Will Cain Country - How Far Will They Go To Stop Trump?

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Story #1: Will they do anything to deny Trump? How far would Biden or Pelosi go? Story #2: If the argument for equal pay for the USWNT is that they win, should the U.S. Soccer Federation demand a refund? Story #3: Why are we freaking out about training camp? We are talking about practice. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1. Will they do anything, anything, to deny Trump? We might just take them at their work, Pelosi and Biden. 2. Equal pay. If the argument is for the U.S. women's national team to receive equal pay because they win more than the men, well, then maybe the U.S. Soccer Federation should seek a refund from the U.S. women's national team. Three, why are we freaking out about training camp? Practice. We're talking about practice, the case for DAC and Dallas.

It's the Will Kane podcast on Fox News Podcast. What's up? And welcome to Wednesday. As always, I hope you will download rate and review this podcast wherever you get your audio entertainment at Apple, Spotify, or at Fox News podcast. You can watch the Will Kane podcast on Rumble or on YouTube and follow me on Twitter at Will Kane for updates and clips from the Will Kane podcast. Sunday night, we caused a scene. I'm not just talking about. Dallas. I'm talking about the Canes. On Sunday night, enter Miami and Lionel Messi made their way to North Texas. They made their way to Frisco. They made their way in the round of 16 in the League Cup to take on FC Dallas. Last Wednesday, when the game was announced that both teams had advanced forward in this intra-season tournament, FC Dallas sent out a link. Both of my boys play for FC Dallas, so if you're in the family, you get a link, an early link, to get ticket offerings. So we were lucky enough to get that link.

We put in for tickets and got four tickets to see Lionel Messi. As it worked out, I thought I was going to have to work, ended up giving away some of those tickets. A good friend of mine, awesome dude, the MLS hooked us up, got us a few more. and we got to go the entire family along with a few friends for my boys up to frisco up to fc dallas and enter miami and it was an awesome game and messy lived up to the hype he scored two goals he assisted another goal messy was undeniable everyone in the stadium knew for example when they had a free kick to tie the game dallas was up four to three and it looked like Messi's first game of the season, a clip you probably have seen across social media.

Not a penalty kick, but a free kick outside the box, where the other team is allowed to make a wall in front of you. The idea is that the opposing team can make the geometry difficult between a wall on one side of the goal and the goalie on the other side of the goal. The theory is you should have most of the real estate covered. A ball shouldn't sail over the wall if they jump up and hit it with their head, and it shouldn't go around the wall. because the goalie should be able to cover that real estate. Not with Messi. He took a free kick there with the score tied 4 to 3. It was blocked.

It hit the wall. It bounced to the other side of the box. Messi likes to shoot with his left. On the other side of the box, now, the right side of the box facing the goal, there was a scrum for a 50-50 ball and the whistle was blown. Fowl on Dallas. Another free kick for Messi. And I swear to you at this moment, you could hear the stadium exhale.

You could hear it. You could feel it. You could feel the inevitable. A kid turned to me who was sitting in front of me. This kid was from Mexico, big fan of Messi. And he goes, you know he's scoring this one. I said, yeah, I do know this is a goal. And of course it was, and it shouldn't be, and it wouldn't be, for the vast majority of players in this world.

But not only did this go in, it was a punctuation mark. It was an exclamation point. It felt like the end of a paragraph, an end of a chapter, an end of the book. It was fate. Messy didn't even drill it. He didn't have to.

Two steps up, lifted the ball over the wall, slotted it literally into the most tight box in the upper 90 corner over the wall. which, by the way, professional soccer players, professional athletes as they are, the goalies still got within a hands length from that spot, but Messi placed it perfectly. Inter-Miamy went on to win the game in penalty kicks in overtime. So I guess in the end, the scene was caused by Inter-M Miami. The scene was caused by Lionel Messi, except I said to you that the scene was not just caused by Dallas.

It was caused by the cane. Look, I've told you about one of my sons. He's passionate, and I don't know what to say or do. I don't think I should crush his spirit. He simply is who he is, and he and his buddy spent the entirety of the entry into the stadium chanting, Ronaldo, renaldo, leaning into the messy Ronaldo. debate worldwide. They thought they'd bring it to Frisco.

Everybody in the stadium had paid hundreds of dollars per ticket to come see in, I would say, probably at this point, winning the debate 70 to 30, the greatest player of all time. That Messi Rinaldo debate tips Messi's way after winning a World Cup in my rough back of the envelope, estimation, 70, 30, 30 still, along with my son and his friend. voting for Ronaldo but they made sure everybody in the stadium knew it and then when we got to our seats and i will tell you these seats were in a suite and it was nice and i guess the general vibe in a suite is you should be on your best behavior that you're not sitting down with the hooligans we didn't get the memo and my son couldn't even hear me as i told it to

him in real time. I want to take a moment here as a parenthetical and tell you, I am not a lax parent. I'm like strict. I'm a disciplinarian. In general, they're concerned if they think I am unhappy. They're concerned if they think I'm concerned. I couldn't even break the first wall. Dude, turn it down a notch. Let's take it down a notch. Okay, okay. Yeah, nodding. I can tell. didn't no change in the eyes same glaze every time fc dallas scored my son and his friend 12 years old ripped their shirts off and swung them over their head i mean people around them not just in our suite because they wouldn't be seated in seats they stood on the railing so it was really the next box over had to duck their heads because fc dallas jerseys were swinging in 360 degrees

circles threatening to poke an eye. And here's the best part of it. Here's the best part of it. One box over, not the next one, but the one skip over from us. So maybe two boxes over. Who's there, front row, but Victoria Beckham and David Beckham. Oh, that's all they needed. Now they had a target.

Rinaldo swing their jersey every FC Dallas goal. At some point I turned to our host and said, this is probably a little over the top, right? I got a, yeah, but it's okay, they're kids. I didn't get the courteous, you know, nah, it's no big deal. I got the acknowledgement. Yes, this is over the top, but hey, they're kids. So I swapped them out at halftime, brought the teenagers in, the much more mature, respectable ones, which was fine for my immediate environment, but that meant my wife had to go back to the seats with now the 12-year-olds,

and literally another dad had to say, to them, guys, you got to turn it down. You got to take it down a notch. My son's here because he likes messy, and that's okay. They were looking for targets. They were looking for somebody to receive their abuse, they're taunting, their chanting, their celebrations. But ultimately, who got the last laugh, and I'm so happy, in a way, not as a fan of Dallas, but another comeuppance for my son, who got to the last laugh, David Beckham, Lionel Messi, enter Miami. The next day I said to my son, he goes, as I was driving him to soccer practice, he goes, almost like the fog had broken.

Like he had emerged from like a hangover. He goes, man, there's a lot of messy fans at the Dallas game. I was like, yeah, man. Like, people paid a lot of money because it was their one chance to see the greatest of all time. And you're out there chanting Rinaldo. Do you think maybe you might look back on that moment and think you didn't fully appreciate your chance to see Lionel Messi, the greatest of all time? He smiled and faced her in dread.

Yeah, he goes, maybe. Yeah, maybe messy. Hey, I heard from some of you on the great debate over, should you fill up your wife's gas tank? I want to share some of those messages, if I might, with you. Sarah Engulfsland says it's not necessary. It's nice in the same way that your wife probably make sure your kitchen is never out of essentials, like coffee, for instance, but not necessary. Tusha, Sarah.

Deborah Harold says, or rather, this must be her husband, Mark, emailing from Deborah's email account. That's worthy of a subject, Mark, on a future podcast. Love my wife, but it's ridiculous to think that we should fill up their cars gas tank other than when riding with them. You rock, Will. Thank you, Mark. We do need to discuss in the future communal, not only communal cars, but communal email accounts. Sharon says, hey, Will, I watched Fox and friends and listened to the podcast. I pump my own gas.

I admit that years ago I let my husband get gas for me because I just said, just didn't want to be bothered if he was willing to do it. Could this be Rachel? Then I started working out of town and was forced to get my own gas. My husband is now retired and I work part time and I continue to get my own gas. Why should I come home from work and expect my husband to take my car back out and get my gas when I can do it myself? Yes, exactly Sharon. He's supposed to take your car back out onto those streets and get gas. You're already on the streets on your way home. I agree. This seems to be the logistics. But Sharon says, says, Sharon from Maryland, I need to disagree with you about women letting the gas level get

to E. I never, all caps, allow the gas to get anywhere near E. Once I see on the gauge that I have 100 miles left, I make plans to get gas within the next couple of days. I only have a seven-mile round-trip commute. You know that you will are only looking for an argument by making a generalization that most women let the gas tank get close to empty. You're the one who was riding on fumes a few months ago when taking your sons to school. Touche, Sharon. All good points. All that says to me, though, is I might not be the best person to state this observation, and you might be an exception to the rule. Stand by my opinion. Most women let it get down to E. And finally, Stu Davis says this to me. I'm with you on

this, will, if I'm in my wife's car and she needs gas, I'll fill it up for her. If we're traveling together, of course I pumped the gas. However, she's perfectly fine doing it herself. I would like to add, though, that when I tell her I filled up her tank, she's very grateful. So I get some points for that. Love you guys. I'm Fox and Friends Weekend. Keep up the good word. Thank you, Stu. Speaking of, let's get to work. Story number one, what will they do to stop Trump? Well, they're telling you. So take them at the word. Pelosi, and Biden. Nancy Pelosi, former House Speaker this week, fired back former President Donald Trump after he went after Nancy Pelosi. She celebrated his indictment. He went after her. He said

quite clearly, you come after me, I come after you. So Nancy Pelosi said the following to New York magazine. The indictments against the president are exquisite. They're beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything I would come up with. Let's just pause for one moment and analyze this. It's as though she's describing a work of art, maybe a painting, maybe by Hunter Biden. They are beautiful, exquisite, intricate. Not exactly what I would think would be the perfect adjectives to describe an indictment. I would rather hear perfectly tailored, well-tailored.

Strong on precedent, logical, rational, following the statute. Not creative, like an abstract painting, a Jackson Pollock. Beautiful, intricate, complex. It's not how we apply the law, not creatively. We don't make works of art out of the law. The law is math. Follow the statute. Apply the statute.

Don't get creative. Don't make it art. Then she says, it's something better than I could probably come up. with. Well, I would hope so. You're a political hack. And I don't mean that just as an insult. You're literally a politician of a political party that was Speaker of the House, who was pretty hackish in their attacks on the opposing party. A prosecutor, on the other hand, you would hope, wouldn't be a partisan hack. A prosecutor would be somebody searching, not for power, but for justice.

And so if you're complimenting a prosecutor for coming up with something that you couldn't come up with, then part of that we should discount because, hey, I mean, you're not a prosecutor. You know, you famously said stuff like we've got to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill. So I'm not really looking to Nancy Pelosi for rock-solid legal analysis and certainly not rock-solid legal application. So I would hope a prosecutor would have a higher level of expertise than Nancy Pelosi. But it does say something about your compliment to the prosecutor that he came up with, in quotation marks, something better than even you could come up with. Because I would trust that you could get very artful in your attempts to attack Donald Trump.

So for you to bend the knee and throw rose petals at the feet of a prosecutor on their creativity and ability to exceed your part. partisan hackery in attacking Trump? Well, all I would say is perfectly said, Nancy Pelosi. But then comes to more operative statements. When asked about the possibility of another Trump presidency, Pelosi said, don't even think of that. Don't think of the world being on fire. It cannot happen. Or we will not be the United States. If he were to be president, it would be a criminal enterprise in the White House. No self-awareness or no hint of irony in the fact that the current sitting president is under investigation for literally running a criminal enterprise, an influence peddling

and bribery scheme that threatens to undermine the national interest of the United States of America. But more importantly, listen to the resolve. Listen to the hysteria. Listen to the apocalyptic nature of the statement. Don't think of the world being on fire. It cannot happen or we will not be the United States of America. It cannot happen or we will not be the United States of America.

We've said this on several occasions. But if Hitler were taking over the United States, what would you not do? Democrats are behaving. No, Democrats are saying that Donald Trump is Hitler. Several, including Keith Oberman, have echoed the sentiment that he's worse than Osama bin Laden. And if that's the case, what would they not do? Well, one thing they would do, we can say, is that we have seen with every advancement of the investigation into Hunter Biden, and obviously by extension, Joe Biden, we have seen an indictment of Donald Trump follow within days, in most instances, a day. Alvin Bragg's indictment in New York, one day after, I believe it was the FBI 1023 form revealing confidential informants.

that said the Biden's received $10 million from executives at Burisma. Every step of the way, when we get a Hunter Biden advancement, we get the next day the raid on Marilago. When Devin Archer testifies this week, this last week, about the 20 different phone calls that Joe Biden participated in, that the brand was there to intimidate opponents of Burisma within days, within a day. I think it was a day or two. we get the January 6th indictment of Donald Trump. There are at least, I think, three or four occasions. Now, big advancement, testimony, investigative paperwork, whatever it may be when it comes to Hunter Biden that are followed with an indictment of Donald Trump.

They will do what they need to ensure that he does not take power. In fact, those are basically the exact words of President Joe Biden. One year ago, he was asked in a press conference, you can find this video, it's right there online. He was asked, hey, what will you do to reassure people that the former president won't return to office? And then the person asking the question says he still has quite obviously strong support. That question doesn't even make its way fully out of the reporter's mouth before Joe Biden starts to laugh. Does he? Laughs off, I guess, I don't know, poll numbers and rallies, the idea that there is support for Trump.

And then he goes on to say, well, I guess we'll just have to demonstrate that he will not take power. We'll have to demonstrate that he will not take power. I think of what you could have said in that moment. You could have said, we'll just have to win an election. We'll have to convince people. This is not the right course of the United States of America. Whether or not it's Pelosi or Biden, what they're saying is not that they will win an election, but they will do what they have to do to ensure that Trump does not take power.

Biden then goes on to give lip service to whatever we can do within our constitutional means. Then he goes on, doesn't become the next president again. we'll do whatever we have to do to ensure he doesn't take power within the confines of our constitutional limitations we'll have to do what we can to ensure he does not become the next president what does he mean well all we know for now is they mean indictments trials prison potentially whatever so that he does not remain in power. But what happens next? The next 18 months are going to be absolutely insane. They're going to be insane. You're going to be filled with indictments and trials and an election and primaries and debates and investigations.

It's going to be absolute insanity. And I think that's before we even step into. The unknown. Fake news stories. Censored. Real news stories. Elections that we can't trust. Why would we walk into the next 18 months with trust or clarity when we're being told specifically one potential outcome is unacceptable? It's the end of the United States. And we have to do whatever we can to, ensure that there is not. At the end of that story, power for Trump. We'll be right back with more of the Will Kane podcast. The new BMO, V.I. Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks. More points. More flights. More of all the things you want in a travel rewards card.

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Number two. Inspired by the U.S. women's national team, we begin the fight here on the Will Kame podcast for Equal Pay. Maybe the U.S. Soccer Federation should look for a refund from the U.S. Women's National Team. The argument for equal pay over the last several of years has been that the U.S. women's team, they win. They win World Cups. They go to finals. They're good. team, who makes more, they don't make a final. They've never made a final. What's the furthest

they've gone? The quarterfinals of the men's World Cup. The women are good. The men are not. Why should the women accept less? They put in the same amount of work. Why should they not get equal pay? And I agree. So let's take up the fight together for equal pay. Let's start, if we can, with modeling. The top women modelers in the world as of 2022 make the following. Kendall Jenner made $40 million in 2022. Jacelle Bunchin took a step back after years of making north of $40 million. Jasele Bunchin made $33 million in 2022.

Rose Huntington Whitley, $32 million. Carla DeLevin, $31 million. Adriana Lima, famously a Victoria's Secret, 31 million. Gigi Hadid, 20 million. Now, male models who put in every bit of the same amount of work as female models, just as committed to their profession, what do they make? Well, the top male model in the world, and this looks like a stat that has been somewhere between 2013, 15. I don't know that it's fully updated to 2022, so maybe we can allow that these have gone up slightly. But the top male model, Sean O'Pry, 1.5 million.

David Gandy, 1.4 million. Simon Nesman, 1.1 million. Arthur Kulkov, 9500. Noah Mills, 740,000. There's new guys out there. Lucky Blue Smith. I don't have his stats. And again, it might have gone up.

But it seems pretty obvious. There's a huge gender pay disparity. I mean, people have written about it. Here's an article from Fortune. female models make on average 41,000 annually, which is 148% more than men. So that's not your supermodels. That's just your average models, you know, 41,000. That's 148% more than the average male model.

Fashion law journal says male models might earn up to 75% less than female models, claims an industry insider from August of 2022. Now, look, I don't know about you, but I mean, I don't know how we can live in a world where Sean O'Pry, who is at the top of his profession. I mean, he's winning. He's the number one male model in the world. Shano Pry is making $1.5 million, and he doesn't even make $1.30th of what Rose Huntington-Wittley makes.

And Rose Huntington-Wittley, she's not even a top threeer. Or maybe she's third. She's behind Kendall, Jenner, and Jocelyn. But look, I mean, Shana Pry's number one. She's number three. Why should he be making one-thirtieth of what she makes? I mean, we should be talking here, obviously, about equal pay. Much all the same arguments, right?

Winning, top of your profession, same amount of work. It's interesting that we talk about those arguments as the arguments for the U.S. Women's National Team and equal pay. I'm curious, what's the name of the world's number one, dartless? thrower. I mean darts is a profession. I think it's big in Europe, big in England, right? And whoever it is, I'm sure he puts in a lot of time and practice. Forgive me for the assumption that it's a he, but I bet he's an absolute badass. I bet he could hit the bull's eye over and over and over from whatever mark in the room. Wonder what he makes.

Oh, don't know. Wouldn't even know how to Google it. Don't know his name. Huh. Why doesn't he make what is made by LeBron James. I mean, they're both the top of their profession. Could it be because the world cares more about basketball than it does about darts? That it's not injustice, but it's markets, that it's consumer demand, that it's a reflection of taste, that it's entertainment. Men's sports is a matter of taste for the vast majority of people in this world, including among women. Women. Women don't support women's sports in a way to justify the demands for equal pay. It's eyeballs. It's television contracts. It's ticket sales. It's jersey sales. It's markets. It's entertainment.

In the end, the trophies are meaningless. They're meaningful for the athlete. They're meaningful for you and me and who we talk about as champions, but they're not meaningful, directly. indirectly, indirectly they are, two markets. It's true. Golden State Warriors start winning. Golden State Warriors, Jersey sales go up. Ticket sales go up. TV contracts go up. But winning is part, not all, as reflected by that darts champion.

I'm sure there's a guy who's dominated darts. He's won a ton. But it hasn't translated into a big market for him. Not the one on the level of LeBron James. And women's soccer, despite the success, has not translated into the market that is reflected in men's soccer. Even in our little bubble right here in the United States of America, even in our bubble where we focus on the women's soccer more than men's soccer

because of their success, it doesn't mean they are of higher marketability. Let me explain why. These stats are a few years old. And this went mega viral, so you could have seen it on the internet. But this was a moment from like four years ago on first take when we were talking about the same thing. Equal pay. So I'm going to give you the stats then. I would imagine the ratios and the percentages are roughly the same, even if the gross numbers have changed. But this is how men's and women's soccer payments had been apportioned prior to the women's Arthraatch

Courage Award victory for equal pay. The men got paid out from a bonus pool of 400,000, million dollars the women got paid out from a bonus pool of 30 million dollars 400 versus 30 million why was the men's pool so much larger because the men's world cup had generated and all the nations in the world split the gross revenue and then distribute that to their players in a pool the men's world cup had generated six billion dollars in gross revenue The Women's World Cup generated $131 million in revenue, $6 billion, 131 million. Now, a couple of alarm bells should be going off in your head as I share those numbers. The main one is $400 million to $6 billion is not equivalent to $30 million to $1,000,000,000,000,000.

31 million. And you'd be right. Because anyone interested in equal pay would note that the men were only pulling from a pool of 7% of the gross revenue pile. The women were pulling from a pool of 20% of the gross revenue pool. The women were getting paid more than the men on a percentage basis. They got 20% of 131 million. The men got 7% of 6 billion. That's a gender pay gap. That is not equal pay. We want to make it equal pay? They both get 7% of total revenue. Equal pay is dumb. Equal pay is not an argument. I think the women should get more if they earned more. Everyone should get what you're worth. Everyone should be able to sell their wares to the market and the market will decide their value. If you're in the entertainment business, people's choices to consume your entertainment will dictate your compensation. Reports out of

Australia in this World Cup where they were having trouble selling some of these tickets to the games at the Women's World Cup. It doesn't mean that these women aren't great athletes. It doesn't mean it's incredibly impressive how the U.S. women have won. It just means that does not dictate that you in turn deserve equal pay. We're going to step aside here for a moment. Stay tuned. For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small

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about Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys? Last week, everybody in sports media started talking about the fact that Dak Prescott has lost the team. Trayvon Diggs He's talking trash about him, talking trash to him. Some rookie is bumping into Dax saying, give me some reps. Dax's like, I'm going to take them all.

He's thrown interceptions. Everybody's looking for this conversation. Maybe Dax's not respected. I think that was said by Colin Coward. Wouldn't happen with Patrick Mahomes. Wouldn't happen with Josh Allen. Man, get all the way out of here. All the way.

Out. Man, it's practice, first of all. You're not looking for perfection in practice. it's worth i think this is before today i think doc threw a couple of picks today big freak out before that i think you've thrown 40 touchdowns to three interceptions in practice and who cares practices for making mistakes perfecting your craft you should be making mistakes that's how you're pushing the edges of your ability you don't get better by staying safe and doing only what you already know how to do you push learning new things by making mistakes

Fail, fail, succeed. Fail, succeed, succeed, fail. That's how it works. We don't count up the failures in practice. And give me an absolute break about people talking trash to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott is absolutely one of the greatest team leaders in the NFL. He is beloved. And you can, Cole Beasley's talked about it, who's played with Josh Allen.

Nobody like Dak. Dan Mullen, who coached him at Mississippi State. Nobody liked Dak. We could give Dak the threes, and they'd beat the ones. Meaning he'd get the third stringers, and they'd beat the first stringers with Dak at quarterback. Almost every player who's been with Dak Prescott has said he's different as a leader. It's garbage about him not being respected.

See when he broke his leg? Go back and look at that year. Look at that play. When he broke his leg against the New York Giants? Take a look. The entire team. huddles around DAC, lifts him up on the stretcher, walks him off the field. Tears and eyes.

Please. This is just August garbage. Nothing to talk about sports media. And for what it's worth. The Cowboys, it's going to be really good this year. Get ready. Buckle up. I'm talking about a defensive line to scare every team.

Mazi Smith, Osa O'Digizua, D-Law, Micah Parsons. And then that's first dream. Go down a notch. Still going to be coming at you with Sam Williams. I'm talking about everybody's going to be under pressure. And then defensive backs like Stefan Gilmore and Trayvon Diggs. Deep at safety, Malik Cooker, J. Ron Curse, Donovan Wilson. This team's a problem.

This is a problem for the NFL. Offense is going to be good. Brandon Cook's added to Michael Gallup. and C.D. Lamb, Tony Pollard at running back, I'm telling you, I'm this close. I don't care. I'm this close. Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys. Get ready, buckle up. They're going to be really good. The Dallas Cowboys. That's going to do it for me today here on the Will Cain podcast. Hope you having a good week here. Summer's not over. So have some fun. I'll see you again next time. Listen to Ad Free with a Fox News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast.

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