Will Cain Country - Hegseth SLAMS the Media Citing "Fog of War"

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Story 1: Mainstream outlets are fixated on President Donald Trump after he appeared to nod off during a televised cabinet meeting, yet show far less interest in Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) explosive claims about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged intelligence ties. Will breaks down the stories the media avoids and reacts to Trump’s sharp comments about Somali immigrants. Story 2: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is under criticism for a “double tap” drone strike on suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers headed toward the U.S. border. Will explains the reality of the “fog of war” and questions why outrage was muted when similar drone strikes occurred during the Obama administration. Story 3: Will and The Crew lighten things up by reacting to a viral story of a raccoon’s drunken rampage inside a Virginia liquor store and debate whether raccoons get unfair leniency thanks to their “pretty privilege.” They also weigh in on the latest College Football Playoff rankings and share what frustrates them most about the committee’s selection process.   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

One, Donald Trump's age, release the MRI, says the same people who protected Joe Biden. Two, fog of war. That's what the Secretary of War, Pete Hexed says, in response to attacks over the narcos. strikes. Three, Texas is out. Notre Dame is in. Over Miami. I think I can make sense of the college football playoff. Brought out for 2025, the annual collection of your listening habits put into a nice little produced form that shows you who you listen to, what you listen to. And your listening age is out. It's called Wrapped. It is on Spotify. And it tells you something about yourself. It tells you something about the Wilicia. I want to start with a thank you to all of you who have in your

wrapped Wilcane Country. I want to start out by thanking people like Brandon Gilbert. Brandon Gilbert messaged me this morning and said, I'm in the top 3%. Brandon has listened to 5,463 minutes of Wilcane country. And one of my favorite things about this message from Brandon is he doesn't always think I'm right. He doesn't always agree. Brandon, whose profile says Dallas raised, or Dallas-born, Seattle raised, but always with God, messaged me, and I hope he doesn't mind me sharing this message this morning. But there's a whole lot of windshield time on some work trips.

Thanks for keeping me informed and entertained for over 5,000 minutes. Thank you, Brandon, for being a member of the Willisha. Speaking of the Spotify wrapped, the crew and I were playing a little game this morning as it came out. It says to you what your listening age might be. It takes into account, your music, your podcasts. It then gives an estimation of how old you are. Want to know how old I am?

Well, according to Spotify, I am 60. Why am I 60? Because you like early 80s, specifically you like will early 80s country music. And that's reflected, by the way, in my number one artist of the year, which somewhat surprisingly to me came in as the king. George Strait, my top artist of the year. year. And just for a little bit more flesh on these bones, I thought I'd share this with Tenfold Pat and Two a Days, Dan. These are my top five songs of the year. And I'm curious if you

guys, I'm curious of the top five, how many you've heard of. Okay, let's go to Ten Full Pat and Two A's Dan for a quick vote. I'm going to go through this quickly, so just give me a yay or a nay. At number five, I cross my heart by George Strait. Has anyone here heard of I cross my heart? Nay. Not familiar. Now I'm surprised this showed up in my top five. I must have been thinking about re-watching

Pure Country, the greatest acting performance perhaps in the history of cinema, starring George Strait. George is a great country music singer. He is not a great actor. But that movie is cult status, fame, and it's one of the songs that came from the soundtrack of Pure Country.

At number four, good old boys like me by Don Williams. Never heard. Nope. It's phenomenal. You got to listen to Good Old Boys Like Me. Here's a little contact. Did you ever see the movie? Did you ever see the movie Primary Colors starring John Travolta as a fictionalized version of Bill Clinton?

No. Oh, it's a good movie. You should see that as well. I believe is it Billy Bob Thornton that plays James Carlin? I can't remember who plays James Carvel, but it's a really interesting movie, and in the movie, they talk about some of the Clinton scandals and the Clinton conspiracies and how he sets up various accusers for destruction. It shows the rise of the Clintons, and it shows the Machiavellian conspiracy to some degree of the Clintons. And right after destroying one of his adversaries, the likable and lovable Bill Clinton, played by John Travolta, walks down a southern driveway. filled with magnolias, and he hums along and sings the song, Good old boys like me.

What do you do with good old boys like me? It's incredible. Check it out. That comes in at number four. Number three, full-hearted memory by George Strait. Nope. Don't know it. No.

Is George Strait like your guy? All right. That's an early 80s. Yeah, but he's been my guy for so long that he goes out of my listening habits. And I was surprised. I guess I returned to him in 2025 as maybe I was reintroducing him to my sons. At number two, holding her and loving you by Earl Thomas Connolly. I've heard that one, I feel like, yes.

Really? I feel like I have. The hardest thing I'll ever do? Yes, I have. Is holding her and loving you. It's an infidelity song. But it's really good. And at number one, loud and heavy, Cody Jinks.

Makes sense. We love Cody Jinks on the, and Wilcane Country. We should have him on. Yeah, we should bring him on one time. We would love to have Cody Jinks in studio. My top genres are red dirt, southern rock, pop rap, rock, and oldies. I don't listen to oldies, so they must be classifying some of this older country from the 80s. What's southern rock you're listening to?

Red dirt country. Yeah, I don't know, Patrick. I really don't know what fits on. I don't know what pop rock. pop rap I'm listening to maybe that's a little Kanye when I'm in the car with my sons I don't really know what pop rap I would be listening to

I don't know what Southern Rock I'd be listening to Yeah I listen to way more Leonard Skinner than you do Yeah I don't think it is I like Leonard Skinnerd but I don't often put it on You know when I'm driving around I listen to New Country Jason Isbell I listen to Midland a lot

New Country They're on my they're on my top five Well red dirt is country music like Cody Jinx, Turnpike Trubedores, a lot of other artists, Waylon Wyatt. You know, I don't listen to the same kind of country that you do very often, Dan. I'm listening to something a little grittier, you know, a little more Texas, maybe even a little more manly. But anyway, that's red dirt. Speaking of age, I didn't come in as the oldest, several people that work on our show.

Fran came in at a listening age of 72. And I think one of you, somebody came in in their 80s, or was it Fran that came in at 88? And I would just be very curious, what does one listen to, to force their listening age to come in at 88? Lee Greenwood, she said. Are you listening to like, yeah, I would think if you're listening age as 88, you're probably rocking some Beatles.

You might be listening to some stones or Janus. is Joplin, which is great. Swing music. I think the big band age is over. I don't think they're still alive. The people listen to the big band. I even wonder if there's much of an Elvis contingent that would, like, if you listen to a lot of Elvis, what would that bring your age in? I'd be very curious.

But check out your Wrapped and hopefully on your Wrapped also. It does also show your top podcasts of 2025. and we're hoping that it includes Wilcane country. But age is not a distraction. Age is not a diversion. Age is actually part of the story today because much of the mainstream media is focused on the age and health of President Donald Trump.

Not in small part because yesterday he conducted his ninth cabinet meeting televised of the year. All the members of President Donald Trump's cabinet sit around a conference table and give their update on the nation. The meeting lasted three hours, and in the meeting, there was a moment where President Trump appeared to fall asleep. The war started, it never would have happened if you've been president. But this war is going on, and the president is trying to end it, not because, listen,

we've got a million things to focus on in the world as a country, but he's the only leader in the world that can help end it. And that's why even as we speak to you now, Steve Woodcoff is a million. in Moscow, trying to find a way to end this war to save lives of 8, 9,000 people, Mr. President, you know are dying every week. President Donald Trump, if you're listening on Radio, Spotify, or Apple, as Marco Rubio gives an update on the Ukrainian-Russian war, closes his eyes, and does appear to go to sleep. That is part of a narrative driven by the mainstream media, illustrated by this post from one

Megan Hayes. Megan Hayes, a former communications director for President Joe Biden, tweeted a picture of Donald Trump's hand, where it appears that he has maybe some makeup over a bruised hand. And she writes, it's an undeniable fact. Donald Trump is aging rapidly. It should concern us all. Apparently, President Trump had a medical update in the past week, visited his doctors. and there are calls to release an MRI. President Trump, we should know, is 79 years old. And he is a much different 79 than an early 80s Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump is a different 79 than every other person that you know that is 79. It's not pom-pom waving. It's not cheerleading. It's not partisan politics. It's an observable fact available to every human being that President Donald Trump has an uncommon level of energy and all the more remarkable when it's paired with an uncommon lack of sleep. President Donald Trump apparently just doesn't sleep very much, and he addresses it from time to time when asked as a curiosity. I've asked him about it in a sit-down interview, well over an hour and a half with Rachel Campos Duffy and then host of Foxen. friends, Pete Hegseth. He said, I don't know. I just don't need to sleep that much. And it is

absolutely fascinating that the man can have this much energy, work these long hours, and do it on something like three, four, five hours sleep. President Trump will call, will text. Members of the media at the wee hours of the morning, he's seemingly never off. Even when he's on the golf course. He's making calls. I know this for a fact to members of the media or to world leaders. This is a really rich story for the mainstream media to push today, totally invented in the same vein as the Russia collusion hoax and the Venezuelan double tap on narco-terrorist posts, which we will get into in just a moment with Fox News Joey Jones. Why do I know this is such invented story because it's one in a line of succession of invented stories that go away

almost as rapidly as they appear. Where outside of this show, as in yesterday, are they still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Dominating the headlines for a moment. The most important story in America. All of a sudden interested in pedophilia, the mainstream media has moved on from Jeffrey Epstein. And can we just take a moment? Yesterday, we interviewed Congress. woman Anna Paulina Luna on the truth behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the truth behind Jeffrey Epstein. She told us, in the course of that interview, which you should go back and listen to on Wilcane Country, that she believes after investigation and review of documents that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to intelligence, perhaps American intelligence, perhaps Iranian

intelligence, perhaps Russian intelligence, perhaps Israeli intelligence, but that he was connected to intelligence. She also told us that she believed after the declassification of documents that JFK was killed by a cabal inside the CIA interested in continuing and perpetuating and escalating the Cold War with the Soviet Union. And it benefited the military industrial complex and at least in some part was connected to, if not complicit, connected to vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson. She told us that. She told us that. She is a sitting congresswoman she is on the task force to declassified documents and unveil government secrets and it's pretty shocking to me that congresswoman luna's statements land with somewhat

of a thud and i makes me wonder why it could be her speaking style she says these things which are undoubtedly eye-opening and controversial in very placid manner better manner of fact I've often joked I haven't perfected the part of our business of saying uncontroversial things controversially. My friend Stephen A. Smith has absolutely perfected that. He will say something really honestly

in some occasions with like an 80% approval rating, but he says it in a way that it sounds absolutely scandalous. I haven't perfected that and maybe neither has Congresswoman Luna. Like she's saying things that are incredibly jaw-dropping and somehow

it's landing with a thud. And I wonder why? Is it because nobody will talk about it? Nobody wants to talk about it? It's because nobody believes a congresswoman who sits on the project to declassified dog events and unveil government secrets. I don't know why and how we're dismissing these things, but at a minimum, at an absolute minimum, it deserves continued exploration. Right? At a minimum, it deserves follow-up questions, which I'm happy that we've done here. Who is the bodyguard you're talking about of Jeffrey Epstein. Is it Igor Zinoviev? Who is this guy in the CIA that you referenced? George Ionotis, who ran an assassination ring that apparently has been reported on in the

Washington Post. I don't know. I just find this fascinating after what we heard from Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. But the information about Donald Trump's age is coming in part here from Megan Hayes. I told you I'd return to that. Who is Megan Hayes? Who is Megan Hayes. Somehow this story landed with a thud when it comes to my listening ears. I didn't know this, but Megan Hayes is the Easter Bunny. She's the Easter Bunny. You know what I'm talking about? Do you remember when Joe Biden was president at the Easter Egg Roll and he was wanting to make his way over to the crowd and shuffling his feet and getting lost and interacting with people? And everybody was like, oh no, we can't have that. And who was he saved by? The Easter Bunny.

The Easter Bunny came over and pulled him away and said, no, no, this way, Mr. President. And everybody's like, who's the Easter Bunny? Who's in the costume? Is it Jill Biden? Is it Ron Clayne? His former Chief of Staff. Who's in the costume?

Well, it turns out it's Megan Hayes. That's who was in the costume. Staff redressed as Easter Bunny stops Biden from answering reporters questions. It was a reporter. The Easter Bunny stopped questioning of the President of the United States and reporters. Why? Because it was Megan Hayes. who was one of his communications directors in the press office for Joe Biden.

She was in the White House. They put, they didn't put an intern in the Easter Bunny costume. Just take a minute, okay? They didn't put an intern in the Easter Bunny costume. They didn't hire an Easter Bunny. Run them through Secret Service background checks. They said, while sitting around the White House, Megan, you be the Easter Bunny. Megan's like, I normally am coordinating, you know, press and, you know, the

of Joe Biden, they're like, perfect. That's exactly what we need. In case the president ends up interacting with, you know, little children at the Easter egg roll, or God forbid, he actually shuffles over to the press. I got you, said Megan. I got you. In between the Easter egg, I will make sure he doesn't get any questions. And here is now, Megan, the Easter bunny questioning the health of President Donald Trump. It is absolutely rich. It is absolutely incredible. And I mean that in the literal definition of the word, uncredible, incredible, not believable about the health of Donald Trump. Let's take a quick break. But I've got a lot more, including the story over the Somalians in Minneapolis.

When we come back on Will Kane country, this is Ainslie 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 Boxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now, Donald Trump did say, like Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, something really fascinating and controversial yesterday in talking about the story that we've talked about a lot. The fraud scandal in Minnesota, right now, overwhelmingly tied to the Somali community

in Minneapolis. Here's President Trump. And they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88%. They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you. Somebody would say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care.

I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. I could say that about other countries, too. I can say it about other countries, too. We don't want them to help. We have to rebuild our country. That's a pretty strong statement about the Somali community from President Donald Trump.

Now, it got me thinking, I don't know that much about the Somali community in America. Tinfoil Pat, Two a Day. I want to bring you in on this as well. It's pretty interesting when you think about. So the Somali community largely proliferates in America, I believe, in the 1990s after the Somali Civil War. You know, famously of Black Hawk Down. As long as I'm pointing everything to a movie reference, famously of Black Hawk Down. Great movie. Great movie.

Quentin Tarantino's number one movie. movie of the 21st century. I don't know if you saw that. Do you guys see Quentin Tarantino's list of top 20 movies of 21st century? He's missing some, which I thought. Of course he is. He put Black Hawk down as number one. And by the way, he said there will be blood. This was crazy. This hit my algorithm today. He said there will be blood with Daniel Day Lewis would have been number one. But he thought Paul Dano, who plays Eli and the counterpart to Daniel Day Lewis's character, and there will be blood, was weak sauce. He said he wasn't cable. He said he wasn't cable. I've never heard a director go after an actor like that.

There must be some backstory between Tarantino and Dano, but he absolutely destroys Dano and says that pushed there will be blood down from number one to number five. But the Somali community comes to America in the 1990s after Blackhawk down after the Civil War. And for some inexplicable reason, relocates largely to Minneapolis-St. Paul. And I say inexplicable in that it doesn't follow the path of traditional migration. It's really wild when you think about American migration. People came to America from all parts, we're largely from all parts of Europe, but they came over here and they went exactly where looks the most like where they left. Like all the Scandinavians, all the Norwegians and the Swedes, where'd they end up?

Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin, North Dakota. It's shocking. You left that place to come over to this place. place and find something very, very similar, the most similar that you could find, right? The Scotch-Irish go to the Appalachian Mountains, which you could argue are the most similar to the Scott Highlands in America. Because of the same mountain range. Germans, Ohio?

Literally. Going back to Pangia? Going back to Pangia, Patrick, it's the same mountain range. It's the same mountain range. The Appalachians and the Scott Highlands are literally historically connected. And, Dan, you brought that up. Yeah, I never thought about that. Germans in Ohio. I haven't been to Ohio a lot, but I have been to some small towns, and I can

see it. The Polish in Ohio, I can see it. I can see the literal like similarities in geography. How are the Somalis not in Arizona? How are they not in Arizona? How do you go from hot desert Africa to freezing cold Minneapolis? And near the ocean. And And the answer, by the way, you know the answer. It's in no small part government. Yes, okay, job markets, meatpacking. It's government. It's the Scandinavian social welfare state, the one that they're now taking advantage of, running fraud rings around, running circles around the fraud rings in Minneapolis.

Resettlement programs tied to NGOs, tied to the government, resettling Somalis in the most. ill-fitting place that you can possibly imagine in America. Minnesota! But would you look this up, Dan, because I really don't know the answers. How many Somalis are in America? And by the way, see, I don't know what your research tool of choice is at any given moment. I think it's Chat-GPT. Would you also ask you this?

So I want to know how many Somalis in America? And I would like to know where the Somali diaspora is in America. Like, is it only Minneapolis? somebody is somebody in the Wallitia watching has raised the antenna

of there's actually quite a few in Maine as well and by the way if that's true Maine

Somalia that doesn't seem like a natural fit as well they have a lot of pine trees a lot of evergreens

a lot of 30 foot tall trees and diversify their cold weather yeah okay so tell me what do we know

about the Somalians in America so rough estimates there's about 250 to 300,000 Somalis in the United States as of recent.

And what was the other question you were asking? I know that one. The communities. Where are they? Twin Cities is a big one, obviously. Rochester, New York, I'm assuming, and the Fargo. It's upstate. It's like North Dakota. They're all cold areas. Those are freezing. Yeah.

Rochester, Fargo, and Minneapolis, St. Paul. It's under snow eight months out of the year. And I don't know where Wilmar is, but that could have been made. I don't know where that is. So, yeah. Fascinary. That is incredible.

And I think it is not totally unrelated to the larger story that we're talking about of how well what President Trump is bringing up is how well has, this is the real conversation. Okay. Because what President Trump is saying is something that sounds absolutely scandalous. But here's the real conversation, the one you shouldn't run from, the one that is accurate. How well has that community left behind? the cultural practices of yesterday, of Somalia, and adopted the cultural practices of America. Okay?

Have they left behind? Somalia ranks 179 out of 100 countries on the corruption index. How well, has that been left behind in the same way the desert has been left behind? Has that been left behind in the same way that the heat has been left behind? One could argue their geographic choices are a representation of assimilation, or one could argue that the reason they're there is because it's the greatest fertile ground not to grow crops, but to grow fraud rings when it comes to a socialist welfare state that allows any criticism to be dismissed as racism. Here's more from President Trump. We could go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. country. Elon Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These are people that

work. These are people that say, let's go. Come on. Let's make this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from paradise. And they said, this isn't paradise. But when they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch. we don't want them in our country it's a couple things here so so president trump is painting with a very broad brush and what I would

say is and I don't think this is throat clearing to say I am sure I am positive there are good upstanding moral contributors to the American society economy and culture among the Somalis that does not preclude us from having judgment

about the unequal contribution of various cultures to America. And if you are going to import at great numbers, cultures from across the world, you cannot do it like UK while pretending all cultures are equal. You know they're not equal. Even those who proclaim the values of multiculturalism don't make choices on a day-to-day basis that live up to those proclamations. They don't live multiculturally. Just because you go to an Ethiopian restaurant once a year doesn't make you a world traveler.

It doesn't make you tolerant, and it doesn't make you believe that the culture of Ethiopia is on equal part to that of Western civilization. And we need to be able to look at these cultures and judge them. I don't believe judgment is an act of hate. I believe judgment is an act of love. I believe that to my core. I believe that's what happens when a parent scolds a child, when a parent disciplines a child. You're judging behavior. You're judging actions.

And then on a greater scale, deeper, when someone burns you over and over, you go away from those people because you have judged their character. Cultures are no different. We make judgments. And we should judge. We judge our children to try to correct behavior because it is an act of love. It's an act of hate to tell someone that they're never doing anything wrong. everything they do is right and there is no good and bad that's how you incentivize ugliness that's how you invent incentivize corruption lethargy delusion judgment is an act of love and we got to be able to

judge cultures and then extrapolate and say which ones are compatible with ours which ones assimilate, which ones might be over-indexing right now into corruption in some place like Minnesota. Before we go really quickly, there was one story that hit up in our morning call, and it's not the kind of story that would normally get my attention. I mean, it does, but sometimes I just like, okay, yes, another trans person has committed some kind of, you know, crime, and it's a gross crime, and this one's in the U.K., where a trans dude, you know what I mean.

someone once told me if you want to get this right we'll just use fake instead of trans so a fake woman so dude trans woman um sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl right groped her top and bottom and you know this dude's like i'm not even into females okay man whatever you're into sorry it's not a criminal defense but the reason this story got my attention is the mugshot if you're listening on spot or app or watching on radio the headline reans schoolgirl 13 sexually assaulted by a trans pervote who told judge he wasn't attracted to females and I just want you to see this guy and him doing his his Halloween costume um by the way is he doing a thing in his mugshot with cross eyes or is that for real I'm gonna say it's for real

something about this mugshot that makes this story something that you pause just pause and take in where we are. For what it's worth, okay, even though all cultures aren't the same and not on the whole judged equally, every culture has its pros and its cons. And here's a, let me offer this today. I don't bet this is happening in Somalia. I don't bet this is happening in Saudi Arabia. I don't think those cultures are better than Western civilization, but we all have our

pros and our cons. And unfortunately, here's a con that we've developed in Western civilization, the tolerance of this cross-eyed pervert, committing real crimes with young girls. Drink in the mugshot. The fog of war. Does that explain the double tap on a Venezuelan narco-terrorism boat? We discussed that with Joey Jones next on Wilcane Country. Hey, you know what I love? real American success stories and that's exactly what you get with Brooklyn betting this company started with a guy named John in Arizona he had no degree just good old-fashioned hustle and he started building mattresses by hand right here in the USA today they're making some of the best mattresses that you can find and look I'll give you

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and you, many of you who are watching and listening right now have chimed in in the Willisha. Carmela Canali 9,900 says, I sometimes think if you listen to older music, you are somewhat stuck in the past for whatever reasons. Glory days, best days of your life. Carmela, I actually agree. I think music is nostalgia. I mean, I think there's two different qualities or types of music that fit my life. One is alone, you know, when you're in the car. and I think what I'm often tapping into is nostalgia. Not to get too heady about this, but it's true.

Like, I love something. By the way, also, stylistically, look, I just love some of this older country. I just do. But it is tapping into nostalgia. And the other is, when there's newer stuff, I feel like it's more social. Like, I'm in a group and we're like, have you checked this out? I really like this song. And that ties into what some are saying.

Michael Knight says, listen to Whiskey Myers. Whiskey Myers is new in that. It's probably in the last 10 to 15 years. and let me just say you, Michael, I don't need the recommendation. Ballad of a Southern man is probably a top five song for me, maybe all time. I absolutely love it by Whiskey Myers. Jay Elliott says, don't leave Whalen out, Willan. Whalen is probably, like, if you ever asked me to create a list,

Wethon's one or two right there with George Strait. I just freaking love Waylon Jennings. And then Renee, Ramanay says, Will, my husband brought George Strait into my life. Cross my heart was our wedding song. Oh, how sweet. Renee, send us a pick. Rita Malone says, I love your list. George Strait and Earl Thomas Conley are country gold.

And then Brian Spade says, I'm 61. Most of my life I slept only three to five hours a day. It's all I need. I think I will be that way till I die. I'm not working 70 hours a week. I get bored. Find more work. I mean, I envy, Brian. Three to five hours a night. I totally agree about President Trump. It's all legit. By the way, are you guys all sleepers? Two a days in tinfoil? 60. Right now, I wouldn't be surprised if six, I'm in six to eight too. I used to be eight. Like I used to be eight. As I get older, it's gone between six and eight. I, it's weird, man. I feel better than I used to at six. I used to. I used to. I used to. used to get six and be like, ah, I don't feel so good today.

I'm starting to feel better with a little less. And I think the sweet spot is seven and a half. I think that's the sweet spot. I wouldn't be surprised at Tenfold said he was a four-hour guy. Are you a four-hour guy? I can't decide. He's either a four-hour guy or if left to his own devices, he would sleep till 10 a.m. He takes 20-minute micro-naps.

Yes, yes, that's what I do? All day, no, I don't have time for that. No, I, when did I go to sleep? Like, two last night? Yeah, so, you know. Do you guys? Does it take you a long time to fall asleep? I know this is a very interesting conversation, but I'm curious.

Yes. No. You can fall right to sleep? That's so annoying. Pretty much. All my life. I'm so annoyed at you. Yeah.

Very quickly. Patrick, you don't take... You're so... You're so busy. We've established that. It works about 12 hours a day. You're so busy. I think I've gotten up to 14 this week.

And you don't take micro-naps. You don't take... You don't sleep much. You're the virtual President Trump of this show, which I guess stands to reason, because here's a shot from yesterday's show. If you're listening on Spotify, Apple, or on radio, here's tinfoil pat, seemingly asleep during the show. It was a recent show. My hair is longer. A recent show.

Yeah. Recent show. Are you sleeping? Are you asleep in that shot, Patrick? I could have been. Yes. Sometimes we talk about politics It's like a Trump moment almost

Or we have like One of your sports takes You know Oof I mean Patrick Did you ever watch The Wire There was a character named Omar And Omar

Don't compare to Omar Hunted drug dealers And no no I'm not I'm not comparing him to Omar I'm comparing me to Omar And Omar hunted drug dealers And there was a saying Because all the drug dealers

Tried to kill Omar Omar was a drug dealer robber. And, you know, he'd walk through and all the kids would scatter in the projects. Omar had his shotgun. And he whistle as he walks. You know, and all the drug dealers took shots at Omar. So what song did he whistle? They all, they always, uh, was it Pop Goes the Weasel? What did it? Farmer and the Del. And, you know, the drug dealers tried to assassinate Omar and they always failed. And from that arose a saying from the show, if you come at the king, you better not miss. You've developed a habit of coming after the king, Patrick.

And I have to say, I don't think you're very accurate. I think you're spraying bullets hitting the neighborhood, and you're not taking down Omar. So I just would be careful. Just ginger. Because if I decide to come back, it's going to get ugly around here, Patrick. It's going to get ugly because you keep coming at the king. That's right. By the way, freedom.

Q9L says President Trump was not asleep. I think he is frustrated with them. I don't think President Trump was frustrated with the cabinet. That was Marco Rubio giving an update on Ukraine and Russia. My mom used to say, I'm not asleep. I'm just resting my eyes. I said to my wife constantly. She's like, you're asleep.

I'm like, no, I just rest my eyes. Yeah. Maybe President Trump was just resting his eyes. maybe so too was tinfoil pap. Speaking of that cabinet meeting yesterday, besides President Trump's age, another big talking point in the mainstream media is the double tap on the Venezuelan boat. The Venezuelan narco-terrorist boat that reports are had survivors. Now, the Washington Post reported that Pete Hegseth ran around the situation room yelling,

kill them all. New York Times comes out and says, well, apparently that's not true. Hegseth wasn't even around when the second strike was ordered. Admiral Bradley made that order. so the New York Times contradicts Washington Post. It's all, here's the thing you need to remember about all this. It's all not in good faith. It's not genuine.

It's not sincere. Barack Obama launched literally thousands of missiles. Okay, yes, under the AUMF. But the AUMF, like theoretically, authorization for use of military force was Iraq and Afghanistan. My man was dropping missiles in Oman and Yemen, killing an American citizen in Yemen. And there wasn't the same type of outrage. The point is, it's really about TDS. It's about getting President Trump.

And there's been no bigger proxy for getting President Trump than getting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. And they have gone after him on this narco strike. And here's what he said yesterday at that cabinet meeting in response. We're proud to do it. So you didn't see any survivors to be clear after that first strike? I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire. It was exploded and fire or smoke. You can't see anything.

You got digital. This is called the fog of war. This is what you and the press don't understand. You sit in your air-conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about, kill everybody, phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not based in any truth at all. And then you want to throw out really irresponsible terms

about American heroes, about the judgment that they made. I wrote a whole book on this topic because of what politicians and the press does to war fighters. We were to be joined by Joey Jones, a true warfighter, but as is the case, often, and understandably, Joey's trapped in hunting camp. Joey's trapped in hunting camp with a poor connection and couldn't join us this morning. We're going to try to make it happen. We don't care where you come from, come from hunting camp, come from the car. We don't care.

But you've got to have a connection. We've interviewed Senator John Kennedy from the car, and we'll interview you, the Willisha. Just FaceTime in. Let's figure that out. Let's get the Willisha into Wheel Can. Country with FaceTime. Just don't come in naked. Don't flash your junk, but we want you in the show.

I know it's dangerous two days, but I want it. You know, had a dinner last night with a guy. He said, I need that back. I need you talking with the audience, debating. I need that back. And I said, you know what? I need that back as well. And on radio, that's call in, on digital, that's FaceTime.

We're going to make that happen, right? That's what we're going to do. So whatever the connection, wherever you come from, you're part of Wilcane Country. We would have had that today, but we didn't have the technical connection with a true warfighter, Joey Jones. But I've sat next to, on the couch, and been friends with the man you just heard from for a long time, the Secretary of War. And I have learned over time because I did not serve in the United States military a lot about what he's talking about right here. I'm also capable of critical thought. When you sit at a distance, when you read about war, it can all become legalistic.

You can become your own mini version of a JAG officer. And in the worst case scenarios, you become a journalist. And you sit there and you armchair quarterback. And you bring up the Geneva Convention as though that's a real thing. And you bring up this legalistic maneuver that. And it's not to say, you know, we can't be above certain practices in war. Nobody's proud of the My Life Massacre in Vietnam. It's not to say there aren't bad things that are done.

But that, by its very nature, is the definition of war. Bad things done for a greater purpose. You rigorously debate. You collectively decide if your purpose is great. But once you pursue that purpose, you're far beyond the bounds of a JAG lawyer. You're far beyond the bounds of a journalist. You're far beyond the bounds of an armchair quarterback. You execute your mission with, in the case of a military, lethality.

In case of you or me, you execute your mission with clarity and with purpose. And fog of war is a real thing. and i just i do over time and i've i've come to appreciate this even more of somebody who wasn't personally involved is how how how dare we and i'm using a royal we okay sit here having never even been in the situation much less in the situation now in the moment and go oh you did this right you did this wrong that seemed unnecessarily cruel what do you do when the bullets are flying what do you do when your life is in danger what do you do when the adrenaline is going. What do you do? You hold fast to the clarity and the purpose of the mission. That's what

you do. And it's not a pass. It's not a get out of jail free card for every single decision that's ever made. But when your mission now, Washington Post, is to take down President Donald Trump, is to give into your TDS, is to go after Secretary of War of Pete Excess. And that's clearly the mission. It's not the sincerity of ethics or morality or war. That's very clear. Where were you during the missiles raining during President Barack Obama? So when you hold fast to your mission to take down the sitting presidents of the United States and his Secretary of War, we're allowed to judge, in this case, with no fog of war, exactly who you are and exactly what you're here to do.

These men make decisions in the moment, some right, some wrong, hopefully always with the clarity of purpose. But if we allow you to dictate the terms of war, well, that's how you write a recipe for 50 years of losing wars. That's how you get Vietnam. That's how you get Afghanistan. That's how you get. The most powerful and greatest military on the face of the earth somehow not run.

running an undefeated record. And by the way, we should be running away with each one of these wars. Quick, fast, decisive, done, America. But the Washington Post armchair quarterbacks every decision made to ensure that every war drags out the longest possible with the maximum number of attrition and defeat being the likeest of outcomes. Yeah, I believe Fog of War. Yeah, I believe how that was said exactly by the Secretary of War. Back to the Wilicia. W.W.J.D. Word says, Rockabilly is pretty good. It's a genre.

Sarah Jordan says to me, Will, Ella Langley on any of your lists, or is she a late 20-25 discovery for you? The other day, Sarah, I was saying how much I like Ella Langley. That's a late 2025 discovery for me. Yes, that is. So she probably didn't. Probably listened to Choose in Texas a little too much lately, so I would have thought it would have appeared because some of these on your most listened to songs for me, I'm not a big, big music guy, or like four to seven plays. Like, that's a lot for me. Like, you know, that would make my top songs over and over. Of the year.

It would like I have repeated Choose in Texas by Ella Langley a lot, but I thought it would have registered more than four to seven. Times. Hey, how about this? I'm going to bring both of you guys in on this because I did not know what you were talking about this morning. I did not know. But the minute you sent this to me, Patrick, I recognized it. Franklin, the turtle from apparently Canada, the children's book, Franklin. He's been meaned in no small part because of the Secretary of War, Pete Hegg said. I don't know if that's AI If anybody's listening on Spotify Apple I'm pretty sure I saw this in a library It could be just cartoon drawing Yeah Secretary of Ward Pete Higgs-eth posted this

Franklin the turtle in the children's books If you're listening on Spotify app or radio You can picture him He stands on two feet He reads at the library, things like that You remember Franklin? I didn't when they described it in the call But now I see him

I know who he is And there's a whole new set of memes of Franklin books A classic Franklin story Franklin targets narco-terrorists and Franklin's on a helicopter shooting narco-terror bullets. And Secretary of War Heggseth,

Secretary of War Hegset posted and said, for your Christmas wish list. And apparently... Savage. Well, it gets better, though, because everybody jumped on it, right? And there's like, look at all these Franklins that people have created.

Franklin finds fraud in Minnesota. It's in a desk with Tim Walts and Ilan Omar. Dora, no. Franklin gets a new. job. This one's great. Franklin's in the DHS. And he's arresting Dora. Yes. He's deporting Dora.

No, not Dora. We can't get rid of Dora. Yes, we can. Franklin defends the library. He's out in front of the public library, pushing out the rainbow hairs with drag story, drag story hour signs. And then Franklin watches Trump's Somalia rant on repeat. is another classic Franklin's story These are really good

These are These are really good It has prompted It has prompted show Yeah obviously Oh is there more Go to the internet for more My liberal friends cannot watch this

Of me laughing just thing Because I'll be in a lot of trouble For what? The deportation of Dora by Franklin Yeah How dare you laugh Yeah It's all very serious

Sorry, guys. I didn't mean to laugh. My bad. The publisher of Franklin takes it very seriously. They have put out a statement. Franklin, the turtle, is beloved. He's a Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigration, violence, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image, which directly contradicts these values. Yeah, Pete. Cool. Yeah, Will. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Um, by the way, he stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity.

Like, inclusivity, all right. That's one of those things, by the way. You, you don't even do that, okay? What's the name of this? Kids Can Press. You don't, you're not inclusive. You're not guaranteed. Let me examine your life.

It's such a cliched term. It's such an empty virtue signal. I'm curious how inclusive you are, Kids Can Press. Can we really dive into that? Do, you know, that, that deserves some examination. And by the way, Franklin, too. Hell, you think Franklin's been inclusive? I bet I could go back through these books and find out where he hasn't included everybody.

Go ahead. He spends with beavers and bears and all kinds of different animals. Super diverse character. Yeah. But not all the animals. So how inclusive is he? Yeah. Oh, he doesn't hang out with his fellow turtles?

So he's non-inclusive of them? Frogs? Franklin is racist. I don't remember a frog. I'm going to find it. I'm going to, that's right. I'm going to find it. How about the deer?

How about the alligators? How about the ones that would eat Franklin? Who eats turtles? What eats turtles? Foxes probably? Alligators? Trying to use foxes. Does Franklin hang with them?

Does Franklin hang around the potential for turtle soup? Does Franklin hang with raccoons? does Franklin hang with raccoons especially how about this by the way raccoons are the biggest predator of turtles number one boom are there raccoons in the franklin books how about drunk raccoons want to know what i'm talking about that's a real story drunk raccoons and we finally know the top 12 teams most likely in the college football playoff when we come back on will king country A half hour of college football debate. Is that what we did yesterday here on Wilcane Country?

We promised not to do that again today. Actually, that's a half-hearted promise. I can't guarantee it. But I'm going to explain to 10-foot patent two days, Dan, exactly how it works. I believe, with the college football playoff committee. It is Wilcane Country streaming live at the Wilcane Country. YouTube, Facebook, but always available at Spotify and Apple. But hold on.

If you're not into college football, you've got to hear this. This is actually my favorite story of the day. Not the cross-eyed trans pervert in the UK. Not this gentleman. That dude is a great story, and I really liked it today, based exclusively off of his mugshot. I would love to interview everyone that knows this guy. Set aside the horrific crime, groping a 13-year-old girl. But I would also like to know friends, family.

I'd like to know, like, could we get an honest conversation about what's the dude's name? No offense. No offense. He looks like a Dan. He looks like a Dan. That is the worst thing you've ever said to me. Like if you're guessing that dude's name, I'm so hurt.

I do believe that Dan is high on the list. Like, honestly, he doesn't look like a Patrick. He doesn't look like a Will. He looks like a Dan. I don't know how to explain that to you. No, he doesn't look like a time. I can't explain it. You just feel it out.

Patrick, do you agree? That's a Dan. I am actually to the point where I believe there's an 80% probability. His name is Dan. Is this John Goodman playing a character? and he's played a character named Dan. So if you think about it, it makes a lot of time. We need to change that.

I'm going to think of something better. Yeah. But that's not my favorite story of the day. This is my favorite story of the day, okay? If you're just joining us, you've missed nothing. We talked about the Venezuelan boat strikes. His name is Ryan, not Dan. Ryan.

That's disappointing. That's disappointing. Not for me. I lost that bet. I was ready to put good money on Dan. We talked about the Venice Way on Boat Strikes. We've talked about President Trump's conspiracy of aging. We have talked about Somalians in Minneapolis, Maine, North Dakota.

But this is absolutely my favorite story of the day. Okay? I'm putting the image up now here in the studios of Wilcane Country. You're listening on Spotify or Apple. I will explain the images to you as we go. And it's not untied to the conversation we just had about Franklin. And the number one predator for turtles being raccoons, I read. An inebriated raccoon was taken into custody after allegedly breaking into a Virginia liquor store on Black Friday,

partaking in what officials have deemed a liquor-fueled rampage. A trail of smashed liquor bottles led police to the masked suspect who was found passed out in a sploot position in the Ashland Business's bathroom floor, according to the Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter. In an embarrassing photo, I don't even need to give commentary on this. the writing is splendid as I continue to read from this news story on this incident. In an embarrassing photo shared by authorities, the plastered procyonid, is that what a raccoon is? A procyonid? Could be seen lying next to the garbage can and the toilet.

The town later identified the four-legged intruder as coal. No way, I don't think that's a fitting name. Cole doesn't fit this drunk raccoon, though. noting he needed a ride home after the wild weekend. Officials said police brought the furry bandit to the animal shelter to sober up. After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury, other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices, he was safely released back into the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer. Officials wrote in a statement.

So if you're listening on radio or a podcast, here's the images I want you to, these are from the cops. You've got an aisle of a liquor store just destroyed with, I would say, at least a dozen bottles. I'd say four or five of them were broken, and the contents spilled out over the floor. Is he a whiskey guy? And then, that's what I want to see. What was he drinking? That in the front, the completely demolished bottle, that's Jameson, is it not? I believe so.

A green bottle there with the red top. And in the unopened bottle next to it is its tequila-ish, It's a little light for bourbon. And he's got a... I think that's got to be scotch in the... Must be an Irish raccoon. The bottle's inside the case. Yeah.

I don't know what else he's got down there. He's got some pints, too, because he's a cheap drinker. They're not all big bottles. You notice that? He's got some pints in there. And there is a lot of liquid on the floor. Okay. Then the secondary picture is literally what was described.

It is the raccoon. between and we're like not a lot of space between the trash can and the toilet there's a picture of me like that my 20s he is in a he's it they perfectly they chose the perfect word the sploot position he looks like he spluted his back legs are going the wrong way they're going backwards like he just boom his front legs are going the opposite direction is his back legs and his chin and head is on the floor he's passed out my man is passed out and like he tried to make his way to throw up into the toilet or the trash can and and passed out between the two i love this and i think it's that picture because if somebody showed you that picture you'd be like knowing nothing else that

animal is drunk that animal is drunk his name might be ashley actually it looks like an ashley on a saturday night it's great You think it's a female? You got to lift the tail and see. I don't know. It needs her friend to hold her hair back kind of thing at the bar. He doesn't look like a coal to me. I don't know.

It's a Dave. Nor is it really a Dave or a Ralph. No. Ralph is in the closer. Ralph is in the vein of who this guy would be. He could be a Steve. I just, I don't know. Someone pointed out he's doing an imitation of a turtle.

he's playing in the long game see if he can get Franklin to come in and hold his hair back before he eats Franklin somebody on this show I believe it was Dan said how much he loved raccoons and I said how much better is this story and how much is Cole getting away with this

because of the way that raccoons look they're not cute and their behavior raccoons are giant rodents. They're a nuisance. They are. Smart. But they get away with a lot because of the way they look. Furry, the little mask look, the furry tail. Like, if that was a possum, this story would have a much worse ending. Like, the possum would have been disposed of.

Based on looks alone. Based on looks alone, they would have disposed of that possum, and you know it. I'm trying to think what other animals get away with it because of the way they look. Back in the... Squirrels are cute. Early 2020s, when we were doing the woke re-examination of society, wasn't there for a hot minute the indulgence of a thing like pretty privilege? Like what? Pretty privilege?

Yes. Which, by the way, is a real thing. It's a real thing. Pretty privilege. It's a real thing, for sure. I think raccoons benefit from I think raccoons get away with some pretty privilege I think they do

Rabbits would call it Yeah, rabbit squirrels Rabbits Essentially if you're a rodent with like a Like a fluffy tail You have a much better shot Yeah, it looked like that The tail's huge

Yeah the tail's big Yeah The tail's huge Like do you think rats and possums Show up to the animal convention And they have like their own movement like BLM, and they're like, all you guys are doing what we're doing. But you got fur on your tail, okay?

And you're getting away with things, and we're being oppressed, and I, and who's, who's, who's with, who's with the, who is the oppressed animals along with the, the possums? The snake. Like, who's in that? Over on the other side, the rabbits and the raccoons, they're walking around, stealing stuff. knocking trash cans over and getting away with it, right? Well, all insects, all insects. There's no beloved insect.

Ladybugs? Maybe ladybugs. Because ladybugs are pests. You get infestations of ladybugs. You ever had that? But they're beautiful. Roli-poleys, potentially. But they're pretty. Butterflies?

Yeah. Yeah. What is a butterfly? A butterfly is nothing but a moth with pretty wings. Right? But when a moth comes around, you're like, Get the mothballs. Butterfly comes around and you're like, ooh, land on my hand.

Totally different. It's my grandmother's soul. Just based on pretty privileged. Right. Yours too? I want to develop this. I'll work with AI on this one. I want to, on the animal convention, I want to know who is in the suffrage class, along with the possums and the rats.

Jesus. And by the way, if they're legitimately guilty of worse behavior, then you're not oppressed. You're just bad, right? Like, um, the rat, the best, the rat looks at the squirrel and is like WTF, right? But to some extent, and it's about the furry tail, right? Rats are industrialists. The rat is worse. And rats are, oh, they're super smart.

super smart but to some extent rats are legitimately doing worse thing than the squirrels the squirrels the squirrel will get in your attic and all that but the rat will get in your house like he'll get in the kitchen and that's worse right if you're in my attic that's one thing but if you come into the sanctity of my house it's a whole mother well mice are cuter than rats that's the problem but we don't want the mice you don't like the mice but you know when you get it and you're relieved it's a mouse you all know the feeling we all do like was it a mouse or was it a rat you know you're he was a mouse. She's like, good. You know, because he's smaller and cuter. This is a thing. I mean, New York City, I see them, they walk on your feet everywhere. Man, those rats in New York, I'm telling you.

It's something different. When you see, when you all put the trash can out, I live there for 15 years. When you put the trash bag out in front of the, and you see the trash bag moving, I hated that so much, man. You know, on trash night, I hated it so much. You'd be walking, walking your dog. and people pile the big black trash bags at the curb and you'd be walking along and the

trash bag's moving and you're like oh and then you can see them darting back and forth between the brownstone and the trash bags i saw it this morning this is always like this uh it's terrible okay let's not do this for a half hour but let's do it for a minute dan if you got it put it up last night was the college football playoff rankings reveal okay Notre Dame two a day's front running team seems to be safely in. Let's go. Notre Dame came in at, I can't even find them on your graphic.

Notre Dame came in at number 10. Oh, there it is. It goes across. That's not a, somebody didn't think that graphic from their website. Notre Dame came in at number 10. Oklahoma came in at number eight. Alabama came in at number nine. went up after beating Auburn.

BYU at 11, Miami at 12, Texas at 13. Here's what this most likely means, okay? If it plays out, according to Chalk, BYU will be out, right? They'll lose to Texas Tech in the Big 12 championship game. Texas Tech will be in, but BYU will be out. If BYU wins, then we got something different going on. That doesn't necessarily, that does.

That pushes Miami into the playoffs, and you will get one of the, the group of five, which it comes down to James Madison, North Texas, and Tulane for that spot. So who's out? Well, Texas, who comes in at 13. Vanderbilt comes in at 14, Utah comes in at 15. All right. So my team, my team is the one that is out. Somebody said this guys, and they said it, and they predicted exactly right. They said Texas would come in at 13. And the reason why is they will do their best to keep Texas out because they have three losses but put them on the edge of being in because they had all those big wins in scheduled Ohio State.

So the committee was in this position of like, the committee was in this position like, well, we want Texas to schedule Ohio State. So we can't like disincentivize that. So let's keep them right there on the edge. So it looks like that, you know, you're rewarded for it in some way. So I texted Dan and Pat today, and here's my theory, okay? Patrick's the one that gets mad about this. Here's what we all do. This is what we all do. The committee in college football, they give us their legalistic reasons for this.

Strength of schedule, strength of record, strength of victories, quality of bad losses, all these things. And we all played this game, head-to-head, and we all play this game. And it's an impossible math equation, by the way. All these things that they say that they value, it doesn't add up. meaning they are contradictory to each other. You can never play the game and come out with a clear answer. Strength of Schedule, Total record, total losses, best wins. You can't do it because it cross-pollinates.

It hits. Like everybody says, Miami has two bad losses. Yeah, but Miami has a head-to-head win over Notre Dame. Why is Notre Dame over Miami? Right? So you keep playing these games. That's what I said to Dan this morning. It makes no sense that Notre Dame is above Miami.

None. Miami literally beat Notre Dame. And Dan responded, two bad lawsuits for Miami. What are we doing? So all these different things that go into the recipe, they can't be reconciled with one another. And we all lose our minds and pull our hair out and do this debate. But here's the truth. You remember that scene in 300 when Leonidas climbs the mountain and he goes up to the top. And there's the, what are the names of those guys? I actually put it in our group text, but they're the soothsayers, right? They're the guys that you've got to bring them a virgin and you've got to give them some things, and then they look into the rocks, and they take drugs, and then they give you the answers to whether or not you should be a war on person. Sounds like a great job. I might go do that. Well, in a way, that's the College Football Playoff Committee. Now, I hate to use that example because those guys were corrupt.

and Patrick believes that everything is corrupt. And I don't believe it is all chalkable to corruption. I think you get a group of guys in there, and here's the God's Honest Truth. I think they feel it out. And they feel it out. And then they reverse engineer it through these legalistic things that we all talk about. They just feel it like we believe this team is better than this team. There's no other rationale, right?

There's no other reason for some of these rankings. And it hurts. it hurts because this is the most emotional thing in American society. It's certainly the most emotional thing in sports, but it actually might even be more emotional than politics. I think so, because it's so irrational. It's so blind allegiance. It's so, like, look at Patrick.

Look at the way he acts when we talk about Florida State. He acts worse about that than he does about Kamala Harris, who's very upset that Kamala lost to Trump. And you ever hear him really get mad about that? No. I texted you a good comment, by the way. Patrick, but you talk about Florida State all the time. I joke.

He didn't like Kamala. But if I compare his reactions from 2020 to Trump losing to Florida State being held out of the playoff, I can promise you it's more emotional for the Seminoles. And it's like being rejected by a girl. When you're told we don't like you, we felt it out and we don't like you, it hurts. By the way, my team is getting. that right now, Patrick. My team has been judged, oh, we don't feel good about you. And it's just not more complicated than that. That's all there is to it, okay? They feel it. They're the

soothsayers on the mountain. They decide who should be in. There's no deserves, right? Texas deserves to be in. I believe by any legalistic argument, Texas, I even believe on the, I believe on the level of who is the best team right now in the country, who are the top 12 teams right now, Texas would get in. See, you don't even like me saying that. That's how emotional you are. I'm not emotional about it. But I'm saying that.

Everyone has their subjective opinions, and what they do is they create their, they have what they want to see. Michael Malice talks about this. They have what they want, and then they rationalize it backwards. And so you go, we're the most deserving. You have three losses. You lost a quarter of your games. You don't deserve it, and that's not how it should be.

like we should we should it should be like if we're going to have a playoff we should do it as close to the NFL as possible where you know we understand the criteria completely and Texas got friend zoned but but Patrick you and I don't agree I mean you and I don't disagree I agree on your analysis of this and what malice says you saying you know you lost three games for some reason that makes you feel more but it's subjective then me says saying, we have the best wins in the country. In the country, we have the best wins. And that seems to be an objective fact. We have three at the time top 10, now top 15 victories. And I don't know. Should you value wins or she value losses? Well, I don't want to have that debate because it's the same thing as strength of schedule, strength of record, all these other things. It just gets complicated, convoluted, you know, all that stuff. Now we're in the legalistic argument. And I'm telling you, none of it matters. None of it matters. They feel it out. And here's how I think they feel it.

This is my biggest point that I believe. How do they feel it? By measuring what you've done against their expectations, that's it. Let's stick with Texas, okay? Texas is punished for losing to Florida. And they should be because everybody expected Texas to beat Florida. Florida's not good, right? We all know that.

And Texas lost to them. And so that emotionally impacts us heavily. I would argue more than beating A&M, more than beating OU, and more than beating Vanderbilt, combined. Why? Because while Texas might not have been expected to win those games, it was close. It was close. And so it doesn't have the emotional impact of losing a game that everybody thinks you absolutely should have won. This is the analogy I gave you guys, and I believe this is how the world works.

It's not just college football. If somebody says to you, this is the best movie of the year, it's incredible. I think there's a decent chance you walk out that movie going, eh, eh. But if somebody told you, we're going to dinner, and this restaurant's okay, I can't vouch for it, but it was the only place that we could get reservations, I think there's a high chance that you and the entire group walk out going, that was pretty good. Yeah, I agree. That was weight.

That was good meal. Which is such BS. You're measuring. But if I had said to you, this is the best restaurant in town. It's amazing. And I have a feeling we'd all walk out, or you might going, when I walked away, you two would go, hey, what did you think about that meal? It was all right. Yeah, he said it was the best meal in town.

I know. And because you'd be measuring against the expectations that I set for you, based against expectations. Subjective opinions measured against subjective expectations. That's what I think we're dealing with with. soothsayers on the mountain picking the best 12 teams in football. Your response quickly, fellas. You go ahead, Dan. No, you go first. I don't, I don't think sports is not supposed to be this subjective. The whole purpose of sports is that we have objectivity to it. We know when a team plays each other because you can look at paper anytime and go, well, well, this team is going to beat this

team and you played on the field you know and you're supposed to have objectivity to it and it's not supposed to be like figure skating and that's what it's become and I know that hey we've we've have polls to you know term the the winners before but it's like when you have a bigger a bigger subset of people choosing the teams you get better results what other ways is there to do it no this is this is the argument that Patrick has made to us for everybody listening that the old way of doing things is better. And it's patently absurd. It's an absurd opinion. The AP voting on the national champion was absurd. A bunch of sports riders, because there's a lot of them, get to vote on the national championship. They don't even play the game. That's absurd. Talk about figure

skating. Now we're debating the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th team in the country. That's what we're debating. And they're going to end up playing a playoff, and your national champion will win it out. Now, granted, Dan, you said this. There's more parity than ever in college football. So it does matter more than it used to. But I'll say this. Okay, I think Texas should be in the playoff ahead of Notre Dame and Miami. Fascinating.

However, I'm going to ask you this. Do you think Notre Dame can win the national championship? I think they have a shot. I think that there's no... I think it's a low probability. I think there's no distinct... very low probability. There's no Alabama and Georgia of eight years ago where there's no shot that can't, you know, beat any of those teams in the top 12. So I think...

I think the odds are very low that they beat a Georgia or an Ohio state or both, depending on their path. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think the odds are very low. And I think the same for Miami, okay? By the way, I think the same for Texas. So my point is the impact on that debate. By the way, I think they all could win a game. Maybe two games. But I don't think they're going to win enough to win the national championship. And so the consequences of this debate are way less. This is a good world we live in right now. And Patrick, if we expanded it to 16, which I'm in favor of, by the way, no buys. Expand to 16, you'd be the same grumpy old dude debating who's 15, 16, 17, 18. We shouldn't be debating this. There are all

always like the most you have is maybe four good teams in a year. We should never have had the playoff. The BCS system was better than this. No, playoffs better. I disagree. The playoff sucks. You guys hate college football. That was what college football was.

If you want playoffs, go to the NFL. It makes insignificant bowl games to watch. It's so stupid. Nobody watched all those bowl games. Exactly. It doesn't matter. This is interesting. So I would want to watch a bracket of teams play.

We have number one playing number two this weekend. and it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who wins. It will in the playoff. It won't. It doesn't. Nobody cares about the regular season. It used to matter.

The regular season used to matter in college football, and it doesn't matter anymore. It still does. That's a dumb argument. It still does. It clearly just left Texas out of the playoff. The Florida game clearly meant a lot. That was like in, when you lose three. What was that in September, October?

I like the idea of anybody could get in there. Like Texas Tech could get in there and play, oh, or something for the championship. You know, I want to see... All right, how about this? Tomorrow, tomorrow, here on Will Kane Country, because I just did more time on this than I thought I would do today. We'll do this.

We'll take the playoff field. And we'll ask ourselves legitimately, could this team win the national championship? And we'll come up with our answer. How many actually could win the national championship? We'll leave you with this from the Wollisha. Baracho Bama says, the selection committee is a fancy way of saying,

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