Will Cain Country - Did Walz Dodge Military Deployment? PLUS, Low Information Voters For Harris!

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Story #1: Is it deployment dodging? Is it stolen valor? Is it a vice presidential candidacy imploding? Or have Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz risen to the point in popularity of being the favorite? Story #2: Two of America's badass warriors, NAVY Seals Bill Brown and Mitch Aguiar join Will to break down Governor Tim Walz's military service and preview the New York City Navy SEAL swim that they and Will are participating in this Saturday.  Story #3: Remembering the Maui fire devastation one year later. How are they rebuilding? 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

For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. One. Is it deployment dodging? Is it stolen valor? Is it a vice presidential candidacy? imploding, or have Kamala Harris and Tim Walts risen in popularity to the point of being the favorite? Two, two of America's badass warriors, Navy Seals, Bill Brown and Mitch Aguilar.

Join me today here on The Wilcane Show to break down Tim Walt's military story and Saturdays. New York City Navy SEAL swim. Three, August 8, 2023, Lahaina Maui burns to the ground. One year later, August 8, 2024,000s paddle out into the ocean in remembrance. And I take you last week inside the streets of Lahaina, the burned out remnants of Front Street today here on the Wilcane Show. It is the Will Cain Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page, and always on demand, wherever you get your audio entertainment. Just hit subscribe at Apple or Spotify.

You can listen to the Will Cain Show whenever and however you like. Or if you're watching right now on YouTube, just hit subscribe. There's a little button in the text description underneath this live stream. That way you can hang out with the Will Cain show every Monday through Thursday live at 12 o'clock. o'clock Eastern time. You can even jump into the comments section and join the conversation, join the community, join the Wilicia here on the Wilcane show. It is go time on Saturday. It is green light. It is time to jump into the Hudson. There have been thunderstorms and rains all week in New York City. Leaving the New York City Navy SEAL swim of 2024 in doubt.

on the rocks floating away up the hudson or into the atlantic but the email as of yesterday is that 250 some odd patriots some 150 NYPD new york fire department new jersey state police first responders and some 60 odd navy seals will dive into the hudson swim three miles Stop three times. Do 300 push-ups. Do 66 pull-ups. And carry flags to the streets of downtown Manhattan with the blaring siren of fire trucks into ground zero.

And the water? Well, the water is fine, my friends. Jump on in. That's the latest email I got yesterday. Despite rains, despite runoff, despite horrible videos of floods in the New York City subway system, The bacteria levels are tolerable in the Hudson River. We'll find out come Saturday.

If I host Fox and Friends weekend on Sunday morning with a third arm or one eye or superhero powers that I previously did not know due to radioactivity in the waters, we'll find out if everything was fine. Bill Brown, the organizer of the New York City Navy SEAL swim, who swam in those Hudson rivers, dozens of times and is pretty normal fairly normal

I mean like on the bandwidth of normal he's probably trending towards less abnormal we'll join us here today on the will cane show along with his buddy but also American hero Mitch Jagiar by the way Mitch went viral just a few weeks ago just about a month ago because he jumped in the MMA ring

with big time Trump supporter and big-time MMA fighter, Sean Strickland. And look, by the looks of the video, Mitch took a beating from a professional fighter. So I want to ask Mitch about that today, a little bit later, here on the Will Cain show. But we've got a lot to get to today, including the perhaps imploding candidacy

of vice presidential candidate Tim Waltz. Could it be an anchor that sinks Kamala Harris? Or is it? the beginning of normies, of low-information voters, of a campaign run-on vibes, taking the lead over J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Let's get to that with story number one. According to a new article at foxnews.com, Kamala Harris has taken a four-point lead over Donald Trump

in a favorability rating conducted in a poll by Marquette University. And I'll read now from this poll. It says the poll conducted January, July 24th to August 1st, surveyed 879 registered voters from across the country, and it advertised a margin of error of 4.1%. this favorability rating poll shows that just over the last two weeks the candidacy of Harris according to normie's popular conception of these two candidates has taken a big rise in popularity it reflects what we've all talked about that this enthusiasm this honeymoon period

has been a period of a period of a golden age for Kamala Harris. Now, we all understand that the election is going to come down to a few swing states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. And national averages and national favorability ratings only have so much value in predicting the outcome of the presidential election in November of 2024. But what it does reflect is that there's a campaign with, of course, Kamala Harris and Tim Walts, but within the mainstream media to turn com layers from really one of the most disrespected and unappreciated and unpopular vice presidents in history to the second

coming of Barack Obama to the savior of America to the most charming woman in the United States and it's working not just reflected in these polls it's working when you start listening you just listen to well I guess what you would call call Normie? Let me give you Colin Coward, sports host of The Herd on FS1. Americans are much more united than anybody on their iPhone would acknowledge, but that's hard to sell. We really all want the same things, but we watch different news channels for it. But people are tired of the angst. This weekend, I turned on CNN. Didn't plan to, but they had a Kamala Harris special. It was like two hours.

I didn't plan to watch it. But what I noticed between her and the other guy running is she smiled a lot. She was happy. She laughed. It wasn't constant finger pointing in grievance. And I found myself sitting there for two hours. It was kind of uplifting. I'm being somewhat generous.

To a man, I slightly know and it would describe as having a relationship that is somewhat friendly. I'm being somewhat generous by calling. calling cowherd a normie. I mean, look, Colin is extremely wealthy, and he lives in Manhattan Beach, and he's surrounded by people who would consider themselves among the 1%, and are among the 1%. And I think in a world where, you know, being cool is more important than being right. And yet, he still represents, I think, a point of view that exists outside of those

who consume on a regular basis news and politics. I mean, you're tempted to, in somewhat of a derisive manner say this is low information, but it's also in that way normal. Most people aren't plugged in to the latest thing coming across their Twitter scroll and maybe not even, you know, watching Jesse Waters' primetime at night or the Will Cain show at 12 o'clock Eastern time

on Fox News.com. So they let the news cycle wash over them. And if you let the news cycle wash over you and you prioritize being cool And you don't prioritize being someone who digs their rudder into the sea, who digs their rudder into the waters to hit the currents and guide the direction of your own boat. If you're just willing to let yourself sail according to the prevailing cool and popular winds, I can see how you'd come away with, oh, that's positive. That's joyful. I mean, that's literally the line that they're using Walts and Harris and the media.

And I think it's a calculated line designed to declaw the criticism of Kamala Harris's laugh. I mean, you've heard Kamala Harris's laugh, and most likely you haven't enjoyed Kamala Harris's laugh. Everybody seems to cringe when Kamala Harris shows joy. But there's an effort to turn that into positivity. And I can see, by the way, when someone criticizes the direction of the country and says, by the way, We're going to lose everything that made America exceptional, that you're coming from a place of negativity. Criticism is inherently negative. And if you're criticizing the current administration, which in my humble estimation deserves big criticism, then that can come off as negative.

And that can, in effect, paint this election between joy and anger, between negativity and positivity. and that can work on a normie sailing according to the winds he has no control over without digging his rudder in that can work on the normie to define election but you have to understand that you're not even the captain of your own boat that there's someone else blowing the winds and those winds are ill my friends, they will have you believing in an alternate reality. They'll have you believing in propaganda. They'll have you believing a lie. Joe Biden this weekend, again, putting out one of the most fact-checked and debunks lies about Donald Trump.

Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025? If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident. all. I mean, if Trump loses, I'm not confident at all. He means what he says. We don't take them seriously. He means it. All the stuff about if we lose, there'll be a bloodbath. It's a have to be a stolen election. Look what they're trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes or elective. They're putting people in place in states that they're going to count the votes, right? Donald Trump did not say, if we lose, there will be a bloodbath. Donald Trump did not.

call white supremacists very fine people. Donald Trump did not call Nazis very fine people. The truth is readily available. The fact checks have been conducted. These lies have been debunked. And yet, they continue to be repeated. Makes me wonder why. You know, if you pulled people out there on the left, do they believe that Donald Trump has called for a bloodbath? Should he lose the election? He was talking about economy he was saying of democratic policies if the policies that the biden harris administration continued it would be a bloodbath on the auto industry he didn't extrapolated it into it would be a bloodbath for the economy he wasn't calling for a bloodbath as insinuated by joe biden on the streets of america if he loses the presidency but i think that if you pulled those on the left i don't

know what percentage would believe that he's called for a bloodbath that he's called nazi's very fine people. I don't know how many even care to know the truth, that even if they're made aware that it's a lie, they'd rather believe the lie than hear the truth. And that's weird. So if this election comes down to vibes, if it comes down to positivity, if it comes down to joy versus negativity, if it comes down to happiness versus anger, then you're going to get away with one campaign saying the other guys are weird and that motivating you

to the poll. I'll give you. I don't think J.D. Vance is the most normal dude I've ever seen, but I don't think the fact that he manspreads on the Nelkeboy podcast makes him weird, as insinuated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I don't think Trump is exactly normal, but I think that's not weird. I think Donald Trump is exceptional. It has been in every way in his life. Exceptional doesn't have to mean waving pom-poms. It doesn't have to always be positive there can be exceptionally negative if you feel so inclined but he's never been normal and that's part of his appeal he's represented aspiration he's represented achievement he's represented real estate success he has represented the art of the deal so if you want to call all that in a negative

light weird just know that there are millions of americans who see all that same abnormality as aspirational. This versus if we're doing a ledger, if we're doing assets and liabilities balance, this versus a tandem in Walton Harris who have advocated for boys playing in girls sports, who've put tampons in the boys' restroom, who've earned the nickname Tampon Timmy. I don't know. I think that's kind of weird. So in the end, the question is for all of us, is this dichotomy? Is this choice you're being given? Positive and negative. Normal versus weird. Is it real or is it phony? I would suggest to you, it's about as real as Tim Waltz's war hero status. Tim Waltz, vice presidential candidate under Kamala Harris,

served for 24 years in the United States military, Army National Guard. We appreciate, I appreciate, Tim Walts's service to this country. But one thing I've been made aware, I've been made clear by friends of mine, whether or not that's Joey Jones, Marine who lost both of his legs, Marine EOD Tech lost both of his legs in Afghanistan, or my friend and co-host on Fox and friends Pete Heggseth, who served both in Afghanistan and Iraq with the United States. Army is you do not embellish your record. You simply do not say you have done things you did not do

in the service of your country. And that's exactly the allegation now against Tim Walts. Tim Walts has said he was a command master sergeant. I am far from an expert on military rank and title. My understanding is in order to earn that title, you can be given it provisionally and then earn it your service over the ensuing years. But Tim Waltz elected to retire from the United States Army before being deployed to a war theater in Iraq and Afghanistan, thus negating his titular promotion to command a master sergeant. So he shouldn't be putting that on his bio, and yet he is.

That, according to various accounts, is or is not a grievous sin. Iser is not some form of stolen valor. But Tim Waltz has said that he wants, to, for example, ban weapons he carried into war. He has said that he deployed in support of operation enduring freedom. He has created an image that he is a warfighter. Now, I'll leave it to my guest coming up in just a moment here on the Wilcane Show

if serving in the military is the same as being a warfighter. Tim Waltz did not fight in Iraq. Tim Waltz did not fight in Afghanistan. He did not deploy to Operation Enduring Freedom. the war in Afghanistan. He deployed in support of that mission to Italy. Tim Waltz deployed to Italy, to Europe, and most likely did not, as a command master sergeant, carry around a weapon of war through the streets of Rome. So the point is

there was a time when this type of embellishment would have almost, well, swift-voted a campaign. I remind you, of John Kerry. There was a time when this would inspire some shame. There is a time now when it has aspired some outrage from fellow service members. But the main takeaway from me is this embellishment, this image that he wants to create about who he is, despite a reality that deserves its own applause, deserves its own praise serving 24 years in the military, there's a need to embellish it to get you to believe

something more about Tim Walts. this is all about whether or not it's phony it's fake to laugh like comla harris to laugh as i'll remind you like this slow on the draw on the will cane show is it phony to think of this election as joy versus anger Is it phony to think of this election as positive versus negative? Is it phony to think this is all about and can be all about vibes? Is it fake to see a favorability poll that now puts Kamala Harris and Tim Walt's four points above Donald Trump? Is it phony to take one of the most disrespected and unappreciated vice presidents in history

and within the three week period turn her into the savior of American happiness? Is it all phony and can we all come back to what is real? from Tim Walts' military service to what this election should truly be about, your pocketbook, our economy, our national security. Can we talk about? Can we vote on? Can we care about for once? What is real? Let's ask two Navy SEALs. Bill Brown and Mitch Aguard next on the Wilcane show. It is time to take the quiz.

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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. You know, speaking of what's normal versus weird, what is within the mainstream, and what is weird, old colleague of mine at ESPN, Trey Wingo tweeted out that Harrison Butker, kicker for the Kansas Chiefs, just received a new something like $7 million. your kicking contract with the Kansas Chiefs. And it just goes to show, according to Wingo, that you can get away with all manner of weirdness as long as you perform at your job.

Many point out, what are you talking about? What weirdness? He tweeted out the following. The Harrison Butker extension, making him the highest paid kicker underscores the inherent truth in the NFL that. the better you are at the job, the more the team is willing to put up with pure and simple. Now, our friend Bobby Burrack tweeted out the following response to that. Hey, Wingo, how come you never make these statements when the NFL teams extend woman beaters or violent criminals?

You're more worried about Harrison Butker than his teammates crashing in to a young family while drag racing? Trey Wingo, by the way, as tinfoil Pat, one of my producers, said, didn't realize, but it's true. true is two cocktails away from Keith Oberman. But it just goes to show in the world that we're supposed to believe is normal, it's weird to believe it's okay for women to choose to raise a family, to prioritize your kids over your career, which is all that Harrison Butker ever said. It's all that he ever asked in his speech to the Benedictine College. What's normal?

I think Harrison Butker. What's weird? Trey Wingo. It is the Will Kane show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page, terrestrial radio, coast to coast, market-to-market, on-demand, Apple, Spotify, hit subscribe. Jump into the comment section and hit subscribe on YouTube. Joining me now, two real American heroes and patriots, two former Navy SEALs, Bill Brown and Mitch Aguard are here on the Will Kane show. What's up, fellas?

What's up, Will? How you doing, bro? Hey, how you doing? Thanks for having us. I'm really glad to have you both. You know, Mitch, we didn't get to talk last year. You were assigned personal security detail to Pete Heggshead. I had a different set of badasses to shadow me throughout the Navy SEAL swim.

And I understand Bill's assigned Robert Sweetman to me again on land. So I expect him full in flack jacket, you know, head on a swivel during the run. So does that mean, Mitch, you're swimming with me? Are you my water bodyguard? I'm not sure I could keep up with you, but. but uh yeah no i'm i'm uh i didn't see where bill i didn't see where mitch came in on the swim i'll be honest with you not as much training for me this year so i'm not sure i'm going to be out front we'll uh we'll we'll hold rear security

uh i want to get into tim waltz and in the new york sea navy's field swim just a minute here with you bill but i got one more question for mitch i got him because i got to come out of the gates with this. Mitch, I got a text from your buddy sitting right there to your right. I got a text from Bill about a month ago. So, Will, have you seen this? I am not happy. Bill had your back. Like, you went into an MMA octagon with Sean Strickland. And I mean, far be it from me to offer up objective analysis, much less criticism. You took a little bit of a beating, right? And Bill wasn't happy about it man what is this why are you fighting sean strickland uh yeah he had just made uh he had made like a kind of a statement you know sean's a very outspoken kind of off the cuff guy and says

says some pretty wild stuff and um but i've known sean for years uh from training with him back and at black house uh years ago um we weren't you know super close or anything like that we had just known each other in passing and um and he had made these statements about You know, he's sick and tired to hearing people talk about how badass Navy SEALs were and this and that. And, you know, he issued a challenge, you know, he doesn't think there's a seal that could survive training with him. And so I hit him up and was like, hey, let's go, let's do it. And so I came out to Vegas and showed up at his gym. And I wasn't exactly sure how it was going to go, you know, because there was no real bad blood or animosity between us.

But, you know, you never know what you're going to get with Sean. And so, you know, he was like, all right, let's do five, five-minute rounds of sparring. And I was like, all right, let's do it. Oh, my gosh. And that's, you know, that's a long, 25 minutes of, of MMA sparring is a long time. And so, you know, the first round, he's like, all right, let's do a warm-up round. And I was like, all right, cool, sounds good. And, you know, typically when you're training with your, with a training partner, you're

not actually, like, trying to hurt them or whatever. You know, you're really just, it's sparring. You're practicing your technique and fighting and stuff. But at the end of the day, it's not tickle camp, you know, so you're practicing fighting. So what are you saying real quick, he was trying to hurt you? I mean, I don't think he was giving you 100, right? Yeah, no, no. But he also wasn't giving you 50.

He, well, that's what I was saying. So the warm-up round, especially. you know that's kind of just like moving around warming up and uh the first the first through uh punchy through was we had some heat on it and i was like okay and uh and then right after like you know so i was like all right i i this is how it's going to be and uh and he had said to me right after he threw it he was like it's going to be a long day for you i'm going to make you quit oh and i was like all right well so now now i know exactly what i'm in for uh you know 20 minutes of pain and you know and he was saying i don't want to knock you out it looks like a navy seal

it looked like a navy seal it looked like hell camp or bud week or or hell week because what i mean by that is he said i'm going to make you quit in the video that i saw and i haven't seen the entire fight you're pretty exhausted and you're pretty red and you look like your main motivation is i will absolutely not quit i will not ring the bell which you have some experience on not quitting, it looks like that became your MO in the fight. Yeah, so like I said, like, I mean, right away, as soon as we started, you know, I'm like, you know, just, you know, throwing a little bit of jab, kind of just moving, you know, gaining, or checking distance, normal warm-up stuff and, you know, no real heat on anything. And, you know, when he threw that and said that,

I was like, okay, now it's pretty clear his objective is just to make me quit. He's just like, like wants to prove a point and um you know and he said like i don't want to try to knock you out because if i knock you out that's not you quitting i want you to quit from physical pain like so you know so he was just kicking me and and punching me and just lighten me up and you know and within like with and under a minute he threw a hard teep which is like a front kick and to my solar plexus and it knocked the wind out of me so i mean i'm like you know if you have you ever had the wind knocked out of you it's pretty terrible and now imagine you know a very large best fighter in the world in front of you with bad intentions for the next 24 minutes and i was like yeah

this is you know so his only objective is to make me quit so my only objective is to not quit and uh and did you no so that so you know that was at that point i was just like all right shift shift gears in my head and that's all I need to do is just focus on, you know, not quitting. So, you know, I didn't even try to fight back at that point. I just tried my best to use my energy to, to try to defend myself and deflect shots as best I could so that I could endure that full 25 minutes and, you know, and not quit. You know, one, I have, I have my own pride on the line, but I've also got, you know, I'm carrying and representing for all the SEAL teams, essentially, whether I like it or not. And, you know, so I'm there representing them. And there's no way that, you know, I'm going to quit with that on the line.

And I would just rather die in there. And so, and I think that was pretty apparent to people watching, you know, that they were like, okay. And you made it the 25. Yeah, I did. You made it the 25. You did not quit. Made it the full 25. and, you know, had a smile on my face at the end and high-fived and, you know, and it changed his mind and perspective on, you know, and he said, well, he's like, hell, I guess technically I lost the bet or, you know, and I stand corrected. So it ended up being a- So one last question. It ended up being a good thing, a good positive outcome. One last question, Mitch, how bad did it hurt in the days and week to follow?

all those shots you took for 25 minutes. It was fine. My leg hurt pretty good for a couple days after, but other than that, it was, you know, right afterwards was pretty rough, but I went to the UFC Apex, and Sean and I went there and hung out, and I was going back and forth

from the cold plunge to the hot tub. So right away, I just, you know, just started the recovery process. And yeah, it was fine. And then it was more like I got invited out to do camera, Cameron Haynes podcast and run mountains with him a couple days later, you know, my leg was still a big bruise from here to here. And so running, running those mountains with him was more painful

than the sparring. But no, it was, it was a great time. Have I forgiven Sean? Well, no. You know, one of the things, Mitch, the first time I met Mitch, literally the first day we sparred. And I took a, I took a open that day. But one of the things I think about what Mitch did is he represented the SEAL community because, number one, Sean was kind of saying some things that was aggravating a lot of us. He stepped up to it and he took one of the most prominent high-level UFC fighters on the planet in his element and he never quit. And that's what we're about. We step up and we don't quit. And number two is that here's the truth. Sean, he ain't never going to do the New York City Seal Swim. He's just not. Come to our element. It's a little different. So my hat's off to Mitch.

And he represented the spirit of what we're about. We're going to get up there and we're not going to quit. Yeah. And that was one thing that, you know, that was kind of going through my head a little bit in the middle of the sparring session. You know, I'm halfway through and I'm just just thinking damn i got 15 more minutes of this you know and uh and and i was like this just sucks but it'll pass you know and it kind of reminded me of like man this is similar to to buds and seal training and just everything that we're about it's like you know it's just some things just suck and are hard and you just have to endure them and uh you know and and time does what time does it never stops no matter how hard something is and if you just keep showing up and you never

you know eventually this two shall pass and you'll get to the other side well that's awesome well i want you to remember i don't know you that well go ahead bill i want you to remember that because this swim's going to be tough it's frogman weather this saturday all right we're going to get into the new york city navy seal swim in just a moment but i just want to say this on the way out of that conversation uh again like we didn't talk much last michesh last year Mitch but i mean that is movie hero type stuff man like i i appreciate that you've been through that buds and and I can read about it and I can watch movies about seal training but I think it's almost more accessible for people to understand I think it is taking a 25 minute beating that

honestly it sounds like a minute in you realize what's going to be really bad and to just survive you know to just survive for 24 more minutes I don't want to I don't like to say survive it's that that happens in movies it's endure you know because endure you have okay endure it you know um All right. Yeah. I want to ask you guys both this. You guys are both, you know, I don't use these words lightly, and I'm not, you know, in the words of young kids here to glaze you.

You know, I feel you're plenty well celebrated and understood among the American public. So it's just really honestly my privilege and honor to get to be around you guys on something like New York City Navy Seals swim. But I also think it's relevant to the question I want to ask you now. And I want both of your perspectives. I'll start with you, Bill, on this story about Tim Waltz. And I don't know how plugged in you are on it, you know, but if you have anything that you want to say on this, your opinion is more valuable than mine. is a guy who is on his resume or in his run for office saying he deployed in support of operation

enduring freedom and he deployed to Italy and, you know, flying the flag of command master sergeant when it might not be technically true that that's what his end retirement rank could be. Is he doing something dishonorable? I believe that you never want to take credit for another man. man's courage or another man's sacrifice and uh if you say you're going down range to serve our country and you're you're representing that and it's not true i think he's a fraud and uh if you're willing to lie about that then you're probably willing to lie about anything well i think that's where i started this show today bill like it's just like i really

hope that anybody watching understands if you catch me in a lie i want you to tell me like if i have somehow intentionally misled my audience in any way i want you to tell me because you're exactly right bill a lie is one of those things that's just really hard to recover from when it comes to your integrity if i catch you lying to me on x why should i believe you on why mitch what do you think about this story with tim waltz i think it's uh not surprising in the slightest bit. I mean, just, I think 99.9% of politicians are a worthless, you know, scum of the earth, to be honest. And it's not, it's not surprising in the slightest bit that a politician lies or doesn't have integrity or, you know, they are completely hollow. I think

I think that America's politicians and government is the biggest threat that we face as a country personally. Why do you think that, Mitch? And why do you think 99% of politicians the scum of the earth? Like, why are they the scum of the earth and why do they represent the biggest threat to the country? Because I think that a lot of them are not there for the right reasons and don't care about we the people or I think they're extremely.

the government as a whole is a place where a lot of corruption is, you know, readily a part of it. And I think that money is the root of all evil. And I think that it's a test that a lot of people fail. And I just think that a lot of people in those positions don't have the courage to do what's right for we the people. and that's, you know, I just truly believe, you know, wholeheartedly that our own government is by far our biggest threat to our nation. Bill?

You know, one of the things I think about, I think about guys like Mitz, I think about a lot of the guys that are going to be, and women that are going to be with us in New York City C.L. Swim for the Navy SEAL Foundation. And, you know, we've got men and women who served overseas. You got police officers, firefighters. I call it the guardian spirit. I think the common denominator, the nucleus, the nexus that we all share is we view ourselves as protectors. And when I, my evaluation is I view myself as a protector. My number one thing to do, like I'm the lead seal for this event, is to make sure my guys and gals and the water are going to be safe and it's going to be successful. I look after them. And one of the things

I look at government, I say, well, what's the number one responsibility of government? It absolutely has to be the safety of our people. And I think some of the riots and some of the poor leadership in protecting people and businesses and absolutely asleep at the wheel. And I think, well, that's the core of who a veteran is. That's the core. who active duty service members are. That's the core who police officers and firefighters are. And to me, if you're asleep at the wheel when cities in your own state are burning

and there's riots and there's looting and people are being hurt, I don't want you to be a breath away from the most powerful office on the planet. Yeah. You're talking about what happened in Minnesota in 2020 under the guidance and leadership of Tim Walts, Mitch? I'll say as veterans, you know, and I agree with Bill,

most, I would say, you know, the majority of veterans, active duty personnel, military, we all signed up to protect, you know, people in our country and things that we love and care about. And, you know, but again, that oath says all enemies, foreign and domestic for a reason, you know, And I think that people kind of overlook that and don't, you know, give that enough, or they just, they don't think that that can happen here or something, you know. And there are bad actors in our own government.

And I just truly believe that. Yeah. You know, it even sounds controversial when you say it, Mitch, you know, like it even feels like a thing where people go like, oh, my God, what are you talking about? Are you a proud boy? or whatever they want to say. But you're exactly right. That's what's written in the founding documents. All enemies foreign and domestic.

That's the pledge. That's the oath. And that's the acknowledgement that the threats to the United States are not just external. And if you want to act like that acknowledgement is radical, you're the one,

the proverbial you, altering reality, not those that acknowledge the existence of this potential threat. Yeah. And I don't think enough people understand And also, like, you know, how our country was founded, you know, why it was founded. It was our founding fathers overthrowing tyrannical government, you know, and standing up this.

Absolutely. And this bill of rights, the Constitution, all of this was, these were written, you know, from the lessons learned. And those lessons were, you know, written in blood. And, you know, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment is not for hunting. It's, it's to protect, you know, our Constitution and our, and our freedoms. It's the values in our Constitution, the values in our Constitution that are transcribed in their Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, due process, equality. Like, these are, these are free speech. So many of these values are, are now, you know,

big tech is tied with some types, with the government, and all of a sudden. and your right to voice your perspective and contribute to the open market of ideas as now as being prosecuted because you're not in touch with the woke ideology. So I thoroughly believe that the best way is for good men and women to get together, to speak up. And when I think of the New York City Sealswim, I think it's actually a huge political, patriotic statement. because here you have all these men and women who served our country who want the war for our country who've been on the front line with our LEO and our firefighters and we're all coming together to show what we love this country we believe in this country this country's those values transcribed in the

constitution we're beautiful then they're beautiful now that's the right way and and and we love this country and we're going to do everything we can to speak up for those values because they're the right values. That was beautiful. Well said. Speaking of the New York City Navy Seals swim, you've got to be nervous, Bill. Like, you're talking about your job is to protect, and you've got all those heads

bobbing in the water. And what is the number going to be this year? Is it over 300? It's over 300. Right now, our head counts 358. So, you know, one of, I do, there's a couple things we do to this. Number one is we're sending a great, proud, patriotic message out there. another thing that we're doing is called adventure therapy guys you know like me and Mitch who've been overseas Mitch is an Afghanistan vet I'm an Iraq vet we're you know we're getting together doing

something fun being together the other thing we're doing is we're raising a lot of money for the Navy SEAL foundation that does a great job looking out for our gold stars and and other SEALs coming in and so these are all beautiful things what I try to do is I got a great team with me at the New York, New York Port, New Jersey Port Authority, New Jersey State Police, P-A-B-D, F-D-N-Y, P-A-P-D, this event, the Coast Guard, New Jersey State Park, this event doesn't come together, Battery Park, if all those entities don't come together and look after each other. And all those entities, beautiful energies I just named, they all have a large contingent of swimmers with that'll be in the water. And so what we do is, I think it's that any good organization does. We evaluate what the

risk are, and then we do everything we can to mitigate those risks. So number one, we vet all the swimmers. Number two, what safety precautions can we have? Okay, we have safer swimmer buoys that double up as life preservers. Number three, we have tracking bracelets. Number four, we have manual and electronic head counts at every stop. Number three, we have several layers of perimeter for safety. One is our kayakers and jet skis. Then we have our bigger boats. They kind of two layers of shell for our guys.

So, yes, the weather is going to be tough. It's going to be a little choppy out there. It's going to be rainy. But we call this frogman weather. And it's just like Mitch when he's stepping up to one of them, honestly, one of the most premier UFC fighters on this planet to step up for our community that's what we're doing now we're going to come in that water

it's going to be a no joke it's going to be a hard swim it's going to be the water is going to be colder it's going to be choppy get ready you know this is a year I spoke to Hegset the other day I was like you picked the right year buddy to not get in the water so like he hated the swim when it was nice and calm and sunny

So I told him, I'm afraid we've threaded the needle between it being canceled and it being awful. So I've done some open water swims. And there's two. So let me go through. I'm going to go through two concerns. All right. They're both about the water. One is swells and chop.

No, we'll get to that, Mitch. We'll get to that. First, first it's the swells and the chop. I did a swim one year. I never told you this spill. I swam from Lanai to Maui. It's nine miles. I did a relay with six dudes.

Once you get out there in the middle, and this is a channel, so it's not even the wide open ocean, but the ocean gets big. You know, it gets big. So like the ups and downs, you could literally get seasick swimming. And it's, yeah,

you're riding a roller coaster the entire time. That's not what I'm expecting. I'm expecting more windchop constantly in my face like I'm fighting against, you know, like I'm Mitch Aguard trying to last 24 minutes here in my face, just water in my face every leg of the swim.

Is that what we're talking about with the water? Yeah, you're going to look at some of that. One of the things for guys and gals who haven't done some open water swimming is when you're swimming and you're getting that chop, it's kind of like getting slapped in your ear over and over, and that's where your equilibrium is. And so sometimes guys get a little disoriented, they get a little nauseated and messes with that,

actually, their cognitive reasoning out there. So, you know, one of the things I'm going to try to tell the guys is, hey, slow down a little bit and get your guiding because you're getting tossed around out there. You're more inclined to start zigzagging because it's going to be fun. Just hold your breath and swim under water. Well, and then that brings us to the second problem, Mitch, which is the water quality. We literally got an email yesterday about bacteria and pollution. as it would be okay. I mean, I don't know what the Bill Brown scale of okay is, but this is the Hudson River. I would imagine after rain like this, it probably gets a little extra dirty.

Well, guys, I have three nipples and I glow in the dark, and it's all good. Those started after the first year we did the swim. Yeah. Hey, so we got a couple things. All right. Well, I want to do this, Bill, real quick. On the phone right now is a viewer, a listener, a long-time member of the Wallitia, our community here on the Wilkins show. His name is Brent Siriano. Brent, I've never met in person. I've seen Brent on social media.

And I got a notice from him, he did it. He signed up. He will be in the New York City Navy SEAL swim this year. So, Brent, you just heard the water quality and the challenge. How excited are you this year for the SEAL swim? I mean, what an amazing pep talk. Holy cow. I mean, it's like my college baseball coach told me the weather can't beat you.

So that's the mindset I'm going in, man. Let's do it. It's going to be fun. Are you a swimmer, Brent? I was a baseball player. I've been a swimmer for the last year, actually preparing for this swim. I started last August. I mean, I grew up in Florida.

I've been in the water my whole life, man. But it's a difference between, you know, swimming recreationally in the pool versus getting after it to the point where, you know, I had to hire. a triathlet coach to get me straight for the last seven, eight months to be prepared for this thing, man. Really? Nice. Yeah.

Let me start with this. I'm proud of you, man. I can't believe you listen to this show. You heard us talk about a year ago, and you said, I got to do this. And you put a year into this. I can't imagine I disappointed you where when it was like, is it going to go or is it not go? My brother's been training.

My brother will be doing it with us. Sweet. And he's been training for three or four months. But, man, I think it's awesome, Brent, that you're going to do this. And I would say swim beside me, but I'm, I'm going to blow you away in my wake. I'm sure. I try to draft you, man, but it's that quick.

I'm just trying to keep up. My training regimen is way different this year. All right. Last, you got any advice, Bill, or Mitch, for Brent here before we see him on Saturday? Yeah, I'm actually going to quote Mitch. If you think you're not going to make it, just take a big cup of water and die. Well, here's what I would say. And I'll say this while you're still on the phone, Brent,

and then I'll continue my conversation with Mitch Aguard and Bill Brown here. You know, I did it last year, and I did it in part out of selfish reasons, meaning I want to know that I can do this. I want to do hard things. I want to challenge myself. And that was a really fun part of it. And I got to do it, you know, honestly, almost as cool as that day was the day that Bill and I did a trial swim together in July about a month ahead of time.

and you look up and you're swimming under the Statue of Liberty, right? I mean, it's hard to me to project words through this media to explain what that's like. But what I'm getting at is that at some point during the entire experience, it stops becoming about you. It stops becoming about that physical challenge and what you accomplish. And you start looking around and realize what you're a part of. And you're swimming under the Statue of Liberty. You're stopping at Ellis Island. and then when you finally arrive into Manhattan

and you grab an American flag and you run through the streets of Manhattan to the applause of a crowd, the sirens of a fire engine, and you arrive at the 9-11 Memorial with a bunch of Navy SEALs, it doesn't even matter what you just did personally, individually, selfishly,

or even as an accomplishment. It's about what you're a part of, and I think you're about to experience that, Brent. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's bigger for sure, And I'm just humbled to be a part of not only this experience, but around, I guess, gentlemen, I would consider men and women, you know, heroes growing up. And so I'm excited to be a part of this and hopefully I can take every moment of it in versus worrying about to swim because it is a lot bigger than myself. Exactly.

All right, man. We get a beer afterwards. I'll see you before and after the race, Brent. I appreciate you, man. Prouty and appreciate you. Thank you, Brent. Yeah, man. Thanks all right.

Thank you, Brett. All right. See you. um bill would you give us the significance of everything i just described why do we stop three times why do we do 100 pushups why do we do 22 20 it's 22 right pull-ups at every stop yet the symbology of the the the cornerstones of what our nation's fabric is really about statute of liberty that torture freedom so we're honoring we're doing 100 push-ups 22 pull-ups to honor our nation's freedoms and civil liberties, some of the things we talked about here on this show.

Then we're going to swim to Ellis Island, and we're going to do 100 push-ups and 22 pull-ups to honor our nation's diversity, which is a beautiful thing, to honor all the men and women and families who came to our country seeking a better life, which is a beautiful thing. We'll pop in the water again. Then we're going to grab flags, and we're going to hold them really high, and we're going to swim through New York City to the World Trade Center. as we enter the World Trade Center, FD, NY, PAPD, NYPD, NYPD, PIPERS are going to be playing for us. We get into the World Trade Center, ground zero, the first responder statute.

We're going to do 100 push-ups, 22 pull-ups to honor all those who've fallen for our great nation, all those who put in the line for our country, all those lost on 9-11. It's going to be a beautiful event. We're going to have over 31 gold stars this year. I'm so proud. well thank you so much for for you champion this event for fox champion this event we do we send such a positive patriotic patriotic message of unity for our country something we really need right now because you know what this country is beautiful we're beautiful and and and and and and we're

going to let it shine that's awesome um i wouldn't be able to end this conversation without at least indulging my curiosity really quickly here uh Mitch every time I meet one of you guys. I've talked to Bill about his life, why he chose to be a Navy SEAL. I did a whole series on this. I believe it was a year ago or so, a warrior series on the Wilcane show where I talked to Delta. I talked to Marine Raiders. I talked to Special Forces, Green Beret Army, and I talked to Navy SEALs. And one of the things I'm always blown away by is honestly the diversity that Bill just referenced, meaning all you guys are of different sizes. Like, there is no Navy SEAL size I've learned.

And there is no Navy SEAL personality type. There's quiet guys. There's big personality guys. And the only commonality I've ever found is the thing that you did in sitting in there against Sean Strickland. It's just the only commonality is I will not quit. So I just want to ask you, Mitch, like, what made you want to be a Navy SEAL? Yeah, well, I'm certainly different than most SEALs in that aspect because I didn't even know what a Navy SEAL. was when I joined I joined right out of high school. I was just bored and joined the Navy and

you know my recruiter was like hey do you want to join the Navy and I was like sure why not and he was like oh you want to you look like you're in good shape you want to be a seal and I was like I guess sure and you know I he's like yeah so I had no idea what a seal was I I had never run further than a mile before I went to, you know, signed up for Buds. And, yeah, they just said that this was like the top job. And I was like, all right, let's do it. He did it for the girls. That's awesome.

Well, for what it's worth, Mitch, I'm smashing reds and smashing greens on almost a daily basis. Good. That's awesome. I'm happy to hear that. That's Mitch's business. it's a supplement it gives you the greens the reds all the stuff you don't like eating i throw it to a smoothie with some protein shake massive supplements he's got it on his shirt there you go check out mitch's business i don't give fake endorsements i do i do it almost every day

i do that and field of greens those are my two i go back and forth uh whatever i need every other day yeah you might not make it out of that water if i hear that again smashing greens well they're paying for this con well they're paying for this conversation right now now. Yeah, you're going to be paying for it later. Beauda Green's. Woo. No, smashing green, smashing reds, massive supplements.

You should check out Mitch's stuff. And I hope you check us out on Fox and Friends on Saturday. We'll be doing the new and Sunday, for that matter. It's going to be both days. You'll see us do the after package, the after effects on Sunday of the New York City Navy Seal Swim in support of the Navy Seal Foundation. It's my second year. in a row and if you're watching or listening and you like our listener brent are inspired you know

there's plenty of ways you can get in touch with me you get in touch with bill and we want to have you here next year to do to do the same thing and uh fellas it's always an honor can i just throw uh yeah go ahead mitch so on sunday after um you know i know not everybody can participate in the the swim you know there's a qualifying uh standards all that stuff and i know a lot of people want to get involved somehow whatever this is aside from the swim but my Myself, Kaj Larson, Ian Schnelli, Jeff Gumm, and Central Park, Joe, we're going to be meeting in Central Park for a workout Sunday at noon. So if anybody wants to join us for a free workout, no, you know, no strings attached,

whatever, you guys can just come and hit a workout in Central Park with us. There you go. I'll have the details on my social media at Mitch Aguar on Instagram. Or show up to Ground Zero. out during the closing ceremonies, and we all have a beer as well. We want you guys listening and watching involved in this as well. It's an honor. It's a privilege. Always, fellas. Thanks for coming into the Will Cane Show. I'll see you on Saturday morning. Thank you. Thank you guys. All right. There they go. I mean it. I don't want just want to be a show. I don't want to just talk

at you. I want this to be a community. I want to talk with you and experience things that are great in this life with you. So get in touch with me or Bill Brown or the Will Cane Show. If next year you want to be a part of the New York City Navy SEAL Swim. If not, tune in on Saturday and Sunday to Fox and Friends. All right, coming up, it's the one-year anniversary since Lahaina burned to the ground. I was there a year ago. I was there last week.

I take you inside the streets today of Lahaina as they mark the one-year anniversary with thousands paddling out into the Pacific Ocean. That's next on the Wilcane Show. This is Jimmy Fallop, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas. Just kidding. It's only a three-hour show. Listen live at noon Eastern or get the podcast at Fox Across America.com.

August 8th, 20203, Lahaina Maui burns to the ground. August 8th, 2024, the one-year anniversary. The biggest paddle out in my memory. Thousands paddle out into the ocean on surfboards and in boats to pay remembrance what happened one year ago. And I'll now bring you the images of where we stand today in Lahaina, Maui. It is the Will Kane show streaming live at foxnews.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Terrestrial radio, market to market, coast to coast from New York to San Francisco, Dallas, KRLD-1080, up to the upper Midwest.

And always on demand at Apple, Spotify, or on YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, Jonathan Eaton on YouTube comments that Tim Waltz left to run for office months before they knew they were being deployed. I don't think that's true. Jonathan, I think that the timeline suggests it was right before deployment that he left. But I'm happy to have the timeline laid out for us and we can double check who's right or who's wrong on that. I do know this, Jonathan, some of his fellow service members in that Minnesota National Guard are the ones calling out his embellishment. of his record and Jonathan you may just be pointing out he left

and still calls himself a guy who carried a weapon of war or deployed in support of operation enduring freedom Joseph Felix comments on YouTube Donald Bonespurs Trump Eleazar Feliciano says J.D. Vance

equals a Trump mini-me Georgia Nelson says Harris Waltz equals freedom SFL says I gave, I have never seen so much happiness in this country since Kamal stepped into the ring. Republican here, also voting Harris. It's such a positive vibe, not gloom and doom of Trump's, of Trump's BS lies over and over. Those are some of the comments on YouTube. I always welcome those who have to disagreement with me into the comment section or

into the Will Kane show. Let me just talk about the bone spurs comment for just a moment. there have been many a politician who have been criticized for not serving for whatever reason many a politician on both sides of the aisle and many a politician who have been elected to the presidency of the United States that's not what we're talking about Tim Walt served for 24 years what we're talking about is if it's dishonorable to embellish your record to lie about what you have done and you can offer up a comment on the internet I offer up the comment of two Navy SEALs, and Bill Brown and Mitch Aguard, who said, it is just short of stolen valor. It is fraud. It is not right.

So I guess everyone's entitled to their opinion. Maybe not every opinion is of equal value. It is 6 a.m., 7 a.m. in Hawaii. Earlier, later this morning, they will have a paddle out on the Pacific Ocean. In remembrance of the fires that burned down almost the entirety of Lahaina Maui one year ago, a paddle out is where people come in, they get on surfboards, they get in canoes, they get in kayaks, they take big boats out, and they all gather around in the ocean, usually in a gigantic circle. It's done for funerals.

They take lays, they'll throw that in the water, they'll splash water into the air, they'll pray. And it promises to be a very, very heavy and well-attended moment. today in Lahaina Maui. We've talked this week about, you know, what's happened there. It's been an important story to me personally, and I think to the Fox News channel and to the Will Kane Show, because I asked you all to care. I asked you all to give back. And some 30,000 people did. Made a donation to our GoFundMe that raised over $2.6 million and granted out over $2,000 grants to people that lost their homes. I want to show you a little bit. I want to take you in, because I was just in Lahaina last week.

And I want to show you a little bit about what it looks like. Share with you what it's like here one year later. I've shared this with some friends who care, and they're always a little bit taken aback. I think Young Establishment James here on our show, when I sent this in, replied, wow, but it is still devastation. If you're watching on YouTube or Facebook, what you see is two things. You see hussed out burned buildings there, and you see a green tree.

So what's happened in Lahaina is almost 100% of residential properties have been cleared down to a dirt lot. And that is progress. It takes a lot of work to get rid of steel and rebar and burned out husks of buildings. Commercial properties have only been cleared to something like 70%. These are images of Front Street. You can see the ocean beyond. Those used to be restaurants. historic buildings over a hundred years old what you're looking at right there was a restaurant if anyone's ever been to Lahaina called bubba gumps that is now actually representing progress because it's nothing but a dirt lot as a restaurant called cheeseburger in paradise um that some people would be familiar with it was literally sitting over the ocean none of those along the wall will be rebuilt

they'll never come back but what you're seeing on your your screen is a town that's gone it's just gone um what's left of lehina i would suggest to you is something like 20 30 percent maybe maybe maybe 15 20 percent because fire's weird it's super weird out of nowhere in a neighborhood where everything burned one house will stand out of a neighborhood where every house is standing randomly two houses burned down wind sparks fire and all this led to people who i don't know if they have malintentions or willingness to believe that somehow that added up to conspiracy, the randomness of fire. I told you earlier this week I was driving through. I think we have the images of a neighborhood called Wakuli, and you can see basically there's just nothing there.

It's all empty, and I met a guy named Earl Kukahiko. Earl is one of the big families in Hawaii, the Kukahikos, and he was sitting there in his empty lot. And I got out and I went and said, hey, Earl, I'm Will Kane. And he and his family, many members of family, recipients of the fund that you helped create and gave me the biggest hug that I've ever gotten in my life. And it was one of the most touching things I'll ever be a part of. And he told me all about all of his plans.

He texted me last night. We got the plans. We're getting the permits. We're rebuilding. And that spirit is ever present, man. It's everywhere, just resilience, but not just resilience. not just like people there's Earl Cuccahiko on your screen

along with Cicohamaat and Trixie Gainer all three different families all lost their homes Trixie Gainer by the way on your screen quick story on Trixie I got a letter in the mail from a girl from Pennsylvania 13 years old who made bracelets

after she heard about what happened in Maui and she sold the bracelets in her grandmother's store and she sold $100 worth of bracelets And she sent me the $100. I said, Will, I know you're the right place to put this. Oh, my God. How awesome and how heavy. It's almost easier to give away thousands than it is to give way $100.

How do you go up to somebody and say, hey, here's $100? Didn't know what to do. So on that screen was a guy named Kakoa Mollett, and I've become very close with Kiko. He's one of the guys. I said, I love you, man, too. I said, man, you'll help me out. He's driving the ATV.

And that's when he introduced me a tricksy. So what ended up happening is Trixie has a 13-year-old daughter named Momi. Trixie and Momi lost Trixie's uncle in the fire. He stayed in the house. He died. One of the 102 that died. So Momi lost her great-uncle. In Hawaii, everybody's an uncle, by the way.

But this is a blood uncle. And so the $100 from the young girl in Pennsylvania went to a 13-year-old girl in Pennsylvania, to a 13-year-old girl in Maui who lost her home and lost a member of her family in those fires. It's just incredible. Everything is incredible. Humanity is incredible.

The human spirit is incredible. We are incredible. We can be. You know? We truly can. I've seen it. And by the way, if that doesn't represent joy and positivity,

I don't know what does. Do I have to laugh? Do I have to give you a fake laugh, Colin Coward? if that doesn't represent joy and positivity i don't know what does and i'm going to try to bring you images of what joy and positivity looks like one year later as they have this one year anniversary of the fires in maui all right there's some images i wanted to share that with you um one last thing there was an image you saw there of a tree that's green not a big deal to honestly to the

local population but it is a symbol for many The banyan tree in downtown La Hanna at the harbor survived. What looked like a charred, burned out husk of a tree is now green again. It survived. Also maybe a symbol of resilience and vitalization, being able to rebuild and hope and joy and positivity. That's going to do it for us today here on the Will Kane show. I always appreciate you not just watching the show, but becoming a member of our community. So hit subscribe, jump in the comments.

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