Will Cain Country - Name ONE Democrat That Can Win Young Men (ft. Danny Polishchuk)

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

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But how did we end up in the first place with Graham Platner? Is he the vision of masculinity on the left? Name the manliest man under the brand D. Wilcane Country. Streaming live at the Wilcane Country YouTube channel, the Wilcane Facebook page. But always here. hit follow at Spotify or on Apple. My old friend, Stephen A. Smith joined me yesterday on the Will Kane show,

and I got to confront him face to face about his contention that no team led by three white players, like the Los Angeles Lakers could ever win a title in the NBA. We'll play that sound for you and his response coming up in just a moment here on Will Kane country. We got Tintpoil Pat, Two A's Dan, and joining us today is comedian and co-host of the Boyscast. It's Danny. What's up, Danny? How we going? It's going all right.

It's going all right. Excellent. You know, it's not going all right. In Maine, it's not going all right if you are a Democrat, because you went all in. You went all in. They all went all in. On Graham Platner, and with the latest allegations of sexual assault, repeated allegations of sexual assault, it's all circling the drains. So it makes you wonder how did we get here in the first place? Well, Congressman Brandon Gill of

Texas said that the way you got here is because the left in an existential crisis realized they needed a man that they were getting beat. Not just with young men, but probably to some extent with women as well, beat on the grounds of masculinity. Here is Congressman Brandon Gill. Party leaders looked for a candidate that they believed would resonate with young white men and they found the biggest scumbag they possibly could because that is, Graham Platner is the caricature of white men that Democrats have in their heads. And that's who they think can carry that message. There he is.

He has become the image in their head because he's a caricature of masculinity, Danny. Now, I think it was something to be said about the fact that he is a socialist. I think socialist was a net plus for Dems. But I do think there is something as well to Plattenham. masculinity? Wouldn't this kind of been the type of guy that they would have been saying was toxicly masculine if he was maybe part of a different party or unaffiliated? Seems like it.

Yeah. Yeah. You would think so. And I think that allows him to yell hypocrisy today if Republicans try to point out they've rallied behind a scumbag. Again, yesterday was Stephen A. Smith. He said, don't dare you make this. a one-party issue. Don't dare you suggest that Platner is unique to the Democrats, and they

point to all the allegations against President Trump. I'm sure there are other Republicans that they can also reach around in the bin for and pull out as examples of toxic masculinity. But I think that the more fascinating thing is how did they end up with him? You know, I think about this, Danny. I think about it, Pat, I think about it, Dan. I'm like, I think the answer is a lack of choices. If you are on the left and if you value in any way some vision of

masculinity, where do you turn? Like, what are your options? I mean, I was just actually in Portland, Maine, and he was, he reminded me of like every guy I met there, minus all the, you know, bad stuff.

But, you know, he does seem like a very main type of guy, but I don't know. I don't, like, they just they care so much about power and winning over any of this other stuff. They're just like, you know, whatever gets us past the finish line is whatever is the most important. This is the guy. And then this is the guy.

I mean, it's crazy that it got to this point where they're like, you know what? Maybe he's not the guy considering, you know, he had 10 other things before this. What? Hey, let's set aside for a minute the details of Platner. Just for a minute. They'll set aside the details of Plattenor. Danny makes the point that it reveals how craven they are for power. And, you know, the unique part of Platner is that's so self-evidently exposed because they championed him as this thing was obvious before.

It's like a bomb whose fuse had been lit and the fuse was ticking down towards the explosive. And anyone could see that you picked a really bad candidate. He's got a Nazi tattoo. do. But you refuse to withdraw your endorsement until, well, the bomb had really basically exploded. But Danny's point about power, this is where we reintroduce ourselves to Stephen Smith, who's like, that's not a Democrat thing. That's a political thing. And every party is willing to forgive whatever it takes in order to gain power. Yeah, that's true. Do you think that is a worthy point to make that this is not? The moment may be about Democrats, but the

problem is not about Democrats. It's about politics. Yeah. I mean, I think that it's you know, when Trump came in 2016, I think all the conventions around politics got kind of thrown out the window. Like, you know, you never heard like a politician

swear, right? Like, that was especially a Republican. Like, to hear a Republican, you'd be like, it would be like if you heard your elementary school teacher swear, you're just like, I can't believe, I'm shocked, right? Like, I can't believe what It just heard. So I think everybody's like, you know what? There's new rules now. It's not about the person. It's just like it's what they represent. You know, obviously there's a point where the baggage is too much. But, you know, they really obviously let it slide at this point. Because it's, you remember the Michelle Obama thing where it was like when they go low, we go high? She said that. Now it's just like, that's out the window. There's no high ground here anymore. They're just like, this is politics. whatever gets us there is, you know, and that's just how my read on it.

It's just nobody cares about anything anymore other than winning. And it all came undone with one man. That's what the most fascinating thing is. It's like you've got a card trick that you've been pulling off on the streets of New York, and all of a sudden one bad card trick to expose all the slights of hand. I mean, in one guy yelling Nazi for 10 years came undone. In one guy saying believe all women came undone. In one guy, you know, where the restorer of norms came undone.

In one guy, the fraud of all the tricks got exposed. And it's not as though it was just applied to one guy. It's applied on a whole host of things. But back to my point about masculinity. And I don't know if this is where you were going to jump in, Dan. I think I'm going to give a little bit of sympathy to Democrats. It won't feel that way. But it is a little bit of sympathy.

And it's like a doctor. It's not, this isn't going to feel good, but, you know, we have to start with the truth. You have cancer. Here's the truth, Democrats. You don't have any men. Like, I get how you ended up with, I get how you ended up with him, how you ended up with platinum. Like, where are you going to turn? Federman's being thrown out.

Federman is, yeah, Federman makes sense. He's a dude. Okay. Where's hoody? Yeah, you know what? I don't, maybe this is a disagreement on my part. I mean, I don't think they want. men or masculine men.

The best that they want is feminine men. That was my point. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think the, like the current Democratic Party, they're not looking for masculine men. If they get one, I don't think that's necessarily a selling point. That's probably just like, hey, this is kind of, we happen to have one. But they're pretty feminine party at this point.

And they've created the performative male, too, which this new form of Democrat and lefty and liberal. that kind of act like feminine and I'm a safe person and I'm a safe guy. But there's still the same men behind all that. But they just don't act like it because they're afraid to and told not to. I mean, what's more feminine that's someone wanting to spend all your money? Or wear a tote bag. I think about it in categories. Say what you will, but Joe Biden was a dude.

Yeah. Joe Biden was a dude. there are old school Democrats, some of them still holding office, who would have fit any traditional definition of masculine. John F. Kennedy was a man. I don't want to say that Chuck Schumer is a man, but there are old Democrats. Joe Manchin is a man. You can't barbecue. You know, he can't barbecue.

Right. I'm not giving it to Schumer. I'll give it to Mitch and I'll give it. I put the cheese on right away. No, Tim Walls? You don't think Tim Walts? You don't think Coach? No, Tim Walts.

Coach is a man? So if you take the old schoolers out, and by the I think that Gavin Newsom belongs in the category of old schoolers. Even though he's objectively younger than them, I feel like he's grown up in that era of politics. That's who he is. This new wave of Democrats that he's desperately trying to court is not really the world in which Gavin Newsom was raised. And so the New World Democrats does bring in guys like James Talarico. And it's no coincidence that along the way, to your point, Danny, they're redefining masculinity. They don't totally abdicate the concept of it, but they say that this is what a real man acts like.

This is what a real man says. This is how a real man behaves. And so they redefined masculinity to fit this feminized version that is best embodied, I think, right now, by James Telerico. But yet they were still attracted to Graham Platner because they know deep down. that is a dude. Platner is a dude. Now maybe it could be explained, well, all that really mattered with Platner was he was a social Democrat.

But I do think that they were attracted to the idea that we could actually have a dude champion our cause. Remember PC principal in South Park? It's like they're trying to find that guy. And Platner was kind of PC principle. And if you're going that path, you don't have a lot of choices. And you end up with the dude with the Nazi tattoo

and sexual assault alley. Like Bill Clinton. Yeah, I mean, I just think the Democratic Party is a party currently run and influenced by women. And so they kind of decide how the men operate. They go, this is what we'll accept from the men. Yes. This is the scope of how manly you're allowed to be. You know, obviously, if you come off as traditionally manly, but, you know, you do all of our stuff, that's fine.

But it's a party, you know, influence and run by a woman. and it's just that's my my read on it which is why it took you know specifically like a sexual assault thing to be like okay I guess that's the line yeah I think it's the party

does the ideal man for Democrats let's take a quick break but continue this conversation with comedian Danny Polishuk here on Will King Country Cheers to America's 250th birthday get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with

Code FN Radio 20%. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. Well, I don't know. I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's Ellie and page. But I do think, I do think Danny's diagnosed right.

It is a party run by women. It is a party, it is an ideology run by femininity. And to the extent that men are present, I think Dan is right, that they are performative males. looking to seek social and perhaps sexual acceptance by women, by acting like Harry Stiles, or they're married men who, quite honestly, are bossed around by their wives. I really think that's where we're left with in the comments section on Instagram and X. I didn't say anything, Dan. That feels like a shot.

I did. You have a Canadian wife. Yeah. Do I have a Canadian wife? No, no, no, Dan has a Canadian wife. My wife's Canadian. And so I'm like, how does that need a question? Yeah.

So you have an opposite dynamic. Maybe thinking it was a shot at me, it's very telling. I think that's the point. Yeah. For you to think I was talking about you, sort of, there's another card trick exposed on the streets of New York. I've brought him up. The boys think this all started, Danny. 10-4-patent two days, Dan, think this all started with this guy.

I mentioned him a moment ago, Harry Stiles, that he is the performance. He is the alpha. The alpha is the beginning. The omega is the end, right? He is the alpha performative male. The first. He broke the mold. The alpha beta.

Kind of. The alpha beta. Yeah. I mean, the guy wears a dress. What's more masculine than that? But that's what women love that. So, like, women on the left in the circles I run in, they're like, he's the peak definition of style for men.

That's what they want all men to dress like. Yeah. Yeah. Except when you're not hairy style. styles, you show up on a date and a dress. Good luck with that. Yeah. Or like 5 foot 8 and 145 pounds wet.

You know what I mean? Sure. You also have to be Harry Styles. It doesn't work for regular guys. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Who had a wardrobe malfunction, apparently, on stage this weekend. What did he do? He split his pants, and as of the boys thought,

hey, you know who else split their pants? Well, his whole on TV. Yeah, he saw his junk. He split him from the front. Oh, yeah. Yeah, his whole situation fell out of his pants. Oh, he had a little lemmy crappets? Yeah, apparently not.

No, guys like that, I mean, again, he's a man's man. They don't wear underwear. Yeah, exactly. Well, I did split my pants on TV on national television from the back. Better one. Did have undergarments. That did happen. That's a fierce rip, by the way.

That's not a slight rip. That's like there was already a rip. I think we have video of it too, Dan. We do have video if you want to say. Let's get to the video. Oh, yeah. Round the color. The audience decides.

For the dignity, three, two, one, God. Got to bounce, Lawrence. Lawrence. Look at him. I feel like I'm doing. What is with the speed? What is with the speed? I went down and I tried to take it down with me.

Lawrence, what is with the speed? Oh my God, everybody. It's amazing. Furbread. When you're an hour. You can see your leg in there. I mean, I will say that's the distinction right there. A manly man splits the pants in the back.

That's true. A feminine man splits him in the front. Because who has a crox that? I think that's right. True. Yeah, that's right. In retrospect, there's a couple of notes from that video beyond just me ripping my pants.

A, why is Lawrence so fast on an inflatable horse, a bouncy horse? He was, Pete's commenting on it throughout the video. Lawrence, what is going on? And I think that's a legit question. Why are you so fast on this thing? He's done it before. Number two, that man went on to be Secretary of War. He controls our entire military, the biggest military in the world right now.

Yeah, the things he guys used to do on that show just for him to become Secretary of War. Honestly, it might have been you, Will, if you didn't split your pants there. That's true. Might have been. At that point, Trump was like, It's a great point. I think it could with Trump. I think Trump can see it and be like, not good.

It's not a good look. It's not a good look for secretary. At least you didn't get a nickname from Trump about splitting your pants that just would follow you for the rest of your life. Since we're having fun here for a moment, there's this, I don't know, online meme world going on. and Patrick lives in the virtual meme world on X. And it did hit my algorithm as well. And it's like, hey, what if Seinfeld actually, you know, had what we have in 2026?

Style, self-help, medicinal help. What would it look like? And they started with George Costanza. George Costanza, if you hadn't just done the whole, you know, horseshoe unbalding thing, but did what really started in the 90s with Bruce Willis, the full-on bald and a short-cropped beard. And the guy that puts it out said, I wanted to sort of make fun of this look that we've had for now 30 years. And I do think it's a legit question. Do we go back at any point?

Do we ever go back to, if you've got it in certain places on your head, keep it. It's not that big a deal. But the guy realizes when he makes this AI version of George, He thinks he looks better. He looks better. You know, but we're all in a certain age, Danny. Everyone here. I do wonder, you know, in the 60s and 70s, dudes just said, you know what?

I have hair on the sides and back and not on the top. And that's what I look like now. And I'm going to own it. And it was authentic. I wonder, every trend comes back around. Sure. We're all full head hair here. So we're all privileged.

every single one of us on this, but I gotta wonder if that comes back. I don't know. I mean, again, I think this is the women have decided to go, we like this and not that. That's so true. And, uh, yeah, I don't think the women love. Just get rid of it. Women don't love the, the shaggy horseshoe. Imagine, like, long hair?

Well, it doesn't have to be shaggy. Like long hair, but with nothing on top. That's fascinating. I knew a guy who had, like, who had the nothing on top. Yeah. You had nothing on top, and he had a pony top. heel in the back. Yeah, that's a wild move. Yeah. That's a tough one. That's fully given up.

I'm going to make an argument. So these AI things put George in a couple of different looks, and one of them is this look, which is a little bit what one would call the Big Lobowski. That's a good look. That's long. That's long on the sides and back. He's got the shades, shaggy beard, and he's bald on top. I don't think that's a bad look.

There's still some on top. I'm talking about... I mean, I've seen this guy at a fish concert. Specifically. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm telling me that. That's a lifestyle. That's right.

That's true. You've made a lot of choices. I mean, he does mushrooms every weekend. Yeah, of course. You're microdosing. You are a different man. Yeah. You've made choices about your employment, your spousal choices, and options.

You've made a lot of choices. I guess is this the limp biscuit look? If we're going into the 90s, this is George. He looks like Fred Durst. Literally, it's just Fred Durst look. I think that is. Yeah, that's just Fred Durst. Yeah, I think that's, you know, we love Limp Bizkit here, so.

But that was also in the Pondy Shop of America. I guess, is this part of 90 nostalgia? What's going on, Patrick? This is the full-on 90s haircut people talk about. Oh, yeah. What the kids, stealing my look. The kids now call curtains. Yeah, that's what I had curtains, Patrick.

I had that at 10 years old, literally that same. Yeah, that was like every 10-year-old when I was 10, and every hockey player in, like, where I grew up, that was the haircut. They took a bowl and just cut under. And now they have, like, the broccoli head. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, they do. The alpaco.

We're getting where. It's a broccoli head? Just alpaca. Yeah, it looks like Mima's haircut. That's exactly. And then it's like, well, what if they had everything we have in 2026? like what if Costanza had GLP ones you know and then he looks he looks like it looks better yeah it doesn't look like Walter White and he probably buys them from Kramer because Kramer's like

selling like a black market peptides yeah well speaking of that speaking of that how about Kramer on peptides I've got I've got that as well uh and again he looks pretty good. And that's Elaine on the other side as a blonde, peptided Elaine. Dang. And I thought Elaine was pretty good looking

as he was in the 90s. That's not peptided. That's not peptided. That's just a different hairstyle. Really? Elaine would have been doing like Botox. Like there was been an episode where she had like,

she did lip filler and they gave her too much. You know? And like her lips look insane and there's a whole thing. And she was always smoke. Like the doctor, she was dating. did it for her and the whole yeah i had a conversation with a buddy of mine this morning dany about about this it just happens to tie into what we're talking about on the show today um you know if we were on a desert island and there were five women and you're on the desert island right one of those

women would become the best looking woman you've ever seen in your life oh yeah i mean without a out. No matter what she actually looks like, she would become the best-looking woman you've ever seen in your life, right? And you think about where we're from. I don't know where you're from, Danny. I'm from a small town. So how ever we grew up? Yeah. Okay. And Dan's from Westchester and Pat's from Florida. However we grew up, right, in the high school we grew up in, those were the best-looking girls we could possibly conceive, right? Whoever was the best-looking girl in your grade or whatever, and, you know, and then you go to college or you graduate and you go somewhere else to a bigger city and you're like, oh, wow. And life's a

series of discoveries that are wonderful. Oh, wow. These girls. And you, and you keep, right, you keep going someplace and you're like, wow. So your world gets a little bigger. Your fishbowl gets a little larger and you start going, wow, these are, there's other girls and these other girls are actually better than the girls that we thought we had. But this happens as well, societally, not just in these small microcosms. And so Elaine was hot. I mean, I don't know if a little. Elaine was hot back in the 90s, but she was good looking, right? And granted, this version of a sex symbol, but. She wasn't a sex symbol. And by the way, Julia Louis Dreyfus, like in Veep, she is a beautiful woman at whatever age she is.

Absolutely. No question. But this version right here is like objectively like, well, and this is what I'm leading towards. This is Instagram good looking. You know what I mean? And that's what's happened is my point in the end. I know we know this and I'm stating an obvious, but I'm putting it through a lens of which makes sense to me and maybe to everybody else. This is how social media is really having a deleterious effect on people. Because now that girl in your school that used to be the best looking girl you ever seen, sorry, I've been on Instagram. How are you going to compare now? When you have the world of hot girls available to you, most of whom are fake or posed or filtered on Instagram,

how are you ever supposed to compete? And by the way, the other way is a better way to live. It's better to go, that's the hottest girl I've ever seen, even if she's not, just because that's the world I've been exposed to. That's a better world than this world. And she might be actually attainable versus the person in your actual physical circle might be, that might be an option for you, whereas this woman on Instagram is. That's why dating in New York City is tough for a lot of people.

Let's take a quick break, but continue this conversation with comedian Danny Polishuk here on Will Kane Country. So can I make another point? So this is on politics. I saw, again, I've got, because yesterday we jacked around on the show and I pulled up Patrick's X feed. Now my algorithm thinks I want to see tweets from Patrick. And so now I got a tweet from Patrick in my algorithm this morning. And this is where somebody was talking. about the affordability crisis and how hard it is to have this or that or this or that.

And Patrick's like bingo or something or like this is it, right? Which, by the way, this is where the left and the right overlaps. And I'm not denying it. By the way, I'm not denying it completely that there's affordability issues and that kind of thing. But I saw somebody else, Patrick, respond to it and be like, you know real median income has risen sharply over the years. Now so has inflation and some things like that. But what I'm telling you is the Instagram Hot Girl thing, I think is also. happening to us economically. And somebody said this on social media. You're constantly comparing

yourself to people in faraway places, perhaps, or somewhere else, that have so much more. And I know you're saying no, Patrick, but I do want to say one thing. And I do think this about you personally as well. We are comparative social creatures. That is the nature of the human being. There is no such thing as enough. It is always compared to the person next to you, the others in the herd. That's the way it works. Honestly, and that's what drives capitalism. We don't need three quarters of the shit that we have, but we want it because somebody else has it. And all I'm saying is if you don't think that Instagram hot girl thing is happening economically as well, you're insane. You're insane. That, by the way, is what the left is driven off of.

The left is driven off of that. They're driven off of economic resentment. That is the primary motivating factor of their entire ideology. I'm not saying you shouldn't have some of it. Some of it is good. But my point is don't just think the economy is rigged. Don't just take the black pill. Realize this is happening to you psychologically as well. Go ahead, Danny. Then Patrick.

Yeah, I was just going to say, I always hate this note. Like, you know, I obviously agree there are affordability issues with, you know, like groceries, stuff like that. But this notion that, like, I live in New York City, this notion that people have, like, the right to live in New York City and that it should just be affordable when, and it's a tiny island with fixed space and one of the most desirable places on Earth to live is kind of annoys me because, like, you know, when I grew up, my parents, you know, my dad worked in Toronto, but we lived in like a suburb,

like an hour away because even in this was in the 80s, my dad was like, yeah, it's too expensive to live in Toronto. It's like if you live in Toronto, like, yes, I'm closer to work, but then it's like we live in like a tiny place, Whereas, you know, you move somewhere an hour away. And like, I mean, whenever I go to Dallas, well, I always look at the, you know, properties. I'm just like, there's places.

I'm sure you can get an hour outside of Dallas. And you're like, this is quite affordable, actually, to live. And some people are like, no, I want to live in New York City. You're like, okay, well, if you want to live in New York City, then it's expensive. Like the notion and, you know, it's driving a lot of this like DSA stuff in New York is this notion that you're like, yeah, yeah, the least, the place with the least amount of supply. and the most amount of demand should just be magically affordable. And you're like, how does that work? Like, go move like an hour and a half.

Go move an hour into New Jersey. You're like, that's probably you can find somewhere affordable. But you like have to live in the West Village. You're like, yeah, it's not affordable. Or stop comparing yourself to everybody because I do like the idea of people living where they grew up. I think roots and neighborhoods and lineage is all important. But if you live in a place like New York where people are moving into, A, that's part of the energy that you ask for and you like about. New York. B, that constantly raises the competition for real estate. And so you're going to have to

stop comparing yourself to the wealthy people that move into your city. And by the way, that just wouldn't be New York. Like you made the point, an hour outside of Dallas. Well, you know, if you want to live in Dallas, it comes with a lot of those same financial burdens anywhere. So my point is, do what you just said, Danny, go find what fits your lifestyle, or be, expect a different lifestyle to stay in the place that you are. You know what I mean? You don't are entitled to anything. Go ahead, Patrick. Now, vomit up the black pill.

Now, I completely, I don't completely, but I mostly agree with you guys. Like, I think that there is this element from the left of economic, you know, whatever. Resentment. Jealousy. That's not what I'm saying. My point is that there are major problems within the economy

and that if we don't recognize those problems that people are having, we're just going to push them to democratic socialism. And so inflation is rising substantially more than what's being reported. And it's squeezing people. And, you know, people are seeing what's in front of them. And they're comparing themselves to what they had five years ago, not necessarily to other people. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah. Yeah. I agree with the last part. Well, yeah, I will say one thing. Right. Like one thing with inflation is I do remember from about 2010 to 2020, and I don't know if it's like a weird quirk of mine, but I do remember, I'm always thinking I go, there's been like no inflation in this entire decade. Like everything just kind of seems to be the same price. So I think what happened is that we got like a decade's worth of inflation in like two years.

So it was such a huge shock to people. But if you actually like smooth it out over a longer period of time, you're like, it's probably actually the right amount of inflation, like, you know, like a normal amount of inflation. But it came so fast that people are like, it literally shocked people because you're like, I've been used to this last decade. And now, like, I mean, I always look at in New York City, dollar slice pizza. Like that doesn't exist anymore.

It went to a dollar 50. And if you look at it, you go like, wow, two years. 50% pizza inflation, you're like, that's a lot. But it was a dollar for like 25 years or something. And if you look at it in that period, you're like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. And I think a lot of people were holding on to those older prices. And then COVID inflation. So we like, I think double or tripled the surplus of money in the economy.

And that just like rocketed inflation. Yeah. I think that's the issue. I mean, there's no doubt Joe Biden. People couldn't hold on anymore. kept the money printer on way too long after COVID. Like he should have ended that in early 2021. And he kept it going way, way too long, which is kind of.

And to be fair, President Trump did it too. Yeah. You're making the right point. Joe Biden kept it going too long. But President Trump did it as well. But like in Florida, okay? So like I bought a house for 140,000 roughly 12 or 13 years ago. You know, it's it's more than.

doubled in value and then your property taxes, you're paying more on property taxes. It's like more people are moving here. It's like I literally live in Florida because it was so I was making those decisions. And now you're getting priced out of Florida. So I have a question. How much more than double has it? Because like it's, you know, property historically doubles about every 14 years. Yeah. I mean, it's it's, it's, that's normal. It's mostly though, because of all the influence. flux of people moving in from during COVID. That's, it's a supply issue. Yeah.

I mean, I do remember. But your complaint is the property taxes. Not just property taxes, but everything. We're getting rendered property taxes. I'm saying just the overall cost, you know, the evaluation then increases your insurance. And it's everything kind of like impacts other things. And wages. The one thing I'll say is wages absolutely do not, are not keeping us.

That's, I think, the main. thing here is that wages are not keeping up with inflation. Like, I think inflation is mostly normal, to be honest, but like when you tell me your place doubled in 14 years, I'm like, that's actually normal historically, but wages are not keeping up with that. And that's the issue. So, Will, you got to give these guys a raise. Hey, all right. I got to get on that. I also got to get on peptides. I got to get on peptides because here's Jerry with, this is Jerry on peptides. Look at the jawline. Look at the smooth. skin.

He's got a fade. That's like a look smacksing, Jerry. Yeah. Hey, let me ask you a question. This is a little bit tied. This is a little bit tied to the hot girl thing. Like, all right, if you're Jerry Seinfeld. Now, I know he's a unique character who would say no to this, but nine out of ten dudes

would be like, yeah, I want to look like that. Not what I actually look like in the 90s, right? But if Jerry Seinfeld had looked like this, I think Seinfeld would not have been as successful, right? Like, this guy's comedy show is not as appealing to everyone as the real Jerry Simon show. Yeah, that was a different era of comedy, though. Like, comedy used to be the domain of like schlubby kind of average looking men and, and women for that matter. And now it's definitely, there's been like a bit of a sea change where, you know, you see all these, very attractive people doing comedy.

And it was always the understanding was, you know, no, no, comedy's not for attractive people. Like, that's you have your own thing. Stay away from comedy. No one feels back. I remember it always used to be this refrain where, like, attractive women were like, man, it's so hard to do comedy when you're attractive. And it was like, you're like, yeah, it is.

And now it's not anymore. Coming up, Stephen A. Smith said, no NBA team. If their three best players are white, can win. the title, and guess what, yesterday, I got to confront him. That's coming up on Will Cane Country. Well, who broke that mold, Danny? Like, who's the first good, objectively good-looking dude comic that came in? Right. Okay, I wondered if you'd say that. Yeah, probably. Not Louis. You know why I wondered if you say Dane Cook. If it's Dane Cook, is that part of why he was sort of hated too. Like wasn't Dane Cook

sort of hated within the comedy community? And is that part of why? So he had a bit of the nickel back effect where he was just so popular and comedians are generally pretty gossipy and catty

and jealous. And it was like a big jealousy thing. Like, you know, comedy is such a subjective thing. Like I've never been, you know, doing a show where you go, I like every person on this show. Right? And nor does an audience member. That's normal. But I think they were just like, didn't like his success. And they go, it was just too many factors where people were just hating on him. And he's selling out hockey arenas and stuff. And quick, too. I think that was a lot of it. Quick. Yeah. Because he figured out my space. You got figured out. Yeah. Well, I mean, he still plays 5,000 seat theaters. He's doing fine. Like, when you're on top like that, it's generally pretty temporary unless you're like Dave Chappelle. maybe really just Dave Chappelle

to be honest is the only guy who's like really consistently kept that going how long do you think as a stand up maybe I stand up yeah you think Nate has a couple years how long do you think Nate's going to do it

Nate? I mean that's the thing Nate could be in Chappelle territory the thing with Nate is he is literally like one of the just best like most prolific kind of joke writers.

I could see him keeping it going for a long time. He's not like a flash in the pan. His success was, I think, more gradual than a Dane Cook. So I could see him Nate keeping it going for a long time. That's really kind of interesting for

Chappelle. Chappelle's the only one you're saying. Maybe Nate Bargazzi gets there. Everybody else has a quick rise in or a rise in a limited window. Normally. You know, like Amy Schumer, she was selling out

arenas, full arena tours. It's like, she's, she'll sell, she'll do a theater. Is Bill Burr's audience is smaller than they were? I would think so, just due to him alienating a huge chunk of his audience. I don't think he's an arena act right now. Again, he's like 5,000 cedar.

There's nothing wrong with that. Kevin Hart? that's there's Kevin Hart would be I think still I don't know the last like big tour he's done because he's like jumped to like I'm a movie star now yeah um so I don't I don't know if he's like his his tours he probably just due to the fact that he's not doing it that much would probably be like an arena tour but I don't think if he was doing it every year that would be sustainable, but maybe he would. He's like a tough one.

Danny, the good looking thing, the good looking thing has changed for women, though, right? Like, there's several good-looking women comics now. I don't know all their names. Ponce. Pop up in my Instagram feed. But there's a lot of good-looking women comics. Yeah, Chelsea Handler.

That was a joke. Well, that's not what I was talking. Wow. Speaking of Petty, it's Nikki Glazer I'm talking about. No, but there's some others as well who are not as famous. Yeah.

Yeah, Whitney Cummings. There's plots. Yeah. One last George Costanza. For everybody listening on Spotify or Apple or on radio. It's George with a very red beard. And whatever that tattoo is the Graham Platner got to cover up his Nazi tattoo, whatever that is.

What is that? A Celtic wolf? I don't even know what it is. He must feel like such a jerk at this point. He goes, man, I could have kept the Nazi tattoo this whole time. What a waste. All right. Let's talk about Stephen A. Smith and whether or not three white players can win the NBA title.

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Antelanel Towers is committed to eradicating veteran homelessness and helping America never forget September 11th. To learn more about the foundation, its mission, impact, and how you can support our nation's heroes, visit t2t.org. Danny, we talked about this last week. Stephen A. Smith said three white players can't win the NBA title. He was referencing the Los Angeles Lakers with Walker Kessler, Luca Donchich, and Austin Reeves. We talked about it last week. Is it racist? Is it not? Are you offended? I am not. Is he right? Is he wrong? Well, yesterday, Stephen A, joined me on the Will Kane show, and I got to tell him to his face. Here's how it went. If we reversed it, and more importantly, if we reversed it, and I know you, Stephen A, if I came out and said anywhere, any place, any time that a black quarterback couldn't win the Super Bowl, I'd be wrong, and you would also say,

Will, that is racist. You wouldn't accuse me of being a racist, but you would say that statement is racist. And I can say the same to you now when it comes to basketball. Well, first of all, you can. I'm not backing up from what I said one bit, not even a, not even a syllable. I'm going to repeat it again. A trio of white players in the NBA has never led a team to a championship, the top three players, on a basketball team being white. All right. So that's his argument. That's what he said.

Let's deal with it on a couple levels. He's wrong. Now, these guys aren't on the same team, but if somehow you could get Nicola Yokic, Luca Donchich, and Cooper Flagg on the team, where you tell me they can't win the NBA title? Like, they can win the NBA title. And they're white.

That right there proves the proposition false. Yeah. I mean, I think he was talking about the current makeup of the, the Lakers, which I agree is probably not exactly a title contender. Yes, theoretically. I agree. I agree about these Lakers. No, intuitively that he is correct. I mean, I'm in. No. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not offended. It can be seen. Again, I'm not offended. First. Okay, can all black hockey team win the Stanley Cup? Patrick. Well, yeah, yes. I mean, like, if you think about it, like, the hurricanes had to rely on Kandre Miller.

Like, you know, if they didn't have him, they couldn't even, an all-white team couldn't even win the Stanley Cup this year. Let's go soccer. That's one guy. See, this is the thing about, that's right. Let me tell you something. As a veteran of first take and as someone who considers themselves a connoisseur debate, listen to the words people use. Danny put it to you, could an all-black team win the Stanley Cup, and you mentioned one black player. Like, you shifted the goalpost so smoothly and easily. I only know the one.

I don't know if you fooled anybody. Like, we're literally having a conversation. It's just like, yeah, could a WNBA team beat an NBA team? And you're like, yeah, maybe it's like, Peyton Park. And it's like, what are we talking about? So people online were like, Stephen A first relied on history. Okay. And he said, not since whatever year.

And I said to him in the debate. I was like, well, Robert Parrish is doing a lot of work for you in this debate because McAil Bird and then people online were like, what about A. He's wrong. If you, McAill, Byrd and Aange. And I'm like, look, again, back to the words, I'm going to give Stephen A. this grace. He said, you're three best players, your three biggest as in best players. Aange wasn't the third best player in those Celtics. That was Parrish. So those Celtics out. Yes, Aange was also there. But that wasn't the terms that he set. But the real mistake he did is hasn't versus can't. Maybe it hasn't happened.

And that's a benign historical observation. But when you use that to say can't, now you've crossed a bridge. It's like Jimmy the Greek in 1987 saying no black quarterback has ever won the Super Bowl. That's a fine observation. If you go one step further and go, and therefore they never can, Stephen A would have a problem with Jimmy the Greek. Yes. Now, let me put this here. Well, is your favorite team, are you a Mavericks fan? Yes, yes.

Would you be excited about the Mavericks if their three best players were white guys for their prospects in the future? We've already got Cooper and there's a dream in Dallas that we can get Luca back in 2028. Yeah, that's not happening. Two down. If I can get those two, and I'm not even going to say I have to get Nicola Yolkich as my third. I think there are a host of white players that could be considered my third best player in my team. Sure, fine. Dante Diefenzo. Do I think I could win a title with Luca Cooper and Dante and then some good role players of any race? Yes, I do think I could.

I don't know if Vegas would agree with you. I don't even know basketball. I think you're delirious. Yeah, I don't. So you don't think three white players. can win the title, Patrick? I think you're going to take the best of the best.

If they're all from the Eastern block. Yeah, exactly. That's the thing is like you would be in salary cap hell if you managed to arrange that team. Like the guy, like your fourth through seven guys would be like

out of the G league probably at that point. I would agree. So what you guys are saying is I'm fishing from a smaller bucket. And that's true. And I'm hoping to catch those three fish. in that smaller bucket. And if Stephen A had said that, fine,

the probabilities of finding the three best white players in the winning a championship. He was a little too broad. I'll agree. Yes. And therefore, and this is where the audience gets mad at me because I'm like, I know Stephen A. I don't think he's a racist.

I think that statement is racist. I think because his statement was too broad, if you did it with any other thing, no black coach can win the Super Bowl, no quarterback, no. The hockey one's actually good, Danny. I mean, that would be an interesting one. I mean, I don't think you can even field a starting five.

How about this? I'm trying to think. If somebody on NHL tonight said no team, no, if somebody on NHL tonight, okay, there's 12 main players on 15 on a roster, 12 main players on a basketball team, on a playoff series, eight or nine get on the floor. Okay. So now, now, how big is a hockey? I'm just trying to do the math, right, so I'm fair.

23. How big is a hockey? 23. 23. And you're playing three lines of both forwards and defensemen. Four lines of five, and then you have two goalies and one extra. Okay, so, but that fourth line, there's not a fourth line of defenders that gets into a playoff game, right? I mean, a lot of times, like, Stanley Cubs won with a really, really good third and fourth line.

like that's kind of the differentiator a lot of times. Because you think you legit need 20 guys. You legit need 20 guys. You need at least 15 and a good goal. Okay. I'm just going to do the math right. So if basketball is a playoff rotation of nine guys and three are the big dogs, that's one-third. So hockey, if I go 15, it's five.

If I go 20, it's six or seven. if somebody on NHL tonight said, you can't win a Stanley Cup if your six best players are black, would he be in trouble? Oh, big time. NHL is like a different, like I think he would be,

like it would be obvious. Like I don't even, I'm trying off, I'm a hockey fan, Patrick, obviously. Can you name a starting, like, can you name the top?

Like, who's the best black center? in the league. I can't think of any centers. I know a few defensemen. Yeah, Darnell Morris.

Yeah, and Miller. Miller. I think they might, I don't think there's a goalie right now. The last goalie, I can think of with P.K. Sudan's brother, and he was like a plug. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. So, I don't even think you could assemble us, starting but no no about the world cup will what about it it would be factual but it would also be it would be unfair in hockey because it's just like you can't even

put that team together it just doesn't soccer's diverse you can't make that statement I mean she did make that statement it would it would be more outlandish because soccer is so diverse you know what I'm saying right yeah yeah so but yeah

basketball, it's possible. I agree. It's certainly possible. It's improbable, but it's possible. What we're really doing is measuring diversity. Like, basketball is getting, that statement from Stephen A carried more weight in 2005. Because it's getting more diverse. Like, you can, you can.

Yeah, those three players. By the way, who's the fourth, I know, Cooper. flag's not a euro um i named the three best white players i could think of on top of my head who's the fourth not tyler hero it's not dante de fincino not definitely not talented heincenzo if tyler hero is the fourth best white guy you are in real pain that is that's problems um i don't know it's not uh Austin Reeves yeah Austin Reeves yeah he's a laker who's also on the lakers he is the lake Chet Holmgren. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, Chad Holmgren. Although he kind of disappeared against the spurs. Derek White. NBA champion? Derek White? He's mixed.

If we're going to play this game, we're drafting, which side gets the mixed guys? No, Derek White. That's like the racial draft from Chappelle's show. Right. No, I don't think Derek White's counting. Yeah.

Yeah. Franz Wagner. Yeah, the Wagner's. You can assemble a pretty good. Yeah, then you get to Lowry Marketing and you're not a... Yeah, Larry Marketing's pretty good. I mean, there are a lot of good white players that Mattias Buzellis on Chicago, he's pretty good. By the way, if all the guys we just named are only two American, Cooper Flagg and Tyler Hero.

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. It's not a good. And it's a Euro takeover. Yeah. All right. This has been a lot of fun. Danny Polisha. Check him out.

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