Will Cain Country - From the Vault: Josh Hamilton on Faith, Redemption, and the Highs and Lows of Baseball

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

On this “Best Of” edition of ‘Will Cain Country,’ Will sits down with Texas Rangers legend and 2010 AL MVP Josh Hamilton for a deep, emotional conversation about baseball, faith, and redempt...ion. Josh reflects on his induction into the Rangers' Hall of Fame, some of the best and worst moments of his career, and his personal struggle with addiction. Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠⁠ Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠⁠@willcainnews⁠⁠⁠) Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Will Kane Country. And today is a best-of show, strong conversations, sharp moments, and topics that actually broke through the daily churn. It's a good look at what we do here and why you listen. Let's start. A former number one overall pick, the 2010 ALMP. MVP, a five-time all-star. Josh Hamilton wasn't just a baseball player. He was a force of nature. His bat carried the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances. And his story, both on and off
Starting point is 00:00:42 the field, is as raw, real, and redemptive as it gets. From towering home runs to personal battles with addiction, from the highs of the Rangers Hall of Fame to the lows of public scrutiny, Josh has lived the full arc of triumph, heartbreak, and comeback. Today, we talk about baseball, life, faith, and what it means to keep moving forward when the world thinks you're down. Josh Hamilton joins me now. Josh Hamilton, legend, Texas Ranger Major League Baseball. Good to have you here, man. Good to be here.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Congratulations. It happened in 2019, which you got the blue Texas Rangers Hall of Fame jacket this weekend. How did it feel? It was good. It was awesome to go back to his first time in the stadium and just to see it, see the atmosphere. feel the air condition in Texas in a 100 degree day. It was pretty cool. But it was a good home welcome reception.
Starting point is 00:01:38 I had my wife and my two youngest daughter's there and my dad, and we had a blast. It's good to hear you felt welcomed. I mean, I would imagine that to be the case. You probably are the biggest start in the second best period in Rangers history. 2023 made that to sit at the top of the mountain. For a fan of the Texas Rangers, but 2010, 2011, your entire tenure, what, 08 to 13, 12, 13. I mean, it was one of the best times of life to be a Rangers fan. It was fun, right?
Starting point is 00:02:12 It was so fun. Like, you know, you're right, being a part of that group of guys, the organization in general, John Niels, Nolan Ryan, Ron Washington. I mean, to get the best out of your players, they did. a phenomenal job doing that. And then to surround each player with a guy who could make them, each player made the other
Starting point is 00:02:38 better. And one guy wasn't getting it done. I'm talking, even guys who didn't start, the starters were cheering for the guys that didn't start when they were in. Those guys were, it was back and forth. And so it was the team actually loved each other and enjoyed and had each other's back the whole way through.
Starting point is 00:02:55 Is that rare? You know, there's an article up right now on the athletic, clubhouse guys, guys that make the clubhouse fun or bring a team together. It is, people famously have said this, baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. Ultimately, what you do is on you out there, especially at the plate on offense. So is it hard to, like, come together as a group of guys? I think it can be, because, you know, you've heard that old saying you can have all talent in the world and the best players in the world. but if they're, you know, stuck on themselves and not willing to come together and play as a team,
Starting point is 00:03:32 then you're not going to win ball games because it is a collective thing once you get out there. And so, yeah, it can be hard, it can be difficult, but when you have guys like Michael Young and Adrian Beltray and, you know, we had Vladdy, Nelson Cruz, Ian Kinsler, I mean, you can go down the list. You know, at different times, those guys step up as guys who lead as far as speaking, and then you've got guys who lead by the way they play. So each individual is different. Some guys like to be vocal. Some guys just like to get out there and get the job done and lead that way, too.
Starting point is 00:04:10 So I've read before that if you, like, measured the heart rate of a fan versus a guy competing on the field, it's actually more stressful and a higher heart rate for the fan and the stands than you on the field. So I'm going to take that and ask you this. If I ranked my top five biggest sports, not letdown, not depression, but crestfallen moments. I know where you're going. You know exactly where I'm going. It's 2011. I mean, it is the Cardinals World Series.
Starting point is 00:04:43 It's being one strike away from winning the World Series twice. I just got out of therapy for that. No, come on, man. Thanks for bringing it back up, you know. Look, I mean, it's the 2006, I'm a Texas guy, I'm a Dallas guy. So it's the 2006 Dallas Mavericks NBA Championship. It is, and then it's that. It's those two moments.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Actually, the Rangers might be the closest and the worst because of how close it actually was. Is it worse as bad for a player? For something of that magnitude, yes. Because, like you said, the St. Louis series, was the most emotional, physical, mental series I've ever been a part of. I mean, it was literally up and down, up and down. You'd think you're on top, and then something happens to you back down. Then you'd go back your head, and it's like you weren't worn out just physically,
Starting point is 00:05:38 but, I mean, you were absolutely drained afterwards. Each game was like that. And it's funny you say the fan's heartbeat is going a little faster than the players. I can attest to that, and I agree with that now. because watching my daughters play softball I'm just over there like and when I was playing I was just up there like whatever you know
Starting point is 00:05:59 because I was in control and I know what's going on and I know what I need to do to perform and then when you're sitting in the stands you've paid to come in and see this and you have no control you have no control at all and so I can imagine you're just like on the edge of your seat
Starting point is 00:06:13 because I feel that when I'm watching softball with my girls but you joked about therapy is it something you think about that World Series? Occasionally, you know, I really don't think about it a lot until people bring it up. You know, it's just, man, my life would be a little bit different now if that would have won the game and won a World Series for the Rangers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:39 But you can't think that way. You know what I mean? Like, I was part of it. I mean, remind me, you hit the game, the go-ahead home run in the ninth? 10th. In the 10th. Two-run homer. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:54 But the thing was, like, I did an interview after the game that, you know, the Holy Spirit, like, told me on deck. I was about to hit a home run because I hadn't hit one in a while. And I was like, okay, first pitch, whack. And then after the game, you know, I shared that story or whatever. While I was talking to my wife the other day about it, and I was like, you know, I told her exactly what I just told you. Hey, life would have been a little bit different if that actually would have held up. And she was like, yeah, but she said, why do you think the Lord tells your things, but doesn't tell you the full picture? Because if you said, you're about to hit a home run, but you're not going to win the game, like, would you really enjoy that home run in the moment?
Starting point is 00:07:34 You know what I'm saying? Yes. So hit it. He didn't say I was going to win with it, but enjoyed it because he didn't give me that full picture. And I appreciated it a lot more than if he had said, here's a homer, but you're not going to win. I've been like, what's the point? I've got so many follow-ups. So first of all, is that, how did you feel after that game?
Starting point is 00:07:55 Is that like the worst you've ever felt in terms of stuff that happens on the field in sports? Yeah, I mean, just as, like I said, as far as emotionally and mentally, just, you know, we did everything we could to win the game. And sometimes that's why you play the game, because things happen. You know, you can have the best team in the world against the worst team in the world. Well, you don't know who's going to win until you play the game. You expect a certain outcome, but you have no clue until the final pitch, final outs made. So that's what makes the game so frustrating, and that's what makes it so fun to play, is that scenario. We'll be right back on Will Kane Country.
Starting point is 00:08:40 This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. The other thing about what your wife told you about, the Lord doesn't give you the full picture. Not all the time. Well, it's interesting you say that, and I do believe that to be the case, I gave a talk the other day,
Starting point is 00:09:08 and I was talking about the different failures that I've incurred at points in my life. And I feel like now that I get to do what I want to do for a living from Dallas, Texas, I feel like I hit a half-court bank shot. I never saw this coming. I lived in New York for way too long. And I thought, this is what my life has to be in order to do this for a living. And I lost several opportunities along the way that would have kept me in New York. And of course, I was super disappointed after every time I didn't get that gig.
Starting point is 00:09:34 But if I had, I wouldn't be sitting here right now today. And it's easy to think about that and contextualize it with failure. But in that case, it's success. Yeah. You're going to hit a home run. Yeah. Right? But you don't see the full picture.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Yeah. Yeah, you don't. And it's, it is. I have moments like that, exactly what you just talk about throughout life, that you have no clue. It's the next step. It's the end the moment. This is what's happening now. Because I've made plans before of what I wanted to do two or three years from now.
Starting point is 00:10:07 And when two or three years comes, I'm completely somewhere else than I thought it would be. And what's still saying? A man makes plan, God laughs. Yes. Yeah. So it's like, that is 100% true. You know, you know I were talking before we went on air and you were talking about your reluctance to do media. You don't love doing media.
Starting point is 00:10:26 But then you said to me, but I do love telling my story. Yeah. And I didn't know. You and I, you didn't realize this, but we've met once before. But this is really the first time we've had a conversation. I didn't know if you'd want to talk about, you know, your ups and downs. I mean, you've talked about them. You've written about them.
Starting point is 00:10:41 And of course, it's a very fascinating part of your life. And I was reading through it, getting ready for this. I was looking back at things you said, I think you said in 05 and 09 maybe, various points of your career. And you did talk about the Lord a lot along that journey. Did you always feel like he was a part of your life through all of those ups and downs? Let's see. I finally made the decision to accept the Lord.
Starting point is 00:11:11 see, in 2006, and my grandma's back bedroom, I thought I had done it in 99 when I came back from rookie ball, but I said the prayer, you know, had the tears, but there was no fruit. There was no getting in the word, no fellowship in one other, there was no praying. So there's no change there. So, oh six, I really felt like that was the beginning of my relationship with the Lord. And I can look back at every, you're going to make mistakes, you're human, But the walk through my relationship with the Lord is when I have gotten busy with life, I've made mistakes, like bigger mistakes, like whether it's a relapse or because it doesn't just happen like that. It's a progression.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Tell me about that. What does that mean busy with life and then the progression starts? Just life. I mean, you know how life can be with kids and your career and, you know, everything that's going on. You know, maybe you're not getting enough risk. You're pushing too hard doing your show or me, you know, doing sports or whatever it is. And the Lord kind of goes from in the front to kind of push back a little bit. And then, you know, for me, it was what you put in comes out.
Starting point is 00:12:26 So what type of music you listen to or what you watch or, you know, whatever dog you feed is going to grow, right? Yeah. So when I talk about the progression, it's that. It's not getting in the word, not praying and not fellowship and not hanging. out with guys that thing like I do as far as wanting a relationship with Lord and, you know, having, you know, pouring into your kids and, you know, doing all the things you need to do, the things that are important start switching and then you end up falling on your face eventually. It's really interesting because you're talking about life as practice just like in sports.
Starting point is 00:13:06 It is. It's really interesting what you said about, like, what you're listening to, what you're watching, True. I mean, I think about it a lot when it comes to kids, but it's us as adults, too. Like, if you're listening to degenerate stuff, and look, I did. I can't pretend like I'm, you know, holier than now. But even country music. Like, I love country music, but they talk about drinking a whole lot in country music. And I'm like, dear God, I can only take so much of that. And then I got to go back to, you know, some Christian music.
Starting point is 00:13:33 And Christian music, I get worn out on because they play the same songs over and over and over and then I go back to country. So it's like a... You're 100% right. I mean, I almost exclusively listen to country and how many times I'm like, yeah, I could sit in the back back to the police right now, you know. So somebody who's struggle with it, I can't keep feeding that because,
Starting point is 00:13:53 guess what I'm going to start thinking about. Yeah. And I can't start thinking about that. I'll have thoughts. Like, people think I just struggle. Like, my life is like this big struggle, like, all the time of, like, fighting demons and, you know, this and drugs and alcohol.
Starting point is 00:14:07 It's not. Like, I've had weak moments. but the weak moments were led up by that progression of what am I putting in and what what's not the focus point and God should always be the focus point and he wasn't at times different times in my life so okay so now something else I want to go down when you describe let's back up for a minute okay I read you didn't drink at all until 20 was 20 your first time you drank yeah I like tried at once like when I was in minor leagues when I was 20 Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:41 So, but then did it take off for you? No, it was 18. I did it one night when I was 18. And then 20 is where I got hurt and got after a car accident. And then I got out with a tattoo guys. Yeah. You hung out in a tattoo shop. Yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:14:57 So what do you expect? Eventually you're going to start doing what they're doing, right? Yeah. But did you think, so like you said, you struggled, I don't know, addiction? Is addiction part of your story? it is um you know i never my parents didn't drink you know i didn't know anything about it right you know everybody says it's like um what do you call hereditary hereditary i'm like dude i never saw it never knew it never you know never experienced it so i really feel like because baseball and my
Starting point is 00:15:31 parents two things that were constant in my life were taking away at the same time with that car accident. I just didn't have a foundation with the Lord, didn't know the Lord. So I started trying to fill those two spots with something else. And it was tattoos hanging out. And it was you know, eventually drinking alcohol and doing drugs. Did you feel like once you did that at 20, did you feel the physical addiction? Like I got to keep going on this stuff. I want to keep going. Or was it more like I'm partying, I'm on that path you were talking about? This is what I'm, this is the beast I'm feeding. I'm bored. And, you know, I'm going to the field at 7.30 in the morning every day and home by 12 in the afternoon.
Starting point is 00:16:12 And I got money and my parents aren't with me right now. So I'm bored. What am I going to do? So that's what I did. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. Welcome back to Will Cain Country. So what I was saying, you launched a thought. So my dad definitely had issues with alcohol. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:30 And when I tell people, and I don't talk about my dad's life, but it ended prematurely. and I only bring it up when it's important to the conversation or people ask me directly. But when I do, they always assume that he was, when you say alcoholics, like you picture somebody who has to drink all day every day, you know what I mean, and has almost a physical addiction to him. That wasn't my dad's story.
Starting point is 00:16:51 It was this. You know what I mean? And when he went, he went hard. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. And then he didn't go for a long time. And then bad decisions were made when he went hard. You said, you almost had something similar to me a moment ago. People picture my life as though I have all these.
Starting point is 00:17:04 demons and it's a constant presence but that's not your relationship with these substances no it's not um what i do let's see when i first uh was out of baseball when i got suspended in 2003 yeah i went at it pretty hard uh like i said because the thing that i really loved was taken away and it was taken away by my choice and my actions and things i did but i really you know went after it hard from 2003 to the end of 2005 for a couple years And that probably built upon itself, right? You kept getting suspended, giving you more time. Yeah, and it's like, oh, man, you know, what am I going to do?
Starting point is 00:17:41 So I did. And then in 2006, when I, you know, decided to really get my life right and straighten up. And like I said before, except the Lord, moved forward. So 2005, it was over in 2005. 2009 I relapsed again for the first time then 2000 let's see 12 I drank one time 2015 January I drank and relapse with cocaine again so it's like these and in between and in between it's no it was all good everything was good and I'd have I'd be good for a while be doing what I'm supposed to and then like I said life would happen things weren't good at home
Starting point is 00:18:25 Things weren't this and that. And so I'd get in this progression of what am I listening to? What am I looking at? What am I doing? What are my feeding? What dog am I feeding? Yeah. And it was that progression until something would happen, you know, in relationship with the eggs or whatever.
Starting point is 00:18:42 And I'd say, screw it. Do it? Take a drink. Do you this? 2012 is the famous Arizona bar? Is that what that is? No, that was 2009. That was nine.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Okay. As a fan, we remember that. We remember that moment. In the period that you were out, so 02 to 06, roughly, 02 to 05? 03 to 0, yeah, 03 to 06. You didn't play baseball for like 3, almost 4 years, something like that, three years. And look, you're the number one pick in the draft, you're all everything, everybody, blue chip can't miss, but you're having this period now, right, where you're not playing baseball for three years. Did you think ever during that period that baseball was lost from you?
Starting point is 00:19:22 Sure, sure. I mean, I didn't, there were moments, a lot of moments where I just didn't think about it or thought, hey, it was, I'm going to miss it. It was fun, but I thought that I'd never get back to doing it again. But the Lord did tell me once I was all in that he was going to restore it and restore me to playing baseball. And that started no six in your grandmother's house? Yeah. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:19:50 Yep. In the back bedroom? in the back bedroom yeah we're at hidden the bible was she with you my grandmother yeah she was in the house but it was an individual thing no what it was a it was a okay i'm back here in your back bedroom smoking crack right now and uh she knocks on the door i opened the door and the house is i can just see a haze through the house and i love my grandma grandma more than anything and for the first time the things all the things that my parents have told me me that she had told me that hey we love you you're better in this you can do great things we believe
Starting point is 00:20:28 me all these things that i'd been told and i was actually high when she was talking to me i feel like the lord just cleared my head and allowed me to actually hear it and see her tears and that's when hey i went to the back bedroom shut the door dug the bible out from the closet threw it on the bed James 4-7's first verse I read Helming yourself for God Was this the devil and he'll flee from me And that's when I gave my life to the Lord So
Starting point is 00:20:57 But I started doing the things I was supposed to do Started praying, started reading the word Started getting involved with people Who were more experienced in their relationship with the Lord And that's when things started turning around Incredible, man Thank you for sharing that story I know you have before
Starting point is 00:21:15 But I'm sure there's a limited amount of fun it is to revisit these stories over and over again. Yeah, but the thing that keeps me revisiting them is you don't stay, you don't live in your mistakes. You learn from them and you don't stay there. You get up and you move forward. But hearing people at all these ballparks is still walking around, people coming at them at the gas station, hey, we really appreciate you sharing, you know, the things, struggles
Starting point is 00:21:44 you have because we have the same struggles or my son has. has the same struggles or my daughter or whatever it is, knowing that, hey, I used to play baseball, I'd do something different than you do, but I still have the same struggles. And, you know, it might be different, might be, you know, drinking or drugs or porn or pride or whatever it is. Everybody's got different struggles, but be honest about it and help people and help them work through their stuff and it helps you actually work through your own stuff by constantly sharing the story of what guys have done for you and and in your story while high profile is to
Starting point is 00:22:26 your point not uncommon yeah everyone has a touch point with this right it's just whether or not you're willing to talk about it yeah even you bring up porn there at the end I mean we know what the stats are on this right like how many people are feeding that yeah every day and it's easy access you're very so it's like I mean I've got two boys teenagers I mean I do I literally worry about that. I mean, what is that on a young mind? That access all the time. As a fan, you'll me tell you something, you've heard this as well. You were right. It wasn't a baseball town. It wasn't. And I was sweet and honest about what I was saying. But some people just It's a football town. It always has been. It always will be. But the thing about, I mean,
Starting point is 00:23:11 I lived in New York for a while, so I know what a baseball town is like. But I also know how a guy like you or this 2023 team are loved here, you know. And same thing with Luca Dodgich and the Mavericks. You know how that is. I heard her all about that one. I was like, ooh. But you, you go to, you go to California and you say that. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:23:31 You know, I got back as quick as I could. I got back as quick as I could. What happened out there? Injuries? I mean, what? Oh, man. It was a mess. Well, first of all, I should have taken more.
Starting point is 00:23:45 I should have prayed more about where to go and whether I should have stayed or not stayed or I kind of left it up to my wife at the time. And she wanted to head that way. So it was kind of like, let's keep the peace and go. Yeah. You know, it's, it was hard. It was beautiful out there, but it was hard. I mean, it was just, it's a different world.
Starting point is 00:24:15 out there. You're talking about the life, the culture, or the clubhouse? Everything. All of it. I mean, I enjoyed most of the guys I played with out there. That smiled me. I mean, I'm not going to make you name names. Oh, I won't name names. You won't name names.
Starting point is 00:24:34 But, you know, it was just different. I mean, it wasn't that togetherness that I experienced in Texas. And it was even different different fan-wise. It's kind of like going out for a social event
Starting point is 00:24:48 for a ball game instead of all-in, here we are, to support. So they were sprinkled in fans here and there, but the most part you look around and you see people talking, chatting it up, the whole game, and taking selfies, and it was just a different world. We'll be right back on Will Kane Country.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Welcome back to Will Kane Country. And you're here in Texas. You told me you have been since so. So what's life like for you now? Good, man. I'm a professional Uber driver, you know, that doesn't get paid. Yeah. You know how it is. I do. I do. My 16-year-old and 13-year-old are doing well. They're in school in Grapevine, and the 16-year-old is playing softball, you know, and playing select and doing really well.
Starting point is 00:25:36 And she wants to go to college and play ball someday. And the 13-year-old, she is playing softball in school, but she wants to be an equal. vet and so she's all in with horseback riding and doing all those things and I saw my kids I said I don't care what y'all do as long as you find something you're passionate about it and really work hard at it so that's what they're doing older two is Julia is I see I think she's modeling I haven't talked to her a whole lot since she was 13 14 Sierra is has a baby and is married, hanging out home. I haven't talked to her a lot since she was 13 and 14.
Starting point is 00:26:23 We kind of broke the cycle of those two. 13 and 14, they're gone. So now we've got a 16 and 13-year-old. 16-year-old lives with my wife and I full-time now. 13-year-olds back and forth week-to-week. Do you watch baseball? No. Why?
Starting point is 00:26:42 Yeah, man, I want to play it. Really? Yes. So you watch and you get frustrated and you want to be out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch it and it's like, man, I want to... 44, like, didn't Vladimir Guerrero play until he's 65 or something? Yeah, but he could kind of still run. Man, I had a lot of new surgeries.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Yeah. I've had like 10 or 12 cents on. Rangers need offense real bad, Josh. Well, if you could write in and have MLB, have a runner standing there, I could take some hacks and all right, hand the bat to the bat boy and while I did the dugout, you know? Like Church Lee softball or something. too hard to watch? Yeah, I mean, I watched, you know, in 23 when they played the Astros and the ALCS.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Yeah. Because the Silver Boot was a big deal back in the day. So to see him wear him out was a lot of fun. And then, of course, I obviously watched the World Series, but since then I haven't watched one game. So if I ask you, like, who do you see today that you're like, that guy can play? That guy can swing the bat. Well, I'm just going to guess. Like, we know Otani and we know Judge.
Starting point is 00:27:44 You're just guessing. Because every time I turn a TV on, they're on, like, an ad for, like, a game coming up or something. Yeah. But, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I know Garcia, I know Seeger and all the big names. Yeah. That's a big shortstop. He is a big shortstop.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Yeah, I walked in the other day, and he was in the cage hitting. I was like, yeah, he's a shortstop. He's a good boy. Do you like the way baseball's changed faster, pitch, clock, the things they're doing to try? to make, I know you're not watching, but they are trying to make the game something, I guess, that's easier to consume, easier for fans. Yeah, that was the part that was so boring, I guess. It's like it would just drag on for three and a half, four, four and a half hours, which is great for beer sales, I guess, but not so much for people having
Starting point is 00:28:33 interest in it. So two and a half, three hours, maybe three and a half is good. I mean, yeah, so the clock on the pitcher is good. I'm not a big fan These guys Walking halfway to first Flipping their bats Doing all that stuff I mean it's just
Starting point is 00:28:51 You're already old school I mean but it's like You never saw me Pimp a home run You know I never stood there and watched it I was afraid it wasn't going to go out And then I was like an idiot
Starting point is 00:29:03 Trying to run the second base They don't care about that stuff anymore So Well listen man Congratulations I think it's really great I'm glad that they've honored you. You're, I mean, you're on the short list of the most important Texas Rangers in history,
Starting point is 00:29:20 along with Nolan Ryan and Juan Gonzalez and Pudge Rodriguez. And I guess some of these guys from 2023 will have to add to that list. But I'm really happy you've been embraced by the Rangers. I appreciate it. I want to ask you a question, though. Greg Gutfeld. Yeah. Is he is beautiful and is beastly and as tall as he.
Starting point is 00:29:42 He looks on camera? Yes. I mean, he is, you're 6'4, you tell me, 6'5 in boots. I mean, he does tower over us. I'm 6-2, and Greg's a giant of a man. Sorry, Greg. He could play shortstop. You watch Fox?
Starting point is 00:29:59 Yeah, yeah, for sure. That's great. Yeah. And I'll dip my toe on the other channels every now and then. I'm like, I can't do it. You want to give any hot political opinions here today? No. I already told you about opinions, and everybody.
Starting point is 00:30:12 I've got one. Yes. So, but I will leave you with this, though. Like, um, it's, this kind of, this kind of addresses a little bit of what happened, uh, with my daughter. And I've been quiet on it. And I'm going to say quiet because I've already promised to interview to somebody else. Um, when my daughter's younger two graduate high school, because I don't want them to deal with all the crap that goes along with back and forth in the media and stuff like that. Um, but just imagine being a.
Starting point is 00:30:42 of something you didn't do, and then having to, let's see, you have proof that you didn't, so you can clear it up your innocence, but then having to decide because you got a DA that's in the election year and can't look like she's going light on you. So you got to decide, okay, am I going to drag my daughter who claimed this? in front of a jury in a courtroom. Am I going to drag my other two younger daughters in there and they'll have to testify and everything? Or am I going to be a good dad?
Starting point is 00:31:26 I'm going to fall on the proverbial sword here for my family and shut this thing down when it comes to them and keep them out of the media and keep out of a back and forth with my ex in the media and let them live their life and move on and take the hit for it? Well, that's what I choose to do. Well, we weren't going to talk about that today, and we still won't.
Starting point is 00:31:47 So you are going to do that interview. You're going to talk about this at some point? I will, but hey, that's going to be in five years because my youngest one's 13. She's going to graduate to then. So I will at some point, but I don't get bothered by what people think about me or what they say. And knowing my relationships good with the younger two, knowing that the Lord promised me going through all that stuff with my now 19, year old that he will wake her up one day and he didn't say how he's going to do that or how fast he was going to do that or when it was going to be but uh just knowing that he keeps his promises
Starting point is 00:32:23 uh and he'll restore that relationship one day uh it gives me a lot of hope and uh so focus on the family almost married five years now love my lady the best thing's ever happened to me and uh just moving forward i appreciate you addressing that yeah And I appreciate you, man. Thank you for doing this with me. I was excited to get to talk to you. My pleasure. All right, Josh Hamilton.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Thank you, man. That's going to do it for this best of edition of Will Kane Country. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back soon. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast. And Amazon Prime members, you can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app. Thank you.

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