Will Cain Country - Chicago Rejects Trump’s Help As 54 Shot Over Weekend (ft. Drea de Matteo)

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Story #1: In 'Quick Takes,' Will hits on the big stories of the week: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) worry about President Donald Trump's help on crime as 54 people are shot in Chicago over the weekend, and Patrick Bet-David confronts socialists in online debate while the 'New York Times' denies Zohran Mamdani's socialism Story #2: 'Off The Weekend' takes you behind the curtain of two big interviews: Vice President J.D. Vance and Barstool’s Dave Portnoy. Will shares what you didn’t see on-air, the questions that hit hardest, and answers your questions. Story #3: Emmy-winning actress Drea de Matteo joins Will to talk about her career, the state of Hollywood, and why she’s charting her own path in an industry that feels more broken than ever. From The Sopranos to today, Drea opens up about fame, resilience, and reinvention. Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One, seven murders in one labor day weekend. Or Donald Trump is about to cancel the 2026 election with a federal takeover of Chicago, which is the real version of the future in America. Quick takes, including where is this communist utopia I keep hearing about, that's promised for the United States. Two, behind the scenes with the vice president, J.D. Vance, and my weekend in Columbus, Ohio.

Three, Emmy Award winning actress Drea DiMeteo joins us here on Wilkine. Country. It is Will Kane Country streaming live at the Wilcane Country YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page. Terrestrial radio across this great United States of America, but always available by subscribing it, Apple, or on Spotify. A growing audience with us over on the Will Cain Country channel on YouTube. We encourage you. to make sure you subscribe, bookmark, and like that page. There you will get not just live streaming episodes of Will Cain Country, but unique,

behind the scenes, coverage of everything that we do, including our interview with Vice President J.D. Vance. There on that, Wilcane Country YouTube channel, among the comments, mustering is the Willisha. People like Wins 0808, who comments, Newsom is mocking Trump, not mimicking, learn to speak English. This is in response to our interview with the Vice President of the United States. I asked the Vice President what he thought about California Governor Gavin Newsom,

what he thought about his social media presence, and what he thought about his rising poll numbers on the left. Now, at this stage, the frontrunner for Democratic nominee for president, Gavin Newsom. The vice president suggested, mimicking Donald Trump is not a path to popularity. Mimicking Donald Trump is not a path to the presidency. The lesson from Donald Trump is authenticity. You can't borrow a personality. You can't fake your way to the presidency.

This has been a big divide on the left. How do we interpret what is being done by Gavin Newsom? I know the left, again, thinks this is wonderful mockery, that it's mirroring, that it's showing the absurdity of Donald Trump through the lens of Gavin Newsom. I know, we know, everyone knows what you think is being done by Newsom. But what you have to understand is Newsom is a shapeshifter. Newsom has no core. Newsom isn't a real person.

He's a projection of a politician. I know this because I've seen the average. changing shape of his public persona. I don't know if deep down over breakfast with his children or having beers with his buddies, there is a real Gavin Newsom. But I know that publicly, and the way that he positions himself as a politician, one minute he's a moderate talking to Charlie Kirk, one minute he's thoughtful, talking to Bill Maher, the next, he's an anti-Trump fighter.

spinning absurdities on social media. And it's not just the mimicking or mirroring of Donald Trump. It's the mockery of prayer. Last week after the shooting by a transgender male in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He posted on social media, the children were literally praying in their pews, suggesting there is no power in prayer. That is a shape taking form that I think is absolutely vile and repulsive. And I think as he tries on different hats, as he slips on different masks, it's hard to see a man playing 3D chess showing the world the absurdity of Donald Trump.

The world has had 10 years to decide what they think of Donald Trump's tweets. They've had 10 years to think about what they think of Donald Trump's presidency. Gavin Newsom is doing nothing but performance. It's yet another hat, yet another mask. Yet another shape that he's shifted into. This time, mimicking Donald Trump. He's not playing to the persuadable. He's mocking, mimicking, or mirroring Donald Trump for your pleasure,

those of you who like it in the Willisha. whether or not you like Vice President J.D. Vance or you hate Vice President J.D. Vance. I'll take you behind the scenes in just moments. What was he like when the cameras stopped rolling? What did we talk about? It's the main question that I've gotten since last Thursday. What's he like? J.D. Vance.

I'll answer for you, the Wollisha, here. Coming up in just a moment on Wilcane Country. But let's get into all that we've missed together over the long holiday weekend. Let's get to the top stories in the news with quick takes. Story number one. Quick takes around the news, let us start in the city of Chicago. Over the Labor Day weekend, there were 54 to 59 shootings. As the data settles, it currently looks like seven to nine murders over the weekend in Chicago.

How does that compare to the past? Well, sadly, it's somewhat par for the course. In Chicago, over the last 10 years, you have seen shootings range from in the 40s to the 60s. Your high watermark was in 2016 and 2021 with 66 shootings. Murders have ranged from 6 to 13. Your high watermark, your worst year in Chicago, 2016. 13 murders. 2025 coming in at 7 to 9 murders and 59 shootings puts it right on par with some of the worst years in Chicago.

It's not getting better. It's an intransigent problem. Unsafe city streets, gang-related shootings, no-go zones and neighborhoods in the windy city. That, and for quite some time, has been reality. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago suggested, in fact, the problem for Chicagoans isn't crime, but the potential for the presence of Donald Trump. It's the potential for the presence of the National Guard, and he signed a local executive order to ensure you won't have to see tanks on the streets of Chicago. Here is Mayor Brandon Johnson. No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago.

No militarized force in the city of Chicago. Because what would be the point in seeing the National Guard? What would be the point in seeing Bearcats in the South Side? Well, according to Governor J.B. Prisker, the point would be an absolute invasion of the state of Illinois by the United States of America. And in fact, the point would be to cancel democracy. The latest update on the threats to democracy now include fighting crime. According to the governor of Illinois, here's J.B. Pritzker.

So it's clear that in secret they're planning this, well, it's an invasion with U.S. troops if they, in fact, do that. The other thing is, you know, they ought to be coordinating with local law enforcement. They ought to let us know when they're coming, where they're coming, if it's ICE, or if it's ATF, or whoever. it is. His theory for this invasion canceled the elections of 2024 and 2026, a federal takeover, the authoritarian march, the rise of Hitler, the domination of Donald Trump. This dystopian fantasy seems like it's been written straight out of the handmaid's tale, perhaps the hunger games.

The mindset of the modern Democrat is written in a young adults novel, the vision that they are painting, the pitch that they are selling. is that you're on the doorstep of Nazi Germany, that you're about to have your children's sacrifice to the hunger games. The problem in Chicago isn't the dozen or so murders yearly on a week-to-weekend basis. The problem in Chicago is something that hasn't yet happened but been promised now for well over a decade,

the authoritarian takeover by Donald Trump. The biggest lesson from COVID, without a doubt, the biggest lesson from COVID is the most powerful motive, and the human instinct is fear. Maybe we all watched Michael Douglas in Wall Street and came out thinking that at the base level, what we really have to fight, the vice that existed from the beginning of the Garden of Eden was greed, but it's not. The base level human motivation is fear.

Survival. Put my survival in jeopardy. Threaten me with fear. and I will fall in line like a sheep. That's the lesson from COVID. And we watch it happen, not just in political discourse, not just clips on MSNBC.

We watched it play out on the streets with our neighbors. As neighbor turned against neighbor, as subway riders looked at each other with fear, we saw our society get its closest. In my lifetime, I believe, in the last half century, to collapse. But that fear is not isolated to a virus. That fear is a tool used by just about every politician that you can imagine to consolidate power and not just at home in the United States, but in experiment after experiment, from socialism to communism, fear as a way for you to surrender your freedom, for you to surrender your choice, for you to fall in line like sheep. And at the same time, paint the politician fighting against that authoritarian takeover as the hero.

This is Brandon Johnson, and this is J.B. Pritzker's hero journey. This dystopian fantasy, this real-life version of The Handmaid's Tale, interestingly casts them as your hero, your savior, your white knight. But what is real? Is it real? why hasn't it happened it's not a new story the story began in 2015 and the story has been repeated ad nauseum for a decade and it's being sold once again on the basis of fear and i ask you is that dystopian reality is that fantasy or is it the dead bodies on the south side that's real here's one more thing that is real

Over the weekend in Washington, D.C., the shootings and murders are as follows. Three shootings, zero to one murder. In 2024, that was six to eight shootings and two murders. Over the past decade, the shootings have ranged from seven to a dozen. The murders have ranged from one to four. But in 2025, we see those numbers cut down by two-thirds. Two-thirds, fewer bodies in the streets of Washington, D.C. That's real.

Once again, a decade plus of 10 to 12 murders and 50 to 60 shootings in the streets of Chicago. What do you have to fear? reality or a dystopian fantasy? Story number two, the point of fear and consolidation of power is often communism. A fascinating clip from the Jubilee debates put out by the media company surrounded featured this time, friend of Wilcane country, Patrick Bet David. Patrick Bet David, surrounded by a group of anti-capitalists and communists, had a debate about the virtues of different types of society building when he encountered someone who said that communism

openly is the better way to organize society. Here is Patrick Pet, David. I like to be free, but that's why I'm anti-capitalist. That is why I'm anti-Capitalist because capitalism removes that choice. There is no real incentive of capitalism because the incentive is survival. If I were to get into communism, the incentive is for the common good. I love that. I got an offer for you before we move on. If I were to give you your $2,350, which is the cost to renunciate your citizenship, and I paid you your first class, you know, flight to whatever communist country and $20,000 of spending money. Name me a communist country. Would you give up your citizenship to go to that country? Whichever communist country you want to go to. Cuba, we can give you Venezuela. We give you

North Korea. Any one of those you want to go to. Choose any one of them. I'll give you one way ticket and I'll fund it for you. That young lady did not accept her one-way ticket, first class, and $2,300 to renounce her citizenship to the United States for any of the countries mentioned, not Venezuela, not Cuba, not North Korea. What I found fascinating was her rejection that any of those are true experiments in communism. This is what we always have heard. Communism and socialism are these utopias that have never quite existed in the perfect experiment, never quite implemented to perfection. And that's what the New York Times is saying today about Zoran Mamdani. What to know about Zoran Mamdani and Democrat socialism.

The subhead reads, Opponents of the Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City have derogatively called him both a socialist and a democratic socialist to make a dent in his lead in the polls. They go on to write not just about Donald Trump, but Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams talking about the fact that Zoroamom Dami is a member. of the Democrat Socialists of America, but he's not actually a socialist, writes the New York Times. He is a Democrat socialist, which means his beliefs are similar to those of socialists, but not exactly the same. Admitting he's a member of the Democrat Socialists of America, his policies, they suggest, are actually just about equity.

But they're not, really, as we've ever seen play out, a seizure of the means of production by the public. So therefore, not socialist. This is the ever-elusive target that the utopians constantly place out there. Well, we've never seen it implemented perfectly. Look, the way that human beings work is that we are not all equal. We like to organize a society with the belief that we will have equal opportunity. But we're not equal. We are varied height, varied eye color, varied intellect, varied ability.

That's the facts. And societies stratify. based upon one's ability. How that stratification takes place is the great debate. In capitalism, the idea is the stratification will happen by merit. You will be able to achieve with equal opportunity and free from government interference what you are capable of achieving. There is no promise of an equal outcome.

There is no utopia. And it won't always be fair. Capitalism, by the way, and even, even a constitutional republic, much less a democracy, are not the perfect forms of government. They're simply the best that we've figured out yet. And they're way better than the utopic organizers of society who would propose. Here's how we should stratify it. We won't. We will make sure we put our fingers on the scale, our thumbs on the scale. We'll move resources from A over to B. We'll put rules in place about what you can and cannot do. And by the end,

what we'll end up with is a fair, more equal society. But you know who always ends up unequal in the equal society? Those capable of putting the thumb on the scale, those in charge of enforcing the rules. And that's happened everywhere. Do you think Stalin lived like the person working crops in Ukraine? Do you think Stalin lived like the workers in the factories in Moscow? Do you think the Soviet Politburo lived like the masses?

Do you think Gavin Newsom kept himself from going to the French Laundry restaurant when he told everybody else they had to stay at home? The question isn't whether or not you're capable of achieving no stratification, but how you do it. And by communism and socialism, you do it by force, government regulation, which is also another word for violence. You do it by the accumulation of power and the monopoly of violence. In capitalism, you do it imperfectly and not always fairly by merit. Interestingly, I found this absolutely fascinating. This scrolled across my Instagram feed, and I think the data is pretty sound, but it showed self-made versus inherited wealth in various countries across the world.

I thought this was really interesting. I thought I want to see this. Like, what percentage of America is self-made versus inherited wealth? Well, America came in towards the top, if we're ranking this from top to bottom, in that we like self-made wealth. 73% of wealth in America is self-made. 27% inherited. Now, just as a side, you can see other countries.

The Netherlands is a little better than America. The United Kingdom, shockingly, actually, better than America. So that only 11% is inherited in the UK versus 89% self-made. But I did wonder about all the experiments in Democrat socialism. I did wonder about all the countries where the powerful do put the fingers on the scale to make sure it all comes out more equal. And by the way, if we're organizing society, isn't self-made something to be rewarded?

That's like, wow, that reflects true equal opportunity. You know what I mean? You're not born on third base thinking you hit a triple. You've got to get either through steals or hits your own way around the diamond. But look at the experiments in socialism. Germany, 75% inherited, 25% self-made. Spain, 74% inherited. Mexico, 73%, Belgium, Italy, 73 and 64% inherited.

Sweden, always, the model held up by Democrat Socialist. Sweden, 55% inherited versus, or 58% inherited versus 42% self-made. On and on. Norway, more inherited than self-made. Switzerland, more inherited than self-made. all these experiments in socialism seem to preserve the status quo of wealth and power. So it makes you wonder, once again, promises versus delivery, who gets the fruits of their labor, who wins in the ultimate stratification of society? And it won't be that red-headed young lady arguing with Patrick Bet David. It will be the person that promises her that it will all be even.

And what are the people promising her? Are they meritorious? Are they smarter? Are the utopian organized society better? Will you be the judge? Here's Jasmine Crockett. Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is.

Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't got to believe me, just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you, and the wives is being messy and peasant. They're putting it in the divorce. I'm like, who, that's got to be true,

because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it. Anyway, nevertheless. Wait. I don't know about you, but I don't feel real good about Jasmine Crockett being in charge of organizing society, the one setting the rules for America. Because when the rules are set by the likes of Jasmine Crockett, those who promise, but don't live under their own promises,

end up like Ilan Omar. Ilan Omar, member of the squad, categorically denies accusations that she is a millionaire. But apparently, according to the free beacon and disclosure from House oversight committees, her net worth has just reached

potentially up to $30 million. I read, largely through her husband, a former political consultant, Tim Minet, she's accumulated a net worth at the end of 2024 ranging from $6 to $30 million. Her wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Minet's owner

ownership stake in two companies that together were worth no more than 51,000 at the end of 2023. So in one year, she goes from $51,000 to $6 to $30 million. The sources of this wealth are unclear. But the figures show that she and her husband's net worth skyrocketed 3,500% in just one year. Isn't it funny how it works when you stratify according to power? finally third in quick takes we've talked often about the declining birth rates not just in America but across the world well there might be a little bit of a silver lining as it turns out birth rates are absolutely plummeting on the left new data shows according to the financial times and the u.s general social survey and world value survey that birth rates

among people on the left versus the right have significantly diverged. The left has seen a declining birth rate below replacement level down to something like 1.8 kids per birth on the left were on the right. That birth rate has held fairly solid.

Maybe we're not. all just headed for idiocrycy. Maybe the right people are not having babies. If you got the right values and you've got the right world outlook, have those children repopulate, save America. Behind the scenes with the vice president, J.D. Vance, and Big Noon kickoff, Dave Portnoy put on a disguise. I'll take you behind the scenes of a big couple days here for Wilcane Country.

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This Vice President J.D. Van Square eyeliner. That and much more coming up here on Wilcane Country. Streaming live at the Wilcane Country YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page, and always available at Spotify or on Apple. Last Thursday in a whirlwind tour of a day, I flew to Minneapolis, Minnesota, then drove. two hours to lacrosse, Wisconsin, to interview the vice president of the United States. That show, live from lacrosse that day, also featured an explosive debate with Governor Wes Moore of Maryland. I always appreciate having a Democrat on the show, and I fully understand the way that it will work in a debate or confrontational interview. I always want to conduct that with politeness and a welcomeness, which I hope that I was able to pull off, but I had

to press the governor on both his resistance to Donald Trump's crime fighting with federal forces, but also his claim that he received a bronze star for his service in Afghanistan in 2006. He put that on a application for a White House fellowship. He did not get a bronze star. And for years afterwards, he did not correct the record. He was celebrated for years as having received a bronze star. He did not receive a bronze star. He did eventually two years ago under the Biden administration and their DOD received the Bronze Star. But for 16 plus years, he claimed it while not having it. And that raises some real questions about his honesty and whatnot he's telling the truth.

And I had to confront him with that. That interview, by the way, is up at Wilcane Country. You can go see it. It was tense at times, but I also hope cordial. And I also think in Lightning, it did happen to be that he appeared then on Martha Radd at Sunday morning ABC show. and I saw her follow what I had done and question him about this. He doesn't seem to have the answer down for this.

He says he's proud of his military service. He's proud of eventually getting a bronze star. But that's not the point. Everyone's proud of his service. I didn't serve. I think anyone that did deserves honor and certainly if you did something worthy of receiving a medal. No one questions Westmore the soldier.

What we question is Westmore, the politician. And whether or not the politician is telling the truth. Because if you're not telling the truth about your resume, then what are you also not telling the truth about, like, say, crime in Maryland, crime in Baltimore? You can go catch that. Go watch it for yourself. It's over on the Will Cain Country YouTube page.

But before I interviewed, Westmore, I interviewed the vice president, J.D. Vance. I bring in tinfoil pat in two a days, Dan. We sat down together for a good, like, 25 minutes. We probably hung out another five to ten minutes afterward talking. not a lot of pre-game in the locker room talk. We talked for a little bit afterward, and we did an interview right off to the side of, I'd say a gathering of a couple hundred people

at Mid-City Steel in LaCross, Wisconsin. Small manufacturer, but one you can see, it was really cool. They were literally building a pedestrian bridge out of steel. And it's the type of place that Vance is there to say is being helped by the big, beautiful bill. Now, really quickly, over in the Willisher, right now, you know, Ellen Hamper says, the only thing that bill does is give rich people more money and take away our health care

and so much more. Well, I did see with my eyes firsthand. Granted, a lot of these political situations are among supporters, but these people, very much, blue collar, were excited about the prospects of what's going to be offered to them with the big beautiful bill. No tax on overtime. Incentive to bring manufacturing back home to places like lacrosse, Wisconsin. One of my favorite things to talking to him was the vice president and I, we certainly don't have the same life story, but we come from a roughly cut similar place in America. Meaning, you know, Middletown, Ohio, about 50,000 people, manufacturing town, big manufacturing, steel auto, lacrosse, Wisconsin, about 50,000 people, same thing, not necessarily big manufacturing, but still a manufacturing town.

Sherman, Texas, when I was growing up, it's 30,000, and now it's about 40,000, industrial. I wouldn't call it manufacturing, but industrial. Johnson and Johnson, Texas Instruments, Folgers Coffee, Tyson Foods, this type of thing. That's the town where I grew up. And I saw the ups and downs of those towns, right? I saw my hometown decline in the 1990s and early 2000s.

It's now booming. It's about to boom because of chip manufacturing coming back to America, Ti, Global Tech. And it's an interesting perspective to come from that kind of place. And the vice president is such an interesting. guy because he's accomplished, not just being vice president, right? I mean, he worked in private equity. He went to Yale. He's serving the Marines. He's very thoughtful and smart. But he comes from this background where he's had not just exposure, but literally his life

experience was very much. I don't know what the word would be. Down trodden, you know, a hard hit place in America. Hardship. Opioid, drugs, unemployment, hardship. Yeah. Hardship. I think it gives him really unique perspective and without that book you would forget because he is so polished that this man has this perspective the long and short of it is everybody's asked me

what do you think of the vice president and the answer is I really like the guy I really like him he manages to and maybe it's because he's only 41 years old and honestly he hasn't been in politics that long that's crazy to me

he manages to have something that is very rare, which is he's real. Real isn't always enough. Real isn't always enough, right? You've got to be real and then incredibly magnetic and charming and persuasive. You've got to be all these things, but he is real. He is the anti-Nusome in that way. Like, Newsom is not real. He's not real at all.

But the vice president, which, by the way, you're compelled to say J.D., that's how really seems accessible. He's young. And you've got to remind yourself, don't call him, J.D. Call him Mr. Vice President. You know, what up, J.D? But he did ask me. He's like, how old are you?

I said, I'm 50. He goes, damn, man, what's the secret? I'm like, well, everybody says I dye my hair. He goes, what do you? He's like, what are you? He's like, what are you? A no alcohol guy? Like, no, no, not that.

Yeah. I'll tell you this, Mr. Vice President. if I grew my beard out like you, it would be entirely gray. I can't explain it. My beard is gray. My hair is not gray. That happens. So it would age me quickly.

It's pretty. The beard thing is unique as well. Like, when have we ever had a politician this high up that had a beard? Like, how far do you have to go back? Agreed. That is weird. What about mustache? Is it brand a mustache?

No. Not that I can think there's a last polish. Have we ever had one? Yeah, Stalin. Teddy Roosevelt had a mustache. Yeah, Teddy. We had beards back, you know, Grant, want to say, you know, Lincoln. We're going real far back, though.

It's been a while. Adam Crowell's been calling for a long time. We need to bring back the beard. Do we have a beard in the 1900s? Is J.D. Vance, the only beard of the entire 20th century? I mean, I can't think of one off the top of my head. Teddy Roosevelt had, and he's 20th century, he's early 1900s. He had facial hair.

Taft had a mustache, I believe. Charles Curtis, Vice President. Out there in the Wilsia Fairfield on YouTube said, this is the guy that Dems tried to convince us was weird. Exactly. Exactly. That is one thing that is not the case with JD-Vance. He is not weird.

Now, I guess that's his subjective term. Oh, you think he's weird? He didn't know the betting line on the game. I actually have a point to that I'm glad he didn't know because he has more important things to worry about that I want my vice president to worry about you know what I'm saying

we did break down pregame Texas versus Ohio State and he did think that Ohio State was a 12 point dog I was like no Mr. Vice President your favorite you said it very nicely though in the game I think tinfoil I think you're both right

I think he's a sports guy but not a sports guy. Do you know what I mean? Like me. I think he likes sports and probably, I guess, as it turns out like you. That's right. Two a days. Can't name the starting line of Vinny's favorite teams. Yeah, I could have done that to the vice president. Hey, Mr. Vice President, who's the starting quarterback for the Buckeyes? And I hope know that he will. Will, we're ending this interview right now. He was awesome about dropping the national championship trophy. I did ask him about that. And he laughed at himself and did say it was one of the most mortifying moments of his vice presidency. He did break down for me that the base is not

attached to the trophy and the trophy is not designed to be picked up by the base. You're supposed to lift it out of the base, all of which he had to learn the hard way. But he gets bragging rights. As an aside, obviously Saturday was completely devastating, not necessarily because the Texas Longhorn is lost. I went to the game. The next, I flew to Ohio on Friday. I worked Fox and Friends and it was all around the Big Noon kickoff set where it was cool because I got to see a lot of my old friends, Matt Liner, Brady Quinn, Urban Meyer, Rob Stone is an awesome dude.

Mark Ingram, who I don't know well, but I hung out with Mark and talked to him. Those guys on the Big Noon kickoff set, those are awesome dudes. And like, really, those are awesome. Matt Liner, awesome guy. Brady Quinn, great guy. And then the new guy, Dave Portnoy, right?

So Dave Portnoy. Who's the new hire for Big Noon kickoff? Dave Portnoy, El Presidente, founder of Barstall Sports. The story is, was not allowed into Ohio Stadium. The Ohio State said no. No Dave Portnoy. So he came to the set. I hung out with him.

He had a little mustache on and a hat that says, I love Ryan Day. Here's Dave Portnoy from Saturday. So Ryan Day is so butt hurt by me. He banned me from going into the stadium. in the stadium. I'm not allowed in the shoe today. By the way, do you see this sign right here? Look at Ben. Ben came out today. Ben is 10, 11 years old. Look at his sign.

His hair is no good either. He doesn't have real hair? Listen, when you're older, I don't want to see hair surgery from you. I'm an older guy. So the kid's sign says even Dave's hair has hit the transfer portal. That's a good one.

I'm going to confess. I grabbed that. kid i well i don't know is jave had a hair transplant i don't know but he said no his hair looked great it was very luscious i know he let the kid grab his hair yeah he let the kid grab and pull on his hair i saw the sign i thought it was hilarious and i said to the kid now i want to warn you of something he does not care that you're 10 i know he will come back at you as though as though you are 45 years old okay he's not going to be nice so here's my advice i prepped this kid I said, have a comeback line. So you go once with your sign, then he's going to go at you.

But if you punch him back in the nose, I think you can make him stagger. And I think he did. The kid kind of workshopped it with me. He goes, at least I have real hair. You know, I said, hey, you have red hair. There's chances are he's going to go after you for being a ginger, right? So then you say, at least I have real hair. And so the kid delivered it great, you know.

That's good. I don't know if Portnoy admitted to a transplant. went there or not, but it was a lot of fun. By the way, I posted this on Instagram so you guys might be able to guess. So meeting all these people around, it was awesome. I had two, two that I met that day that I didn't know that I was super excited about. Can you guess who those two might be? Now, I don't think either of you are big enough sports fan, including Dan's fake fandom, to get one of them.

I didn't see your Instagram channel. I did put... So two what's? Well... I missed that first part. Two people. Two people. Both in the world of sports that I met.

Okay. Yes. Okay. So one is probably the most famous man there. He was the most... I would argue he was probably the most famous man on set and literally nobody knew who you was. Like globally, he was probably the most famous man there. Bad Bunny.

Soccer player. It's... Mark Ingram or Maricio Pachitino. It's Maricio Pachitino, who is the head coach for the U.S. men's national team. Who's been the coach of Tottenham, I believe Inter Milan. He's like one of the five best. Probably, do you know him to a day? Be honest, you know him?

No. Did you know your squad, Aston Villa, just signed two pretty big names? I actually did see that because I get the, I get the updates now because I have the app. So, yes. He's waiting for soccer season. Two a days. I have no idea. I skimmed it.

Are you kidding me? I don't even know Notre Dame players. They signed Harvey Ellet from Liverpool and Jaden Sancho from Man United. They're going to be good. No, it was cool. It was cool to meet Pachino. And, of course, I took the time to say, hey, I got a 6'5 strike. Or a 14-year-old.

What do you think? He's not 6'5 yet, but he's on the way. So I pitched my son for the U.S. men's national team. It was really cool. the crowd didn't know he was but there are very very few people that can turn me into a fanboy again like a little kid and very few and I wasn't a little kid when this happened but I don't care you can make me 13 even if I was 30 when the glory days happened and I met him got it 10th I think I got it it was Vince Young it was Vince Young it was VY I met VY nice

he was awesome got his number texting oh that's cute you guys got have a play date I mean like this is like this is the whole yeah you know why his son plays for a high school that plays my son's high school so we were talking about they're going to play each other

it's the same weekend is Texas OU he's going to be in Dallas I'm like let's get together there are very few people that I'm like total fanboyed out at this point but Vince Young is one of them but that being said, I also really enjoyed that conversation with

J.D. Vance. Over on the Wulisha, David Cowley says, thankful from the UK, Will. With so much going on the U.S., you found time to highlight the problems in the UK, we will overcome. Talk to the Vice President about the fact that mass migration is a major problem, and the English flag is now an act of protest. By the way,

after the interview, I don't think he'll mind me saying this. Patrick, great question. You guys all submitted questions, even you in the audience. And Patrick said, one of your suggestions, was if you could snap your fingers and fix one core root problem in America, what would it be? And when you interview a politician, they are always ready. That's one thing you'll notice.

They're ready. You rarely, rarely see the wheels turning. On that one, I saw the vice president's wheels turning. He stopped. He took a breath. He looked up to the ceiling. He thought. And he came back with mass migration.

And we continue to talk about it. And his argument is, if you don't have a country where you have a common cause, a common vision, and a common thing you're working for, then you don't have a country. And that's what we're seeing play out across Europe. That's what we're seeing play out everywhere. By the way, we also talked about nicotine packets. I offered him one.

He doesn't do it. So I've heard that everybody on the vice president's staff has got, you know, Zand and Lucy and Alp and everything else, but apparently not the vice president. So, and then finally, go ahead, two days. No, I was just going to say it was very loose. I did get to see the feed beforehand when he showed up, if you don't mind me saying.

And you guys were very loose. It was very interesting to see. Because were you ready to be loose or were you ready to be kind of like vice president, Vance? Or were you ready for JD? Both. Okay. Both. I really felt like I could do both.

I mean, I wasn't nervous. I wasn't like, oh, my gosh, how is this going to go? Yeah. But I also didn't want to be too familiar. We've met once before at a football game. and I didn't want to be, we're not equals, he's the vice president, you know, but it's, it was an easy line to walk, respectful, not sycophantic, challenging, but conversational, all in service of actually being real that you get to see who the real person is that is the vice president. And then when he walks in, you're like ready for a dap or you're ready for crisp handshake? Like that kind of thing.

Chris panshake. Yeah. Chris panshake. That's wool's thing. You don't dapp up the vice president? Every once in all the tinfoil, I throw a dapp in. It's usually like if you're eating or you're at an athletic event, everybody's sweaty or something or at the gym.

It's kind of a more of a dapp environment. And I saw your acting, you're acting, you know, come out. And your whole thing was you were very into handshaking. That was your crutch. I am into hand-shaking. Yeah, you're a big handshake guy. It's not a crutch. No, it's a lot about someone, by the way.

They shake their hand. Yeah, don't shake my hand. All right, Mary Mazikowski finally over on YouTube, says, Will, how were your cheese curds? Here in Wisconsin, we love them. The squeakier, the better. That means they're really fresh. Okay, Wisconsinites, don't get mad at me.

Here's what I would say. I liked cheese curds. I got them at the airport. Not sure I got the highest quality ones. You don't usually go to the airport for anything to get the best of. I thought I'd had them before. I clearly hadn't because what came out was not what I was expecting. They were fried cheese balls.

They were cheese sticks, mozzarella cheese sticks deep fried. Chopped up in small bites, deep fried. And my thing is, like any good red-blooded American, I love anything deep-fried. Anything. Like it tastes great. And you got a little dipping sauce. I think you guys use marinera type sauce maybe for cheese curds.

I don't know. Like a cheese stick. And so, look, the State Fair of Texas, I want to try everything. Deep fried Oreo, deep fried snicker, deep fried pickle, deep fried jalapeno. I love it all. On the scale of deep fried things, your cheese curds aren't high. Okay, that's what I would say. Like a deep fried jalapeno strips or a deep fried pickle versus a cheese curd,

I'm going to go the pickle or the cheese or the jalapeno strips. I'm not a big cheese stick guy. I'm not a big mozzarella guy. You know, the mozzarella sticks, not my thing. So maybe that's not me. I'd eat them again. Don't get me wrong, Wisconsin. I'd eat them again.

But I'm not sure I could co-sign that you've got something really special that is your state dish up there. I say this with some bit of humility. Maybe I haven't had the best cheese curds from the airport. It's a Midwest thing. It's not Italian. thing. Otherwise, I'd run that by D. Mateo, who's an award-winning, Emmy Award-winning actress, and Drea joins us next on Wilcane Country. wherever you download podcasts.

Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy host of the Tragaddy podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Will, still totally missing you on weekend mornings as you, Rachel, and Pete, made me laugh, but I'm grateful to see you every weekend, says Kim, 7566FL over on YouTube. I miss you too, but I'm glad we get to see each other every day, Kim. And then over on Facebook, Inger Asgar says, I respect Drea de Mateo for Standing Strong.

Hollywood may cancel, but America respects courage. Drop your comments there on Facebook or on YouTube, and always join us every Monday through Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern Time, right here on Will Cain Country. Emmy Award winning actress. You, of course, will remember her from The Sopranos, but in the past year, along with Vince Vaughn in the Netflix movie, Nona's. Drea DiMeteo joins us now on Wilcane Country. Hey, Drea.

Hi. Good morning. And let's... Good morning to you. Oh, look at you. Look at her. No wonder that Two a Days Dan just said to me, I'm pretty sure I've had a crush on Drea since, like, eighth grade.

That was in confidence. Oh, hi, hi. How are you? confidence. It wasn't in confidence. Well, that I'm this old lady. No. No, this is awesome.

Awesome to see you on the show. And let's correct the record. So this commenter here is watching the show said, Dre de Mateo may, Hollywood may cancel, but America respects courage and somebody standing strong. I've seen you say, though, I wasn't canceled. I haven't been canceled by Hollywood.

Yeah, no, I wasn't, because I, you know, listen, I wasn't working that much to begin with. So when I stood up for what I believed in, I didn't really, I was already canceled because I didn't get vaccinated. That was my first, that was the first, my first misdemeanor. Like, no matter what I did, it just seemed like everything just started to spiral out of control. And the ways in which I tried to save my home and all that, and that went explosive with the, my, my protest only fans page, which was kind of a political statement also. So I know that sounds crazy, but it was and still is. But so, yeah, I don't know, people always are like, you know, they'll have you back.

I'm like, I wasn't really there to begin with. I mean, yes, I was dropped by my agent without a phone call. That's true. Really? Over mandate. But look, you had a comment on there earlier about liberals don't want to come on and debate. I am the liberal. I am the liberal that will come on.

and talk about everything, because I felt more at home on the right side of things. Now I just sort of feel like I don't wanna take any sides anymore because I don't, I just believe the whole thing is absolutely maniacal and everybody, you know, I just follow where the common sense goes. The common sense was where Kennedy was going and even, you know, I had more in common

with a lot of mega folks at that time. So I stood strong over there. but my big issue was more don't tell us what to put in our bodies man that's it like I wasn't and then all the other politics were just crazy it's just all the social issues it's everything is it's a case of inverted politics it's like a playbook anyway I'll just keep rambling let's talk about that journey no no I don't want to stop you but I do want to I want to learn more about that journey because if I have the the details right or the fact that facts right. I believe you voted for Biden in 2020. But then, as you mentioned, RFK, MAGA, Donald

Trump, you made a journey by your own words towards common sense in 2024. You just brought up COVID. You brought up a lot of social issues. Like, what pushed you along? And I respect that you're kind of telling me as well. I think I'm hearing you say, I'm still on that journey. I'm not like situated anywhere permanently or fixed, but that part of your journey, going from what you said, I'm that liberal who all of a sudden didn't like someone dictating everything about me. How did it go? Like, what were the waters that pushed you along that journey? I mean, I think the COVID thing was definitely the first thing. I mean, I've never voted in my life until I voted for Biden. I always believed that the whole system was rigged like

crazy, you know, whatever, just like a super hippie. What I thought was really interesting was that all of sort of these hippie-ish things, you know, all of the things that the left stood for, like not wanting to put foreign substances inside your body, like being into nature, being into natural stuff, taking natural medicines, eating healthier food, like that was kind of the Ranola, California, hit me away. And then all of a sudden, California turned into this, like, psycho-totalitarian. I mean, all of America did. I mean, the whole world did. When you orchestrate an entire shutdown of an entire planet, then I have questions. You know, now I want to investigate. Now I want to understand. And I know you guys can't all the time. You guys can't. Like,

I don't want to say things that'll, you know, that'll never get me invited back onto Fox News. But, you know, I know, we all understand what goes on to a large degree and we can say certain things. We can't say other things. But I also felt like, and yes, I am on a journey. And that was the problem I had with liberals, not all of them. Some of them understood that all the goalposts were moving and that the world was changing and that really strange things were going on. And some woke up and moved over. But now I think a lot of those people are waking up and feeling like, man, this is just going to be rebranded now.

Like some of the stuff that we were fighting for is unless there's a really intense game of 5D chess being played behind the scenes, which I hope and I'm always sort of defending that possibility. but unless that's how like there are a lot of things that feel very reminiscent of what was going on on the left except it's just being sort of rebranded and presented by the person that we had more faith then okay i want to dig into that i'm not going to avoid that i want i want to hear your your opinion on that before i go into that but i want to because i'm curious and then i don't know i don't know what Fox can't talk about, but I know what I can talk about, and this is my hour, and I can talk about what I want to talk about on Will Cain Country. The, the, the, but I am, but before I get into it, I just want to, because this is something I'm curious about as well. So, you know,

you said earlier, I really wasn't in it. And by in it, I don't know what you mean, I don't know if you mean like fully in Hollywood, fully in celebrity culture, or fully working to your heart's content in entertainment. But you certainly are in it more than me. You're certainly more in it than anyone watching or listening right now. And I'm curious what that meant for your relationships. You just told us about your agent. But I mean even your personal relationships or working relationships, your fellow actors, you know, when you're on set, when you start to have these conversations, maybe on set, maybe personal life. And you're starting to make this movement, right? From, I guess, Biden to RFK and Trump.

I'm just curious how those conversations went. How was that received personally? I didn't really, I'm a pretty private person. I don't, I was never, first of all, if you were to told me years ago that I would be on the news talking about all this stuff in the last year, I would say, I don't even know who that person is,

but I would never, in a million years, think that I'd be on Fox all the time talking about politics like I was last year. It's the most bizarre thing ever. I think I flipped into another dimension, for real. But I think that that might be a little, that might be the thing that people sort of see. Like, I have some weird neighbors that like to cut down our trees without our permission.

I'm like, you know, I really prefer you not do that. Let the tree breathe for a minute. Let's figure it out. Like, I'll have the tree cut down. Then she'll start cutting down my trees. Then there'll be an argument about it with my boyfriend and the neighbor. and then I come out, and now she said, you know, I'm selling her, how could you do this? Like, this is not like, you're, we have to protect these beautiful trees.

Like, I'm that guy. I mean, I'm not psycho about it, but I'm also a New Yorker. It's like, yo, don't touch my property. Like, what are you crazy? Like, you can't, and she's in New York. Then I start getting tons of text messages of me in a bag of hat, me, and telling me that I don't, that I don't love her people. that I am a racist that I you know so these were the things that I'm like hold on a minute this president is the one who's you know got his hand on the wall like I don't know what you're talking

about like he's for you I don't know why so if you're that short-sighted and you really don't know what's happening in the world like you can't condemn me for voting for Trump like and who by the way who cares I voted for Biden last time I believed that that Trump was the anti-Christ, just like everybody else. And then I was like, wait a minute, I didn't have even an ounce of the information of what was going on. I was making decisions based on headlines like a lot of people do. Like, I'm not afraid to admit that. So I went really deep into trying to understand what's going on. I'm going even deeper now, trying to understand what's going on. And I'm not totally pleased with what I'm seeing, but people don't have conversations

about it. And that's okay, because I don't want to sit around and talk politics all right. And not deeply. Yeah. I almost want to talk about it more as philosophical at this point than an actual it's a kind of an astounding thing that's been going on. And I think a lot of it is sort of spiritual and the hatred people have between each other over this stuff has so little to do with actual politics and it has so much more to do with like some weird frequency everybody's viving at and that negates like any liberal who touts themselves for being you know this open heart and these loving individuals that want to protect the disenfranchised or or the minorities i mean i had a woman i'm not anymore i get into it i want to get into all these crazy people around me but

But I just think, start with your neighbor. Start with your neighbor, but to condemn people for having a difference of opinions and to just decide that this person is a white nationalist. Like what are these words and like that I'm a racist? And it's like all of this wild stuff. I'm like, first of all, I'm an Italian from New York. Like I was raised Spanish. She knew the woman who raised me in this house. Like we don't even speak English at home.

I'm like, how could you make all these, it's just a really wild time of total insanity. I feel like people have lost their minds. Yes. And I'm waiting for myself to lose. Maybe I'm the one who lost my mind. Maybe that's what they think. I'm sure that's what they think. And that's a great level of self-awareness.

We step back, which ones of us have lost our minds? We'll come back to that. You reminded me of guilt. Two years ago, I had to cut down a hundred-year-old red oak tree in my backyard, and it made me so sad and so guilty. And the reason I had to cut it down is it was dropping limbs, gigantic limbs, all across the backyard, like, kill you if it lands on you, limbs. And my wife's like, we're not going to have our kids in the backyard and have one of those things land on them. And I brought this tree doctor and that tree doctor, and can I prune it? And then did the pruning cause it?

You know, why are these limbs falling before you know it? man the whole thing had to come down and i have this great amount of guilt on taking down this hundred-year-old oak tree so thank you for that reminder um but you fight your you fight your battles you fight your trees no this tree too you put handled properly that's all it just needs to be handled properly and it'll still be okay but if it's pruned improperly it is going to fall that's i learned that like yeah you know yes and i don't even know what's proper right now but I do think we overpruned it and then it fed on itself and then more limbs dropped and before, you know, anyway, got to take the whole thing down.

We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. I'm Janice Dean. Join me every Sunday as I focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Welcome back to Wilcane Country. I like what you said about frequencies because I think you're right. It's like everybody's on this, like, wild frequency.

And to me, it's one of two things. Look, my big lesson, Drea, out of COVID, is that fear is the, I talked about this at the top of our show, but that I think fear is the base level of human motivation. And you can get people to do anything you want if you make them afraid. And that was very evident in COVID. Forget policy and forget what was on TV. I'm talking about with your neighbors.

That's where you saw fear rear its ugly head and change the way people were. And so I think that they, You know, two things have happened. Somehow there's a segment of society that has turned Donald Trump into the Antichrist and this horrible would-be authoritarian dictator, and they're operating on a frequency of fear that is now just visceral hatred of Donald Trump. But there's also another level which also makes them heroic, and they are the anti-white nationalist. They are the empathetic person.

And it's so much about self-validation on that front. But to your point, it has very little to do with the issues. It's all sort of fear and narcissism. Yeah, it was an extreme self-righteousness. I was talking about that a lot through the whole election period. I was like, it's one thing to, it was the self-righteousness that really flipped me out from my peers, you know, just that whole side. We're supposed to be the gentle ones. And no.

But that's, I think what it did in some ways. is like none of it matters what side you're on. It really doesn't. Like don't even pick a side at this point. You know, well first of all, follow the money and then you'll start to learn a lot about what's actually happening and what kind of decisions get made. But I really do think that, you know,

I hate to sound like a total cliche hippie, but love. It's all about love, but everybody is really tied into fear. And I was petrified. during COVID. I really believe that, you know, I was watching what was happening in Canada. I was watching what, you know, the truckers protesting and how they were treated and the whole Trudeau mania. Like, I was like, what is this? You know, people shutting down in ways that we didn't really shut down. Like, we had it good, even though people complain about California

having had it bad. Still compared to other countries, it was wild. And it's like when you know that that that can happen once and that so many people you know bought it hook line and sinker like I don't there's so many there's so much corruption around that whole time and I just don't know if people are ready to still wake up and be like wait a minute like I don't think that any faith or and I said this while everybody was running the politicians can only do so much if they're even allowed to

um i mean let's face it and i don't like i said i don't want to be the the anti-fox anti-news person here but like you know there's a lot of other entities and a lot of other things at play all the time but um i just feel like if the people if we don't come together as as as patriots or the world the whole world at this point because i feel like it's not just america it's compromised it's everybody. I mean, this is happening across, they use America as a way to teach. It's like an experiment. It's starting to feel like we are the experiment. And let's, well, let's incubate it here in Britain and then let's bring it over here. But I still don't really believe that we are sovereign in a lot of ways. I feel like we have the illusion of it. So I think that the message for

people really now is like just stand together no matter what your beliefs are you're both and if your beliefs aren't about love then clearly you have some issues and i mean not everyone's going to be like oh it's love man no but like just general respect and compassion and empathy for your neighbor and you know what i mean anyway i'm also i'm feeling super like i'm a little pessimistic about things because my whole, my thing wouldn't, when everybody was running, I was like, this means that they're going to stop spraying all these chemicals in the sky. So we're talking about the trees and my whole thing is about the chemicals in the sky and all that stuff when they spray, when they do the sky spray and the geoengineering stuff. And I was like, this is all going to end.

Kennedy and Trump get in there. It's going to stop. And then these guys are in there. And I'm like, oh my God, we have blue skies. We have clear skies. And then all of a sudden, I see the crisscrosses in the skies and the crisscross and the crisscross and it doesn't stop and then the palisades is on fire and then you know like all this all this crazy stuff um yeah that's my uh I'm away from you know who's in office at this point because I'm like okay there's no transparency because until you guys tell us why you're doing that um and it's fine you could tell us why you're doing it and tell us how we can mitigate the effects of it on on our human bodies. But you don't. So for anyone watching or listening who thinks that I might have avoided, I'm not going to now it's when I return to it, because you just as well address it. I love that line, by the way, we're not sovereign.

So you hinted at it, and now you started to put some flesh on the bone of it. You are skeptical of the current administration as well, is what you said earlier, and you're starting to tell us why. And I wanted to make sure that I followed that up. so you just gave us one thing like so what is it you're concerned about now that it's just more if I'm picking up what you're putting down

you feel like we're not sovereign there are powers that rule and politicians only have so much power to make change and you haven't seen the change that you'd hoped from Donald Trump and RFK I mean I think that there are things happening I'm not gonna you know I can't curse I'm not going to take a crap on

everything you know I definitely and I'm also hopeful I'm not black-pilled over here. There are a lot of people that I think are very black-pilled. And then that's kind of where I come in with some of those people. Because I'm like, no, there's hope, and the hope lies within us. But we can't do anything when we're being poisoned. So when I talk about that, okay, so the audience knows what I'm talking about, geoengineering,

which is a real thing. No one talks about it. because it goes back into climate change and I'm not a environmentalist and I'm not a political activist when it comes to this stuff but we all notice the effect

when they're spraying the sky like that and there's tons of patents and it's all completely proven and they're also going to try to normalize it now you'll see it'll be in the news now it's all going to be trying they're going to be saying that they're going to start doing this to help mitigate the ozone layer.

But you can't have to talk about anything that has to do with climate change unless you address the fact that they're putting desiccans into the sky nonstop and causing all kinds of health issues, dementia, Alzheimer's, all of this stuff. My mom died of Alzheimer's. But these chemicals that, you know, we're in, there are in a lot of pharmaceuticals. They're in a lot of, now everything is in our food. I just feel like we're not going to. a say we're not getting a vote this is not this is not a real democracy unless we get to

vote on what falls out of the sky on us every single day like that and that's where i'm skeptical of what's going on unless they come out and say look the planet is dying and we need to mitigate and this is the only way we can do it is by dimming the sun but while we're doing this when it's happening don't go outside for a walk um don't you know make sure you keelate your blood or make sure you're continuously doing heavy metal detoxes, stuff like that. They don't have these conversations because it's not happening, but it's happening, and no one's talking about it. So, well, I'm sorry I was going to pick it up.

We've talked about it, just for the record. Now, I totally agree with you about the food supply. And now Fox is like she's now coming back. The will's canceled. Just kidding. No, you know, you know, Drey, no, this summer, this summer, this summer. and I really fought to have this conversation. It was important, but after the floods in Curville, Texas,

you know, I saw the social media conversations about cloud seating, and I wanted to learn more. And I ended up having the CEO of the cloud seeding business that was cloud seeding in Texas during the floods. Now, it wasn't over the flood zone. I do not believe, after my research, that it contributed in any way to it. And I learned a lot about the three different types of things,

cloud seeding, geoengineering, and Kim Trails. And I'm not professing that I'm, an expert. But we talked about it. We had these conversations. And, you know, I know what they use for cloud seeding, a combination of salt and silver iodide. And they're, this is a small company, by the way, but, you know, when it comes to cloud sitting, they say it's perfectly safe and it's dispersed. And you just talked about a metal detox. But yeah, there is silver iodide. They say in tiny parts used in what naturally occurs in the soil that is used to try to ring rain out of the clouds. geoengineering to your point is a real thing it's not a conspiracy theory it is something that

they're doing exactly as you described to try to reflect the sun to combat quote unquote global warming and and climate change i don't know how much of the geoengineering goes on i just know it's a real thing and it's a it's a the last one is the the criss crosses in the sky the kim trails and you know i had the the cloud engineering guy on he's like and he laid it out for me these three categories as well. And he's like, I'm open to it as what I be. But he said the evidence right now on Kim Trails isn't that there's something, you're talking about jet con trails and the stuff coming off of jets across the sky and that kind of thing. Is there, is there not chemicals in those trails? And he said, I don't see the evidence yet, but he's open to it. So, you know, we've talked about

those three categories of things going on and two of the three are going on for sure. I'm not saying the third isn't. But we're open to that conversation, and I think it's an important one to have. Yeah. I mean, you can watch a movie called The Dimming. If anybody wants to learn about it. I mean, it's, they tested a lot of... Geoengineering?

High aluminum, strontium. There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of aluminum in it, and that's really bad for us. It's bad for the soil. It's bad for the trees. bad for the water. I mean, there's just so much to say about it,

but I won't go crazy on this platform with it. I mean, I will show you my shirt. I've opened your doors. This is our heavy metal airlines, man. Heavy metal airlines. Is that what your shirt says? But it's, you know, it's a thing.

That's all I'll say about it. It's my, it is the thing that drives us the most crazy. over here because California is getting it really, really, really bad. So. Yeah. Anyway, we've seen, we've, obviously, I know the natural effects of what's happening in California or the unnatural effects of what's happening in California.

You brought up ultra-free. Tell us about ultra-free. Ultra-free. Ultra-free was originally, it was the brand that we created to, to sort of, deflect off of the fact that I started OnlyFans page. I was like, how do we get people to stop talking about this insane thing that I did when I was in fear over losing my house? Because that happened during the whole pandemic when I didn't want to,

I wouldn't fake the vaccine and I wouldn't do the vaccine. So I had to just say, I'm not going to work anymore. And I stopped. So we were going to lose this house. and I was going to put a podcast on OnlyFans because it wouldn't have gotten censored because everything I would talk about would be censored. And then I put a picture up as a placeholder

and I literally was able to get myself out of the initial debt of what we were in for the forbearances and all that stuff. And I was like, oh, wow, okay, so this worked. And I'm just going to keep putting these random pictures up. I never put selfies up. I put a selfie up and it, I was like, okay, Adriana now has an only fans page, Adriana from The Sopranos, that is. But everybody was asking me to come on the news and talk about this thing.

And I was like, I'm not going to go talk about this. I'm going to go and I'll talk about this. I'm going to create a brand around this. And it really was to have an excuse to get on television and talk about Kennedy because nobody would say his name until he joined Trump. He was sort of just invisible in the mainstream media. For some reason, they would have me on, and I would just find a way to squeeze it in

the way I just squeezed in geoengineering. I'm doing it again. Are you still a big fan of RFK? Are you still a big fan of RFK? I am. I think everybody's compromised, though. Everyone's got dirt on everybody, and everybody's afraid.

There's still fear, man. It goes back to fear. I don't think people can do a lot of what they want to do because there are just all these entities, these dark entities around them all that are keeping them all in a stranglehold. Why are we no longer fans up? I will tell you this.

After the election and this summer, I completely stopped paying attention to the news. I have no idea what's going on. I literally have no idea. I know they're trying to push Kennedy out. That was the last thing I heard. but I really don't know what's happening in the political landscape at all. I went to Europe for the summer and checked out with my kids.

We checked out. They were so happy to not hear Mommy talk about the news for. I was going to say, and came back feeling how. Yeah, they're so sick of hearing it. But you know what happened? They sat around at dinner table, and my boyfriend and I sat there like, oh my God, these kids haven't stopped talking about politics the whole time six weeks straight every dinner these two kids debating over politics really how old are your kids um 17 and 14 same exact age as my kids

same exact age um older girl yeah i think it's interesting i love listening to them talk about this stuff by the way for what it's worth their grandfather is a top five or for me. Top three or top three. Oh, of course. But where in Texas are you? Are you in Texas? I'm in Dallas. My wife is, I am, I'm in Dallas. My wife is from Lubbock, which of course is where Waylon is from. And so yeah, I've always loved Waylon. Yeah. I mean, I'm, he's not, but we're a race in Texas. Small town. Oh, if that door were open, you'd be able to see all his

all his gold records and stuff and platinum records. Oh, really? Yeah, it's cool. I mean, there's a recording studio set up in there now, so the room looks like a, it's psychotic because they're recording an album in the living room. I let my boyfriend turn the living room into a recording studio right now. It is a madhouse here.

But my kids are, they are Waylon Jennings' grandkids. And I'm not related to them, but I would say that I, you know, all of us are, you know, pretty free thinkers man like can't put us in a category nope we'll just keep moving around like no that's we are the anti-bs crew that's what our brand is the whole the whole ethos of the band is anti I don't know if I can curse here but it's it's anti all you know you can let it fly you can let it's anti bullshit is the whole ethos of the of the breath the ethos of whalen yes um all right Ultra Free. Everyone should check that out, by the way.

Where do they go to check out UltraFree? UltraFree.co. And we're on Instagram. We don't have a huge following on Instagram because I'm ShadowBound. If you want to follow me, you got to put in my whole name and beg for it somehow somewhere. Yeah, I'm ShadowBan. Everyone will be able to find Drea DiMateo. Instagram, Ultra Fee, free.

I don't know if you're still keeping up the only fans, but there's a lot of my fans. lot of places we can find her. Check out of a notice, by the way, which I did on there yesterday. I have never done anything like this before. I did it, and I put it up there, and I can't even believe I did it. It's, yeah, it's a big protest thing.

Well, it's been awesome to have you on the show. Thanks for spending so much time with this. As much as a treat for me, I can't wait to hear how big of a treat it was for two a days to sit there and check you into the show and get to talk to you who's had a crush on since middle school. Drea, I hope to see you again. I hope to see you again. And we'd love to have you back anytime here on Wilcane Country.

Okay, take care. There she goes. D. Mateo here. And there we go. That's going to do it for us today. Extended episode. We're glad to have you along. Make sure you subscribe to Apple or Spotify.

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