people beat her up physically, emotionally, the words, the way that they came at her, and she stood her ground. And the more she stood up, the more people said, you know what, Riley, I agree with you. I'm going to go right there with you. I'm going to speak up. Her teammates, other women that stood up and said, wait a minute, this is wrong. You're putting us at a disadvantage in a lot of ways. You're putting us in physical harm's way. When you have someone who is a biological male, a transgender athlete that's so much bigger, faster, stronger than I am, stronger muscles, bigger physique, more weight. And when you put them in competition with girls, bad things can happen. And that San Jose State said, you know what? Their volleyball team had a bunch of players that said, wait a minute, no, no, we don't want to do this. They only did it because Riley Gaines gave them the courage to do that. And Riley Gaines has stood up for women's sports in Title IX throughout this country. She's become a speaker. She's become an advocate. She's become a household name. And yesterday, she showed each and every one of us that our individual voices matter because the Supreme Court of the United States took up a case. that ruled that there is a difference between men and women when it comes to sports in Title IX, and that would have never started, that would have never gotten to the justices, it never would have gone to the Supreme Court of the United States, I sincerely believe if it were not for Riley Gaines. So Riley Gaines? I'm giving you an applause, and I'm going to tell you you were an example for all of us. We keep forgetting our voice matters. Riley Gaines didn't have a podcast when she started this. She didn't have a radio show. She wasn't on TV. She was just one individual swimmer who said, wait a minute, this isn't right. And she stood her ground. She stood up for what she believed in. And that's one of the things that's great about being an American. And we keep forgetting that because the media tells us all the time that our voices don't matter. Her voices matter. Your voice matters. And she proved it to all of us yesterday that you can stand up and say something. You can't push up against the mob. You can't stand up and make your voice heard, and your voice matters, and your vote counts. So Riley Gaines, I salute you completely today for what you did. So here's what happened to the Supreme Court yesterday. If you're a conservative, there's some stuff you love. Sometimes it feels like the news is full of things that have never happened before. And that is not exactly true. In fact, it may have happened this very week, hundreds or thousands of years ago. I'm Sally Helm, host of the podcast History This Week from the History Channel. Trade embargoes, Thomas Jefferson tried them. Rent too high? We've been arguing about that for a while. Each episode is proof. The past isn't that far away. Listen to History This Week, available now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's some stuff you didn't like. And if you're a liberal, there's some stuff that you loved, and there are some stuff that you didn't like. And if you're American, you can be prepared that we're going to see even more campaign ads coming, as they've unleashed more campaign ad coordination between PACs and these people and that people and candidates. We're going to see just completely...

You're going to see more ads than you've ever seen in your entire life, TV, radio, and in social media. You've just blown up the damn that kept us from being overwhelmed 100% with ads all the time. But let's get to the two things that I want to bring up, because that's the one, the two cases that everybody's talking about. Scotis ruled that birthright citizenship is a right that you have. If you're born in this country, you're an American citizen. Part of the challenge of this experiment that we call America is people can use our own freedoms against us. Remember, we're the first country that said we're going to tell the government what they can't do. We're going to make sure the government's limited in what they can do. When you open up that Pandora's box, there are people that will, there are people that will use our own freedoms against us. whether it's birthright tourism or people coming in here illegally and having anchor babies that let them immigrate to the United States in a way that is not prescribed by the Constitution of the government. I guess that's the best way to put it, because it's all gray, it's all murky, it's all cloudy. And it's interesting because when I first started hearing about birthright citizenship, I thought, well, what makes an American? I'm an American because I was born here. My grandparents were Americans because they got their citizenship papers. But when do we start pulling back who can be an American and who can't be? I think it's rather interesting. Think about this, folks. Think about this. I want you to think about this. If you move to the United States of America and you come here legally and you take your citizenship papers and test and you pass and you're a Monticello this weekend, Or you're at Mount Vernon this weekend when they have the naturalization ceremony and you swear your allegiance to the United States of American. You are an American. You are an American. If you're born here, you are an American. What if I want to leave the United States of America? And let's say I moved to Paris. Let's say I got a job working at Paris, Disney, Euro Disney, and I moved to Paris for the next 20 years. And I did everything and got that citizenship in Paris, France. Would that make me French? No, I'd still be American. You see, I can move to England, and I could live there for 20 years, but I wouldn't be English. I could move to Australia, and I could live there for 50 years, and I wouldn't be Australian. I don't think I'd be considered Japanese if I moved there and live there for 15 years and followed all their rules and their customs and got my paper to be there legally. I'd never be Argentinian, but I can come here, and in a very short time, I can become an American. That's what's very unique about America, because we are that great melting pot of people from around the world that's come here for freedom and a better way of life and opportunities. And that's why this birthright citizenship is so tricky, because you have people that are gaming the system. I started reading about this in the longest, longest time ago, in the Los Angeles Times about the tourism industry for expected mothers, that they would have hotels and apartment buildings that were more like stables with women that were...