Will Cain Country - Jillian Michaels on the MAHA Revolution (ft. Byron Donalds)

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Story 1: Despite being one of the most prosperous nations in the world, over 70% of Americans are obese or overweight, with a similar number having chronic health issues. Where did we go wrong? Host ...of FOX Nation’s ‘Toxic: America’s Food Crisis’ Jillian Michaels sits down with Will to explain how corporate interests manufactured America’s current obesity crisis, and what she thinks of the “MAHA” movement’s efforts to address it. Story 2: Just when you thought Minnesota’s Somali fraud scandal couldn’t get any worse, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joins Will to share the latest from today’s House Oversight Committee's hearing on the scandal, explaining how Minnesota lawmakers not only allowed billions of dollars of fraud to occur right under their noses, but actively worked to silence whistleblowers and sweep the story under the rug. Story 3: Will and The Crew react to Grok’s interpretation of Tinfoil Pat as a “6’5 Adonis” and President Donald Trump sharing First Lady Melania Trump’s issues with his YMCA dance.   Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠⁠ Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠⁠@willcainnews⁠⁠⁠) Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Sleep at the wheel. Honestly, I don't want to hear a Republican describe Governor Tim Walts of Minnesota as a sleep at the wheel. The Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal is much more than simple incompetence. We're looking at people that benefited. maybe simply by their ego, ensuring they're always an anti-racism. Or maybe by getting votes, but there's something more than simply asleep at the wheel with Congressman Byron Donald's. But first, everybody's fat and sick with Gillian Michaels. It is Will Kane.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Country at the Wilkaint Country YouTube channel, and it is 2026. New Year, new year, new you, new year, new me. Got to get a haircut, got to get in shape. A lot of people pointing out my burgeoning mullet and my fat face, time to get in shape. I don't see any of a better way to do that than figuring out how to eat right. There is a new Fox Nation special up on this, by the way. You can head over there. It's called Toxic America's Food Crisis, and it happens to be hosted by the host of the Keeping It Real podcast, who also is a guest today here on Wilcane Country. It's Jillian Michaels. What's up, Jillian? Not much. How about yourself?
Starting point is 00:01:40 I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. Hey, Jillian, this just came out. I just saw the tweet, and I think this has come out in the past hours. So it's new dietary guidelines. And I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the new dietary guidelines coming out of HHS. But here's a few quick stats, okay? Okay. And they're all pretty shocking. Fifty percent of Americans have pre-diabetes or diabetes, 75 percent report having at least one chronic condition, and 90 percent of U.S. health care spending goes to treating chronic disease, much of that linked to diet and lifestyle. This has been your thing for a long time, Gillian, but it is your thing and this new thing with Fox Nation, toxic.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Yes. Actually, it's pretty darn exciting that the They're changing the food pyramid, and here's why. You know, maybe you remember this as a kid, learning about it in elementary school, seeing that silly little graphic and thinking nothing of it, and nobody really adhered to it or paid much attention to it. But the reality is that that little graphic drove hundreds of billions of our tax dollars into the hands of big ag, big food, big pharma inadvertently, and big insurance inadvertently because they lobbied the USDA.
Starting point is 00:02:55 And they said, hey, listen, you know what would be? the awesome for Americans is if we gave them a ton of refined grains and processed seed oils and very little protein. And this way, all of their ultra-processed products were fed to the nation's most vulnerable. So people on food assistance like SNAP, women and children, our military got these garbage nutrition recommendations, kids in our public schools. And subsequently, America became bigger and sicker than ever. So this change. change is going to make people healthier simply by making better for you food more affordable and more accessible.
Starting point is 00:03:36 I, of course, remember that, Jillian. I remember that in the cafeteria, in the hallways when I was in school, I remember it in middle school. I remember it in elementary school, the food pyramid, which placed something like, I don't know, you know, a loaf of bread. And in some cases, some absurdities, like a snack ahead of a steak. And but this, you know, the characterization of these new guidelines are basically eat real food, bro. That's pretty much it.
Starting point is 00:04:05 Yeah, people are like, have you looked at the guidelines? I'm like, well, I've pretty much known the recommendations for about three decades now, and I do know what HHS is up to. But it is that simple. It's eat real food. And what does that mean? It means eat whole food, food that is recognizable. Clearly had a mother, clearly came from the ground, something that looks like food resembles food that's that's going to be a win for you and don't eat too much of it and move your body and focus on
Starting point is 00:04:29 your sleep it's the big rocks that's 90% of the battle you know i don't know what the stats are i wish i did right in front of me right now on obesity you probably know that not only from hosting this fox nation special toxic but this has been your life for several decades like what are we looking at right now what is the obesity rate in america as 74% of american adults are come on are obese or overweight. So three out of four. And what makes this scarier or arguably more upsetting is the fact that in the 1970s, it was like 5% of adults were obese or overweight. So this is not a quantum leap in genetics as they would have you believe. Like suddenly everybody is genetically overweight. No, it's complete baloney. And it was, there was no, there were no GLP1 drugs in the 19th. 70s what happened and the reality is that big tobacco bought big food and essentially took that playbook over to our food supply and food is more addictive and far more toxic and you're seeing it in real time you know the canary is now dead in the coal mine 74% of american adults obese or
Starting point is 00:05:47 overweight and of course all of the other statistics that go along with it rising infertility rising ADHD rising autism, rising cancer diagnosis, and people 18 to 49, up 79% in the last two decades. And I could sit here, your whole show, and you give you these stats, but I think you get the picture. That is, okay, a stunning number. 75% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese. And I can only imagine what those stats, by the way, are with kids, because you can literally see it with kids. And it seems very unnatural. When you see a overweight kid, it's somehow like seeing an albino, you know, an albino dog.
Starting point is 00:06:28 You're like, that dog's different. That dog shouldn't look like that. That something has happened that's different because kids are supposed to be running around. And, you know, of course, we all, and I'm not trying to be, you know, I'm not trying to be insensitive. I mean, there were fat kids. But the point is now everybody's a fat kid. Yeah. Everybody's a fat kid.
Starting point is 00:06:47 And so something obviously changed. And we got more sedentary, but we started eating. And I battled it in my own household. We just started eating crap. You can just see it all the time. Hey, man, please don't go get that bag of goldfish. You're hungry. Go find something in the fridge.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Yeah, I know. Well, they target kids. And you see it with the campaigns of, like, cartoon characters on cereal boxes, you know, the toucan guy and the rap tricks rabbit. They've got rock stars and athletes promoting all of this garbage. You know, all the biggest rock stars in the world or in that Pepsi commercial at the Super Bowl. And we've seen it a million times. How do we go after kids?
Starting point is 00:07:30 And when you think about that food pyramid that we just talked about, the food at their public school is all ultra-processed garbage that's directed by that food pyramid. Kids are specifically targeted. There is nothing more profitable than a sick child. period, end of story. And yeah, we battle it in our own homes. And I'll give you an example in my home. My kids go to a public school. And all their friends go there, they've grown up with these kids, it's where they want to go. It's a decent school academically speaking. And having said that, I'll notice some days my kids don't pack their lunch. Some days they skip breakfast at home. And what they're doing is they're eating all of this garbage that tempts them at
Starting point is 00:08:12 school. So even though I've educated them, I've led by example, I've removed the garbage food in the house. I've surrounded them with healthy alternatives. It's that difficult when these monster corporations are engineering the environment and essentially creating foods that are heavily, highly addictive. Okay. So, Jillian, to some extent, and I buy what you're selling, you have, in the course of our short conversation so far, you have laid this at the feet of big ag, of big food. And you are saying that people have been sold something over which they have very little control. So are you encouraging us to think of this chronic epidemic as less about a society that has lurched away from discipline and wisdom in terms of our choices
Starting point is 00:09:07 and more towards that of a society full of drug addicts, in this case just food addicts? I don't want people to surrender their agency. That's not what I'm saying, because that is the true rebellion. But they are absolutely set up to fail. And then what happens is big pharma steps in, and they give them this shield against the addictive foods, quite literally. So these GLP1 drugs impact the pleasure center of your brain, hence the concept of quieting the food noise, right?
Starting point is 00:09:40 So I have a friend who has a very high-stress job, high-stress life. And when things get crazy, he would always go to his little bakery and get a donut and a cookie or whatever and a coffee, and it would calm him down. It's designed to be that way. The food triggers these happy chemicals in your brain. It's smashing the heck out of that dopamine center on purpose, designed to do so. A team of multidisciplinary scientists that engineer your environment, commandeer the narrative, construct the,
Starting point is 00:10:10 the food to trap you. And when you're vulnerable, they're going to get you. They've gotten 74% of the friggin' country. These are not 74% of our American adults that are just weak and apathetic and stupid. So then Big Pharma comes in and they know how to impact that exact center of your brain. And my friend who started taking these drugs, he's like, it's crazy. I just don't want that cookie. And I'm thinking, this is such a shame, though, because that has its own horrendous set of side effects. And the reality is that we do need to take agency. We do need to want change.
Starting point is 00:10:44 We do need to try to make the better choice more often than we make the bad one. We need to focus on sleep. We need to move more often, all of those things. But we also do need our government to support us. And I appreciate people love the, you know, I want less government. I want less government. Put that in your industry and I don't understand. It go great, wonderful.
Starting point is 00:11:01 In my industry, big ag doesn't want less government. Big food doesn't want less government. Nor does big insurance, nor does big farm, in fact, they get the government to work on their behalf. They lobby them. They donate to their campaigns. We need the government to work on our behalf and not permit this kind of crazy. So it's a combo approach of the government working for us, which we're seeing now with Kennedy's HHS, and us simultaneously taking agency. Okay, I want to talk more about obesity and I want to follow up on GLP ones, but let's just lay a little more groundwork.
Starting point is 00:11:36 74, 75% of Americans are obese or overweight. I also have wondered if that is a sliding scale, a little bit like poverty. That is a metric based upon a government definition of poverty or in our discussion here, overweight or obese, either government or medical association definitions of overweight or obese. So I wonder sometimes who that includes. So, you know, I mean, sitting there across the glass from you is two a day's dan i'm not trying to call out two a days dan i'm sure he won't appreciate this and i'm not asking you to diagnose him or suggest um patrick's in california me i'm right here you know um i've got a little extra like what what i just call myself fat-faced um and i'm certainly not as lean as i want to be but what what is overweight
Starting point is 00:12:26 you know what what is overweight like if if three quarters of us are in the category what does that look like i know what obese looks like yeah i know fat what is overweight you know what is overweight you know overweight. Traditionally, it's a number on a body mass index scale. But you bring up a great point, right? Because then it becomes, well, what's the right weight? And people can go dangerously in the wrong direction of that. The right answer is what your blood work looks like at your yearly doctor's office visit. So what is that number? It has to do with body mass index. Can that number be wrong? Sure. In other words, is it taking into account? lean mass, no. So, you know, we've, maybe you've heard, back of the day, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Starting point is 00:13:12 would have been considered as obese based on the body mass index. He is an outlier, though. That is not the norm. It does tend to be relatively accurate for the average bear. Having said that, if you look at how many people are on at least one prescription drug by the age of 40, I can't remember the number exactly, but it's staggering. And if you look at the fact that infertility is that it's highest in human history. Like, you can't argue with that. If you look at the fact that, as I mentioned, early onset cancer diagnoses are up 79% in 20 years. And one of the things they love to do is go, well, we're just, you know, when you talk about autism, mind you, this has been debunked, you know, oh, we're just diagnosing it better. That's not too. The Brain Institute at UC Davis
Starting point is 00:13:56 determined that we have, in fact, had an exploding increase in cases of autism. And it doesn't have something to do with just better diagnoses. But cancer, like, you have cancer. You're not going to misdiagnose it. Ultimately, someone's going to die of cancer. So the bottom line is these numbers are quantifiable. So if we just put aside, forget it. Forget obesity. Obesity really wouldn't matter. That's someone's own personal private business and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The reason it is relevant to this conversation is because it is associated with 170 D comorbidities, all of which have skyrocketed over the past two decades. What does associated mean, like correlation, causation?
Starting point is 00:14:39 I'm asking these questions. Here's an interesting thing, Jillian. So I was just, you know, reading about you. And you know, I've known each other a little bit. We've been on air together quite a few times, but I was just reading about you. And by the way, didn't know. You were overweight. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Like what? Until you were 13? 13. Is that what it was? 14? I started trying to get healthy at 13, but at 13, I was about 170, 175 pounds at my heaviest. And I'm 5'2 today. And you're like 5'3.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah. Exactly. I like to claim the extra inch on my driver's license, but it's really debatable. Like, if I quite make it to 5.3. Having said that, at 13, I was probably 5'5 feet, 5.1. I'm about 115 pounds now, so it's a third of my body weight, two inches. to shorter. And I was, I was a victim to everything that you and I are talking about. And fortunately, I had a very aggressive and involved mentor in my martial arts instructor who made it his
Starting point is 00:15:41 mission to turn my life around and I'm grateful. But it took a couple of years, actually. And it's been an ongoing evolving process of understanding how to optimize longevity and all of that. But the stuff you and I are talking about is really simple. Now, I'm not saying it's easy. but it's really simple. Eat whole food, move more, focus on your sleep, drink your water, manage your stress. That stuff's hard, but it's really simple. You don't need some sort of magic fad diet.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Let's take a quick break, but continue this conversation with Jillian Michaels. I want to ask her about the exploding use of GLP1s when we come back on Wilcane 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.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. We're still hanging out with Gilliam Michaels, the host of the Keeping a Real podcast, but also the host of a new Fox Nation special, Toxic about our nation's food supply. You were 13, that's 8th grade. You were 5 foot, maybe 5 foot 1, 170 pounds. That's a very formative. point in most people's lives. I would say even more so for girls than boys, but very formative
Starting point is 00:17:01 for everybody. You know, you always sort of think of yourself as the person you were in eighth grade, I think. You know, like, I was super skinny for a long time and like not strong. And sometimes I say, man, I see other guys. I said my wife, do I look, because you know, like self-awareness is a hard thing to be, to have, even with a mirror. And I'm like, do I look like that guy? Like when I see like, and like skinny, not in a good way. And I'm like, no, you don't, you don't, you don't look like that. But I did an eighth grade and so that's in my head. I'm just curious how much, quite honestly, that fat girl is in your psyche and the choices and lifestyle and motivation that drives you today. The body image piece is not there. The psychology that allowed me to
Starting point is 00:17:44 become overweight is still there much like an alcoholic. And this is part of the conversation that's integral we haven't discussed yet. When somebody is morbidly obese, I'm not talking about your average American is 20, 30, 40 pounds overweight. I'm talking about 200 pounds overweight or how you get to be 175 at 5 foot 1 at 13 years old. This is because the food is providing you with something psychologically significant. You're utilizing it as a defense structure, as a crutch, as a coping mechanism for comfort. And I did that as a kid with food. So I'm very aware of that constantly. And, you know, it's funny. I don't drink much. But I do. actually like the taste of alcohol. I actually like the taste of sake. I like the taste of a glass of
Starting point is 00:18:30 red wine. I like a skinny margarita. I enjoy it. It's like a treat. So January, dry January. And I was out with some friends the other night and they're like, why do you do this? And you're not alcoholic. You're not overweight. I'm like, because I always want to make sure that I am in control of whatever I'm putting in my body. And whenever it becomes all too easy to like, oh, that glass of wine sounds good. Oh, that sake sounds great with sushi. Oh, I really want that margarita with those tacos. So in other words, like I'm always cognizant of the ways in which I would grab something for comfort or pleasure. And then I cut it out for a little while just to make sure. But this is, you know, this is not something I'm necessarily recommending for other people, but you ask me
Starting point is 00:19:12 about that part of my life and whether it still exists, it does in that capacity. And I'm very mindful about my vulnerabilities on a psychological level to the, you know, the, you know, those kinds of coping mechanisms. So back to all of the stuff that you rattled off. You said beauty's in the eye of the beholder. You said obesity as a vanity project isn't necessarily the point of all this, but rather all the other health problems that are associated with it. And I think that word association is interesting because you heard me bring it up,
Starting point is 00:19:44 correlation or causation. So I said I was reading about you. And I read two profiles of you, Gillian, this morning. I read a women's health profile and a New York Times profile, all from last summer, roughly. I think last October, last August. And it's really interesting. It's kind of like, how did Gilliam Michaels become the person she is today? And, you know, there was a little bit of an indictment of the person that you are today.
Starting point is 00:20:11 And, like, basically the person is sitting here talking to me at Fox. Right. But then it said things. I know this is going to blow your mind because I think it's the thing that first put you on the radar when you said Lizzo, like, why are we celebrating? Put you on the radar of these types of topics and made you controversial. You were already on the radar fame-wise. But you said, why are we celebrating Lizzo's body? Like, it's not a healthy body. Why are we doing that? And you said something like celebrate her music, but don't celebrate her body. And then the characterization in the profile, Gillian, was a cataclysmic event. I think that was the literal word they used, Julian. cataclysmic and that the internet loudly tore you apart and then they you know and then the other profile referenced you talking on CNN
Starting point is 00:20:58 just in the past month I think about white supremacy but in that situation as well you were saying something but in both situations you were saying something incredibly common sense based incredibly not far right
Starting point is 00:21:14 just sort of like yeah it's not good to be obese and it's characterized in these things like can you believe she broke the internet by saying this. And so, I mean, first of all, that just blew my mind reading. It's subtle, but it's 100% there. And who is Jillian Michaels? Yeah, you know you're 100% right. And listen, I think there's more to this. I think that this is a strategy. And I'm going to sound paranoid, but again, hear me out. So let's talk about the Lizzo of it all. First of all, I never even brought up Lizzo. This was a BuzzFeed interview. And the interviewer was
Starting point is 00:21:50 like, I celebrate this. Why don't you celebrate this? Why don't you celebrate this? And the point I was trying to make is, first of all, it's none of our business. Like, what do I care what Lizzo's body looks like? Which it really isn't. I don't care. Like, again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But if you're going to celebrate obesity, like we should celebrate her as a musical talent. Absolutely. But if you're asking me whether I celebrate the fact that she's obese, no, I don't. Because if you actually value Lizzo, then you'll want her to be around for years to come. And that doesn't go hand in hand. with obesity. Period. End of story. And if you're really lover, you wouldn't want her to get
Starting point is 00:22:25 diabetes. And oh my God, how dare I suggest, despite the fact that there's a robust amount of data that you will get diabetes from being morbidly obese. And the great irony is that if you were to listen to Lizzo today, whether she likes this or not, she sounds just like me. And we'll literally sit here and talk to you about how she eats whole foods and she counts her calories. And I happen to think that's wonderful. Do you think she does? Or is she GLP one? I don't know. And, you know, even if she was GLP1, Lizzo would have been a candidate. So that's what I would say. Like the cost-benefit analysis of those kinds of medications versus morbid obesity is there for that kind of individual. In which case, I would say if it's under a doctor's supervision and they're, you know, they're also getting her moving in an exercise program. They're teaching her how to eat. And to be honest, she's looking great. And I, you know, again, it's none of my business. what she does with her body, but if you listen to the things that she's espousing, she's talking about eating less, counting calories, eating whole food, prioritizing her health,
Starting point is 00:23:28 managing her stress. I think this is wonderful. But when it comes out of her mouth, everyone's like, yeah. It's like, fine, whatever. Having said that, that whole healthy at any size, beautiful at any size is absolutely a big food sci-up, and the Washington Post wrote about it. expose where they expose the ways in which big food companies were paying off, literally paying off registered dietitians and influencers to put that narrative and that message into the world. So you kind of have to wonder they're also involved in giving advertising dollars to these media outlets like BuzzFeed. So that's where that sort of stuff comes from. And conversely, the narrative of, oh no, they're genetically overweight and there's nothing
Starting point is 00:24:17 they can do about it. So, you know, people love. They love when you give them the excuse. So the excuse is like, don't worry. You know, I know you've been feeling ashamed about this, which is not good either. That's not the point. Is that they play off their vulnerabilities. And it's like, I know you've been feeling ashamed and like you should have done more and you're feeling weak and you're feeling pathetic and the evil world has told you that. But you're genetically this way. There's nothing you can do about it except we can save you. The reality, is that people should exercise and eat well because they love themselves, not because they hate themselves.
Starting point is 00:24:51 There's a heck of a lot more we're going on. It is not because they're sorry, sad, weak, and pathetic. But that is also a bologna narrative. But the inside the profile of Gillian Michaels that she is a cataclysmic controversial figure for pointing out the health consequences of being obese is this suggestion that the association between your diet and cancer or the association between your diet and autism or the association of your diet and multiple maladies is somehow conspiratorial or controversial. That is basically what is said inside the profile of Julia Michaels.
Starting point is 00:25:25 You brought up it is associated with these various maladies. The question is, and I don't doubt the association, but I think that the question to answer, to really compel people, to understand what's happening to us, not just in terms of what we see in the mirror, but the rising cost of health care and the rising bad health outcome, for Americans is whether or not that is causational. It's correlational. What is the relationship of our food to our sickness? Depends on the condition, but I'll give you an example. You can be skinny and have type 2 diabetes. Bottom line. So you might have metabolism that rips through energy at an extremely accelerated pace, in which case, what is fat? Fat is stored energy. What does it do in the
Starting point is 00:26:12 body, completely separate conversation, right? Could fill the arteries, it could be, it's pro-inflammatory, all these different things that it does in the body, separate conversation. You might be able to rip through energy and eat a ton and, therefore, not store excess energy in fat cells and not be bigger, but because you're eating so much sugar, your pancreas is getting hammered, having to dump insulin into the bloodstream to clean out all this sugar, and you could become type 2 diabetics. So the reality is that it is associated.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Those types of behaviors also go hand in hand with type 2 diabetes because it's like you're obviously eating too much. You're probably eating too much sugar. And there are health connections. Like I'll give you an example. When we store excess fat in the body, first it's subcutaneous under the skin, then it's visceral, right? And it's between the organs and it's ectopic. And this is where you start to see it like fatty liver disease. fat in the brain, fat in the heart, then those things are going to be causational to other
Starting point is 00:27:15 conditions. But the reality is that people can get cancer without being obese, but it lends itself to being, to you having a greater chance of getting cancer. And it's all of the garbage, arguably, of where is the fat going in the body? How is it pro-inflammatory? What's coming along with those calories that you're consuming? What does it mean when you're consuming these extra calories on a hormonal basis. So of those 170 things, you can have vision problems and erectile dysfunction and type 2 diabetes and cancer and be skinny.
Starting point is 00:27:46 You could also be enormous and never get those things, but there's a very strong likelihood that you will for all the reasons I just mentioned, if that makes sense. Okay, just a few more quick things. It does make sense. I want to go back to GLP1, just for a second. It has occurred to me, like, okay, we have for the past, what did we count up? Probably 50 years, definitely 40 years, been living through the obesity phase of the American civilization. I do wonder if we're not now soon going to enter the medically induced skinny phase. Now, you know, you live in L.A. I live in Dallas, which in some ways is L.A. South.
Starting point is 00:28:26 the meaning like I you know I know we're being real I know Ozympic Wagovi GOP1s are everywhere I know it okay and people are getting skinnier I see it I can anecdotally and visually see it and they just approved it to be in a pill form which is only going to make it easier and make more people willing to do it and it's getting cheaper Donald Trump is ensuring that actually because it's cheap in Europe and now it's going to get cheap in America. So is that a bad thing, Gillian, if everybody starts being less obese and overweight? First of all, this is America, and people have the right to make whatever choice they want with their body. Second, we shouldn't have to pay more, whether it creates less barrier to entry or not for drugs.
Starting point is 00:29:17 So I have nothing bad to say about that. With that said, these are very serious medications. They have a host of very serious side effects. Read the box. Intestinal paralysis, I'm sorry, stomach paralysis, intestinal blockage, anecdotal reports of suicidal ideation and malaise and depression. And there are good reasons for people to be experiencing those things from an observational perspective with regard to, again,
Starting point is 00:29:45 how it impacts the pleasure center of your brain. So you could make that connection. It's been investigated by the FDA. It's been investigated in Europe. It's got a black box warning for thyroid cancer. I mean, pancreatitis, the list is exceptionally long. And it's funny because people go, you know, these drugs have been around for a really long time. I'm like, yeah, and that's where you got all those side effects on the boss.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Because people experienced all of these side effects. Having said that also, it's a marriage, not a flame. You can never get off of these drugs because every single meta-analysis shows us that you will gain the weight back. And then some, there is an excessive amount of muscle loss, which makes this really dangerous for seniors in particular. So the bottom line is if you are looking to take these medications, this is going to be a cost-benefit analysis with your medical professional. So if your doctor says to you, hey, listen, Susan, you've got type 2 diabetes, I can never say this word, atheros, never mind, heart heart disease. I can't do it. I know.
Starting point is 00:30:51 It's been 30 years. Athycerosis. Nevertheless, you know, all of these different conditions that are related to your obesity that will improve when you lose excess body fat, you know, we're going to put you on it. You may experience some of these side effects, but your pros and cons, right, you're going to have hopefully a longer life. Hopefully they'll manage the side effects. We don't know if you'll get hit with one of them in this game of Russian roulette when you
Starting point is 00:31:17 take the medications. That is a choice for you to make with your doctor. and you would arguably be a candidate. But when you're somebody that has 10. And you're going to find a doctor. True. Or buy it online. 100%.
Starting point is 00:31:29 You're going to get it on the internet. 100%. But this is how I recommend you pursuing it based on everything I've learned from all the doctors and the PhDs, et cetera, et cetera, that I've interviewed about these medications. Having said that, right,
Starting point is 00:31:42 you never get off of it. It is a marriage, not a fling. When you get off of it, you gain all the way back and then some we've already lost a huge amount of muscle. So I would really give pause before going down this road. And the last thing I will say about this is that, and I hate to tell people this because then all the wrong people are going to do it.
Starting point is 00:32:02 But if you do, if you do decide you want to take these medications, it's strongly recommended that you get them from a compounding pharmacy, which more pressure needs to be put on Kennedy to make this legal. Doctors are doing this on the side. They're compounding these medications, good ones, actually. I know this sounds crazy. And they're titrating the dose. So they're giving their patients a fraction of the dose.
Starting point is 00:32:27 They're still getting exceptional weight loss. Yeah, microdosing. Bingo. Significantly less side effects. And then they're generally putting them on some sort of peptide that's a growth hormone precursor, like a CJC and an epemerellin, then IGF1, LR3. So they're getting the weight loss, less risk of side effect, and something to help them maintain a muscle whilst they're losing all of this weight.
Starting point is 00:32:53 And that's good? You're saying, and that concoction is good? You're saying, you're saying, you're saying, do I want you to friggin go to the gym and eat less food and this and that and the other? Yeah, but like I have one friend who's 50 pounds, the guy with the cookies.
Starting point is 00:33:06 And I'm like, T, if you're going to, I won't say his name, but I'm like, if you're going to do this, can you please do it this way? Put him in touch with somebody. Michael. Trevor, Trevor, I won't say, that seems Trevor. Don't say your last name, buddy. But so I just don't want people to be like, oh, awesome. So this is a free ride.
Starting point is 00:33:24 If I do it this way, it's still serious. It's just a far better way to do it. And we do need more pressure on the FDA to open that up for people because right now it's currently technically illegal. Okay. I see. Yeah. Fewer side effects, more muscle building, microdosing that. But we're not endorsing that yet.
Starting point is 00:33:44 If you're going to do it, that's how I want you to do it. A lot of people have suggested that not. to be like, can I just do a microdose of it? I'm like, I don't know. Or eat whole foods, bro, or eat whole foods. And watch Toxic at Fox Nation hosted by Gillian Michaels. And check out keeping it real as well. It's always good to hang out.
Starting point is 00:34:04 Thanks for the conversation, Jillian. Thanks, Will. Have a good one. I appreciate you. All right. We'll see you soon. By the way, the folks out there are also weighing in here in the Wollisha. I have some of your comments
Starting point is 00:34:18 Let's in fact, let's get to those Are they asking whether or not two days Intinfoil pat or overweight? What about you, Scott? You think you're in the 75%? I don't think Scott's in the 75%. Am I in the 75%? Are you in 75%?
Starting point is 00:34:32 I don't know. We'll figure it out. Well, this is this, we're in the trust tree in front of thousands and thousands and thousands of listeners. We're in the trust tree here. It's a wake-up call. All vulnerable.
Starting point is 00:34:44 You know, it's a wake-up call. yeah what do you got to cut out dan what's the processed food you got to cut out um hold on let me get let me get us on here real quick i got to cut out you know probably just carbs maybe i need a calorie deficit i need a calorie deficit to wake up calls 2026 you know i hear you what are you eating what are you eating right now patrick what are you chewing right now a roll taco a rolled taco what's in your taco is that a flour tortilla yeah like a flour tortilla a flouta yeah a flouta is is fried is it fried crispy yeah yeah you can say that was it out of a box um like from Costco see see i i i'd go
Starting point is 00:35:46 through different waves of things. He's doing this on purpose. He's doing this on purpose. There's no way he's just eating a flouto flouta from Costco, right? What are you doing? Like, what do you, are you, are you? My wife went to Costco. When you have a lot of kids. When you have a lot of kids, you have to buy things in bulk, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:05 So she got me the flotas. Don't see, you're doing the thing. You're making the excuses. It's genetic. It's convenient. It's not genetic. That dude went. Convenience. That dude went to the microwave and heated him. himself some fried floutas, which, which by the way, while I'm tethered to my desk, well, 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day, okay?
Starting point is 00:36:25 Yeah. If they don't bring me food, I don't eat. So did your wife deliver it? Yeah. Did your wife deliver it to you? Yeah, of course. So you stayed sedentary in your chair, chained to your desk while your wife delivered to you boxed, microwaved, fried floutas.
Starting point is 00:36:41 They're fried. They're fried. They're fried. Well, yeah, I know, but you didn't deep fry them at home. You didn't put them into the pan. Did you put them in the air fryer? What'd you do? No, we don't have an air fryer.
Starting point is 00:36:52 That's unhealthy. It's got too many of those chemicals. No, it's fried in a pan. You fried them in a pan? I didn't fry them. Here we are. We had a half-hour discussion with Gillian about getting right, and I come out and you're crunching a Costco flouta. He doesn't give an F.
Starting point is 00:37:11 Which, by the way, Costco, we're like everybody else. If you want to send us some advertising dollars for Costco, We'll stop throwing you under the bus. It's not blackmail. If we get a company to sponsor my journey, then I'll do it. How about that? But you're just not going to get healthy otherwise. No, I will.
Starting point is 00:37:29 I will, I will. I go through different phases. Sometimes I'm like incredibly good shape. Are you in the 75%? Are you in the 75%, Dan? Yeah. I mean, according to the BMI. So I'm 6-2, I should be tops 195, and I'm not.
Starting point is 00:37:46 Is that what it says? It's $195 for 6.2. That's the most you should weigh at 60 is 195, which is crazy. Let's say I wasn't in great health at 6-1. I'm not hitting 195. I mean, like, I want to be like $2.30. I always thought it was, I always thought the BMI's jacked chart was a little off. I mean, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:38:04 In my best shape, I was 205. But even in my best, I was never. I'm just picturing Patrick. I'm just picturing Patrick as a 235. Jacked Adonis. With an eight-pack and oiled up. He's like, no, I don't want to be 190. As long as we're doing this thing where we're going to be ideal,
Starting point is 00:38:28 I want to be 235 and jacked. Keep working on the flouters in, man. Keep working. Let's take a quick break and come back with Congressman Byron Donald's on the oversight hearing. And what are we going to do about this theft in Minnesota? Coming up on Wilcane Country. When the weather cools down, Golden Nugget Online Casino turns up the heat.
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Starting point is 00:40:03 Because it's, as Dennis Lane said on Facebook, exactly eat real food, good balanced diet. It is not complicated. It is, as was said by Gilliam Michaels. simple. That does not make it easy. We all have to cut out something. I should probably start with a Chick-fil-A number one, which is my favorite. Guilty Pleasure. It is Wilcane Country streaming live with the Wilcane Country YouTube channel and Wilcane on Facebook. Brenda Posey, when people go to the grocery store, buy cooking oil or olive oil or whatever they need to read the label because most coffee creams have vegetable oil in all these
Starting point is 00:40:39 preservatives. That's not good for you. It's in canned goods and bread. people need to get educated on this stuff. And then John Flynn takes a shot at my Chick-fil-A, number one. When fast food is your basic food source, it's a major destruction on your well-being. We talked about that association, correlation and causation. You can play your own little guinea pig. You can do that. You know, we don't have to outsource everything to HHS.
Starting point is 00:41:01 We don't have to outsource everything to the food pyramid. We don't have to outsource everything to our doctor because we're all our own little guinea pig. And the truth is, you know how you feel. And I know how I feel. honestly and I think the Christmas break is a perfect guinea pig situation how did you eat how did you drink and how do you feel and I feel honestly better which is like a three day detox starting here this week the first week back the first week of January so it's not just like the long term effects of cancer and perhaps correlations to autism it's like your energy level and how you feel your your own little guinea pig There was a House Oversight Committee meeting today on the Minnesota-Somali fraud scam. In that meeting is congressman from the 19th congressional district in Florida.
Starting point is 00:41:54 It is Congressman Byron Donalds, who joins us now on Will King Country. Hey, Congressman. Hey, Will, how you doing? I'm good. I'm good, man. What did you learn? What did you learn today? A number of things.
Starting point is 00:42:08 One, the depth of the fraud in Minnesota has been going on for years. Two, the accusations from the Somali community when they were confronted with this fraud was the same, you know, democratic leftist attacks, racism, Islamophobia. Three, the Walls administration, in my opinion, was actively trying to run down whistleblowers. who were working in the Minnesota state government who were trying to bring the fraud to light were being ignored. They were being persecuted, targeted. There were references to other people who lost their jobs, basically saying, you see how that person lost their job? You're next if you continue to this mess. It's clear that the Walls administration, Tim Walls himself, his campaign.
Starting point is 00:42:59 I think also the Attorney General Keith Ellison, they were getting campaign contributions from these fraudsters. So it was, it's widespread corruption, not just the fraudsters themselves, but the political apparatus in Minnesota was not just a deaf, dumb, and blind. They were aiding and abetting. And I think, you know, people were saying, well, why did Tim Walls all of a sudden decide he wasn't running for reelection? This is why.
Starting point is 00:43:24 Because when you're actively, when you actively know about the fraud and let it continue, it demonstrates, you know, in my view, culpability in what was happening. that is where I want to dig with you, Congressman. Number three. Okay, you're incredible. Not deaf, dumb, and blind. Active participants. Chasing down whistleblowers. Your oversight committee chairman, James Comer, said earlier today, before this hearing, that Tim Walts was asleep at the wheel. And I would tell the Congressman this to myself, I didn't like that. Because it suggests simple incompetence. In the breadth of this fraud, And the brazenness of it as well defies that you could have gone ignorant about this. You could have simply – and by the way, the audio that we know – I don't know what you've seen that I haven't seen. The audio of Keith Ellison talking to some of these convicted fraudsters about campaign donations suggests there's something more than simple incompetence, that there is something more than asleep at the wheel. And whether or not that is burnishing your virtue signaling anti-racist bona fides or its campaign donations or it's vote farming, there's more here that suggests corruption. Well, I actually think it's all three that you stipulated.
Starting point is 00:44:49 I think they all work in concert. One, it is this leftist idea where just more money after bad is good for everybody that you're helping, in this case, Minnesotans. Two, it is the apparatus of chasing down campaign cash. And three, it is also, in my opinion, the vote farming apparatus. Because what you're essentially doing is you're allowing the corruption to continue knowingly doing it so you can get campaign cash in the accounts, but also have an active community to go and get votes from to maintain political power. I think it's all three. And to be blunt, I know we're talking Minnesota today, I think,
Starting point is 00:45:32 think it's not just Minnesota. I think if we continue to dig in the Department of Justice is doing that and other agencies are doing that, we're going to find this in other states around the country. That is why I think that part's so important in the language that we're using, because I just don't think incompetence or being asleep at the wheel explains this when it's not just happening in Minnesota. To your point, exactly, Congressman. Now, Minnesota has its own unique angles with the Somali community, questions about immigration, questions about assimilation. But fraudulent. For all, is happening everywhere. It's certainly, and I'm not trying to be a partisan, and you're a Republican congressman,
Starting point is 00:46:08 but, you know, where does Medicaid and Medicare flow? Who are the biggest spenders? What are the biggest state-level welfare programs? You're going to end up in blue states like California, Illinois, and New York. And it would be beyond naive for us to believe this isn't happening there. And there may or may not be a Somali community involvement. But there's still theft, still fraud, and still politicians
Starting point is 00:46:33 not asleep with the wheel but benefiting from this theft. I completely agree and I think this is the issue up here on Capitol Hill when we go through these budgets and we're basically saying look we need to decrease
Starting point is 00:46:46 some of these public services or put in more eligibility checks put in more audit requirements the party that always says no to that are the Democrats. They don't want more audit checks in these programs. They don't want to
Starting point is 00:47:01 eligibility checks. We just did it in the president's agenda last summer. Moving that through, we put in more eligibility checks into food stamps and to SNAP benefits. You would have thought that we were telling people they couldn't eat anymore in the United States of America. All we were saying is we want to make sure that you qualify for the assistance that you're trying to receive. That's all. That's common sense stuff. But the Democrats have no interest in that. I think as we continue this investigation, one of the things that's really going to be. important is additional checks and balances in these programs that are mandated by the federal government. Because most of the time the Democrats want these dollars to go out on the honor
Starting point is 00:47:42 system where there are very little checks or it's left in the hands of state governments. And depending on the state, you could have a very robust system of accountability or you could have no system of accountability or in the case of Minnesota. And I don't just think it's Minnesota, but in that case, it's not just a lack of accountability. It is a culpability. and a symbiotic relationship between Democratic officials and these aid programs that Democratic officials argue for and lobby for here on Capitol Hill. Did you see some evidence today in your Oversight Committee hearing beyond what I've seen, what I've shared with my audience, the audio of Keith Ellison talking to people about donations?
Starting point is 00:48:21 Did you see more evidence that lends itself to culpability? No, we're still in the process of digging that out. Today we were talking with a couple of the state, the state legislative officials who serve on their oversight panel. And they were actually spending most of the time in the hearing when I was in talking about the, I'll call it doxing to just make a phrase, but the, the doxing and the attacks against the whistleblowers. And then I think later in the community hearing, they're not getting used to. Oh, threatening their careers. What did the Walls administration do? I think her first name is Peggy. Lieutenant Governor Flanagan addressed the public employees at the Department of Human Services. She derided these allegations of fraud in these programs. She basically threatened the people who were going to be whistleblower saying, don't do that. These are great programs. You don't want to be racist or Islamophobic. That came from the lieutenant governor. Let me be very clear. Lieutenant governors don't operate outside of the purview of governors. That's why they're
Starting point is 00:49:25 chosen to be on the ticket, their responsibility is to back up the governor's agenda. So if you have her saying that, then you know Tim Walls had to co-sign it for it to be said. That's number one. Number two, there were employees, almost a thousand of them now who have been threatened that they will lose their jobs or they will be blackballed from having another job in government, whether that's the state of Minnesota or in some of the blue counties that are run by Democrats heavily in the state of Minnesota. So you have people whose careers are being threatened.
Starting point is 00:49:54 There was a couple of allegations about they were saying that they were surveilling their houses, asking about their kids. This is really grotesque stuff, all to cover up rampant fraud in the state of Minnesota. Well, one thing I think it's important for people to understand. There's a third aspect to what was going on. The fraudsters in Minnesota, they were buying property in Kenya. They were buying property in Turkey. And there's a lot of remittances that were going back to Somalia.
Starting point is 00:50:23 The reason why I bring that point up is because in Somalia and other countries in that region, they have what's called a Han Wali network. So how we transmit money is that, you know, in America, I can sell you $50 or I might wire, if it's $1,000, I'll wire it from my account to your account or do an ACH. Well, over there in Somalia, they're using what's called this Hanwali network, which is a bunch of personal money mover. individuals who are just moving money. So when the cash shows up in Somalia, now it's just being moved person to person. Well, what we already know is that the al-Shabaab al-Qaeda affiliate, which operates in Somalia,
Starting point is 00:51:07 they have their hands all in this Hanwali network. So to me, it's common sense that once that money has been moved offshore into Somalia, which has occurred, that is a fact that a portion of those funds actually ended up in the hands of al-Shabaab, which is an al-Qaeda affiliate, the biggest one in Somalia. So you have money going from the American taxpayer, ending up in the hands of foreign terrorist organizations. And Tim Walz and his administration not only tried to clean it up, they stopped public employees from investigating to stop the fraud. They were complicit in this action.
Starting point is 00:51:45 Congressman Byron Donald's just got out of a House Oversight Committee meeting on the Minnesota Somali fraud scheme. He's going to keep telling us about it when we come back. on Will Cain Country. Welcome back to Will Cain Country. We're still hanging out with Congressman Byron Donald's of the House Oversight Committee, where today they were looking into the Minnesota-Somali fraud scheme. What do you think should happen to Walt's, to Ellison? What should happen to the people that, as you characterize it,
Starting point is 00:52:13 aren't simply incompetent but are culpable? Well, I think, number one, if you're threatening whistleblowers in government, I think there could be, and I'm not a lawyer, but there could be conspiracy charges. I think that's something that has to be looked at, but I don't want to get ahead of the Department of Justice. I mean, obviously, he's not running for re-election. So, you know, maybe people are saying, well, we got our pound of flesh, not true, because he's still the acting, he's still the governor today. And so I think that's, I think that's number one. And we need to look really deep in terms of who in the governmental apparatus and the executive branch was actually stonewalling real investigations and real account.
Starting point is 00:52:50 accountability. Another issue we have, and I think this is something in federal law, we have got to start putting teeth into audits and compliance and accountability. There's really no teeth in these programs. Most of them operate on the honor system. And so I think going forward, a situation like this in Minnesota, and like I stress, I think there's going to be more out there as we continue to investigate, we have to start putting teeth into these programs and criminal penalties if you have public officials who are not essentially taking care to mine the store with public money. I think those are the two steps
Starting point is 00:53:24 that have to be taken care of next. I agree. Congressman Byron Donald's, quick, quick around the horn really quickly. Fast questions. Do the Cowboys, should the Cowboys resign George Pickens? Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:53:39 Got to keep George P. Is the future bright under Brian Chottinheimer for you and me and Cowboy fans? You know, I like Shottie. Shottie actually did a pretty good job but our defense. I'm glad we fired our defensive coordinator.
Starting point is 00:53:52 We should have fired him after week six. I mean, let's just be clear. We should have fired him after week six. So, you know, no disrespect to Matt Iber Flues, but it was not working out. We were probably the worst defense in football. I know we got a little bit better as the year went on, but, you know, you already let the horses out of the bar, man.
Starting point is 00:54:10 I mean, the offense looked good. You know, I think the offensive line is going to be even more season next year. You would not fire Schottenheimer to go get John Harbaugh. Oh, I forgot Harbaugh's gone. That's not a different story. I mean, if I can get, if I can get Arbaugh. Just fired by the Baltimore Ravens. But hold on now.
Starting point is 00:54:29 I got a question for you. Could Jerry deal with Harbaugh? Will that work? Because that's really the question. No, and I wouldn't want that. By the way, I like Schaunheimer too. I think he's going to be a good coach. I think you got to give him a little bit of time.
Starting point is 00:54:43 I think he's going to be a good coach. John Harbaugh is 63, and nothing against, I mean, 63 shouldn't be tired. You saw what happened with Pete Carroll, and I don't know if that's fair to Pete Carroll, who's like 73 fired by the Raiders. But because, I mean, some, this is the concern, Congressman. Some organizations lose no matter who the coach is. You could hire great coaches at the Jets. You could hire great coaches at the Browns. You could hire great coaches at the Raiders.
Starting point is 00:55:08 And I'm not going to judge that coach on whether or not succeeds or fails inside that organization. And I'm a little concerned that we're headed that direction with the Cowboys. you're a little concerned have we not been in this direction and listen I'm a Cowboys fan you're a Cowboys fan love Jerry but I mean what's it what are we going on now
Starting point is 00:55:27 we're going on shoot 30 years since the Super Bowl 30 years come on we got to do better but look what happened with the Raiders though I still don't even know why they got rid of Antonio Pierce that team actually looked like it was going good so I think you got organizational issues over there
Starting point is 00:55:43 and then with respect to the Browns I mean finally they did the right thing You know, it took them long enough, but, you know, I mean, look, sports ain't easy. I was actually talking with my team, and, you know, I'm like, look, a lot of times in the organizations, I don't care what you're talking about. Politics, sports, business, culture drives everything. If the culture is not right, I don't care what your personnel is. It's not going to come together. Culture's got to be right.
Starting point is 00:56:08 You've got to hold people accountable. There's got to be expectations. That's always the secret sauce and success. How's the culture in Washington, D.C.? Oh, come on, man. Man, you're going to ask me a real question or you want, you want to ask me a real one? I mean, it's, so we actually, so no, so we had the Minnesota hearing today and I just left the classified briefing on Venezuela. And I mean, if you're in the Democratic caucus, it's like you're living in Bizarro land.
Starting point is 00:56:34 I mean, they're talking about, well, why did we go into Maduro? How much did it cost the military to go and do this and do that? And I'm like, you guys never care about spending money, but now you care? I mean, it's, it's, it's bizarre a land, man. I mean, what we're really just trying to do is get the president's, more of the president's agenda through, codify that stuff, trying to get that work done. The economy looks like it's moving in the right direction. You know, that's a good thing for the American people, gas prices down, all that stuff.
Starting point is 00:57:01 That stuff's great. But you're talking about the culture here in this town? Not good. Not good. I'm just glad Donald Trump's back in the White House because at least the country's being run right. on Capitol Hill, man, it's it's dog-eat-dog and, you know, everything. It's crazy here. Yeah, I can only imagine.
Starting point is 00:57:22 I mean, I've never spent a lot of time inside that culture. And I can only imagine. Honestly, and then I'm just having a real, it's got to be the one. You're 100% right about culture. Okay, and I think, man, college football is going through the biggest transition that we could have even. It's so crazy in college football right now. I was texting with some buddies last night, the Longhorns, who should have. as much money as anybody out there, are seeing starters go in the portal because other teams
Starting point is 00:57:48 are offering more money while you're on someone else's roster. And the only thing that can save you in this environment, if there is a savior, is culture. And I think you're 100% right. Business, sports, anything, culture is the secret sauce. It's the ingredient. And I can't imagine a worse cultural environment than Washington, D.C. for success. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's really bad. I think, look, one of the key reasons why I think the culture is so bad here in Washington is because the members really don't talk to each other. But we really don't. The members don't engage.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Everybody's running from committee to committee, you know, doing a bunch of different things or you're at some lunch or at some breakfast or at some dinner. And there's really not a camaraderie that's built amongst the membership writ large. You know, there's pockets of members who spend time together. If you're in a caucus, you might spend time with those group of members. But, you know, there's really not a broad,
Starting point is 00:58:41 camaraderie that's built. And I think that's one of the reasons why the stuff just doesn't really come together that well up here. And it's a culture thing. And I mean, look, I think in some part, the framers were correct in this. You really don't want this place moving at warp speed. It being slow and deliberate is by design
Starting point is 00:59:02 because you don't want the federal government just continuing to grow in size and scope. It's grown a lot, obviously, the last 250 years. is the framers never intended a federal government like this. I mean, the last hundred years since Woodrow Wilson and FDR, those presidencies were a disaster for a constitutional republic because they turned the federal government from a mechanical engine that had limited powers under the Constitution
Starting point is 00:59:27 to this leviathan that's a labyrinth with all kind of mazes and traps and departments and agencies. And the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. And people in the real world in America, they're just trying to figure out like, which end is up so that their lives operate. And so I would say that, you know, even though the culture is bad, I'm not sure you want a healthy culture in Washington
Starting point is 00:59:49 because that means everybody's on the same page going to do something. And typically in Washington, that's something that they're doing is not smart. That's true. That's exactly right. The problem is when the culture becomes so toxic that we have totally lost the ability to see things to right and wrong. So, for example, and we'll end it here, but you should have Democratic colleagues ready and willing to find culpability and accountability
Starting point is 01:00:14 inside the state of Minnesota, but you won't because you have to protect the team. You can't hurt the electoral chances of team blue, you know, and that supersedes, that toxicness. By the way, layered in personal ambition, individual personalities, that type of thing. Maybe it's all for the better in that, like, if you're just, your point. We don't, we don't get things done and getting things done is usually bad, not good, but I don't know. How about this? I mean, it's, I wouldn't want your job. Your job's pretty good, man. And I'll tell you for the members who are here, the longer they're here, the better your job looks. I'm telling you that right now. I mean, look, it's, no, in all seriousness, it's an honor to
Starting point is 01:01:00 serve. It really is. It's really been a, it's an honor of my life's find it's a blessing to be here because people entrust, entrust you to come and represent them. But, you know, this place is, for the faint at heart. I mean, you really have to dig in and stand on what you believe in. And, you know, it's tough. Sometimes you just got to stand alone and do what you think is right.
Starting point is 01:01:18 But, you know, in spite of all the cultural issues in Washington on Capitol Hill, man, America's the best thing going today. Not even close. I will take us in all our problems over any other country in the face of the earth. And quite frankly, so with a lot of people who try to get into our country illegally
Starting point is 01:01:36 every single day because we're the best thing going. no doubt congressman byr donald's always fun uh best of luck thank you congressman take it easy see you all right there he goes byron donalds by the way who who might be ten full pat two a day jane who might be your ideal uh patrick might be six uh i actually think the congressman's like six three i'm gonna go he's taller in me i think um two about this i don't know if he's two 30 no well i mean we got this going for so what would patrick look like at six foot one two thirty five and if you're watching us on YouTube or Facebook this is an AI generated version of I don't think he's big enough look at
Starting point is 01:02:21 you man that is a Chad right there look at that look at that forget the biceps I could I could do it face why don't you do it I need I need to start well because I'm dilapid I have one of those autoimmune disorders somebody that looks like that has an autoimmune disorder and you got to figure out what that guy's doing because look at that Patrick look at that look at the traps on you I know I mean you got shoulders within shoulders can you give me a side by side Dan I thought my neck was pretty big already but geez well can't really all neck yeah yeah yeah The jaw line, the square head.
Starting point is 01:03:13 What you've got, you've got the square head, even at your current situation. There's no goatee, though. All right. By the way, before we go today, President Donald Trump, in a pretty amusing moment of vulnerability, had this to say about his advice from Melania. Watch. And she gets up, and they put a little tiny thing like this little thing. And my wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this.
Starting point is 01:03:44 She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right? She said, it's so unpresidential. I said, but I did become president. Somebody, she hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance. Darling, it's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me.
Starting point is 01:04:11 And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know. What does that even mean? What do you mean? What does it mean? It was in a wheelchair. No. He couldn't dance. He was in a wheelchair.
Starting point is 01:04:29 I was waiting. I hadn't heard that part of the cut before. I was like, what's he going to say? She said, FDR didn't. Can you imagine FDR dancing? I was like, how is he going to handle this? Like, there's a long history there that she may not understand. Trump only dances with its hands anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:04:47 He munches his hips a little bit. So he could do that in a wheelchair. Yeah. Yeah. And the knees. He kind of does it from the knees and the hips a little bit. Yeah. You know, there's a little more in there than just the arms.
Starting point is 01:04:58 It was a little longer than I normally like a clip to be. But I was like, I had to keep that little bit in there at the end. It was really good. The FDR bit. Yeah. I just love, I told you guys, like, sometimes the things that are funny on, like, Fox News or the clip, they're just not funny to me. I have a different, a little bit different kind of humor. I think my humor is character-based, not punchline-based.
Starting point is 01:05:24 Do you know what I mean by that? Like, I love the Big Lobowski. I like Wes Anderson movies. I like these characters that are just so, what's that? Soccer. Soccer. Just kidding. It's funny.
Starting point is 01:05:38 I just, I like absurd characters that you see hints of real people in. And, and, I mean, like, one of my favorite characters ever is Royal Tenenbaum from the West Anderson movie, The Royal Tenenbombs. And I just love that character. And I do see a little bit of my dad in that character. And he's hilarious. And I started watching the new West Anderson, the Phoenician scheme. And Benicio del Toro's character is funny. He's funny.
Starting point is 01:06:05 It's a wild. And Donald Trump is like a Wes Anderson character. Like, there's not anybody like him, but there's hints of everybody in him. You know, I mean, the thoughts, the thoughts that you don't say, the thoughts that you filter, the all these things. And there he is, like, you know, and picturing him and Melania having that conversation, her going, it's not presidential. And he's like, but I'm president, you know. And everybody loves it when I dance. I just love that scene.
Starting point is 01:06:35 I can picture that scene that he, describes right there. And she says, can you imagine FDR and his eyebrows go up? Hmm. You know, I don't know. I don't know. That was really, I love that. As I love you being with us here today and every day.
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