Will Cain Country - Pete Hegseth Tapped To Run The Pentagon: Will Gives The Inside Details 

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

Story #1: President-elect Donald Trump nominates FOX & Friends Weekend Co-Host, Combat Veteran, & Veterans Advocate Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense in his cabinet. Will shares why he thinks P...ete is going to excel in his new role. Story #2: Will & The Willitia break down the nomination of Hegseth and push back against some of the insane responses and pushback Pete has received from the media, and the Left. Story #3: The female Jerry Macguire; Will is joined by Sports Agent Molly Fletcher to discuss her new book 'Dynamic Drive' and how to achieve the mindset of a champion. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing WillCainShow@fox.com Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 One, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegg said, my friend is now officially Captain America. Do I have to call him, Mr. Secretary? What an incredible day for my friend. What an incredible day for Pete Hegset. What an incredible day for America. Two, they're coming after my boy. They're saying he's unqualified. It's going to be an ugly fight. As Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of Defense takes center stage, I will have the back of Pete Hegg said. Three, super agent, the female Jerry Maguire, Molly Fletcher,
Starting point is 00:00:53 on dynamic drive the purpose-fueled formula for sustainable success. It is the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page, terrestrial radio, market-to-market, always on demand by subscribing at Apple or Spotify, and then you can listen to the Will Kane show at your leisure. But joining us every Monday through Thursday on YouTube and Facebook will be made possible by you knowing and remembering to watch the Will Cane Show or subscribing on. YouTube there's a little button underneath the text description of this live stream if you go there and you subscribe to will cane show you can set a reminder and know that every monday through thursday at 12 o'clock eastern time it's time to hang out with the willis show it's time to hang out on the will cane show president joe biden and donald trump met just moments ago at the white house they had a nice meeting in the oval office shook hands and don't
Starting point is 00:02:00 Donald Trump said and did something that he has been consistent with throughout his career. He said that politics is hard, but today was nice. Today he met with a man who called him a fascist, who analogized him to a Nazi. Today he met with a man who called him a threat to democracy. But just like letting bygones be bygones with Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, Donald Trump fights the fight and then moves forward. Today was a nice day for America. In other breaking news, the Senate has moved beyond the first round of votes for Senate Majority Leader.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, popular name for many of those on the right, has now been eliminated. It will come down to a vote between Senator John Thune of South Dakota and Senator John Cornyn of Texas. We'll keep you apprised of any breaking news developments on that. Anything more we hear out of that meeting from Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A little bit later here on the show. Anything breaks, you'll hear it here on the Will Cain show. But we have to get into the biggest story of the last 24 hours. Secretary of Defense, Pete Heggsett.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Story number one. So how was your day, boys? How was your day, Wilicia? How was your night? Were you surprised? That was awesome. What the heck? Let's go.
Starting point is 00:03:35 I didn't know where you were talking about it first. We are talking about it because here's the thing. We need to let the audience know. Our scheduled guest today here on the Will Kane show was yet another episode of Off the Rails with Will and Pete. Our scheduled guest today was Pete Heggset, as he does. every other week here on the Wilcane show. He is otherwise preoccupied. I have heard from my friend.
Starting point is 00:04:03 We have talked. He is not going to be appearing anywhere for the short term in the interim. Because he has other bigger plans as they are to survive a Senate confirmation for Secretary of Defense. I cannot believe. I saw one of my favorite responses on social media was what I would pay to have a hidden camera inside the Pentagon when the first time Will Kane visits Pete Heggseth and they close the door behind them. Oh my God. Can we come?
Starting point is 00:04:37 Who knew? Not me. Look at us. It is incredibly wild. It is incredibly wild to have one of your best friends nominated to be one of the most powerful men on the planet. And I can think of no one better to do this job. I'm going to talk about some of the hatred being received today, aimed at Pete Hegseth, but just for a bit of fun to get this conversation started, let me introduce you to Never Trumper, Tom Nichols. Tom Nichols, Lincoln Project, always wrong, tweeted out in 2022. I see that Pete Hegseth still thinks he's going to be Secretary of Defense, November 15th, 2022. Two years later, but par for the course,
Starting point is 00:05:27 wrong, Tom Nichols. There comes a time when we have to just stop listening to the people that are always wrong. There just comes a time when we have to start setting aside and certainly stop paying people who just can't, no matter what kind of privileges granted to them, get it right. Nah, today, yes. In fact, the host of Fox and Friends Weekend is nominated to be the Secretary of Defense. It's beautiful. It's surreal.
Starting point is 00:05:55 I can't get over it. I really can't. I can't stop tweeting. I can't stop thinking. I can't get over the fact that my buddy could reform the United States military. What's up to a day? What was your first thought when you heard the news? Like, what did you think about Pete Hegseth being Secretary of Defense?
Starting point is 00:06:13 When did you know? Well, the second question has to be answered before the first. I wasn't blown away yesterday. So, in fact, I think if you listen to. maybe yesterday's episode of the Will Cane show. You might hear me hang on Secretary of Defense. We'll see about sect death. I should have grabbed that.
Starting point is 00:06:36 I know to his great credit that Donald Trump holds Pete Hegseth in high esteem. I think for a moment I want to stop and say, what an incredible cabinet being put into place by Donald Trump. And what a reflection on his leadership and what a pivot away from the last four years of leadership in america mike waltz as national security advisor um john ratcliffe head of the cia you know and pete heggsett is secretary of defense and we're not done you know whether or not it's vake ramaswami and elon must taking over as a department of government efficiency we're not done making america great i am so impressed with the way since his election
Starting point is 00:07:23 Donald Trump has fired up all eight cylinders of this engine and moved forward in just driving us forward as Americans. And it's just to his eternal credit. Now, that's going to be said differently on CNN and MSNBC in certain corners of X. And I'm going to address some of that craziness and nastiness throughout today's episode of the Will Kane show. But to answer your second question, I was not surprised. I just sat in the moment of, I cannot believe this is where we are. Not because he's the host of Fox and Friends weekend. Not because he swam across the Hudson with hundreds of Navy SEALs,
Starting point is 00:08:05 three miles stopping at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and Ground Zero doing 300 push-ups and 63 pull-ups in honor of our fallen. Not because you've got pictures of him all across social media, shirtless with his tattoos, blaring, you know, his love for God country. at the entire world. Not because he's being splashed across the Fox News Channel the cowboy hat and hay bales. No, I'm blown away because it's my friend.
Starting point is 00:08:36 And I would not sit here and suggest to you, I know him better than anybody in this world. He's got family, wives, children, fathers, and brothers. All incredible, by the way. I know them all. But legitimately, one of the people that I hope my wife would ask to carry my casket is now set to be, yes, one of the most powerful men in the world,
Starting point is 00:08:55 but to do something incredible and amazing and necessary. And that is to reform the United States military. I want to bring you guys in throughout this conversation. You guys in New York, you in Florida, tinfoil pad. I want to bring you guys in the Wollisha. I want to bring you in watching and listening and commenting on YouTube and Facebook, you, the Wallycia, because I want this to be a conversation.
Starting point is 00:09:15 But I do want to start telling you why I think this is so important and why this is so great for America. First of all, let's talk about Pete Hegseth, the man. Pete Hegseth is one of the most honorable, flawed, passionate, smart, and loyal individuals I have come across. Not in this business, but in life. This business of media is gross. It's gross.
Starting point is 00:09:51 It is honestly primarily occupied by people concerned with self. It is primarily occupied by inauthenticity. It is primarily occupied by what's next for me. P.DX-F is an outlier in media. But I think that he is an outlier in life. You watching and listening at home, as you think about your neighbors and your social circles, your acquaintances, your children, your parents,
Starting point is 00:10:18 your church members, I want you to think about the qualities that you hold dear, that you value. And when I say value, I mean value, not appreciate, but value. I can tell you as someone who has known the man for well over a decade and who has sat with him for eight hours on camera and multiple hours at Del Friscoes or various bars or just offices breaking down life, as someone who has spent an incredible amount of time with this individual, I am here to firsthand give testimony to the values embodied by the person now nominated as Secretary of Defense. He is not perfect.
Starting point is 00:11:04 And there but for the grace of God go I, let he is without sin cast the first stone. Careful if you live in a glass house. He would not suggest and does not suggest on television that he is perfect. But I am here to testify to his character, to his values. I want to talk more about him as a man. Hegset was a warfighter. I had somebody message me on social media saying, Will, I hope you will point out that Pete is a company-grade officer.
Starting point is 00:11:42 What that means on the ground, warfighter. now listen because of my job i'm so thankful for this fact i have gotten to know and i count their contacts in my phone and i count them as friends that i can call hundreds hundreds of war fighters i was not a war fighter but because of my job i'm thankful that i've been able to be around war fighters seals green berets marines, infantrymen, soldiers, sailors, pilots. And I will tell you with 100% approval rating, he has the ultimate respect of them all. Pete went to Princeton and Harvard,
Starting point is 00:12:27 not something that he brags about, and actually not what I would use today to brag about him. I'll leave that to the pundits that consider that a necessary qualification today. But he did go to Princeton and Harvard. The point of me sharing that story with you is he went ROTC at Princeton. and when he could have followed a path down finance on Wall Street and gotten rich like
Starting point is 00:12:45 everyone else, he enlisted after 9-11. Yeah, he went in as an officer because he's a collegiate graduate. He went in as a lieutenant. That's not easy. You do not get granted your respect. I know this because I've gotten to know these men. I got to know, for example, Pete's master sergeant serving in Iraq. For that, what it's worth, Pete served in Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Pete earned two bronze stars on the battlefield. His master sergeant told me stories about Pete coming in and everybody's like, what is this? You know, officer from Princeton? You don't step into that with your non-commissioned or your NCOs, your non-commissioned officers, with your enlisted men, with your soldiers. You don't step into that with people going, yes, sir. You have to earn that respect.
Starting point is 00:13:39 I've seen it, friends. I've seen it. And how did he hear in that respect? Never giving an order that he did not execute. You need to go through a door. You went through the door first. Hegset. Over and over and over.
Starting point is 00:13:52 You want to get beyond the wire, follow Hegsef. Those men, those grunts, those rock eaters, those war fighters with him and know him, respect Pete Hegeseth. Now, in my estimation, that's what we need. that's what we need what do you want what do you want a pentagon swamp rat you want a bureaucratic ladder climber do you know that unfortunately the military is like a lot of institutions out here in the world they're actually not geared to succeed they're not a meritocracy because they're layered over and over and over by bureaucracy and what that rewards honestly when you are layered with that kind of bureaucracy and you're a person of ambition what that rewards is sticking around and look it's
Starting point is 00:14:41 a value to stick around but people with ambition get tired of fighting the man fighting bureaucracy and they go on and they seek their careers otherwise what that means is the people that rise to the top are one of two kinds of individuals survivors who play the game who don't quit who don't retire and keep getting promoted or a secondary type of individual that kisses all the right ass says all the right things, adopts all the popular DEI philosophies who shakes all the right hands in the defense contractor industry and gets metal after metal affixed to their formal uniform. And then when we look up and they're running the military and we're running the Pentagon, they're not men who grew up believing that trans fighters should be on the front lines alongside
Starting point is 00:15:27 rock eaters, but they know they have to say that in order to get another star. to get another promotion to one day get to run the Pentagon. That's what you want? See, no, I don't think that's what you want. I think you want the man who has earned 100% approval rating respect from the war fighters
Starting point is 00:15:46 and hasn't spent his life kissing ass to get the next promotion. No, you know what he did instead? Still attesting to the man? He went out and built a career. He went out and told the truth. Yeah, he's written multiple.
Starting point is 00:16:02 best-selling books. The latest, by the way. War on our Warriors. The War on Warriors. 16 weeks, the New York Times bestseller list. Oh, you wouldn't dismiss that. You want to say, oh, he sold books. That qualifies him to run the Pentagon. Let me explain to you why it qualifies him. Because what I saw, what I know, is it allowed him to spend time becoming more than a rock eater, to become a philosopher warrior. Heggseth is written about, talked about, and believes in things with clear-eyed vision that the purpose of the United States military is to destroy our enemies. Put into his terms, combat readiness.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Put into my terms, no distraction, no other priority. See enemy, kill enemy. That's the purpose of the United States military. military. And no DEI initiative, no social experiment, no friend to the world, no world's policemen will ever distract him from understanding the purpose of the United States military. It's simple. It's clear-eyed. To form and execute the world's most lethal weapon, the foremost fighting force, the United States military. Questions about women in combat, questions about diversity nonsense doesn't want to hear it does it advance the simple clear-eyed purpose of having
Starting point is 00:17:34 the most lethal weapon on the planet the united states military but i'm not done because i said he is a philosopher warrior what i've seen is him evolved really honestly and he would tell you this time in his life being more of a neocon because people that form weapons often have to want to use the weapon. It's just the nature. I've seen it. I once was hosting on CNN. I'm going to tell you this with Elliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, and he was advocating for the use of the military force in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi. I was then, if nothing in my life, I've been somewhat consistent. I was then skeptical. Why? Why? How does that advance American interest? And I'll never forget the line said to me by Elliott Spitzer. Never forget it to this day. What's the point in
Starting point is 00:18:18 having all these toys if we're not going to use them? I was chilled. I was chilled. I was chilled. by that narcissism, chilled by that leadership. That is not the mindset of Pete Hague said. No, the philosopher warrior has understood while building this weapon, it is to be wielded with wisdom. You don't go around the world,
Starting point is 00:18:42 just flexing it, firing off bombs, firing missiles. You don't Lindsey Graham the world. No, you speak softly and carry a big stick. And because of that, you achieve the stated national security goals of Donald Trump. Peace through strength. He has wisdom about how and when to use the United States military.
Starting point is 00:19:06 You form it into being the most lethal weapon on the planet and then you execute wisdom on when it should be flexed. This is rare, folks. It's rare human traits and values. It's rare career path and personal. experience and it is rare wisdom and philosophy that now is nominated to run the department of defense that department needs wholesale change it needs all that woke crap those distractions exercised from its agenda exercised from the building it needs the promotion of people who aren't
Starting point is 00:19:46 just there as rats to climb the ladder in washington dc swim the swamp and climb on top of one another to survive. It needs efficiency, purpose, leadership. What I would suggest to you today is you just got a rare nominee, who happens to be one of my best friends nominated as Secretary of Defense, Pete Hague said. All right, I want to take some of the criticism. I want to get some of the feedback from you. I want to hear back from the Wollisha. Let's break it down, keep talking about your new nominee for Secretary of Defense, and the way they're losing their minds over, Pete set next on the will cane show i'm janestine join me every sunday as i focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world listen and
Starting point is 00:20:36 follow now at foxnewspodcast dot com coming my boy you best not miss be careful coming after your nominee for secretary of defense it's the will cane show streaming live at foxnews.com on the fox news youtube channel on the fox news facebook page hit subscribe on apple or spotify we'd appreciate it then you could always hang out here on the will cane show and if you think it's deserved you know give it a five-star review leave a comment share it with your friends leave a comment on youtube as well if you like you already have begun to um here's some of what we're hearing on youtube stephen kuster says a rifle carrying officer is better
Starting point is 00:21:21 than an officer chasing stars. Here, here, Steve. Frank 47 says, I think Pete is too young for the position. Frank, I think he has uncommon wisdom that is not constrained by age. And I think it's time to represent some of the warfighters that fought over the last 20 years of our wars. The smart lawyer says, and to think Tim Walts got passed over again, come on, Sarge, better luck next time.
Starting point is 00:21:46 If Tim Walts is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the commander-in-chief, trust me, Pete Hegseth is qualified to run the Defense Department. Amador D. Hinoza says, I am ex-Army and ex-coast Guard, and I'm extremely proud of Pete. Whoa? And then Leslie Scott, 1993, says, great for America. We'll sorely miss him on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I'll bring you guys here in On Alicia. Maybe I should take a moment and talk about that.
Starting point is 00:22:13 I did this this morning, fellas, on Fox and Friends. And I was worried, okay? I was worried about my performance because I knew how this could go. And I, you know, I did see somebody who I respect on social media say after, it was Scott Adams, you know, cartoonist of Dilbert say,
Starting point is 00:22:32 I've just researched more about Pete Hegg said. He does an incredible job hiding his intelligence. I mean, I get what he's talking about. Like, you're a host of a morning show and you eat steaks with your hands and let the grease drip down your chin and you do what we do. We have fun.
Starting point is 00:22:48 and we be real. But you could come away with that and not realizing how incredibly smart Pete Heggsett is. On the other hand, I do a good job of hiding my humanity.
Starting point is 00:22:57 I don't share my emotions often even though I strive for authenticity. And I was a little worried that I was going to get, you know, misty. Crack a little bit this morning on Fox and Friends.
Starting point is 00:23:08 I'm not going to do it here, I don't think. What I have just been a part of and I am excited and I am sad, but what I know, and I knew while it was happening, is it what I was just a part of
Starting point is 00:23:19 is one of the rarest things you get in life and one of the rarest things in television and that is to work with one of your best friends it really you know I get I got it at the time I understood why LeBron signed with the heat why he signed to play with D. Wade
Starting point is 00:23:35 people have done studies on this like if you rank things that make you happiest like getting to work with your friends is like really high up there it's very nice of you say for us you know oh you meet Pete sorry sir I'm glad you guys get to work. I'm glad you guys get to work with me.
Starting point is 00:23:51 I'm glad you guys get to work with your friend. Yeah. I got to do that, not just with Pete, but with Rachel. I got to do that in a wonderful little period in my career that we all knew would not last forever. And I am really sad that it's come to an end. We have, as recognized by the incoming president of the United States, we had, in the mainstream media, we'll never recognize it,
Starting point is 00:24:15 even though they write articles about reviewing media, They'll ignore, whatever. I would only give a little bit of ground to inside the NBA on T&T. I would say inside the NBA on T&T and Fox and Friends Weekend were absolutely the best chemistry on television. And because it's real. It's real. Like same exact people, same exact friendships off the air as on the camera.
Starting point is 00:24:41 That's just how it is. And I'm sad, man. I really am. I'm sad that that's not going to be. at least for I don't know how long. I mean, look, my man is off. His rocket ship has taken off. You know, I can't imagine a scenario
Starting point is 00:24:55 where he ever is sitting next to me on a couch and he's not a guest, you know, again. But it was awesome. It was awesome on Fox and Friends. Two days, you have this. This is Joy Reid on MSNBC. Former and future president is moving quickly to fill the clown car and round out his cabinet before he changes his mind and fires them all.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Moments ago, Trump announced that he has selected Fox Weekend Morning Show host. You can't make this up. Pete Hanksack to serve his Secretary of Defense because why not? She thinks it's funny, fellas. I don't like it. I mean, that's sort of what they're doing, right? That's what they're doing in every circle. She's just saying it out loud.
Starting point is 00:25:45 So I guess give it credit to her. It's all implied on CNN. It's all implied on X. She's just saying it out loud. I got a lot of text from the brunch crew, I'll be honest with you, yesterday about it. They were like... Oh, boy, the Brooklyn brunch crew. They were like, you've got to be kidding me.
Starting point is 00:26:04 A Fox and Friends weekend co-hosts. And I was like, yeah, absolutely. So I had to explain that. I was like, don't just say that. Just do your research and what you said earlier. There's a knee-jerk reaction, and I had to... talk to some people I know about it. Free deployments, two bronze stars.
Starting point is 00:26:22 I mean, please. Yeah, I got you, James. Share this with you boys. I saw this on some of my favorites. I see in the studio is a picture of Pete with his American flag jacket and his We the People tattoo side by side with Lloyd Austin
Starting point is 00:26:36 with his mask, glasses, and face shield. Here's your new Secretary of Defense Patriot, Pete Heggseth, versus your old secretary. of defense. I'll run through a wall for him. Gosh. There's some good variations of that online, too. A lot of Pete looking good. Do you think that
Starting point is 00:26:56 the response from some of these CNN and MSNBC folks as characterizing him as just a weekend host kind of shows a contempt for the military? Is that a step too far? You know what I think it is, James?
Starting point is 00:27:13 I don't think it's a contempt for the military, although I'm willing to consider that as a motivation. I think it's something different. I'm going to give you another example here. So I just played for you Joy Reid. This is Gretchen Carlson, former host of Fox and Friends. And she wrote on X, to her great shame, by the way. To your great shame, Gretsch. From silly diner interviews on weekend Fox and Friends to Secretary of Defense, I never thought I'd say I'm stunned
Starting point is 00:27:38 about any pick after the election. But nominating Pete Hegsafe for this incredibly important role, yes, he's a veteran and question mark. Here's what I think about, James, some of these TV personality types. I think they see the world through their own lens and see the world and reflection
Starting point is 00:27:54 of everyone else on media as them. And in that way, maybe they wouldn't be wrong, you know? It's absurd to think about someone like Joy Reed taking an important position. It's absolutely absurd, you know? And what she looks at PDAS
Starting point is 00:28:08 is maybe even a lesser version of herself. She's like, I've got a primetime show on a network that nobody watches in MSNBC, and he's a Fox and Friends weekend host. And she looks at those qualifications and what she's essentially saying is I would be embarrassingly unqualified to do something like this.
Starting point is 00:28:23 And I would say, you're right, Joy, but you ain't no Pete Hegg said. You see, they're thinking about it only in terms of who they are and seeing it through the lens of the media. They're not, A, thinking about a man who's had three deployments and won two bronze stars
Starting point is 00:28:37 who volunteered, volunteered to serve the United States military. And they're not thinking about it in terms of something that is also incredibly rare. His intellect and his wisdom. Hey, here's the truth. I'd tell you guys in New York, most people in media aren't that smart. That's the truth.
Starting point is 00:28:53 They're not. And, and like, Gretchen Carlson, this is no intelligent person. What on her life has ever suggested that she is smarter wise? Nothing. Nothing, right? Because she's a TV host, and that's par for the course,
Starting point is 00:29:09 and you don't have to be to read a teleprompter, okay? And the truth is, I've been at ESPN, where people, incredibly, by the way, incredibly in sports, seriously overinflate their own intellect. And then you come over to news, and you're like, just because you're in news doesn't make you an authority. But there are exceptions. There are.
Starting point is 00:29:28 There are really smart people. There are Tucker Carlson's, you know? There are really smart people out there. And one of them was Pete Heggsaf. Here, let me give you an example. this by the way is pete on the will cane show here in june talking about how he'd fix the military what can be done to save the military no they don't you'd want multiple terms by the way you so you know what you you need a trump presidency and then you need a follow on i think but
Starting point is 00:29:58 trump trump's going to have 15 fires to fight and i think the do d needs to be atop that list you got to you got to fire the secretary of fence you got to have a new chairman of joint chiefs you got to have very strategic firings of particular generals who are very heavy pushing DEI and CRT and environmental stuff, extremism stuff. Oh, you're done. And you don't have to fire everybody. You have to make example of some high profile folks who are invested and involved in this so that the institution recognizes the new incentive structure is not to peddle these things.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Then you ban DEI, you ban CRT, you take women out of combat units, you ban transgenderism. And you're going to have a whole chunk of the military. that says, oh, finally, sanity's back. I'm ready to go. Let's do this. And then you just have to change the way you recruit. Man, that right there is a recipe for reform. And by the way, let's not overlook what he said there at the end about. Then you change recruit. You know the military recruiting is down. Every year and it has been for sometimes like, this is really bad. Dudes don't want to join the military. It's not cool. It's been made a joke by these stupid leaders that wear a face mask and a shield and force all this bullshit down on the world's most lethal fighting force,
Starting point is 00:31:16 the military of the United States of America. And there's dips it's like Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta tweets out of CNN. In a sign, he's been making his cabinet selections while watching TV, Trump picks Fox anchor Pete Higset for Secretary of Defense. Hey, Jimbo, how about also Bronz star winner two times over? Stay clean in your air-conditioned studios and makeups, and hopefully you'll make it through the layoffs at CNN.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Or how about this? Pocahontas herself, Elizabeth Warren. If Fox and Friends Weekend Coast does not qualify to be Secretary of Defense, I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our service members. Donald Trump's pick will make us less safe and must be rejected. Good luck with that, Liz.
Starting point is 00:32:04 53 Republican senators, because you guys are doing such a bang-up job of you and convincing your own voters that you're wise. And by the way, you're a fake Indian. So sit down. Man, I'm just to keep... Honestly, I'm scrolling through them quickly here,
Starting point is 00:32:22 but I'm keeping a list. You know, I really am. I'm keeping a list. If you come after my guy, like bunk. How about bunk from The Wire, Wendell Pierce, actor? Pete Higgseth is the epitome of
Starting point is 00:32:37 white privilege. A weekend anchor on Fox and Friends, a major in the National Guard will be the head of the most powerful military in the history of the world. The military is supposed to be apolitical. Pete is purely political. Together with Trump, they want to purge woke generals. That is un-American. I disagree, Wendell. There are men and women with more experience at the Pentagon than he has been alive, a platoon leader now over the Pentagon. Damn Skippy. Republicans complain about DEI programs promoting incompetence and those who are unqualified. This is the height of hypocrisy, I will not be silent with the governance we are entering. That is the role of the opposition party. We lost the election, not our purpose. You're an actor. A good one, by the way, as I tell the truth,
Starting point is 00:33:22 but you're an actor, nothing more. By the way, Pete is getting a lot of flack. It's coming, and it's going to get ugly. It's going to get real bad. But we'll stand here on the wall. And here he is, for one of the things he said, getting flack, for one of the things he said on a very, very popular military-based podcast, The Sean Ryan Show. Watch. You don't like women in combat? No. Why not?
Starting point is 00:33:48 I love women service members who contribute amazingly because everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated and complication in combat means casualties are worse. And when you actually go into the hood, again, and I've got response, I've got 99% positive response to this, a few, a little bit of pushback, but when you actually break down what they did in the studies to open the door for women in combat, I mean, they just ignored them. So the Marine Corps was the only service that actually tried to fight back and say,
Starting point is 00:34:26 obviously I'm exempting special operations, which thus far has held the line fairly well. because if they were lowering the standard to become a Navy SEAL just to let women inside the Navy SEALs, that's going to change the capabilities and ethos to the Navy SEALs. I'm surprised there hasn't been more blowback on that already in the book because I'm straight up just saying
Starting point is 00:34:46 we should not have women in combat roles. So, you know, by the way, I'll bring you guys in in New York or in the comment section. That sounds controversial in the way that a blunt truth sounds controversial. It does, yeah. This is what I would say
Starting point is 00:35:01 you need to understand about what he's saying. He doesn't have antipathy towards women. He has respect for women in the military. What he is talking about is really simple, man. It's really clear-eyed. Your purpose is to create the most lethal fighting force on the planet. And if that's a woman, that's a woman, if that's a man, that's a man. But he's saying you will not lower standards in order to accomplish some greater goal.
Starting point is 00:35:25 And you have to consider, like, any rational human or any study that is done, complicating factors of having, you know, one of the two sexes, and by the way, you should emphasize that, because he's talking about no transgender. In the military, it complicates the very simple mission of having the world's most lethal fighting force. And if you don't want someone focused on that and you don't want that truth teller, you don't want a real secretary of defense. He was really good, by the way, on Sean Ryan. Really good. That just came out like a month ago laying out his case. I think it's one of the places where people realizing the depth, you know, beyond the dude
Starting point is 00:36:05 on Fox and Friends Weekend, the depth of Pete Heggson. There is a younger version of me. What are you hearing besides the Brooklyn brunch crew? From them about Pete? From them, from everywhere. What do you guys feel like the reaction has been? Just like little things. I saw the, just his age.
Starting point is 00:36:27 They don't know anything about him. I mean, he looks, they're like, oh, he just looks like, you know, this handsome military guy, and that's all they see. You know, it's just like, what I'm like, so, what's your point? Like, what are you talking about? Yeah. He is geniuses. He is now, like, officially Captain America. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Like, how do I ever get top hand again? But there's like, there's a younger version of myself that would have heard that clip and been like, yeah, that sounds a little weird to say that. But now hearing it and understanding it and what he's talking about. It makes sense and, you know, listening to him talk more, you know, I think he's a great pick. You need, you're going to need to full court press J.D. Vance for, so your next VP, then you got the upper hand again. Well, the line of succession, there's... Oh, I've got to be... Defense is six.
Starting point is 00:37:13 I've got to be J.D. Vance's vice president. And then I get up for hand on Pete. Yeah. There's... There's four in between the vice president and defense on the line of succession. So technically speaking, if you take Treasury State, pro-temper of the same. or become Speaker of the House, then you got a one-up on Pete. Wow.
Starting point is 00:37:32 One of those jobs. Yeah, I've been waiting for my job call. I don't know if it's going to be attorney general, solicitor general. I could argue in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I don't know. I don't know. Someone just asked if you were going to be a press secretary in the chat. That's not a job I'd take, by the way.
Starting point is 00:37:48 I think it would be a lot of fun, but not a job I would probably take. You know, I think they're – you think I joke. make me solicitor general make me attorney general what about us I'll send that to Caroline what are we going to do I'm going to flip
Starting point is 00:38:05 I'm going to flex this law degree and go show you how you argue I'm going to go show you how you win I'm going to show you justice I'm not going to get mad and I want you guys to stick around because I don't want to get mad but I am going to do this one more time
Starting point is 00:38:21 I'm going to look at some of this stuff I don't know why I'm doing it but I just can't help myself Cole T. Lyle, I don't know who he is. Just got a text from a staffer on a Senate Armed Services working for a conservative senator who said, excuse me, but what the actual F, even Republican majority, this is going to go over like a lead balloon.
Starting point is 00:38:40 Patrick, I saw you send it in our morning. No, I saw it as well. Politico said some lobbyist for the defense industry was like, who the F is this guy? My response? Oh, you have a Senate staffer who doesn't know what to do? Oh, a lobbyist is upset over the target. you've hit the right guy
Starting point is 00:38:58 I got so many people here I don't even want to spend time on these guys I'll tell you what Roland Martin Keith Boykin Chris Jackson Joe Walsh Baccari Sellers Pissing off all the right people
Starting point is 00:39:19 got nothing for you Only the finest people Nothing for you but I do have I do have one thing Adam Kinsinger Wow. Trump picking Pete Eggset is the most hilariously predictable, stupid thing. This dude, at one time, would have been counted as a friend to Pete Hegg said.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Nothing lower, Kinsinger, than this kind of loyalty, than this kind of attack. Sorry, bottom dwelling, cellar dwelling, bottom of the river muck, sorry individual. nothing not even something on the bottom of my shoes i need to worry about scraping off nothing to reveal that kind of character adam kinsinger let's leave you with this a few months ago fox and friends weekend rachel campos duffy will cane pete higseth sat down with president donald trump and there might have been a moment that was a teaser that made this maybe not so surprising. I give you Donald Trump. What are you going to do to rebuild
Starting point is 00:40:26 our military? And I would add to that, rip out the woke stuff that's happening. All the vets and the service member see is embedded in our Pentagon right now. You know the military better than anybody. I'd put him in charge. I really would. I often think of it. I talk to him about it a little bit.
Starting point is 00:40:42 We talked about... We wouldn't let him easily. We ended up doing good. The show has to do worse. If the show does worse, if I see the ratings go down, I'm going to steal them. I'll still all of you, frankly. But no, he would be unbelievable at defense. He would be unbelievable at defense. There you go. Might have seen it coming. He's going to be unbelievable at defense.
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Starting point is 00:43:03 I'm going to find out. I think that might have had something to do with the haircut. He acted like it was just time, and it had been given a hard time enough, or maybe the election, maybe it was time to clean up for the election and put on a tie. But now that I'm thinking back, Melanie, I'm starting to wonder about the haircut. Donna Charlo says, we all love Pete. President Trump knows what he's doing. Bob Small's engine repair, whoop, whoop.
Starting point is 00:43:28 This was definitely unexpected, but wow, this cabinet is awesome. Making America great again. And then finally, Suzanne says, I love Will's excitement for Pete, L.O.L. Sadness and excitement, Suzanne. Everybody has to deal with change, and now it's my time for change. maybe they can i can be helped through that a bit with the author of dynamic drive the purpose field formula for sustainable success her name is molly fletcher she is a female super agent been described as the female jerry mcguire 500 big time clients sports etc what's up molly what's
Starting point is 00:44:06 up man it's good to be with you nice to be with you just just establish bona fides and also to satisfy my curiosity who can you share with me some of your big clients? Yeah, for sure. So, you know, John Smolt's pitcher, obviously in the big leagues for a long time, Doc Rivers, Tomizzo, Billy Donovan, Matt Coucher, Ernie Johnson, Jr. You know, I had a team of agents, mostly guys, right, that helped serve the athletes and coaches that we work with. But yeah, we had, you know, they were great at what they did well, but the truth is all those guys that I just rattled off and got, they're incredible people too. So that's what made it awesome. Yeah, that's, that's, I mean, when you can say that and mean it,
Starting point is 00:44:47 And that's what I've tried to say today about my friend, next secretary of defense. When you can say that and you mean it, that's the special stuff in life. I would love to talk about dynamic drive. You know, your book, helping people understand the path towards success. In it, I know, Molly, you've got like seven keys to unlocking your dynamic drive. And look, a lot of it, Molly, is things that I think we've talked about. We intuitively know on some level. Things like resilience and curiosity and discipline.
Starting point is 00:45:17 If you had to say among these seven keys, the one that stands out to you that you think maybe doesn't get enough attention, what would you focus on? Well, you know, mindset to me is critical to shifting, to stepping into change. And I mean, we have like 70,000 thoughts a day, right? So if we aren't intentional about what we're telling ourselves and we just allow that to just rinse and repeat on automatic, often, unfortunately, it's maybe an inner critic that's talking to us versus maybe an inner coach, mind said to me. is critical, particularly when we think about resilience and the role that it plays
Starting point is 00:45:51 in resilience, right? If we're going to have tough days and moments and we've got to be able to be resilient and part of that is being able to shift our mindset quickly inside of moments and challenges and shifting it to the kind of story we have to tell ourselves to take us where we want to go so we can show up better for the next one. Mindset, that's interesting. You know, I love sports. I was in sports for several years. I've been around a lot of pro athletes. in my life and my sons are in sports and that's really my prism now I mean I'm still a huge fan but now I'm a bigger fan of my sons so I'm always trying to like you know way too much preaching
Starting point is 00:46:28 way too many Instagram videos that I send them about things but one of the ones keeps hitting my radar is about mindset it's about self-talk I think you write about this in the book as well I do self-talk which is kind of a new one for me I feel like I've delved into resilience and grit and all these things, but self-talk. Like, how do you talk to yourself when it's time to perform? 100%. Well, and think about it. I mean, from the lens of sports, right, which is the lens by which I see most everything.
Starting point is 00:46:55 I mean, if you think about when Smolzi was pitching, right, like if he stepped up on the mound and went, and I hope I don't walk this guy, they'll put two guys on and then I got, you know, that's not what he would tell himself. He would say, listen, I've sat this guy down the seven other times that I faced him. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to sit him down. I'm going to put him back in the dog out and, you know, we're going to be rolling into the next setting. What we tell ourselves is intrical, right? If an athlete steps on the line and has to drain a couple free throws, they can't step on that line and go, oh, man, I hope I don't.
Starting point is 00:47:28 They have to say, I'm prepared, I'm ready, I've done this. And I think when we think about confidence, which we want for our kids, right? Well, my husband and I have three daughters. I mean, all played sports too. And we want confidence. confidence comes through action. It's through stepping into the fear, stepping into the moments when maybe we don't feel as comfortable as we wish we would.
Starting point is 00:47:51 We do it scared with the kind of mindset to recognize that, hey, yes, this is challenging. Yes, this is tough. I'm prepared. I'm ready and I can execute in this moment. I had a baseball player once who was struggling at the plate. And, you know, he was like, oh, for his last 24 at the plate. And I put together this hype reel of just one at bat after another that was just. just sick, right?
Starting point is 00:48:12 Him rounding the bases, going off both field, right, guys coming out of the dugout. And I said, listen, man, before tonight's game, just watch this video, right? Like, watch this video, you know that you can do this. Watch this video and reset mentally. And I think, and then that night he went like two for four with a bomb in the bottom of the eighth. But we as business people, non-athletes, we need things that we tell ourselves. And we got to consider how did a great coach, a great teacher, how?
Starting point is 00:48:41 How would somebody that is supportive of you with no agenda, what would they tell you? And then how can you shift that negative script to one of a great coach or a great teacher or a supportive parent that they would have told you? Yeah, because in the end, this isn't about sports. By the way, I have like on that note, like a soccer video. My boys play soccer. So I get fed a lot of soccer videos. Like, it's one of the, I can't remember who it was. I think it's Rinaldo.
Starting point is 00:49:08 It's one of the world's best soccer players. and he's like muttering to himself before he checks into the game I am healthy, I am strong just all these affirmations about who he is and getting his mind right and by the way I don't know if anyone's ever played tennis it wasn't about primary sport
Starting point is 00:49:21 but I did play enough I think tennis is one of the best illustrations of what you're talking about like you are constantly in a middle battle with yourself to understand the idea of momentum and your thoughts on momentum like you know all right I'm down 30 love I'm down 40 love the game's not over
Starting point is 00:49:39 or even when you're up, like, don't relax. It's just a constant, like, dial on your brain playing tennis. Yeah, and you're often, you know, if you're playing singles and I played tennis at Michigan State for four years, and you're by yourself, you're standing out there, and you've got to tell yourself the right messaging in that moment. And so I think it's about saying how can what might be viewed as an obstacle, how can I shift it to be viewed as an opportunity?
Starting point is 00:50:06 How can I take that maybe some, something that I'm telling myself that is a little bit negative, that isn't to something that is, in fact, more positive. And I think when you look at the other key inside of dynamic drive that I talk about a lot that I think is relevant, as you said, this is not a sports book, right? It's, it's, is energy. You know, when we think about the world that we live in with a level of demand that's coming at most people today in business, personally and professionally, we have to be really intentional about who and what we choose to give our energy to because, you know, we live in a world where I think if we don't decide where our energy goes, the world and
Starting point is 00:50:45 everybody else is going to decide for us, right? So we have to be so intentional. And we live in a world that's time-based, right? People anchor their days, their lives, their decisions often relevant to time. I often say when I keynote speak a lot, you know, how many people show up to a meeting or a conversation and they're like, dude, what am I doing here? Right? Like, why am I even in this meeting? And then they don't have the kind of energy they need for the meeting maybe later that day or the conversation or the important pitch or sales call. So we have to be intentional about our energy too, which is a key in dynamic drive. But fundamentally, well, part of why in many ways I wrote this book, and I think many of your listeners can relate and you can is that the world
Starting point is 00:51:32 sees all these moments of achievement in sports and in life. You know, we're hyper-focused on these high moments of achievement that people come forward and illustrate all over the place, on social media, everywhere. But what I saw for two decades is everything that went into getting there and then who they became as a result of the journey. And fundamentally, what candidly breaks my heart is that I observed a common thread, which is that, lot of people achieve remarkable success, but very few find fulfillment too. And that's why Dynamic Drive is about aligning our deepest values, our purpose, our mission, the legacy we want to leave in our lives with our goals, with our commitments, so that we're becoming the best
Starting point is 00:52:22 version of ourselves with remarkable intention, with alignment to what matters. Because I think we've been told, you know, balance at all, right? I mean, I had three kids in 12 months, work full-time, been married for 20, 40 years to my incredible husband, and we say, hey, balance it all. It's not about to pursue something wholeheartedly in life. In fact, you'll be out of balance. You just want to be really intentional and aligned on where you're out of balance. And is it laddering up to the places that you want to go, personally, professionally,
Starting point is 00:52:55 relationally, mentally, spirits, all that. You are preaching to the choir right now. You're talking to a man in need of water at the oasis right now, literally, right now. You don't even know, Molly. But, yeah, just being intentional and being in control of your energy, those things you're saying, and understanding balance and also priorities and what's most important in life. And I think that's also interesting when you talk about drive because we think of it as ambition and accomplishment.
Starting point is 00:53:24 And I certainly have been somebody like that in my life. But it changes. It's dynamic to your point. Totally. It has to be dynamic. Exactly. And I think, too, it's an inside out approach versus an outside in approach. Most people sort of approach achievement, I think from an outside end, they set a goal, they chase after it, they achieve it. Well, dynamic drive is about who we're becoming every single day along the way in service of becoming the best version of ourselves every single day, stacking one great day on top of another because otherwise complacency will set in, which is the opposite of dynamic drive. And so, you know, this is an important. important approach to life. It's really a way of life. Saying yes to what you want to say yes. Saying yes and knowing why, saying no and knowing why. So dynamic drive, it is. It's dynamic. But it's what's
Starting point is 00:54:13 really, I think, important. And well, I mean, you've had a tremendous amount of success and so many people in the world have. And I think that when we think about our pursuit of better every single day, that thread of ensuring that we are aligning our pursuits with our values and our goals is integral to sustain high performance. And nothing breaks my heart more than seeing people stack great wins on top of another and then having an emptiness inside. And so we've got to be really intentional an inside out approach to pursuing better every day, for sure. But I want to No more, man. What do you mean when I'm taking you to the water, dude? You've got to tell me. I can't. I can't. And I can't tell my audience that I can't. I got to deal with it all as it comes.
Starting point is 00:55:03 But I think I will be helped out by reading Dynamic Drive, the purpose-fueled formula for sustainable success. I think everybody watching would be helped out as well. It's incredible, Molly, as today has been this conversation. I wish you the best of luck. I look forward to meeting in person perhaps one day. This is an awesome book. Thanks so much. Well, it's great to be with you. Thank you, Molly. Great to be with you as well. There she goes, Molly Fletcher.
Starting point is 00:55:25 Again, check it out. Dynamic Drive, the purpose-fueled formula for sustainable success. Well, fellas, what a day. I don't think I even got to it all. I don't think that I even got to it all on what I got to say, but here's the thing. We got a confirmation process ahead of us. So I think there's going to be plenty of time. Yeah, got a lot to say.
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