Will Cain Country - Cody Tucker & Alex Bruesewitz: A Deep Dive Into History & Why Gen Z Went Right 

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Story #1: 'Quick Takes': A young reporter at a baseball game had a romantic moment while trying to get the phone number of a fan. It was straight out of a 1990s romantic comedy. So why did some online 'sports journalists' freak out about the matter? Plus, are the latest tariff numbers on China 'fake news' and is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the next Democrat Party frontrunner?  Story #2: Will loves his history, and he loves the Host of ‘The Cody Tucker Show’,' Cody Tucker, even more. The two break down some of the crazier stories from history you likely don't know, plus they have a 'history-off' to see who knows it better.  Story #3: The man behind President Donald Trump's podcast plan, CEO of X Strategies LLC & 2024 Trump Campaign Advisor, Alex Bruesewitz joins Will to discuss where the Left has lost the culture wars, and the real reasons that young men have found the counterculture that now lies within the Republican Party.  Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What's up, fellas? You know, our boys took it tough yesterday. Of course, I'm not talking about the New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys, or the New York. Football Giants of the Green Bay Packers, I'm talking about our boys from Ruthless. Ruthless moment yesterday for Ruthless, pronouncing NIL nil. I issued the challenge, come up with one clip, one clip of somebody in sports who's ever said the word nil. And as far as I know, that challenge remains unfulfilled. I did receive a lot of texts

I did see some social media how embarrassing for ruthless it did lead to a quick conversation we had in that I had some people on social media tell me anytime there's three letters in an acronym it has never said it is always spelled

you don't say fibby you say FBI you don't say you say CBS you say CBS you don't say Dodd you say DOD

and I think we all see it's not SEC it's SEC that that rule might hold true two of days Dan did come up with one exception it's always one exception that does prove the rule but to our minds it is the only one he says now holding two fingers he's got two examples

of culture accepting us saying a three-letter acronym go ahead two days whack conference and the Mac conference there's one or two examples. Wack and Mac. There's one more.

Oh. What's the other one? Ribby in baseball. People sometimes say Ribbon. No one says that they say that. They say that self-aware. They don't say it in seriousness. That said in jest.

That said as you're being cute. Everyone knows the difference. One of the people on social media today said, while we're here and I have your attention, it's not a Grand Slam home run. It's a grand slam. It's not RBI's. it's always an RBI. That one I have trouble with.

I think it's RBI's. It is. Because it's a capital R, capital B, capital I, small S. It's run batted in, runs batted in, but if it's singular, it would be run batted in. It's not always runs batted in, right? So I like that. I don't accept that it's always singular RBI. You can add an S for the plural.

I know it doesn't make sense because you don't say run-bat-it-ins, but it's a small S compared to the capital I. I think that can be pluralized. Nobody says ribby in all seriousness. You had one tinfoil? Well, it's not a three-letter, but it is, you know, it is one, and that's scuba. Would you say scuba?

Well, but we do that once we get to four acronyms, DACA you know once we get to four letters in the acronym we can then begin to pronounce the word out but you don't do that with very rare exception us when it's three max and and whack they have the vowel it's very easy i've another big one say it that's interesting yeah live golf it's roman numerals i will tell you this i don't even know what live stands for roman numerals you don't know what it stands for 50 54 liv is roman numerals uh-huh so you say live that's you know technically works in that vein okay but the point remains nobody in their right mind says nil when referring to nil but i don't want to rake the ruthless boys over the

coals anymore they still have some time left on their challenge to come up with an example of someone in sports media saying nil when referring to n i'll let's get to it though we have cody tucker and alice bruskowitz sitting on deck so we want to get to quick takes today with story number one. Here to take us through as the most exciting man in television is Don Tinfoil Pat. That's right, Will.

We got some exciting stuff coming down here. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, otherwise known as AOC, has raised 9.6 million... Not A-O-C. A-O-C. Not A-O-C. Not A-O-C.

Could start doing that. She raised $9.6 million in the first three months of this year, and that is more than double her second highest quarter. And so, you know, people are like saying, is she the next frontrunner for the Democrats? They're asking that question. Not only are they saying that. They are saying that she is a hypocrite

because she has, along with Bernie Sanders, been one of the people who fear the presence of money in politics and the rising oligarchy that controls America. And yet here she is, bringing in $9.6 million in the first three months of the years. She posted on X. I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of people supporting us with your time, resources, and energy. Your support has allowed us to rally together at record scale to organize communities,

all with an average donation of $21. Thank you, Palante. What is Palante? I don't know. I don't know. Sounds like a Spanish term. It's a Hawaiian. That doesn't even look like a Spanish word.

It's got the apostrophe in the middle of the word. But I mean the P and the A before the lante. It means forward or onward in Spanish. The Spanish phrase. Of course. Forward or onward. And she is onward towards being, as you mentioned, Tinfoil-Path, the front-runner for the presidency, at least nominated as a Democrat.

This is not something that would civil. it well with, for example, James Carvel, who said it is time to cleave off the progressive wing of the left from Democrats. So maybe we need to have a schism. Maybe you, you've got plenty of different justice party, the working families party, the socialist party. The only thing I'd ask is just don't use the word democratic in any title that you have. because most Democrats that I know are running for office

don't want you, your name, don't want you to be part of the deal. Yeah, they would, sure, they would be glad to take your votes. Who wouldn't? Everybody wants to get as many votes as they can. Maybe you come up with your own name. I don't think we can work together on pronoun politics. All right.

Point well taken. by James Carville. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that Mr. Carville is a dinosaur. I'm saying, unfortunately, I'm not insulting him intentionally. I'm saying, unfortunately, I think he is a dinosaur. Meaning, I'm thinking that point of view is now in the minority, and I would ask anyone to give me a mainstream Democrat, a moderate Democrat, a blue dog Democrat,

a popular Democrat that doesn't currently align with that progressive wing of the party just quickly off the top of our head of course you've got aOC all the members of the squad you've got the current flavor of the moment jasmine crockett in texas burney sanders would be a part of that progressive wing of democrats and he's currently speaking at cocella even elizabeth warren would more closely align with aOC than she would with james carvel so who is he left with as a champion who does he thinks is someone that reasonably takes up the mantle of a non-far-left Democrat, maybe West Moore, the governor of Maryland, whose name ID and recognition is virtually zero, or, as you would say, in some corners,

nil. It could be, I don't know, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, other dinosaurs. Sadly, I feel like the party has moved beyond James Carville. Go ahead, two days. I was thinking people to judge, maybe. well i don't know which way which wing does pete buddhajudge more closely aligned i actually don't know the answer to that question is he more moderate or is he more progressive i also think there's this interesting idea of him openly inviting them to lead to create a schism to create a third party

because i think there's actually if we're trying to be honest and fair we're probably not far away from something like that happening on the right unless the post-donald trump world can coalesce the same MAGA movement, I think you will see a division on the right between more traditional Republicans who go back to their instincts after Donald Trump and don't transport that allegiance over to J.D. Vance or someone else from MAGA, I think we're probably four or five years away from a similar conversation happening on the right. And actually, I don't think our system is built to support four parties, but I would be kind of interested in four options instead of two. Go ahead, fellas.

But isn't that kind of the Tea Party? Isn't that kind of something that's already there in terms of being on the right? The Tea Party was a moment in time. It did have power. It did have an impact. It's the reason Ted Cruz is a senator. It's the reason Mike Lee is a senator. But it quickly became part of the Republican Party.

Today, there is nothing left, I would say, of the Tea Party. Go ahead, James. The last time, Cody Tucker can confirm this later, but the last time there was four options on the ballot was Abraham Lincoln's first election. But then don't you think that there's a chance with how well-spoken J.D. is and how smart he is and how he's been a part of two different worlds, especially with how he was during that VP debate that he could maybe find a way to tow the needle and bring people together? tow the needle thread the needle never heard of that one total line

thread the needle combined into toe the needle that's a first for me nil i think jd is an interesting case study prior to the election we had an honest conversation about jd's

favorability ratings which were always apparently fairly low now i say this as someone who is a big fan of jd and personally um really likes what he represents. It doesn't mean I can look out into the landscape of Americans say that his charisma is enough to carry the same weight as Donald Trump.

I also have this other little thing that's nagging in my head, and that is all of my friends who have been wrong about politics for a while now, like J.D. Vance, and I have a little concern about that you know it's like all the quote unquote smart conservatives really like jd vans and i think he should be liked i think that he's great but i also look at those same guys and they were reluctant trump supporters and they were wrong almost on every policy and every political prediction over the last decade so if they're all now champion in jd i think it's not the best sign for J.D. Vance. All right, let's leave that there,

and let's go on to the next topic and quick takes with Don Tinfoil Pat. That's right, Will. We have some big news as tariffs go up to 245%, or are they? Is that fake news,

the White House Rapid Response Team has broken it down and says, really the tariffs are only 125% reciprocal tariff, 20% tariff

to address. Fentanyl crisis, and then a Section 301 tariff on specific goods between 7.5% and 100%. Technically, on certain products, you're going to get up to 245%, but there is some range there. So what do you say about the latest in the tariff wars between the United States and China? I have my concerns. I'm starting to get concerned. I'm not concerned about the fluctuation. of the stock market over a short period of time. I'm concerned that I invested a lot of time and faith in a big, broad, grand vision as best articulated by Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.

And that vision I'm having trouble reconciling with sort of the ad hoc approach of the past week and a half, where we have various products getting carve-outs and exceptions to tariffs, whether or not it's smartphones or cars. And it's not about whether or not the administration is right to be making these adjustments and to be flexible and responsive to, for example, the concerning price of the 10-year treasury, but whether or not they're still executing that grand plan and vision as laid out by Scott Besson. So I stand here today a little bit concerned. Let's go to story number three, 10-4 about. Bro number three is a fun one. I don't know if anybody's seen it,

but this is going viral online. Braves broadcaster Wiley Ballard did this at a game between the Blue Jays and the Braves the other day. How are you guys feeling about route for the Braves today? Oof, I don't know. I'm hoping for the best. What about you? Are you Braves fan now?

Not quite. Not quite. All right, I'm going to go to work up here, guys. Good luck the rest of the way. Okay, Wiley. You got five innings, four innings. to get the numbers. Come on it.

I'm on it. Get us some more Braise fans. All right, so they want me to get your number. I'm dead serious. They're saying, am I here right now? She didn't believe me because she thinks you guys are not making this up. Even if you guys weren't it, I might use that in the future. That's actually a pretty good move.

This is unbelievable. So the best part of this right now is that Wiley could totally be faking. This might be the new move. Just walk around with a fan dual microphone. an earpiece in and convince fans that they're actually on TV. I should have thought of it's years ago. All right, there you go. There's a Braves

reporter. Getting the phone number of a young lady in the stands. He was doing a bit of the fan reaction to the game, walking through the stands. He happens upon two young blondes, and the announcers encourage him to try to get her number, which he does. And that

lovable moment ballsy. Couldn't be, I don't think it was. I don't think it was Balsey. I think it was actually, as I said, a perfect excuse. Ah, they're telling me, I got to get your number. I think it's actually really easy. You outsource the

embarrassment. You outsource the embarrassment to the mysterious voice in your ear that she can't hear. And he acknowledges that. He said, I should have been doing this years ago, pretending like I'm being told by the broadcasters to try to get your number. We should do that. But that lovable moment wasn't so

loved in all corners of social media. Right. Tinfoil pat, we have some reaction and notable reaction because it comes from other sports reporters how about tegan brown says here's the thing i don't even really comment on stuff like this but glorifying this moment is just not okay as an aside when somebody says something is just not okay it's probably okay she writes if this were a female reporter people would call it unprofessional but it's a male reporter which means people will find it funny and tweet about it how great this is so says tegan brown with a blue check mark beside her name i think there were others as well

two days dan because this wasn't an isolated reaction somebody named avs on ex post mentioned never approach a woman in a professional setting live on camera i know if a woman did this you'd claim she doesn't know anything about sports and only wants attention that was what a lot of this reaction was um including this one as well you have more to share with this of the reaction to this cool moment kenny blue check mark says i agree with the guy who said so creepy and inappropriate it's a ball game not a nightclub this is why female friends go to gay bars to dance okay all right and one more average joe's sports betting says this is not the point men and women should ask each other out for sure that's great

a sideline reporter absolutely should not be hitting on fans while on air working. It's unprofessional. Boo. Why is everybody have to be a scold? There's nothing wrong with this moment whatsoever. Nerds. Whatsoever. Yeah, really.

Like, unprofessional? No, not unprofessional. Fun and filled with personality during a nine inning game of 162 game schedule. And the idea that somehow a female reporter would be treated differently than a male reporter

put in the same situation, I find absolutely ludicrous. I think of a female reporter asked for the numbers of a male fan. She'd be a celebrity today. Every dude out there would be like, I want to get in the stands, and hopefully

she'll work the game. I'm rooting for my team. I mean, she would absolutely be celebrated. I think this is the dying, this is two things. This is the birth moment of a young, woke mindset that is probably early gen Zed late millennial female. It is a dying mindset of the please think I'm a feminist and cool dude sticking around sports, trying to be a champion for equality.

the well has run dry, he's got nothing else but to tweet that this is somehow condemnable at a bad moment. I can't imagine that being my first reaction to that. Oh, that's terrible. He should never ask a female for her phone number. So dumb. Yeah. Great moment.

And I think the update is they went out on a date. I don't know how the date went. But I believe you told us that a little bit earlier. Was that fake news or real news? Fake news. fake news so now you're giving so you just give us fake news pre-show jams and then i repeat it and then while i'm talking you go like this and cut cut cut it's all fake news i don't know that's just a rumor you can you don't know don't traffic and rumor that's how you end up in a situation which we

avoided which is now resulting in lawsuits no more rumor no more rumor just reported facts young james all right that's going to do it for quick takes today we got to take a quick break because when we come back, we have got historian, comedian, friend of the show. Cody Tucker coming up on the Will Cain Show. Listen to the all-new Brett Bear podcast featuring Common Ground, in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Brett Bear favorites like his all-star panel and much more. Available now at Fox News Podcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. It is time to take the quiz.

It's five questions in less than five minutes. We ask people on the streets of New York City to play along. Let's see how you do. Take the quiz every day at thequiz.com. Then come back here to see how you did. Thank you for taking the quiz. Andrew Jackson, Gerald Ford, the pranks of a Roman emperor, and the man who fought laid into age in the American Revolution.

All that coming up with Cody Tucker, here on the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel. And on the Fox News. Facebook page. Join us every Monday to Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern time. Hit subscribe at Apple on Spotify. Jump into the comments. Become a member of the Willis show. Cody Tucker is a friend here of the Will Cain Show. He is also the host of the Cody Tucker show. And he's on Instagram at the Cody Tucker. And he posts incredible videos of did you know facts when it comes to

history he also has a take on baseball reporters asking out fans cody hey how's it going man yeah i uh i tell you what i think they're just having fun like what why does everybody have to take everything so seriously like no not everything is an attack not everything is a you know a power move i mean sometimes you're just you're just having fun you're on tv you know like they're it's baseball like You know, it's, what's wrong with this? And then the reverse argument, you know, that if it was a female reporter, you know how happy I would be if that happened to me. Oh, my God. I know.

Yeah, I don't get it, man. Here's a little secret. Any guy getting asked for his number by any girl. And I mean that by any girl is a happy moment. Everybody celebrates it, even if you don't want to give her your number, meaning... You're not into her. You still walk away with your ego pumped up. You feel good about yourself, regardless of the person asking for your number.

No one, but no one is offended or calls that female reporter unprofessional. They all walk away feeling better about themselves in this world. I just, you know, I've been broadcasting for a long time, Cody. Like you get to a point as well, and bravo to this reporter because he's a pretty young guy of getting there at a fairly young age, but just be normal. Just be authentic and have fun. with your job because that's what people want. They want you to be normal, they want you to be real, and they want you to have fun. The last thing they need is another basically AI-generated anchor

giving you the information totally devoid of personality. Yeah. And, you know, he seemed like a genuine guy. He's a little awkward, a little shy, a little nervous. It's kind of redeeming, you know, that it's just like a normal, normal guy, normal interaction. I mean, I don't know. I liked it. thought it was pretty funny. I mean, I don't watch a whole lot of baseball anymore, but, you know, it's got me interested, you know? I was like, well, maybe I'll check out some games. Who knows? All right. Well, one of my treats in my day has become, through reading way too much news, taking a break to read sports. The variety of scrolling across my Instagram feed and happening upon a video from Cody Tucker is the perfect variety that I need in my day. Here's a little

bit of history and a little bit of time. Here is Cody Tucker on Andrew Jackson. In 1805, future president Andrew Jackson got into a dispute over a horse race with a man named Joseph Irwin. Irwin's son-in-law Charles Dickinson got involved and insulted Jackson's wife. This pissed Jackson off, which led to the two men going back and forth for a while. They eventually agreed to settle their differences the old-fashioned way with a duel. The rules of a duel at the time stated that if you survived the first person shot, that first person had to stand still while you returned a shot. Jackson knew he wasn't faster than Dickinson, so he decided to just stand still and wait for Dickinson to shoot him, hoping that he didn't kill him.

Dickinson shot Andrew Jackson in the chest, inches away from his heart, but his plan worked, and he survived. Dickinson then had to stand still while the future president of the United States Andrew Jackson carefully aimed and shot him. Jackson's aim was a little bit better than Dickinson's and he killed him at the age of 26. Wow. What a great little fact of history that I did not know. And the balls on Jackson. I'm just going to take a shot. I'm going to take it because then I get a freebie afterwards. I didn't actually know that was the rules of the duel. I did see that play out in one of my favorite shows, Taboo. I love any history-based show. Taboo stars Tom Hardy. I'm in on everything that Tom Hardy is in. So that happens. They have a duel, and the first guy misses. And God help

you if you miss, because then you got to sit there and take it. Yeah. Yeah, that's the rules of a duel, which, you know, it's a, I would, I would have been avoiding that at all costs, but not, uh, not Andy Jackson. He was, he was all for it. He, that was not his only duel, by the way. There was lots of really oh yeah yeah yeah he was a lot of it was actually pretty often and clearly uh you know pretty successful yeah based upon you know his survival uh andrew jackson is often used as um a historical metaphor for donald trump like there are many who think he is the closest

parallel to the modern day Donald trump Andrew Jackson yeah that's fair i could see that I mean, it's so hard to compare, you know, whenever you're going so far back because there's obviously going to be so many historical differences that just don't correlate. But overall, yeah, I can see that being a pretty fair comparison. Yeah. All right. Here's a guy that only shares a political party with Donald Trump, but here's another video from Cody. This one on Gerald Ford.

Gerald Ford was the only president who was never elected president or vice president. He became vice president after Richard Nixon's VP, speech. Bureau Agnew resigned, and he became president after President Richard Nixon resigned. Then two different people tried to kill President Gerald Ford. The first of those two attempts was in September of 1975. When a young woman named Lynette Fromm approached the president while aiming a Colt 45 at him. Luckily for Gerald Ford, his Secret Service agent grabbed the gun from her.

Lynette Squeaky Fromm was given that nickname while living at Spawn Ranch as a member of Charles Manson's cult. The second attempt was less than three weeks later when a woman named Sarah Jane Moore fired a 38 revolver at him. She only missed by a couple of feet. As she fired the second shot, a retired Marine grabbed the gun, causing her to miss the president's head by six inches. As of 2009, both of these women have been released from prison. I did not know any of that, Cody. I didn't know there had been attempts on Gerald Ford's life.

No, he's one of the guys. guys, you know, we talk about the presidents who were assassinated, and then we can name some presidents that had attempted assassinations. I didn't know about the attempted assassinations on Gerald Ford. And when I was watching the video just now for the first time, the minute you said Lynette Fromm, I was like, isn't that the lady from the Manson family? What a fascinating note of history. Sure is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Squeaky Frome. Yeah, yeah. She was absolute lunatic. I mean, a lot of people hated Gerald Ford, I think, because of, you know, pardoning Richard Nixon and not, you know, going through that.

But, you know, I don't really know a whole lot about Gerald Ford as far as, like, how he was as a president or whether he was, you know, made people angry. I mean, it clearly rubbed some people the wrong way. But, yeah, it's, yeah, it's not a very, like, because I didn't know about the second one. I knew about Lynette Fromm, for sure, but I didn't know that there was a second one that soon after. Yeah. And it has to be a historical aberration to have a fiends. In this case, with Ford 2, he's really rubbing women the wrong way. But like female assassins, by the way, who both missed, female assassins have to be a historical oddity.

Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's like female serial killers. I mean, you got a couple here and there, but yeah, it's not a common thing. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever heard of another one, to be honest, like in any era of history, not just, you know, our. But yeah. Speaking of serial killers, I once again fell down my rabbit hole. There's certain rabbit holes that always suck me in. I watch the Gone Girls of Gilgo Beach on Netflix.

It's like the third documentary that I have watched, and I've actually interviewed profilers in Ray Tierney, the Suffolk County District Attorney about this case. I just find it absolutely fascinating. Do you know about that serial killer, Cody, on Long Island? A little bit. I am a massive true crime fan, and that's one that I actually have on my list to start checking.

checking out. But yeah, no. So, yeah, I don't know a ton about it. You know, they've arrested the guy. They've arrested a suspect, Rex Heerman. And here's just the historical oddity that's interesting because you like these notes of history. They're currently compiling, I don't know how many murders to attach to him. I think they're up to like 11, 11 murders to him. They keep adding new ones. I would love to re-interview Ray Tierney again, the Suffolk County DA, about whether or not he can reliably really believe that he killed these people back starting in 1993. But he was six, eight, like, 350 pounds. He was described as an ogre.

And he drove a Chevy, a green Chevy avalanche. Like, you're not blending into society. It's fascinating this dude got away with this. Because, by the way, there's just not a lot of Chevy avalanches out there rolling around, neither in their heyday nor today. But he was six, eight, three hundred and something. Something pounds driving a Chevy Avalanche. Yeah, that's, it's hard to be inconspicuous when you're, yeah, when you look like Ed Too Tall Jones.

Yeah, that's a, that is a crazy one. Yeah, that's, well, there was a, I can always forget, just Ed Kemper. You know, I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he was like six, eight as well, six, seven. Yeah, I mean, he's a big fellow, but he, you know, he killed California. He killed his mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Killed his mom and I think wore her. Either dressed up like her or ended up wearing her.

her, I believe. He kept her head and did things with the head. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Don't get too detailed, but... Something bad. Yeah. I forgot he was huge as well. Okay, here on a lighter note is Cody Tucker on the prank of a Roman emperor. In Rome during the mid-200 CE, a man was caught and arrested for selling counterfeit jewels. As it turns out, one of the women that he sold those counterfeit jewels to happened to be the wife, the Roman Emperor, Galeenus. The emperor decided to give this criminal a special punishment and stage his execution in the middle of the Coliseum. The merchant was told that he would be forced to go out into the middle of the

Coliseum and fight a lion, which would obviously result in his brutal death. A crowd of thousands of spectators watched as that man was brought to the middle of the Coliseum awaiting the lion. When the doors opened to release the lion, Everyone in the crowd was stunned to discover that a lion was not entering the Coliseum, instead, a tiny little chicken. The Emperor had staged this entire mock execution as one elaborate prank. The Emperor later explained he had practiced deceit, and so he had deceit practiced on him.

That one, Cody, I'm like, that's the deceit? I get to live? I fight a chicken. Thank you, Emperor. What was the price to pay? embarrassment? Well, I mean, I don't know. I feel like knowing that you're going to die and then not dying has to be one of the weirdest feelings in the world that probably just changes your life. So, you know, it's a bit of a prank, but it's also teaching a lesson. It's, you know, I can kind of see it. I mean, could have been worse for him, for sure. It could have been worse, for sure. I get your point. Yeah, facing death and being relieved of death, perhaps you change your way.

perhaps. I don't know if that's the theory of punishment that works, but maybe, maybe then you change your ways. Okay, we're going to take a quiz, me versus Cody, in just one moment before we do. One more video from Cody, this on one of the most interesting figures of the American Revolution. Samuel Whitmore may have been one of the most badass human beings of all time. Whitmore was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1696, and later fought in the French and Indian War at the age of 64. In 1775, during the first battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord, a now 78-year-old Samuel Whitmore noticed a group of British soldiers approaching his land. He loaded his musket and ambushed the British soldiers.

He was able to kill two of them and then started attacking them with his sword. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to fend them off for long and was stabbed with a bayonet multiple times before being shot directly in the face. He was later found by colonial soldiers, covered in blood. When the soldiers approached the clearly dead Samuel Whitmore, they were surprised to find out that he wasn't dead. Samuel Whitmore was very much alive and was still trying to load his musket so that he could keep fighting. He was then taken to a doctor where he was sadly informed that there was no chance he was going to make it.

Well, not only did he survive, but he lived another 18 years before dying at the age of 96. Oh, I've never heard of Samuel Whitmore, but what a badass story of the American Revolution. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's, you know, they don't make people like that anymore. That's for sure. I would have been done. No chance. All right. Before we go into a history quiz, Will versus Cody Tucker, I have a question for you that's going to help inform me on exactly what I'm going up against Cody. How do you find your stories? Do you read his? History deeply. Are you a Wikipedia guy where you come along some of these fascinating facts? Do you use AI? Where do you find a lot of this? So mostly reading. So I just read constantly, like actual books. And then I'm just, as I'm reading, kind of highlighting things that seem like they're interesting. And then, yeah, I'll just take a person, let's say, I don't know, Gerald Ford. I'll just Google, you know, interesting facts about Gerald Ford and see like if, and nine times I'd

it's nothing that's actually that interesting and then I'll kind of like piece the interesting facts together and try to make like a little story but it's yeah it's usually uh just reading non-stop yeah yeah I like the one I like when you connect stories like when you say here's an interesting fact about history that is connected to this other seemingly unrelated fact of history I think that's that's the that's peak Cody Tucker right there okay so he's well armed to go into this quiz Will versus Cody. The boys in New York are going to take it away. I have no idea what to expect here, Cody.

I don't know how many questions. I don't know what we're going to talk about. And I don't know if this is even going to work as content. But we're going to try it. Take it away to a day stand. I would love to talk in this, Cetus. Napoleon was once attacked by what animal? Do you want me to answer?

No, A, swarm of bees. B, a flock of geese. C, a pack of wild rabbits. D. A herd of goats. now do you want me to answer so it's me versus cody okay hold on cody yes but no i think i should go first and then you because you your certainty is warning me off and you don't want me just following you like he said now do you want he said now do you want me to answer before you were

even offered up the multiple choice so i'm just going to take an l on this one i also saw him shake his head at the answer i was going to go with so i'm going to do it anyway because that's the honesty of me, man of integrity. I was going to go with flock of geese. I did see Cody shake his head during flock of geese, but I'm going to go with flock of geese. Cody?

It's the it's the bunnies, the rabbits. It's the pack of wild rabbits sea. I have a little background that Patrick put together if you want to hear it on why. Yes. During a rabbit hunt organized by his chief of staff, Napoleon was unexpectedly sworn

by hundreds of rabbits. Instead of fleeing the rabbits charged toward him, likely mistaking the event for feeding time. The incident turned into a humorous anecdote about the emperor's unexpected defeat. Wow. They thought he was going to feed him, and so they swarmed him. Yeah. I wonder how scary that would be. A hundred bunnies all headed your way.

Like, is that nerve-wracking? Is that okay? I'd be scared. Yeah, I'd be scared by really any. like any animal coming at me, to be honest. I'm not, yeah, it happened to Jimmy Carter in a much smaller version. Like a bunny runs from you. Now you've got the counterintuitive thing of a bunny running toward you,

and then you've got a hundred of them running towards you. And you would have to consider, is this horror movie material? Like, what happens when the bunnies get to me? And the answer is probably just sit there and pitter-patter around your feet. But I don't think I'd be that nervous. Who knows? All right, two days, what else you got? hell out of you though that's uh yeah all right next one which u.s. president was a licensed bartender

was it a abraham lincoln b george washington c thomas jefferson d andrew jackson a licensed bartender okay all right i like that he has confusion on his face he's not 100% sure okay here's my thought process he's i'll lay him out i trust cody will go his own way I want to say Jefferson, because I picture this man that's very worldly. You can imagine having a dinner party with Jefferson, him going, would you like me to make you an old-fashioned? And George Washington going, what's an old-fashioned? Like, you could figure that, right?

That sort of fits his sort of, well, he wasn't a dandy, but he was like a deletant. You know, he's like very, you could imagine he got into things and figured them out. However, I hope they weren't licensing bartenders in the late 1700s and early 8-10ers. I hope that was an unlicensed profession, something that we mutated into a little bit later in history. So by sheer timeline, I'm going to go with Andrew Jackson, because maybe by the 18, what is it, Jackson, 20s and 30s, maybe by then they had started to implement some regulation in the U.S. So I'm going Jackson. What do you have, Coates? No, it's Lincoln, I think.

Oh, I should, yeah, Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. Why didn't I just go that way? Yeah. Yeah, I should have gone. By my own rationale, I forgot Lincoln. Before his political career, Abraham Lincoln co-owned a tavern in New Salem, Illinois, called Barry and Lincoln. Although the business eventually failed, this venture made Lincoln the only U.S. president to have held a bartender's license.

Two nothing, Cody Tucker. He was also part of the Donner Party, so he was almost part of the Donner Party. So he was almost cannibalized. Really? Yeah. Yeah, he was friends with one of the guys that. led the Donner Party because they fought in the Black Hawk War, you know, both being from Springfield, Illinois. And he asked him, this is way before Lincoln was ever present, obviously,

asked him if he wanted to come along. And he said, yes. And then Mary Todd was like, well, we just had a kid. You're not leaving me. And he said, all right, I'll stay. Yeah, dodged a bullet on that one. Dodged a bullet on the daughter party. Well, until a couple of years later, but yeah. Oh, yeah, bad metaphor. Bad, bad, bad turn of phrase. Yeah. What do you got two a days? All right. What did the CIA attempt to use cats for during the Cold War? Was it A, detecting bombs, B, delivering messages, C, implementing microphones for spying, D, sniffing out drugs? I'm ready. Yeah, I am too.

I think they implanted microphones in those bad boys and turned them loose in Moscow or the Soviet embassy in D.C. Because who thinks twice about a cat roaming around? I got microphones on those cats. I'm going C. What you got, Cody? What was the second one again? What was B? Be delivering messages.

Yeah, B. I'm going to say B. It was C, implanting microphones for spying. Oh, good job. Come back. Come back starts here. In the 1960s, the CIA launched project Acoustic Kitty, aiming to use cats equipped with listening devices to spy on Soviet targets.

The project failed due to the cat's unpredictable. and was eventually abandoned. Yeah, they came up with some stupid ideas. We're not tied, but you've got to give me a chance for the comeback. So we're going to five. You're on number four. What unusual item did President Calvin Coolidge keep on his White House deck? Desk, sorry, desk.

A, a bowl of jelly beans. B, a mechanical horse. C, a pet raccoon. D, a stack of comic books. What did he, Coolidge have on his White House desk? Jelly beans, mechanical horse, pet raccoon, or comic books. I'm down to two options. Somebody, I'm down to two as well.

Yeah. And somebody was super into jelly beans. That's Reagan. I just don't remember. Reagan was super into jelly beans? Yeah, they created blue jelly beans just for him because of how much you love jelly beans, but was mad they didn't have blue ones. also the thing is throwing me off of jelly beans is he said unusual item i don't know how unusual it is to have a bowl of jelly beans a mechanical horse is my other my other but those are

big usually and you're like how's that on a desk but maybe that's why it's unusual i'm going to be mechanical horse c i'm i'm gonna go pet raccoon the pet raccoon it is c pet raccoon Cody Tucker is correct. President Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca. It was the White House raccoon. Great name. Great name. Big fan of just giving a normal human name to a pet,

even though I haven't done it necessarily. And one that you don't, like, not Charlie or Max, because everybody's dog is Charlie or Max, but like Rebecca. If I'm ever at the dog park, and I know this was a raccoon, and somebody yells out, Rebecca, and a dog comes running, I'm going to laugh my ass off. It's going to be hilarious. Lisa.

You know, those are good, good pet names. You know, whenever Teddy Roosevelt was in the White House, his daughter, Alice, she had a pet snake named Emily. Pet snake, Emily. Yeah, it was a pet garter snake named Emily. Garder snake? Yeah. Yep, yep, yeah, I believe so. What's the lifespan on a garter snake?

can't be that long. That feels like the kind of pet you have that lives with you for about 12 months. Tops. I had a snake for a little while. It dies. But yeah. A garter snake? No, I know it was a corn snake, but it got a little aggressive. So we had to, you know, send him to, you know, Hades, where he belonged. But yeah. Did he bite you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot. Yeah. Turns out my fingers kind of look like baby rats, you know, those naked ones, which is fair enough. A corn snake's pretty big. Corn snakes biting into you there.

That's going to leave a mark. All right, I encourage everyone to head on over to X. Check out Cody Tucker. Check out his show, the Cody Tucker show. I'm telling you, it's really good stuff that he puts together. We're going to find new ways to use Cody Tucker both here on the Wilcane Digital Show and on the Wilcane television show here within a matter of time. Always love talking to you, Cody.

Thank you so much, man. Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. Yeah, it was a good time. All right. There you goes, Cody Tucker. All right, we're going to take quick break. When we come back, we've got the man behind a podcast plan for Donald Trump. He's been on our show before, but we're going to get with him today to talk about the move of Gen Z into the right. And as pop culture, as evidenced by Saturday Night Live, followed them to the right.

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the author of winning the social media war, how conservatives can fight back, reclaim the narrative, and turn the tides against the left. from a fancy hotel room it appears is Alex Bruce Woods what's up Alex you're doing man it's great to be back with you am I right some kind of fancy hotel room in some city it's not too bad it's not as nice as the illegals have been getting in New York City though what do we doing are we traveling will be somewhere on business what are

is this this is the home South Florida I'm in Washington D.C. at the moment so got to go see some friends over at that nice house over here all right in washington dc alex who helped put president trump back in to washington dc um let's start with this the move of young people which i think honestly if we're being up front you had a big part in alex i mean um it was part of a larger cultural movement that's been going on for quite some time and that is something that i've noticed in my own life anecdotally i've experienced mostly with my kids um who are teenagers young teenagers majors, and they in their social circle, I can see very easily gravitate to a lot of the same

content that I do and believe. Of course, they're my kids, so they're going to in a lot of ways, believe what I believe. But listen to this. According to a new Yale study found that Gen Z is divided into two groups. Those 22 to 29 are D plus six. Those 18 to 21 are R plus 12. So younger Gen Z, separating from older Gen Z and leaning hard to the right, Alex. Yeah, it's incredible. The numbers that we're seeing are astonishing, and nobody would have ever predicted this. And even the plus six figure, like, we should be celebrating that plus six figure. I believe that will come closer to our side as President's term progresses.

But we never did well with young people, period. But President Trump has totally reshaped, he's totally reshaped politics and the electorate in a way that nobody else could have done. President Trump is a cultural phenomenon. He is not just a politician. And he really strikes, you know, he really hits the issues that these young people care about. They want opportunities. They want to stop this, this woke crap. I grew up, you know, I'm part of the older Gen Z.

now, but the pronouns in the classrooms were starting when my age group was just, you know, halfway through college where you had to stand up and announce what pronouns you had before you were able to address the classroom. It's ridiculous, and the people are fed up with it, and the Democrats have totally become the system, and young people have always liked to rebel against the system, and I think that's what we're witnessing right now. I think you hit two of the three things that I think are involved. in this shift. One is the pull mechanism of the charismatic figure that is Donald Trump.

Two is the push mechanism of the youth have always rebelled against the authority figures and whatever is perceived to be the system. And quite clearly for the better part of a decade, if not more, the left has been in charge of that system. Even if there was a Republican in office, the left controlled the authoritarian side of that system. And then there is just the life experience. You pointed out the pronoun issue, but this poll described two types of Gen Ziers, those pre and those post-COVID. So like you, Alex, the 2.0, no, the 1.0, Gen Ziers graduated high school pre-COVID.

They grew up with Instagram, but not with TikTok. They started college in the first Trump era, and these are the things that have sort of defined their generation. The Women's March, the March for Our Lives, Climate Strikes, Black Lives Matter. That was all part of the Zite guys. Of course, there were going to be some that rebelled against that, but that's going to have a pull mechanism for some of your generation. Then there's Gen Z 2.0, and they graduated high school post-COVID. They've only known smartphones, Snapchat over eye message, TikTok, very important. important started college in the Biden area and resistance to COVID and masking protocols

and movements toward free speech were seen as counterculture yeah I mean that makes total sense the the my younger brother he's part of Gen Z uh 2.0 if you will and you know he lost three of his years due to COVID in college he didn't have the fun he didn't have the same experiences that so many of his friends and, you know, older siblings have had. And so I think there's some animosity and hatred towards the system for that. But they, I mean, I'm really impressed, actually, by the plus six figure as well. Because you listed off those major cultural moments that the Democrats totally influenced, the March for Our Lives, the George Floyd protest, the BLM, everything.

And it's only plus six. like the Democrat apparatus use everything in their power to influence the minds and the hearts of these people, and they're only at plus six. And you can win plus six pretty quickly if you have the right message and the right candidate. And so the Democrats have to be terrified by these numbers. And I think that actually the younger generation, even younger than Gen Z 2.0, like the 14 to 17 year olds that will be able to vote in 2028, I also believe that they're going to be very conservative because President Trump is getting the indoctrination out of the classrooms. He's getting the DEI, you know, out of our system. And, you know, social media is free and fair once again.

They're not censoring conservative content any longer. And so I'm very optimistic about Gen Z and this generation and the younger generation. Millennials, I don't know how we're going to do with them. But I think Gen Z is going to stay conservative for years to come. You know, there's also the influence and the relevance of pop culture, which is rapidly changing. And again, I think you were part of this in that there's a story out today. George Clooney, I think, recently gave an interview with Jake Tapper at CNN, and he's saying, you know, that it became important to tell the truth. And that's why he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times talking about the decline of Joe Biden. Of course, it wasn't important to George Clooney before it became obvious.

that Joe Biden was going to lose. But the left, throughout my lifetime, has controlled pop culture through figures like George Clooney, who is very famous, great actor, by the way. He's also on the list that if he's in a movie, he's not 100% for me because he does some overtly political stuff that turns me off.

But if he's in a movie, I'm considering watching George Clooney. But his cultural currency has rapidly declined. And that could be a product of age, Although I don't know because it's not like Donald Trump is young, you know. But I look at the guys who were who controlled cool, for lack of a better word. They controlled cool. And I don't even think they have an impact on cool anymore. Like I don't think George Clooney influences the youth.

Meanwhile, as you know very well, Theo Vaughn does. Yeah. No, you're spot on. And this has been a trend that I've actually been watching over the last six or seven years. One of my side projects and side hobbies, I spent a lot of time actually in Los Angeles and in Hollywood interacting with different celebrity types and influencers. And there's actually a contempt for those that came up in Hollywood through the traditional means through acting and signing with an agency and getting parts and plays, etc., versus

the people who become famous via the Internet. A lot of the traditional celebrities feel like the Internet celebrities basically don't deserve to be famous. They have a cheat code, et cetera, because they go viral one time and they have a million followers overnight. So there's a pretty funny disconnect with that. But there's also with the rise of the internet celebrities who are independent, they don't have these agencies around them. They don't have these Uber liberal managers that are, you know, controlling which movies they can be in, et cetera. They have more flexibility and freedom to voice their actual political opinions without fear of losing out on parts or losing out on money. And so the Democrats used to

control those that could book you in the movie role that you wanted, that could get you the record label that you wanted for the song. And now the internet culture, you can get yourself. And so they have lost their control mechanism in Hollywood. And that it allows for people like me to go and establish independent relationships with these people. And, you know, I have a lot of celebrity friends that actually don't support the president, but they don't blast the president because they have a relationship with me now. And also, if they have a question about something that the president is doing, they'll shoot me a text. And they say, hey, like, this is what the media is saying about it. What's the truth? And so I'll act as kind of a liaison between our world and

that world. And the Democrats just don't have that lock on Hollywood anymore. And the rise of the internet celebrities, I think, has actually played a major role in that. More of the Will Kane show, this. Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy host of the Trey Gatti 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. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Or wherever, You download podcasts.

I thought about several things as you were giving us that answer. Like, there is the internet celebrity that goes viral, gets a million followers. And in some cases, like deals and money, I think of Hoc2a girl. Like, you know, that was like a flash in the pan. And she actually built a huge podcast for a moment. I'm not sure it's had any staying power, right, off of one viral moment on the internet. it's interesting as well where in the past as you describe look the guys that run Hollywood studios and the agencies were on the left they were aligned and donated to

Democrat politicians so if labor even if it's a high price piece of labor like talent spoke out against that stuff yeah you'd be worried oh my gosh I'm not going to get the next part I don't know I don't know how that effect Tom Selleck back in the day he was kind of an open guy and a big star but now it's the opposite like not because of the control mechanism but because of the market rachel ziegler gets the part as snow white she blasts the president she put some opinions out there they're unpopular the movie does poorly and that's not because you know the studio that's because of the audience right right and again but because social media like you know i think social media has been the great equalizer in this and that's

where the Democrats were so desperate to censor when when they got when they got back power um but social media allows you to voice your opinion freely and uh the the twitter algorithm and twitter 1.0 used to rig the trending topics like crazy they used to trend everything that they agreed with so uh if jack dorsey and the democrats still on twitter uh they would you know they would be only showcasing very positive tweets about snow white instead of the actual truth about snow white and so um the social media basically allows you to have a you know, free debate, you know, in the marketplace of ideas. And their ideas are losing. And we actually have an ability to, to voice our, you know, pushback. They used to, you know,

what would happen is you just had rotten tomatoes, right? Or the, you know, the Raiders. And they would go to the newspapers and say, we give this movie five stars. And then everybody would go watch that movie. And but now with social media, like in real time, we can say this movie sucks. And then all of your friends will see that and nobody wants to watch it anymore. So the Democrats have totally lost their control over Hollywood, which I think we're seeing obviously have an effect on their control over culture. But, yeah, we wouldn't have this control if it weren't for, we don't have, I wouldn't say we have control,

but we actually have a seat at the table now, but we wouldn't have a seat if it weren't for the rise of the internet. You helped put together the digital and podcast plan for President Trump. I'm curious as you sit back and you look at that in the plan you put together. some of these guys who have so much influence now are not comedians um i don't know if logan paul and jake paul are comedians or not i don't really know what we would call those guys um but you know the role of comedians was just so important jo rogan theo von andrew shaltz and on and on it's like the comedian has replaced the movie star in cultural power yeah i think you're right

And look at, I'll give you two more, Tim Dillon. He just came out with a new Netflix special, which is hilarious, by the way. And another one, a very familiar name. His name is Tony Hinchcliff and the entire media apparatus and the Democrats. They tried to come down and cancel Tony after his Madison Square Garden, you know, performance. And they said, that's going to be, that's what's going to cost Donald Trump the election. It's Tony Hinchcliff making jokes at the rally. And we actually did better than ever with all of the Democrats.

demographics that Tony Hinchcliffe was supposedly going to cost us with, and now Tony has one of the top shows on Netflix right behind WWE Raw. So he's, you know, comedians are totally crushing it because they're truth tellers. And it's, you know, they wouldn't be effective comedians if they didn't have hints of truth in their jokes. And so they are totally replacing it. If you look at the podcast rankings, your show is doing very well. But a lot of the mainstream podcasts are all comedians. Joe Rogan's technically a comedian, Theo Vaughn's comedian, Andrew Schultz is a comedian, Tim Dillon and Tony, like the list goes on. Like five of the top 10 podcasts in the entire country are comedian focused. And part of it is that our people, our country is naturally funny.

They want to laugh. They want to have a good time, et cetera. And we've had such a, you know, depressing country in a lot of the ways. If you turn on the mainstream media, everything is so negative. and nobody wants to watch that anymore. They want to have good, they want to laugh, they want to, you know, have fun. And they also want to, you know, get some sort of news, and they get a lot of it from, you know, the comedians in a fun manner. But, you know, our country isn't an angry country. We're not an angry people. And so I think it makes total sense where the comedians are thriving in this environment.

So then what do you make of this skit for Saturday Night Live very recently? This is in two parts. but this is something I think in the past we would never have seen from Saturday Night Live. Oh my gosh, whose baby is that? Excuse me? It's ours. Wait, but how? Okay, I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby?

Yeah, but like, where did it come from? Excuse me? Wow, you are not allowed to talk like that. That is so invasive. Okay, but like we were with you last night and you did not have a baby. Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner, you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon,

and now today you have a baby. What we're asking is, how did this happen? Okay, I'm sorry. Why is it when it's us an interrogation? I don't ask you why you're poor. I loaned you $10,000. I think we're just wondering who the mother is. Hey, well, between the two of us,

I'm more emotional, I like shopping, so me, I think. Yeah, but I mean, I have long hair and he is an alcoholic, so I guess it's like two moms, I guess? Guys, how did you get this baby? Okay, we didn't pull it out of your vagina if that's what you're asking.

People think they can ask gay people anything. It's not okay. Yeah, we don't ask you guys whose butt you use for anal. Okay? Okay. Saturday Night Live, in, I don't think you, I know, Alex, you'd never see that. What?

One year ago? Yeah, not a chance. Not a chance a year ago. And, I mean, SNL has, seems to make him pivot more towards the center as of late. You know, their Trump impressions still aren't good. I mean, I don't know why they wouldn't go give Shane Gillis like, you know, $50 million just do the Trump impression, you know, every Saturday. Then they can, that'd be a no-brainer, in my opinion.

But, you know, they're certainly trying to get back to the center. But they used to never make fun of that side. They used to never make fun of the woke crowd. They used to never make fun of the Democrats. And their ratings suffered because of it. And that's, you know, why independent comedians like Sholes and Theo and those types of guys, so it skyrocketed and their ratings, you know, surpassed them in a lot of ways. But it's also weird seeing John Hamm in comedic roles.

You know, I just started watching Mad Men again in my limited free time. And like, I don't know why that guy just doesn't do serious. Like that was like his role. He should keep doing that. I don't know why he's doing these, you know, comedic roles personally. But that was a pretty funny skit. It was a funny skit. I don't trust that they have all of a sudden they're going to be, how about this?

I don't trust that they're going to be consistently interesting. But that's interesting because you're poking. at a truth and you're poking at a sacred cow and you're poking at conversations that have been taboo and i don't think it's mean i think it's funny i think it's funny is the important point last thing um since we're on this note of politicians and pop culture like what do you make of the left and i think it would be too easy for me to simply crush bernie sanders because he's 80 it's also alexander accio cortez who's young really trying to tackle into things like Coachella.

Yeah, well, I mean, Coachella's a, I'm not sure if you've been, it's actually a fun spot. I met one of my videographers at Coachella, circa 2018. We were at a party, Blue Face was performing, and I had a, you know, tabled area nearby. I was like, dude, you're good at camera work. And now he's working for me and making mega videos. But, you know, he's a great guy, and it's a great environment. And it totally makes sense why AOC is speaking there, because the only time that she ever makes sense to somebody is if you're totally inebriated. And so, you know,

remember what she said at that rally. And, you know, but, but similarly, she has to go to where a crowd is already manufactured. And, you know, if you look at the crowds that she actually pulls, like she's doing this, uh, circuit or whatever you want to call it with Bernie around the country, the audience, it's all like 65 year old plus overweight men who are wearing pride shirts, or, you know, like, fishing hats. Like, these are very bizarre people that are showing up. It's not the youth, okay? And, like, AOC has totally lost her touch.

And you see it in our engagement on social media. You see it in the way, like, you know, young people I know are talking about how AOC is the way forward. And the Democrats are totally lost. You're polling show, you know, that you read through today shows it. They're plus, you know, again, they're only plus six with a demographic that they used to be plus 20, 25 with. The Democrats used to have a stranglehold on the young voter. They have nobody that can reach across and talk to normal young voters. AOC can't do it. David Hogg can't do it.

Tim Walls can't do it. And like these people are, they're weird. They have no message. And so I'm not too concerned about AOC being able to pull young voters, especially young men, male voters. Yeah, it's hard to identify somebody on the horizon that could do so for the Democrats. All right, Alex Broussowitz. Check him out on X, where he runs X strategies, by the way. He's Alex Brousowitz, B-R-U-E-S-E-W-I-T-Z. We appreciate you, Alex. Always love having you on. Love staying in touch. Thank you, man. Thank you. All right, there he goes, Alex Brousswitz. By the way, before we go, guys in New York, I am past, I think this is not just that I'm old. I don't think it's just my age that makes it hard for me to know

fashion-wise if something is cool. I know what I think is cool, but I don't know what culture says is cool, right, to wear. But when he said fishing hats, I was picturing the bucket hat. Is that always talking about like a bucket, bucket hat? And of course, that is like the hat in like literally the movie Grumpy Old Men from back in the day. But I was going to say, don't young people wear that hat? They're back. Is a bucket hat cool? It's a little frat bro-y.

I think it's how you wear it. Because when he said that, I was like... Are there multiple ways? Is there multiple ways to wear that hat? What are you're talking about? Tip forward, tip back. It's more like the vibe and the aura that you bring into the hat. Will it fit your head?

What does that even mean? You hear the shot from tinfoil pat? Does you hear the shot from tinfoil pat, James? Will it fit your seven and seven-eighth's head? He's got to hold a lot of brain up there. Special order. After our conversation offline yesterday, I did look up average male head size, and I'm average. Seven and three-eight's.

I'm sometimes a seven-and-a-half. Not all hats fit the same. Dan, I don't mean this. I mean, I hate to point it out, but Dan, really small head. Seven and a half? A quarter? A quarter? You said seven and a quarter?

Seven and a half. Oh, man. Oh. Yeah. I just said seven and a quarter yesterday. Unless I mistyped, I'm seven and a half. All right. Yeah.

A bunch of big heads on this show. That's right. Big brain show. What's up, tinfoil? I have a fun fact I wanted to share about the last question in the quiz real quick. This pet raccoon, okay, wasn't just a pet raccoon that he found on the street. Somebody sent it in, and they were supposed to eat it on Thanksgiving. So he pardoned this raccoon

And And it became a pet The White House raccoon Thank you for that Who sent it? How did he keep That question is deceptive So he kept a pat raccoon

On the I'm assuming it's the resolute desk By the way I have a fun fact About the resolute desk Which I may have learned from Cody Tucker Do you guys know why The President's desk Is called the Resolute Desk?

No Two of them Something about a ship Yeah, it's made from the wood of the HMS Resolute The Queen of England made two of them I think actually maybe three You learned that from National Treasure with Nick Cage That's where you learned that from

That was in that movie And the other one is the queen has it You learned that from Nicholas Cage A National Treasure That's a Disney movie you learned that from You're 100% right You're 100% right I watched that recently

That's where I learned that I love how every time Trump talks about the desk, every single time, like five times in the past two weeks, he mentions, oh, and by the way, there's seven. I pick one. They always let me pick. Here's the question, though, I started with. The question was, what did Calvin Coolidge, what oddity or unusual item did he keep on his desk? And the answer ends up being a pet raccoon.

in my head before your answer, Patrick, that was a taxidermied raccoon. That's what I thought. How do you keep a pet raccoon on a desk? Was he in a cage? Was it trained to sit still at the Oval Office? Like, how do you keep a raccoon on your desk? And by way, if it's in a cage, that's miserable.

That takes up a lot of desk space. And he rattles around all day, probably gnawn at the wires. That's terrible. And then what kind of stuff is he doing in the cage? He's chewing up stuff. He's using the bathroom. Does Calvin Coolidge ring the bell? He eats trash.

Donald Trump has a Diet Coke button. Does he have a Diet Coke button? It says, come in, change the papers underneath Rebecca. I don't like this story. I think it's off. Something's off about Rebecca on the desk of Calvin Coolidge. This is the 1920s, so I don't think they had buttons like that. They probably had the bell, like a little, ring a little bell, you know.

They definitely probably, I'm betting, I mean, they let her out every once in a while to go to the bathroom and stuff. So it's like, it wasn't like she, like, stayed there all the time, you know, but... On a leash? Or do you, does the raccoon come when called? I don't know. Come on, Rebecca, get back in your cage? You can train bunnies, you know, but I don't know. Unless you're Napoleon.

I feel like Rebecca was taxidermied. We need more investigation on this quiz. All right, that's going to do it for us today here on the Will Cain Show. Hope you enjoyed this episode. Make sure you download, subscribe at Apple. or on Spotify, leave a comment. We'll see you again next time. in less than five minutes.

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