Will Cain Country - Lori Lightfoot EXPOSED: Chicago Tried Trump’s Crime Plan (ft. Kennedy & Vince August)

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Story #1:  In Chicago, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot and current Mayor Brandon Johnson deflect the blame of their crime epidemic onto red states for the city’s violence and guns on the streets. Will ...breaks down the data, exposes the falsehoods, and explains how decades of failed leadership have left the same neighborhoods suffering the same crimes with victims paying the price for political lies. Story #2: Host of 'Kennedy Saves the World,' Kennedy, sits down with Will to hit on the week’s big cultural flashpoints, from comedian Druski’s NASCAR bit and the double standards of comedy, to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bizarre hot mic chat about living forever through organ replacement, to why dystopian fantasies like The Handmaid’s Tale shape the Left’s worldview. Story #3: Comedian and former judge Vince August joins Will to break down the addition of commercials to the NFL Network's Red Zone channel, and the truth behind President Donald Trump's trolling of Rosie O’Donnell. Vince and Will also reminisce over completing the 'Pete & Bobby Challenge.' Subscribe to 'Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: Watch Will Cain Country! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 One, the same people committing the same crimes with the same victims are the problems of Chicago, New York, and New Orleans, the fault of red states, or is it a tolerance of murder on the streets of Chicago? 2. Hot Mike. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discuss immortality, replacing your organs over time and living forever. You've got to hear the hot mic from Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. With Kennedy saves the world's Kennedy. Three, the Red Zone channel will take commercials and everyone is mad. They're mad at ESPN, they're mad at the world. We'll break it down with comedian Vince August.
Starting point is 00:01:04 It is Wilcane Country, streaming live from New York City at the Wilcane Country YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page, terrestrial radio stations across this great United States of America, but always on demand by subscribing at Apple or on Spotify. Welcome in to the New York City studios of Wilcane Country. Not in the country, but in the city, not rural, but urban. For one more day till we return to the friendly confines of Texas. Texas, Dallas, Houston, Austin, not unlike often. Cities like Chicago, New York, and New Orleans,
Starting point is 00:01:43 where the same people commit the same crimes and produce the same victims, a chronic epidemic of crime. Is it unsolvable? Or can it be handled? by President Donald Trump. Let's get into that with story number one. Former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot suggests that everything that Donald Trump is saying about the city of Chicago is manufactured.
Starting point is 00:02:08 It's not a real problem. There's not violence. There's not crime. There's not a problem in Chicago. And if there is, it's not their fault. It's not the fault of Mayor Brandon Johnson. It's not the fault of Governor J.B. Pritzker. It's certainly not the fault of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Starting point is 00:02:22 It's the fault you see. of red states. Here's Lori Leifford. The crime rate has gone down. You heard the numbers of decreases in homicides and shootings and other violent crimes that have gone down and have been going down for the last four years. We can't ignore that because the president is making up his own fact. And we also know there are red cities in red states that have higher per capita rates of
Starting point is 00:02:49 gun violence and other violent crime that we're not hearing coming out of the president's mouth as a place is where he really wants to go. So I just don't, will not play this game. This is about violent crime. What do communities need? We need to stop the flow of illegal guns. Mayor Johnson was 100% right about that. You don't gut the ATF, which is, by the way, really small to begin with. You should increase and expand the numbers. False, false, false. One, even if the crime rates going down over the last four years, does that mean you've achieved some level of tolerance when it comes to crime and one of the worst cities in the united states of america chicago which i believe comes in at about number eight and violent crime per capita have you achieved an acceptable level of
Starting point is 00:03:32 violence for chicagoans two i defy you former mayor laurie life but to name the red cities and red states that have worst per capita violent crime rates than the city of chicago of course she would not be able to she's not playing a game but she's actually yes indeed playing a game a game of falsehoods you know that if you watch wilkane country we have laid out free They're not the top 10, but the top 20, the top 30 cities in the country, violent crime per capita, all blue cities. Some blue cities in red states, but all blue cities. Name for me the red city in the red state that has worse violent crime per capita than Chicago.
Starting point is 00:04:16 Of course, a red city implies a Republican mayor, Republican policies. A Republican state implies Republican governor. Republican policies. Almost every, almost every. I believe the number is only five out of the top 50 cities in America for violent crime per capita would be characterized as red cities. And then she suggests that almost all the problems being imported in Chicago when it comes to guns are the fault of the policies of red states. That's something we're also hearing from the current mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. We need the federal government to stop the endless flow of guns into our state and into our city.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Chicago police officers have taken more than 24,000 guns, illegal guns, off the streets of Chicago since I've taken office. We will never be able to end gun violence in Chicago as long as the president continues to allow tens of thousands of guns to be trafficked into our state and our city. The vast majority of guns do not come from Chicago. They are not made in Cook County. They are not bought in the state of Illinois. These guns come from red states. They are coming from Indiana. They are coming from Mississippi.
Starting point is 00:05:40 They are coming from Louisiana. And that is the harsh reality, whether Republicans like it or not. That is not the harsh reality. That is false. You know how you know Brandon Johnson is lying? His lips are moving. The ATF has published their data from 2023. Here is the data from the ATF.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Roughly 23,000 firearms recovered in the state of Illinois in 2023. Of those, 9,147 were from Illinois. And in a distant second, 2,000, roughly 800 were from Indiana. beyond Indiana, there were not even 1,000 guns recovered or traced with origins in another single state. You wanna take a look on your screen, you'll see guns like, from Texas, recovered in Illinois, 315, from Tennessee, 390,
Starting point is 00:06:35 from Mississippi, 419. Over 9,000 of the 23,000 guns recovered in Illinois originated in the state of Illinois. False. Wrong. Lie. Mayor Brandon Johnson. That sets aside the fact that a gun is a tool. Blaming a gun for violence is blaming a fork for someone being fat. A gun is a tool. A human being has to be on the other end of that gun. A human being has to be pulling the trigger. And if you want the truth about the problem of crime in Chicago, or in New York, or in New Orleans, or in Dallas or Houston, or Birmingham, Alabama,
Starting point is 00:07:16 is the same group of people committing the same crimes on the same victims over and over. Here are stats out of New York City, the three-year recidivism rate. Nearly 40% of people released from Illinois prison, this is not from New York City, this is actually from the state of Illinois, nearly 40% of people released from Illinois prison populations returned within the next three years. World Population Review cites a 2024 three-year re-incarceration rate of 36. 7% for Illinois, while 2019 saw 43% according to the Illinois State Commission on criminal justice and sentencing reform. In 2011, the Pew Research Center found that at 52% Illinois had one
Starting point is 00:08:03 of the highest recidivism rates in the country. Recidivism is the act of re-engaging in criminal offending despite having been punished. The recidivism rate is the proportion of persons released from prison who are re-arrested, re-convicted, or returned to custody within a specific time period. Whether or not it is New York or Illinois, the same people commit the same crimes over and over. When we talk broadly about crime in Chicago, we get the impression that it's every citizen or a large percentage of the citizenry committing crimes, committing murder, committing theft. It's not. It's the same group of people in the same neighborhoods over and over committing the same crimes. You have a relatively small portion of people
Starting point is 00:09:00 in America responsible for making it unlivable to be in America. And if you want to be specific, what we're talking about when it comes to the overwhelming majority of crime is that most of the crime in Chicago occurs on the south side and the west side. of Chicago. Most of the crime in New York occurs in the Bronx and in Brooklyn. Most of the crime in Dallas occurs in South Dallas. These are poor black neighborhoods, where the criminals are primarily black perpetrators. But the real catch is that the victims, almost inevitably, are black Americans. For Donald Trump to offer assistance to Chicago or New York, or Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:09:50 And for that to be denied and turned down by the likes of Brandon Johnson is to essentially say, for decades we've had a problem of crime, of victimization in black neighborhoods in cities across America. Committed by black perpetrators. Black-on-black crime, black-on-black murder.
Starting point is 00:10:11 It is in chronic, decades-long, half a century long, problem in the United States. And if someone is offering some solution, and maybe the solution isn't perfect in your mind, maybe that solution shouldn't require the National Guard, but that solution has remained elusive for every local politician for a half a century. Maybe at some point your citizenry requires
Starting point is 00:10:32 that leadership takes action, leadership takes decision-making, leadership requires a solution. And for Brandon Johnson or J.B. Pritzker, or Lori Lightfoot, or Zora Mamdani, should have become the mayor of New York City, to deny their people a solution, a people that have been victimized chronically
Starting point is 00:10:55 for half a century is to consign those people, not just to a lifetime of victimhood, but generations of victimhood. If you're born on the south side of Chicago, you're black and you're poor, you are highly likely to be the victim of a violent crime. And for Brandon Johnson to deny you a potential solution, is for him to consign not just you, but your family and your children and your neighborhood
Starting point is 00:11:19 to the same type of epidemic that your parents suffered, that was suffered by your grandparents. And for them to shift the problem to the inanimate object of the gun, for them to shift the problem to faraway states and far away politicians, is not just a lie, it's an insulting lie. And it's not just an insulting lie, it's a harmful. lie. It literally kills. The lies of Lori Lightfoot and the lies of Brandon Johnson literally kill black victims on the south side of Chicago. If the problem is too much for you, then leadership is too much for you. You don't belong with power in Chicago. You don't belong with
Starting point is 00:12:09 power in New Orleans. You don't belong in power in New York. Get out of the way and let a real leader solve the problems of Chicagoans. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping say they want to live forever, and they might be able to pull it off. Plus, I keep talking about the Handmaid's Tale, dystopian vision of the left, but they keep giving me evidence this is actually what they think might be the real world. And what would you do with $1.4 billion, the latest Powerball? We break it down with the host of Kennedy Saves the World. Kennedy next on Wilcane Country.
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Starting point is 00:13:52 better on the other side. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcast.com. Replace your liver, replace your heart. Live forever. That's the secret, apparently, of Vladimir Putin. It is Will Cain Country streaming live at the Will Cain Country. You YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page, hit us up at Spotify or on Apple. While you're there, check out Kennedy Saves the World. And I've got the host with me right now. Welcome in, Kennedy.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Thank you, Will Kane. I am dressed casually. I also am dressed casually. I just told Kennedy, I'm going to meet with the big boss right after her show, which I will be taping after Wilcane Country. I said, am I too casual. No, no. No.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Are you wearing pants? Your voice is doing funny things. It's not inspiring comments. You know when somebody says something and their voice goes up at the end? You're saying something though by being casual. I just want to make sure what you're saying is you and I are so comfortable with each other
Starting point is 00:14:54 that I can be myself. Or it's saying I don't care enough about it to look my best. Well, I can always say I was just on air. I mean, if you showed up in a top hat and tails, that might be trying too hard. But I don't want to show up in a tank top. I don't know, man. It's a different world.
Starting point is 00:15:13 You know, I've never adopted the tank top, Kennedy, and it's a commitment. I see a guy every once in a tank top, and I think that guy's really rocking it. He's pulling off the tank top. You're saying something. So you're either saying like, I am so comfortable with my body, like I'm soft and have man boobs, and I don't care who knows, or it's like, I look so good, I can't keep this away from the world. But it's like you're definitely saying something. But I think it has to be a specific tank top.
Starting point is 00:15:40 It's got to be the ones that are loose around the armpits and thin around the top of the shoulder. I don't like simply something that's close to sleeveless. It's got to be very... I like the tank top that says, I just got done fishing and smoking a pack of Marlborough Red. Sure. You know that tank top? Absolutely. That's the tank top I like.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Yeah, I like that tank top as well. And I don't have that in the arsenal. That's okay. You don't necessarily have to because you are saying something. I mean, you are saying something either check out or be repulsed by my body. That reminds me. I want to introduce to you a comedy bit by a guy named Drusky. Are you familiar with Drusky? I've heard the name Drusky.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Drusky's gotten big on social media. He's a black guy. He does a lot of situational comedy. Oh, I know you're talking about. Yeah, NASCAR guy. Well, sometimes. He hangs out with Roll Tide Willie, who's a big Alabama fan. I don't give a piss about nothing but the Tide. Well, he didn't have a good weekend last weekend, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:16:35 He did not? Good point, Kennedy. Well, Drusky dressed up and went to a NASCAR race. But he didn't just dress up. He body painted up. Yes. And he did a little bit of reverse soul man. You're a child like me of the 80s and 90s. You remember the C. Thomas Howl movie?
Starting point is 00:16:51 Are you kidding me? Soul man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where he became black to get into Harvard. And then he lived the life once at Harvard of a black man. Well, Druski decided he was going to live the life of a white man at a NASCAR race. Okay. Watch. Oh, I thought you had that side.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Oh, if he doesn't have it. Two of a days, I texted before the show, I guess we weren't able to pull that off. Here's the question though, Drewski, it's amazing. I'm gonna put this down now. It's amazing hair and makeup. Okay, yes. He looks white. Yes.
Starting point is 00:17:23 And he's even got a sunburn. Yeah, I saw that he has a farmer's hand. He's wearing overalls. Yeah. Okay, and he's interacting. There's some pictures on the screen of what he looks like. It's incredible. Let's just take a moment and just marvel at the hair. the hair and makeup. That is award-winning level.
Starting point is 00:17:39 Is that a painted on tattoo? Because that's all pretty great. So he has- Very convincing. Painted on white skin. Okay. Painted on sunburn. Painted on tattoos. It's layers on layers. That is commitment. So do you remember the Eddie Murphy skit from Saturday Night Live where he dressed up as a white man and wanted to see what it was like being a white man for the day? I do. Yes. It was very, very funny. And so he's on the bus and the one black guy gets off the bus and all the white people start cheering and dancing because they're by themselves and he goes to buy the paper and the guy's like no no you're white just take it just go ahead it's
Starting point is 00:18:15 yours he got unlocked into a secret world a secret world of white people um it's it's funny uh drusky does some things in there like when uh he interacts very um uh tensely with black people he spits at their feet and he says things like what are you doing boy here at this nascar race it's Well in service of comedy, though, because of course, Drewski's black and he's pretending to be a white redneck, interacting. I'm not thinking... I know, but that's not what white rednecks do. It can happen, but I've been to plenty of NASCAR races. I watch a lot of NASCAR.
Starting point is 00:18:49 My sexy teenage boyfriend is a huge NASCAR fan. We watch NASCAR every weekend, because we watch qualifying on Saturdays too, and a lot of Xfinity Cup races as well. So I've been, I know these people, I'm from Southern Indiana, I grew up going to Stockholm, car races, they don't spit, I don't like that stereotype. I totally agree, but it doesn't bother me because it's in service of comedy. Drewski is just being funny. If it was funny, no, we don't have the clip right here. I know.
Starting point is 00:19:17 I can't see it, but if it's funny, like much and most is forgiven in comedy if it's funny. Okay, this is what I want to challenge you on though. I don't, I don't take anything, and maybe there are people to do that are upset that Drusky did this and painted white rednecks in this light. I think he did it in service of comedy. So I'm not upset. However, I do think there's a thinky thing here. If it were still in service of comedy,
Starting point is 00:19:38 but the roles were reversed, would it be pulled off? So if a white man dressed up as black went into a black community, did this, but it was funny. No. It wouldn't be acceptable. I mean, there is still a double standard. But even if it was super, super funny. Even if it was super, super funny.
Starting point is 00:19:58 Why don't you ask your friend Megan Kelly, why? Because she asked the same question and got fucking. fired from NBC for asking a question. What was her, she got fired from NBC for talking about wearing black face on Halloween. And she said, why is it so offensive? She just asked why. Just like you are asking out, why is there a double standard? She did nothing more than what I've done right now.
Starting point is 00:20:19 And it unleashed, holy hell. And they're like, we're going to give you the 60 million remaining on your contract. Just go away and never come back. That was it. That was it. For simply asking why. Can I ask a couple more questions? They're like, no.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Leave. I don't have a $60 million contract, or I'd keep pushing the issue right now. Well, maybe if you're dressed in the suit, you would. Maybe if I didn't show up to meetings with the executives in a short-sleeved shirt. Yeah, but I do think it's an interesting question, why? Even if it got Megan Kelly fired, why if it's in service of comedy? You're right. Funny forgives.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Richard Pryor said that. You know, when Richard Pryor tackled a lot of race issues head on in his comedy, and he was very honest, but he said, like, all is forgiven if it's funny. But you know, people don't see it that way because they choose to make comedy so subjective that if I choose to be aggrieved, it is no longer funny. And only some people have the aggrieved card. So you, some cards have power, some cards are impotent. And the reverse card is impotent. Yeah. And that card is powerful. I hopefully I'll have this clip when we pull this one off as you put your headphones to your ear. Have you seen, I'm sure you have, the clip of
Starting point is 00:21:31 Xi Jinping in Vladimir Putin. I love this. I think this is incredible. Watch them meeting in China. China. Xi Jinping says, yes, you are still a child. Vladimir Putin is suggesting to Xi that earlier people lived, it was hard for him to live to 70.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Xi Jinping says, yes, now everybody can live past 70. And then Putin, in Russian, which I'll translate for you, with the development of biotechnology, human organs can be replaced and transplanted, and people can live younger and younger and achieve immortality. Yeah, okay. They're having a casual conversation
Starting point is 00:22:14 walking down a red carpet in a military parade with Vladimir Putin talking about organ transplants to achieve immortality. Yes, so the couple things here. This is how my friends and I talk when we discuss going to South Korea for beauty treatments, because we're like, I don't care what it is.
Starting point is 00:22:30 I don't care how they get it. If it makes me look better, I will do it. I have this conversation today with a friend here on the 12th floor. And we're talking about what do they do in South Korea? Because there are all these rumors, like you can get stem cells, you can get salmon sperm, you can get injections, you can get electro shocks, it's cheaper, it's better. They'll do it all at once and you'll look amazing. So I think they're basically having the conversations that me and my friends that we have
Starting point is 00:22:59 about Soco beauty. Oh, Vlad and G, you're just talking about how to, do you do Botox? Yeah, I do fillers. Yeah, exactly. Do you do liver transplant? They worry about, like, have you ever done the CO2 laser? I thought about it, but then a friend told me to get Morpheus.
Starting point is 00:23:11 Oh, I hear that doesn't work at all, and it's very expensive and painful. So that's the same thing, like they're both terrified they're going to die, and there were rumors for years that Putin had pancreatic cancer. Well, if he really did, and he's still alive, he probably, if he had pancreatic cancer, he was surgically treated, maybe chemotherapy, and he has obviously overcome the malady. But guys this age who want to be powerful forever, they'll think of ways to keep living
Starting point is 00:23:40 so they can extend their power. My worry is that with dictators, they are going to farm the organs from people who are not necessarily willing to give them up by virtue of dying. And so my worry is that in China, they have Uyghur farms where they just go in and take out livers and kidneys and eyeballs and whatever they want and use them
Starting point is 00:24:03 for the upper echelon. Is the right size for Vladimir? Yes. Do you think Vladimir would like this pancreas, but you can't transplant a pancreas? Okay. I don't know anything about pancreas. You can do a whipple, but you cannot transplant it. You know way too much.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Are you afraid of death? Um, interesting, no. Like the idea of death and being gone doesn't scare me. It never has. Me either. I've never been scared alike. rattlesnakes or spiders, like, nothing like that. I get a little yippy on bumpy plane flights,
Starting point is 00:24:35 but I think like a painful death, the act of dying is scary, but actual, like on the other side I think is fascinating. Yeah, I don't think about death. I think some people do think about death. Yes. Meaning this all comes to an end. I don't think about that at all, really.
Starting point is 00:24:54 Warren Buffett, who I'm a big fan of Warren Buffett, I think he's one of the most wise men. He and I don't agree on everything when it comes to politics, but he's obviously one of the greatest investors of all time, one of the richest men in the world, apparently and reportedly, is thinks about death. Thinks about death a lot. I don't.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Now, maybe with age, I'll begin to think about it more as it gets closer, but I hear this from Vladimir Putin, and that's what kind of strikes me is guys thinking about death. And maybe he's just thinking about it academically and theoretically, and they're having an interesting conversation the same way you and I are. Well, no, they both supposedly carry around their own toilets. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:27 I read that so that you won't take Vladimir Putin's DNA off of stool samples. Yeah. So when he comes to America, they take home his stool. They have the poop police and they will descend on any hotel he stays at. But I don't know. I think it's interesting that there are some people who,
Starting point is 00:25:44 it's a big part of their life to put it in the context of death. It's the driving force. It is fearing death. It is fighting death. It is the terror of the inevitability. But it's like, if you, can get past that, I think your life is a lot more fun. I do too.
Starting point is 00:26:02 But that fun doesn't include fat injections for me. So I want to know you are at the front end. You still have the subtle, like nice, firm, succulent cheeks. Like you're fine. Thank you. Never had that described for me in that way. I yet find myself fascinated by all of it. It's on my Instagram feed and I read about what did, I don't know what he did, but there's
Starting point is 00:26:24 something different about Tom Brady. And I'm fascinated by the things that everybody is doing. And here's my only question for you. If you are somebody who's open and honest about you are actually interested in, like going to South Korea, doing all these different things, how do you feel about the idea of being a first adopter? Like you want to get the first iPhone, but I'm not sure you want to get the first fat injection. I don't want to get the first beauty thing.
Starting point is 00:26:42 Yes. And I'm very confident that there are people who seek this stuff out more aggressively with greater urgency. And I ride their coattails. Yeah, let them be a guinea pig. Absolutely right. And then if someone looks great, I go, So, oh, that's cool, that's much more interesting than withering away.
Starting point is 00:27:01 But what is your timeline? Like you should let the guinea pig play out for a little bit. Like let's see how it settles in five years. Yeah, but it keeps like it keeps changing. Like you know, when I was 30, Botox was a thing and I was like, oh, that's terrifying. People are going to poison themselves. And then more and more my friends did it. I'm like, well, that's very intriguing.
Starting point is 00:27:22 But then you see people who overdo it with things like filler and they have body dysmorphia and they're like oh you know my face falling apart I have to put more crap in my cheeks and then they get like Chrissy Teagan chipmunk cheeks and they look awful and everyone knows and there's no one in their life going hey pump the brakes everyone's like ha ha ha Chrissy look amazing like never better all right I want to I have this theory Kennedy and I'm not not unique this is not some special pearl of mine but apparently the most impactful piece of fictional content to be released in the past decade has been The Handmaid's Tale.
Starting point is 00:27:59 It has shaped an entire political movement and an entire generation. And they are living in this dystopian reality, thinking it was a documentary. And I have used this often on television and on this show to say this is how they make sense of the world. This is how they make sense of Donald Trump, that it's actually the Handmaid's Tale playing out. Well, I've been validated because a reporter for, I believe it is for Huff Post, Jennifer Bender, She claimed in a viral tweet that Union Station DC is now a literal representation of the Handmaid's Tale. You can see it on your screen as we speak. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:28:33 This is what she posted. But many people are pointing out, yeah, but you dressed up in the Handmaid's Tale outfit to make it look like the Handmaid's Tale. She's standing next to some National Guardsmen at Union Station. Is it Union Station in, it is Union Station in Washington, D.C. I've been there a lot of homeless people. Why do they think it's a documentary? They literally are believing, living the Handmaid's Tale.
Starting point is 00:28:56 I don't know, but if you're going to invest that something is a documentary and it is the terrifying vision of what dystopia will really look like, watch idiocry. That is much more accurate. And every time something weird happens, it's like, well, idiocracy was in fact a documentary. Have you seen it? Oh yeah, I have. And I've said this, I was just, while you're saying it, I'm trying to think did idiocracy has it played out
Starting point is 00:29:26 because people have said this from time to time so one of the big points of idiocry is that people stop having babies and what is it that only the stupid people have procreated and that's that's I mean and then they get law degrees at Costco and a professional wrestler's elected president of the United States and everybody drinks energy drinks at all times they're like well here we go
Starting point is 00:29:48 and everybody's only drinking caffeinated energy drinks And the plants won't grow. It is, you're right. A little bit close to true. I've done this story. Birth rates are on the decline. Yes. Do you know who birth rates are on the decline
Starting point is 00:30:01 the most notably by is by the political left? So they're going to say, yeah, it's just your stupid right-wingerers that are having babies, so we're headed for a bureaucracy. Great, cool. But I'm looking at this stats going, this may actually be our savior.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Yeah, no, this is great. There are people running around going, maybe we shouldn't have a third. It's like, yes, do it. I have more babies. Good people should have babies. I agree. I wish I had more babies.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Too late. Unless I get my organs transplanted. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. I'm Janice Dean. Join me every Sunday as I focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com.
Starting point is 00:30:41 This is Jimmy Phala, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas. Just kidding. It's only a three-hour show. Listen live at noon Eastern or get the podcast at Fox Across America.com. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. Powerball, $1.4 billion.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Bought 20 tickets yesterday. Did you really? Yeah. Well, you say it like that. Because they rolled over from yesterday. It's like, I didn't win. I was so optimistic. I was behind the lady at this kind of dirty little bodega on 10th Avenue.
Starting point is 00:31:15 And she was buying, like, you know, I could tell she was a hard, working woman and she was buying powerball tickets. She was buying like the different electronic tickets. She was buying the scratchers and I love scratchers. Like you are an optimist if you're scratching tickets like oh yeah, give me the $30. And and she bought the $30 one and the $5 one and I was hoping I was like if it's not me then please let it be her who wins the $1.3 billion because you know it did roll over it's going to be more money and I'm going to play again. Cash value $634 million.
Starting point is 00:31:50 I'm fine with it. Taxes, you're probably taken home now. What are we looking at? $350 million. That's okay. I can deal with $353.25. We start going below $3.15. I'm having a little bit of an issue. You don't put your job. Below 300, you keep your job? No way, yeah. What do you do with $350 million? Two chicks at the same time. No, I'm sorry. Probably buy a rad jet. Okay. Not just like a private plane. not just like a G6, but like, or G7, I don't know what they're up to now. Give a lot to charity. Let's say that. Let's get that out from...
Starting point is 00:32:27 Obviously, I would buy the plane to fly the orphans wherever they want to go. Give a lot to charity. Which hopefully is like... ...help out my family. Bali, Fiji, finds a good surf rakes. A nice gentle right here, there. You bring up a great purchase. Okay, with $350 million, the first thing I said I'm going to buy is a ranch.
Starting point is 00:32:44 I'm getting thousands of acres. I don't care the price per acre. We have $300 million. I'm going to buy this ranch. I didn't say what you said, and I should have, because people that know, and I'm not someone that knows, but people that know say the biggest life-changing experience that wealth can bring is the private plane. It changes your life. Nice. You get everywhere you want to go.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Yeah, that's what I want. Easy time. Exactly. No TSA. I want the jet. I want the big fat. I want the 767, not the 787. I'm not selfish.
Starting point is 00:33:13 But it's like, you know, I want to do like the sprinter van version on a plane where you have like great storage and comfy seats and entertainment and a Pilates reformer. Like, I want all that on the private plane. Like, it's going to be amazing. And then I want John Travolta. I even have so much money, I want John Travolta to be the full-time pilot. Because he knows how to fly jets. I only 300 million is going to get you John Travolta.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Well, it's not, but, you know, hopefully we invest a little bit. We grow some things. Have you heard this before? And I've heard this conversation had. It's usually among very wealthy people. That there is a certain amount of wealth that is a diminishing return. There is a sweet spot on wealth, and that over that, the wealth actually becomes burdensome and less happy. And the number, by the way, is well below $300 million.
Starting point is 00:33:57 Really? Oh, yeah. Like, I have heard that the sweet spot is like, this is such a snooty conversation. But I've heard it is around $30 million. And that you get more than $30 million, and it actually becomes a burden. I don't think it would be a burden. I think I'd be able to handle it. I want to figure out if I'm happy to be the guinea pig on this experience.
Starting point is 00:34:17 Exactly. To figure out. Because I know. I have been through so much. I have been through career ups and downs. I have lost family members. I have seen good people come and go into this world. And your lesson at the end of all that is the only thing that remains is money.
Starting point is 00:34:32 No, I've been through so much. I know I would be the same. Therefore, if I could afford more, I would have a great time. Because I know I love taking the people I love with me wherever I go. So it is going to be a nonstop party. Will you show up to work on Monday? Yeah, I'll show up on Monday, because I got to make sure everything gets transferred. Say your goodbyes.
Starting point is 00:34:54 And, you know, there would be so worried of me. I want to walk through the office. I want a pimp walk through the office. I would be like the camel going, hump day. So you'd quit your job. I don't know if I would quit my job, but I would, you know. Scale it back. I would have more flexible hours.
Starting point is 00:35:12 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Sydney Sweeney, American Eagle. Have you seen the stats? Yeah. The stats are incredible. That is a marketing success.
Starting point is 00:35:23 So anyone who has given them a hard time can suck on a pair of jeans. Suck on a pair of jeans whose stock is up 25%. That's according to the latest earnings report. According to the American Eagle CMO, Craig Bromers, he told Wall Street analysts that the company's earnings spiked due to incredible marketing. He threw in Travis Kelsey along with Sidney Sweeney. I'm sure that Travis Kelsey contributed at least a good 2% to the growth of American Eagle. It's Sidney.
Starting point is 00:35:50 It boomed. It worked. And they are reaping huge benefits. But it was the way they did it. It was the copyright. It was not copyright. It was the copy they used in the ads. It was the way it was shot.
Starting point is 00:36:05 It was less, not more. And it also appealed to women, not just men. Because women look at that and go, oh, I would wear those jeans. It's, you know, women aren't looking at that going, oh, my God, she is such a flusy. Like, she is so gross and disgusting. And I would never, and bar from my mouth, they're like, oh, yes, that would make me look hot, too. Like, I'm totally going to go buy those jeans. And that's what I think about, because I am very susceptible to marketing and advertising.
Starting point is 00:36:33 And if it's good, just look at my Instagram shopping history. Like, I will buy things. If I can visualize myself having a better life because of someone else's product, I'm a sucker. And I looked at that ad and thought, yeah, I would waltz by there and maybe get a pair. And there is also, Kennedy, the backlash created the benefit. And there's an interesting thing. If you're a chief marketing officer, at some point you do, and it's a little bit of fire. You're playing with fire.
Starting point is 00:37:04 But if you can court the right backlash, you can court the benefit. it. So the fact that a probably really radically small minority of people somehow managed to characterize this as Nazi or eugenic, courted the right amount of backlash for sane and reasonable people to pay more attention, not just to Sidney's Sweeney, but American Eagle. And it worked. And if honestly I'm a CMO somewhere I'm going, I don't even know if you can plan this. Two of days, my producer thinks that they actually did at American Eagle. They saw this potential backlash and ran this campaign. I'm not so sure they didn't just stumble backwards into this backlash.
Starting point is 00:37:40 I think they knew it was controversial. I don't think they realized it was going to be a political division. The smart thing they did was you have to lean into it immediately and don't switch course. Which, you know, Cracker Bell really stupid. Like their rollout was awful and clumsy. And that CEO has, she does not come from a Cracker Barrel family.
Starting point is 00:38:00 She has never, you know, before she was forced at professional gunpoint to go into a Cracker Barrel and dine. She's not a Cracker Barrel. I guarantee you before she became the CEO there, she did not have a cracker barrel order. But looking at that, I was like, maybe they did that on purpose so they could revert. And reverting back to what cracker barrel was and should be, they re-energized the brand. If they did that, that person's a genius.
Starting point is 00:38:26 That person is not the CEO. I do not believe that that was, she had the foresight to- Well, do you think, this was a theory from our childhood, hearkening back to the 80s. The strategy you just described, many people debated, is that what they did with New Coke? Did they do New Coke to outrage everybody to reintroduce original Coca-Cola and then see everybody with nostalgia and glee re-embrace Coca-Cola?
Starting point is 00:38:50 Or was it a horrible marketing misstep that they just corrected? I think what happened was the person who came up with the idea for New Coke was like, I'm a genius, let's do this. And then there were people of Coke going, this is going to fail, this is going to destroy our market share. You know, the Kola Wars were in full effects, and we know a lot of veterans of the Kola Wars. Pete Hegseth, our good friend,
Starting point is 00:39:15 he honors them every single day. But they're like, Pepsi's nipping at our heels. If we screw this up, we'll be number two from here on out. So that person was the one who came in and said, let's go back to Coca-Cola Classic. We can give them both, but this way we have two drinks to Pepsi's one. I'll give you three guesses.
Starting point is 00:39:35 Because you're telling me my childhood. with life. I'll give you three guesses to the Secretary of Defense favorite soda. Okay. Dr. Pepper. No. Really? That must be yours though. Yeah, but I'm 50, so it's diet Dr. Pepper. That's fine. I like Dr. Pepper Zero. I think it's fantastic. I'm still brand loyal. It's my airplane order. You know, you treat yourself on the airplane. I'll take a diet, Dr. Pepper. Diet Coke, because he loves Trump. Nope. Okay, I get three guesses. Is it something very obvious or something shocking. It's probably in the top 10. It might be a top five soda. Gingerail? Mountain Dew. Oh, okay. All right. He's a Mountain Dew guy. Yeah, that's
Starting point is 00:40:14 kind of surprising. I think it's a northern thing. I'll bet he's a Pepsi guy over Coke because I feel like Pepsi was a northern thing. Yeah. I mean, the Cowboys struck a Pepsi dealership in the back of the day, but it's the South is Coca-Cola. Yeah, for sure. And it's all, I mean, Texas is Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper. Yeah. Love Dr. Pepper. I adore it. You love Dr. Pepper. Yes. My youngest daughter, her name is Dr. Pepper. That's it. That's great. Yeah. I hope she goes to medical school. And your adopted child is Mr. Pib. We don't like them that much, but he'll do it in a pinch. That's right. That's one of my
Starting point is 00:40:47 favorite lines from all movies is the Royal Tindenbaum's when he always introduces Margot as his adopted daughter. It's like, here's Mr. Pib. All right, before we go, I hate to swift to a more serious subject, but I do want to do this with Kennedy. Malcolm Gladwell came out, interestingly and I get I think guys two days I think you have sound on Malcolm Gladwell and he says that in a monk debate a few years ago when he took the side I believe under the banner of inclusion for trans athletes that he was bullied and he was pressured and he now regrets it I think here is Malcolm Gladwell if we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March it runs in exactly the opposite direction
Starting point is 00:41:31 And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't think this is any question. I just think it was a strange, I mean, I was, the reason I'm ashamed of my performance of that panel because I share your position 100% and I was count. the idea of saying anything on this issue, I was, you know, I believe in retrospect, in a dishonest way, I was, I was objective in a dishonest way. I let a lot of really, of howlers pass. Pretty fascinating sound from Malcolm Gladwell. Yeah, I was objective in a dishonest way. Well, that does not mean that you were being objective, because if you were being objective, you were seeking the truth, the truth is honest by definition. It sucks, oftentimes, but you know, you
Starting point is 00:42:32 don't say you were bullied. You can say, you know, I put a lot more thought into this because at the time I had an emotional reaction. Emotional reactions are subjective. You know, it's based on how we feel in the moment, whether it's a moment in time or a cultural moment. And there are a lot of people rushing to be the right ones and to virtue signal about something that is objectively wrong. I have a lot of trans friends. I do. I feel bad for them. I fear for them. They are being targeted more than ever before.
Starting point is 00:43:00 People are saying very, very hateful things. They are truly trans. But the legion of kids who are being groomed to come out trans now... Have you seen the stats? Mathematically, it's impossible. The stats are incredible. It is impossible. And so there's something going on here and I agree with him.
Starting point is 00:43:16 Like, as the mother of girls, I would not want young men competing in gymnastics against my daughters. It's unfair, it is biologically unfair. Having said that, you know, if there are trans-athletes, Martina Navajova said it right. Then there has to be an open category, where if they're great athletes and they want to compete on their, you know, gender of choosing, then do it in an open category.
Starting point is 00:43:43 And, you know, we still, like it or not, have to fight for women in certain spaces in culture. So a couple of things. The stats that you referenced, So I believe at this point, 25% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQIA plus, something under that banner. That's a shocking number, 25%, which does in and of itself, although that's a lot of categories. That was a lot of letters in the acronym. Defy really honestly reasonable expectation.
Starting point is 00:44:12 And I believe the trans number is it 3%. Is it 3% where a few years ago it was a fraction of 1%? It just doesn't compute to the point of what you're, I think, you alluded to like we're dealing with social contagion and trend and a lot of things that are influencing this um and suggestibility and kids worry that you know they're looking around like they better say something like they better identify as something or they're not cool and they're vanilla and they're i mean the worst most boring thing in the world is to be a heterosexual female i cannot imagine anything more basic and boring and so everyone is like no i i like both i'm i'm super sex i'm
Starting point is 00:44:52 I'm intersex. I'm hypersex. Like, whatever you want me to be, I'll say it. And, you know, that is the predatory nature of kids' suggestibility. And there is substantial pushback on that right now because, you know, you don't want to be a bigot, but also you don't want to be an ostrich. You can't pretend that this isn't happening. Two more things. I do believe, while people could have an emotional response, there are also people that are cowed and bullied. And I think that one of the most basic motivations of humankind is fear and weakness. Avoidance of fear, give in to weakness. And I don't doubt, even a self-styled intellect like Malcolm Gladwell would be capable of giving in to fear and weakness. And so he goes into that Sloan conference debate and takes the position he takes intellectually dishonest, yet happy to swim downstream with the masses at that moment. And now I think what he's suggesting is, it's not just he who has changed,
Starting point is 00:45:52 but that the panel itself would change, meaning the waters have changed. And now I'm okay swimming in the other direction. The waters are flowing towards truth. Yeah, but I think that's hypocritical. Oh, it's awful. And, you know, I think... It's weak. It's a way for people to manipulate by saying, you know what, I was wrong then.
Starting point is 00:46:09 I'm right now because I've changed. And now I believe what you believe. And so the question I would have on the change is, oh, now are you strong? Yeah. That's what I want to. Not are you right, are you wrong? But now are you strong. I mean, it was like Kamala Harris changing her positions and running
Starting point is 00:46:22 against herself and her own statements, why wouldn't you change back? Like that's the thing that I have a hard time with. If you're so malleable that you are going to do a 180, then why wouldn't you reverse course and pull a rock for it again? All right, last question for you on this, because you know, what you have articulated here with me today
Starting point is 00:46:45 is a very nuanced position on a couple of levels on an issue that is incredibly divisive. I have pretty hard opinion. on this. I'm pretty, I feel strongly about this issue on a lot of levels. You had a lot of pushback, by the way, like two weeks ago I noticed on the five. Oh yeah. I believe was it about the Minneapolis trans shooter? Yeah, and I said, you know, the driving factor looking at this wasn't the fact that this
Starting point is 00:47:07 person was trans, it's that this person is deeply mentally ill, and I stand by that. And that mental illness may have been indulged by someone at some point saying, well, you know, maybe that feeling of not being so right, maybe. maybe you're just in the wrong body and you know that sort of indulgence without treating an underlying mental illness it's a recipe for disaster so there's a ton of overlap there right yeah it's not to suggest that every trans person is mentally ill that's what I have a hard time but because if you're but a lot but there's a lot of overlap okay okay I don't I don't doubt that but what I
Starting point is 00:47:45 will say is as a very strict adherent to the Second Amendment for conservatives like Charlie Kirk come out and say, trans people shouldn't own guns. It's like, oh, so now we're carving out territory, but you know, people who have attributes, we disagree with, we're going to deny them gun ownership. That I have a hard time with. But not attributes, Kennedy.
Starting point is 00:48:06 The argument would be, and I don't know where I stand on red flag laws, which you're talking about, are we going to deny rights, in this case, gun ownership to people who are mentally ill. The argument is... Define mental illness to the point where that definition, because mental illness can be people who are insomniacs. Mental illness could be people who had a panic disorder in their
Starting point is 00:48:27 teens. So are all those people? And who's the doctor and who's the one taking them to court? That's my problem because that is a very slippery slope. Mental illness is a really hard thing to maybe not define but to draw a fence around. It is a really massive umbrella that could ostracize half of the country from legal responsible gun ownership. Half of the country is probably on SSRIs that are some type of treatment for some varying degrees of levels of mental illness, right? So if you're taking SSRIs for depression, well, depression is a mental illness. If you're taking it for bipolar, bipolar is a mental illness. If body dysmorphia is mental illness, then weightlifters, bodybuilders, you know,
Starting point is 00:49:09 runway models, they all have versions of body dysmorphia. People who are on OZMPIC, who aren't overweight, they can't own guns. Like, that's my mother. I'm with you on that. It's like if you start going down this slope, that's pretty much everybody. And the left is going to take that argument, and they are going to run with it. And they're going to say, nope, conservative started this. So they're going to define certain pockets as mentally ill and deny them gun access. We're going to do the same thing.
Starting point is 00:49:36 We're just going to broaden it because we're so brave and caring. We're going to make sure we take care of all the mentally ill people in this country. This is an incredibly complicated and hard decision to make. What we're talking about right now, though, are red flags. laws. Back to the trans issue on the overlap between mental health issues and trans, there is overlap. And I think you just agreed with me that there is overlap. What I'm curious about... I mean, I will say this, like there is data and research from agnostic clinicians who say that yes, this is actually in large part a social contagion. And there was a big study that
Starting point is 00:50:12 came out and said for a lot of these young people who are being diagnosed as trans, and There are underlying mental illnesses that were not diagnosed or noted in the beginning. And perhaps maybe we should treat those first before we go on to the gender affirming care. All right. You and I agree. And I think this is, I'm sure we will find our disagreement if we keep pushing in certain places. But what we have just done, I believe, through what I think is a nuanced, incomplete, but nuanced conversation, is get to a place where we kind of agree probably on 80% of this issue. That's good for me for now. What I'm curious about, what I'm driving towards all this is, like, you started this conversation with, I have a lot of trans friends. Can you have this same conversation with them?
Starting point is 00:50:58 Yes. They can talk about the mental health aspects. They can talk about the underlying issues. They may not agree, but I would have these conversations with every single one of them. And they would. Through curiosity, not lecturing them, not telling them what their experiences versus what my beliefs are. But absolutely, I would talk about gun ownership. I would talk about personal responsibility.
Starting point is 00:51:20 But what about the mental illness and the suggestibility side of it? I would talk about that in terms of young people identifying in numbers that have doubled and tripled and exponentially increased over the last five years. You should put them on TV if they were willing to be on TV. Do you know why? If there are members of the trans community that are interested in having a conversation on this level about the real issues, not just affirm my identity, not, erase my existence stuff, but having the real conversation,
Starting point is 00:51:51 they're not getting airtime and they're not being seen. I don't hear from them and they should be. And it's awesome, it's awesome if you can have that conversation. I would just love to hear the conversation. They're not putting themselves out there. I mean, they're, I know trans people who are libertarian and who are conservative and you know, they don't like their cause being made into, you know,
Starting point is 00:52:13 this thing that makes them cultural pariahs. Because a lot of people just want to live their lives. And, you know, it's like, I've had a lot of conversations with Caitlin Jenner. Caitlin Jenner is very conservative and very passionate about this issue and very trans. And, you know, it's like, I've been with her in restaurants and had people go, oh, there's Bruce. That guy's a man. And it's like, all right. What's your point?
Starting point is 00:52:35 You know, not to produce. Yeah. I would love to hear this on Kennedy Saves the World. I would love to hear that conversation. I think your subscriptions would go through the roof. I'm going to be with you a little bit later today. I know. Thank you for being with us here now.
Starting point is 00:52:49 Good to see you, Kennedy. You too. All right, check out on Kennedy Saves the World. Coming up, Vince August, comedian, is going to talk to us about him taking the Pete and Bobby Challenge and the controversy over commercials on the Red Zone channel. Coming up on Will King Country. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests.
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Starting point is 00:53:45 Brady, who just said, how many points does Will think the Eagles will win by tonight? Cowboys Eagles, first game of the NFL season tonight. Here's what I think. You ever hear of the Ewing theory? Bill Simmons, Ewing theory? I literally said it last week. Okay, you're not the smartest on everything. Relax.
Starting point is 00:54:04 You don't, you're just, you know, you didn't, you're not Columbus. Okay, you didn't discover the earth was round. Tinfoil, Pat, two-a-day stand joining us down. Let's also welcome in committee and Vince August, who's with us here in the studio. of Will Cain Country. Once you start crying tonight, here we go. He's right. I got a terrible town.
Starting point is 00:54:22 For tonight, just so we get to. All right, let's do this for a minute. Let's do this. Let's do this for a minute. I got to turn these studios over to Kennedy here in a couple of minutes. First of all, viewing theory. I do think there's a chance after trading Michael Parsons.
Starting point is 00:54:36 Did you guys see, Michael Parsons might have to have weekly back injections? I don't know if you know who Michael Parsons is two a days. he plays for the Packers now that's your favorite team Oh yeah yeah yeah I heard about that He's a linebacker I know you're big big Big Packers fan
Starting point is 00:54:51 You've got a guy named Micah Parsons Now on your team he used to be a Dallas Cowboy Yeah Generational talent He's having to get back injections two a days Perhaps on a weekly basis Do we pull off another great train robbery? I would rather have Michael Parsons
Starting point is 00:55:07 in a wheelchair than I'll suggest about that Okay Reminds me what I said That is the worst train that team has ever made and that was the team that got what was it like 80 draft picks
Starting point is 00:55:21 for Herschel Walker and then this is where you are now with making trades okay since he's Columbus who discovered the first sports take Tinfoil Pat did point out you know the reason there's no more Herschel Walker trades
Starting point is 00:55:32 is because there was the Herschel Walker trade and now there will never be another Michael Carson's trade I think there's a chance that the Cowboys are better than everybody thinks because they think they're going I read an athletic
Starting point is 00:55:43 every year I read an athletic article that said they're going to come in 13th in the NFC that's like towards the bottom there's only like 16 teams and I was like this could be one this could be something by the way I'm not sure what expectations are on your Steelers
Starting point is 00:55:58 I'm hoping I have to be honest I want the the Tomlin error to end once and for all I think he's and I know this is an upset a lot of Steeler fans and people in the NFL I think he's the most overrated coach in the history of the NFL
Starting point is 00:56:13 really Yes, yeah. Ten and six, nine and eight means nothing to me. Super Bowls are what counts. And if you look at him in every big game, whether it's playoff game or late in the season game, they lose. And to me, that's what you're judged by. And looking at the team that he had, that almost lost to the Cardinals in the Super Bowl, I was there for that game. and a lot of people forget how close that game was. And you look at the Packer's Super Bowl, I just think that with the talent he had, if I give that same talent to another coach,
Starting point is 00:56:48 it's two or three Super Bowl wins. So you're done with Mike Tom? I'm done with Mike Tom. You're rooting against Aaron Rogers. I am because he's not the long-term solution anyway. You're just ready to rip the Band-Aid off and move on to the next thing for Steelers. If you're telling me that we can win the Super Bowl this year
Starting point is 00:57:04 and Aaron Rogers is going to do it for us, that's a pipe dream. You are stuck in above average mediocrity. Yes, and that's the worst place to be. I would rather go 117 and give me a generational talent like, I don't know, a Michael Parsons, and hold on to him for his entire career, not trade him away for draft picks, and really build a team. I didn't know you're such a sports guy.
Starting point is 00:57:22 You should be with this throughout the season. I'm already enjoying this, although we'd be remote because I wouldn't see in New York. Vince, do you watch Red Zone channel? Everybody does. Anybody that has a fantasy football team watches Red Zone. Are you mad? The news is Scott Hansen just announced on the Pat McAfee show
Starting point is 00:57:39 that it will no longer be seven hours of commercial free football. The Red Zone Channel is implementing commercials. Right. Which is, it's no longer the Red Zone Channel. What is it now? Now I can flip around and find whatever team is in the Red Zone without the Red Zone
Starting point is 00:57:55 Channel. Now all I just need is an NFL package. I don't need the Red Zone Channel anymore. And now I become Hanson and just flip the game to game. Now I'm Scott Hanson. I don't need Scott Hanson. anymore. I don't need him. I don't need octobox. I am now my own octobox. So you're mad. I am because, look, let's be honest, what the NFL has become for a lot of people is the place to watch your fantasy players. Because most people that play fantasy football and are in for money,
Starting point is 00:58:22 there's a feeling that you're watching the guys on your team play. Yeah. You know, there's that coach weird aspect. You have no control over the game, no control of the outcome by watching, but you see your guys playing and you can go game to game like this watching your guys playing by doing nothing but sitting back and watching and now you've got commercial breaks right so now how many things are we paying for
Starting point is 00:58:45 under the banner of a subscription that we now get commercials I mean you name it right I don't know if Spotify premium go without commercials does Hulu go without commercials all these things have commercials and there's a lot of ways to do it without having a commercial break like we see in soccer in a World Cup run a banner give me a banner give me something but don't break away from the game.
Starting point is 00:59:04 Because now breaking away from the game, again, you're no different than me being at a bar surrounded by screens, and I could watch whatever screen I want to watch, or you could get that at home now. Now, the only difference is I'm going to flip around channel. You're obviously right about soccer. Do a banner.
Starting point is 00:59:16 Do a banner. All right, Vince August, comedian here with us on Will Gain Country. You did the Pete and Bobby Challenge. I did. Let me tell you something. I'm just feeling him up real quick to see what I'm dealing with. Not to do my own horn.
Starting point is 00:59:29 But I saw everyone's videos, and everyone was speeding through the push-ups and the pull-ups, because the pull-ups were not full lockouts. I'm going to say, quality, I will put my push-ups and pull-ups against everybody that did the challenge. I'll put them up again. Did you see mine? I'm going to put my push-ups and pull-ups against everybody that did the challenge. I will put the quality of my pull-ups against yours. My push-ups, I have a lot of room for it. This is, all right, I said, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:59:58 You one at a time in it here? We're watching you up on the screen. Dude, I'm 56 years old. What are you kidding me? One at a time, that's the last like 10. That was the last 10. That's what happened to Hegg Seth. By the way, they crushed him because it's last.
Starting point is 01:00:09 Who also did bicep pull-ups? He did chin ups and he didn't go full down. But that was also his last 10. Like his first 40 looked, you know, good. Dude, do the challenge, you don't do the challenge. You got to do the challenge, right. All right, what was your time? It was over 10.
Starting point is 01:00:21 It was 10 minutes, 56 seconds. I was disappointed in my time. I'm not gonna lie. And I'm competitive and weird enough where I'm gonna go back and do it again just to get it under 10. Because, oh, yeah, I have that fire. Yeah, so I will go back and do it just because, yeah. 512, NBD, 512.
Starting point is 01:00:37 That was your time? Yeah, listen, I'm not gonna lie. You're in phenomenal shape in that swimmer, volleyball player kind of way. If there's a bar room roll, I'm gonna say, well, go to the bathroom, call back. But if we have something where we're doing like a triathlon, I'm definitely bringing you
Starting point is 01:00:58 for the swim. For the swim. I can't run. I hate running. I'll do the running. Oh, you do the run. I'll do the running. All right really quickly.
Starting point is 01:01:06 Donald Trump has suggested he may revoke the citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell. In fact, watch, or this is what he put up on Truth Social. He says, as previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought, taking away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship. She is not a great American, and in my opinion, and incapable of being one. All right. I love this. And the reason I love this stuff is because if you, you don't understand who and what Donald Trump is,
Starting point is 01:01:31 this is like the distraction thing that he does. And everyone out there that has a job, you know you have that fun thing you like to do, whether it's guys that go home and play video games, or whatever it might be that is your fun, what do they call it, a guilty pleasure. His guilty pleasure is going on Twitter. He's trolling people.
Starting point is 01:01:49 It is. I literally just taped the comedy special, and I talk about it in my special. I'm like, you have to understand what this guy is. He's a ball breaker. He's a construction guy from Queens who's just a bull, and he loves doing this. This is his amusement.
Starting point is 01:02:06 I think you're right. Yeah, and everyone jumps on this stuff, and I'm like, you don't understand. This is him after a tough meeting. I gotta wind down. Give me my phone. Where's my phone? I got to wind down.
Starting point is 01:02:17 Where's Rosie? Let's do something on Rosie. Rosie, Rosie, I'm texting. Rosie, Rosie, I'm gonna do the thing today. I was all prepared to have a conversation with Vince because he's also a judge and a lawyer like okay you can't really revoke citizenship for an American citizen not a natural born citizen of course he tried in the 60s he's not even trying that's your point he doesn't care it's not even a thing he wants to
Starting point is 01:02:38 do it's like invading Canada you know we're gonna invade Greenland none of this is serious this is the bouncing ball for everyone to get just insane over perfect analysis perfect analysis for Vince August I made good to see you in person I got to give the studio over to Kennedy I appreciate the time hope to see in person again sometime soon. Any time, brother. Make sure to check Vince out. Thank you for hanging out with us today. That's going to do it for us today on Will Kane Country. Subscribe, bookmark, like it on YouTube, Spotify, Apple. We'll see you next time. free on the Amazon Music app.

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