Will Cain Country - The Real Problem Isn't Politics Anymore

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

Graham Platner’s campaign may be over and done with, but the hilarity that follows in the race to replace him is only just beginning. In this laid-back Friday edition of ‘Will Cain Country,’ Will and The Crew examine the curious case of Maine Senate hopeful Ashley Webb, as well as check in with what you, The Willitia, had to say about the latest week of the show. Plus, they break down what to expect from the fast-approaching World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina, and take a look at Secretary Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller’s comments on the rise of Left-wing terrorism. 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

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But we're always here. Just follow us at Spotify or on Apple. So up, boys. What's up? You're to play center, Patrick? McDonald's? Yes. Taco Bell?

Oh, McDonald's. McDonald's. Remember those in the day? Man, that was when life was simple. You were jacked. You were excited. We're going to McDonald's, and we're going to the little playpin area. Playland right outside the tables where we eat our Big Mac.

Dirty set of balls at the bottom. No problem. Let's climb up there and see if we can get into a fist fight with a kid up at the top near the bubble. Yeah. That was going to, that was, can you imagine? They don't build them anymore. No. But what a letdown.

Like if you took your kid there, be like, are they getting excited about the McDonald's playland? Oh, I took my kids to Chick-Flay like three weeks ago. And they have play areas there. They do? This one was shut down. It was shut down. And they were pissed. Very upset.

Why was it shut down? Somebody did something in the balls. I think they're remodeling. Well, my first, well, my second job was working at Chick-Fleigh, and one of my jobs was whenever anybody would poop in the slides or in the play area, I was the one who had to go clean it up. That was, they were like, oh, Patrick. What kind of things?

What kind of things? did you have that those playlands seem like they are petri dishes breeding grounds for e coli Ebola lurking somewhere on the corner of the slide what kind of stuff did you have to clean and specifically here's what i want to know a question for chucky cheese a question for all children's play areas how often and how would you clean the ball pit yeah luckily we didn't have a ball pit but i don't think people clean the ball pits very often. That's why they took them away. That's why they took them away. Right. They're just all going to be disgusting. No. That's why they got rid of them. You're not wiping down those balls like one at a time.

Like putting the clean ones over here as they slowly take them out of the pit. Rub it down with some disinfect it. Set it over here. It keeps rolling back into the pit. Damn it. Where were we? I don't know. How do you clean a ball pit? Why did we do that? Why did they let us do that? Hey, we were better for us. Oh, it's so fun. Yeah. Oh, it's so fun. Don't you remember just like nesting into the ball pit? Do you guys know what a nesting plunge is?

No. Really? I'm not familiar with that. Oh, that's the age difference in us. So when I was a kid, there was a commercial. And it was nest tea, ice tea. Like, I think it was like, I think they did canned ice tea back in the day, nest tea.

And, you know, we still have it around. Isn't nests tea still around? I think it is. Yeah. I know nests tea. Well, their commercial was, they had like an actor or actress like jump backwards and basically do a like a backflop into was it into a vat of tea or into a swimming pool something like that so back in the day we always did nest tea plunges into the swimming pool or into the ball pit you just you know you lean backwards fall backwards and then you just jump a little bit not into a back dive just into a splat and we'll just smack your head on the on the bottom get a concussion Yeah.

We used to do cannonballs. Were you guys ever diving board warriors? Like were you the kid at the birthday party? It was like, check me out. I'm going to do something badass off the diving board. No. I just constantly. What would you do, Dan?

Just like jackknives, cannibals. Kenner. Kenward? Yeah. Oh, that's elementary stuff. There was always going to be some kid that out did you there. I was too afraid to do backflips. I would just try to mess with people, jump up, like, right next to people and all that.

The extent of my daring was a front flip. I could always pull a front flip off. Dangerous on the board. But I could not do a back flip. I was one of those guys that went to the side, and so I was a risk of hitting the side of the pool. You know what I mean? I could just go straight back. And I was always envious of the daredevil kid that showed up, and he could do a gainer and an inward.

Those were always like, oh, that guy, he's probably a BMXer. Yeah. He's probably really good on his bike. Yeah. He's got a few extra scars. He was intimidating. Yeah. Patrick, how is your digestive system?

With your steady Taco Bell diet and the news that the FDA has asked Taco Bell to stop buying lettuce from this one distributor, we're now pinpointing the diarrhea. outbreak in America to Taco Bell. So the question is, have you had the diarrhea? And secondarily, would you even know if you had it? You know, I was just, I was just thinking, I was actually just thinking about this. You tend to drink when you eat Taco Bell. So how are you supposed to pinpoint which is the cause? Do I have gastrointestinal troubles or is it just Taco Bell?

You know? Right. So, like, I'm not really sure. In a way, it's not fair to Taco Bell. This complaint could have been lobbed against Taco Bell at any point and any time. They're like, this is what we do. Yeah. This is what we do.

It's our main output. Why now are you coming after us? We are basically the original GLP1. Yes. I mean, I think, I like, I love it because it keeps me regular. It just, it keeps me regular. Like, if I don't eat it, it's, it's, It's like ex-lacks of food.

Yeah. It's like, but it's not like, it's not diarrhea. I just, I don't understand the people who are so weak, weak stomach that they can't handle a couple chalupas. That's a good point. It just doesn't, I don't understand. It's more the hot sauce that you add on to it that just really. That's it. You know how like when you go to Mexico and they say, don't drink the water, you're going to get monizuma's revenge?

And the Mexicans are over there just drinking water. Like, what's wrong with you, pansies? That's like, you're the, you're like a, you're like a Mexican of Taco Bell. You are, you are conditioned. Your body is adjusted. Here's another chamber in his stomach. And you're sitting over there looking at these tourists laughing at them. You can't eat a gorgeta.

I'm actually worse off than my wife thinks me broccoli. Yeah, pansies. You can't put down four gordita crunches. Man, that's scary, though. Is it scary? Yeah. Is it? There was one death, Will, apparently.

I didn't realize that. Oh. Yeah. Oh, wow. So somebody diarrhea themselves. Defebriated to death. Sorry. There's a great Chappellell bit about like when you have diarrhea back in the 1800s.

You're like, well, it's time to get my affairs in order. But now it's like, you know, I didn't think anybody could die from this stuff. Yeah. I thought we figured that out. I mean, severe dehydration. Yes. I mean, I get it. They didn't have pediolite back in the day in the 1800s.

They weren't like, oh, you had a bad chalupa? go to the store and get some pedi light. It's just trouble. The race to replace Graham Platner is on in Maine. And when I tell you, this could not have been done better in a skit on Saturday Night Live, I mean it. So, we're going to play for you a clip from the debate, the main senatorial Democrat debate. and I really don't think I should set it up for you. I sympathize with you if you are listening on Spotify, Apple, or radio.

But maybe even the audio will just translate this incredible, incredible scene. Oh, I ran for office several times. It didn't win, but he didn't run. And then I'm a songwriter, and then I write my own books, and then expose my transparency. I wouldn't lie to the people and I wouldn't deceive the people like we're being deceived right now. That is Ashley Webb. That's right.

Ashley Webb. One of the candidates for Senate in Maine. What? Now let me describe this for anybody listening on audio. Let me see how I can do this. Ashley is a man. Ashley is trans. Ashley is, I'm going to say, 270 pounds in that range?

Yeah, that sounds right. Assy's wearing a dress. Right. And some sneakers. It's hard. It's hard not to be mean as you just state the facts. Large neck. If you've ever seen a libertarian convention?

Like this would be somebody that would go be a libertarian convention. 10 years ago at one of these conventions. Really? I didn't think the libertarians went this far. This code's left for me. They've had all kinds of weird, all kinds of weirdos, like the guy who ran naked on stage. Yeah. Long, oily, stringy hair and eyes darting around in a very insecure manner. In a way, I'm going to be honest with you, almost in a way that becomes endearing.

almost in a way that becomes endearing. Like, look at Ashley towering above the other. Ashley towering above the other candidates, two of whom are men. And I mean, this character could not be drawn more comedically out of Saturday Night Live. It reminds me of a Saturday Night Live. And then the lines. It does. And then the lines.

Like, what qualifies you to run for Senate? I'm a songwriter? when I write my own books. I wouldn't lie to the people. I wouldn't do that. Reminds me of Chris Farley when he does. Imagine. He meets Paul McCartney.

He's like, you know, remember that time when you were in the Beatles? Like it reminds me of that. Yeah. You know, imagine the minds of the other candidates. That's what's great about this. Because this is like the whole trans thing. They have to pretend to take this seriously. That is what's the society.

has demanded. That is what their ideology demands. That is what their party demands. That you have to take this person and this moment very seriously. I'm not saying that you have to struggle to have empathy for this person and whatever this person is going through. However, you have to take seriously this person as a candidate for Senate. And you don't because no one truly does. No one truly does. No one looks at Ashken. and thinks that's a woman. No one does. And yet these three people have to stand on stage and pretend that they do. And they have to not laugh and not smile. And they have to take him very seriously. And imagine their struggle. That's the real comedy in this bit.

If we could get inside their minds and see their thoughts, it would be true comedy. I want you play it again. And as hard as it may be, just for a moment, focus on the three other candidates. Oh, I ran for office several times. Didn't win. Look at their faces right there. I'm pausing it. Didn't win.

Look at them. The lady candidate looking down at the floor? Yeah. The guy just staring directly at her. Ran. He didn't run. And then I'm a songwriter. And then I write my.

own books and then I suppose my transparency I wouldn't lie to the people and I wouldn't deceive the people like we're being deceived right now like a lot of likes oh my gosh they're calling him in man platinum platinum ma'am platinum ma'am yeah but like seriously how does someone get that far like we know it's not a serious thing how does that happen is it because I don't know anyone can do it I just don't get it No, you have to make that debate stage. There has to be a minimum threshold, I would assume, to even get on that debate stage. Exactly.

For governor, for governor in Florida, I don't think Byron Donald's going to debate anyone because they're not hitting the thresholds that the R&C or the state committee requires. And so I would think that they would have some sort of threshold, but it's like, what is it? I can't imagine this person's getting the threshold. Yeah, well, somehow, unless there's only four people running for governor, actually made the stage in Maine, and she made our week in comedy when it comes to politics. Throughout this episode, we're going to be taking comments, a little bit of will call. And I want to check in with some of the Wilicia as we worked through the episode. Brian Gilbert says, how come Trump doesn't go after the gay Ayatollah?

I think President Trump has been stuck in a position of whether or not he can somehow negotiate a middle ground on this war versus going all in and accomplishing victory. And my suspicion is that he probably thinks, I don't have intel on this, but that the Gay Ayatollah is actually one of the more reasonable figures from which to deal with in Iran. And so that's why he hasn't gone after the Gay Ayatollah. I do think I'm not trying to be reductive. I see trouble this war finding any other resolution other than total and complete victory or a loss. I have trouble seeing a compromise or negotiate a win with a run. Vic Zimmerman says, where can we purchase Walliscia merch like a car magnet, t-shirt or hat? That's been a source of conversation around the office lately.

We don't have a budget to create merch. That's the truth. This has come up. And what I've been told, by the way, is that show merch doesn't necessarily sell. So it's not something that the company goes in on creating show merch. So, but that request has come in quite a bit. Our man Ed is on the war path of wanting to create stickers or I never thought about a car magnet or a t-shirt or a hat. But right now, I would say among the things that are confounding us here at the Will King,

country program like Iran is vexing the United States of America. Merch. Merch right now is our negotiated. Similar situation. Similar situation. Similar situation. Love that. Here, Wilcane Country.

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Emily Elizabeth says, can you set me up with LJ? Well, Emily, maybe. We might be able to do that. Is it a single guy? I don't even know how we'd begin that. Hey, LJ. Emily, Militia, would like to meet you. Yeah.

Just a little coffee. Blind. Where do you go next? Blind date. Send some picks? Yeah. Like, what do you do? What does she look like?

Where does she live? What does she do? What are thoughts on politics? Yeah, I'm going to, I'll bring that up with him. And then a series of comments that I'm having trouble understanding. I want you guys to help me out with. Don Marie Roby says, no problem to speak of, just a compliment. I enjoy your tenacity for the truth.

Keep doing what you do. Thank you. And then Susan Kolka says, Will, you are doing a bang-up job. I appreciate your honesty without drama and integrity and asking questions that provoke an individual to really think it out. just like I appreciate your show. Keep up the good work and representation. And then Deb Davis says, no problem here. Love you, love your show.

It's nice to watch your shows live from my great state of Texas. Keep up the great work. One more. Judith Marine, no question. Just a note to say, I love your smile, the best smile ever. Why all the nice compliments, guys? What is it in response to? It was a prompt.

We have the most well-adjusted audience, apparently. So like I was thinking So we asked Yeah we prompted the folks We said hey Have you had any issues that you like will to solve This is supposed to be like an advice Segment

This is what says hey Willisha It's time for another Will call Send us your comments And Will will give you advice for your problems And answer your questions So that's the problem That's where that comes up But nobody has problems

There's no problems in the Willisha That's great Yeah that's great But Will King does give great advice I will say that So send in your your problems, even insane ones. Well, can I just say, I'm going to say to Deb and Judith and Susan and Dawn, thank you.

Thank you for these nice compliments. I'm serious. I'm not being facetious. I'm serious. This is nice. You know, lately, you know, yesterday a lot of people got on my ass about my inability to pronounce the word surrogate. Okay, we did the story. Why do you guys think that's so funny?

I forgot to add that, actually. Yeah. I meant to get that. How did you say it? They were very mean. Are you the biggest idiot on TV? I think I said surrogate. I think I say surrogate.

Like if you just run into me and I'm going to go, yeah, how'd they have their kids? It's an accent. And people are like, why do you talk that way? Why did you say that word that way? Like I'm saying it spelled S-E-R-R instead of S-U-R-R-R, right? Surrogate, surrogate. Somebody said, do you spell that S-A-Y? Sayerget?

And then that turned into, that turned into a whole deal about all the words I mispronounce. The production staff on the television show was like, and I've been told this for well over 15 years. It's one of those things you don't know about yourself until you're like, television can be like a mirror. There are things you don't know about yourself until you do it and the world tells you that you're wrong. Like I pronounce the H in a lot of. W.H. Words. And people notice, like, white.

Oh, yeah, you do. I didn't notice that. Like Stewie and the family guy. Whip. Cool, whip. Whip. Say cool. Whip, cool, whip.

Say whip, whip. Quip. Whip. Whip. But that's definitely an accent thing. White. Whip. Is it? I don't know.

I don't think it is. I don't know. Like, do other people around here also pronounce the H? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What's that? Why?

But I can't, apparently, I can't say the word. Oh, you know what? Say this, say, you know the reporter based out of Dallas? Brooke. Do you know her last name? T-A-Y-L-O-R. Say that last name. Taylor.

Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Are we saying it differently? Taylor. Taylor.

Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. No. We're not saying a different. I don't know. I don't know. Who says you're saying it wrong?

The Will Kane Show staff. I don't know. You say it like Turner? And I say it back and I sounds. Taylor. Taylor. I'm not putting a lot of emphasis on the tail, the tail part. Taylor?

Yeah. Taylor. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, here's another one they said. What's another word for a car? Automobile. Automobile.

Truck. Starts the V. Vehicle. Vehicle. Vehicle. You say vehicle. Vehicle. Yeah, no.

I know that one. I knew that one. Vehicle. That's like, that's like southern. Go back to your vehicle. That's a funny. That is funny to learn about yourself. I do say vehicle.

Yeah. Where's your vehicle? Vehicle. Vehicle doesn't sound right to me. Vehicle. Do you call it a vehicle? Vehicle. Vehicle doesn't sound right because it's like vehicle.

Vehicle. It really is, should be a vehicle. All right. I want to get into Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio this week. But before I do, I want to run a debate by you guys I read this morning, and I found it compelling. Okay? Resolved. Lionel Messi is the greatest male athlete ever.

Ever. Okay? And then the article took the affirmative and supported it. and I came away from it, yes, Lionel Messi is the greatest male athlete ever. Do you disagree? Oof. We're not talking about just athleticism, right? We're talking about athlete in their sport.

Okay. That's a great question because I'm very familiar with how this derails from first stage. Sure. When we say the greatest male athlete, we are not saying Lionel Messi would be better at baseball than Bryce Harper would be at soccer. We're not saying he's better at basketball than LeBron James would be at soccer. It's not that. Okay, it's not a generalized athleticism. If you want to use the word sportsman, maybe that's a better word. He's the greatest male sportsman of all time. But I think we're using athlete and sportsmen interchangeably. We all do. So the metric as forward in this article is, he is better at his sport than anyone has ever been at their

sport. I don't know his accolades, but is he the most, one of the most winningest of all time in international play? Well, winning a set. Even making the finals here now would probably, he's got the trophies. If you want to do a trophy count thing, then he's up, he's got that now. He's got Champions League. He's got La Liga.

He's got, I think he won. He won it all in, in, in, League one in France with PSG, and now he's won the World Cup, and he may win another World Cup. So if you want to do the Tom Brady won seven Super Bowls, you know, trophy count, Messi can play the trophy game. Michael Phelps swimming? I mean, that's... So interestingly, in this article, he's the one they didn't discuss, and I wish they would have to see... So here's how the argument goes, is it combined a couple of different things.

longevity, like how long are you at the top of your game? Right. And this is kind of where LeBron, like LeBron is up there, but he, he at this age is not what Messi is at this age. Do you see what I'm saying? It's not winning consistently. It's very, at this point, it'd be hard to argue Messi's not the greatest player today at the age of 39. Yeah. Better than Mbapé, better than Holland, better than Yamal.

at age 39, and people forgot this over the last four years because he's been in the MLS and he hasn't, that's not center stage in the world of soccer. But, LeBron has longevity, but he's not, is LeBron a top five player in the NBA right now? I don't know that he is, right? No. No way. So, and then it said, what is the distance between you? and the second best of all time in your sport. And then the third component is how difficult is it to be the best at your sport?

So how difficult is it to get there? How high were your peaks? How long were you there? And how far above the second best are you? So, you know, it said, you know, Brady, I think Brady is the greatest football player of all time. I think most of us agree. if it's a Brady Montana debate or if you think Mahomes has gotten into that debate, you know, it's closer at this point than messy and whoever you would put second.

And a lot of people would say Ronaldo or Maradonna or Pele, but there's a big gap we'll talk about in just a minute in what they've been able to do. And so the gap between, the argument is the gap between Brady and Montana or Brady and Manning. It said Brady won three MVP's. but Peyton Manning and Aaron Rogers were right there at his level for periods of time in his career. So Pelae and Maradonna's argument with Messi, it's not a good argument. It's shorter. They were great, but they didn't do it this long.

They didn't stay at the top. It breaks down soccer. It's like Messi is combining all the best players that we talk about. Like, he scores goals like Ronaldo. He creates assists like DeBrona. He dribbles forward, advances the ball like Lamin Yamal or any of the others. He is three players in one. He basically is all the things that you want on a soccer field.

Not Holland, and I love Holland. Holland is a goal scorer, period. But Messi's a goal score, chance creator, assists, ball progression with passes. ball progression with dribbling. What? He walks 70% of the game, but that's fine. Yeah, I mean, it is fine. I know.

I mean... The soccer, I mean... He's a facilitator, you're right. He's an opportunist, and he capitalizes. No, he's all those things. He's everything is the point. And then it said, okay, maybe the most interesting part, because it even brought up cricket and was it Australian rules football?

I don't know, that there are guys in those sports who have dominated, and I'm not familiar with their name. I don't know. They've dominated. Statistically, they're far and above everyone who's ever played the sport. But the argument goes, not that many people play the sport. And so that's not as big of an accomplishment. Like, if not that many people do what you do, you really haven't beaten out the level of competition of someone else who does something that's incredibly popular. And he uses that argument again against American football.

He said the only sport, team sport, that even gets close, and it's not close, is basketball. Basketball is now a global sport. So the level of competition to get to the top is much higher. But soccer, far and away, is the most participated sport in the world. So if you get to Messi's position, you numerically had to beat out, you know, whatever percentage of the global population that is trying to play soccer. It said a lot of these sports, there's a weeding mechanism, and that's the kind of. cost of the sport. Soccer has no cost. It's a ball. So it said statistically, the closest that you get in team sports to messy is Gretzky. The Gretzky is the closest to being the best ever at it

and the gap to second. But because it requires an ice, ice, a rink, you know, all the equipment, fewer people play it. So again, the level, the field that Gretzky had to dominate is smaller than the field that Messi had to dominate. And so in the end, the author said it really comes down to one athlete. Because the only sport that is as widespread as soccer and as easy and cheap to do as soccer, and as many people do, basically every human being can do it is running. And it said, Hussein Bolt dominated three Olympics and far outpaced the competition. And he would be the only one that running. But it said, even Bolt, those three Olympics, were basically age 21 to 29.

And Messi's done it from age 21 to 39 and stayed pretty much at this place. But also, I mean, but he's sprinting. That's also kind of a narrower path. I know it's running. That's why I think Michael Phelps was swimming is even up there in that conversation. It should be because he did it for a very long time.

No, theoretically sprinting would be the easiest thing. Right, but the matter of... Easier than a marathon. More people can sprint a hundred than can run a marathon. So therefore, a bigger pool of competition to see who's the fastest you're doing that distance. A possible pool, you mean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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or visit Subaru.ca. Swimming, he did not put Phelps in there. And I think Phelps should be in there in terms of domination of his sport. It's insane. Yeah. Fewer people swim, obviously, then run. A lot of, how much of the world can't swim?

That would be interesting. what percentage of the globe can't swim? We're not going down that road. Nope. Not touching it. Why? What does that mean? What do you guys mean?

Just some stereotypes out there. Those aren't stereotypes. Those are real. Are you guys thinking that's racist to point out that there's a large percentage of the world that can't swim? There's literally programs. There's programs. They're more buoyant. Yeah.

Yeah, totally. You weren't talking about fat people. You weren't talking about fat people. I'm dead serious. There's programs to teach black people to swim because of the problem of drowning. It's a real problem. It's like a community outreach effort to teach swimming. But that's not what I was thinking.

55% of the world. What's that? 55% of the world's adult population cannot swim unassisted. That's over 4 billion people that cannot swim. 55% cannot swim. That's why. wild. Yeah. High-income countries, only 24% of adults report being unable to swim. In low-income countries, that spikes to 72%. Well, I get it in a low-income landlocked country. Sure. I would get that.

No pool. Right? Because then you've got to build pools and do all that. But, Bosnia. I'm curious what you do with a poor country on the coast anywhere. Like, what percentage can't swim in that scenario. Anybody that has a coastline, I'm curious, you know, if your numbers go way down on can't swim. Surely, right? Surely. In fact, I wouldn't do that country by country. I would like to know of the countries that have big coastlines, like which ones can't swim and which ones can. That would be pretty interesting to me. Anyway, do you guys buy it? Do you buy messy? Patrick, I figured you'd be the biggest naysayer on this. You swayed me.

The messy's the greatest male. No, no. I'm a massive messy, messy guy. I'm a big messy guy. Yeah. But I think it's true. Greatest male athlete of all time? He's pandering.

That's not true. Hold on. Hold on. You guys keep talking. I'm going to find a picture I took. I agree with that. I was a little skeptical at first when you were talking about it because I wanted to just say Michael Jordan. That was like the first thing that popped in my head.

I just wanted to say it. But Jordan LeBron. I know. Jordan LeBron is like an eternal debate. I know. So has Messi Ronaldo been. Sure. So has Messi.

I was going to say that too. Like his second is Ronaldo and Ronaldo's been unbelievable as well. And it's always people during this World Cup have been asking like who is better, Rinaldo or Messi? I took this picture with Messi. Wow. You got your picture taken with Messi? Really?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, it's a cardboard cut out of Messi, but yeah. At Lowe's. I mean, at Lowe's. But the Rinaldo conversation is interesting, right? Like, you know more about it. How close is he?

I used to be a Rinaldo guy. I did. I enjoyed being Rinaldo's the greatest of all time. Because what Rinaldo does is, I believe it's about Rinaldo. Rinaldo is a winner. Rinaldo scores when his team needs to score, and he comes up with incredible shots. And he has an aura about him that I'm going to. going to do what it takes to win.

And as an American, like, he won what's called the Euro championships a few years ago with Portugal. And he was awesome. And you sit there and you go, this guy just does it. And this was before Messi had won the World Cup. But at some point, it becomes undeniable that Messi, too, is a winner. And this World Cup that's been on display, he comes through when they need him to make sure they win the game.

And on top of that, he does other things that Ronaldo doesn't do. So it's just really hard. It's like Gretzky, again, like I saw the stat in that article. If Gretzky, he scored 876 goals, if he never scored a single goal, he would still be the combined assist goal leader in all of the NHL history. It's insane. No one will ever touch those. And I know you say like hockey. Messi does that stuff.

But at the time, like there was the expansion in the 80s of the European players coming into the league. So it wasn't like he was just going up against Canadians and, you know, a handful of Americans. No, no, I'm not dismissing that. But it's obviously more limited than soccer. Right, right. But I also saw this chart about Messi, too, and it just showed what statistically everyone else that's played soccer ever has done. And they're in this kind of, like, big area on this chart.

And he just is way out here on his own. Not even close to anybody. Yeah, I saw that same chart. That's insane. I think it was expected goals and expected assists is what it was. And he was just off the charts compared to everybody else. He, like, shouldn't exist, essentially. in the sport of soccer, what he's doing?

I mean, the White House confirms, there's two assists, we're insane. The White House confirms that President Trump will be going to the World Cup finals in New York. And Gianni Infantino has said that President Trump will be handing over the trophy for the World Cup champion. We have Spain versus Argentina this weekend. Now, despite everything we just said,

I am going to be taking Spain. I'll be rooting, I think, I don't know yet. I think I'll be rooting for Spain, but setting aside that, I think Spain will win. I think Argentina has been living a little bit by magic, and they have magic to live on with Messi, obviously. And no matter where you are in the game, up to goals with 15 minutes to go, you can't feel good. You can't relax. You haven't won the game. But Spain plays a type of soccer that is perfect for limiting Messi.

that is, everybody says Spain is defensive, and they are, right? By the way, Laminumal on Spain gets all the attention because he's 19 years old. Well, Spain has another 19-year-old on the field as well. Paul Cabarcy is one of the centerbacks. He's 19 as well, and he's been incredible. Incredible. That's a defender, a centerback. But Spain doesn't play defense the way England tried to play defense against Argentina.

They don't, what's called, in soccer, they call it park the bus. Parking the bus is dropping everybody deep in front of the goal and simply denying the other team the ability to get within scoring range. Bang it out, bang it out, bang it out. Well, that's not what Spain does. Spain denies you the ball. They possess it. They have a bunch of small, short passes, and by the way, their long passes.

In Spain, their style of soccer is called tiki-taka. And it is like, looks like a pinball machine. The ball just moving around the field. And you will have the other team, like France in the semifinal, chasing the ball. The theory is the ball moves faster than the man. And it's true. So you keep passing. They're going to run their legs off.

And they're going to be chasing you around like a chicken with its head cut off the entire game. And I think Spain can do that to Argentina. They are, they don't, no one has been talking about Spain this entire World Cup except for Laminia Mall. And it's like, oh, a team of no stars. Trust me. Those dudes are stars. I've talked to you about mostly because of my sons. One of my favorite positions is called a sister.

central defensive midfielder. That is a unflashy position. You'll sit there and you'll go, what did he do special in this game? Well, what that CDM, or they also, like in basketball, you have numbers, you know, how point guards one, shooting guards two, they have that in soccer. So the CDM's called the six. What that guy does is touch the ball more than everybody else on the field. He will pass it, switch it. He's a little bit like the quarterback. He'll constantly move the ball away from pressure. He'll receive it under pressure, do a small. a little hesitation move and then get it on to the next guy. And no pass, very few, under 10% of his passes will look important.

And he also is in charge of basically snuffing out every transitional opportunity, winning the ball, stopping them before it even gets to the box. You'll barely notice it. You'll be like, why can't, you know, in that case, France, even get into a scoring position? It's because Spain's CDM, Central Defensive Midfielder, is a guy named Rodry. He does play for my favorite professional team, Manchester City. But he's so good at this position that a few years ago, he won the Ballandor. The Ballandor is the award given every year to the world's best soccer player.

And it almost always goes to a guy who scores, you know, a striker, a winger, an attacking midfielder. Yeah. But Rodry won it as a six. And he is on the field for Spain. And he's been incredible this World Cup. If you watch, you know, famously people say, if you want to understand soccer, watch that position. That position will teach you soccer. What's actually going on? And it'll look unspectacular, but you'll start to feel the flow of the game. He stands just in front of the defenders. He's like the pivot in front of the defenders. But beyond that, Spain has studs everywhere. Attacking mid-Dani-Almo, all four their defenders are studs. I think Spain, it's hard to pick against Argentina because the way they've won every single game, but I do think Spain will put the stranglehold on Argentina. Argentina, simply denying them.

The one thing, this is what England did wrong. Here's the one thing you want to do. Don't let Messi have the ball. Don't let him have the ball. It's easier said than done. But England is like, we're out, we're going to sit back, you guys have the ball, and we'll just defend. Spain will be like, no, we're literally not going to let you have the ball as often as possible.

And, you know, soccer's like a lotto machine. Like the more chances you give at Messi, he's got. It's not about can you score every time, but if you give me 20 times, am I going to turn one of those into a potential goal? Spain will just limit that where you don't get 20. You get five. So do magic in five instead of in 20. Do you think it goes to penalty kicks?

Well, it could because it could be low scoring. I mean, it could be low scoring. Argentina's my guy in goal. Martinez. Villagulli. Well, is he your guy? Aston Villa goli. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Spain has a great goalie as well. They have three of them, two of them on the bench. The three best goalies in the world may be on Spain. Two of them on the bench. So that's Sunday. France versus Britain. Do you think he's met with on Fox? On Fox on Saturday.

It would be interesting to see. I'm into the game on Saturday, France versus England. I hope they don't mail it in. They may mail it in. Why do they do that? Do you think anybody's showing up? well give them credit like who cares about third yeah why who wants to why do they even have that game why i mean it's a knockout up until that point so why even have it because you need a third place

bronze tv ratings yeah tv ratings all right i want to talk about this and i actually want to see what dan has to say so i really um i don't think i appreciate it in the moment we played it on the show yesterday not on this show and marco rubio did a global speech on the rise in left-wing terrorism. Okay, however you feel about that, Antifa. It's a global phenomenon, by the way, it's not just in Seattle. I thought Rubio and Stephen Miller gave really, really good speeches about the psychological level of leftism, far-leftism. I don't know what cuts you picked, Patrick and Dan, and I told you get some from Miller and Rubio.

Miller in particular had some things to say about like the motivating factor of resentment and envy and how it reflects on things that are objectively good like family and moral character. Did you get this one, Patrick? Miller said, and I wanted to hear if you think this is uncharitable or unfair, Dan, he's like literally look at the protests. these are people that have defiled their bodies. Like that's part of the movement. Like everything is subversive. You know, the blue hair, the, you know, the piercing, you're doing things outwardly that reflect what's going on internally as well.

And I do think that there's a, I'm not saying everybody that has a tattoo is reflecting their inherent immorality. But I am saying that if your rebellion is against everything that is good, And there are things that we can say are good, like family and raising children and honestly going to church. If those become your enemy, if those are the things you seek to destroy, then maybe you should take a look at what's really driving. Psychologically, personally, the motivation of your movement. And I do believe, Miller said this. Ultimately, this is not a political movement. This doesn't have political ends.

It's not like there's a policy objective or a goal. It is actually an emotional catharsis, which I think for not necessarily the leaders, the leaders peddle this stuff as a mechanism to power. But for the people that buy in, I think it's a movement of destruction. I think it's a movement of resentment. I don't think it's a movement of creation. They see oppression. Sorry? They see oppression is what they're fighting in their heads.

they see people who are trying to tell them they can't be who they are certain people can't be who they are and they disagree with who they are in general so that's oppressive to them and that's kind of what they're fighting and i don't think like the blue hair is necessarily towards that that's just their self-reflection of how they want to be which is fine but i don't think it's a direct correlation to them being a protester or a Okay, can I say something, though? Sure. Okay, so what is the oppression? This is like the man on the street stuff. Like, if you, I've seen people do this, like, you meet a gay person on the street, and they say this stuff about like, you know, I'm gay in America. Of course I'm going to hate America.

What is the oppression? What law? What policy? What is happening to gay people in America that reflects oppression? Well, they think there's non-inclusivity that there's hate towards them. that people do not like them because they exist for religious reasons. They agree that they should get married. It's not, okay, hold on.

So it's not like, um, oh, okay. It's just, it's societal. It's more societal and kind of like socioeconomic, like, yeah. Let's take a quick break, but continue this Friday edition of Will Kane country. Whether life serves you an ace or an unexpected backhand, the high protein yogurt, Oikos Pro, is there to feed your strain. and help you turn every challenge into a smash. Oikos Pro helps build strong muscles

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You don't like other people's judgment of you. Right. This is no traditional definition of... But it leads to... Okay, even hate. Even hate, Dan. You're not talking about oppression in any traditional sense. You're not talking about a law.

You're not talking about second-class citizenry. You're not talking about any type of oppression in a traditional sense. You're talking about the way other people make you feel about the choices that you've made. But an administration that pushes these narratives as well that encourage to... Well, no, no, no. Now what are you talking about? Now what are you talking about? Well, like immorality and things like that. I mean, there's people in the government that say it's not okay to be gay.

Okay, well, that's a, first of all, that is a broad statement you just made that I would feel you need to support with a clip. You need to show me the clip that you're talking about. However, even if you could come up with it, is it somehow oppressive that somebody, even if a person in power, disagrees with your lifestyle choices, is oppression? Well, they agree, they're disagreeing with who they are as a human being and a right to be that way. That's how they feel. And I'm not trying to make these points. I'm trying to speak from how they feel. How I've conversation I've had with people that feel these things, this is what they're saying.

But I think you're right. I think you're right. And so what this movement has become is a demand for validation. Yes, kind of. And acceptance, in acceptance, and not oppression. Well, but what does acceptance mean? let live, we've pretty much gotten that as a society. So it's not really acceptance. It is validation. Get on board or get off. Celebration. Yeah, rubber stamping. And so, and by the way,

I don't even think acceptance is a requirement to live in a society that's not oppressive. We make judgments all the time about the choices people make. And if your movement is, how dare you not accept my choices? What is your movement? I think it is one we talked about. one of resentment. Well, like the ICE movement, right? Like being anti-ice and protesting, ice, they want to stand up for the little guy against the oppressor. That's essentially what the baseline of it all is.

They're just different fights. That suggests that the little guy is the criminal. So every criminal is a little guy. And therefore, we shouldn't enforce laws because, hey, that's oppressive. To enforce laws is oppressive. In that case, illegal immigration laws. And I do think we're getting to something that's true and real about this movement. Now, I don't know if they really believe that stuff. That's what you tell me. Like in their head, they're standing up for the oppressed, you know. I do think there is some belief in that. But I think

you've got to look even deeper. Like, what is it if you're, if you're, if you're, if you are requiring of people to see the world that you do and to validate your choices, I'll be more charitable and say, accept who you are and what you've done. Where does that end, by the way? Where does that end? And that becomes inherently destructive to the things that choose a different path. Yeah. Like, I had this conversation. That's why. I had this conversation with the family and the church and these things. Right. I had a conversation with my wife last night about people who identify as being non-binary, right? Like a woman who says, well, sometimes

I'm masculine, sometimes unfeminine. She essentially said that that is just a standing out against the system of what they think a woman should be. So essentially it's not that they feel like they're a non-binary person, like they're not actually a man and a woman. It's saying

like, I'm standing up against the oppressors that want me to be in a certain box. And that's kind of the mindset for a lot of this. Is that it's not... Reality is oppressive. Exactly. Reality is oppressive.

If you want to live in a world where all you can, everything exists in your own mind. And whatever it is you want and you live is the way it should be. Forget other human beings. You're going to run into reality. And then you're going to say that's oppressive. Yeah. Here, let's listen. Play me some of what you got.

I have a longer clip of Stephen Miller and a shorter one. It's the same thing. Just, you want a longer one? Yeah, let's play the longer one. I think it was really good, so I'm curious. President Trump issued a directive in our parlance. It's called a National Security Presidential Memorandum, or NSPM, NSPM 7, to be exact.

That directs, for the first time in American history, all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country. It's very important to understand that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government. And we've seen this has taken place many times and many places throughout the years, and Secretary Rubio has provided you many examples. left-wing terrorism always ends in bloodshed, misery, and suffering.

It only can travel in one direction. There's no point at which the left-wing terrorist is satisfied with his gains and ceases progressing. All right. That's the longer cut? Yeah. I would encourage you, you know, and I told the guys just grab a cut. I didn't send you which one. But I would encourage you, I do think that this speech given by Miller, and maybe the one by Rubio as well, is worth listening to in their entirety.

Do the Miller clip. Because there's more on the, I do, I think that Miller's right. I do believe, he didn't say in that clip, I don't think we're in a political debate. I really don't. I think we're reaching a post-political moment. And that's hard to stomach when everything. feel so partisan, people like to explain things partisanly. I believe we're in a psychological moment, a philosophical moment.

And most of the battles are inside ourselves. And then we inflict them upon the world. However we feel about our life, however we feel about our accomplishments, however we feel about the living we make, however we feel about our relationships. Okay. and we are imposing how we feel onto the world. That's what's going on. And I think we have to choose as a people individually first.

What kind of person are we going to be? When I wake up every day, man, I'm going to be honest to you. I think about that a lot. Like, what kind of person? What am I going to focus on? What am I going to do? How am I going to be positive in these kind of things? Like, I almost always think in this direction more so than

those damn lefties, you know, or this damn person. Like an existential crisis that the world is in, do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. But also, I'm just saying I think we would all be better off trying to make ourselves better people. Yeah. Not trying to make society better. I totally agree.

Not trying to make society better. Yes. Do you see what I'm saying? Yep. Go ahead. Play Rubio. This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred.

Above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.

I think that's true. I know that is a punch in the nose, but I think that's true. I would push back a little bit on saying lefty terrorism. I mean, it's just, you know, first of all, it's kind of funny. Like, these people are not, like, there is violence and there is bad things that happen that people on the left do. But it seems incredibly divisive to say that this is like a lefty terrorism ideology. You don't think there's left-wing terrorism?

No, there is. But I'm saying that the ideology of the left is what they're saying is kind of like roping a lot. of different beliefs into one thing and putting the word terrorist next to it. I just think it's a little bit dangerous. Okay, I get that. I get how you would recoil at that. But I actually agree with them. And even if that makes people mad, here's what I think.

I do believe that, I don't think the right has always pure motivations. When I say pure motivations, I'm talking internally, just internally, okay? I think the right can be given to too much greed. I think the right can be given to too much callousness. I think hypocrisy, so I don't even want to do it. Both sides are guilty of hypocrisy, and it's a common sin of humanity. But I think the left in the same way is driven by envy and resentment. Nileism.

I really do. And I think, well, but envy and resentment, again, we're talking about personally, inside yourself can manifest in these ways and it is therefore ultimately destructive, not creative. Because those things see what other people have, you covet. And if you covet and you don't have, you can't get, you can destroy. You can take away. And I think a lot of those policies and a lot of those beliefs are reflections of that intrapersonal feeling.

I do believe there are people on the left that are driven by overwhelming senses of empathy. What I would say is also a level of empathy that becomes self-destructive. It's not good. It's self-defeating. It's self-defeating empathy. But then, yeah, got worse. But I also think that kind of empathy, if you have that, right? If you have that, there's so many ways in the world to exercise that empathy out.

outside of politics. Do you see what I'm saying? Because politics ultimately is imposing your empathy on other people, meaning I will take from you to help him instead of I will help him. Right. Whoever him is, him can be helped. Use your empathy yourself to help him. Why do you have to say Elon Musk must help him? You see what I'm saying?

you're the ones killing people and not helping people, but I won't help you're right. No, it's true. That's why they hate billionaires and rich people. It is envy. I think you're right. For sure. Yeah. Let's go back to the militia before we go.

Terry Gee says, why is the far left so hateful to Caroline Levitt? The comments on her post, I was horrified the level of disrespect and hate. Please keep her and her family safe. I think that position has always been accompanied by outsized hate, whether or not it was Caroline Levitt or or Kaylee McAnney or I'm sure Jin Saki got it a lot. Carolyn Erickson-Taylor says

can we get back to having customer service calls back in the USA and not overseas? This should be on the list of priorities. I agree. I agree, Carolyn. We're not AI. How infuriating. AI is probably better than somebody doesn't speak English very well. And then Eric Nadler says

we need to deflock the flock camera nonsense. Pat has been pushing the flock story on me for a little while, Pat. I'll tell you, one of my sons brought it up to me. So that story is breaking through, even to the teens. I've got one more thing. We've got to revisit Chuck Schumer before we go today. But first, for over two decades, the Tunnel of Towers Foundation has been there for our fallen and catastrophically injured first responders, military and Gold Star families.

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GMZ, did you fart yesterday on the Senate floor? Nothing. Nothing from Chuck Schumer. Just to just to fly out ask. Patty Carvellis and the Willis says, you know it was a fart because Chuck chuckled, L.O.L. That's exactly what it was. There was no delay in the chuckle. So like the fart happened and there was the chuckle.

if it was somebody else farting, he would have had a couple seconds to think about it and then laugh. So it definitely was him. Well, good on him. That actually makes me like Schumer a little more. Makes me like him a little more. Maybe, just maybe. He ate it Taco Bell.

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