Will Cain Country - Riley Gaines BLASTS Megan Rapinoe Over Trans Olympics Take

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

While this past weekend saw the film-worthy rescue of a U.S. fighter pilot who was shot down over Iran, the attention of the American Left has been consumed by a social media post by President Donald Trump. Will and The Crew put their arguments on the ethics of Presidential profanity to the test, before debunking yet ANOTHER Trump death hoax, and examining the troubling reality of the correlation between a nation’s wealth and fertility rate.Plus, Host of ‘The Riley Gaines Show,’ Riley Gaines helps Will examine California's "First Partner" Jennifer Newsom’s “unorthodox” approach to raising her boys, former U.S. Women's Soccer team star Megan Rapinoe’s reaction to the Olympics’ new restrictions on transgender athletes, and shares her thoughts on the new collegiate sports Executive Order put forth by President Trump.Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠⁠Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠⁠@willcainnews⁠⁠⁠)Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

is risen. And he was saved. Easter weekend stunning rescue of an American airman inside of Iran fit for a movie. Real life behind enemy lines. And President Trump passes or signs an executive order to save college sports while Megan Rapino is intent to go down. fighting with Riley Gaines. It is Wilcane Country streaming live at the Willcane Country YouTube channel, the Wilcane Facebook page.

We would love it if you would hit follow on Spotify or on Apple. Happy Easter, welcome back to a day stand, tinfoil pad. Welcome back to real life, living and living out the movies in the 1990s, early, thousands, there was a movie entitled Behind Enemy Lines starring Owen Wilson. So good. An American pilot downed somewhere in the Baltics. Can't remember exactly what country, but it was like Serbia, Bosnia, unidentified, nondescript, bad guy.

And the entire movie is about, I believe it was Gene Hackman's attempt to rescue Owen Wilson from behind enemy lines. Over the last couple of days, an American plane in F-15E was shot down over Iran. Within hours of that, an American pilot was rescued. But then, in the ensuing roughly 48 hours, the second pilot, the weapons specialist, was nowhere to be found, was missing somewhere inside Iran. A lot of speculation about what exactly happened. Is he alive? Can he communicate? What kind of technology is available? Is he in the mountains? Can he reach for the local population? What's the religion of the local population? What's the ethnicity? Iran placed a bounty on this airman and began the search.

IRGC looking for this second pilot. Then late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, word is the Americans have rescued this airman. An incredible operation that involved the CIA. locating him, him crawling into a mountaintop crevice, intermittently turning on his tracking beacon, running a diversion operation to the CIA to make the Iranians think they had already extracted him through a maritime operation. So their attention was focused somewhere else in the region. Meanwhile, predator, Reaper drones, hovering over his general vicinity, taking out any tracker that gets in his area. And then, finally, a rescue operation, wherein, I see when 30s wheels sink into the mud. It's abandoned.

The rescue operation takes place. They get this man back. They blow up our abandoned aircraft and bring him home. An absolutely incredible story. And yet, and yet, much of the attention this weekend is focused on the true social posts of President Donald Trump. Because he posted, Tuesday will be power. plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it, triple exclamation point. Open the FN straight. He did not say FN. He spelled it all out and dropped the G.

Capitalized the F. Open the FN straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. And that instead of behind enemy lines is the focus. for two a days, Dan. It's just all I heard people were asking me about on Sunday. Everyone was just like, why would he do that on Easter and say such a thing and distract from what he's actually doing? I mean, can we be a little better than that? I mean, just a little bit. I'm just asking.

But we were better than that. We literally rescued this man from inside Iran. So the question is whether or not you are going to define this presidency, whether you're going to define the role of America through deeds or words through actions or rhetoric. And I will grant you, this is not the most presidential language that we've experienced throughout our history. But at some point, it was obviously sarcastic, praise a law. That's quite clearly a troll.

That's quite queerly, clearly what he's doing. But the nature of being president is presidential, just FYI. Sure. But like, do we want to set that example? Think about, like, do we want to raise a bunch of kids who are trolls? They're going to see that. We already do. Think about the kids?

Lean, why not? We're thinking about the kids now? I am. Me personally. I want America to be the biggest heel in the world. But, like, what's the point? We know who we are. So there are people that do take it seriously, obviously, what he says.

They take a word for word. I mean, we know that he's trolling, obviously. But there's a lot of people that don't. Yeah, but here we are. We're already five minutes into this show. and you're knee deep in this tweet. And I just wonder if your tank ever approaches empty on being exhausted or outraged at what he has to say on social media.

Oh, that's the fun line. I always like that one, the moral high horse. No, my tank's not empty and yours shouldn't be either. We should all be above this. Like, at some point, just come on, move on. What was your first thought? And look at what's happening. What was your first thought?

I didn't give it much of a thought. I was like, oh, man. did see it, you know. You're just like, oh, come on, man. Well, I mean, I'm being real with you. It was twofold. Like, did he really say that? And I was like, oh, yeah.

And then he said the F word. The F word was the main thing that sticks out. And then I saw some funny posts like Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, Ronald Reagan, Franklin, Donald Roosevelt. All we have to fear is fear itself. John F. Kennedy. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. And then President Donald Trump, open the effing straight.

Praise a lot. You crazy bastards. Listen, but then I was done, Dan, thinking about it. I mean, on Sunday, when I had political conversations, they were about this incredible mission. And that is my point. It's like you have an endless appetite for talking about Donald Trump and not the actions of Donald Trump. And you're not alone. I mean, here is Senator Chris Murphy posting on X.

If I were in Trump's cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more. I mean, this man lives in a world, but that's what he's focused

on, and that's driving the conversation. And by the way, he's not alone. So he's since that these people matter, you know, all over X this weekend. Your major influencers, these are the people that get reposted the most, have the most virality, hit the algorithm. People like Ed Krasenstein, Brian Krastestine, Joe, Joe, or whatever it is.

There's another, David Packman, who was once on this show, Brooklyn Dad. They spent the whole weekend. You laugh, but these people actually are like in the Algo. Whatever viral means today, they are in the algorithm. What were they posting about all weekend? Well, all right, let me just pick one. They're all posting the same thing, by the way. They all say the same thing.

So I'll just pick one and just you'll get the sense of it. This is Brooklyn Dad Defiant. Folks are saying Trump is currently at Walter Reed Hospital. If that's something the American people, isn't that something the American people are supposed to be notified about? So they're all surmising all weekend on Saturday that Trump is MIA. He's not on the golf course. We don't know where he is. There's rumors he's at Walter Reed Hospital.

They're hiding it from the American public. Trump is sick. Trump is, and then you've got Chris Murphy yelling about the 25th Amendment, which was admittedly 24 hours later. But in those 24 hours where we learned was Trump was actually in the Oval Office and the, I believe, a dining hall next to the Oval Office, where he was staying up to date, coordinating and leading this entire operation, this incredible operation for the rescue of this American pilot. And I just think you have in before you, an incredible example of where you're going to place your focus. Are you going to place your focus on the soap opera, which Donald Trump will give you ammunition to do? He will give you what you need. Patrick, I'm not sure this is as much a troll of the Iranians as it, quite honestly, is the left.

At this point, when he does this stuff, I think he knows what's going to happen. But why? Like the freak out. Did I do what you're saying? Yeah, why freak? Why make the left freak out? You're why, hey, don't watch my hand over here. Watch this hand.

But why do you want to watch that hand on the screen? Why not? Why shouldn't we all praise him saving the soldier? That would be great. I did. But you wouldn't. It's all about, yeah. Not you, Dan.

Proverbial you. Right. No, I get it. Do you think, do you think if he hadn't tweeted this, Chris Murphy would be praising the rescue of that soldier, that airman? No, no, no. On Sunday? God, no.

No, exactly. Exactly. And I think, I don't know how calculs. this is to do the following. But this, to me, and I don't know how this plays with the average American citizen, what it ends up doing is showing two different things. This dichotomy that I'm painting seems so obvious. Like, on one hand, I've got these buffoons who are obsessed with the political soap opera and the personality of Donald Trump. That's who they are. It's all they can do. And when he does this, it's just like light him up again, let him go.

And they do this ridiculousness while over here there's this amazing substance of a rescue mission. Yeah. So I don't know if that is intentional, but it certainly is a product in my mind of these types of things. And you can also do it and go, but I don't like that. I don't like him talking like that. That's fine. And I could even say it's not my favorite thing, but I move on within. 10 seconds to the actual victory. And the people that can't move on, we're never going to move on.

And to me, expose their own superficiality in the soap opera of politics. Let's see what Riley Gaines thinks. Riley's the host of the Riley Gaines show. She's a Turning Point USA contributor as well. And she's here on Will Kane country. Riley, okay, just what do you think about this? Do you think about this post? What do you think about this post? Look, I'll tell you, first of all, very good to be on with you guys. I spend the weekend off of my phone. So I was really only just seeing this this morning. Here's what I think, of course, not my favorite Trump posts,

given that this kind of came to light on Easter. But I'm right there with you. Focus on the operation and the success of the operation. Of course, you can tell he's being sarcastic. That's something that he is super great at. It drives the other side insane. You can tell he's being sarcastic with his whole praise all the thing he says there. And I was reading this morning.

And I saw where someone actually quoted, I think it was General Patton, who had previously said, look, you can't run any army efficiently and successfully without profanity. It has to be eloquent profanity. So, look, not my favorite Trump post, but again, focus on the success of the operation. And kudos to President Trump there. She agrees. She agrees with what? She agrees with me.

With me? Not you? Oh, okay. What are you talking about, Dan? She doesn't agree with you. Look, I'm like Gavin Newsom. I'm like Gavin Newsom. I'm a fence that are kind of winking at both sides, huh?

I think you, does he do that? Does he wink at both sides? I feel like he plays to one. What does he wink at on the right, Gavin Newsom? Well, you remember, of course, when Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, was still alive. He was on that podcast with Charlie. And he was talking about actually the minute. in women's sports issue.

And he's like, look, yes, I know it's deeply unfair. So unfair that he doesn't do absolutely anything about it. So I think going into the 2028 election, of course, we will continue to see him kind of sit on the fence. I think he's pretty effective at it. He's pretty charming. You've got to give it to him. He's sleek.

He's kind of like the slimy car salesman. And it wins a lot of people over, believe it or not, especially those who don't live in California. I think if you live in California, you get to reap the benefits or lack their, of of his leadership. But if you don't, you don't get to see it. You don't see the wildfires. You don't see the crime.

You don't see the homelessness. You don't see the drugs or any of the bad things that come with living in a super blue state governed by such. But I think outside of that, there is some charm and appeal to him. More so than any of the other Democratic Party leaders, that's for sure. Low bar. It's a low bar. Yes. Very low bar.

I'm just thinking on top of my head, does anybody else in the Democrat field, even approximate a modicum of charisma. And I'm just thinking. Mar-Donna. Mom, Donnie does. So much so that even President Trump, I think, is kind of, President Trump is smart and he's very savvy. And I know that he sees through Mom Donnie. But there is charm there.

And I'll even say some of his ads and things, of course, there's nothing policy-wise that he and I agree on. But there are some ads that he does where he appears to be very likable and promising, free things, of course, who doesn't want that. So yes, I do believe that Mom Donnie is that way. But outside of that, in terms of charisma and character and personality, no, nobody. No one, especially outside of social media, you have figures like people like Texas's own Jasmine Crockett, although no longer really Texas's own. She on social media appears to do well, but it just doesn't resonate clearly. But Federman is not. by far the most sane. And even still, that's a, that's a pretty low bar. So, yeah.

Let's take quick break, but continue this conversation with the host of the Riley Gaines Show, Riley Gaines on Will King Country. Welcome back to Will King Country. We're still hanging out with the host of the Riley Gaines show. Riley Gaines. And by the way, whatever Federman's got going on with the gym shorts and the hoodies and in the vulnerability of his medical condition actually does give him charisma. It does give him. It's not, charisma is unique. It's not like a repeatable thing. There's not a recipe. and so everybody has it kind of in their own little special way. And so whatever it is that works for Federman isn't the thing that works for somebody else.

But there is something that comes together for Federman that just feels raw. It feels totally unpretentious. It feels therefore authentic. And that adds up to some level of charisma for Federman. Yeah, well, people crave that. And I think that's a large part of why people love President Trump. Yes, of course, he is a billionaire. So in terms of what we should be able to relate on, on your everyday things, the reality is he shouldn't be able to relate to your everyday American. He doesn't have to worry about grocery prices or prices of gas or rent or health insurance or any of that stuff. But even still, there's this air about him where he is relatable. And it doesn't really make too much sense. But he says what's on his mind, whether you like it or not. I think there's there's an appreciation to that.

No matter where you stand on the political aisle, despite those who are, like, riddled and with crippling TDS, they're kind of too far gone. And I don't know if there's anything that he could do that would make them admire him, clearly based off of even just this week in the tweet that you guys are talking about. My husband and I always say, look, that he could save a child from drowning and they would say that he's starving the sharks. The thing is, he would save the kid from drowning. He'd come up to the cameras. he'd be like, best saving ever. Everybody said it couldn't be done. But I did it. Beautiful strokes.

Walk, swim out there, saved him. And then he'd say something that would offend them. And they'd focus all on that. Whatever he said in the interview afterwards, not on the actual saving of the child. By way, Riley, host of the Riley Gaines Show, where are you right now? I'm looking at your studio. Are you in Nashville? I'm home.

I'm home. Super cool. Yes, Nashville is home. But I'm literally in my house. And so built this studio right here in my own home, which is so ideal and convenient with the travel and different things and having a new baby. So it works great. It can kind of give the baby to my husband, come up here, film, go right back down to the baby. It's kind of like best of both worlds, you know?

Nice. Yeah, it's a great looking studio. Okay, we were talking about Gavin Newsom real quick. And on my morning call, one of my guys, also a big supporter of your show, said, Here is what's going to kill Gavin Newsom's hopes for the presidency. This is the death of him. It is his wife. What's his wife's name?

Does he want to know her name yet? I don't have it in front of me. Honestly, that's such a good point. I don't even know her name. Right. I think it's Jennifer Sebel Newsom. I'm not. Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

Okay. If you have never heard of her, that's understandable. If you never heard from her, that's understandable as well. So here she is talking about how to raise boys. Okay? Watch. I've given our boys dolls, even if they tear the head off. I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women,

but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men. What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just changed the he to a she. That is the first taste. Okay, I want to do these. I've got two of these. Part of me is like I want you to hear them all at once. So, Riley, we were talking about this.

Why would you give boys dolls? And that's different. Dan, that's different than the answer I said on the call this morning. That is true. My suspicion was the left believes that everyone is a blank slate, an open book from which the chapters are ready to be written. And we pre-code boys to be masked. or to play with trucks and balls by giving that to them and never really giving them the option to explore themselves, that's what the left believes.

And therefore, give them some dolls too. Let them see which way they gravitate because everyone is a truly open book, not obviously somewhat genetically coded by the averages, you know, averages of your gender and that type of thing. But she said something different there. She was instead saying so that boys can learn to be caregivers. What kind of caregiver rips the head, by the way? even if they ripped the head off the dolls. Yeah, look, well, first of all, my first take of this woman was several months back now when she called herself the first partner of California.

And I read the headline. I was like, what does this even mean? Of course, when you see someone refer to their significant other as their partner, your brain immediately thinks they're talking about someone of the same sex, right? So I'm like, oh, like that's so bizarre. I look at it and I realize she's talking about. By the way, that's an interesting thing. When you hear that, I think same sex first.

But then my brain does a little thing. Honestly, I bet it's geographic. If somebody says that down here, I think gay. If somebody does it in the Northeast, I sometimes have to wonder if they're not married. Do you know what I mean? Like, I feel like, Dan, is that right? A lot of people up here say partners, heterosexual. Yeah.

And I hate it, honestly, that you're not married. that your brain kind of goes there because my husband is my partner. He's my partner in life. I very much look at him as my counterpart. So I hate that your brain kind of flips that switch and it's almost like involuntary

where you think someone is referring to their husband, if it's a man or their wife, if it's a woman, whatever it is. So that was kind of my first take of her. Upon seeing the videos that have come to light as of recent, whether it was this video,

there are several other circulating on the internet. When we're talking about this one, first of all, being a boy is not like a disease to be treated and diagnosed. There's nothing wrong with being a boy, but I have a little bit of a different take. I don't think she's doing this for one way or the other as it pertains to her kids.

I think if you watch the video, you can see almost how like proud of herself she appears to be doing this. I think this is entirely an ego, narcissism thing, thing, virtue signaling for her own behalf. I think it makes her feel better to say this. So I don't even think honestly she's interested in, and I don't know if it's fair to say if she's interested in how her voice turn out. But I think in her saying this on a public forum and the way that she is as proud and as boastful as she's saying it, it's entirely an ego thing for her, I believe.

As it is, Raleigh, for all of them. I feel very comfortable saying that. So what I like about is you cut the fat off this conversation. It doesn't matter what justification is given by anyone. Oh, because I think kids are a blank slate and they can be raised or I want boys to be able to understand they can be caregivers too. It's all bullshit. It all really is a justification for the own preening self-virtue signaling. It's a lot about the kids. I highly doubt she even does it's about her as if she's reading a book to her children and changes he to she. First of all, if that's so important to you, just get a book where there's a female protagonist. because there's a lot of them.

If it's that important to you, just get one of those books. I highly, highly doubt she actually goes through and the mental gymnastics. Because it's hard. No matter, even the people who are fully bought into

like the they, them stuff, it is not natural to refer to someone as plural. It is not natural to see a six foot four man and use the verbiage of, of, you know, her penis. Like, none of that is natural.

Okay. So it's not easy to do that. I highly doubt she is. doing that. I think that she's just saying it. Theater. Okay. I think that is true, Riley, for basically, well, 90% of the white women out there. And that's who we're talking about, because the truth is most of this insanity is being driven by white women. Now, I don't know, single white women, married white women. I think it's mostly single white women. Obviously, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is married.

So what you're, the performative, I don't even really believe it, much less do I actually do it. I think is true. But that doesn't, that doesn't take any way from the Oscar worthy performance they're putting on in public. No. No. On the streets and the media. But don't you think there is a 10% of these people. It's 10% of the people performing that do believe it.

Because I'm going to give you this. Okay. This is going to be near and dear to your heart. Obviously, the IOC just comes out with their rule saying that women. have to take a gender test at once in their life to find out if they're truly a woman and they're going to have keep men out of women's sports in

Olympic sports. And herein rides, what I do think, Riley, is a true believer. Like the wokenest of the woke, the wrongest of the wrong, the absurd. Megan Rapino, watch. Oh, I thought I had the video.

I don't know video. I usually broadcast better than that. Hold on. I'm going to pull it up. up, Riley. There we got that. Hold on, Riley. Here it is. Megan Rapino rips IOC, new policy to protect women's sports, rejects an ocean, is based

in science. Okay, I did see the video this weekend, this morning, by the way. And I guess it's trans or was trans day of invisibility. I don't know when that is, but, or visibility. Sorry, not invisibility. And with her podcast, with her partner, Sue Bird. Man, she went on and on that it's anti-science, it's anti-trans, it's no such thing as a, quote, woman. I think she's kind of a true believer, Riley.

You know what? There's just no way. There's just no way. And let me explain. Obviously, being an elite athlete, she knows the differences between men and women. She does. Both her and her wife, Sue Bird. Of course, you look at sports like, I mean, let's take Megan Rapino's personal experience in playing

with what I actually think is a team out of Texas. It was like a 15 and under. At C. Dallas. Yes. Yeah. I have a son that age. My I have a son that's you 15. Yeah.

Exactly. And they lost in a blowout. Okay. So that right there takes Sue Bird. The sport of men's basketball and women's basketball is essentially entirely a different sport. And that's the case across mini sports, right? Gymnastics.

Men have different events. Women have different events. Volleyball. The men's net is seven and a half. inches higher than the women's debt. Basketball, same thing with the three-point line and all of these things. They're essentially different sports entirely. So I cannot in good conscience unless Megan Rapino is, is, I mean, even still, even if you're the stupidest person on earth, you still understand the innate differences between men and women. I just think she doesn't care.

But you, you know what I think? I think she does, well, okay, she either, she doesn't, she's a true believer, because she doesn't care. So what I mean by that is you have your experience with Leah Thomas, right? And I'm willing to use Will Thomas's name of choice. I'll say Leah. He gets to change his name. He doesn't get to change his pronouns. He gets to change his subjective world, doesn't get to change the objective world.

So you have your experience with Leah Thomas. Megan Rapino doesn't really probably have that experience in her life of ever seeing anyone she truly knows threatened by a trans athlete. She plays at such a high level, and she was really good. Rapino was a really good women's soccer player, and Sue Bird is obviously a great women's basketball player. And there's been no man infiltrate the WNBA yet. There's been no man infiltrate the women's national team, or I bet in WSL soccer, the women's professional soccer league yet. So they don't feel it.

They don't care. They haven't experienced it, and they feel above it. And that's why I think then they can afford to believe it. in some probably somewhat real way, because it's not hurting them. And now I think even if it were to affect them, they're so bought in that they cannot backtrack, or at least based on history and what we've seen from, I hate to make it partisan, honestly, from the Democratic Party because it really shouldn't be a partisan issue. Inevitably, that's what it's become.

So if you look at how this is really broken down between how polarized it is, as a to mainstream media or Democratic elected officials or those in Hollywood or the elites, whatever it is, of course, it's not representative of real life. But if you look at history there, even people who have had experience at this point, even people with daughters, I think it's important to mention that Megan Rapino and Sue Bird do not have children, of course. They don't have a daughter of their own. Maybe it would be a different scenario if they did. They don't have any other interests. Megan Rapino's done playing sports. What this is for her, how I view it, is she's pulling up the ladder behind her.

The only reason that any of us know who Megan Rapino is is because of women's sports. No one would know who she was if that didn't exist. You said it. I mean, I think she went to three Olympics, 2012, 2016, 2021. She's won a gold medal, I think, in 2012, a bronze medal at the 2021 games. Of course, incredible athlete. I am not trying to take anything away from her there.

She has done, admittedly, which it's hard to say this, given the fact that we disagree on virtually everything politically. She has done a lot for the sport of women's soccer, for women and girls. And to a degree, she's been a role model for some people. For some young girls, they see what she's achieved and they want to achieve the same. Well, guess what she's doing to those young girls? Pulling up the ladder, basically giving them a middle finger and saying, F you, figure it out on your own, go compete with those boys, drop your pants,

take your clothes off and just smile. Who cares if you're in the locker room with them? I'm done competing. I don't have daughters. figure it out on your own. That's how I view it, which is a really tragic thing because, again, with the platform she has, with what she has accomplished for women's sports, it's just a really sad state of affairs to see someone being such a sellout. That's what Megan Rapino is. Let's take quick break, but continue this conversation with the host of the Riley Gaines Show,

Riley Gaines on Will King Country. Welcome back to Will King Country. We're still hanging out with the host of the Riley Gaines show. Riley Gaines. Raleigh, I'm going to throw a curveball at you. It just occurred to me while we were talking, okay? But that's what I do in this show, whatever pops into my head. I've had this conversation. I know I've had it all fair. I think I've had this conversation on air, Dan, right? I think it's entirely fair conversation. You know, I think we've talked to this. My wife was a collegiate swimmer. I was a swimmer up through high school, and then I played water polo. So I have some exposure to women swimming. There is some gay, um, population within swimming, but it's not huge as compared to other women's sports.

Is that a fair statement, don't you think? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What I'm, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. I don't know about soccer, by the way. It just made me think about this and talking about Megan Rapino when you're talking about being a role model and all that stuff. Soccer probably more than swimming, but it's still one of the lower percentages.

It's just interesting how some sports have higher percentages of gay players. than others in women's sports. Like softball, very high. Basketball, very high. I don't know about hockey, Dan. I know nothing about women's hockey. I think I know a little bit about water polo. I don't think water polo is super high.

What I'm getting at is I think it's really interesting. I think that they may have done studies on this. I don't know why some sports and why others have higher percentages of lesbians than other sports. people talked about contact sports versus non-contact sports. You know, volleyball isn't very high, I think. Volleyball is a low, a low. What word do I need here? Gay population sport.

But it's really interesting why it is in some sports, what did you say? Low gay density, right? I don't know. Yeah. It's really interesting why some women's sports are high and why some are low. Yeah, you know, this is unique. I've never thought about this. I've thought about other rates of things such as like autism, truthfully.

There are so many weird swimmers, like off the chart raging autism. And I think it requires a level of autism. Or just like socially ineptness, maybe is a good word. I would consider myself as forever, Riley, back to my day. Swimmers are a little weird. just weird individuals in general. And I've thought about that and what causes things like that. And you're looking at the same black line hours and hours a day for many, many years of your life.

You're starving yourself of oxygen, which cannot be healthy for many hours a day. You don't get to talk in your sport. So I've thought about things like that, but the gay density rate, I wonder if it's a real thing. Yeah. You mentioned sports like hockey. maybe lacrosse or field hockey, those are much more prevalent up north. I would be curious to see if like geography,

where are the hotbeds of these sports are? Because volleyball, my understanding, of course it's taken off nationally at this point, but there is a pretty good percentage of elite volleyball players that come from the south. I wonder if that has something to do with it. But my mom, look, she played D1 softball, which is,

you said, as most people know, I mean, even like the saying like no bow lesbo, if you don't wear a bow, then it was understood, at least back in my mom's day, that you were a lesbian. It was kind of like a telltale sign. Yeah, yeah, no bow lesbo. I didn't have to do that. Yeah. So you were sure to wear a bow in your hair if you liked boys. And so my mom's roommates even in college were gay.

So it's interesting. I would be curious what goes into that. Is it contact? is it the uniform or the attire that you're wearing? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's like the, I think each sport requires like a specific body type, if you will. And so I wonder if it's desirability from men.

I think that's oftentimes what leads to women being gay is that they haven't found a man in their life that either likes them and kind of it's in the effort. So it's kind of like a last resort. That's not for everyone, but I have seen that a lot of times in women where they just can't find a man. So it's like, oh, I might as well go for a woman. So I wonder if that plays into it. I don't know. It's interesting. I never thought about that. There's something culturally in each sport. Each sport has its own culture. And then it becomes a chicken or egg thing. Maybe like you're attracted to the culture within the sport, too. I don't know. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's really interesting. Okay. What did you think, Riley, about President Trump's executive order signed late last week on college sports. Here's what he proposes to do. He wants

the NCAA to make these rules. He seems to know that this will get challenged in the court, and it has a good chance of also being ruled unconstitutional. But five-year cap on being an athlete, you got to play your five years within five years. You can transfer once without sitting out, without red-shirting, but after that, you have to redshirt a year if you transfer a second time, except if you transfer as a graduate. So a graduate transfer. You've got your four years degree, but you have one more year of eligibility. Then you could transfer a second time. There was other stuff in there about NIL, which is going to be a bear to figure out. Yeah. But a lot of the people like Nick Saban, Cody Campbell, a lot of the guys that have been

involved in this seem to have liked this as a start, Riley. Yeah, no, I think this. is great. A couple things here. Number one, just the idea of not having like 27 year old freshman anymore is, I believe, a good thing. Secondly, the NCAA has proven time and time and time again to really just be a useless organization. They are drowning in problems and it seems as if they have managed to land on the wrong side of nearly all of them. Okay, whether it is men in women's sports, whether it's NIL, whether it's transfer porter, whether it's eligibility rules, you name it, the list grows longer and longer and longer each day. And leadership at the NCAA level, I believe, continues to fall short. So I wish that we could have seen

action from the specific sports governing body as opposed to federal legislation or really the federal government at all having to involve themselves. But nonetheless, I think this is a good thing. I do. It has been kind of like the Wild Wild West the past few years, really since 2021 or 2022, which I, for a little context, I graduated in 2022. I just got to see in kind of me heading out the door what NIL really looked like on a college campus. Now, going to University of Kentucky, of course, we have historically been known as a basketball school. I watch firsthand, We're talking about NIL stuff here. I watch firsthand as you have 17-year-old boys.

I mean, seriously, some of these guys weren't even 18 years old yet, being handed millions and millions and millions of dollars. The financial irresponsibility, the lack of financial literacy, I mean, these boys have no idea about taxes and how would you, right? You're 17 years old. You shouldn't have to know about those things yet, or at least you should be interested in learning about them, but you shouldn't know the ins and out of it.

I'm seeing them get car deals with poor, and all of these amazing cars, they don't go to class. It ruined the competition piece of competitive sports based on what I have seen. And look at the direction that Kentucky basketball has gone in the past really five, six years, not as what it has been. So that's just kind of my two cents, personal experience with it. Of course, I believe this executive order, it ultimately helps women's sports. It helps non-revenue sports.

It helps kind of that Olympic pipeline for Team USA. So I think this is a fantastic step in the right direction. Yeah, he put something there about continuing to fund Olympic sports. And by the way, his mechanism for enforcement on this is withholding federal money from colleges that don't abide by these rules once they're enshrined by the NCAA. Did you go to a lot of Kentucky basketball games? I did. I did. I spent a lot of my time there.

So when I was a freshman, that was like the Tyler Hero era. and so that was fun, went to the basketball games, went to, of course, the football games. The SEC is the best conference. I said it. I stand by it. Hands down. Welcome, welcome, Texas.

I guess we're letting everyone in nowadays. Welcome. We've already jumped in there and won it. Yeah, exactly, right? Exactly. So it's, of course, I think Texas just won the national championship in swimming again. So Virginia won, but Texas is always up there, which is why I'm glad I got out of the SEC when I did. They won the men's.

They won the men's. Texas won the men's. Yes. You're right. They did. The women, it was actually Virginia that won. I think they've won the past six years. It's a pretty dominant program.

So all that to say, I'm glad I got out of the SEC when I did. I was able to win five SEC championships. Had Texas been in the SEC at the time, that number. might be a little less than five. So I was glad I got out when I did. One more question before you go. Is that football stadium any good? Texas went to play Kentucky this year,

and it felt, is it a dome? Are they in a dome? No. You are, right? Like an indoor? Yeah, no, they're not. It's a typical stadium. I don't know what the seating capacity is.

I could look it up. I don't know what the seating capacity is, but it used to be called Commonwealth Stadium. and now it's Krogerfield or something, it's lame, corporate. They made it all corporate. But I will say, blue looks good.

I like being there. Blue is not one of those obnoxious colors. You go to Neeland Stadium, Tennessee. It's a really big stadium. It's huge. But that orange color, what are they saying in the blind side? Leanne Tuey, she says it's so gaudy.

That gaudy orange, it's so true. And Rocky Top is, like, objectively annoying. And so when you're there, you hear the fight song. You see the blue. I like it. I do. I do.

All right. There you go. Kentucky Wildcat. And host of the Riley Gaines show, which you should go check out. Riley Gaines, here we say fun hanging out with you, Riley. Thanks for being with us. You too. You rock will.

Thank you guys. All right. Take care. There goes Riley Gaines. Again, check her out at the Riley Gaines show. Over in the Wollisha, Jay Elliott. says, oh my God, Dan, Will said bullshit.

What do we do? How dare you. It's uncouth, Will. Did I emphasize it a little much? I'm going to have to fix that in post. And then, over on... Do you? And then on Facebook, Kathy Smith says,

I think you can get your point across without profanity. I love my president. Is she talking about me or she's talking about the president? Talking about the president. See, someone agreed. Think so? I thought I had Riley for a second, but, you know. Meanwhile, Gary, Erica, Hervin, Erbie.

Does that mean they share a Facebook account, Gary and Erica? They must. They says, this is what I vote. It's a very common thing. It's convenient. What a move. What a move to share an account? Really?

It's a very common thing? Yeah. Because like the husband's not on social media. And so the wife, like, combines it. And then it's like they're personal. I've seen it be a jealousy thing, though. Like they have to have the same one. That happens as well.

I think that plays a role in it. Make sure you're not. Yeah. Make sure you're not over there, and your husband. Gary and Erica, just so you know, ladies.

Odds are, that's what I voted for. Is that Gary or Erica? Which one is posting from the account? Gary. It's got to be Gary. No, no.

This is truly a day them. It is Erica unless, and if it's Gary, he'll put Gary at the bottom of it. Yeah, from Gary. Based on experience. Oh, really? Do you share an account

with your wife, Patrick? No. Oh, that almost be a yes. I thought there was a yes. I just know how these things work. I've seen it a lot back in the day. Okay. All right.

Fred Logan back on YouTube says, Mom Donnie is not likable to me. He has a slimy, creepy smile. I can see that. A lot of the stuff is subjectivity, and I can totally see how he would come off that way to some, but I can also see how he'd be charming to others. I really can't.

He ran a great campaign, though. Like, I mean, some of his social media videos, he was talking to the people and about the problems that they were experiencing. And I think it was actually very brilliant the way he ran his campaign. And it came across very authentic. And I think that's why he won so easily. I agree. I mean, there's got to be, but this is going to, he's a real test case because he has to succeed as the mayor of New York City.

Like this is the furthest left executive that anyone has had, making a test case. case out of New York City. So like I think Mom Donnie's success or failure bleeds over on everybody else that is in that direction of leftism, AOC. Who else would be in that vein? Well, honestly, like James Talarico, but the thing is, if you're a senator or a congresswoman, you, you don't ever get held to the same account because really it's like rhetoric and, and no, you don't ever get to own the cost of your policies single-handedly. Yeah. And whatever happens to New York here now. And I would suggest you live there, Dan. Early returns are very concerning for New York. Early returns are very concerning for New York. Like how this is going to go over his term.

Optics are... It's not going to be a good test case. Optics are bad. I haven't seen anything changed personally. I also do live outside the city so that some of the things don't apply to me. But I haven't seen anything really yet. But some things that could happen that have been said are concerning. The wealth tax he's talking about, raising the income tax. Meanwhile, the white people tax? The white people tax? Yeah, that too.

When Texas played Kentucky this last year, I just kind of looked at that stadium and I thought, I don't know about that place. I haven't been to there, so I can't really judge it. There's something about the turf that made me feel like it was being lit indoor. She said it was outdoor. Is it an outdoor stadium? Kentucky? Yeah.

Didn't look like it. It's always been outdoor. Maybe it's just the color of the turf. Yeah, it's very much outdoor. I guess he didn't play a lot of video games back in the day. Because I know like all the colleges where they're located, they're stadiums. Yeah. NCAA football.

2K15. All of it. You know the names of the stadiums? not anymore they all changed them it's like it's all corporate now oh

like she said it's like crogher field now it used to be common mole stadium yeah someone said will stop talking trash it's our bluegrass oh that's from suzanne

oh oh it could be there trying to make it look like bluegrass yeah that's what it is let's take a quick break but we'll be right back on will cane country um

this is a fascinating a little piece of research that we stumbled across here that really, I think, in some ways, counteracts something we've heard from not just the left but the right. So what we've heard over time is with economic stagnation in America, the increased difficulty of buying a home, people have stopped having children. In fact, we've had some guests here on Wilcane Country who have talked about that, that we have to ease up the concept of homeownership. in order to encourage family formation, that people delay it, have fewer kids because they can't

get situated stably on the economic ladder. This counteracts that, this bit of research we have to share with you guys here. It's the relationship between fertility and income. And it starts, this person who has posted, it says, the belief that birth rates is going down because of cost of living is statistically false. Birth rate drops most after-comers. countries become affluent. It is a self-defeating mechanism. This is the final boss of civilization and has not yet been beaten. Now, this, is this a global? Patrick, is this global or is this, is this just the U.S.? Fertility rate? In comparison. But it so what it does supply like at the low. It looks global. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

We know that it applies globally, that birth rates in the third world, birth rates in Africa, birth rates in Asia, birth rates in the Middle East are exponentially higher than they are in Europe and in America and in Japan, all of which are more developed economies. And it plays out as well here at home. The more money you make, the fewer children you have. And it shows GDP per capita for the U.S. and those who have lower incomes have more children. Now, also, I think most people understand that. I think they kind of understand that. That doesn't surprise them. They're like, of course, yeah.

This is also, by the way, the premise of the movie, um, idiotocracy. Was idiot. No, idiocacy wasn't this. It was stupid people versus smart people, which is not the same as poor versus wealthy. No, it was poor stupid people versus wealthy. No, it was poor stupid people versus. wealthy, intelligent people. And the poor stupid people had a bunch of babies.

Right. And the wealthy, smart people don't have babies. And then society elects Hector Macho Camacho as their president. Exactly. And drinks electrolytes. I wonder if idiocracy holds up. Don't you go back and watch idiocry? I watched it a couple years ago.

It's okay. It's okay. Yeah, it's fine. I mean, you know, we do have a rest of it. for a president. That's true. But intuitively, we understand this. And I think we have excused ourselves.

I think the wealth and the homeownership thing has become a justification for not having kids when the truth is something else is driving us not to have children. Selfishness. I don't know. The more wealthy you get, the more selfish you are. The sense that you never have enough. So is that greed? You never have enough.

If you're not quite there, you need more in order to share with somebody else that you could raise. But, I mean, I get it because I remember what I felt like before I had my first kid. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I don't have enough. I'm not ready to support. I'm not stable enough. I remember that feeling, but it's funny once you're on the other side of it, how you look at that and go, that wasn't necessary. You know, the dink culture?

Dual income, no kids? No. It's a whole online thing. Yeah. Dual income, no kids. People love it. They celebrate that they have so much money because they have no kids. So they both have jobs. They're couples, probably my age to, you know, whatever.

And they celebrate having no kids and more income to travel and buy houses and do all these things. Well, that's selfishness, though. Yeah, of course. No, of course. When you have more kids or you have kids at all, it's like it definitely puts a cramp in your style. You know, if you want to go out there and do anything. Yeah, but that's the next part of life. Like, we're all agreeing on this, but, you know.

It is. Can I say one thing, though? Like, I, in New York, I live in a one-bedroom. It's a big, nice apartment, but it's a one-bedroom. And in my town, I can't really afford a house in my town. So we just got married, and we went to have a kid. So we'd have to move out of this place to have a kid. So we'd have to figure that whole thing out before we consider it.

So, like, right now, if my wife was to get pregnant, we'd have to very quickly figure out a place to live with a kid. I mean, we could do it for the first maybe a year. But, you know, it's tough. You could do it for the first year or two. Yeah, you could. But I do think that's a little bit of a unique problem living up there. Maybe, yeah. Meaning it's just harder to get a bigger spot up there.

A lot of places can get expensive, but at least you get a little more space with the rising cost. There, space is just such a premium that it is a difficult thing up there. I don't know how Jim Gaffkin. I know. Jim Gaffkin had five kids in New York City. That's the thing. People figure it out. So it always scared me because people would tell me you're getting married.

I can't believe you're going to have to have a kid in this economy and with this happening. It's scared the crap out of me, man. All these people are just scaring me to have a kid. Like I'm not going to be able to afford it. But everyone else does. And people that make less money than I do figure it out. You know what I'm saying? so I'm starting to not listen to people.

It's all that sweet, sweet government relief. You know, the funny thing about money and kids, the thing about money and kids is, and I do think I have perspective on this because I am in the process of watching my kids become adults. I have teenagers, right? And you begin to see the transition into adulthood and, like, all the things that you did or didn't do

begin to be obvious at that. stage. Like for yourself. And I, no, when you look at your kids and the way they behave or any kids that age. And I don't think the, money does a lot of things. It can, like, it takes stress off the plate, granted. And the education component is probably the biggest thing that it can provide the money, you know, put them into the good schools, right schools, whatever.

You can do that type of thing more easily. with money, but ultimately the kind of person that they are, their know-how, their ethics, their morals, their character is totally independent of that, obviously, right? And that's what you provide, and that doesn't take any money, is my point. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, the most important things in character development don't have anything to do with money. the most important things in creating a good even successful human being don't have much to do with money daycare something i think about and i i talked to my kids about like you guys have heard that maxim

um you are the product or the average of the five people you spend the most time with you've heard that right before yeah if you're with five alcoholics you'll be the sixth if you're with five entrepreneurs you'll be the sixth or whatever So money can also help in that, like organizing his or her situation through school or whatever it may be to be around people that are a certain way, either ambitious or of high moral character or whatever it is. And then they become more likely to fall into those same camp. So that's where it can help. But I think my main point is it's just not that big of a differentiator in what kind of. person. I'm not saying it has no impact. And if your if your goal is to raise a good person,

you know, who is going to be productive and ambitious or successful, whatever you want, then you don't have to worry about, for example, what happens if I lose my job? Do you see what I'm saying? Because you can continue to provide that stuff independent of your own financial success. Right. But I mean, the little things to count out. come together that become very expensive. But I do think also having a big family helps. But I think that's the stuff you'll figure out. Like you said diapers.

You're going to figure that out. Daycare. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you just have to change your lifestyle. That's all. Everyone does it. You know, my parents did it.

Stop going to the bar every night, Dan. I don't. Maybe every other, you know? Oh. No. You know, it's great. But family, bigger family, has a lot to do with that also.

with help, right? Like Patrick's kids, when they get older, they'll have help around. Like, hand me down clothes for kids. That saves you a lot of money, things like that. I have a lot of cousins where we have toys and all the stuff, that helps a lot. So I think in the long run, having bigger family. So you're saying one or two kids is hard, but five or six is easy? Yeah, it's getting easier. Yeah. Three, no. Definitely no one, three. Well, dive right in then, pal. Patrick's on like 10. Patrick, you give him one. You could give him one, maybe two.

You won't even notice, Patrick. Which one do you want? We'll see if they, you know. You can't have the older ones because they babysit. I don't know. Patrick, for real, how many kids do you have right now? Eight. Eight.

How long before you realize one is missing? I don't. I literally get in the van and I double check. A home-al-al-un situation? And then if I'm not driving, then I, like, do a count. So I'd make sure everyone's accounted for. So you have to count a lot, right? You take head counts a lot?

No, just when we get in the car. Do you have, like, a flag you put up when you walk around, like, follow the flag? No, no. It's pretty easy. I mean, their kids are... I have two kids, and I find myself at times going, where is this one? Where is that one, right? You've got to have times where you don't know where at least two or three of them are.

No, I mean, I have friends that are like that where their kids are a little more free range. My kids are, they're kind of wimps. They're air tag. They still are very close. Yeah. He's got air tags on these ones. They stay close. I'm going to go back over to Facebook really quickly.

Alice Rusconi says, Megan Rapino is going to maybe transition, thus her support. How can anyone who benefited from playing in women's sports do this to girls that fight all their lives to make it on a women's team? Megan's going to transition. Don't know. Maybe. And then Julia Vasquez says, I agree with this discussion. I agree with this discussion. Trans women don't belong in women's sports.

However, I did give my grandson a baby doll for reasons that are not being addressed here. I want him to learn to be kind, gentle, and empathetic to other children, his baby sister, and other little girls. I want to teach him to be a nurturing brother and father eventually. All those things are taught and nurtured in the home. It also teaches him that girls and boys are physically. different. What's he doing with the doll? They should be taught to respect each other for those differences.

So it's a little bit like what Newsom's wife says. Right? That's what Newsom's wife said. Yeah. I'm trying to think if I ever, if my boys ever had any girls' toys whatsoever. I would blow them up with my G.I. Joe's, you know,

faking. Like, they would be like the things that my G.I. Joe's would try to attack. Man, I was a G. and a Star Wars guy. I would have been so disappointed. I would have ignored it. Like there was a...

I have a sister. She's a bit younger in me seven years. But if any of her toys had ever ended up in the box, you know, where the G.I. Joe's are or the Star Wars guys, that toy would have remained at the bottom of the box

as we got everything else out. I just wouldn't have used it. It didn't fit the story, man. It didn't fit what I'm doing. You know? There were some female G.I. Joe's. G.I. Jane was in there. Right?

Wasn't her name G.I. Jane? Yeah. You didn't have a Ken doll? They're always sexy. Mm. Um, no, I didn't have a kin doll. You mean, just like as a standalone Ken doll without a Barbie, like a... Yeah.

Did people buy Ken dolls for boys? Those are for girls. Some, some boys got Ken dolls. I don't know. I don't think so. I think in the future we need to come up with the most. feminine toy that you ever had. It's going to take some thinking.

I've got to think about it. What was the most feminine toy that you ever had that you enjoyed? Hmm. I want to say jump rope. You know if there was like a baton. If a baton showed up somewhere, it easily was transitioned into a gun. It was a gun. Light up shoes.

I had light up shoes when I was younger. That was pretty feminine. Like when you stepped, they lit up? Yeah. Those things? Yeah. I don't know. I had an older sister though.

Did you have helis? Yeah. I had an older sister though. She dressed me in like two-toes and stuff, so I was traumatized from a young age. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, you don't have that will going for you because, like, my, you know, having older sisters does play a role. It's a big role. Yeah.

And her friends, when you get older, like, try to teach you stuff. Because you played with girls' toys with her, I imagine. Would she be like, Patrick, come play with me? And next thing, you know, you're playing with the girl dolls? Not me. No, no, I'm just saying, I'm thinking. I did. I did.

My older daughters with my sons. They have an influence, but not much of an influence. Hmm? They didn't, like, do their hair or nails or anything. I may or may not have ripped a head off of Barbie. I don't know. You had an older sister, Dan? Did you ever go into her room and, like, cut all the lights off, fart, close the door, and walk out of the room?

Like, I see all those memes the way brothers treat their sisters like that. You know what I'm talking about? Not at all. We were more psychological warfare. Old brothers just come in and mess with their sister. and then leave. Put her on a headlock for a minute and then go.

Yeah, I would like hit her with a pillow and then just run. That definitely happened. Farnity thing was a big thing in my family. Fascinating. Yeah. I got people a lot.

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