Will Cain Country - Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz & Nerdrotic: Elon Musk & President-elect Trump Kill Spending Bill! PLUS, Does America Have Superhero Fatigue?

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Story #1: President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk take to X to kill the Continuing Resolution to fund the government, AKA the spending bill. Will the government shutdown? Why is it a bad bill? What is going to happen to Speaker Mike Johnson? Will brings on former House Oversight Chairman & host of the Jason In The House podcast, Jason Chaffetz to break it all down. Story #2: Superman is back and 'Yellowstone' goes woke! Will is joined by Founder and Host of 'Nerdrotic' on YouTube, Pop Culture Critic Gary Buechler to deep dive on the world of TV, movies, and superheroes. Story #3: Will revisits how he did with his 2024 New Year's resolution with The Crew and looks ahead to 2025. 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

One, betrayal, confusion, outrage, anger over the government funding bill forwarded by speaker Mike Johnson. But I don't know. And I know that's not the popular thing to say. I don't know. And I want to sound it out with you today here on the Will Kane show. Two, Superman is back and Yellowstone goes woke. We break it all down with NerdRotic. Three, revisiting my New Year's resolutions from 2024. Did I succeed and did I fail before we turn the calendar to 2025? It is the Will Kane Show.

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of episodes at the will cane podcast if you have ever missed any episodes promise you're going to get like a like an abridged cliff notes greatest hits version of the will cane show we're talking about uh the rock and tony robbins and much much more so if you ever missed any of the you know first year this has been the first year of the will cane show where we've seen incredible growth big numbers the building up of you the audience of the willisha well then go to the podcast or radio for the next two weeks and you'll get the greatest hits of the will cane show hey i want to share with you something really quickly so you got a mom i got a mom and you know i sit there and i go will are you the best son and honestly i don't know that i'm in the best son i really

don't. And honestly, I'm going to sit here and tell you, like, am I the best husband? Like, there's some guys out there. I know you are out there just knocking it out of the park. Am I attentive? And am I empathetic? Am I emotive in the way that everyone needs to be? No, I'm not because I don't think I'm selfish, but I'm self-driven. So a lot of ambitions, so therefore not a lot of attention that deserves to go in other places that I often give attention. But look, I got a call from my mom. And so I want to share with you. Okay. I'm being up front with you. A year ago, my mom called me right around Christmas,

and she said, Will, I need to ask you a favor. I'm like, okay, what's up? She said, Jerry, Jerry has cerebral palsy, and he rings the bell for the Salvation Army down at the local Walmart in Sherman, Texas, my hometown. She wanted to clarify for me, not at the big Walmart, you know, the little Walmart. I was like, I know exactly which one you're talking about

on 1417. She said, yes, and I love Jerry, and he rings that bell, and he raises money for the Salvation Army. And he wants to get as much money as possible into his bucket. And I wonder if you can help him. I said, well, Mom, I don't know. I mean, I'll do my best.

You want me to put him on TV? So I put him on TV. I put Jerry on Fox and Friends. And there is no better community builder. There is no better community of people, honestly, than the people that watch the Will Kane Show and Fox and Friends. And boy, did they fill Jerry's bucket.

Here we are a year later, and I get a call from my mom. she said will i really want to help jerry said i know i know you do uh so here is my request to you from my mom for jerry at the little walmart in sherman texas this comes from the salvation army jerry booker has been doing his christmas mission for 24 years every year except for covid the first year jerry did this his goal was a hundred bucks and he's been going up ever since all the money he raises stays in his own community he does this every year during the Christmas season. He goes, this is what he does,

to every local business and just about everyone knows Jerry on this mission. He does this after having a full-time job. He works a shift at Walmart, and then he goes and rings the bell for the Salvation Army. And then he does door-to-door, ask as well. Now, this is the writing from the Salvation Army.

Jerry does this, and it's all the harder for him because he has cerebral palsy. that cerebral palsy by the way did not keep jerry from doing national television on fox and friends he is committed he's won awards he's won the man of the year for the texas division of the salvation army and he does this obviously for no personal benefit is for his faith in god and his love of others one of the salvation army's mottoes by the way heart to god hand to man this dude with cerebral palsy lives this his name is jerry booker so last year jerry's goal uh uh

was 15,000. He made it. Jerry got big. This year he wanted to go to 20,000. Okay? He's only at 9,000 right now. And we have about, you know, less than a week to go to Christmas. So here's what I'm asking you, my friends, my audience, Volusia. H-T-TPS colon, backslash, backslash, give.org. Salvationarmie Texas.org slash booker. That's his name, Jerry Booker. I'm sure if you go to Salvation Army, Texas, you'll be able to find Jerry Booker. Anything you can do to fill his bucket will be appreciated. Let's get into this holiday season. Let's get into the news. I hope you have a Merry Christmas, but let us start now with story number one. Speaker Mike Johnson put a continuing resolution before members of Congress. It was not received well. It is now, as they say, dead on arrival.

speaker johnson had a huge continuing resolution to fund the government through march congressman chip roy called it a crap sandwich over on twitter franklin said to me the following he said hey will i notice you've been oddly quiet on the new spending bill it's true franklin this has always been a really hard subject for me for the long as i've been in media covering politics And I'm going to tell you why. Government spending is not a place for me of expertise. It truly isn't. And I actually think for most people it's not a place of expertise.

I even question whether or not it's a place of expertise for elected members of Congress. It's just too complicated. Speaker Johnson's bill is 1,500 pages. You think any one person has read the entirety? You think any one person knows completely what's in that bill? But I want to be clear about something. I'm not going to come out here and just, you know, hit the pinata that is Speaker Johnson. And it's not because I kind of like the guy and I've been around him.

and I've told you that here on the Will Kane show. On Saturday, I said, Army Navy. And in that box, you know, there was a lot of camaraderie. And forget me, I'm talking about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, John Thune, Speaker Johnson, Vivek, Gramo-Swamy. A lot of arms on shoulders, a lot of camaraderie. It's a little odd to me that a few days later, Johnson is now public enemy number one, a ton of knives in his back. I can't believe that this bill came as a complete surprise to everyone who's been hanging

and out together since November 4th. I think, though, that doesn't absolve Speaker Johnson, nor does it make his continuing resolution right. But I do think it's hard to understand why we get to this place. I do know there's like a three-vote majority for Republicans in Congress. It's like, well, what do you need to do things for Democrats? You've got House, you've got Senate, you've got the presidency. Well, it's because, as I come to understand this,

there are some Republicans that'll never vote to continue to fund the government unless it perfectly fits their bill. There are also moderate Republicans in the Northeast that will not vote for a continue a resolution if it takes out anything they need to continue to win in moderate districts in the northeast so if you have defections among republicans well with a three vote majority now you need democrats it is a math game now that is not like will you're being established me you know i mean i get it there's still stuff in there this unforgivable like i can't believe would go into this bill the point is i don't think it's appropriate if i'll search for a a conversation with you of light not

heat of understanding not audience building, that it serves for me to just hit this pinata that is Speaker Johnson, is to understand. And then, if so deserved, hit that pinata, even if it is Speaker Johnson. But to help us understand, I do want to bring in someone who is closer to an expert than I am. Jason Chaffetz is a Fox News contributor. He's the host of Jason in the House podcast. Of course, Jason was in the House of Representatives. He was chair of the House Oversight Committee. he is from Utah. Jason, man, thanks for being here on the Will Kane show. Always good. Always good. I appreciate it having me on. What do you think about what I had to say, man? I, my bottom line is I'm sorry for anyone that

I don't know. The truth is, Jason, I don't know what to think of the internal fight among Republicans in the CR. Great. I do. Because you know what? I was in Congress eight and a half years. I sat on the budget committee and what's happening right now is a bunch of crap. It happens every single time. And members of Congress are fed up about it because you can go what's through regular order. You're supposed to start this process back in January. And that is the bill actually comes to the floor. And I'm oversimplifying this. Every single member can actually offer an amendment. But that never happens since the 1972 Budget Act, only one time, one time since It's 1972. Have they gone through regular orders start to finish? Guess what? Bill Clinton was the

president. New Gingrich was the speaker. And it balanced. Surprise. Surprise. You actually do that process, allow people on both sides of the aisle to offer amendments, and it passes. What they're looking at in Congress right now is not continuing resolution. A continuing resolution would be one or two pages and just say, hey, we're going to keep doing exactly what we said we've been doing. And we're going to do that through to March. This 1,500 pages makes it an omnibus and they spring it on people so that nobody can understand it. So you've got to page 752 and it references a code and then you got to go look up the code and figure out how that's appropriated. And then next thing you know, you wake up and you're spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Now, Congress passed this in September and said,

okay, we're going to punt this until December. They could have dealt with it the day after the election. They could have dealt with it in October, but they did it. Okay, hold on real quick, Jason. That's the problem. I love you. Hold on real quick. I love how you're explaining regular orders to me and to the audience. That is helpful.

Okay. But the obvious follow-up, Jason, is why? Why would Speaker Johnson pursue this path? It's not all the speaker. And that's the misnomer here. This is where it's a little bit unfair because he's a reflection of his body. Now, I could say at least when I was there, and I left in 2017, there were less than 100 fiscal conservators.

Most of the people that I was sitting with on the Republican side of the aisle had no interest in balancing the budget. They would vote against the balanced budget amendment. They weren't in favor of spending cuts. They weren't in favor of making the books look better. They just weren't. And you can blame on any reason, but I can tell you that they're just not a room full of fiscal conservatives. And so, but this is the problem. If you don't allow regular order, you spring it on people.

And it always happens. I saw Nancy Pelosi do the same thing. Nearly $900 billion bill. And I think it was December 22nd or 23rd. Everybody's tired. They want to go home. They throw it, said, swallow it or nothing or close down the government. You be the bad guy.

And it was ridiculous. I voted no, but it passed. And, you know, now we're $36 trillion in debt. Okay, but here we are. Like you said, we're not far from a government shutdown. What if you were the speaker of the house? And we have to focus on him because he is the leader. But I know what you said about his reflection of his body.

Like if we're being honest, the decisions being made by Speaker Mike Johnson are less about what he wants to happen and more about what he can make happen. Right. Like with his body, with his members, but also with President Trump. I mean, he is working with President Trump. Let's be real. And I think it's pretty fair to say he wants to be on the right side with President Trump. so if you're him today jason what would you do that could get done how do you keep the government from averting a shutdown and and moving forward if not this omnibus well i can tell you it's not

the end of the world that the government shuts down because about 90% of the government will still be funded it's it's not the end of the world people still get their checks social security still goes out the door the you know troops you know want to get you want to make sure they get paid at Christmas time. We don't need this chaos. You would bring up two bills. One would be on disaster relief and that would pass with wide bipartisan support. That is a separate thing. Now, I think long term, that's wrong. I think you should budget for disasters. And if you have a disaster, you should say, well, where else are we going to not spend money because we have this disaster? That's what you do at your home or your business or anywhere else. But we never do that and it's

wrong. The second thing you do is bring up a page and a half bill and say, we're going to continue with the existing spending until March 14th. Who's going to vote against that? Every Republican should vote for that. And if Donald Trump and Vague and if somebody, though, right? But Jason, somebody, that's why he didn't do it. Elon and Vivek and Donald Trump came out and said, let's take the majority that we have in the Senate after the first of the year. but let's vote for this bill put it up and you jam them it's called jamming it's it's literally a term they use in the house the house passes it right because all spending in the house for the

constitution starts in the house of representatives you pass that bill you get on a plane you go home and say senate we're not coming back that's the bill and you just play hardball that way and i think america would understand it's not where we want to be but it's not hundreds of billions of dollars more than where we're currently right that's what's so wrong but okay but now tie this together jason so i had you lay out what you would do you a page and a half continuing a resolution a separate bill for disaster relief jam it laid on the table go home say senate this is what we're doing you said every republican would vote for that that's what you said to me that i would think if you're right jason that would be something that would be done by the speaker of the house so tell me

why he's not doing that. I think there's a lot of pressure from the appropriators to get their little magic things in there. They want to deal with the football stadium in Washington, D.C. They want to deal with all these other things because there are bills that will never pass by themselves that they know this is the only train leaving the station and they got to put it in there. And it's a temptation. They cannot resist.

If they wanted to do this, they should have done this in June. like this is the fundamental problem you're paying the price for not doing your job the other 11 months of the year all right man i really appreciate this you know i appreciate the fire you brought to this and the knowledge and the expertise of what you've dealt with in the past and i have to be honest if what you tell us is is is accurate then i think that does reflect very poorly on the decisions made by by the speaker of the house so um we'll see thanks so much jason chafeits here on the will Canes? Thanks. Merry Christmas. Thanks. Merry Christmas, Jason. Again, if that is a reasonable course of action is laid out by Jason Chafes, and one that we all want, simple bills, page and a half, separate bills,

constantly moving forward. And if that is true, what Jason said, that that would have passed with Republican support. I think that is a piece of guess work by Jason, but I can't say he's right or wrong. But if you could get, since Republicans are in the majority in both chambers, if you could get Republican support, then why? The omnibus by Speaker Johnson. Coming up, there is a new trailer out for Superman. Yellowstone goes woke. We're going to talk all about pop culture with one of our favorites, nerd-rotic. Huge on YouTube, nerd-rotic. Plus, revisit of my 2024 New Year's resolutions coming up on the Wilcane show. Have you ever wondered what happened to the legendary Chuck Norris? I recently saw a video, by the way. He made a...

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Are you tired of superheroes? That poll kit question available right now in the comment section here at Will Kane Show. I'm coming up in just a moment, Gary Beakler, aka NerdRodic, on the Will Cane show. Streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Always available. Subscribe on Apple or on Spotify. I want to bring you into the show really quickly. Rod Camp said,

the last time conservators shut down the government, I had to work five months for free. Thanks, Trump. Brandy says, it's a bad bill, a really, really bad bill. Why would he okay it? I think that's a really fair question, Brandy, and the question that I'm asking, I don't really often accept that there are people who are just bad people. There are bad people, but I don't know why this decision was made. I really don't, and I invite him here on the show.

Open invitation, Speaker Johnson. a little something says but what about johnson stabbing them in the back yeah i don't know my point is the camaraderie that turned into infighting within a matter of hours and sam s says this government needs an enema go doge tom t says stop spending and shut the overpaid government down finally uh s bn 726 says most of congress couldn't run a profitable hot dog stand i think that's fair SS. BN. 726. Gary Beakler, aka NerdRotic, is the founder and host of NerdRotic on YouTube. You can also find him on X at NerdRotics.

That's the second time here on the Will Kane show. First time is a huge success. Loved it. Great, great combo. Glad to have you back, Gary. Thanks for having me on, Will. How the hell are you? I'm good. Your set's really sharp. I got to just look at your set and see what I can copy.

copy. I love that in the background. By the way, you have Batman in the background. That's a Batman emblem, right? Are you, so are you forced in your world to kind of be a Batman? Oh, there's Superman over the other shoulder. Oh, there's Superman, yes. Okay, you haven't picked sides. Yeah. So what's your answer to the question? Do you have fatigue for superheroes? Man, I don't want to ruin the poll, but no, I don't. And I think there's tons of interest for it, but I think it's a chicken and an egg kind of thing, because superhero, fatigue can be very real and it is, but it usually stems from, it's a symptom of, you know, just Hollywood fatigue and bad writing fatigue and bagged stories. So I guess the real answer,

it's a nuanced answer, but if somebody writes a really good superhero movie, it will still do really well in the theaters. Will it continue to be the market driver that it has been over the past, say, let's say decade now for theaters, for tent pole? And that one is in question. And I think the big question with Superman, this is a really important film for Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers has screwed up a lot. All right. So this is the third reboot of Superman in 20 years. This is technically the third reboot of DC in the last decade, just over the last decade.

We had Snyderverse. And then there was the zombie weird Snyderverse started by Weiden that they tried to make Marvel. And then there's James Gunn. And then you can slip in there. The Snyder cut came. out gave people false hope that Snyder was coming back but he wasn't the rock brought back henry cavil and james gun was hired and his first act was to fire henry cavil so it's they've had a tough time and that's not counting the six flops in a row they had before they released superman

so they still had movies left over from their zombie universe by the way this was all decisions made by executives who are all gone now they're all gone so they had to go through these flops particularly the Flash, which James Gunn called his favorite superhero movie he's ever seen. And we just had the Joker 2 have an abysmal box office. So that's overall brand damage. And then Marvel hasn't done them any favors lately,

aside from a couple exceptions. They haven't been great lately. So yeah, Superman's important. Not just for Warner Brothers at DC. It's important for Hollywood. It needs to do really well. And it's an expensive film. so it no pressure let's talk about Superman let's talk about Superman for for a minute so you know

my age when I was a kid Superman was huge he was he was leagues bigger than Batman um obviously that was Christopher Reeves Superman that was Gene Hackman those movies were everything and then they they get campy and they go away and it's kind of then the then superhero genre is dead for, I guess we're going to call it roughly about five years, until the Batman reboot, right? And so then Batman takes over. And I didn't keep up with Superman, Gary, like for most of that next 20 to 30 years, whatever it may be, I don't know that I saw any of the Henry Cavill Superman's. I don't know, I don't know that I saw any of the reboots. They didn't even matter enough to bring me in as a casual viewer to care or that I heard they were really good, where I can

say i saw every batman i saw every version of it um and it's not that i love i do think there's something to batman is vulnerable and human and conflicted and superman is pure and simple and and doesn't therefore connect as easily as a character but why do you think batman just totally eclipsed superman over the last 20 30 years um starting with uh it didn't really start with this because there were there was precursors to it but Frank Miller's run in the 80s and the 80s just being about action and and anti-heroes. It, that's where people shifted to Batman more. Superman, you're right, was the number one hero forever.

But my good friend Mark Millar, a comic book writer, just described the difference between the two perfectly on Twitter today. Batman beats up guys. Superman saves people. That's the big difference. One's inspirational, the one's more badass. He's got money. You know, he doesn't have any powers.

Batman is a hero, all right? Not an anti-hero. He's a hero. But Superman has become a problem for the people who own him, for the people who write the stories for, for Hollywood, for comic books. You know, I have to put an aside, Superman's been very successful in television. In serialized television, there's been multiple versions of Superman TV shows, and they're all pretty good.

They're all pretty good. And they figured it out. And it's probably because there's way more to. Superman than spectacle and that's why it works but aside from that they haven't been able to crack the code in movies because a lot of the writers nowadays a lot of the comic book writers for a long time will don't believe in heroism and and see Superman as a fascistic power fantasy and that's how James Gunn kind of described he didn't want to do that version he that's a recent quote from him I don't want to do a version of Superman that's a fascistic power fantasy and

if you have that mindset about superman by the way i'm not sure if you're the right person uh superman is america truth justice and the american way he is a traditional hero he is a good guy he often gets called a boy scout and that's and and and that's it's derogatory uh and the fact of the matter is you know a good writer can write superman even allan more wrote a good Superman story uh so i I mean, a good writer can do it. It's just more difficult. It's so easier to just go dark, right? And the superhero has been deconstructed for so long now, Will, we need to reconstruct it for it to work.

That's really interesting. The superhero has been deconstructed. We get their backstory, how they're made, their conflicts, their internal conflicts. And Superman is literally and figuratively impenetrable. And I think that's been a hard thing for mediocre riders to figure out how to make him interesting because he's somewhat one-dimensional. This is, this looks different, by the way. And I hear your skepticism when it comes to James Gunn.

So first, I know that I was talking to one of my producers, Gary, like, the whole, like, dark superhero thing is a little played out. Like, that was interesting for a while when that, that was a new way of looking at superheroes. But now that is the standard way to look at superheroes. And I will say the trailer of the Superman looks different. It looks, to me, there's a little. campiness to it with like super dog in there whatever i don't know what superman's dog's name is

it's colorful okay it's colorful it's literally not muted in colors um and like and i don't know i'll be really interesting to see if it works like i think james guns guardians of the galaxy worked those are very entertaining and they're surreal they're surrealistic right whereas you think oh i need dark in realism like i also think the penguin works i'm watching that uh and the thing about the penguin is you turn you turn a cartoon guy into a real person right now the penguin like the penguin is not an appealing bad guy because he's such a cartoon even danny de veto's version of him he's such a cartoon but colin farrell you're like oh that's a mobster gangster that walks in a certain way and resembles the penguin and i dig it so i'm not sure which version i like

more sort of the guardian galaxy's world or the penguin world but it seems like superman's going the way of guardian of the galaxy i i agree And I think James Gunn is very capable of making a good move. There are certain things I'm not sure about. He's kind of done the same thing over an eclectic group of superheroes or what a group of people going off on an adventure. And he's really good at that. I liked the Suicide Squad. I've liked all the Guardians films.

I mostly like what he does. And I think he can do this really because they've really talked a lot about we want to make a hopeful, optimistic, heroic Superman. And I think they want to do that. him mentioning the fascistic comment, I think might have been a dig at Snyder, maybe not. I think he was immediately worried about it when he said it, but not sure. That's up to the Snyder fans to decide. But I think with, I think James Gunn can pull it off if he leans into the parts of guardians that were earnest. And he's really good at like putting heart in his film.

He has a lot of heart in his film. So if he focuses on that and maybe less on quirky humor, listen, I love cryptic. All right. I'm a dog guy. And I like crypto. Wrong breed. Okay. But we're not going to get, you know, bogged down by the needless breed swapping of dogs. But I'm a dog guy. I kind of like that scene. I know some people thought it was cheesy. That's what it is. Superman, to a lot of people, will be cheesy. But it's supposed to be. And, you know, one of the great things about Superman that they showed in Justice League Unlimited, one of the greatest cartoons ever. is just the depth of the character. He's not one-dimensional. You find out, you know, throughout the, if you read the comics, that he's always holding back. Anytime he touches somebody,

he has to constantly hold back. Or he'll break somebody's hand if he shakes their hand. And let's not even talk about Lois. But, you know, he always has to do that. And it's a man walking on eggshells all the time, but trying to do the right thing. So it's absolutely possible. This should be a big hit.

Well, it cost, it's said to have cost over $300 million. So it has to make a billion dollars to make its money back with marketing. It has to make a billion dollars because it'll just look good. Warner Brothers needs it. And they're launching an entire universe now, which I think is a mistake. I think you should just focus on one movie. But so there's tons of pressure on this movie to succeed. The trailer itself, I thought it was all right.

A little busy, but I thought it was okay. you love by the way this you said this as an aside and so did i you love the penguin i'm really enjoying it i love the penguin the penguin is uh like i have two favorite shows this year the gentleman and the penguin and they're both like mob dramas basically but um it's kind of one a and one b those are two fat the penguin was uh a gift i didn't know i needed or we would get i just when i saw it I thought nothing of it and I saw it by accident and the first episode

just the first 10 minutes of the first episode just draw you in and Colin Farrell that's the best performance of the year in anything, period. I think you might be right. It's stunning to see him.

You don't think Colin Farrell at all from the face to the accent to the attitude. By the way, I need to thank you. You know one of my favorite shows that I watched this year was on your recommendation? Last time we were together,

you here on the way, Will Cain Show. Do you remember what you recommended? And I went and watched it and I loved it. It wasn't the gentleman. What else? Clarkson's Farm? Uh, no, no, what? Shogun. Showgun. I really liked Shogun. We did, you know, we've gotten some people, streaming as maligned as it should be, but some of the best stuff I've seen, well, the best stuff I've seen this year has been on streaming for sure. No doubt. The showgun does what any my here is what is indicative of a good piece of content for me do i think about it when it's over do i go to wikipedia and i do go to wikipedia first and start reading more about the subject

matter the minute that it's over and i want to start learning about you know 16th century uh dutch explorers spanish explorers uh in the far east i i don't know i love the whole thing about the clash of civilizations and honestly the self-reflection on the west of like is naked ambition and exploration and personal wealth growth and all this, really the way you build a good society versus an honor-based society of that ancient Japan, community and honor. It was layered and deep and really good.

You know what the thing is? I don't know how good it can remain because it's been a couple months now and I did see this debate. Like when you outrun your source material and it may outrun its source material, then it gets really dangerous, right? Game of Thrones.

I saw this clip, Gary, that, in fact, guys in New York, do we have this clip? to share us with Gary. Did we get the clip of Tarantino on Joe Rogan? Yeah. Yes. So Gary, listen to this. You've probably already seen it. But here's Tarantino talking about television series versus movies with Joe Rogan. Everyone talks about how great television is now. It's pretty good, I got to say. But it's still television to me. What's the difference between television and a good movie? Because a lot of the TV now has the patina of a movie. They're using cinematic language.

all right, to get you caught up in it. Look, why I'm watching it, I am compelled. I'm caught up in it. But at the end of the day, it's all just a soap opera. They've introduced you to a bunch of characters. You actually kind of know all their backstories. You know everybody's connection with everybody else. And, you know, they spend some time selling that out.

And then everything else, then everything is just the compellingness of the soap opera. All right. So the difference between is I'll see a good Western movie and I'll remember it for the rest of my life. I'll remember the story. I'll remember this scene or that scene. And it built to an emotional climax of some degree. And, you know, one, the story is good. It's not just about the interpersonal relationships.

The story is good itself. But there's a payoff to it. But there's not a payoff on this stuff. And you know, Gary, he talks about Yellowstone. And he says, and I like Yellowstone. We'll talk more about Yellowstone in a minute. But he said it perfectly. He goes, I loved it.

I watched like three seasons of Yellowstone, but then I sat back and I'm like, I don't know if I could remember who the bad guy was in season one. And he's right. I can't remember the bad guy or the story arc of any particular season. I just like getting caught up in the,

honestly, the scenery and the characters of this world. He said, the nature of all these series is, dot, dot, dot, dot. Like a soap opera, like the young and restless, that goes on forever. Whereas a movie has an arc and a payoff. that you remember. Yeah, he's right.

I mean, like the movies are bite size. They're supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end. And that's why so many studios have had a lot of time with these spread out universes. What Marvel succeeded in doing will never be redone, by the way, having interconnected movies. It's not what it's for. I'll agree with them most of the time. Most TV shows are soap operas. Most comic books are soap operas.

And movies are basically like their novels. like consumable novels, like little pulp novels that are 100, 200, 300 pages long that are really good, like a Louis Lamore novel or something compared to a bone book fantasy series or, you know, but the reason I watch TV and the reason I think it is in could be superior to film someday, not yet, is it's development of characters. People watch Yellowstone for the characters. It's not the plot. You wanted to end well, but you can't say Breaking Bad had a bad ending. Breaking Bad had a great ending, but rarely do TV series have a banger ending. They just do because they go on too long. And most people watch a start. Well, Star Trek next generation had a banger ending. But people watch Star Trek because they like the characters and they want to follow the characters. And well, with Star Trek in particular, there are a lot of fans who could tell you every villain of every episode.

There are. So it just depends. But for the most part, he's right. But that style of cinema, unfortunately, is. going to go by the wayside because Quentin Tarantina, and this is sad for me to say, but he comes from the last real independent movement we had back in the 90s. And that was a correction that Hollywood needed. It got more grounded and it was great. And we haven't had that kind of genre correction for Hollywood because it's achieved maturity. And Justin Bateman has

written a couple of great articles. One is Hollywood is dead that talk about this. Their business model is broken and it can't be put together now. So something that would that would create a Pulp Fiction, those, that infrastructure isn't there anymore because they've abandoned the independent film. They don't really have a minor leagues. They've gotten rid a lot of talent. So, yeah, we're going to have to deal with TV shows because that's pretty much going to be it.

There's still always be film, but, you know, we were just talking about the superhero film. An article in the, you know, but you know, you know, makes me think so you're right and tarantino's right but so i sign up for a lot of series and i actually lose track of what i'm watching at some point like i forgot oh yeah i'm i'm i went five episodes into that series right i think what this means with this recognition of this style of television i have to ask myself two questions one have there been enough reviews to suggest this is good writing that carries you on a story arc at least through a season like a complete story arc through an entire season it'd be better if it was multiple seasons

and I could trust the writers on that front. If I get an answer to that, I'm in on the series. If I get a no to that, then I move to question two. And that question two is, kind of what you said, do I like the characters enough

to give up the time of my life that I'm going to give to being engrossed in this world, right? And knowing that it may not have that payoff, it may not be going and where. So am I going to ride for four seasons of Yellowstone because I like Montana Ranch culture

that much? And I may come back and the music, by the way, love the freaking music of Yellowstone. But the answer may be yes for me on one. And it may be no one another because I don't care to live in that world for a couple of years,

whatever that world may be. And I think that's sort of the decision tree I'm going to have to make if I know the probability of me getting a story payoff in television series format. Yeah, and it's easier for Yellowstone because it doesn't have a bunch of CGI

and it's not a fantasy series and they can go out and shoot something and turn it around in two or three months, right? Instead of take, you know, yes, they had a huge break because of the strike and stuff, but what's facing most prestige series this time is they have to take two years to make a show. And you just can't get connect, no matter how good it is. You can't get connected to something that if it goes five seasons, that's a decade. Like, what? You know, a lot of things change in a decade. So they got to figure out a faster turnaround time. But like as far as Yellowstone is concerned, yeah, it's about buying into the world and you have

this year you had over 600 choices of new TV shows and returning TV shows and reality shows that came out just this year 600. So yeah, you want to be a little more particular with your time. As far as Yellowstone is concerned, I don't know if you want to get in

I just saw the finale. It went off the rails. It just did. You know, losing it. If you think about it, it's a miracle that Kevin Costor's ego and Taylor Sheridan's ego occupied the same space for so long. I don't think that was even possible. I think that ending was inevitable.

And it really just, it got it jacked up the last episode. You know, so I haven't watched a single episode of the last season of Yellowstone. I'm caught up through the last season. So I got, I got, you know what, I had this conversation. I'm a big fan of Sheridan for a lot of reasons. like he's a texan i'm a texan i like the same kind of things that taylor sheridan likes like i like country music and horses and western world and all these things that he likes and even the mafia like he'll do Tulsa king or whatever he'll kind of go into some other worlds that i like as well

he's a dude you know he's a bro he's a dude that's clear by the way i think hill or high water is one of my favorite movies of all time i love wind river i love the cicario's and he's done all those. But my brother did say this, and it kind of got under my skin because I felt like it was true. I'll tell you who I don't like. Aaron Sorkin. Not an Aaron Sorkman. And I don't I don't like the dialogue, Gary.

It's like, nobody's that witty. The entire time I'm watching, I'm like, nobody talks like that. Nobody's that witty. Nobody has that kind of come back ready to go at all times. And he's got a whole world of people who are never searching for the right response. They all have it. Taylor Sheridan's a little bit sort of

the conservative Western version of Aaron Sork and it's like Billy Bob Thornton always has a badass rebuttal ready to go in Landman no matter the situation. It's just sometimes it's a little bit like I can't buy the dialogue. Yeah, it's very Taylor Sheridan dialogue. It's great when I agree with it when he's like ripping that in land. I love Landman by the way. When he's ripping that lawyer about the wind, the giant windmill and like how much diesel it takes. And I used to work in the auto industry. And we had we had a printout it was a four-page printout double-sided multiple columns of everything oil went into for anybody who wanted to start some argument about like oil we always had this that

that was 20 years ago by the way and it was pretty much everything he ripped off on that list i thought that was great but yeah it does there's a point where it's like you know to deliver these lines for aaron sorkin and some of taylor sheridan somebody has to take the deepest breath because there is no time to pause and that thing just goes on and on and on i'm like where are they breathing you know um but it's still it's it's still his style right um i i don't know i listen taylor sheridan's a dude absolute dude i don't know if he's either kind of like a costner republican who like liz cheney or or not i don't know if he's like having to play the hollywood game he certainly seems like a dude but i'm not entirely sure not entirely you're talking about

the last episode of yellowstone which i've heard about the last episode seems to have gone woke um i wouldn't call it woke they called it out in an 18 it's not a satisfying ending it's not so they they basically the ending was predicted in 1883 if you if you saw the prequel 1883 they talked about i did i love the ranch would yeah the ranch is only going to be there for seven generations and it ended in seven generations um i i don't know like if you're going to keep making Yellowstone prequels. Sorry if I'm spoiling the ending anybody, but Yellowstone's no more. So

you're, it's, it's kind of like making prequels about dead guys, you know, guys who are dead canonically. You know the ending. You also know they're going to survive. So it's difficult. And I like, I think the prequels actually, I think 1883 and 1923 are better than Yellowstone, like

a lot better. I like 1923, but that's a series, like you said, I've had to wait entirely too long for the second season of 1923. It's just, it's absurd how long I've had to wait. Comes out, Nick, February. It comes out in February, yeah. Yeah, February.

And there should be one on four-sixes as well. All right, which is the ranch that Jimmy went to down in Texas. I think there's one coming out called the four-sixes. I think there's 13 shows coming out. Finally, Disney has ripped the transgender storyline from, I think this show is called, is it win or lose? And Disney has said that they believe this type of issue is the best one handled between parents and children.

Do you think, I think we've certainly seen a rollback. I don't think we've seen the death. I'm not sure we're seeing a permanent decline of woke culture and entertainment. But I think we can at least say there's a bit of a, a bit of a correction. Oh, I think the correction is more than I thought it would be. I was expecting a little one, but not like this. And no, it's not dead. It will not go away forever.

It'll always be around. But the public's appetite for putting up with it is gone. It has reached saturation level. I think that's long overdue. But, you know, a lot of people opened up and the bottom fell out of the market on November 5th. Just everything changed on that day. That was more than just an election. That was a cultural shift that everybody could feel.

And seeing Disney pull a transgender story out of a kid show is astonishing because that's exactly what Disney's wanted for a long, long time with their not-so-secret gay agenda. And the question has to be, I mean, good for Disney, good for for Disney for pulling an inappropriate story out of a show intended for like single-digit age kids. Why was it there in the first place? Why, like, why are we having this conversation? Right. You know, and I'm not a prude or anything like that, but like, I don't know, draw the line at messing with kids. I don't think that's a controversial statement. And anybody who who's pissed at Disney, you tell on yourself. You tell on yourself.

Yeah, I don't think that makes you a prude. Let's go, let's leave with this question that I'm asked, which I'll have you answer to, Gary. So, J.S. Brooklyn asks me on YouTube, Kane, what is your favorite superhero? I've had an answer for this in the past, Gary. The answer has been either Iron Man or Batman. I do think that I would probably lean more towards Batman And I've had a whole philosophical answer about it as well Which you alluded to earlier

Like I like guys who There's that thing where Iron Man gets in an argument with Captain America And he's like everything about you Rogers came from a bottle Because you know Captain America says what are you without the suit And he goes I don't know billionaire What is it philanthropist genius playboy I like self-made heroes like Batman And now I know they both inherited money

I get all that I get all that but I like that they weren't bitten by a poison spider, got it from a bottle, have alien powers that they made themselves into superheroes. So mine is probably Batman followed by Iron Man. What's yours, Gary? Favorite superhero for Marvel is still Spider-Man because he's the every man. He's got rent. He's got to worry about Aunt May.

He doesn't have any money. He has to rely on his brains and his ability. And he's another one that even though he was bitten. by a radioactive spider, he, no matter what, no matter what crap Peter goes through, he's always a hero.

And he loses his girlfriend, he loses his uncle, he has tragedy after tragedy, and it doesn't change him, it doesn't make him dark, he stays a hero, and that's what I love about Peter Parker. That's,

that's the more, number one for DC. Marvel. Superman. Yeah. Superman. Oh, look at you. Just the soft,

you know, nostalgic, virtuous, heroic side of nerd-rotic? Yes. I have none of those qualities. So that's why I'm, that's why I aspire to them. All right. Gary Beakler is nerd-rotic. You can find him on YouTube as well on NerdRodic on YouTube, also on X, NerdRodics. I really enjoy having them here on the Will Cain Show, and I appreciate your time. Merry Christmas to you, Gary.

Thanks for being here. Christmas will. Merry Christmas, Fox News Nation people out there. Have a good one. Thanks for having me on. You bet. Hope to have you more in 2025. There he goes. Nerdrodic here on the Will Kane show. Let's before, I got a lot of your comments here. I do want you. You've actually very into the conversation here with Gary. So we're going to get to some of your comments plus revisiting my New Year's resolutions from 2024. Where did I succeed? Where did I fail? Coming up on the Will Kane show. The new BMO V-I-Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks, more points, more flights, more of all the things you want in a travel rewards card, and then some.

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if you're watching on YouTube, drop down. There's a poll. And two days, you've got the poll up in New York. Tell me what you asked the Willisian. Tell me what they're saying over in the comments on YouTube. For the poll question I put up, is there superhero fatigue in movies and shows? And 68% say yes.

32% say no. Which is interesting. That's reflected, by the way. So Greg Pravite on YouTube says superhero movies suck especially these days. Fear Lantern on YouTube says, bad movie fatigue. Now, if you're talking about specifics, Carmel says Batman now isn't the same Batman as yesteryear. Superman is still Superman. Now here's what I'll ask you guys about.

Jakuba P says, Cavill not being Superman was the final nail in my superhero fatigue coffin. So was he a good Superman? I ask you this as someone who really used. did not. I did obviously Christopher Reeves Superman. I really liked Zach Snyder doing 300. I liked 300 a lot. Did y'all, you all remember that about Spartans taking on the Persians? And Zach Snyder was the director and I thought it was really fun. So I was kind of like, oh, he'll be good doing Superman. But I don't know that I even saw one. I couldn't name the title. There's been like a Superman versus Batman. There's been a Justice League. I don't even know. Like, I don't

know what's happened with Superman. I love I love that universe. Henry Cavill is amazing as Superman. The first one was fantastic. It kind of got a little redundant, like a little bad with the Batman stuff. Ben Affleck was fine as Batman. But then there was really no other

only Superman movie of just him. But he's kind of the one I think of now as Superman. I was a little hesitant with this new type of Superman with James Gunn, but I'm okay with it. But Henry Cavill was fantastic. Who is this new guy? Let's see.

Who's playing Superman? He looks like Henry Cavill, doesn't he? Yeah, but the best thing about this is, he actually looks different. Clark Kent and Superman look actually different, which is they did not do with Henry Cavill because you could just tell it's literally just him. Right. This is David Corson Sweat. I've never heard of that.

Can you imagine 25 years ago, David Corson said, gets the. the role for Superman, he thinks he's set for life. He's got, his career is set, right? Like, you get, think about the 90s. Michael Keaton does Batman, and then who came after Michael Keaton? Was it, was it Clooney? Cluny. Kilmer?

I don't remember the order. One of those. But it was the most sought-after thing. It would have been so sought after, right? Same thing with Star Wars. Do you guys remember when, see, I don't even remember his name. Hayden Christensen? a kid that got Anakin Skywalker.

Hayden Christensen? He's like, he's going to be a movie star for the next 50 years. And he wasn't. He should have been. He didn't work out that way anymore. Yeah. Okay. Hold on.

One, two. I'm fighting off a sneeze. Thought it was coming. God bless. It went away at the last minute. Oh, that's the worst. Sometimes it's better when it just gets out. It's the kind of stuff you only get on the Will King's show.

That's a whole other level of professionalism. By the way, Val Kilmer was after... Should you hold to sneeze? And then there's Clooney. What would you do if that happened... What would you do if that happened on TV in the middle of, like, reading a story? Have you ever sneezed on air on TV? So I do what I just did.

I would fight it for a little bit, but if there's nothing to be done, let her go, baby. Be real. Really? What if it's a serious story? loud sneezer. I'm a loud sneezer. I'm a hot-chewer. I'm not a k.

I can't imagine it's a dainty sneezer. I judge people based on their sneezes. Those kill me. Really? What do you judge? Like, I don't know. Sometimes people have a little feminine sneezes. Chew.

Like, guys can have a feminine sneeze, I think. Like, I know I don't have the deepest voice in the world. I know. I know that, you know, people don't hear me on the radio and go, wow, that guy's smoking reds and chewing gravel. I know that about myself, but I would challenge anybody to outmasculine my sneeze. I mean, I'm a loud hot chewer. I think I would match you.

I'm a freight train coming through type of sneezer. You got to sneeze like you're a 55-year-old. Wake my neighbor up in the middle of the night type sneezer. We're going to have to break the pepper out in 2025. I said the proper way to sneeze is like a 55 to 58, slightly overweight, everyday drinker, smoker, in the pub kind of rough, masculine type. I'm getting dangerously close to that age that you're characterizing, you know, that's like... But I'm imagining him looking like 25 years older than you. The more sensitive I feel, like that sounds old to you, right?

55. That sounds like forever away to you. That feels like tomorrow to me Damn now I have to sneeze Oh my God I literally feel like I have to sneeze right now That's not That's not like yawning

Were contagious Yeah what I was just saying in that What if sneezes are like yons That would be awesome You know how everybody walks around spreading yons What if you just walked around

Spreading sneezes And everywhere you went It's like a chain reaction Hachoo And then walk down the train No one would get anything done What is that laugh? Yeah what was that?

Talk about femininity. Talk about dainty. God, that is a D.C. comic villain laugh. You need to go for the belly button. But not like a dangerous villain. That's like the... I was going more for... Indrogenous. Is it male? Is it female villain?

You know, he may scratch me with his fingernails or blow up the building. Like Heath Ledger Joker. I don't know which... I'll tell you all later what that was. God, I can't wait. Okay, it's time for a little bit of an accountability bowl here. We hold Will Kane accountable. What were my New Year's resolutions in 2024?

Did we succeed or did I fail? Tenfold, Pat, do you have a list of the resolutions? Two years ago I made a list, and I think you had 20 resolutions. Last year, I tried to pair it down to five. I think I had five resolutions. I also had a sneaking suspicion. I failed on almost all of them. So I would like you to share, I don't remember them.

So I'd like you to share them, we'll judge was I a success or a failure. As I was trying to find these scouring the internet. I was thinking God that it wasn't 20, 23, trying to find 20 resolutions. So our first one is you are going to wake up approximately one hour and 15 minutes earlier than you normally wake up without an alarm. I can tell you don't. You want to meditate? You want to play?

You want to spend some of that time, you know? What is going on with James's laugh? I can't even pay attention. I'm going to turn his mic down on scotch. No, don't. Turn it up. The funny thing is, of course I failed that. Of course I failed that.

But I kind of want to double down and do it in 2025. I kind of want to, that's what I'm going to do. I think I double down. I think I do. I'm going to get up an hour and a half earlier. That was my commitment, right? Hour and a half? Yeah, hour of 15 minutes.

And think about what you could do in an hour and 15 minutes earlier in the day. You could get a workout in. You could have some quiet time, meditate, read. I think that was all pray. I think that was all the things I said I wanted to do in that hour and 15 minutes. Instead, I did Zen.

Did you do Zen last year? I quit twice last year I'm off by the way I went to breakfast of the day with a dude and he pulled it out post breakfast that's the hardest that's like taking a fentanyl addict

and running him down through the streets of Philadelphia and going good luck we'll see you at the end of the street I mean for me to see him pull out Zen at the end of a hearty breakfast of hash browns

and sausage and eggs and him to offer me one and me to say no I mean let's put it this way I'm not halfway on the block slumped over my waist doing the fentanyl lean. I'm still clean.

So I have a quick question. Are you a, you do the morning show on the weekends. Are you a morning person? Are you a night person? Like, would this be easy for you to do? I'm not even capable of answering that. You just don't know. Like, if you rewind my life, Tim, I don't know what I am anymore.

I would never have described myself as a morning person. Never. But, you know, for someone whose alarm goes off at 415, I am not kicking my can anymore to work. Do you know what I mean? I don't like get mad. I don't, even when I, and I'm not good about going to bed early. So even if I get five hours sleep, four hour's sleep, which is not the way I want to do it, I'm operating pretty decently on that in the morning. So I think I've just adjusted, but I have no circadian rhythm. So, like, tomorrow, I'm not on anything.

I won't be getting up at four. So I'll probably get up at seven tomorrow morning. Yeah. Taking my kid hunting tonight and tomorrow. I'm so excited. Nice. Nice. Yeah. All right.

So this one, I think you've done a pretty decent job of. Sign up for three to four physical challenges. Failed. Did two. Navy SEAL. You got close. Two for sure. You got close, though.

The rowing. rowing and seals yeah I knew I'd get those two and the other two were there was a point when I was going to do the walk around Manhattan which I still want to do like just take off one Saturday

I clocked it I think it takes 12 hours to walk all the way around Manhattan so I was thinking if I leave after Fox and Friends the problem is that I'm not back to my room until 10 o'clock at night and that's a rough short night's seat I still may do it though

maybe if you did Did it where, like, well, I guess if the audience knows the Manhattan look, like, you start at your apartment and go up and to the right through the Upper East and then all the way back down and back up to it? I want to do the circumference, the whole thing, and I forget how far it is, but I want to do the whole circumference of Manhattan. I'm going to do it. I may actually do that in January. Well, you're going to want to do it during the after daylight savings. In January is going to be cold as hells, man. No, but I'm not going to put it off.

You need 12 hours in a day. I'll be doing it in the dark. Yeah, I'll be doing in the dark, that's for sure. You're going to want to go up into the right in the morning and then come back in the dark. Everybody up into the right? What's he talking about? Mm-hmm. Never mind.

Are you talking about doing it clockwise or counterclockwise? Clockwise. Okay. Yeah. Do it with James. Yeah, I may do that. Twelve hours. I've already decided no.

All right, go ahead, tinfoil. All right. Resolution number three, no phone. That means no social media, no streaming, no television shows, or series. I think that's a failure. Good job. I'll give you golf clap. Should we even, should I even pretend? Like, yeah, total failure. Why are you laughing so hard, tinfoil?

It's, yeah, total, total failure. I kind of try to do the same. thing and I just can't. It's almost impossible with what we do. I know. Now I'm remembering my resolutions. I can remember some others you're about to share and they're going to be failures. Go ahead. They were good though. They're good resolutions. Keep going. Number four, I want to read 10 books. Now, that doesn't mean 10 books I have to read. That just means 10 books that I want to read. So I said that last part. You've gotten to read some great books like, you know, for the show. The War on Warriors. But you didn't want those.

Those don't count because, like, those are... Why don't I do that to myself? Right. So did you do... I've definitely read 10 books. You've got 10, yeah. I definitely read 10 books. I don't...

I wish I wouldn't have put that qualifier on there. Like, I'm saying I wanted 10 books other than those books I have to read for work and interviews and that kind of thing. So just 10 leisure books. Here we go. You know? I mean, I did read some leisure books. I probably read, uh, I'm guessing.

Half a dozen. I may have got to half a dozen. Demon Copperhead? I definitely, yeah, demon copperhead. I can't remember them all. What I read this summer? I know I read a couple this summer, too. Yeah, I can't remember, but I definitely did not get to 10.

These are good resolutions. I should do these again in 2025. Yeah, this sound nice. All right. Number five. I want to be better at relationships. Well, I think you succeed it already Just off the top of the show

I mean, that was pretty good Helping your mom out But you want to go Offing with buddies You want to go duck hunting You want to go on trips Now this one I'm definitely doing in 2025 But I also said in there

That I want to text one person a day Didn't I say that? I'm remembering that now Well, because that's a system A system's a lot better than a broad goal. Yeah, you did say that. Yeah, I remember saying to myself,

I want to wake up maybe in that hour and 15 minutes when I'm up early after having read a book that I was going to text and doing some meditation. That I was going to text one friend every day that I'm not like in normal contact with and just say, what's up, man, how are you, just checking in. It's a good thing. It's good, right?

That's a great one. Maintain relationships. I want to do that. I definitely didn't do it. If maybe do it to like once a week, because if you set the bar too high, you just sometimes you just let it go then you have to actually answer people yeah what the hell once a week but you can't say once a week so you're gonna you're gonna say like every every Saturday morning whatever

day you pick that's when I go through my phone contacts and think about somebody who's a true friend a relationship I want to maintain that I haven't talked to in forever and I reach out to that person you just got to pick a day of the week I like that maybe I hone in these five and do them for 2025 I didn't put any professional rules on that at all that was awesome well that Well, I'm definitely doing that again. Have you read Atomic Habits? No. I would recommend...

How to think about it. It's a quick, quick read. And if you start your year with it, but basically the thesis of the book was one to make the goal small and manageable, so you kind of go up and over them. But the other one, they say, don't have big arching goals, have systems for it. So instead of saying, I'm going to read 25 books this year, you say, I'm going to read 25 pages of down. or something small and it just it builds up over time. There's the compounding interest of habits.

And I want to try to get them on the show eventually this year. So you're going to have to read that book anyway so it doesn't count toward your 10. So unfortunately. Okay. No professional goals on there. Hmm.

Interesting. All right. Well, let's say what. We're going to make our 20, 25. I don't know. Check. I want to. wanted to get a check mark.

Accomplished. So I went one for five, it sounds like, on that list. I'm going to do this again, though. Here we go. We're going to take a quick two-week break here on the Will Cane Show. When we come back at the beginning of 2025, we'll have new New Year's resolutions and all new stuff headed your way here for the Will Cane Show.

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