Will Cain Country - Media Silent On Illegal Trucker — Covers García (ft. Rob Bluey)

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Story #1: Democrats deflect as President Donald Trump continues his crime crackdown, and the media ignores the story of an illegal immigrant trucker crash that killed three while covering the story of Abrego Garcia. Plus, will the U.S. ever embrace the 4-day work? Will breaks it all down. Story #2: Rob Bluey, President and Executive Editor at ‘The Daily Signal,’ joins Will to dive into Cracker Barrel’s logo reversal after President Donald Trump calls them out, the New York Times’ take on “Trump’s big gay government,” and why the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome is still raging. Story #3: Will previews his interview with Vice President J.D. Vance, and shares his predictions for the big Ohio State vs. Texas college football game. 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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Is it to Donald Trump? Or, as according to CNN, has Cracker Barrel caved to the right? Plus, Donald Trump's big gay presidency. Three, Texas, Ohio State. One, two, Will Kane versus Vice President J.D. Vance. It is Wilcane Country streaming live at the Wilcane Country YouTube page. Always available on Spotify or on Apple. Streaming Monday through Thursday at the Fox News Facebook page and drop into the comments section.

Over on YouTube at the Wilcane Country YouTube channel to become a member of the the Wallitia. Breaking news out of Minnesota, Annunciation Catholic School here in the first couple of days back to school has been the site, sadly, of a school shooting. Six children are currently being treated at Children's Medical in Minneapolis. Over 20 have been injured. The shooter reportedly is dead, most likely due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We're going to be monitoring this story that's breaking as we speak throughout the day. We'll bring any updates we get from Minnesota. Yesterday was National Dog Day.

And joining us here in studio for a day of co-hosting was my seven-year-old female Doberman Violet. And according to two days, a lot of love over there on social media. A lot of love from the Willisha for Violet. well i'll start with this so when saint was coming in a lot of people were like hey where's violet violet should make more appearances so it was it was violet's time and the people were happy about that let's just say like uh and and debby willis on instagram said beautiful puppies to the two of the dogs but everyone was very happy that violet got her time in the in the spotlight and everybody was contributing on x for national dog day posting pictures of their pup

which we appreciated we love the interaction action with the Wallitia. And it's good. It's true. Violet's life has taken a turn, largely for the worse, since the adoption of Saint. She has dealt with perhaps the most annoying, not yet quite two-year-old, 80-pound Doberman. And her attention has gone down. The attention afforded to Violet has taken a nose dive. So she got to yesterday, co-host Wilcane Country. Unfortunately, National Dog Day came in with a boom and went out with a bust. This has been my last 12 hours. Perhaps from the stress of co-hosting a national digital and podcast radio show,

Violet woke up at 3.30 a.m., puking on the white carpet next to our bed. There is the inevitable sound that serves as like a gunshot in the room. you jump up when you hear that I'm very used to that sound. God, I know it so well. And I immediately blamed it on Saint. Saint, get up. Say, come to the bathroom. Make your way to the tile.

Both dogs sprinted for the bathroom. But it became pretty clear. No, that was violent. That wasn't Saint with the 3.30 a.m. wake-up call. Then, my normal wake-up time, 6 a.m., I thought I'm going to go ahead and take the dogs out. They were up. They were like, let's go. And Violet was giving me particular body language like, I'm ready to get outside. So I let them out at 6 a.m. It's still dark at 6 in Texas. Let them out to do their business. It was a short trip. I was going to let them back inside. You can't leave your dog outside at 6 a.m. because if they bark, you can't be a bad neighbor. So I brought them back in. And Violet came running back inside. No problem. I went up to wake up my wife. And when I turned around with both dogs standing behind me, I was like, what is that? smell. That doesn't smell good. And they started sprinting off down the stairs. By the time we got to the kitchen, I was like, stop, come here. When I grabbed Violet's paw, because I figured this is

coming from Violet. I was just able to detective work where this was coming from. I grabbed Violet's paw. And apparently the business she had to do at 6 a.m. or a previous job done by Saint was along her well-worn path right back into the house. So she literally stepped in it. She stepped in it, came into the house and brought that stench and that mess into my bedroom. That was my morning. Then, not to be outdone, there is saint. Does anybody know what the inside of a softball looks like? Because I know what the inside of a softball looks like.

He managed yesterday to rip the leather cover off of a softball. okay no big deal i thought that's fine until he got to work on the rest of the softball throughout the evening a lot of string by the end of the night i a softball by the way is very large and it is filled with cork in resin it's a gigantic cork ball soaked in resin to hold it together and he had broken that thing up into a million pieces however only half of the cork remained I'm like, where's the rest of this softball? You know. And it's quite clear, that was a belly full of cork and resin.

So I thought that my trips in the middle of the night would be due to saint. But no, stomach of steel takes down a corked resin softball, but destroying the living room while he ate this thing with my teenage son. I said, son, didn't you hear him? He's like, no, I just didn't know what he's doing. you know what I mean? He's destroying and eating a gigantic ball of cork and resin. I think we can stop, Saint? So, happy national dog day. What is, so the...

Let's get into it all now. Go ahead, go ahead, two days. No, the only question is, what did Ellie feed Violet yesterday at the studio? I mean, what, come on, Ellie. Yeah, Ellie. Was that just a stress puk? Yeah. Like, just too much, too worked up throughout the day?

Like, what did she get? She tried to put her in jeans. Somebody sneaking her some type of... She tried to put her in jeans and... And she puked. She tried to dress her up like a person and it made her sick. You made my dog sick, Ellie. Poor Violet.

Let's get into it all now with story number one. With Donald Trump suggesting he may send the National Guard into Chicago, there is a line now among Democrats about which cities in the United States are actually dangerous. This played out last night on Jesse Waters' prime time with a guy described as a white dude for Harris. Here's Jesse Waters. Donald Trump doesn't have any urgency to deal with Louisiana, which is the murder capital of the United States.

He doesn't have anything to say about Oklahoma, which has the worst schools in the nation. Doesn't have anything to say about Arkansas, which has the highest-teen pregnancy rate. Those are crime-ridden, too. Those are crime-ridden, too. And if the mayor wants to invite Donald Trump to do something about the crime- that's happening in Republicans. Chicago's a little bigger than Baton Rouge, Mike, okay? And you live in Chicago, and you should care. Did you hear my friend out there in the monologue talking about her cousin, her uncle, her niece? They're all dead, Mike. Do you care about that at all?

Your mayor doesn't care. Your mayor doesn't want any backup. They're offering them more cops, more guard. And he says, no, more housing. What the hell's wrong with him? What is wrong with them? What is wrong is they are caught in politics. They believe that Donald Trump is doing this all for politics. And they believe that the correct political response is to point out the violent crime rate of cities and states across the country that vote Republican. Gavin Newsom has done this as well. Gavin Newsom on various occasions is taken on cities and states run by Republicans.

Here's an example. The fact that you won't see on Fox News, Mississippi's murder rate is 266% higher than California. That's a tweet from the Gavin Newsom press office. Let's take a moment just to address Gavin Newsom in his social media presence. The left currently thinks that he's spinning out pearls by mimicking Donald Trump. They think it's the most hilarious and treasured piece of politics and performance put on in the last several years. They think it's perfect, and it makes him the fighter that they have worked. Wanted. By the way, Gavin Newsom's poll numbers among Democrats have correspondingly gone up.

But every time that we point out, it's cheap, it's shallow, it's chat GPT, it's a man in search of a personality, a man that has no political identity. They think we don't get the joke. I call it copying. They go, it's mirroring. How can you not get satire? Everyone gets what he's doing. But nobody thinks it's as beautiful in these perfect little pearls of politics that you think. But you think so because you've defined your entire existence as anti-Trump. And these tweets are simply satirical anti-Trumpism. Gavin Newsom has also tried to pivot and point the finger at Republicans when it comes to crime. Let's take him up on that challenge.

Here are your top 10 cities in the United States in terms of violent crime rate. Memphis, Tennessee, far and away, 2,500 violent crimes per 100,000. Detroit, Michigan, number two, Baltimore, Maryland, number three. Houston, Texas, number four. Nashville, Tennessee, five, Denver, Colorado, six, Washington, D.C. seven, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eight, Indianapolis, Indiana, nine, and Phoenix, Arizona, 10. Those are your top 10 cities in the United States in terms of violent crime rate. What do they all have in common?

Every single one of those cities is run by a Democrat mayor. Want to play the game of politics? Want to play the game of whose policies are actually being implemented at the city level, the city level, which is the most important political entity in addressing, local crime. In fact, I've only just begun. We can go down to the top 20 cities in the United States. Every single one run by Democrats. Want to go down further? Want to go down to the top 30 cities? Now you can actually get three where the mayor is a Republican. Miami, Jacksonville. Oh, and Oklahoma City actually comes in at number 31.

If we expand it even further and we go down to the top 50 cities in the United States, in terms of violent crime per capita, only five have Republican mayors. That is Miami, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Texas coming in at number 36, and Plano, Texas coming in at number 50. The other 45 are run by Democrats with, I believe, two or three nonpartisan or independent parties in there. So, 42 of your top 50 cities in the United States in terms of violent crime rate run by Democrats. That's not politics. That's the facts. Meanwhile, over in the Netherlands, they are now running up an extent.

experiment in the four-day work week. Right now in the Netherlands, your average worker works 32 hours a week. I read from the Financial Times. The Netherlands has the highest rate of part-time working in the OECD. Average working weekly hours for people ages 20 to 64 in their main job are just 32.1 hours a week. shortest in the EU. It has also become increasingly common for full-time workers to compress their hours into four days rather than spread them over five. The fourth, quoting somebody from the Dutch bank, ING, the four-day work week has become very, very common. I do work five days and

sometimes I get scrutinized for working five days. What do you think? Do you think we should move to a four-day work week? Here are the concerns people have expressed. Lack of productivity. How do you reschedule your entire life? What do you do with a five-day school week? Well, the Netherlands in this experiment has found the following. Quote again from the Financial Times. For a start, it suggests predictions of economic self-harm are overdone. In spite of its shorter average working hours per person, the Netherlands is one of the richest economies in the EU in terms of GDP per head.

That is because shorter working hours are combined. with relatively high productivity per hour and a high proportion of people in employment. 82% of working-age people in the Netherlands were employed at the end of 2024. That's higher than the UK. That's higher than the U.S., which is at 72%. And the European average at 69%.

What more, the Dutch working longer in their life, retiring later, four days a week, working longer into their life, matching productivity. It's not all roses, though. There is a labor shortage in the Netherlands, most notably in teachers, and it puts some real strain on juggling schedules in the Netherlands in how do you have a workforce that what four days are they working, who's off when? The five-day workweek creates a structure that our entire society, from schooling to employment, to child care, is centered around, but it does show that it can work. Now, there's a quote in this Financial

Times article that suggests, could the Netherlands have higher GDP if they actually worked five days a week? And there's a quote said, yeah, perhaps if we worked like Koreans, we could have a higher GDP, but at some point, are we just workers? Is that all we are on this planet? It introduces an interesting question about what all is involved in life. Now, two a days and tin foil pat. You guys work four days a week, right? You don't have to work on Fridays. Wow. That's really mean. Yeah. Don't appreciate that. It's really mean. We definitely work in pro. He works 12 hours a day. 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Yeah, yeah. Right? I mean, you can ask my wife. I mean, you know. I mean, I think we just go to six days. Let's just,

let's push it forward. Not backwards. What are you talking about? Productivity. More, more, more, more. Let's go. I do that this weekend. I mean, it's a, I mean, the Europeans do know something about enjoying life. They're just not going to put a man on the moon, you know. They're not going to provide for their common defense. They're not going to have much to say if the Russians invade. They're going to look to us. They're going to eat well.

They're going to relax. They're going to take month and a half long vacations in the summer. Great relationships. They have multiple holidays throughout the year. They work four days a week. It's a nice life. As long as you've got somebody else, you know, that has your back. You know, like in the United States.

But I do wonder, you know, the five-day work week, look, Americans are about productivity. Even though, look, we retire, 72% of us in the workforce versus 84 for the Dutch. But we're about innovation. We're about the grind. We're about pulling yourself by your bootstraps. It's part of our culture. Like, it's more than just GDP. It's part of our culture.

It's the Protestant work ethic. It's who we are. so you know be careful messing with your culture and your identity but the five-day work week is a relatively modern invention meaning in the past century or so i mean before that it was seven days a week because or six days a week you took off the sabbath because that's what you had to do to get by then we get the the modern school system created in part by henry for based upon the German model that many people point out was designed to create factory workers for the economy of the early 20th century.

And then everything around our lives is geared around the five-day work week. Our schooling system, you know, the weekends famously that you've seen that had brought to you by the labor union, you know, five-day work schedule. But if you are starting from scratch, I do think it's an interesting question. How much work is not just good for a balanced life, but actually, maximum productivity. I mean, we all know there's a lot of wasted time at work. And could you be more productive in fewer hours if you knew?

What's the exception to the rule? I don't know about wasted time at work. Yeah, we don't do that here. We don't do that here. We don't have any wasted time. No, we don't do that here. But I didn't have this discussion with a former colleague years ago, and he said that our companies used to factor in.

Everybody around me is saying that. have no time wasting everywhere I turn right now in studio in New York in Florida everybody here is at maximum productivity every minute every minute counts well I used to I had this colleague I used to work with it my past job and he was discussing like how you know it's actually factored into our productivity like he says people only work about at 60% capacity most of the time and that and that once you hit like 45 hours your productivity just tanks. So, you know, I definitely think that there's, you know, there's something to that.

But, yeah, we, as far as our team goes, there's no while. We're at 95%. Stop working 60 hours, Patrick. Yeah. Yeah, that says something about your efficiency. I think we're, this is all going to be, this is all going to be moot, by the way. AI is going to change everything. We're either, we're going to get more productive.

We're going to need fewer hours. and maybe in turn we're going to be looking for work. I mean, we're going to be looking for things to do, looking for ways to make a living. I think a four-day work week sounds fun, but I think we're going to be asking for more days, not less, in a not too distant future, as AI takes all our jobs.

And then finally, there's this. The case of the illegal Indian truck driver pulling a U-turn in Florida killing three people, has given rise to a conversation about English language proficiency, commercial driver's license issued by the states of Washington and California, and the Department of Transportation's fight to ensure that truckers all can at the very least speak English and should be American citizens. It's a big issue that does impact people. You can hear people that live in high, illegal immigrant areas talk about life on the roadway. But this is not something that would even occur to you

if you're watching ABC, CBS, or NBC. From Friday, August 22nd, through Monday, August 26th, this past weekend. The total number of minutes devoted to coverage of this incident? Zero. Zero minutes devoted to this issue, devoted to the policies put forth by the Department of Transportation, by this tragic accident. Meanwhile, the story of Kilmar Obrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member, alleged human smuggler, alleged wifebeater, deported to El Salvador, got 17 minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. This story does not exist if you consume your information from the mainstream media.

It may exist in your life. It may exist in your personal experience. It may exist in terms of your own individual outrage that this would be happening. being in America, but it doesn't exist to mainstream media. Let's get into what the New York Times calls Donald Trump's big gay government and cracker barrel caves when we come back on Will Kane Country. 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.

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in Minneapolis. We'll keep you updated on that story throughout the day. It is Will Cain Country streaming live at the Will Cain Country YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page. Joining us now is Rob Blue. He is the president and executive editor of the Daily Signal. What's up, Rob? Hey, Will, I'm doing well today. We're working six days a week over here at the Daily Signal. I'll tell you that, seven some weeks. Oh, you might need to check your productivity, man. You might be getting a diminishing return.

Might consider the four-day work schedule. Let's start, Rob, together, with Cracker Barrel. Breaking News, Cracker Barrel is going back to its logo featuring, forget the guy's name, old man sitting next to a barrel. Uncle Herschel. Herschel. Otis. I was going with Otis.

It's one of Herschel, Otis. Like, what is the old country white man name? You know, Herschel is definitely up there. They're bringing Herschel back. This is after President Donald Trump posted this on Truth Social. Cracker Barrel should go back to its old logo. Admit a mistake based on customer response, the ultimate poll, and manage the company better than ever before.

They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major news conference today. make Cracker Barrel a winner again. That's what Donald Trump posted on True Social. It wasn't long after that we got this from Cracker Barrow. They posted, we thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrow. We said we would listen and we have.

Our new logo is going away and our old time will remain. At Cracker Barrel, it's always been and always will be about serving up delicious food, warm, welcome. and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon. So Cracker Barrow bending, Rob, giving in, going away from the redesign. What do you think? Will, apparently there was also a call between Cracker Barrel executives in the White House

sometime yesterday, so all of this is quite intriguing. It's a fascinating story to watch, particularly because you have the president weigh in and then immediately Cracker Barrel decides to make this change after days of coming under attack from not just conservatives and people who maybe share the MAGA perspective on the world, but there were a fair number of Democrats and liberals who didn't like that logo either. So I think that they were obviously feeling the heat across the board. Maybe they took a look at some of their sales in stores and saw that there was not just a drop in the stock price, but maybe a drop in traffic. And that's going to have a detrimental impact on any type of business. Trump got this exactly right, though. The amount of publicity that they've been able to generate over the past week could do wonders for any business.

And so, you know, as it goes, maybe they'll be able to reap some rewards from this controversy. Yeah, I don't know. It's pretty negative publicity. I don't know how they can spend that into positive publicity. Meanwhile, CNN characterizes it like this. Cracker Barrel returned to its old logo after days of intense. right-wing backlash. You think that's accurate?

Is it right-wing backlash, Rob? It was obviously, I think, spurt on by a lot of conservatives who were frustrated with a well-known brand, abandoning what many saw as a traditional American experience. You know, they probably on road trips or just in their neighborhood and home community, decided that they would want to go to a crack or barrel after church on Sunday or, you know, if they were heading back home like I did. I stopped at a Cracker Barrel on my way to upstate New York where I'm from a couple times in July, Will. So, I mean, I think a lot of people enjoy that experience and what Cracker Barrel has to offer. By changing the logo, by redesigning the stores,

we also heard from some former employees who said that they went all in on DEI and other woke policies. I think a combination of those things probably amplified the voices of conservatives, yet I don't think it was limited exclusively to conservatives. I don't think you necessarily have to be conservative to like Cracker Barrel. And I think probably Cracker Barrel was feeling the pressure from across the political spectrum, which is why it ultimately caved in. Yeah, we saw a post like from Democrat saying we don't like the rebrand either. So I don't think it was just right wing backlash. I mean, it was it was customer response. That being said, you know, we've talked about it on the show. Like what drove Cracker Barrel to do this? And

there's a couple of different options. There's been good reporting on. on the fact that in the 1990s, Cracker Barrel, I think it was the 1990s, maybe early 2000s, had one of the worst scores ever getting given by the human rights campaign, yeah. Not the human rights campaign, is it campaign or coalition? It was two different things, but the one that does these corporate index scores that goes in and looks like, what's your diversity quota like, what's your gender equity program, what's your LGBTQIA representation, on and on and on. so many different things

and they give you a score and Cracker Barrow got like a six it was really bad and why that's important is that campaign has really affected corporate America in terms of their ability to conduct business

if you get a bad score I think it impacts your ability to even get corporate loans to engender new business so Cracker Barrel pivoted strongly they're like we got to get better at this we got to get a better score and they made a ton of changes including

Maybe not, we don't know directly why this lady became CEO, but we do know it's part of a trend of them trying to appeal to a constituency that doesn't necessarily reflect the sentiment of their consumers. It could also just be that this is part of a bland corporate redesign that everybody seems to be going through where everything in America looks the same, sounds the same, tastes the same, every logo, every interior design, every piece of architecture in America is turning into. the same. But I don't think that would offend consumers, Rob, quite as much as the idea this was intentional. It feels intentional. Like we are leaving behind our roots. We are leaving behind who we are. This is a rebrand. We're more modern. We're less old-timey. We're less traditional. We're more progressive. And I think that intentionality is what offended people so much. It felt like a rejection, a rejection, not just of thing that people loved, but of who people are. Is that right wing? I don't know. I think it's cultural. I think it

appealed to a consumer base that had a certain identity, and this was an intentional departure from that identity. That's absolutely right. I mean, I don't think you have to be a Republican or a Democrat, a liberal, or conservative to enjoy a meal at Cracker Barrel. You could be any one of those things. I think that the way that Cracker Barrel approached this, then the way that the CEO introduced not only the logo change, but the remodeling of the stores, was one that was quite offensive to Americans who believe in those traditional values that you just spoke about. And they saw it as another challenge, yet on a long list of companies that have been pressured by the human rights campaign, look, there are groups that exist to enact their agenda and impose it upon the will of

these companies. And you've seen pushback, by the way, on the right, when it comes to this. The Alliance Defending Freedom now has its own scorecard, which it's using to judge other topics beyond what HRC is doing. And so I'm glad to see the conservatives are pushing back on this. And I don't think that they stand alone in this. I think that any American who wants to have comfort food, enjoy the hospitality of a restaurant like Cracker Barrel, doesn't necessarily want to see it changed in the dramatic fashion that the CEO was proposing. And certainly the customer spoke out, and she heard it loud and clear. All right. Then there's this headline from the New York Times, Donald Trump's big gay

government. On the town, the A-gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud, and Republican. In the article, Rob, it reads as follow. The most powerful out-gay man in the Trump administration is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Other A-gays include Tony Fabrizio, the president's longtime pollster, Trent Morse, a departing deputy assistant to the president, Rick Grinnell, who was put in charge of the Kennedy senator, and Jacob Helberg, an undersecretary of state. They're overwhelmingly white, tend to have a certain look, close-cropped haircuts, window-pane suits, golf shorts. They're not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word queer, and they aren't the least bit offended that the leader

of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people. They're gay, but they're still Republicans. This is an incredible article, Rob, from the New York Times. There's so much to talk about here. Well, I mean, first of all, it comes as no surprise to me or you or any of your viewers that the New York Times is obsessed with identity politics. And this is a classic case of the New York Times having to focus on that particular aspect where Donald Trump and probably others in his administration are not focused on. on this as Joe Biden was so obsessively focused on it in his administration. And yet the New York Times will, of course, write an article about it and expose all these people who would probably

just prefer to have their credentials be on what they accomplish, not necessarily their sexual preferences. And so I'd say that, you know, at the top level, you know, this is to be expected from the media. When it comes to Donald Trump specifically, I mean, you can go all the way back to the apprentice and his business relationships. I mean, he has for years, expressed an openness to people regardless of their sexual identity. So I don't think it necessarily should come as a surprise to anybody that likes Donald Trump or supports his agenda that he would welcome in people who are talented. And obviously somebody like a Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has been able to do remarkable things. And yet, I guess the New York Times is trying to stoke

outrage among MAGA and conservatives who may want to see this as a negative on Donald Trump when I don't necessarily think that's the case. We'll be right back on Will Cain Country. This is Jimmy Fala, 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. Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy host of the Trey Gowdy podcast.

I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcast.com. Welcome back to Will Kane Country. I don't know if that's the goal of the New York Times. I think it's to question the authenticity of the identity of these gay Republicans. To your point about Donald Trump's history, like one of his early influences was Roy Cohn, the famed lawyer in New York City, who was gay and ultimately died of AIDS. He's had a long history of being open to people regardless of their sexual identity.

And I think, first of all, their characterization, they're overwhelmingly white, tend to have a certain look. Close cropped haircuts, windowpanes suits, golf shorts. Well, yesterday on the Will Kane Show on the Fox News Channel, I had another gay Republican on, Scott Pressler. Scott Pressler, many people know, is very powerful, very, very effective activist in registering voters across the country during multiple elections. And here, just take a look quickly at this clip at Scott Pressler. But shir me loudly and clearly, despite the Democrats having no message, little money, and the youth is coming over to the right, Democrats can still win. And so Republicans must vote in every single election. Scott Pressler there, long flowing hair well down past his shoulders.

I'm not sure he fits the stereotype they're making of these gay Republicans. No, he doesn't. And I've seen others react on acts and other social media platforms today who, who may be black, gay Republican supporters of Donald Trump who don't fit that stereo type either. And that just goes to show that, again, I think the New York Times is trying to, in this particular case, as you put it, you know, say that they don't necessarily, like, how can you be a gay Republican and support a conservative agenda? And I think that what you see in terms of reading the article. Yeah, exactly.

And what you see in the article is, regardless of whether you're working at the Treasury Department or the Energy Department, there are certain policy areas where these individuals have a high level of expertise and Donald Trump is looking for competent people to serve in his government to serve the American people to the best of their ability, regardless of those personal questions and who they may like. This is the New York Times version of Joe Biden saying, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black. They're saying whatever it is to be gay actually isn't about your sexual preference, but

it's about a holistic identity that includes you having a certain set of political opinions, which, by the way, they suggest, includes all these trans issues. Like, you're not gay unless you're so obviously pro-trans. And by the way, this isn't just my projection. Here's one of the Obama bros, John Lovett, Pod Save America, worked for Barack Obama. He tweeted back at Rick Grinnell talking about the redesign of the Oval Office. So we're talking about interior design here, by the way. And Lovett says 60 years ago, former Army astronomer Frank, what's I say, Frank Kameney, fired for being gay, let a protest outside the White House on behalf of gays, gay veterans, and federal employees.

You are in the room because of activists and protesters like him, and you insult the memory when you, a gay man, pretend this isn't tacky. as F. Marsha threw a brick for you. Tell the truth. So, by the way, okay, so Obama, bro, is saying that you liking the interior design

of the Oval Office is a violation of the identity of being gay. Yeah, that's, I mean, they're trying to shame them. Rick Rennell, Scott Bessent, others, you know, who are gay. Is he gay?

John Lovett? I don't know. Can we, What is he rich, though, for a straight man, for a straight man to be criticizing a gay man on whether or not his taste and interior design is sufficiently gay? Like, I hope he's gay, John Lovett, because that doesn't feel like he's gay. I'm getting a thumbs up. You just Googled it?

John Lovett's gay? Yes, he was actually with Ronan Farrow. Really? Yeah. Boyfriend with Ronan Farrow. Partners, yeah. Okay. Okay, well, okay.

So he's a gay man. attacking another gay man for his interior design tastes. Okay, we got, I think you were about to say this, Rob, I didn't know, you didn't know, I don't care. I don't care, right, exactly. That's the point. That's the point here. And that's why when it was, when I think we experienced four years of first, you know,

the first, you know, black, lesbian press secretary. I mean, you could go down the list of all the first that Joe Biden was so proud of doing. And I think the American people got tired of it. And they're like, no, we just want competent people to run our government. And we don't want you to check a box for every identity group that you're trying to satisfy here. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing less free than the libertine freedom of an identity that, you know, is an aggrieved minority, which means you've got to have all these opinions. You can't be an individual.

You've got to sign up for it. You get the whole cracker jackbox, buddy. Okay? You're gay. Let me tell you what you've got to think about interior design, your politics, or you're, you're, you're not gay. You're black. You better vote Democrat or you're a sellout. It's there nothing more constricting than the left's imposition of cultural issues, political issues on their own constituency, their own championed minorities. Yeah, it's it's something that I would expect that you're

going to continue to see over the course of the next three and a half years. And there's a reason for it. Donald Trump has made inroads with his agenda because it's common sense and it appeals to a broad swath of Americans regardless of what your identity is. That's why you saw him cut into those groups that traditionally have supported Democrats overwhelmingly. And I think that there's a panic on the left that he's been able to do this, not just, and with young people in particular, I mean, which is probably the most frightening thing if you have a group of Gen Zers who are going to be lifetime Republicans or conservatives. And so they're in the this mode right now where they're trying to drive a wedge between Trump and those different

groups. And I don't think they'll be successful because I think Trump ultimately at the end of the day knows that cutting, reducing crime in our in big cities is going to be appealing to the people who live there. Reducing immigration in this country and securing the border is going to be appealing to people. And making sure that they, he brings down the cost of living and they have, you know, strong personal finances is, is ultimately what they're going to judge his success or failure on. So, I was just looking through my notes, hoping I had this clip. I don't have this clip. It was a fascinating moment the other night on the Ingram angle on Fox News, and it was Laura Ingram

versus Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik. And it's about the proposal for the Trump administration to allow 600,000 Chinese students to come to the United States and go to American colleges. It's a fascinating debate where Laura pushed Lutnik on, how is this America first? How is it America first to ensure that there will continue to be 600,000 Chinese students at American universities? His response, Rob, was basically economic, that Donald Trump was a businessman. And without those 600,000 Chinese students, a lot of American colleges just simply wouldn't be able to pay the bills. They'd go under.

I don't – Donald Trump, by the way, doubled down on this in his cabinet meeting yesterday that he thinks it's only right. I did see someone say, like the burning of the American flag or taking an equity position in intel. This is Donald Trump once again trapping people into a headline where the actual issue is deeper and forces them to take some unpopular positions. The theory is he's highlighting we already have 600,000 Chinese students coming in, and he's going to continue that, I believe. I don't know if I buy that 3D chess on this one. I share Laura Ingram's like, how does this serve America first to continue to bring in and educate 6,000? 600,000 Chinese students? Yeah, I think, first of all, there's a question over the numbers, because the data that I

saw was about half that, about 300,000. Maybe there's a way that, maybe there's some other formula that Trump's using to get to the 600,000. I was glad to see that Laura pushed him on it and asked those tough questions because you saw the response and you articulated it that he said about 15% of the colleges and universities might have to close down where they were to lose that tuition revenue, because obviously if you're a foreign student coming to the United States, you're paying full tuition, you're not getting student aid and other discounts, scholarships.

And Marjorie Taylor Green and others said, well, maybe those 15% of colleges should shut down if they're relying on the CCP for their funding. But there's another issue here, Will, that I think goes to the heart of what Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others have talked about. And that's the threat of the CCP. We know that some of these students have come to the United States with the sole intention of spying on us and delivering secrets back to the Chinese government to help them steal intellectual property and really gain a competitive edge, whether it be economically or militarily against the United States. And so you've had a strong contingence of conservative groups say that not only does the Trump administration need to do a better job of vetting who these students are to make sure that we're not like. letting in spies, but also to be more restrictive.

And so Trump is, you know, taking a position here that is a bit at odds with his base and constituents. Ultimately, I don't know. Last week, you know, he floated the idea of potentially having boots on the ground in Ukraine and he immediately walked that back, right? So I don't know what Trump's trying to do ultimately, but he is a master of so many of these issues. And he's figured out a way to put Democrats on a box, as we, as you noted on crime and

flag burning so maybe he's trying to do that here yeah i i think that's an appropriate level of deference because these issues have played out in so many favorable ways for him and not what in not just the left the right thinks they are the flag burning thing was worthy of deeper analysis which we did yesterday and it shows it's it's it's not some big violation of the first amendment he's not he's not criminalizing burning the american flag unless it is associated with an existing other crime like disorderly conduct or public burning. But I don't know on this one. The 600,000 Chinese students, I don't see the trap.

I don't see the rhetorical game or box that he's putting his opponents into. It doesn't look like, to me, it's America first. Or is it an olive branch to President Xi? Go ahead. I don't know, you know, to try to carry on the conversation about tariffs and the economic situation with China. I don't know ultimately what chess game he's playing here. Right. That's true.

That's true. It's part of negotiations with China. That's a big chip to lay on the table, I feel like. We'll see if that's where it lands. And then finally, Rob, I wanted to go over this with you, Vanity Fair, the magazine. Employees are lashing out over the proposed cover of Vanity Fair, which would be Melania Trump. Here's a quote. I think this quote is to the New York Post. I will walk out of the mother-effing door, and half my staff will follow me,

We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife. We just not going to do it. We're going to stand for what's right. If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe's, I'll do it. If they put Maloney on the cover, half the editorial staff will walk out. I guarantee it. Look at your face, Rob. I mean, this, you know, I'm going to admit to you something, Rob.

I thought after Donald Trump was elected president that the left would move on from TDS. I really did, because I thought there would be a certain level of resignation and fatigue. They would realize they would be tired after, what are we looking at, 10 years of this, insanity, and they would have to start thinking about the future, a future which doesn't include Donald Trump. They would have to start focusing who their person will be and who will they be running against. Will it be Marco Rubio or J.D. Vance? I was wrong. There is no end to the appetite for the insanity of Trump-D. syndrome. Obviously, here illustrated, as imported onto Melania Trump. And you know what it makes me think, Rob? It's not going to go away even when he's not president. It may continue to

define into the future Democrats. Probably will. That's for sure. I don't see it going away post-presidency. We'll be thankful that you're in Texas and not living in a bubble like New York or Washington, D.C., where you're surrounded by people who have TDS and can't get over it. There's no doubt in my mind that what you're seeing at Vanity Fair is something that happened throughout the four years of his first term. They refused to put Melania Trump on any of those magazine covers, despite putting Michelle Obama and other first ladies on them multiple times during their tenure in the White House. I mean, there's no doubt that there was a double standard applied during the first term. And you're seeing the same thing happen this time around. Now, I think that they could probably pick up millions of new subscribers or at least people to buy that particular issue of the magazine.

So from a business or capitalism sense, you would think, why not do this? Because it's opening an opportunity to a whole new market that would love to own a copy of a magazine with Malani on the cover. And instead, yeah, the staff seems to be in a full-on revolt, panic that this may happen. and it just goes to show how out of touch they are with the rest of this country. Yeah, I mean, she's even setting aside the potential business. I don't know. I don't know if more people would buy it. But she's a two-time first lady.

She's relatively, by the way, apolitical. Most of the causes she champions have to do with children. You know, she shows up in Kerrville, Texas, after the floods. She's writing an open letter to Vladimir Putin about the children of Ukraine. And this is their reaction. As you point out, Michelle Obama, over two terms, was on Vogue's cover three times in two terms. And they just can't stomach. I mean, the line is, we will not normalize this despot and his wife.

This is what we get. We get for sure at least four years of Trump derangement syndrome. And now my new prediction is several years after. It's going to go on for a while. You just can't be this crazy and come back to reality. That's the mistake I made. Oh, you come back. Nope.

I don't know. Does anybody come back from crazy? Maybe without institutionalization? That's scary. We got a big percentage of the population that might be eligible for institutionalization. All right, Rob Blewey is the president and executive editor at The Daily Signal.

Make sure you check them out over there. We always appreciate having you on. Thank you, Rob. Good to hang out with you today, Will. Thank you. All right, good to hang with you. I'm going to be hanging tomorrow with the vice president of the United States, J.D. Vans. So I've got to fly to Wisconsin tonight to meet the vice president.

We'll do an interview tomorrow, and we'll air that in full here at Wilcane Country, unedited. I get to talk to him just a few days before. Ohio State versus Texas. one versus two he's an Ohio State Buckeye fan I'm a Longhorn fan who gets bragging rights

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which i'm about to conduct tomorrow um tinfoil pat two a day stand let's talk about this and actually willisha jump into the comment section what would you like me to ask the vice president of the united states i am going to ask him this for sure and i don't care if you get mad at me i don't care if this is one of this taylor swift Travis kelsey things like nobody cares. That was all the comments yesterday in our social media when I posted the breaking news of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's engagement. Nobody cares. Okay, you took the time to comment that nobody cares, which suggests you kind of care. But I want to know what was like to drop the national championship trophy. Like, how did you feel in that moment on that stage with the

Buckeyes, you pick up the national championship trophy, it tumbles to the ground? I think that would be of all the public things you've ever done like that's got to be kind of a low point don't you think is it is it the most embarrassing that right yeah is that the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to him yeah can we is there something more can we come up with something more i don't know i'm just trying to think what's in the running i mean i mean there's all those memes of him with the big face You mean when they make him fat? Yeah.

In his face? All those memes? Yeah. Do not bring that up. I mean... It'd be hilarious. Don't bring up those memes? Yeah.

Definitely bring up those memes. Someone literally got told that could not come back into the country because of that meme. No. That's got to be fake news. That's fake news. Fake news. I said literally. That is Brooklyn brunch crew.

Mumbo Jembo. That is... That is the type of thing. It's crazy sometimes, like, especially around my soccer dads, who there's a couple that are on the left, and they'll come up and they'll talk to me about something. And they'll say the most crazy thing. And I'm like, where did you get that? And they're like from TikTok. And I'm like, the information that you're getting, like for real, somebody is barred from entering the country because they posted a fat-faced J.D. Vance meme.

Is that something the Brooklyn brunch crew believes, Dan? No, they don't work in that world. No, that's more of like my wife and her friends thing. Okay. Sorry, I love you, honey, but... So yes, in your social circle. Yeah. But not that.

All right, so what shall we ask the vice president? What would you like to know? Why go by J.D? Is he John David? I don't even know. Wouldn't most J.D.s be John David? I think it is. What is his real name?

What do you want to know, tinfoil? James David. I have to do the research to really, really think about it. Oh, gosh. You guys are really good on the spot. Here's, I want to ask him about a ton of thing. I want to ask him about flag burning. I want to talk about the First Amendment.

I want to talk about some of these issues that Donald Trump. We could ask him about the 600,000 Chinese students. JD Ditvance is incredibly philosophical. He does, I believe, have a pretty strong sense of what it means to be America. first. I would love to continue to hear that defined through the prism of some of these bigger issues. Those are some of the things I'd love to talk about with him. He's a thinker. So, yeah, we're going to talk about news of the day and I'll joke about the National Championship trophy. But, I mean, I think there's some really important questions to answer about the

philosophical vision of this movement beyond Donald Trump. Now, he's not going to talk about anything beyond Donald Trump. I know how this works. He'd parry that right away because that makes you look like you're seeking something and looking beyond this current presidency. So I know he won't do that. But I still think there's real questions about what is the, there's no doubt that Donald Trump has pivoted Republicans away from who they've been for the past 50 years. So what are they for the next 50 years after this one incredibly powerful figure in Donald Trump? So what are we after. I mean, I do think that's something that I want to try to get into with J.D. Vance. I will have to talk about Ohio State

versus Texas. It is 1v2. It is in Columbus. Go ahead, tinfoil. I was just going to say that I did think of something. He's very big on pushing back against Europe and the free speech problems over there. And I'm just curious about all that, like why that is so important to him. Because I feel like a lot of Americans don't understand the implication of all those issues over there and how they impact us eventually. Yeah, that's a great question. I like framing it that way as well.

You know, we do a lot of those stories on the Will Kane show. We want to talk about, you know, the German migration problems. We want to talk about the loss of culture in the UK. There's currently that story going around about the young lady, 14 years old, who pulls out a knife and a small like ice axe to ward off a guy that is seemingly harassing her. And of course this is part of the cultural climate where

there's been these huge, what do they call are they called like pedophile rings or not pedophile rings, rape. Grooming gangs. It's a huge grooming gangs. We've done this story on the Will Cancho. Largely migrants illegal, I don't know if they're illegal or they're

refugees, whatever communities. Mostly I believe Pakistani in various parts of England and there's all this under-reported cover-up by police departments on how many girls they've taken basically kidnapped and used as sex slaves like the movie taken.

Like the movie taken. Yeah, kind of like the movie taken. Yes, Dan, thank you for that. You're welcome. Yeah, yeah, kind of like taken. What? Movies are a great way, yeah, to contextual. I don't know.

Yeah, movies are a great way to, like, make the news and history meaningful. That's right, man. Yeah, it ties it all together for the people. I just watched. I just rewatched a movie last night because I wanted to get a history podcast. I was a little tired of sports radio for now, and I found one, and it's called History That Doesn't Suck. And it's pretty good. It's about an hour long each episode, and he goes through, he starts with the American Revolution, and he's going through, then he goes forward and

time. And I did, in the last couple of days, I listened to the Russian Revolution, the rise of Stalin from Lenin, from the Russian Revolution in 1917, really kind of starts before that with the first failed revolution in 1905. And then Lenin and how Stalin consolidated power over Trotsky and the others and how it became Stalinism from Leninism. And I was really fascinated about all this. And so I was like, I'm going to go back and rewatch a movie that I've already seen. Because he talked about what Stalin did in terms of making the world think that he was industrializing the Soviet Union throughout the 1920s and 30s. And I was like, how's he doing it? They don't have the money. And he was robbing the Ukraine of its crops, right,

and using it to feed Moscow and fund this urbanization, industrialization. And there's a movie that I've seen called Mr. Jones. You guys remember me talking about Mr. Jones in the past? Have you seen that? I haven't seen it, but I remember. Yeah. I mean, so I rewatched it. And it's fascinating. It's about a Welsh reporter who got into Moscow. And, you know, all the reporters at that time, this is the early 1930s, were confined to Moscow. You only got to see what was in Moscow. But he knew something didn't add up with the economics. So people said, you got to get to Ukraine. You got to see what's going on in Ukraine. So he does kind of steal away on a train to Ukraine. He ends up there. And it's awful. It's massive famine, starvation, people dead along the streets, cannibalism, and this is a whole lot of more. It's famous. Millions of people died in Ukraine of a man-made famine, where it was forced collectivization of the farms. Then they took all the grain and all the farm produce and took it out of Ukraine and shipped it into Moscow while the locals died.

The locals died of forced starvation. And he came back and he tried to write the article and try to get the news out. And ultimately, he inspired through this George Orwell to write 1984. But here's the part that I'm getting to that I'm mostly fascinated by. There was a New York Times reporter in Moscow by the name of Walter Durante. And Walter Durante counter-narrativeed him. He wrote all these glowing profiles of Stalin and the industrialization and how great the USSR. For this, in 1931, 32, in a five-part series,

Walter Durante received the Pulitzer Prize. He received all the journalism accolades that there is to earn the New York Times. But he was simply a propaganda mouthpiece for Stalin. Stalin's like, he's my man. He's the guy who's telling the truth. And in 2003, they tried to get Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize revoked. The Pulitzer Prize committee would not revoke it.

And it's just something to remember. Like, this is the New York Times. It was like, oh, if the New York Times writes it, it's true, especially in their quote-unquote reporting, you know, the big gay Republican, whatever we did earlier, that's the nonsense, you know, around the main dish of the New York Times. I was like, well, if you read the news part, no, the news part is fake just like they were warding themselves Pulitzer's for the Russia hoax, right? Was Donald Trump bought and paid for? So if you think that's right-wing propaganda, learn a little history. like they were giving themselves Pulitzer's for running propaganda for Stalin

in the 1930s. Lies. Gareth I think his name is Jones. And they knew it, though? Gareth Jones, they called him Mr. D. What? They knew it as propaganda?

New York Times knew it. New York Times knew it as propaganda. Durante knew it. Damn. Everyone knew that was real. The famine. The everyone dying. And he specifically wrote that it's a myth.

It's not real. Oh, there are challenges in the Soviet Union, but there's no famine. Like, I'm talking three to five million people died. Damn. Three to five million in a not very long period of time, starving them out. Cannibalism, man. And he's writing, no, no, no. It's fine.

It's fine. Everything's fine here. Now, did the people back in New York know? Did the New York Times know? I don't know. But what I think is you had a whole group of people at every level of that editorial board and publisher who wanted to believe that the Soviet experiment was a revolution in human governance. That's what they wanted to believe. Even the Brits wanted to believe that.

There was high-level Brits that wanted to believe this is the hope of humanity. There's a line in the movie where Orwell confronts him. And Orwell doesn't want to believe it. He doesn't want to believe this is the case in the Soviet Union because he says to me, says to the reporter, are you telling me there's no hope? So the Soviet Union represented their hope for egalitarianism

and workers' rights and a better future. But it was all a farce. It was all fake. Millions dying. Orwell eventually sees the light and tells the truth and writes Animal Farm and then later 1984. But the Walter Durante angle of this

to me is just absolutely fascinating that they were covering themselves in glory writing lies. And if you think that's the only time that's ever been done? God bless your negativity. God bless your negativity. Anyway,

that was a tangent. How did I get off on that? I was talking about Ohio State versus Texas. Clip it. I was getting ready to talk about Archmanning versus Julian saying. Clip it. Oh, yeah, what would you ask the vice president? I don't know. I don't even know how I got to that from. How did I get to the whole lot of more from that? I have a question from

the chat if you want one. Someone said, Ask him about taking away property tax. I don't think that's going to be. Property tax is a local thing. That's city and state governments on property tax, mostly cities. But, yeah, I don't know. But I am open to your suggestions. Drop into the comments.

We'll collect those over the next day. And I'm open to your suggestions on what to ask the vice president. I will have to ask him about Ohio State. Let's break down my prediction. Ohio State number two, Texas number one in this battle. One of the biggest games, and by the way, it's not the only one. Clemson, LSU this weekend as well. There's some other good ones, right?

Who's Miami playing? Miami's got a big, is it Miami? Notre Dame. Yeah, baby, let's go. Is it Notre Dame? Yeah, Dan, you shouldn't have to look that one up. Whatever. I'm still in baseball season. You're such a face.

frontrunner fan. Get out of here. Don't come to me at the end of the season. Don't ask me who our quarterback is. Don't ask me who our quarterback is right now. We went two in ten and I know

who we're playing. Come on, Dan. Tenfoil. We should do a Notre Dame quiz. He knows more about Notre Dame. Me or Dan? No.

The fan or me? Let's just try it real quick. Ten foil. Look this up. Don't let Dan look up. I believe the quarterback of the Notre Dame Fighting Iris is CJ Carr.

Do I have that right? I believe you're correct. Let me look this up. Yeah, you are. Oh, this is really embarrassing for Dan. Dan, can you name the starting running back for Notre Dame? Yes. It's been a long day.

Oh, my gosh, you can't do it. He might be a top 10 draft pick. Certainly a top 20 draft pick. I know his name. But right now I have Bijan Robinson in my head because I just did a fantasy draft. You haven't said his name yet I haven't Do you know Will

Jeremy I love There you go I'm just waiting for you to say it That's all I wanted to see if you knew it He didn't want to make you look bad Such a fan he is No I turn a switch

I'm a sports fan where I turn a switch I'm like all right I'm falling now Who's the head coach for Notre Dame Dan who's the head coach Don't know I can't No I know

I know who the head coach of my team is I just can't think of the name name right now of anything. God, this is embarrassing. By the way, the audience should know he's also a Yankees fan. Is this all adding up for you? So I can tell you everything about the Yankees right now. He's a Yankees, Packers, and Notre Dame fan.

What's Packers I'm doing with that? He should just be a Cowboys fan, and it'd be perfect. You grew up in the 90s when they were hot. So I was a Cowboys fan in the 90s. The Packers were just, were up there? Oh. I was. That's terrible.

I know. Sue me. Oh, yeah. That's a hint, a free pass on the head coach. I know it was Brian Kelly. I did not like it. Do you know, Will? You know? Marcus Freeman. Yeah. You looked that up. Marcus Freeman. I did not look that up. Me? No, no, Dan.

He said it after I said it, Tinfoil. No, I didn't. What are you talking about? I tried to sink that in there. Have you ever seen those? videos is when they go outside like a University of Texas game. They're like, you're a big Longhorn fan? Big Longhorn fan. Big. You tell me who they're starting. Yeah, and nobody, and like half of them don't know anything. Yeah. Yeah, that's you, Dan. That's you. It's not even like the too deep. It's not even the too deep. You're asking like, who's the star running back?

Jeremiah Love. Okay. Yeah, exactly. But like, it's not, this shouldn't be super hard. You'll me show you what a fan looks like. Dan, do you want me show you what a fan looks like? Sure. Okay? You ready? Yeah. Here we go. Arch Manning, wide receivers,

Ryan Wingo, Parker Livingston, DeAndre Moore. Offensive line. It is going to be Cole Hudson at center, Netto Umiazolu, and DJ Campbell at Guard. Don't play the music. Don't play the music. Trevor Goosby and Brandon Banks at tackle.

You want to go to the defense? I could do it too. I can maybe go too deep as well. I can do defense and too deep. Do the Texas Rangers. Oh. What do you want to know? What's their starting nine? Starting nine? Yeah. Okay. I can do this. See, that's what I'm saying.

I'm just trying to. Third base is Josh Young. Shortstop is Corey Seeger. Second base, was Marcus Simeon, he's hurt, so it'll probably be Josh Hamilton doesn't play anymore, just so you know. First base is tough because the guy we signed Burger, Jake Berger from Atlanta

hasn't been very good. Of course, you've got DeGrom, Yvaldi, who just got hurt, he's out for the season. Tyler Molly, who hadn't played, Merrill Kelly, who we just traded for, that's your pitching staff. Outfield, Zekiel Duran playing out there

I'm going to go study for a couple hours after the show The dude that can't hit anymore He's done, El Bambi, Bombie? Yeah I think I did better than you did at Notre Dame Oh absolutely This is great radio by the way Great podcast

Can you even say a Yankee besides judge? What? Could he do what I just did for the Yankees? Can you do what I just did? Cody Bellinger Can you go around the diamond? Cody Bellinger, Aaron Judge, Anthony Volpe. Who do we have

at third? Max Freed's pitching Who's your catcher? Our catcher is Trent Williams. Where's Joe Heim? What? Yeah, I can't be. I'm not as good as that on that either. I'm focused on news these days, guys. Come on. Let's get back

to some news. Oh, you want to do a news quiz? Okay, news quiz time. No. All right. This is worse than when you outed yourself as being a racist. It's terrible. We're not saying that because I'm not. We're a real bad day for two of days. Jeez.

I'm taking the rest of the week off. All right, now that I've gone through the Texas starting lineup for you, here's what I think. I think Ohio State is incredibly talented. They have an incredible too deep. I could not name for you all of Ohio State's player. I can tell you their stud-wide receiver, Jeremiah Smith, their other one, Carnell Tate.

I can tell you this team's going to be tough. And it's going to be at home for Ohio State. That's a tough place to play. That being said, I think this does, and it's not cheap analysis. I do think it does come down to the most important player on the field, and that is the quarterback. I don't know about Julian Sayan. We've had several guests on the show. I've asked about this for this stated purpose.

How good will Julian Sayan be? He's a five-star recruit, a transfer from Alabama. He could be great, but we don't know because he hasn't played. Meanwhile, Arch Manning, also a bit of unknown, but I'm trusting everything I'm. hear out of Austin, everything I hear out of the Manning family. I think this kid is the real deal. I think the real question will be his year won't go perfectly. He'll have some ups and downs. Texas isn't going to go undefeated. But by the end of the year, the whole debate will be, is Arch Manning going to come out for the NFL draft? Will he be, say, a New Orleans saint

with the first overall pick in the draft? Or will he go back to Texas in 2027? That's going to be the conversation. Arch is the real deal. I think Texas goes up to Ohio State. I think Texas wins. think you take the points because Ohio State is favored, and I think you got easy money right now. Take that, Vice President. It's Longhorns by a million. Go ahead, Tinfoil. Fun fact, a first-time starter going up against the number one team is, I believe, 0 and 18, or 0-19. So, you know, winless. Like that stat. And, by the way, that number one team getting points. What's the current line? I think Texas is getting.

Is Texas getting three? Is Texas getting three? Is it the home favorite thing? Three or so? I like it. I like it a lot. So mark it down, put it in the books. Be ready for me to dunk on the vice president or be ready for me to eat crow. Horns by a million. All right, that's going to do it for us today here on Wilcane Country. It's a huge sigh of relief for two days, Dan. It's finally over. We'll see you again. Same time and same place next time. 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.