Will Cain Country - How Was Thomas Crooks Able To Escape The Surveillance State? (ft. Wade Stotts)

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

Story #1: How was attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks able to escape the surveillance state that has information on everyone? Will revisits his conversations with Mike Benz and Jason Chaffetz on yesterday's 'The Will Cain Show' and realizes there's a question that few are asking. Story #2:  The Host of 'The Wade Show with Wade,' Wade Stotts joins Will to discuss the rise of the new Minneapolis Mamdani, Omar Fateh, the remittance problem in America, and picking apart Vice President J.D. Vance’s “dad run” and Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) odd hand movements on the 'Shawn Ryan Show.' Story #3: Despite no changes to the "Jim Crow 2.0" election laws that saw Major League Baseball take away the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Will asks why no one is holding people accountable for their faux outrage four years ago? Plus, Two-A-Dayz give his review of one of Will's sports movie favorites, ‘Days Of Thunder.’ Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash-brown and a small iced coffee for $5.00 plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. One. We live under the presumption that everything we do, everywhere we do, everywhere we and everything that we look at on the internet is 100% public. How is it then that the would-be assassin of Donald Trump has totally defied the laws of

the surveillance state physics? Two, new Minneapolis mayoral candidate seems to be walking in the footsteps of Zoran Mamdani, socialist who call other countries home and use the word R when it comes to Somalia, now looking to lead the United States, with Wade Stott's. Three, I thought Georgia was Jim Crow 2.0, Jim Eagle, so much so Major League Baseball had to pull out the All-Star game of Atlanta. And yet here we are, some four years later, home run derby in Atlanta. It is Wilcane Country, streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page every Monday through Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern time. Make sure you set a reminder, hit subscribe, and drop into the comments section, join the hundreds of thousands watching Wilcane Country streaming live.

But if it doesn't fit your schedule or you're listening on terrestrial radio and some three dozen stations across America, make sure you subscribe at Apple or on Spotify. movement afoot, a lobbying effort to bring saint into Wilcane country. My newest Doberman, who is not yet two years old, has been invited into the studio by our staff, specifically by Two At A's Dan. And I guess the idea might be that we could set up a little dog bed here in the corner and he could hang out peacefully during the program. The problem with that, Two A Days, is I've got the dumbest smart dog you've ever met. This dog has defied every reputation and everything I've ever understood about Doberman. So I don't know what he would do during the show. He could bark at a shadow on the wall, decide he needs to attack Scott King. He could run up and down the hallways and randomly take a dump. I have no ability to predict this dog. And I'll give you a little story two days.

The other day, my wife took the dogs for a walk. We go to this little park in our neighborhood. They run around like crazy. on this day she drove to the park normally we walk to the park well one of the neighbor's cars was pulled into the little bit of gravel before the park she has a black SUV this was a black SUV at the end of the walk saint comes barreling around ready to load up ready to get into the back of the SUV but he chooses the neighbor's SUV both hers and the neighbors were not open tailgate closed.

That didn't stop him from full committal. He leapt at the back of the neighbor's FUB, 76 pounds, splatted against the window, and then he dripped down the rear windshield wiper and down the back of the car into a puddle. He stood up, shook it off, and was like, whoa. Nothing affects him very long. He was out of sorts for all of about two seconds,

and back and ready to go. And I can't explain it, man, because he's smart. Like he knows a host of commands. He doesn't always follow them, but he knows a host of verbal and hand signal commands. Like any Doberman, he is smart, but he is street dumb.

He loses his mind. Anything that's new, he goes back into that small squirrel brain in the middle of his head. And I don't know what he'll do during the middle of Wilcane country. But I hear the invitation. We have a lot of equipment there.

And I'm willing to experiment. You're right. A lot of expensive equipment. And I don't know what the rules are in this high-rise in downtown Dallas. Like, can you just walk around with an unruly Doberman through the hallways in the parking garage so that he can be a character on Wilcane Country? I don't know. I don't know. But maybe we'll find out.

Does say your name on the wall. Tomorrow. Make sure you tune in. It says my name on the wall of the studio. It doesn't say my name on the outside of the bill. You'll have to see exactly how that works with high-rise rules. I was watching a bit of the Sean Ryan. show. Sean Ryan has one of the most popular digital programs and podcasts out on the internet. Sean

is a former Navy SEAL, now does in-depth three-hour conversations with a whole host of guests, and he got my attention this week because he welcomed in the governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Now, much of what Newsom had to talk about is worthy of exploration. Hypocrisy, spin, slime, lies, talent as a politician, not as a governor. But as someone seeking your vote. But one thing got my attention, it had nothing to do with what he had to say. What got my attention from the governor was once again the way he uses his hands when he talks. For those listening on radio, Spotify, or Apple, I'll do my best to describe this after the fact.

Here is Governor Gavin Newsom on Sean Ryan. Community, all these mixed status families, $8.5 billion in tax collection in California every year from UNDox. Eight and a half billion that we received just at the state level of taxes. That was the last Pew estimate. So it's not insignificant. Backbone, I mean, it's half of our agriculture worker. You care about farmers and ranchers. If that's what you're like your number one go-to commitment,

then you sure as hell care should care about their workers. 41% of our construction. This is absolutely incredible. The variety of hand movements used by Governor Gavin Newsom. Now listen, I live in a glass house. and many of you may be thinking at the moment what are you talking about why are you constantly holding a baby bird between your two hands and i have to answer i don't know like will feral and taladega night sometimes i don't know what to do with my hands and when i'm speaking

temporaneously i tend to cup something very gentle that needs to be kept from escaping but what newsome is doing with his hands is next level man i've got something to learn and he does this thing two a days. He does this thing tenfold. So first of all, he's got a lot of movement. His hands are going back and forth as though he's waving an airplane into its gate. He does fists. He does open hands. He does thumbs back and forth. He's doing the choo-choo train. He's measuring things vertically. He's got good like extension while the thumb is pointing back to himself. He wants to make a big point. He puts fist out. Oh, he's sending signals to the batter. There's no doubt about it. He's telling the batter take or swing. I mean, he is definitely doing a lot.

Everything's short of brushing his thighs. But here's my favorite one. And I can't wrap my head around how this one gets in the repertoire. The wrist to wrist issue, he makes a fist with both hands, and as though he's putting on perfume and rubbing it together, he puts his wrists together to make a point. Like all of the others individually makes sense. It's when you string them all together in rapid succession and it starts to look funny, which we should do that, by the way. Yeah. And we should put it in fast forward, one and a half time speed. But I get it.

When you're making a strong point, put your fist out there. When you're making a point and about yourself, you come back and you point to your chest with two hands or one hand. But what I don't get is where you're emphasizing a point by putting perfume on your wrists. He does this thing where he puts his wrists together. While holding a fist in both hands, it's extremely effeminate. Now, again, I live in a glass house. I know I do weird things.

And I want to be better. Mr. what? This, you touched you? Yes. You just cup the mic. This is a lot of, like, cupping the microphone, putting fingers together, putting the base of your hand together while closing your fingers. Then I know.

I do a lot of weird things with my hand. But what I am going to take a little victory lap on here today and punch someone slightly lower than me on the totem pole is that I don't rub my wrist together as though I'm applying perfume. So I think the governor has some weird hand motions. Weirder than me. But who am I to say? Again, I live in a glass house.

What's up with Thomas Crooks? How does he defy the physics of the modern surveillance state? Let's get into it with story number one. Thomas Michael Crooks, the would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, one year ago in Butler, Pennsylvania, remains an enigma. He remains a mystery. Probably, little did you know, Thomas Crooks visited a gun range 43 times before taking a shot at President Donald. Trump. That gun range that he just visited, on occasions I'm not think the 43, is the same gun range used by DHSHSI, the same target range where the national security apparatus goes to practice their ability to shoot. Forty three times he's in the same location as DHS and

HSI. Thomas Crooks was a fairly normal student for most of his life up until about the fall before he took a shot at Donald Trump. Starting that fall, he starts using a VPN, a private internet connection. His phone starts downloading encrypted apps. Extremely odd behavior for a community college student. So odd that it seems to have defied the ability to crack the code. We can't figure out much more about Thomas Crookes. At least that's what we're told.

from the FBI. They haven't been able to crack into his private security VPN internet searches. They haven't been able to or haven't told us anything about what he was doing on his phone, including the details of phone calls he made from the roof of the AGR building mere minutes before he took a shot at Donald Trump. One year later, how is it we know so little about this would be a sison? How much do you know about Lee Harvey Oswald? Not enough.

But you know a lot. Granted, it's been half a century. How much do you know about John Wilkes Booth? A fair amount. Granted, it's been over a century. You could probably find out a pretty good amount of information on Sirhan, Sirhan. Hell, you could find out information on the guy that killed John Lennon. But you know nothing one year later about the man who tried to kill Donald Trump.

And even more interesting than that, there seems to be very little relative curiosity. about Thomas Crooks. And that defies everything about what we've been led to believe about modern life in America. Yesterday on the Will Cain Show, on the Fox News Channel, I was joined by Mike Benz, former State Department official, investigative reporter on the Internet. And he said it defies the physics of the modern surveillance state. Watch. So the question is, if Crooks was cultivated or if he was being monitored or potentially,

interacted with by federal law enforcement agents, who put him on to that? And I think the total lack of transparency, it's sort of defying the laws of surveillance state physics. I think most people believe that a federal law enforcement were to get a hold of their phone, that pretty much everything could be scraped from it. You don't know if, for example, in this case, he was communicating with a foreign government. This to me may go beyond, you know, FBI, DHS. We know that the NSA is able to crack these sorts of things. And that is exactly what we've been led to believe as a modern American. And I like to make connections.

I like to pay attention. I think that I'm a good listener. I failed yesterday because not long after that conversation with Mike Binns, I had a conversation with Jason Chaffetz. It was a follow-up to the half hour we did here on Wilcane Country. His new book, They're Coming to Get You. It's all about the modern surveillance state, both private and public. How much information is collected on you, the profile built of you in the cloud through a combination of your retail purchases, your driver's license, your insurance, your tracking of movements via your iPhone, your facial recognition that it now serves as your password. Everything about you is collected, and there's really nothing you can do to opt out.

Any of you watching, any of you listening right now, have to think that up there in the cloud right now, there's a virtual profile of you. And that profile, it contains information not just about the way you look physically, but everything you do and how you move. You a gun purchaser? That could affect your risk profile. The Federal Reserve suggests that banks have to main risk profiles for their loan portfolio. If you're a higher risk, because you operate a meat plant or you're a farmer. Well, your rates may go up or you don't get the loan.

But the point is, according to Jason Chase, You have no privacy. Here's Jason Chaffetz. The Federal Reserve with the banking system, whether it be a credit union or a bank, is taking information that you may glean on the internet, maybe through facial recognition, certain your transactions, how you drive your car. Your car is essentially a mobile computer that is going along and capturing information about how often you look in the rearview mirror, what music, what podcast do you listen to? And from there, they build a profile. They also have tens of billions of images of facial recognition. So every time you use Venmo or your Costco card or anything like that that they can scrape off the internet, they will build this profile for you. Now, I'm not one to make my first leap into conspiracy.

I'm certainly not one to dismiss what is modernly dismissed as conspiracy. In other words, I want to cross first the couple of obvious. bridges before I get to the part that is blurry and gray and conspiratorial. I understand why companies have built risk profiles of you. I understand why insurance companies would want to know something about your life. I understand why marketing companies want to know about your purchases. I would understand why people are collecting, selling, buying data. What I don't understand for now, as it pertains to this conversation, is how none of it

seems to apply to Thomas Michael Crooks. How is it he has escaped the modern surveillance state? As simple as downloading a VPN? How is it that one of the best ways to remain private is to do something abhorrently public? How is it taking a shot at the president is the way for no one to know anything about you in modern America? Let's get into this and much more including

the newest candidate, not Zohran Mamdani, in New York City, but a Somali candidate in Minnesota, telling you exactly what he represents, what he wants. Where's Allegiance is live? With Wade Stott's next on Will Cain Country. together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side listen and follow now at foxnewspodcast.com it is time to take the quiz it's five questions in less than five minutes we ask people on the streets of new york city to play along let's see how you do take the quiz every day at the quiz dot fox then come back here to see how you did thank you for taking the quiz The world has room for billionaires.

They shouldn't exist. And yet, and yet, he's backed by a billionaire, George Soros. It is Will Kane Country streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube and Fox News Facebook. Download our show at Spotify or on Apple. While you're there, check out the Wade Show with Wade. Wade Stott's joining us now on Will Cain Country. What's up, Wade? It's been too long, man. It's so good to be here.

Thank you so much. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, in fact, where is this? I just got this sent to me, Wade. Let's see. Let's see. Your profile photo is certainly interesting these days that we're using here on Wilson Country. It reminds me, I just saw F1. I just saw F1 with Brad Pitt and his driver profile card is like him making this really dumb face with an open, agape mouth. I think we got you here, Wade. Here is the promotional photo up on social media of the appearance of Wade's dots. Yeah, I went for sort of a mugshot of a guy who got kicked out of a Waffle House, which I think I went for that. But it worked pretty well. But, however, I do want to point out that when I did see the promotion here, I wanted to ask who Wade Stutes is. I don't know if he's capturing that on there. But on the original, yeah, no, it's not doing it in focus here.

But it's pretty, yeah, I saw that Wade Stutes was going to be on your show and I got really excited. I see it, too. Yeah, we want to welcome in now, Wade Stutes. Yeah. It's a pleasure to be here. It often appears. This is the, this is the dumber, more surprised version of Wade's dots with us today. Speaking of dumb, I don't know if you, when you jumped in here to the program today, but did you, do you catch what I was talking about with the hand movements of Gavin Newsom?

At this point, it deserves its own conversation and its own deep dive. There's so much going on with his hand movements. and then there but for the grace of God go I need to say that every time but he's next level man I mean he's doing all kinds of you know dance moves and and perfume application and other things this here remarkable yeah I think most of it looks like he's working a pizza dough even though like the cross here and then he's going here with the with the pizza dough movements here I on my thing when I do it is I look like I'm I do this thing where I look like I'm trying to get the person back interested, or like they're about to walk away where I'll go like this.

But I'll be like, hey, hey, come back. I'm still talking, which is, you know, off-putting, I'd say. You're like, you're clawing them back into the conversation. No, no, no, no, don't go away. I don't know if you've ever, I don't know if you ever noticed this on the Wilcane show when you've appeared. I don't know if you ever returned when you're talking to me, but I hate interrupting. I really do.

I hate interrupting. I hate cross-talk. I hate the audience can't hear when two. two people are talking at the same time. So one of my moves is the put up the palm, like a stop sign. Hold on. Can you please see? I'd like you to stop talking now. And I don't know if you've ever gotten the cue from me, but that is my pat move. Yeah. No, I felt it on the show. It's fine. I talk too much. It's true. You felt. Sometimes you're playing traffic cop when you're hosting a television show. Speaking of hands, hands are an interesting thing that tell you a lot about people

the way you move your hands. And our vice president is getting a lot of flack for the way that He chased down his children at Disneyland and the way that he ran. And here's the video currently going around the Internet. Let's take a watch of J.D. Vance. We'll call it jogging. All right. Wade, the caption on whoever's Instagram this is, is J.D. Vance, quote, running. and he's running up towards some stairs

and his hands are low. Let's describe it for the audience. He's running with low hands. I'm not going to say he's running with straight arms. Straight arms is a whole other level deal. But he also doesn't have his hands up in a jogging position. He's somewhere down around the thighs. And I love the vice president on many intellectual levels.

But I think and I would hope that he have the ability to at least laugh or maybe explain something about this style of movement. Yeah. Well, you know, what's going on in his head is don't make a scene, but my kid is climbing on something he shouldn't be climbing on or something like that. I think the lack of arm movement is trying to hide that he's moving. There's a subconscious thing where, like, if I do this, then everybody notices that I'm

running. But if I hold my hands to my side, then everybody just thinks about it's just, he's just sort of mosey on on over there. But, yeah, we dads, we definitely recognize. I think you're right. He's hiding his panic. He's hiding his urgency. Like, I'm not running. I am speedwalking over to my kid as quickly as I can. Unfortunately, his feet are telling a different story than his arms. All right, Wade is with us here today to talk about many different stories. I want to start with this candidate for mayor of Minneapolis. His name is Omar Feta. And Omar Feta has a lot of interesting proposals for Minneapolis. They include increasing the minimum wage to $20 by 20, 28, passing rent stabilization to stop price gouging, incentivizing new construction so that we can protect workers.

Protecting all our communities from Donald Trump means not letting MPV interact with ICE, whether it's for an immigration raid or not. Our residents deserve a mayor that will stand up to Donald Trump and say no. not in our community. He sounds in many ways very similar to Zoran Mamdani, including this is what he has to say about his campaign platform, Wade. I've also been fighting for you, passing things like tuition-free college for working class families,

ride share protections for our Uber and Lyft drivers, and the legalization of fentanyl testing scripts. But this summer, you're going to be seeing a lot more of you. Because we need to do nice things in many... difficult to hear what he's saying there. We got the music playing underneath him, but he's talking about tuition-free for students and things about his platform. So the answer from Democrats right now to Donald Trump, at least in two big cities now, seems to be socialism. Yeah, it is no surprise that these guys who basically come from third world communism are trying to bring third world

communism to our large cities. But, you know, the Mamdani guy, the Fatay guy, I don't know, I know it's not much, but I've decided to fight back against the foreign takeover of American cities. I'm just not going to learn how to pronounce their names. That's my way to fight back. But yeah, it is very familiar. If anybody has seen what third world communism looks like, it's just, yeah, as it moves into the American cities. And knowing that it's funded by George Soros is also pretty wild, this billionaire, this, you know, quintessentially American political figure putting a bunch of money into it. I mean, a lot of guys, because he's like, like 94 years old and still like trying to destroy America the way he always has been,

which is, you know, I guess a lot of guys start slipping in their old age, but it looks like he hasn't forgotten his mission. At least we can say that. So this is what Wade is referencing. George Soros funneled $37 million to the working families party and other lefty groups, those lefty groups, backed Zoron Mamdani. Grant making by the Open Society Foundation indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to nine left-wing groups, who's endorsed and get out the work, groundwork, get out to vote groundwork, played a pivotal role in helping Mom Donny upset Governor Andrew Cuomo. Since 2016, the far-left socialist-friendly working families party has pocketed a staggering 23 million

them alone from Soros and its nonprofit fundraising arm working families organization. So Soros backs Mom Donnie, after Mom Donnie saying he doesn't think they're should be billionaires. I don't know what that is. I don't know if Soros doesn't believe Mamdani, if Mamdani doesn't believe Mom Donnie. And I also have trouble reconciling. Honestly, you just called third world communism, I guess, I guess. But I have trouble reconciling a lot of these third world countries, a lot of these Muslim countries, or at least countries where Islam is a primary religion, and their ability to coexist with socialism or communism. I totally agree. Yeah, I think that most of it is not ideological, though. I think a lot of it, the communism that shows up in third world countries is not that everybody read Marx and decided, oh, this is the true history of the world and this is the true theory of economics. A lot of it is just pure envy, pure, like, this is how I get power is I make a bunch of promises and then I keep all the money. You don't have to be an ideologue to really understand that, and you don't have to have read classical economics or versus Marx, that kind of thing. It just, it's the way.

things work when people try to destroy things for their own benefit. And that's why George Soros is around. Like, George Soros is not an ideological actor. Same thing. He's like billionaires versus Mamdani. Really, it's just, okay, whatever breaks down, breaks normal people down the most. And yeah, that's pretty much George Soros, you can try to find the ideological center, but I don't think there is one. It's just pure destruction and hatred. Do you think, I mean, I don't think that's an oversimplification or hyperbole. I mean, I mean, let's put it this way. It's destruction of most of the foundations of Western civilization.

That is true, and that is a through line, right? Now, what does that encompass? I don't know. Is that encompass a Judeo-Christian or a Christian cultural heritage? Does that include capitalism? Certainly seems to include capitalism. Does it include, you know, representative constitutional republics? Yeah, I think it includes that as well.

Those are all fair statements, I think, in pursuit. of what, you know? What is Soros' vision? Yeah, it's actually tough to, like, think about the individuals that you know if they're just operating on pure resentment. If you try to reason with that person and say, hey, you're actually being self-destructive in how you're acting toward this person, that person's not going to hear you because it's just going to be like, okay, well, but I'm mad at this person. This person needs to go away or not exist or get out of my life for that kind of thing. People will do plenty of self-destructive things out of pure animosity. And yeah, you can say, hey, you're not being ideological consistent, but when you're arguing

with somebody who's just like has their eyebrows down and is in a rage, it's actually wild how long the left can sustain rage at Western civilization, normal people, and America. But that is a crazy motivator that can just make you do things that don't make sense logically, make sense ideologically, but make sense at a base level, which, again, can sound unfair, but I think that that's, if you look for it and try to find the political center or find the political motivations, like you said, you run into these contradictions, which means that there's something else going on there. And for some reason, yeah, the emotional factors are so much more, become more prevalent as you dig in further. And as you try to notice the real patterns

going on. I mean, the most notable is like the Portland LGBTQ activist who's also in support of, you know, various Muslim causes would not be Palestinians or whatever it may be. Like, how do you reconcile those two things? They're just, and I know that the answer is, by the way, I know what the answer is. It is a instinctual base level. I don't think that much of an intellectual level, prism of oppressor oppressed, just constantly seeing that, right? And I'm talking about really like through a microscope, not through a telescope, right? Like, I don't think that Portland LGBTQ activists really even thinks on the level of broad historical scopes. I don't think so. I don't know, Wade. I think it's a constant microscopic vision of human interaction

and constantly aligning with the oppressed. That being said, like, I just saw a clip of actor John Leguizamo on Bill Mars podcast, and he was regurgitating a lot of these things like the evil of America and the role that America has played in all these various countries and that we have undermined democracies and basically, I mean, maybe that kind of guy has tried to telescope out and he has applied his oppressor-oppressed worldview on a more global scale. But I think for the average person out there, it's pretty chaotic, incoherent, and really like individual instance based positioning. Yeah, C.S. Lewis and Screw Tate proposes a toast. Anybody should, everybody should go read that first of all. But in there, he talks about how

really even terms that people that Americans tend to like, like democracy and equality, that those terms can be used as a way of covering for base desires. So what he talks about is basically you start with the sin. He talks about envy in particular. So you start with envy, and then after that, you move in, you try to turn that envy, if the devil can succeed, he turns that envy into a principle, a thing that he's willing, that a guy would be willing to defend to his death, right? So you've got envy and then you turn that into the principle of equality, and then suddenly everybody's okay with defending the principle of equality, but not, I wouldn't, nobody would go to their death defending, well, I'm, I am envious and everybody should be as miserable as I am. But if, if at the bottom of that is everybody, you're, you're, you're. as good as me, you're no better than me. And so you can raise everybody who is, who's better off than you to the ground. And I think that's typically what happens with a lot of these principles, even like the press or oppressed thing. It starts with a baseline, I want what that guy has or I feel this certain way. Therefore, I need to turn that into a principle that

sounds political, that sounds high-minded, and even sounds rationalistic. It sounds like a high thing that everybody should sign up for. But really at bottom, it's this ugly, nasty demon hiding inside you. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. Following Fox's initial donation to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund, our generous viewers have answered the call to action across all Fox platforms and have helped raise $6.5 million. Visit go.comfx forward slash TX flood relief to support relief and rebuilding efforts.

This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason and the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com or wherever you download podcasts. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. That's really, really interesting. Okay, I want to go back to Omar Feta, the candidate for mayor in Minneapolis. Here's what he had to say. I hope our audio works better on this one.

Here's what he had to say about where he, I think he's from Minnesota, but his family immigrated from Somalia, meaning he was born here. I believe that to be the case. But here's what he had to say about Somalia. I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other. Here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support. There's always been a link between our community here as well as back home. And I'm running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we succeed everywhere. And I'm hoping to do that just like abjrazak inshallah wow i mean back home that's something right multiple references to back home so this is not your home the place you're running to represent i mean i you know

wait like part i want part of me wants to be forgiving and be like well you're from an immigrant community how about this wait i was talking to a guy the other day i don't think he'd mind but he literally has received the medal of honor for fighting and suffered catastrophic injuries, right, in defense of the United States of America. But he's an immigrant from France. I said to him, and this is always sort of my test, and this made me reflect him, but is your test not fair, Will, I said, if France plays the United States in soccer, and insert your soccer joke, if you want, Wade. But if France plays the United States in soccer, who do you root for? And he said,

France. And I said, really? And he goes, you got to retain something. He goes, I'm going to retain a few things from where I came from. You know, the French national soccer team is going to be one of those things I retain. This guy's dedication to the United States of America is beyond question and reproach and remain so to not just what he did, but what he's doing now. So there's a part of me way that wants to be a little bit forgiving, like, okay, maybe you always have, you know, some historical connection to where you or your people came from. But if you're running for office, I don't know how you can call any place else home and expect

to be elected in the United States. States. Yeah, there are plenty of distinctions between that guy and the sort of average Minnesotan or the average American. And one of those is that the average Minnesota and the average American doesn't have another home. There's no place to, so if things go really bad here, there's no place for Americans to retreat to.

If we're homesick, we're typically Americans can be homesick for a previous time, but we love here. We live here. this is the place that we can go. I've never been to where most of my ancestors are from from the British Isles. I've never been there. I'd love to go, and I'm sure that I'd have some emotional attachment there. But when you're, when you have nowhere else to defend, nowhere else to flee to, and you're represented by somebody who does, that can't instill a lot of really good confidence in people. But he's trying to build enough of a coalition of crazy lefties who will vote

for the craziest lefty and also people who know that he's there really to fight for the interest of the Somali communities within Minneapolis. It's, I mean, and not to say that the guy who was doing, who was mayor during the George Floyd riots was doing a better job, but they figured out some way to downgrade even from that. And it's to have a guy who doesn't have any kind of loyalty, even professed singular loyalty to America. When people do immigrate here, and I understand that he was born here, but when people do immigrate here, they take. an oath. Every one of them takes an oath to renounce all loyalties to previous governments and to uphold the laws of the United States. I think that the Trump administration generally

should take that oath seriously. We've basically treated that oath as sort of a formality. We don't we don't treat most oaths the way that we used to, that there's any kind of skin in the game. But the immigration oath is a renouncement of the previous loyalties and a a pledge of new loyalties to the United States, to the Constitution, to the people. And that's, that needs to be taken seriously. And if it's not, if it's not taken seriously by the party who makes that pledge, then it should be taken seriously by the people who's, who are receiving that pledge. I totally agree. I, I don't, I, I, I, I, I find it utterly uncontroversial. Like, I mean, nothing about that can be perceived in any way.

but a obvious on-its-face truth. And I find it's controversial to make the argument in the opposite. When I was thinking about Somalia, this came up, and I found it pretty fascinating, by the way, in Somali refugees, Somali immigrants in America. Take a look at this. Somalia has the highest remittance rates with migrant remittances inflows, totaling $1.7 trillion, which is – this is the shocking part. 23% of the gross domestic product of Somalia.

23% of the Somali GDP is remittances from the United States, people sending money back home to Somalia. That's a pretty stunning figure. I thought maybe we should put that into context, too, Wade. This is countries across the world sending remittances and where they're coming from. And far and away, the United States is the country where, and look, we're the world's largest economy. So to some extent, you have to understand this is going to skew these stats. But this is in billions, $81 billion, $81.6, I believe that's in billions in one year, 2022. The second is Saudi Arabia at 39.3.

Third looks like, is that Switzerland? It looks like Switzerland, although it says CH underneath it. at 33.6 billion in China at 18 billion coming in fourth. So, I mean, like, we're way and above everyone else on how much money we're sending out of this country. And one last little thing to show you here, Wade, this is who is doing the outgoing transfers in America. This is migrant working in the United States in a staggering $138 billion back to their families last year. you can see on this map the vast majority coming well not the vast majority but the the biggest contributors back to mexico 28 billion i was pretty shocked by the way six almost seven billion

from go back to guatemala four billion back to dominican republic 42% is going to latin american countries but i was kind of shocked to 15 billion going back to china 10 billion going to india 10 billion going to the philippines almost 7 billion going to vietnam almost 40 percent going to Asia, then there's a smaller percentage going to Africa and to Europe. It's pretty fascinating. The amount of money being sent out of this country and put into context what's happening. And that Somali population is largely, largely in Minnesota, some other areas. I think Dallas is actually fairly large as well, but mostly Minnesota.

Yeah, and we're at a time where people are okay with thinking of that as being a problem, a problem that we're sending this much money. in some instances, like you mentioned China, to our enemies. So we're at a time where Republicans, specifically, I think like Eric Schmidt, I think there are a lot of folks on that task, trying to up the remittance or like put some kind of tax on remittances. And the numbers that they've put forth are, you know, small. I'd say like 5, 10, 15%.

And people are fighting it tooth and nail. The Democrats are fighting it, people who would be, you know, subject to these, remittance taxes are fighting it as well. And so my advice to these guys would be, okay, well, if they're going to fight you this hard when it's 10, 15%, like, why not go higher? Why is it okay that all of these remittances are going out and that our economy? I mean, yeah, yeah, you mentioned that we're the world's largest economy. Think about it. If you're from a place like India where the average daily wage is very low, then yeah, you want to bring American money, send it back, and enrich your home country and same same with Mexico but yeah if if I think it's okay we've we've

gotten permission from legislators to think of this yes as a problem and I think it's a solvable problem these these remittances are not things that are owed to the people of other countries we shouldn't be keeping entire economies afloat the the Somali economy shouldn't be dependent on American jobs I've heard I've heard my whole life that immigrants generally are good for GDP but this a piece of the puzzle that doesn't often get talked about. And I think that if it does get talked about and talked about as a problem, the idea that mass immigration, huge, huge influxes of these people are really good for us, it starts to show, hey, there's a loyalty problem and there's also a financial thing. But if we are just a big place where people make their

money and then we basically fund the world and keep these smaller countries afloat or keep these wealthy countries in the case of China, then we're not a country. We don't have basic priorities. We're not keeping our money here. So trade is a huge deal. We know that Trump has talked about that, but Reminds is a whole huge piece of this. And to bring these two things together, Omar Fata and this right here, it also raises questions about why someone is in our country. I understand the need and the ability and the desire to help your extended family, right? However, if you're only someone here to feed something that exists somewhere else, then what are you really doing here and what's your allegiance and affiliation to being here? I think there's a real question,

not just about elected politicians like Omar Fata, but anybody living in the United States and taking advantage of, not in a negative way, but availing themselves of the prosperity here in America to have some allegiance to America. And I think this really raises questions about the economic outflows to other countries. The politicians, that call other places home, the ability to be faithful to the United States Constitution, to even understand the United States Constitution, the fidelity to Western civilization, and to our way of life. And I think all these things raise questions about the kind of country we're raising right now and celebrating and electing in America.

And you hear this when people talk about immigration and when people talk about what America is, they tend to talk about it in terms of opportunity. The way, oh, if you are here, then you can make a ton of money. And if you open it up and you think of America as just a place for opportunity and not as a people, then you think, OK, well, if it's just a bunch of bare opportunities, if it's just a bunch of doors along a wall, then why is it only Americans get to walk through that?

Well, it turns out that America is a people and that the opportunities that are here are primarily for the American people. And that's not some kind of saying that we should, I think it's OK to say that we should privilege American interests, and that means not just globally, not just in international policy, but also the interest of the average American. We talked about trade, manufacturing. Trump is big on those things. But immigration being

another one of his big pillars, we have to, it always leads into questions of national identity, national priorities, who are we, what are we for, why do we exist? And existing, the state existing for the people, the economy existing for the people, I think is something that we can start to admit and then be able to say who those people are and who they aren't like you mentioned why are some of these people in the country you can you can ask them that at a at a immigration exam or you can ask them that at when when they're raising their right hand to give that pledge but the answer works itself out on graphs like you saw like you like you just showed on the show those those loyalties are still there I understand personal

loyalties and that's why mass immigration is a problem so yeah it's I understand You've mentioned it's okay for people to want to take care of their families. Yes, it's okay for people want to take care of their families. And when you see people trying to, when you add mass migration to any place, then taking care of families that are elsewhere means that other people just sink. People fall through the cracks. All right. All right.

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Yeah. Yeah, right. So I'm in the process of building out this studio with some stuff that I want. I want some more helmets in studio. This is my high school, by the way, back here. You like that? That's a Sherman Bearcat helmet over there in the studio. And I want to get more. I'd love to get a Cowboys helmet. Who else would I like? I'd like a Cowboys helmet. I don't know. I'll think of some more. Maybe an Odessa Permian helmet. Any? team that I have a relationship with. That's kind of where I want to help. So the story with Auburn is my brother went to Auburn. Long before it was cool for Texans to go to Auburn, which it is now, my brother went to Auburn. So I was home. I guess that tracks. And it's, you know, it's interesting. Maybe I'm like the Somali candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, but I just referred to a different town of the town I live in is home. I'm home when I was, when I'm back where I was born and raised, Sherman, Texas.

And I went in my brother's old room, and I took this. I stole both of my brothers. I took the Auburn helmet from one brother, and I took the high school football helmet from the other brother. And then I have also in studio, can you see this over here, this 1995 pepperdine water polo ball? That was a gift to my brother that I gave back in the day. It's signed by all my old teammates.

And I said, hey, man, can I take that back? I'd like to put it in my studio, but yeah, that's a vintage 1995 water polo ball signed by the team. That year did not win the national championship. So, see, always here for you, Alicia, if you have questions about Wilcane Country or anything else. Okay, before we get to today's review of Days of Thunder, I saw this. last night was home run derby. The Major League Baseball All-Star Games in Atlanta, Georgia. And in a press event before the home-run derby,

Pat McAfee serving as the master of ceremonies. On a panel, it included Tarek Skubal and Paul Skeens and Dave Roberts, was asked this question about, hey, what are you doing in Georgia? I believe the question was a political question about laws that are on the books and everything like that. and the All-Star game was taken out, and now it's brought back? Interesting. I don't know if any of us are the experts or the ones that should be giving answers on that,

but respect and appreciate the way you feel about it, and I would assume that there was a reason or some conversation that was had by the MLB and the state that all parties thought that this would be a wonderful host city for the All-Star Game, and I think everybody is all very excited to be back in the beautiful city of Atlanta, I think. I don't want to speak out of pocket for anybody, but I do believe. With everything else you're talking about, I don't know if Dave is a lobbyist or Paul is a lobbyist or Terrick or Coach Boone.

I think they would be great at it if they decided to be as such. All right. So the question is what's important here. The question that was asked to them was a very, very skewed, biased and one-sided questions suggesting that some years ago, the state of Georgia passed a voter identification law that amounted to, voter suppression and it was called racist. In fact, Stacey Abrams, of course, one-time candidate for governor in that state. And Joe Biden called it Jim Crow 2.0. Joe Biden went on to call it Jim Eagle because I think an eagle is more badass than a crow, so it was more intimidating this law. Man named Casey Maddox over on X says, remember when activists in the media

combined to tell complete lies about the Georgia election law? Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star game and the claims verified to be lies, and none of the people who participated in this apologized for the harm they caused and the institutional damage they did. Now, Dave Roberts, the manager of the Dodgers, avoided that question. But years ago, Dave Roberts was one of the people talking about how awful that law is. So, you know, McAfee and Roberts avoided dealing with this question. And this reporter asked it seemingly in an attempt to get them to slam Georgia.

The fair question is actually, hey, do you have regrets about the things that you said four years ago? Because what you said was false and none of it came true. In fact, the opposite came true. I want to share this from Molly Hemingway. She posts on X. The question is false. Georgia's ever so slight improvements to their voting laws famously resulted in increased voter participation. Either way, Major League Baseball, couting to Biden's demand, the American companies

boycott the state of Georgia is why I no longer watch Major League Baseball. Awful announcing a lefty sports writing group accused Roberts and McAfee of being full companymen when faced with a tough question about why the game was back in Atlanta and characterized Georgia's laws as disenfranchising voting laws. Here's a question, awful announcing. Here's a question of that reporter who I'd love to know who they work for. How is it disenfranchising if voter participation goes up? It seems pretty fair question, right?

Voter suppression, disenfranchisement, voting participation goes up. With increased, as Molly points out, ever so slightly, fidelity to voter identification. Help me understand that. And now, let me ask. question to Dave Roberts. Let me ask that question to Major League Baseball. Rob Manfred. I don't even need to ask Joe Biden. He'd just stumble and stroke his way through it. So that's the real question when it comes to Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, our boy, two a days. After me saying yesterday that Days of Thunder is the best racing movie.

On the heels of watching F1, I declared Days of Thunder, the best racing movie. Two days never saw it. So he said, I guess I got to go home and watched it. And you did. You went and did your homework, Dan? I did. It was, uh, begrudgingly of my wife wanting to watch a racing movie from 1990. It was hard to, it was a hard sell. I'll tell you that. But it was worth it. She watched it with you? She did. She did. Because we were like talking. We're like, you know, what should we watch? I said, can I watch this movie? Will really wants me to watch it. It's homework for work. You know, that kind of thing. Um, so, so we watched it. Um, she was making fun of it. And instantly. It's, it's, it's, it's goofy. It's goofy. It's cringy. It's old. It's older. It's 1990s. The music is like, ta, da, da, da, ta. It's, you know, it's that kind of top gun, corny movie. I thought it was great. I loved it. The cameos, the people in the movie are amazing. Just like, uh, when I watched the white art movie. Um, Tombstone, it just, you see all.

these actors that you know and I've seen over the years. And you know them as older men now, but there were young guys back then. It was crazy. It was really good. I liked it. It was good for what it was. So, okay, who you're talking about? You're talking about, obviously, Tom Cruise. You're talking about Robert Duval. Randy Quaid. You're talking about Randy Quaid. John C. Riley as a baby, little guy. Oh, I forgot about John C. Rowley. He's like Robert Duval's assistant, right? Yep. He's like a mechanic. Exactly. Routy is an actor you always see around. Who's that guy?

I don't know Routy, the actor that plays Routy's name. Michael, maybe Michael something? Michael Rooker, yeah. Yeah. Carl Yule's in, he's in, he's in, Michael Rooker is in Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, right? Exactly, big role. Carl Yulz, as Russ was great.

I mean, he's, you know, Princess Bride saw. Carrie eels Carrie, right? Not Carl. Carrie. Is it really Carrie? Wow. Yeah.

I've been messing up for years. And Nicole Kidman. I mean. Yeah. And Nicole Kidman. Yes. But you texted us within minutes of starting it. And you're like, wait, wait.

Rubbin is racing comes from this. And I'm like, yeah. I've heard that forever. Days of Thunder. It's like one of those cultural sayings. And that I've said my entire life probably, like with running or whatever. And I was like, that's where it comes from. That's the origin.

Rub it in his race. Virtually every line in that movie uttered by Robert Duvall is like a repeatable movie line that you heard. Like he is a quote machine. You can't pull in right now. Why? We're having ice cream. You know, I didn't say ice cream. We're enjoying ice cream.

We're enjoying ice cream. He says, I just can't, I can't be the same room. I can't work with him. I can't work with him. You know, so rank it. Like, give me, give me what you think of Days of Thunder on a one to ten scale. I want to rewatch it. This is tough.

I'll give it, I'll give it a six and a half. I'm a tough critic. Oh my God. I'll give it a tough critic when it comes to movies. Top gun is way better than it. What racing movies do you have over days of... Well, okay. I mean, I'll submit. When it came out, everybody was like, oh, it's

top gun for race cars. You know, that's what it is. Um, but I loved that southern NASCAR culture. So, it's great. Um, but I mean, I liked it better than F1. You haven't seen yet F1, but you liked Rush. I like Ford versus Ferrari. Um, you like more.

Ford versus Ferrari is a great movie. It really is. but it just isn't the quotable. The thing that makes Days of Thunder so great is how quotable it is. It really is Robert Duvall. For me, Robert Duvall is one of the most quotable actors in history. Like, I'm not going to assign it to you because I've currently assigned it to my sons. And we as a family have started watching Lonesome Dove together. And Lonesome Dove is my favorite culturally iconic movie.

It's on my ex profile. Robert Duvall sitting on the porch is Augustus McCray. But like every line he says in that. six-hour miniseries is quotable and repeatable and applicable to your life. And Harry Hogg in Days of Thunder is the same way. Is that his name? Harry, what, is that it, was that his name? Harry Hogg, yeah, yeah. H-O-G-E. It's kind of funny to say out loud. I know. Yeah, it's kind of funny. I don't think I've ever said it out loud. I was going to let you say it. And my arm belts go off. Harry Hogg. I don't know. I think you haven't fully appreciated it. I'm a little disappointed.

your review. People brought up the last American here. She was asleep by halfway through. Oh, that's complaining. You said some people in the comment section that also had some things to say about Days of Thunder. Yeah, the

Last American Hero was one that people were throwing around as the best race movie. From the 70s, you know that one, Jeff Bridges? No. Didn't see it. No. But some people were saying about great... Last American hero. Great movie. Robert Deval made the movie.

good, it's quotable. Some people were saying it's cringeworthy. The acting is bad and it's cringe worthy. And the dialogue's cringeworthy. But that's what you're going to get in a movie from 1990. Exactly. It was different back then. And by the way, you made a great point in our morning call.

There are things that were done in the 90s. I hear you on that. But we're doing things now in movies that we're going to look back on and go, that was boring. Yeah. I appreciate authentic dialogue and I love dialogue like I've come to appreciate Hemingway-esque dialogue do you guys know what I mean by that they used to say that the way Hemingway wrote what the characters are saying is less about the words coming out of their mouth and more about what they're not saying or what they're hiding and what they're saying

and I think there's real art to that but like sometimes it can be really boring I mean I mean, I don't know what to tell you about Severance, which I'm watching right now. It's so weird, severance. But it's getting better all of a sudden. But can you admit, like, it's almost too artsy and they drag it out? Like, there are times where I'm like,

go on and move forward with the plot. Like, just let's move forward here. Do something. And don't leave me in this, like, creepy, I don't know what's happening world for too long. You know what I mean? That's why I hate dream sequences and movies because it doesn't push the plot forward. It's like, all right, we get it.

You want to have some cool scene you made up, but it doesn't do anything for us. Right. Yeah. Have you watched both seasons, Dan? Oh, yeah. I'm obsessed. I've watched them three times through. Both.

Oh, wow. Okay, we'll have to talk offline because I'm not sure enough of the audience is in on severance to try to break down exactly what's happening. All right, there's Dan's review, two-day Dan's review, disappointing review of Days of Thunder. judge it for yourself. I think it's an all-time classic. One of the best sports movies. I often forget to put it on my list. But it's up there, you know, Days of

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