Riley Gaines

All done through the Leadership Institute, which is just a phenomenal group, but...

A lot of these college campuses I speak on, the protesters, when they hear I'm coming, they'll go to Reddit and they'll start going off, which is hilarious to look at.

But honestly, it's kind of scary.

Like a lot of these people, for instance, I was at San Francisco State a few months back, which was my first mistake, going to freaking San Francisco.

But I went there with the intention of...

Right.

Like talking about what you and I have talked about, at least from from that national championship standpoint, everything that we went through, why it's important.

I went there and what a naive thought to think that these people, these students, would come with an open mind and the willingness to have their hearts softened because they did not.

They came with their pitchforks and fire and upon me delivering my speech in a classroom setting, right, so like a podium at the front, there's seats in the class,

Upon delivering my speech afterwards, a group of protesters entered into the room, hundreds of them, turned off the lights, rushed to the front.

I'm being shoved and hit and jostled.

I'm so confused what's going on.

Punched, right?

But fortunately for me, men in dresses, their punches don't hurt that bad.

But ultimately, these protesters ended up holding me for ransom.

Throughout the night, demanding that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money.

All the while, you might be wondering, OK, well, where are the police?

Joe, it's San Francisco.

The police are being held for ransom in the same room with me.

I'm looking at the police like pretty sure I'm being held against my will.