Will Cain Country - Joy Reid Compares Trump to IRAN’S REGIME — Seriously?! (ft. Tim Young, David Bozell, & Tim Burchett)

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees can grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields. Learn more at aboutamazon.cai. Welcome to Will Kane Country today. I'm not Will Kane. I'm reasonably more attractive, I think. I'm wearing at least a better hat today than he would normally wear. He doesn't wear hats. But I've got a nice one on today from Round Rock here.

the Round Rock Briscuits, uh, alternate minor league baseball team had. I can talk today. You know what's weird? I'm joined by, of course, a two days, Dan and tinfoil pat. You know, what's weird is that I was ready to go, guys. And I drink this espresso and it just dried me out. And I'm trying not to hack up a lung as we start the show.

Nothing like you get like, I get my first crack at filling in for Will Kane. And it's like, Tim, what are you doing? Oh, I'm going to hack up a lung. You guys heard it because I didn't mute the, uh, the microphone. coming into this for like five minutes, but once I get talking, I'll be fine. But I was just hacking up along here up until the moment before,

to the point that Dan was like, you know, there's a cough button, buddy. You can just hit the button. We're ready to go. We got a lot to talk about today. It's going to be a fun one. I got to stay at a feminist hotel. I think you guys are very excited

because I'm going to be probably the representative for the Washington, D.C. Tourist Bureau after this. They are very excited to hear me talk about the feminist hotel I stayed at. and I did not intentionally stay at a feminist hotel. But, you know, in case you're wondering, women have it pretty much worse in America than Iran.

I was told this very, very reliable source. Joy Reid covered this the other day. She's got it figured out, by the way. You know, Joy Reid, she's never lied. She always tells the truth. She's never said anything outlandish. And, you know, we just got to, we have to take this at face value, right?

People are taking this at face value. You guys want to run that clip? Now, I'm not saying that that regime is not bad. But by the way, our regime is not good. Our regime has secret police. They have secret police. Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women's rights in like 26 states.

Countries. Where they're trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion. They also oppress women. They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We're kicking women out of the military, out of university. We're saying that DEI means women can't be hired for high positions in the science. So we're marginally better and we're doing it for Christianity. They're doing it for Islam, right?

Yeah. Wow. Highest rate of women in STEM careers. Did you guys know that? I had no idea. In Iran? I didn't think they were allowed to like read or go to school. I know why.

We covered this last week because they have a very high amount of trans people in Iran. Really? So they're men. Compared to like most of the world because you're not allowed to be gay there. And so it's men. becoming women and then they're getting into STEM careers. There's no benefit to being a woman in that they don't have, I don't believe that Iran has a DEI marketplace.

Yeah. I can see how, I mean, it's very easy to be trans in Iran. I'd imagine you just put on the thing and they can only see your eyes, right? So it's very, very, very easy to make the transition from male to female in Iran. You just cover the whole thing. You're set. But I don't think that that helps you in the world. In there, you know, we found out that they have enough to make 11 new.

missiles before we started the entire thing here before Trump decided to start the whole thing. Was it all women? Was it like hidden figures, but it was over in Iran? Yeah. Yeah. They're going to win an Academy Award next year? I can't wait for the movie to come out. It turns out they were 13 brave trans women in Iran started their nuclear program.

I mean, the left would make that movie for sure. They absolutely would. Directed by who? Who do you think? It would be one of the Star Wars women right now The people who have ruined that entire franchise They transition out And then go and see it's all transitioning

But I think that's how that would go Because that's where there's a lot of times When you see like these franchises that are ruined It's these directors who have done like two documentaries And then all of a sudden they're like Oh we're going to give you Star Wars You guys should just go do woke Star Wars for it and do whatever you want with You can't screw it up

No Oh what's a dog Story franchise Yeah Kurt's been right He's got Star Trek. I don't think they're coming back with Star Trek Academy season two after that debacle If you guys haven't seen that there's a gay cling on the dude wears a skirt in it And he cries It's a bold choice. I'll tell you that

They're like you know what you know start are you guys are you guys? Are you guys? I like the JJ Abrams ones, but no not really Oh, I know, I know I was a next generation guy Which by the way you could have almost got me on socialism with the with the next generation. You had me You had me like right there There's no money. We just produce whatever food we want with no calories out of replicators in your set. But, which, you know, while I'm sitting here crushing goldfish, I could use a replicator with no calories on it today.

But the new Star Trek, they have completely forgotten anything that had to do with Star Trek. There's one character that even when he throws up, he throws up glitter. Wow. So, like, they're like... Rainbow glitter? Yes. I'm not even kidding. I haven't watched the show.

I just watched the reviews of it. it, which are amazing. And, yeah, they pretty much, they were like, hey, you know, let's forget everything you know about Star Trek and just make it whatever. And then what's her name? Who's the voice of Miss Incredible in the Incredibles? You know what I'm talking about? Holly Hunter?

Holly Hunter. She's the captain there and she curls up in the chair like a cat on the new Star Trek Academy. Who likes this stuff? Like, who likes it? Not Star Trek people. So who are they doing this for? The masses?

Like, they're doing it for people, seamless segue, that like going to the hotel that I tricked myself into staying in in Washington, D.C. this past week. Now, I want to clarify when I talk about this, I stayed at a feminist hotel. And you don't book a hotel and think at any point that is a feminist hotel. You know, you book. I didn't know they existed. I didn't either. You know, you book a hotel at Disney and you're like, oh, this one's the sports-themed one or this one's the, the, uh, the, the thing. the New Orleans themed one or whatever.

But you don't think I'm coming to the theme park of politics in D.C. And we are going to have a feminist-themed hotel. Now, I check into this thing. By the way, again, not intentionally. And I need to clarify that for everybody out there. Not intentionally do I check into this hotel or book this hotel. I book on an airline flight thing. I don't know who sponsors a show.

I don't want to give anybody free sponsorship. I book on an airline thing. So I do the cheapest place with the highest amount of points so I can get free. flights. And I'm like, okay, this one's fine. It's in Thomas Circle. And I show up, and I don't pay attention to too much when I show up. There's a big mural of RBG, we'll get to it a second. But when I don't pay attention until I get into my room and you know they have like a themed throw pillow in some of these places. They always have to have the fancy throw pillow, which we can discuss whether or not those things get cleaned in any hotels at any point. You know, they clean

the sheets, but those throw pillows are just up for whatever it was on it. Don't blacklight them. Especially don't blacklight this one, because I'm sure it got people very, very excited. Do we have, there's the Sonia Sotomayor throw pillow. Fascinating. With facts about Sonia on the back. I just look at it and I go, you know, what is happening here? So I go back downstairs to wait for an Uber and I had a little extra time. And I started looking around.

And that's when it all hit me that this was a super feminist hotel. Where shall we begin? Do you want to, the pin wall? Where do you guys want to? You guys have seen all the images. I want to build to the finale of the RBG mural. The three images of the body. Okay.

So these are in the hallway, which I did not pay attention to. Oppression. What is that, female? All oppression creates a state of war. And then there's feminism is sexy or something, whatever it is, the woman that's topless there. Yeah, my liberation. Where's the one? There it is.

Politicians do not equal doctor. Now, if you guys are listening to the audio version of the. there's a woman who is spread eagle in jean shorts. And all of these have painting on their legs or back or arm or whatever. Politician does not equal doctor. Is this? Now, I know you guys, you're up for grabs here, I think, mentally. I've listened to the show.

Sure. When you see those images, you're kind of lean and feminist now, right? You see like a naked woman with painting on her? Yeah, I think that that works on me, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Works for me. But again, this is how, like, out of it I've been that it took until I got to the room and the Sotomayor pillow did all but, like, slapped me in the face. See, right?

See, I run in lefty circles. I do a lot in my life. And I've never seen this kind of thing. So take that with what you go. Again, who would choose to stay here? And, like, when you see, you know, nothing, nothing warms you up more than when you get in a room and you got a Sotomayor pillow front and center on your bed. You know, you're like, oh, man, wow. I guess I'm about to learn something today.

I've learned, yes. It actually makes me want to oppress women more. I'm like, hey, maybe Iran's got something right. I better watch it because, you know, there's a lot of social media money floating around for people who say that on the internet now. I might have just made myself 20,000. Can we just show the other parts that let's warm up a little bit more. After you get past the hallway photos, we've seen.

Oh, there's a man. They had a man one there. That was the one that they showed nipples on was the man. That was very bold, but it probably is a woman who identifies as a man. True. And is in stem and around. Here we go. So now you go into the lobby.

And there's a complaint about equal pay on a purse, which, you know, that makes sense. And then a pink pool table, because you wouldn't want a normal pool table. You've got to have a pink one for women. My favorite is the Women's March experience where you can take a selfie there. If you guys can't see this. And I'm not making this up. I would encourage you to YouTube. I didn't realize that's what it was.

And, yes, I would encourage you all. for this segment, if you're intrigued by it, go to the, you have to see the photos to really know. So you can go and take a selfie as if you were at the Women's March. And it's a 3D, like a 180 wraparound image. Now, they didn't have any, like, party signs or anything. You know, it wasn't like the photo booth where you can put on some goofy glasses in a hat. They should have pink hats there that you can put one on. So you look good.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You want to make sure you can hook your phone up to it. And, you know, they don't pump in the, I was at the Women's March. They have not pumped in the smells. I can tell you that. So they, it's not a 4D experience. It's just a, oh, no.

A 2D. Okay, so you're not really feeling the whole thing. Should we get to your favorite part? Yes. Oh, you're rushing me along. Look, I want to narrate this. By the way, I sent you the, I want to get to, this is where the, the, I gave you an alternate title for the show today, Tim Young questionable suburbs instead of Will King

Country, which is where we are right now. It's Tim Young questionable suburbs. You were there. We're traveling through these questionable suburbs. So here we are. The mural of RBG, you go over to it, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and for those of playing along at home, it is made of tampons. Now, I'm not sure, and you guys are, I forget who just said that you hang in leftist circles.

But at some point, like, you can have a mural of someone you like, and I don't care about a mural for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I can't knock her service. and she was probably one of the last leftists who was reasonable and actually got along. Granted her beliefs I don't agree with, but got along with people on the right, great friends with Scalia. So I don't care about honoring her. No big deal. But I'm not sure that she would be cool, nor anyone would be cool with a mural made of tampons for themselves. And there's something to it.

It's just gross. I don't know if you guys. And again, if you're in the comments or they're wrapped up. they are out of they're out of the rappers but I mean second rap second rap job

are they used is that's important I would assume so I looked it up they were painted thankfully they were painted but I would

I would put money on some usage I would put money on some usage in those just because of how won't be authentic this whole thing is they didn't

I to the experience I want you know I like a hotel that's not just feminist, but I feel like I can catch something from the lobby. I don't want to, I don't want to just walk freely in and just feel like I'm going to be safe. Speaking of needing a doctor.

Did you get your shots before you came into the hotel, sir? Yeah. No? That's what the, I'm surprised they didn't offer it. I mean, there is a CVS across the street from this place. Beautiful hotel. Great rooftop. I had a great angle of Thomas Circle where I'm not going to do the positive advertising of this.

And by the way, I made sure I am no longer. What? You show me the view. The view was very nice. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. It's wonderful. I could have, me and the Sotomayor pillow could have had a romantic evening if I chose. But we, I just, it was so uncomfortable. And luckily, you know, I'm not still staying there. I could only imagine if I told the front desk I'm going over to Fox News today. Right. To fill in for like a top of one of the topos.

Yeah. Get your items and leave, sir. We don't, we would like you to evacuate the building with that. But I just, I can't imagine. But again, it, we, you know, you. Going back to Joy Reid saying that we're only a little bit better for women in America than Iran. I mean, I would love to see what the feminist-themed hotel would look like in Tehran. Do you think she just comes up with these thoughts like ahead of time or just these crazy notions in the moment? Because it's an insanity to say that. I remember on her show once she claimed when we were complaining about CRT that there was Confederate race theory. And she said that in the South they would always teach at schools that, slavery was great.

Fascinating. That was, I remember that one. I think she spitballs. I think she just goes out there and she goes, you know what? Let's roll with this today. Over Christmas, she said, I saw an article. She said, Jingle Bells was racist. So.

Well, I mean, it is. It is, yeah. They only put the bells on the brown, the brown reindeer. Yeah, so. Dashing through the snow. Dashing through the white snow. I mean, you can really, if you really, if we had a couple of drinks, we could sit around and just wing it.

Yeah. and come up with how everything is racist. That's actually how Libs of TikTok became a very popular account was she started. With all the red string everywhere. Well, she had, when she started, her account was you could name any item or subject and she would go on TikTok and find someone saying it was racist. That's everything. That's a good business model for a social media account.

And it worked. I mean, I remember talking about it again when she only had like $30,000 and she wasn't, you know, get invited to the White House or anything like that. And then, I mean, that was literally. Like, I think pencils was one. You can name anything. And someone says it's racist on that. And I guess that's what happens.

That's what you do with your liberal arts degree from colleges now. Yeah. What about hats? Maybe hats are racist. I mean, this one probably is. Definitely the Round Rock Briscuits. Are you kidding me? Yeah, there's something.

I know one guy who wouldn't like it. James Tala Rico. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know, that guy. Do we have that clip? I think I saw that in there where he, He's running a vegan campaign? Yeah.

Oh, this was back in 2020. Back in 2022. We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal wealth. I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially,

become a non-meat campaign. So we have, we are, we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses. Wow. Yeah, I, I love a campaign that's like, hey, no more meat. We're not doing it. Was he, it looked like he was at a barbecue place. It's either like a liberal beer place or a barbecue place. What'd that look like to you guys? I think so. I mean, definitely fake meat. I saw a recent thing on Instagram. Someone said, you could tell if a guy's a misogynist or not, if you ask him if he, if they would eat tofu and not eat meat. And they're like, that's, that's so right-coded. So if you don't like tofu, apparently you are a misogynist. It's disgusting. Tofu's disgusting. Fried tofu is even

worse. It just holds all the grease in it. You get nothing. You get no, no beneficial flavor from tofu having grease. But again, 2022, and he's still wearing a mask. He was still holding true to the, he was holding hard to the Fauci faith there. You never know. You know, Fauci stopped wearing masks in like 2020, 2020, and people were still, I mean, that was the guy that they were going to for their info. So I guess at some point, the followers were like, I'm smarter than Fauci.

I got this figured out. He lost me when he took the mask off and went back to normal life. Everyone just followed his waves of advice too, by the way. So it was just like, well, you do this, no, now you don't do this. You do this, now you don't do this. You know, everyone just followed along. Yeah, and he didn't care. And I liked when they found out that the stickers on the floor were

and six feet away was just some kids project. It had nothing to do with anything. I still see them. We don't know. Do you still see them around somewhere sometimes? Yes. And can I tell you, the six feet away from me thing is my, the only positive, I think, that came out of COVID.

I don't want people to stand close to me in any line. I agree. I like the arrows and the, uh, in the grocery stores to go up and down a certain way. I was just going to say that. I was just one way, one way streets and in grocery stores. That was my, I loved that one. That one really got me. Because, and you miss it.

You can't just turn around. Yeah. It's over. But, no, Tala riko. Dude, I'm not worried about Tala Rico. I know a lot of people are like there were a lot of people that turned out for the Democrat primary in Texas. I'm not worried about them. You know, Cornyn and Paxton, the best candidate will win out of those two.

I liked Wes Hunt, too. But, you know, Tala RICO and God being non-binary, that's not going to fly anywhere. What was it? He said at some point there were six genders as well or six sexes. this guy has a treasure trove of the craziest lefty things that leftists don't even stand for and that's before you get to the point that Jasmine Crockett said that it was racist that she lost so I'm very excited by his candidacy I think he's going to get blown out of the water they're trying to make him the new Beto but you know Beto at least was cool enough he looked like he would like ride

skateboards and he'd jump on counters and dance around kind of like Tom Cruise at events at coffee shops this guy doesn't have that same charisma so I'm pretty excited about Talarico losing here happy that he's the candidate I'm the only person's going to say that. Do we need to throw to break and then have a little guest come back on? Let's go to break and we'll have a nice guest in a second. David Bezell. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything.

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How you doing, David? Timothy, how are you? I love the old school Washington Reson's helmet on the desk. That is much appreciated. Herald the Russians. Oh, that's right. I forgot about them. You know, I stopped watching football. I was a Cowboys fan until like 93, 94 when they were winning. and then they screw up so much that I just stopped watching at some. So you're a bandwagon?

No, I'm an abuse victim. I'm not a bandwagon, I'm an abuse victim. And, you know, it's same with the New York Mets. I'm a New York Mets fan. And like they get, they almost get there, and then it's just over. And you can't lead me to the water that many times and not drink. I'm failure. David Beaux-El, president of the Media Research Center.

I wanted to talk to you today. Yeah. Because, you know, we were talking about Joy Reid earlier just making stuff up, talking about how America is only a little bit better than Iran. It's one thing if it's just these individual characters saying these things and these stories and this commentary coming through. Yeah. But on the overall, you know, I get these notifications. Everybody gets these news notifications on their phone. I get the Apple News.

I get the Google News. They aren't using any kind of non-biased outlets. The outlets that these major tech companies are pushing are nearly one. 100% leftist groups, right? Yeah, we'll get to the Iran coverage specifically in a second, I'm sure, but Google, month of February, Tim, Google ran 314 left-wing outlets to 11 right-wing outlets in the month of February. Apple was worse, though they have improved, Tim.

Okay, so golf clap for Apple. In the month of January, they went from 440 left-wing outlets on their home page to zero, right wing outlets. In the month of February, they went from 400 left wing outlets to eight. Hazzah! For a half. We're on the board. Yeah, so that's right. We're done. But it's been, and look, these are some of the headlines you'll get a kick out of this, okay? These are some of the headlines that Google decided to showcase, okay, in the month of February. Quote, too many toots? What excessive farting says about your health? That was from Huffington Post. Quote, what Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show taught me?

me about MAGA men. That gem was from variety. Another one, Neanderthal men and women were most likely to hook up study fines from Gizmodo. Thank God. Otherwise, we would not be here, if not for the Neanderthal men and women hooking up before us. So those are the kinds of articles that these guys are promoting to tens of millions of people a month. Am I the only person who, like, didn't think Huffington Post was still a right? round. Right, right. Well, Daily Beast is another one. Apple showcases Daily Beast a ton, but not the daily water, not the daily caller, or not the daily signal. We can discuss whether or not the conservative media apparatus should have some sexier names other than the word daily. But we've got three of them,

and Apple has decided to showcase the Daily Beast, which is long, more often than I can count. You know, I'm the media fellow over at the Heritage Foundation, and do you know how many times I've said Daily Wire in the building when I meant to say Daily Signal? That's fireable, right? Enough that I'm surprised that I haven't seen Dr. Roberts take my contract and just go burr down in a paper shredder. Yeah, we need a variety of new names and conservatism. But it's crazy to me. It's not just that they're picking up these outlets. It's that they've chosen to take those stories.

Like the farting story, are they pushing that as environment, or they pushing that as health? or that was specifically in your 4U tab. I just didn't tell you that part of it. You ever notice that too? You say like two words and suddenly you've got like everything, everything known to man in your in your 4U tab. That's creepy. It's creepy.

Look, the Iranian coverage, too, Tim, has been off the charts bad. And this started. Well, hold on. The competitive, I want to cut you off because I like hearing my voice more than yours, obviously, David. And, you know, it's just I don't get a nominally. like this, I want to hear myself. You know, it's, a lot of people won't admit that, but I'm honest, and that actually makes

me a better person as well. But, no, your coverage of this is incredible over at Media Research Center, because I remember seeing the CNN reporter who got the delightful tour. You know, if you saw the interview, the movie, The Interview, about Kim Jong-un with Seth Rogan and, what's his name, Franco, where they go over and they have, like, the fake grocery stores with the fake fruit in the front, they've had pictures of it, and they show. I feel like that's the tour that CNN got over there. Yeah, CNN got some, I guess you want to call it some exclusive access within the Iranian

borders. The interesting part of the exchange that we had with CNN back and forth, that was our media analyst Nick Fondikara, who dug all this up. And CNN tried to defend itself saying, well, we've been invited to Iranian holiday parties. I guess they didn't even know they had holiday parties over there. We've been invited to Iranian holiday parties for years. I mean, as if that was so sort of like a defense, it turned out to be kind of a self-owned by CNN's part.

But this is the network that is bringing, like, Lee McGowan, who's out there on CNN almost night after night saying gems such as, we are the bad guys in this. And she never gets cut off, right? I mean, Abby Phillips will cut off just about any conservative anytime they make a strong point. But Lee McGowan goes out there on CNN and says that we're the bad guys,

that we started this war and the she just never gets cut off for any of that sort of thing so what's an Iranian what's an Iranian regime party like what are they doing there's no alcohol right right no booze a bunch of well look at the Mondami mayoral office that's basically what you might you got it you got it you get some tea you get to sit around on some some rugs and you guys can share some dates I don't believe that Indian style sitting yes that that's That's, oh, well, you don't call it that anymore. It's, I think they call it crisscross applesau, so though it's much easier to say Indian style,

as we learned from our ancestors. But, no, I, the Momdani thing, probably less flamboyantly gay people at the Iranian parties, though, because he invited all the influencers there, and there were a couple people, I'm like, wow, this would not fly at any kind of Ramadan thing in the Middle East. It's wild to me that they have people convinced that the Iranian regime would be, accepting of others. And Joy Reid saying that they had more women in STEM over there,

STEM jobs than we do. Right, right. I mean, I think back to the clip from former Cardinal, near Cardinal, Conradolen, who was rightfully upset that he wasn't invited to the inauguration of Mondami. But then you have to think, like, maybe he dodged a bullet because he'd be invited to sit Indian-style or crisscross-applesaw style at one of his meetings. I'd like that you're taking the correction. Don't ever take the corrections on that. You say it however you want.

If it's Indian style in your household, it's Indian style and mine. No, it's crazy to me. I just like the guy, the guy, their foreign correspondent who was going through and he goes, this coffee is fantastic at the old truck stop here coming through the, we just passed over the border and, mm, delicious stuff here. I wonder what that is, Ethiopian? What do they got in the country? I just can't believe it.

It's, well, it's across the board. I mean, it started with Washington Post. in their obituary of the Ayatollah, the white bushy beer, the lover of Parisian poetry. He loved poetry. Yeah, he loved poetry. This wry smile. I mean, I couldn't tell if they were talking about the Ayatollah or Jim Morrison half the time. Kind of sounded like Santa.

Right. Exactly. Presents for the little boys and girls. That's right. That's right. And then it's cascaded into late-night TV as well. We tabulated 235 out of the 250 jokes. that were made after the iraq after we started launching bombs there were anti-american

tour i mean every comedian tim and you'd appreciate this as a comedian from phallon to s&l to kemel to cobert they all had a variation of the same bit which is this whole iranian conflict as a distraction from the epstein file they all had the same joke as if they were if they had been in the same chat board thinking of, you know, how could we dig the president tonight? And this is why I think Brendan Carr is out there saying, like, well, now wait a minute, why are the American taxpayers subsidizing to the tune of tens of millions of dollars these broadcast licenses? If we're in a conflict and American men and women are in harm's way, and these guys are out there making jokes about American men and women being in harm's way.

While their side is funding DHS, yeah, while we're doing, yeah, while we're going to be in the Yeah, while we're seeing an uptick and terrorism in this country, and their side isn't funding DHS. So, again, like, they put us, they always complained about, they said Trump was dog whistling when they would take things out of context and conservatives dog whistle. They're literally turning the American people. We're trying to turn the American people against this administration and against America. And it's really, it's scary. It's anti-American. I can't believe that this is where we are.

You've been in the business now for what? You've been monitoring media for 30 years or something now? I don't want to date. Yeah. Well, my father, Brent, started MRC, and we've been up and running since 1987. So we've got close to 40 years doing this. Is it? I mean, is this the worst you've seen it?

Oh, gosh. I mean, when it comes to the Trump Drainism syndrome, for sure, for sure. I mean, look, we're old enough to remember Desert Storm, Wolf Blitzer coming on prime time, giving a sober presentation of our military exercises down over in Iraq in the Middle East, back in the 90s, you can't get that anymore. They won't even err anything that SETCOM puts out, right? And the DHS shutdown. I mean, it's a total blockade of a conservative viewpoint.

Only 8% of the coverage blames Democrats for the shutdown. So all the lines that you're experiencing in TSA, you would not know that this was the Democrats who voted to shutdown DHS to create those lines. So this is the, I'd say where it is sort of the worst, Tim, is this blockade of the conservative media ecosystem, which is flourished despite getting no help at all from Apple, Google, Yahoo, and MSN. And this is where this is sort of the next evolution in the fight against media bias, because if conservatism needs to plant its flag on the biggest news distributors in America, and they all, All four of them are the biggest news distributors in America today, at least online anyway. So the conservative ecosystem needs to be fairly represented on these things.

And right now it's a total blockade against us. And I know you're kind of putting a coalition together to work on that as well, actively putting a coalition together to work on that. I think we forgot about it. I think this is one of those situations where we forgot who was pushing the stuff to our phones that we had in our pockets the entire time. And I think you guys are the ones that caught it and have like pushed forward in fixing the situation, or trying to fix the situation. But it's one of those that we kind of were asleep with the wheel on. Well, so one of the reasons the origin story of this was we were sitting with the senior team late last year.

And I said, just randomly, I said, what's the number one news website in America today? And I was ticked off. It's in New York Times. The chart that we saw was 440 million hits a month. Number two is even more distressing. CNN. CNN.com was 330 million hits in the month of November. Now, Fox is right behind him, but then you start to wonder, how is CNN number three in the cable news ratings race, right?

And number one, well, you used to say airports, where they're getting all this hookup from these big news aggregators, from the Googles and Yahoo's and MSNs. The most telling one was Newsweek, Tim. Newsweek is a top 15 news website in America today. You cannot go 100 miles in any direction and find anyone clamoring to read their newsweek. It sold for a dollar, not 10 years ago. A dollar, it was commercially bankrupt. And again, no one's clamoring to read their news week.

And yet it's a top 15 news website in America today, based solely on the fact that they're getting linked to by MSN 75, 80, 80, last in the February, I think it was 88 times. 88 times. And to close out the year in 2025, they were linked to 143 times. So, you know, you're telling me that there's someone in the conservative ecosystem can't take a couple slots? Is there some kind of exclusivity arrangement going on?

I mean, that's all going to be part of the investigation. But MSN is preloaded on every personal computer in America today. Apple News is preloaded on every iPhone in America. Google News is preloaded on every Android in America. That's why these things are important. I just get Pokemon News from mine, really. There you go. I don't blame you.

That's all I go. I know you do. It's a problem. No, but it's really scary. And again, we aren't paying attention to that stuff. And I'm glad you are, and I'm glad that your organization is. But I think a lot of people including- We're kind of sickos about it, actually.

And Brendan Carr, by the way, credit to him, he's been paying attention. to it too. He's got his eyes open to this stuff. He's one of the best over there. I couldn't imagine again being in a position like that and having to monitor everything and then make the calls on what the organization is going to take a look at and what the administration is going to investigate. There's a lot to take a look at here. Yeah, well it's also the FTC, Andrew Ferguson over to Federal Trade Commission, and he sent a letter to Apple saying, now wait a minute. If you're if you're advertising literature suggests buy our iPhone and included in this iPhone, you'll get this neutral presentation of

news and yet the 440 left-wing outlets to zero right-wing outlets in the month of january that's not neutral at all that's anything but so are they engaged in deceptive business practices that'll you know we'll see if there's an investigation that might ensue and we'll see what apple's responses to that so it's good to you know create some of these pressure points we're not going to be able to get a a neutral balance media ecosystem unless we fight hard for it and maybe maybe it's my lineage, but I just, I've watched different mediums, Tim, and I know you have, whether it's X or talk radio or even Facebook, right? Facebook used to be Obama's play thing, and I think conservatism took it over, and we were right to plant our flag there. We had to. It

was the biggest distribution engine in the world that God has ever created, that man has ever created. And so it's important that we plan our flags on these things. And I don't want to be considered niche anymore. We don't we we were we're bigger than that. And it and I think it's high time for these app aggregators to treat us accordingly. Yeah I'm I'm I'm behind you Pokemon news on there as well. I do that's you know that's me I'm just trying I'm just trying to get paid by that you know all these they say all these influencers are paid by these foreign governments I just want Japan to pay me to go see my mine not me I want some of that action. David Bozell president of the media research center please go make sure that you

go and check out the media research center and all their work, news busters for America, all of the organizations associated with them, because they need the click so that they can monetize it and get the health care and the mental health care that their researchers need for having to watch the view and all those light notes. I mean, the fact that you know how many jokes were made about Iran

and then how they skewed speaks to all of your researchers over there and their hard work and their lack of probably mental stability at this point. David Bousel, thanks for us. joining us today. Thanks, guys. All right, let's throw to break, guys. Coming up after the break, we've got Congressman Tim Burchett, one of my favorites,

and I've got a lot of questions about how we're going to get through all of the blockading from the left in the Senate and in Congress in general. Looking forward to this conversation coming up in a second on Will Kane Country. At Desjardin, our business is helping yours. We are here to support your business through every stage of growth, from your first pitch to your first acquisition, Whether it's improving cash flow or exploring investment banking solutions, with Desjardin business, it's all under one roof. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us, and contact Desjardin today.

We'd love to talk, business. Welcome back to Wilcane Country. I'm Tim Young filling in for Wilcane. If you're not following me at Tim Runs His Mouth, go do that. Not enough time to promote myself here. Let's get right to an excellent guest. It's one of my favorite members of Congress, by the way. I'm so excited.

I want to give Pat and Dan credit for booking this guy because I love his stuff. I got to tell you, Congressman Tim Burchett, Tennessee's 2nd District, when I see your videos, it's like you were the guy who nailed the selfie videos on Capitol Hill for conservatives when I see you going around talking. I actually pay attention to him. But all of your colleagues, you know, just when you're in a big meeting with him, be like, hey, guys, look, I got this. You're not really measuring up like I do. I think you've got to figure out everybody else is just trying to copy you at this point, you know? I'm not sure about that. I guess I'm an eight-year overnight success in Congress, you know, and I first got out here,

I started doing those videos. And, you know, we got a little follow and get a couple of hundred retweets or something back when it was Twitter before it was X, and I didn't do any of the other avenues or anything. And people were making fun of me, you know, about it, how stupid it was. You're always up your nose. You're walking. and it's shaking around and nobody cares about all this stuff. But you know what? I kept finding out.

People did care. They wanted to know about the minutia. They wanted to know why a certain bill wasn't passing or who was putting the wood to them in here in both parties. And now they pay people over 100. Some of these people make over $100,000, you know, $100,000, their Twitter team or something. And they, you know, and you watch videos now. And people are, they've got equipment that actually makes them look sketchy. They don't make them have a great.

accent like I do, but they, you know, they try to make it look like it's homemade or something, and still just me and my, as I call it, my God-given selfie stick, you know, it's just my arm. And that's the way I do them. And we've now got through all the avenues of Twitter and, I don't know, all the other stuff. I've got over a million unique viewers. And some weeks we put in some huge, huge numbers. and that and it's I go through airports and little old ladies thank me for my um you know my videos and stuff and I dig it people need to know what the heck's going on up here what you're paying us

a lot of money not to do and um I'm kind of a threat to the establishment so I kind of dig that look I until what you said there it's true what you do is you turn the camera on yourself when you come out of something and you give your instant reaction to it you talk about what's happening there are full teams of people who have to sit around and scripted 18 times and pass it through the whole staff to make sure that they you know if you're doing your job which is what you're doing you should be able to react that quickly and be like look this is what happened today and this is what's got to happen to make these things move I've also seen you handle some left wing reporters just let them in their place man you're great at what you do you do you're great at what you do you're great at what you do it's a cottage industry and people get paid an awful lot of money to come in and make people look kind of dopey instead of natural it's like you just pick up your phone and say what you think. You did it to get in office. You can do it now, you know. Yeah. I remember one of the first videos that I had that went viral, a big old snake was running across the road. And I snakes, you know, they eat rats and all kinds of stuff. And I reached out and grabbed it and it wasn't poisonous. I can tell what it. I think it was a rat snake, actually.

And I grabbed it. And I remember it. I had my Glock in my back pocket. or in my holster in my bike. It was a nine millimeter's, pretty large early edition of Glock. And not like the slim profile, and like I carry now. And we didn't even know it was showing. And somebody tweeted, somebody said, hey, your gun showing. You know, you're. And my campaign guy says, boss, we need to pull that thing down.

I said, dude, we're in Tennessee. I said, that just got us votes. You know, and I think the uniqueness of our videos and just unedited, you know, I come off the floor, I'm ticked off, or I'm happy about something. I think people need to know that, and they need to know why. And too many times, I think you're right, we do over-edit this stuff, and we need to just put it out there like it is, and America can figure it out. Well, one of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I think she represents Hogwarts,

Rosa DeLaro. She's been trying to do her little videos, and they are abysmal. So I don't know what she's trying to do. I got two more goofy questions for you before we get into the serious, though. Go ahead, brother. One of them is, what type of jacket are you wearing? That hunting jacket, is that a Philson? What kind of jacket you wear all the time?

That's a car heart. And it's just an old, it's funny, Maxine Waters caught me one time getting on an elevator after I was first elected, and everybody's like, man, don't, you know, don't talk to her, you know. And so I'm in the elevator, it's being her. And she looks at me in all sincerity and says, are you that boy that wears that barn jacket? I said, yes, chairlady I am. And she said, why do you wear that? I said, well, three reasons, ma'am.

It's just like me. I said, it's a made in America. It holds up under pressure and it's cheap. And she laughed and said, we're going to get along just fine. You know, we don't agree on anything. But she walks by every now and then gives me a high five and ask me how my daughter and my wife are doing or something. We make a casual conversation. I know that drives people crazy.

But, yeah, I used to wear those. I'd get them in a place called Hammers in Knoxville. And it was the second hand. stuff. We didn't come for money and I don't care if it's got a scratch on it. I'm going to be changing oil in my Jeep or something in it anyway. So, or now I'm cleaning barns and working on a tractor at home or working on one of my motorcycles. So I don't care if it gets scuffed up. And I've been wearing those things over 20 years, I guess, maybe close to 30 years. And I was at a University of Tennessee football game and this guy said, man, this guy wants to talk to you. He's from

Carrhart. He's a vice president or president or something. I said, yeah, well, tell him, to catch up with me. I'm, you know, game days at UT are working days for me. It's in my district. 106,000 of my closest friends are there, so I need to be shaking some hands. So I'm getting down there. And this guy walks up to me and said, started talking to him. I said, are you from Carr Hart? And he said, yeah, how did you know that? And I said, well, you're the first Yankee that's come up and talk to me. So I just figured it out. And he said, really, you know, talk me about my jacket and stuff. And I said, I'm going to quit wearing it, though. And he said, oh, really? why. I said, because you don't make them in America anymore. This one I got here is made down in

Central America. And I talked about too many Americans needing jobs. And he said, we're going to make them in Tennessee next year. So apparently they're making the jacket like I wear now in Tennessee. I haven't double-checked that. But I'm looking forward to finding them made. So I'm going to keep wearing them then if they're going to make them in our country. But I'm about ready to ditch them if they don't. Well, I mean, look, a lot of corporate executives are fleeing to your state because of that lack of income tax. As soon as the state of Washington and put their millionaires tax in,

9.9%. Suddenly you guys are going to have some really crappy coffee in your state. Yeah, we've heard about that. And Tennessee is also a right-to-work state. We don't care if you're in union or not. You're not going to force you to do it. And so Tennessee is, you're right.

It's one of the top... I used to be in the U-Haul business, had a little truck and trailer business, did a little weld and rented a few U-Hauls. And we could never get the big truck. trucks. And now that's all there is. You see them parked everywhere in all the little redneck places like I had, got three or four of the great big, you know, the 24, 26 footers. And it's because everybody's coming to Tennessee and nobody's leaving. So I kind of dig that.

Yeah, yeah. Listen, you can take them. I'm in Fort Worth. I know Will and his staff, when they're regularly in or Dallas, and I know Will's a little around that area. I'd rather them go to Tennessee for the time being instead of coming to Texas. Take a break from coming to Texas for a little bit, guys. Tennessee is a beautiful state. Go over there. Florida's great too. Head those two directions.

What are we doing in Congress right now? I mean, I've got to hop on a plane in about an hour once I run out of here. What are we doing to stop the Democrats with these shutdowns? And is the question that I get a lot for my friends is, is there a way to make, you know, TSA and DHS essential so that we don't have to keep having? having these continuing resolutions and votes to get them funded? Yeah, I don't know the matters they make it essential. The Democrats really don't care.

And the reason they don't is because the vast majority of them, I believe, live here in Washington. You know, these guys, I must be the only guy that sleeps on a couch at night up here. I don't come for money. Parents are career educators. I have a degree in education. And so, you know, I sleep here. I don't have a $1.5 million condo or a house up here, which a lot of people do, apparently, in both parties. And, you know, they don't really, they don't see the lines of TSA. They'll maybe see it

on the news, the internet, but it's, it's that shiny object, you know, that they see. And then it, then they forget about it in about a week. And the trouble is you got Coast Guard and TSA agents and some others that are going without pay. These are working people. They work very hard. And to me, it's just a total disgrace. And it's disgusting. I voted to keep them open and they're using that as a political pawn because they're these border agents and and Tom Holman's folks that go around with that with masks on and maybe have their you can see their badge you just don't see their name because they don't want their their families to be harassed or their lives threatened and

they have a right to that kind of protection and they and that's what they're trying to get at it doesn't have anything to do at TSA then have anything to the Coast Guard but and and some of our other security but the thing is we're in a little bit of a conflict over there in the Middle East, a major conflict. And I know that we've got agents of these countries and literally terrorists that have been released into our country. I was told by the last elected president of Afghanistan that we had a situation where they were,

and he thinks there's over 500 members of the Taliban that are in our dad gum country, and we don't know where they are. So, yeah, I think it's a serious issue, and something bad is going to happen, and that's what it's all about. And they want insurance-free illegals and the drag shows. It's all wrapped up in their little bill that they're not talking about. And the mainstream media will not cover it

because they're so deep in bed with the far left. It's pathetic. Of that $15 they paid for journalism school for their diploma, they need to get it back because they're not covering the full story. And the real story is that they're putting Americans at risk because of for political expediency. And they want to cause as much pain as possible. I mean, are we seeing now Americans wake up? I did see on the weekend shows, the lefties on MSNal and CNN started kind of pointing fingers at the Democrats saying,

hey, this back up at the airport should be over. But is the tide turning? Are you seeing this? Are Americans finally kind of waking up to it? or are they still being manipulated by the media? I think they woke up to it. It's just that I think they're just so overwhelmed. And the Republicans, the best friend the Democrats have is Republican messaging.

In case in point, the week of the state of the union address, what were we messaging? Do you know what we were messaging? No. Probably not because we were messaging appliances. During the Biden administration, they put a lot of crazy rules and regulations, and it cost Americans millions and millions. of dollars. And it's important, but that's not, that's a one day thing. That's what, but that's what we were messaging the week of, of the state of the union. Today we just passed a bill, um, Rouser, I forget what state he's out of, is the bill that we should have been messaging

the week of that because you remember that sweet little girl that got run over by that illegal, um, a guy was driving an 18 wheeler with that, you know, you couldn't speak English, wasn't here legally and nearly nearly killed that sweet little girl. And she's going to have a lifetime of medical care because the dirt bags in Washington want these illegals here to vote. And then they, you know, they don't care about the consequences. And they get all the money coming in through them. And there's a lot of fraudulent stuff going on with them.

But anyway, that's what we should have been messaging, the bill that we put out a committee today, but instead we're doing appliances. And that has a lot to do with the structure, the committees and if I was king for a day, I'd fix that because your committees, they're too big. You've got staff of me, Republicans for a limited governor. I'm on a committee where the staff, I think, is 50 people, 50 Republican people. And then the Democrats probably get 49 or something. I don't know.

But the way that works is that the lobbyist gets to be buddies with some Chuck wagon on the committee, and then you've got an important bill. You can't get it through the committee because why? Oh, that bill won't pass. That's going to cause a lot of problems. But let's do a study on it. And these staff members will tell you, let's do a study on it. And you'll study it.

And let me tell you something, those studies, they go into that warehouse in the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I don't know if you've seen that movie. You know, where they... Of course I have. I've been in Congress for eight dadgum years, and I've never seen a dadgum study. And so you do the study, and it carries the same name as the bill. And your hometown newspaper says, oh, Tim Burchett passed the...

you know, the free all the children bill or something, you know, and it doesn't do that. It just studies it. And what, but in Americans, I'm guilty of this too, we want our pizzas and 30 minutes or less, and that's about our dad-gum attention span. So in one year, nobody's going to be talking about what you're interested in, and then it just goes away. But occasionally somebody's persistent like me, for instance, have a bill to defund the Taliban. it would come as a shock to most Americans.

We're sending about $40 million through various sources and various situations to the Taliban in Afghanistan. We've got over 1,000 NGOs operating there. If you add the UN ones, it could be 3,000 or 4,000 NGOs. And as crooked as a dog's leg, yet we're still doing it. It's taken me two years to get this bill. I got it out once, and then nothing happened in the Senate. I did it again, made it a stronger bill.

now it's in the Senate. It's gotten out of their committee. The one meeting that they've had this year, the first meeting was in just a month ago or something. They finally got it out. But the leadership in the Senate has not seen it upon themselves to defund the Taliban. And, you know, I have even a document from the State Department saying that it's in the billion, I think, $5 billion we sent them so far. So think about that on tax day. And we send the tax, these people will hate us for free, brother. And that's what we work sending your tax dollars, too. Hey, this is Tim Young filling in for Will Kane. We'll be right back on Will Kane Country. At Desjardin Insurance, we know that when you're a building contractor, your company's foundation needs to be strong. That's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your business and provide tailored solutions for all its unique needs.

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Absolutely unbelievable. And that's on top of everything else that we saw coming from USAID and now all the fraud. Do you think the budget would be, do you think we'd have a national debt? Will we have a national debt if we had eliminated all the fraud, waste, abuse, and the money going to terrorist organizations around the world? Well, the problem of that is it's like all these people want to leak, and I'm not going to get into all that, but people want to legalize weed, you know. I go to these libertaries. Oh, legalize weed, man, and tax it. Look at all the great stuff we'll do. Well, no, legalize weed and don't tax it because what happens with the tax dollars like tobacco, we're going to tax tobacco and we're going to pay for education.

Well, all you do is you create this expectation that you're going to continue funding education. You just keep ratcheting it up. And then the numbers drop on the people using tobacco. tobacco. Tobacco is the one product in this country we produce that you use it correctly will absolutely kill you. So you'll have that number decreasing and then people get smart and say, hey, I don't need to smoke. It's killing me. And the numbers go down. You tax it so much. The numbers go down. But you're dependent upon that tax stream. So, you know, I say if you're going to do that, designate the money going towards the deficit. Then yes. Yes, we can do that. But what we'll see is another pot of. money. I remember I was in the state legislature in Nashville, and I was trying to be a fiscal

hawk. And I found a duplication and say $5 million, which is a lot of money in Tennessee, especially back about 2004 or something. And I remember the guy the Democrat sitting beside me, said, that's a great bill. And I was like, hey, thanks, man. He goes, I know exactly where I'm going to spend that money. And so that's the mentality of politicians. Don't tax anything else. Don't rate, don't do that. It just creates more government. And when was the last time we ever taxed something and did something good with it? Oh, health care. No, it's a disaster. Oh, let's do a lottery. So education will improve. We're 18th in the world, or 22nd. When Jimmy Carter moved it up to a cabinet position in 1978, we were number one in the world. Now, billions of dollars, actually,

we spent on education. And we're 22nd. So there's your. your answer. Two questions left for you here. Are we getting the Save Act pass through the Senate, or are they just doing smoke and they're not going to do the talking filibuster? I think they're doing smoking mirrors. Senator Lee and some of the others are doing great work, but I'm afraid, you know, we're going to go down with the ship on that one.

I just don't have a lot of faith in them. I hope I'm wrong. That guy might hope I'm wrong. I see Schumer and some of those other chuck heads up there talking about, you know, how this is racially insensitive. And then it's, you know, all these people can't vote. Well, yeah, illegals can't vote. You play Little League baseball.

Guess what? You got to show a birth certificate. Oh, one of the sooner. I don't know where my birth certificate is. He also lied about his service in Vietnam. Well, guess what? Go to your state that you were born in. Get on the computer.

Get your 12-year-old grandson or granddaughter to show. you how to use the dadgum thing and you can probably get one for next to nothing. It's just and then to say, oh, I can't show an ID for that, that's racist. Well, guess what? You go buy a six pack of beer and knoxle at Wiggles or a scratch off or some over-the-counter cough medicines, you got to show a dadgum ID. You buy a gun, you show an ID. You're flying an airplane, which every congressman does every week. Well, they're supposed to, but most of them just live up here, live and go on some Codale to some Great Island somewhere. And yeah, it's ridiculous. I just don't think they've got the guts to do it. And we are terrible at messaging. Our party every day out of

every press conference ought to lead and end with that. But most of the time it's our leadership up there promoting themselves. I got to throw on another question because you brought up something that I've known about for years. How many of those junkets do you get invited on where you, where you get to go to a little trip to four seasons on an island. They come up like every weekend, don't think because I get invited to them. Yeah, I got invited to two this week, and I'm not going. I've been on one trip as a congressman. I went down to the border for one day.

I stayed in a crappy motel, which I was fine to stay in, and ate some pretty good barbecue, toured the border that night and in the morning, went to the intake centers, and I got on a dadgum airplane and came back to night. Oxford, Tennessee. That was a one-day turnaround. I was gone two days, I guess. I flew down. And then that night, we were there, and then went out on the border with the agents and met some of the illegals. And I talked to some of them and their families and came home.

That's the only one I've ever been on eight years. And yeah, you can go on them every week. And I'm not, I don't know. Some of them, they say you got to meet the people and all this stuff. You know what, I'm on Foreign Affairs Committee. And there's always somebody in my dad. gum office from one of these countries. And I guarantee you, if I wanted to see them, I could put a bad bill in that they wouldn't like. And guess what? They'd be right in my dadgum office.

So. Yeah. Some of them do it. I get it. I might go on some someday. If something comes up that I really need to visit with somebody. And I've been offered trips that weren't necessary legal. I remember I told the guy, I couldn't do that from this country.

He goes unnamed. But he goes, well, why, everybody. else does it. And I said, yeah, well, I'm not everybody else. So as a member of Congress, I'm not supposed to fly on a private plane unless I pay for it. And I don't have a lot of money, so I don't do those. Well, you got to get on that Pelosi investing train, man. A couple of people. Yeah, crazy. Yeah, crazy. As a influencer, as people have labeled me, I hate that label. I get invited to do things with foreign countries all the time, and I always turn them down. I feel like it's scummy to take money from a foreign country, and a lot of folks are doing it.

All right. Last question for you, a real easy one. How do I get one of those skateboards, man? Well, get in line. It's funny. You mentioned the stock trading bill. Well, I'm trying to do everything illegal. I gave one of those to Tulsi Gabbard, trying to think of her name.

She's a buddy of mine. We used to work out some, and she outts me, not this year, but the last year before at the state of the union. And said, my dad's gum birthdays next week. next month, where's my skateboard? I was like, oh, crap. She said that in front of the national media and all the congressmen. They're, yeah, Bertrand, where's your skateboard? So I made her a prototype out of banana fibers, which are off the plant.

One of my passions are getting people down there in Central America to use them, not just for growing bananas, but use the fibers. And I made it out banana fibers, bamboo, and some oak that I had off an oak palette. I made her a really nice pentail. It was a great deal along thing. And I made it really nice and shiny and everything. And I gave it to her. And she was very excited because she wrote me this nice letter and autographed a picture and everything.

It was really cool. Well, that guy, I mean, everybody all over the world is calling me for those things. I'm thinking, I'm a capitalist. I'm going to make a few skateboards because I've been doing it for a while. I just made it for my, make them for myself or whatever, my nephew or somebody. And so I'm making these dadgum things. I think, well, I better check with ethics before I try to sell one. Well, I go down there.

And this dadgum guy tells me, starts giving me all this runaround. I'm really getting ticked off at him. He's an attorney. And I said, so let me get this straight, brother. I said, I can insider stock trade as a member of Congress, but I can't sell a skateboard. That's about right. So I met with an attorney last week. So I got to get an LLC.

My wife's got to own it. And I go to work for her, which if you're married, you work for, you know, you do anyway. You're already there. So I'm going to work for her. And I'm limiting on how much money I can make. I don't know what it limits her. And I got to put my barn, my farm actually, in an LLC protection, all that stuff. So, yeah, I've got probably, I don't know, 35 of them in my barn now that I've made various

states of prototypes and everything. I use typebond three glue. I don't use any fiberglass or any resins because I'm 61. I've evaded lung cancer to this point. I sure don't want to get it now huffing a bunch of fiberglass fumes. So I just tell you if you can just get it. It's going to be birchit boards. If I can ever just get it online, I'll be there. But they're not. Listen, Tony Hawk's not going to call me and say, dude, I'm going to compete nationally in the Olympics in one of your boards. These are cruisers. You put on your wall. They're kind of old-school throwbacks, but that's what I love.

And they're like, I always, you know, I'm a Christian. I'm not very good one. I always tell me my boards are a whole act like me. They got a lot of flaws, but they're forgiven. And so you can get down the road on it, and that's about it. It's not, not anything really fancy. But I've got a lot of new prototypes I'm working on and laminates, laminating different kinds of wood and stuff.

And anyway, so I'm working on it, brother. Between that, you could do a combo deal with that and Carhart. You could get a Carhart Jack. Yeah. A version of American Made and that with it. Look, I'm not giving you ideas there, but that sounds like a $300 combo right there. That's a good idea all right there. There you go.

I'm giving out advice to keep you from insider trading. Look at you being out. It's crazy. You're one of the cooler members of Congress, like I said earlier on, just by being yourself and not insider trading. A crazy concept. To be elected as yourself, being. normal, work for the American people, not take

fraudulent trips to foreign countries, and not inside a trade. Like I said, when I started here, one of the best in Congress right now, Congressman Tim Burchett. Thanks for joining us today, sir. Thank you, brother. I hope next time I'll show you one of my skateboards. I need to get one down

here, because there's like a skateboard caucus. There's several, and they're all Republicans, oddly enough, that have their skateboards here and they ride around some. I think I'd be cool at night. Ilhan Omar's not on that one? I know. Hey, look, you know, I have no problems with you working on a legitimate business with your wife. Her husband made $30 million, I believe it was, from the winery that doesn't exist.

Yeah, I've been told somebody said, Burchard, if you could just be a little bit crooked. Just a little bit. That's why I never want to be a member of Congress, because if you do it honestly, you lose money. It's one of those crazy things. It's truly serving the people. It's expensive up there, man. You go out for a bed-gum taco basket. It's like $60 or something with a cold drink.

I don't even drink, man. I remember one time I was, I know you got to go, but I was celebrating. I got invited to the White House and Trump was laughing at my, President Trump was laughing at my jokes. This is the first term and invited me in the Oval Office. And I walked in, I said it was so surreal. I thought I heard Leonard Skinner singing Freebird in the background, but I'm not sure. Maybe that was just in my head.

But I took my chief of staff out to celebrate and I took him for some barbecue joint down here. And these Yankees have just messed up barbecue. You're not good. Yeah, it's not good. Cornbread, if you got sugar in it, man, I don't want cake. I want a pre-sacquit. Cornbread's got to fight you when you swallow and scratch you. It costs me almost a hundred bucks to celebrate going to the White House. It's like, man, this town is a racket. What's your go-to in Tennessee?

Is it Central? Do what? For barbecue. What's your barbecue place in Tennessee? Central? Well, we've got, I'm in East Tennessee, so you've got Calhouns and buddies is a favorite. And I, barbecue chicken, though, I've got a rest, I haven't got my favorite saved in my phone. My mom had this really easy barbecue recipe for chicken.

I'd rather eat my mama's barbecue recipe. She's dead now in heaven, but I'd rather eat that. I've got a picture on my phone saved of four big old half chickens that I was cooking on the grill. It looks so good, and I spray her barbecue sauce on it. And that's my all-time favorite. I get to do that on my birthday and stuff. That's awesome. Congressman Tim Burchett, I want to have this conversation longer with you one day. Get those skateboards, man. You can watch me run up my health insurance on them.

Yeah. I sold one at auction last week for $5,200. Okay, well, I can't afford a $5,200 skateboard. Yeah, it's crazy. And then some other guy, I guess he'd been at the bar. He said, if Burchett will make me one, I'll give you $5,200 for it, too. So the charity got $10,400. I'm going to go get, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go get one of those $100,000 consulting gigs for social media for one of your colleagues. I think you need to do that, brother.

You can advise them for about a week. Yeah. I'd say there's a lot of that, and it'll be paid for by a foreign government through their. It doesn't matter. That's a long story. We can do this all day long. Thanks for being here, sir. Thanks for all the hard work you put in.

And good luck with everything that's going on in Congress. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. It's a real honor. Yeah, thanks for being here. All right, guys. What a great show today, huh? Yeah, I love it. That's great. Pat and Dan are gone. Pat and Dan are gone already.

Dude, I could have talked to Congressman Burchett all day long. I love that guy. He's awesome. Yeah, he's great. But look, we've run out of time. And in a good way, we've run out of time. I want to thank you all for having me, both of you, two-a-day Dan and tinfoil pad. We appreciate you. And I want to thank Will Kane for, he probably had no idea that I was going to be filling in for him this week. He would put the kibosh on it. He's surfing or something in Mexico.

I don't know what you're on. He's out there. Man, that guy's too athletic for me. I'm in here just eating the goldfish for him, you know, so he doesn't get those carbs. I will see you guys next time. Thanks for being here and make sure you tune in every day to Will Kane Country. Talk to you soon. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast. And Amazon Prime members, you can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon music app.