Will Cain Country - Big Tech Goes Full 1984
Episode Date: June 16, 2023Story #1: Amazon will shut down your house if they think you are racist and Starbucks will fire you for being white. Story #2: How lying Democrats got under Will's skin. Story #3: Why Baby Gronk wi...ll never be a big-time football player. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing WillCainPodcast@fox.com Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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One, Amazon will shut down your house if you're a racist.
Starbucks will fire you if you're white.
The lesson from corporate America, it's okay to be racist, as long as you're racist against the whites.
Two, I'm not particularly, believe it or not, political.
I certainly don't consider myself a partisan.
I look forward to talking more about the Dallas Cowboys than I do about Joe Biden.
But honestly, a moment to share why I get so pissed off when someone blatantly lies to my face.
And why that seems to be over and over, at least in my mind.
experience, why that always seems to piss me off at Democrats.
Three, baby gronk, he's never going to be a big-time football player.
The difference between sports based on genetics and sports based on skill.
It's the Will Cain podcast on Fox News podcast, what's up, and welcome to the weekend.
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from your smart TV. You can watch the Will Kame podcast. It's now hot. It's summertime. We've had
this drawn-out spring, at least in Texas, where it's been nice, 70s and 80s, and wet, a ton of storms and a ton of rain.
What that has meant is health for my lawn and a delay to the oppressive heat that inevitably comes, at least to a place like Texas.
We're now getting to the 100s, and we're getting to it with heavy humidity.
You know, I got to thinking as I'm swimming, training for that race from the Statue of Liberty to Manhattan with the Navy SEALs.
This swimming outdoors has been pretty nice.
I don't even have to put on sunscreen.
I learned otherwise today.
I have myself a nice pink sunburn right along the top of my butt.
Right where the Speedo.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
I am going to wear the Speedo.
Was raised in the Speedo.
We'll compete in the Speedo.
that line right above my butt is just pink as a strawberry and so it turns out the sun is peeking through the clouds
as it gets a bit hotter my producer here on the will cane podcast one of my lovely producers is james
laverty he styles himself apparently as we had a stake the other night as a swimmer and he said to me
that he could beat me in a 50 or a 100 free now when you say that to me at least in my mind
it's the kind of thing that I would think I could wake up at the age of 63 and still win.
It's not true, but it's the kind of thing that I will go to my deathbed believing I will win.
I don't care that James is in his 20s, which means, and he says he was a swimmer,
he's probably at most 10, maybe just five or six years removed from any type of serious training.
Whereas I am 25 years removed from serious training.
I mean, there was a couple of forays in there.
I did open water swim in Hawaii, and I trained in Connecticut and New York.
One day I will tell you all about the time that I joined the gay swim team in New York.
Inadvertently, but unmistakably, I had accidentally joined the gay swim team.
I'll tell you that story in the future.
But in my current swimming environment, back attempting to train,
I will just tell you that 63-year-old me is going to go ahead and make that bet that I could win a 50-free against anyone outside of a collegiate swimmer with a little bit more humility.
I'm having trouble making the intervals.
I'm not fast, and I'm nervous about this swim from the Statue of Liberty to Manhattan.
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Story number one. Amazon will shut down your house if it thinks you are a racist.
literally shut down your house if Amazon thinks you're a racist but Starbucks will fire you
if you're white the lesson from corporate America don't be racist but if you must be racist
against the whites there have been people for quite some time including all of us here
together on the Will Kane podcast wondering aloud how it is that corporate America went so
woke seemingly against its bottom line seemingly against its profit seeking
instinct, seemingly against capitalism. Corporate America embraced marginal, radical theories
and splattered them across their cereal boxes and their beer cans. Corporate America absolutely
took up positions that have, in many cases, destroyed their market potential. We've seen that
with Target. We've seen that with Bud Light. By the way, an absolutely incredible headline
from The Washington Post this week, wherein the controversy and the effect had to be addressed
in regards to Bud Light.
The Washington Post put out a headline that reads as follows.
Bud Light has been targeted by a recent boycott, but consumers might be moving away from the
brand anyway amid stagnation for domestic beer in general.
You see, it's not that they splashed Dylan Mulvaney across the can of Bud Light.
It's just that we're all getting a little tired of domestic beer.
That's why now your new number one beer in America is Modelo.
If you ever wondered, just take this small story, and you know it's not an isolated incident.
And just answer the question, are they lying to you?
The mainstream media is now nothing, nothing more than a propaganda enterprise with a smattering of reporting.
But we've wondered aloud how so many corporations could have, in short, gone woke.
And I'm going to tell you, there are several reasons.
One, I want to address and then do away with.
And that is the idea that much of corporate America is led by true believers.
It is true that most of corporate America and its leadership, not unlike media,
and in my direct experience, both mainstream news media,
and sports media, is overwhelmingly populated by people who, because it is fashionable, find themselves
on the left. But that doesn't make them true believers. That doesn't make them warriors for the
latest fad in social justice. The reason is that most of them are cowards. They're not
of the ilk with a steel spine in pursuit of Karl Marx's vision.
They are simply go along to get along.
They are simply followers, their sheep, even when they are sheep with the title of CEO.
They are driven not by ideology, but primarily by fear.
Therefore, what I will tell you is there are three strong reasons why most corporations have gone woke.
One is the squeaky wheel effect.
We've talked on this podcast about the power of a radical minority.
We've talked about it in terms of the manipulation of markets, just as an example, not with condemnation, but as a perfect illustration.
We've talked about if you look in your fridge, you will often see on your packaged good products a symbol that has probably gone unnoticed for
most of you. That's because most of you are not kosher Jews. That would be much less than
1% of the American population. But an extreme overindex of American packaged good products
display the symbol that their product is kosher. Why is that? Because of the squeaky wheel
effect. The kosher audience will not buy a product that is not kosher. And those who could care
less about whether or not something is kosher. We'll buy something whether or not it's kosher.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Another good example is the illustration that we no longer
are being handed out packaged peanuts on airplane flights. Instead, we get pretzels. Why is that?
Because of the radical minority that is those who have an allergy to peanuts. We're not even
allowed, supposedly, to bring on our own peanuts. Why is that? Why is that?
that, not because most of us are allergic to peanuts, but because of the radical minority that
is the squeaky wheel. There is a squeaky wheel effect to those that think the United
States is inherently racist, that you have to purge it of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's Rice.
There is a squeaky wheel effect to everything going on in the month of June, your radical
sliding scale of sexual perversions masquerading as a civil rights act. That is the squeaky
will affect for much of corporate America.
There's another reason.
That reason is ESG, environmental, social, and governance.
That is a Wall Street marker for how corporations in the United States of America,
Fortune 500 companies, are judged upon these factors, environmental, social justice,
and governance.
And if you have high marks, you have a better ability to earn institutional money in buying
your stock, driving up.
the price of your stock and the value of your corporation, and the job performance of you as
CEO. It doesn't really matter what you or your stockholders believe, because in the end,
everybody wants a higher stock price. And if the path to that is to get a high ESG score,
which means make sure you have trans bathrooms, abide by the Human Rights Council, which is one
of the ones pushing a bunch of these trans issues, by the way, funded by George Soros.
among other issues, I think a certain level of advertising dedicated to these, you know, marginalized minorities, then you get a better ESG score, you attract investment from institutions, you push up your stock price, you get a better pat on the back by your CEO or by your major stockholder, your major shareholder, and everybody goes home for the richer.
But a third reason that most corporations go woke is lawfare, using the law as warfare.
It's called lawfare.
Corporations are terrified of lawsuits.
They're not terrified of losing lawsuits.
I can tell you that as a former attorney.
They're terrified of being drawn into a lawsuit.
You get drawn into lawsuits.
You've got to pay attorneys by the hour.
You have to show up for depositions, produce documents, satisfy judges' requirements.
You're talking about years and hourly bills and money being drained and stress and heartache and distraction from your primary business, whatever it is.
That may be your business.
It's lawfare.
The left has been very good at using the legal system as a weapon to scare corporations into abiding,
by not their policies but their momentary fattish whims. Well, today we have an entry in lawfare
being used to push back on woke corporations. I'm going to read to you from CNN business
headline, Starbucks says it fired her for an absence of leadership. She says it was because of
her race. A jury returned a $25.6 million verdict in her favor.
does not say in that headline, which is a bit of bearing the lead, she won $25 million
because a jury declared that Starbucks fired her because she's white.
I read, a jury on Monday found in favor of former Starbucks regional director Shannon Phillips
who sued the company for wrongfully firing her, claiming she was terminated for being white.
Interestingly, in CNN's style book, White Like Black, is now capitalized.
Phillips, who worked for Starbucks for about 13 years and managed a region of stores in the area, was fired after the arrest of two black men, black capitalized, at a Philadelphia Starbucks in April 2018.
The New Jersey jury returned a verdict of $25.6 million, including $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages, according to Consul Matiachi Law, which represents Phillips.
The jury ruled unanimously after a six-day trial.
The lawyer said noting that Phillips will also be seeking back-end front pay.
Punitive damages are a term for damages as punishment.
The jury declared that she had $600,000 in actual damages from being fired from Starbucks because of race.
They punished Starbucks to the tune of $25 million for engaging in this title.
of racism. This stems from an incident back in 2020. You might remember during the absolute
heat of America's racial reckoning, where two black men went into a Starbucks in Philadelphia
and did not order anything. They sat at a table and said they were waiting on a colleague
to show up. I don't know how long this went on. Those are the sort of details that don't make
their way into social media, nor into the mind of the race hustler. But at some point, this regional
manager, who I do not think was directly involved in the incident. At some point in this
incident, the police were called and the two men were escorted out of Starbucks. Starbucks
was sued then for racial discrimination. Their response to overcorrect was to find
someone internally to pay the price. They settled on Shannon Phillips. Through the course of this
trial, they attempted to make the case that Phillips displayed a lack of leadership. She made it clear
to the tune of a unanimous jury
that they fired her because they were looking for someone
with white skin as a scalp.
This is lawfare.
You and I both know
the corporations are indulging.
Hell, the United States of America at every level
from education to corporate America
is engaging in reverse racism.
It's not cool in America
to be racist.
And that's cool.
Except it is cool in America to be racist
as long it is limited to racist against whites.
And that's not cool.
This type of case is ripe for any enterprising attorney out there that wishes to engage in the self-corrected mechanism of lawfare.
Because it's happening everywhere, and you and I both know it.
I've heard from many of you to listen to the Will K.M podcast.
I've heard your personal stories.
I heard about you losing your jobs.
I've heard about race holding people back when it comes to promotion.
I know about the racial discrimination inside the education system in the U.S.
USA. And here we have an outlet to begin to put the self-corrected mechanisms back on corporate
America. I want a society where none of us are judged by the color of our skin. In modern
America, that statement in and of itself is one that somehow classifies me as a racist. I seek
a society where we're judged by our merit and our character. And somehow that is the mindset
of a racist. Because in America, the way corporate America has bought into the rhetoric of the race
hustler, the only way to truly not be a racist is to in fact be a racist in reverse against
white people. Instead, what we have to do is push for a society that no, doesn't la-di-da to the
nonsense of race blindness. None of us can be blind. Lady Justice, she would hope, with her
blindfold, can look at someone inside of their own courtroom and decline to see their race,
but where we strive as society to achieve looking beyond each other's race.
We can recognize our differences, both cultural and ethnic, but we don't judge each other according to those broad sweeps, according to the broad brush.
We don't judge each other according to those shallow characteristics.
We look beyond race into our souls, into our character, into our actions.
Oh, we still retain the capability of judgment.
Oh, we can judge one another for laziness or stupidity or low moral character or lying.
but we don't, based upon the shallow characteristics of appearance beyond perhaps the way you dress.
We strive for a society to get beyond race.
In order to do so, maybe corporate America has to literally be called to the bench, called to court, to pay the price for their own racism.
Now, while Starbucks has paid the price for reverse racism against an employee who was white, Amazon may soon have to pay the price.
for coming into your home, listening to you, spying, judging, and then punishing you
for allegations, rumor, hearsay, falsehoods that you are a racist.
I bring you this story from the Daily Mail.
It's been widely reported across almost every mainstream source.
As an example, Reuters has now reported as well that headline reads,
Amazon shuts down customer's smart home for a week after delivery driver claimed he heard racist slur through a ring doorbell, even though no one was home.
I'll read now.
Amazon reportedly shut down a customer's smart home after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home.
Brandon Jackson of Baltimore, Maryland came home on May 25th to find that he had been locked out of his Amazon Echo, which many devices, including his.
lights are connected to. He would later learn that Amazon locked him out of his account after
a delivery driver dropped off a package the day before. Jackson, an engineer at Microsoft,
said everything is fine after the package arrived, or everything seemed fine after the package
arrived at his home, and had initially thought he was locked out because someone had tried
to access my account repeatedly, triggering a lockout. But that's not what happened to
Brandon Jackson, who, for what it's worth, and as a fairly significant, by the way,
appears to be at a minimum of mixed race.
Brandon Jackson appears that he may be black.
Brandon Jackson, in fact, as I read the next paragraph, is black.
Jackson, I quote, who is black, said most of the neighborhood and its delivery drivers are
also African American, and it would be highly unlikely that we would make such a
remarks. So an Amazon delivery driver, the story goes, is wearing headphones. It delivers a
package, and some message is uttered through the ring doorbell. Reports are it was something
stock. Excuse me, how may I help you? Somehow, through the music coming through his headphones,
the Amazon delivery driver, here's a racial slur. No reports on the nature of that racial slur.
He in turn tells Amazon, who he works for, that he heard this racial slur at this home. Amazon
sees that Brandon Jackson has an Amazon Echo, and he, as I guess, a early tech adopter,
has wired his home in various ways to run through Amazon as a smart home.
Amazon shuts it all down.
I think like his electricity, I don't know what else, his, obviously his streaming services,
his television, whatever else you would have, he says he's shut down.
And as is the case, as you know, by the way, right now, I'm totally trapped inside
the New York DMV phone tree system.
I mean, I am in a cycle around the seventh level of hell.
A cycle. I'm spiraling.
Press 1, press 2.
The other day, I think I counted, you know, if you want X, press 1, if you want Y, press 2.
I think I ended up pressing, like, nine numbers.
And do you think I got a human at the end of those nine numbers?
Negative, once you get to that point.
Finally, by the way, the New York DMV doesn't have one of those systems where you can just yell representative at it.
and you cut through the system.
I did see a joke once that you can judge a human's character
by the way they say representative to a phone tree system.
Representative.
I would be judged poorly if that's the true test of our character.
There's not even a human at the end of this labyrinth.
Then I was told I got a 55-minute wait, which I missed.
I was on the phone with someone I wanted to talk to.
I didn't drop the call.
I saw it coming.
I'm like, I got to keep this call.
I'm not going to the...
So I'm back.
I'm going to circle the eighth layer.
of hell so that was brandon's experience trying to get through to amazon emails and i don't think i think
he did actually get somebody on the phone but they didn't immediately restore it they didn't he said i wasn't
home how could someone have said a racial slur they didn't restore it no it was then put into an
investigation which i don't know how amazon would intend to investigate that you have what we know is
a flawed allegation launched by the amazon driver a counterpoint allegation by brandon and somewhere after a week
of not having his services, Amazon finally restores Brandon Jackson's life. So many lessons.
Don't or be very careful with the smart home. That's one. Two, if we invite the smart home
into our lives, are we inviting them, in fact, to spy and to listen and pass judgment on the
things said in our home? If it starts at racial slurs, flawed racial slurs, by the way,
Which, you know, not for nothing, but it's not illegal to be racist.
Like, if there's people out there who are racist in their home, are they not capable of having services?
No.
Oh, Amazon's a private business.
Amazon doesn't want to do business with racists.
Okay.
And so what?
You're going to spy on everyone to see who's worthy of your services?
Does it end at racism?
Is there some, I don't know the definition, so let's be careful here.
Transphobia that also will get your services cut off from Amazon?
We know that banks, by the way, are denying services, banking and credit and credit card services to certain purchases and turning over information to the feds, for example, if you purchase guns.
What type of behavior gets you marked by these private companies to have your life shut down and reported?
That's two.
Three, apparently they have no standard of proof.
Well, I just heard something.
What'd you hear?
I'm not sure.
Or she is sure, even though he had headphones on and no one was home.
The simple, specious, shaky foundation, allegation of racism is enough to have you shut down by Amazon.
That's three.
And four, how about this?
How about one of those enterprising lawyers who's looking for another case like that against Starbucks begins to also look for one where Amazon is discriminating?
Based on what?
How about this?
Everything.
We're all allowed to discriminate.
Discrimination is actually healthy.
You want to discriminate between rotten food and healthy food.
You want to discriminate between bad behavior and good behavior.
You want to discriminate between the various sexual partners you choose.
I suggest you discriminate.
So what is Amazon standards for discrimination?
Because right here it looks to me, like they might not be biting by.
The law set out in the United States Constitution.
Maybe Amazon also ripe for lawfare.
We're going to step aside here for a moment.
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Story number two.
I truly don't consider myself a partisan.
I have as much harsh judgment as I do for Republicans as I do, Democrats.
I truly don't consider myself particularly political.
I mean, given a choice in the backyard, sharing some non-transgender beer, I would choose for us to talk about sports.
But I do have a particular reversion.
It does particularly piss me off.
When someone stares into my face and absolutely lies, because it says how little they think of you, it reveals,
exactly the depths of the disdain and maybe I'm wrong but as an observation it does seem to be that
one particular party one particular political party is looking directly in my face with disdain
and giving me the bald face lie it does seem to be Democrats this week the Democrats once again
exposed the depths of their lies, as illustrated through hypocrisy, by shrugging off their own
administration's recommendations to stop using the term MAGO Republicans, as it is a violation
of the Hatch Act.
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he promised to bring back decency and civility
to the nation.
One of the things that was said was that he would restore our nation's norms.
That was a way of saying that the Trump administration broke protocol, broke manners, broke norms, not to mention now, the allegation, of course, that he broke laws.
And then my administration would be an administration that takes the high road, restoring our hallowed norms.
But it didn't last long, and it doesn't even last their own standards and their own internal critiques.
I read to you from foxnews.com headline, White House blows off hatchact.
violation, continues using MAGA despite internal watchdog's warning.
Subhead, the term MAGA is synonymous with former President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign,
mainly because it was his slogan.
Now, what is the Hatch Act?
What do you mean MAGA is a slogan?
Why does that mean the Biden administration is looking into our faces with disdain and once
again giving us the lie?
Let's read from Fox News.com.
The White House appears to be blowing off its own internal watchdog by continuing to use the term MAGA in official communications despite warnings that staffers who do so are violating the Hatch Act, according to an Axios report.
Maga Republicans has become a staple boogeyman of the Biden administration as it continues to navigate a porous southern border, an uncertain economic outlook, and topless transgender activists at the White House lawn.
It's a funny statement as they continue to navigate topless transgender activists.
activists on the lawn of the White House.
However, the White House's use of the term appears to go against federal election rules.
The Office of Special Counsel warned the Biden administration that using the term MAGA in an
official capacity violates the Hatch Act.
Now, what is the Hatch Act?
The Hatch Act is legislation that prevents elected office holders from using government
resources like the White House Press Secretary's podium to engage in campaign activities.
The term MAGA is synonymous with Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, but it has become, as was stayed at the top of this article, a boogeyman of the left.
MAGA Republicans, mega-Maga Republicans.
It's been said by Joe Biden.
It's been said by Corrine Jean-Pierre.
It's been said by White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates.
Now, that means if you are in government, you are not supposed to use the resources of the government to campaign.
By continuing to call their opponents MAGA Republicans, they are referring to an oppositional campaign and in turn campaigning inside the official levers and with the official resources of the United States government.
They have turned the White House press secretary's podium into a political ad.
Okay, fine.
Let's say they made a mistake.
Let's say MAGA they thought had been expanded.
It wasn't simply a campaign term.
let's say it was as we know their latest attempt to use yet another ad hominin slur like
pandemic of the end vaccinated well after they got the warning from the office of special counsel
to stop using maga it could be a violation of the hatch act which wouldn't just be a norm
it would be a regulatory violation a statutory regulation a statutory violation
they ignored it.
Corrine Jean-Pierre continued to use MAGA.
Andrew Bates continued to use Mega MAGA Republicans.
They don't care.
They're not trying to restore norms, not trying to restore civility.
They don't care.
That's the lie right there with disdain to our face.
And it's a, Baker's does an entry into this over a three-year time frame.
Divide us, call names, ad hominem attacks, all the while committing the same sins.
Pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Wear your mask.
Bullshould, lie.
Election deniers.
Stacey Abrams.
Hillary Clinton, also election deniers.
Russia hoax, while current evidence points to right now, this administration being under
the influence of foreign powers.
Let's take a minute to review the latest on Joe Biden and the allegations that he has
has been bought by, for at a minimum, Ukraine.
Have you ever wondered how Joe Biden got so wealthy?
How is Joe Biden rich?
And oh, he is rich, multiple homeowner, nice big homes on the coast.
How did Joe Biden make so much money?
He's been in government since the 1970s.
He's been in government his entire career.
He's been making several hundred thousand dollars a year,
but that's not enough to support the seeming,
conspicuous consumption lifestyle that's around, well, all of the Bidens.
How did Joe Biden get rich?
One of the first moments we know that Joe Biden made a good amount of money was in 2017,
his first year out of government, fresh off his tenure as vice president of the United States.
In 2017, Joe Biden reported on his taxes to have made roughly $15 million.
How do you make that money?
Largely, he reported, through book memoirs.
$10 million to Joe Biden, $3 million to Jill Biden for memoirs.
Now, $10 million is a big advance.
It's a very big up front.
For a guy, to my knowledge, before that, no real record of being a best-selling author.
$10 million, big money.
It's also the roundabout exact figure alleged to have been paid from Burisma to Hunter
and Joe Biden, $5 million each, roughly at that time.
There's new reporting on that as well from the Federalist.
The Burisma executive, who is said to have had 17 tapes recording two with Joe Biden,
15 with Hunter Biden, negotiating a bribery to ensure that the prosecutor in Ukraine
will stop looking into Burisma, says that he was coerced by the Bidens into these payments.
not that he offered it up, but rather that he was coerced into bribery by the Bidens.
It continues to smell.
It continues to be dirty.
And it continues to get absolutely zero attention from, oh, yes, of course, the mainstream media, but the FBI.
How about while we look into boxes of documents, and by the way, the indictment of former President Donald Trump that includes all these pictures of boxes and bathrooms and in ballrooms, I'm just kidding.
curious. I believe it's reported to be 135 or so classified documents. Greg Kelly at
Newsmax did an awesome illustration. 135 documents, he took to 600 pages. I don't know how
many pages. 135 documents is supposed to be. I thought 135. Maybe one document is five
stapled pages together. Maybe it's more. I don't know. He took 600 pages. He dropped him into a box.
How much did it feel? About a third of that one box. So in the indictment,
when they keep showing us pictures of
hundreds of boxes
that don't have classified materials in them
so they're totally irrelevant
so they're designed to manipulate
the mind to poison a jury pool
to propagandize
they're not illustrative
of in any way
135 classified documents
but by all means let's continue to
hyperventilate and propagandize
about 135 classified documents
same crime essentially committed
by Joe Biden himself
and Hillary Clinton, and totally ignore the potential corruption of the sitting president
of the United States.
But that lie, the Russia hoax lie, the calling parents domestic terrorists, lie upon
lie upon lie, to our face with disdain, designed to divide us.
It's so insulting.
It's insulting on the personal level.
It's insulting in your life if you know someone who looks you directly in the eye and
lies to you so consistently and so brazenly. Cut that person out of your life. They think so little
of you. They think you're stupid, that you're a tool to be manipulated. And I can't help but notice
and over these lies come from Democrats, from Hillary Clinton, from Joe Biden. Do I think
Republicans are above reproach? Do I think that somehow Republicans are pure as the driven snow? Do I think
Republicans don't lie? No, I don't think that's the case at all. But right now, I mean, again,
forgive the observations. But Democrats, you're on a hot roll. You're smoking, baby. You've got a
nice track record, probably because you've seen the benefits. You've been reaping the rewards
of lie after lie after lie. And you've got cover from your friends in the mainstream media
who are not in the business of truth and reporting, but are in the business of propaganda.
Yet another lie. Words and news and truth, just tools. As are people.
People, people just tools, right, to manipulate in the pursuit of permanent power.
Yeah, that does.
More than partisanship, more than politics, that does have the ability to piss me off.
Story number three.
Have you seen the story of baby gronk?
Baby gronk is the name of a 10-year-old boy whose father has been pimping him out on social media to podcast after podcast.
we could get baby gronk and his father right here on the will cane podcast he's a social media
star he's suggesting he's already in communication with colleges that he's on his way to becoming a
big time college football player professional football player it's gross there's a video going
around of baby gronk and his dad on a podcast where they ask baby gronka question the podcast host
and every time he gives an answer and his dad goes no no no say it this way and feeds him a direct
the line and then baby gronk says it the way his dad says it so it can be cut for social media
in this very viral and fake way i mean the dad may as well just stick his hand up the back of
his shirt and start panamiming baby gronk as his own little puppet on his path to virality
on his path to stardom but that's not as interesting to me my man dan dockich by the way said
something interesting outkicks dan docked said that he could tell the baby gronk wasn't going to be a
good football player. He could just tell by his face. I love Dockich. He's got so many different
physical traits that he can immediately judge someone on their athleticism. God, help him if he comes
into my home whenever he meets my sons. I have heard Dockich say someone will never be good
because they have bad eyes. In that moment, he was talking about Christop's Porzingus. I think
he also said it. Which quarterback did he say it about? Was it Justin Herbert? I can't remember.
Bill never be great. Bad eyes. We used to laugh about that. He's also said to me, I asked,
body parts do you know immediately someone won't be good calves and ankles but he said that one's tricky
because he used to think that the skinny ankle you know guy wasn't going to be a great athlete he's wrong
about that what they've actually seen is like the short-caved guy you know you're seeing the guys with
the super long skinny ankles and the calf is all a ball up near the top underneath the knee
they're actually good they've got hops whereas like thick ankles no good not good buts
What was it, Dockcher's telling me about butts?
I can't remember.
I think that you want a big butt.
I can't remember.
But I know butts play into this as well.
But Dockich had a new one when it came to Baby Gronk.
He said he's not going to be good.
I can just tell by his face, which is my favorite.
He just knows Baby Gronk's got no future.
Why?
His face.
But here's what I wanted to get to.
Jim Nagy runs the senior bowl.
He used to be a colleague of mine at ESPN.
And I saw him tweet this.
He said, it doesn't matter how much you try to pimp out your son
or actually train him in this era of specialization.
and get on it early.
Football is a sport of genetics.
It's a sport of mutants, of monsters.
You can pick up football late in life.
You can't train someone, skill someone,
into being an NFL player.
And a lot of people jumped into the comments.
Some former football players are saying,
this isn't skilled.
And of course, Nagy's not saying,
no, there's not that there's not skill involved.
But everyone, almost everyone,
there's always going to be exceptions to the rule.
But everyone on the first,
football field is a physical freak in some way, size or speed, short-burst speed, perhaps.
Wes Welker. Look, Wes Welker looks like a normal dude. You know, Julian Edelman, they're physical
freaks in so many ways, short-burst speed, trust me. None of these people are normal.
When I say that, in a flattering way, most of them are giants. They're absolute monsters.
I remember when I walked on to the Pepperdine water polo team, I thought, well, you know, I'll be the fast
guy. And I quickly learned at that time what it meant to be a division one athlete. Because there was
dudes in the water with me who were 240 pounds. And I'm not talking about a rip 240. I'm not talking
about an NFL tied in. They are now, by the way. They all look like NFL tight ends. But back in
the 90s, he'd have some dudes out there with some, you know, a spare tire around the belly.
But do you think I jumped in the pool was beating them? No. I learned then what it was to be a
division one athlete. Those dudes were big and fast. They were huge. Big Mitch. Big Mitch.
pause, they put on you and sink you, and then beat you to the other end of the pool.
Endurance, speed, strength, all of it.
Not some of it.
Not one of them.
All of them.
Those dudes in the NFL that you see running the 40, the offensive linemen, trust me, they're fast.
Not fast for a fat man.
Not fast for an offensive lineman.
They're fast, period.
So Nagy's saying it's a sport of genetics.
You can't just say, you know how we all do.
This is how it works now.
You get your kid into a sport at the age of seven, and you do it five times a week, and you pay for every specialized training, and they drop all other sports so they can do this one 12 months a year, because we're all on our way to what?
A college scholarship, English Premier League, what? NFL?
But there are sports where skill is more important, where you can put in the work.
It's just not football. Nagy points to Ziggy Ansah, who's a guy.
And you hear this a lot.
Less so in basketball, often in football.
Or often, by the way, the children of African immigrants who move here later in life
and decide to take up football later, like high school, like sophomore year.
And then before you know it, their first round draft picks at defensive end.
Ziggy Ansaw from BYU, then the Detroit Lions.
Just an athletic freak.
Started playing football at like 16.
You hear that every once in a while in basketball.
Who was it?
Was it in Bede?
I think it was Joel Embed played soccer, not basketball for most of his life.
I think Janice took up basketball pretty late.
But these guys also are genetic freaks, tall, athletic.
Basketball is a sport where there can be some skill that pushes you along the way.
Shooting is a skill.
Shooting is a skill.
Handles and dribbling a little bit of a skill, partially a skill.
But like, Steph is a fairly normal-sized human being.
Now, he is elite athletics in so many ways, but he, when you used to,
see Steph Curry, you're looking at a golfer who's perfected his swing. There is skill,
which is determined practice that can take you a certain level in some of those sports.
Soccer is a sport. You cannot join soccer late in life. You can't just be a great athlete.
You know, Usain Bolt, super fast. Interestingly, Chad Johnson, Chad Ocho Cinco did play soccer,
so he does have some skills. O'Dell Beckham. You can't take O'Dell because he's just a magnificent
athlete and put him on a soccer field. He's not going to work. He doesn't have to. He doesn't
have the skills of foot eye coordination, ball coordination with your foot. That takes time,
juggling, drill work, like a lot of time to master that. And then athleticism peaks through.
I think soccer like basketball is a combo sport. You won't make it on just athleticism.
And you probably won't make it just on skill, but it's a combo. If you want to
Marinovich your son
absolutely
you know Todd Morinovich famously
his dad wouldn't let him
to be an NFL quarterback
quarterback some skill
some skill but there's a lot of
athleticism there
it's golf
if you want to do this
it's got to be golf
any sport that is about
skill over athleticism
and that is most certainly golf
look at golf like come on
and I'm not talking it down
it's not a highly
athletic sport. It's not devoid of athletics. I'm not saying it's devoid of it, but it's a
8515 skill sport. Go with golf. Baby Gronk, if you want to be big time, your dad should have had
you swinging a seven iron, not knocking pads at the age of six. That's going to do it for me
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