Will Cain Country - America’s Free-flowing Illegal Immigration Problem With Tomi Lahren

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

Story #1: It’s MLB Opening Day! Is baseball sick or healthy? A conversation with former MLB All-Star catcher and Fox Sports’ MLB game analyst A.J. Pierzynski. Story #2: Mexico’s President blackmails President Biden with a continued free flow of illegal immigration. Plus, are preachy women the problem with woke ideology? Host of Tomi Lahren Is Fearless on OutKick.com, Tomi Lahren weighs in, plus much more. Story #3: Is $1.13 billion dollars enough to make you happy, and could you actually keep it?   Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Is baseball sick or healthy with a World Series champion? Two, is the problem preachy women? James Carville says the problem with woke ideology is that it's run by preachy women. Let's ask Tommy Lerrin. And three, how much money to be happy? will $1.13 billion in mega millions make you happy? Can you keep it?

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hit subscribe or right under the description of this live stream. There is a link to subscribe to the Will Kane show on YouTube. Tomorrow morning I'm going to get up early, very early. I'm going to head out to Globe Life. The debate is, should I wear my Rangers? hat. I obviously wear my Rangers fandom. I mean, 2023 World Series champion. And now it's Major League Baseball opening day. But I am curious about the state of baseball. I'm also curious about how this conversation will go. I've never met my first guess. But just watching him on TV, I feel like, well, he's going to be real. And I really don't know how it will go. If I ask him about the health of his favorite sport. So let's just find out. Let's get to it with story number

one. A.J. Prisinski is a 2005 world series champion. He's Fox Sports Major League Baseball Game analyst. He's also the host of foul territory on X, and he's already got a serious face. So this will be good. Let's just see. No, no, no. You scared me first because you said three things. And the first one I'm okay with. The second one, I was like, man, if we're going to talk about conservative or what you said, I'm like, you got the wrong guy because James Carverville is probably smarter about that than I am. And then three, yes. You don't want to talk about?

Not really. And then three, can you please give me the $1.13 billion, and I'll find plenty of ways to spend it. Have you seen, A.J., how many lot of winners lose it? This is what I'm going to talk about at the end of the show. And why can't they keep the money? And so I'm fascinated with how much money actually makes you happy. And then there's these studies that show,

it's actually very, and this is not for better for worse, just the way it is. We compare ourselves. So, like, you know, you want to make more than your neighbor, like, more than you want to improve your own standard of living. And so I don't know what goes on with these lot of winners. Maybe they have no history with money. You probably have history with that, AJ. I mean, athletes are notorious for guys that may not have a history of making a lot of money,

and then all of a sudden they have a ton, and what goes up comes down real quick after their playing days. Of course. You stop making it, right? you make a ton real short, right? So you make all this money in like a 10-year span. And then all of a sudden, guess what? You're a former player and you don't make anything.

So, yeah, there's been guys I know that have been taken for money. There's been guys I know that don't keep an eye on their money. They think the money's always going to be rolling in. And listen, I understand to the average person, like $1, $2 million is a ton of money. But in the grand scheme of things, and you're only making that money for a 10-year period and it's very small window. Guess what? That money goes away fast when guys are buying, you know, expensive cars,

designer outfits, new homes for everybody. It goes quick and you see it all the time. I mean, heck, there was a, you know, there was a 30 for 30 there for a while that, you know, got broke athletes and this and that and all that. And heck, we saw it the other day. Some guy, some big famous name of baseball got taken for a bunch of money. So he says, just the other day. By the way, professional athletes wouldn't be unique there, AJ.

Everybody thinks that their current situation is going to be the way it always is in the future. I have friends that are in financial management. when they talk about these guys, like, who think that, oh, I'm making X today, and next year will be X plus 20%, and then, you know, 20 years from now will be X times 2 or whatever it may be. And so there's just no inclination. And we know the stats on this. Like, nobody saves.

Like, we're a debt-based society. So it shouldn't be surprising at all. We shouldn't, like, laugh at pro athletes who think, oh, I'm making $10 million a year, and I'm 32. Of course I'll be making still $10 million a year when I'm 55 and I'm not playing anymore. Yeah, it works like that. because there's a lot of 55-year-old Major League Baseball players running around, right? They're making $10 million a year. If you can name one, please let me know because I looked and I looked all through baseball reference.

I couldn't find one. Do you think, AJ, I'm just going to follow my curiosity here. You know, like Tom Brady extending his career into his 40s was like a little bit mind-blowing for everybody. Like, he way outlived the bell curve. I mean, Max Kellerman was predicting him to go over the cliff for like five straight years. and he apparently sprouted wings and flew over the cliff. But like, I mean, we're seeing, like, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer's, I think he's 40, and he's got injury issues,

but you think baseball players start playing a lot longer into their 40s? No, I don't. I think they're a rare exception. Listen, I made it until I was 40. I retired at 40, and I was done. Physically, but mentally, just get worn out. I mean, think about Justin Verlander said he wants to beat Tom Brady, he played at least 45. Well, he's already got some injuries, right? He had Tommy John. He's

got some injuries this spring that are keeping them down. Scherzer's at 40. He's got some injuries. It just doesn't happen. It's a young man's game now. It's a young man's sport because one, the travel wears you out, the media wears you out, the what they ask you to do, wears you out. There's a lot that goes into it. Listen, I tell people all the time, people laugh at me. I could go play a baseball game, like one game tomorrow physically, but if I had to go play 162 game season with the travel, the media, all the things that go into getting prepared for a major league game. In a major league season, there's no way I could do it anymore. And listen, I'm 47 and physically, again, people laugh.

You know, you caught for 19 years in the major leagues. You should be beat up. I literally have no problems at all. Now, if you ask my wife, she'll say I'm mentally unstable, but I think that's just kind of standard procedure. Back to those preachy women. The, AJ, knees are good? Your knees are good? Yeah, I got nothing. Literally, I have no knee problems, no hip problems, which is usually what a lot of catchers have. No back problems. No, I never had a harm problem. So, yeah, I don't know. I was very blessed.

Hey, so you've been retired seven years, it sounds like, 47. It retired at roughly 40. You said you could go tomorrow and play one game. Does your eye hand coordination deteriorate? Like, you have to have fast twitch eye hand to bat. You've got to diagnose a pitch. I've read. I've read. and I don't know this firsthand. It's the hardest thing in sports, as people say, hitting a baseball, hardest thing in sports. And you could play a game tomorrow. You wouldn't, like that fast-twitch, pitch recognition, eye-hand coordination doesn't deteriorate over seven years?

Well, listen, I didn't say I played it very well. I said I could physically do it. I didn't say I could go back there and catch the game, and I could catch and do that part of it, especially now they catch on one knee. So I'd be like, man, this is like relaxing. I'm on a vacation back here. but hitting yeah i would probably need a couple days to see some pitches to i mean i could probably

make contact i'd probably shatter my bat in about a million pieces because these dudes still really hard right now and i'd probably strike out but i mean yeah physically i didn't say i would be good at it i just said i could do it okay so watching you on tv this is why i said i don't know how this will go because watching you on tv like um i think you're pretty authentically yourself you know and you don't suffer fools um and maybe i'm a fool here but but i don't think i am I never do. So we'll just go with it. Do you think baseball right now as we approach opening day? And I'm asking this honestly open AJ, because I don't know the answer to the question for a couple of reasons. Forgive the long wind up here. Do you think baseball is healthy or sick? And here's what I mean by that.

Like, I'm in a bubble. So personally, I can't see straight on baseball right now because I'm a Rangers fan. And, like, I have an afterglow, and I was super into the season last year, and so I'm all in on baseball. I read it in the offseason. I do hot stove stuff, you know. But if I'm being honest, when the Rangers weren't great, I wasn't attuned to baseball on a day-to-day basis as, like, a national fan. I read about, you know, the future of television rights, who's going to opt in, maybe, who's going to opt in. I don't know. And I just wonder, as a national sport, you know, and that may be the answer, like regional versus – because,

that's another thing. You read about, like, in-game ticket sales are actually doing really well for Major League Baseball teams, I believe. But, you know, on the note of the Rangers, their television providers bankrupt, and it impacted who they could sign in the offseason. They had to bring budgets in after winning the World Series. So it just kind of makes me wonder, what is the health of baseball? Like, what's the status? Is this arrow pointed up or is it pointed down? Personally, first of all, there's a pitch clock for the long wind-up, so we need to get you on board with the pitch clock, right? So you can streamline the question before we get into the, you know, this is why they put the pitch clock in to lower the pace of their speed up the pace

of the game and lower the time. So, um, listen, I think the game is healthy. I think it's healthier than what people want to say. I think if you look at attendance, you look at regional TV ratings and even national, this national ratings, I work for Fox and I'm due the game of the week on Saturdays on Fox and the ratings are good. The thing is is that regional, regional baseball is a regional sport played on a national level, right? So if you look at, you go, you're a Rangers fan. You look at the Rangers ratings, they're through the roof, right? The tendons is up.

I know they won the World Series, but then you go to the Astros. And you go to different teams, the ratings are crazy. Even the race, people are like, oh, man, the race stink. No one goes to watch them, but you look at their TV ratings, they're really good. So the TV ratings aren't the problem. It's trying to get people to look outside of their region or their team. Like you're a Rangers fan. And I know in the offseason, listen, on Fowl Territory, the YouTube podcast,

we do, you know, five days a week, we talk all the teams, we talk all 30 teams. Well, we have reporters come on. They know their team. They don't know every team in the league. It's just a regional sport. The question is for Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball, how do we make it a national sport? How do we make it more NFL-E? And listen, there's only one game week.

It's never going to be that, right? How do you make it more NBA, right? And to promote our players more. And that's the one thing I think Major League Baseball has lacked for a long time, promoting their players on a national level. You don't know anything about Mike Trout, do you? one of the best players in the game, right? Bryce Harper, he's huge in Philadelphia.

You know much about him off the field, right? These NBA guys, you know all kinds of things about him. You know, LeBron James, you know, Draymond Green, you know, Steph Curry. You know these guys on and off the court. Baseball doesn't do that, and it's a problem that starts with the players and the front office because the players are told, listen, when I came up, you know, 1998, I was first called up to the Major League, sit in your locker, don't speak unless spoken to. What's changed now with social media, right?

But guys are still afraid to take that next step and put themselves out there. yes you see more of it yes you see more guys on social media putting more things out there and it's great for the game because people become fans of these guys because they're like oh man I had a kid that was sick last night right I couldn't sleep either oh Freddie Freeman you know his son Charlie was sick oh he you know but things like that like that matters to the fans and I think we need to do a better job of marketing baseball but overall I think baseball is healthy I think the new rules of help they sped up the game the pitch clock now there's some I don't agree with like the obstruction thing they're throwing in this year and some of the other the bigger bases are kind of funny because

they're gigantic. But overall, I think baseball is in a good spot. I think people instead of, and I also think baseball needs to change the narrative. Like we're, you know, like when you said, oh, it's not healthy. Why? Because the bankrupt, listen, a lot of guys signed a lot of big contracts this off season. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about the positive things. It's always like, oh, whoa, was baseball. Screw that. I get that. I don't want to be negative. I don't. This is actually just curiosity driven. I mean, look, I'm never been more into baseball. I mean, back to your regional thing. You should be jumping up and down.

Exactly. You should be like, yeah, I go Rangers. I am. Trust me, I am. I'm trying to decide if I should wear my throwback or my city edition third hat tomorrow or my spring training hat tomorrow. And can I do that on Fox and Friends? But this is a little bit tied to the Rangers.

You talked about contracts. So I'm not trying to be negative. But why did I see guys like Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell and Cody Bellinger? I know they're all clients of Scott Bors. I don't know if he was your agent. And it's not about Scott Boris. It's like it all just came in under expectations. They all signed one-year deals.

And again, it made me wonder, well, what's going on? Like, why is baseball? Those are three good players, right? I mean, for a couple of them, you could say great players. And they didn't get, they didn't find the market they wanted to find. And again, led me the question, well, if the market's not what you expected, is baseball healthy? well first of all no i did not have scott boris as an agent so but i know plenty of people that did here's the one thing i noticed this off season every off season is different first of all there were a

lot of teams because of the luxury tax trying to get under it so a lot of teams that normally spend the podrays in the past the mariners right even the yankees to a smaller extent and the redsocks these are big market teams even the cubs though the cubs in there they weren't spending a huge amount of money that we have seen in the past and then the twins right cut and payroll the cardinals didn't spend a ton this offseason. So a lot of these teams that we'd always said, oh, man, you can go to the blank or you can go to the Astros even, right?

Even the Rangers. They've spent in the past this year. They're all trying to kind of get under that, you know, luxury tax, which is like a fake salary cap that all the owners want. So there wasn't a huge market for a lot of these guys. Also, this offseason, if you signed early, you did better. The longer you waited, the less than the chance

of you getting the big contract. You look at, obviously, Otani was going to get what he got, but Yamamoto, right? Frankie Montaise of the Reds got $16 million. A lot of the guys that signed early in the offseason did better. Why? I don't know. I can't explain that.

But I think as Boris has always had the ability to do a couple of things, right? Get his guy's contracts and publicize it. And then two, he's also had direct lines to a lot of these owners late in the off season and say, you know, he went to the nationals and say, hey, sign, you know, this guy. Went to the Phillies and said, say, signed Bryce Harper, the Padres, right? Signed Mani Machado and Spring Training. Well, a lot of those owners have backed away from doing that. And some of them have moved on. I mean, you know, Peter Seidler and San Diego passed away RIP because he was a great owner.

But some of these owners have changed their philosophy and they're like, oh, you know what? We'll wait. And they got smart. And they're like, well, wait, we'll get a one year deal. Right. Why not? Right? Because then you look at the Yankees, right?

Everyone was like, oh, sign Blake's Snell. Well, the way the luxury tax is set up, they signed them one year 30 million. That's really like 66 million because it's 110% on top of it. Right? So they're like, why would we sign Blake's now for one year and lose a job? traffic, it's not going to happen. Unless we can get a deal for a long term that we agree to, we're not doing it. And smarter owner, smarter front offices, and sign early was kind of the theme of this offseason. Not that they're bad players, but it was just a weird offseason.

And sometimes the market doesn't line up for when you're a free agent, Will. I mean, listen, if you're a free agent and you're doing TV, then you say, hey, I have Fox, I have CNN, and I have, you know, MSNBC. And guess what, Fox? Let's say Fox and CNN aren't, aren't, aren't, signing guys, right? And you're like, well, I have to go to MSNBC. They're offering me $500,000. I really think I'm worth $2 million. Well, guess what? You've got to take the $500 grand if you want to do your job. I don't think MSNBC is going to make me any offer. Well, I'm just, but I get the hypothetical. You know what I'm saying. ESPN, Fox, I get it. I get it. I get the hypothetical. You brought him up. What do you think

about Otani? I'm not talking about him as a player. What do you think about the story? It's just an awful story. It's an awful situation. I feel, Listen, if he did nothing wrong, which I hope, every baseball fan hopes he did nothing wrong, it's just a bad look, right? I mean, if the I pay guy really did steal all that money from him and he had no idea, it's just bad for the game. It's bad that we're talking about this opening day. And every person wants to know, every single person I see now is like, what do you think, Otani? Did he gamble? Did he do this?

Did he know? And I'm like, I don't know, guys. Like, there's a federal investigation going on. We're going to find it all out eventually. So I hope it's not true because he is the main draw right now. And I'm glad he did speak. People were like, what, do you think he should have spoke? I'm like, absolutely, because you got to see his reaction.

You got to see him live. You got to see he got angry about it, which is a good thing. Now, I know people can fake it and all that, but it's hard to go in front of cameras and say, you know, I didn't know this was happening. And my only thing that I keep saying is, you know, we talk about, you know, lottery winners and getting stolen from, man. If someone's stealing $4.5 million from you, though, I'm pretty sure at some point, you know, especially with Otani's people, you know, he's got to have CPAs and accountants and agents and all that stuff. At some point you think somebody would be like, hey, man, where's this money going to? Yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to bait you or push you. I mean, I'm on the record.

I've done it on this show. I've done it on other shows. It just doesn't add up. It's just hard. You know, I have a twofold thing here. Like, if he's not betting on baseball, I don't know that I care. Like, I mean, I don't care. If he's betting on baseball, that's a different thing.

But regardless of how I feel, his story doesn't add up. It's just, it doesn't make sense. that the translator, it's all him. Nothing about Otani's statements and positions makes any sense. Hey, I'll be honest. I text a couple of my friends, and I was like, hey, since we're friends, because apparently Otani gave him access to his bank account. I said, hey, can I have access to your bank account guys?

They're like, why? Because we're friends, and that's apparently what we do now. So I'll take all your, I'll just, you know, I'll take access. Thank you. And I'll do what I won. You'll never look, never notice. All right, let's end with baseball, actual baseball. So, you know, I want to believe that the Texas Rangers could be one of the first teams.

I think it's the first instance to the Yankees, would it be 99,000 to repeat. And I'm super excited. Like, they're going to be better offensively. And people don't want too much in the weeds of the Texas Rangers. But Evan Carter, Wyatt Langford. I'm super excited about what the Rangers are doing. Of course, their pitching is going to be a question. And then there's also this, like, their division and the rest of baseball, pretty good.

The Mariners, the Astros. Braves, of course, and Dodgers. So how do you see this season? And baseball is the weird thing where you're going to probably pretty accurately tell me who has the most wins in the season, but you're going to have a hard time telling me who's going to win the World Series. You're right, because I forget who I picked. I think I picked Astros and Braves and obviously the Rangers went and won against the Diamondbacks.

Nobody picked to win anything, right? Listen, for me, the National League is a little bit clearer than the American League. Braves, Dodgers, obviously, are the super teams in the National League, right? then you can throw the Phillies. They're probably going to make the playoffs. I like where the Giants did this offseason. So there's four of your six playoff teams, right? Then you take the central winner, Reds, Brewers, Cubs out of that division.

Probably one of those teams is making it. So then you have to look and say, is it a Diamondbacks who I really love the Montgomery signing? Or is it like a team like the Mets who come out of nowhere. So for me, it would be the Diamondbacks. The National League is a little more put kind of set in stone. But when you get to the American League is when it gets crazy. Because you can make a case for about, I don't know, eight or nine. nine, ten different teams in the American League.

Now, the Central is probably going to have one team. Fine. You go to the West, you've got the Mariners, like you said, your Rangers, the Astros are all good. Who's going to win the division? It came down to the last day last year, right? And then you go to the East and you have the Blue Jays, the Yankees, the Rays, right? All these teams, the Orioles who are really good. So you're like, okay, the Red Sox, you know, they didn't do much this off season, which I don't know why.

But so then you're like, it gets more diluted in the American League. Well, who's the best team in the American League? You can say your Rangers when they get Scherzer and Molly and the Gromback, right? But you could also do the Astros because they've done it. I mean, the American League to me is crazy. The National League, I think you can pretty much pick your playoff teams. Who's going to win the World Series? I have no freaking clue.

I wish I knew because I'd bet on it. Real quick, AJ, who's the best pitcher you ever faced? Well, I mean, see, okay, so I love this question. Because people always say, who's the best pitcher of it? Now, we're going off of, like, people that are in the hall of, fame or people I couldn't get a hit off of because there's a completely different question. Like I faced Pedro, Randy Johnson. When he took the mound, when he took the mound and you're in the batter's box, you know, you were like, I got, it's a mystery. I got nothing.

Okay, so there's one guy I always told, the name's B.J. Ryan, he pitched, he was an all-star he pitched for the Orioles and the Blue Jays, right? I was 0 for 10 with nine strikeouts off, but I didn't strike out a lot. And I'd never forget, I was at the All-Star game in 2006. He was in Pittsburgh and he walked into the room he was on the American League team with me and I'm like ah and he's like what's wrong with you I'm like I can't look you in the eyes I'll turn to stone because you're like my kryptonite right right and I'm like oh my gosh I'm melting just talking to you right now and he's like you're so funny and then I actually my last a bat off him I hit a ground ball of the pitcher and I was running to first celebrating and he's like you're such an

sorry am I allowed to say that on this and I was like I was like yeah you know I made contact off you I with the ball and he he just started dying laughing because I couldn't I just couldn't you can put the ball and play. B.J. Ryan, your Medusa, your kryptonite when it comes to baseball. But World Series champion, all-star catcher, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball game analyst, and hell of a guest here on The Will Kane Show. I've loved it, AJ. Thanks for being on. Thanks. We'll appreciate it. Hopefully we can do it again.

All right, we will. AJ Prisinski. There he goes. All right, coming up, is the problem with woke ideology preachy women? and why does the president of Mexico feel so confident that he can blackmail America? Is it because he sees at the other side of the table a mark in Joe Biden? That's next with Tommy Lerrin. Fox News Audio presents Unsolved with James Patterson. Every crime tells the story, but some stories are left unfinished. Somebody knows.

Real cases, real people. Listen and follow now at Fox Truecrime.com. Vela, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas. Just kidding. It's only a three-hour show. Listen live at noon Eastern or get the podcast at foxacrossamerica.com. So we wanted to, as part of the show today, we put up the thumbnail, right?

You see a picture and says, what's the show's about today? And we wanted to put up a picture because our big guest today, AJ Prasinski, huge guest, big guest. Our big guest say is Tommy Laren. So a picture of maybe me and Tommy Laren or Tommy Lerrin and James Carvel with the headline, The Problem with Preachy Women. We were like, well, how's that going to go over with Tommy? So I asked Tommy, hey, how do you feel about this? And she's totally cool with it. So now, here on the Will Kane show streaming live at Fox News.com and the Fox News YouTube channel on the Fox News Facebook page is the host of Tommy Laren. Is Fearless. She's fearless when it comes.

She's fearless at having the word preachy next to her. Tommy Leran. Yeah, my husband would call me preachy about things like cleanliness and organization, tidiness, among other things. So preachy, of all the things I've been called, Will, I think I would take preachy. I know that that's not even necessarily directed towards me, but I will take it all day long. Trust me, there's been far worse things said. I would actually like to see you and your husband, and by the way, on the things. theme of major league baseball in our show today was a major league baseball was a pitcher uh forever i would

love to see that preaching us about the things you just said about cleaning up j p this kitchen is unacceptable i want to hear tommy laran in giving a tommy laran take over household duties and chores to jp that's my dream can you make this happen for me can you record a tommy laran rant but on domestic issues uh he would not like that very much. But here's the thing about my husband. He is Cuban. So he has this sense in his mind that fighting back against me is a good idea. So instead, you know, we're a year and a half at a marriage. So instead of just letting me be right and saying, sorry, when sorry needs to be said, he still likes to argue with me. So that's why we butt heads. It's okay because I like a good

sparring partner. So it's okay with me because it keeps me sharp and it keeps me on my toes. so he likes the fight he likes the argument and you and and he's he's uh like my co-host on the weekend is rachel campos duffy and i don't know i don't know how you would win an argument with rachel i don't know i mean i don't see a path through the maze that ends with a victory parade and she would be the first to admit and so like i you know i'm i want to talk to shan duffy about how this goes her husband. So you're telling me, J.P. is the spicy Latino in your relationship, and he's there for the fight. Well, here's the deal. We're both spicy. So that is wherein the fun lies, I suppose, because normally in a relationship, you have somebody that's more submissive in somebody who's

more alpha, but with us, it's two alphas. So I desperately need that, though, after, you know, years of dating somebody who just held my purse and took things out of it, I'd rather have have somebody that fights against me. Yeah, we don't have to talk about that one. Whoops. But yeah, no, I prefer it that way. I prefer somebody who, you know, can hold their own, even if they end up losing at the end.

Hold my purse and take things out of it. I'm doing my best not to follow natural curiosity and be conscientious of your command not to talk about that. But wow, I want to know more. I'm going to ask Tommy Moore in a minute, actually about her and JP, because I asked Tommy ahead of time. Hey, I would love to talk to you about this.

She said, yeah, that's cool. But let's hit a little news. And I want to ask you about two things when it comes to illegal immigration. One is New York Mayor Eric Adams passing out now, I believe it is. Debit cards with something like $350 on it to illegal immigrants. So if you're a family of four, you can get up to $1,500. By the way, these illegal immigrants, I mean, they're going to be targets for, you know, getting mugged. They're going to be targets for theft.

They're walking around with, you know, cards that don't have to be verified by criminals. But second is I was just blown away by the Mexican president saying, no, you know, I mean, this problem is going to continue. This flow of illegal immigrants is going to continue until America sends billions of dollars south to address root causes. And, I mean, it was just, it was clearly a statement of blackmail. And I just think it shows something, Tommy, about who he thinks sitting across from the table from him. somebody that he can blackmail. Yeah, it's brazen to me. And something else that he said was that he's going to put Mexico and Mexicans first.

I remember when we had a president that put America in Americans first, but here's the deal about that. Obviously, Joe Biden is not going to fight back against the premise that Mexico will not take the people or Mexico will not cooperate, if not for X, Y, and Z. Joe Biden doesn't care because Joe Biden doesn't mind the open border. But if you had a Donald Trump presidency, we would just build the wall and Mexico really wouldn't have a choice because if Mexico is going to let people in through their border and then just pass them along, they would hit a giant wall and they would hit border patrol agents that were actually able to do their job. So that wouldn't be a problem. What Mexico wanted wouldn't really matter so much. But now at this point, I think this administration will bend over backwards to send money to other countries because, you know, why not? We're bankrolling the world. Meanwhile, the world is emptying its prisons into our backyard.

And this administration doesn't even feign that it's concerned about the problem. Yeah, and I don't think, again, I think that this part of this story is about leadership. And I mean it. Like, I think the Mexican president is telegraphing what he thinks of American leadership, what he thinks of Joe Biden. And he thinks he can extort that kind of money in the face of a problem. You know, nice little business there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

That's basically what he's saying to a weak store owner in Joe Biden. And I don't think, if I'm being 100% real, and you've had your criticism of Donald Trump, and I think that absolves you of, like, saying, oh, I'm waving pom-poms or whatever. I think it's just very real to say he would never do that with Donald Trump. He wouldn't think he could extort Donald Trump. He wouldn't threaten blackmail. And the wall is part of the equation, but I think Trump would actually put. in the other direction. I mean, he talked about putting the cartels on the

terror on the international terrorist list and what that would do to Mexico if they don't solve these problems. The push would be coming from the other direction, it'd be coming from America and not from Mexico. Well, it was during the Trump presidency when he threatened tariffs. So he said that loud and clear to Mexico, you're either going to cooperate or you're going to get a tariff or also reinstating remain in Mexico would be the solution to a lot of this and give Mexico no choice. It's these people. again, like I said, you're going to let them in. Then you deal with them.

Back when Donald Trump did that, the people in Tijuana were furious with that. They didn't want these people squatting in their backyard. They wanted to push them through. Donald Trump didn't allow that to happen. And guess what happened? The Mexican military was actually willing to cooperate. I was down at the border.

I saw it with my own eyes. The Mexican military cooperating with our border patrol. You know, I was down on the border during the Trump presidency, and we were hoping we would see crossings. I mean, we would go up in the Black Hawk. We would be looking for people. Of course, me, I wanted to see illegal immigrants in the wild, so to speak, and we just really didn't see any during the later years of the Trump administration, and for good reason, because

people didn't want to make that journey to either be detained or turned back around because they'd already paid thousands of dollars to get there. So it was a waste of their time and money. Right now, it's the best investment they could make. I mean, my goodness, now they're getting debit cards. What else are we going to give them? Oh, pause at that experience of yours against mine. I mean, I've been there down there several times, but I hosted Fox and Friends one morning.

I would say I was 20 yards from, well, actually, where a border wall ends, you know, and then it drops down into like quasi-fence. It comes and goes, you know how it is, but the Rio Grande runs right there, and it kind of goes down a slope. I hosted Fox and Friends for, what is it, four hours on the weekend from right there. And while I'm there, I mean, literally off to my left 20 yards away, illegal. immigrants are crossing. You know, they're coming across the river, they're encountering border patrol. I think these were from Cuba, and that's fascinating in and of itself, because you think of Cuban illegal immigration through a boat to Florida, and they found it more fortuitous to go to Mexico and then come up through the southern border. That's my experience versus yours during Trump

administration. I'm not even capable of seeing it happen. So Tommy, we've had this conversation ongoing here on The Will Cane show, and I find it challenging and interesting. I want to see where you are. So the state of Florida has now, I believe, banned social media for kids under a certain age. The state of Texas recently did that with porn sites. Now, in order to effectively implement a ban, you have to verify people's ages, which would require the entirety of the population really to verify their age, which means often is the case, a government-issued ID uploaded to the internet or to a site.

And look, nobody wants to upload their ID to a porn site. so the question is no one doubts that porn's bad for kids porn's bad for everybody honestly and no one doubts that social media is bad for kids but the conversation we've had here is are laws like this the way to solve it or are we compromising our privacy by turning over our parenting and our own personal good judgment to the government what do you think is the right way to approach two things that we know are inherently bad for us social media for kids and pornography yeah i know i agree with you wholeheartedly on that and i feel you know similarly when it comes to a tic talk ban though i hate tic talk and though i do believe it's a tool for the chinese

communist party it does worry me a little bit about the government overreach that would come from a ban and a precedent that that would set and i think the same thing can be applied to the social media ban in Florida or the porn ban in Texas, well-intentioned. But this is all because we have a lapse in parenting. Let's be honest. It's because parents cannot control their own adolescence. And I understand that the internet is at their fingertips and it's very hard to keep it away from kids. But you and I have both seen it countless times, especially the amount of time we spend in airports and traveling. Parents use devices as babysitters. So if you're willing to put an iPad in front of your kid because you didn't want to get a babysitter and you want to go out to dinner

or simply because you don't want a parent right now, then don't be surprised if your kid gets attached to it and addicted to it. And then don't turn around and blame social media for the problems you're having with your kid if you're willing to use it as a babysitting tool. So this is all a product of modern society and a lack of parenting. Parents need to step in. If you're a parent, I understand that everybody's got smartphones all this. But I'm young enough to know that when I got a cell phone, my parents could regulate what I was doing, how much I was texting, who I was talking to. It can still be done. It just takes parents actually wanting to do it. Unfortunately, that's probably the biggest problem.

Well, how old were you when you first got a smartphone? Because you're quite a bit younger than me. And I don't, smartphones came out like in, what was it like, 08? Like the iPhone. Is that 05? What was that? Well, I had a cell phone at 13 just to be able to communicate with my parents. But I think smartphones and the whole the internet at your fingertips, that wasn't until, you know, much later when we actually, and I remember like my first picture phone and obviously the photos were awful and grainy. So that was, you know, a little bit of a different story. Now obviously much more advanced. Kids are on Instagram. They're on TikTok. They're on everything. But, you know, I think parents need to

decide what that age is. And they can put in protocols in place to make sure that they're monitoring what their kids are watching and looking at and who they're communicating with. It takes a little bit of extra effort, but you can't expect the government to step in and do your parenting for you. And I don't know why you'd want the government to do that, to be quite honest. Totally agree with that conclusion. I think it's hard. And look, I have two boys, the oldest of which is 16. He got a phone when he was in, I believe it was eighth grade, which is pretty young. It's like, what is that? 14? and you know we said don't be on this site this site and they end up on Snapchat that's the main one

right um and then they all because that's like they didn't even text that's how they communicate with one another um and then you know it just grows Tommy it's like okay then it's Instagram or it's TikTok usually one of those and I definitely don't want to outsource it to the government but I do think it's worth acknowledging it's hard because it is like you know my younger son doesn't have anything yet and by the way he's in seventh grade and he's the only kid i think in seventh grade that doesn't have a phone the only one wow and he doesn't bellyache about it and that's nice but he definitely lets me know no no i'm left out yeah for sure like there's stuff going on so it's tough parents you want your kids to make friends you want to be social but like jonathan height has an article out i think it's in i don't know

one of the atlantic maybe talking about it's poison specifically the smartphone and social media it's poison on the young mind. Yeah, I think it is. You know, I don't think that there's anything wrong with kids having phones. I even think if they want to be on social media, you know, at an appropriate age, and they have a private account and they want to post little pictures or whatever. I think that's fine. I honestly think it just goes back to parents and, you know, educating your kid on what they put out there

and who they're talking to and letting them know that that's forever. If they send this picture or that picture or they say, this or they say that, like lives can be ruined. And I'm, you know, I kind of go back to that whole scared straight notion. I mean, I think if you show kids, hey, this is going to be forever, this could ruin your life. I think they're going to be a little bit more hesitant to send the things that they're sending or say the things that they're saying. And it's not easy, I'm sure, by any means to keep up with what kids are doing online. But I think if you just raise them with enough judgment to have the foresight to care about their future and the consequences,

I think that goes a long way. But there's a lot of parents who just quite frankly don't. They just care and they're into being friends with their kids instead of being a parent. And I think that's also a big part of the problem, parents wanting to be cool. Yes. I think that's exactly, absolutely. That is absolutely true. I asked Tommy ahead of the show. I wanted to ask about this because it's a personal curiosity. I know Kaylee McEnany at Fox is married to a baseball player, former major league baseball player, as are you. And I think you both met your husbands in the same way. I think you met them through social media. You met them through DMs.

And I was like, I want to ask Tommy what her DMs are like. Because like, first of all, I checked out of the game, Tommy, way ahead of this being a way that like couples found each other. So Tommy, your DMs have got to be nuts. And JP pokes through? Yeah, well, that was also, that was a different time. I met JP on Instagram. Kaley met her husband on Twitter. Twitter, a far nerdier way, by the way than Instagram, more of an elder millennial way, I would

say. And Kaylee and I've talked about this before. So it's all in good fun. But yeah, Instagram. So when I moved to Nashville in 2020, I was just enjoying life. So the DMs were popping. And I met everybody that I talked to on Instagram because that's just the way that you date and meet people is through Instagram in my experience because first of all this is 2020, 2021 we're all locked down although I will say that's the craziest time

in Nashville was during lockdown that's when everybody partied the hardest but yeah you know Instagram is where I'm going to meet somebody because can you imagine what it's like for me to try to decide you know if somebody's a liberal or they hate me or whatever it is what it is usually you can

pinpoint liberal men so that's actually a little easier but for me, yeah, Instagram. So I shamelessly say that I look for the blue checkmark and I saw it next to J.P.'s name and I have an affinity for athletes and, you know, masculine men. So, you know, it caught my eye. And I guess it just went from there.

Okay, but I'm a follow up and you can just tell me when you're done and like, no, no more detail. But so you just said DM's Instagram pretty par for the quarter, to meet people. So for the average dude out there, like, now you were looking for a blue checkmark always? Or did you date anyone from your DMs before you and JP got serious that wasn't a blue check mark? Like, I'm just curious how this works because I think your DMs, my guess is, have to be bananas.

Like, I don't even know how you would probably get to all of them, how you would read them all. And I think a lot of women in media, it's probably like that. Probably, I would guess, 70 to 80% of it's something you wish you'd never read. But there are normal guys out there making connections through Instagram, not star athletes. That's my question. Normal guys making connections through Instagram DMs? I'm sure there are. I went through that phase, meeting people on Instagram that I couldn't check out first.

Here's the deal about having a blue check mark. It's not about the status necessarily. It's about being able to look into somebody because if somebody is also a public figure, it makes the vetting process a lot easier, as I'm sure it does for me. I mean, it's pretty well known who I am and what I stand for. So it makes it a little easier. And if somebody is going to message me that's a public figure, they're probably going to be conservative unless they're wishing death upon me because a probably a liberal, like a liberal man is not going to try to hit on me on Instagram because you know what you're going to get. I don't think you're wondering where I stand on the issues. So for me, it was just an easy way to vet somebody.

And of course, J.P.'s message was not like, hey, how you do? And it's like, thanks for all you do. That's the typical one I would get, would be like, thanks for what you do. And so at least it's like, all right, at least I got a conservative on board. And then we can go from there. All right. It's, uh... And I got to ask you, because I know that you're out of the game.

But there have got to be. I mean, we know the demographic that's watching Fox and Friends. There have got to be a lot of women out there, especially a lot of middle-aged, maybe cougars out there, that have got to be hitting your D.Ns. I imagine that your D.Ns. I bet your D-Ns are far more lit than mine. No, there's no way.

Next time we're in person, we can share. But there is no way. And by the way, why, they have to be middle-aged cougars? What are you saying about Fox? I mean, there's plenty, plenty of 20-year-olds, like zero. Do you think so? You think there's plenty of 20-year-olds getting up at 6 a.m. on Saturday? I have a feeling, and there's no shame to that.

There's no shame to that whatsoever. But I just have a feeling, if we were to look at your requests, they would probably be a lot of middle-aged to older ladies in there that are big fans of Fox and Friends first, or Fox and Friends on the weekend. You have no idea. that 6 a.m. on Sunday morning audience in the demo, you have no idea. It's nuts. How many, you know, 28-year-old women are watching Fox and Friends at 6.30 a.m. No, I mean, it can happen. I'm not saying it never happens, but I mean, I mean, we'll leave it here, but the whole female experience on the internet, a whole other deal, the whole other deal. Last thing I want to, because I know you have,

we have to go in just a second, and I've teased it, and I'm genuinely curious about it. James Carvel talked about how stupid woke ideology is, and it's killing the left. And then he penned the blame for woke ideology on preachy women. And, you know, it's kind of funny. He said, a suspicion of mine is that there's too many preachy females, don't drink beer, don't watch football, don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you. If you listen to Democrat elites, NPR is not a place to go for that. And, you know, I mean, I think he's right.

I don't know if you saw the 60 Minutes piece on Sunday night about misinformation, and they had a misinformation. expert on there, Tommy. She looked like the woman that James Carville is talking about. Yeah. I think liberalism does things to the mind, the body, the appearance. So

I don't think that that's off base to say what he said. And I think there's a lot of and, you know, when we're talking about women, obviously, I'm going to put my feminist hat on for just a moment. Women who speak with conviction and passion on either side of the aisle are

always going to be accused of being preachy or bossy or aggressive more so than when a man does it. Let's just be honest about it. It's fine. We'll take it. I don't care. But women are going to be perceived as preachy, whereas men are going to be perceived as like philosophical. So let's just be honest about the double standard. But, you know, it's not a wrong thing to say that there are a lot of women in left-leaning media who don't seem fun to hang out with. They seem very stiff. They seem very bitter. They seem very angry. And that's a perception problem that the left has. And it's a perception based upon probably a lot of reality. Yeah, but okay, as somebody, and I've been doing this job long enough that I think I've achieved some level of self-awareness. And one of the

things people say to me, or having the past more, is you can be too preachy. And I think to myself sometimes, be careful about that. And that's a lot about tone and how you're talking. But there's No doubt what you said is true about women. But let me just, so you, for example, you are very strong and assertive, and you have very strong opinions, and you say them really directly. But one thing I notice about you, for the most part, is you talk in ideas or public figures, and you speak assertively in a way that someone may call preachy about ideas and public figures. And I think what Carville is hitting on here is this tone within wokeism and perhaps larger

within leftism to tell us as individuals how we're failing you right i'm not eating right i'm not i'm drinking beer i'm too toxic masculine whatever and like much of the left it feels like an attack on the audience do you know what i'm saying it's like you know what the problem of america is americans it keeps coming back to that and it's this preachy woman telling us how americans suck compared to the French? Yeah, I wouldn't say it's just women, though, because there's been plenty of men on mainstream talking about Trump supporters

and how they're stupid and their hillbillies and their rednecks. I think it comes from just the left in general, demonizing middle America, middle class Americans. So I think that that's probably more of a leftist problem. And I think it's also a coastal problem. People that are not in Tennessee and they're not in Texas, people that are in Los Angeles or D.C. or New York. They preach to the rest of the country as if they are above the rest of the country. And I think that's where a lot of that comes from because they haven't been to the places that we've been. They haven't grown up or we've grown up. So I think it's about leftism. And I also think it's about coastal elitism that they just don't understand middle America and middle class people. And because they don't understand them, they want to demonize them as the other. And that's a big problem that the left has because they don't care about small.

town folks, or at least it doesn't seem that way. I think all of that's true. I think also, by the way, leftism in general is a somewhat more feminine ideology. It places empathy at the forefront, and that's not always wrong. That's not always wrong, right? And everyone needs to be self-aware about where our holes in our game are. But empathy is a more easily accessible prism for women than it is for men who think in different terms of priorities or hierarchy of thought.

And, you know, I don't know, all of the world needs to be safe, you need to be protected. That's just a more feminine outlook as opposed to risk and tolerance and failure and all these things that kind of define an imperfect. Increasingly, Tommy, I don't want to be an ideologue. I want to be a, you know, at one point I was said, I'm proudly an ideologue. I think ideology takes the place of religion and that it becomes a faith-based thing at some way. point. And I think you need to be pragmatic and logical and common sense. And that's increasing my prism. I need to let you go because I need to let you go do Tommy Laren is fearless. Next time we're together, by the way, you talk about how we grew up. I've never asked you about

South Dakota. So I'm fascinated by South Dakota. And I want to talk about South Dakota. Did your dad raise cattle? Were you on a ranch? I didn't grow up on a ranch, but both my parents did. So we still have a ranch in the family. So I've got ranching on both sides. And I grew up out in the country. So South Dakota, I would love to talk about South Dakota. I also want to bring up one thing before you do let me go. And you did an episode with Jesse Waters, and you guys talked about the things that grown men should not do. And I commented on the Instagram page, I have a lot of ideas about what grown men should not do.

I will channel my inner preachiness for that. And I commented on there, and I just need to explain it to your audience. Someone else actually made the same comment, so I'm not alone on this. I don't believe that men over the age of 25 should ever wear another man's name on their back, a jersey. I think it just screams beta. I can't imagine being a grown man wearing another man's name. It just says, like, I own you and I don't even know you. So that, I just want to show that out there because I'm wondering your take on it.

I know you're a big, obviously, you're a big Cowboys fan, you're a big sports fan, and I have to know, Will, do you wear other men's last names on your back? Okay, well, I'm going to, again, you have a show to go do. If you'd ask me this question five years ago, Tommy, I would have had a very strong take, and I would have said, I am with you 100%, anti-Jerzy. But I have made a promise to myself in this audience to be real.

And I have thrown a DAC jersey on during a game. Now, I've asked myself, why are you doing this will is it because you've become kind of a professional fan you know and you talk about the cowboy so much like i'm trying like why am i doing this and and i have a luka t-shirt uh not a jersey but what do you call it like a like a a real cheap version of it so i'm a violator of my own rule on those two occasions i don't collect jerseys to wear on all occasions i think what happened tommy's first take when i was on ESP and broke the seal because they'd have me wear the jersey to come out and troll

Stephen A. Smith. Next thing you know, I'm wearing a jersey on ESPN and the seal's been broken and I turned into a D-bag. That's what happened. Okay? Bottom line and so send me a J.P. Jersey. I will. And here, and the thing about you can display other jerseys.

I have a basement full of other jerseys that my husband has collected over the years from other players and I even said like, why is there all these Aaron Sebia jerseys and then there's a Verlander jersey in the middle. I I was like, I think you just put yours up, but that one was very special to him, so whatever. Put it up on the wall.

But to wear it on your back, I think you're like a walking poster board. Like, hey, I think this man is better than me in every way. And I just don't know why a man would want to do that to themselves. Well, if we're being honest, we're not all equal. And do we all think that we're at the top of the mountain? There are some men that are better than you. And you just have to acknowledge where you are on that ladder. And then just wear it with pride, I suppose.

That's a whole future episode. I've heard some of that. When you recognize, hmm, he's better than me. And then you're like, and I'm going to wear it. I would rather have a man wear a Taylor Swift era's tour merchandise shirt than another man's jersey. I think that's more masculine. But I know we'll have to leave it there. But I just want your audience to ponder that.

And I want the men listening to just really think about it inside and see where they are. with it. Well, next time not only talking about South Dakota, we'll run through the rules for men with Tommy Laren. The host of Tommy Lairn is fearless. Make sure you check it out on Outkick. Awesome having you, Tommy. Thank you so much. Thanks, Will. I appreciate it. All right. Coming up here on the Will Kane show, we're going to talk about how much money. This $1.13 billion do it for you. That's the latest winner of the Mega Millions Lotto. But how many lotto winners go broke? And where would that put you, for example, in the New York area. If you had, let's call it 300 million after taxes, would you make the top 50 richest New Yorkers? That's coming up in just a moment here on the

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history. For the record, by the way, the largest payday is $1.6 billion, I believe, which was not that long ago. But $1.13 billion to someone in New Jersey. And it made me think about all kinds of things when it comes to money, and how much money does it take for you to be happy? And what is the relationship between money and happiness? People have often said, by the way, you know, Yeah, money does lead to happiness to a certain extent. In the past, I believe that figure was like in a $130,000 range. And money up to that annual salary increases you covering the necessities and providing a few luxuries that money after that has a diminishing return in bringing to you. I'm sure inflation's adjusted that number. I'm sure it's higher than the last time I saw that step. Money does make you happier until it doesn't or has a diminishing return effect on making you happier. I have heard people say that one of the big luxury purchases that no doubt makes your life better is a private plane. Those dudes, they act like their life has just hit a different level of happiness. But it's, I mean, obviously, $1.13 billion should do the trick. But I did want to know, like,

what does that actually mean? So you have two ways to bring in the lotto, right? You can take annual payments, spread out for the full amount over your lifetime, or you can take the immediate lump sum. The immediate lump sum for the $1.137 million was $537 million. Every smart friend I've ever had in finance has said, take the lump sum, take the upfront money. Opportunity cost, you can go invest it, it earns on itself, and so forth. But of course, you don't get $537 million. So what do you get? So look this up.

Federal taxes on lotto winnings, I believe, are fixed at 24%. In the state of New Jersey, a lot of winnings over $500,000 is subject to an 8% tax. So you're looking at a 32% chunk to the government out of your $537 million, which would put you at $365 million liquid to improve your life. Now, where would that put you? If life is comparative, and not that it should or shouldn't be, but if we always are like, how tall are you? Well, how's tall everybody around me? How good looking are you? How good looking is everybody around me?

How rich are you? Well, how is every, rich is everybody around me? I found this study from Henley and Partners on the richest cities in America. Fascinating. So here's the richest cities in America in terms of billionaires, hundred millionaires, and millionaires. New York has 340,000 millionaires. It's up 40% in the last decade. New York has 724,000 millionaires. and 58 billionaires. The top five goes like this after New York. The Bay Area number two. L.A. number three.

Chicago number four, Houston number five. Somewhat uninteresting because it follows population. Those are pretty much the five biggest cities in America. Fastest-growing city for millionaires? Austin, Texas. Outlier in this chart. Bay Area, fewer millionaires than New York, fewer hundred millionaires than New York,

more billionaires than New York I give you Silicon Valley but here's my big takeaway from this ranking you take for granted that your economy is always going to grow that's always going to go up but I give you Tokyo with a number of millionaires and 100 millionaires down 5% of the last 10 years

London down 15% over the last 10 years Hong Kong down 22% over the last 10 years economies don't just go in one direction. Ask the Japanese how their economy's been for the last quarter of a century. But $365 million will put you within, in the New Jersey area, the top 720 richest people in that

city, which if life is comparative, should make you pretty happy. But then you've got to confront this fact. According to some studies, 70% of lottery winners go broke. This is where we started the show talking to A.J. Prasinski about professional athletes thinking the money's going to go on forever. It doesn't go on forever. 70% of lotto winners go broke. So clearly they missed something in the equation of simply that much money, satisfying everything you need to be happy, at least over a long period of time. Taking us back to our hypothetical, would you rather make $50,000 when everybody else makes $25,000, or would you rather make $100,000 when everybody else makes 200. Let's ask the guys back in the control room before we go today. Two a days, young establishment

James and tinfoil pat. Let me get the quick answer from all of you guys. Which do you pick from the Harvard study? Do you take less money but more than everybody else or more money and less than everybody else? You go first, establishment James. Oh, that's tough. That's really tough. I think if cost of living is higher, you take the higher salary. Or if cost of living is better, you'll take the higher salary. So the argument, for the record, that the people make is, if you make a hundred grand in an environment of 200 grand, then everything is going to be priced at a 200 grand level, and you won't necessarily have all the benefits of making more money if you were at 50.

Now, the problem with that argument is it assumes that wealth is only contextual, right? where, look, we can see in America the idea of capitalism that a rising tide lifts all boats is true. You know what I mean? Like, you know, the poorest among us live like middle class in the rest of the world. We live like kings compared to people from the past. So, you know, 100 grand is still 100 grand and it can afford a wealthier, maybe not, it depends on how we define wealthy. It can afford a higher standard of living. Yeah, I think I'm going with.

the hundred grand because I don't really mind what people around me are making. If I have a higher standard of living, I'm okay with that. And that's it. That's where I'll stay at. I don't mind the neighbor thing. It won't affect me in a way that maybe that makes me like, you know, what they're saying, you know, beta or whatever. I don't care. You know, I'll take the more money and have people around me make a little more. Hold on. I appreciate that you are Zen master two days. But let me just change the equation for you, all right? Go ahead. Dan, would you rather your IQ be

110 and everybody around you a 90 or would you rather your IQ be 130 but everybody around you is 150? Oh, that's tough. You're objectively smarter but you feel dumber. Well, now you're getting into something different. I think I would

go with the higher IQ then, for sure, but just a little bit smarter. You're saying you'd rather be the dumb guy in the room even if you're smarter. Sure, because I'm still smart. I mean, relatively, or comparatively, I'm smart too, so it doesn't matter. That's a high IQ. I got one more for you, Dan, since you're the Zen master here.

All right. Always looking for self-improvement, not one to bring others down. I appreciate that about you. Yeah, of course. Would you rather your physical attractiveness be a six and everybody else is a four, or would you rather be an eight, but everybody else is a 10? Six and four real fast. Is it different guys and girls?

What's the breakdown gender there? That's very important. I'm bowing down to this one. So you'd rather be the best-looking dude in a room of ugly people than the worst-looking dude in a room of good-looking people. Yes, correct. That was a fast answer, too. All right, tinfoil, Pat.

You're taking more money or higher prestige? all things the same i think more money makes a lot more sense um you know i mean it just you know you don't want to you don't want to be the i don't think i can say that on here um like the tallest midget you know out there so you want to be you can say yeah i just um but uh it's like you know you look at Haiti you know like Haiti you know like If you're in a village of little people, you're like to be a rich guy in Haiti? The point is, hold on, Patrick, if you're in a village of little people and you're the tallest little person, you're the tall guy.

Right. You'd never know that you're not actually tall. I don't know. I'd rather just, I don't know. I'm okay with having more money, you know, in that situation. I think I am too. I take the hundred and trust myself to build upon a better standard of living. I don't like the idea of dragging other people down.

to make yourself better. I want all of us to succeed. And I am competitive, and I don't want to succeed too, but I don't think wealth and all that's a zero-sum game. I do think a rising tide lifts all boats. So that being said, I will take my lump sum payment. I'll take the $365 million. I will be in the 30 percent. I will not burn it up. I will not go broke, and I'll be happy that there are 700 people richer than me in New York. That's going to do it for me today here on the Will Cain Show. It's been a fun one. Go download, subscribe, YouTube, Apple, Spotify.

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